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PVil.d.lphli. Frid.j, June 4, 1929
A FOUR-YEAR PROGRAM FOR
PHILADELPHIA
Thlnca on Trhleit tho peoplo eixpeet
t!i new ndmlnlitrnllon to concen
trate tt Attention:
The Delaware river bridge.
A Arydock bio enough to accommo
date tio larpent ships.
Development of the rapid transit sys
tem. A convention hall.
A tuttdtna for the Free Library.
An Art Museum.
Enlargement of the water supplv.
Home to accommodate the popula.
tion.
TO MAKE THE PORT HUM
IT IS not uecebsary to pass upon the
charge of Charles K. Ware, agcut
Of the North Atlantic and postern
Steamship Compnny. that the develop
ment of this port is namper.-.i ... j.
ouslcs. In order to Indorse the construc
tive suggestion which he made at a
conference of business men.
What Is needed here, he aul. is a
man hired to get in touch with thoe
who have goods to ship and to ell. an
then' get ships here on which to load
the good-. This need has been evident
for n long time. Ships hnve come here
on the Indefinite promise of cargoes and
have had to leave for lack of freight.
There has been no concert of aetiou
wi.in alilmiers nnd shipping men.
But there Is business enough tributary
to this port to provide cargoes for as
many vessels as can be accommodated
t our piers. All that is necessary U
to bring it here. We have trusted to
luck in the past.
Private enterprise has not been alert
enough to embrace the opportunity to
assemble enrgoes and get ships to carry
them. Yet any man with courage and
foresight who should go into thi busi
ness could make a fortune for himself
in a few vears and at the same time
assist in making this a much greater
port than it has ever been. Mr. A ure
" would Uko to see me iranui '"'
rations here unite in hiring a man at
STrr.000 or $20,000 a year to do this
kind of work. If the right hort of a
man were hired it would not be long
before the water front was crowded
with shipping from all parts of the
world, for the business is waiting (o be
done. All It needs is to go out and
' PLAYING WITH IT
THE day after President Wilson
called on the Democrats in the
Delaware Legislature to vote for the
qual suffrage amendment, the joint
committee on federal relations of the
Democratic Louisiana Legislature de
cided to make a report recommending
the adoption of the nmendment.
Louisiana, however, may be no more
, ready to consent to the enfranchisement
of women than was Mississippi. In the
latter state one house ratified the
amendment, knowing that it would bo
rejected by the other. The Louisiana
"Democrnts are playing national politics
In toying with the subject.
'I The one remaining stnte in which
thcro Is a possibility of ratification this
Bummer Is North Carolinn. Governor
Bicket announced in March that if the
Delaware Legislature failed to act
affirmatively he would call the Legisla
ture in special session in July and urge
It to ratify. He will now be asked to
fulfill his promise.
WHAT DID HE MEAN?
'DR.OFESSOR SHOREY. of the Uni
Jtrersity of Chicago, told the graduat
ing class nt Rryn Mawr College jester
rlny "afternoon thnt culture is ,-not a
ctibist nudo deringolating the stairs "
Ills remark piqued curiosity, but none
of the dictionaries is able to satisfy it.
The learned young womeu who heard
Trofessor Shorey mny know what he
meant, but we doubt it.
It mny be that this is the kind of
English they speak in Chicago in the
endenvor to make the rest of the coun
try think that the city by the lake is a
center of culture.
Will some one who knows lie kind
enough to inform the world what one
does when oue deringolates the stairs.
and whether it is possible to deringolate
anything else?
THE COXE EXPEDITION
THE many contributions which the
TTnlvprHitv of Pennsylvania has
made to the study ot the enrly civiliza-
, tiann has been tremendously iiugmcntod
h by the discoveries which Dr. Clarence
, g, Ifisbcr, leader of the Eckley R. Coxe
Ft fit jl, j sexpeamon to hkji", "" -
P " most spectacular of these has been the
W3 .excavation of the pnlaee of Merenptau.
