w: .1 J 'hv xv ,-;; .'?- 1 " '" 'ilk . '. ' ".' 1&Y . "u 'Z' '.' r - F? h J" kK rr w UA tJ NS f i Yl H W m Bill I u W f ' 1 lo! l. siK-i rOATJ n i nm :n r. , J. 1 ' w"ip Brim?. ia.ui: sr.. rv rUBLIC IEDOliR COMPANY jwtiub -ir. k. curvrtB. piibidnt . ,.. , , .. . 1 ,: : "M"ilnst;ryV'nc.T Tnuim! C. Coll In i. John 11. Williams. John J gon. Biretttor- CToV7i'IKncolm0ChttVrran '" homc ot thcntricnl entertainment or nAviD k. smiley ' .....Editor unspoken dranin naturally Increases the JOHN c. martin ..aentr.i uiin.n i. llT",'0" tnf, Acndcmy for orclies- . ,trnl concerts, recitals of Illustrious vir- IubllthM dally at Pcmjo Lkimicb UulMlne, tuosl, lectures and meotlncs . Indpnnnce Square, l'MUdetphliv , r . ,,T r . . AttAHTie cixr Press-iitiou tmiMlns kveu if tlio I'hiladclphln Orchestra nKrJr?'!:;.... . . . : : ? WffindSi Ir,' ? ?.ncc ,0 bcml 't8,rrglM townrd rr. Loon ions Kuiterton iiuiidin "o erection of ft sultnblo now concert Cmcioo 1302 Tribune Bulldlnc hall, provision could not be made In "WirnKnTosNDrMBAonUnEAV8! that way for nest season's series. There N. R. Cor.Vernisyninln, Ave nd 14th fit '" n .real, practical nerd for the Acad ftfjtfToDK Bcriud Th sun nuiirliw: , emy In Its present status. .. fiUIlSCntPTIOM HATES I Sentimental ronildomtlnnM nre il,n . Th EtiNixo Public Ledoes in served to ,, "v " lonB"",nnN are atso ihrrlhfr in PhllndPlnhU and turroundlnit present nnu speak loudly. Much of the towna At th min nf iuiv (12) cents per I. LiR... -t ..... ... ,. . . Week, pivable to the carrier. Br men to point mitiiido nf Phlindfiphu. Bl thn Unllfd States. Canada, or United fftatea pon-f'-ionn. roetnee free, fifty (mi) ent par month Rlx (Irt) dollars per ear pavawa in advance. .... . ., To all forelsn countries ona (II) dollar rer month. N"otiok Subcllr? nl'hlnK addre eDned muit kU o'd aa well aa new d- eraaa. ( tt.L, J0O0 WAt.MT KF.VSTONK. M UN 1019 fcT -Adiirrss nil rammiiiiienllans 'o l'.venina i-iioilc? Ltdatr. independence nqnart, rniinaffpnin. Member of the Associated Press TUH ASSOCIATED PltESU is tciefrcj cui(cd to fie use lor republication of nil ticici dispatcher - creoifcd la ill or not otirncisc crciiucn Mi paper, nnd also the local neic.i pvththed therein. ,.,,, Phll.dflplili, S.tutd.y. Mi; l. ko A FOUR-YEAR PROGRAM PHILADELPHIA FOR Things on which the iirpte eict the new ntlmlnlstrntlou to concen trate Its attention) The Delaicarr river bridge. A. drvdock big enounh to accommo date the Inrpeit ships Development of the rapid" frar-jft sys tem. A conuenfion hnll. A. buildtfw for the free Library 'An Art Museum Enlargement nf thr u-atrr supply Homes to accommodate the popula tion. PENROSE OUT FOR KNOX REPUBLICANS need not get unduly excited over Senator Penrose's dechtration for Senator Kno, for Presl- Democrats need not get unduly elated over the announcement, either. Stn nr.rnnr Krm,l mnrfn his w se decision not to stand as the goat for trading purposes nt Chicago, it has been necessary to look elsewhere for Penn sylvania's "favorite son." Jf the junior eenntor wants to fill the Job he can hnve it, so far as the senior senator is concerned. That's all it seems to mean. At no time during the last year and a half has Senator Knox led any con siderable following among the members of his own party in the Senate on any vital issues. Actually he opposed nnd stood nlnof from tho majority of the Republicans In that body because ho wns persistently one of the little group of wrong-headed lrreconcilables. AVhnt a joke it would he to ask the . .... I . men who represented the majority .e- tlmaiit of the party to accept him now? I lit a Snnnlnf I 'onrnsn tninl. 1 r Knox's astonishing nttack on the Ver sailles treaty because.lt was too cruel to Germany Is so soon" forgotten? And docs he think his opponents I would not be quick to poiut out thnt I Mr. Knox's Republican colleagues thought so little of his superb "inter- i national statesmanship" that some of his foolish proposals for resolving peace without a treaty were speeded into the obscurity of his own foreign relations epmjxiiftee and there quietly nsphyxiated 'nd decently interred in the waste- basket? The boomlct may be meant kindlv, but sit Isn't. BEAUTY AND THE SIGNS THE view thnt skyscrapeis nre bi nn ttful nnd 'interpretative of the'Amerl can SDirlt may nlso be extruded to trie sign, displas. The point of art is at least arguable No wonder then that Council is confronted with a variet of contending proposals Tt hns been suggested that Market street should blazojjke Broadwav, while Chestnut street should preserve a dec orous twilight ; that projecting signs be reduced to a iimum long dimension of eight InchfarTd of eighteen. Simplicity, however, is clearly co incident with safety. The stiong breezes, very common in this region. ean make of a lnrge, heavy, swinging sign a. real dunger. The duty of Council, however, is less to establish a fiat on what is beautiful and whnt is disfiguring--for that in- Tolves nn unsettled ontroversy of art but to fix n definite ruling which shall be enforced I'p to now the ordinances regarding signs have been observed with confusing laxity Special privileges nnd accepted infractions of ihe law satirize municipal goiernment. New traffic rules "ITTHAT Superintendent Mills nppeais " to contemplate in the new plan for traffic regulation, announced yesterday. ' la an experiment in restricted nnd sys- I tematlzed truck routes Slowmorine, heavily laden vehicles I cause a serious congestion of all lighter I traffic in many of the nnnow entrnl j thoroughfares nt some