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PhiUdtlphli, Mondiy. June 14.
1920
A FOUR-YEAR PROGRAM FOR
PHILADELPHIA
Thin? on wlilcli tlir people expect
thi nrn ailmlnUtrntlon to innreii
trte lt nfttntlant
The Delauare Hi er bridge
A drydoek Ha enough to accommo
date the largest iftlps
Developmont of the rapid transit ays
fern. ,
A eoiueittlon hall
A buildino or the Free Library.
An Art Museum
Enlargement of the uafrr stipplj.
Hontf to actommodaf the popula
tion. THE HIGH COST OF ED
UNLESS all reports iinil minors He,
things will hum at Tlty Hall when
Mavor Moore returns from Chicago to
find' that the enem ha adanred a cou
sldfrablo distame nn the sector of the
city committee.
Varoite. almost all of them. In mu
nicipal offices hne been ordefetl to
prepare for dreidful shoks. A bland
statement at the Vare oflue announces
that hurried vePartion', nre beinf
made to receive additional caualtles in
the county offices Those who suffer
will have, themsehea to blame It is.
as the French used to sa. war But
how odd it is to read of a political boss
calmly arrangins to hae the public go
deeper into it,i hard-pressed pockets to
pay for the iUeep of his army '
Our preent fix, as n uty, is dis
agreeably like that of ome of the for
eign communities which, ocrupied by
the enemy, had to pay constant tribute
to the invader.
CLEAN AIR AND MORALS
ON SATTRDAY last the new
freh air farm of the Methodist
Episcopal Church was dedicated, an
institution which is probably destined
to play an important part in the lives
of many children of the less fortunately
located portions of the cit. The farm
was made possible throiiph the munifi
cence of Justice Simpson, of the state
Supreme Court ; .loseph M Perry and
other public-spirited Methodists
Institutions such as this are im
portant in the. actual opportunities
which they provide for the upbuilding
of the health of those ilnldren fortunate
enough to enjov the advantages they
offer, but the glimpses thc give into a
life hitherto prarthulU unknown to
many of these little onei is of een
greater value
Many a child has had Ins whole ideas
of life reconstructed foi the better by
a week's sojourn at an institution llko
the Carson-Simpson Recreation House
New standards of living are given and
higher ideals implanted, with the result
that, however greatly the ihild may be
improved phvicall b its vacation
under these fuvorablc iroumstanu's, tho
spiritual giowth transcends it No
matter to what Kind of home the little
one returns, the lessons of its country
week, taught at the most impression
able age, are bound to remain
"A sound mind in a sound body' are
the essential elements of good itucn
ship, the new Methodist faun will stun
ulate the growth of both
UP-TO-DATE MAGIC
fTtHF I'hiladclphw AssembH of the
SociPtj of Amerii an Mngn ian .rave
au exhibition of the power of aome of
its members an eveniu,; or two ago m
one of the i ity's nsxembli rooms The
society was in the tight i itv but m thi
wrong hall the meetiug should have
been held in the big huildiug m the in
terscftlon of Rroad and Market streets,
vhere the talents displaud might have
been of prniticnl value although I'hll
adelphia i needs for niagii aie bv no
means loutiucd to that ohm spot
Mavor Moore might meive them
with opn in ms if the inuguiuns could
lhovv him how most i-ffcitivelv to wipe
out certain pestilential elements in the
citv s political complexion
Over in the Lihertv Iliiilding n cer
tain inntraitor would welcome their aid
in cleaning the streets . it seems to be
the onlv wav that it will ever be nc
complished He needs no iissistanee,
natural or supernatuial, in collecting
the bills
The Philadelphia Rapid Transit Com
pany would pav big for anj help which
would show it hv to pnv the enor
mous icntal- to tlie iinderlving com
panies pay dividends uud ui the Mime
time keep out of hot w iter with the
public
The magicians iliarlv vv listed their
talents iu giving nn exhibit mu In tore
their own members and friend-, when
to nun h that was of guuter importance
awaited their best iffuits
A PRESIDENTIAL PARDON
IT IS probable that the pardon gnintuj
b Presldeut Wiliiuu to the editing
pf the Philadelphia Tagehlatt is pre
Railnarj to general executive (lenienej
far a great many men who aie doing
time in federal jails for offenses that
became known us "political crimes'
fluting the yearn of the war. Not only
the approach of a presidential cainpiiigu
bi(t the trend of thought Iu many
quarters unrelated to partisan politics
supports this view,
Tho' justice of that sort of procedure
la , twitter upout whixb Individual v)!
