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rhlladtlphli. Vanriilr. April II. I'M
A FOUR-YEAR PROGRAM FOR
PHILADELPHIA
Tliln on vrlilrli the Vf'le,."P"t
(lie new nilmlnlBtratlon to .oucen
(rate III atteiitloni
The Delaware river brldoe.
A drydock big enough to accommo
date the largest ships.
Development of the rapid transit sys
tem. A convention hall,. ,..,
A building tor tna free Library.
An Art Museum ...
Enlargement o the water -supply.
llomes to accommodate the popula
tion. REGISTRATION TODAY
SPRING registration day. which oc
curs today, is primarily a reprieve
for delinquents. All citizens who regis
tered cither last August or in September
..titn.i .-,.,.. ;., tin AInv ni I -
UTO eilll.UII 1U .U.' ... .
A3V.,oU'niu;r ,,,,.,,. ,h? ccnioinists
Su-Uaw.'.":: '"..'loos Willrrton nuil.iliiK'bav- been mlvMiig all of n to buy
Chicago .... . 'oa 7rii.uiie uuiiums ,.,cjiprr cuts of meat, to raise our own '
maries. Voters who were in nne ni" '" "'"""'"" ""'"'J'
t ii ....i., iifr I however, there s an extraordinary state
fourth opportunity to qualify.
This year, how etcr. another class of ,
cilisens are favored by the April regis
tration day. These unfortunates are
the involuntary nomads, oppressed by
the most difficult bousing situntion in
the history of Philadelphia. Persons
who have changed their residence since
last registering must sin up or be de
barred from participation in the pri
maries. On Mnv li unity elections will be
held for nomination-. for presidential i
convention delegates. I'liited States sen
ator, representatives in ( ongrcss, in
cluding one from the Third district to
replace .1. Hampton Moore, and mem
bers of the state Legislature
' The election is basic and importnut.
-vilachine politicians are uceu'tumed to
count on public liidiffercnee to the
ttnrinc recistrntlon. Today nrorldes an
interesting opportunity to surprise I
them,
rels will go nowadays only to a pro- I at the top of his voice when the mood
,,...-,.,.. iccci ' ',"'"nfl' strong man. A strong man moved him has been deprived of one of
A CHECK ON MANDAMUSES? is needed, of course, but he should bnvc ' the privileges which was inadvertently
THE way to discover whether tbe the strength of honesty nnd high inten- j omitted from the Declaration of Inde
budget provisions of the new i hart r I tion' and a discerning mind rather 'than pcudenee. But there are boys now and
nrc coniprchrui-ho enough to end the 'lir strength thnt is merely adequate to then who cannot be suppressed by nny
mandamus evil is to brill" u test onsel(a,'rv '''m questionable victory in a ' society for discouraging noises. One
nnd let the courts decide.
Alba 1 1. Johnson n .... omn, lee
appointed to consider the Mibj.. Iin
.ailed the Mayors at entim. .. wioj.
10 of Article XMI of the charter, which
11 ,. n wii. i n i
provides that no lability s all be en-
forceoblo against t he e.ty by any 01-
" Ul '" III "IU".' " Ulll'-inisu
less the Council shall have made n pre
vious appropriation to cover it.
The purpose of the budget mticle in
the charter was to proiide for a pre
liminary estimate of the expenditures
for n year nud to compel the city to live
within the estimnte. The first section
directs that the climate shall include
all expenditures of every kind which
must be met out of the tax receipts.
Xhid sewn' to be broad enough to in
cltido the appropriations for the county
departments and the .Municipal Court.
The only doubt concerns the constitu
tionality of the section.
If the w-ny has already been provided
for putting un end to mandatuuslng
money out of the city treasury, it will
not take long for the courts to settle the
U,B""- I i
RELIEF FOR TEACHERS
THE proved inability of the Board of appoint the boards of arbitration nnd
Education to make further increases conciliation expressly provided for in
in tho salaries of clioo iiaehers nr , the Esch-Cummins law.