Wii'if Kenernlly believed to be the Pharaoh
i' . I (W - . via ... uL..l.l.i ll. n ...not .nn
"W MP Mia 1'JIOdUS. iruuuui) luc luiiot uiuK -
'A . . , .- ......nt., tl,A ...A1rl l.n-
ajpeeni private emu-mic "- v,n uua
ever known.
Tu( beyond this nnd fur transcending
it In Importance must be much infor
mation ns to things which the civiliza
tion of that early day knew1 and accom
plished. The palace building naturally
'remains the propeity of the Egyptian
Government, although one of the Inlaid
' Ju.ii! nnd one of the balcony pillars and
' 4i wcral ot the great doorways will come
'ffV !tJthe Vnlverslty Museum. Theso are
,r ''tkftHHf -Mib only n few rn see; the
iMr
4eaccKuinr details of the
early Egyptian civilisation will add to
the sum total of tnc knowledge of the
world.
The splendid results of the Coxc ex
pedition ought to hnve n highly stimu
lating effect unon other similar nartlcs.
That thp honor of locating and exca
vating the first large palace on the
Nile and one of the most interesting
structures of all history cliould have
been won by the University expedition
Is a matter for congratulation to both
the University and to Doctor Fisher.
PALMER, BONNIWELL AND
MEXICANIZED DEMOCRACY
How a Senate Committee Revealed
Continuing Political Serfdom
In Pennsylvania
WOULD you know, and vividly per
ceive, the havoc that continued op
pression, tyranny, betrayal nud a dic
tatorship of ignorant selfishness can
make In the mind of n nation or a
community of men?
Arc oti curious to know what is
actually the mnttcr with Mexico?
Then take a day off to read between
the lines in the sliumeless conflict of
defamation that took place in u Senate
committee room betwen A. Mitchell
Palmer, attorney general of the United
Stntes. and Judge Eugene C. Honul
well. of the Municipal Court In Phila
delphia. These two men were fairly
representative of the sort of leadership
that has virtually eliminated a minority
party in Pennsylvania. Without nt all
intending to do so, they projected the
Democracy of Pennsylvania suddenly
Into the white, hard light of n Senn'tc
inquiry and permitted the country to
we what thej and men like them have
done to it. They led forth a grisly
and mumbling wraith of a party that
had all the appearances of a horrid life
hi dungeons deep.
The Democratic organization in this
state, despite the sincerity nnd honor
of innumerable Democrats, is Mexican -ized.
It could not well hnve provided
anything better than an exhibition which
led even some hard -shelled senators to
sigh woefully and edge out of the com
mittee room. It U a party that hns
been traded nnd sold, betrayed nrfd bar
tered, in oue election after another.
The decline of the Pennsylvania
Democracy under the domlnnnce of
votes-merchants hns been a bad thing
for politics in the stnte. It has been a
bad thing for government.
Government ns it i- contemplated In
the constitution and in every accept
able theory of majority rule is not at
tainable without an energetic minority
narty able nnd willing to plaj the part
of whip and critic to the ruling ma-J
jority. That iittiuiinicntiu principle nas
been ignored lu Pennsylvania by various
Democratic and Republican leaders
alike. Mr. Palmer, for example, is not
the only one who seems to believe, de
spite denials, that Judge Uonniwell be
came a candidate for the governorship
through the connivance of Senator Pen
rose. And if .1 tinge uonniwi'ii nciuaiiy
wiis u Republican masquerading in
Democratic clothing, lie did no mote
linn other men hnve done in the past
to keep the party to which he professes
allegiance inept, voiceless nud without
a shadow of hope or Influence.
The ronMMpicnce of all this is that
free government, as the founders of
this country thought of it. has often!
been iu abeyance in Pennsylvania.
There may be some people who be
lieve that such nn arrangement is a
good tiling for Republicanism.
It Ku't.
Relieved of the necessity to fight
wholesomely in the open, political lead
ers lose inspiration. They lose initia
tive. They become hidebound, dull, un
progressive, lazy and corrupt.
Any one 'who rends thee columns
will know that we hold no brief for
Attorney General Palmer. He is oue
of the least useful men in the places of
authority. He lias had no contact with
the plain people. He has none of the
fine sensitiveness to trends of feeling
that would hue mnele him even an ac
ceptable official -in times like these.
