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phttadetthtn,
. . i r ' l"sPired a brilliant series of enthusiasts
Member of tho Associated Press from j.nto nn(, More to Herbert Spen
THE ASROrtATKI) Pit ESS '' cer and Henry Ccorge.
trcluaivelu eiititlcl to the unc for T)lP socaism xvliirh the post-war
4Jt1 nf?4frtM fit tilt .! Illllirirlff I I a .a .a
sK i r7i, j 1 " ' . ., ' ,.; , nermany anu Austria ana the new
WkuJUJj, r "J"J. Z'YJnT, ,rZ I Czechoslovakia have been trying out
B in MI paper, nnd also the heal nwti. n,. ,,,.,, ,,,,,, ,,
pubhthed therein.
' .All rint.it nt rnuMtrn'-.nn of jnwinl .
dhpatehen herein are alnn reserved.
rhll.d.lphli. Silurdir. April 17, 1920
A FOUR-YEAR PROGRAM FOR
PHILADELPHIA
Tlilng on which the people expert
the new HilmlnUtratlon to concen
trate lta attention!
The Delaware river bridge.
A drydock big enough to accommo
date the largest ships.
Development of the rapid troiult sjj
tern. A convention hall.
A building for the Free Library.
An Art iluscum.
Enlargement of the water supply.
Homes to accommodate the popula
tion. PROFITEERS WHO LOST
rpENANTS in the Elmwood section
-L matched shrewdness with shrewd
Bess, business sense with business
sense and resourcefulness with resource- j
fulness In their clash with a proiitceruif,
syndicate: nnd in consequence they were
able to spike one of the ugliest get-rich-rjuick
schemes ever formulated to vic
timize a community.
Mr. Larrlmer and his associates, who
quietly formed a tenants' syndicate
which enabled 700 families to buy, at
reasonable prices, properties for which
an ambitious group of speculators were
reaching out, are to be congratulated.
If extortionists generally were faced
with the same sort of systematic re
sistance and if people who suffer
A through high prices were as ready to
jf, probe1 for a way out. a good many
Wallingfords would Jind themselves be
fore long In difficulties.
NOW FOR THE SURVEY
"KTOW that the school survev com-
XN mlttep 1ms leel1eil tn rronmmn.irl i
that Doctor Finegan's offer to conduct ' "se from widely disparate augles. The
survey at state expense be accepted. ".vPothesis of a socialistic session at
we nre In a fair way to discover in this ' 'pn.ded by Plato. Campanula, More,
dtr'the value of a state department of
public Instruction
That department is charged with the
iHhooh, aro managed by the different
f communities of the state, which pav
I litUo heed to the central administrative
I bodr. Yet that horfv Is simnn.,l f ,
EMMt t
the schools, but the
served by experts in education whose
services can be commanded at will.
But it is two years since the pro
posal for n survey was introduced in
the local Board of Public Education,
and in all that time it occurred to no
one that the state department was
equipped for such work and was the
propVr body to make It in the interes s
of education for the whole common-
wealth. Doctor Finegan had to offer
to do the wqrk before any one else
thought of calling him in. c,iL
If the local board odopts the reoom-
m.nj.tt .u. ' '- m
IT't """us'wii ui uic survey committee, as
ni it is expected to do, we are likeiv to
fft have an expert and impartial re.U on
educational conditions.
ACTION ON THE FRANKFORD L
TTTHEN Major Moore instructed Di-
rector Twining to advertise for bids
for the completion of the Frankford
elevated line lie took a real step toward
the solution of the transportation
problem.
In other words, he ordered action.
we have been hearing nothing but
talk, talk talk until Mi..7.ifv .. ' '" vnr i)nP"mr sentiment moved In
wearj WKr '"ir'r diTfl0tV ,Thp forces to
Now if reputable contractors make wh'rh "'" 1,aV lookp,1tltl,": " ;
acceptable bids work nntemlhrialF'tT"?'?,0,,' ,e, Wrld'
soon as the necessary formaHtlc .are 'T n0t 'T ta "hw"p-That , alto
observed. s are gether another story. But those influ-
Tbls must be gratifying to all those
Itfcen -h ..jii ... A." .i . ..' thos
i-titvnna t-kn ...til 1.. . , ..
... . ,... ,,,,, c M-i-vm uy too new
line, ana it is ample justification of the
agitation which they have been en
raging in for several weeks.
VAIL
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-- much as Bell himself t mnw v. 1
telephone system what it is todav In- ,
ventors seldom arc good business men
Had not Bell's original device fired the I
imagination of a man who happened to '
be a good organizer, its development1
miirht ha heen liln,lo,.i . .. '
Jkt flnn Tf u j,i i-.ii ... . ..
