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A FOUR-VEAR PROGRAM FOR
PHILADELPHIA
Thlns on which the people expect
tha new admlnUtratlon to concen
trate Its nttentloni
The Deiware river bridge.
A. drydock big enough to accommodate-
the largest ship.
Development of the rapid transit sys
tem. J. convention halU
X building lor the Free Library.
An Art Museum.
Enlargement of the water supply.
Homes to accommodate the popuw
tion. COX AS A LITERARY STYLIST
AS A newspaperman Governor Cox's
views on simplicity and clarity of
etyle may be said to carry a certain
mount of official weight. It is inter
esting, therefore, to note that his opin
ion of the phraseology ot the League of
Kations covenant is exceedingly low.
Of the two reservations which he re
cently suggested as necessary to the
i document, the first takes this forms
'That the United States signs with the
agreement and understanding that all
the signatories are bound together for
only one reason to keep the peace of
the world." According to the preamble
, evised in Paris, the various nations
Mcribe to the convenant, m order to
A- Infnmnrlnnnl ro-oneration and
fr7VA?!lwfa5lef Intprnntional neaco and se-
V ' 'iawtvh .h. nMn.rtA fit K1!iattAna
sot to resort to war."
How far apart in meaning these two
declarations are may be left to the pub
lic judgment. If the hazy impression
ihould exist that the sense in these in
stances is identical, the excuse for Gov
ernor Cox's reservation will have to be
x Bought elsewhere. And the search nat
urally raises the question of style. Is
It more elegant to promise "to keep tho
peace" or "not to resort to war"?
The thunder of debate which this
.qnery inspires is likely to be quite as
r '-lris. oo nnn ,.. ..-...., .. ..I,IaI. )!.
4MW OUjr LUU.IU.C.SJ 1U1.U UJ1UI
Be -waged over the distinguishing marks
of Tweedledum and Tweedledce.
A GREAT NAVAL OFFICER
fpHB death of Lord Fisher removes
I J. one of the most brilliant officers the
British navy has had since Lord Nelson.
Fisher was a fighting man, who re
made .the Britibh navy during the
period of his supremacy. He fitted it
lor the work that it had to do during
ttao war, and some of Its most brilliant
exploits were achieved under his direc
tion. If the policy of audacity which
he advised had been adopted it is likely
that the nar would have been ended
sooner; but the ministry was unwilling
to take the risks which he insisted
should be taken. But be bad the satis
faction of pointing out in his reminis
cences, recently published, that the
revelations of German naval weakness,
which came in the course of time, proved
that the risks which he wished to take
"would not have been great and that
the German naval power could have
been destroyed so completely that allied
troops could have been landed on Gcr
ban soil.
He is dead now, full of years and
full of honors, and will become a tradl
itlon among British benmen along with
Drake and Nelson.
the best league of all
rnHB Greeks, until the wrecked their
own civilization in the Pcloponnc
eian War, had the right idea. Ath
letic distinction transcended in their
minds the uncertain courses of political
history. Marathon was a mere battle
In a mere war, a victory, of course,
to bo remembered, but the great games
at Olympia gave Hellas her calendar
Time was meahured by Olvmpiada, the
four years intervening between each
lusty contest.
Tho competitions planned for Ant
werp this summer, fail unfortunately
to establish a modern parallel, yet tbey
should oe insplringl healthful, stimu-
aunjr to the sane and true nrni?re.s
Thirty nations have now entered foi
the contests a number greater than L
that; of the original bignatories to the
League or nations India and China
.will be represented in the revived classic '
for the first time
' Perhaps some day we may come to
etui., U uiuuiim hi mo uuoareu-Tara (
dash or the polevault as equivalent in
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tlefield. When that date arrives modern '
Civilization will be decidedly les afraid
of Its critics than it is at the present i
ijoment
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STREET CAR OF THE FUTURE
."1XTHEN Major Hylan, of New York,
i V" said that he failed to see thc equity
or Justice in compelling the public to
pay further tribute to the street rail
way monopolies In order to preserve
thm from the effects of their own mis
i management and tho effects of Wall
! j iwunicuirui un mo vurcn vi it air
f Street Stock Jobbing operations he put in
words what many people in this city as
V:f wall aa In Km- Vnrk hnv haan Mr,l.
yi.
nis remarks were made in connection
ilh bis suggestion for a system of bus
'WW to serve the people at a five-cent
f'JSJM. Hg rtlnn ( fnn rh tnpninninflrt
'jSi" r " " """ "r'
aiC company to operate tho busses
fiY- W"f-th8 dlrectlon ot thl city. He
pii'ii.'ufa 4ioujo uu uuciumu return on me
r-Jmmtml amount of money invested with
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r ' obwwiijwuuh vi irancuiss privileges.
