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FOUR-YEAR PROGRAM FOR
PHILADELPHIA
TMiim on nlileh the people expert
the new administration to cunceu
It rate Its attention)
hn nr.late.arr river bridge.
U. drydock bis enough to accommo-
I date the largest ships.
JDeuelopmetit of the rapid trans.lt sys.
I tern.
U ronpeiidoii hall.
it 6ufWlni7 for the Free Library.
lAn Art Museum.
Enlargement 0 the water supply.
Homes to accommodate the iiopu(a
I tfon.
; SOMEBODY'S HAPPY!
0X .ir.NK 1 the sum of S-J.-.0.IKM1. np
limiiriutfil l).x tin- stuto LrBNIntuii'
for prcliminni'.v work mi the Ddnunrp
bridsc projevt. will revert to (lie stnte
treasury unless tlie t'ity Council in
Philadelphia ets n.ide n similiir fund
fqr the bame purpose.
Thus tlie uhole plan may be uli
jeVte.il to indefinite delay mid rewound
in- the red tape from wliicli it was
drnKRcd after years of effort.
It begins, to seem that tlie dividends
of the Delaware river fern corpora
tions will be safe for a Rood Ions while!
, THE MYSTERY-MAKERS
D1ME-NOVKK detectives are a con
tinuing; and unconquerable species.
They seem to predominate in eer
American police organization.
'The mystery of still another child
advertised to the world ns kidnapped,
murdered, utarvinR in a locked freight
car, -held for rausom and hidden lij
criminals was solved when Kenneth
Howman's body was found in a swamp
in' South Philadelphia.
This very little boy was lunelj. like
other very little boj:. and lie wandered
.ajllttle too far from Ills home and
Vprpbably lost his way. So lie was
drowned at a spot where help might
have reached him or where his body
might have been recovered long befoie
this if police with a habit of ignoring
the obvious had not permitted the com
munity to believe in a new "m.vterj"
and start 11 hunt in places like Chicago
and PitUburgh.
WHILE DOVER TALKS
MRS. CAKItlK CHAPMAN" CATT.
who is now on her way to the
great international council of women at
Geneva, may actually preside mrr that
august assemblage. She will he the
chjef representative of the women's
movement in America and she j
peak for one great democratic countrj
whose political leaders have not whole
hrartrdl. picepted the votes principle.
Jn England. France, Italy and even
In ItUbs.ir. there are few statesmen woilh
their sa'it who believe, like Mr. Penrose.
that death and eipial ufTrnge are about
equally ternble. Mr., ('alt's role ai
Oeneva will he dilhcult hut interesting
It was in tlie I'niti'd Stales that the
votes movement lerciicd its flrsi ron
impetus. Ami ii is here that it has
received the least general encouragement
In recent years
A PREFERENTIAL FARCE
IN MANY other states the preferen
tial primal v vote for presidential
candidates ho- delinnelv nnrroreii new
trends of general sonimieiil fur the
guidance of part.v bailers who know
that n politician must mmadais he
more sensitive to popular will than he
used lo he. Thanks to the school Pf
polities in which Mr Pemoie i u
master, the prunarv eleciiou in till
state iserved no such purpose
Our election laws are not essentially
different frmii the lawi of other .tntes.
But the organi.ation in Pciinsvlvatna
continues to give is support oulv to
delegates who insist on being fin. to
net with the lenders at the nutinniil
convention. Interest in the personali
ties of various candidates nnd in the
issues the.v represent is therefmo not
epeou raged ai the polls in this jinte.
Voters have gmw 11 ai iistiinn d to
drift with tin igani..nioiis l!cause
of this habit of iniiid. I'liihiilelphia
V made itelf nlmoi rnliculoiis In gmng
rl,00(l vote, to rivvnrd II Wood ,1
citizen who linds plensuie m geiung
his name on primarv hallols n . a 1:111
dldate for the piesuleni.v
Hoorer. (icnenil Wood ,-iud no got
fewer than '.'(Mill vole, each .lohniou
got !!")! Ahoin r,L'.(MMI voter., didn't
.tnkfl the tiuulile to look tivne al the
mime of the presidential aspirant fur
whom thev voted The few thousand
votes cast for the real landidales s-w'
how plentiful the really crilnal nnd
discerning voters are.
j THE HIGH CO!
