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Philadelphia, Saturday. June 15. 1
A FOUR-YEAR PROGRAM FOR
PHILADELPHIA
Thlnra on which the people expect
lh new nilmlnlatratloD to concen
trate Ita nttentloni
The Delaware river bridge.
A drydock bi7 enough to accommO'
date the largest ships.
Development of the rapid Iroiuit svs
tern. A convention hall.
A buildinq or the Free Library.
An Art Museum.
Enlargement o ffte water supply.
Homes to accommodate the popula
tion. A TASK FOR FRIENDS
PHILADELPHIANS. living in a city
that is known as the center of the
Quaker life in the new world, should be
peculiarly interested in the leport that
II work of relief now being done by
Mr. Hoover's organizations in Europe
may be given over next autumn to the
direction of the Society of Friends.
The war work of the Friends has
been one of those things that reassure
the minds of men when reassurance is
difficult. It was silently done a great
deal of it by Philadelphians. Wherever
the mlsfortunate people of Europe met
a Friend they met patience and com
passion. And the world does not know
half Of what the Quakers have done to
build where others destroyed and to
carry comfort where others left misery
and pain. The work undertaken by Mr.
Hoover will not suffer under their ad
ministration. A GREAT NEW ISSUE
WHAT Senator Watson and his asso
ciates on the Republican platform
committee nnd to say about agriculture
is acceptable as far as it goes. It has
been heard before. And politicians may
be excused if they dodge the disquieting
fact of u steadily declining agricultural
output nnd depend on time or luck to
provide an answer to n puzzle that now
seems almost unanswerable.
It is becoming clearer, nevertheless,
.that the economic millennium will not
arrive in the I'uited States with the
establishment of peaceful relationships
in industry. Industry Itself will be lost
among n lot of new and novel difficul
ties if, as a people, we continue to de
sert the laud, which is the first source
of all riches.
In this country the decline nf the
farm population, which was steady for
a good many years, was quickened
amazingly by the demands of manufac
turing industries and other businesses
Ktlmtllnterl hv hi(1i wnf-rw 111 iftn. T'hn
ft' ,. remilt ought to laiibc every one to stop,
t ' Innlc nnil Ithtnn
This season, for the first time in his
tory, the crops in America may not be
altogether adequate to the needs of the
population. More than food is Involved
in this new problem.
In agricultural areas there is a better
standard of general health than cities
can boast. And the American farm re
mains the one stronghold of the souud
and wholesome philosophy of life that
was one of our great inheritances. Is
that, too, to go':
The man who can find n way to get
people back to the land will do a serv
ice to the nation greater than any sug
gested even by the first -rank presiden
tial candidates. The job was too big for
platform makers. It is for evolution to
uccomplish. if it can he accomplished.
CRUELTY TO W. J. B.
THAT u- a mti-t cruel exhibition 'if
tho nmeuitie-, of practical polities
Which (tovernor Allen gave uhcu, m
his speech nominating (ienenil Wood,
he took a crack nt Mr. Mrwin's now
famous assertion that "h million men
would spring to nrms overnight." with
Mr. Ilrynn sitting in the press box jut
beneath him industriously interpret
ing" the convention toi tliouauds of
readers.
Mr. Bryan, according to the dis
patches, ignored the refeicnce to one of
the high oratorical spots of n career
which, as u whole, has been as replete
in talk ns that of nnj American. It is
even possible, so the news story runs,
that "he did not hear it." Hut this
makes little different e; the point is that
at the time of its utterance about
100,000,000 Ameriian citizens heard it.
Hut Mr. ISnaii has a good defeiihe
if he cares to take up the cudgels with
the governor. No one doubts that "one
million meu would spring to arms" if
the country were threatened, and Mr
liryan didn't say that the men would
know how to use those arms, a military
asset of which the late war proved the'
value. Hut, with the silence of the true I
Statesman, lie chose to ignoie the thrust
And perhaps he was wise at that.
JUNE
-tTTlIEN Ja
W "Oh, wi
James IJussell Lowell wrote!
vbat is so rnro as a day in
June?" he doubtless had tho lovely
physical attributes of the most beau
tiful month of the year In mind, but
June has come to have an even higher
sentimental value than physical, despite
its sunshine ana its roses.
At no time does the vista of life's
jathway appear so bright to the young,
who are tho hope of the nation's future,
in Juno. The graduates nt the
K';w schools and the colleges, fresh from
KrVTJ scaoiasiic triumpns, view me possiniit
I ' JiM wbch seemingly lie before them
with A ifdous optlmbm aad a iU
ronfldence which tiovr comes again.
Hut fortunately for them nnd for us nil
the period of Inevitable disillusionment
is too far off and too vague to be dig
ccrntd. The "world U their oyster."