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4-
foper.mel.ae been mido with
busses In New York for many months
and it teems to have been demon
strated that they can bo operated at a
profit with a five-cent fare. Tho Mayor
,of that city insists that the street rail
way systems have broken down and
.must give way to a moro modern and
flexible system of transportation sucb a
can be secured by tho use of automo
biles, running without tracks and with
out overhead or underground wires.
He may be ten or twenty years ahead
or tbc times, but it Is inevitable that a
ehlcle carrying its own motor power
will ultimately supersede tho present
street cars operated from a central
power house just as the electric cars
have superseded the horse cars of twen-ty-flvc
or thirty jcars aeo. But while
New York is agitating the question, J
I'fttiadelphla seems disposed to frown
upon the motorbus.
AMATEUR EXPLORERS GROPE
FOR THE SWEET MILLENNIUM
But They Stop Every Few Minutes
at the Third Party Convention
to Fight and Turn Back
"ITtfHEN the Republicans and the
" Democrats wero fighting and
floundering at Chicago and San Fran
cisco and trying to bring themselves
to a clear understanding ..of their
obligations in a reordered world other
groups of radicals, zealots, faddists,
visionaries and crusaders stood on the
sidelines in attitudes of grim detach
ment and sneered in unison. They
moaned about the shamo of pussyfoot
ing and evasion. Loudly they moaned.
With one voice these insurgent souls
criod out for audacity and frankness.
They chanted upon tho themo of conse
cration and great ends. "Bo splendid,"
they cried to the multitudes at the con
ventions. "Bo sublime!"
Now theso self-appointed advance
agents of the millennium are having an
opportunity to show what they them
seies can do. They havo reasons to
know how a child might feel who, having
wept for tho moon, had the moon thrust
suddenly into its hands, xno conven
tion of the politically disconsolate called
to form a third party and launch a third
presidential candidate is in full swing
at Chicago.
It is not splendid. It Is not sub
lime. And we shall sec what we shall
see.
Now, it is right and proper to deride
the old-fashioned pnrty bosses. Cer
tainly they are an affliction. But they
havo a wisdom of their own that was
wrung from tho fires of hard experience.
They know, for example, tfiat though a
platform were written by saints and
seers it could be of no use to tho coun
try until it was translated into action.
They know, too, that a candidate wear
ins an authentic halo could servo only
an ornamental purpose until you were
nVilo trv elect him.
The old parties learned long ago that
It is one'thing to formulate great pians
nri nnnther thine to executo them. So
fVi,r Vioirln loeieallv enough with
flmi,r.hts nf nnd concerns lor iae roajur
ity. When bosses talk of harmony they
are talking of a fundamental require-m.ni-
nf Riircessful nolltlcal action
Without unified aims nothing Is possible
tnr lenders In a democracy. The zealots,
..i.Unarina fniMUta and radicals at
Chicago still have this simple truth to
lenrn. Thero is no harmony among
n,m Ther nre snlit already into vio
lently conflicting groups animated by
w-idelv divergent views. They have no
hope and no apparent desire for com
promise. Amn Plnehot. leader of the Commit
tee of Forty -eight, has volunteered to
ride the whirlwind and give it direction.
He would name Senator La Folletto for
the presidency. But Mr. Hearst Is in
the way with the American Constitu
tional party, an organization made to
order in his behalf as tho vehicle of dim
but enduring hopes.
Labor is represented at Chicago by the
Labor party, which Includes only a few
of the aggressive unions tinged deeply
with the philosophy of the I W. .
The garment workers of New lorlt are
well represented. But Gompcrs, the
wise old owl of the federation, is con
hpicuously absent In a far place.
Mr Gompcrs doesn't want a Labor
party. Ho prefers to convert ono of.
tho big parties to pro-labor views be
cause he knows that realization is bet
ter than hope and that a bird In the
hand is worth a flock in the bush.
It is not easy to analyze Mr. Pin
chot. He appears to believe that Colonel
Roosevelt formulated the only philos
ophy of gou'iument suitable to this
side of tho world But it isn't on record
that he knows of a method by which
the Roosevelt doctrines of 1012 can
be npplled for the solution of problems
that confront the United States under
the changed conditions of 1020. Mr.
