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palltdflphU, ThuMdiy. Julr IS. IMP
A.FOUR-yEAR PROGRAM FOR
PHILADELPHIA
Thlnrs on which the people expect
tho new administration to concen
trate! t attention I
Tho DeVjtcuro rtuer bridge.
A. drvdock big enough to accommo
date the largest ships.
Development of the raptd transit eas
tern. A convention hall
A building for the Free Library.
Jin Art Museum.
Enlargement of the tooter supply!
Home (o accommodate the popula-
' tion.
WHO CARES?
THE Board of Public Education can
not act upon new financial ques
tions unless ten members arc present.
The setting aside of money to pay
the proposed increase in the salary of
tha teachers is regarded as new financial
matter.
Only nine members of the board were
nresent at the meeting this week. The
other members, aware of the prcsstug
need of the teachers for the extra money
that has been promised them, appar
ently did not think the matter of Im
portance enough to justify them to put
themselves to the Inconvenience of at
'tending tha meeting.
As the board adjourned for the sum
mer, the teachers And themselves com
pelled to live upon promises until the
autumn.
This is not the way to freat the
teaching force If wo wish it to attract
capable men and women ; but who cares
whether the teachers get a living wage
or not?
PENN AND THE MOTORISTS
Ifik.jjp' THE oulja board could recall Wil
fcrvC'" "m PeDn he would be unlikely to
remain long in this vicinity. .Motorists
w woum maKe it too not lor mm.
. For the founder himself is primarily,
though' all unconsciously, to blame for
! .-.,.... .it,. : ..11..L. - .
mobiles. They simply won't fit in his
rectangularly planned, congested town.
It Is this Irritating fact which is funda
mentally behind the latest order forbid
ding parking on Broad street.
In a sense, traffic is therefore com
pelled to enter a vicious circle. It may
travel. It may not arrive. 1'nder im
mediate cicumfitance.s the order, how
ever, is not to be flatly condemned.
One thing worse than a city of homeless
motorcars Js a city of obstructed ftrcets.
Soonejr'or later extensive relief plans
wrill fyave to be executed, taking the
form; -either of street widening or of the
setting apart of special parking areas
for automobiles. Costly or not, the
'change must come if the progress and
2 idevelopment of Philadelphia is not to
juuve icrvcrseiy Biuiuijiug.
' THE YACHT RACE TONIC
rrtHE international yacht race is a
- welcome tonic. Here nt least is one
subject which neither radicals nor re
actionaries feel sclf-righteously con
strained to "view with alarm." The
evenC reflects neither tho mistakes nor
merits of 'Woodrow Wilson, the virtues
iter vices of tho peace treaty, the com
jplexltics of the labor problem nor the
intricacies of presidential politics. The
public temper, borcly in need of some
restorative, can hardly fall to bo ben
efited by the spectacular contest which
begiqs off Sandy Hook today.
Under all circumstances, clean sport
is a wholesomo element in human of-
fairs. Yacht-racing is particularly en- j
gtging since the niceties of the art are
MnGnitoly subtle. The handling of the
Shamrock IV and tho Ilesolute today i
will play equally as important a part
In. the exciting drama as the. intrinsic
qualities of the graceful ships them
selves. After an extraordinary series of vic
tories, it is natural for Americans to
expect that the America's Cup will b
retained, here. But should it be littd
at last, the heartiest of congratulations
.will assail the earn of the indefatigable
Sir Thomas. He hus sturdily con
tributed to the amenities of a civiliza
tion which of late has been extremely
conscious in its self-criticism. The
yacht race, the International tennis
contests, the forthcoming Olympic
games are encouraging signs of a re
turn to normality.
SOME TREATY TRUTHS
I'mHEItE are two modern .instances of
- severe ircauca uiu iciuia vi wmen
B?yU Wfrro scrupulously executed by the van
ouisaea,
' Regarding the pact of Frankfort in
1671, France had no choice. She was
f6rced to observe its provisions in order
i to 'rid the republic of German troops.
Peru, in 1883, was confronted with the
, same dilemma, Tho hard stipulations
of the treaty of Ancon were carried out
as the only means by which tho Chilean
t.army of occupation could be induced to
yithdraw.
wfc 'jLTemenuous as was too ucicai oi
many, the conditions here cited were
A .11 .1 J ' TaV 2 MAljajalIn 4tinfl
laraucicci. iy "'v
n.debato over the occupation
country. That is not a
a fact.
,' Germikiy is etH In
i.mmlr
Kr-wrri
late them or to refuse to make them nt
nil. 'Ifcnco the delay In executing the
Treaty of Versailles and the reluctance
nt Spa to enter Into new pledges.
Whether, tho best thought in civiliza
tion is in accord with the Allies' pur- 1
poses or not, the brutal truth remains
that crushing treaties, the execution of
which is easily enforced by the con
queror, have been comparatively lightly
criticized. They speedily rank as ac
complished facts.
