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A OUR-YEAR PROGRAM FOR
PHILADELPHIA
' Thine on which the neuiile rxprrt
the new nilmlnUtrutlnn to roncii-
trnte Its attention I
The Delaware river bridge.
A drydock big enough to accommo
date the largest ships.
Development of the rapid transit sys
tem. A convention hall.
A building for the Free Library.
An Art Jluseum.
Enlargement of the water supply.
Hornet to accommodate the popula
tion. COX
r' WAS suggested in this column
when the Snn Francisco i-oiivcn- j
tlon assembled that the tight would be
between progressive Hemocrnts of the '
school xvlilch Mr. Wibon represented ,
ml tirt ll . fnaliinnoil i.lmupTlt nlliwl hv I
men like Murphj. Nugent. Tnggart unci , montlis. His administration is being
the rest. It was suggested, too. thnt ! f-lt '" .v ll10 men who prefer to live
the old crowd would win. j by petty crime rather than by work,
They hae won l the nomination I a'"1 thm' are politicians in loth fac
of Mr. Cox. though they conceded to , '"" wI' w' ,10t l'J'tnt" J tie his
the progressives the right to make the LimiN f they an. N lint the Mayor
party platform lVit u platform is did in his statement relative to nn nt
whatevcrthc President au.l u .-o-opernt- 'tempted revival ot vice was " servo
Ing Congress want to make it after
election. It has been said that tlm
Republican convention returned to the
viewpoint of 1W0 when it prepared
. ttn .liwlnmtlnn nf fulfil nml nnnilnnteil
)Mr ..Harding. It may be said of the
1 J democrats that they returned to the
war of 1870. Their convention will
h'avo to be judged h what it did
rather than by what it lias beeii njing
through the oYator.s and in the plat
form. Cox represents Its completed
work, lie is essentially an old-fash
ioned Democrat who holds to tho point
of view that created inentitiide n.nl
signs of decay in the party before Mr. , tempted since January show that he
Wilson happened along. He is uot'''us "t forgotten his campaign prom
ashamed of his friendship with bosses l ises. It is unfortunate thut the best
of the Murphy nud Nugent type. He lworli tuat lnn UP ,I(,IJ(, for a oinintiiiity
h in spirit a wet. and It is for tliatlIik' tllis is "nt 'l'",, conspicuous or
reason unquestionably that Nugent nud vividly dramatic. Pell-mell raids on
Murphy and their associates waged so gambling houses loom large among a
bitter a battle in his behalf. city's events', but they are more or lcs-s
It remains to be seen now whether
Tammany logic nnd the methods that
maintained Nugent and Tnggart in power
before the dajs ot the political muck
rakers will be acceptable to the coun
try. Mr. Wilson has reasons to feel
lhat the San Francisco convention re
jected him after making its elaborate
protcstutions of loulty. Certainly it
cannot no saul that (ox is the raudi
if date he would huve desired. The Pie-i-
dent has not a bitterer enemy than
Nugent, of New Jersey, and Nugent
proved at San Francisco to be the het
friend of Cox.
iAi c ddvami
VMLt bKYAN!
SAN FHANCISCO appears to hate
been Waterloo for Mr. Rrynn. And
ns a prophet of might, abandoned ut
lnat by those who once were glad t
follow him and left desolate, disap-
polutcd and jet umiisinawd amid the;
debris of all his hopes, the Commoner
is no small or insignificant figure.
It has been fashionable to sneer nt
llim. He could ween in nubile and
peoples nud parties will never wholly
trust any man who does that. He
brought little of elemental wisdom to
his party.' He will take little of sound
philosophy nwa from it. Rut llrjnn
has many of the great virtues of char-
actcr that nre name to original Amer
ira and the present Midd'e West. He
has been courageous nml consistent
even when he was wrong. He thinks
in simple terms. His mind hn only
one side. It has not the nnoiiK facets
that can reflect the various truths of
a various world Honest he ha been
oven when he believed that teMJineot
aud wisdom nre one.
Any man who stands up unci tishi
for nn ideu until he is l-:i t t-rJ eown in
his tracks desenes a word of praise in
passing.
This is that word.
KEEP THE BONUSES INTACT
(ACCORDING to the opinion of
former Judge Theodoie Jenkins,
attorney for the Huuid of Fducation,
the proposed bonuses for school teach
ers cannot exceed more than $100. no
funds for larger increases being avail
able. Compared with the nceiln of the
tdtuatiou, this sum is indeed meager,
but It will dwindle almost to iiothuu
ig x ii tno aisirimitioii is to take the form
S of increases in the tcuehers' pay en
S vclopes throughout the vear.
Y The Hoard of I.dticatlun, which is to
Vneet on Jul) l.'l to consider the ques
tion, ought not to hesitate ns to the
ipethnd. The bonuses, small as they
nre, should lie awarded in toto und ut
once. To parcel the money out in
driblets would be to emiehnsize its un-
fortunnto tiuancinl inability to render
aid xvhere It Is so clearly deserved.
