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A FOUR-YEAR PROGRAM FOR
PHILADELPHIA
Things on which the people expect
the new administration to concen
trate) Ita attention :
Tke Delaware river bridge.
A drydock big enough fo occomtno-
ttatn fA lnraeMt shins.
Development of the rapid transit sys-
rem.
A convention halt.
A bulldlna for the Free Library.
An Art Museum,
Bnlargement of the mater supply.
Homes to accommodate the vopuln-
tlon.
FINANCING THE P. R. T.
THE first announcement of plans from
the Mayor's transit committee is
disappointing.
Xcf suggest that a portion of the
$25,000,000 voted by the people for the
construction of the Flroad street subway
be diverted to purchasing Vars and ex
tending tracks for the surface lines is
not a highly constructive thought.
First of all. it would make more re
mote the building of the fast under
ground line which is the ono great cry
ing need of the local transportation
problem. It would tear the heart out
of the Taylor scheme for rapid tranit.
It Is a proposal to do something
which is clearly the function 'aud duty
of the P. K. T. itself. The poverty of
the company is hardly excuse enough to
warrant the city in undertaking to
finance its surface operations so long
as it, continues to pay nine or ten mil
lions a ye'ar out of the car riders'
Vocfcets to its underlying dead com
panies whose rentals arc the real cause
of its plight.
The suggestion ia feeble.
SOME PARK TREASURES
OFFICIAL approval of plans for the
erection of a largo modern restau
rant on the Belmont Plateau Is aerom
pdnicd by the interesting stipulation
that the concessionaires shall restore
Ttelmont Mansion to its, original con
dition. Although not the oldest of the Park
"estates," Belmont ranks high in
charm. A restoration here might be
capable of attractive extension.
The fine old Colonial mansions sur
mounting the hills inclosing the Schuyl
kill rank with Brandon nnd its fellows
on the James as among the early archi
tectural treasures of the county. Mount
Pleasant has grace, beauty and rich
historic interest. There are others al
most equally appealing.
The use of tiese romantic buildings
for Tark administration purposes, while
it has without doubt stayed the hand of
vandalism, has not been ideal. When
the Park commission can afford it, new
offices and stations should be erected
and respectful attention could then be
given to "reviving" the mansions and
opening them to the public.
Fairmount Park would then be unique
5n its combination of natural and his
toric beauties. As. it is. the vpry
abundance of our Colonial survivals has
perhaps fostered nn unduly prolonged
i attitude of indifference.
A BELATED ENFORCEMENT
THE announcement that Germany has
begun the delivery to France of
rattle concerning which the peace treaty
made specific provision suggests that
the Berlin government is at last feeling
the pressure of obligation. It is worth
noting, however, that even this exhibit
of reparation is belated.
The treaty of Versailles went into
force on January 10, 1020. Within the
three months following 100,000 sheep
were to have been handed over. Some
10,000 have now been surrendered.
Goats to the number of 4000 were railed
for. They have been delivered. Horses
(0 the number of 30,000 were promised ;
3200 have been dispatched.
The period of grace during which
these compensations were to have been
made expired six days ago. Interpre
tation of public sentiment in France
nnd explanation of hpr move into the
Ruhr is decidedly facilitated by a care
ful scrutiny of the original document
liy which Germany declared herself
bound and by a comparison of its text
with her actions.
McCUMBER FIGHTS ON
SENATOR McGUMBER made a Eood
fight, frank, courageous and sin
we, for the peace treaty. His ap
pearanco now as the author of a peace
jesolution which has been referred to
the Ejenate committee on foreign rela
tions Is therefore worth attention.
Has a statesman who really tried to
Htem the tide of irritated partisanship
Midden !y flopped over to fantastic fool
er7 The notion is distressing, until
the' actual text of his resolution is ei
tmileed. "Resolved," runs the conclusion,
"that commercial relations between the
United States and Germany may be and
th.e oamo are hereby resumed to the
seme extent and uuder the same liralta
tlosa as though no war had existed, be -tween
tf. two governments. "
1 Tki ,eM resolution made neace
1 .', tMKititHoW " PMce by Germany,
4''-Wl4' Mty-fire days, that, aha
; wm te-t fttoMo A'UIm, as refartfc the
surrendered under n treaty which vie
ourselves bad repudiated. Mr. Mc
Cumber tics no such strings to his
pence. Germany, on her part, can, if
she likes, call it a war.
On the surface here is naivete and
sweet simplicity carried to nn extreme.
The cargo of hypocrisy which the House
carried with its resolution is flung over
board. What remains is naked futility.
