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Homes to, accommodate the popula tion. .v THE CASE OF SCHMIDT TS THEUK below the lid upou which ) Mayor Moore nml Director Cortcl yfau have promised to lt tiuhtly nny- tt thing that would fully explain tho ftcandal tnat beRan when .ir. senmiuc, f Sears, Roebuck & Co.. charged that somebody at City Hall tried to sell hlra.' trolley privileges on the Roosevelt boulevard for $L",000? Mr. Cox, chair Tnap of the committee appointed by City Council to investigate the graft report, intimated broadly yesterday that there is. And It in clear that Mr. Schmidt himself is not ovcreager to re turn, to Philadelphia nnd provide the evidence for which all decent people bare been waiting. T,o l,1rt.tin crlinmo rntt nptnnllv !& formulated by some one in or near City i 1 HallJit was frustrated. It collapsed "l lararelv hernrlKp of the. niilrl; nctlnn of 'the '.Mayor. Mr. Moore and his ad iers ,may feel that no good can be done' by pressing a dead issue. Rut is the issue dead? If large-scale graft was tried once it will be tried again. Schmidt ought to return nnd tell what ho knows. If he doesn't return volun tarily he ought to be subjected to pressure.- , LARCE LJNDERTAKING G' OVERNOR COX Is nothing if not ?self-confidcnt. He has announced p that ' his campaign for the presidency $ ".will be dedicated to the task of bring w x, ing'.about peace with honor, of readjust v, Ingxthe affairs of civilization and of '.'j creating a new day out of which we win maKCiine Desc 01 inc lessons 01 iuc past.'-' ' ' The desirability of accomplishing these results will bo admitted by every one.- Let us look at them in reverse order, That men should profit by the teachings of experience has hcen im pressed upon them by social and po litical philosophers from the moment that the gate of the Garden of Eden wasishut upon Adam and his too per suasive Bpouse. But generation after ( l' generation makes the same blunders. The. readjustment of the affairs of civilization is u loose phrase, but if it means, anything it means that Governor Cox will devote himself to curing the If1 i1.Ia1. nffltn. l.n 11-A.l.l l.llnif And the attainment of peace with V honor is equally indefinite. Every na- 3 t tion that has been defeated has desired 5 it and every victorious nation has ns- sumrd that It has uttalncd it. The f candidate does not explain what he w means.by "honor." ? But of what use is it to disruss such outgivings? They mean absolutely s ' nothing. They are the kliid of rhetoric a man indulges in when his mind (eases to act and he begins to indulge in high- ' sounding words to tickle the ears of the groundlings, A PROMISE TO BE KEPT 'A LIi three of tho experts appointed to consider the best way to clean the streets and remove waste of various kinds agrco that the streets should be cleaned by the city lteolf and not by contractors, beginning on January 1. Two agreed that tho rubbish and ashes should be collected by the city, and all t K agreed that the garbage also should be t v collected by the city if menus could be found for disposing of it properly. One recommended that the collection of ashes and rubbish by the city thould be - postponed for a year. The only unconditional unanimous recommendation is for a municipal street-cleaning plant. The difference of opinion, however, is not on the wis dora of doing all the work under the control of city olBeers, but on the prac ticability of doing it nil ho soon. The report ns a whole is an honest exposition of the subject. It summar izes the reasons for and ugalnst the present system and the proposed system. and concludes that the baluncc leads to the conclusion that a change is dc eirable, AVUen tho people elected Mayor Moore they'i voted for a change. They had decided on their own account that they luid'had enough of the old way. The ' Maj'or' cannot continue the contract system without hieuking the promises he made in his campaign. It is assumed ' that after tho begiunlug of the year city employes will be cleaning the streets unditbat they will be cleaned. ECHOES TT- j tjio supreme tragedy of tho Ger- mfjn people mat me inin$s uone in Ar jiame ami wun meir ncjp aurmg but years ere so various anu be as to leave almost every - woHfJ reminders that con- c vbeo they tM wuc && at expected, quite as. the lifebelt from the Lusltanla appfarcd in the Delaware river yesterday to orrcst and disturb thought like n sudden touch on the arm or ncryjn darkness. The deatj of the Lusltanla nrc being forgotten. The mists of years are upon the record of an act of cruelty that was more than savage. Yet the bit of canvas picked up in the river is like a whisper out of the deeps to revive tho memory of It all. So it will he for generations. For Its own snkc the world may try to forget many things about tho