I but the knowledge that It is a mighty
naru one to crack comes with the snows
of December, never In the sun -bathed
radiance of Juue.
It is fitting, too. that this loveliest of
months, the month of roses and of high
hopes, should be the wedding 411011th,
when marriage license clerks all 'over
the country work overtime and when the
clergy by the fees dispensed by ex
uberant bridegrooms, hnve a chance to
meet the high cost of living. The fu
ture never seems so bright to ouug
lovers ns on the day when they take
each other for better, for worse. If
there is nny time in life when poor
humanity should be permitted to gaze
into what seems to be an unclouded
future it is on this day of day, when
the matrimonial seas are as yet un
ruffled and the skies are azure with
happiness and shot through with the
golden bars of hope.
T.et us all, then, enjoy our Junes
while we may. There are far too few
of them in life, both on the long, hard
climb to the summit anc. on the quick
descent into the shadows beyond.
TODAY AT CHICAGO
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Ql TSTANDIM, signs nnd om
J cjeag0 today show plainly
omens at
that
the Old Guard has been jolted nnd that
its day of complete triumph has passed.
I.owden would have been the uormnl
choice of Mr. Penrose. Wood was the
preference of n number of Mr. Penrose's
friends. Wood nnd Lowden seem to
have been eliminated despite the desper
ate efforts of men who were willing to
spend money endlessly in their behalf.
When, this afternoon. Mr. Penrose sent
word to Chicago that the choice of
Harding vtould not be dtstnstrful to
him, he spoke with n good deal of the
authority of his old dictatorship.
But the apparent complete elimina
tion of Wood and Lowden. rather than
the drift to Harding, represented aeon
cession to the freer political Fcntlmcnt
of the West nnd to the vast and growing
clement in the East which refuses longer
to accept a benign sort of Kaiserism in
its party politics. Since Harding is,
on the whole, the most desirnble of the
candidates generally supported on the
convention iloor. the G. O. P. conven
tion is not the disastrous speetnele that
it might have been had there been no
menacing opposition to the Old Guard
steam roller.
The progressive and independent sen
timent that was expected to make itself
clearly apparent nnd influential on the
floor of the convention exists in the Re
publican party, even if it did not inspire
the delegations. Mr. Johnson, posing
as the spokesman of the progressive ele
ments, did more than nny one else to
play into the hands of tho old-school
leaders. He confused the issues for
those who wish to see the G. O. P. fight
clear of the incubus of incurable stand -pattism.
He monopolized the fore
ground and, by his very violence, be
wildered a good many leaders who arc
clearer minded, if less shrewd, than he.
It was HI who blanketed the out-and-out
progressives nnd left them to take
his dust.
So, when it came to decisions the old
leaders led. The convention did not pro
duce a genius or u man with the mes
sage that the country wns waiting to
hear.
Harding may prove to be that man.
The Old Guard accepted him. He was
not their ehoiie when it appeared
that he was the only candidate on which
the convention could unite. And. so far
as the Penrose influence goes, he is a
free man.
DESPERATE DRESSERS
THEY mut indeed be desperate dress
ers at Itockaway Heach when the
authorities com hide that the only way
to subdue them is to arm thirty female
guards with revolvers nnd clubs and
have them patrol the beach during the
summer season. This formidable posse
has already been sworn in as deputy
sheriffs, nnd the uinrcrs of tho extreme
tIes in bathing suits are the ones who
will receive particular attention.
The bathing suit adils much to the
gajety nf nations during the summer
Mason, but Rockaway is the. first to
admit that its menace is so great as to
i. 'ill for the u-i of firearms to check it.
The objectionable bathing suit is usually
of such design as to permit its wearer,
if necenrj, to make the utmost speed,
and the Solons who guide the destinies
of Roi'knway probably realized that the
average guard would be at a hopeless
disadvantage in Mich a race: hence the
guns. The use of the club is not quite
so clear, unless it be to pound the of
fenihr into insensibility and then clothe
him or her according to the accepted
dress standards of that hitherto some
what broad-minded resort.
Women, however, in the past hnve
not been acknowledged masters of fire
arms. It would be sad If some outraged
lady guard, taking it pot shot at a fleeing
desperate character in dress, should by
mistake hit a bather clnd In legal habil
iment with full blunket or raincoat en
vironment, thus making n target by
comparison almost impossible to miss.
A race between a scuntily clnd man and
thirty armed woniou guards would also
attract some degree of attention from
the boardwalk. Verily, the amusement
possibilities of Rockaway Bench this
.summer are limitless.
Every investigation bases its hope
for success in the proncness of some
"Koat" to grow real devilish and tell
ull he knows.