One way to expose a folly Is to pur
sue it boldly and openly to face nil Its
implications. It is not unreasonable
to Infer that this is Whnt Mr. McCum
treaty with Germany that has yet beeu
made.
THE WASHINGTON MIND
IS OFF ON A VACATION
Important Business Will Be Re
sumed, as Usual, After the
Presidential Election
AS PASSENGERS on the stately old
craft that Congressman Vnro in
his star-spangled moments wwcetly calls
the ship of state, wo have good reasons
to complain of heavy weather and de
fective seamanship on the bridge.
She rolls. And she rolls because the
work of the navigators is, to say the
best of it, sketchy. Government hns
virtually stopped nt Washington. It
hns stopped nt the White House because
of the President's continuing illness,
nnd it has stopped in Congress because
this happens to be a presidential year.
Senators and representatives who or
dinarily might be expected to do nn
efficient trick at the wheel in nn effort
to get us decently out of the fog arc
overwhelmed by the uncertainties of the
political situation and numb with anx
iety over their own nnd their pnrty'g
chances.
Their minds nre. ns you might say,
adjourned.
For n day recently when Mr. Wilson
summoned the cabinet for a formal
meeting Jt appeared that we might be
getting under fair iieadway once again.
The country, bedeviled by high prices,
strikes, trade complications due to the
treaty deadlock nnd crowding worries
for the future, strained its ears for
some suggestion of a revived initiative
and hoped for u sign to indicate that
the government had started to move
and think once more.
But all it heard when the cabinet
session ended was n wan echo of the
attorney general's favorite aberration.
It was clear that the President con
tributed little to the deliberations of
the iirt cnbinet meotiug held in eight
months, nnd clearer tliat he is still fur
from complete rccover .
The President had his way with the
treaty. The Scnitte had its way with
the treaty. The deadly work is done.
The fact that we are still at war uith
the Germans menus little in itself. Hut
the consequences of the treaty failure
nro being felt heavily in industry be
cause of the increasing difficulties of
American forutgu tr.ide. The Senate
has no method of dealing with these
consequences. Neither has the Presi
dent. Congress, indeed, hasn't time to
care. It is too busily watching the
progress of General Wood and Senator
Johnson and the other explorers in the
torn mid troubled iield of 1020 politics.
Little may be expected from Congress
until after election. The country, must
endure the periodical interruption of
sane thinking that comes once in every
four years to politicians who happen to
be ambitious. It is unfortunate that
the inevitable year of intellectual slump
and partisan maneuvering happens to
be one of the most critical and trying in
our history. Events of immeasurable
importance will be left to shape them
sehes or to be shaped according to party
interest.
Men who have their ears to the
ground cannot see fnr toward anv hori-
zou. All the ears in Washington are
at the ground.
The call for n cabinet session made
it seem that the collective mind of
Washington was not altogether stag
nant. It was supposed by optimists
that Mr. Wilson and his advisers wero
ready for a courageous nnd intelligent
approach to the intolerable complication
of purposes that lies behind demonstra
tions like the railway strike since the
strike itself is only a symptom of deeper
trouble Hut the statements issued
from the White House and the outgiv
ings of the attorney general proved that
the affairs of state still proceed by
guesswork when they are not governed
by superstition.
What was made plain is thnt the
President still knows too little of what
is going on in the country. If lie hud
sensed the state of public feeling he
might have sent n short message to Con
gress and by a word and a promise in
spired the agencies that nre working
against great obstacles to restore pcuce ,
on iuc rauronus. -
It was within the power of Mr. Wil
son and his cabinet to compel a better
spirit of co-openuiou among railway
managers, who have shown no great
haste in meeting tho terras of a railway
law that was intended to insure the
peaceful settlement of wage disputes.
But the cabinet meeting seems to have
been a series of greetings and nothing
more.
No one can read the Congrcsional
Record these days without feeling that
the House and the Senate aro in tho
clouds. If there is one question that
irritates and angers the country, it is
the qnestion of profiteers. Extortion
is n national affliction. It is unsettling
the nntiouHl temper and profoundly dis
turbing the national equilibrium.
You wouldn't suppose, after a read
ing of the Record, that they know whnt
high prices am in Washington, nnd
speeches by Senator I'oindexter nnd
other Senate leaders have nothing in
them to suggest that the profiteers hnve
become the real enemies of order in the
I'nited States. A great deal of money
and a great deal of time were spent by
the government in what was called a
war on high prices. Now that war is
formally abandoned because of ineffi
ciency in the most pretentious of the
federal departments.