It is when the task of enforcement
is difficult that doubts arise and moral
senso is tender.
YES, ROLLO, WE CRY OUT
FOR A NEW FOURTH PARTY
And Events at Three National Con
ventions Indicate the Need of
a Fifth One, Too
TIICIIE seems to be no way of avoid
ing It. All the radicals, nil the
nonconformists, all the daredevil think
ers, all the headlong and self-interested
groups that furiously invaded the two
big national conventions to Insist that
they and they alone knew how to serve
civilization and savo the country, have
been getting what, In the language of
the truly cultured, is called a dirty
deal.
No sympathy for their clashing doc
trines warmed the basaltic bosom of the
(. 0. P. The Democrats were cold.
And yesterday La Follcttc dazed the
convention of the dlsconsolates at Chi
cago by announcing that tho platform
on which he was expected to seek the
presidency was too radical.
Has the country lost? Let us see.
The demands and appeals made to the
different party leaders in the name of
liberalism and other things were at
least broad und Infinitely various. Had
wc accepted and combined nil the phi
losophies for which Imposing delegations
have been making passionate pilgrim
ages to Chicago and San Francisco the
country would now havo to prepare
hurriedly for simultaneous wars with
England, Japan and Mexico. At the
same time it would have to disarm and
cancel every important military appro
priation. We should ditch the Philippines and
Porto Ilieo without ceremony and leave
tranquil Guam for tho first comer.
Washington would be writing its recog
nition of the Russian Soviets and wc
should be setting aside tho principles
of parliamentary government to mako
way for busy little Soviets of our own.
Individual initiative tbat is, ardent
and inspired work would be outlawed
under the combined pressure of the in
terstate lews, Socialists' codes and the
Plumb plan which might be called the
Volstead act' of industry. And ways
would be cleared for the displacement
of Congress and the Supreme Court by
a Soviet commission dominated, let us
-n , by representatives of lownley's
Nonpartisans, SinRle Taxers, the Debs
dan, the League of Wet-aud-Dry
Southern ColonolR and tho Interna
tional Brotherhood of Waffle Moldcrs'
Helpers.
And bo the nation would have been
saved !
Tho old parties clung to the gloomy
notion that thought and work, ordered,
consistent and more or less sincere, are
ncccsary to human welfare and the
continuance of civilization. The Third
party is tottering toward a somewhat
similar point of view ; drifting steadily
awcy from what the restless minded
have been calling militint idealism.
Surely the visionaries should grieve.
Mr. Pinchot's convention has been in
session for days and ct it has uttered
no word in condemnation of the federnl
Department of Agriculture, which,
though nbsorbing great appropriations
under successive administrations, has
brought us no nearer to tho self-paring
pototo or the ready-boiled egg. Cows
continue dully to refuse to milk them
selves, and arc therefore a continuing
irritation to radical minds convinced
that n reactionary bureau of animal in
dustry has again put something over on
the masses.
Butter must be churned. We are no
nearer now than we were iu the dark
era of McKinley to the bright day when
on's piano will grow in n green
chrysalis und burst forth jazzing glori
ously while citizi-ns nf the ideal state
lio and listen iu the -bade of trees cov
ered with a foliase of paper currency.
It is plain that the dominant political
minds iu this country are reconciled to
the necessity of toll, which Miss Emma
Goldman used to call the curse und
affliction of the a-cs. A Fourth party
H needed to nop work, to bring on
wars and simultaneously to force dis
armament . to demand enormous nppio
pnations from the government and at
the amu time obliterate all the sources
of federal income. The fight against
the stumlpattcr must go on.
Since no sjstem of parliamentary
government is possible without nn ener
getic minurity party of protest, und
"ince the two older parties arc hope
lessly unradical, a Fifth party will, of
course, be indispensable. Such a party
will have to preach doctrines that soon
will sound strange in this, our land. It
will have to insist tbat wishes alone
can get you nowhere, and that no for
mula of words, be it ever so witching
upon the car, can cultivate the ground,
boil an egg, dig u ton of coal or wring
bread and cheese and such like out of
the thin air.
Spokesmen of the Fifth party will
have to show again that few "people
ever got an thing for nothing, and that
those who did were and arc the least
fortunate of men. As matters look
now the Pifth party would bo s
hmall, for it would mc!ud only Ameri
cans not Anglo-Amrncanx or Pranco
Americans or Iri-h-Amnuan or Re
publican - Americans or Iroo'raU
Americans or Labor-Americans or Cap
italist - Americans or Collfgi- - Ameri
cans or Proletarian - Ameri'-ans. but
plain, everyday men and women who
are Americans first and aboTi- all things
becauso of loyalty to the gar';ue land
and the generous in'-titut.os by whuh
they have lived and found t;,;sts.