RESTORING "THE BELL"
WITH arms completed and hands
restored, the Venus dj Milo might
perhaps take on new beauty. Treated
to an electrical buth such as is now
proposed by the Ohio Society of Phila
delphia and tho Philadelphia Alumni
(if the Ohio Stnte I'nlverslty, the Lib
erty Rcll might be Induced to ring
nguiu, If sentiment Is subsidiary to
efficiency, repairs lo both the famous
relic ore a .older. Logically XurrJccJ
I out, tho principle would me nn remaking
mOTt of the world's illustrious shrines
Innd.rcmodcllnR most of Its ancient his
torle treasures.
i proveincnt Is to be reactionary and
i ........rttt.li litilirnrrrnaati'n lltlf Ihn initio
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cracKcu i.iocriy lieu is an csinousneu
1-1 To bnll forth now ...no,, from
jt j, t0 ci,nnRC its nature, somehow to
suppress me note oi pauios or iruRi-uj
F0R FRST six months
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as Not Forgotten Campaign Prom
ises, but Needs More Sincere
Support Than He Is Getting
rnllK underworld about which reform-
' -a- ers nml iiitiekrnkrrH (nil; is a IllMtl.
There Is no such place. The "gambling
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tT In nnv nnrtmiilnr entnllttmi nf lift.
lllgb-rolierH do not crowd in exclusive
communities. Mayor Moore, in mi-
oum jng tlllt mygtcrioiiH groups are
enuenvoriiig to re-cstuDllsh organized
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il'r HI liuni'll.v, 11IIUU11C!4S llirillll limn
or less thuu appears on the surface,
There ure always a good mnuv people , t"""' lM'n" ' ,,p received with respect,
about xho like to make money in ille- . ","nlncd for the medical officers of
gitimatp ways, and they will break laws I"11' .' "ltp,''Stnt" "rmy "ndor tho '
cstablis-hed in the Interests of common i r,;('t.10" of, ntr- A '"lnm C- Qotkm, by
decency unless they nre made to feel the, ,ll,!1' wopk ' run- " establish this
constant lestrninlnir nower of the nollce. ""'"" "" n firm foundation. The first
cial parasites of that clas prefer to
watch and wait for on Intervnl after the
advent of enrh new municipal ndniln
i istrntion New mayors and new direc
tors of public safety arc given time to
'settle into comfortnble ruts and to for
1 get their promises, if they are of the
forgetting kind. After n few months,
i when the zeal of new executives may be
presumed to have lost Its edge, the men
1 who like to live n little outside the law
! begin to take soundings. A gambling
, house here and there is opened up.
I Other questionable enterprises nre
i launched continuously, and launched In
I some Instances under agreements xvlth
1 new ward and division leaders who wish
to try out their own powers ns well as
i the temper of the administration.
I If the police nre alert and honest
land if the .Mayor can still be independ
ent these plans are soon abandoned.
Mr. Moore has been in office six
nouie on mese nun mm uc mh icum
able to give them u fight. AH that is
needed to maintain decency and order
, '" ? ' "K' '"s ,H a I'1K'C '(,rco, rcC(1
' Political UOsS control. .Uf. .UOOrC
uui1 Ir; Cortelyou have managed to put
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of tile factional maneuvering of the
hour is intended, apparently, to undo
all the good work that has been done
of late in the Department "f Snfetv.
The Mnor has a lively and practical
mind. His course during the hard tight
with the opposing faction and the
record of what he has done nml nt-
.minor incidents in n program of rccou-
struction nud reform.
l'he Mnyor's scheme for a municipal
nsphalt plant, for example, is stigges.
tive of the sort of work that counts most
heavily in the long run for the general
good. Had such a plant been in op
eration years ago tins city would not
now be hampered by some of the worst
street surfaces in the world, nor would
' it hove to pay out money in Hoods to
ntone for long-continued negligence by
those who in the past had to do with
the streets and stre t appropriations.
The highwajs might have been kept up,
as the Mayor desires to keep them up.
.under rules which lecognize the trc-
Imeudous value of the stitch in time.
Thus the enormous costs of rebuilding
! would not have been necessary.
In plans which lie has outlined for
i the sake of economy and efficiency in
'other municipal department the Major
' is plainly keeping to high nud honest
ininis. He in ecN more sincere support
thnn the new Council is giving him.
He needs nn enlarged police force. If
his administration proves in (he cue
to have fniled in some things, it will
be because the City Council, antngo-
rustic or wore. refused the co-operation
without which any Mayor must remain
relatively helpless. If vice is revived,
it will not be the fault of the Mayor.
It will he the fault of those who lime
made an honest, efficient nnd properlv
paid police force difficult or impos.-ible
in Philadelphia.
