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PHILADELPHIA
Thtr nn whlrh Oi neonle expect
, the) new nilmlnlntrotlon tt eoncen-
,! it ndentlont f
The Delaware river bridge.
A drvdoek big enough to occommo
date the largest ship.
Development of the rapid transit sys
tem, A convention hall.
A building for tht Free Library.
JLn Art Museum.
Xnlargement of the water supply.
Homes to accommodate the vopula
tlon. TAKE MR. MITTEN'S RULE
T7K)R. sheer effrontery, the request of
K1 ?..t.h9-.f.'.nLr-V Phiiadit.hia.,l"ltc "s futile and costly now as they
the R.mid Transitompany that it
b allowed tt -harfc the proposed in
prcasc in fares for a year has seldom
keen equaled.
The company finds itself In financial
straits. Its representatives insist that
it cannot meet its fixed charges and pay
Its dividends without the increased fare.
But it does not deny that thp traction
ejHem Is overcapitalized, and It does
not deny that it is paying d 'ends on
money that Mas invested in horses and
cars and rails long since worn out,
j.- money that ought to have been written
Sv..n!lrom the books years ago. But in
fc rder to keep on paying these dividends
,Bv&$Jtj seeks permission to burden the car
X .'jjiers with extra fare.
4 IXCho company does not propoe any
11 'nay- by which the extra money collected
'from the car riders shall be refunded
to them if tho Public Service Commls
oion should find after investigation that
conditions do not justify the increase.
It simply asks to be permitted to collect
3,000,000 from the people who .have
jto
o use the cars.
The Public Service Commission will
consider the request when it meets in
Harrisburg next week. What its de
cision will be no on run fnretoll. Itiit
L?alr"tf ( friltflnrl til ,Iia ttnnlr1nu .Utl.
Jjfr. JUtten says guide him. it will cive
rat thought to the rights -.f the public,
econd thought to the employes of the
company and consider the investors in
traction stock last.
JOHNSON HAS COME AROUND
SENATOll JOHNSON, who went
home to California after the Chi
cago convention and by the exorcise of
almost superhuman self-contrnl main
tained silence, has at last announced
Ills intentions.
He will support the Itepubliean
ticket that is, If Harding agrees with
hlra on the League of Nations.
In the preconvention campaign he
bad said that one bolt was enough for
him and that he was engaged in n
lamily dispute within thP pnrtj. Hut
it took him three weeks to get his
breath after the Chicago convention
bad refused to nominate him.
Now we shall i-ce whether he will
work any harder for the election of
' Hardiug than he worked fop the elec
tion of Hughes if Harding's position
does not please him.
But what will Hearst do. who has
been hoping to make Hiram the candi
date of n third party? Will ho pick
La Follette or will h be forced to be
come the candidate himself?
THE MOTHER INSTINCT
NO NORMAL woman will be sur
prised when she learns that thi
baby left on a doorstep In Camden
about a month ago has been claimed
by his mother.
There was a note attached to tho
child's clothes announcing that the
father and mother were unable to rare
for him at present, but would claim
bim in three years when they were
better off. The child was put In a
hospital and arrangements had been
made for its adoption. The mother
and father, howeter. had been visiting
It frequently, and when tho mother
learned of the plans for thp adoption
her courage failed her and she disclosed
ber Identity and took the little boy
borne.
The mother instinct is one of the
most wonderful things in nature, ns
well ns one of the mot sacred. It will
hold a family together In spite of all
the efforts of institution nianageiw to
take possession of the children of the
poor. In this case it nan triumphed
over poverty and disease to the glory
of womanhood.
CHESS CHAMPIONSHIP
WHILE public Interest in the ancient
game of chess may be said to be
eomewhat subordinate to that main
tained In the exploits of liabc Iluth and
bis associates and opponents, at least
a mild sensation has been evoked by the
, ' a mild
iii'ior La
urrender of a world championship
I without a test of mental agility. Doc-
'.asker s resignation of the premier
L chess title to .lose It. Capablanca, the
Ouban prodigy, i from several aspects
disappointing. The conditions of the
proposed match were unsatisfactory to
chess enthusiasts,
ItealUlng this, but with little effort
, to compromise, Emtnntiuel Lasker ap
parently prefers theoretical defeat to
the chance involved in an actual en
counter. Years ago the Englishman
Hinuuton succeeded by a variety of In
genious excuses In avoiding a proof of
, bts skill against the wonder-wot king
i(Morpby, anil .chess players have never
ctaece, smelting tnc jost occasion
"-' "i- RhlnTev nil
of this city.