least simplifies n problem and sup, The federal board is to he a fiual
the only practical menu' of relief. eourt of nppenl for the lesser boards
The board is cwdently handicapped, j which have not yet been organized. It
precisely as its employe .ire. bv shot! is worth remembering, too, that in till
age of fiiud-. The nb. ions remedy lies railway law there is nothing to mnko
in appeal to the Legislature ne:r year , the establishment of these lesser boards
Doctor Flnegsn is wid to hno evolved eomnulsor. : nothinc. In other u-nnlu
a pian emoodying a rque,t for
r a greatly
n gcncal
increased appropriation uiel
revision or tne salary s.slem
As the scheme will nITn't not only n
group of wage earneis but nKo the
quality of education in ihu -une, it be
comes a major matter of public imerehf
I'tider present conditions the outlook
for maintaining suit, ble standards of
instruction, especially m the lijsi,
schools. Is described as doubtful Amp
funds for supporting education in a
milliner .oiui., ur u yreni stnie should
bc.n prime concern of the Piiinshiuua
Legislature when it meets next winter
Tile recent cqualiatnm of pav for
men and women has been a partial re
form, but furthei i onstnn live nea'ine
nre considerably oreniue
OVERALLINC PROFITEERS
rpHL .'ifltlO members of the Hit tuui
J- ham Overall Club haic ihe right
idea. They have pledged lbeiiu.eLes to
begin wearing o.rralls next Frldin ami
to continue to wear them instcul ..f
mirnieiits made f ool ..mil orl.e,
., , ..
COino down.
nefore the ., , ,... 1IIP1'
of this soutbeni tlty nn liki ly to he
wearing Whole suits inline or overall
material. But the enture in not so
tnrtlln as it seems to us in the oitli.
Tbe ftoutlierncrs have worn collon suits
III the summer for years. The pi ice has
ranged from ?." up, according lo tbe
material and the amount of care spent
iu Hie making, Cotton Is the only wear
iu n hot clliuiilc
v If 1h iin should beciiiue ginernl
" lUistiutil ,t! i-otiiilri hi UiO viariM
1 f
season tlicrc would lip n p1tn in tlic
price of woolens bcemiM of the fulling
off in ihc ilciniuul, nnd nrxt waiter it
miglil lip possible lo Ret n suit of clttfliCH
nt ii iciisonnlilc prim.
Hilt it rottou eillts Mioulii r in son
. . f ,
cr;n iii'iiiiiiin uir price PI i-mmu rmiiia
wotilil (so lip while woolen rlollis enmo
mow ii, nnil the- ihIkIiI meet soniewlirie
It ii 1 r way between Hie preent prices.
rt tlii roiilliicencj is not likely lo
.trouble tbe men of Hiriniuclinni. Tbe.v
nr0 mr-ctiiiK tbo problem of tbe IiIrIi
. .. , .. . , , .... . i
run ill rioinci iiy llcoilimc m nu.v
egrtnbles mid to pasi by IIiom things ,
i.i,.i.
wlllel
we would like to bnvc but crtnnot
ulToid.
I'liey are using the only argtt-
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RAIL BOARD OPENS
THE WAY TO PEACE
Common-Sense Strike Settlement
Becomes Possible Willi the Revival
of Government at Washington
TY THIS time II must lie
apparent
-U even t" the hardest boiled apostles
of Pnlnierism that the railway strike,
when it is cttlcil, will not be settled
fon-e. It wll! not be Fettled by
rlnliirir nr b. tbe iirople who are bawl-
,, llir Hie ur." .........
...i.i iia;m hlir wiber rnlllliic In the general vicinity
nf lliieng... a return to the futilities of
lr. Palmer or shouts for "the gun and
t In Urike taboo, by (Jcorge!" will get
us now her
unle.' It be deeper into con-
fusion.
The country doesn't want its train'
run by the arm. It iioen t want
i Links and machine guns in the streets.
I Ins sji (tei-innny ami it isut IuisMn :
.'inl. what is more important, the
-irtkeis ni,. um i.i'rimilis anil tney hit
Itussiiiii-. They me eltl.ens who .
lme ii nglii to a fair hearing and a fair
deal.
There are cries for the Department
of .lustice. cries for the nrmy. Wbnt
I would the befuddled senators havo tbe
Departmcut of Justice do? How should
, it be done?
' Trains, even if they conld be run by
i the ami, would cost about a hundred
times as much as they cost now. and
where should we be In the end? If the
time has come when peace in American
industry has to be maintained by armed
force something is woefully out of kelter
somewhere. The strike itself is of
secondary interest, of secondary slg
nilicance. It may end as quickly as it
i began. It may be brought to some
,I,,U.J . f .nOlnm.nl IMnlnln
f , . hn rnIi,ltrnP(1 nccuclos
of government ought now to deal openly
and fairly.
