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Development of the rapid transit ays fern. A convenfloti hall. A tiulrflnr; for the Free Library. An Art Slxiseunx. Enlargement of the water supply. Homes to accommodate the popula tion. P. R. T. OR CITY WHICH? TjHJR a corporation that has flagrantly &' raueu to lilinti us irnncuioi- umSu- 4 tipns to the public and is constantly J comlnp to the city hat in hnnd making f MAAH ...!. .Via PUT1 uVinU'H U . H LH11L U.UIILI1. UiG A.. --- w- e curious oRsumption of authority to dic tate terms whenever caiicu upon to consider proposals for new lines. j The flat manner in which represen tatives of the company declined to nc- 53 cept suggested amendments to the ordi- 7 Baaco authorizing the new itoo.eveir. .boulevard line-is an example. 1 . Theso-amendments were plainly in- ? t8dc to safeguard the city's rights raaainst eventualities. They provided that the franchise should expire in 10."". , ' wfcea the city under the contract of 1!)()7 has a right to take over nil prwnt liBes, instead of running perpetually; that the line might be removed to par allel routes within ten yenrs if the city paid the whole costs of removal, or therpAfter unon payment of half the costs; and several other minor changes which would insure good faith on the part of the company. But the company's spokesman would stand for nothing but a bare skeleton ordinance which gave the company everything and the members of Coun cil's transportation committee meekly did, as he bid. If; there is one new line which ought to prove a real nsset almost from the Beginning;, it is the proposed boulevard route. Thc average business man would Jhink that the company would jjwap for the chance, if it really wanted to link the line up to its system, with- it out threatening to refuse unless It could S have the whole say. L JThe way Council and Mayor Moore f handle this ordiojtnce I" going to give a ' clue, to the future of the administration on transit matters. If they back down weakly under the V. R. T.'s commands, hope for a solution of the larger ques tions qf rapid transit may as well be 'deferred for another four years. Entirely apart from the startling story told of a $23,000 bribe. Mr. Moore can do nothing more usefjul just Bow than book himself thoroughly on all the facts before the b,ill comes to his, desk for approval. t , THE LOST BOY THE disappearance of a child from a rnral comrauulty automatically pro Tokcs a sensation and stirs the public iensc of obligation. That greHt cities are hardened by a rci'tipllcity of dis tressful happenings is a condition often accepted as a commonplace and a mark of metropolitan sophistication. Ia reality such an attitude Involves B complete misconception of responsi bilities. It is a cruel truth that threc yearAold Kenneth Rowman, Jr., hns been missing for n week, but it is nil the more poignant that the loss should 1 take place in a city with u highly or ganized police force und an immense yarlety of resources supposedly making for protection. Kidnapping is not suspected in this case. A little boy simply strayed in the outskirts of the town and then vanished, fjtccurlty of children on the city streets is surely nn elemental responsibility of a modern metropolis. The mystery, prolonged and agonizing to the child's parents, is a stigma pn Philadelphia. The most vigorous steps to clear it up are imperative. MR. BURLESON'S "IF" T)PSTMASTER GENERAL IlL'Il- ? X I.ESON is asking for an appropria tion of $14,000,000 to cover the deficit which accumulated under IHh operation of the telegraph and telephone lines during the war He explains that "If" It had not been for this and that be Would have been able to make both ends meet. And, anyway, he remnrks that Ills loss amounts to only 2V per cent of the gross receipts. A manager who ruada such a report to the directors of It private corporation - .would soon be compelled to seek a new 'iku. ut Mr. Ilurleson is likelv to Wt Wrre 6u.t his term in the Postoftice De- starttaent, wnicn ne is conuuciing witn t rAA. u- .f .mi.. i. WHa VUG panic urft.tr VI. ,-.i;ii;m-j Ufl U : Mtewrd in the management of the tele- . kifle and telegraph lines. '. BRIDGE ENTHUSIASM i rp TU3 determination of New Jersey to X aid In executing the Delaware river brWge project as speedily as possible was forcibly expressed in the repudlu if' pott by tho Houso of Governor Ed S Y Wards' veto. The passage of the bill l" t-ituiuhtUa l'asyraniaB to full co- ' . " . w ..'