Pinchot is credited with a willingness
to compromise on Henry Tord.
Mr I oid is said to believe that as a
third party president he could get capi
tal and labor out of the trenches by
Christmas. But he will not havo an op
portunity to express that hope at Chi
cago because the Single Taxers and a
powerful element in the Nonpartisan
League are nrrayed stonily against him.
Delegates of these factions view Mr.
rord as a capitalist with economic
views hopelessly opposed to their oyn
and therefore intolerable. It is tho
Single Taxers who have been ndvertis
)ng Senator La Follctte as a tool of the
interests. They said they would have
nnm. nf T.a Folletto. But their coneern
was needle". Li Toilette has refused to
acrept the third party nomination. II
has a smattering nf Gompcrs's wisdoir
Glenn Plumb, originator of tie
plurab P.la? f?r c?eral ra.lL,l?irP;
is one of tho looming possibilities But
the Nonpartisan Lengue and the I'm
ted Farmers view Plumb with distrust.
, ,, i..ni,i
T,lPy rC,gard hi? V uJr an ? Z
tiin of orcanlzcd labor, and in the
tcrn, "cultural areas tho PstISe
whlph thc industrial unions gained dur-
lnS,the ar crc?UdRLTn. tC f!?
nd ome unrest. Some of thc farmers
groups will bolt if Plumb Is nominated
Tho Single Taxers win Doit it a
Single Taxer is not nominated. They
have served notice to that effect
upon Mr Pinchot. Tho Nonpartisan
Leaguers aro credited with an ardent
desire to nominate Boss some call him
Bishon Townlcy, their chief and
prophet Tho Socialist Labor clement is
for Eugene Debs. But in many of thc
f0r i;ugcne JJCDS. iius in many oi me
delegations thero are groups pledged to
ficht Debs because of his war record
La Folletto would be fought on similar
grounds by Single Taxers and others.
Honors may go to a Mr. Beach, of
Hartford, Conn., who has widely ad
vertised himself as one with Washing
ton and Lincoln in the most exalted
triumvirate of human history. George
L, Record, tho niram Johnson of Now
Jersey, will figure la,rgo at tho third
party convention.
Mr. Record is vividly typical of his
V
oaftSBiNXfetd: ,:JLfo
associates in this instance. Ha kfiows
what ho doesn't want.
What he wanta he docs not know.
The dlsconsolatcs at Chicago sincerely
believe that tbty can teach the old par
tics much. As a matter of fact, tbey
themselves will have to learn the rudiments-
of political action from Repub
licans nnd Democrats beforo they can bo
even effectual voices of protest in tho
wilderness of public affairs. Of the old
fashioned leaders it may be said that
they continue at least to regard this
country as a democracy. They would
not dream of nominating a presidential
candidate for farmers or garment makers
or labor unions or Single Taxers exclu
sively. They know to begin with thnt
farmers or garment workers or labor
alone cannot elect n (President, nnd that
it a single group can ever impose its
will upon the country we shall havo
abandoned every governmental principle
that now holds in America.
It would be unfair to deny that there
is a great deal of sincerity below tho
surface of the Chicago hubbub. Even
Debs, now in jail, is warm-hearted. It
was a dominant emotionalism that car
ried him to wild lengths-in tho period
of the war nnd into nn ugly conflict
with a government that had enough to
do without having to fight near-traitors
in tho rear. But at a second clanco it
is necessary to ask whether tho dele
gates at Chicago represent anything like
the rational liberalism that is leaving
its impress on politics everywhere in the
world today.
There is insurgency at Chicago and
little else. It is scattered. It has no
philosophy generally acceptable even to
those who speak for it.
Thoso who recognlzo the constant need
for a party of protest cannot look
toward tho third narty convention with-
out misgivings. They are doing better
abroad. The British Labor party began
to advanco only when it ceased to bo a
party for labor exclusively nnd became
a wiaoiy inclusive movement representa
tive In many ways of democracy in its
ocsi sense.
Tho Conservative Libernls who rlliwt
it know what they nre driving at. The
warring cliques at Chicago do not.
WHY DON'T PEOPLE VOTE?
