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June 26, 1920 A FOUR-YEAR PROGRAM FOR PHILADELPHIA Thin on which the people expect the new administration to concen trate It attention: The Drtatcurc river bridge. A. dryOock big enough to accommo date the largest ships Development of the rapid trntislt sys tem A convention hall. A bMlMfnp for the Free Library. An Art Museum. Enlargement of the u-atrr supply. Horn's to accommodate the popula tion. -GOING FAR AFIELD WILLIAM SCOTT VAKK we be lieve thnt is tin- way lie prefers to have his name printed it uow on his war to the Orient with a party of other congressmen nnd their wives to study the eusteru question. But if the eoncrc-isinan wUhe to Study the "wajs that ure dark and tricks that are vain." for which llret Harte snid the heathen Chinee i pe culiar, he does not have to go to the Far East. All he will have to do will be to study the futile devices which he and his friends used in their efforts to carry his ward for him in the iat pri mary election. DUTY AND THE TEACHERS A LWAYS," udmouished Simou x"X Gratz. addressing the new grad uates of the l'liilndelpliia Normal School yesterday, "let your first thought be not your pocket, but your duty as a teacher of the children in the public bchools." This Is an unimpeachable sentiment but the uitv of it is that "the htern daughter of the voice of Cod" is vari ouslv heeded by various mortals. The instructors of jour youth heed her often r Tf to Infftuln.iip.ia .i,i.l nnlitlninnr M'ltn 5i' " " """ ! ""- are too ireiiueutly dent. i lie lasi Legislature of this state was inex cusably indifferent to the deserts of a faithful body of teachers. Mr. Ciratz's- sentences ought to be significantly echoed at Ilarrisburg next winter. The much -discussed pay bonuses for the employes of the Iioard of Education are mahc-hifts. Duty en joins a more comprchensiM- treatment of the whole subject affording adequate recognition of faithful service FIRST STEPS IN REVELRY THE official oration on the Fourth of July will, it i -aid, impress upon both adults and childicu the danger of using fireworks and other exulosives. This is at once a henrteulng and a saddening program. In theory, an or dinary human being ought not to re quire special instruction in the art of enjoying himself ami niakiug the most agreeable use of a holiday. I'.ut Ameri cans, young nnd old. are till novices in the field of lecreation. Hard work is usually offset by haul play. And so tin- amiiM r-ary of our na tional independence hc omes a day of solemn admonition and clcmeutary steps In "modified rapture" aie enjoined. I It any wonder that we remain a mys tery to inhabitants of other lands, who. whatever tin ir fault-, whieh we are so prone to criticize, have achieved for festal oceni"ius acquaintance with the sort of uneoulimd joy that lends else where than the hospital? ANOTHER WITHDRAWAL THE withdraw ai of the l!apti-ts from the Jnterchurrh World Moetnent deals that enterprise a much more -eri-ous blow than the withdrawal of the Presbyterians There ate ni:in nmie Ilaptists than Presbyterians in the country. They are raising nearly one tl.nd of the total -um which it was lnuned to secure by the thirty denoiiii'ijiioiis eugaged in the movement, 'llnv will continue their efforts to raise tno SHiD.ooti.OOO which they set out to -n ure, but they will raise it and spend it without cousiilta tion with the otner cleuomiiiatloiis. The impending ollao-e of the Inter churcli Movement i- due to the utiill Ingne.ss of the spintual forces of the churches to subordinate themselves to the material fortes. Whether it will set back the efforts of those who have beeu seeking to bring about a closer union among the Protestant churches remains to be set n. THE NATION'S GROWTH I T IS one of the joys of statistics that they ure capable of proving almost any argument or of continuing or deny ing almost any point of view. Consc Qucutly the great cities of the land, whether they have grown quickly or slowly, have lately been engaged in in terpreting the lutest figures of the popu lation according to their own satisfac tion, and now tlr nntion as a whole is privileged to repeat '.lie process. J, A. Hill, of the ceusus bureau, estimates that thn United States has Increased by 13,000,000 persons within the last decade. This rate of growth is considerably less than during some other ten-ycur periods. Tho cessation of Immigration because of the war, the Influenza epidemic atid the world con-r ict Jtivifera facts, otrereu in cxpiana tion of Vta finim. TbeM mo r finite credible, but they leave untouched the subject of the American birthrate. If that shall be proved to have risen In accordance with the hopes which Theodore Itooovelt used so glowingly to entertain, there is no reason to fear that our old rate of population progress hns received a permanent check. The Influenza was n tragic freak, the war an unprecedented calamity, the stop page of Immigration an abnormality. The contiguous states with r. popula tion of approximately 10.",000,000 con stitute an independent nation surpassed in number