? . -..!. .! K.t.Mirf Attif nnrnnni i :mtl rOC$ tuft WBtlBieut Of both ' i",!"' tJHJuu""'" "'." k-.v ,,felii V MioiK 'U 1 v1 states la crystallized practically It will America ns part of tbo natural after be easier to regulate and adjust certain ninth of war. financial details which may now be open , But It would be a poor sbrt of na to some legitimate criticism. tlonal policy that could be expressed In justice to Governor fidward, It only In lists waved nt foreign govern should bo emphasized that his opposl- merits mid a systematic effort further tlon to the bill wns based cutlrely upon to Isolate the United States from the the provision of obtaining funds for rest of the world and further hamper the bridge through an lsxue of stnte and confuse our relations with the rest bonds. ,Thls raises n question purely of mankind. local to New Jersey and is apart from If Johnson is to establish himself the general desirability of the span, of with the large majority which didn't which the governor Is wholly In favor. vote at the primaries he will havo to ih me case stands now, tnc public . mind In our neighbor state Is tlxed less upon debatable details than upon n broud indorsement of 11 monumental plan. This Is the most effective way to insure progress for an enterprise of such magnitude. The financial diffi culties can be the more readily solved when approval of the main considera tion is registered and unquestioned. RIVAL WRECKING CREWS THREATEN THE G. 0. P. Johnson, Dangerousas He Is, Is Hardly More Dangerous Than Some of His Old-Guard Enemies IT HAS been bald that Providence looks after the United States. One may only hope now that during the next year or two Providence will not bo otherwise engaged. The people themselves seem still unready for re sponsibilities which In the past have been borne somewhere In the skies. Rain kf'pt voters in X"w Jersey from the presidential primaries. The farmers U Indiana remained nwny from the more recent election be cause the weather was fair. They pre ferred to stay at home and do w hutever a farmer does when the sun shines. About t2." per cent of the Indiana vote turned out. ' And those who have taktn the trou bio to go to the polls aren't participat ing in a campaign. They are euguged in n political melee domiuated by strong-willed minorities who may tear the Republican party to pieces if they aren t curbed. If the U. O. 1. ever needed inspiring leadership uud a guiding mind it needs it now. The chances that Mr. Hoover would become the voice of, the party and the symbol of enlightened purposes were lessened In California. It would be idle to deny this. And Mr. Johnson continues to loom as a potential wrecker but as a wrecker little more -dangerous than the breakdown gang In which Mr. Penrose is one of the able foremen. A survey of the primary results in the various states where Senator John son has scored heavily is discouraging. The causes of Ireland, the causes of the Russian proletariat, the caus-s of every small or unfortunate nation in Europe, the causes of switchmen's unions and self-interested groups of all sorts, ruther than the causes of Amer ica itself, nrc being warred over ut the polls. The haters of one nation and the friends of another, the credulous, the embittered and the visionary make up the army of Johns.sn insurgents. Among them any one who happens to be the thoughtful friend of Amerjca will have good reason to feel lonely. I'npreparedness, of which Mr. Lodge, Mr. Penrose and others complained in the days before the war, wns never so apparent as it Is In .the party which these gentlemen have dominated. They have permitted something very near to chaos in the tt. O. P. Some one will have to be more frank than the present party leaders if Republicanism is to have the new definition which is needed to hold it together as a constructive force in nntionnl affairs. Johnson calls himself a progressive. He isi about as progressive as a gale of wind and ns constructive. And if Johnson, with his narrow antipathies, liis credulity and his dungerous in genuousness, is a Republican, what is Taft, Root, McCumber, Hoover? If Johnson is to be accepted as u Republican, nil the men who, desiring to give the nation the benefits of sanity and independence and profound knowl edge at Washington, supported Hoover's candidacy aie something else. What nre they? And who is to rally the forces necessary to keep the party intact against