bonis of the' lay. With all the cross stieets open to tbera and easy iiccess bv means of Ffl -.bert and Snnsom streets to delivery en- i , trances, heavy tnn ks should operate i without decreased clhnenrv and still leave Chestnut nnd Wulnut streets for ' other trntlic in the rush hour. Stricter enforcement of the parking rule, Intended to keep one side of one way street always open for moving c hlclefl, is needed. That rule Is being needlessly iolated in the central part of the city. THE OLD ACADEMY'S FUTURE THE composite tolce of the Acadcmj mationiil campaign in our history wns .qf Music has spoken in the accents n free of misleading anrr vicious non wi politics and prime dontie. of pianists 'sense as the present one has been. Men and fiddlers, of celebrities and shams 'in the race are attacked bitterly and from Pattl to Doctor Cook nnd beyond. ( savagely every day, but they are being If ever n building weie vocal, this sea- fought cleanly in the open. They aren't Bpncd old structure Is. The silence, however eloquent, of the fiw drama therefore imoUca u conxid erablu strain on locnl traditions in con- iRfctiOU with this storied edifice. The iH-odlglous development of tho movies Is, of course, n sign of Ihe times, and 3hlUdcphinns have welcomed it with itnusuiMn nnd generous patronage iNliUvlhelcsu the prune irlue of aeons 1 tk'K- Is ko rnie nnd is possessed by (he i fHB'slMJ '" S.Mlrf "..MS..' (bat the discussed presentation ot pic dire plsya In the Academy raises tils turblng douMs. . Music plays nn ennobling and ox- i"iuuiu(i rom in our civic progress nnu I?'e accommodation for It must always 'Itr frmaMar.m1 Tli nntA,niw1 HfAUH ( ,h(J MctrooIlt ' 0ncr- TM,u.e lnlo ,""""' "' lms cummuuuy III nil ami I manners has gravitated about the nudl- ., .i,i m rt. . ,, . Iorl,ll "herein II Trovntore unf hailed stirring scml-uovelly IS,". PASSING THE BUNK IN 1920 POLITICS ' Better Manners and Better Thinking Rule In the Race for the White House TN" NATIONAL politics and In the ' -- newsn.iners Hint nlm to nlilnn no In. terpreters of pnrtv motives there ore ' tititnoroit? signs of increasing wisdom I nnd better manners. The country is j they nre hating Senator III Johnson. ' nut no one calls senator Johnson n ' jiieknl or n bnnillt. 1 The cartoonists of the opposition press haven't drawn Senator Hi rreep 1 ing murderously upon his t'nrle Sntnucl with it homli and n bowle knife. Nor hnte tlie.v vliown tienernl Wood uith I bloody hands and a O-crmnn helniet. Mr. Wilson must be struck by the evi donees of a similar restrniut among 'Republican editors. ' And the national conventions are only a few weeks off '. A generation nso under similar eir eumstnnees pnrtisnn edilovs erupteil terribly in their columns. Dollar-marks and hlnck masks, villainous innuendo. rumors of jobs nnd tobberies were the 'substance of political criticism which. ins'1 P"- wns not "ilicism nt all. I. V'TPr,r "n W " twl"Ie,!0,m,, "nP ", 'SuttS ?u2Ztl&& J ,oMS , , . . , ...' '".".. ' """' ...... ....; t.... i r,uiimi-iu ns n talent for hatred linked with the will .to destroy. I'tiless these old journal ists wer wrong, scoundrels nnd liars only ran for the presidency. They were elected now nnd then. That sort of thing is going out. Liars and scoundrels and demons do not run for the presidency nnd they nre not even 'conspicuous in national politics. It is 'largely the fault of effervescent old- I school journalists if the dollar-mark and the dinner-pail and the banner of one party or another were held so close to the eyes of the people thnt it was impossible to see even n little way into the future. For years affairs nil over Europe were plainly drifting toward the com- i'i. iimu ..ii,. 111, i. ll'-7 1UU3L LULU, 113 ,' dtrupt, of b,torr. u ,,-, . -. . , ., ' t . . .,.... the European feuds have been project ing themselves into American life, and for a generation mankind has been ac quiring a new social consciousness which has finally challenged governing minds everywhere To prove thnt a Republican could never get to heaven or that fJehenna wns made for Democrats, the political critics of a vanishing era polished their rhetoric and wrote with a good deal of superficial brilliancy. Some couldn't sec beyond the Mason and Dixon line nnd some couldn't see beyond the tariff and some insisted thnt tho possession of money was proof of villainy nnd some held that a full dinner-pall was all that any wage earner should desire or re eivo in this life. If is refreshing to perceive the new spirit in American journalism and the i new desire for rational criticism thnt shall reach bevond men and parties to ! illuminate the issues ttiey represent. It was the ablest journalistic organ , of the Democratic party that first pro posed Hoover for the presidency, and (later offered to support him as the can ididate of the Republicans. Mr. Wil son's administration nnd Mr. Wilson I himself have received the consistent sup- port of lending Republican newspapers land leading Republicans for policies 1 that seemed to be constructive and en- I ngntenen. I Hoover. Wood. Johnson nnd Harding 'hnve active antagonists in every part of ' 'he country, but thus far at least mud J'jis not been thrown nt any of them. '''h tendency to libel a man because he ' 'mpppni to be n candidate for a great Oflico is disappearing in politics as it is disappenriug in American newspapers lr wn'' nn URV" habit. Washington .lefferson and .Iiickson and all the I'ns uienis we unve nan suiierru somen nni through It Lincoln suffered most of nil No mnn in American public life was ever so cruelly misrepresented and 1 so tragically misunderstood as he i General scrutiny nowadays Is fixed upon the issues for which presidential enndldntes are spokesmen Ensy rhet- orie nnd flippnnt epigrams that once I passed for political discussion in news I papers and on the stump are giving way j to frnnk. fearless anil relentless study , of everv candidate's mind and every candidate's purpose We have lived , through the dajs of bunk nnd bombast. Hern nnd there, as the election ap proaches, some of the old stage business will lie revived. But n I igher nnd more I exacting intelligence in iho country at large dismissed the bigot .md the egotist from modern journalism, which nim now to get at the truih - and tell it for the sake of honor nnd ns a patrlotle dutv. 