pliwys differ. In England, thpsc who
were Imprisoned for acts promotid by
conscientious opposition to the w,hole
theory of war were held for anly a
short time nfter the end tt active hos
tilities. The RrltUh have been more
liberal, on the tvholo. than we have
been in dealing with objectors of nil
sorts.
In this countrjc however, some of the
crimes rommitted by those who later
sought Immunity as conscientious oh
jectori were strangely odious and nl
most unforgivable Siuh were the vio
lations of law ;uid hospitality and good
tiisto charged against Werner, U.irknw
mid I.Miike who nfter siiccesfu11.v
maneuvering to i void the jail terms
meted nut to them for their work as
pro Herman Journalists nre now safe
from ptnlvhmcnt. Thrv were aetlvi
partisan of (Irriminv and the Herman
cause while we were at war with the
ficriunns. They were not lmmanltii
linns wlu found themselves In conflict
with establlsheil nithorlty because of
moral or religious scruples They were
friends of an enemy who made wnr
more ntrocious than It ever was before.
It is with this knowledge In mind Mint
the Piesltleut's iict'on will have to be
fudged.
HARDING. LAUNCHED, MUST
PLAY PILOT FOR THE PARTY
HI Conscience Will Ba of More
Help to Him Than the Plat
form or the Orators
TnORTCNATCLY for the country there
is a long, vivid and formative
interval between national conventions
and national elections It is n period
of revelation in which a presidential
iqndidate finds himself, and, as n rule,
develops the policj and the point of
view that actually guide him in office.
There ara Republicans who would
have preferred another candidate than
Mr Harding Rut Harding has at least
the advantage of an open mind. As
men go in politics and in affairs he
looms large And in the contact and
associations which he will experience
during what promises to bo a hard and
exacting campaign he will bo able to
learn more in a dav about what is at
the heart of America than he could learn
In months as a spectator and listener
at anj convention of any political party.
Dining the months to come, therefore,
Mr. Harding as well as those who will
have to manage his campaign, will have
an opportunitv to fight, free of the
hypnotic effects of standpat oratory and
a stnndpat platform.
The newest candidate of the G. O. P.
has been aligned with the Old Guard,
though not hopelesslv aligned with it,
in Ohio and in the Senate He is not
hard-boiled His mind has not been
frozen either with bigotry or with fenr.
And to dismiss n man who happens
merely to be conservative would be al
together unwise in a time when depend
able balances are needed amid a play
of new political and economic forces that
no ono is able compleflv to analyze,
and that tenn. at times, toward un
known and dangerous end. No one
knows better than Mr Harding and his
friends that the country Is weary of
professional standpatters and that, no
matter what tho professionals at Chi
cago may think, a man who is con
servative and nothing more is not the
inau needed or desired in the White
House.
The degree to which Mr. Jr larding
can sense and respond to the collective
will of a countrv that Is at heart cour
ageous, just and progressive will deter
mine his fitness. He will haru to blaze
his own wav and go according to his
own freo conscience and, in the end,
formulate his own policies
The platform will help him In no im
portant instance, nor can ho find much
inspiration in the work of tho orators
who moved iu a drearv procession across
the stage at Chicago They left him
manv platitudes worn thin at other convention-
Yet iu his present position
Mr Harding is no different from jthcr
candidates who havo had to fight the
battles of both old parties In the past.