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A NEGLECTED OPPORTUNITY
WH1;N Inin S. Cobb received one
and one-half votes and Ring Lard
ner received one-hnlf n vote for ll
presidential nomination in the Sun
Francisco i 'invention, the delegates m
search for a ticket on which all could
unite missed a glittering opportunnv
Cobb nnd Lardner would have been
a combination which would hnve con
tnined elements of strength lacking in
anv other combination thut ini!d In
made Cobb is troui ivcn , h -n,.! m
a weinociiu. ' ' "" l """ '
moved North and lives near Sing Sing
prison, in Westchester nnintv. n
York, qunlities him to unci, rstnnd the
national point of view much better ihnn
if be bad remained in his name tuie.
And Lardner. who was burn in Mulli
gan and bus lived In Chicago und I!.. -ton
,, ow lnnkP1) ilis home in C.innecti
cut, has cured himself of whatever
parochial leanings he mav have hud.
Lardner announced bis candidacy for
the presidency before the i invention
met, obviously in order to qualify him
self to take second plnce on n ticket
headed by Cobb. 'I ho fact thnt he is a
Hepublican should not disqualify him in
n Democratic convention in which Rain-
bridge Colby is one of the leading spirits.
His eyo is on the mnin chance, und if
he could get the vice presidential nomi
nation ho could be n good enough I
Democrat until ntter-the election. i
And Cobb woiilel be the ideal southern
Democrat for which the party has been
looking for n cener.it ion without th"
coinage to namo one when it found him.
Cobb'- unine is known where thnt of
John W. Davis has never- been beard
He hns tolked with kings nnd dined with
tramps. Ills sensn of humor Is suf
ficlent to enable blm to run for the presi
dency on n platform which disowns all
the hMoric theories of the democracy,
and his intellectual Ingenuity Is 'equal
to the task of explaining why tho modern
democracy is what It Is. He Is of presi
dential size Rlrth would be a better
word. Ills waist measure. Is about equal
to that of drover Cleveland. Ho Is
smooth shaven after the manner of
Washington, and he has qualified him
self for a strenuous campaign ,by a sea
son or two on the lecture circuit after
the manner of llry.iu. He can face an
nudlcnce without blushing.
In nddltlon, a ticket like that of Cobb
and Lordncr would be n recognition of
me writing lolK who have been neglected
t... .r ,... . ... . ":r'
House. The political obtuscness of the
convention, which failed to see the op-
portunlty, must bo regretted bv nil
Democ
menus wno are I10 lie to keen their
y in power. ' r
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PREVENTIVE MEDICINE
rnlli: discoveries of Pasteur headed
-L tlic medical world in n new direc
tion in its senrch for the cause and cure
of disease.
Pasteur established the germ theorv
beond dispute. Then tho theories of
investlgnlors thnt mosquitoes nre germ
, """"'is nun rominiinicnte Uim-nse to
hntitflM hnltia tlitiMtno ...l.t1. 1 1 I
"."fti, .i'w.,i-r iiii;i 1U( OCCn
formulated early in the nineteenth ecu-
prew'titive measure adopted by the nrmy
in i una negan with a thorough disin
fection of the houses In xvhlcli yellow
feer patients died. These houses were
drenched with n solution of corrosive
sublimate. Put yellow fever continued,
for the reason thnt it was not com
municated by somo mysterious poison
in the nir that lurked In "infected
buildings." The nrmy medical officers
soon proved that the germ of the disease
was injected into the blood of the victim
by the bite of a certain kind of mos
quito. When screens were placed In
the windows and the doors of houses
nnd when the mosquito-breeding places
were cleared out, yellow fever disap
peared. The French could not build the
Pannma canal for the reason that they
could not cone with jellow fever on tho
Isthmus. Doctor florgns went to the
Isthmus and detroved tho mosquitoes
nnd Colonel (JoethnK built the canal
where the French had failed.
Doctor florgas, who lrid been pro
moted to the rank of major general for
his work, was hoping to write the last
chapter of yellow fever when he died in
London on Sunday. He had directed
the work In South America, and as n
result there has been no case of the
plague in Guayaquil. Peuadnr. since
June of Inst year. The average num
ber of deaths in that seaport had been
2."f) a year for several years. Merida. in
Yucatan, and Maracaiho, in Venezuela,
and a few spots In West Africa remain
to be cleared iin. (ieneral (iorgns was
on his way to West Africa in the em
plov of the British Government to fight i
the disease there when he died.
These places will be cleaned up in the
near future, and then the great plag
lit pinguc'
of the tropics will be conquered through
the efforts of medical men who have
devoted themselves to the study of the
cause nf disease in order that they might
intelligently study its cure.