'I Tin rule which enlightened newspa pers nre establishing is one that poli I ticinns themselves rnunot afford to ills icgHrd It is a question whether anj , being stabbed in the bnck by fnlse nnd dirt rumors, deliberately set nllont like, poison gas. 1 hey nrcn t being gener ally lied about, .Newspapers and po litical speeches are not running with suggestions of unmentionable villainies charged by delicate inference to one candidate or nnother Vow ami then Mr Johnson shows a disposition to break Ihe rules- If anj one returns to the Jungle method It EVENIK0 PUBLIC LBD(iBR-PHILAf)ELrHlA, SXTUKBVT, :SlAY 1 1020 probably will he. Senator HI. who. since the fight in California speeded up, has uinniicsled n disposition to heave some mud nt Hoover. Hoover would benefit by that experiment. Mud Is uncon vincing nnd Hoover has an astonishing talent for clean, strnigh't utterance which Mr. Johnson will do well to keep in mind. The sobering efferts of the wnr and the greater sense of responsibility that remains to tli? people nre mntilfested In n desire for fair play all along the line nnd in general Impatience with the pre tentious pllile that once made n few conspicuous journalists and politicians ml mi red and fnmous. If the editors and lenders who "created f-entlmcnt" in the campaigns of Lincoln, (Jrant. Ulnine nnd other Presidents were nllve nnd netive foday the nlr would probably be so tilled with meaningless noise and rumors thnt n clear understanding of any major issue would be impossible. The country mny be going slowly In its political advancement, but It Is get ting along, nevertheless-. LEFFINCWELL ON PALMER A TTOIiNHY (JKNBHAL PALM Kit ! A ... ... ,.,.. '" ought to get after Assistant becre- tnrj l.efliugwell, of the Trensury Do jpartmeut. and tell him whnt to snv i about high prices, if he wishes to pre . vent the public from reaching the con clusion thnt the lnw department of the , government is trying to do what the ilinnncinl department regards as im ! possible. ! Mr. Hoover remarked for the Infor mation of Mr. Palmer the other day 'thnt profiteering is nn effect nnd not n j cause and Hint the cause was economic, and he said that "the attorney gen eral's policemen could not overtake nn economic force allowed to run riot in I the country." I Now conies Mr. Leflingwell with the i statement before a sclent lib' ni-scitiblngc in New York that "instead of telling the people franklv nnd boldly thnt prices nre high becnuse the nre wasting, we fix prices and prosecute profiteers." There is a lnw against profiteering, but it forbids "excessive" prollts, with out saying whnt constitutes excess. Lawyers know that depending on such a statute is like lenning on n broken reed Mr. Palmer's nssoeintes in gov ernment In Washington nre telling lit 111 so. Relief will come, as Mr. Leflingwell ! points out, by the practice of intelligent economy on the part of the buying public .nnd by the abandonment of high living. I But in the meantime Mr. Palmer's po 'lieemen will get some exercise chasing 'the "economic force nllowcd to run riot I in the country." THE BONUS PLAN fTWE service men will be interested in - the optional plans provided for pay ment of adjusted compensation in the 'bill agreed upon by the ways nnd means i committee, hut the rest of us will be I more deeplv interested in the taxes sug- l ...... .. . . n gesteu tor raising the money needed. i Th nronn.itlon try fnT sfi n,,- ,.( r I no proposition to tax SO per cent of the increase in incomes over those of .15)11 wns obandoncd. nnd in its place increased surtnies rnnging from 1 to il per cent are proposed on incomes in I excess ot .fiJlR"). A 1 per cent con sumption tn on retail sales and a tax 'on snlcs of bonds nnd stocks, real estate 'and produce exchange transactions, 'combined with the incrrned incomo tax, jit is estimated will produce the Ifl.OO,- 000.000 needed. This sum will be used in paying the service men .