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who has been n coramunfcaHon with
Doctor looker, still entertains hope
that the letter's decision will bo re
versed. According to all principles cf
sportsmanship it should be. A possible
defeat of the reluctant expert would
not serve him In the popular estimation
half so badly as forfeiture of a long
unshadowed leadership without a
struggle.
MILITARISM IS DYING OF
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Imperial War, the Most Ancient
Sport of Kings, Is Detested by
the Masses Everywhere
A IJVENTUIIES of military nggrcs
slon in the Old World nre proving
lintn nlufltti hnnn I. 1... tinaf
I Pessimists hnvc been looklr
nvc been looking toward
Japan nnd whispering of another great
war. They saw a large army, un
touched and strong: a formidable navy
and great financial and material re
sources. TIN? did not reckon with a
new spirit of insurgency that hatred of
modern warfare has created In the
plain people of all countries.
The Japancso authorities have just
drawn down the veil of a heavy news
censorship to conceal the confusion
caused by the newer military ambitions
of one of their controlling groups. Thej
spent $400,000,000 In the Siberian ad
vance, which was frankly intended as
a movement of conquest in Russian ter
ritory They lost hundreds of thou
sands of lives. Yet they hnve gained
nothing tangible or sure, Russian re
sistance und it ought always to be
rememb-ired that tho present wars arc
being tought by nil Russians together
nml not by the Holshevist minority
alone involved for the Japanese, as
tt lias involved for Poland, great sur
prises and terrific loss.
A flnrc of revolutionary sentiment
followed upon the partial collapse of the
Mberian scheme. The masses In Janan
had been feeling the cruel economic
pressure which wnr always brings to
'the poor. hcy suffered additional dis
comfort because of nn industrial and
nnanciai connpsc causeu oy tne failure
of schemes of expansion engineered at
enormous cost. A large element in the
population resented the Russian ad
vance nu ethical grounds. There nrp
signs of panic at Tokio nnd rumors of
unrest in every part of the country.
The group which was responsible for
the aggressive militarism of the new
Polish state has been nn affliction to
the people. Poland has suffered great
reverses, great financial loss. And dan
gerous friction has been caused between
the Polish rulers nnd the allied gov
ernments which sought to work with
them in complete harmony for good
and rational ends.
War has become a losing game for
everybody simply because the conscience
of the world rejects it In its.niodern
forms it is n madness and a horror.
Moreover, it is Inefficient
There are few men in Kurope, great
or small, who do uot know this. The
Ian five years fixed n comiction that
has been growing throughout the world
for n century So tho minds that lead
nations huvc ouo overwhelming pre
occupation. They nre seeking a sub
stitute for the great military force that
once was necessary to protect govern
ment and hold civilization together.
That aim is reflected variously in the
scheme of the League of Nn'tions. in
the plan for a World Court now being
formulated at The Hague, where Ellliu
Root is sitting for the United States,
in the doctrines of the Hritish Labor
part and like organizations.
Fear of war and n loathing of it
underlie all the popular insurgent
movements in the Euiope of today.
5Iass opinion has outlawed the most
nnejent sport of kings.
That is natural enough. Tor war
nowadays inoIves not only the armies
in action, but the peaceful population
behind the lines, the defense'ess. the
noncombatant and the innocent. There
was a time when battles were fnn.i.t
on distant frontiers and when the na
tions concerned were permitted to live
ns if nothing strange were happeniug.
Hut with modern weapons and methods
of transport n battlefield will inevita
bly be as wide as the countries that
engngc in strife. No part of the popu
lation is immune No part ever can
be any more Experts in the arts of
annihilation nre already talking of dis
easo bombs and the manner in which
typhoid, cholera and smallpox germs
muy no i nc worK tlint TNT did in
France and do it more terribly.
There Is no cliivalrv in modern battle.
The best correspondents at the front in
I-ranee could not reconcile themselves
to the spectacle of exquisitely quar
tered staffs, rolling in luxury, fifty or
a hundied miles from the front and
directing millions of cold and hungry
men in u lmKe game of slaughter by
factory methods.
It wasn't glorious, that spectacle.
And is it fair to believe thnt .mr r,n.
pies Hritish. French, Italian or, on
the other hand. Russian and Japane.e
will ever again for uny reason con
done creat wars, in which not only the
armies but the whole general populn
tion are given up to slow obliteration
nnd starved and impoverished mean
while through demands made upon their
energy and their resources to sustain
the agencies and instrumentalities bv
which thev themselves are tortured nn'.t
destroyed?