Rut few people will want to believe
Ronniwell's charge that the attorney
geueral actually conspired with the
lesser politicians, to flood the state with
red liquor. A niau would have to be
more stupid than Mr. Palmer before he
risked such a method of campaigning.
Whisky flowed pretty freely. And it
flowed bccaifee an attorney general who
felt that he had a right to change the
forms of government in the United
States actuallj wus no match in
shrewdness, in resoineefulnes.s or in
perception for the little men whom he
lias placed and protected in various im-
portant federal offices throughout the
stnte. The.e sml parasites have been
making Mr Pnlnier appear like the
veriest atuateut.
Judge Ronniuell is something more
than an ainuteur. He has u sort of
courage. If he hadn't a sort of courage
he would not have appeare ' in Wash
ington piously to charge infamy against
a man who wns supposed to have be
friended the whisky crowd. Palmer,
the Senate was asked to believe, was
friendlv to Ronniwell's friends. On
thnt count Iiounlweli wns willing to
hnve him politically cruclfipd. Are the
wets, with whom Ronuiwell frankly
trains, so dangerous ns all that? Or
was Judge Ronuiwell, ns the leader of
the wet crusade in Pennsylvania, afraid
that the attorney general might outdo '
lilm in service to the powers of dark
ness? Palmer has blundered iu countless
wnys. He has mistaken notions of ills
present official functions. Rut in bim
pie justice to him it must lie said thnt
he does not reort to the political meth
ods that used to be taught in the gut
ters and in the back rooms of saloons.
Through -Mr. Palmer's ineptitude and
in the odd blnnt of the Uonniwell mind
the people of Pennsylvania may trace
some of the reasons for thp backward
political conscience of many of their
bosses.
Palmer and Ronuiwell are faiily rep
resentative of tho Democratic organi
zation, even If they do not represent the
aims and hopes of enlightened Demo
crats. And what chnuce would a really
enlightened Democrat have against the
partv combinations fostered and llnully
established by the one-ideaed .Mr. Qua) ?
Mexico and the Democrats of Penu
nylvanla are in the same boat. They
ure victims of privateers iu the game
of political partisanship, and they seem
too discouraged to fight free of the syH
tem that exploits, buys, sells ami de
grades all the things for which, in
theory, they stand. They am domi
nated by men who seek political office
without any disturbing sense of obliga
tion to parties und principles and
people.
If the United States ns a whole were
subject to tnis system oi pontics we,
, a people, wouiu uc svy. imnouc many
EVENING lniBLIC -IiliSDGElte
of the advantages of representative
government. We should be dominated
by a slugle party, by n single set of
men. Political criticism would tend to
become a lost art.
The country might bo able to get
along without Democrats. Hut it can
not get along safely without n vigorous
nnd even a threatening minority of the
sort that can keep the stronger party
In order.
Men who talk of good government
and weep tears in public when the flag
Is waved have furtively and deliberately
labored to eliminate that sort of mi
nority in Pennsylvania. Ami. uftcr thp
astonishing Pnlmer-llonnlwell turn in
the Senate spotlight, Democrats them
selves ought to be moved to seek n new
deal either because of patriotism or the
elemental Instinct of seif-preservntlon.
SPROUL IN CHICAGO
WHATEVER may have been the
purpose of Senator Penrose In sny
lug (.oine time ngo that Senator Knox
was the Ideal presidential candidate,
the Pennsylvania delegates to the Chi
cago convention do not wholly agree
with him.
Those delegates have unanimously
Indorsed the candidacy of Governor
Sproul in n resolution pledging to him
their support "In the confident belief
that he will be nomluntcd."
Senntor Penrose, so far as is known,
did not rnise his hand to prevent this
action. It is doubtful whether he coulil
have prevented it if he had desired. He
was told over the telephone what was
planned, nnd apparently he acquiesced.
If the senator's talk of Knox were In
tended to block the progress of Sproul,
It failed. The delegation stands back
f the Governor.
Whatever effect the indorsement of
the Governor by the state delegation
may have on the action of the Chicago
convention, it will certainly have a great
effect upon political conditions in Penn
sylvania. It may have portentous effects la
Chicago. No one knows what will
happen there, when the voting begins
on Thursday or Friday of next week.