Preventive medicine hns made greater
progress in the past hundred years than
in all the time since Aesculapius first
compounded his simples for the cure nfi
the ancients. The guide posts have
been set by patient investigators. Their
successors will carrv us further on the
"' "nril J"1'1 cancer nnd consumption.
which until the present time have baf
fled the medical world, have to surren
der as yellow feter surrendered to Doc
tor Gnrgas and his associates.
A LESSON NEVER LEARNED
THK parciiH of a fourteen-yenr-nld
girl who killed herself on the Fourth
of Julv while playing with her father's
revolver are blaming themselves for
leaving the weapon where the child
I'Oll'el get it
The tir-t thing other parents with
loaded firearms in the house should do
is to lock the weapons in a snfe place
and keep the key in their pockets.
I'.ut thev will not do it. Thei will
leave the weapon in n bureau drawer
to teient the children, and especially
the bovs. to get it out and see how well
they can shoot We saj" this because
killed every year while plaving with a '
two or three rnllilren in this eitv are
I loaded firearm of some sort
DIRE THOUGHTS
iCtTllAT has beco
' ' principle of
'come of the glorious
open covenants
nc nlv nrtiveel nt?" It was betrayed
it I'.his but then foreigners aie alwnvs
in he suspected. Their wavs nre dark,
their treks nre vnin. Thev outnum
bered Americans engaged In the treaty
innkiiig.
The taint of internationalism Is,
however, supposedly absent from con-
vi minus of the two great political par
lies Such fateful enterprises nre na-
tive to the core. let xvho except the
participants actually knows what took
phee behind closed door'; in the im
p titrable committee rooms where
Democratic and Republienn platforms
mic produced? The rank and file of
ihe constituents of both parties nre
helpless or at least placed in the rigid
position of accepting or rej"e ting the
respective programs in toto without
,,, ,,,,. of nn
i or the crossing
of a "t."
Have we lenrneel nothing fioin the
war? Is It possihle that all the fret,
tumult and argument over the trenty
and all the criticism of the Pence Con
ference hnve been futile? Surely It
behooves the American people to con
sider their plight.
Not every sj liable spoken flt the his
toric session in Paris was reported to
an anxious world Not every compro
mise, not every balancing of values, not
every adjudication of interests achieved
at either San Francisco or Chicago hns
been divulged to the hapless, public.
Consistency in censuring the wily diplo
matists at the Quai D'Orsay points
back to the bitter home truth of na
tional party platforms made by secret
deals and dickers.
The only lump of Ice to be slipped
down the back of indignation Is the
thought that nppenls for some other
method of procedure bv which 100,-
i"00-0?-0 P""nnS e.m ""Sten '"" nrC
"H 5"' unanswered.
Revised census re
Lurlty Thirteen turns givo York,
Pn , thirteen more
Inhabitants than were previously cred
ited to her Rut the new York figures
don't, of course, place, the town in the
New York class.
.? i i. P. "t ln,,U 'C mU " c bnv? I ! openly expressed advice of England,
nail lawyers nud college professors and The Poles have justified their steady
soldiers and surveyors and mere poll- ndvance Into foreign territory by claims
tlclons as presidents, but we have never whhli cause mott Indignant surprise
had a Hticcessful humorist In tlio Wliltpininoiii! the neonles concerned. Urielly,
POLAND'S WAR
The Manchester Quardlari Re
gards the Present Conflict as
Disastrous Both to the
Reborn Nation and
to Russia
THE most serious factor In the ap
palling economic situation of eastern
I'urope Is the rollsh-lttisslnn war. It
seems daily more probable that this war
w
will he continued by rolanti ngninst
the Poles declare that they consider
tlint they have a right to the frontiers
' "hich were theirs In 1772. It Is a
i1"1"" "' " I" I"""""" "i "vim j .j,v.w.
(100 souls that Is to say, to a popula
tion nearly iiirrc nines ns iiirifu a '"-
population of Polnnd Itself at the be
ginning of the war. It Includes. Inci
dentally, Lithuania, White Itussln, the
bulk of Lctvln, nud stretches far into
the I'krnine.
TOIt is it ns If any considerable pro-
rmrtlon of the population within
these frontiers were Polish. The fol
lowing governments of tho old Russian
empire are those concerned : Llvlnud,
Kurlaml. Kovno. Vllnn. Grodno. Su
valki. Vitebsk, MInf.lt. Mogilev. Kholiu.
Vol ask, Kieff, Podolsk. Of these,
Poland has an ethnographical right to
Kholm nlone. In not one single exam
ple of the remaining gox'ernmcnts do
the Poles number even 25 per cent.
The population of these nine govern
ments In lflOD w'nn 2-,.f!04,222 persons,
nnd in WHS, 27,1M1,-I00. in 1011. of
this population 7!U2 per cent were
Russians, White. Great or Little; !."
per cent were . oic-. wi. r
were .lews and 8.-11. per cent belonged
III IHlll'l lilt la.