Instinctive reactions in the minds nf
common men in all countries have im
poseu upon statesmen the task that
now engages them. Hut n substitute
for wur is not easy to find. It never
will be found if peoples do not ronscnt
to translate their convictions into eon
Ktructivc thought and sjstemutic en
deavor Tho printed word ought prop
erly to be the ultimate weapon in dis
putes between nations, since it is only
bv common understanding that interna
tional peace is possible.
War alone cannot stop war, though
we were asked to beliee thnt it could.
The hope of the world lies in better
general education. Man has progressed
far enough on the road to knowledge
to realize that those who tell him that
he must settle his affairs bj the meth
ods of the jungle brute is a liar. What
he needs now Is to Impress this convic
tion upon his governments. That hn
has begun to do through a silent and
general rebellion ngainst war.
It is not likely that Asia will ever
be militaristic in the modern sense.
Asia too cun learn, ns others must
learn, by forgetting. The commercial
militaristic scheme of modern Japan,
for example, is n frail creation built
loosely above the enduring structure of
older and nobler philosophies. Already
it lias put great oppression on the
mnsscs of the people. Jt cannot be
dangerous unless that same oppression
is carried to a point where it becomes
Intolerable to any one tcio has been
taught to read and think.
The Hritish and the French iave had
all they want )f great wot.' Xts UOe
p?w"Rr!Py''"
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wmsmor public miDQmxmyK -
,.-.. .l. n .li : ill
to rlenr that the German masses have
not had all the; want, whatever their
scheming cliques may feel or desire.
Upon what other .foundations shnll
these peoples order their natiounl
lives? To whnt other agencies shnll
they trust for security and peace? Is
tt to bo assumed that human intelli
gence cannot discover an answer to so
simple and fundamental n question nnd
suggest n method for which all man
kind is waiting nnd groping blindly?
To a very great degree responsibility
lies upon the plain mnu, who ordinarily
permits prejudice and inherited delu
sions to befog his mind. Ho will hnvc
to give his aid and encouragement to
those who are trying to find a way out
of the confusiou of international af
fairs. Especially in Europo he has
learned to perceive meanness and in
eptitude and rank futility under much
of the gold lace of the warriors In whom
he once put his trust. He must find
another sort of man to follow. When
humanity learns its lessons fully it will
give no encouragement to the malevo
lent Ignoramus who sneers at plans for
world peace nnd decent International
co-operation of a sort by wfiich peoples
now held npart may know each other
nnd work together for n better order in
the world.
The jingoes nnd the braggarts nnd the
professional haters n're not only fools.
They are the ones who would ngain lend
mankind into a blacker pit than that
from which it has just struggled.
THE CITY HAS A CONSCIENCE
IF THE city were disposed to profiteer
the taxable value of the real estate
would bo increased much more than the
?1 00,000.000 that has been added to It
this year.
It would only follow the example ol
the landlords who hnvc turned their
tenants out of houses that used to be
worth $4000 nnd have sold the nouses
for SS000 If It should double, the as
sessed valuation of real estate. This
course would raise the taxable value of
he city from $1,800,000,000 to $3,000,
000,000, which, with n $2 tax rate,
would yield $71.000,000. This would
provide money enough to increase tho
salaries of the police and firemen, to
give n living wage to the school teach
ers, to make all the necessary repairs
to the streets and provide a street
cleaning plant, with something left over
for unexpected expenses.
In view of the depreciation In the
pui chasing power of the dollar, It is
possible to make a plausible argument in
defense of a fiat increase in the assess
ment of nil real estate, in order that tho
income of the city might be big enough
to cover the same ground that it covered
before nil values were inflated. If it
were believed that the present scale of
prices were to be permanent it lcfusal
to raise the assessments could not be
defended. Hut every one hopes thnt
present conditions are temporary and
thut in the near future n dollar will buy
much moi e than enn be obtained for it
now. It is this hope which hns very
properly prevented the real estate as
sessors from doubling the assessments
and thus forcing the profiteers to sur
render some of their loot for the benefit
of the rest of us. Hut if this belief
should be unfounded and the present
scale of prices should continue, it will
be necessary to increase the taxable
value of ical estate if the city govern
ment is to be saved from bankruptcy.
AN UNPALATABLE DOSE
THE chairman of the Friends' Gen
eral Conference, in session nt Capo
.Mn., said in Ins opening nddress that
"We Friends must use our influence
in nn effort to bring about harmony In
the industrial relations. The need is
for justice, honesty nnd brotherhood.
The Spirit of Christ must be brought
to industry."
This remedy is an old one nnd its
efficacy is universnlly admitted. It hns
been prescribed time nfter time. The
doe, however, is unpalatable to selfish
men. whether they bo employers or
employes.