The candidates who have been ennvnss
ing the nation have succeeded in creat
ing a good deal of hard feeling. None
of them has more than a small fraction
of the support needed to nominate.
Governor Sproul. with the seventy-six
votes of Pennsylvania back of him, has
a larger number of pledged delegates
than any other candidate save Wood
and Johnson. Lowdeu hns only seventy-four
nud Hording only thirty
nine. The Governor has created no
antagonisms. He lius spent no money
to secure dclegntes and cannot be
charged with attempting to buy the
nomination. He ' has generally made
a good record ns a Governor. Most of
the men he has appointed to office have
been selected for their fitness, in the
confident belief that the best way to
play politics is to give the people effi
cient service.
Leaders in other parts of the countrv
seeking for a couinromisc candidate
have lately been making .nquiries nbout
Mr. Sproul from every one who hns
any knowledge on the subject. They
know that he went to New England last
year to back Governor Cnolidge for re
election nnd that he hns made a good
impression in the western stntes where
he has spoken. And they also know
that he is a young man who. while
working with the Pennsylvania inn
chine, has always maintained his own
independence of the dominant leader
His availability is admitted. His
strength has been Increased by the, in-
dorsement by
me mute imiegnuon in
spite of Senator Penrose's injection of
the name of Senator Knox into the
situation. The opponents of the Old
Guard know that the nomination of
j Mr. Sproul would deal a deadly blow
to the reactionary influences in the
party in the very state where they have
1 been most potent nnd would deliver the
party at once from the burden under
which it has been struggling since 101 H.
Mr. Sproul is now in a position
where he may have power enough to
nominate the candidate, if the nomina
tion docs not come to linn. If lie could
nnd should throw his strength to Mr.
Hoover and thereby make him suc
cessful, he would become at once the
dominant leader of Pennsylvania and
one of the great nationul leaders.
Europeans, suid Dr.
An Ancient Mnuriec Francis
Trouble Egati. former min
ister to Denmark, in
nn address heie yesterday, are con
vinced that all American young men
are either cowboys or social vampires,
Tliis news suggests a great difficulty
that lies iu the way of peaceful rela
tionships between the United Stntes and
I rknoW'nMng , bo "us'thoy
, . movips .,, wp w,ki
the (Jld orld. N hen foreigners want
i,lwl.
Know
read
anything about
loreigneis we do not
rend at all.
If a spectator were
"What Hey Is"
nsked to describe
the "run-in" be
tween Mr I'nlmer and Mr. Ronniwell
in Washington he would doubtless tes
tify after the manner of Maudy Thomas,
a witness in an nsault case, "Roth ob
ilese here cents." s.'iiil Mnnilv. "wna
standi!!' at the corner conversin" with
each other pretty hot and pointed like.'
"Repeat the conversation," said the
lawyer. "Ah don't remember it, suh,
Yept dnt dev was callln' each other
what dey is.'-
Jewelry worth SA".-i ufti.r, and at 1 :.,0 of the same clay
With a Lemon for 000. stolen from the (organ a sentence of twenty years in the
Somebody on tho home of Hnmilton penitentiary.
.Scales of Justice Fish, has been re-
covered, and Joseph CONSIDERING their opportunities
Fried n former employe, has been ar- I j f(ir participation In this most de
rested on a charge of grand larceny. It tl.,tni,(. of crimes.surprislngly few nurse
will probably go on the record as the B)r,, 1UVP been involved. One of the most
Fried -I ish case. 'famous cases however, was known us
'the "nurse girl" case. This occurred
When, because of i in New York when Rella Anderson, n
Straightening railroad congestion, i nurse innicl. took little Marlon Clarke,
the Spiral n sufficient number eighteen mouths old. for u trip through
of mills nnd factories the park and did not return. Instead.
hnve closed down, there may be men a bloodcurdling note demand ng money
enough available to run the farms. was left on the baby s pillow. The
I parents notified the police, who, n few
" " " , , ,," . . 'days Inter, recovered the child und ar-
,as of the sort tho rPStp(i t. mP nmi two others, n man
So It Is! L . f.. I. wishes to i nd his wife, who proved to be the prin-
sell to t'hiladelnlilH ir,u in tlm mm tin nurse heinir onlv
s much like the campaign oratory
the moment.