of Inhabitants only by China and Htissia. There Is no lack of appre ciation of our tnagultude, but It will be judicious when the census men par ticularize between increases drawn from the outside and those native here. BAINBRIDGE COLBY GOES ON AN AWFUL ADVENTURE Will the Lions Devour the Daniel Ssnt by Mr. Wilson to Pacify unci Lead Them? IT IS odd to find Mr. Wilson 1n these momentous hours depending largely on a Republican to make democracy safe for the world. That plainly Is the hard mission of Halnbridge Colby at San Francisco. And it will be hard to con vince Democrats, or nny one else for thnt matter, that Mr. Colby lins out lived his essential Republicanism in a few short years. His bolt was an act of rage rather than nn act of conviction. It was one of those appalling gestures that men resort to when they wish to inspire horror in beholders and plant bitter remorse for Imaginary wrongs in the bosoms of their friends. Mr Colby went out of the Republi can patty as he might have gone over a cliff or Into a wild desert with a gootl-by-taiu-world wave of his hand. Hut those who burn their bridges ntid go into the far places of life meet with hard nd futures of which they never dreamed. Mr. Colby may have good reason to wish before many days that he hntl re mained at the comfortable hearth of the (J. O. 1. I'nquestlonably he has been chosen as the cutting edge of the President's purpose ut the Democratic convention. He has been nsslgned to be the voice of piopheey in a black and windy wilderness. He must soothe the lurking Ilrynu ami cause the lambs of liberalism to lie down with the reac tionary lions that rove in the wake of Palmer nnd lturleson. He must make ("hurley Murphy seem somehow chaste and pure. Itninbridge. while he i,s doing nil this with one hand, must with the pother humanize the oul of a party that cer tainly stands patter than nny check -writing Croesus of the (i. O. P. He must recoueile wets and drys if he cuu. Meanwhile the savage .limrectls and the untamed Cliarleymurphys anil the more -than -wild Mitchpalmers will snap and snarl and lunge at thi pilgrim in the gloom. Yes; Mr. Colby may even now regret that he ever left home. He will have shrewd guidance, at least. He left Washington charged with the lore of the forest and the re fined distillation of political wisdom. For nn amateur in politics properly might be defined as one who tousiders Mr. Wilson an amateur. The President is not an amateur, though It pleases him to encourage the familiar, naive delusion in journeymen apprentices like Mr. Penrose nnd Mr. Reed, It is part of his strategy to en courage in his enemies a belief that he is somehow green. Hut to the Ilryaus and the Murphys, the Palmers anil the Penroses, Mr. Wilson Is content to leave all minor quibbles about party rules and elective methods. He himself isn't regilding the platitudes of an ancient time or grubbing amid the debris of outworn doctrine He has none of the frowsy aberrations peculiar to the statesmen who reveal what is in their souls by seditiously avoiding the barber and wearing the wide black hats of patent medicine men and bandits. Whi'e party bosses nt San Francisco and elsewhere slide and dodge and ma neuver, nnd while the world wonders whnt Ilryati. lturleson. Palmer and Murphy an he if Jim Reed is a Demo crat, the simple-minded professor at Washington plays over a large keyboard with ex ling -Kill In the recent message to tl.e Railway Labor Hoard, in the telegrams to the governors of Ten nissee ami North Carolina relative to suffrage, it was Woodrow the astute, Woodiow the suave, Woodrow of the fine technique, who made himself heard aboe all eKe. Labor men were invited to hearken t.i the voice of their one resolute and dependable friend. The eyes of the feminine world there are about lf, miO.OOO women entitled to vote in .No vemberwere expected to grow moist with gratitude at the news from two southern states whoso governors know how to take a hint inspired by political acumen. In the President's cabinet is n gentleman named Meredith, who is little known to the country at large, but well known to the farmers of the Far and Middle West. We nrc likely to hear more of Mr. Meredith at Sun Frnncisco. It begins to appear now mat tue appointment ot . . . ... .... . . . Mr. Meredith, like the appointment of Tll s,Mu (lf Teutonic scholarship hns Mr Colby, was made to fit a purpo- ; ,,,., l)ri.,.n. It u lUm now for ollr whnh Mr. Wilson himself would call , rmnpQtroth to realize thn fine cultural .rovidential Even in the Northwest Ilrit of Pnris-something all too im areas, where the Nonpartisan League! . ,,Prf,cty ,.nK,u j tl0 gay anto-hf Hutu nre trying to put up a proletarian em jnj. iiire of their own. Meredith is known i ' liked and trusted. If the amateurs in the game of parties can only stand and gaze and complain ut the current display of political ac tivity at the White House, it is because they have taught themselves to believe that Mr. Wil-on ennnot play politics. Mr. Wilson plays politics, nnd he pluys it with dazzling skill. He lias a knack of getting