It Is interesting to observe Hint in all
the schemes of settlement by suppres
sion so far proposed there is nothing to
suggest a method by which public opin
ion may be given a voice or an oppor
tunity to make its supreme power felt.
The people, who suffer iuot. do not yet
I know what is wrong, nnd no one in
otlieial authority has thought of giving ,
them the information thnt they ouzlit 1
to have.
(leneral Wood, buckling on his sword
with a gesture of superb abnegation,
will be suspected, nnd suspected rightly,
of a desire to steal Mr. Palmer's stuff,
Does the general not know where that
stuff bns got Mr. Palmer?
Other presidential candidates seem to
.believe that the applause and th. Ian-
riot. 1 he y oods nnd tbe Poiudejstcrs,
(.11. tlml. Mitt.! I...ILI In ....!..-. nn.t 1.... ,.
'; "hathe f !
f , ron(luio
, , suggestive of civil war,
'. . ,,,, , . . ,. '
ought to be Kept far out of the present
r0IlfllsI()n. T,,J nw nuite as dangerous
,, , ,, ,,, lpnndors f
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...... ........ p.. ...n. ... .I4'((4 1IIJUIIL IU
go back to his stump.
A sane nnd orderly way to n settle
ment of tbe strike is open to the federal
authorities, and the sudden activity at
Washington indlcntes that the Presi
dent nt Inst hab discerned it. The
news from the eastern Iinei was needed
to gnlvunize a drifting government.
The course which the President
should nnd probably will follow is sug
gested in his hurried appointment of the
iniieh-discussed rnllway labor board.
The unfortunate accident of Mr. Wil
soti's illness further confused the is
sues that lie between railway companies i
and their men. The railway wage board
should have been appointed before this
T?ut to say that delay at the White
House is the sole cause" of the strike is
rank misrepresentation. The official
labor board will bo relatively powerless
.until the railroad comnimleh themselves
to compel the railways or their striking
employes to accept the principle ,i;
Mr. Hoover, as cfiiiirman of the recent
industrial conference, ns well n Ma
colleneues. viewed ns an indisnensnlile
...iin,in, t in,i....ini -.
'
,..i V i-'n"",m" w' -y-
WtttwHi iu 1 1 Loir til rfCfUTtilln ie tst rfn.
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manil that the preliminary boards of1
nr i trat on ie lmmei nre r esrn 1 s iei
.tp scrutinize, not the pnrticulur claims
of the tnuurgrtit unions nut the causes
' of tAri'r iiMiirieiici.
When ll.ese hoards nre nrannt,! nn.f
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I....I .!. ....1.1. ..111 I.. .-I
..iKiiu..-u iu- ...... in...-. ., .,. ,,.- iui.il-
il.l- for ii just and intelligent approach
I.. I he problems of the railway men.
'I he government will have tbe right to
demand that the strikers return to work
and submit their case for fnlr decision.
'Ii is altogether unlikely that such nn
ippenl. niiied by the President in tho i
interest of public peace ntid public wel- I
far. Mould be disregarded oven by the i
itf-urgi uts
Anv other method, founded on l,n
i ,, . ' .. , , , ,
I'.iluier theoii of foice nud sunnrejs nn
I legal taboos, would be infinitely
... ih to the country ns well ns to the
unions. II will lie tinie to talk of ac-
. tivc opposition to tbe insurgents only.
, after orderly and reasonable efforts fur)
settlement Imve failed. i
The rnllroads will be operated. That .
is certain But for the Hake nf decency I
the, ought to be operated In peace
'
I ihe liersoniiel of the court oaui-d
yesterday by the I 'resident seems in in
HI-' ruirneyi Mr Baker .Mr. Elliot '
v fj
EVENING PUBLIC
nnd Mr. Park, who represent the cor P
1-orntious, bae hud long experience In
railroad oierntlon. Hut each began IiIh I -workltiR
life In n small job. Each lias!
worked bard.