Yet it has been tnken In a few in
stances and it has worked a cure. In
deed, it would cure the international
ills nnd do awny with war if it were
onh used
FARMERS: NEW STYLE
THE war did n great deal to lift the
fanner into the class of nlert busi
ness men It taught him how to or
ganize It left him with a desire to
get more out of the world than hard
work, limitless exercise, unadulterated
food nnd flesh air. Tixed prices, the
pressure of living nnd labor costs nnd
the lepeated assurance that the world
depended on him, left the fanner with n
new sort of clnss consciousness. Helms
joined in the organized demonstrations
for higher pay.
If farms arc not productive clcrybody
will suffer nnd some people will hnve
to go hungry nnd no business will be
prosperous. And fnrms will not be
productive unless hired men nnd their
emplojers nre given returns for their
labor that more clearly approximate the
wages paid to men in business nnd tho
tiades unions. They are not getting
such returns now, nnd that is why this
v ear's crops may not be adequate to the
needs of the country.
Frederick Rasmussen. stnto secretary
of agriculture, said recently at State
College that the- world Is drifting peril
ouslj close to famine conditions. He
did not greatly exaggerate. Farming Is
the world s fundamental Industry. A
vast lot of money will be required to
meet its new demands. Where is that
money to come from? It can come only
through increased efficiency, large pro
duction nnd the better use of our nat
ural resources. Drains are necensary
to all this. But we nre asked to be
lieve that special Intelligence is of sec
ondary importance nowadays.
The grave - interred
Mlxtmet heait of Mr. Hryan
Department will soon be looking
forward to n joyous
resurrection. You can't keep n good
heart down, even though the head be
flighty.
There is likelihood that the crime
wave which bos swept the country has
reached its crest and will now recede
to normul. Indubitably the aftermath
of war. with its nccomnanvine ex
travagance und attendant disinclination
for labor, hns betn responsible. Equally
Inevitable was it tliat n poiico lorco
adequate for ordinary times should find
Itself wholly nimble to cope with ex
traordinary conditions. Hut the vigil
ance following the murder of young
Pulton ut Sharon Hill nnd the arming
of twenty -two service men to servo us
deputies show thnt public sentiment hns
nt last been aroused j and there Is every
reason to believe that It will continue
to manifest Itself until the present epi
demic of criminal violence has been
stamped out
When the shouting of the captains
dies and we sit down to our little his
tory books we are willing to admit that
only jood Americans get into tho JVVhUe
House,
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PATTISON'S PLAN
How the Governor Disposed of
Office Bores Judge Sulzberger's
Famous Address Before the
8enate at the Extra
8easlon
By OEORGE NOX McCAlN
A PROMINENT city official, whose
office Is n Mecca for all sorts of
people who want all sorts of things Is
greatly annoyed by the unnecessary
length of omc of theso visits.
After one or two experiences In press
ing n button on his desk nnd summon
ing his private secretary na n hint to
his caller to vamooso, ho has aban
doned that method. The pushbutton
Is In full view of his visitors, and his
action, as ho discovered, has been tnken
as nn insult. One visitor got very much
peeved.
Bores nre the bane of city officials;
In fact, of all men in public life.
They nre tho thieves of time. Most
of them belong to the glad-hand nnd
nicrry-hn-ha class. The worst Is they
do not know that they arc bores. They
labor under the Impression that they
are doing their victim a favor.
Yet every one of them has -some ap
parently good excuse for calling.
I'snally his first visit ! his last un
less he Is a polRlcal factor of note.
GOVERNOR ROBERT E. PATTI
SON was, so far as I am aware,
the first public official who was able
to dismiss n nuisance of this kind with
gratitude exuding from the bore for- the
courteous treatment he had received.
Governor Pnttison ordinnrily received
Ills visitors, if they were unknown,
standing beside his desk. If the busi
ness deserved particular attention the
caller was Invited to a scat.
The executive's desk was of the flat,
broad top st)le. as I recall. At one
side and beneath the opening in front
of ills desk chair (the inner side, nnd
therefore concealed from view), was n
pushbutton nt the height of his knee.
With not the slightest movement visi
ble he could at any point in tho con
versation simply move his knee nn inch
or so nnd press the button.
Of course the rest was easy, for his
private secretary or messenger, who
was in the secret, instantly responded
with the announcement that Mr. So-nnd-so
wns desirous of catching n trnin
nnd was waiting iti the reception room.
Then the Governor rose, with tills
polite excuse, shook hands cordially and
bowed the bore from the room.