the raids of John son and his clans? Some such question as this, rather than the rain in New Jersey or the sunshine in Indiana, may have served to keep the people from the polls. If the voters are disinterested and non committal they may be reacting, In their own way, to an odd sort qf Instinctive wisdom. They have, by their very aloofness, brought a good deal of con fusion to leaders who, in the nation's interest, need to be confused, frustrated and destroyed. If the men who directed all their skill and their energies to the elimina tion of Hoover do not now know who is to be nominated at Chicago it is be cause they do not know who can be elected. In the end the convention will not nominate any man who cannot in spire the allegiance and the coniidence of the 7." per cent of Republican v6ters who would not take the trouble to cast prlmnry votes for General Wood, Sen ator Johnson or Mr. Hnrding. Mean while, whnt is becoming of the party organization to which the people of the country have looked for forward -minded leadership? Johnson may desire to keep his pledges. He may not wish to bolt when refused the nomination. Rut in the course of his campaign he has been generating forces which he himself may be unable to control. If he obeys the will of the powerful elements that have become Involved In the direction of his campaign he will split the party rather than surrender to snuer counsels at Chicago. In any event, Johnson will hold n very lueavy club, forged und given into his bands by the old-school leaders, who yet may have to feel the weight of it. For it was not until the Hoover eandldncy wns definitely op -sed by tho men higher up that Johnson beenme a serious factor in the situation. Ho may yet bo able to go into the Chicago con vention with the knowledge that, should he will it, the tremendous odds against the Democruts may be reduced by ubout f0 per cent. The primaries iu Indiana, Ohio, New Jersey, Maryland and elsewhere have not shown that 'the people of the coun try have any great yearning for Wood, JoIiuhoii or Harding. They have not been actually expressive of nntional po litical feeling of uny sort. What has been diown Is that about 1C per cent of the qualified voters have been temporarily blinded to the funda mental Interests of their own country by a sentimental regard for a hard pressed Germany, by an inherited dis like of tba English character as it is reflected Ua' Ireland or Jar tho hard- wuuueraianuiui! cnaicu iu EVENING PUBMO ennngo ihh tune. It Is ns a borer from within the party itself that Johnson nppcars dan gerous, llefore now we suggested that he has become a new Ilrynn. If he is not more careful, cruder things may be said of him. Some one is sure to call him the William ',. Foster of tho G. O. P. Senator Johnson hns done more for the morale of the Democintlc party than any Democrat has been able to do In a year. He hns actually revived the lire of hope in the bosom of McAdoo. And a new activity is apparent among leaders of McAdoo's party, who aro like men who have suddenly seen good omens In a dark hour. McAdoo isn't responsible for it. His friends aren't, cither. Nor Is Johnson wholly. The responsibility lies with a few Old (Suurdsmen who have Btubbornly refused to let their minds go along with the mind of the country. Mr., Knox cannot save the situation for them now. He can only muddle It. General Wood's ability to carry tho country is alto gcther doubtful. Mr. Harding's pres tlge wiis diminished with the primaries in his own state. A dark horse Is almost certain to ob tain the nomination at Chicago. It mav he Hughes or Taft. It may even be Hoover, for even some Old Guardsmen hnve been known to learn by experi ence. Their favorite candidates have been virtually rejected at the' primaries. The candidate who can win for the Republicans must be one who can get the Voters Otlt into 111.' ruin nr nuf !.( the sunshine. That is something that none of the men now runninc has bee, ublc to do. CARPENTERS AND CLERGY fTIHE adoption-of n minimum wage for the Protestant Episcopal clergymen in the diocese of Pennsylvania by the annual convention Is a belated recog nition of the obligation of the church to support those who serve It. " The salary agreed upon starts at If 1200 for those who hnve been preach ing tnrec years or less, and It Increases periodically until ministers who hnve been in the service eight years or more are to get .