...r. ,,,., very properly f ... .
reeoKtn ion to hip oi.ier urouieriioous
in naming tbe tbiee rcprc,cntatrCH of ,
IheeniplojCN. Mr. Phillips, Mr. Wluif-I
ton and Mr. ! orreiter bnve represented
the interest of the railway men at In 'Miring lias an jet sent only preinoiu
tmnierablo important conferences, nnd "". of her coming in n llnsh iimoiig
each U a trained caniimigner of rallwn ."'p I'iri'bes. a yellow glow in the thickets
union xin. Me. Ilnneni-. i.I Wiik i ni?- 1
,,,; Mr. ,,,. ()f n,,i,,,l. and Mr. ,
P.nrtuii. of I eniie.see. are appointed as
representative, of the public Interest,
but If their njiiipathlcx are lo be judged
by their ntimm records in public life
nnd afTalr- lliej will I 'an lo the side of
tbe workers wither Hum to the side of
the corfiornliniii. Each lias at some
time or oilier done service in behalf of
commiinllii's or groups of people who
, were ut a (lipiidvantngc. Ilicy can In-
form the public mind and let (Jie people
know v, lui! is amiss.
( Siip'Tln inl cures ought to be avoided.
, In the interest of the whole country we
(ought to gel below the surfaco and deal
wiei - iij imiii origiuni cnuse.
SPROUL'S GOOD WORK
pOVEttNOIl NPUOt't, approached
the general (iiesllou of the railway
sliike like n Inn, inn being and not like
u PriisMiut or a romplnccnt ignoramus,
nnd for that reason he has been nblc-to
do something really worth while for tbe
railways, the public and the men them
selves iu clearing tbo way to tbe first
meeting between strikers' representa
tives and the executives. I
The conference arranged for tonight
lluougli the conciliator efforts of the
' lncruiir nnd the Stute Department of
Labor niny not cud the s-trikc. But it is
u good beginning nnd ir will have u
good effect. It is the sane method.
Nothing will bo possible so long as
tho opposed groups in the railroad world
stand aloof and glower at eneb other.
When they once begin lo confer they will
bnve to air the facts in the case. The
public will be informed. -And it Is not
unreasonable to suppose that n break in
the ice is all thnt is needed to start a
general return to reason.
THE RIGHT TO "HOLLER'-
Mns. IMOUKN II. OAKLEY seems
to object to the "hollering" of boys
in tbe streets. She has discovered one
boy. the son of well-to-do parents, who
lusisW on selling newspapers because
It gives him an opportunity to make as
much noise as he feels like making.
The campaign ngainst needless noises
will have to he carried on a long timo
before proper consideration can be given
to the noises of active youth. AVe were
going to sny "the shouting of boys."
but girls also like to make a noise.
There is on record the report of the
case of one girl whose mother protested
against her yelling in the house. "But
1 have to yell, mother, the girl pro-
tested. "Then go out to the stable to
do it," was the reply. And the ncigh-
bors would bear the girl exercising her
lungs two or three times every day nnd
I smile indulgently nt the exuberance of
j youth.
The invasion of their rights to
("holler" is one of the grievances of
i clty-bred'childrcn. The child who has
; grown up without feeling free to shout
such was seen walking down Chestnut
street, yesterua liiiuaiiug a sieamnoat
whistle, and so deeply absorbed in bis
play that ho was unaware of the tol
crnnt smiles of the men who crowded
the sidewalk around him.
If consideration for the nerves of
others requires thnt some restrictions
should be plncrd on youthful noises, the
city ought to provide couvenicntly lo
cated "holleriug" places for nil the
boys nud girls. It may bo that the
playgrounds enn be adapted to this use.
For example, like the one which its
young'frequenters nlrcady call "Happy
Holler."
SUN TIME IN JERSEY
OFFICIAL coercive co-operation is
the life of daylight snving. There
fore the New Jersey Legislature is wise
in it' refusal to order an advancement
of the summer clock.
Save by u federal enactment, tinker
ing with eastern standard time is im
possible in Pennsylvania. Phlladul-
' f ,.nS, , "R ,, ,P' "(re n,lturr :v
I ? LiZT." ?&Lvl
phians cross'ng the ferry are naturally
the complexities of n Camden hour. It
is preferable to bo backward than hope-
I Icssly confused.
j In view of the affection of her neigh -
bors for sun time, New York daylight
' saving is revealed as freakish and rather
futile. Tho ocean liners bnve refused
to b- governed by the artificial clock,
llailroads bnve bren similarly disre
spectful It was Congress which messed up a
bem ficent nnd sensible luw, ond no
state is so "sovereign" that it alone
..ll 1 .!. LI 1 ...- ,..
. , ' "''- orn in
, -"egulnting its own affairs.