GOVE
wns
OVERNOR JAMES A. REAVER
the most outspoken, brusque
nnd. at times, iilmost rude occupant
that ever graced the gubernatorial chair.
Hastings nnd Stone were suave, jovinl
nnd diplomatic. They could rub the
fur the right way without the slightest
apparent effort.
Heaver and Pnttison were both men
of strong religious convictions. The
singing of gospel hvinus by the entire
famll.v on Sunday nights, nnd in hearty
voice, was the usual thing for some
time nfter the gentleman from Center
count took possession of the mansion
on Front street.
One irreligious individual mii.i"1
that ns an addendum to Quay's famous
nie.s.nge, "iiciir Heaver, tiun i tii..,
he should send another, "Dear Beaver,
don't sing."
THE outstanding feature of Pntti
son's second term was the cnlline of
the extru session of the Senate in Octo
ber. 18!ll, to tnkc action iu the case of
Auditor General McCamnut and State
Treasurer Bover iu connection vv lth the!
defalcation of more than $1,000,000 by
'Honest John Kardslcy, city treas
urer of Philadelphia,
Party feeling ran high nt the time,
nnd the charge was icpcatcdly made
that Pnttison called the extra session
for the purpose of making political cap
ital out of the Bardsley case.
It was un ugly mess all through.
W. U. Hensel. then nttorney general
lu Paulson's cabinet, tried to get out
of figuring in the mutter.
Attorney Mayer Sulzberger, uftcr-
vvuid Judge Sulzberger, appeared as
counsel for the Philadelphia magistrates
whose fees were iuvolvcd in the trims-
action.
He made a brilliant argument against
the right of the Governor to call the
extra session. He was the first of the
lawyers appenriuc before the Senate to
direct its attention to tho fact thnt the
two articles of the constitution (Sec
tion 1 oi Aitieie IV nnd Section 4 of
Article VI) must be considered sepa
rately. One provided for an extra session for
"the trnusuction of executive busi
ness"; the other iclntcd to "the ie
moval of state officials by the Gover
nor on the address of two-thirds of
the Senate."
ATTORNEY MAYER SULZBER
GER n jcar before had appeared
,as counsel for the Governor in a case
of criminal unci willed lie brought
against the Philadelphia Inquirer and
North American and the Harrisburg
Call in connection with the South Penu
Railroad bills.
Hjs address before the Senate on the
occasion of tho extra session wns re
garded by mnnv of the senators as tho
ablest exposition of constitutional lnw
nnd the cleurc-it definition of the pow
ers eonfoiitd on tho diffcreut branches
of the government ever delivered.
Virtuull.v all of the principal figures
in that niemoiuble episode of nearly
thirty years ago are dead. Auditor
General MiCainant, Attorney General
Hensel and Governor Puttison died
years ago.
Senator Gcoige Handy Smith, of
Philadelphia, chairman of the investi
gation committee, with Senators Mvlin.
of Lancaster; Gobin, of Lebanon; Ross,
or ltiicKs, ami steel and .ccb, of Alle
gheny, long since passed awny.
Former State Treasurer Boyer and
Senator Penrose still survive.
FORMER Judge Sulzberger, now In
his seventy-seventh year, after it
long and honorable service in the courts
of Philadelphia county, also survives.
Now and then on fino days hn is seen
strolling down Chestnut street in
abounding health despite his age and in
the serene contentment of the closing
years of n well-spent life.
He enjoys the rare distinction of
having leceived the degree of LL, D.
from Jefferson Medical College,
Judge Sulzberger is one of the leading
authorities on Hebraic literature in this
country.
It is not generally known also that
at one period iu his career ho adopted
literature ns his profession. Iu 1808-00
he wns editor of the Occident, a maga
zine for the dissemination of Jewish
knowledge.
George Gray, of Wilmington, Del.,
denounces the catling of a special ses
sion of the Tennessee Legislature to
ratify suffrage as "the most defiant nt
tack on the principle of local self-government
embodied iu our dual system
thnt hns yet been launched." And as a
good Democrat it must irk tho former
federal judge to realize that this action
of a Democratic governor was prompted
by a Democratic President. ."Qtate,
rights ' nave little show in latter. day
cwocraey.
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SHORT CUTS
The wets love Cox for tho enemies
ho hns made,
At least Mr. Bryan rcallr.es that
ho hasn't hurt his Chautauqua dates.
Tho Liberty Bell untouched will
contlnuo to ring In tho hearts of Ameri
cans. If Washington had to cross the
Delaware today hcwould join the bridgo
boosters. ,
The $11,000,000 net of tho P. B. t)
memoes tho poor fish who have to hang
on to straps.