$2000 and a house. In order to make this payment possi ble it will be necessary to raise ?."0,000 from the well-to-do churches to be di vided among the smaller congregations. Rut if there is to be that concert of effort without which the cause of the church will suffer this plan will hnve to be followed In good faith by the Protestant Episcopal churches uud by all the other denominations. And even th'cn tho clergymen, who have spent several years in preparation for their work, will receive less than the carpenters lire now getting. Under the circumstances there will be some followers of the Carpenter of Nazareth who will perceive the Incongruities of the situation. REPENTANCE IN DELAWARE SUFFRAGE hopes will be buoyed by the vote of the Delaware Senate approving the nineteenth amendment. Rut the situation in Dover remain confused nnd puzzling. The vote wnjj. 11 to 0. The Houso some weeks ago turned down the measure by a formi dable mnjority. , Politics iu Delaware moves in a mysterious way its sensations to per form. There is a fair chance that the lower house in Dover may reverse Itself and thut the suffrage zealots will re frain from prosecuting that courteous yet determined offensive which they have planned aguinst the governor ol Connecticut. As for the Rlue Hen's Chickens, the pride which they take in having been the first to ratify the constitution ol the United States may still be paral leled in satisfaction over having "saved suffrage," If eleventh'hour wisdom and 1 liberal thought should prevail. SAFEGUARDING OUR FORESTS HOPES that Gifford Plnchot would tuke the most effective measures to prevent the destruction of Pennsyl vania's tree treasures nrc henrtcningly substiintintcd In nn important practical step which he has taken in co-operation with the railroads. y Ry this new nrrnngement strips of land 100 feet wide on either side of the right of way of forty lines in the state nre to be elenred of underbrush and trees. Section hands on the roads op- crating through the timber tracts will be appointed by Mr. Pinchot ns fire wardens. Ry these measures locomo tives will cease to be a menace to our rich forests in the dry seasons. The fact that fires resulting from flying sparks have In the past been accidental did not modify their destructive course. Laws against deforestation nre not enough. Chnnce plajs a prodigious role In swift reduction of our urboreal wealth. Moreover", it is not wealth alone which Is diminished. Tree growth makes for equability of climate. The worst ex tremes of hot and cold on earth nre probably to be foun1 on the deforested plateaus of Turkestan. Pennsylvnnlans are fortunate in en joying the services of Mr. Pinchdt at a time when the tree shortage the world over is becoming ucute, and his recom mendations as they are made deserve the heartiest support. Mrs. Halideh Edlbe Khanem Ef fendl says Mr. Wilson's points have been burdened und used to cut the choice portions from Turkey. It is now up to our own Mrs. Wilson to say how they shall be cooked. Professing to see un epidemic of burglary sweeping the country, New York underwriters have increused theft insurance rates. In this way the victim gets his both coming and going. Hadn't Mr. Palmer better resume his littlo weekly talks about prices com ing down? They are much less shocking anil nerve-racking than (his bomb-nml-inurde'r stuffy In the meantime, nobody will pre tend that the strike of carpenters will make houses easier to find or briiTg about a reduction In rent. , Having admitted that April show ers we are now ready to make the further admission that May flowers. Every profiteer fy lawjunto.hlra. it .....i if in' taw without penalties. Bli-i.-r"'i , w -- "i - - i m s-i " is - . . . , i HS-..s'i. iji'k v'.i. . ? LEDfcl THE GOWNSMAN Jones and Smith and Robertson "W1T11 deplorable forgctfulness," it , '.'l? Gownsman "has allowed the Jubilee birthday of" Jones nnd Smith and Robertson '"to pnss with "I1. "to'r,;nrInt0 jubllat!6n and ac claim. Ry one of, those unnccountable congrultles which occur in the nnnnls of genius, this trlpllcity of celebrities was born all on the same day In April nnd their yersicular genius expanding, hurst, It will be remembered by all free lovers of free verses, on .an astonished world simultaneously with the burst of the Germans Into Belgium. It may well be doubted which was the more momentous event, this cataclysm of modern warfare or the publication of "The Secoutl Cousin of the Dey" by this trlunlty of