SIM close his eyes and see transcontinental CT'iry S ',m,,rB0,1 whIcI' however meri
HMi Hues in operation even while the crou'.l tnrimls it!f intentions, has ministered to
ij, was laugning at nun because he spent
J good money to establish the first Cx -
perlmcntal line from New york to
Providence. i
So it has alwavs been v,,u..' u I
l Rlr Walt.r , . i . .
sh when tho first experiments uere made tl" r1ua,1J' detestable banner of junker
f with gas as an Illuminating medium, , aJ"acy
'r who wrote a letter in which he im- U wns tIlPse cmssM which provoked
& plored one of his friends to hurry to him t,le rcrrnt uP1,cavaI in frmany. De-
c t once and have a look at "an Idiot mocrac5' is squeezed between them.
. ,.H..v , uv.. ni.jui iiiiiir in I. nn, Inn
ho was trying to licht tho rMU ..
ondon with smoke" 7
W NEW YORK: A CONTRAST
' OTAND-PAT politicians dominate tl
the
, '-? Legislature of New York. And vet i
the Legislature of New York passed nn
anU-prpJltecring law to protect tenants.
It paswd n law to curb and punish food
profiteers. Wo have no such laws in
Pennsylvania because of the tlmldltv of
Vh a machine Legislature controlled by Mr.
.vtVnr anrt other wnrnihpaitn1 ?..!nr..l..
-'t their friends.
f T antltproflteerlng laws of New
Talt are loosely drawn. There is still
a swrwriian -jpi me constitutlonsllty.
Hut ihe.v
ne bb excellent purpose
hartlls" a day when soma
viacf. lliM.
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a y
food gambler or shylock landlord Isn't
rushed to court under charges o( extor
tion, Tho moral cITect of all thia has
been Rood. Life Is easier In New York
titan it Is In Pennsylvania.
Pooplo who nrc now complaining
about the new upward flight of sugar
prices may study the contrast between
the two states with advantage. In their
present difficulties they should be able
to find n lesson In practical politics.
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STATE SOCALISM Y ELDS
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BTTER FRUIT IN EUROPE
plrei Is Traceable, at Least
In Part, to Too Much
Government
WHILE the economic and Industrial
paralysis of Kurope can be at-
. a
trlhuted to so many
different causes
that almost any facile commentator can
make out a momentarily passable case,
It Is slcnlficnnt that conditions nrc most
garded socialism as a prime agent of
reconstruction. This view excludes
Uussla, for there the principles of com
miinlsm In orup are sepnrablp from the
socialistic-ideals which hnvc stirred and
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"vm"""1 iiniii. in- mii-riiiuui "I nur
upon which the foundations of such a
. policy were laid must, of course, have
i handicapped any remedy, red, reaction
j ary, socialistic or democratic. Hut
! whatever the obstacles, the fact remains
that theories of government, cherished
j In various guises for centuries, have
: been put Into practice, and that much
misery and a bury'ji of peculiarly irk
some restrictions accompany the result.
B. F. Kospoth, European correspond
ent of the Evk.nino Pi'iiuo IjKDOkr,
In an article printed elsewhere in this
newspaper, indeed attributes the Ger
man delay in fulfilling the treaty terms
to governmental machinery which has
made the route to economic recovery
exceedingly rough. Socialistic taxation
has been onerous. A complicated bu
reaucracy has replaced the old tyran
nous imperialistic system. The ex
change is something which by no means
accords with traditional American no-
tlons of democracy, with n once-lauded
system of free competition and with the
concept of liberty sought through indi-
vlduallstic progress
There are. however, citizens in this
republic today who stigmatize such
doctrines as hopelessly old-fashioned.
Thpre are well-meaning analysts of our
social and governmental structure who
have looked and arc still looking toward
socialism as a cure for many ills. It
Is fair to refer them to a contemporary
adventure. For despite the Impossi
bility of reading the European situation
as an incontrovertible test, certain reall
ties can be considered, and they are
highly suggestive. It may be profitable
to remind ourselves that no actual trial
of socialistic government by a major
nation was ever made prior to the
great war.
For the system in theory there was,
of course, no. lack of apologists. While
united in certain elemental beliefs, these
spokesmen of a new order viewed the
'n,b0.rt (,w. Sit- Simon. Fourier,
Rebel. Marx, I.assalle. Cnrlyle. Mor
ris. Ruskin. Henrv fJeorce. Hollnmv
Taures and Ebert. however interesting.
fe ""' ,",p "" 1,oushtf of "W.
;"'' tai i T ' "sarded as
I J0""'" ? f" th? rW "ndi. It
1 is Possible to view them all os advocates
of a benign yet vigorous extension of
governmental authority, as champions
of reform through the aggrandizement
of the state.
In some degree these reformers were
all paternalists. So also in some de
gree arc numerous contemporary Amer
icans, even those who are convinced
"'"A th."' . "f! s,.nndinK for tLe '""
t ,Vh J , . i i,
! fJJ? "h '"' "ml ' f ay "s wril 1T
I J"1, nt ' tnt ' alism .has madp
I impressive progress since the glowing
iday" , ," that sometimes Its
crow til has been so snht e tlmr If I.
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Governmental func
broadened. Sneclnl
eglslation abounds.
Resistance to the movement is, how
ever, increasing in the T'nited States.