A BOUT 4,000,000 women were en--"
tided to vote in the last presi
dential election and 25.000,000 men,
making a total of 20.000.000 eligible
voters. But only 18,500,000 votes were
cast. Less than two out of every three
voters went to the polls. In Illinois,
with a total adult population of 3,600,
000, tho presidential vote, including
that cast by women, was 2,200,000. It
has been estimated that the ratification
of the suffrage amendment will add
25.000,000 to the number of qualified
voters, but the most euihiKustlc suf
fragist cannot find justification for the
belief that the vote for the presidential
electors will be doubled.
The men who have been interested
in politics for years do not go to tho
polls with any degree of unanfmlty.
The women, many of whom are in
different tc politics, have voted whero
they hate the suffrage in much smaller
proportion than the men.
If the women, after they are politi
cally enfranchised, can discover why
men do not vote nnd can then induce
them to go to the polls, they will serve
their country well. Most of tho po
litical abuses arise from tho indifference
of the electorate. We delegate govern
ment to the professional politicians and
then damn them because they misbe
have. The women may change all this
and then again they may not.
AN AWFUL RESPONSIBILITY
TTHILE it has for some timo been
obvious that daintily tinted cheeks
are incapable of blushing for their of
fense, it cannot be said that the other
sex has been seriously alive to any re
sponsibility. Mrs. George F. Pashley,
of New York, state superintendent of
tho Women's Christian Union, is, how
ever, a true daughter of Eve. "Men,"
she declares in her excoriation of the
increased use of cosmetics by "nice, ro
fined people, young women and mere
girls," "got us into this fix and they
ought to help us to get out."
Here for once is flat contradiction of
Scnor Blaseo Ibanez's opinion that
women are the dominant' forco in the
American community. Is the sterner
sex aware of this nwful power? Does it
know that it mentally cried "lipsticks"
and femininity in one concerted gesture
lifted them to outdo naturo? Docs it
know that the mere command "as you
were" will restoro the blush of charm
to the cheek of modesty? If it doesn't
it is time for mere males to decide
whether it views tho present fashion
with prido or points to it with alarm.
For the old Adam, at least according to
Mrs. Pashley, is still the tyrannous
director of the eternal Eve.
The delegate of the
The Ltire of Belgian shipowners
Romanco to the international
labor conference in
Genoa charges unfair methods on tho
part of America because the attorney
for the Seamen's Union of North
America appeals, it is said, to seamen
to join tho American merchant marlno
and offers inducements. In the absence
of all the facts, we are unable to say
whether or not the charge is well
f' inded. On the face of it tjio solicita
tion seems as though it might bo per
fectly fair. Tho one sad note is that
suefa Rolicltation should be necessary.
Before wo can rule the waves our boys
must have a longing for deep water.
What tho country needs is a school of
writers of stirring sea stories.
Washington, July
12 (By Ouija
Board) President
G. Washington
Honored
Wilson, having di
rected tho award of a distinguished
eervlco cross to General P. C. Marsh
for extraordinary heroism In action be
fore Manila, P. I., August 13, 1808,
has decided to justify his position as
historian by going back a little further.
He has, therefore, today awarded a
distinguished hcrvlco cross to George
Washington (deceased) for gallant
service during tho Revolutionary War.
Tho citation refers to tho crossing of
tho Delaware and tho capture of the
British forco at Trenton.
A classic, at once
Alcoholic Content modern and anti
quated, tells of a
tentatively reformed tank who, oftor
swallowing his beer, declared with self
satisfied unction, "Well, heaven knows
I asked for buttermilk 1" Tho story
now needs rovlsion. Delaware's state
chemist has found as much as 8 per
cent alcohol in buttermilk. With beer
containing only half of 1 per cent the
stnrjc should wind up with the man
drinking the buttermilk and declaring,
"Well, heaven knows I asked for
bcerl"
If the yacht-racing
The Tee-rot game again proves
a disappointment to
mr 'JLnomas ijipion no might try a
comoinauon or gou ana poker.
COMMONERS DOMINATE
Delegates to Third Party Convert
tlon In Chicago Aro Bent With
Toll Intellectuals Likely
to Lose Control
By CLINTON W. GILBERT
Cowrtoht, Hip, ly Publte Ledger Co.
Chicago, July 12. Aro wo witness-,
ing what thoso who attended the 'first
convention of tho Republican party in
1850 .saw, tho birth of a new party,
or are wo not?