geniuses, a book of vers irregttlalre more directly Inspired from common experience and more austere, in stvle than anything in earlier American tradition." The Gownsman rather re members reading "The Dey" and it Im mediately became night to him. In those times the young Jeremiah Shot well and who docs not now know the notable author of "The Sleuth of Slltherton?" carried clippings of Jones Jind Smith nnd Robertson in both of lils bulging vest pockets, reading them aloud on street corners nnd nsking for the book at small town libraries to nd vertise it, while .Tones and Smith and Robertson Industriously did the same for "The Sleuth." QUMME LEVELLER thinks Messrs. kJ Jones nnd Smith nnd Robertson "the greatest triplet of living American poets.' Lincoln Abrahams calls" them "mnster etchers of human portraits." Lemuel Whallopcr dilates ou "their curiously penetrating insight Into the labyrinths of the human mind nnd their scrupulous nrtistlc Integrity." Murray I.indley dubs them "restless seekers nnd finders of human beings, novelists dis tilled into poets, high gossips nmong the more humorous angels nnd men," which we take it is doubtless something very fine, could we fathom Its meaning, George Stettcring, remembering his Keats, discovers in Jones and Smith nnd Robertson "the only poets whose ' tru,,,. i,s ",,wnyR . bc.?",t,y ,,?,n,rt ! b,1,y ,s n,war? tr"th; ).V1,.l,c whose vener able Hon Mnrkins finds that ns psy chologists, Jones nnd Smith nnd Robert son "approach thepower of Hrowiring, ct in style they nre as simple ns Whittler.'' and the author of "Fork Inlet Madrigals" declares that as crafts men, Messrs. Jones and Smith and Robertson are masters like himself, "as thinkers, subtle and original ; ns artists, they have kept faith." IT IS a gn II. C. of T IS a great thing in this day of the and well may Jones and Smith and Robertson be "the proudest figures In American' letters" or the proudest letters In Amcricnn figures both phrases sound equally fine. It appears. tunc .Messrs J. nnu a. nnu .-r-ior,uie firm name Is awful long to write out each time nrc "somcvhat shy nnd aloof, haughtily austere In thought nnd manner of life, imaginatively observant, Impassioned like tempered steel." It nlso "appears" that they "stand today, as Iu their obscurer yesterdajs, ade quate, uncompromising this is the greatest of contemporary poetic virtues three big men in one thorough and keen-visioned artist." IT IS n wonderful thing to be n poet; still more wonderful to be a trlpllcity of poets rolled into one superlative whoje. nnd to elicit the encomiums of every other poet who writes for the same magazines. It is a marvelous thing to be a poet all bespangled with praise, to overtop your Kelleys nnd your Sheets, vour Wordsridges and Colcworths, your Huntleighs and Slambs. We manage things better than they did of old. Byron nwoke one morning to find himself famous. Jones and Smith and Robert sou were famous before they awoke. Thev are "producing poetry of im portance iu the most sterile period of Amcricnn poetry." Does the render realize how sterile poetry would be but for J nnd S. and R.? They overtop the Victorians of course that is easy. According to Mnmmle Toewell : "They are poets for poets. Their art becomes only the more interesting the more It is studied. Contemptuous of shams" the contemporary poet Is always "con tenip.tuous of shams" "no one bus voiced the contradictory elements of America'n life better than J. nnd S. nnd Robertson." THE Gownsman hns never rend n word of J. or S. or R., wherefore he is the more unbiased judge of the criti cism which they inspire, howsoever he mnv therefore fall to distinguish the subtle Keatsenn flavor of Jones from the Robertsoniiin Arnoldry or the surpnss ing Spcnserinnism of Smith. "Just be fore -the publicntion of 'The Second Cousin of the Dey " or was it Knight? "there was a hush which preludes the coming of a great event." There is ul wnys such n "hush" before a book of Jones or" Smith or Robertsou drops seething from the press. Rubbish was not ns vet in the air. for as jet nothing had exploded. But "The Dey" or the Knight wns soon to come. And when it did come, in the name of the nine worthies not the nine Muses, who shall not be so invoked what under heaven did it matter? THERE was once a mnn who dwelt wholly nmong superlatives. His likes were idolatries, his dislikes lonth Ings, nnd he knew not the post. He was possessed of u fuirly large fortune of