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PHILADELPHIA
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PROGRESS HITS CAMDEN
ELAUOUATKIA organlwd lire de
partments, as thr exist in Ameri
can cities of the tir'-t -class, represent,
almost invariably, an evolution from
the old volunteer system nnd often re
tain many of the characteristics of an
amateur method.
In the olden days when steam was a
noveltv and before any one dreamed of
electric signals, high procure engines
and sixty -mile motors, a firefighter's
'job wns easy und a fire was something
of a lark. Firemen drew no pa . They
were volunteers who were always on
call at their homes. In many cities
until quite recently the "paid fireman"
was expected to keep n volunteer's
hours. That is. he was alwajs on call,
though he was on call at his station.
He lived in the firehousc. not at home.
This arrangement was so unjust that
all men in the service fought It and
agitated for a new system under which
they could spend some part ot least of
the twrntj-four hours with their fam
ilies. The reorganization of the Phila
delphia department began about a year
and a half ago after long and bitter
complaint. Tho old order still prevails
, Jn Camden, where the members of the
1 Are department have started an agita
tion for a tno-platoon system, such as
was instituted here.
The existing arrangement is inhu
man and inefficient, it is relative in
txpensive nnd that is why many munic
ipal governments have preferred to re
tain it as lotig as they could. Camden
people who wish to give the men of the
fire service a bquare deal ought to get
behind the men in the present fight.
AFTER THE SHOUTING
IN ALli that was written and printed
yesterday about the flag of the t'nitod
States there wns nothing, o far as we
were able to observe, to suggest con
demnation of the tinhorn patriots who
regularly debase that superb symbol by
using it as a personal badge and trade
mark for their own peculiar ends.
Yellow journals u-e the flag and use
It largely and ask their renders to be
lieve that they reflect its meanings.
Politicians paw over it. The colors arc
waved furiouslj every few months by
little men who try to appear noble hi
Its compan . There ought to be a
atricter rule to guard the ling from in
discriminate ue. It is one of the great
and sacred things of the world. Its
display should, therefore, be ceremo
nious and formal. Only u few years ago
there were many small business men
who didn't hesitate to use the colors
for a trademark and print advertising i
across it until they were checkrd by '
Congress. j
Congress might go a little farther nnd I
ec that the flag is not used to subtly ,
advertise unworthy men or things.
NEW CASUALTY LISTS
A 8 ItECL'LARI.Y as Iims of dead
and injured once were sent from th
fighting fronts in Kurnpe the casualties
registered in week-end automobile
mashes appear nnwadajs in the news
papers on Mondays.
Tho average of motor accidents is in
creasing. It wns supposed not long
ago that stricter licensing provisions for
beginners would reduce tho risks of
travel on crowded highwnvs. JUit ex
perience has Mi own that it is not the
green driver who gets killed or into
trouble. The tyros go carefully. The
old hands at the game, who, being
skilled, are overconfident, are the nnos
who figure in the police reports.
Tho desire to speed und to exhibit
skill is behind nine serious smashep out
of every ten. Stricter enforcement of
npred and traffic rulex. larger fines and
jail sentence for hardened violators
will make for general safety for those
,who ride and thoso who walk.
PLAGUES
IF TUB responsible und irresponsible
officers of government everywhere had
ben less hysterically concerned about
plagues of political doctrine nnd better
able, to recognize dangers that are ac
tual and real, a great many lives would
have been eaved in Europe and in the
United States since tho war ended, and
we should not now have to rend of re
current outbreaks at American ports of
diMuea that nre peculiar to areas in
which alt social mechanisms were
utopped or destroyed by fire and con
flict. Them has bren endless talk of sani
tary cordons, buffer states, blockades
. .and biMier deshjued and maintained to
i a nam iik . ).. . .
s"wrtV4Uia6.'
Inevitably would die of their riwn ' pntlcnre the publication of the letter
wonkness within n yenr. Meanwhile nr nildress in xvhieh the Senator ac
cholern, the Influenza, bubonic iilngun cppin the nomination. It Is confident
and sleeping Rli-kiiex innrrh nlnioHt tin- that he will make hit own platform on
hindered over n large part of Knrope. t,0 IcnRiie question, for It cannot be
The lack of soap and medicine and din- j jjPVia tlint he will be, ro foolNIi as to
infecta'nta In Itiisnla mid partH of south-I rm,inr the tactics of timidity which
eastern Kurope Is responsible largely
for this new horror. And tho medical
authorities of the United Htfltet gov
ernment have to tight day and night to
keep these sume plagues nut of our own
country.