It gives more heat than
light.
The golf instructor of the Merlon
Cricket Club bus been asked by Lady
Astor by cable to conch her for the
parliamentary golf tournament nt Sand
wich. It hcems rather a pleasing bite.
The people need not do what their
representatives have alreudy done, khjs
the Supreme Court. No need to take
two bites at n cocktail cherry.
As the convention draws nigh, tho
chnracter of tho warfare changes and
tho men in the trenches are indulging in
one chnrge after auother.
if Wood is defeated there are thoe
among his friends who will jut it dwa
to a case of solid Ivory, )
THE STEALING OF BABES
8ome Notable Caies of' Kidnap
ping That Have Aroused
the Nation
rpHE mystery surrounding What np-
penrs to bo another caso of kid
napping in the case ot little Rlakcly
Coiighlin. of Norristown, revives popu
lar Interest in what Judge Gregory, of
Albany, some years ago declared to be
"the most nefarious, most fiendish, most
dinbolieal crime in the calendar."
Kidnapping is done In ninety-nine
cases out of every hundred for one of
two motives, n money ransom or revenge
and generally the former is the reason.
Nearly all kidnapping cases have one
or more unique features. That of the
little son of Cudahy, tho millionaire
packer, probably had more than nny of
the others.
As events proved, the little boy wns
kldnnpped by Pat Crowe, who left notes
on the Cudahy lawn, cxplnlnlug just
how the S'J.'i.OOO ransom which .lie de
mnuded should be sent to him. The
father followed instructions to the let
ter, ronde no complaint to the police
nnd in the morning the kidnappers had
the money nnd the child was returned
snfely to his home.
Rut the unique features of tills cae
did not end here. Pat Crowo made what
is technically described as n "clean get
away" with the ransom nnd went to
South America. Later ho returned vol
untarily, stood trial in Omaha and was
acquitted.
THE most mysterious and the most
tragic of all American kidnapping
enses was that of Charley Ross, which
began in Germantown. Where the chap
ter closed no mnn knows to this day.
The child was tnken by two strangers
who offered lilm n carriage ride on the
morning of Julv 1, 1S74. Chnrley Ross
never returned from thnt ride. His
father. Christian K. Ross, spent n
fortune in a vain search for his son
and never gave up hope until he died,
broken nnd penniless, in 1807.
The kidnappers were both killed while
attempting to burglarize a" house In
New York city, in December of the
same year. The deathbed fconfession of
the one who was not slniu outright was
believed and the dead men were identi
fied by Wnlter. the brother of Charley
Ross, "who got into the carriage and wns
taken a short distance nnd then for some
reason set down in Kensington.
The kidnapper who was not Instantly
killed iu the burglary professed to know
nothing of the whereabouts of the child
and the case is still one of the unsolved
mjsteries.
AN EVEN earlier case of kidnapping,
which hod nn equally black end. oc
curred ten years before the Charley Ross
case, and, like it. the sympathy of the
nation wns stirred. This was the case
of Mary Gnffney. four years old. who
was kldnnnped on the streets of New
York citv in ISftl. Her father was a
1'nion solilic- and the little girl was
the great comfort of her mother. She
disappeared one day and was never
''card of again. Her father wns killed
in battle and left R10.000 to the child,
which is still being held in trust for her,
in the absence of proof of death.
One of the most remarkable cases
was that ' "nle Adams, of Chicago,
who was kidnapped by gipsies when
she was live years ot age. Her parents
immediately turned all their possessions
into ensh nnd started to find their
daughter A search of years, which led
them to Hutigary nnd Egypt, left them
penniless nnd almost hopeless, when
thev suddenly found thp child In the
gipsy camp of Chief John Adams in
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in spirit, the parents accented the offer
nf the gipsy, who had taken the little
ilrl e:irs before to join tile onnu. nnu
. th- family was reunited miner tnc tents
,,f ,llt' nl,mn"H'
T-.nnnATU.Y the largest sum ever paid
X for the restoration of a kidnnpped
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Iiild um that of Tony Manniiin. of
Brookl.Mi. for whose safe return $."0,000
wns demanded. This wns n Rlnck Hand
case, the Italian criminnls being quick
to see the possibilities of kidnapping.