A Congress which hates or fears to
assume leadership among ticklish Issues
in an election year hates naturally to
sec the President lead. So it wns quite
by instinct that the Senate moved to
delay ratification of the new railway
labor board upon which the country
may have to depend for tho re-establishment
of railway service.
Wo will muddle through, of course.
We always do. But everybody ought to
renlixo that the politicians have for the
time being almost stopped thinking.
The country must be prepared to do its
own. Its political bablts ore' costly.
Men who engajte In the general stain
nede for oAe will continue to say not
what they heUeve (o be true, bt;t what
JPm.miV2&Jai "I .-.
Meanwhile, the nation is drifting
away from the war period among ucw
nnd tremendous issues thnt have been
filing up to the surface by the tormented
mind of humanity. These issues will
have to be met, and they cannot be met
with platitude nor dealt with accord
lug to any known system of routine.
The strikes of today have not the same
origins ns the strikes of a generation
ago. The relations between man and
man have been chnnged by the force of
circumstances nnd evolution.
The educational system of the coun
try has been our boast., We have
taught all sorts and conditions of people
to think and to reason. They must not
be blamed if they exercise that right.
But most of the men who fill offices in
Washington nre not yet aware that
they need to conduct the affairs of gov
ernment in a manner that will satisfy
a people whose critical intelligence
grows steadily keener ana more exact
ing with time nnd experience.
GENIUS IN SESSION
IF THE nation were governed by its
acknowledged and deserved celebri
ties, a convention scheduled for Satur
day in Atlantic City would uow be
nwaited with bated breath. Promoters
of the affair, who are accredited with
being somewhat familiar with New
York headquarters of a certain political
party, have summoned George Ade. As
n shrewd analyst of American character
lie has few equals. Rex Beach Is culled.
If he does not realize the vahie of en
ergy nnd vigor, who does? His writ
ings tingle with these attributes. Ethel
Barrymore, capable nt her bidding of
moving tho public to lears or laughter,
is invited. Don Marquis, incisive "col
yumlst," is expected to be on hand.
The list of guests due at this "Repub
lican Week End," ns it is called, in
cludes Lewis J. Selznlck, who makes
movies: George Dornn. who makes
books; John T. McCutcheon. who makes
instructive pictures: Booth Tnrkington.
who makes youth declarator, : Charles
Hanson Towne. who makes verses :
William Allen White, who makes Kan
sas popular.
A good time will be had by nil. That
much is sure. And it is" equally certain
that the occasion will be lively, Invig
orating, picturesque. These interest
ing week-enders know a whole lot about
the public, how to teach it, how to ap
peal to it. how to make it cry, how to
make it laugh, bow to reach its tnstcs.
Yet this convocation will not settle
the alluring question of the presidency.
Tt is. indeed, extremely unlikely thnt it
will agree to favor any particular can
didate, it will Hash and sparkle and
disband.
Delegates, many of whom ns indi
viduals nre not of the slightest interest
to the public, will choose the Repub
lican candidate in Chicugo. How many
Pennsylvnnians, who hnve rejoiced in
Ado's droll fables and eagerly absorb
news of the author, can name more tlinn
four or five of their possible represen
tatives in the coming convention?
Genius is a queer thing. It is very
unlike the commonplace public. Per
haps that is why the public has not em
powered it to govern us from Atlnutic
City.
DON ENRIQUE'S VENTURE
CADI, fair city of fair women, ex
quisite fans nnd precious little
modern progress, is possibly on the eve
of transformation.
In all Spain, Henry Ford could not
have picked a more charming seaport
as n site for his new export trade ns
sembling plant nor one whose tastes,
traditions nnd graces lie further re
moved from the Detroit temperament.
Don Enrique Ford, as he will doubtless
he called, has confessed his contempt
for history, nnd thnt. in nil the gran
deur of the great days of the galleons,
is the chief source of dnditnno pride.
Will Cadiz lose its distinctive flavor,
its delicate enchantment, its serene in
difference to the noisy mnrch of civ
ilization? Or will Mr. Ford succumb
to Anilnlusiun airs nnd highly unprac
tical romanticism? The outcome will
be watched with interest. On the
whole, however, there is less likelihood
that Don Enrique will be dancing the
seguidilla than that the inhabitants of
"The Silver Cup" will take to parking
their brand-new cars outside the bull
ring. It takes a high tjne of couroce for
railroad men to stick ou tho job at n
time when their fellows nre striking.
It is so very much easier to go with the
crowd. The men who measure up to
this standard deserve the 'thanks of the
community. They not only deserve it,
they sometimes need it. And so the
commuters who made up u purt.e for
the Atlantic City train crew thnt
brought them to town showed wisdojn
as well as thoughtful appreciation; for
what they did will have its effect on the
trainmen who quit in the middle of
the run.