Bigotry and hatred are q'.:n:, tast
do most barm to those who .... vate
them. So your Pifth party wvo.d be
in most ways charitable and fojor:Bgt
patient and assured. It wo-jjj it'iv
that nothing violent endures atd 'Lat
all great things have been slo-Aly ac
complished. It would put its great
trust In the slow but terribly certain
and terribly just forces of social evo
lution. It is not difficult to Imagine the
novel outlines of the platform with
which the first national convention of
tho Fifth party would startlo the
country.
Americans unburdened with hyphens
of any sort are true to th original type
as a rule. Thev have roilfiirn unci rnml
humor, If ever they sltTlu lonely ob
scurity to.fjirplato aiv' ,?sr"a
n's:7-'l57r .-- Oi.
EVENING PUBLIC
of principles fitted to the time they
surely will write one plonk like this:
"Wo bcllcvo that bate is a destrue
tlve force to those who entertain It,
and we deplore the methods by which
political partisans endeavor to belittle
and obscure great services which men
In all great political parties have al
ways done out of pure loyulty to our
common country.
"Wc believe that n party, like n
man, can never bo wholly good or
wholly bad, wholly right or wholly
wrong, and that recognition of exalted
public service is nn essential of sound
national character, since in a state like
ours each generation must bo guided
largely by the example' of Its predeces
sors. It is our conviction that the
plain people of nil countries, thougV
often betrayed and misguided, nre fun
damentally alike and fundamentally de
cent, and that any one who teaches
that one part of the earth's population
is born good and another born evil
teaches a dangerous doctrine.
"Wc wih vehemently to deplore the
shameful waste of good white paper and
good black Ink that is due to organized
efforts of political managers to create
fale general Impressions of the men
opposed to them in national campaigns.
Public opinion is thereby confused and
great Injustice is often dono to worthy
men. We declare for a constitutional
amendment to eliminate bunk, piffle,
lies and byprocrltical statements from
tho written and printed propaganda of
elections.
"Wo recognize no social or economic
crisis. Wc believe that the American
people will always read their guiding
lessons in their own great past, which
Is recent enough to present its noble
meaning plainly to every normal mind,
and that no group, of any name, moved
by greed, ignorance or cupidity, can
seriously impede them in their search
for peace, happiness and prosperity.
They rule their own afTairs, and as they
come more and more to understand the
duties of freo citizenship they will rule
moro efficiently for themselves and tho
land they Inherited."
The Pifth party might be a small
one. But it would grow.
WHY ARE BACHELORS?
THE Friends, in session at Cape May,
tackled n big problem when they
began the discussion of the reluctance
of bachelors to marry. They denounced
the spinsters as well as the bachelors,
but this was unfair. There are thou
sands of spinsters who would marry if
the right man should ask them.
The responsibility for the large num
ber of unmarried women rests on the
men, though some of the men will not
admit it. They insist that economic
conditions are responsible. When a
man finds it difficult to maintain him
self he does not willingly assume, the
care of another person. One of the
speakers denounced the men for pre
ferring "the luxuries of bachelorhood"
to the responsibilities of a family.
Many bachelors, however, could tell
him that they fear to undertukc the
responsibilities of a wife, for they do
not wish to ask a girl to make the sac
rifices necessary to live on the income
which they have. On the other hand,
many spinsters could tell the bachelors
that they do not understand women.
Tho spinsters know that they would
prefer u home of their own and little
children to many of the things which
the bachelors mistakenly think they
desire.
If tho Friends can find a way out
they will do what has never before been
done. The world has never seen a
civilization in which tho social reform
ers did not bewail the reluctance of
bachelors to marry. And there has
ticvcr been u primitive people among
whom tho problem arose. It is one of
the products of n hiehlv orp;mlTr,i
fundamental facts of life arc overlooked
ior me superhciallties.
BATHING IN THE PARK
rplIOl'SA.VDS of froqueutors of Pair-
mount Park will be gratified if
Mavor Mouie can carry out his an
nounced plan to havo the Schuylkill
dredged and randy beaches prepared so
as to make batiiiug in the river pleasant
und safe.
The water Is there and the Park
visitors arc not permitted to go in it.
Hoys now and then eludo tho vigilance
of tho guards, but they do so at their
peril. If bathing beaches can be pro
vided and if lifeguards ore put in charge
of them, a lsit to tho Park will have
fascinations winch It has never had in
the past.
There mar b reasons why the Park
Commission has not permitted bathin
In tho river, but it ought to be po-siblo
to overcome any objections which it
may hac had.
TUNE OF EIGHT BILLIONS
jyriS.S r.DITII STRAUSS, head of
AYA the woman's division of the De
partment of Justice, in nn investigation
of the causes of the high cost of living,
has declared that "the nation might
have more oiead if it bad less cake."
Thi3 i,, of course, obvious, and im
pressively so when coupled with the
information tbat the American peoplo
expend more than $3,000,000,000 on
so-called luxuries each year. But cake
in this liguiative sense is much nicer
than bread, and there is very little use
in arguing over what direction the
pursuit of happiness, insured to all of
us by a well-known charter of freedom,
should take. The tnsto nnd fancy of
tho pursuer are Inalienable.