COST OF STRIKES
I'l! list of the losses
-cTl ,1
ue to strikes 111 1!H! nlui es the
llguro at the astounding total of $1',IH)0. -000.000.
Of this gigantic sum. labor
lost .?"-.., 000.000 and industrv more
than JJ.'-'oO.lHHI.OOO
V lire (! ai customed to speaking
in lennH hi millions in ttese hectic dajs
Hint it Is alino'l linpossihle to mention
a sum which is any Inifgcr impressive.
Hovveer, this loss is so herioiiH nnd
the consciiuenees to every one so vital
in the necessarily raised costs of every
luliig manufactured (hat more than
i
pacing attention should lo given to
these amazing figures. Two billions n
year more in manufactured goods and
In wages paid would go far to solve
Home of the problems with which we
and the rest of the world nic ilow
struggling.
The remedy for this deplorable sit
uation is common sense, which in the
end is the foundation of democracy nud
of wise government. A 'loader and
more tolerant view should be taken both
by labor and by capital of the extraor
dinary times and conditions through
which we nre passing. When labor
once realizes that the cost of strikes Is
greater than the men themselves can
afford, even in these da.vs of unprece
dented wages, and that they themselves
pay directly In the los of wages nnd
indirectly in the high cost of everything
for such strikes, we shall once more get
upon our economic feet.
Capital, too, must make concessions
in being willing to accept the smallest
reasonable margin of prolit after the
nut of maiiufnctiire. When both par
ties to this age-old conflict get together
and net in a sensible manner many
present troubles will he solved.
THE PLOW IS STILL
MOVING IN THE FURROW
Political Reform Is Clearing the Way
for the Mayor to Carry Out a
Constructive Program
THE voters who put their hauil.to the
plow in the mn.voralty primaries
last year have not looked back. They
are lengthening the furrow wliieh they
began.
The results of the primary on Tues
day prove that thev intend to keep :it
the job until it is finished.
The Cotitrni tor Organi.ation has met
a second defeat. A third defeat will
leave it so weak that there will be
nothing left of it.
The most significant levult is the
nomination of Charles Dflany ns the
successor of Mr. Moore ns Represen
tative in Congress from the Third dis
trict. If common gossip of last jear is lo be
credited, it was the purpose of the
Contractor Organization to deny n re
nomination to Mr. Moore nnd to rcw-ard
one of its supporters. All the plans
were made to retire Mr. Moore to pri
vate life.
P.ut tlie plans miscarried. Mr. Moore
became 11 candidate for the mn.voralty
nomination against the Contractor Or
ganization Instead of making 11 local
tight on his political opponents. lie
waged a battle in the whole city. He
began the tight nine mouths before his
enemies were planning to attack him.
He hit first and lie hit hard, nnd he
won.
lie gave the Nelson touch to political
strategy in this town.
He lias followed up tlie advantage
which lie gained last jear by pushing
the fight in tlie Third district for tlie
nomination of a innn opposed to tlie
1 :
Contractor Organization, mid that man
is nominated.
So the plot to prevent the 'return of
Mr. Moore to Congress hns resulted in
tlie election of Mr. Moore to the may
oralty and tlie nomination of Charles
iJelauy. 11 Moore supporter, to the seat
in Congiess which Mr. Moore vncated.
If nothing else had been accomplished
this emergence of 11 new and aggressive
force in local politics would he sufii
ricnt justification for all tlie effort put
foilh bv the people discontented with
the old regime.
Rut the Contractor Organization lias
lost its stranglehold on the Republican
citj committee. Whether it has a inn
joritj of one or two in the committee
or whether tlie supporterc of the Major
have a majority (here it will be no
longer possible lo silence the opposition
to the Vnre organization in part.v coun
cils. The regularly elected members of
the committee must he allowed to tnke
their seals and to stand i.p for their
rights. The committee will hereafter
represent the voters of the party rnther
than a small group of houses.