It is sixty. four years since a per
manent new party was born. In that,
time many temporary parties havo been
organized, some of which have shown
strength for one campaign. Tho best
guess is that this third party being
mado hero la Chicago is another Popu
list party, but no ono can tell until
tho voto is counted in November. La
Follette, If nominated, will carry two
states, Wisconsin and North Dakota,
Ho may carry Minnesota, Nebraska,
Mpntana, Wyoming and Washington.
He probably will get 1.000.000 votes
and his most optimistic supporters hero
say he may get 4,000,000 or 5.000,000.
which, with women casting ballots, will
not bo an extremely largo number.
No ono knows what tho people are
thinking. The Republican and Demo
cratic parties havo just voted that the
people wero thinking conservatively on
soolal and economic questions and that
they desire, above all, to got back to
tho old-fashioned party government of
tho nineties. Tho peoplo who are gath
ered here say they are tired of both
parties and that they don't want to
be govorncd by either of them. They
point to a lot of signs which they say
indicate this discontent. They point
to tho Nonpartisan League and tho
revolution it has brought in tho govern
ment of North Dakota, and which has
sprccd through Minnesota, Nebraska,
Michigan, Washington, Idaho nnd
Montana. They point to tho big vote
for Johnson in tho Republican pri
maries. They point to the Watson voto
in Georgia, to tho La Follette vote
in Wisconsin and to tho narrow margin
by which Senator Cummins defeated n
radical larmer candidate for nomina
tion to tho Senate in Iowa, conservative
Iowa.
Declare War Was Unpopular
Theso third narty delegates gathered
here come from Alice through a looking-
glass country. Tbey express views that
aro uttorlv the reverse of thoso com
monly accepted. La Folletto's anti-war
record, tney say, will ue nts greatest
source of strength. Look what has
happened, they say, whenever the issue
has been presented. Look at the La
Folletto voto in Wisconsin. Look at
the Thompson voto in Chicago; look
ot the Watson vote in Georgia. The
war was an unpopular wai. The West
never wanted to get in it. The West
feels that it was tricked by President
Wilson's fourteen points and huni
buceed by the League of Notions. To
have opposed the war is a point in a
candidate s favor. J. no men gathered
here come from tho farms and tbc
shons. They are moro nearly average
citizens than the professional politicians
who gathered at thc Republican conven
tion here or at the .Democratic conven
tion in San Francisco.
The League of Nations is the Issue,
say the Democrats; and the Republi
cans agree, but not so emphatically.
The League of Nations, say theso peo
ple gathered here, is a sham battle. The
two old parties don't want to deal with
realities. They want to do a lot of
shadow dancing. The League of Na
tions is dead in Europe. It never lived.
In place of thc League of Nations is
the Supreme Council, a survival of tho
war organization. Is tho election to
win on the tcims upon which we shall
enter a league that is dead? The only
real issue is just division of tbc wealth
that is being produced, so as cither to
reduce the costs of living or make it
more possible for earners to meet the
cost of living. Tho two old parties
havo avoided tho realities. It Is neces
sary to have a third party to deal with
realties is what they say.
Few Politicians in Convention
Tho people who say these things are
not politicians. Thero probably never
was a political convention which had
so few politicians in it as this one.
Tho progressive conventions were made
up largely ot ixepuoncan politicians who
had belonged to minority factions of
their party; this convention is full of
tho sunburned faces of outdoor work
ers, of farmers and laborers. On the
front row of seats to tho right of the
speaker's platform sit among the South
Dakotans two old farmers' wives with
worn faces, mabsivo frames, shoulders
broadened by toll. No horn-rimmed
glasses aid their vision, but old-fashioned
small lens, gold-rimmed spec
tacles. Their hair is parted in tho
middle and brushed flat to each side,
leaving the full forehead baro. Near
them arc two sunburned mon, blondo,
with gentle blue eyes of visionaries.
Back of them is an unmistakablo crank,
who, out of order, insists npon making
a speech nominating La Follette. Not
far away is the man who, when it was
proposed to tako two hours' recess for
dinner, rose and angrily insisted that
half an hour was enough for dinner
and certain caucusing called for at that
time. Ho was in a hurry to bring in
the new social order.