And o if Mi.ss Struuss thinks to
stagger us with her arruy of statistics
reealinrf the huge purchases of tobacco,
automobiles, chewing gum, drinks, per
fjinery, furs, cosmetics, carpets, ex
pen -he clothing, toilet soaps, pianos,
organs and phonographs, she is mis
taken. Tho only really reprehensiblo
individual in these piping times is the
self-indulgent grumbler to whom super
fluitlei are of such paramount im
portance. Much of what is al-
On the Outsldo leged concerning tho
Looking In League of Nations
by its opponents may
be not too cheerfully admitted. It Is
not functioning ns it ought. The Polish
drive woo 111 -advised. The wisdom of
tho Greek drive In Turkey is open to
question. Tho morality of tho mandate
which gives the British crapiro a virtual
monopoly of the phosphato Industry is
debatable. But the prosenco of the
United States in tho league might havo
dono much to prevcut the errors made ;
might still do much to prevent other
mistakes ; and assuredly would put us
in a more dignified position as part of
tho governing body than wo hold as nn
outsider looking in. It cannot bo said
that America is not vitally interested.
Evepts immediately preceding the war
pcWple affected ,U. 6iiri'splendld isd
proyeu io us iimt wiiat nuected one
JaMon" disappeared forkter' with -our
:eptanc,vu;uie-ui5u,rjvv,rv'iewaea how ' ,;. " 'T
LEDGER PHILADELPHIA, THURSDAY, JULY, 15, 1920
THE GOWNSMAN "
Fork Creek Epitaphs
A N EPITAPH is the last thing that
you can do for an enemy and the
tinklndest thing that you can do to a
friend.
An appointment with a peony nnd
nn engagement to execute certain ma
rauding cutworms made It impossible
for the Gownsman to bestow that me
ticulous nicety nnd polish upon this
week's "Gownsman" which it is his
pride hnbltunlly to practice In his prose.
Wherefore, In emulation of the exam
ple of the great Saint Bernard (Shaw),
lie has thrown off thes bubbles In verse,
verse being so much easier to write than
the aforesaid meticulous, classic prose.
The following epitaphs will be recog
nized as after the old Mnsters though
possibly n long wny after him, as he
was n long wny after tho Greek An
thology, his nvowed inspirntlon. In a
sense, Fork Creek Epltnphs nre tribu
tary or contributory to The Spoon River
Anthology; though the courso of the
smaller stream will be found to run less
irregularly.
LET me write the epitaph of mine
enemy nnd I care not who nails
his coffin. Shall tho Gownsman apply
this distortion of nn old saw which
once hnd teeth In It to some imaginary
authority, thus to show his learning?
Or shall he boldly declare that he did
the distortion himself and thus pro
claim unblushingly his wit? It is a
sad dilemma In which vanity rules like
a gay ribbon tied on cither horn. So
let us pretend, after the manner of
Morley, that all the bright things of
the Gownsman, If there be any such,
like those of the Bowling Green, are
said by a brilliant galaxy of friends who
have swung into the Gownsman's orbit.
This method has a further advantage;
one can be bis own showman.
OUB first selection from the epitaph
1st of Fork Creek, by way of pre
lude, is an inscription to be placed on
the humble tomb of a defunct cold stor
age man. The attentive render will
observo the pun contained in tho last
word of the first line; the superior
reader need not stoop to it:
Hero lies a man who found life's moor
ago (moreagc)
In the business of cold storage;
Doubtless, where he lies a-smoulder
A'oio, he'd like the storage colder.
OUR epitapher now turns his atten
tion to his own kind. Poets have
ever been beloved of poets; the same is
true of versifier as to versifiers. No
tice the universality of the Idea con
tained In the .first two lines :
A poet lives, irregular
Ahko his life and verses are.
This poet died. Dcfo-c Saint Peter
He now versifies in meter,
In the hope that in good time
The gates may open to his rhyme.
There seems to bo no other way than
that of regularity either for poetry,
politics or salvation.
A CHARACTER in an old play once
bought the discarded sign' of n
sometime Doctor Wiggling, in the
lively hope that if she ever had a
daughter she might perhaps meet a
Wiggling who was likewise a doctor and
it single man, nnd, marrying him, the
sign might come In handy. A similar
concatenation obtains as to The Musi
cal and Toping Lawyer to whom the
following lines are addressed. Though
in defense of tho truth of poetry who
is so bold as to deny thnt lawyers
nay, even judges have toped in hap
pier days? And if wo mu3t case tho
fiddle, assuredly many a lawyer has
fiddled his case.
77ie lawyer, fiddler, toper are
Each practiced at his several bar;
And for each one at heaven's gate
A "no admittance" sign awaits.