All men who ever sought the presidency
got a large part of their education on the
stump That is where Hardiug will
get his
Thus far the professionals havo had
their wav with the party's affairs. The
time between now and November be
longs to the people, who have n way
of making their opinions and their power
and their wishes understood during every
rational cunpaign
Harding is merely launched. He will
have to device his own platform, just
as all other great Presidents have done,
and tho digrre of his sincerity at that
difficult occupation will, in all proba
bility determine the degree of his sue
cess first ut the polls and later in the
White House
The predominance of noise and hollow
phrases it nath lial conventions provides
no basis for an indictment of a partv
It is rather evidence for an indictment
of the slipshod and outworn sgtem of
partv administration prevailing in the
I nited States We shall have a repe
tition of the Chicago scenes nt San
Frnntisfo And so long as such spec
taelis continue they will prove merely
that the process of government under
demouatif forms is still far from pei -fee
t and In need of a great deal of re
tinement
K it were tn be assumed that the
i; ll p stood for nothing but whit
was reflected In the platform ornton
we should have to believe that the partv
is the one thing under the sim that
does not move We should have to
believe that the partv's leuders hre
sunk in a state of ineptitude and derav
In Chicago, for example there wus
far too little of the Republicanism of
T.vft, of Roosevelt, of Wiekcrshaiii of
Hoover Republicanism us it iiwts m
the West on the farms. In the schools
unci the lolleges and in the progressive
cities of the I'ouiitrj, had fiw to speak
for It.
The inning of the real R publicans
of the country will (nine now
The front pages of the newspapers
'Ivureil of btur spingltd -peei hes and
the iiairative of elnboi ite partv mnneu
vers will tell again of the ferment in
Meiico, of stupendous readjustment iu
Kui ope, of the. decline of agriculture
of labor and Us demands, of new align
mints of new fore i s m Amerim and
elsewhere These are the actuulities of
exlstonco toda
Senator Hardiug will sense this Iu
his. tours of the country he will be
brought into direct contact with people.
He will feel the effect of popular opinion
as U is reflected In a huudred ways
through assemblies, the newspapers and
in Congress
The people will feel that thoy ar
meeting Mr. Harding for the first time,
And it is the Harding who develops be
tavern now and election and whose ac
fjuajutanee the country will make be
tween now and election who will take
the test at t(ic, polls,
Governor Coolldge, of Massachusetts,
Is an admirable candidate for the vice
presidency. Ills nomination Is nn in
dorsement by the Republican party of
his insistence on the theory that the
first duty of public offlcUls is loyalty to
the government.
THE HOUSING SITUATION
PHILADELPHIA has had practically
no building from (he time the war
began up tj the present spring The
normh! demand of the city Is for about
BOOO new houses each .vear, so that the
slortnge at the beginning of the cur
rent building easuu was not far from
in.OOiJ houses. With building ma
terials co'tlj and scarce nn.d labor con
dltlons not an too well settled after
the wai it Is not likely that manv more
than ."000 or at tho most Tt'OO houses
will be built this summer-nnd fall nnd
available when cold weather comes
about the middle or end of October,
still leaving a considerable shortage.
Thi shortage has been met by the
people In two wns. First, a very
large number of persons bought their
own honios, second, two or more fami
lies "doubled up" nnd occupied ouc
house a condition rare here before the
real etatc congestion came. Phlladel
phia i well-named the "City of
Home, for no other city in the coun
trv has so many families both owning
and occupying their own homes.
Thousands of families who live In
rented houses for vears made a prac
tice of letting their leases lapse in June
or eailv .lul and going to the seashore
for the summer, thus saving a sum
mer's rent and leaving the tiuedtlon of
wluter quarters to be decided in the fall
when the returned. There arc rela
tively few of these this year, as the
lesson of the scarcity of real estate to
rent wos effectively taught last year,
but still there are borne, and probably
n sufficient number to be reckoned with
in the fall.