A congressional committee invest!
' Rating the activities of the United States
.Shipping Uonrd, Emergency Meet Cor-
I porntion. made a survey of Hog Island
'yesterday. Tills is ns it should be.
--wry investigating committee should'
UnrtA nt Inntt n irniinnnl biwim ndnA of tl..
"'' - " - " s"-'' ' e.-b ";.fee they bnvo a grievance. .MeanwlW
geography of the subject being invest!-1 , v revolutionist in the country I
kiiu-ii ino uiu.v ihiiijil-
it later
"gimil'lt(' fl"'ts-
"
Thiee hundred employes of the
niinneipnill liospiini lor LOninglOUS
'Diseiises are threatening to strikn be
,,.
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sreuo-- " "' " uuiini ui.ui.mi HUH
if),ri,. pav i(Prr. wn imvR r(,nj Kr,ov.
,lrj,.o that ought to be righted forthwith.
' Commuters nre dclnyed as crews ,
quit job. Of course. That the pres
. nt trouble Is serious is merely inri
ilenlal. Let the body politic be afflicted
with the most trifiiug ill, tho commuter
is the lint to feel it.
.. . U", 'lr.on'I'' 1!?? 'lnviuB Proved
ne r BDiuiy io iuhko iinngs uncomtort-
t., .. . ,...i.. i..i...u n '
H, ',.- miwduefor the sobeV s'-bnd '"i hJw "? P ' " "P
thought that will send them back tol3 "lg
work.
m i
xow that motors nro traveling tho
length of a state with food from the
farms the term "(ruck farmer" takes
on new significance.
Mrs Mixing says we sbnll know
,int m-Xti u really here when tlieto
u enough gas to burn the breakfast
i;iken.
;LEDGERPli.U;APEUIHA WEDNESDAY, AFBTL
THE GOWNSMAN
On the Fringes of Winter
I TADKD witb pitied ami wearied with
V ,,, ,,, tlj,ror,s tf
J (be iiinnotminti discords "J bodies
,,me nllt 0ihcr, your Uouuiiniiin emu -
li(.(! tlm hinla 1it .trl.- nn.l took n
Ulcbt iimlliu.nril Into the nnr-n where
men are few ntiil propecti wide, where i
V.1 ","" " i"i- wu .., ...
'n,n'K, Zt'XcrUu iSff
,s ,.,.. crmjm, ovrr ,j,P ,lla am
keeps the ponds locked light In bond
the air ami In the color of tbe nk.v.
s
ml
ds
of crjstnl? Who cares if the iwc lies
as yet deep in the woods and if northern
cxpo'llirs present life lisped of Lap
lnndV Spring is nt hand, nbitut to work
the eier new and old-time miracle
the resuscitation jf a dead world, the
roining of a new hope, the contlnunncc
into fulfillment of u long promise.
Till) twenty-ncro lot h now an odd
patched quilt of gray and white, for
Ihc grnss has taken on no Huge of green
as yet in these northern latitudes nnd
considerable banks of snow fill the hol
lows and fringe around the outcropping
boulders, in places drifted clear over
tho stone walls. The blueberry patch,
always open to the sun, has somewhat
less snow. Its hnlf-grown pines look
pale and stoBm-worn, but its birches
with their ivory -like yellow-white btcms
nrc colorful at the tips and huckle
berry bushes are ablush with reddening
twigs which looked almost purple the
other day when wet witb rain. That
the willows should put out their fuzzy
"pussies" whatever the keenness of
tho wind,, one may understand ; foremen
wear furs to keep out tho cold. But
that delicate little plants which tho
(townsman cannot be constrained into
calling, by hnrd botanical names
should pokn their dainty shoots out of
nil but frozen ground, secure in tbe
promise of the spring, this should moMS
us, men of little faith, to a trust in
the beueliceuee of tunc. e did not
find any arbutus for the drifts nrc still
feet deep in the taller woods, but we
know that underneath the snow the
Hower of spring is quickening, meas
ured by tho trickle, drop by drop, of
its melting coverlid.