They have not been wholly successful.
At Peiixacoln, Newport News, New
York and other ports even the strictest
quarantine rules have not been ntlequotn
to prevent the nppenrance of disease
nnlliiiiillj unknown in Amerient We
shall never see on thl side of the world
any great sprend of then1 plagues. Itut
It Is odd to obervo that (lolitlclans and
statesmen abroad let them thrive un
checked because they were obosed by
fear of a few political Ideas generated
br fanatics, and dooinrd to vanish ns
Minn as they were brought Into contact
with clear air.
PUSSYFOOTING ALWAYS
LEADS TO DISASTER
Senator Harding Expected to Avoid
the Blunders of the Past and
Stand Four-8quare on Posi
tive Declarations
SKNATOIt IIAKDINi; probably
knows ns much about the political
historv of the l" nited States for the last
twenty tic jears as any other man.
Cotisi'cpicntly he Is iiware of the causes
which brought success to some presi
dential candidates and failure to others.
Without any doubt before he Writes
his letter of acceptance he will give
some serious thought to the causes of
Republican disaster in recent cars. He
attended the contention of llll- and
nominated Mr. Taft. He knows what
the influences were which controlled
that convention and he has not forgot
ten that a great majoritj of the Re
publican toters lescnted the dominance
of those influences, lie delivered the
"keynote" speech in the convention of
101(1 which nominated Judge Hughes.
He has not forgotten that the nomi
nation wns received with general satis
faction by the Republicans of all shades
of belief as soon as it wns made. The
party was mice more reunited nnd
cxery one looked for its return to
power.
Hut ns the campaign progressed con
fidence waned .Judge Hughes was not
making the aggressive campaign ex
pected of him. President Wilson was
running for re-election on the platform
that ho hod "knpt us out of war." Yet
the President and ccr one in his con
fidence knew that he could not keep us
out of war much longer, lie and they
were praying that uothing might happen
to invalidate his peaceful bna.t until
after the election.
.fudge Hughes pussj footed on the
great issue of nntionnl honor nnd self
respect. Germany had been guilty of
many acts nuy one of which would have
justified a declaration nf war. The ad
ministration had been pusillanimous
nnd had accepted affront after aftront
without any show of indignation. It
had contented itself with writing notes.
Rut Judge Hushes was nfrnid to meet
the issue and come out squarely on the
proposition that this nation could uot
keep out of the war without forfeiting
its own self-respect and the respect of
the rest of mankind. If he had had the
courage to take this position he would
have lifted the campaign out of the
doldrums and would hae attracted to
his support all of the red-blooded men
in America He might have been de
feated on the issue, but he would have
gone down to defeat with his colors fly
ing. Defeat mi such nn issue would
have brought t" him greater glory than
came to Wilson, who won on the other
issue because no one had the courage
to expose its essential hypocrisy.
That a preidencj has been won on
such a deliberately deceptive issue ns
that which Mr Wilson and his sup
porters kept before the voters in 1111(5 is
a disgrace to the men and to the party
responsible for bamboozling the public.
It has been .nd that Mr. Hughes was
defeated by the defection of Johnsou in
California. This i only superficially
true. The election was so close that
the California electoral tote would have
given it to Hughes. Johiwin carried the
state for the Senate bv .",00,000 while
Hughes lost it b a little more than
.".000. Hut if Hughes bad not disgusted
the oters in normally Republican
states b. pussj footing on the great
issue the chnnres nre that he would have
bien elected without the California
vote.
Senator Harding is confronted with
an issue which is only a little less vital
than tJlat on which Judge Hughes
tailed his countrymen in 1010. It is
whether the I'mti'd States shall play
the game through to the end nnd shall
fulfill all of its responsibilities in the
familv of nations. The managers of the
'hh'agii convention drafted a platform
plank on this issue intended to please
both those little Americans who Insist
on shirking our international obliga
tions and those greater Americans who
believe in seeing through to the end the
task which we undertook when we be
latedly entered the war.