Denjing that America lias duties
abroad. Senator Poindexter in Boston
has been assailing "internationalism."
This warrants the suspicion that the
senator is one who makes a bugaboo of
words He says that service should
begin nt home nnd, by implication, that
it should end there. But world events
have proved that not nltruism but self
interest demands that an affirmative
answer should be given to the query,
"Am I my brother's keeper?"
Sugar profiteers, having rend with
interest all that Fair-Price Commis
sioner McClain hns to say about them,
donbtless return to business refreshed
and satisfied.
The President is said to be none
the worse fnr his long session with the
cnbinet nn Wednesday Evidently the
minds present ran along with his with
out friction.
The grocer who puts his customers
on sugar rations in the bupe that tho
price will rise evidently hns for Ids
motto, "Sweet are the uses of adver
sity." Perhaps Mr. Palmer realir.es (hat
his chief is a great lover of detective
stories.
The winter of our discontent will
know the spring of hope when the mil
birds nest again.
There is little likelihood that the
loektender on the Chesapeake and Ohio
caual who has fallen heir to $7,000,000
will remain where he is. Not by a
dam site,
The strike is costing the railroads
$3,000,000 daily. Sooner or later you
and 1 1 dear brother, will contribute our
mites to meet that deficiency.
Recently ?7000 was stolen from a
meat packers' safe In Cleveland, The
thief probably wanted to buy a steak.
A deficiency bill Is a bromide, that
may; cure .a municipal hangover charge,
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HOOVER AND ORATORY
Theory That the Gift of Platform
Eloquence Is Indispensable In
Public Men Examined
WHEN I entered Pericarp's quarters
last night I found him in deep med
itation, with one hand resting on n
volume of Shakespeare lying open on
his desk.
He grunted a salutation, but remained
silent while I settled myself in nn easy
chair and lighted n cigar. I had becn
smoking some minutes before he seemed
to come to himself.
"Oh, you're here," he said at laRt.
"Well, I am glad you came In. I have
been wanting to tnlk to some one to
night." "I'm all cars," I remarked.
"Lend them to me, then, as Mark
Antony said to the Romans, nnd I'll
be duly grateful," said he. "I've been
thinking about the decline of oratory,
as it is sometimes called, nnd wonder
ing whether it has declined, nnd if so,
whether it ought to be regretted. We
have made of oratory a sort of a fetish.
We Insist thnt our public men shall be
able to make eloquent speeches, as
though ability to sline rhetoric were of
greater importance tlinn nblllty to con
ceive constructive policies."
i iiko to near an eloquent speccn,
I remarked, as he paused for a moment.
"So do I." he went on. "But there
nre things thnt I like more than elo
quence, it is nil right iu its place,
but victories ae won by organization
nnd not by rhetoric. Eloquence is nn
adornment nnd it can conceal laek of
thought, just as a pretty face in n
woman can mako unthinking men be
lieve that there is something beside
beauty in the woman who has it."
THEN nbruptly changing the subject
he naked :
"Did you lienr Hoover tnlk nt the
Metropolitan Opein House the other
night?"
I confessed that 1 was not so for
tunate. "I did."
Then there wns more silence.
"Hoover is uot nn orator." he finally
said. "And I am not sure thnt I regret
thnt he is not. He knows how to think
nnd how to express himself in words.
But he lncks the gift of impressing n '
puniic assembly with the things thnt he
says. His speeches read well, nnd ns a
thousand can rend them in the news
papers for every one thnt can hear 1
them. I do not know thnt lack of ora
torical skill matters much. Yet It is a
handicap because we have come to ex
pect men in public life to have the gift
of eloquence. Brjnn, ,ou know, talked
himself into the presidential nomina
tion in lNiii. I read his inmotiH speech
not long ago nnd discovered that it is
the veriest flapdoodle. But it accom
plished the result which Bryan in
tended. In thnt respect it deserves to
be classed with the oration which
Shakespeare wrote for Mark Anthony.
The Shakespeare speech, however, is
ns dint-rent from the iiryan output as
the Nebraska prairies are from the
Unman forum. Anthony, you remem
ber, says :
"I am no orator, ns Brutus Is ;
1 only speak right on ;
I tctl you that which you yourselves do
know."
"And et that speech, which is plain,
straightforward talking, is the most
subtle piece of eloquence ever put into
English words.