The. general result ought to untie
the hands of the Major and permit him
to go ahead with his lonstructive pio
gram. lie has had to play politics ever since
lie enteied the City Hall, for Ihe light
begun in the September primaries had
to he continued until tlie Muy pri
mal ic. 111 order that the first victor)
might he solidified fc.v a second.
Tlie second victory lia bee 1 won.
It is now possible for tli" .Major 10
give his whole attention o tlie busi
ness of being Major, wi itnit the spe.
cilic political distinctions of tlie la-t
four months and a half.
There will be political distractions
for lie hns to deal with a Cilv ( '( (-j
which is almost evenly divided between
bis friends and his enemies. And sumo
of the coiiiicilmeii counted on as Ins
friends nie imt in n position to give him
the support which he should have, and
others, with Ihe best of motive., aie
failing to work in perfect haimony
with li i in . 1 1 will icipiiio great po
litical skill to keep the working ma
joriiv in the Council in condition to
work.
!ul the viitory'of Tiw.dav should
make the task of the Mnvor in keeping
the Council in line for his ideals casiei
than it has been.
Sulticienl attention, lion ever, has
been given to the sharpening of the
tools with which Major Moore must
Work. He must now begin to use them,
and the success of his administration
will depend on what he does with them.
lie is committed to the eight items
in the constructive piogram which have
been appearing for mouths at the head
of the hrst column of this page. Thus
far III lie progress, has been made toward
this piogram's leali.alion
The Delawnio liver bridge project is
hanging tin. The citj wishes the
hi nlge to be built. The state lias iu
dor.i'd the project, and New .fersey is
planning lo co-operate with Pennsyl
vania in cair.ving it out. Certain in
teiests which think they will be in
lunoiislj affected by 11 bridge are sus
pected of opposing it. Mr. Mnoie,
however, is tlie Major of the people of
Philadelphia, and he is expected to
bring tlie power of his office lo hear
upon tlie Council in order that tlie work
may lie pushed with all possible speed.
He is struggling with the rapid
transit problem, hut he has not found
a solution Every one knows some of
the obstacles which prevent progress,
but no one hns yet dared to say in the
open that they must be removed by the
adoption of the only feasible device.
If lie will T.ice the issue courageously
and soy aloud what many pennns are
saving in private, he will bring down
upon himself the bitter abuse of a small
group of men, hut he will earn the
gratitude of the hundreds of thousands
of citizens who are forced to rido in
the overcrowded tars of the Rapid
Transit Company, overcrowded because
.EVENING PUBLIC
the company has to spend the money
that ought to bo used for buylyg new
cars in order to pay dividends on money
that was never invested.
The convention hall, the frre library
and the art museum projects nre lagging
for hick of driving forci somewhere. It
is up to tlie Major as the head of the
city to discover where the trouble 1
and tivicmove it.
Comprehensive plans for the enlarge
ment of the water supply ought to be
made, and their execution ought to
begin while Mr. Moor is in office If
the city Is to escape n water famine In
Ihe future. And along with plans for
a new supply, a consistent policy of
checking waste must be adopted if the
visible wnter supply Is lo be made to
last iinlll new sources can be tapped
mid brought lo the city.
The liighwnj department enn do
much toward relieving the housing
shortage bj mi intelligent co-operation
with builders who wish to erect dwell
ings in new streets. And the moral
support of the city 'behind .any finan
cially solvent group of men who seek
to provide one or more drjdocks for the
accommodation of shipping will hasten
the equipment of this port with the
needed facilities.
What we need now is the concentra
tion of the attention of every depart
ment of the city government on this
constructive program, 'ilie factious in
the Citj Council will gain nothing by
lighting over these matters. If they nre
wise they will combine in order to do
the work that needs to bo done, and
forget, while they nre dealing with the
bridge quest ion or the wipid transit
question or with any of the other ques
tions, that they ever were factioimllsts.
As they nil believe themselves to be good
citizens of Philadelphia, is it too much
to e.vpecl this of tbein'.'
THE PRESBYTERIANS
PHILADELPHIA gladly welcomes
the 1000 commissioners of the Pres
byterian Church in the United States of
America who arc representing their re
spective presbyteries in the 132d gen
eral assembly now being held in this
city. No fewer than 0S00 churches
have seut representatives to this great
convocation.