In the background are intellectuals,
the Records, tho Plnchots, the Mc
rWrlva. the men of means and social
position and the women thev gathered
abOUb mviu, uiuauy riuur now .luik,
New England and New Jersey, who
rnrted the committeo of forty-eight.
who aro steadllj losing control of It and
who, it tne junction is cuccieu wuu
the labor unionists, will be displaced
by thc nblo politicians labor has de
veloped nnd bv the skilled leaders of
the radical farmers. Tho intellectuals,
who look radical enough to most of
the country, don't like the rising tide'
of radicalism aoout mem.
c
AT SUNSET
E
V'NING gathers shadows by the way,
Just as tho splendor of the sun
slnkR low : '
Youth, with Its buoyant courage from
the day,
Breaks forth beneath the tender,
dusky glow.
And, as I gaze in wonder at the sight,
While yet the shadows darken on the
bills,
A sense of awo steals through the veil
ing light ;
My heart leaps up to hear the Soul
that thrills.
Thereon my fancy sculptures things
most rare,
Where He erects a gold and silver
throne
Man's goal of yearning; past our world
so fair
We build a dream of silence, deep
unknown.
The purple lighted islands are no more
But heaven's Jeweled crown forever
glows ;
Thero is no cruel eolltudo in store,
Dream fai-off stars, till tho great"
Brightness flows I
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Suffrage 'appears to be meeting with
inclement weather in Vermont. lit
Our guess Is that It will be a case
of "Back to tho porch, Hiram 1" , .
The High Cost of Living is but an
incentive to tho panacea business.
There'is at least reasonable hope
that frisky Fritz has been frisked at
last.
There is danger in tho island down
the river that Hog will bo turned into
Scrapple,. ,
Tho front-porch habit is at least
conducivo to tho careful reading of'the
newspapers. ,
Ono thing on which tho Allies are
happily agreed la that Germany is not
to be trusted.
Panaceas aro popular at third
party conventions. They can't live
anywhere else.
1
, As though the third-party idea Is
not sufficiently dead, thero is still talk
of nominating La Follctte.
The administration says in effect,
"You may trade with Russia if you
will, but wo daro you to do it 1"
The campaign to prohibit the mar
riage of divorcees may be construed as
an attempt to queer the show business.
v No maiter how much the P. R. T.
may disagree with various legal rulings,
you never hear it calling, "No faro I"
Of course, tho P. R. T. realizes
that rates are liko chairmen, and thoso
that aro "temporary" are frequently
made "permanent."
As an aid to General Humidity In
tho matter of taking the starch out of
you, plcaso remember that nobody cares
a continental how hot you are.
Hiram, you havo strong opinions.
And you do not always minco em.
You assail opponent minions,
And although you can't convince 'em,
Faith, you certainly can tire 'cm,
Hiram I
A local magistrato asks a wbman
it her husband was in his right mind
when ho married hor and sho replies
that he told her he was; But are men
always truthful when they talk to
women? '
Elaborate means have been devised
for tho selection of the judges of the
high court of international justice; but
real interest is going to center on tho
appointment of its sheriff and sergcant-at-arms.
With difficulty wo keep back the
salt, salt tears when wo think of the
poor kids who nre forced to play ball
or go swimming just because tho schools
aro closed.
Mr. McAdoo says truly that all
Americans revere the constitution
"even with the eighteenth amend
ment." But there are, of courso,
thirsty ones who insist on interpreta
tive reservations.
Brave men havo lived nnd died
sinco the world began, but history fails
to record a caso more stoical than that
of the Chicago surgeon who sliced
twelve inches of flesh from his lee and
grafted it on the foot and anklo of his
wife, the victim of an automobile acci
dent.
If Cox is elected President and
appoints Edwards head of the Depart
ment or .lusticc, remarked tbc Man
With tho White Apron, oh," how very,
very happy we shall be! Tho trouble
with the Man With the White Apron
is that ho used only ono "if." No Re
publican wants to see Cox elected, but
no American believes that ho would do
other than enforce tho laws, including
the ono fathered by Mr. Volstead.
So that they might not go hungry
to Harding. General T. Coleman du
Pont cooked and served breakfast for
his party on arrival at Marion, O.
Though Senator Harding has not yet
met Governor Cox's lead in the matter
of cooking lamb chops for newspaper
men, it will bo seen that thero are
those among his adherents who are
able to provido for the hungry. It
would really appear as though the
presidential btnkes were not wholly un
connected with Ptrnlfj nf ntintti,. Mn.1
and that ability of party leaders to cook"
is to do a iactor in the coming cam
paign. The immigration law is being criti
cized in somo quarters because under
its provisions a Yucatan merchant and
his wife, whose daughter is being edu
cated in a Massachusetts school, are
being held at Ellis Island because they
cannot read thirty words in English or
any other languane ; and this despite
tho fact that tho law fails to keen out
tho agitator or tho confidence man.