The Poles, however, mny be basing
their claim on something other than
population, although that Is the prin
ciple to which most civilized nations
refer such disputes. If they base their
claim on landed property nnd not on
population, the Poles have n slightly
better case, though even so a very weak
one, especially ngninst a revolutionary
country where great lnnd-ownlng hns
come to an end.
Up to the close of the first half of
l.rt ..tt.i.t.1n..t1i ..ntitnev tlin erent 1nml-
.-! f i, ,.,-,..niiin,it of Vitebsk-.
Mogilev, Minsk, Volynsk. Kieff nnd 'onal conventions another reform worth
PodoWc were almost exclusively Polish, instituting will be the nbolltlon of plc
The great Polish landowners began sell- i ture posters boosting the presidential
ing their esfntes when the emancipation , candidates.
of the peasants deprived them of their '
serfs. In 11)00 they still held about Ft profits arc said to grow on
half their old properties. .nunicipnl reduction plnnts. but when
t It comes to objections to this species of
Bl'T we nre now In 1020, nnd during ' gardening the nose knows,
the early years of the twentieth
century the Poles continued getting rid The blithesome way in which the
of their estates. On .inr.unry 1. 100!). i Democrats dodged the soldiers' bonus
just over 2.1 per cent of the estates in i is only equaled by tho cheerful alacrity
those governments xvere Polish. In with which it was previously dodged by
Vitebsk government. 27 S ner cent: in the Republicans.
Minxk. .'M.4 per cent: in Moglicv, 10.3 .
tWiTU,1" K'Cff; 1,"-tr'-.1'vniv?tL-: 'ft Ministers have explained to the
Podolsk 21 per cent, and in "'--n I Mayor that Sunday baseball leads to
ri'r?i,t.,.7i X'o.m, 5 nr i ambling: but pedestrians South
to fall until the outbreak of war i Philadelphia are prone to believe thnt
J ' a 1. f linfn id t1i"i ilnnnnn ti flint illnfiAtlAn
Perhaps, recognizing the frailty of i
their riglits alike on tiic basis of prop
erty nnd on tho basis of population, the
Poles may found their claims on some
"'-w principle or on the very old one
t,,ut "' 'e 'ins a rignt to wimt ne can
.. .ii.,i ii, n ,i,
will not immediately claim all these
provinces for themselves. The poorer
provinces of the north will pass per
haps nominally into protectorate states
under Polishpntronnge. White Russia
and Lithuania have been named as
states in which in this way Poland will
take n friendly interest.
PUT the Lithuanians, who nlone have I
, , , i ... . ,. , i
had a chance of being mil) icly ,
heard on the subject, used the Helsing-
fors conference chiefly ns a tribune from
which to expose Polish tactics and to
protest ngninst Polish encroachments.
It is said that they even weut so far as
to propose nn alliance of the other bor
der states for mutual defense against
Polish imperialism The assistance of
the border states will hardly serve Po
land as an excuse. She may claim to
be reaching out the hand of .civilization
to sine these provinces from the eco
nomic ruin of Rii"-ia.
ALL this, besides much else, must
hnve been In the minds of Lnglish
statesmen when thev ndvised Poland to
make peace, not war. and told her that,
xvherens thev would assist Poland if
she xvere attacked bv Russia, they
would not assist her in nggression.
Aggression by Ru-ia against Poland
Jias long been impossible, since Polish
troops nlong their whole front nre hun
dreds of miles from Polish territory,
nnd it will be remembered tlint Russia
in her desire for pence actually pro
posed n line approximate to that held
',v V,' Po,irh "'lnB trnnp, na o basis
for discussion, nnd stnted that unless
the Poles continued their advance she
would not allow her troops to cross It.
I'olnnd has n tit to reject Russia's
offer nnd Fng'ind'- advice, nnd appar
ently Is determined, like n ruined
gamester, to risk other people's money
on a desperate gamble.
The strugg'e will he neither short nor
easy, even if at first, ns the Russians
expect, it mny en temoorarily in Po
land's favor For nt least n year, if
not tnoie. the economic restoration of
eastern Kurope is po-tponed, n new wnr
siipervnitic to complete the havoc of
Armageddon The vvnr will be fought
between two peoples on each nf whom
falls a propoition of the Russian for
eign d'hl It will lessen the ability of
.both peoples lo p'iy their shares.
Finnllj. it will incrensn to ignition
point tho frictions nlready eristing ill
Polnnd. The little country to which
iiobodv wUheel anything but good mny
nay for its Imitation of the madness
aud immontlitj of Versailles by a col
lapse at home which in n single week
would nullify the whole of its expansion
abroad
In anv case, it Is one more useless
round, one mo-e unnecessary fandango
in that tin ii r or death which Is bring
ing fix iliut inti in eastern F.uropo daily
nearer the nbvss. The victory of Po
land or of Russia would do nothing to
relieve the coneim!'1 crisis of either
countrv, and the fact of their being nt
wnr st' idilv in e'eiituntes the crisis in
both. Main luster Ounrdiau.