A large number of important ques
tions will be tnken up at this meeting,
among them being organic union, fed
eral union, the new era movement, the
relation of women to tho church and
the relation of the church to. induslrj.
This last is one of the most impor
tant. The Presbjterians, fully us much
as any other denomination, have been
responsible for tlie general broadening
not onlv of the views but nlso of the
responsibilities of tlie church in its re
lation to the affairs of daily life. The
church (speaking in the broadest
sense) has become a seven dajs in the
week factor in American life, and the
old idea that the doctrines of tlie
church should be more severely applied
on the Sabbath than on the other six
dajs of tlie week has gone, 'forever,
thanks to the energies of the Presby
terians nnd other progressive denomi
nations. It is likely that there will be some
spirited debates over certain matters;
of church policy, but the wise common
sense that has heretofore guided the
destinies of the Presbj terian Church
so successfully may be relied upon to
provide the right solution.
The welfare of the country depends
ns much upon the church and its pull
eies ns upon any other single element
in our national life. If the precepts
which form the foundation of the great
denominations like the Presbj terin 11
could be rigidly enforced in our business
and social life, the millennium would
be appreciably nearer. Therefore, the
responsibilities resting upon the gen
eral assembly arc great and the oppor
tunities are equallj so. The members
may be building much further into the
future than is now apparent even to
themselves.
DECLINING BONDS
WHAT the slock market calls "a
great unloading" of Victorv and
l.ihertj Bonds in legions' where strikes .
nnd labor disturbances hove been long
lontinued helped toward the movement
which sent these securities down to new
low levels in yestcrdaj 's general trad
ing. That circumstance is interesting
111 more ways than one. Js It because
wage-earners had comfortable "stakes"
that they were willing to carry on pro
longed strikes? If all strikers are as
radical as Mr. Palmer believe-, how
iloes it happen that the.v chipped in so
generally to the various war loans?
The aspect of the bond market is not
cheering. A nation's credit is its great
est asset. So far us anj one can see
now. long J ears of peace are nhcad of
the ('tilted States. Rut ii is possible
lo imagine an emergency in which the
government would hove fietli need to
boirow heavily and in a liurrj. With
all the issues of war bonds below par
new popular loans would be anj thing
but easy to negotiate. Yet the securi
ties that are being old at ii discount
are ns good as gold, better, because
they return sure ami liberal interest.
The difficulty of obtaining money at
reasonable lates is forcing big firms to
dispose of their holdings. Thus nil
bondholders are in the same boat. Rut
those who. bv ingenuilv or self-denial,
can stay it out tor a enr or two and
keep their securities will reap rich
profits.
A NEW SMOKE NUISANCE
AfTOMOnil.ES, little and big. fast
ami slow, multiply at an astonish
ing rale dr.pitc Ihe heavenward trend
of gasoline pines They (ill the streets,
(iasolinc isn't what il used to be.
Much of it. liein of n base quality,
tinns irndlly to smoke. And we nre
hemming a lommiiuity of smoke-eaters
because of the negligence of motor
drivers who nre willing to waste good
fuel and poison the air rather than
take five minutes off to ndjust the
mechanism under the hood.
Somewhere on (lie books there is
an ordinance which empowers the
police to nrrest and tine any one who
opprntcs n smoking motor vehicle in
the streets. Yet 0 largo number of
drivers daily trail clouds of ixilsonoiis
gases behind them in the main thor
oughfares. The smoke law ought to he
enforced. Tlie gas from an imper
fectly adjusted motor is not only offen
sive. It is poisonous.
Sir Auckland Oeddcs came very
near providing a big newspaper Item
while in this city. Somebodv asked
him who was going to be th next Pres
ident, and he sold he didn't know. If
he made 11 guess he might have got his
walking papers as Sockvllle-West did
once upon a time. It will be remem
bered that a small boy nearly got a
horse the name way. He asked a man
if, be could have it, and the man said so.