A particular example of this attitude
is the return of the railroads to private
hands. The bulk of public opinion was
emphatically against government own
ership. The prevalent disposition here
is to cling to democracy, when it con
flicts with state sociall&tic methods.
In shattered Central Europe after
r 5T ! , ,,,n s'lattc"d
Ormany and Austria and in the new-
bom Czeclio-Slovakia have avowedlv
carried a well-meaning socialism to a
new extreme.
Time was when indorsement of such
a course would have been called "ad
vanced." Eminent scholars and phi
losophers subscribed to state socialism
ns t'"' successor of Individualistic dem
ocra('v- 'Now tlmt tIln long-envisaged
cxPerlm,nt1 lia" nt '""t been made, a
S"rVe' ,S haS I,ractic!' PW-
flnwnc,T. ,,,,...
. . Ko!,Pnt,n VaintB, tllc results of
eighteen months of socialism in Central
Eiirone ns disastrous. A n? ln,-n-
i-""" -"- .iwiuon ot me
nM f rItiz,ns hna re""'ted In a dlvl-
sl n mcn ciouus tne luture, .Mai-
contents among the radicals have drifted
toward bolshevlsm. Another element
has pursued political salvation nnj
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The socialistic governments have
been wastrels, squandering funds in
multifarious machinery formerly left to
private enterprise. Bankruptcy has
been intensified by staggering taxation
necessary to maintain the ever-expand
ing army of officials. Competition has
been stifled with paternalism, and the
laws and mass of regulations designed
to protect tho individual have become
agents of inequity and tyranny.
According to Mr. Kospoth, profiteer
ing Is more flagrantly and insolently
practiced in Socialist -ruled Berlin than
in any city on tho globe, unless it be
Socialist-ruled Vienna. For the alms
of the rrconstructlonlsts in the Austrian
capital he !i(fe genuine praise "well
meaning andT sympathetic SoclaJUts,,r
he calls them. Hut the consequences
of their administration have been
calamitous. An orgy of legislation has
harassed the business classes. Tho po
sition of the workers baa not been al
lcvlated. Natural recuperative ten
dencies have been chilled and baffled.
That practical principles of democ
racy will rise victorious from such a
situation Is a hope that is tenable if
not at the present moment due for
realization. Experience may teach na
tions too recently relieved of monarchi
cal shackles that reactlonarylsm, state
socialism and bolshevlsm do not cover
the t-ntlrc field of government. Cer
tainly liberalizing individualistic de
mocracy, with governmental functions
reduced to elemental necessities, has
possibilities of a new appeal now that
state aggrandizement has b' m found so
burdensome.
Socialism is no longer a speculation.
Its acidulous fruits have been plucked.
THE FORGOTTEN REGULARS
TF THERE is to bo n soldiers' bonus,
It ought to be made available for
the regulars who fought In France ns
well as for the men who composed the
larger part of the national army. Con
gress, like the rest of the country, ap
pears to have forgotten all about the
regulars soldiers as devoted and as
efficient ns any in the world, who en
dured fighting ns hard as nny that took
place In France. And there were In the
regular nrmy a great many men who en
tered the service at the first call.
The amount necessnry to provide help
or relief for veterans of the Orcat War
would be so great that the additional
sum necessary to include the regulars in
the general scheme would seem a minor
detail.
Meanwhile, news from I.eglou posts
in various parts of the country makes
It clear that there Is n difference of
opinion among the men themselves in
relation to the plan for federal bonuses.
A referendum of some sort among the
veterans to obtain their opinions of a
plan that is tinged in some places with
the color of party politics might be a
desirable thing.
A COTTON PRICE CONSPIRACY
"OUTERS of cotton goods, both men
J- who wear cotton shirts and women
who buy cotton dress goods nnd sheet
ing, will be interested to know whether
Attorney General Palmer is planning
to come to their relief by using the ma
chinery of his department to bring the
southern cotton growers to terms.
The American Cotton Association
challenges Ills attention, for at its con
vention in Montgomery, Ala., it adopted
the recommendation of its committee
that the minimum price for middling
grade cotton be sixty cents a pound.
This Is prima facie evidence of a con
spiracy to fix prices and to prevent free
competition, and Is forbidden by law.
Instead of recommending agreement
on a reduction in acreage, the conven
tion decided that this would take care
of itself because of the shortage of
labor. Hut in past years acreage has
been reduced by agreement, aud when
the price was low large quantities of
cotton have been burned in an effort
to duii the market.
And the cotton growers have been un
troubled by federal prosecution under
the laws forbidding conspiracies In re
straint of trade. Hut sixty-cent cotton
may be outrageous enough to force ac
tion from Washington for the protection
of the rest of us.
SOLIDARITY SHATTERED
fTIHE entrance of nearly every Central
-- nnd South American nation into the
League of Nations marks a complete
departure from thp traditional diplo
matic policy of the AVestern Hem
isphere. Had the United States joined the
International partnership no such nov
elty would have been registered. . be
cause the covenant, framed with the
understanding that we would adhere to
It. confirms the validity of the Monroe
Doctrine. But Article XXI is now a
sham. It fails to guarantee the benefi
cent protection of the Latin-American
republics since the United States, the
agency which has for nearly a century
kept the principle alive, stands aloof
from the pact.