If the Moose were
A nit of Cheese
Democratic bait.
n Mouse It might
be nttrncted by tho
Yen, bo. It wns neigh, neigh for
the dark horses.
Wonder If the Democratic platform
xvould have contained the Indorsement
of Pershing If the geucrnl had chanced
to be the Republican standard bearer?
Oh, well, remarked the "Intermit
tent Souse, when we've used up nil tho
oil nml gas xvo'll Inevitably hove to turn
to the making of alcohol aud perhaps
we can spate a drop now nud then from
the machinery.
Census returns show thnt Red
Bluff, Calif., has lost 20 per cent of
Its population. Its boosters might help
it a little by adopting Mr. Palmer. He
nt least knowa the significance of its
SHORT CUTS
4-11-14 Cox.
Cox crow McAdoo'll not do
It wasn't exactly
Fourth at that.
noiseless
A few remarks by Senator Hard
ing nre now in order1.
And the latest platform hadn't a
word to sny about sugar.
When Mayor Moore points with
pride there is somo point to it.
W. T. Tllden is presumably xvcll
satisfied with the net results of his
trip abroad.
The nominations having been made,
we haven't a thing to do now but elect
a President.
Hrynn was Wllsonlnn In spite of
himself. What he won was peace with
out victory.
We don't know yet who hit Wily
Patterson, but wo know who swatted
Gerald L. of thnt Ilk.
Rrynn Is now In a position to know
how pitifully soon "the young leaders."
become "tho old leaders."
The Democratic platform contains
a plank favoring Jhe reclamation of arid
lands, but It gives no joy to the "wets."
And despite the possibility that he
mny never be either, Mr. Rrynn feels
that he would rather be right thab
President.
There nre some good points nbout
,,, Democratic platform. It did
tIp,nitrIy nml Np(lcifirll,iv in(1owc p,
not
ost-
master General Burleson.
Though people at the railroad sta
tions nnd ferries would never suspect it.
there were one or two Philadelphlans
who stayed at home yesterday.
It is noteworthy thnt the Demo
crats In npplnudlng the President's
conduct cnrefully refrain from mention
ing either Secretary Raker or Secre
tary Daniels.
hen we get rid of orators at na
. street-corner crnn mmes.
from street-corner crnp games.
Politics is politics and a political
platform is not n Supreme Court deci
sion ; so. therefore, the fact tlint there
is no mention of Senator Aldrlch in the
story of the genesis of the Federal Re
serve as told by the Democrnts need
occusiou no burprise.
THE VIKING
rpiIK sun glints sharp on the bur-
X. nW',l shields ....
As the longnecks cleave the brine,
uk( fmmiUU Kl(.mn thr (li,tnnt ,,,,,
s.-i,. .i. .i.i,,.i i.n..i,..i ., .i,i
,T tfc ,,,,,, , , t, springinB
' ,. ' "
While seaward floats from tint frighted
shore
The low of the herding Uine.
Now soon shall our weapons wake the
tune
Rest loved nf the Northland men.
We'll enrve for the sknlds a better rune
Thnn niiy within their ken.
Thor! send us enemies undlsmnjed.
A xvorthy blade for each worthy blade
To try our mettle again.
And be't the Valkyrs have touched my
helm,
Shall I snap like n stem of sedge?
Like ii crashing oak shnll my limbs
o'erwhelm
The twigs of their yielding hedge!
And my nx shnll drink to its fullest
worth
Kre they bear ni(. to the reeking enrth,
I, Sigurd, Point of the Wedge!
Then evermore in the sheltered dale
That nestles beside the fjord.
Shnll Hilda the fair-hnircd 'wait the
sail
That westering bore her lord.
t i-t be! I play but a maiden's pnrt
When thoughts- of licarthside quicken
my hcnrl :
Mine Is (lie Trade of the Sword.
The keels grate sharp on the shingled
shore.
We leap to the crunching sand.
One berserk rush, as we charged of
yore.
Shall tell thnt the stout north land
Speaks in each son with pitiless force.
"Tls Denth or (imil when we lay our
course
Comrades, one grasp of the hand !
George R. Iljnm, in tho Sydney
Bulletin.
What Do You Know?
QUIZ
1 How large Is the MerllterrniTean sea?
2. Who succeeded Ieneral CTaelomn In
commaii'l of tho Italian army dur
ing the war"
3. Who said "If there had been no
foolish men In Babylon thut cm
pirn would not be a heap of ruins"?
4. What three tvpea of boatH have (Ik-
ured In the Aim-rica'H Cup rnces?
B. Who were IleiiRiKt and Horsa7
6. Of what country wns Tom Paine u
native'
7, Who vjere tho Ixicofocos In Ameri
can political history?