The parents refused to appeal to the
police and would never tell whether or
not the money was paid, but at all
events the little boy wns teturned safely
to his parents.
The note which accompanied the de
mand for the niiisoin was one of -the
unique specimens of the '"literature"
of kidnapping. "We are not criminals."
it ran. "We are nice gentlemen like
you. Only we have not made money
illte we expected, so we take this wny
of getting money to get hnik to beauti
ful Itnl."
FROM the foregoing it might seem
thnt many kidnapping attempts are
successfully carried out und the ran
som demanded is paid and the crimi
nals go scot free, either with or with
out their loot. Such is not the experi
ence of most kidnappers. By far the
majority of them land behind prison
linrs and the sentences impospcl are such
as to make even the most hardened
criminal think twice before attempting
this most dangerous of crimes.
Little John Couwiu. of Albany, was
' kidnapped in 1M1" nnd a ransom of
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I ' " ,rni llUnn,, i,,ktn,i f trv.
ing to inise the niouc . the father raised
. n p0SM, nn ur-m io a junce in me
i woods whele he thought the men were
I in hiding with the child. His sur
mise wns right and a revolver battle
ensued, after which little John wns re
covered unhurt and three nf the kid
nappers were arrested Each got fifteen
enrs in the penitentiary.
Another case of record justice oc-
I 'lined in our own citv in 1000. when
Freddy Muth. son of n Philadelphia
jeweler, was stolen b. John J, Kenn,
Five clns after the kidnapping, Kean
and the boy. who wns eight years old.
were found in an untenanted house in
West Philadelphia The man wus plnced
nn trinl nhciiit 111 o'clock n ciav or so
of u nccompllce. The mnn got fourteen
years, his wife twelve and the nurse
The Willie Whitla case, of Sharon, in
March. 1!0!l, was one whern the kid
nappers got the money, $10,000, the
child wns icstoied unhurt and then the
offenders, n man nnd woman, talked
about it and were nrrested. After get
ting the ransom the kidnappers put the
child on n street car with tho name of
tho hotel where his pnrcntH awaited
him written on a pleco of paper which
thev gave iiim. The roan in the case
received n life sentence and died in tho
Western Penitentiary last year. Tho
woman, Helen Royle, was released
shortly before his death.
It is u bung-starter that Ronui
well Is using on l'aimcr.
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be reaching out
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By KELLAMY
THE Senate or one of its committees
is investigating the release of Robert
Minor.
It probably wants to prove that
President Wilson or Colonel House in
terested himself in behalf of a Red.
Having proved that Wilson or House
nitlcd a Red, the case against the Demo
cratic party will be established.
The Senate Is a highly useful body,
rapidly rising In the genernl esteem to
the high place t-et for it by the fathers
of the constitution.
Investigating is one ot the steps
upward.
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partly inference.
Minor is nn nrtist.
To get fresh reactions toward life he
rejects all conventional views.
This makes him n radical.
Minor thinks It's a social conscience
that makes him ladlcal. an anarchist,
perhaps: he is a little hard to define.
Rut It i not.
It is an artistic conscience.
He went to Germany to see the Ger
man revolution, entering by the way
of Russia, where he had seen the Ruh
sian revolution nnd found it u tame,
conventional affair.
While in Germany lie hobnobbed with
the Reds, the Liebkneuht Reds, egging
them on probably, so that he should not
be cheated in Grrinnuy as he wns in
Russia.
An American army intelligence man,
spying In German) . found him trying
to mnke life as interesting there as it
ought to be.
The German revolution tinning out
to be dull stuff too, Minor went to Paris
to see how peace was beiug mnde.
If the proletariat were disappointing
lie could ut least enjoy his si urn of the
bourgeoisie.
They never fait your unheal.