SOUND ADVICE
W
'HERE docs the ullen In this coun
try get his conception of American
ism? Who aro nis mentors and by
what process is be taught? He seldom
goes to n scnooi. ne noes not travel.
His neighborhood nnd often enough it
is a slum neighborhood Is all of Amer
ica that he knows. Power nnd au
thority ns he meets it in tho new world
aro embodied in ward bosses, division
heelers, tho policeman on his corner
and the foreman ln his shop.
Now nnd then he Btes the influence
of government exerted on what to him
appears a grand scale. Policemen on
horses break up his meetings, as they
did in the neighborhood of Pittsburgh
during the recent Bteel strike. Is it
trnngo that the I. V. W. found tut
alien an eager student ox th llteratura
that it scattered like leaves to- men in
the big Industries with tho pretense of
telling the new citizens tlilur ho ought
to know? Xo one else paid any atten
tion to the mind of the foreign -bom
workman. Xo one ever tried to tell
liiin that there ls.n larger, fairer, juster
America than anything he ever dreniucd
of or sensed in the first uncertain years
of his citizenship. He wns left with n
desire for help and for knowledge. The
I. W. W. promised him both and no
one else did.
All of this nnd more was in the mind
of Doctor Fnunce, president of Brown
University, when he reminded the mem
bers of the graduating class at Haver
ford yesterday of work that the enlight
ened people of the country will have to
do in the competition with forces tvhich
tend to create distrust In millions of
men nnd to use passion and Ignorance
ss political weapons.
The aloofness of educated people In
matters that relate to the general ques
tion of the foreign -born in hardly less
regrettable thnn their occasional atti
tude of lordly patronage.
The I. W. W. is not n Bolshevik or
ganization It is uothinf, so futile. -It
has shrewd direction nnd definite pur
poses and Its propaganda is tuned care
fully to generate hatred In the minds of
all workers. Somebody will have to
compete with it. and somebody will have
to find a way to let the aliens in Amer
ica glimpse the real meanings of citi
zenship In a democracy and the oppor
tunities for happiness that are on every
hand in this country.
The foreigner will have to be led out
of darkness. He will have to be treated
squarely. College men may be unable
to do these things. But they can nt
least try.
TEACHERS' SALARIES
THE Philadelphia public Is probably
as unanimous ns it is possible for a
large number of citizens to bo on any
subject ns to the desirability of giving
more money to the school teachers; tho
only question is how it can best be
done.
The Bureau of Municipal Research
made what looks to be a practical sug
gestion when it went on record ns favor
ing a short -term emergency loan to pro
vide a bonus of $40 a month to the
teachers. The teachers want the bonus
for the first six months of this year,
totaling $240 each, to be paid at the
end of the present month, or an nggre
gatc of $l.ri00,000. This sum. to be
obtained through the proposed loan,
could be mude available to meet imme
diate cash requirements.
If upon consideration it should prove
to be workable, favorable action should
be tnkeu at once. The vacation season
is just ahead and few have been able
to save very much during the last term
with living conditions ns they have
been. It would be an act of grace to
grant these bonuses now .
CIVIC PRIDE THAT COUNTS
IT IS n Philadelphia characteristic
that when any of the city's cherished
institutions are threatened the public,
rich and poor, rises to their salvation
as n mother rises to the defense of her
young. This has had two illustrations
in the last two years in the case of the
Philadelphia Orchestra and the more
recent leasing of the Academy of Music.
The most interesting part of thc an
nouncement of Edward W. Bok in re
gard to the Academy was that the capi
tal stock of the new leasing company
had been largely oversubscribed, nnd
that instead of the twenty-five men who
were originally to take up the burden
of seeing that the Orchestra and the
opera should not be homeless, thirty -four
had volunteered. And this in the
'face of the fact that thc venture cannot
possibly be made profitable and there is
likely to be a substantial deficit at thc
close of each season.
The fine nrts, especially as exempli
fied in the two mediums mentioned,
have never paid their own way, and
under present conditions it is not likely
they ever will, because of thc very large
number of well-paid men which it is
necessary to employ at practically full
time. Therefore the organization of thc
new company represents n gift to the
further culture of the city, the value of
which it is hard to overestimate. The
old method of "financing" the arts was
for some one rich man to do it : the new
plan is immensely superior in thnt it
relieves the organization of practical
dependence upon one person, and thus
makes for permanency.
But back of all this is the even
greater fact that the city is a unit in
tho determination that its great insti
tutions shall not perish. The number
of subscribers to the Orchestrn endow
ment fund showed clearly that almost
all who were able to give at all con
tributed, nud the fact that the
Academy on one occasion nnd the Met
ropolitan Opera House on nnother were
filled with those who gave $2 each was
a striking illustration of popular senti
ment. With rich and poor standing
solidly back of our great art institu
tions there is little fear that they will
ever fall Into perilous ways.