$1."5 a day for each day's (service, or for providing vocational (training nt the cost of $1.75 n day for leach day's service, or for the purchase lor improvement of homes or tor buying paid-up insurance, according to the 'wish of the mnn receiving the benefit. This plan will have to be -submitted to the criticism of both houses of Con , grcss. But it must be ndmittcd that it j is less radical in its taxation features I than the public had been led to fear. IT IS TO LAUGH M r,. nun memories will smile as . ..t. f. ...;it , tney renn tnat congress is excited 'over the increasing control nf the oil fields of the world by British capital, 'and that certain congressmen nre urging the formation of n government oil cor poration to develop foreign nil fields ns I the emergency ship corporation built i ships. Thej will smile becnuse It was not I so mnn vears ago thnt 'ongressmen wcre declaring thnt American capital ists who went into foreign countries to develop nil nnd mineral concessions should go there nt their own risk nnd that it wns preposterous to expect tho government to do anything to protect thorn I'rcsident Wilson hns expressed , himself in the same wa. But the British Government protects Englishmen who invest their capital in foreign lands, becnuse it knows thnt everv dollar of British capital invested anywhere increases the wealth of the llntish empire nnd strengthens it po- nrirally. Tho oil situation mnv or may not be serious, hut if the tinted States bus lost iU leadership in the control nf oil ..... ... . . hews tne government in Washington ..nnnof enr, nil hlnme I 1 WORD TO SUBURBANITES QL'BURBAN pride is commonly re sJ garded ns so eominondnble that gnrded ns so eominondnble that thero is at first blush a mild khock in the comments of the Burenu of Mu nicipal Research on this theme, ns con tained in Its current weekly bulletin. But this warning Is by no means wholly ill-considered. Tho knots of residential population growing up with out the municipal boundaries of Phila delphia must sooner or later bo ab sorbed in n grenter city. The request is madn thnt "growing cities should plan ahead with a view to adding to i heir political jurisdictions such con unions areas n are rensonabl.v nnd appropriately to bo considered ns be longing to the same communities. The consolidation of the present Phil- ..,1-1,11,1,. vun ,,. .fc flftin. ,. lnil","r.'; i ruijuce, or else y uie ruerdue. The town unquestionably suf fered from the haphazard nature of its development nnd tho tendency of the public to think in nnrrow parochial terms It will speed the day of a political metropolitan district far exceeding the prpent one if suburbanites keep their eyes upon the future and refrain from a refinement of artificial boundary re strictions. The hnbit of metropolitan thought is something which mny be practiced in this region with consider able profit. .i. ... .... ...,. .... ,,, i Making a draft of tho new state constitution was nn easy job compared I to the adoption or rejection of the fiOOO I lor wns it only 000?) amendments sug gested Washington scientist i said to have disi'oierrtl something smaller Ihaii an atom Probably was experimenting .wltii me conscience oi a profiteer, NINETYJHOUSAND BLIND Much Done to Lighten Burdens of Big Sightless Army In the U. S. IJy GEOnorc NOX McCAIN rvlt. L. WEBSTKK FOX Is, and has J-7 been for years, president of the I Inn.. Tan I.. . ft I. a.. a I Ytl 4 in. nn- aiui'MinK oocieiy lor me unno. Kills A. Olmbcl Is vice president. The organization endenvors to make life worth living forthe little army of those from whom the light of day is forever shut out. t Hooks for the blind nre circulated from ii collection of works which nre deposited with the Free Library of Phil adelphia, A Philadelphia gentlemnn suffering from t rouble with his eyes remarked n few dn.VK.ngo that he would rather lose both arms nnd legs than the sight nf both his eyes. It In the nlmost mil-trr-.nl feeling on the subject. And jet there nre those who reject that idea. Her. Dr. lirnwn, for years superintendent of (lie Western lVnri.- sjlviinin Institution for the Wind, one'e I ,I1V"!!t',M,,,l!0tniP "'i"1 J"" 'T'1'1 r"",Pr h" IiIiihI llinii be n deaf mute. '-Think wi,nl u m,t )t. (o ll0 sul, out fiom the sound of otir mother's oice.' ho-nld.' "Never to hear the song oi Dims, or listen lo the wonderful music of the world's great composers I" rnliniH are more than (10,000 blind' -L persons in the I'liiled States. Only 1S per cent of this number is under I went? -one yenrs of ace. Books for these sightless ones nre pi mini in five different styles of tvpe or iniseil letters: American brnllle. Piinipenn brnllto. Line letter. Moon tjpc and New York print. A blind bibliophile enn gratify his Insie in biography, history, travel, poctri. religion nnd tiction. Wnr llter niiire and up-to-date fiction form nn smnll part of the Philadelphia collec tion Blindness accentuates nnd Intensifies i he oilier senses. Many blind persons are -kill f ii 1 typists. Visitors In the new woik-lmp for the adult blind In Pitts burgh recently found a young mnn nine teen xears old t.iping difficult inllrond leporls from dictaphone records. His work showed perfect oinniniid of tun- I'llllie William Hill, n blind farmer, of Hom bnig Conn., is nn evpeit hunter. Plie.is.ini nnd iunil ate the birds lie hunts most successfully. He shoots on the wing, judging distance nnd direc tion b the sound thnt they mnke. Alexander Cameron received his col lege degree nt Yale and took a post -grndunte course. He came of Pennsyl vania Quaker stock. Yale ' men of twenl years nco remember him as a mnn of lively speech nnd keen sense of humor. He wns master oi Hebrew, (ireck nnd modern lnngunges nnd sub sequently became n Baptist preacher In Cnnndn. John 1. Swenrlngen. n blind student, graduated from the College of South Carolina at the age of twenty, with the highest record during his course of am man since the founding of the collncc more than 100 yenr- ago. Waller Young was n blind coal miner. ' He worked in the Buffalo mines near T:,.i. ....i. i.i:i :ni.nnnn;,i.ti..i tt.. ..,-,, .. "" ......i.. ,...., iiniinnitUTlNT. nirllin U mi nolc would rule into the mine in die morn - TjUUiiw l l Mi strtKCS is my poie ., i)( u (,nn, ,,,. Wfll, ,)(l (,(, o ,J Jrrn,. ,nv, Henry Allen, "and I i ..f;lrr-. nf ,,ln ronl ,,v hiM fllt)l.tCen-year- Lj,nll hnve to'skui it myself." i nbl son. who then left him to go ahead n one else seems to envy him the with his nick "benring in" on the conl. li. I lie judged the distance of his cut h feeling until the coal was rendv for fir- ing. E NC.I.AND celebrates today the, seven! v-lhiid nnnliersnrv of the , -..,..