WE HAVE had three days, each,
nfter the dependable variability of
April, quite different In Its kind. The
morning on which we nrrived they had
come down the mouutain on Blcdges. By
noon the snow bad softcne! and with
it the surface mud of the roads where
tie sun shone across; but as the frost
is not yet out of the ground the going,
while soft, was not delaying. Every
where was the trickle of water, snow
dissolving into drops, glittering with tbo
light of motion. Strenms ran beside
tbe road and gurgled ns they ran ; even
beneath drifts quite firm to tho foot,
there was the subterranean murmur of
hurrying water. Hoofs looked wet from
the dripping patches of snow still cling
ing near the caves and chimneys and
the trampled ground of the barnyard
stood iu glimmering pools. Spring was
laughing in tho hills nnd the air bl(yv
soft from the mountains.
m
EXT morniug the mood was changed.
turning the heavy April showers of the
morning to a hurly-burly of tentnery
snow, catching to everything, clinging.
covering, concealing. Finn trees seem
designe to catch nnd retain snow
tlnkes. which in their myriads soon
transform the somber tnsseled branches
into nlumcs of heavy whiteness. Willi
a dull gray sky above nnd black recesses
between, these feathered snruys spring
ing out of a ground of white look like
n landscape done in chalk on a black
board. All nice gradations of sbnde
are gone, all color suppressed ; but
grace of form made up for nil. The
other of our days wns clear, cold and
sparkling. Every mountniu stood out
sharp and bard against the sky, the
hardwood forests showing streaked yel
lowish gray on tbo snow which filled
them, the pastures gleaming white, the
shoulders shading dark where tho
spruces, pines nnd hemlocks grow.
Above a certain line there wns a gleam
liko that of Rtcel; evidently tlicrc tho
ruin hnd frozen on twig nnd branch und
sheathed all in glittering armor. The
roads bad hardened and the pools were
now so mnuy empty little cnvinc, cacn
bridged with brittle white ice. The
frozen grass, all stiff with snow, crack
led beneath our footsteps and tho drifts
in which wo sank but yesterday knee
high had hardened with a frosty crust
which speeded tho rapid walker how
ever they betrayed tbo heavy footsteps
of the tardy.
NOR Is our landscape without life
which the tell-tale snow intercst-imrW-
discloses. We bnvo no rabbits in
tliese mountains: ours b, the nobler
snowshoe bnre which inhnblts from this
point to the Pole. His is n prodigious
bound, measured in the snow. We had
tho Imp to sec one fine large fellow ns
his coat was changing from its winter
white n little too early for the season
and he "froze" quite near, harmonizing
with his surroundings except for his
large bead-like black eye. Of foxes
we are not so certain; but wo imnginn
that we distinguished tbe tracks of at
least one. It wns on our way to the sap
houso that we saw all this; for the sap
is running in the maples, nnd careful
husbandmen nro banging out the buckets
on each little spout from whicii comes
drop by drop tho liquid sweetness which
is the blood of those noblo trees. Wo
found the snphouse aglow with a mighty
wood fire, the children stoking, skim
ming the huge pnns of boiling liquor and
skylnrking in (lie swirling smoke nnd
steam, their elders superintending with
the busy Idleness thnt marks a congenial
occupation. Outside tho sap was drip
ping from two -score of buckets and n
sled Btood ready to convey tho sugar up
the hill in n barrel when properly dig
tilled. As wo left out came n momentary
burst of sun. admonishing us to be 'of
good cheer, and a jay noisily greeted
us in the woodwnys. The promise of
spring i' certain, for a soug sparrow
told us so this morning in notes so
liquid and so true that be would be a
churl who would not bclievo him.
Among the outlaw strikers there
arp prer ranny good Americans who
u" ;'- s "T , , .'
o
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tO, ',i., r tho fool wnv thi irnml
ktnA i r inn 1 si in inn onnnriiit in
Americans am seeking to right their
wrongs.
Delawnre sloops nnd schooners will
vie with Baltimore trucks In feeding
Philadelphia. The railroad strike may
vt show us bow to save money on
transportation
Old 11. C. of L.. viewing the rail
road strike. tees an Immediate Increnss
to his stature.
Whether he know it or not, tho
motto of tho "outlnw" switchman Is,
"Well, I'll be switched !"
T,p gwitcbmnn's wlfo will have
,Mi, m snv to her lesser l.ntr
something m sny i" uir lesser ln
TIip state Scnnte having defeated
the daylight-saving bill, New Jersey
will let Father Timo gang his aln gait.
It may be that the railroad men nre
just laying off to Inko in the opening
games ,
When II. C. of h. gets his pitching
arm in good fhape tbero won't be much
ujr- lii golii.'ln the hoino-pWo
A ?