Tv
J speech reminds nie ,of the change
which hns come nbout in public address
in America in recent years. There was
a time when we expected our orators
to be rhetorical, as Webster was in his
Bunker Hill speech. But no man could
get by today with a speech like Web
ster's. Not even 'Jim Ham" Lewis,
with his talking vests and declamatory
whiskers, could do it. and he is one of
the men in whom the old style sur
vives. Our successful public speakers
are now spe'nking right on, after the
manner of Antony. Spread-eagleism
has disappeared from the public ban
quet. It seldom manifests itself in Con
gress nnd it obtrudes itself rarely in
the pulpit."
"But our great men have been ora
tors," said I, challenging his theory.
"Are you so sure nbout that?" he
asked. "Washington and Adams de
livered their annual messuges to Con
gress in person by word of mouth, but
do you know why Jefferson set the
precedent of sending his messnges to
Congress instead of speaking them in
person, n precedent followed by all of
his successors until Wilson revived the
Wnshingtoninn custom? No? Well, it
was because Jefferson was uot an orator.
He had a poor voice and nn unimpres
sive singe presence, nnd he knew it.
Ho assigned reasons of public expedi
cmy and the convenience of Congress
for not making his recommendations in
a feebly delivered speech, but no one
was deceived. General Grant wns not n
speechinnker. He was even less expert
than Mr. Hoover, and he would not Men
consent to make the ottcnipt to address
a public gathering Yet in private he
could tulk with telling effect. Tilden,
one of the ablest men we have produced,
was known as 'Whispering Sammj' be
cause he had no voice and did not make
speeches. Yet he came so near being
elected to the presidency thnt there nre
men who insist that lie was actually
elected He sat in his oflice and made
plans which were carried out Eilhu
Hoot can make a speech, but lie has u
squeaky voice nnd on unimpressive man
ner. McKinley could make n speech, it
is true, but his campaign managers kept
him at home in Canton in 1800, where
he talked to visiting delegations from
ins piuzza.
UTTTIIY. do you know thnt Edmund
VV Burke, one of the great traditions
of English oratory, was a most prosy
and uninteresting speaker? When he
arose in the House of Commons the
other members fled from his presence
rather than be bored by listening to
him. Yet when we rend his speeches
they impress us by their clnrity of
thinking nnd eloquence of phrase, very
much os we are impressed b rending
Hoover's speeches.
Sometimes I think thnt our public
men would do well to follow the advice
which Senator Quay gave .to Beaver.
You remember he sent a message which
rend. 'Don't talk,' Beaver took the
advice and became Governor.
"I nm not so sure that the decline
in oiatory of the old -fashioned type is
not an evidence of our progress in civ
ilization. My friend Frank Heuuer
once snid to me that as soon as a
spealter begins to declaim he stops
thinking. What we need just now is
more thinking and less declamation. If
the presidency is to bo awarded as a
prize in nn oratorical competition I, for
one, should like to know it iu advance,
so that I may find a convenient burrow
in which to spend the next seven months
in communion with my thoughts."
"Yet I should like to hear a man dis
cuss the Issues of today with the skill
which Mark Antony showed," said I.
"So should I." Pericarp admitted,
"but that Is not the kind of orntory
which I dislike." G. W. D.
The oyster man who sold whisky as
"a stew In a box to take home" will
need his sense of bumor when he comes
up for trial. 'fa
Novr ft oidf Hi & th. would only
lift the embargo" onyjfc,iW1art of our
uuuu;v J'-i-mn isfp
"SOME BACKWARD SPRING, I-SAY!
UP IS FROSTBIT!!"
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HOW DOES IT
STRIKE YOU?
WHAT is the worst system of man
agement in the world?
One in which responsibility is divided.
If vou try to put your finger upou
responsibility anywhere it is nlways
somewhere else.
It skips about like a flea.
That is precisely the system under
which our railroads are run : they being
neither one thine nor nnothcr: neither
' n private enterprise nor a public en
terprise, US llll'ir WUllUUg jrtuj.n- ...
found.
Are the private manaccrs responsi
ble? No: it's up to the government.
Is the President responsible?
No: it's up to Conjrrcss.
Ts Congress responsible?
No; it's up to the Interstate Com
merce Commission.
Is the commission responsible?
No; it's up to the public.
This B.vstcm would wreck anything.
It would wreck the railroads, except
the deficits springing from irresponsible
management are made Up out of the
pockets of taxpayers.
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AN EXPKHT with the X-ray In fans
has found dut how to pick out
marriage partners, photographing dia
phragms. ,,.,it
Two young people think they love.
Shall they marry?
T.ct them go before the X-ray ma
chine. "Rreathe naturally!" says the op
erator, just like any other photographer.
liy the way the diaphragm wabbles up
and down in breathing be can tell just
what kind of husband and wife they will
make.
