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PHILADELPHIA
Things on irhU-li the people expect
the new Administration to concen
trate It nttentlont
The Delaware river bridge.
A drydock big enough to accommo-
date (he largest ships.
Development of the rapid transit sys-
tern.
A convention hall.
A building for the Free Library.
An Art Museum.
Enlargement of the water supply
Homes to accommodate the popula
tion. THE MAYOR AND VARE
THE crux of Mayor Moore's reply to
the statement of Senator Vnre r
gnrding the recent election lay in the
words :
"Those who wi.h to join the strag
gling army of the contractor -boss may
do so, but they will find no favor with
this administration."
The Mayor has had enough expert -ncc
with the science of practical poli
tics as practiced in Philadelphia to
realize that the only thing which holds
together the adherents of Mr. Vnre Is
the possibility of getting a job or some
other practical or well-paying favor.
To get this the friendship of the ud
xnlntstrntiou is necessary.
Rats are said to desert a sinking ship.
with speed, but they are slow compared
'with the celcrit. with which the fol
lowers of n political bos full away
when they find that he can no longer
control the disbursements of the flesh -'pots.
Therefore when the Mayor made it
clear to tho-.o who are on the fence and
in-n position to jump down into the back
yard of the winner that they must be
all-Moore or nil -Vnre. he cuts the claws
velth which Senator Vnre holds most of
lis followers.
1 MEMORIAL DAY IN FRANCE
WITH that dellenry of sentiment
which is ever n characteristic of the
Trench people, the American Memorial
Day will be generalh observed in France
this year, and the French Oovernment,
through some of the highest army offi
cials, will assist in decorating the graves
of the American Mi'dicrs who "went
west" in maintaining the freedom of the
world. The principal ceremonies will
be at Surcnes Cemetery, where Gen-
eral Petnin will make an nddre-s and
will assist personally In the work of
decorating the graves.
Memorial Day is in many respects the
most typically American of all our legal
holidays. It had its origin in a great
national tract dy. and it l- signiliiant
that Uh observance nbioad this jenr
commemorate the passing of Americans
who, like thoe of almost t-lxty years
ago, were willing to l.-u down their lives
that all men niislu be fiee.
The Idealistic mind of the French
people, in nmtleis of sentiment, nppie.
elates probably more than an other in
Europe the devnt nn of the Americans
to their own pop!o who died for what
they believed to he the right. A commu
nity of sentiment is a strong bond even
between nations, nnd the heroic bronze
figure of the American soldier, to be un
veiled in Siiresncs CemetiTV may take
a place in the relations nf the two coun
V tries equal to thut nf I.ihcm Ijilighteu
V Jng the World. The latter is svinbolic
of an ideal, but the former stunds for a
duty not alone to a friemllr nation, hut
to nil mankind, fiiltilled to the utter
BlObt. ANOTHER BUS DECISION
IF TIIK Public Sei-M, e Cummission
had intended to establish a blanket
rule by the decision which denied t"
promoters in Scrantnn the right to
operate motor busses in direct comne
tltlon with an established street car
system. Philnd" Iphia would have been
left ready fur a three minored uproar
llko that which n ntly involved the
people of Cnnideu, the street tar com
pany and the state utilities commission
Applied broadly and without dis
crimination, the rule mudo in the Scran
ton case would operate to eliminate
Immediate hope of etlb ient motor
transit scrwee in this eit..
Clearly, however, the Public Service
Commission made its decision in ac
cordance with a familiar principle op
posed to destructive competition, wn.ste
effort and duplication. The conditions
Jn Scrunton and in this city are not
alike. No sort of icasoniiig can twist
a rule applicable in one place so that it
will lit conditions in the othei .