The banks, by their refusal further
to finance speculative investments In
tenl estate, led the wy to the changcvl
conditions. Whether or not the finan
cial Institutions felt the force of public
opinion is immaterial, but the opinion
of the people has a manner of making
itself felt, and there can be no douht
that it was entirely adverse to specula
tion In homes as welt as to speculation
in other necessities of life.
With the increased prices of building
material and labor, it now costs almost
Iwice as much to build as It did before
the war. That is. a two-story house
formerly costiug about $2700 to $3500
to build now costs about SOSOO. This
increased cost, of course, must be met
by the buyer. On account of the vast
geographical extent of the city, real
estate values here prior to the war were
lower than in any large city In the
country. There has been inflation, of
course, and thev will drop in the fu
ture: but it will be jears, If aver-, be
fore the return to the pre-war valua
tions. Another singular manifestation of the
real estate stringene has been the de
mand for the two-story house. In many
parts of West Philadelphia they are
selling at larger figures than three
story houses and command a more ready
sale. Economy in beating is probably
the chief reason for this, although the
two. story house has always been ex
ceecllngly popular here.
The solution of the housing problem,
at least in so far as it relates to tho
individual home, is in more nnd speedier
building Cntil that conies there is
danger that the situation mav again
become acute, although any return to
the intolerable conditions of the last
winter and spring is unlikel.v.
GOVERNMENT OWNERSHIP
ONE of the strongest arguments yet
made against government owner
ship of public utilities was presented
by Representative Saunders, of In
diana, on the floor of the House. Al
though an attack upon former Secretary
McAdoo, the points ho made against
government railroad operation were so
strong as to deserve attention.
The dsilv cost of government opera
tion, he declared, was .$1,006,007, a
portion of which, lie s.ald, was used
for political purposes. It is common
knowledge that the cost of operation
under the government was greatly in
excess of that of private control, which
was only to be expected, us the govern
ment by some inscrutable economic law
nppears alwa.vs to pay more and get
li -s for the money than the individual.
However, it is in the possibilities of
political juggling when the government
owns or supervises business organiza
tions fmploving a groat number of
voters that the real danger lies, not only
ti the efficiency of service hut also to
the ideals and institutions of the re
public Mr Saunders frankly accused
Mr Medoo of using his position as
director general of railroads with the
hopo of tying the 2,000,000 votes of the
railroad workers to the Democratic
part ami more especially for the ud
wimcment of his own political ainbi
tions
Without accepting this statement
nhollv, it must be admitted that under
.'iivcrument supervision such a situa
tion might readily develop There are
alieadv far too many government em
limes main of whose jobs depend upon
the (ontinuanco in office of the party in
iiower (iovernment owneiship would
nit lease this number enormously, and
the temptation to use federul positions
jud federal money for tuch purposes Is
i) gnat to be ignored
In Philadelphia we have had too
mouv j ears ot painful experience with
hia sort of thing. Government ownei -ihip
would simply have a tendency, to
put it mildly, to nationalize one of the
very worst features, of our form of gov
iniucnt.
Tho weather predlc
tion for the region
n rrurate
Forecast
of the Great Lakes
for Hitturday read .
occasional showers and
Unsettled,
thunderstorms, warm." The foiocast
was not primarily directed to the lie
publican convention in Chicago, but at
that it could hardly hove been excelled
fot ace uracv
Uncle Dave Lane
has been elected to
the Republican citv
committee after he
Significant
Election
had once resigned from it Evldentl
thoe who in the past have profited hv
the political counsel of I'ncle Dave see
a sufficient number of gales ohead to
make thim anxious for the advico of
one who has steered many courses well
for the bovs If not so well for the city
The significance of
Come on In! three fingers has
The Water's Fine! d e f I n i t ly dlsap
peaied, but the sign
of two fingers still delights the youth
of the land. Cit public bathhouses,
and r'Katle-n aw Imping pools open.
June 20.