A jealnu" woman, says the expert,
breathes differently from one who is a
good sport.
Hut will anybody marry If marriage
it made safe?
Isn't it the gambling chnncc in it that
intrigues?
If men and women were safe partners
they would have mated, but they would
not hnve married.
The whole institution, the public cer
emony, the vows, the symbols, the re
ligious sanctity, were all devised in the
genernl recognition that it wns the un
safest thing in the world.
Men go into battle with not one-half
the preparatives with which they go
into marriage.
If men had wanted marriage safe
they would have made it safe in the
thousands of jenrs thnt they liavo been
experimenting with it.
Hut no, life is a dull enough business
without some X-ray photograph re
vealing to the partner of your adventure
that you have not really the polyga
mous inclinations she suspects you of.
q q q
N
OT one member of the graduating
class at Yassar is going to be a
school teacher
A census of the oilier colleges and
universities both mule and female,
would probably show the same thing,
where a generation ago probably u third
of the graduates would teach.
The reason at Vassar?
"No mone. iu it."
No money in it is a mild way of say
ing it.
Not even a deirnt livii.g in it.
The young w onion at Vassar are nise.
The nation trrating teaching nrf il
does does not deserve to attract into
teaching the .wiling women nnd joung
men who have spent jcars and much
money in acquiring an education.
J I J
W5
K AUK Imish of money on educa-
And we skimp on educators. '
We forget that tho best education
used to be Dr. Mark Hopkins sitting on
ono cud of a log aud an eager pupil
sittlug on the other.
We forget that the best secular edu
cation the world ever had was Socrates
walking about the streets of Athens
tnlkiug to n few chosen followers.
The great teachers of the world who
did most to tducatc mankind, Christ,
IJuddlia, Confucius, had no $100,000,000
plants, with laboratories, llbruries, cat
alogues, research departments.
The colleges have just been raisins
$2PO,000,qOO--fortunatey, a good deal
of It to raise the salaries of their i!,.
enut the country Is so Indifferent to
ecluititjjcachyrsre dIly.'J
j2te&&(.'i-.
iXMt
Trouble on Railroads Due to Di
vided Responsibility, the Worst
System of Management
signing, to become, book agents, bank
clerks, saleswomen, secretaries.
In New York city, the richest city in
the world, the younger children in the
public schools nre being taught by the
older children, because the country be
lieves in cducntion and not in rducntors,
with the result that the wise, youug
women of Vnssar and elsewhere nnd
the wise young men, too when they
put on' their mortarboards to be gradu
ated say to one nnothcr, "Nix on tench
ing!" q q j
rpHK Carnegie Foundation did a good
service the other day as it often
does when it declared thnt our col
leges wasted too much money on "imi
tation research work": in other words,
that they did not all need the vast
plants that some of them hnvn and all
aspire to.
The foundation did not say "a few
more real educators and smaller educa
tional factories would be good for the
country."
Hut thnt is what it meant.
Iike a good many other things, edu
cation in this country is headed, for a
break -down.
It is not self-perpetuating. It docs
not breed educators.
q q q
T KT us 'Smash the labor unions,"
-' exclaim some enthusiastic persons
every time organized labor threatens to
do something they don't like. They arc
now having a taste of smashed labor
unions, for that Is what the outlaw
railroad strike amounts to, nnd they
don't like thnt, cither.
If the discipline of the unions had not
broken down there would have been no
strike.
And unless the discipline of the
unions can be restored tho unions nre
destroyed.
This is tho first big strike on the
railroads since Cleveland's administra
tion. Suppose there were no railroad
brotherhoods, would the country have
been ns free from railroad strikes as
thnt?
If there were no unions, would not
ngitators at frequent intervals do what
agitators have done just now? Y'ou might
get rid ol the unions, hut you never
(otild get rid of individual radicals.
What Do You Know?
QUIZ
1. Where Is Ran Remo. where n new
Interallied conference Is to be held?
U. What President abandoned tho orig
Inal practice of reading mepsages
to Congress and what President
revived It?
3 Why Is tho namo Porcas given to a
charltnblo society?
i. What (freat American city has In
creased less In population durlna;
the last ten years than In any other
decade In Its history?
r Name, two great Confederate vic
tories In the Civil War exclusive of
Hull Hun.
I! Who soued the dragon's teeth, ac
cording to Greek mytholoiry?
7 What Is mnemonics?
8. Whnt Is sesame,?
! How should the word be pronounced''
10 What is a lea?
Answers to Yesterday's Quiz
The great ocean liner Titanic went
down on April H, 191!.