It is necessary to recognize the jus
tice of n code which protects invest
ments by which public utilities are es
tablished nud uuiiiitained. If a street
car (tysteui is to function properly in
ny large community it must prmule a
general' service and endure losses be
cause of long hauls in thinly populated
areas. It has a right to the equnliziug
revenues obtulnnble through short hauls
la crowded areas. An effort of com
peting agencies to take the more profit
able business could properly be defined
t destructive competition, which in'the
nd Would breuk down an important
utility and bo inimical to public in
terest, I pince public service commissions are
fMUimalicfi primarily to insure the etu
fimt. piicVuUon pt ,uUUUch- it io jiaturalbIbitioa ? Every one Jaoivs it And
that they should extend a measure at
protection to utilities' corporation!) in
cases like that in Scrnutou, whero there
wan a plan to run busses over limited
routes on streets where trolley service
had been long established. '
In this city tho difficulties of the
transit situation which may be met in
part at least by motor auxiliary lines
arc acute and numerous. The I It. T.
frankly admits its inability to provide
the equipment and extensions necessary
to n satisfactory general street enr
service. There is no Intention to divert
revenues from the transit company to
motor HllOS
There Is a proposition to
provide for overflow tralllc. There Is
n need for bus service not only on Broad
street but on streets like Lancaster
and Woodland avenues nnd the Park
way, where motor vehicles could rellc've
the intolerable rush-hour ronj:stIon on
lines that run to the northwest and
southwest fcrctions.
The Public Service Commission has
ruled that motor lines may not be- es
tablished to parallel existing trolley
lines. Hut if It tried to make the rule
applicable to Philadelphia streets on
which trolley service Is Inadequate or
almost lacking It wtmld have to face
the consequences of tlic most unpopular
ruling in its history.
SOS! SOS! SOS! CALLS
FOR ALL TO AID SCHOOLS
Citizens at Academy Mass-Meeting
Tonight Plan to Get Better Pay
for the Teachers or Know
the Reason Why
T
IIKKK is no disagreement about the
emergency with which the public
schools are confronted.
The Inadequacy of the salaries paid
is forcing teachers into other occupa
tions and it Is preventing joung men
nnd young women from entering the
profession.
Last year 140.000 teachers left the
profession in the whole country.
In this city, where we used to have
1000 students in the training school,
there arc now only 400. There are
scores of classes without teachers. The
children are sent home or they are
turned over to teachers who already
have ns ninny pupils in their charge as
they can properly direct.
The public system of cdurntlon will
break down in this city unless some
thing Is done to attract teachers nnd
to retain in the schools thoe already
there.
The Hoard of Public Education knows
this. The teachers themselves are
aware of it. And now the citizens seem
to have waked up to the situation.
They have called a mass-meeting in
the Academy of Music tonight, at which
there is to be a general discussion of the
situation nnd a consideration of possi
ble remedies.
The call is "Save Our Schools!" A
real SOS!
There seems to be no ,pnslbllity of
Immediate relief save through n loan.
Members of the school board hnve ar
gued agnlnst this plan nnd hnc slid
that if it were adopted it would ham
per the board in other directions. Thpy
seem to be giving more attention to
obstacles in the way of relief than to
finding means for remoing all ob
stacles. Hut we cannot believe thnt the school
bonrd is unwilling to increase the pay
of the teacher. It must know that the
cost of living hn increased to such nn
extent that a salary which could be
made to stretch over a year's expenses
in lilM will not go lnuth more than
half as far in 1020. It must know that
carpenters, whose period of training is
not so long ns that of a teacher, are
getting $10 nnd .12 n day and painters
are getting $1 nnd Sl.LTi an hour, while
high school graduntes ni-c nked to teach
in the schools nt lower pay than is riow
demanded by domestic servants
The effect of this condition j seen
in the refusal of capable outig men and
young women to become ten-hers. and
in the necessitv of accepting teachers
who four or five vcars ngo would have
found it impossible to get employment
in the schools because of their inca
pacity. And the children of the city
in large numbers are getting such
training ns these teachers are able to
give them.
If teachers were potatoes or wheat
ei sugar they would not be in their
present hard straits. When there is a
scarcity of these commodities the price
goes up nnd we pay It because we have
to have sugar and wheat and potatoes.