great war. It will find forgetting difficult. Unques tionably the Gcrmaui arc suffering. Many of their children nrc desolate for the want of things that can be supplied only if Germany can retain some of the coal that the Allies arc demanding. Rut why Is coal scarce in Europe? lie cause Gorman armies wrecked nnd ruined the great mines of France. The first poison gas sent in to flood trenches filled with defenseless Eng lishmen and Scotchmen, the first bombs over peaceful cities, have left thoughts in the mind of civilization that will con tlnue to como to the surface nnd stny there, like the Lusltanla's lifebelt nnd like a challenge t-cnt out of the past to make pity or forbearance difficult or Impossible. PARK JOYS ARE STILL IMPERFECTLY REALIZED Falrmount Is Fair and the City's Pride, but the Latest Proposals Show How Some of Its As sets Are Overlooked AS A "typical citizen," the I'hllndel phian is ostensibly a humble crea ture. Moreover, in his eyes boastful ncss is an especial mark of crudity, and his aversion thereto is n source of not n little secret satisfaction, enabling him to smile condescendingly when the I.oh Angeles man cries "Climate!" the New Orleonslte, "Cookery 1" the Ros tonian, "Culture!" and the New Yorker, "Wealth!" Above the fret nnd stir of pompous propaganda, blatant boosting nnd ng gressive advertising tho (typical Phila delphia!! dwells sophisticated, serene or, as the critic would say. "slow." Occasionally from within the com fortable fold some heretic will arise to cry shnme and to bewail the lack of showy civic pride. If these rash re provers were subtle, which they sel dom are, they could attack a civic nerve so tender thnt the lightest pressure thereon would fire the whole populace to crow with the rapture of a California land agent: Say, it you must, the town Is dead, Rut Falrmount Park Is still ahead 1 That is about the way most of us feel about it. And our emotions on that theme constitute the significant weakness, (or should It he called strength?) in our nlleged nrmor of in difference to outsido depreciation of our eminence nnd distinction in so many fields of endeavor. The Park Is In n sense a kindof compensating symbol. It is by far tile largest uivlc playground In America, richly endowed by nature, adorned more or less by art, hallowed with fascinating legendry and historic as sociations. There is full warrant for prizing it. Rut there is justification also in examining its possibilities and reaching the conclusion that by no means nil of them nre realized. It is with some such thought in kind that the Falrmount Park Commis sion Is considering an elaborate program of Park improvement The conception is at first n trifle startling. The typical Philadelphian, with all his solid pride In the great playground, will have to accustom himself to the Idea that the Park Is imperfect nnd perhaps not even the factor in civic recreation that ho fancies it. Thousands, of course, flock to its lovely swards, its glades and dells. Pleasure seekers throng its river nnd its admirable roads. Rut this patron age, though spectacular and impressive, has its temperamental limitations. The scene is nnlmated, nnd yet eien on the fairest summer days it is questionable whether that delicious note of ga'ycty, ns distinguished from vigorous bustle, which characterizes some pleasure areas elsewhere, especially abroad, is really pervasively present. It is not, of course, to be expected, or perhaps even deMred, that Americans should disport themselves as Latins. Tho carnival spirit Is elusive. In genuously imbibed, it Is delightful. Shadowed with the slightest helf-con-sciousncjs, it provides a saddeuing spectacle. There Is, however, a pro fusion of nsets in Falrmount Park which, if properly developed, would not only swell hut vary the attractions of the place. At the recent meeting of the Park Commission it vas suggested that a bathing bench should be established on some portion of the shores of the Schujlkill. The project has already enlisted the warm Interest of Mayor Moore, nnd Director Sproule has been asked to Investigate the practicability of the plan und its cost. Approval has also been given to in quiry into the purchase of a dredge to rid the river of the ever-increasing mud flats, nnd nlso to the proposal to install a lino of horse-drawn public busses to ply along the upper reaches of the Wissahickon, closed to motorcars. These projects appear so eminently desirable and so comparatively easy of execution thnt it is to be wondered why they were not carried out long ngo. Perhaps if we were less vainglorious of Falrmount, less confidently aware of Its abiding merits, the reforms would have been less tardy. The bus line is particularly cngnging. The scenery of upper Wissahickon la of its kind incomparable. Thousands of