Senator Harding, with the fate of I " longer than they used to be? Are
Judge .Hughes as a warning, is ex- j hats more difficult to adjust V Or Is the
peeted to turn his back on thnt vague ''elated ticket holder Just another sign
pronouncement and tell the nation ex- "' " relaxed social morale?
actlv where he stands. It will not be' flno "' "lose days the theatres may
enough for him to point to his record . ,,p fnm''1 ,n n(1"P n rll'( likc that ch
in the Senate, admirable as that record "hl"hed by the Philadelphia Orchestra
may be. A a Senator he was voting i '""' """I"'1 lnt'' arrivals to stay out of
as a member of his part) He aligned . ''"' "'"'UTium until there Is nu inter
bimself with those who fnvored tb.. "Iv-""' "" 'he stage.
League of Nations covenant modified lit I ,
the Lodge reservations. Former Presi I .. ., , Cnderproduetion, ex
dent Taft nnd Mr. Hnnver. nnd n.h. I(as" S'" "npelCMtravujjance, inflation
grent Republicans out of office, hnvc
come to belee that some reservation
must be mnde in order to command the
support of two-thirds of the Senate.
Hut they are for the league nnd for (he
participation of the I'nited States m n
councils. Senator Harding is also for
the league nml Is opposed to the John
son-Hornh policy of scuttle.
When Senator Harding, ns n presi
dential candidate, comrs out squnrelj
in support of this experiment m in
ternational relations he will thrill the
hearts of all the broad-minded Ameri
cans in the country regardless of party.
It is important that he should do this
anew, for as President he will be in
c harge of the foreign relations of the
I'nited States and our course in those
relations will depend largely on his in
itiative. His will becomes as potent as
the will of the whole Senate, for the
Senate can do nothing effective in
foreign relations without his consent.
And n President with n, proper sense of
the responsibilities nf his high office can
bend the Senators of his own party to
his will.
I puiB-auUlQtt.jvJiLaTraJtwith.io
EVENING PUBLIC
j brought illriHtcr to the Republican
nnrlr 111 1(11(1.
If" he seeks a precedent for political
courage he will find It In the famo-i
Huffaln speech of MeKlnlcy, delivered
the day before he was shot, a speech
which reminded the high tariff wing of
the Republican party that the time had
come for a revision of the tariff policy
of the nation In such a way as to per
mit the opnnslon of the, foreign trade
of the I'lilted States and allow Ameri
can mamifnctiircrs to send their goods
Into the markets of the world. Mc
Kinley was not a pussyfooter in Huf
falo. iitnl if Harding, who has many of
McKlnlcy's admirable qualities, ful
fills the expectations of the grcnt ma
jority of his party, he will not begin
the campaign by pussyfooting on a
single pressing issue.
EXCUSE IT, PLEASE!
TH1CHE arc some emergencies, un
related to politics or the lost art of
street cleaning, hi which the authorities
in New York can move with determina
tion nnd celerity. The telephone service
in Manhattan, for example, has bcrn
sad. 1-ven the telephone management
admitted that It was sad. Oovernor
Smith promptly ordered an investiga
tion and he made every possible effort
to get light on the trouble ot Its source.
M'i... -..,it. nf n ireneral survey arc now
"""-""" - ,
coming to iigiii
One of the mot intt resting report"
in n group submitted to the governor is
written by Miss Nellie Swartz, of the
bureau of women In industry of the
State Industrial Commission. Miss
Swnrtz is convinced that Inadequate
telephone soruce in New York Is due
to n high average of inefficiency among
the operators. Relatively low wages
and a large and constant labor turnover
which makes efficient training difficult
or impossible are given ns the funda
mental causes of unanswered or delayed
calls, slow service and general confu
sion on the wires.
Any one who makes frequent use of
the telephone in this city need not be
told that the general policy which gov
erns the operation of the service in New
York prevnils also in Philadelphia.
Here as well as in Manhattan the op
crating company has not been able to
compete with industries stimulated and
enriched by the war. Its technical
forces were depleted by the demands of
the military service and arel not yet
fully reorganized. It happens that the
dominant corporation continues to in
sist on S per cent dividends, but this
fact, painful as it may appear, has
little direct bearing on the general char
acter of the service rendered. Lower
dividends would not make higher wages
possible to all the operating force. And
in justice to the rninpan it must be
said that , its service at the worst is
better than anything of the sort known
anywhere In Europe in normal times.