If we are not willing to pay the higher
price we must go without Hut we
i.cein to be expecting the teachers to
work for the old prices thnt prevailed
when the supply was plentiful and when
the cost of living was much lower than
it is today. Many of the older teachers
are working for the old snlarj because
they have a loe for their work and
-ome sense of public obligation
For a citj as rich as Philadelphia to
accept this kind of a sufritice is dis
graceful. The si hool board has power
to borrow money in nn emergency, but
it is not yet convinced that an enier
gencj exists within the menuing of the
'aw. One nf the reasons for tonight's
Minss-nieeting lies in the belief of many
Itizens that there is such an emer
gence and that it should be met by
nthrmative action b. the school bonrd.
The problem at bottom is one of busi
ness administration If the men ou the
school board were confronted by such
a situation in their private affairs the
would meet it and find a way out that
would save their business from demoral
ization. We cannot believe that they have not
the ability and the power to find n way
out for the school.
The preservation of the quality of
the product of the schools is of gi eater
importance to the citv as a whole than
the preservation of the quality of the
product of any factory here. It In a
platitude that the children pf the present
are the commercial nnd professional
leaders of the future. If we permit
these children tn be poorly trained or
force many of them to go without any
training we are committing n crime
ngainst the future. AVe are breaking
clown our ability to hold our own com
mercially with the rest of the world,
and we are undermining the founda
tions of democracy which rest on an
educated citizenry
While the city may neglect the edu
cation of tho children, the educntion of
the street goes on without intermis
sion. The street is the school of vice
and crime. Its graduates fill the prisons
and the charity hospitals nud the alms
houses. They are those who are used
to corrupt the ballot on election day
and to engage In the kind of thuggery
that disgraced the Fifth ward not so
very long ago.
Hut why point the moral that has
been worn threadbare by constant ex
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EVENIHG PUBLIC lb0i!
no one denies that a living wage should
bo paid to the teachers.
If the city Is to confess that it Is
unable to do anything nnd that Its
school board must sit with folded hnnds
while tho demoralization continues, we
have fallen lower than most of us are
wllllug to admit.
Unless we mistake the disposition of
tho determined citizens who arc back
ing the meeting tonight, Jt is their pur
pose to point out a solution of the
problem and to urge Its adoption1 upon
the school board. Money Is needed and
money must be found. And then It
must be apportioned among the tenchers
In such a way ns to do Justice to nil
now In the employ of the city nnd so ns
to nttract to the teaching staff a larger
number of capable nnd trained men and
women.
THE VETO
THE Knox resolution declaring a state
of peace with Germany was as good
as vetoed before It passed the Senate.
No alternative course was open to tho
President. In the Senate first and
later nt the White House the resolution
merely presented an opportunity for
further belligerent gestures.
The Senate, has not the power to
negotiate a treaty, and without n treaty
of peace signed by the President the
normal relationships between the United
States nnd another notion ennnot be cs
tablishcd or maintained on any under
standable ground. Pence by resolution,
even If Congress were to experiment
with It, could only add to tho general
confusion.
There are clauses in Mr. Wilson's
veto message which no hard-boiled op
ponent of the Treaty of Versailles or
the League covenant can easily answer
nnd thnt ought to have a sobering effect
even on Mr. Knox. One may leave
nside, for the moment, tho question of
our full participation in nil the present
plans of the nations that were opposed
to Germany. The situation as It closely
affects the people of the United States
Is summarized in a ivid paragraph
midway In the President's message.