It is Europe with which South Amer
ica is now associated; it is Europe to
which apparently she looks for justice.
If our southern neighbors come to
believe that they have outgrown the
Monroe Doctrine and Europe agrees
with them, what Is to prevent Its dis
regard by the league? In other words,
wo have shirked our own favorite re
sponsibility and South America has
broken nway from an arrangement
which used to be mutually beneficial.
What our obstructionists pretended
to seek to save they have now seriously
weakened. American solidarity is now
imperiled by a whole set of new obli
gations regarding which we have noth
ing to say.
It Is conceivable that a man may be
a good clergyman, but a poor street in
spector; but when the man who falls
in a civil service examination for the
latter job is declared efficient and given
emphatic indorsement by a qualified ex
pert, there is reason to suspect that the
lack of etneiency is not w'th the appli
wti but with the system of selection.
Major General Gorgas will Bhortly
leave for the West African coast to
study tropical fevers. If the general
keeps on making sanitary one dirty
place after another be will soon be like
Alexander, sighing for new worlds to
conquer.
The keeping of streets in better re
pair is said to be responsible for the fall
ing off of damage suits against the city
Which suggests the thought that good
intentions never warded off a suit.
A bonus is simply a safety-pin sub
stitute for a suspender button darned
useful at times, but simply a make
shift after all.
With a striko of operators newly
inaugurated tho only things in New
York not "going up" aro the elevators.
We take It that the aim of a hun
ger striker is to prove that his jailer is
too tenderhearted to allow him to die.
Labor leaders who believe in direct
action will be interested to learn that
the government is going to take it.
Delany's backers in taking up
Vare's chargps very properly speak of
It as "taking the offensive.''
It is pleasing to householders to
note that the navy Isn't trimming its
sales.
Delany's punch seems to be at least
11 per cent ginger.
Split p's Palmer and the profiteers.
BOOSTING PHILADELPHIA
Dank Uses Drlght Idea and Statis
tician Suggests Two
Others-
By GEORGE NOX McCAIN
LEVI L. HUH is president of the
Philadelphia National Bank. It
was organized 170 years ago. The
statement of its capital, surplus nnd
profits in print, to those unfamiliar with
lines of eight figures, looks like tho an
nouncement of n new Victory loan.
Incidentally the Philadelphia National
Back runs n commercial service de
partment, of which W. D. It. Hall Is
the statistician and source of general
and particular information.
Some days ago the bank, through Mr,
Hall, put out nn inspirational little
monograph and scattered It broadcast by
the thousands among Its custonlcrs and
correspondents. It is n brilliant addi
tion to the Evening Poiimo Lkiuikh's,
"What's the Matter With Phlladcl
nhla?" Mr. Hall calls It "The Story of
Philadelphia, told in n four minutes'
speech."
In thirty-two crisp paragraphs It
tells not what Philadelphia has done,
but what she is doing.
Accompanying every copy of themonl
ograph was a letter to the recipient on
the bank's stationery from which I crib
the following:
"When nny one from this city is
called upon to make a few remarks,
to deliver a short speech, to give nn
impromptu address let him boost Phil
adelphia. "No one from this city should ever
be without information about Philadel
phia when called upon to speak at a
public function. Our achievements arc
so great and our industries arc so big
that they furnish a text for an interest
ing and instructive talk about Philadel
phia." The Philadelphia National Bank,
through Mr. Hall, tells a wonderful
story about Philadelphia, but if there Is
any other bank, or commercial house,
or business Institution, that feels like
doing likewise, let me say that there is
a volume of facts left unsaid.
A PROMINENT business mnn of my
acquaintance gave voice to a mighty
fine idea the other day. It is along this
same line of boosting Philadelphia.
Although he did not say as much, I
rather fancy that the idea is a brilliant
offshoot of Bed Cross stamps, anti
tuberculosis seals nnd war-loan stick
ers that blazoned forth from nearly
every envelope in the recent strenuous
years.
"Why shouldn't every Philadelphia
industry boost Philadelphia not only on
Its stationery, but on its commercial
packages and wrappings?" he said.
"The Ncver-Wear-Out Hosiery Co.,
The Hold-Fast neckwear people, the
Non-Shine Clothing Co., nnd the Cold
Steel Hardware concern, nil have their
own stationery. But why stop there?
"Why cannot the Ncver-Wear-Out
concern run a line in black letters un
der their return card or across the face
of its envelopes with the words, 'Phila
delphia manufactures more hosiery
than nny city in the world'?
"Even if the Cold-Steel Hardware
Co. Is only r modest concern, why can
not it, in the same way, stamp on Its
stationery the words. 'Philadelphia
turns out one-half of all the edged tools
manufactured in the United States'?
"The express nid freight packages ot
all the manufacturing nnd wholesale
and retail firms in the city nre num
bered dally by the tens of thousands.