MAKING PRESIDENTS
Careful Proparatlpn Sometimes
Nullified by trifling Incidents
BEING President of the United
Stales Is n big job with big respon
sibilities Selecting a man for the po
sition, therefore, Is also a big job with
big responsibilities. With few excep
tions our Presidents hove measured up
to their positions Rut liifstory proves
that so far as the selection is concerned
good luck rather thnn good management
ha often favored the nation Trivial
Incidents have frequently nffected re
sults. There was probably only one man in
the history of the country who refused
ti receive n letter notifying him of his
nomination for the presidency, because
that letter did not have the postage pre
pnld. and allowed the missive to go to
the Dead Letter Office The cundldato
whe enjovs tills untiie distinction was
General JCaehnry Taylor, and tho inci
dent occurred after the Whig convention
of ISIS.
THE chnlrman of the convention,
Governor Moorhead, of North Caro
lina, after the convention wrote to
General Tnvlor nt Raton Rouge, Lb.,
npprlslng him of his nomination. At
that time the prepayment of postage
was not compulsory and tinpnid letters
were charged from five to ten times the
present rate of postage. No answer
came from "Old Rough and Ready,"
and as the telegraph was then in its
Infnncv. very expensive -and none too
reliable ns an agency, the governor, in
the course of two or three weeks, sent
a trusted emissary to General Taylor to
find out why his letter of acceptance
had not been forthcoming.
Then the truth enme out. Every no
liticoi crank in the country nnd a good
manv other persons as well had written
letters to the gcnernl, and very few had
prepaid the postage. Infuriated bevond.
endurance nt tho tax imposed upon hlm,
the old warrior had given instructions to
the postmaster that every letter not
prepaid should be sent to the Dead Let
ter Office, and thither Governor Moor-
head s letter had gone.
The governor, assuming that a letter
notifvinc n man of his nomination for
the presidency, which carried with It
almost the certainty of election, would
be a matter of interest to anv mani had
not prepaid the postage. Rut he had
reckoned without his host, for the gen
eral refused to accept the letter and
directed that it be sent to the Dead
Letter Office. When the truth came to
light a second letter was sent, prepaid
this time, in accordance with the gen
eral's stipulation. General Taylor
promptly responded, accepting the nom
ination, and it was explained to the
public that the original letter had been
"lost in the mail."
A
TOTALLY unnecessary and indis
creet letter cost Genoral Wmfield
Scott the presidency in 1840 by defeat
ing hlm i the convention, the one time
when n nomination for him was tanta
mount to nn election. He was nomi
nated In 1S52 bv the Whigs, but was
defeated at the polls by Franklin
Pierce. .
The chief candidates for the Whig
nomination In 1810 were General Scott
and General William Henry Harrison.
Virginia held tje balance of power in
the convention. anc whichever candi
date succeeded in getting the vote of the
delegation from that state was assured
of the nomination nnd ot the election.
Scott, who was perhaps too fond ot
letter-writing, had written to Francis
Grnnger. of New York, a letter in
which he plainly attempted to con
ciliate the nntl-slavcry sentiment of
that stote Granger gave the letter to
Stevens, who called nt the headquarters
of the Virginia delegation, which was
the storm center and always crowded.
Refore leaving he dropped the letter on
the floor, where It was soon found nnd
its contents made known to the mem
bers of the delegation, who decided in
stantly to mpport Harrison That
letter cost Scott the ambition of his
life, os Van Ruren went down to -an
overwhelming defeat
JTiHE nonexistence of cables and tele-
graphs is generally conceded to have
made Andrew .Inckson twice President
and to have given him the opportunity,
which he so ahlv seized, to become the
first great political dictator of the
cnuntrv He would probably never
have been a prominent candidate for
the presidency except for the fact that
he won a tremendous popular prestige
bv defeating the British in tho battle
of New Orleans on the 8th of January,
1S1.", about two weeks after peace had
been declared
Had the cables and telegraphs been
,in existence at that tiraa the battle of
.New urieans wouiu never nne ocen
fought ami Jackson could havo in no
other wn acquired the prestige which
made him the popi.lar candidate of the
whole country in 1828.