adjectives which lie lavished on his friends or snunndered in the abuse of ids foes, who were mostly writers of rather free lamtucs line nimscii. uue day the great god of song, Apollo, ap peared before this man, and he had be come such u beggar that owned not nn adjective nor even nn appropriate parti ciple with which to greet him. With our praises nil bestowed upon Jones und Smith nnd Robertson, whnt shall we do when the authentic gods appear? I'oetrv has fallen on evil days when it is exploited ami advertised with a slognu like n new breakfast" food. Poetry is in nn evil nllnht If we must create for it by judicious puffery an artificial demand and in doing so put at naught all the proportions of verity. For whatever the freedom of Its Terse and its critics' freedom with tho truth, such "poetry save the murk is fettered to the wheels of trude und, unsupported, by the wind of approbation nnd untrtim peted by the slogans of cheap advertis ing, must sink into its deserved oblivion. Let us not be beguiled into even a mo mentary displacement of our poetic household gods by any of these plaudits of Messrs. Jones or Smith or Robertsou. General Pershing kissed a score of pretty girls In the courso of his inspec tion of the Panama canal. .Two or three might be considered a luxurj , but a score! Has the general forgotten Hobson? ' We note that tho union rate for ministers is considerably below that for carpenters, bricklayers and plumbers ; from which we deduce that there is no shortage of mansions In the sky. Judging by his proposal to increase the fare zones on thu Old York road trolley lines, Mr, Mlttcu Is still an ad vocate of the ftvo-cent fare and many of 'em. I Wbat-b Jme novels Attor- y Genr pe aDte to write wkwh tri - ., , - r v t. ' Wh''' "' V ' "WHENEVER IT GETS TOO HOT HOW DOES IT , STRIKE YOU? By KELLAMY VICE PRESIDENT MARSHALL tells a story about his first appear ance in nn importnnt ense ns lawyer. He was associated with a successful law firm in Indiana. The hend of the firm beenmc 111 when an important case was about to come up for trial, uud young Marshall was sent to represent him. He introduced himself to the client. The latter looked overlhc young and unimpressive attorney and said : "Oh, well. I didn't think I had much chance to win this case anway!" q q q THE V. P. always feels about him self "Oh. well, 1 didn't hnve much chance to win this case anyway!" That lsthc reason why he talks the way he sometimes does when he has. to make a public address. That is the reason why he talked to the Intcrchurch Movement In Wash ington the way he did on Sunday. Every one knows the little man who tries to make up for his lack of inches by a strut, a loud voice, excessive em phasis, sensational utterances or man ner. , . It is a case of what psycho-nnalysts would call the Inferiority complex and its effects, the inferiority being, in this instance, of stature. . In private the Vice President is sen sible nnd shrewd: In public he is often sensationnl and flamboyant. On Sunday he was saying the kind of thing that has robbed him of the repu tation of rural common sense that ought to be bis. q q J HOW much murder is due to the exnmnle of "Elders' working little children to death!'? How much or me ibck oi inum-nce oi the Church upon the purity of the na tion is due to the "priest's leering above his book at his ne ghbor's w fc t How much working of little children to death is there? Some rapacity in respect to child labor, no doubt. ... , ., Rut tried by the standards of the purity of priests and the exploitation of child labor by deacons, the Church is a great success. , Mr. Marshall struck a little nearer the mark-when he spoke of "deacons making large church contributions out of excessive profits wfting jointly from labor and the ultimate consumer." But no disease was ever cured by tho scornful advice, "Physician, heal thy- But the Church, founded on Idealism, Is always fair game for sensationalists. Mr Marshall's speech was only "add Ing a cubit to his stature by taking thought," or, rather, by words. Mr. Marshall has done it all his life. If he hadn't the country would look with more equanimity on his possible ac cession to the presidency. ONLY CIRCUS COMING Circus Beginning MAY 10 WEEK MONDAY, mrtl ,u At 19th and Hunting Park Ave. RINGLING AND BARNUM BROS. & BAILEY COMBINED CIRCUS THE AMUSEMENT SURPRISE OF THL CENTURY ENTIRE CONGRESS OF NEW FEATURES COUNTLESS Clreat AHENIG DISPLAYS and FOREIGN Importations Centralized In one mammoth CIRCUS COLOSSAL Wonder Show of the Universe The Most Gigantic MENAGERIE Ever Assembled Hird of (liraffes Largest Collection in Existence Wrwlaat lfTo'Clock A. M l'rfllne I'lrst rorfonnance Doorn Ojwn t 1 & 7 " M. Performance ISfgln at S and 8 P. M. nn. Ticket Admit! to All Children Under 12 Yer -. t Keducad Prices SJnU lV' J,;VW,OriSN'ATaiMBMrj'.BROSv - lLfe: y .. .4. iv i axutu OF ,TICKET8 Some Things That Reconcile the Country to Mr. Mar shall's Obscurity rnilE trouble with the soldiers' bonus Is that the country can't afford it. It can't lay its hands on $2",000,fl0. 