(Jeneral Wood start
A Precedent ed something new in
nntional politics
when he paid n social call on "Hi"
Johnson nnd the other presidential can
didates nt their headquarters in Chi
cago. Most "colls" made by candidates
on others at previous conventions hnvo
had an entirely different renson nnd
hnve beeii purely "business." Tho
general's call may have far-reaching
effects upon the amenities of future
conventions.
Atlantic City has put
Bossing the Air into effect a code for
the regulation o f
aiicroft. As sooner or later a regula
tory air code will probably become the
lnw- of the lnnd nnd copecivnbly will
figure in the platform of n political
party in the not far distant' future,
there is interest and significance In the
fact that the first legislative efforts In
tliis direction should toko place during
n national convention.
It is said that the
The Silver Lining high special prices
charged by the hotels
in Chicago caused tho managers of the
Republican convention to hurry the
business In hand In order thnt delegates
might save a little of their money. The
nominating speeches woro shortened.
And who would over have supposed that
there could bo some good in high prices
after all?
The schools and uni
Tills Hnrtl-Ilolled versltics have just
World turned out some
hundreds of thou
sands of young men and women who
know just what is thc matte.- with civ
ilization nnd how It can be fixed up,
And, ns usual, the world will not listen
to them.
There is an echo of tho stockyards
ln the way Chicago is bossing the news.
TALES OF THE SEA
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Two Philadelphians Who Aro
Experts In the Telling of
Nautical Yarns
By GEORGE NOX McCAIN
A ITHOUGH it is twenty years or so
A
since he was a newspaper worker
In Philadelphia, Ralph D. Paine is still
remembered by the older generation of
the craft.
Some of the most charming products
of his peu and imagination have been
his sea stories, although latterly ho has
been devotlug his talent to talcs of uni
versity life and the doings of college
comedians.
Paine always went in for the real
stuff. I recall how, years ago, ho
spent n week with the Philadelphia firn
company whose house Is on Tenth street
above Market, so that he might ade
quately describe the life of a Philadel
phia fireman.
When he abandoned his journalistic
career to take up magazine nud book
work as a serious occupation he chose,
the sen, with its tragedy and romance,
as his field of effort.
He moved to Salem, Mass., settled
down among the seafaring folk, with
the result that some of the most de
lightful sea stories, redolent of the
salty tang of the waste of waters, were
based on first-hand information and the
reminiscences of a generation of sea
farers that Is rapidly passing away.
rpHERE has been another Phltadel
phinn who, in the prosaic humdrum
of u busy life, has demonstrated an
equnl Interest in the vauishing fleets
of sailing craft that have gone down
to the sea never to return.
George F. Sproulc, nnd I have men
tioned the fact before, stands pro-eml-uent
today as the unofficial chronicler
of n day that is gone.
The distant day of the clipper ship,
and all the miscellaneous canvas
crowned craft and American lime
juicers that sailed into the sunrise, and
westward into the dim Orient, in search
of cargoes that brought gold to the
counting houses of Philadelphia ship
owners. With this introduction as a fan
fare of trumpets nunounccs the ap
proach of a pageant, or tho rising of
the asbestos curtain precedes the play,
let Mr. Sproulc tell the story of n ship
that was und is not.
"L
YING broadside on the Xcw Jersey
Saving Station, with her slx-fo6t mark
ing showing forwnrd, are thc remains of
one of America's once-famous clipper
ships, the George It. Skolflcld, which
was sold twenty-one years ago and cut
down into a barge for service between
here and English ports.
"I noticed tre hull and lower masts of
this vessel when proceeding down the
coast from Ocean City on Sunday last.
It was low tide, so I went close along
side and wns invited by thc caretaker to
come on bonrd.
"Thirty years ago this craft was one
of the famous fleet of 'deep-water'
ships und, if my memory serves me
right, has to her credit n record of
many fast trips around Cape Horn.
"On going abourd things appeared a
bit upset. Thc port anchor cable was
coiled out on deck nud the hawsers aud
old pieces of sails thrown here nnd
there.
"Her decks, contrary to what would
hnvo been the case had she remained a
ship, were painted and were peeling
off, exposing bare places on tho once
snow-white holystoned planks.
(( TUST here, I recollect the story of
O how the skipper, to eliminate from
tho once white decks the bloodstains
from the body of a sailor who had fallen
from nloft, had two planks removed nnd
replaced by others.
"Memory carried me back to her last
trip here from Honolulu with sugar, and
the beautiful sight she presented when
being wurped into the sugar-house pier
on n hot dny In August, 1800 ! She wns
consigned to the old firm of Darrnh &
Elwell, since disbanded. Thus she end
ed her career as a ship, for, after dis
charging, she wns sold and cut down into
n barge.