AVERY importnnt mntter in tho
succession of the Vice President to
the presidency was decided when tho
first break in the office of President
enme in IS 10 by the death of the then
President. General William Henry Har
rlsou He was in feeble health when
he assumed the office and died a month
later
John Tvler was Vice President and
he was living quietly nn his farm on
the Virginia pculnsuln. Telegraphs
were unknown and he could not be
reached bv inllway. Thus he had no
knowledge of the fact that he had be
come President through the death of
Harrison until late the next day, when
Webster and another member of the
cabinet made their way to his distant
home, partly bv water and partly by
laud
He returned to Washington with
them nnd found a very heated dispute
among the leaders of both parties, as to
whether ho was to become "President"
or Acting President " The next day
the matter was brought up In Congress,
and in the midst of the discussion n
letter was received from the White
House signed "John Tyler, President "
The question was thus settled for all
time and the congressional dispute
ended abruptly.
AS THE absence of the telegraph
made Jackson President, so the
completion of the Morse instrument
incjetl the brilliant political career of
Silas Wright, of New York, in 1840.
bv nllowing him to decline a nomination
for the vleo tiresldency which might
have allowed him to reach the goal of
evcrv American, the presidency. luel
dentally, the message he sent eliminat
ing himself as a national political factor
was one of the tlrst ever sent over the
w iies
He had been offered the Democratic
nomination for Vice President on the
ticket with James K. Polk by an almost
unanimous vote, the convention being
held in Raltimoie. Mr. Wright was a
member of the United States Senate
from New York and was in Washington
ut the time. The tolegraph had just
hi en completed nnd the only line in the
world ran between Washington and
Raltimore. ....
Mr. Wright was informed of his nom
inatlon by wire, but, smarting under
what he believed to be a betrayal of
his friend van niiren, ne vvireu naek a
peremptory refusal which two years
liter ended his polRlcul career in dis
aster. Ha,d there been no telegraph he
would have been elected Vice President,
with an excellent chance of being the
presidential candidate four years lte.
SHORT CUTS
What has become of Willcm He-
heniollern?
The lint spell ought to boost the
fur business.
Chicago now takes its normal po
sltlon in the news
' The Sproul boomers made a gond
tight as far as it went.
Mayor Moore may now rest up by
taking a whirl at local politics.
Well, It's as tfearly the will of the
people as cirrumstancos would permit.
The delegates may now spend a
few das explaining Just why they
did it,
Now that Chicago has subsided,
San Francisco Is getting ready for an
eruption,
Vacation booklets nre, for mist
people, more Interesting than any not
litical speech.
Now that It Is all over, we realize
that neither the sppeches nor the ballots
were Hooverizcd.
According to precedent, the candi
date will now proceed to live down the
platform.
Hog Island launched Its 108th shp
nn Hnturdnv. Hog Island is never
weary of well -doing.
Judging by the itorics that come
out of Geneva, the watch on the Rhine
has n Swiss movement.
Happily for the country at large,
the Man on Horseback invariably turns
out to be riding a hobby.
After studying the census report,
neither New York nor Hoston Is willing
to declare that figures can't lie.
' So long ns the candidate and the
platform cannot be referred to ns Hi
and Dry we'll all try to be grateful.
Light having been turned on the
Jocal "Llmehouse," the "crawling,
creeping things" disturbed will have to
hurry away.
It mav be taken for granted that
the American Federation of Labor's
tnlk of reprisals on the Republican
partv Is merelv a hid for recognition In
the Democratic platform. And tbcre is
as yet no evidence that the Democrats
will bite at tho bait offered.
A Song of Great Days
SOME day I shall go out and find
strange lands,
Wonderful under new skies;
Touch the great statues of bronze which
cunning hands
Shaped smooth when the East was
wise ;
Taste a salt kiss from the ocean's wet
lip;
Hear the Trades shout In the rones;
Feel tho quick shuddering joy of a ship
These are my hopes.