Suppose each one of these packages
bore somewhere on Its outside a good,
big. easily read, aud quickly adjusted
sticker, 'Philadelphia makes enough
enrnet In one year to girdle the globe.'
or 'Philadelphia Is the shipbuilding!
center of the world.' or "Ten locomo- I
tlves arc made every day in Phlladel- I
phla. or 'One-half the people of the
United States ride every day in trol
ley cars manufactured In Philadel
phia.' "
Great idea!
RIGHT along in line with this Colonel
George W. B. Hicks, of the Cham
ber of Commerrc. who. next to the elo
quent nnd epigrammatic city statis
tician. E. .1. Cattell. is the greatest
atntUtlenl "sham" thnt Philadelphia
owns, suggests thnt Philadelphia should i
have an unusual commercial trade
mark. According to Colonel Hicks it
should bo blazoned on every piece of
commercial stationery and embossed on
every business letterhead.
As n starter for additional ideas he
suggests n scroll, emblematic of the
constitution, as a background for the
Liberty Bell draped with nn American
flag, and beneath it the legend :
"Made In Philadelphia."
This trademark of the city's indus
tries should, Colonel Hicks says, be
stuck on every ax and saw handle, every
package of hosiery or textile goods,
every piece of hardware and every hat;
In fact, it should adorn every article
manufactured in Philadelphia nnd sent
out into the world for tho world's con
sumption. Another clever idea.
PHILADELPHIA is naking up and
the world Is taking notice. The
Evknino Public Lnnonn is in receipt
of scores of letters from individuals,
and from different cities and towns, ex
pressing interest in nnd commendation
of recent revelations concerning the
greatness of this great Amerienn city.
Alexander It. Smith, president of the
New York Port Annual, wrote to ex
press his hearty appreciation of the
Evenino Puhlio Leixjeh's articles
boosting Philadelphia. Mr. Smith went
so far as to write a personal letter to
Mayor Moore, whom he has known for
years, expressing his personal gratifica
tion, in which he said :
"The only effective port boosting is
that which brings forcefully to the con
sciousness of those whom yoii desire to
interest the facilities you have to offer."
BTTRD S. PATTERSON, secretary of
the Mississippi to Atlantic internal
waterways committee, wrote commend
ing the effort to put Philadelphia
forward in the position which she should
rightly hold. He went further nnd
pointed out the vast possibilities that
awaited Philadelphia, once she struck
her proper gait, in linking up with the
West by the system of waterways which
he ii laboring to effect.
De Forest L. Bachman launched out
sturdily at the pullbacks who for years
nnvc ui-i-n BjiruxKioK me wneels of
Philadelphia's progress.
There were letters from mmiMn. i
shipbuilding corporations, from editors
of daily newspapers nnd from private
citizens by the score. It threw a bril
liant llluminntlon upon this subject so
dear to the heart of every true Phila
delphia Only one writer attempted the
humorously sarcastic vein. His com
ment was:
"What Philadelphia needs Is n good
kick in the shins to wako her up."
nere and there contentment shines
in a gloomy world. For instance, there
are 700 new home-owners on Elmwood
avenue whose housing problems nre
over.
The request of railroad men that
the labor board pledge Itself to grant all
their demands is very much like insist
ing on a verdict before a trial.
After all the only", people whose
housing troubles are ovuU are those who
occupy restricted lots Jnthe qcmcterr.
FtSHiNO s
tN' FULL EfLAVr
"S
HOW DOES IT
STRIKE YOU?
THE story goes that George Sunday,
so'n of Billy Sunday, walked into the
Wood headquarters in Chicago a short
time ago, saw Colonel William Cooper
Procter, who has quit soap -making
temporarily for the more exciting trnde
of President-making, and said: "I take
It your game is to put General Wood
over in the Republican convention?"
"Yes," said the President-maker.
"Then you're not going at it right,"
said young Sunday,
"Why?" asked the President-maker.
"There Isn't enough jazz in your
publicity," replied Sunday, who was
hired on the spot, he being the man
win puts the " in Billy Sunday's
publicity.
This was before Michigan hit the
cinder path for Johnson instead of
Wood.
This doesn't make a case.
Johnson put better jazz into his pub
licity in Michigan than did Wood aided
bv the fon of the genius who developed
the act of putting jazz Into bringing
sinners to repentance.
q q q
CONSIDER publicity.
The world owes half of its daily
entertainment to It.
Take the first page of an important
morning nwspaper.
"The French occupy four German
cities."
The French march In.
A few days later they will march out
again.
They will send a bill to Germany for
the expenses of the operation.
Germany will enter the bill upon the
list of her debts to France, totaling
many billions, which she can never puy,
a debt which itself was fixed where it
is largely for publicity.
The whole thing would not be worth
doing if it were not for first pages.
As publicity it makes the French feel
that they arc getting something for their
money nnd serves notice on the allies
that they must support the treaty.
Another item, "Irish women Hy over
British embassy dropping paper
bombs," pure publicity with lots of
jazz In it.