-.-- -j - , MJClllllll'. inxenimn of the Moon system of print- Tllp roM of (nom nro n "nn-thc-ouc-ing for the blind In raised characters. . unnd-on-llio-othcr banders." The first Sunday In Mnv of each year onie of them sin "on the one hand, is observed throughout Great Britain on ,i1(, o(lcr hnnd." in loud, determined wini special prnjcr anil uiniiKsgiyiiij; by those interested In tills worn o print- UK lor nn1 uiuiu. It is just l.'iO years nso this month thnt the first exhibition of printed books for the blind wns given nt the Academy of Sciences in Paris. The invention of raised letteis nnd the practical use of them in printing for the blind was made by M. Valentine Hnuy. who had experi mented some time before he placed his invention before the public. MOSES failed to complete hs job If VtL lnZ of illes he droie them from the habitations of the I IM-S1.-II-U l .1(1, tli'lllt' .-. uilliiiii' ... ....... nn.,....! niin.nnlillnu Tlilllrtnu rtf thnm mnkt hnve esenned his nnnthemn. for Egypt is today a land of flies as well as rums One of the most pltifi witnessed was among where mothers permit to cather unmolested nnd lins of their babies It is "Kismet 'late frh.. b rt ff- rt k..,,k Krt. nwayV In thei; falnlistNVay tl,;vi tlinl If if ie finrl'o -IM llinf (l,o rtlec, n.i.i ., .. ., ....... .... - Cairo, waiting to be treated fpf ' p. trouble. . . i.e.. I ' ,", "" " " '"" y. -.' ,ro:,blr- f fU ,,.,, , And most of It wns Invited by the Ignornnce nnd gioss supers tiJ.tin of ihe victim. ' i i TR. WILLIAM '.ENTJAYER. long ' U n member of Ihe staff of Wills Ere I Hospital, nlong with ilhers. is of thr I opinion that the tityie will ultiinnteh I come, indeed is here -already in a limited I ....... .. l.i.n ,L,i. ,..,.....! .C ...!..!..i. .. .ii .....-.. i .-i..-. ... ...:,..... .... be characterized i by the formation of I iiniffl nf specinll'its I.ncli unit, ancording to Pnctor Zent mnvor. will cohslst of on nphthnlmnln nlu, (l nftlirflli.tnli-t nn I n , ,i o, tc, ,is. n0logis, a,. n lnborotorv 'man.' i The skilhl nnhlhnlmoloclst of tndn Is not meirH nn eyn man, bill diagnostican in the highest sense. T him Ihn ifve is u mirror which rehVc I structuroly changes and the progress ..( constitutional il senses with unfa u g precision. The poetic: idea that "the eve is the mirror of tint soul" is only partly true It. in tho mirtrnr thnt refects Ihe inn gnu,-, ui iii.-ir V...I...VU ... ...u-.i ..... thnt nftvc one saving grace; we can of it :i . riv . Vironertv bo disturbed. still Imieh nt ourselves. sun ot it is private properlj. For this reason the percentage of Vl n word niibsvfoot puzzles our' , "'rrefore, when everybody else was blind or partially blind in Egypt is ' '7,. the Torld ih.Vnn,s!,J?. I'Cnlne nS "e ''"vil' William higher thin in 'any country In the "'f&n Mnjo? Wrench, who was A"" Whlto was curs tig. fate for hnv w?Id. , onn , h,;; V" other day and who imported l,r.0"tCl tIlnt J "nk,P ronforciicp. I have seen n queue of 200 native,. . p, ".fnnt" Tohnsnn into England . As U llite sag Ahere would hnve fellaheen nnd villagers, outside the tents ' , "W" nl perplexed way what pussy- cfn n lot of talk. And it would have of the American medical mission rtea. ,nsl r!!." ? rcrpicxeu way wnai pussy ,)ni (liosc BoIshcvi()t fe . n(. f dltion of nenrljv eer intemnl organ or something to do with walking Into bnr the human boilv. rooms nnd smashing bottles with billiard Bankers, ellucntors nnd economists of the nnlted Istnirs .....I r,irnn, ,., addressing the Academy of Bolui.nl Science In New! V. I . . ork in the more or less technical IlniiEunce of their .spective schools Vill told the same The Chattanooga (Tcnn.) cafe p,o prletors arrested ns profiteers brc,,s.e they charged fifty" cents for a club sand wich were uetimi'. of geography. ir Iher north they (would have got nn " ' r with It ' Music lovers Iwould be Incline.! view the purchase of the Acadeniv of Music by a niovi1 ng picture firm m n film move rather ment. thnn Ji lllm develop The weather man Bimply rnuMn't glo to tho effect thnt ig May (lowers. fnrcet the olil jinf April showers brie Every day stl ould be clean -un da v. and Jlondny will Jie a good day to siuit. Coal uu $1 n ton. More money going up in siiioki: Somehow, evr,ry church drive sug estb a troldeu uha.rlot. , "YOUR DATES ARE MIXED, BOIES! THIS IS MAY FIRST, NOT APRIL FIRST!!" Z-K' ". -" '-"-3,2fi- ua-?T ' - .( r I .. a -'.