Some time the night will He wrapped In
u swoon
Stnr-dusted and firefly lit;
Quick oars will splash in a sleeping
lagoon.
Vague indigo shadows flit;
I will hear deep voices swing In an old
song,
Hear the sly words as rogues scheme.
And the red thund'rous cry of a mad
throng
Thus do I dream
Yet will I tnste strange fruits, cloying
anu sweet.
T.nnrn tlen lined, lnrn rtf htnitn fia-tl, .
Lose looming peaks in a soft, winding
sneer,
T.nllorl Iti !tin bnelno waf,a nilefe,
Find in a world of snow low huts nnd
cneer
TTnrlor ll linlf, frrtTien mnnn
Stumble upon a brown tavern and beer
aiay u oe. soon .
Proud shall J walk on the globe 'neath
my feet,
With mv high head 'mid the clouds,
Finding all jos and all labors are wel
come nnd sweet,
Making bright banners from shrouds.
Still do I linger and dream, idly gay,
Feeling contented, in truth;
Drab arc tho things which surround me
today
Rut I have vouth !
Dale Collins, in Sydney Rullctin.
What Do You Know?
QUIZ
1 What is the area of Lake Michigan?
2 Who was the first secretary of the
Interior'
3 When did Caxton set up his first
printing press'
4 What poet was known as the
'Chaucer of Trance"?
6 Who was the first woman to receive
a medical diploma In America?
What Is meant by tho "Aok days"?
7 From what raw material Is paper
chiefly mode'
. Who were the Pilgrims and why
were, the so called'
0, What kind of gas Is most oommon-
1 used In balloons?
10 What Ih meant by the Scotch word
albllns '
Answers to Saturday's Quiz
1. Charleston S C , was flrst settled
May 39. 1070
2 The first HeereUrv of war of the
United States was Henry Knox,
of Massachusetts
1 The area of the Atlantla Ocean h
41,321.000 aquare miles.
i Is there any other word In the
Ungllsh language In which "su"
la pronounced as In "sugar" ana
"sumao"' Sure1
0 Idaho got its name from the In
dlun words "Kdah hoe" (light on
tho mountains)
0 Oram Allen was an English nov
elist and writer of popular
eclencn who died in 1890
7 Brook Tarm was a Socialist com
munity organized by George
Itipley In 1811 at West Roxbury,
Mass Among Its membcis wero
Vkott. Hawthorne, 3 torso W
e'urtls and Churleu A. IWm,
S The Inghamltes were a sect found-
ca y umijumm jngnam (1712
1772), who endeavored to unite
the chief features of the Mora
vlans und tho Methodists
ft The Ingoldebv legends wpm ,. Mi.
lection of legends written by the
nov mi'iiaru ne;rm Harham
under the pseudor.ym of Thomas
Ingoldsby
10 William J Duano. of Pennsylvania
became secretary ot trie, treasury
In 1833 in the cabinet of Presl.
dent Jnckson.
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HARVEY BLOSSOMS OUT
AS PRESIDENT-MAKER
Colonel, by Dignifying Senate in His Editorials, Secured Con
fidence of Group Which Dominated Chicago Convention
Ry CLINTON
Copyrlahf, iilO. bu
Chicago. June 14. To pick ono can
didate for President nnd to participate
in the picking of another candidate for
President Is a record for au editor.
Rut, when you add that this editor
picked a candidate for the Democratic
party and then had a large part In
choosing one for the Republicans, nil in
the brief space of eight years, you will
perceive ho Is In nn extraordinary per
son. All this is by the way of introducing
Colonel George Harvey, once friend
and now rcdoubtnblo foe of President
Wilson, iu whose rooms nt the Rlack
stono Hotel Senator Harding was
picked by tho Republicans on Friday
night
Colonel Harvov, nodding editorial
nnnroval. aided the process of elimi
nation which gradually removeel Wnt-j
son, Hnys. Sproul, Hughes, ( oolldge,
Knox and tinany leit Heuator naming,
of Ohio.