2 Tho Missouri river Ih known ns
"HIr Muddy."
the
3. The par value of ti farthlns In Amer
ican money la nbout a half cent.
4 Alexander the Great set the fashion
for Hiuootli-Hliuveii faces In classic
times. Me ordered his soldiers to
lemove their beards In order to
present selrure by the foe.
5 Uarret V. Hobart was Vice I'resl.
6. Oporto (Portuguese "O Porto" tho
port) gives Its namo to port wlnV
extetiBlxcly made In northern Por
tujjal, 7 "Disjecta membra" ate frairmenin
scattered remains. 'r"hmcnts,
8. Vera Cruz was captured by American
forces In 1847 and in 1914? can
9. The oboe, tha riut, th,e plSoIo and
tlw JSniltoh horn aro' Xoond
mueloal Instrument. , .1 u
10, 7'ha family, namtJ'pf Mary Qilcen of
Scots waa SiwrtA ' 7-
fcMfc.
MOST 0' WHAT'S
Kuropc is ready to do business with
America, wires Samuel M. Vauclain
from Paris, after closing n contract
amounting to "many millions" with
tho Iliimnnian Government. Hut per
haps Senator Poindexter will object to
this ns "internationalism."
PHILADELPHIA'S FOREMOST THEATItES
C ADDIPk' Nlfhti at 8:10
VJ.rrr.lVrV. Matinee Tomorrow
THE SEASON'S MUSIOAL COMEDV H1TI
CS,' COMEDIANS
in "THE REAL MUSICAL COMEDT" Preat
MARY"
(ISN'T IT A QtlAND OLD NAMET)
. A CAST THAT PLEA8KS ALL
CIIOUUB OF YOUTH. HEAUTV ft CHARM
Peats Selling for Next Weelc
Vrr.H.kJ 1 Matin Tomorrow
RECORD SAYS: "A dream of
beauty a carnival of funt"
CHARLES DILLINGHAM'S
IJVTEdT MUSICAL COMEDT
The GIRL From HOME
With PRANK CItAVUK
A COMPANY OP DISTINCTION
Aii Army of Pretty Girls!
Seats Selling or Nxt H'ek
RROAD NlEht" at :"
LJlSf-LS Mat. Tomorrow. 2:20
GEORGE
ARLISS
nl Ufa nrllllant Associate Playtra In
BOOTH TARKINGTOWS
LATEST AMERICAN PLAY
"P0LDEKIN"
Beats Selling for Next Week
ACADEMY OP MUSIC
Wednesday Evg., April 21st
The Children's Crusade
SUNG BY
The Choral .Society of Phila.
With an Additional Chorus of
300 CHILDREN
Florae Porter Karle. Soprano
Helen I uehanan H tner, Soprano
Helen Frame Heaton, Soprano
Nicholas Douty. Tenor
AND Vander,'oot. Bass
H.IPlp,;'l.."'n,rcbn.,,nu'ta.g;,.t "...
HARVARD
GLEE CLUB
Bellevuc-Stratford Ballroom
APRIL 19. at 8:15 P. Jj.
Tickets, 2.0O. For Sale at Ilenrw'.
Boston Tramernt: .,", .''PPJ .
Choir, Boston has neer heard a nw h!Xn
of male singers." ra R nner bxJy
Dancing Follow
METROPOLITAN OPKRA 1!nni
METROPOLITAN OPERA COMPANY V V
Eva
APL. 20. at 8
LAST OPERA
Performance
of Sraaon
PlrstTlme
litre;
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Srsis 1I0S Chf.tnut Si W, U"i . n.'i .,
Marine Week Exhibif '
"Afloat and Ashore"
Today Passes to Hog Island
TonUht-rictures; "A Million Men Adrift"
necome a Member Seamen', Church
Institute of Philadelphia
E I T H ' S
TRIXIE FRIGANZA
In ''THE SURPRISE PARTY
LEW DOCKSTADER
With "AN EAR PUI.T."
" Whipple 4 Huston! Lovenberr Sisters
Neatyi VThe Reckless Eve." and Othsrs.
ORPHEUM "" Tomorrow. 25c. 05c.
MAE DESMOND A PIIchCWfLY&
In Dumas Masterpiece WAJVllfuLJi
April 10 "Parlor. Bedroom and Bath'
ARir?.rJ5iJi?.Jt l',!P,' 0 Chjatnu.
miuwtirniA ok
TODAY
fart A V I tMf ' s j . .
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Dlrsctlon LBB A J. J. aHijUKliTI'B3
LYRTC ??
Uroad ab, Arch
( - .,,, m ,
Sothern-MarTowe
TonlRht. Mon., Thurs., TAMINO Ov tii
HimnW! Tpmor. Mat. Tuss i'l"5
LEW!