It is easy enough to condemn the
telephone corporation and to wonder
why it doesn't pay a wage that will
insure a permanent and well-trained
operating organization. It ought to do
these things, of course. Hut since it
had an extraordinarily fine record of
efficiency before the war, it is but fair
to remember that what is being said of
its work now might be sulci with equal
justice of the railronds, the street-car
linos nnd other utilities. The era of
high wages and thriving nnd increasing
business enterprises put fresh strains
on the telephone system. So, on the
whole, it appears that the wire com
panies, like other corporations, will
have to have time in which to recover
their normal stride. They are alt in
the nme boat.
A THEATRE MYSTERY
I
NVESTIOATINti commissions Hour-
h with a peculiar glorj in the
United States As n people we have
developed nn almost unbelievable faith
in tho groups of solemn gentlemen who
sit down to take testimony and ask
questions nnd look wise when things go
wrong. Thr seldom accomplish much.
Hut thej are somehow soothing to the
public mind Now nnd thru they really
do bring valuable bits of truth to the
surface, and thnt is why it might be
worth while to appoint n commission
to inquire during the summer into the
mysterv of the theatregoers who never
reach their seat., on time and crowd
down front after the performance is
well utider wa to compete for the at
tention of the audience with the people
on the stage
Ordinary folk who go to theatres pay
mone to see a play, or something that
is culled a plnj. and not to have their
toes trampled in the semidarkness by
flustered ami hurrying folk who get
between them and the stage regularly
at live-minute intervals throughout the
first net
The first pnit of nny first act is im
portant to an audience, since it pro
idts the dues nud intimations abso
lutely necessnrv to hold plots of the
modern fragile ort together even in nn
attcnthe mind First acts nre spoiled
nighth in almost every theatre by the
lute irrivals
What a i ommission ought to tell us
is what these folk do between the hours
of s and It in the evening. Are din-
of currency and
idi as, and a loss of our bcariugs on the
-ea of life nre a few of the evils that
President Ilibbcn. of Princeton, cje
elares have befallen us And even at
that wo may muddle through.
Jussernnd Is go
Otherwise, the (ioat ing to lose his job
as ambassador be
cause the Cnited States did not indorse
the Pence Treaty. He I the vicarious
sacrifice.
Calcutta dispatch
Snrlcclnlli and Ashes tells f overpro
duction of burlap.
Defeated candidates are now anxiously
awaiting word from the nshinnn.
As the campaign progresses orators
and publicists may remove the objection
mnde to the 0. O. P. platform that
while It is all right ns far ns it goes it
doesn't get anywhere.
Perhaps the President's idea In
pardoning the Tngeblatt bunch was to
corral the Johnson vote
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BerxdoU'i
'ictraroyei-ihh wiginti .
LEDGER- JPHIEADELPHIA', TUSD,
CONVENTION AFTERGLOW
How the Democracy of the Mass
Showed Out The Coliseum
Lunoh Counter as a Place
at Which to Study
the American
Uy OKORGB NOX MeCAIN
IT WAS a Republican convention, but
democracy was paramount. I mean
the genuine democracy of the American
en masse.
Above all, It wns human to the nth
degree.
The miscalled lunchroom In the
Coliseum annex presented the extreme
limit nf the humanizing tendencies of
the convention.
It was 100 .feet qf rough board table,
oilcloth covered, extending the entire
length of it narrow room twenty feet
wide on the street floor.
The gentlemanly attendants were at
tired in soiled jackets that were once
wdiite nnd cheap white caps, each bear
ing, a la baseball shirt, the nnme of a
popular drink in flaming letters.
They were the heralds of the "soft
drink" era.
They were minus collars. Their shirt
bands. In careless neglige, were tucked
in. Their hands, like their visible
habiliments, were in need of n bath.
The perspiration of honest toll in n
superheated atmosphero bedewed their
manly brows and hnlry wrists.
On n wide board shelf behind them
were stacked huge pile's of ham nnd
cheese sandwiches. At least that is
what they were called.
In a corner outside the bar nnd in
full tiew of the crowd two sweaty
Titans manipulated slicing machines
which lopped off attenuated slabs of
bread and thin portions of meat nnd
cheese. Two assistants slapped the
portions together while others piled
them on trays and. with raucous cries
of "Heads up there!" bore them with
brutal haste through the struggling
mass to the servitors behind the bnr.
PILLD beneath the counter nnd along
the walls were hundreds of wooden
boxes. They contnincd "drinks." The
walls were plastered with staring pos
ters describing their delicaCy and flavor.