Xo tconder, then, that George, now
dead,
irio fiddled, reeled and likewise nlead.
at met a bar where there's no glass,
,,,,..., i.: -.,. .....
c can pass.
These lines might have been called
The Bar Sinister, only that title ulso
means something clc.
THE pathos of the following epitaph,
"To One Who Died Too Soon" as
most of us do should place it some
where In the neighborhood of "She
dwelt amoug untrodden ways" or any
thing else by Wordsworth or anybody
else:
She never told her love, because she had
no love to tell;
She never read in ie't deep book, be
cause she coulJn t spell;
She never knew a mother's love; you
see she did not tarry
Long enough in this sad world to have
a beau and marry.
THE Inst selcctiui from our cpl
taphlcr passes out, as the Inter
"poems" of all volumes of verso aro
sure to do, "Into the bejoml, the deep
significance of things." The theologi
cal question involved is a serious one
nnd will remind the biblical student of
the eye of tho camel nnd the difficulties
of the profiteer ever since tho days of
Hester and Ahasuerus. The solution
is so-simple that wc must claim here
onco more thnt it is always the poet
who scores. Thnt is about nil that he
ever does. Still It is something to score
in tho game of verse as in the game of
life. Our opituphister calls this
"poyem" The Reason Why:
John Thomas xcith a purpose deep,
Iiought whenever things uere cheap:
li'iici process made the angels weep.
After tha icays of profiteer,
John always sold uhen things were
dear:
And now you see him lying here.
Had John sold low, bought at high
price,
The angels would have thought him nice
And kept his precious soul on ice.
Hut John lies warm now, it appears;
for angels aro not financiers:
And that's the reason why, my dears.
If brevity be the soul of wit.
Here's the lungs, liver and lights of it.
EVEN our commentary is falling Into
epigram ; it is so difficult to write
prose nnd so easv to write epitaphs.
Wherefore, this last :
Here lies Jones; need tongue tell more
Or less "o tcaj a senator."
, We Unrn that a
FurIl , , 'W'fitttc to the third
Teter I'rlngle party convention in
. Chlgo, Peter Prln-
gle, of Santn Clara, Calif., wears a
purple linen suit, and the New York
Sun suggests that It wns probably dyed
in prune juice. The Sour Apple Tree
party ought to nominate him on a wet
tickot. And
If peoplo's party's Peter Prlngle proves
a pruno addict
They'll peck nt plums political by Peter
Prlngle picked.
l . ?lr Auckland Geddes
Let Us Swank is to bo the guest of
Bit Sir Thomas Llpton
., , .L during the interna-
tlonal yacht races. He will, of course,
be good sport enough to smile in the
Waco of defeat; Sir Thomas lonn Brn
SHORT CUTS
It is now one Broad street Instead
of two narrow ways.
Saint's without, so to speak, and
St. Swlthln, as it were.
The trouble, with the "safe nnd
sane" thing Is that it is too frequently
commonplace.
While the Elwell case still shows
activity, the Bergdoll chase appears to
do com ana acid.
Presumably the nrrest of fifteen
alleged drug addicts was made in the
local "coke" regions.
The way the ax is being, used to
split tho third party platform, the issue
at least ought to bo splinter now.
If the Forty-clghtcrs were Forty
niners they might amalgamate more
readily with tho rough West stuff.
Germany asks for thirty venrs in
which to pay reparations. We presume
she would object to doublo pay for over
time.
The League of Nations will more
surely arrest tho attention of tho entire
world when" all nations have felt an
economic pinch.
Whether it be on the front porch
or on the stump won't matter so long
as Senator Harding has something
worth while to say.
As we aro now satisfied that tho
candidates are good husbands and good
sons, we may proceed to consider the
issues oi tho campaign.
nugo Stlnnes appears to be the
Von Hlndenburg of the peace treaty.
He should remember what happened to
the old gentleman's "line."
A songless mosnulto has been dis
covered in Ocean county, N. J. If it
were a bitcless mosnulto it mlcbt
awaken our languid interest.
As representative of the party of
the third part, the nubile, the Mavor
is ignoring the squabbles of the P. R. T.
of the first part and of tho second part.
Tho railroad conductor who de
clared that the "vacationists" had the
government beaten to a frazzle has no
comprehension as to the size of the job.
Tho Mavor has signed a contract
for the supply of seventeen automobile
patrol wagons. The next stop will be
to get some light cars for tho chasing
of auto bandits.
The riot on the Tnrkwny yesterday
but emphasizes the fact that strikers
who show no respect for the law cannot
reasonably expect to havo the backing
of public opinion.
On the other hand, If the 6lanning
of mashers continues, it may develop
that no respectable marricd'man will be
safo in attending the movies unless lie
takes his wifo along for protection.
Wouldn't it be just liko a cranky
fate to bting it about that the customs
officials whoso duty it is to unseal ra
tions of booze on foreign vessels in the
harbor should bo water-wagon men?