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WATCHING the show in Paris he
suddenly disappeared.
The rumor spread that he had been
arrested by the French and languished
iu no one knew what vile dungeon.
The press, represented at Paris, re
sented the idea that one of its members
could be secretly seized and imprisoned
bv the French.
If Minor, why not any ot them.'
The press mnde a line low.
It went to Colonel House, formid
able, full of just wrath.
Colonel House promises, in i in esti
mate. i M J
THE piess fell well pleased with itself.
It had started some oue on the trail
of the French.
Rut it hadn't made the most of the
Minor incident.
Mysteriously haunting the icsorts of
the press, disappearing, now into Rol
shevist Russia, now among the French
Socialists, it-appearing to whisper with
Minor wa Lincoln Sleffens.
The press told Mr. Jsteli'eiis that an
other American writer of rudicnl af
filiations wns being sought for the same
offense ns Minor.
It hnd this "on authority."
Hteuens went wiuie, uu except his
whiskers.
lie dashed away, probably to Colonel
House, but probably also In President
Wilson, for Mr. Steffens hnd access di
rectly or indirectly to the President.
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COLONEL HOUSE investigated and
reported.
Mr. Mitio:- had not been nrrested by
the French, but "by the American mili
tary authorities."
The press didn't care one cocktail nt
Maxim's for Mr. .Minor.
Rut It was on .ts dignity .
It wns mad about those open cove
nants not openly arrived at.
It wus mad about the cen.-oiship.
Why had Minor been arrested by the
American military authorities nnd
rushed awoy from Paris to the occupied
regions of Germuny?
Colonel House promised to investi
gate. q j q
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O MUCH Is fact.
The rest is Inference. Minor is In
military prison iu Germany under
American guard.
The telephone bell rings.
Mr. Gordon Aliclllncloss. for fnlnnnl
HoiiBC. wants to talk to the commanding
genernl.
Colonel House wants to know why the
American military iiuiuuriiies nave or
rested Robert Minor,
The telephone bell rings again.
Ambnssauor vv ounce, for the Presl
dent, .wants to know why1 the .American
I military ni)lV9nieiMj wrested i'.cb.
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The Robert Minor Case Is One in
Which the Press Exerted Itself
and Got Results
The rominunding general is cluni
founded. Who is this Robert Minor that the
President nnd Colonel House are so in
terested in lilm?
The commanding general sends for the
record.
There is only the testimonv of one
poor Intelligence officer thnt Minor wns
busy in Germany inciting the Reds to
be redder.
The President and Colonel House are
interested In this Robert Minor.
It is embarrassing to have Presidents
nnd personal representatives of Presi
dents and nnibassndors ringing your
telephone bell every minute if you arc
only a commanding general.
It is wise to make no mistakes'.
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"lyrlNOR is not bhot at sunrise, thcrc--'
by missing nn experience.
Military authorities arc just as stupid
and disappointing as revolutionists.
Minor is released, without explana
tion or apologies, just turned loose.
Rored, chngrined, disappointed,
cheated as badly by the bourgeoisie ns by
the proletariat, lie makes his way back
to Paris aud to America, to be iu
estigatcd by the Senate.
He can't tell the Senate how lie got
iu jnil or how he got out.
He doesn't know.
He never saw the white face of
Steffens strenking It out of the Crillon.
He never snw the, American press
getting its revenge through him for the
open covenants that were not openly
arrived at.
He never knew he was an Incident in
the great fight for the freedom of the
press.
He never knew how the correspond
ents, bored with watching the making
of peace, tired of Maxim's and the
Dufnyel, found n two days' pleasure In
bndgeriug Colonel House because a man
who ouce drew pictures for the papers
had been secretly and surreptitiously
clapped into jail, aud in frightening Lin
coln Steffens out of several chijs' plcus
ure in it-solutions.
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F THE Senate or its committee will
investigate luird enough it will find
the facts substantially as given above.
It wnsn't the interference of l'resi
dent Wilson or of Colqncl House that
got Minor his freedom.
It was the American pres getting
upon its ear between drinks nt Paris.
Thnt got him free.