The bombs don't hit anything nnd
ore not meant to hit anything but the
front page.
q q q
ANOTHER item, "Johnson carries
Michigan primaries by 40,000,"
publicity with lots of jazz.
The Michigan delegates wilt be really
for Wood or Lowden. After a vote or
two most of them will quit Johnson for
some vehicle with n jazz band In it sup
posed to contain the winner.
Direct primaries were supposed to
mnke the people rule.
They don't.
They create jobs for George Sun
days. They have, say the dispatches, great
"mornl effect."
They get on the front pages.
They provide the candidates opportu
nity to make an effective noise.
If the newspaper did not print a word
about them, all the candidates would
do as Mr. Hoover is doing and Mr. Mc
Adoo and Mr. Bryan.
q q q
THE press has turned the world up
side donn.
Originally newspapers existed to re
cord the doings of the World.
Now the world exists to fill the col
umns of the newspapers.
Governments think in terms of first
pages.
The first consideration of the great Is
how thev will look In print.
The first consideration of the near
great is how they can get into print.
The way to the first page is becoming
costly.
The ex-editor of a dally newspaper
who lost n couple of millions trying to
make his journal go Is now busy making
a couple of millions in his city as a
"consulting engineer ba publicity."
He will conduct you to the front
pages by the cold process of science.
He deals in cause and effect.
For those who want miracles, believe
in oulja boards or medicine men there
nre the George Sundays, who will take
two and two nnd a little jazz aud make
it n million.
If General Wood wins, the day of
publicity will be past and the day of
publicity with jazz In It will be here.
q q q
W
HO conducts the publicity for At
torney General Palmei's "flvln
bquadron" against profiteers?
Here is qne day's story; Wronged
JUST SOME SPORTS
t $ Rifk '-- f7 f-
Sunday Put Jazz Into the Wood
Campaign and Occasion Serves as
Text for Sermon on Publicity
man, very angry, rushes in with a small
package.
Opens it spluttering.
There is disclosed a small steak
broiled, and five pieces of French fried
potatoes. ,
Restaurant keeper had tried to charge
angry man $1.25 for food contained In
package, but he, instead of eating it,
brought it to the hired men of the attor
ney genera).
Publicity continues with wish that
more persons would make complaints.
What is the big idea in the "flying
squadron"?
To mnke out that complaints against
the high cost of living arc absurd?
One day it is a row about three prunes
for ten cents.
Another day it is n ridiculous man
who rushes out of a restaurant, broiled
steak in his pocket, full of grief over
five pieces of cold French fried pota
toes. Is it to show tho importance of the
attorney general in lighting high prices?
q q q
WHAT was the big idea with propa
ganda for teaching the housekeepers
of the land to buy cheap cuts of meats,
with all the fine official ladles of Wash
ington going to market to learn of Mr.
Palmer teaching your grandmother to
suck eggs?
Mr. Palmer has had three fine Ideas
for cutting the high cost of living: Dem
ocratic sugar from Louisiana at the
special patriotic price of twenty cents
a pound ; If meat costs too much buy
cheaper meat, nobody else hnvlng been
able to discover any ; and the sympa
thetic consideration of overpriced
prunes.
q q q
CONSIDER Russia and the United
States. Strikes break out in the
United States which not even the heads
of the labor unions can control.
Labor is lawless and Irresponsible.
We must have a strong government,
say some.
Where is there a strong government?
In Russia nt the same moment
Trotzky makes a speech about the mo
bilization of labor.
Workmen are organized nnd con
trolled by tho government on a mili
tary basis.
Men arc sent to do certain work as
they are sent in war to attack the
enemy.
There can be no strikes.
There can be no idleness, no sabotage.
Russia has solved the labor problem.
It had to destroy capital to do it.
q q q .
EVERYWHERE else government is
something that is pushed and pulled
about by capital and labor.
Germany is typical; through ex
tremes It is the weakest government In
the world.
One moment cnpltal pushes it out of
office with a revolution.
The next moment labor throws the
revolutionary establishment itself out
of power with a general strike.
One moment capital, frightened by
Red excesses iu the Ruhr valley, drives
the government into extreme measures
for their repression.
Tho next moment labor calls the gov
ernment off from attacks on the Ruhr
Reds by threats of a general strike.
Russia has destroyed labor In our
scuso of the word nnd It has destroyed
capital In every sense of the word.
There being nothing else in Russia,
the government is supreme and unchal
lenged. It is strong.
But as the title of a famous Russian
poem asks, "Who Can Be Happy and
Free In Russia?"
q q q
ANOTHER minister is trying to do
in New York what Doctor Park
hurst did nearly a generation ago.
In respouse to the Rev. Dr. Straton's
charges the police havo mado a raid or
two and closed a place or two.
To do what Parkhurst did requires an
extraordinary combination of character
and circumstances.
You must bo a minister against whom
will not lie the charge of sensationalism.
Your charges must have an clement of
surprise shaking the city out of its self
complacency. And you must have extraordinary suc
cess In proving them on a large scale.
Parkhurst had all this.