LEDGERfilLABEMProl, ffTfltJESUA., uVLkY 2P' '
1 THE GOWNSMAN J
The Little Collegian and the Idea of
a University
THE little collegian, to designate him
without mnllco but with discrimina
tion, Is n map of sentiment, nnd devot
edly attached to the past. He cherishes
it fine loyalty for whatever he can Iden
tify as peculiarly his own nnd cares
not to share it with others, especially
others who are not exnetly like him
self. His cult is for the lnres and
penates which, unlnstructcd reader,
were heathen household gods nnd, like
all such gods, the little colleglnn's gods
are of his own making. He feels more
or less uncomfortable in the present all
unndaptable people do; and he Is mis
trustful of the future, for heaven only
knows what it may have in store and
heaven very unjustly refuses to take
the little collegian Into any very especial
confidence. Wherefore he looks hnck
Into the past and beatifies It with
glorious and hallowed recollections
wherein he figures ever ns the hero of
11 golden time when, as one of a select
and favored little band, he held up his
llllle candle of boyish scholarship with
the rest of his kind, Illuminating a world
otherwise totally given over to eclipse.
THE little collegian has forgotten the
narrowness of his own education or
rather he has not been nble to escape
the spirit which it engendered. He
does not know that the world has pro
gressed leagues beyond the gentilities
nnd belles lcttretristics nnd unhtimnni
ties thnt constituted at least in part the
limited curriculum of his time. He
does not know' thnt the little old col
lege which the (townsman, too, reveres
for the much thnt was good In it
with its little associate proprietary
medical school which turned out good
men in spite of conditions not because
of thein-has grown Into a huge un!
versity of world celebrity, nttracting
students from distances to widely the
imagination of the little collegian does
not wander unless it be in reprobation
of their situation in the AYest. The
little collegian still thinks it appropriate
to compare ' Pennsylvania to certain
small or less small denominational in
stitutions of unexceptional social stand
ing with which ho poignantly regrets
that he once had to break off athletic
relations. He still measures scholastic
achievements by the measure of the
gridiron nnd the college spirit by the
cheering on the bnscbail lieiit.
F
ROM another point of view, the little
collegian does not know Hint ns to
fittpiidniicc nt Pennsylvania now. joll
would have lo add the student body of
both Yale and Harvard before the war
and throw in Princeton if you wanted
to exceed that number. He does not
know thnt there are more women at
tending Pennsylvania than there nie
women in Vassar. a larger number of
nits men than there are at Princeton,
and n graduate school two and a half
times ns large as that of Yale. Again the
little collegian, remembering the little
Infol college which he nttended, doc
not know thnt there nre students in
Pennsylvnnia from every state in the
t'nion. there nre thirtj -eight from
European countries, twentv-four from
South America, twenty from Chinn.
nineteen from Japan, nearly ns many
fiom Porto Rico nnd Central America,
sivteen from Canada, others from Mexi
co, Shun. Cuba, tlie Philippines. Aus.
tr.ilin. New Zcnlnnd nnd the Uritish
West Indies.
DOES the little collegian know that
the scholarship of this big and use
ful university needs no apologists, lenst
of all from nny one who is lagging
hopelessly among the memories of a vis
ionary past? Does he know anything of
the scholarly activity tof tlie men who
ci nslitute Pennsylvnnin-'s faculties,
their authoritative books, texts, re
searches and investigation!!? Does he
know of the innumerable professorships,
the college presidencies, dennships. edi
torships and the like held all over the
country by Pennsylvania -bred men?
Does he know of the iiillueiiec which
these men exert as officers and mem
bers of the important scientific societies
of this country and nbrond? And does
he know thnt Pennsylvania men in com
petition with men bred elsewhere can
hold their own and more than hold their
own. ns witness the continued triumphs
of oitr students in architecture, and the
extraordinary leadership which thev
display iu medicine and low?
NOW there ore men so constituted
thot they catch mid at least cold
feet If subjected to draft in the current
of n fresh idea. They dwell so in the
imaginings of things ns thev onlv wish
that they might have remained, that the
daylight of reality frightens them. The
idea of a university is 0 big idea, a lib
eral idea, in many of its aspiets a new
ideu nnd therefore a strange and dread
ful idea to such as find in a narrow
conformity to the predilections of class
the bc-nli and end-all of their aspira
tions. Of course the little collegian Is
frightened when he sees this active,
potent institution straining, like n
young ginnt. against reactionary bonds,
alf starved but with the lire of hope and
aspiration in him Of course it fright
ens the little collegian to think that he
is powerless to contiol this gienl poten
tial growth and th-it his little private
purse thrown in lo nourish It would
be gobbled up in a jear. It troubles
him to think of so iiiniij s'udents in
Pennsylvania from outljing regions dis
tnut from Philadelphia, some of them
vcn from Manajunk and the Middle
West, and as there happened u have
been no women in college when he
went theie. the mere thought of the
propinquity of a petticoat tills him with
panic.