The bare board floor was Uttered with
half-eaten sandwiches and bits of meat.
The counter wns sloppy with the over
flow of bubbling bottles. There were no
glasses. Not even so-called sanitary
paper cups were in evidence. Chnlrs
were unthinkable. It wasn't that kind
of a lunch.
"It's one of them 'bluffct' lunches,"
remarked a fellow who might hove been
from Florida or Nebraska. And he wns
right both ways.
Kach victim grabbed his bottle and
sandwich and, retiring to the edge of
tile crowd, alternated between biting
camel tracks in the diaphanous dry
bread and meat and tilting the bottle
heavenward to the music of a gurgle.
Special attention was paid to lady
customers. They were not expected to
drink from a bottle. That, even in Chi
cago, is regarded as contrary to the
usages of its best society.
They were provided with straws
which they stuck in the neck of the
bottle and through which they slowjy
absorbed its contents.
fV COURSE, the collation, costing
y fi
fifty cents per sandwich und a bot
tle of sweetened Lake Michigan water!
with coal-tar coloring, was the subject
of varied comment.
"Perfectly chowming, don't you
th'ink, dcah?" murmured one of the
elect to another between pulls nt her
straw. She had the occasion mixed up
with a slumming party.
"This is n hell of a mess for four
bits," japped a rough-and-ready to a
quartet nf his kind tluce feet away.
The eager ones we-c too busy bolting
their portions eithrr to curse or criti
cize. The convention wns still going on.
Talk about the demy-racy of the
American people! It was on display
here down to the indivisible atom.
GOVERNORS, judges, United States
senators and the ordinary state brand
of thnt article elbowed, pushed, waited,
wilted and grabbed in turn. There was
neither time nor disposition to note the
color of the dispenser's hands nor ques
tion the price.
The supreme effort of each wns to see
that his snudwkh didn't touch the
sloppy "P of that awful oilcloth coun
ter. AND what car
against the j
mens of life were carved
rav walls dabbed with
flaring "ads" and its high facade
of wooden boxes filled with "near beer!"
I saw a distinguished western gov
ernor seated on an upturned beer box
ehutting with a great newspaper pro
prietor, each with a sandwich In one
fist and a bottle in the other. As they
talked they tilted, or half smothered
their .sentences with bites.
A famous senator entertained two
beautiful women nfter the same fashion.
He had struggled through the five-deep
border of humanity to appear with bot
tles and food for his companions.
The fellow in shirt hlecves and sus
penders, with fedora hat pushed buck'
on his matted bead and with coat over
arm and a dollar bill stretched above
the crowd was the king bee. Ho had
the voice nnd the vigor to command
attention
Tin- husk behind the bar recognized
iu him a kindred spirit in the plain
walks of life. The unfortunate in the
pongee suit, pnnama and diamond
stick pin' was the victim. He Waited
Ids turn It wris the only evidence of
clnss selection in the entire convention.
THE wisenhelmers, with anticipatory
wisdom, carried their lunch with
them the women particularly. They
nte between cheers.
Male slaves carted cold and sweaty
bottles of "pop" and "near beer" to
them from the damp bars below.
The floor In the vicinity of the seats
of such as these was marked at ad
journment in u manner suggestive of
"the morning nfter" in days gone by.
Empty bottles, pin crust, egg shells,
bits of bread, silvers of fat meat, with
shoe box containers nnd oiled paper
wrappings, left one to wonder where
thev found place for their feet.
Through it all ran tho rippling tide
nf American joviality nnd genuine good
nature. It was Jubilant and paramount.
Gathered from' every compass point of
the nation every fellow tnero was us
good ns every other fellow.
The real sufferer was the man, maid
or matron who stood upon the pseudo
dignity which everywhere Is tho false
note in American life.
Yet nil were sufferers. A dlst ncu shed
n.1 and Sweaty fa with a sgy
I J " 'i,'m , '",
editor remnraed to mo as no claimed n
handkerchief;
I "We aro making history today, but
SHORT CVTS
Hergdnll Is at least getting a run
for his money.
We may now expect a brisk market
in Harding anecdotes.
Again Sir Thomas pins the Roje
of Hope on n drab world.
. i. .
Without doubt "Will Hoys is quite
willing to pnt himself ou tho back.
Common sense may now be expect
ed to take the ypark out of sparkler.