beyond the nilud of the coun try to make an appeal at the tribunal of instinct, evhere ull great dici-ions nre made. He knows how to u-e silence for attack or defense. He dculs with fundamentals and lenves others to fuss with details. Senator Moses was the worst of prophets when he led his Re publican associates to believe that the President could no longer be a factor in national affairs. Unless Republicans quickly get rid of that delusion nnd learn to play the game as Mr. Wilson is playing it, their victory may not be so easy as they now expect It to he. Clearly tho President Is In a frame of mind to yearn not so much for a Democratic victory as for a Republican defeat". It is possible to imagine Mr. Colby as one dimly intended to begin a new fusing process between warrinc tribes inaind out of the Democratic party, AJ u again it appears that Balq- EVENIHa PtJBDIO bridge, sent out to rally progressing sentiment from the San Francisco ros trum, hns been thrown to the lions. For once the President's habit of dependence on mass psychology tnay have led him to n trap. Mr. Wilson mny present himself boldly as the friend of labor. Hut enn Colby nt the con vention get labor to swallow Palmer and Hnrleson? Can Colby cause the women of the country to forget thnt it was the Republican party that actually gave them nbout all they have of the rights of citizenship, and that their new friends In the South nre the same folk who fought the franchise ever since the day's of Susan H. Anthony? Can Colby purify Charley Murphy and the Tammany hordes and make them acceptable as units in a party pledged to the New Freedom? Who will chain Mr. Hryan if Colby urges n moist plank into the platform, nnd who will still the agonized cries of the Palmers anil Hurlesons if tho platform is a liberal one? Is It to be believed that the opposed furies nt the conven tion on Monday will be quietly recon ciled nt the command of an cx-Rcpuh-Ilcan. or will they eat him nnd pick his bones? It is pretty clear that the President Is nlinlng to dominate his party, and that at the same time he seeks nothing at Its hands beyond the defeat of the opposed ticket. He alms apparently to lure tletnched masses of voters to the Democrats In November. There Is a labor vote, a woman vote nnd n very large farmer vote to be swung by clever management. Mr. Wilson occupies In Washington n position' of extreme ndvantngo. He knows that whatever he chooses to say will be printed and rratl with careful attention over the whole country. He cause he sincerely desires to be the prophet of his pnrty and because he is a pretty good hater he Is likely to use every method available to him to baffle and confuse the Republican campaign malingers. His tactics will be bold. They have already been bold. So it is the duty of the Republicans to prepare for hard fighting in the open. Meanwhile it wilf be interesting to study the fate of the Daniel 'sent by Mr. Wilson to pacify the lions that he himself made wild. Mr. Wilson's fate in his party will depend cn the success or failure of Colby to unify the warring tribes. HOOVER'S PEACE LEAGUE WITH his usual clarity of reasoning, Herbert Hoover renounces the oulb b'es and the chop-logic which have characterized so much of the argument over the League of Nations. In a statement published In the New York Evening Post he perceives in the cov enant au Instrument for peace if the threat of disciplinary war Is eliminated. This view clnshes directly with the stnnd taken by champions of the much debated Article X, which pledges the members of the league to take military action against a foreign state the integ rity or independence of which is ag gressively menaced by another nation. Mr. Wilson interprets this crucial clause as a safeguard. Mr. Hoover, who probably knows ns much of foreign affairs and of the war's aftermnth as any American, flatly dissents. His re vision of the covenant would embody much stronger guarantee's of disarma ment thn- any now set forth. In fact, Article VIII. whieh aims to reduce the war power of the nations, is expressed in terms which mny or may not be binding. "The council," runs the text, "taking account of the geo graphical situation nnd circumstances of each state, shall formulate plans for such reduction for consideration nnd action by the several governments," Possibilities nf disingenuous discus sion nnd practical evasion nre here somewhat obvious. Mr. Hoover, who is entirely outspoken in his defense of the treaty and nf a modified league, evidently regards the eighth and not the tenth nrtlcle as the "heart of the cov enant," nnd suggests that American membership in the international society be made contingent upon the achieve ment of the reduction of armament by the nations within a specified time. No iritie nf the document, save the rankest lein tionary nnd militarist, can fail to adi, it that the end of the process of competitive nrmnmeuts must mean the end of large-scale wars. The league will be strung when the nations stack their nriii-. for the moinl force with which it uill be then invested will be well -nich Invulnerable. Opiii.