McAdoo men are still undecided ns
to whether Burleson wns n hoodoo or
a slighted mascot.
Tho Democrat keynote turned out
to be tho opening bar of "Hall, hall,
the gang's all here."
Why not hnve a congressional in
quiry into the whyness of the congres
sional Junket to tho Orient?
There is still possibility that tho
country will have more "Third Par
ties" than it can shako a big stick at.
It is small wonder thnt our own
Gilbert and another paper's Sullivan
saw comic opera in the Son Francisco
convention.
Sharon, Pn has nn effective way
of dealing with tho motorist vvho neg
lects to cut out the cut-out. It cuts
out a slice of his wad.
The open-air market at Sixty
second and Market streets will perhaps
furnish n lesson on how to do without
the middleman part of the time.
Nobody wants tho street car com
pany to operate nt a loss, but every
body wants to know just where its
present revenues arc going, and why.
There is growing belief that the
presidential election will be won or lost
not In November, but on the day Sena
tor Harding formally accepts the nomi
nation. A picture postcard mailed at Wlld
wood, N. J., twelve years ago has just
been received in Philadelphia. Well, In
nil fairness wo can't blame it all on
Burleson,
A boy fell from a tree into n bass
horn while a Philadelphia band wns
giving n concert in Wilmington on
Wednesday. He perhaps wanted to
find out where the notes came from.
Mr. Bryan knocked the elements
that mnde Cox the nominee. (Pause
hero while the henrt that is burled
comes to life again.) Mr. Bryan will
piobnbly take off his cont for tho can
didate.
It is inconceivable thnt the Re
publican party will justify Hiram
Johnson's hopes nnd declare agninst
the League of Nutions while Elihu
Root, one of its foremost members nnd
the writer of the most significant plank
in its platform, is, by his presence on
the international commission, helping
lie league to function. Let Seuator
Harding snenk.
A New York court has ruled that
the Public Service Commission has no
power to nermit the Hrnnt-lvn Tini.i
Transit Compnuy nnd other trolley com-
i""'i iu mist- me inrc aDove nve cents,
which was the condition on which their
franchises were crnnted. One ,.nn ,.n.
ceivo the possibility, considering tho
iiign cosi oi inoor and materials, of
injustice being done the operating com
panies; but the decision Is nt least in
teresting in view of what is happening
in this city.
PERHAPS
TT PERHAPS was purest principle
tt , tlint rroniptoI notion rough
Unci Louisiana, hearing Cox, for suf
frago doffed its coat.
vhcn Wilson urges Tennessee to sat
isfy the stiff ,
He perhaps is thinking only of a
woman's right to vote.
Perhaps! P'r'aps not!
A politician gives the best he's got.
Perhaps they do.
Perhaps they don't.
Perhaps they will
And perhaps they won't.
Perhaps! P'r'aps not!
Perhaps Vermont Is deeply stirred by
tales of women's wrongs.
Perhaps November doesn't count in
v. hat it hopes to do.
Pcrbops it little malice u in somc
newspaper honRS
" ,' '''"'".I"'' n little truth creeps
In. We'd thiuk so wouldn't
J ou?
Perhaps! P'r'aps not!
Still, politics Knows buncombe quite n
lot !
Perhaps we do,
Perhaps we don't.
Perhaps wo will
And perhaps we won't.
remaps; r raps not!
G. A.
What Do You Know?
QUIZ
1. How many secretaries of state have
oearr&reRldCntW1'S0"'a"S
8" "hUo- oBrep'u'bl1'c,s78Ian,1 lB d'V,ded
3- WUh.d X8 Uv'e"ny Kl68lCr' a"d Whe"
Di'Jfi1,V,?tolt",lor " leclnrec! In
of buc ! 'J8?' i,ermlt, tno Position
?i, L n fp,,ler;1 Income tnx as
tno one now In f, ,.,.. t
B' "?ISa,"!lefSBln a scaso does a
, common housefly lay?
6 Wha.i"rV',nwo blithest mountains
- , " "'"s-ritiin comments
' llafc"? WnS Atlantic first cable
8" treaty?"1 0crmany s,Kn tha Pcace
!. Whnt Is' geodesy?
10. What Is a presidio?
Answers to Yesterday's Quiz
1. Honolulu Ih situated on the Island of
oahu in the Hawaiian group In tha
Paclllo ocean
2. Gainsay meanj to deny or contra
dict.
3' Lc'.l'- N'T'0" was Vice President
lof. thf, Ln,ltf'l StateB under Benja
min Harrison
4. Earwigs are harmless beetlellUe In
sects, onco popularly supposed to
r , creep Into the human car.