Philadelphlans, especially those who are auto owners, arc totally unac quainted with its charm, the character of which moved even the usually im passive Karl Raedeker to call the ravine "n miniature Alpine gorge of bingular loveliness to bo included within the limits of a city." The proposed vehicles at least could be made to impart something of the carnival flavor, Ihey should be gayly painted, designed with art as veil as efficiency in mind, and suggestive not simply of trnnsportntlon but of relief from the worldlinfss und hnrd sophis tication of the nearby city In a word, of an unaffected good time. That they would he patronized ad mits of no doubt. The Park trolley has 6erved its purpose excellently. Rut that was only a beginning in tho neces sary improvements in transit facilities through the playground. The beach plan, as has been said, need not seriously trouble those Phila delphlans who nre supplied with Schuylkill drlnklug water. Perhaps the best locptiou for the bathing ground would be on the. east bank well below uq Belmont pumping-' rtatloiu 3Vith ' ff EVENING PtfBEfC (tlEDGEK-?HIi;ADEIiPHIA clean swimming holes and transporta tion to the neglected valley of the Wis sahickon, a region in which not only natural beauty but tradition und his tory nro mystically blended, a good start toward "emancipating" Fair mount will have been made. Rut these projects by no means ex haust n possible list. The commission has approved the site of n stadium to I be erected ns n victory memorial to the soldieis, xniiors.nnd marines of Phila delphia who participated In the war. That the structure should bo artistic and Impressive would seem to go with out saying. And yet In view of some of the ntrocltles In stone, notoriously the Columbus monument nnd the latest I'nloti soldier inelnorlnl on Rclmout nvenue, which disfigure tho Park, per haps the triteness of the warning Is ex cusable. The Washington monument at the Green street entrance will servo, for It possesses, for all its obvious Tentouism, it kind of conventional dig nity. Happily, ns a decorative feature It will, In its environment, bo subordi nate to the linndsomo art museum on the reservoir acropolis. Even the most exquisite nrt, how ever, will not emancipate and nllur ingly humanize the Park. unless the adaptability of its resources to .the mul titude Is primarily considered? There is need for a innrked Increase in good restaurants, responsive In accommoda tions nnd appearance to the holiday mood. Paris with her blithe Rols enn give us lessons there, cv6n if exnet imitation of the French recreative tem per Is impossible. In fact, the Park can bo bettered In such n diversity of ways thnt tho last stronghold of local pride might scorn In danger of tottering. Rut that conceit Is truly imaginary. It will novcr be renlizcd until Philndelphlnns surrender nltogetlier the slgnnl glory of Fair mount appreciation. HOW STANDPATS ARE MADE THE conspicuous feature of the third party convention nt Chicago was tho snub to the rnnk ami file of the dele gates of the so-called Intellectual lead ers of liberal propaganda. Yet the writers and the bolters from other par ties who were jostled into tho back ground nnd finally Inst in the melee of debate represent mi impnitnnt element without which no political movement ever got anywhere but on the rocks. A great many of the men who hnve been most violently attacking the older fashioned polltlcnl party nnd whooping it up for the radicals were guided for' the most pnrt by theory before they Went to Chicago. It was in the third party convention thnt they hnd their first intimnte contacts with the insur gent proletarians who-ie muse they made their own. If thej-c herald of tho new duwn nro returning dned nnd dis illusioned from the convention, it is only because they had to grapple with nc tualltles for the first time They have had the training nnd experience neces sary for leadership nnd the ability to bring to the cause of liberal politics the endless power of tho written word. Naturally, they hoped for a declara tion of beliefs nt Chicngo which would not run counter to the mass opinion of the country. Instead, they were asked to support n plntfnrm made up of odds nnd ends of the sort of patter that hns bubbled for jcars from amateur propagandists of n formless sooialWm. "Power," says the third party plat form, "should be returned to the peo ple!" Who is toN return It? Who wields the power now? Ry what method other than the ballot can people control their government nnd make it representative of their will and their hopes? The dominant cliques nt the recent Chicago convention would lmo credited the farmers or the rudicnl labor unions with nil earthly wisdom nnd granted them more or less exclusive lights to dictate and govern. If the farmers nnd the unions nlone are "the people." how nre the rest of tho folk in the United States to be classified nnd defined Even n superficial study of political evolution in this country shows that numberless men who enter public life ns sincere reformers and liberals end by becoming conservative or even re actionary and illiberal. The men and women who, solely because of their convictions and a conscientious impuNe, turned from easier tasks to tight bv the ,side of Ia'i"r radicals have had n glimpo of forces that frequently enough make standpatters of men who would far rather be something else. They hnve seen unreason, selfishness nnd ngffies mvo ignorance dominant in a place whero logic nnd sincerity should lime ruled. They were made to feel helpless, forlorn and foolNh. Will they, ton, go sorrowfully and for self-defense into the ranks of the stntidpats? REED IS RIGHT SENATOR REED, of Missouri, usu ally so tragically wrong, is alto gether right. when he says- that "the demagogue is n political profiteer." The demagogue resorts to every con ceivable tru k and subterfuge in order to win office nnd power, nnd is ns con temptible as the businiss nun who charges exorbitant prices merely be cause he can. The possibility thnt the senator may have been looking in n mirror when he sought a picture of n demagogue does not affect the uccuracy of his descrip tion. The rnilronds have IW Them admitted that they Make (,ood havo not furnished enrs enough to meet the needs of the coal industry. Having owned up to dereliction, It is now up to them to make amends. There aie nrj'nittcdly fewer freight enrs than nre cecesinry. The present problem is to ill! those available to more than the present 70 per cent of their capacity ; to speed up their nverago of less than twenty -live miles n day; to arrange for tho fewest possible runs of empties nil problems of railroad management with which, we havo been told land have no reason to doubt, despite present trou bles I, private ownership nnd manage ment is better able to cope than Gov ernment ownership nnd management. John Patterson, a Where Nomencla- prisoner, through C. ture Patters On Stuart Patterson, his attorney, has ob tained from Judge John M. Patterson a writ of habeas corpus requiring Wil liam Patterson, superintendent of the House of Correction, to show why lie holds John Patterson in cu-totly. Re fore the enso is over we maj hope to discover who struck Hilly Patterson. Hangmen in Ger- Tying Up many havo gono on Neclitlo (Socials striko tor higher wnges. Murderers nwaltlng execution won't enro if the trouble is never settled. It gives us joy to discover one little hit of harmony in, the third party convention. " ChriateuBCn's initials are as alike as two L"b. RADICALS' NOVEL PLAN Will Name Electors, Who, If Suc cessful at Polls, Will Select Executive From Se lected List Ry CLINTON W. GILBERT CnpyrloM, lUiO. hv l'ublle Ledotr Co. rhlrnirn. .Inlv in. lliifllev Field. Mn lone had the unusual experience of thinking he was a candidal lor tne presidency nnd then finding thnt ho was not. lie had been selected by the La bor party machine. At midnight he was slated for nomlnntiou. Two hours later, Christenscn, who had previously withdrawn, was chosen ns the Farmer-Laborer cnndldntc. Malonc was walling somewhere nenr to come In nnd pinko a speech neceptlng the nomination. He came at the appointed time when the last ballot was over and walked down the nlsle hnlf-way to the platform Intending to tnko It and tell the delegntcs how much ho appreci ated the honor which the convention hnd done him when some one stopped him nnd told him that Christenscn had been chosen. For some reason the Lnhor party ma chine hnd changed Its view. Mnlone turned white nnd wilted. At an earlier session of the Labor party convention Mr. Mnlone told this story : "There was a gentlemnn In the South who had n negro driver wonder fully expert with tho whip. The negro had n whip with a long lash which he could twirl obout his head and lnntl exactly upon any spot ho chose. Ills employer while being driven nlong the road one time said to him. 'Sam, there is n maple lent on tho end of thnt branch there. Let me see you flick it off.' Sam flashed the whip through the nlr nnd with end of the lnsh clipped off the leaf indientcd. As they went along tho road the master said again, 'Sam. see thnt horsefly on the fence there. Let me see you kill him with your lash.' Sam swung his whip once more and landed the end of the lnh upon the fly. A little fur ther down the, road tho gentleman saw a hornets' nest hnnging from a branch of a tree nnd ho snld, 'Sam, let me sec jou cut down thnt horucts nest with your lnsh.' Same pulled up the team nnd took n look nt tho nest, shook his bend and said, 'No. sir. A maple leaf am n uinple leaf, n hossfly nm a hossfly, but n hornets' nest nm nu organiza tion. The, Committee of Forty-eight found out the Labor party was an or ganization, which the Forty-eight was not." Their Happy Thought The uidicnls hnd n happy thought nfter their convention was nil over. They could not nominate rtiny one man who might win the presidency, so why not nominate every radical who hnd strencth in the country and carry one SJ!" 0n'?'