-.tiMi) to any amendment or ex cision wl i h will make this idea more tlomlnnt r indicates a vain sensitiveness from wi.uli it is hard to dissociate parti-an r.ntives. AN INVITATION FROM PARIS tjliilf i ultural possibilities and in- ti M.iitn.nnl amity nnd understand ing uii- alike fostered by liberal plans of I)r Piil Appell, recently appointed din.t. r of the I'niversity of Purls in Mi''- hi to the late Henri Polucnre. Cu'i-si s hitherto barred to foreigners in t! " ci lebrated institution of learning nr" t i l.i- opened to Amcricnns, nnd a ptopnsal has been made to erect in the "l.itt Ilnnk" quarter of the French inpital a district impcrishably rich In educational traditions nn American ln-tittite to be affiliated with the uni vi rsity American co-operation in this scheme , u vr.iilir. nn.l it should h fnrH.cnniinP An amendment to State Rights tho federal cousti- (io Glimmering tution, accordiug to the state constitu tion of Tennesspit may not be acted upon by n Legislature the members of which were elected before the amend ment was submitted to the stntes. Tennessee's present Legislature wa eletted before tho suffrage amendment wns submitted. Hut tho governor of Tennessee has been advised by eminent legal authority that the Legislature is competent tn act. There Is likelihood that the Supreme Court will sustain this view. And,' of course, all is right ns right can be. And yet and yet the fact is brought persistently home to u tlint it wus the politician rather thnn the stntesmnn who spoke when the President urged the governor to nil a special meeting of the Legislature to ratify the amendment. The statesman, being a Democratic statesman, would have, hesitated, realizing that such ac tion strips the xtnto of pretty nearly the lust of Its rights. President Weglein, "Open Covenants of City Council, Openly Arrived At" proposes to issue pub lie statements setting forth what Council has done and what it plans to do. But suppose If doesn't know? ,t LEDGEB PmiTABBljPHlii', STUR MEN AND AFFAIRS First Travol Lecturer Photo graphs Under Difficulties. Somo Prlvato Oec- retarles , Uy GEORGE NOX McOAIN JOHN L. STODDARD, the first travel lecturer w'ho obtained national prominence nnd whose name was fa miliar to Phllndelphians a quarter of a century ago, has been living for a num ber of years in Villa Stoddard, on Lake Como, Italy. He was a guest at the University Club a couple of years ago, whjch was, I believe, his last appearance in this city. William II. nan, who keeps up a correspondence with Mr. Stoddard, In forms me thnt he had a letter from the distinguished lecturer and traveler a few days ago. He Is In excellent health and contem plates spending his remaining years under the skies of Italy, nbout which he talked so charmingly to the Phllndel phians of a past generation. MR. RAU is the only professional photographer in this country upon whom the French Government hns be stowed tho decoration of Officer of the Academy. The insignia is a navy blue bow of diminutive proportions worn as a rosette. While, the photographers of the world war had experiences thnt cast In the shade nil of those of their predecessors in times of pence, yet Mr. Rati has had his full share of thrills on land nnd sen. He once snent three months ns pho tographer of a scientific expedition on Chatham Island, or islands, observing a transit of Venus. THE Chatham Islands nrc a lonely group about fi.10 miles cast of New Zealand. The population consists of fewer than 400 souls, ,100 of whom nre Maoris and the rest whites. A small steamer from New Zealand visits the Mauds once In every two or three months. In recent years a wire less station has been erected there by the English Government, which gives it an air of civilization. At the time of Mr. Itau's visit the natives had everything their own way ; though this way never led to outbreaks, H has visited nearly all the ruined cities in the Near East, including Petrn. and as far east ns the Euphrates. His oddest experience, which he de scribed the other dny, was when he undertook to photograph tho sacred ves sels in u monastery at the foot of Mt. Siuni. In the semidarkness of its treasure room he was compelled to use magne sium tape. This was before the era of flashlight powders and other illutnl mints. The floor of the room was padded with prii eless rugs to the depth of several indies. He was compelled to burn magnesium on n table, and after a while discovered that bits of the in flammable stuff were falling upon the rugs. IN HIS dilemma he directed the at tention of one of the cloistered in mates to the fact, when the latter im mediately hurried to his assistance with a magnificently chnseu silver ewer. It was costly beyond computation, Mr. Ran said, but the niouk held it pa tiently under the dripping fire until the coveted photograph was secured. At another time he wns informed, while prennrlng for a pilgrimage through eastern Syria, that he would be com pelled tn curry a tent ns part of his outfit and use the old-fashioned nnd cumbersome wet -plat" process. He declined to