And with It ho overthrew the govern
ment of New York city, changed tho
heads ot the police force. L
And when it was all done It .
doubtful if much bad ben accomplished.
Tho evils of which bo complained
were not ended.
They changed their shape and went
on.
And the moral sense of New York was.
such that It could elect Hylan and be
on the edge of a tremendous scandal, all
this year, with grand juries, district
attorneys nnd ministers threatening to
reveal an overshadowing crime.
q q q
ARE there only two grcnt parties in
this country?
No, we have got a long way from
that.
There are a dozen parties.
To be a party all you need is a name,
a manifolding mnchlno nnd a moral
issue.
The art of winning is the art of
creating n "bloc," ns it Is called on
tho other side of the water.
Over there they elect first and then
create the bloc afterward.
Here we create the bloc first and
elect, if we can, afterward.
When two blocs are got together we
call one Democratic and the other Re
publican. What has become of the man who is
one or tho other becauso his father
always voted that ticket?
Now he is one or the other becauso
Borah or Gompcra or Anderson or
D'Oller or some one has written a letter
to which he has read the answer in the
papers.
Meanwhile congressmen, drop dead in
barbers' chairs.
Mr. Burleson's mall drops dead
somewhere.
And the white paper manufacturers
believe more and more ardently in self-government.
It is the view of Representative
Hoch thnt he can sec through a Post as
far as the next man.
Two girls have been hired ns fire
men on the Long Island Railroad, not
because they can fire an engine but be
cause they show the right spirit. So
says the traffic manager, who evidently
believes in keeping up the mornle of his
employes.
What Do You Know?
QUIZ
1. What month Is superatttlouslv re
garded as unlucky for weddings?
2. How did tho Klffcl tower get its
name 7
3. Who were the Conqulstadores?
4. When did the treaty of Versailles
go Into force for Germany and the
Kuropean Allies?
5. Who Is president of the Czecho
slovak republic?
6. What were the , fifteen decisive
battles of tho world?
7. How much did tho United .States
pay for tho cession of the great
territory of Louisiana?
8. What Is madder?
9. What Important public office did
Charles E. Hughes resign In order
to become a candidate for the
presidency?
10. What Is a sidereal year?
Answers to Yesterday's Quiz
1. Bun Itemo, where n new Inter-Allied
conference Is to bo held, Is on the
Italian Riviera, about twenty-slx
miles cast-northeast of Nice.
France.
2. Thomas Jefferson abandoned the
original practice of reading mes
sages In Person in Congress and
Woodrow Wilson revived It.
3. The name Dorcas, sometimes given
to charltnble societies, Is taken
from a reference In tho ninth
chapter of Acts to "a certain
Tablthrij which by Interpretation
Is called Dorcas; this woman waa
full of good works and the alms
deeds which she did."
i. According to the latest census
figures the city of St. SLoul8 in
creased leBs In population during
tho last ten years than In any
decado In Its history, r
6- Trr cweretcVsi,-,t
?nUd,FrnederlcffirgClmnCeIl0ravl9
0. The teeth of the dragon which
KJ""-ded tne we of Ares" thS
Oreek Mars, were, according to
the myth, sowed by Cadmus. From
them sprang up warriors who
killed each other until only five
were left.
7. Mnemonics Is the art of or system
for Improving the memory.
8. Sesame Is a tropical and eubtronl-
cal herbaceous plant, with seeds
used In various ways as food and
yielding an o used In salad and
alBo medicinally,
3. It should be pronounced aa thoush
It were spelled "sesamee" yith
the accent on the first syllable,
10. A lea. Is an open tract of ground,
especially grassland. It is alio a
measure of yam.
THE CRITIC TALKS
TO MUSIC LOVERS
Weekly Comment on Things Musi
cal In Discriminating
Philadelphia '
TF A practical musician wants to land
" one of tho really fine "Jobs" open
to members of his profession, alt he has
to do it seems is to become solo viola of
tho Philadelphia Orchestra, Sounds
easy, doesn't it? Nevertheless, this is
just what has happened twice during
the current season,
Tho above statement is mado because
Samuel Belov, solo viola of the or
chestra, will leave the organization nt
the end of this season to become viola
player in the private quartet maintained
by Mr. Eastman, of Rochester.
Mr. Belov is the second solo viola
player to leave the orchestra this year
to take a position with a quartet, Emli
Fcrlr retiring from the same position
earlier in the season to become viola
player with the Berkshire Qunrtct,
which is maintained, or rather guaran
teed, by Mrs. F. S. Coolidge, one of the
patrons of chamber music in the United
States whose enthusiasm is deep enough
to touch her pocketbook. Incidentally,
Mr. Ferlr has obtained leave of absence)
from the qunrtct to go to Europe with
Mr. Damrosch and his orchestra on
their summer tour, also in the capacity
ot sola viola,
MB. BELOV has been a member of
the orchestra for n number ot
years nnd was advanced to the position
of solo viola when Mr. Ferlr retired.