?Vl'!,t,,0"Cn",,lnUOilC plan whuld be to put n ticket of electors who, if chosen, would select n President from the following list: Uobert M. i.n Follcttc, William .) Rrynn, Hiram ' Johnson, Tom Watson, Jnnc Addams C. A. Townley, Herbert Rlgelow, Wil liam E. Rnruli nnd half n dozen other persons. Thus they might get all the support which belonged to each of these persons. And then when the electoral college met the electors might pick out whichever one on the list they chose. They viould be perfectly legal nnd con stitutional, in fact, it would be a re turn to the ancient system which pre vailed in this country nt the beginning of its history. (ibsou unrdner had this nanny idea of n way to heat the present Hjstem of Earty government. 1estcr Harlow, ead of tho World War Veterans, has accepted it, and he is going to call a convention in three weeks, which he will invite every organization in the country with n candidate for President tn oMnnil Tin ivllt lluf lli.m nil nml , then nut "electors In the field nlcdccd To choose some one of them for the nresideucv. If n mnioritv of the electors could not agree upou any candi date, then the election would go into the House of Representatives. The failure of the Third party to organize here shows that the strength of the various movements in the country out side the great parties cannot bo united. This would be n way of delivering it all to one set ot electors. hat would '"Plen' After that nobody can bay. Mrs. Garland's Jewels The Lnhor pnrty saw mare money at this joint convention which it held with the Committee of Forty-eight than it eicr saw nt nnv lonventlon in which it participated before. Perhaps it got some of it permanently. Mrs. Garland, who was chosen uce chnirman of the joint convention, iippuiciitly chose to enht her lot with the Labor party, un like most of the other persons of her class. Mrs. Garland comes from Euz zards Ray, Mass., nnd neeording to reports, is the possessor of S10,000,000. For her other possesions, her greatest jewels, there is ample authority, her own. She told about her chil dren nnd whnt u model mother she was every time she made a speech. She Is the mother of si children and she has adopted eight more. These fourteen children are buug reared In a perfect manner, winch, us this is not n column of home hints, will not be here described. Rut nnv one desiring to ndil eight adopted c Inldren to his or her own six may profitably consult Mrs. Garland and obtain the fullest particulars. In ndditiou to her four teen children she hns imw ndopted the Labor party, probably ninth to its sat isfaction, if she grows tired of the lat'fst addition to her family tho La bontes at It ast can bna-t that once in a convention in Carmen's Hull there sat upon the platform a woman wearing French hand-made Untlies and a rope of pearls. The Dec in Church THE nestling church nt Ovingdean Was frngrnnt ns n hive in May ; And there wns uobmlv within To preach, or pinti-e, or prny. The sunlight slanted through the door, And through the panes of painted glass, When I stole in, nlone, once more To feel the ages pass. Then, through the dim gray hush there droned An echoing plain-song on the air, As if some ghostly priest intoned An old Gregorian there. Saint Chrysostom could never lend More honey to the Heavenly Spring Than seemed to murmur and ascend "" On that invisible wing. , So small he was, I srarco could see My girdled brown blorophant; But only a Franciscan bee lu such a bass could chant. His golden Latin mlled and boomed, It swnjed the nitnr-flowcrs anew, Till nil that lihe of worship bloomed With dreams of uu and dew. Ah, sweet Finncisrnn of tho May, Dear Chaplain of the fairy queen, You sent n singing heart awny That day. from Ovingdean. Alfred Noycs, in McClure's. It Is n long, lone lesson, hut at I last it really begins to appear that iGermuny will learn tho meaning of the 1 ,winl t'Mncf !' Striking German linnimnn wnulrl feel cheap if the Reichstag should .'abol- ijh'tb death penalty. ' a- Vw - FEID"AY, - SHORTCUTS Having beenlvon rope enough, the third party hns hanged itself. St. Swithln yesterday definitely placed himself in the wet column. The prlco of neckties has gone up in Germany. Tho hangmen nre on strike. It is apparently the confirmed be lief of A. B. Schmidt that he talked too much. As a signer Germany Is gaining ex perience, but is still a most unwilling worker. Bread Is to bo sold bv the ounce in