undertake the work. The heat of the region rendered it im possible, to sny nothing of the handicap of transporting the paraphernalia for his silver baths. As a result the inovemrnt of the cara van was halted until he was adequately outfitted with dry plates, which were then only coming into general profes sional use. The trials of photographers in out-of-the-way places of the world are among the most interesting experiences of nu enthusiast in that line. At the time, however, they are ofteffl embar rassing in the extreme, as 1 happen to know. LKIGHTON C. TAYLOR, private secretary to Senator Pentose, is the custodian of more political secrets of national Importance thnn any other young ninn in Pennsylvania, perhaps. Just now and for the last three months his duties have put him in touch with all the leading members of the Republiian party. He is Senator Penrose's alter ego, for since the for mer's unfortunate illness ht has de pended largely upon Mr. Taylor in his confidential political work. He has been connected with the Pen rose entourage for sixteen years. He succeeded tin- lute Colonel Wesley An drews, one of the most efficient men of his time, a- private secretary to the senator. Mr. 'lav lor ionics from down in the Cumbeilund valley. At the outset of his career lie was un decided as to whether he would become an eleittinil engineer or an office as sistant in suine Industrial concern. He louiicc.ted up with tjie Westing house people nt Pittsburgh, and re mained thete until the lure of Washing ton and the offer of a position in Sena tor Pint use's, ollh e caught him. And there he hns since remained. T1 HE late United State Senator George I. Shout), the last territorial and tin lirst state governor of Iduho, was u Pennsylvania!!. He was a soldier. Indian fighter, men hunt, banker ami one of the big (iguris in the making of the West. Si nator Slump wns chosen, after his death, as the repiesentative man of Idaho whoso statue was to adorn the M.nh'e Room or Hull of Fame in the Capitol. He was born in Armstrong county, win re his relatives still live. His secretary for years was Addison T Smith, a young man, then not much voiinger thnn Mr. Taylor, who came from the Middle West. Addison Smith made the business of Scnutor Shoup his own personal busi ness. He not only berved him In Wash ington, but during the interim of con gressional sessions accompanied him to Iduho, and aided him in his political contests. His association with the people of that state led him to make it his perma nent home, and after the death of Sen ator Shoup he became u political factor out there. Today and for years he has repre sented Iduho in Congress and is one of the leading men of the state. "Hilly" Wright, afterward consul geucrul to Munich, was for years Sen ator Quay's private secretary. But that Is another story. The South Carolina Governors' Development Board Persllluge plans to build a great fish nnd shell fish Industry on the coast of that state. What tho governor of South Carolina may say to -,.. .iUr, uro Una, therefor, 1 that it need not nee eesarUy be o long ttne. botwecu oyster cocktails. "'...s ,- t '&.& SHORTCUTS What is needed is a free transfer for tho underlying companies. The great lesson Russia Is teach ing tho world is, "How not to do It." The eternal' question provoked by Hryan is, "How does he get away with it?" School teachers must perforce ac cept half a loaf instead of the whole cheese. Ry a process of elimination Mr. Dryan discovers that Vv J. B. Is the logical candidate. San Francisco correspondence serves to remind us thnt it is rumor that gives pep to a convention. Ever nnd nnon the public awakens to the fact thnt there is shortly to be an international yacht race. In the meantime, sensible parents will sec to it that their children do not buy. the "harmless" sparklers. We refuse to grow excited over the Ehvell murder mystery while tho Bcrgdoll mystery remains unsolved. There is every evidence thnt a large body of Democrnts continue to look on the Volstead act as an act of violence. Literary and athletic history re pents itself. A Yankee In the tennis court of King George hns again raised a racket. As a thfoat irritant in nn nrld wnstc, ever so many delegates to San Frnncisco will persist in thinking of Hrynn as Rrlnc. A brush with the enemy is all right, says Democrat Pete, but for the sake of party harmony Mr. McCombs should keep his hair. on. "Palmer, the Fighting Quaker," is the way boosters in Snn Francisco de scribe the attorney gcncrnl. It must be because he Is forever seeing Red. If old Law of Supply and Demand is permitted to get In his work, tho bumper wheat crops promised ought to increase the purchnslug rlowcr of tho dollar. " Enthusiastic boosters from below Mason nnd Dixon's line declare em phatically thnt Glass contains consid erably more than one-half of 1 per cent kick. If the colleges have their way Her bert Hoover mny be a rendy speaker by the time the 1024 convention meets, He is gathering oratorical powers by degrees, as it were. Congressional junketers may pos sibly spend nbout a third of