Well, there was nothing nbout the
nominations to keep Senator Penrose
sick.
Senator Hording will now proceed
to write the platform on which he will
win or lose.
At least President Wilson gathered
from the platform that the Itcpnbll-
cans don't like him.
Providence probably selected the
vice presidential nominee. The dele
gates "didn't give a darn."
If the strike of longshoremen Is
doing anything it is proving the neces
sity of nn industrial court.
The Impecunious One says he looks
with envy on the man whose income tax
justifies payment in quarterly install
ments. Sir Thomas l.lpton Is optimist
enoiu'h to t'hink of the America's cup as
the cup that cheers. And he isn t talk
ing shop at that.
The owner of n truckload of whisky
confiscated last week by local federal
agents is named Dryer. Fate seems de
termined to make him fo.
Won't Mr. Harding be surprised
when the committee goes to Marlon,
O.. to tell him that he has been nfcul
nntctl for the presidency ! ,
One gratifying feature of the -result
nt Chicago is the reasonable nV
suranro ever body feels that Editor
Harding will provide clenn copy.
Mrs. Harding says her husband is
a wonderful mnn. And there is always
an off chance that the woman who
proudly mokes this boast is right.
Germany is now making belated
and unwilling pajment of her material
debt to France and Helglum, but it will
take more than coal and cattle U even
the score.
Calming down after a week's ex
citement. Republicans get satisfaction
In the thought that they have a man
of presidential caliber as their nominee
for Vice President The next thing for
the country to do is to give the Vice
President something worth while to do.
The Seas Master
I SAID, as I watched the great sea
sleeping.
Its waters tinted to pearl and rose;
"There, lies a wonder within its keeping
That all men long for, and no man
knows.
"Its pence is n peace undimmrd by
sorrow,
It owns no master, and toils for
none :
The same today and the same tomor
row, It sways forever from sun to sun,"
I said: "If the earth's tired sons nnd
daughters
Wore free of service, as it is free.
Their eyes would shine like its shining
wnters.
Their joy would rival the joy 'of the
sea."
On lonely whito. beaches and cliffs for-
saken
The billows, growling nnd grinding,
leapt;
The deep heaved up. to its deep heart
shaken,
And no land -thing in the tumult
slept.
In clefts of the cliffs, and caves that
swallow
The green tide-waters, the foam
swirled white ;
And hollow cried in the gloom to
hollow,
And height cried out in the dark to
height.
I hearkening thus in the darkness lying
Heheld a vision that daunted me
A vision dread of n wet hull flying
With naked poles o'er tho 'Tosman
Sen.
I said, as the scud flew fast unci faster.
And fretful cries from the shorcland
rose ;
"The sea bows down to its lord nnd
master
A hound, it cowers from his cruel
blows."
From storm and the tumult of things in
motion
And night, grown awesome this
thought emerged
The will of the wind is the law of the
oceau.
And een the waters go not tin
scourged. Roderlc (juhin, in the Svdney Hul
letin. What Do You Know?
QUIZ
1 'V.,o0nsWorf0,Me',r7l 'Snr'" anrt C(""
2. Who was the tlist secrcnry of ncrl.
cultura? "
3' ifr'nted"" "" "rM KnKllBh n""c
4. What Is the. nre.i of the Tacltlc
fi Who was John James InfraUs"
fl. What arc the principal mineral
products of Alaska? "
7. What Is the population of Ches-
5. What Is nn argosy and whero did
the word originate?
0. In what key Is Tschalkowly'B
"S million n PathetlniiA" ...i...
to
What other equall) well-known
yrn,nh"y Is written In the same
Answers to Yesterday's Quiz
1 ,'i!!f'1.AM,Pl,tsan has an area of
22.1 10 bquare. miles
I. The. tlrst secretary of the Interior
was Thomas Kwlng, of Ohio. In
I St 9. undec President Taylor
" Cp?ess InMTl"' l"i, nrBt Prlnllnc
4 flement Marot (1497-1S44 was
, ,known UB ,l'e Chaucer of France
ri The first woman In America to re
ceive n medical diploma wsb Kllzn
l.eth niaekwell. nn Kngllsh woman,
who died Juno I, 1910.
6. The "Dog Days" was tho name given
by ancient astronomers to the
twenty days, before and tim i. ......
days after fbe rising of tho clog
7. Paper Is chiefly mnde from spruce,
hemlock nnd pine woods, rno-s
straw and old paper. Three-fourths
of the otitnut Is from wmj n,.i .