- V w Hill I null I IW I In i 1 III I II III I Pi "let i .f ..r ...VW dH2t.v &'"- HOW DOES IT STRIKE YOU? Very likely the Republican party will !no, ...,.. . j0;n ilim skinning it. (invcrnor Allen is theono mnn In """ l ' " " '" "'"AV ",.l.uu ""V. ,.,"" I Prnsiilnnl who stlllilq for kOnirtllillLT .i.ni. ,nnPs. tnrv nrP r,ijrns, others say "on t the one hnnd. on the other." In perMinsivc, dulcet ncccnts; tlie.v are conservatives. llenrv sins. "This is my polecat," nnd roll's up' his sleeves. Perhaps that is the reason why Henry is sure of onlv oue vote in Chicago, William Allen White's vote. Bill run for district delegate ou the platform. "1 am for Henry, first, last nml nil H.e time." His district lounu mis piouorm nmusing,ns it finds everything that Bill ... ..... . ... , . snro nml ilne-i iimiislnLr. nnd It elected I him unanimously. I I ij ij j tooting, in Miorf. tne great "ii rift nrApnlliiiP Pi'pri'tt lliM'P. Ill T10lltUS. : . . .i t . "v. " :::?. f,.lV:--.."' , ... V, '... . .1 II.. If .1 Vt0vn pussyiOOIIHK I" iivsviiuu il puo" . . - ,u,,lt ,VH explained to him. but after all ,.,,.". m u wns nlni,. thnt he wns h waa cxn a net to nun. niu niter n i I .al bc said it was plain that he was "',,,, in the dnrk as ever n .m ,t".i IlP said, " 'Pussi'foof John- y ' "' )..' ,,, '"ti is a very brave man. sto is General Wood n very brnvo mnn, who treads softly among the issue-, cnrrylng n very loud voice. And the name of pussyfoot npplicd to lohnson is n puzzling thing. Pussyfoot Johnson stnrtcrl out in -- - when Oklahoma wns n terri Oklahoma, wnen lJK n noma was ia iirn tory nnd it wns forbidden to sell liquor to Indians. Killing a man was quite casual in Oklahoma in those days. Yet Pussyfoot would enter a dive where he was tho only man without n n gun, pull a tawed-off billiuid cue from under niH coui nnu eiiiusu every Domi ni slgni. q q q - -,... u... .. ... ,.. .. Tn OJs1' but nn A"11""1" nn rr IN know whnt put foot menus, Major Wrench will go bnck to Eng- Inml firmly Ot tne beliei Hint it hns lies. P.1.11..,'' , Well. U pro.mun ui !sc irmn some II) . ia.. !.. a., i.-st. : -f 4. t l''''""" '" . ,""" ".,". ." V "" 1 .......... ,1... n.nlnn 1. n ,1 ..if t...n ,.. i.nlU Willi I. .,., IIIUJUI llllli fllll ,11111- .1. ' "V?; ." ,n i, ' i ,,u ... OU(iTU '"" " "" vm-. "'111111,1 You bc'c, een the common langunge does not help. To .understand nussjfoot you must have seen our politiclnns pussyfooting through n national rniupnign and our writers of tiction puss; footing through .i.A funfu of life in the Iiiith.l .indium , ... - 1,n l.et.ch. with lh(,,. urn frti. i in iu. ..- - - - - ...... .... (. facts, they translate it picii de chal "foot of n cut," and give it up. "Koot-of-a cat" Johnson! Prohibition ! A strango people, in spite of nil thnt Lafayette did for them ! q q q HENRY ALLEN does not pussyfoot on organized Inbor. And remember, it uis the West that started regulating tho big public senile corporations. H Is tho West Kansasthat hns started regulating tho big public service labor organizations. Kansas draws the same line on lnboi that the West did on capital, The uew idea may not operate as the old idea did. 4t helps, nt any rale, lo understand ' ..srsssTt,s n.nir.'TM ni ! ...liVW'.St. riilil'.UUUUlv, iiuunriii'iiii uitciiivii ;. ... , , ,.1 sights T ever 1 the phrase, "Tread softly and carry ' "" Y.VoVe JrX ." tL,"C"2lV1W:,l1"",ck-::. ...... ..--.,! It laughs nt Soviets. .-i "--I ' - in prnruec ii uhr uecome iimu -, .. on,,!,,!. wnui,i around the eyes tnflir nii ,.nprv .-.hi-- lolce": missy- ' .....h. h0UCts U0UU1 ....... ...... ....... .. --ti - ' - iiiriiiicrrv. J '' v?vmSS; --tV - ,..- j-' .wK"" --- .T Governor Allen Says Prohibiting Strikes Is His Polecat and He'll Skin It Himself . western progressivism. which now seems as conservative as anything in the world. In fact, some of the former western ProgiessUes now appear, without in the least changing their faith, to be our ery best near-junkers. q q q THK West, had nnd pcrhnps hns n keener sense nf the nhrnse. "af- jfeoted with n public intetest," than has the rest of the country. The community spirit linR died out in the Bast, relatively at least. When the West saw the corporations 'getting too big nnd arrogant for the j community it passed laws to protect the ii - oiiiiiuniij. 1 hey reminded the corporations, none too gently sometimes, that they were ."public service" corporations, ''he Knst didn't, or did so slowly nnd only iu emiilntlon of the West. I'hat as western progrcsslvlstT... 'here wnsn t niijthlur..rrfuicfti nbtfut western progrcssivlsp'. I.. !.!. ...I.!!.!. ..Hi...!. ..1S......L tltn "" ". i'" imf) ' est was nn conservative as a miser about banks, There is a great deal of private prop ,erty in the West. Almost everybody has property In the ivnte prop- disturb private I "i 'til.f nR1 , ,t ns t, , , i . . "t '.... wnuui set uio iorcps oi eravitntion nun- '' ' the earth instead of itOW.Inl. I K"'"' to talk to somebody else. They I "m-had to talk to each other too long. ir , , "" ;, 'v" '""' '? ,k loo much inbrcct h'Ht "s,b,ul na f other tilings. I rni.i-..iti,u,. "n.ir breeding in conversation is oo much inbreeding iu ings. I'm sure,-' snys White regretfully. "Prinkipo would have done 'em good." A western afraid of bolshcvism ! A westerner is the surest person there is in the world today ; the one sure person, perhnps. q q q SO, TAKINfl western progressivism to mean n Keen sense of the public interesi nnd tho public rights, it is ensy lo see huw the westerner, without shift' ing ground, without becoming reaction ary, is for restricting the right of Inbor to strike when the strike threatens grnvel.v the public interest. q q q A LITTLE htory about General Wood. "The general used to tell the little girls to plnv ball just as hard ns their brothers did," she said. "He would say to them 'Now you girls must play baseball like n boy, If you piny it at nil, nnd on must be ready to take a knock In the eye. but nfler the game is over I want you to go un to the house and take a cup of ten with Mrs. Wood and have lur imch you to do plain sew- i... You henr the undent echo: "Don't flinch, bojsl Hit tho lino linrd!" This may decide the primnrfes, unless some one can think of what Hiram Johnson snirl to his hnhy when he bumped his lilt lo iinsn on Ihe floor. The Rooscielt heritage is again in doubt. A Chicago banker declares thai the 'nlied States is too rich for a panic. It is, of course in the way Hint a man may be too strong to think of sickness. But the strong man muy grow weak for Inck of exercise; and the rich country mny grow poor when inbor neglects Its , unisirui resourres. There Is no cnuse for dlsiw y iu the refusal of tho anthrnelto minors' scale ommlttcc to accept the offer of u in per cent wngo increase, offered by the operators. Discussion will eventually bring about an amicablo agreement. . Thoso who continue to pay Incrcns tug prircs lor migar mny console them celvcs by reading of warrnnls bduK Is- .ucd for alleged profiteers. ' ... i If Ihere is one thinp the West 1 ' .,' " -,-"'" as1-" 9T rfrifl St!1 -''"T .