"Nothing," says Mr. Wilson, "is
said In this resolution about the free
dom of nuvlgation upon the sens, or the
reduction of armaments, or the vindica
tion of the rights of Belgium, or the
rectification of the wrongs done to
France, or the release of the Christinn
populations of the Ottomnn empire from
the intolerable subjugation which they
have had for so many generations to
endure, or the establishment of an inde
pendent Polish state, or the continued
mnintcunnce of any kind of understand -
j lug among the great powers of the
world which would be calculated to pre
' vent in the future such outrages ns
j Germany attempted nnd in part con
summated." I Here nrc stated definitely or clearly
implied the causes which led inevitably
j to a war In which the United States
, had, for its own self-respect and its
own safety, to lake a hand. These
same causes may lend to other wnrs.
land there is nothing to prove that we
shall be any more able to Mand aloof
in the future than we were in the recent
past
Nothing is being said of these things
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I help those who would make further
great wars' impossible. And without
the co-operation of the Tinted State-
no program looKiug to permanent peace
can be worked out in Kurope.
The Senate has been willing to drift.
It bns been willing to take long chances
with the violent forces tiiat are now
getting loose again despite tlici des.
perate effort of the I'ence Conference to
put them safely in lensh for all time.
rmancnt peace
THE UNTHRIFTY
j JAH, far back at the clu-.:y end of the
i procession of presidential candidates.
I I'rof. .Nicholas .Murray Hutler trudges
determinedly o'ong. Professor Hutler
I hn not aehicw'd cten the political di
j tiicnsinns of n favorite son. His isn't
ii boom. It is n boomlct of the most
I frncile ort Vet. as the Senate com
mittee of iniiilr learned yesterdny,
there were optimistic citizens who
netunllv g-uc up .?IO,,".r.O in go..c,
spendable monev to help him convince
himself that h was a candidate with a
right to hope.
The cvnintiy is full of earnest fulk
"ho mnl.e public oddi esses to urge
Vibit; of economy and thrift unoii the
'lain people. Some of these advocates
if conservation should tall; seriousl. to
the bnekers of presidential candidates.
The fund created in Professor Hutler's
interest might hnve been put to good
uses II might have been spent upon
the furt her educntion of Mr. Palmer or
used to forward u movement for the
Americanization of ome of the gentle
men in Congress. The fund might hnve
been set aide to establish a commission
for the relief of Jobless Democrats after
"1'itinn. Any one of n thousand con
- ructive schemes might hare benefited
urongli an ndditioual contribution of
S to.. 'no, which in this instance was
"pent to dignifv n delusion.
We gnther with surprise from ac
counts of the Devon Horse Show thnt
It is not the horseman who persistently
loses who gathers "uncountable blues."
Huverforcl College professor says
clothes are fhenper in Herlin than in
Philadelphia No place so forsaken but
that it hu its compensations.
With so iniitiy candidates willing
to have Hoover ou the ticket for Vice
President, be may develop as the natu
ral compromise enndidate.
Next year's naval budget has been
fixed nt MSO.OOO.ODO n large part of
it the amount we pity for our failure
to sign the covenant. ,
A headline refers to the alleged
Hergdoll burled gold ns a new Kidd
treasure. "Kid" is right, but why the
second "d" In it?
A "showdown" on the soldiers'
bonus Is the last thing the politicians
desire. What they want is u "slow
down." Superstition Is not yet dead. Look
nt tho thousands of campnlguer who
have been touching Wood.
Statesman at the Devon Horse
Show helled its nnuie by jumping the
fence instead of sitting ou it.
There is little objection manifested
by the public nt lnrge when money talks
save when it talks politics.
Ono hopeful thing about the Hoover
boom is that it acquires strength as the
race continues.
Tho one ucedid and necesbary fac
tor in the transit problem is a start.
a
Perhaps Colonel Procter felt as
sured he had soap enough to come dean.
The .Wood boom, is in. .splinters
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BARRELS AND BAR'LS
Rum and Hard Cider of Wash
ington's Time Succeeded by
Golden Stream Which Flows
From "BarMs" In Presi
dential Years
HIGH cost of living has been a fruit
ful tond at the same time melancholy
theme of comment In every channel of
life since the timo when the memory
of its victims runneth not to the con
trary. Most acutely has the burden
been felt nnd sincerely mourned In the
last decade or so, nnd when the cloud
of the great war arose and spread Its
baleful shadow over the world, Including
this land of the free, It became well
nigh intolerable.