K. "What Is a lociuiit?
9. Whnt la the original meaning of tho
word libretto'
10. Whnt Is n bolus'
Answers to Saturday's Qulr
1. A batata In a sweet potato.
2. A rhomboid Is a four-sided lluurc of
xvhlcli the opposite, sides and nngles
nre eciual
3. Torquated birds are thoao with rlnB
of peculiar color or texturo of hair
or plumage about tho neclc.
4, Tophet was the place In a.vnlley
near Jerusalem used In enrly times
for Idolatrous xvorshlp nnd Inter
for doposltlnir refuso. Tho word
also meant tho Hebrew hell.
B. The chief poetical work of Chaucer
Is "Tho Canterbury Talen "
15, Holse City Is tho capital of Idaho.
7. Messina Is situated on tho Island of
Sicily In tho Mediterranean sea.
8. John Milton In tho "AreapaKltlca"
xvroto: "A good book Is tho pre
cious life-blood of a mnster spirit,
embalmed nnd treasured up on
purpose to a life beyond life'
9. Detroit, with 093,000 population. Is
tho fourth cJty In the I'nlted
Wntes.
10. Shlnlolm Is the 'tncfi'iit religion nnd
uiyllioloijj of lb'- J i pantile,
j ' '" "YESi MAM!" ' ' ;
..iJ-w- jM: ....B,. ? L jai Vi LvWi W&kM1 "1l?- &Y$V il
WE NEED MORE BRYANS,
SILVER-TONGUED KNIGHTS
Orators Are Passing and Nation Will Miss Thrills and High
Moral Influence of Great Crusaders of the Spoken Word
Ry CLINTON XV. CILRERT
Copurtoht. lOtO, bv Public I.cAotr Co.
San Francisco, July 0. Why nre
there not more William .T. Rrynns?
Why do young men set out to be
Chnrles M. Schwabs or Harry Sinclnirs.
and why does not one imitntc the career
of William J. Rrynn?
Consider Mr. Rrynn. He has grown
rich, not very rich, but rich enough.
He hns run three times for the pres
idency, lie hns achieved great personal
triumphs in three Democratic National
Conventions in xvhlcli he xvns not nomi
nated himself In 1004. xvhen he made
his dramatic appearance before n hostile
body nf delegates ngninst the nomina
tion of Parker: in 1012 nt Raltimore
when he headed off the nomination of
Chump Clark, xvho hnd n majority of
the convention nnd caused the choice
of Wilson, nnd here at Snn Francisco,
when he made his brilliant speech for
prohibition.
lie bus led grcnt reforms nnd seen
many of them nccepted bv the country.
He bus been one of the great torccs in
shnping America for the past genera
tion. And Mr. Rrynn has done nil this
with n voice, n facility in speech and
a good conscience. He is not n great
statesman. He made a hnd secretary
of state, nnd xvould mako n xvorse
President.
Sure nf Moral Vnlues
Nnture gave him a remnrkablc voice,
n tine presence befnie he got fat, n
facility In the use of winds, nnd whut
ever it is that develops in n mun n
conscience tlint can be depended upon
gnvo him a perfectly sure measure of
moral values. With this equipment Mr.
Rrynn did the rest made himself, in
face of organi'cd hostility, in face of
n press tlint disliked him, misunder
stood him nnd sometimes misrepresented
him. one of the great lenders of public
opinion In America. Whv not n career
to imitate, even if you no not linx-e the
same ends in xlew as Mr. Rrynn?
Why do not young men form the nm
bition to be nn orator? Any young
man having the voice of Mr. Hrynn nnd
the verbal facility of Mr. Rrynn could
make n fortune nt the bur or ns n pub
lic lecturer, or could be a great force
in public life. In ancient Oreece or
Rome men spent years of arduous
study learning oratory to become, if
they could, the Ciceros nnd Demos
theneses of their daj. Why don's they
now? v Public lifo is linre of good
speakers.
In the Semite and House of Repre
sentatives tint n bnlf iloren men know
how to use their voices or their bodies
in Hpenkiiig. The great national con
ventions hnve developed one first -class
bit of orntnry. Mr. Rrjun's; one well
written, but indifferently spoken ad
dress, Mr. Cuiiiinlngs's, aud one fairly
gooel little speech. Mr. Colby's. The
rest of it was n dreary vvnKle. When
Mr. Ilrvan disappears from Democratic
National Conventions there will be
much less fun than there Is todav.
There is not anybody coming up to tuke
bis place.
The country trusts to nature to fur
nish its orators and does not give
nature much help In the way of train
ing. It Is rather contemptuous and
suspicious nf oratory when it conies.
We net on the theory that oratnis.
like poets, nre bom and not made. And
our attitude toward oratory is -about
os skeptical ns our attitude toward
poetry used to no neiore free verse
writers made poetry fashionable again.