6. Vasco Da Clama was a celebrated
Portuguese navigator who discov
ered the sea routo to India by way
of the Capo of Good Hope In UD8.
6. A loggia Is an open sided gallery or
arcade.
7. Timothy Tltcomh wns the pen name
or J. u. Holland, nn American au
thor and Journalist. He died In
1SS1.
8. Tho nge of Pericles, during which
Atnenlan culture nnd arms were nt
their height, roughly corresponds
with the life of the celebrated
Athenian statesman and orntor. Hn
was born about 496 H. C. He died
In 429
9. Tho first director general of railroads
during the period of government
control wna William O, McAdoo.
Tho second and lost wns Walker
' D. Hlnes.
10, The father of William Shakespeare
was a wool stapler, ,
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ITS OLD FAMILIAR MORSELS
Peace Brings to French Capital a Return of Famous Delicacies
and Without the Fell Accompaniment of Prohibitive Prices
"PARIS," declared the waiter at
-L Palllard's. with an nir in which
skepticism nnd sentiment were oddly
jnlnglcd, "is just beginning to have
good food ngain."
The American, in the thrills of a
peach melba, unalloyed by dreary
canned fruit or the dob of wet cake
common to his home imitations of this
delicacy, mumbled surprise. "It Is
beginning, then?" ho echoed.
But this suggestion, coming from nn
outsider, was too rosy. The lean years
of gastronomic outrages were not to be
so lightly dismissed, and by this time,
moreover, the waiter's eye had fallen
on the carefully arranged long French
lonves upon the neighboring tables.
Crusty they were, a golden brown,
bnked "narrow" and with a minimum
of "crumb."
Thnt very "crumb." however, con
stituted the offense. It wns brown, its
dark tints symbolizing the epicurean
catastrophes of the wnr. nnd the solici
tous spokesman for Paillard's relapsed
into gloom.
"Monsieur," he continued, "you can
not Imaglup the difficulties no truffles
for the 'vol-nu-vcnt.' no sugar for the
'inillc-feuille,' the one tnsteless, the
other tough. However," ho concluded,
in n kind of strained hopefulness. J'thev
say the wheat harvest this year will be
good. One Is making some progress."
THIS much nt least was convincing.
Tho American who had not found
the dellclously linked brown brend with
out savor, and the feelings of whom,
after nn exquisitely prepnred dinner,
partook of the bland optimism so vividly
depicted in Brillat-Savarln's classic
treatise on good living, wns pleasantly
forced to admit that Paris had not yet
forfeited its historic claims to epicurean
distinction.
He had seen, when the wnr opened,
the flaky crescent nnd tho sweeter but
equally delectable "brioche" (the
Parisian breakfast bun) disappear
under the edict that foibado fancy
baking. Ho had witnessed tho extinc
tion of tho tasty twent -five-cent table
d'hote (ono franc, twenty-five cen
times). Ho had lamented the closing of the
vencrablo Tour d'Argent, illustrious for
its "crushed" duck. Returning In
1010. he had found the Pnrisinns gas
tronomlcally chastened, but still sus
tained by dishes much more attractively
devised thnn the nveragc meals In his
own land, nnd this spring, despite tho
pessimist of Paillard's, he had wit
nessed a rapturous, an nil but exhaus
tive rebirth of tho old menu.
Tho thousands of tourists descending
on Paris this summer will undoubtedly
have many annoyances to combat. They
will find the railways chaotic, tho
hotels overcrowded, the small denomi
nation paper currency (Including even
postage stamps) n continual irritatiou.
They will find that, save for tho the
atres, the capital of Franco closes at
10 p. m,, nbout half an hour nfter
sunset in theso northern latitudes. All
tho cafe lights aro extinguished then.
The myriads of electric lamps along
the boulevards, once so animated during
the zero hours, shine not at all. Strikes
nnd unsettled lobor conditions hnvo left
their impress on service of all descrip
tions. But tho hordes of new visitors will
find virtually no bad food, nnd if eat
ing is with them nnj thing like an
artistic enthusiasm they will b0 en
abled to gratify It as nowhere cisc on
this planet.
"ORICES are Interesting nnd confus
t ng. At the prevailing low Tato of
exchange, an American who buys francs
with dollars can rhapsodize In tho
Parisian temples of Epicurus for about
one-half of what patronage of n res
taurant of similar pretensions though
not attainment at home will cost him.
In the modest establishments three
francs about thirty cents in American
money at the present time will purr
chase an edible, well-cooked meal con
sisting of appetizer or soup, a main
dish, vegetables and dessert or cheese.