Not alone the peaceful populace of
the United States, or the "proletariat"
of less favored countries on the farther
side of the Atlantic, wcro affected by
the altltudlnous cost of about every
thing necessary to keep body nnd soul
together. No indeed. Within the last
few days the high prlco of politics has
become a headllucr in the dally press,
the reports of the Senate investigation
of presidential campaign funds giving
concrete evidence of n condition and
not a theory that confronts the can
didate for nomination to nn offico which
veracious historians have recorded cost
Its first incumbent, George Washing
ton, "n few barrels of rum, punch and
hard elder."
nut that was back In 1788, and that,
ns Mr. Kipling probably would phrase
It, "is another story."
Different Kind of "Barrels"
TIMES have changed In the Interven
ing 132 years, and the barrels have
changed with them. Today, according to
the reports that have come from a
United States Senate commltteo room
during the lust week, the barrels tapped
in the pre-couventlou presidential race
gave forth not the "rum punch and
hard cider" of Washington's day. but
n golden stream of dollars which
flowed Into the waiting nnd patriotic
maws of campaign managers.
When the astonished render is con
fronted with the statements of fluent
witnesses testifying before henntor
Kenvon nnd his associate investigators
that' the compnlgu funds of tho various
candidates for the nomination they rep
resented rnnged, up to date, from $700,
000 down through such umppy ltomsa
S414.0S4. $7r,,000, $72,000. .$00,000.
S22.000, nnd so, on until they reach one
candidate who confesses "no funds, no
organization." he must at first gasp.
Then he realizes what "pikers the
predecessors of the present managers ot
candidates must have been in drawing
the golden strenm. not front the
spigot but from the butighole of the
political "barrel."
When They "Frltd tho Kat"
BUT is it so? If a statistical genius
were to set to work nt gnthering up
nnd collating the figures that have made
monetary sensations In presidential
campaigns far antedating this amazing
enr of P.120. with its disclosure of mil
lions spent, before the conventions, in
advancing the Interests of nsplrlug eun
didnles, it is pretty certain he would
' Zta pnsV nerniion rc 7.
, th'c Klllm. f "frJing tin'
be nble to show that the nusuiug iiiuu-
IIUl 111"
fat"
... '..( mnru nl' loili ell tllllsiastiC COlltril)-
utors to the work of gicoslng the wheels
of the national political machinery.
"Frying the fat." by the way, was
a cant phrase in more uum uuu ..
I pnlgn not entirely eradicated from the
memories of the uiluillc-ngcu mnu oi
today.
rnfortunntely. there exist no official
records of piimnry olrction expenditures
until within the last dozen cnrs or
theieabouts. Various stutes passed
laws requiring reports of such outlay
bv candidates, in this course fo' iwi.ir
the ox 'rnple of Congress in e ting
statutes setting forth limitations Hi
which money might legitimately be
fpent in boosting a candidate for public
ohio. .
Tho "Bar'l" of tho Daddies
BUT waiving the dlsad.intage result
ing from lack of this "official" in
formation and the exactness of such
figures as those revealed by the Senate
investigation now in progress, it Is pos
sible to form an idea of the "bar'l" of
our daddies it was called "bar'l" back
in the davs of the Tilden-Hayes cam
paign of '1870. when San nel J. was
reputed to have established his famous
'itcrarv bureau" at the tidy cost of
$0.-0 000, and when his campaign for the
iiresidencv. which he lost by the eight-to-seven
decision of the electoral com
ii'i sion, was said to have indicted a
million -ilollnr dnt iu the capacious
Tilden "bar'l."
These sums, U must be borne in mind,
applv to the election, not to the pri
mnrr cnmiiaicn. such as the one now
uudergoiug the Senate probe, but they
serve to throw light upon the fart that
as long ago as forty-odd years the
"Democratic simpli'itj" of Jefferson's
dnv had passed. The historic horbe on
which that old patriot rode from his
Virginia home to the Capltoi, tying the
beast to a pot while he went indoors
to take the oath of office, had given
way to the celebrated "mules" (used
entirely iu a figurative sense) with
which William 11. Harnum. sometime
chairman of the Democratic national
committee, sought to draw his can
didate to the White House.