Why doesn't the third party ndopt
as its platform the declaration, "We're
agin the Democratic platform and the
Republican platform," and let It go at
that? That gives room for nil the mal
contents and nobody else cares.
Seven prisoners, including n con
victed murderer, escaped from the
Buncombo county jail, says n dlspntch
from Ashcvlllc, N. C. The locution of
the Buncombe county jail is not men
tioned, but we suspect Hocus Pocus.
A delegate to the Democratic Na
tional Convention told the Missouri
Senate investigating committee that the
delegates traveled to San Francisco
just for the trip. They were voted
by the leaders who paid their expenses.
it is au oiu story ; it is the irauKncss
that is new.
A young man has been nrrested nt
Coney Islnud for splashing the don't-
go-nenr-tlio-watcr bathing suits of
several young women. Before he is
punished the court should take cogni
zance of the evident contributory neg
ligence of the girls. What wero they
doing in it place where it was posslblo
for them to bo splashed?
We have moro wheat than we have
cars for its transportation, but that
business men do not courldcr tho case
hopeless is evidenced by tho notification
from the Southwestern Millers' Asso
ciation that Philadelphia will bo tho
favored port of shipment Just as roou
as the necessary machinery is installed
on the piers. Director Sproule is pro
ceeding with the work to tho tune of
"The Jolly Miller."
What Do You Know?
QUIZ
1. How many Frcsldtnts of tho United
States used automobiles during
their terms of office?
2. Who were they?
3. Wher Is the city of Singapore?
i. Who was the last royal ruler of
Hawaii?
6. For how many years was N"apole6n
Bonaparte emperor of the French?
6. In what century was printing In
vented?
7. Who Is Sa.rolla.7
8. From what Is red pepper made?
0. What Is a cedilla?
10. Whnt Is tho capital of British
Columbia?
Answers to Yesterday's Quiz
1. Tho Hlo de a Plata Is a Rreut
estuary In South America formed
bv tho waters of the Uruguay river
nnd tho combined Paraguay and
Parana It flows between tho
Argentine Itepubllo and Uruguay,
and past the cities of Montevideo
nnu tjuAnon vires.
Its length Is
about 150 miles.
2. rtlo de la Plata means
Sliver."
"River of
3. Rosencrantz and Gutldenstern were
fawning, spylnsr courtiers in the
play of "Hamlet" They were sum
moned by Kins Claudius to Den
mark to discover, if possible, the
reason for Hamlet's alleged mad
ness. 4. Andrew Jackson In 1701 married
Baohael Richards, two years before
the dlvorco from her previous hus
band had been actually granted
Both tha future President anil his
bride mistook a legislative warrant
for a trial for the necessary decree.
6. The South American Jaguar Is rated
as tho fiercest of the wildcats of
the western hemisphere.
6. James Boswell's life of Dr. Samuel
Johnson Is generally acknowledged
us the greatest of all biographies.
7. Thlrty-one and a half gallons make
a barrel In liquid measure.
8. The Romans wrote MM for the num-
9. The first elevated railroad In Naw
York city was opened lit 1878.
10. The White House was orlrlnallv
patterned after theTpalace of the
Duke of Lelnster inIrelnnd. The
Pm&P t W ., Of
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LOW PAY DRIVES TEACHERS
INTO LOAN
Doctor Wilson Declares Situation Hero Is Forcing Them to
Work in Vacation or to Borrow at Usury
Many school teachers in this city have
fallen into the clutencs of loan sharks
in an endenvor to cl:e out their inade
quate salaries and make ends meet, de
clares Dr. Lucy L. W. Wilson, prin
cipal of tho South Philadelphia High
School for Girls.
Doctor Wilson, who is also president
of tho Philadelphia Teachers' Associa
tion and the Teachers' Allied Council,
says the slow progress being mado to
ward salary increnses is undermining
the moralo of the teaching force qf the
city.
"The teachers' are bitterly disap
pointed, of course, nt the delay in ob
taining increased salaries," she said.
"Lurgo numbers of them will be ob.incd
to borrow money, as well ns to work at
whatever they can get in the way of
temporary employment, for tb entire
summer. Evidently tho situation was
better understood by the lo.m sharks
than by citner the Board of Edurntiun
or by tho teachers. For, .luruu: May
nnd June, the schools were tloodcl with
their circulars, offering money to teach
ers, freely, but at very high rate of
interest. I am afraid that many teach
ers have been driven into their clutchc3.
Other Cities Lead This One
"It is no fault of the teachers that
they are now unable to financo them
selves. Owing to tho increased cost of
living most of them arc not now re
ceiving even n subsistence wage. When,
suddenly, they realized this, instead of
slacking, they carried on their work
whole-heartedly, with courage and with
skill.