What these scales of prices menii to the
natiyo French It is difficult to say.
The question involves a nevy system of
proportions. In Which first ranalilern.
Itiou must bo given to the general in-
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But assuming, which is more than
fair, that tho deterioration of the franc
has a different meaning for French nud
foreigners, natives not ranked as really
wealthy arc not barred from occasional
indulgences in the classic restaurants
which hnvc helped to make Paris
unique. A luncheon or dinner of the
premier class in these establishments
may be had today for the total expendi
ture of about thirty francs for two per
sons. And tlie cost will include a light
wine.
THE American, who had refused to bo
depressed by the official lament from
Paillard's, was fortunately situated, as
other tourists this summer must be,
with a treasury of cheaply bought
francs. Uo sampled the "boeuf n la
mode" nnd found the humble dish from
which that dainty Httlo restaurant
takes its name transmogrified, ns of
yore a toothsome delicacy.
He rediscovered sole a la Marguery
anil learned that It was untouched by
the world upheaval. The wonderful
white asparagus of Argcnteuil could be
obtained again ns In ante-bellum doys;
the tender "crepes," fragile pancakes,
cooked in fragrant liqueur; the arti
choke bottoms, crowned with truffles;
the Incomparable "poulct do grain," n
fowl whose very soul is tastv; the lamb
"of salt meadow," the little pastry
"boars" laden with wild strawllcrricM,
tho "dripped" coffee all, nil were there,
the old familiar morsels.
Laperouse, Marguery, Vlan. Lnvenue,
still hnuntcd by the youthful, self-indulgent
ghost of Stevenson, opened hos
pitable doors. The Tour d'Argent, Im
mortalized by Frederic, of whom it wns
sold he analyzed a tender duck ns Ibsen
did the chnractors of his dramas, re
sumed enumeration of its enticing
"plate of the day."
The American's particular duck was
44.0712. Tho figure would hove been
higher, but wnr laid Its comprehensive
hand on "Frederic's." However, the
staff and proprietor enierged safely from
the frnv. The clomping duck-crusher.
ruthless as the guillotine, is cxultnutl.v
nt work again. Prosperity nbldes nt
the quaint, secluded Qualt do la Tour
nclle. "You see," explained the wnitcr,
blithe ns tho servitor at PoHlard's was
resentful, "the rcstnurnnt Tour d'Ar
gent married tho daughter of tho Cafe
Anglais." What n wedding thnt must
have been ! An older generntlon re
members the Anglais. The pntbos of
distance makes it unappronclinble.
But Foyot's is quite as vencrablo and
is alive. "Unto each man," a recent
writer has said, ''native or alien, who
knows his Paris, God grants but one
restaurant, though It is never the
snmo." The American's "ouc" wns
Foyot's, consecrated to rock-ribbed
conservatism of certain French senators
vvho attend the legislotlvo palace near
by. Confirmed Tories aro fatuous in many
ways, but no one over called them bnd
judges of a good dinner. Tho irony of
his situation was to tho American, who
confesses to being n "reasonable" rad
ical, almost ns delicious as tho master
pieces in cookery which the humuuo
benefactors at Foyot's set before him.
The benign and slender skein of his
thouehts wns not woven around tho
Lensun of Nations. It caressed the
dim conception of n leugue of cooks.
That Is, it did until ho realized that
internationalization wns impossible.
Fqr the nrt which these necromancers
embody is and ever will be French.
Chicago Seeks Austrian Cooks
Vienna. July 0. Tho Vienna news
papers arc printing advertisements for
2000 Alisiruui women coohb io go to
Chicago. It Is explained In the ad
vertisement that Washington will au
thorize their admission.
EITH'S
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Tha Heat In Olrln, downs ft Clayety
SAM LIEBERT & CO.
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CHILE CENSORSHIP ENDED
Cable and Telegraph Companies Per
mitted to Dispatch All Messages
Santiago, Chile, July O.The min
ister of the interior has sent tho fol
lowing circular to (lie .tolotrrnnli unit
cable companies:
"Tho reason for tho order enjoining
strict compliance with the laws regard
ing tho transmission of false and alarm
ing messages by 'telegraph no longer
prevailing, you now arc permitted gen
erally to dispatch all telegrams except '
thoso of a subverslvo character or liable
adversely to affect public order. Private
telegrams In code will be vlsecd."
The government established this cen
sorship for the announced purpose ot
preventing tho circulation of false re
ports in connection with the recent elec
tion. The censorship applied to foreign
as well as to interior press dispatches.
Market 8L ab. 16th 11 A. M. to 11 P. 11
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