their time trying to kid themselves into the belief that the trip has some useful purpose, will serve some useful end. A Los Angeles woman who has a "lawn" of cement painted green de clares it is better than grnss, ns it needs no attention nnd looks just ns well. But the Los Angeles robins are of a different opinion. Judge Harlan, of Belnlr, Mil., docs not pose as the champion optimist, but lie came nejir admitting to fellow Ro tarians at Atlantic City that, save for the presence of churches, lnbor unions and prohibition, the world was not half bad. The fact that motor busses are op erating on a five-cent fnre basis in New York has more significance thnn ap pears on its face. It may Indicate the eventual elimination of rails, which were born in cobblestone days and found their necessity in rough high ways. Charles W. Eliot, president emer itus of Harvard University, is eighty seven years old, hnle, hearty nnd happy, for which he gives credit to "a calm temperament expectant of good." Here he has compressed in a line all the worth-while philosophy lo be found on 9 five-foot shelf. ROUTE 75 Being the Anticipatory Wall of a Regular Patron Though passengers may rage and fuss, The painful fact is known To victims that means all of us Thnt Mitten holds his zone. And so we need not tell you thnt As sure ns you're alive You'll need a pocketbook that's fat To ride on 7o. There's five cents here and five cents there, And eight cents later on; And here a fare and there a fnre Until your money's gone. What though the parting makes you sick ? The P. R. T. will thrive. You've got to snow arithmetic To ride on 75. Oh, Richmond may be Orthodox And Midvale may be plain; But Wolf will surely Chase the Fox Exploiting ii- for gain ! Perchance we'll meet their craft with craft And clever trnns nnnfrlvn For those who rake us fore nnd aft With deadly O. A. Ef: ''hat Do You Knotv? QUIZ 1. What Is tho meaning of "Dryn Mavvr"? 2. Whrn did women1 get the suffrage. In Iienmark? 3. Who was Old Hickory? I. What local difference Is there be tween the words "devise" and "bequeath"? fi What Is "German sliver"? C. What great opera was composed In thirteen days? 7. What Is a tare? 8 When was Rhode Island settled? 9. When and where was .Sureeon Gen- (ral Rupert Uluo born? 10. Who vvna known ns tho "Cerberus of Literature"? Answers to Yesterday's Quiz 1 Cum matures In 100 days from seeding time under average condi tions. 2 The word "macaroni" probably comes from the Itnllnn verb "maccare," to bruise, to blend 3. Pennsylvania was settled by Wit. Ham I'enn III 1082. 4, Thn Indian head and nuffalo nickels wore first put Into circulation February 22, 1913. 6 Kama is the Hindu trod of love. 6 Korea was formally annexed by Japan, August 22, 1910. Andrew Jackson died June 8, 1815. Jonn of Aro was canonized May 16 1920, ' 9 Pecksniff was a notorious hypocrite In Dickens's "Martin Chuzziewlt." 10, The Continental Conirress adopted l??P"l- ino mam uuu oiriyea juno 1717. E 1920 BbimW rrA.. f4"TPtsSs .&S5 JfcarXlY. AW r HtlTTmketfm""- - ' - .. ssH ri 2GWr-rW ' jS&vcx&f2z. 11 tMl W H m -. i -rr-r- -W sn.u wrvtf. ' i -v, W WJsAXW 1.M-A. rr mil ii if t e- , DEMOCRATS SHOULD PROFIT FROM THE GENTLE AMOEBA When He (She or It) Disagrees Within, There's a Split, Healthy and Beneficial Party's Best Brains Lack ing at San Francisco By CLINTON Copurtoht, 1910. Iv San Francisco, June 20. You mny believe in party government, but po litical parties seen at close range are mighty ineffective things. For one thing they haven't the sense of the amoeba, the simplest form of animal life, the monocellular organism. The nmoeba, when it finds It enn no longer comfortably remain one body, plits into two, each going its scp rate way. It is one of the bad things nbout parties that they do not know how to split comfortably. If they would only pursue the habits of the nmoeba and multiply by division political life would be vastly more interesting, vari ous and amusing thnn it is. Also we suspect that the amoeba was a highly courageous animnl, compared to a politlcnl party. It takes courage, vast courage to split into two. Con sider fncing life without half of your self and perhaps the very half that you have always loved best. The amoeba aces tills cheerfully over and over again. Time nftcr time in the inter ests of the census of nmocbns, he, or shall we say she, splits into two. And the Los Angeles of umoebndom only beat Its San Francisco by the superior splitting ability of its inhabitants. Certainly a Misfit But political parties cannot bear to fnco life without half of themselves. The Democratic wets cannot face life without the Democratic drys. They make a compact body together, but neither will go it alone. The Demo cratic conservatives will not split oft, amoebn fashion, from the Democratic radicals. Their union is unhappy, but neither can bring themselves to face life separately. Thus they hang to gether, futile and Ineffective, timid and incnpuble of action, each part drag ging through life burdened each with another part out of hnrmoiiy with it self. Some Freudian ought to