If the open covenants had been openly
arrived nt the American press wouldn't
have given a fifty centime damn what
became of Robert Minor. Rut it had to
show its might home wny.
And it did so in his ense.
Sir Thomas Upton lias probably
realized by this time that a big change
lias taken plnce in the world. The
forthcoming ndit race is not the big
news item today thai it was years ago.
A Utica (X. V.) clothing .firm
lias been fined $."5,000 for protltcering.
Can u tine of that size be legitimately
put down ub "overhead" in liguring on
futuro profits?
We veil tu re the opinl n tffat Mr.
I'nlmer has too much sugar and too
much hooch in his stirrup cup to en
able him to ride to victoiy.
Governor Cox fnvors a back -to -the-farm
movement. So does every
body except the young men expected
to mako the movement.
Now if Rergdollcoul.d be subpoenaed
and mnde to testify before the congres
sional committee it might simplify mat
ters n good deal.
Wall street experts will he inter
ested in the lntest news from Wash
ington: The White Houso sheep have
been sheared.
Merely to help the campaign poets
along, we suggest a first line for n con
vention song: Shoestring Hi hates nn
Oxford tie.
Scrunton, its mnyor declares, is
going to dry up. It will be some time,
however, before the same will bo true of
Chicago.
Murried life is nn art, says Mary
I'lckford. Yeh ! It takes years and
yenrs ot it to bring it down to n
bclonvc.
Kvcn local prohibitionists will
admit that Philadelphia ni-rl n.l,i ...
have a trlflo more kick.
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What Do You Know?
QUIZ
1. Which Is the highest mountain in
the world?
2. What soldier did President Roose
velt advance over the heads of
senior army officers?
8. How far will tho sound of artillery
carry?
A. What aro Igneous rocks?
0. What nre tho proportions of oxygen
and nitrogen In tho air at the
earth's surface 7
6. What is "horse power" ns applied to
mechanics?
7. What American statesman was
known as "The Plumed Knight"
and how did Ije get his title?
8. What was tho ancient namo of
.Switzerland?
9. When- wns oil first struck in this
country and where?
10. When and where was the centennial
anniversary of transatlantic steam
navigation celebrated?
Answers to Yesterday's Qulr
1. Leonard Wood was promoted by
President McKlnley without re
gard to the rules of seniority.
2. Benconslleld wrote "Amusement to
an observing mind is study."
3- The Lever food-control act was
passed by the Senate, August 7,
191 1. and Blgned by tho President
the following day.
4. Thunder can be heard at a distance
of from fourteen to eighteen miles.
C The rocks composing tho earth'B
crust nre grouped Into threo
classes, igneous, sedimentary and
metnmorphlc
6. A paletot Is a looso cloak for men
and women.
7. The highest wind velocity for fivo
minutes ever reported in the
I'nltet! States Is accredited to St.
Paul. Jflnn. The wind traveled at
a rato of 1o miles an hour.
. W l8 thp '"t expressing elec
'rlcal cneigy. It is the sum of the
volt (pressure) times ampere (rate
of now ). Thus two volts times two
amperes would give you four watts
9. Tlieie aie 5280 feet In a statute mile!
10. There nre twenty liundtedwelght In
ton but In the long ton there are
U. pounds to the hundredweight,
Or the short ton. a hundred
l-owden is still of the opinion that
a man might to be allowed to spend his
money his own way.
Willy-nilly, (ioveixor Spro"
going to be a "favorite son."
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Recognition
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T IS "the witching hour
a crescent
moon
Slips down the darkling sky-way of
tho WCit.
With one lone
nuest,
star upon a secret
And shakes the silver from her shining
shoou.
Wlint ghost-hand starts from some for-
gotten noon
To pluck forbidden hnrp-striugs ion"
nt rest? "
What frights the halcyon brooding in
my breast.
O Witching Hour that flies too soon
too soon V
In some primeval twilight of the race.
hen half in ecstasy and half iu pal
The primal ichor of our mother sea
Sang in tiie veins of huimuihood to he
1'irst saw I, sitting in this countrv
train.
Those lover's eyes In your familiar face
Cyprian Starr. '
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