Apart from tho fact that no law was
over framed that did not work injustice
on some person, it should bo remem
bered that tho literacy test never pre
tended to solve the question of fitness
for citizenship. It was frankly a plan
to reduce immigration at a timo when
such reduction seemed necessary. And
since no lawmakers can bo expected to
foresee all contingencies, custom sooner
or later sees to it that every law is sun
plemented by tho application of common
sense
What Do You Know?
QUIZ
1. What is tho femlnlna of viceroy?
2. How could the eighteenth amend
ment to the constitution bo re
pealed 3 "" !?, tt i?rB,est American city
west or tho Itoclcy mountains?
4. Whero is tho Bay of Bengal 7
6. Who la the present premier of Italy?
6. What Is the meaning of tho IVench
phrase "sans soucr? "
7. How should It be pronounced?
8. What Is a quiddity?
9. Who was Henry Gaasaway Davis 7
10. What number has been regarded as
unlucky In association with Uinga?
Answers to Saturday's Quiz
1. Ltndley M. Garrison waa tho first
8CrBi!,a.rf wnvar ln tho cabinet of
President Wileon.
2. De la Huerta, the name of tho pres
ent provisional president of Mexico,
means "of the garden."
3. On July 17. 1780. Lafayette pro-
posed tho combination of the colors
of Paris, red and blue, with the old
royal white, Into the combination
of tho famous tricolor of France.
4. Four generals prominent on the
American sld In tho Revolutionary
ya.r. Wne5V'lu,nln8ton' Greene,
Gates and ajne.
6. Tho French expression "a baa"
means "down with"!
6. Sixty geographical miles make a
degree.
7. "Hhlnplasters" were formerly places
of depreciated American paner
money, or paper money of denomi
nation less than a. dollar,
8. A corbie la a raven or a carrion
crow. Tho word la Scotch.
0. The word molasses Is from tha Por-
iuyeB?.6laco,-," l0rlv from the
Latin "mel, melts," honey.
10. It Is a plural word, treated as sin?
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DR. THOMPSON
IN NEWER TEACHING METHOD
Retiring Central High School President Says Tendency in Edu
cational Systems Is in Direction of Bolshcviki Idea,
"Along Line of Least Resistance"
TR. ROBERT ELLIS THOMPSON,
who, under tho age -limit ruling, is
obliged to rctiro as president of tho
Central High School, sees peril in the
tendency of some educators to meddle
with nnd reviso fundamental methods
of teaching.
"There is something disquieting and
disastrous in this inclination of many
educators -who aro anxious to progress,
he said.
"Tho real trouble so far has not been
so much with the teaching in school ns
with tho teaching which tho pupils re
ceived at homo beforo they came to
school and, in fact, whllo they were
attending. This has been most severely
felt in English. Tho great Influx of
foreigners in the public schools has re
sulted not so much in their learning
English as in their modifying thc Eng
lish languago to American. ,
"A few years ago tho 'quest for
knowledge was mado difficult. Tho con
tention was that tho school was a gym
nasium for tho mind and that one
learned to think by exercising the mind.
Tho examinations were severe nnd tho
requirements generally, particularly in
tho higher schools, much higher than
they aro today.
Followlnc tho Bolshcviki Tcle.i
"Th'o tendency now is to teach along
tho lines of least resistance. That which
a pupil regards as iiksomo should b'e
disregarded in favor of something which
ho likes better. We are really going in
tho direction of the Bolshevlki, who, ac
cording to this, havo the ideal method.
In Russia now anything which a pupil
don't liko isn't taught him. '
"After all, it Isn't a question of
what you do In school or tho marks you
get, but what you carry away with
you that counts. ,
"Tho object losson method of today
has been pushed to extreme limits. Tbc
blackboard and tho moving plcturo have
taken tho placo of tho lecturo method.
"It Is a fundamental fact that the
eye is not nearly so dependable in edu
cation ns tho car. Thnt delicate organ,
which can at onco distinguish sex, tem
per, raco, culturo and kind of person, is
far moro permanent in recording im
pressions than tho eye.
"Dependence upon tho henring also
develops concentration. If I had ray
way, blackboards should be eliminated
from 'the schoolroom. I belle. thnt- n
person, beforo seeing anything educa
tional in scnoois, snouiu nrst hear it."