- Me"" -Jw--Wi" The Mery Monclh of May IS NOT thllkc the mcry moncth of May Yougthes folkc now flockcn In every where. To gather May bus-kcts nnd smelling brerc : And home they hasten the postcs lo dight. And all the Kirkc pillours care day light. With Hawthorne huds, nnd swete Eg lantine. Sicker this morrowc, no longer ngoe, I snwc n sholo of shepchcarde) outgoc With singing, and shouting, and jolly cherc : Before them rode n lusty Tnbrcrc, That to the many a Hornc-pypc plnyd. . . . To see those folkcs make such jouy- sauncc. Made my heart after the pypc to dauncc: Prom "The Shcphcardcs Calendar," by Edmund Spenser. The City LOOK, love, across the city from this height And sec it smolder under us, a fire Of blazing jewels. Hark, the hum ming choir Of moaning trolleys reach up through the night And undulate about us while the white Exhausted moon bows down her weary head As some pale mourner looking on the dead, Aud gazing through hot tears thnt blind the sight. This Is the city of desire and greed, The city of gauut madness, nunger, strife Lay diiilv here their ceaseless hands on life. But nfter nil It Is our city. Freed A little from its sorrow we look down Ith yearning ejes of pride upon tho town. Herbert S. Gorman, in New York Sun. Strange, is it not, that nobody has suggested Burleson for President? Yes, it is not. There's n somnolent sound nbout Sonora that the news dispatches seem determined to dissipate. Every sugar profiteer considers himself the candy kid. WhatJ)o You Kiioiv? QUIZ 1 Who was the first attorney general . ., ' President Wllson'a cabinet? . Vhat nro the colors of the flag of Greece" " Who wns 1'mnsart? i What wero the Sybllllne books? . ,.?ir wl!at B '"' an abbreviation? ij. hat Is meant by n "Paulino con version"? 7. Of what state is Phoenix tho capital? 8. Hew many Vico Presidents of the united .States subsequently be came President? ft. Who wero thev? 10. Who owns ih.. famous diamond, the Koh-i-noor' Answers to Yesterday's Quiz 1 Ktlwln T. M.icdlth is .the present secretary of agriculture. 2 The word strength contains eight , , ,pt rriJ. aml on'y on vowel 3. Christopher f'nlumbun died In tho elty of dllndolld, iu noithern Spnin. I Specific Kinltv Is tho ratio between tho weights of equal volume or nny atibstance and of nomo other. t .chpson ns n standnnl. ft Tho InuBhlng jackasii la n bird, the f.rent hrown klnKfishcr of Austra lla. It derives lla-iianie from Its peculiar nv it eggs, which are I'reo0 vitiM,n Cl0r' ar la"' '" 6. ThomaB A'Ik.ket, also called Thomas or London, was a. celebrated (One. . Ish prelate Archbishop of Can- "".j. "-I'ctiHiiy noieri ior Ills .',"".' . '.ia tionry Jl over tho Jurls.hctlon of the church .jut! the monarchy. Ho was- inur' Ifi'l ' Canterbury Cathedral on " ThHaThSf SSpgSK Ap,ala Tha- ' T"HlmpTy1.UovteerUCr,lnally mennl 0. Tho United Htntes went to war three times In .defense ot Its rights us a neu rnl in 1798, when navn" hostilities with France broku ou without a formal declaration of war; with Orcul Ilrltaln In niJ WCAUHIIJL'r jj, uio, n i nn.' '"n (1e"many in 1017, ' i0' A $&?. VISASf colorV' "8"1 'n -? . . -' THE CRITIC TALKS TO MUSIC LOVERS' Weekly Comment on Things Musi. cal In Discriminating Philadelphia IN THE now linpplly far-rcccdcd past, when (he Tlllln,1n1n1,t n...i... ! was obliged to resort to certain "cxpe- rllenln" In fill II, n Aon.1... -t 'i at nil of Us concerts, there prevailed a ihn Xo Z. ".! r"Vn5"!. which wns given at tho last concert ol j..u .uu, .u i..o ouiciai program of the Iniir nnnnarl litif nnn .-,. - " ....... .""s i..v, .-..en season beginning with that of lOOl-lOO." (so fn ( t.M .Ma.a.Hl u 1.. .0 . ."' . -r"u i'vou"' rccorus ot tne writer extend) and continuing for n number of years thereafter, were printed nil the orchestra numbers performed durliii that nenson, divided Into symphonies overtures nnd "misccllnneons." (be nf tendnnt being asked to vote for one of each. The three winning numbers, to gcthcr with n solo work, selected of courso by the conductor, made up the concluding program of tho season. Naturally this plan is artistically false and is not to be considered for a moment in such a schemo of programs an Mr. Stokowskl has outlined nt lea! for the close of tho present season, We nro to hnve the Beethoven Ninth Sym phony nt the lust concert, tho work which, with the Pach B mluor Mass and the Brahms Requiem (both religious compositions nnd therefore unsuitable for concert performance), stands nt the very head of nil musical conception In grandeur of thought ns well ns In tech nical and artistic expression. When works such as these close the season tho .request progrnm" becomes little short of nn nbsurdlty, fJlHE fallacies nnd the dangers of the request progrnm" are almost too numerous nnd too Self-evident to be necessary