Millions Instead or Thousands
IT'S difficult, leally impossible, to
"get down to brass tacks" in esti
mating the actual cost of modern
presidential campaigns for the reason
stated, viz., that until the last few
cars there has been' no law governing
expenditures or recjulrlng reports of
the same. Uough estimates placed the
sum nt between $2,000,000 and $.-,-000
000 for each of the great political
parties. In tho very old days the an
nual expenditures ranged in the thou
sands. This Is a sufficiently vivid contrast
to the "few barrels of rum and hard
elder" said to have been employed in
the choice of tho first President of the
republic, anu i e ?" i mm m
committee that directed Abraham Lin
coln's first election, to show the devel
opment of the greut American game of
politics. Indeed, it had mate quite n
stride when Lincoln made his second
rnce in 1XH1. and when the expense
of his election wus put at $200,000.
By way of "a modern instpnee" of
the phenomenal increase in the cost of
presidential olcctiontr und again It
must be bomo in mind that the pre
condition expenses are not included
the report filed by Cornelius N. Bliss,
chairman of the Republican Jsational
Committee in 1010. U illuminating. It
showed total contributions of 52,445,
421. In the matter of the local transit
problem too little stress has been placed
on the age-old dictum thut the way to
get a thing done is to do it.
Wood's light appenrs to have been
locally eclipsed by West Virginia's
favorite son.
Tho Hergdoll bungle is of the class
of Incidents that would be funny if they
were not so darned serious.
Perhaps Colonel Procter thought he
was advertising soft soap.
Varo
paranJps.
words butter:
Moore
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HOW DOES IT
STRIKE YOU?
By KELLAMY
pOLONEL WILLIAM COUPfcH
PHOCTEH looks like Henry Ford ;
somewhat bigger, but the sunic hatchet
face, the same eje fixed on something
far off, something away above the mere
millions each has succeeded in accumu
lating. When you get covered with dirt per
suading o'ne of Mr. Ford's nutomobllcs
to go or pick up the dust of other auto
mobiles while riding in one of .Mr, r ora s
cars, you take n cake of Colonel l'roc-
ter's soap and remove the grime.
And when you arc clean from Colonel
Procter's soap you are ready to riae
fincc more
luce more in lleurv roru s car.
iV perfect combination.
Hut Mr. Ford's mind is tar away
ISUl .111,
from cars.
m cars. , j i
.,.i Colonel Procters mind Is far
away from soap.
His soap has been 00.41 per cent
pure so long that he no longer has to
think about it.
q q q
COLONEL PHOCTEH describes him
self ns nn Idealist.
It is as good n word as any to describe
the hunger for public service which
possesses his mind like the similar hun
ger which possesses Henry lord s mind,
and which leads him into running a
magazine and saving the world from a
terrible conspiracy which shall not be
described here.
It is n pathetic thing nbout great
riches that it wants to be something else
than great riches.
It wants to save the world from nn
cneuiv like Henry Ford, or make it
learned like Andrew Carnegie, or leform
its tnxation like Joseph Pels, or make
it radical like the cocoa millionaires of
England, or provide It with u perfect
ruler like Colonel Procter.
Most of us dream some time or other
of "what we would do if we only had the
money.
Colonel Procter has the money.
He Is indulging his fancy for benefi
cence In financing n candidate to the
extent of half a million dollars, nud
Colonel Procter has only just begun.
He hopes for n chnticc to make his
half n million a million.
q q q
THE opinion was expressed in this
column some weeks ago that Colo
nel Procter was a perfect political
"niS'1" , v. ,
It is hereby taken back.
The word "angel" in quotation
marks has questionable antecedents.
It wns first applied to certain "Con
rnds in quest of their youth"; certain
rich old fellows who. having worked too
hard in piling up their fortunes, seek
to be young ngnln In bseklug the enter
prises of some darliug of the footlights.