analyze a party platform and seek in It for the party's suppressed desires. Every word in it is n sign of repression and Inhi bition. The sensible nmoeba never hud any suppressed desires. When conflict arose in his mind he split In two and the two antagonistic elements went their several ways. If it were so with parties, a convention would be a joy to behold. Everybody would be freely expressing tho highest degree of intelligence, Im agination, energy and enthuslnsm. The utmost freedom would prevail. As it is, political courage Is the rarest tblug to be found nt a party con vention. Everybody is afraid. If you soy anything but a lot of weasel words, if you do anything but pussyfoot, you may lose a lot of votes. Therefore be seated and don't move. Dodge, duck, equivocate. It seemed bad enough nt Chicago for a while, but the Republi cans acted boldly on the whole. The hissing of tho La Follette voters there wai a delightful exhibition of the sheer joy of one ncctlon of the amoeba at the expected departure of another section. The Republicans became bold In the end. They elected fo be the conserva tive party and to let the Hbcrnl or radical, whichever you wish to call it, deport if it wished. That wus a singu lar act of courogo ou the part of the Republicans. It is a perfectly honest, courageous and intelligent thing to bo a conservative, You mny not like con servatives, but they are a terribly clear thinking lot. Want To Eat Their Calte Bad as it looked at Chicago before they made their decision, it is worse at Ban Francisco. The Democrats want to Ban Francisco, The Democrats ? cH WVijy ANY SUMMER SATURDAY W. GILBERT Public Ledger Co. already occupied that position. There is uot any reason, moral or intellectual, for two conservative parties. Vv hen there is n conservative party, either you should bcloug to that party or you should go and join its rival. Moreover. the Democrats don't waut to lose their possible radical support. They want to eat their ;nke and have It. They want to be conservative nnd still hold to their side labor and the radical farmer. A party trying to do all these things at once is not nn Inspiring sight. Just ns men of courage cannot como to the front In tho Democratic party, so men of Intelligence nnd imagination cannot. When you' nrc afraid of split ting, you can't havo brains around. Brains nrc n derisive fake. The Demo cratic party happens to have just now the best political brains, highest po litical imagination and finest political courage In the land. The combination might win for it. Nothing else will. Hut nn Interesting sidelight upou what Is happening hero in San Francisco is that the Democrats with the best political brains, best political imagina tion and highest political courage are uot here. This Is no place for them. The amoeba might split. Look at the Democratic party. Mc Adoo, the one possiblu candidate of creative political imagination In it, withdraws his name from consideration by the convention, Mr. Butuch, a Democrat with an uncanny insight Into the future, cancels his reservations ut Sun Francisco. Thomas L. Chndbourne, another Democrat of uucommou ability, having a logical habit of mind that mutches Mr. Baruch's singular inltiii tive gifts, stays away, too. Homer CummingH, another iirst-clnss Demo cratic mind, is here, rather lonely, ex ercising the negative influence. There is much thnt is wrong about a party which has at its command in telligence and imagination like tlio.se of Sir. McAdoo, Mr. Baruch and Mr. Clindbourne, nnd yet cannot use thejii. It should imltutc the amoeba. THE CRITIC TALKS TO MUSIC LOVERS MUSIC, like everything else, suffered severely during the years of Inter national hysteria which characterized the period of the war, but it has re mained for Austria to cap tho climax of absurdity in this respect. The new chancellor, Von Renner, has decreed thnt there shall be n new- iiutiniinl anthem ntid, moreover, he has decided who shall write the words nnd who shall compose the music. When an official makes a proposition as absurd as this one of the Austrian chancellor, It Is not surprising to find that he has selected himself to write the words. Ah the official composer of the new national anthem he has named WUhelm Kletizl, n musician of con siderable ability, who has had a long and houorablo career, hnving composed half n dozen operas, more thnn 100 songs anil an even larger number of piano pieces, the fame of none of which has ever penetrated beyond the confines of his own country. NOW the job the chancellor ha's chosen for himself mny or mny not be a difficult one and he will probably approach It with zest. Any man suf ficiently brave to accept the clianeellor hip of Austria at the present moment would ho willing to try nnythlng once. There is need for the revision of the words, for if Austria Is to have a nntlonnl hymn it is self-evident that the old one, which Is merely the Austrian 'version of "God Save tho King," will not do for a republic. It is manifestly useless to appeal to heaven to save the king if there isn't any king to be saved. But it Is