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The Separatists a sect which grew
out of Puritanism and w'hleh
founded Plymouth Colony, MaVsI
wens frequently alluded to hv
Ooyerrr William Bradford ns
pilgrims nnd strangers upon the
earth," and as Pilgrims thev be,.
'' ."JiTOiJff" t? most commonly
miiio Kvitctniij' miuwn
JUNE ii5, 19.20
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U. S. TO APPORTION
SUPPLY OF SUGAR
Canners and Preservers Will Get
First Preference, Then Crocers
and Candy Men
Washington. June 15. Preferential
distribution of sugar rather than ra
tioning is to bo the. method emplojcd
bv the government to prevent the sugar
shortage from reaching famine condi
tions this fall.
As tho result of an agreement between
tho big producers and consumers of
sugar, the Department of Justice will
proceed with the formation of tho na
tional sugar distributing committee, it
wns announced icstcrday by A. W.
Riley, special assistant attorney gen
eral, who has been in chnrgo of high-cost-of-livlng
prosecutions in New
York. Mr. Riley said the committee
would be functioning within two weeks.
He predicted it would operate to as
sure tho canning nnd preserving inter
ests and the housewives an adequate
supply of sugar for the summer season
and the lean months hefoic the 1020
sugar crop 1s harvested.
The distributing committee. Mr. Riley
said, will consist of representatives of
the refiners, the importers and nroKcrs,
the canners and preservers, the whole
sale grocers and the candy, soft drink
nnd ice cream manufacturers. He in
dicated that arrangements already have
been completed by which the refiuers
nnd importers will see thnt the canners
get their needed supply of sugar. Under
tho plan tho distributing committee will
divert sugar first to the commercial can
ners; second, to the wholesale grocers
for retail distribution to domestic con
sumers, and last, to the candy and
soft-drink manufacturers. An existing
contract fhr future delivery. Mr. Riley
said, however, will not be interfered
with.
An embargo on sugar exports from
the ITnlted States also is advocated by
Mr. Ililev and may be given serious
consideration by the Department of Jus
tice. Although the nttomey general nas
been delegated the power of food ad
ministrator under the Lever Hit. thero
is grave question as to whether an ex
port embargo could be ordered without
ii special act ot i-ongress. , nui au
thorizing an embargo was introduced in
tho Senate before adjournment, but was
not acted upon.
In cxnlainlng his ndvocacy of the em
bargo Mr. Riley today cited the fact
that American exports of sugar for the
first five months ot tins year nail ex
ceeded the exportation of American -
owned sunar during the whole of 1010.
The sugar exports from thh country
from January 1 to May 27 totaled, ho
said, 220,000 long tons, ns ngatnst 11,
000 tons during 1010. The totnl export
nf nil sugar from tins country lu mill
amounted to fl."8,0(10 long tons, hut
447,0(10 tons were owned by the Hritish
Sugar Commission nnd was refined in
the I'nited States under the wnr ar
rangement by which the American Gov
ernment bought the entire Cuban crop,
Hucnns Aires, June 1.", Hascd on
the domestic price nt which Frederic J.
Stlmson, United States ambassador to
Argentina, obtained 1 1,000 tons of
sugar for the United States, plus the
transportation cost, it is estimated
the sugar will be lauded in New York
nt fifteen cents a pound. It probably
will requiru live ships to transport the
sugar.
President Irigoyen's actlou in waiv
ing exportation restrictions is consid
ered here ns n special favor to tho
United State.
In addition to the sugar obtained by
Ambassador Stlmson, it is learned that
private interests have contracted for a
total of fiO.OOO tons for exportation to
tho United States.
LUSITANIA NOT ACCIDENT
Supreme Court Holds Insuranco
Co.Needn't Pay Vanderbllt Policy
New York, June 1.1. Supreme Court
Justice MeAwiy yesterday decided
against the executors of Alfred Gwynuo
Vanderbllt, who was drowned in the
sinking of the I.usitaula in lOlfi by a
German torpedo, in their suit to recov
er $150,000 on an accident insurance
policy.
The executors contended he was
"accidentally drowned." but tlm (..,.
tlco stated the vessel was sunk by In
structions of the German Imperial Gov.
tnictlnns of the nerman Imperial ,,v.