THE SEASON
I trf&
HOW DOES IT
CtrrDTVn vnr9 .
Oi iljfli Jttt.
A SWITCHMEN'S trike
starts up
and sprci
prcads rapidly over the
country.
It gets out of the control of lenders,
who call for an anti-strike law of a new
sort to punish men who won't obey the
heads of their organizations.
It starts over n trifle.
But the men don't listen to reason.
They don't listen to authority.
They nrc in n strange and dangerous
mood.
Senator Johnson goes into Michigan,
making u radical appeal, talking to dis
content if ou will.
No one took him seriously.
Ho sweeps the stule.
In tho prosperous city of Detroit,
where there nre more highly paid and in
telligent workmen than uuywhere else,
he gets nearly all the votes, and General
Wood, whom more couscrvntlvc inter
ests fnvor, gets only a handful, running
well only iuthe silk-stocking wards.
In Wisconsin, Senator La Follette,
with a platform attacking the Supremo
Court, with n plntform of which gov
ernment ownership of railroads is the
most conservative plank, badly beats
Scnntor Lenroot, not a reactionary, but
a sano progressive, u ninn Wisconsin bns
.entnn lo he nroud of. nn able man.
perhaps the ablest Kepubllcan iu the
United States Senate.
He beats him ns badly ns Johnson
beat Wood in Michigan.
Wisconsin and Michigan, you say,
always were "crazy states."
It is not so ensily disposed of.
Tbero is the Hwitchnien'B strike,
which extends over the East.
There were the angry und the outlaw
strikes of labt fall.
There were tho moments then when
tho classes in this country faced each
other with set faces, nnd on the ono
sido men talked of shooting down labor
and labor shouted bnck threats of revo
lution. i q q
RADICALISM nnd conservatism
want n line-up in this country nud
n chance to vote against each other.
Two pussyfooting parties no longer
suit the mood of tho people.
This desire may lead to tho forma
tion of a third party, for it is unlikely
thnt the Kepubllcan party, controlled
by the conservative East and the ngra-
What Do You Knoxv?
QUIZ
1 Docs tho rcsch-Cummlns lallrnad
law forbid strikes?
2. Who Is thn first Polish minister to
tho United Stutes?
3. Who said "Winter lingering chills
tho lap of Jliiy'".'
i. l)y what treaty was Cannda acquir
ed by Great Drllnln?
.'.. Who Is tho commander directly In
charge of the American forces on
tho llhlne?
0. How far la Versailles from ParlsT
7 What Is tbo meaning" of tho French
phrnso "lalBsoz fttlro"? 1
J. How should It bo pronounced 1
9. What winter did Washington and
tho Continental army pass nt
Valloy Forge?
10 What Is the capital of Guatemala.
whero a new revolution has broken
out?
Answers to Yesterday's Quiz
1. The Uarbary states arn tha coun
tries of Morocco. Algeria. Tunis.
Barca nnd Tripoli In northern
Africa.
2 They aro so-called from tho raco of
neruers who inhabit tneso reglonH
3 An esculent Is a thing lit for food.
1. "Great Clrclo Railing" Is adopted by
navlgatom to economlzo tllstances.
As the dldtanco around tho world
Is greatest at the equator, shlpn
take northerly and southerly routes
In crossing tho oceans wherovor
possible, Tho arcs thus described
aro part of tbo great circle.
5. Thomas A, Edison recently dnc.larod
that ho oonsldcred tho Incanueucent
oleotrlo light bio greatest inven
tion. 0. Tho state of Sonora In the north
has just seceded from tho republic
of Mexico.
7. John Burroughs, tho celebrated
American naturalist, is olglity
throe. 8, Tho Latin phrase "nil admlrarl"
inonna "nothing to bo admired." It
v Is used lo descrlbo nn attltudo of
stolid Indifference.
a
The presidential contest of 1810, In
which William Henry Harrison
tlcfe.Uod Henry Clay and Wlnllelil
fteott, was known ns tbo "Iog
Cabin and Hard filler" campaign
Thomas J .laclteou won his solirl
nuot of "Htonowall" for Ida obsti
io
nnto ttnji(l ill (ho buttlo of Hull
ttlo
I
jinn, in iii.i. s
k
102Cf
OPENS WITH A EOUL STRIKE
' i ' -v '- - , ' .fxV-
i -'$M
Present Mood of the Country Seems
to Dcmand a W'," Between
Conservatives and Radicals
rinn West, or the Democratic parly,
with most of its votes in the reactionary
South, will put up candidates to satisfy
tho spirit of Michigan nnd AViscousin
or the angry mood oT the striking
switchmen.
fllr. Oompers inny not have bis wny
In holding the labor 'voters to the plnn
of choosing what is, from their point pf
view, the less of two evils, by castiiig
their votes' against labor's enemies.