Pittsburgh. Cheer up. That's the way we'll bo buying coal somj of these days. St. Swithln saw to it that the yacht racers had n wet sheet and a flowing sea nnd a wind that followed fast. It may bo that Mr. Cox 'has a vision of himself marching to tho White House to tho tune of "Coming Through the Rye." Republicans ns well ns Democrats join in tho wish thnt the President will make n speedy recovery. Though every year proves It a He, we shall continue to believe that bo cnttso it rained yesterday it will rain daily for forty days. The barnacle - covered life - belt marked Lusltanla tiickod un in the Delaware yesterday should bo shipped to Spa as an aid to the deliberations there. Add Horrors of War. Music has now n dcflnlto placo in tho United States army and n definite nrnzram hns been arranged so that soldiers may be tuugui. io sing. - Thcrct is a dlnlomnt In Trenton. Mo., whoso attainments deserve a larger field. Ho was n member of n 'Fourth of July committee which offered a prize mr "tno prettiest baby buggy with baby." When Connellsvlllc officers sought to place smallnox nntlentn In the Mu nicipal Hospital they found that the building had been stolen, all that re mnlne of It being n few boards. Can fuel be sb scarce in the coke regions? The trouble with evecso mnnv no- litlcal economists Is thnt they seem to think thnt it is absolutely necessary thnt reparations should be sufficiently low to cnablo Germany to have a good "hile 'b making pa5 meats, The Saxon minister of finance is planning the issunncc of monev made ol """vien cuina. in view of the char- in ivi ui inu lyuucy issued lurougiioiu Germany during the last few years we take it tho plan is one of conservation ns a result of the paper shortage. "As to corsets," remarks a con temporary after ably defending ciga rettes, " well, they may leave that to the ladies." We sincerely trust so. A tunu may still worry alone with n belt unless he is a pronounced pessi mist anu insists upon wearing suspend ers iuto the bargain. Lehigh county this year so far hns issued 830 mnrringo licenses, I(B2 more thnn during the same period Inst year. It is untrue, however, that the marriage license cierK was guilty of the asser tion, "Marriages como Lehigh, but we must have 'em." The trip of the four army airplanes from MIneola, N. Y., to Nome, Alaska, and return, a distance of 0000 miles, has important commercial and military possibilities, for the aviators will take photographs of the territory traversed in tho Far North ; but it is as a sport ing event most people view It while wishing the travelers the best of luck. Mrs. Margaret Hill McCarter, Topeka, Kan., authoress and Repub lican lender, has passed up her right to vote rather than give her age to the election officers. Therein Bhe is exer cising her proud privilege. Rut Mrs. McCarter is complaining about it nnd proposes to make it "a test case." And therein she is unreasonable. Every "right" gained means u "privilege" lost. New York, is to have a $-io0,000 apartment equipped with space-eliminating appliances including disappear ing beds. What is a bed at night, may be an oil painting, a rug or u towel rack in the daytime. It is confidently expected thnt with the aid of this won derful device, by first placing the kitchen table in the bathtub with the clothes closet and the canary, and by putting the folding dining room table on top of the plnno with the rubber plant nnn tne laniuy wnsn, a man may, by standing on n chair in the direct center of n, room, if he bends his back sufficiently to avoid bumping the chan delier with his head, actually find room enough in which to swing a cat. But, on the other hand, who in the name of common sense wants to swing a cat? What Do You Know? QUIZ 1. How did Graham bread get its name? 2. When did the Liberty Bell crack? 3. Which is th older religion, Bud- dnhlsm or Brahminism? 4. How long nan tno America's cup been in American nanaa 6. What is n swingle? 6. What is the meaning of the Latin phrase "ultra, vlreB"? 7. Name two American Presidents who married during their term of offlce? 8. Wiat Is the origin of tho word um pire? 0. Why was Joan of Arc called the Maid of Orleans? 10. "What waa Mark Twain's native state? Answers to Yesterday's Quiz 1. Four Presidents of tho United States used automobiles during their terms of offlce. 2. They were McKlnley, Roosevelt, Taft and Wilson. t 3. The city of Singnpore Is on an Island of the same name south of the southern extremity of the Malay Peninsula In the East Indies. It belongs to the British colony of the Birnua oeuiemenifl. t. Queen Lailuokalnnl was the last royal ruler or itawaii. 5. Napoleon uonnpnrie was emperor of the French for ten years, from 1801 to 1SH, nnd niraln for the "Hundrod Days" In the spring of is Hi. 6. Printing was Invented In Europe In tno iiueeiuu century, aitnougn long previously known In China. 