"American ships nt thnt timo could
be no longer operated nt a profit. Case
oil was being carried to the Far East at
ten cents, compared with $2 paid within
tho lust two yenrs
UTTER after-cabin, although littered
XI with rubbish, retained mnny evi
dences of thc palmy days when Captain
C. S. Dunning commnnded her. Ills
private room nnd bnth were Intact, nnd
even the medicine chest wns left as when
the old square rigger was shorn of her
tip, topgallant mnsts nnd bowsprit.
"I noticed she was thumping henvlly
on the sand, the wind being from the
eastward, but her stalwart frame thus
far has defied the elements,
"The Skolfield, with two other barges,
was being towed from Boston to Phila
delphia on February fi Inst. She broke
adrift from the tug and was driven
through the breakers ashore, where she
now lies,
"Her caretaker told me ho had pur
chnscd the wreck for J1000 and had
Just sold it for $.1000. The new owners
will endeavor to get her atloat.
"This ship wns built in Brunswick,
Mc., in 1885, nud is 2.i2 feet long. 30-74
foot beam, 21ljj-foot depth of hold and
l.'iOO tons net register, Sho wuh built
and originally owned by Skolfield Bros.,
of Brunswick.
"How this sight linked up bygone
days when American citizens had a
me'rchnnt marine, skippers and sailors
of their own!
"It is just sixty-six years since the
American clipper ship Lightning, built
in Enst Boston by Donnld McKay, made
the run in ten days from Boston Light
to Eaglo Point, on the northwest coast
of Ireland, nnd ono of her perform
mices WW miles In twenty-four hours
still stands as the greatest run ever
made under canvas.
"Pity It Is that this graceful type of
craft had to give way to steam!"
The Johnson whose
first name is Hiram
is pleased. The pro
posed Lcaguo of Na
Ring the
Glad Bells!
tions pluuk made him happy. Ho said
so. He smiled. And it didn't kill him I
SHOUT CjUTS
"All over but the shouting."
Where Johnson pictured a close-up
he now sccs'a fade-away.
We ought to be nss'ured of n stable
government with so many dark horses
in the field.
There nre apparently one or two
men in town who dou't know that Varo
rule la dead.
W ill the backers of the Big Threi
consider that they hove had a run fo!
their money?
Nominating speeches did not no
ticeably rnlso tho temperature of the
Coliseum yesterday.
All that is now needed to damn the
platform is the approval of tho Hearst
newspapers.
Incidentally, Jt should bo remem
bered that people do not follow diplo
mats to victory.
Why arc delegates equipped with
tongues when n cqwbell so veil expresses
their mass emotion?
In the matter of tho daily licking,
it is a case of give nnd take with the
Poles and the Bolshevlkl.
The indications grow more pro
nounced that Johnson is finding the
Hearst band wagon a hearse.
Weasel words aro as prolific as
r ., ' ,A fcw ln a Platform In just
a little while may flood the country.
Perhaps the friendliness of Pcn
r?8i anrol will acquire warmth and
virility before tho convention adjourns.
, .Not a soul in the country will find
fault with the plank condemning Bur
leson h administration of the postofflce.
The Arkonsas delegate who sat on
tt,iackln thc convention hall ways it is
old stuff, but still good for a rlso out of
a man.
The oung Lady Next Door But
One says she supposes the weasels in
the platform aro the Borahs from
within.
In making n League of Nations
plank to please evcrjbody tho Repub
lican convention included tho Demo
crats. Borah and Johnson, having demon
strated that minorities rule, may con
sider tho feasibility of establishing a
dictatoratc.
The Blunt Guy avers that no strong
candidate will bo able to btand on tho
new platform. He'll have to stand
under it nud hold it up.
If Johnson hns the making of the
candidate it is a cinch It won't bo
Hoover. But there is an off chnnce
that Hiram won't have nny say-so.
V. BInsco Ibauez says the Repub
lican convention Is tho most interesting
nnd inspiring spectacle he has ever wit
nessed. As a trained seal, V. Blasco
is u smooth diplomat.
Perhaps it was the excitement of
the convention thnt caused summer
to arrive ten days ahead of schedule and
Immediately proceed to have n hot old
time.
And there will nlwnys be those in
thc party firm In the belief that though
thc making of thc platform meant n lot
of hammering, there were darned few
nails used.
There is n popular fiction nbrond
that man is a reasoning animal. Na
tional conventions arc probably designed
to prove this a fallacy. Man is a nolsc
producing instrument.
yesterday wns thc hottest dav of
the year in Philadelphia. So it wa's in
Chicago ulso, although the rending of
the thermometer there hod little to do
with it.