000 without making every evil from which it now suffers much worse.. If it borrows it damages gravely not only its own credit, but the credit mar ket for business. , If it taxes it sends up once more the high cost of living. It can't give $2,000,000,000 to the soldiers, much ns it would like to, with out taking the $2,000,000,000 from some one else, and everybody barf had so much taken from him in borrowings that have declined in value, In heavy ttfxes direct and indirect, and through that kind of confiscation which conies from inflation, that no source of $2, 000.000.000 can be found. That is what Congress is discovering. q q q IF THE money must be raised it should be raised openly nnd directly by u sales tax. The more disguised the tax is the more it wilj cost the public, the more It will be passed on to the consumer nnd raised in the process , Let the public know just how much It costs to be generous or fair, whatever the adjective should be, to the soldiers. And then nobody will charge the pub lic twice as much as it costs lu ad vanced prices. There is on nrgument for the sales tax. Once it is established it might be continued as a substitute for the extess profits' tax, which has been used by thb profiteer as a means of extorting more profits. But the public would like to be as sured that tho profiteer would forgo his excessive profits lu consideration of be ing relieved from the excess profits tax.' Now that he has got price's up, he might go on keeping them up even when lelicvcd of the tax on his surplus gains. Members of Camden Council hnviug arranged for an appropriation for a New Yenr's Day parade, may now take steps to induce the people to do their Christmas shopping early. California's voto seems to have demonstrated what many thoughtful men havu aforetime declared, that there is uo essential difference between the "women vote" and tho "men vote." As most newsnaper readers were beginning to surndM, Francisco Villa is becoming peeved at being, left out of the Sonora uprising. I'ver so many school teachers arc wondering why they didn't learn .the carpenter's trade. Mary Pickford IN ."Pollyanna" AT Metropolitan OPlinA IIOUHK COMMENCINO SATURDAY AFT., i',30 SKATS BY MAIL ' Evening at 7 and D, 26c and SOo Afternoons at 2:30, 25c Doxes may be reserved (eomethlnc new) Cend mail order ac companied by remittance to nun i-iiesinui oi. iO SYMPHONY OKCHESTnA eO EITH'S ELJZABETH BRICE In "The Overaeaa Hevue" with WILL MORRISSEY MI2II TIIACKY McliRIDKj MABTISHa & KllAFT; OTHERS. ..nu.-uv.i wnwuMUti UAUI "ICTUINl Bryn Mawr CollegesWo" MAY 7 AND 8 MAY DAY Revels and Plnyo 'ricaeia ai me ui ,jv is Th.fi.,... t Jiira.,1.. rinwrts MCBHONS DAILY H?Pro GOOD-BY!" What Do You Knpw? QUIZ 1. How are tho left and right banks of a river determined? 2. What Is tho origin of'-thls expres sion: "Tell it not In Oath; pub lish it not In tho Btreets of ' Ascalon"? 3. What Is a murrain? 4. Vhat is a regicide? ' 5. Name three generata on the Span ish side In tho Spanish-American war. 6. What is rococo furniture? 7. Who was called 'The Father of the Locomotive"? 8. Where Is the Skyo from which Skye terriers derlvo their name? 9. What Is tho pile of plush? 10. What nation consumes the. most Ice. cream 7 Answers to Yesterday's Quiz 1. Philander C. Knox served as-. at torney general under Jboth McKln ley nnu Roosevelt. 2. The city of El Paso, Texas, lies on the left bank of the Hlo Grande. Immediately opposite to tho Mexican town of Juarez. 3.J"here were two ltlnga of England named Charles. Chnrles I was executed In 1019. Charles II died In 1C85. ' Terrazzo or terrazzo Venezlano Is a kind of cement floorlnc Including fragments of colored Btono, com monly not set In patterns. 6. Three Urltlsh generals prominent In the War of 1812 were Brock, Pukenhatn and Proctor. C. New York city, (New Amsterdam), was surrendered bv tho Dutch to the Engirsh In 16G4. 