Recent primaries were full of sur
prises wherever a real Issue presented
itself.
The national campaign may turn out
equnlly full of surprises.
Every four years the nation finds out
whnt it is really thinking: 1012 wns a
revelation of the deep division in the
Keputilican party-r'iUlu was n revela
tion to the Enst' of the West's intense
pacifism.
Tho country lins had one of tho most
tremendous experiences in ils history
since 1010.
It is only natural that this experience
has exercised a profound influence upon
the national thinking. AVhnt will be
the revelation of 1020?
q j j
fHE naval investigation invited by
Admirnl Sims is rcvcnling whnt
everybody knew.
Secretnry Daniels is n small-bore
politician and a poor executive.
The country knew this before Ad
mirnl Sims began exposing him.
It knew it when Mr. Daniels was
appointed to office.
It knew it better nfter he hnd been
in office n llttlo while.
It knew it when tho war broko out.
Tbo war did not cnuso the country
to roviso its estimate of Mr. Daniels.
It did not add a cnbit to tbe secre
tary's stature, nny more than it did to
Mr. Baker's.
Victory did not make either of them
n great man.
The verdict of tho country is that
Mr. Daniels "got nway with it."
He bad q good navy. r
He had good luck.
But with tho war won, when the
country tnlks (as it often does) of the
weakness of Mr. Wilson's cabinet, it
nlways points to Mr. Daniels and Mr.
Baker as shining examples of the kind
of men who ought not to be cabinet
officers ; just exactly as it used to before
tho war began.
q i q
IN A controversy this wns a positive
advantage to Mr. Daniels.
Nothing that Admiral Sims could
say, do or provo could hurt tho sec
retary. The utmost Admiral Sims could show
was that the navy had succeeded in
splto of its secretory, which Is what
everybody was convinced of beforo Ad
miral Sims began.
But n good deal that Admiral Sims
could do, say or prove could hurl Ad
miral Sims,
And he has hurt himself, which is a
pity, for ho Is a fine nnd capable officer.
Ho has mado an nttnek upon tho ad
ministration of tho navy which could
servo no useful purpose.
It does no good now to say thnt if
tho navy had been readier In 1017 the
war would have been shorter.
It docs uo good to say that If the
navy had been readier there would not
havo been the precarious moments when
It looked ns if the Germnn submarine
campaign would win.
The answer Is that tho war is over
nnd won.
A post-mortem on it is of no mors
use thnn n post-mortem on n hand of
auction Driuge.
Tho Impression tho public wlU gather
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THE KATZENJAMMER KIDS
wTc FISKE O'HARA
from tbe whole episode is that Admiral
Sims started a controversy over the
share of glory Mr. Daniels hnd got out
of tho war.
Secretary Daniels hnd got mlghtv1
little glory out of the war.
And Admiral Sims ought to have seen
It, been content and not dimmed bis
own glory by causing his brother offi
cers to testify tbnt Sims was vain und
thnt ho was unfair iu bis charges about
the physical condition of tho lighting
ships.
Daniels had tho actual sailor men
like Mayo, Winslow nnd Rodman, on
his side, which was n piece of luck.
q q
IF THE United States hnd entered .the
war with the navy perfectly pro
pared to fight at once !
That is Admiral Slms's "if."
But every great war is full of "if."
if it hnd not been for the mistakes
of Jellicoo the Gorman navy would have
been destroyed nt Jutland, sny some.
If It bad not been for the blunders
of the civil authorities, writes Ludcn
dorff in bis vain and fatuous apologia.
If McCIellan had been able lo make
up his own mind, said men of our own
Civil Wur.
The two most dignified figures of the
great war arc Joffre und Iliudenburg,
neither of vrhom has nn "if" to present
to the world.
Sims would have been more impres
sive if he had said less about Daniels's
weaknesses nfter the fact or more about
them when it might have done some
good.
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