THE MOP-MAN
TN HOTEL, in library, cafo or shop,
L I nlwnys encounter the man with thc
mop ;
I shudder and call him a blot on thc
scene,
But he calmly ignores mc nnd makes
the floor clean.
Ho sloshes around under tnble and sent
.vnu buinriimcs requests mo to lift un
my feet ; l
He stations his pail near my delicate
nose,
As, quite unconcerned, at his business
he goes.
Oh, mop-man, please tell me. when
some time I die,
Andsky(1WerV,,r0at,h " homc in tho
Erasing Unearth. dust brought in by
-Mella 'R McCnllum, the N. Y
Evening Post.
What Do You Knoiv?
QUIZ
1. When was Charleston, s.
C. first
2. Who was the first secretnrv e .
of the L'nltcu .State" y of wnr
BVlllKI 1
3' 'ocean? Hnn 0f tho Atlantic
4. Is there another word in ,h t
llsh language n w), ? ""s u??nE
pronounced ns In suirnr" J",
"sumac"? Uff"r ""d
f,. Where did Idaho Ret Its name?
6 Who was firant Allen? ,of
7. What and whore nH Hrook p.,
8. Who were tho Ingham ? ftrm?
9. What were the Ingoldsby lecenda
10- yfel ?,'? William T&uanr,
... ..MttojiuiiHiv uecome Her, no.
of tho treasury nnd tr, ,....clr.etafy
inet; " """"a can-
Answers to Yesterday's Quiz
1. Maria Anno Lowell ndapted tho m
Ingomar tho Barbarian "rX
tho German "!r Sohn ler wnin
. J,,s of '"'leclrlcl, Halm. r " M'
2. Tho first secretary of the treat,,..,
was Alexander Hamilton. &
3' CTocHn lMDn th 0miUe8t of Ml
4. The census of 1920 plvos tho norm
latlon of Norfolk. Va a lB'
6. Tho water area of the earth li i tn
298,000 squaro miles. s 10'"
6. "Sumac'' Is pronounced "shoo-mack"
with tho accent on tho first sy i-
7. California got Its name from tho.
Latin "Callda fornnx," T ho
furnnce. noc
8. Cochineal Is tho nnmo of a certain
kind of wood louse nnd also , il!i
dyo derived from It. n ,so the
9 The Cock Lune Ohost, famous in
literature. Is alleged to have i mani
tested ltsif In ?-ocK Lane ion
don, In 1752. ,'0"-
10. The Cockney Schoot of Pootry la n
nickname John Olbson Lockhart
tried to fix on a school of write
HazuTt"5 L" Hunt,' Keals 'and
YOU
, .. jjs. .-... ,- .-.. -.. .u. Si . .jri.StrS s'S
ALLEN LOSES HIS CHANCE
TO BE SECOND GARFIELD
Kansas Governor's Speech for
Opportunity Passes Him By
By CLINTON' W. GILBERT
Copurioht. lOiO. ou Publio Ledger Co.
Chicago, June 12. A Hnrveylzcd
League of Nations plank in the Repub
lican platform is one of the oddities of
this strange convention. Colonel Har
vey is an old Democratic editor belong
ing to the now nenrly extinct Thomns
F. Ryan faction of the Democratic
party. He was the discoverer of Wil
son ns n candidate for President, nnd
because Wilson, on account of Ryan
connections, wanted to push Harvey
into the background, tho colonel beenme
Incensed at his candidate und has been
having his revenge ever since. Thc
colonel edits n weekly of sixteen pages,
fourteen of which arc devoted to de
nouncing Wilson.
The colonel hns a house in Washing
ton on K street, right between the
homes of those two leading 'bitter
enders, Senntors Knox and Brnndegee.
He has been in the thick of tho treaty
fight, being tho inspiration of thc anti
leagucrs. And hero nt Chicago his
rooms nt the Blackstouo was the meet
ing place where the League of Nations
plank wns agreed upon nnd where Sen
ntor Borah shook his fist under thc
uose of ex-Scnntor Murray Crane.
There is good cheer wherever Ilnr
vev has his headquarters, which inny
be one reuson why the former Demo
cintie editor was thc host of the Re
publican platform makers. But the
colonel's clever editorial pencil was
,f demand His editing is .nil over the
. Innk His revenge on W llson Is now
complete, provided thnt a bitter-ender
3s upon the Hnrvcyized platform.
Whether tho Democratic editor had a
hand in nominating the Republican can
Mate, as well as in writing he lie
n blicau platform. Is not yet disclosed.
But it "s nn odd comment in the sltua
f?". .i.-f f-n Democratic editors tried
to furnish to thc Republican party the
leaden! lp which the Republicans were
',".. .imvlde for themselves Harvey
on tho platform nnd Henrst in nnming
,1... nnndldate.