The purposes of an ''angel" are en
tirely nltrulstlc.
Thero Is nothing egoistic niiout the
designs of Colonel William Cooper
Procter. ,
He is a "Conrad in quest of his
youth" of dreams.
He wants to be n President maker,
not for the bake of power as Mark
Manna was a President maker, but to
do something for his country.
His giving of half a million he de
scribes as an "obligation."
And he means It, too.
He is old enough nud rich enough to
indulge In a romance, and his romance
is giving these United States the per
fect government that it ought to have
government by Oeuernl Wood.
q q q
TJK
rE IS n perfect "angel" jn one re-
XX apect.
He gave and gave
nVed no (iiiestlons.
and gave, and
He wrote checks ns often as need bo,
and never needed to know where the
money went.
Two-thirds of tho money went for
publicity. ,
He would muke n President by the
famo means he made a soup, the only
tnenns he knew.
"It floats?" asked n senator.
"It floats," replied the colonel, smil
ing. How much did newspaper advertising
cost?
He did not know.
How much did the host of press
agents cost?
.lie -flu. aot juiowm ,
r"S OS!"
Colonel 'illiam Cooper Procter la
an Angel Without Quo
tation Marks
How much was spent In any, one
state?
He did not know.
He didn't need to know.
There were still blank checks in his
book.
And there were still check-books to
be had at his bank.
When he left the witness-stand in
Washington the whole audience turned
nnd watched him as he mode his way
alone down the center aisle nnd out of
the hearing room.
It could not keep its eyes off himi
Everybody was saying, "If only I
could get up ngainst something like
thut!"
q q q
THERE was nothing tainted about
that wealth.
They were not self-seeking dollars.
The soap would still be soap when it
was all done, nnd not more thnn 00.44
per cent pure.
They were guileless dollars.
They were childlike dollars, the kind
of dollars you spend when young and
say, "If I were only rich I'd buy every
body in this town, a blue and green
parrot and muke them perfectly
happy."
The half million wns only "nn ad
vance." Did he expect to get it back?
"Well, expect is a strong word."
Later he got closer to his real .state
of mind about the prospects of the re
turn of the money. He had "an ex
pectation, nt lenst n fnlnt expectntlon,
not a real expectation, that Colonel
Wood's friends would pay some of it
back?"
., What friends?
Why. no particular friends, just the
general's many friends throughout thin
broad land !
If all campaign friends wcro like
that, why should the Senate trouble to
Inquire into theni?
q q q
HOW are the like of Colonel Procter
to bo found?
Alas, there is no rule.
The Senate pressed to leuru, but did
not discover. '
Wanting n Colonel Procter, you mnv
go through life and never find one.
.Most men do.
"You had not been iu politics?"
blandly asked Senator Heed.
No, he had not : and he had not been
a particular friend of General Wood's.
Propinquity, which explains most
things, did not explain this.
Marriages are made in heaven.
Angels are made in heaven : not the
klnd who w'ear quotation marks.
Wc take the quotation murks off
Colonel William Cooper Procter.
MeAdoo has no chest, Doctor Jen
kins told the probers. How did he ex
pect to raise the wind?
Dan Hnnna seems to be following
in his father's footsteps.
THE STRONGER CALL
J
GO WEST, young man, so the slo
gan ran,
While men arose to obey.
But the red man's wrath tried to block
their path.
Vet tho tide advanced each day.
And there flaunted tnles of the golden
trails,
While the wonders grew and grew;
But listen, bo, who'd want to go
If jour girl wasn't going, too?
Tho lure of gold will never grow cold,
It calls as It called of yore,
Whllo the fickle youth thinks It's sim
ple ti nth
An our fathers did before,
And he journeys west In the golden
quest
While old tales lire told 'as new;
But listen, bo, who'd want to go
If your girl wasu't going, too?
The West may call, but I'll never fall.
For ten to one It's fnklnsr.