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ANSWERS WILSON'S
SLAM AT CONGRESS
Nearly $3,000,000,000 Cut Off
Appropriations, Committee
Chairman Says
Washington. .Tune 15. President
Wilson's letter to the railroad brother
hoods that Congress had taken no
important nction relative to the
high cost of living and the revision
of the tax laws was answered by Rep
resentative James W. Good, of Iowa,
chairman of the House appropriations
committee, in n statement yesterday.
After saying the last two sessions
of the present Congress saved $2,
710.200.405.S0 by n reduction in ap
propriations to executive departments.
Mr. Good said the Department of Jus
tice had been given all it asked for the
prosecution of ciminnls. Including vio
lators of the Lever net.
"The committee on appropriations of
the House representatives to which
these requests had been referred." Mr.
Good says, "held extensive hearings.
That committee gnve the Department
of Justice the .$1,000,000 it requested
and came to the conclusion that much
of the other money if appropriated
would be wasted in the employment of
useless officers and clerks: that much
of it was to carry on n duplication of
work in then various departments, and
that the appropriations, if made lu
full, would bo largely if not entirely
wasted."
Prices Steadily Rising
5fr. Good referred to n statement of
Metor Murdock. chairman of the fed
eral Trade Commission, to show that
body had asked for on appropriation
far in excess of what it actually re
quired in its work. It asked for ."s'.'OO,
000, necordlng to Mr. Good, but wns
able to do Its work with the $150,000
appropriated.
"Congress was impressed with the
fact that every violator of law, whether
he be n profiteer or hoarder, who was
unlawfully increasing the cost of the
necessaries of lifn should be sent to
prison, nnd it appropriated every dol
lar asked by the department for this
purpose," Mr. Good said. "And what
has been the result? Since thnt appro
priation wns made the prices of com
modities, according to government re
ports, have steadily increased. We
have witnessed the price of sugar rise
from ten cents per pound when the
appropriation was granted, to more
than thirty cents per pound in cer
tain localities, and to an average price
of twenty-five rcnU per pound. Certain
ly Congress Is not responsible for this
Increase. Would it not be profitable
.for the President to examlno his own
nction TCgnrdlng sugar to ascertain
who is responsible for the increase in
price?"
Treasury Kstlmate Cited
Referring to the President's state
ment that Congress hud failed to revise
the tax laws, Mr. Good cites a recent
estimate of the secretary of the treas
ury showing thnt there would be u defi
cit of ?4..Tfrt,SOO,8.V5 nt the end of the
present fiscal yenr,
"Is tills Congress to be condemned
because it refused to reduce tuxes when
the secretary of the trensury estimated
there may he an excess of expenditures
EITH'S
HARRY CARROLL & Co.
In "Vnrhtl.. tit 1020'M
MRS. GENE HUGHES
Sylvia Clark: Harrv Dclf
j.nrir iirmn ninnarcns of Melody;
"wtoAD sTniirr thkathp""
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TltK SAVOY COMPANY
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nilbert ''"'.'.J'j'v.'jrlt Opera
for the benent'of
The, fieBmen'e InMltute
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s?'no?'tPiifri5-.,IIT Che"n"t '&
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J.at Week nf
CONWAY AND HIS HAND
C'OrtA TIIACV". Contralto
MORTON AUK1NS. iih....
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fihadypyknlq drive AtUatla mild"
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over receipts of $4,310,800,855 at th
end of this fiscal year?" Mr. Good
nsks. "What business concern, findioj
its expeuscs were exceeding its rere
nues would not attempt to find addi
tional source of revenuo or reduce ex
pediturcH? The President would rcwn
the experience of the business world."
' Mr. Good attacked the President fot
his veto of the budget bill, on the ground
that "the Prcbidcnt's refusal to ap
prove this act otrongly indicates his
opposition to n business program for
the government."
Embarkation Post Displaced
Ilobolien, N. ,)., .Tunc 15. The armr
post of embarkation here will go oat of
existence today, and in its stead
will function the headquarters of the
army transportation service, under the
command of Colonel John ,T. Bradle;,
assistant chief of transportation serv
ice, it was announced.
Market Ht.sab. 10th 11 A. M. to 11 F If, i
John Barrymore
In First Showlne of 1'aratnount'i
"Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde"
The Finest Piece of IndMdual ActlM
Which the Scrcon Hue Vet Shown." Ledjit
DAI A T '21 Market Street
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