An oncn convention like this is full
w " JI .nlties mostly lost. There wns
V,1 "'!'.." Alien, nf Kansns. When he
debated with Gompers in New lork, the
Lincoln-Douglas parallel occurred to
!?' Alien had his opportunity. He
might have won the country in the de
bate and become the cundidnte for Prcsi-
rlent.
Aealn when it came to mnking the
"K"': i. t nvn,i aii
migl t lav" repeated the Garfield paral
??''? iRRO. At the 1880 convention
Garfield was not a candidate He made
a wondenu spvev.. ....... ....v.. -
r Ohio, to whom he wns pledged.
Bv the speech he caught tho eye of the
convention nnd though for thirty-live
bnllots ho never had more than fifty
VOteS Oil tno Ull") -nii.i mc a muu-
Inntcd for President.
The 1880 convention wns the longest
.......do in the history of the Repub
lican party. Genernl Grant, who had
served two terms ns President, was,
after an Interval of four years, a can
didate for a third nomluntlon. His
forces were led by the famous Senator
Roscoe Conkllng, of New York.
Conkling made a great nominating
speech probnbly the most eloquent In
the hlltory of party conventions.
And out of the strngglo which devel
oped between the purtisnns of Grant,
Blaine nnd Sherman enmo the split in
the Republican party which inspired the
murder of Garfield nnd which resulted
luter, when Blaino himself wns nomi
nated, In the first return of the Demo
erotic party to power with tho election
of Grovcr Cleveland.
Garfield was ono man who was made
President by tho eloquencu of his nom
inating speech. Another innn who just
missed becoming President In tho same
way was Herbert Ilndley In the con
vention of 1012. Hadley led the Roose
velt forces in tho great fight on Taft,
and by his eloquence nnd the charm of
his personality tremendously impressed
the delegates.
Tho convention wished to avoid the
KNOW, THAT FEELING
VV ' ' '
Wood Fails to Hit Bulheye and
Probably Too Self-Conscious
issue rnised by the personnl bitterness
between Roosevelt and Tnft by choos
ing Hadley as n candidate. But Had
ley was wise enough to see thnt the
quarrel between Tnft and Roosevelt had
gono too far to be compromised, nnd
so he discouraged every suggestion thnt
his name bo brought forward as n cnu
didatc. He came nearer thnn nny other man
had ever done to refusing a nomination
for the presidency.
Governor Allen missed being n Gar
field or u Hadley. He had not spoken
a dozen sentences before one knew the
convention would not turn to him as
Its choice. The thing is hnrd to ex
plain. Allen hns the roputntion of be
ing nn eloquent speaker, but he was
not eloquent in behalf of General Wood.
In personal contact he shows n vivid
personality, but from the platform you
would havo supposed him to be a rather
mechanical, commonplnco individual.
He did not get over.
Perhaps it was self-consciousness. He
had something to do which neither Gar
field nor Hadley had to do. Neither
of them was a conscious candidate.
Allen wns.
Allen had hopes.
THE CRITIC TALKS
TO MUSIC LOVERS
Weekly Comment on Things Musi
cal in Discriminating
Philadelphia
THE attendance at the three per
formances of thc Puccini Opera
Company, at tho Academy of Music hist
week, whs u gratifying one, although it
wns by no means so large as the ex
cellence of the performance deserved.
Tho opern has for years been as
much n social function ns a musical
performance. If this unfortunate state
of affairs did not exist, companies of
the merit of the one which plaved here
last week would be received with largo
audiences nnd much enthusiasm. If the
upbuilding of nn operatic tradition,
which is nn essential to tills country
ever producing first -class operatic
composers who know the technique of
the opera and how to compose for the
stage is to be accomplished, it will
only bo through the education of the
masses of our people to what is goud
and whnt is bad in opera.
This education can only be obtained
through repented hearings of the
mnstcrplcces of operatic composition.
'I he main function of the smnllcr opera
companies and their chief value to our
music Is to educate. The Metropolitan
Opern Company does this to a degree
but with only sixteen performances n
season, very much along this line can
not be nrcompllshed.
TjlOR this reason, when tho smaller
compnnles como to thc city, thev
should bn received by audiences ns hirce
as can be got Into the auditorium of
the places where they are plavin"1
There has been n steady increase",
the number of smaller companies of ex
collence which arc touring the counrrv
nnd they certainly should bo encouraged
Thus far. tho West has been more
responsive than the East in Its recep.
tlon of these conipnn es. perhans i,
cause their onnortuniHeM L'? '' "
great componlcs nro smnller. but
likely because they have the western
enthusiasm which makes them take , in
most movements with greater vigor
than we do on the Atlnntlc const.