5LPT1I
TWELFTH NOHT TOmftr. Kvi . ;"!
Cve., HAMLBT.
Am? TWI ?,vinlnKs, 8:20
rtULLl'Hl Mata.Thurs &Snt
A. H. WOODS Offers ATO.n
jl1 uii vrikii u
Flourish
with Uits cttrs
HAZEI, DAWN
WAIVTEn JONES
johm Annum
ENID MAIIKET
i and Othsra
Matinee Sat.
"eat 1 5ft
Stats '",
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WBm
GAM S
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ASK
ANYBODY
A PLENITUDE OF rrtETTT OITILS
CHESTNUT 'ST. opbra ?2s
- . ,-- -. ... Sh"'nutbel. 11th
T AQT Two Night at 8:15
LttlU L Mat. Tomor. t $,5q
FIFTY-FIFTY
The Titillating Musical Farce With
Herbert Corthell
and t-'plc-Span-Saucy Chorm of Clus.
NJg SEATS NOW SELLING
THE MUSICAL COMEDY
HPCfRHH
BETTY,
BE GOOD!
A nrllllant Broadway cast of Musical Com
edy Favorites nnd a reirular Deluxe
of Dainty, Dancing Darlings
PHILADELPHIA THEATRr
Seventeenth and D Lanrey Sts. P
VICTOR HERBERT'S u
Big Muslcat Success with Georgia O'Ramey
M O U I MADAME"
Last 2 Evgs., 2.00 to S3.00. A few at 13.30
LAST MATINEE TOMORROW
Market St. ab. 16th It A, f. to II P M
Katherine MacDonald
in "The Beauty Market"
ADDED ATTRACTION FU18T SHOW! NO
"EDGAR'S' HAMLET"
By BOOTH TARKINOTON
NEXT WEEK
Sixth Anniversary Festival
Exceptional Procram MARK TWAIN'S
"Huckleberry Finn"
Unusual Short Subjects and Vocal and In.
V fltritmnlnl Kltialn
P A
121
L A C F
12H MARKET STREET 4
10 A. M.. 12, 2. 3:45. 0:iS. 7:45, 0:30 P. M.
Clara Kimball Young
and CONWAY TEARLE In
"The Forbidden. Woman"
WmF?T XEEK
WILLIAM S. HART
In First of Ills Own Productions
"THE TOLL GATE"
HART'S OREATEST PICTURE
ARCADIA
CHESTNUT BELOW IflTH
10 A. M. 12. 2. 3:43. 5:45. 7:45. 9:30 P. M.
ROBERT WARWICK
In "THOU,AP.T THE MAN"
Automobilists, Attention I
Every Owner and Driver of an Auto or
Motor Truck should see the special film wi
are showlnr this week.
Next W'k VIOLET IIBMIKO In "The Cost"
VICTORIA
MARKET ST. ABOVE NINTH
f A. M. TO 11:15 P. M.
WILL ROGERS &!!,W
Next Week TOM MDC In "The Cjeloni"
A P I T O
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724 MARKET HTnEHT
10 A. M,
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Constance Talmadge ,,TWO,
WEEKS'
REGENT
MARKET ST. Relow J7TH
KNID BENNETT In "Die
Woman lo the Suitcase"
11 A. M. to 11 P. M.
MARKET STREET
AT JUNIPER
CONTINUOUS
VAUDEVILLE
&. SUNSHINE GIRLS w90!l
TOMMY ALLEN 4 CO.: OTHERS
BROADWAY ;& "aWoV
"TEN LITTLE LAMBS"
WM. FARNUM &..
CROSS KEYS
Market fit. Bel. 60th
CAVANA TRIO'
METROPOLITAN Mon Ev&, Apr. 9
OPERA HOUSE "" "!" ""
AT 8slB
BuncanDANCERS
BERYL RUBINSTEIN. Pianist
Seats Now on Hals, 7B(. 1.00. JI.60. .M.
1108 Chestnut St. Walnut 4424: Racs T.
ktivtrrir at.in A nnil HTT! tr sV'Tfl
Mats. Mon., Wd. A Sat., 2:115. Evrs.
ffujMaryPicKS-Poug $lrTl
A DANCING LESSONS K
T A Teacher for Each Pupil $J
CORTISSOZ
1520 Chestnut
SCHOOL
Locust 81M
WALNUT TINEBB!?Nn(l- ;.".
THE KATZENJAMMER KIDS
Africa. OrMlast Musical Cartoon
I in "" " ' "
FISKE O'HARA
NEXT
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