' Pays Tribute to Doctor Snyder
Doctor Thompson paid a hlch trihnr
to Dr. Monroe B. Snyder, professor of
mathematics and astronomy at tho Cen
tral High School, who is also In charge
of tho Philadelphia Observatory, and
who, liko Doctor Thompson, will be
automatically retired under tho legisla
tive retirement act.
"At an aee. well past seventy." TW.
tor ThomnBon said, "ho has nil trtn
vigor of a man of thirty, both phys
ically and mentally. Ho has dono and
is doing invaluable work at tho school
and nas mauo somo important scientific
discoveries nnd is well on the way to
other achievements of first importance.
And now tnis situation has to develop."
Doctor Thompson believes the Board
of Education is much maligned, though
ho says it may bo in need of more
ballast.
"The board has taken up all reforms
that havo been suggested In the course
fE I T H ' S
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America's Clavtreat Comodlann
HENRI SCOTT
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of years," ho asserted. "The trouble is
that it has had to work along on an
Inadequate income and thus hampered
to meet tho exigencies of a chancing
condition which has transformed Phila
delphia from a city of homes to a city
of factories.
Sees No Hope In Electing Board
"I can see no hope for betterment of
tho educational conditions In this city
by the method often advocated of elect
ing a Board of Education by ballot. Ono
reform that wo need Jjadly is the short
ballot.
"Tho history of elections in this city
has shown that a Board of Education
chosen in that way would not bo one
from which wo could expect real benefit
along educational lines. Of thc last
fifteen mayors elected in tho city prob
ably not moro than two would be com
petent to act ns members of tho Board
of Education."
SAYS BOLSHEVISTS
SLEW AMERICANS
Chauffeur of Dr. Friedlander
and Dr. Cantor Tells of Re
lief Workers' Deaths
By the Associated Press
Warsaw, July 12. -Dr. Israel Fried
lander, professor of biblical literature
at the Jewish Theological Seminary, in
Now York, and Bernard Cantor, nlso of
New York, who lost their lives on July
7, near Yormolinco in the Ukraino, wero
killed by three men wearing Bolshevist
uniforms, according to Information re
ceived at tho Warsaw headquarters of
tho .American joint distribution commit
tee, to which both thfl victims were at
tached. ( ,
Doctor Friedlander nnd Doctor Cantor
had distributed Tnoro than 1,000,000
marks in their relief work, and were
preparing to leave tho region in the
Ukraine near which General Budcnny
was operating with his Bolshevist cav
alry. According to tho story related by
the chauffeur who wbb driving tho car
in which they wore traveling, tho armed
bandits stopped tho automobile and de
manded money. '
Tho chauffeur, who spako Russian,
explained to tho bandits that both tho
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men he was driving, and who wore tha
khaki uniform of the distribution com
mittee, were Americans. Tho bandits
persisted in their search, however, and
whllo they were going over the car, tha
chauffeur escaped. As he ran ho heard
a shot and saw ono of the Americans
fall.
Tho chauffeur gave this account on
his arrival at Lemberg, and other trav
elers reaching Lemberg reported having
seen tho bodies of the Americans and
the burned automobile.
Tho American legation here and tho
Joint distribution committee will make
a thorough investigation ot tbo affair.
Both Americans had been connected for
the last six months with the Jewish re
lief work in Poland and had planned to
return homo in tbo near future.
New York, July 12. Dr. Bernard
Cantor had been connected with the
work of the Frco Synagoguo here under
Dr. Stephen S. Wiso for three years
before entering the relief organization.
lie was born in Buffalo and was twonty
eight years old. About two years ago
he was placed in charge of tho Flush
ing, I). I., brandi of tho Free Syna
gogue and held that position when bs
joined tho distribution cjmmlttve's unit.
TAMPICO WORKMAN STRIKE
Railway Lines In Two Mexican
States Cut by Rebels
Mexico City, July 12. The' railway
lino between Mexico City and Nuevo
Laredo has been cut by rebels at Santa
Elena, in the 6tate of Coahuila, near
the northeastern boundary of that stats
and Zacatecas, according to newspaper
dispatches today.
A dispatch to tho Heraldo reports t
striko of considerable magnitude at
Taraplco, the street car men, bakers,
carpenters, longshoremen, oil workeri
and loaders having gonoout, it is de
clared. Market St. ab. 10th. 11 A. M. to 11 P. H
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