to point out. Nevertheless the request program" had a distinct value. Tho principnl danger Iny hi the conflict of tho numbers chosen by the audience with tho solo selection made by the conductor, ncccssnrlly weeks be fore. Tho soloist for the last concert might have elected, with the consent ot the conductor, to piny the I'ranck Sym phonic Variations nnd the 'audience might have chosen the Franck D minor symphony, for the symphonic choice nnd the "Chassc Maudlt" for the miscel laneous number. This would hnvo re suited In n program of unutterable mo notony, for Cesar Frnnck, great as he is, Is not n Bach, n Beethoven, n Mo zart or a Brnhms, of which composers alono it is possible ta bclcct n complete and yet diversified progrnm for n svm Pt 10? C0Dccrt. even admitting the fact that Hach composed no symphonies. His genius, however, is so monumental thnt ho can "cer. nivnv" win. .I.!., mti. .i- tail which would bar any other com poser, even Mozart. fpHE mott Interesting point of the vpiucst programs" is that, though y..v ...uiiiiuen irom UUl-U.i to JHK!-1 I inirnln nccn.-f1I.if. t.s A1. . I.--,, .. " ".winh ... i,1K ..Luiicciion n the writer), the Tschnlkowsky Sym i i ""'""luo received very much ...v isiswi vine every yenr. Jn fuel it virtually doubled the vote given In n,iy, other sympho.uy every season. in popularity were the Schubert "Pn finished" nnd the mighty Fifth of Bee thoven. This last is n composition which in every element which goes to mnke up n work of nil time exceeds Tsc'hal kowsky s "Pnthotique" ns iueh as an arc light exceeds n candle. Nevertheless llm rnf ,,:... it... . . , ..... .... b ..fllll...-. ...,,l, so rnr ns ' popularity Is concerned. I schnikowsky's "Pathctlque" was the Ilnl 1...1. L. C , .....,.- uu.,, ui ,,. o.vuipiinnic ijcague, because when it came to a "show down" the "Pnthctlaue" had about 030 votes every yenr to nbout .'120 for the nearest competitor. Then the conductors he i-uine urea oi ging it nt the close of every season nfter having performed it nt one of the regulnr concerts. So, for four seasons, wo did not hear the mot populnr symphony of the year. Various reasons were advanced. "wcll-ltnlnndl vi.n,..n.f, t. I, ... .. ..... u...ub... j,. vfsiu.i.a, Ul.liv ..I performance," et cetern. and although me j-bcuuiKowsKy o. u "enme across ' at least three times with tho votes, the Scllllherf Tt nilnnn n.nu nlit.n il.. ..J the Beethoven O minor once. The last year (again nccorfling to the memory of the Tv,.Mfnr flin 1'fsl.k ...ni. s.f H..U11-. ... ......z ...v. ,uiv ,,,n uu. I.UU.lSU.'.l in tho progrnm notes, although a "re quest program" wns given. mi IHE other numbers of tho "rennest , n,rSr'''ns". were about evenly di vided. The "Hntmntnln" in.. t..t. - Cnrl Goldmark. nnd the "Tnnnhncuser" ov enure ot vvngner ran about evenly, although occusionnlly nn "outsider" such ns the Leonore No. It ot Beethoven wns the winner. Among tho "mlscel Inncous" numbers Liszt's "Preludes" wbr one of the most consistent winners The main interest, however, lay in the choice of the symphony. The "Fa thetiquc" was the only modern sym phony to be chosen, nlthough the Cesar I'ranck I) minor symphony and, one yenr, the Strauss Symphony Domestics ran well toward the top. As n general tiling, however, the Schubert "Unfin ished" nnd the Beethoven No. 5 were the second choices. Tho Brnhips sym phonies, works which have come inM their own in the Inst few seasons, were never anywhere near the top. THE interesting feature In a possible resuscitation nf the old "request program," if even for n slntrln enr. Iwould he to hce where tlfo otd favorites wiiiiiu sianu louav. it is more than likely that the Tschnlkowsky No, (1 would he again returned ns tho winner for. wnilo its popularity Is not whnt u was ten or even five years ago, it Is still one of the strong cards of the sym phonic yenr, nnd is good for "standing room only" every time it is performed However, it is certain that It would not poll today double t.e uuumer of votes cast for the other great sympho nies. ns it did for so many yenrs. The Beethoven No. 5 would certainly com very close to the highest number, and. to judgo by tho reception it received this year. Tscliaikowsky's own No. I would poll a very heavy vote. Tho Cesar Franck symphony would probably show a little falling off In popularity, while two, and pcihapH three, of Ihe four Brahms symphonies would show enor mous gains. These would be the sec ond and third surely, and possibly the first. The fourth Is, perhaps, still a little "deep" in its meaning. However, there Would be good reason for the slowness of' the public to accept the fourth sjinphony of Brnhms, for the composer himself, had very serious doubts as to the musical value of th work and frequently .wandered to Ids friends whether ho had not made a mis take allowing it to bo published. Thlj doubt persisted long after the work hud been accepted by the musical public, and the greut composer passed nway without the actual knowledge that ho had pro (lured a great work. Nevertheless, it belongs lo tho most introspective group of, his works, together with the clarlncr quintet and some others, and will bt slow of popular acceptance. If the shortage In overalls con tinues, tho plumber may hnve to go t work In his Sunday, null. It U well to realize thnt Hiere danger in Philadelphia ot water wbsW becoming water want. v r-V n 5 fiftNuttb.. ife-f -.i.-.'CVi iWMj tin tfj. f"l t- SmAWfStSMS'rS KSBrEmL.jMtof-r-'ttolgf nJmAMltLZM ' A. , '
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