"They were confident that our board
would do for them just what the Pitts
burgh board, operating under tho same
school code, had done for their teachers,
that Is, giving to each a flat increase
of over $400. Moreover, nearly every
week, they heard of other increases. I
have not anything like a complete list,
but all of tho following towns have not
only n larger minimum salurv than
Philadelphia, usually $1200 to $1500 vs.
our $020, but they have given large Hat
increases, from $250-$700, during 1020,
many of them promising additional in
creases for 1021 :
"Adrian, Mich.; Aberdeen, Wash.;
Albuquerque, N. M., and every other
littlo hamlet in this sparsely settled
state; Bayonnc, N. J. ; Berkeley, Calif. ;
Boise, Idaho; Boston. Mass.; Bridge
port, Conn. ; Butte, Mont. ; Cheyenne,
Wyo. ; Chicago, Cleveland, Columbus
and Dayton, O.; Durham, N. C. ; Dcs
Moines, la.; ntchburg. Mass.; Ho
boken, N. J.; Holland, Mich., Jackson,
Mich.; Lincoln, Neb.; Madison. Wis.;
Middleton, Conn., Montclalr, N. J.;
New Bedford, Mass, ; Newark, N. J. ;
New York; Newport News, Va. ; New
Bochelle, N. Y. : Ncwtonville, Mass. ;
Northampton, Mass. ; Omaha, Neb. ;
Oakland, Calif. ; Patcrson, N. J. ;
Portland, Ore. ; San Joso, Calif. ; Sioux
City, la. ; Springfiold, Mass. ; St. Louis,
Mo. ; Trinidad, Colo, ; Tucson, Ariz. ;
Tulsa, Okla. ; Wheeling, W. Va.;
White Plaius. N. Y. ; Wichita, Kan.;
Wilimantic, Conn.
"Just this liibt month Louisville, Ky.,
gave each teacher nn Increase of $.r00,
making tho minimum $1200; Maiden,
Mass., an additional $100, nnd Wnl
pole, Mass., an additional $300, mak
ing an increase or $uuu wis year.
Teachers Proved Heroism
"I know few things moro heroic than
the attitude of most of the teachers last
winter. Owing to tho recurrence of the
influenza, tho absonce of teachers was
appalling. There wero very few sub
stitutes of any kind. Many of the
teachers, however, who were able to
keep on their feet were willing to help
out, to the breaking point, by taking
charge of extra classes and children.
"Tho public, in consequence, novcr
really realized how great was the actual
shortage of teachers, and a minimum
number of children wero on the streets.
These results were secured at a heavy
cost.
"Who paid the bill? The children,
of course, and, to a smaller extent, the
teachers.
"If it were desirable, would it be
possible to continue these makeshift
policies another year? I am afraid
not. The constant struggle of last year,
the almost microscopic Balary increases,
so, far as the mass of tho teachers waa
concerned, granted last March: the
tragic disappointments of June and July
have undermined not only the nhyalcal
strength of the teachers, but a'so their
mqinle. Rightly or wrongly, Ahoy feel
iiB, iwgiuijr ur wrongiy, xnoy icei
CATCH IP CATCH CAN-
-. :T iSr?ixs
gserss'ss
vr2piAo
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-ta
- SHARK HANDS
of vision of those who have the power
to help.
"The teachers had been greatly en
couraged by tho unselfish devotion and
the intelligent work of the citizens'
committee. Their wonderful co-operation
has been tho one high light iu the
picture.
"The teachers wero full of hone until
the Board of Education felt obliged to
ask the opinion of counsel as to tho
legality of anticipating the loan. Then
they began to despair. They felt that
the same courage tbat the board had
shown, in spite of the protest of Doctor
Martin, in disregarding the actual law
in reference to medical inspection, might
have been exhibited on the purely tech
nical point involved in becuriug tho
money for salary increases.
State Makes Bad Impression
"The effect on the teachers is of small
importance in comparison with the effect
en the schools.
"Docs tho general public n,fter nil
tho people most concerned realize why
our schools rank bo low among the pub
lic school systems of thp United States?
"Today, so far as education Is con
cerned, Pennsylvania stands, not firBt
among tho forty-eight, but twenty-first,
nnd, what is worse, Is on tho downward
path. It is not the lack of money that
Is tho root of tho evil, for Pennsylvania
is tho richest state in the Union. But
she does not think well enough of edu
cation to puy for it.
"Let us hope that the increase that
tho Board of Education expects to grant
in September will bo adequate; that tho J
teachers win nave taith in its coming,
in spite of their present disappoint
ment; that u miracle may tako placo
and that our fiuo young teachers may
return to us next year, vigorous, enger
in a word, worthy of tho children
nnd of the great work of educating
them.
"What Is the Teachers Association
going to do about it? Why, keep right
on, of course. Wo did not enter into
tliis campaign for any group of teach
ers. Wo went into it to bavo the
schools, and they are very far from
salvation yet."