COME, dear llllle elder In other, fnee
the music, or better face the fact.
You can no more restrict the inevitable
growtli of this great university of ours
iu its adjustment to the needs of n great
commonwealth than you can wish your
self back into your pinoforc and baby
jumpers. A ours is 11 proper pride when
you shudder at the lint passed around
among the politicians that their dole
.may keep the old university from phy
sical starvation. Rut that will be rem
edied when, as an institution of the
state. Pennsylvania is supported bv join
money, mv little friend, nud mine and
that of ever) citizen. Flnallv, ns to
loyallj, the (iowiismnn will confess that
there aie times when he finds It difficult
to shout for the stale of Pennsylvania,
for the state of Pennsylvania is often n
perilous one. Rut why not try to make
Pennsylvania, stute or unirejty, worth
shouting for? A great university
functioning well at the head of nn edu
cational system abreast with the times
Is at Irast ns tit n subject for loyalty
though perhaps not for sontimentalism
ns the exaggerated and distorted le
meinlirancps of the good old times when
our hearts beat hnppy at an athletic
heck from Princeton or nn aquatic nod
from Ynle.
Only one thing is sure: We'll get
exnetly tlie kind of President we de
serve. Palmer 1ms probably come to the
conclusion that few crumbs of comfort
arc to be had from n (leorgia cracker.
The present freight jam mav even
tually do more for inland waterways
than years of argument.
A misguided patriot may make as
much trouble for his country as any
jajjoi.
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BANKERS NOW TAKING STEPS
TO WARD ENDING INFLA TlON
Indications Here nmVThcre That Era of Reckless Buying Has
llusscd and Business Will Get Back lo Normal
Ry CLINTON"
Staff Correspondent at
Washington. May 20. Washington
is full of conferring bankers and Ped
erol Iteservc Hoard and Treasury offi
cials. Department stores nil over Ihe
country nre cutting prices 120 to SO per
cent. Liberty Honds ore being dumped
on tlie market and their prices me
falling.
What docs it all mean? Hove we
leached the turning point in the high
cost of living? Have the people stopped
bujingV Ilus production caught up nt
lust with consumption?
A banker summed the whole thing up
by snying :
"The whole country has come to its
senses the buying public, the bankers,
the government officials. We were all
more or les carried away by the war
anil the victory. We arc getting bobcr."
A (hurt hanging in tlie Ticasury
Huildiug indicates just how tlie country
was carried away into an orgy of bujing
nnd speculation after the war. It con
t.ii.,e ., linn lllnutt'iitliif- flip crrnwth of
. . .,.., , ,... i
commercial paper liem ny ine uuiikn ;": '.' "" '" " nn-wii, nun mm
which nie members of the Federal lie- ! will inlluence prices,
serve. It started before the wiir at n ' is not thought there is anj tiling
little less than S'10.000,000.000; during J unhealthy m the e.xistiug situation,
the war it ran up a billion or two.! 'here is believed lo lie great bujing
onlv to drop a Tear ago last April to1 power in tlie public nt slightly lower
n 'little moie "1111111 IJlO.OOn.DllO.OOO, prnvs. The experience of the depart
about where it was befoie the war. '"Put storeswhich have made cuts seems
Then n tremendous expansion started, to Prove this,
and when tlie reserve boards and bank- 'ho drop in Liberty Honds is due to
ers begun to check the thing the com- their being thrown on the market by
mercinl paper held by the reporting . people who are now finding it more
banks lind become S14,000.()00.0(IO. dlflicult to obtain credit. Hut the
As onlv -10 per cent of the banks re- ! public, which bus shown grcnt capacity
pmt. this may mean that the total jump
in commercial paper held by banks of
the country may have been SUII.OOO,
000,000. lo Mop nutation ,
Public officials will not admit that
what the bankers of the country and Un
reserve board leading Jhoni are at is
deflation. But it is pretty generallj
agreed thnt nt lenst they ure hunt upon
stopping inflation. They are stopping
hj drnwing the wartime distinction be
tween essentials and nonessentials, the
line the war industries board iisnl to
(liavv.