And I'm sticking 'round on the same
old ground
That grim Atlantic's breaking.
Oh. tho East for me, It will always bo,
Ah long as our hearts beut true;
For listen, bo, who'd want to go
If youivsirl wntn't gpluz, too? '
ZET.
What Do You Know?
QUIZ
1. What President Wan tho first to
leave the United States during his
term Of offlce7
2. Who was known as tho American
Onto?
3. What are nntorryms7
4. What Is an epic?
5. Whero does tho
come from?
word "magic'
6. What percentage of the population
of the United States lives In
rented houses?
7. What country In the world has the
lowest death rate?
8. What and where ' are the two
gTcntest railroad stations In the
country?
0. What American railroad stntlon has
a greater train servlco than either?
10. What Is tho dlfferenco between
courage and bravery?
Answers to Yesterday's Quiz
1. There is nothing In the Comultutlon
that forbids th President to leave
the United States.
2. A midden Is a dunghill or refuse
heap.
3. Mhx Adelor was tho pseudonym of
Charles H. Clark. American
humorous author. He wns born
1840.
4. Arc eclogue Is a poem of rural life.
6. fsynonyms are words of similar
inclining.
C. A staelyard Is a Kind of balance
with short arm to tnlto the thing
weighed nnd long graduated nrm
nlonsr which a weight Is moved.
7. A helicopter Is a typo of airplane
that rises vertically.
S. In "A Cure for the Henrtnclm k
Thomas Morton (17G4-1838). the
lino occurs "Approbation 'front Sir
'luucri aiuniey is praiae Indeed."
The phrase Is commonly condensed
to "Praise from Sir Hubert."
9' F!urece, Nl?htlngale Is known as
inu iviiuy m me Lamp,
10. ".Mesopotamia" means,
"between the rivers."
literally.
Cnnnonbnll" Baker, automobile
racer, who Is carrying a message from
New- lork to Chicago to General Wood,
is breaking records nnd speed regula
tlons and may. fcreak his neck. The
message hn carries must bo very im
pnrtant. Does the uuusunl lather indl
rate thut it has anything to do with
soap ,'
KOLCHmJANGED,
SAYS OFFICER HERE
Captain F. L. Barnum, of Red
Cross, Gives Other Version
Than Shooting
A version of the execution of Ad
miral Kolchak differing widely from
dispatches published yesterday is given
by Captain F. L. Barnum, recently of
the American Bed Cross, who with his
wife Is visiting relatives nt Gl,'i5 Ox
ford street, Overbrook.
Kolchak was hanged In Irkutsk on
i in- uiicriioon oi reoruary (, and was
trieci oy court prior to tho execution,
according to Captain Barnum. In proot
of thnt he showed a typewritten copy
of tho questions asked the admiral
during his trial.
"I left Irkutsk nt 2 o'clock In the
afternoon, and nt 4:,10 wo had tele
graphic advice giving the details of the
execution," said tun captain, "I read
in the papers hern that Kolchak siiinked
n cigarette when he was taken before
me uring Rciuan. l Knew the admiral
well, and considered him renuirk-nhln
only In ono respect ho was the only
Russian I ever knew who did not
smoKe. The statement tunc his premier,
Pepellnycv. was shot down with ICnl.
chak Is ubsolutely untrue. The premier
en en nt typiius in .una during rcbru
nry." ''
Captain Barnum served In the medlcnl
corps during tho war with the rank of
captain, upon uemomiizntlon, lie en
tered the Red Cross, sailing for Siberia
on May 80, 1010. He reached Omsk,
iu tho center of Riberla, ou October 1.
There Kolchak had established his
capital ns head of the, All-Russian Gov
ernment. Captain Barnum had tunny
thrilling escapes from the Bolshevists.
He sold that on all the trains lie trav
eled the Reds would pcarch for Russian
officers, 'They werc,.executed whenever
found? Tlio ISubHluasi)lmHaiiy c-ceUtcd
all captured .Bolshevist troops
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