Advantages of Spoken Word
We consider the spoken word. It Is
much freer than the written word. Had
Mr. Rryiin wielded n pen instead of
tongue, he might have had difficulty in
reaching a public. The publication of
books, newspapers nml magazines is
highly organized. It requires much cap
ital. Mr. Hrynn might have had trouble
had he written instead of spoken In
finding n medium for the expression of
his opinions. Nn capitalist would bo
willing to back him as editor.
Mr. Rryan Is essentially an editor or
n preacher. Yet what editor or preacher
has reached bo wide a public as Mr.
Rrynn hns reached? There is no news
paper national in its scope nnd Influence.
Had Mr. Rryan found the backing ns
editor of n newspaper he would have
exercised a purely local influence. And
no magazine which is a journal of
opinion hns n xvlde circulation or geu
crnl Influence, no single preacher in n
church is ever more thnn a local figure.
Mr. Rryan chose the only wny to be n
cnuntry-xvide influence, by becoming n
speaker.
It Is just ns true today ns it xvns in
Alliens or Rome that the road to the
widest public influence lies through
speaking. No mere writer on public
nffairs rivals Mr. Hrynn. There arc
men with a string of newspapers all over
the country tit their command, but they
do not occupy the plnce in public nffairs
tlint Mr. Rrynn does, just becnuse Mr.
Rrynn is the nearest thing to nn orntor
thnt tliis country hns today.
Tlnjn why not oratory and orators?
Oratory pays better than writing, except
perlinps the writing of popular fiction.
It exercises n wider influence. It brings
u greater reputation. It is nn nrt that
can be learned, granted certain natural
gifts. Our public lifo would be much
richer if wo had orators. The average
man would speak his own language
better If he heard good orators.
Yet oratory is in as nbout us good
repute us until recently a woman
powdering her nose. It is nrlilicial ami
adventitious.
SCULPTOR SEEKS NEW
'SPIRIT OF THE MARNE'
MacMonnies to Study Peasants
for Wai" Statue America
Will Give to France
Frederick MneMonnics, noted Ameri
can sculptor, will seelc among French
pensnnts the inspiration for u heroic
stntue whirh he xvill design in commem
oration of the bnttle'of the Marne. The
statue is to be tho m'ft of .1.000,000
Americans to the people of Franco.
The sculptor will sail July 10
for France. lie xvill exnmlne the ter
rain near Mcaux. which was the high
xater mnrlt of tjx German invasion,
ami will select n site us near as pos
posiblo to the very limit of the nd
vance. "I nm going merely ns n workman
this time," said the sculptor, "to visit
tho snot nnd decide xvhere tho stutue
should be placed, nnd learn everything
that may help me in determining xvbnt
form .the memorial hhould tuke."
lIe",cloes not plan to confer with the
French nrt uuthnrities on the present
trip.
Wunts Views nf Pollus
"I xxould rnther talk with the peas
ants." be Mild, "the people of the vll
lagcs und Heidi to learn jiihl what the
battle uf Jho Maine menus to them in
Is historical aspect.
"I xvas there at the time nnd I hnx'o
n clenr conception of whnt the battle
meant In those tragic days. Rut the
feeling with which tho people regard it
may have been tempered by time, nnd
their present view is xvbnt should
guide me in forming n conception of tho
work. So 1 ennnnt sny9 now whnt the
htiitue will he, although it should be ns
simple ns possible."
Mr. MacMonnies believes the setting
ami Mirroundlngs of the btntuo should
be as himple as possible.
"I would like to place this statue on
tho edge of a village, in a Held, even in
u polutc) patch," he said, "where peas
ants would xxork, xvhere cows might
browse, nud xvhere nn old man might
sit und smoke his pipe.
Plans Dramatic Setting
"I xvould plnce it so that people
passing might .suddenly see It loomiug
huge and tragic ns the event is sym
bolized. Like one of those great ca
thedrals in smtill French towns, xvhere
up it narrow street you turn n corner
nnd see the thing looking above you
In all its maguillceiice, it should be
abrupt, drumntlc."
The .1,000.000 subM-ribcrs nlready
have given S'J.'O.OOO. nnd this sum
likely will be Increased when returns
arc in from nil the states, Mr. Mac
Monnies, who is donating his time to
tho work, believes tho money will nro-
vido a stono Btntue nt least forty twt
high.
CHINESE CHIEF REMOVED
Dismissal of Hsu Chu-Cheng Startlei
Militarist Party
Peking, July 0. (Ry A. P.) Mili
tarist elements rccch-ed another defeat
when General Hsu Chu-Cheng, resident
commissioner of inner Mongolia nnd
commander of the northwestern fron
tier, wns relieved of those posts.
This dramatic dismissal demonstrates
the strength of tho reform party headed
by Generals Chang Two-Ling and Wu
Pci-Fn, it is believed here.
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