Had the government enforced that
distinction during the period of iccuii
slruction the great jump iu loans on
commercial paper of perhaps S 1 0,000.
(1110.000 iu n jenr would not have taken
place. Tlie government might have
maintained thnt distinction by keeping
some of its wartime regulations. Or it
might have done it ns the hanks are
going to do it now. by making credits
for the production of essentials cheaper
than credits for the piodiictiuu of
luxuries. .
Hut the government was living in a
fool's paradise. It believed that the
country would recover from the shocks
of Ihe war easily nnd jump to a new
high level of production and prosperity.
It threw cnution to the 'winds. That
part of it which is known as the l'ed
eral Iteservc Hoard was apparent j in
fluenced by the general optimistic psj
cliology. It offered few obstacles to the
expanding of commercial ciedlts bv
proboblj 1510.000,000,0(10 in a jear.
Two factors seem to have brought
about -the present move toward greater
caution. Deflation if it is deflation
that the countrj is up to is stopping
inflation, ul anj rale. The public has
stopped bujing as wildlj and recklessly
as it was buying n short time ago.
Transportation lias hecome demoralized
as a lesult of the strikes and of the
delay in raising the railroad employes'
wages and their consequent seeking
other employment.
Credit Badly .Sliainrd
Iloth these factors caused n suihlen
strain on credit, Owners of goods
which began to lie on shelves and
couldn't be moved because buying slack
ened, nnd owners of goods delnyrd in
tianslt or kept in manufacturers' hands
for lack of train facilities, begnn asking
to have credit extended. The big bubble
of commercial paper loans which hnil
been blown up in the last jear threat
ened to expand with tremendous rapidity
nt a time when the people were not
buying freely nt current prices and
when trnnsportntion difficulties seemed
to lie nhend.
This brought the Issue whether or
not Ihe time to deflate, or nt least to
stop Inflation, had not arrived sharply
up to tho bankers and reserve board
men. It brought them all to their
sense', ns one banker above quoted said.
The public's coming to Its senses,
ellghtly preceded" this. Before the first
kocUonta! cut in crlccs made by a
SOME UPSET
V. OILRKRT
V,'icii(nj Public J.tdacr
Philadelphia department store, tlie fed
eral reserve agents throughout the
country everywhere began to hear that
people, would walk into stores, price
goods and walk out again, generally
with nn "I'll he darned if I'll buy."
Merchants in interior cities began to
call upon newspaper proprietors, op
pressed by the scarcity of white paper,
and beg for whole pages and double
pages of advertising in order' "to move
goods" which had suddenly begun to
show nn obstinate tendency to stay on
shelves.
After-War Hoont Stopped
The after-war psychology hud passed,
at least with respect to certain lines of
merchandise. People were no longer in
n "haiiR the expense" mood nnd no
longer listening to the plea that though
thjngs were high they would go higher.
The after-war boom has stopped.
There is a turn in prices. It may not
go fur. It maj not extend to ull com
modities. The expansion of commercial
nnnnp iu ,rntt. tn l. ..l.l .l n...l !...,
to absorb such bonds, probably has
uiM-ii o t,uwiF,vMM.,uim which were neiu
by banks outright or for loans in the
last year.
I he transportation situation is the
only serious weakness. The tie-up ten
1 produce a double inllatlon, oausli
ds
ng
the extension of loans on one side and
the advance of prices on tlie other.
Some of the candidates got a dou
ble cross after their names.
The Twenty-sixth ward
has found its Trainer.
raccoon
One Interesting question is: Have
the Vines yet discovered they are dead?
The Vines no longer belong to the
"regulars."
Itittenlinuse Squnre will say it with
flowers today.