Grand opera at popular prices la
entirely, feasible and when th onnnr
tunity comes to hear it. It " hnufd hi
encouraged. The "star" sysern ' ft
which Is meant tho HlliB of ', V
role with only one great singer, fftp,
means nn ill balanced performanen
This Is not the en ... i.i ,...or.mn.nco-
nnllfnn wlilMi ,.!. (,.. i'. .." . -ietro-
politnu, which with Its long lint of l rent
singers can put a "star" i .......... r. nt
even the most insignificant, but ,1.
the case in manv performances, t'w
vry part
peopl
eople on tho stage can act or sine
un to" a Caruso nr v..' """:
tho result is often unfavorable to The
general balance of the .!, t" !Pe
nd
smaller companies this disparity 12
.,, ..v w unuuui oi mo more
nearly equal vocal equipment of the
cast.
BUT opera is not nil singing and act
ing. In tho performances last week,
thc principal feature was thc enthusi
asm of both enst nnd chorus. This rare
attribute is not often found among com
panies containing the greatest stars.
They are generally highly tempcrnmen
tnl, which results cither in a perform
ance of the highest merit or in one
which falls below tho nvcragc.
The enormous cost of opern, even
where there nro no stars of thn first
mngnltude to eat up most of tho admis
sions in fees, is the mnin drnwbnck to
Its general acceptance by our public.
A modern opera requires nn orchestra
of nt least forty-five or fifty, many of
whom must be musicinns of great skill
nml experience, nnd ns such, must be
highly pnid. Tho "chorus operas" nho
are expensive to give, as nn equal num
ber of trained chorus singers must bo
ndded to tho payroll. For these rea
sons it is impossible to got the ndmls
slon prices down quito so low as those
of the theatres, but ns was the case
last week, there was not much dif
ference. The main trouble is not tho lack of
money on the part of tho public, but iti
failure to realize what even n short
season of opera will do for their musi
cal culture. When this knowledgo is
acquired, tho problem of nudicnecs for
the smaller companies will be effectually
bolvcd.
IEW concert-goers npprocinte the
disadvantages under which the "as-Ms-ting
artist" usually labors in nppear
ng on tho samo program with a popu
lar musical idol, such ns Tlttn Ruffo,
John McCormnck or other drawing card
pf this rank. Of nil tho difficult places
iti musical performance, this is ono of
the worst.
In tho first place the unfortunate
assistant" rcnlizes quito keenly thnt
the largo nudlenco is there only to hear
the grcnt "star" nnd that alono he or
site could not drnw more than a cor
poral s guard. This feeling in itself
is not calculated to Inspire tho self
confidence that is necessary to a first
class performance nnd it Is frequently
aggravated by the unintentional nttl
tuilo of the audience, which often show
only too plainly that it considers the
assistant only n nccessnrv evil to be
borne while tho popular idol rests be
tween the groups of songs nnd bunches
of encores which mnko up his every ap
pearance. Notwithstanding this handicap, the
work of the "assisting nrtist" is often
of a high standard. Tho writer lmi
heard concerts in which the lowly as
s slant consldcrnbly surpassed In mu
sicianship the work of tho soloist. Hut
could he make tho nudlenco bellcvo tills)
ISever. They enmo to hear some one
with a grent reputation nnd that repu
tation, fully n h much ns the perform
ance, governed the applause.
QF COURSE it Is not to bo supposed
Y for a moment thnt nny star, cap
able of filling the Metropolitan or the
Academy, is going to havo an "assist
ing nrtist" who will attract too much
public attention. When this occurs,
there Is no longer nn assistant, hut the
affair becomes a "Joint concert." In
this case, there is a division of money
nnd applause, n situation repugnnnt to
most stars.
But it must be said for tho stM
that they are usually anxious that the
"assisting nrtist" Hhnll draw a goodly
meed of applause. Very few of them (!
to the length nf singing a song with nn
instrumental ohbligoto and sharing the
plaudits of the house with the In
strumentalist, but they nro pcrfictlr
willing thnt the player shall score what
he can "on his own," Tho point
that the assistant often does work of a
musical caliber which deserves far
more recognition than it ever gets with
it heavy drawing enrd as the chief end
of the concert.
Theso assistants nre used almost ex
cliislvcly by singers and for two rea
sons, one to give the vocalist a reit
and the other for variety. Amcrlean
nudlenccs nro Ollvor Twists In de
manding "more," nud tho singer who
gives three or four songs nnd as many
encores every time ho appears on tne
stnge needs n littlo rest nfter n cotipw
of groups. If the encores arc not forth
coming, the singer is deemed ungracious
with bnd box office results the n
time ho conies. A famous Italian bari
tone bnd a taste of that this last sea
son. Thcreforo tho assistant Jms nw
uses uvea if ho is not nlwuys apra
elated.
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