7. A dynast Is a ruler, a member of a dynasty. , 8. The Derby- was Instituted by the Karl of Derby in 1786 for three-ea,r-old horses, to De raced an nually at lCpsom,ve&r London. 9. In racing circles the word is pro nounced as though It were spelled "Darbv." , 10. Dudgeon Is resentment, feeling of offense. ' PHILADELPHIA'S FOREMOST THEATIUJB mRDFQT NIQIITS AT 8:15 JT-V-il.EJ 1 MATINEES Aff 2:15 I WO WEEKS ONLY WORLD'S GREATEST SHOWl pular Mats. W?d. .& Sat. Beau for the Lnt Week on Sale Today RD HAH NI0HT8 AT 8:15 LJlJt-LJ XIata.Wed. ASat., 2:15 A. L. ERLANGER Is Presenting CHAUNCEY Olcott IN "MACUSHLA" Olcott Sings 4 New Songs' Seata for tho Lnt Week' on Bale Tod,y C ARDlPf NIGHTS AT 8:20 VJ-I1 1 ,r. Mata.Wed. A Bat., 2 :2C THE WONDER SHOW OF" CTP Bring the Kiddies! Do Spirits Return? T"u.8T.0yE8.. Night, 2So to tt.BO Mali., 23o to $1 SEATS for NEXT WEEIC on SALE-TODAY n AND emmetu mcHMimms NINTH ANU ARCH BTttEETS Mats. Mon . Weil & Sat., 315. Evia . SilS THIS WEEK ONLY-TIIK IlEVlVAi. o" OLD-TIME MINBTItELS A Pennsylvania Jubileo and Circus 3-Ring Circus, Free VaurJ Side Shows, Dancing Mav H,iPA,Hchh;N.TrATh1t,NN? co-ed Tank Tournj,, Mjjj M . THE JANE P. C. MILT.HT CONSERVATORY 1028 CHESTNUT ST, Walnut. 121 IWHATB LESSONS DAILY fgfOLlffi 7HF llAIVIE5E-- -. n - :;:tiyt 1 tItmhn Market St. ab. 10th. 11 A. M. to il P m GERALDINE FARRAR .JLn..1?,B.W0MAN AND THE PUPPET" ADDED-NEW llArtOLD LLOYD COMEDY Starting Monday Next "cfcTrsrffiLs PAnAMOUNT-AItTCnAKT PICTUltH tWHY CHANGE YOUR WIFE? NOTABLE CAST HEADED ltY IlIOMAS MEIOHAN ft QLOniA SWAN80N . Daiillnx In Bplender of Production P A L. A C p . lSl MAnKET STTtnET u g TWO WEEKS WL" Starting Monday Next FinST OF MARSHALL NEILAN'S , ,WN PnOpUCTIONfl "THE RIVER'S END" By James Oliver Curwood EXCLUSIVE PHt8T PRESENTATION ARCADIA ..CHESTNUT HELOW I0TH 11 10 A. M.. 12. 2. 014.1, 8:45, 7:4B n'an x 7 WALLACE REID ,,dan,c&? ' lL NEXT WEEK "THB niQHT OF WAT-V' VICTORIA T M"orA'.lM8',i,rp.nih a PAULINE FREDERICK 'P..r "mRTINMmf'" "The SHver Horde" hettek than "the spoilers" r A V I T o W ,A,n.EE"L5"Ei-T to A. M. The Confesskjn':'.t..rin,i:ao p- .. i j. . ji art tmk m.i. """ Walthall R E G-E N T MARKET ST. Del. 1TTH 2:80 7 and 0 p. Vf. Constance Binney ,n 'the " STOLEN KISS" MARKET STREET ,, AT JUNIPEIl 11 A. M. to 11 P. XL CONTINUOUS VATJDEVTT.TR MULDOON & FRANKLYN And THE CRESCENT FIVE JAZZ DAND BROADWAY aVettV.? NAT NAZARRO & CO. Katherine MacDonald DBAMJATnfKET PRD KTFYS BOTH A MARKET "A Night in a Police Station" I'lULADELPHIA'S LEADING THEATUE3 Direction LEE A J. J. BHUDEHT CHESTNUT ST.oggJ E3 MAT. SATVTS $1-50 ni.fVKR MOtmiro Preienta CHARLOTTE GREENWOOD In thi new musical comedy "Linger Longer Letty" SAM 8. CTJT IDCRT l- 8i1B Broad bel SHUDK 1 J Mat Sat OAY LAST WEEK LAST 4 TIMES OAY MUSICAL SHOW 64 THE CHORUS IS A WONDER DEO. MON.. SEATS NOW SELLING FIRfT TIME IN PHILADELPHIA OF A . .. BROADWAY MIDNIOHT SHOW In Its Diamond-Like Uncut Entirety and Deauty JOHN HENRY MEARS Announces 5 W ma 8 Yeara on the Century Theatre Roof, N. Y. uy Arrangement With "Morrla Cut BESSIE McCOY DAVIS Frank Fay Winona Winter Felix Adler J",y90u!?.Kilr0 th dancer Annette Hade White Way Trio Daley DeWItt May Hen neeey Katheryn Hatfield Betttna Allen. Prices, Nights (except Hat.), I2.BO to BOo v, . un, WI.U. UE.BT BBjlTB Jl.OU SATURDAY MATINEE 12.00 to 800 ll-l.ua WAR TAX) AW J81-,??? T Evenings at 8:2 DELPHI $1.00 Mat. Today 20 LAST 3 NIGHTS FINAL MATINEE SATURDAY HAZEL DAN JOHN ARTHUR ENID MARKET AND OTHERS BEO. MON, SEATS NOW SELLING GRACE GEORGE in "The Ruined Lady" An Adventure by Frances Norditrom With the nnu aplendld oast that appeared with Miss aeorge at the Playhouse. N. LYRIC AEvas. MAT. SAT. 2A A MUSICAL MASTERPIECE THE AGIC "Entertaining la no name for II at all. If a a riot I A knockout' N. AMERICAN. ELODY CHARLES PURCELL JULIA DEAN. TOM McNAUailTON. n BERTEE BEAUMONTDyA EMMA HAIO The Operetta you will see Again and agiini ua rouaia will iiauni youi A DANCING LESSONS C H A Teacher for Each PupH tp. CORTISSOZ Jgt SCHOOL U20 Chestnut WC0 Locust 8W Walnut At.. Bin. Mat. tow lasino BEHMAl SHOW TS j Kens. Ae. Ar Cumberland reoDles girls de looks OPHEUM AVJ mam nifHiinfln r-TJViJi.Tort. V owl SS&rn&lVlIZi nr.f trmssusa nnrrv nn wir uuj w.jw" M . .in.ws,.. ' v.M-.!jv. .s A.7SU jaraMM-iAdaMM i.ij!.u.Hi.n.wr - - j,LA'i...i4JJ!JOki. l. 'T. " . 1. 0--,Mt '.... v-' jM
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