He nlso took Mr. Fcrlr's position In tho
Rich Qunrtct, and his going will be a
loss to the musical resources of Phila
delphia. Personally n very modest man,
Mr. Belov's real ability ns ,a viola
player was not discovered to the general
public until he nttaincd his present po
sltlon in the orchestra, although it was
well known to the chamber music play
ers of the city, for there is no place
where n good musician is more effec
tually "buried" than in the viola sec
tion of a large .orchestra.
For a couple of seasons he has been
a member of tho Russian Quartet, an
organization composed of Joel Belov,
his brother, first violin; Josef Child
nowsky, second violin ; himself, viola,
and Sidney Hnmer, cello, nil members
of the Philadelphia Orchestra. The
quartet has given a number of success
ful concerts out of town, but, nt lenst
to the knowledge of the writer, has not
given any formal public concerts In
Philadelphia.
Arthur Hartman is first violin ot the
Eastman Quartet, nnd the organization
promises to become one of the best in
the country. That this representative
of the Philadelphia Orchestra will bo
successful In his work goes without say
ing to those who know his chamber
music experience and his ability In
technique, tone nnd, last but by no
means least, In general muslcianslilp.
EVERY string player In nn orchestra,,
with the possible exception of the
concertmaster and the solo cellist, wants
to become a member of a professional
or of a private quartet if ho can.
There are many reasons for this.
One. nnd perhaps the chief one. Is that
the literature of the quartet Is far more
interesting to the player, especially of
the second violin and viola parts, thau
is the literature of the orchestra. It
cannot be denied that much of the or
chestral or rather tonal "padding" lies
in these parts. The second violin rarely
has any melodic work unless it is In
unison or in octave with the ilrst vio
lins, nnd the melodic passages in tho
violas also arc few nnd far between.
On the other hand, In the qunrtct all
the instruments nre squal In value and
solo work in nil the parts is almost
constant. For cxnmple, the scherzo In
tho Beethoven Quartet op, f0 No. 1 is
divided into four practically equal parts
in solo work. This Is what makes
string playing interesting nnd is tho
chief reason why string pinycrs literally
jump at the chance to join string quar
tets. AND while on the general subject of
chamber music nnd the string
quartet in particular, by one of thoso
strange fatalities which happen in every
newspaper office, nn matter how thor
oughly systematized, the report of tho
concert of the Schmidt Quartet In
Wltherspoon Hall Friday evening,
April 0, wns lost, and no notice of ouo
of the finest chamber music concerts
given In Philadelphia for a long time
appeared in these columns the follow
ing day.
The personnel ot the Mcnmmc wunnet
Is one of the best that it Is possible to
assemblo iu the professional musician
ship of this city. In addition to which
it has always shown nn ndhcrence to
nrtlstic Ideals which must Inevitably
place it among the very first of Ameri
can quartets.
The program which the quartet placd
was a trying one, both the Mendelssohn
A minor nnd the Beethoven F major
(the first Rasoumoffsky quartet) mak
ing every demand possible on the tech
nlcal resources and the musicianship of
all the players. The performance
clearly showed long nnd careful re
hearsal, notnbly in the Beethoven num
ber, with the desire to bring out to tho
uttermost detail all that the music con
tained, nnd without tho slightest ap
proach to that dangerous nnd musically
fatal tendency to use ono of the great
est of compositions as a vehicle of per
sonal or ensemble achievement,
SOME ONE came nearly "starting
something" at tho "blind" concert
of the Philadelphia Orchestra at tho
Academy on Friday afternoon n week
ago. In ono of the many pauses which
were unavoidable, between the verbal
bulletins Issued from the rostrum by
xr. Mnitunn tin. ollvor . ton trued orator
of the orchestra, nnd the numbers played
by Messrs. IUcIi nnd umaier, n
from the outer darkness imploringly be
sought a harp solo, '
This request ground keenly upon the
nerves of Mr. Vincent Fnnelll. Jr., sob
harpist of the orchestra, who, Inci
dentally, Is ono of the greatest masters
of this difficult instrument in this or
any other country. It ground for two
reasons; one, tho Innate modesty of
this splendid harp player, and second,
because It would have been imposslblo
to grant the request.
T to nn) CTnirillv linnn-n. but tllS
harp is tho ono orchestral instrument
which Is impossible to piny in mc ciur.
There are in the neighborhood of ninety
tvlnrru nn rim Instrument, which STO
placed nt a very small fraction. of an
incn apart, to iaciuuue mo uuuiua
the proper string among this veritable
forest, certain of them are colored.
No matter what the technique of the
performer, a composition requiring lonfi
"skips" cannot bo played without the
aid of tho eye.
In works where the hands can remain
within the compass of a eotiplo of oc
taves it would be possible for a per
former ot air. r annus aoiwy io yi
them without light, but in compositions
re
Lr.iiUlnn nntitiflia-a nan tli lilt rPff.S
ter
, if l.a Inarrnmant It a 'till Vftlrfll
ImpoBtflbilUy; Therefore tho.rcnurst of
the bfwcchlng female voice "had to PJ.
yrcretfully ffftiorcd,
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