1 What Do You Know?
QUIZ
1. What two Presidents wore nom
inated exclusively by state Legis
latures'.' : TIovv many sheep will produce enough
wool for a suit ot clothes?
It. Who was the first aUntor to fly
across tho Atlantic, ocean?
1. What Is tho currency of Italv?
li. Who was tho admiral of tho .Spanish
Heet defeated by Dewey nt tho b.it
tie of .MhiiIIh bay on May 1. 1S0SV
I Who was Hosk Luxemburg?
7. What cltv Is the capital of Atoioctu"
S. Ilow many drops mnlto u teaspoon
fill? n. Where in Iowa was Heihert Hoover
bom?
10. Wlint Ih a davit?
Answers to Yesterday's Quiz
1. The fit st extensive turnpike coin-
pletcd In the United .States wns tho
Lancaster pike between Plillndel
phln and Lancaster. The company
constructing It was organised tii
1 U-.
2. The god Atlas, according to (Jreclt
mythology, held up the plllats ot
tho universe.
3. The ancient Ttoman name cf the cltv
of Paris was Lutetln.
I. r.ovcrnor Berkeley, of Virginia, lud
the longest rule of any colonial
governor In our history. Ha ruled
from IBIS to 1677.
5' t""" ,M a half-Angllclzcd Hindu.
Tho name Is somewhat contemptu
ous B. Will Hays Is chnlrmnn of tho ne-
puoiicun national committee.
7. Almanac Is from the Arahlo "al
maniic." meaning "tho dlarj'."
S Maryland Is named nfter Queen Hen
rietta .Maria of England,
9 The Hlngalese are tho Inhabitants of
tho Island pt Ceylon.
10, Bernard'M. Panjch. was th head of
the world war, ?"
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Save the Softools
OH! SAVKTHB SCHOOLS! Where
growing youth
Digests in heartfelt song
The morals, blessed by spotless truth,
And fired with courage strong:
Yea, morals such that coming da.vs
Shall pride eternal in their praise!
OH! SAVE THE SCHOOLS! "Where
budding art,
Deep latent nnd serene,
Knhcnrtrncd, meekly makes its start
Amid its blush unseen ;
Yen, art that patient Time shall mold
In inlcs fnmergrown when days arc old !
OH! SAYE THE SCHOOLS! Where
dancing muse
Is aired with heart's delight.
And wafted where the rainbows choose
To blend into its flight:
And gladsome send its echo then
Back to its grown-up fellow men!
OH!
SAVE THE SCHOOLS
That
found the rock
That smites all selfish greed
Into a fruitless, pulp-weak stock
A'nin looking for its seed.
Which, lost but once in early da.vs,
Shall surely ne'er beseck one's wujs!
OH! SAVE THE SCHOOLS'. Where
memory
Fnin trnccs all its joys
To times when childish drollery,
Attended with its noise.
Gave birth to hearts where laughter
reigucd
L'pou a throne with smiles ingrained!
OH! SAVE THE SCHOOLS! Whose
age-loiig shriue
Beams piquant througl nil lauds;
Whose edifice, nobly diviue.
Illuminates the strands
'Hint gain the thought's embellished flow
1'ioui out the rooms wherein they grow!
OH! SAVE THE SCHOOLS! That
elevate
'I'hc mind, the heart, and soul :
That, with the home mid church nnd
stnto
Make happiness tin goal
Of joiilh and all upon this spheie,
Oil! SAVE THE SCHOOLS! Both
far and near!
.IOSEPI1 CAULTOX PODOLY.V.
The marking of presidential prefer
ences on the ballot may be counted as
an iii.stiu.ee of futilitnriaulsin.
rri,nin ,. ill I, i. ne, cnA t -
in.. , ,, ,,- nu rui I u n in j III me
oyer the fact if Havariit leaves Prussia
iiigu nun dry.
One of Herbert. Hoover's strong
claims 'for genius is that he vvou popu
larity as n food controller.
It's a close finish that makes n good
race iu politics us elsewhere. -
Well, .folm It. .McLean, Jr., had his
fun, nnjhow.
Yesterday proved that the goddesses
of Reform have fu.e figures.
That fox, Trotzky, is now practic
ing Pole jumping.
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