7, Joaquin Sorrolla y BoatlCa la the acknowledged head of tho modern Spanish school of painting. lie was born In Valencia In 1863. 8. Red pepper Is made from capsicum, a tropical plant, with hot capsules and seeds. 0, A cedilla Ib a mark, written like a comma under ft "o" to Bhow that It takes the hissing sound ot. "s" jl 1 " m Jta, Victoria on Vancouver -JsUnd Is tho capital u.M iimw! : r.YWf TOOT 'JL6, I92r V' A BIRD THAt CAN SING AND WON'T SING- . IW T rt -'.TiStttaZ""!-... 'TttJ... . . , !-- ,. 'fr- NEEDS OF COUNTRY DEMAND COAL FOR NEW ENGLAND Unless Relief Is Given Unemployment Will Result, With Factories Running Half-Time, Says Official Report to Governors A committee composed of the lieuten ant governors, state fuel administrators and other officials of Massachusetts, Connecticut, Maine, Ithode Island, Xcw Hampshire and Vermont has just pre sented a report to the governors of these states concerning the present fuel ciisli in New England. As conditions thcro have a strong resemblance to conditions elsewhere and have, moreover,, a direct bearing on the trade of the entire coun try, the following excerpts toll! be found of interest. WE WISH to inform your excellen cies in nil earnestness thnt unless the New England stntcs can obtnln quick and effective relief from the In terstate Commerce Commission or by executive nction of the President to overcome the present traffic congestion our six states will be face to face with the worst steam-coal crisis in their history. New England must hnve 25,000,000 tons of bituminous coal to burn during tho coal year April 1, 1020. to April 1, 1021-sxThis Is nn extremely Nconser"va tlvo figure and assumes a winter with out abnormal cold. In the calendar year of 1017 we received 23,COO,000 tons. Wo cleaned out all our reserves before the end of the whiter and were in distress, with many shutdowns. We encountered the utmost nnxiety in keep ing hospitals warm, public utilities going and our railroads open. In the calendar year of 1018 we received 27, 100,000 tons, encountered the mildest winter In many years nnd nn unex pected let-down in manufacturing due to the sudden ending of the war, and found we had 1,000,000 or pcrhapu 1,500,0000 more tons of coal on hand thnn wo needed to go through the winter. Twenty-five million tons is a low es timate, especially in the present condi tion of our reserves, nnd may perhaps bo criticized as nOO.OOO or 1,000,000 tons too low for safety. W E CANNOT give tho figures for 1010. because there existed no Federal Fuel Administration and the figures nrc not available. Now, how is the coal running to us during the first qunrtcr of the present coal year beginning April 1. 1020? We give the figures ,Wc nre certain they nro accurate, nt least within a trifling and unimportant variation. Coal received in New England, April 1, .1020, to July 1, 1020: All rail - 2,400,000 Tidewater via New York, Philadelphia and Baltimore 823,000 Tidewater via Hampton Roads l.'izo.uuu Total , - 4,050,(100 This shows that during three of the warm months most favorable to move ment by land nnd sea wot hnve been re ceiving conl at the rati of only 18,- (300,000 tons per annum. This shortage ot o.iuu.uuo tons jvill only permit tho New England factories to run next winter on half time. We must keep our railroads open, our pub lic utilities going, our water works and sewage pumping stations running, nnd theso and borne other minor essential services require the consumption of 12,600,000 tons out of tho necessary total of 25,000.000, leaving the short age of 0,400,000 tons to bo borne wholly by our manufacturing establish ments, or only enough fuel to keep them going on half time, probably beginning with the early fall, when our present limited reserves will play out and the period of greater consumption arrives. Tho present fuel crisis In this coun try is a transportation problem aud nothing else. Tn annlylng to the Interstate Com. merco Commission on June 17 for re lief, as directed by you, vje kept con ditions in other parta of the country vividly before ua, and asked the com mission to put Into effect , an order which wo nro positive will work a ben efit not merely 'to New England but to all sections of the country cast of tho Mississippi river. We asked the Interstate Commerco Commission to Issue an order giving tho New England state's preference over expost coal in car supply, in car move, keatsand in dumping at the pier of lussorq ua wmmyiou jwaus, a "1m TE1BIH.. - Tartl,tr- - tLrM." SH, -"kls . a i The three salt-water piers of the Norfolk and Western, the Chesapeake and Ohio nnd the Virginlnn Railway nt Hampton Roads, from which New Eng land draws n vital and large proportion of its coal, amounting to 8,000,000 or 0,000,000 tons, have been