the mngnitude of tho job which the chancellor has wished upon Mr. Klenzl that has attracted the at tention of musicians In this unique plan of making national songs to order. Aus- ' I .", """Z T.1 i, '-'i "" iu" V tria is tno one country on the face of &s ?JW SsS WMli. .. ' "' .' oL'Z - s-5 mm m 'Hut rank. Mr. Klenzl's enthusiastic nd. mlrcrs will hnrdly claim thnt he is or 1 ever will bo on the same level as a com-fi I'usi-r wiiu ounepu xiiiyuii, who com posed the music for the old Anstrlnn hymn nnd who was one of the greatest composers wno ever lived. Therefore, nil Mr. Klenzl has to do to. carry out the instructions of his chancellor is to produce a song which, in melody, dignity nnd general fitness, shall equal one of the most inspired melodies of one of the world's greatest composers. Koine job. "OUT Mr. Klenzl may find comfort In - the fact that It Is sometimes no,. sible to do again whnt has been done once, nnd. strnncc ns it mnv noom. tli Austrian hymn, both words and minie,.' wiih me result ot n deliberate inten tion on the pnrt of both writer and composer to produce n national hymn. ii is me oniy case on record where a nntlonnl hymn, cenernllv nceontnii n . such by the people, wns not the spon taneous outpouring of words and melody ns the. result of a national crisis. When Haydn visited England he wai. much interested in the effect upon the i-i-ujiii: in uie Jintisii national an--them. "God Snvn tho Tvlm. " n,t ..., "is return to Austria he decided to gke it. uuu couniry a similar "composition. iho composer's friend, Von Svvieten, suggested the iden to the then chancellor mm uini omcinj (one of Mr. Von Hen ucr s official predecessors, by the way) luiiiuiiiiNiiiD.cu tue poet, Laurence Leo- iioiu iiascnun. tn wilt,. ,,. ,..! ni. wn?in December of 170(1, ami hv tho ui-imu oi .January, 1707. both word ami music were completed. .. Jt, wos ''-. sung on February 12, -..-. "miij ui me emperor, ana was o-uiiiiim eousiy performed in the Na- tional Thonfrn nt Vl...... ...i i -ii ,t. . , , . ! w- '""nu, uuu iii uii the principal theatres of tho provinces. I lue sour commended itself inmu'illatclf I io uie public and was accepted as tht "u.iuuui nuuiem. fTI-lE melody remained one of Ilnjdn'i tavorites nr nil . ....... ,,,, n:.,..., ..i later ho used it as the theme for th, luuuiiiiiiH which lonn tho slow move- "n v '. ' ' ,nn,"r stri,lf' 'lunitct op.,1 ., -,u. ,1, uutiouuieuiy tne most pop ular and best known of all the Haydn j string quartet movements. It was tit first of tho really great sets of varia tions for the string quartet, Itccthoven in me .v mujor quartet up. IH, Nn. 0, and Schubert in the D minor quartet wruiug mo oniy other sets of vnrii tions for quartet which may he com pared with it in beauty nnd popularity. Schubert followed Haydn's cxnmpli in tnklng as the theme a melodv which he had previously composed, using lb), I song "Jjeatii and the .lulueu, uui Beethoven followed hLs usual custom of writing a new nnd oiiglnnl theme u the subject for his variations. The melody of the Haydn Austrian national hymn is believed to he orig- lnally a Croatian folksong nnd via) probably many years old when Ilayda was born. The history of the melody has been traced by Hadow, who inakci a strong, if uot totally convincing, arju ment, HAYDN took this melody and greatly beautified it, besides giving it a adequate harmonization, very niiicli ai Sebastian Bach many years before him took the wonderful chorales which toro the basis of German chinch music an harmonized them. It is believed th Bach nipdc few changes in the melodic structure of the chorules, which vv decades. If not n century or inoie. 0- fnt the time of his birth, but Haj tnr., mnnv 1 inrHc.S W It 1 tilt" Iliei'"" curve of the old Croatian melody, whiil .l.,l.,l In cm.nrnl fnrilis. bllt llll t'On tnlnlng what is unquestionably iln'bau of the national anthem. Both words mid music have rrnialnrt unchallenged in their position up to present time, although sporadic at e i J ,nvo beeu made to write f. new nation anthem. One of these, entitled O i. W Austria," was by Von Suppe, the mc-us composer of light operas, who born U 180. but it never ""''- "V headway against tl.e Haydn compos! tion. . .... ir mi Therefprn Chancellor von Renner a &KflPw5i;! iiu '!'! '.'?. "IK. "ST ii, SSrfl month's iimu, wiu " , ' i,? -riir cW Kicru.1 without any time I m'-J J. national anthem was wri ten ami com posed to order l- enrs "'"' not onotlicr one now fi ro . Hasehkii's contribut on to fierm,,, oT which the most fmou. w J, tional " Vhufor e !ou or Vo-ttUj gifts may be rSchUlcrcatiue o r ( icf i fu their Bcopc. ami he nn I'ro.iff(b( poem which win '... the "' literary map as conn-Mely " ."'j ,M Irian empire hns been I-$ MPL-MHaff;u5ft .P.r0l0U".u ",'i :im ' i.u cbaocelflfT no ji.i; ., ii .j i..i i : t , i wn v"" .'yuBi uhu was uom- I world over i "" 'H bo conservative, ,Uui their riyaji hpojwT y a wjMclan oi ,th,a ytty tnblZuM M , ' ' I " 1 1 r ' i 'fsi I h x "' ' t if il .-a, . whA. .fr- iA'kri.-.V.'H, . ' 's.V", '. --2'VV ' -.
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