AGREE TO AVOID ANY
FRICTION WITH JAPAN
Congressional Committee Seeks
Amicable Solution of Cali
fornia's Problem
Sacramento, Cal., July 15. (By A.
P.) Tho town of Florin, a nearby
community peopled almost entirely by
Japanese, today was the sceno of the
congressional committee's study of the
Japanese problem in California. Tho
outstanding development today in the
investigation was tho agreement iimong
members of tho committee thnt a tolu
tlon of California's problem must be
found which would avoid friction with
Japan.
This agreement was announced bv
members of tho committee nt a dinner
last nigur, icnucreu governor Stephens
EITH'S
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HENRI SCOTT
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EVENINGS T t. O
HAROLD BELL WRIOin"8 .
NEXT WEEK MAHJOniU RAMUEAU "i ,
"THE FORTUNB TELLER" AU '"
THE JANE P. O. MILLER
nAWnXfr CONSERVATORY
PANUN6 sektow.
I private leshonb daily
, m .
by Chairman Albert Johnson. At the
committee sessions yesterday various
witnesses suggested remedies for curb
ing the Japancso population in Cali
fornia. Closer supervision of the California-Mexican
border and closer
restrictions on immigration wero among
the measures suggested.
A -trip down the San Joaquin river
from Stockton, to visit the farm of
George Sbima, Japaneso "potato king,"
was planned by tho committee for this
afternoon. It was announced that part
of tho committee would make a trip to
Placer county Monday to investigate
agricultural conditions. Witnesses testi
fied that 17,000 of the 10,000 acres of
irrigated land In the county were under
control of Japanese.
Five million acres of agricultural
land aro lying idle in Japan, H. Stan
ley Benedict, of the state board of con
trol, told the committee.
With all this land Idle, Mr. Bene
dict said, Japan should not plead that
necessity existed for an American out
let for surplus population.
Toltlo, July VS. (By A. P.) The
foreign offlco has issued tho following
statement:
"According to a press report from
San Francisco the news that fifty pic
ture brides were due to arrive in San
Francisco July 10 seems to havo been
received with surpriso, in view of the
recent engagement of the Japanese Gov
ernment. The engagement referred to
in the report, however, was not for
prohibiting tho departure of so-called
picturo brides after the end of Feb
ruary, but for stopping issuance of
passports for that purposo after that
date. Tho passports, onco issued, me
for six months.
EUGENIE'S FUNERAL SIMPLE
Request of Former Empress for Cer
emony Devoid of Pomp Is Heeded
Madrid, July 15. The body of ex
Empress Eugenie, lying in 6tate in the
castle of tho Duke of Alba, is clothed
in tho iiabit of tho Carmelite order.
A sliver crucifix lies on her breast.
Eugenic, long before iier death, ex
pressed a desire that her funeral be
conducted with the greatest simplicity
and that her body be buried beside that
of her husband, Napoleon III, in the
chapel built by her at Farnborough,
England.
Markrt St. ab. lth. II A. M. to II P. It
iiAUJWCJS TOURNEUR Present!
TREASURE ISLAND
9i!.,d.iren's . Pi'4? Contest CASH PRIZES
A&onHAROLD LLOYD &,
v, ''HIOH AND DIZZY"
I!Jtt .TKe.k:C0NSTANCE TALMADGE
In "LV SEARCH OP A SINNER"
AT BOTH THESE THEATRES
PALACEIARCADIA
WALLACE R&D bebe
URn "SICK-A-BED"
ADDED SIR ERNEST SHACKELTON'fl
TRIP TO THE SOUTH POLE
VICTORIA KWW
"THE SEA WOLF" ,, JM,
HAROLD LLOYD '
Next Week Wm. Fmum In "The Orphan"
C A PITTM 7- MAnKET sirekt
K,i-ri I WlElainoHammerstein
"SHADOW OF ROSALIE BYRNES"
RFPPMT MARKET ST. Bel. 1ITH
iXEAjEwlN 1 ETHEL CLAYTON
In "Ladder of Lies"
CW ORP MARKET STREET
,Vj1.WLjIj at ju.vipnn
11 A M. to II P. M.
. CONTINUOUS VAUDEVILLE
West Philadelphia High School Orchestra
CROSS KEYS fl0T MARKET STB.
"VJJ " J aao. SUB and 0 P. M.
REX COMEDY CIRCUS
BROADWAY Dr.oad Bnydor Ave.
M.
HAZEL GREEN AKTt f!ftmXtT
Ethel Clayton In "A Lady In Love" ,
ACHILDFORSALE
On account of the lllgh Cost of Liv
ing. A beautiful, four-year-old girl will
be offered for sale In one of the leading
theatres.
Watch for announcement of date and
terms of sale.
WILLOW GROVE PARK
CREATORE AJ BAND
Wonderful Concert Every Aft, end Ev
Saturday. July IT, at lino Pt M, , , .
FumottM Men and ,Wom"i Champion Pivlmiaenl i n
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