Colonel Harvey is an extraordinary
editor who left Journalism to get rich
in street railroads and other public
utilities and then returned to journal
ism when he could afford to do it, in
what is perhaps tho ideal way running
d naner no matter what it costs, with
out advertising, to express his personal
views.
He is nn editor of the old school, be
ing gifted with an old-fashioned nbun
dance of vocabulary, something like
that of Mnrso Henry Watterson, which
antedates the period when we nil be
came college graduates and began to
write with severe classical stillness.
We havo only to look nt Colonel
Harvey to see that he Is a personality.
lie has n face that would have made
his fortune upon the stage, if he had
not had the gift for making hls'for
tuno in Wall street or its purlieus. And
tho colonel, having a taste for the pic
turesque In his person ns well as in his
vocabulary, sets off this face of his with
an enormous pair of goggles He has
a mouth which matches the goggles
admirably, and out of it flows nn abun
dant stream of extremely clever con
versation, wittier, perhaps than his
writiugs.
Tho colonel hns other equipment ad
mirably suited to progress, social and
political, in these times He has, let
us whisper it, an admirable cellar.
Perhaps some of it preceded . hlm to
the Rlackstone. He has, moreover, one
of the best anlmuting motives In the
world, ono which will carr ou
further toward achievement, perhaps,
than any other.
He has hatred
Ho hates Wilson with the bitterness
of n man, who, b nil right and titles,
ought tn have been the Colonel House
of the AVilson administration, and who
is quite sure that had he been thus
placed the Peace Conference, the war,
the government genernllv would not
have all got messed up. Having hntred,
the colonel hns o fine thing to go along
with it, one of the best vocabularies of
Invective now extant.
The colonel had a happy intuition.
He picked n long shot Tho United
States Senate, along with the whole
legislative apparatus, was despised and
reiectcd of men. The colonel picked
the Senate, lie became the Senate's
great friend, one might say apologist,
but apologist is hardly the word. He
treated the Senate In the columns of his
highly personnl weeklv journal as If it
wero rondo up of Daniel Websters,
Henry ClaS and John C Calhouns.
He made the Senate look as if it
were tho highly dignified, Intelligent and
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important constitutional body which the
fathers of the country, in their simple
faith, intended it should be. He hired
n house in Washington, right between
the homes of two senators, thus giving
them o. certain stnnding by showing the
world that he was willing and even
honored to live right net door to them.
Now. the press generally was not
considerate In its treatment of the Sen
ate. It had been a fashion for a
long time to bpeak contemptuously of
both branches of Congress. The colonel
had the wit, or it suited his purposes,
to depart from this practice and treat
the Senate ns a great legislative bod.
Since the decline nnd fall of Wilson
at Paris the Senate hns had but one
ambition, and that was, as the slang
phrnsi' of Washington goes, to get back
upou the map. Colonel Hnive.v's power
ful vocabulary was exceedingly help
ful to the Senate in gettiug back upon
the map.
Tho Senrte was deeply grateful to
Colonel Hnrvey. It admitted him into
its council He became almost n steer
ing committee of one outside the Sen
nte In the matter of the treaty. He
was the chief of the gencial .staff in
the great fight on Wilion.
Thus he got in.
The colonel picked a long shrt and
tho long shot won. This Republican
National Convention iust ended at Chi
cngo hns been dominated by a g'oup of
senntors. Colonel Harvey's fr'ends, one
of them being his next-door neighbor,
In Washington.
The senators have run things so ns
to uomlnnte a senator for President.
Thev hope to get hack by having in the
White House n man in thorough sym
pathy with the Senate's aspirations.
If Senator Harding is elected Piesi
dent an extraoidinary oveiturn in the
government of this country will take
place. Wo have had party government,
we have had oue-mnn government like
that of Roosevelt und Wilson and now
wo promiso to have senatorial govern
ment, conducted by the elder statesmen
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