running smoothly nnd to their capacity since April 1, hut the trouble has been that tho coal operators havo been sending the larger part of their coal to tho four corners of the earth instead of to their regular customers located in New Eng land and elsewhere. TT MAY be asked why if New Eng- land needs nn extra -loO.OOO tons nt Hampton Roads out of the l,:i00,000 now going to export, it does not raise its prices further nnd bid this coal away from tho foreign countries who arc taking it. Rut there is no price nt which New England enn buy these extra 150,000 tons at Hampton Roads. Ships to carry away our coal nre steaming to these ports from nil over the world. Many of them are backed by their na tional governments. They arc deter mined to get the coal without regard to price". Tlferc are, this week, sixty for eign steamers struggling for this, conl at Hampton Roads. These foreign gov ernments aro really not biddlngor coal at Hampton Rands, they aro buying n portion of tho lhnltcd railroad facilities which, at the utmost, can only dump into salt-water bottoms l,UUO,UUO tons a month. Moreover, the word hns been passed around among the coal operators that if the attorney general should show an interest 'in their abnormal profits they will probably be in a stronger or safer legal position if they let Ameri can citizens go without their coal and profiteer on the foreigner. It has been reported to us moro than oneo that mine operators offering coal for export and bid their asking price have refused to let it go when told it was taken for an American coastwise nort, We asked that this route should be kept open to New England, and that Instead of the present movement to New England, which Is running nt nbout 450,000 tons n month, she should be permitted to impinge on tho present export movement to the extent of nn additional 400,000 or 450,000 tons n month for the balance of the coal year, so as to bring her movement of this southern conl up to normal. Tho New England consumers who havo been crowded off tho Hampton Roads pfcrs since the first of April havo no other place to go for their 'oal except to the Pennsylvania field. TT IS true this abnormal influx of L new buyers into tho Pennsylvania field can nope to increase, the movement irom tins iicidio iow r.ngiand hut little because our New Englaud railways lor ninny ycarH have not undertaken or mtcu tiicmseivcs to uraw this extra tonnage, nnd 'the utmost they can hopo to hanl through their western gatew'ays is not moro than 44 per cent of tho totnl requirements. It is also tho fact that the movement through tho con EesUd port of New York, which nor inully amounts to about 12 per cent of uiu mini, cun rcopuuii uut. iittio to such increased pressure. W'l 'lo n0.' rcsar,d th, fucl situation In this country ns hopeless, provided it can bo taken under prompt nnd orderly EITH'S NORA BAYES America's Cleverest Comedienne HENRI SCOTT Philadelphia,' Oneratlo Star nEnT Ennoi.j clauk & verdi, HENBEB A HAI11D AND OTllPnti ANDOTHKna' Last 2 Days EUSSV. Harold hell wnrmrr-n raraHHB&apri a ' "S; 'ir'LiiiCa ig? a2.u government control. A shortage of coal differs in one important respect from a shortage of other stoplo commodities. It cotton or wool arc short, wo can wenr last year's clothes. We cannot burn last year's coal. The situation has been much misun derstood throughout the country be cause the National Coal Association, which is n very powerful organization of coal operators, having an income, it is Bald, of more than $400,000 a year and large offices in Washington with branches in Chicago, (Pittsburgh and other places, ever since the coal op erators began making theso enormous profits out of export coal has been carrying on the most persistent propa- cials at Washington nnd sand in the eyes of the public by constant activity in Washington nnd a constant outpour ing of misleading statements in our newspapers and other publications, Tho president of the National Coal Association in his annual address at Atlantic City on May. 'Si, 1020, stated that "Uncle Snm must bo pried out of the conl business." (See HInck Dia mond of May 29, 1020, page C04.) We favor a minimum of government con trol consistent with tho protection of our citizens, nnd if the coal operators' association had been playing fnlr with the American people they might bo en titled to succeed in their effort, but their selfish course seems to us to make it necessary for Uncle Sam, who has been trying to get out of the coal busi ness, to go back into it at least to tho extent necessary to protect tho peo ple of this country. M".et Bt. ab. loth. 11 A. M. to 11 P. M. flwiuiutK TOUHNEUn Presents . TREASURE ISLAND Action HAROLD LLOYD &w . . ... ""lOH AND DtZZY" l'uul, In -l.N BEAHCH OP A SINNEK" AT linTir TIlL.un ...n. ALACE ARCADIA i?,li J!.?rkl:,.. H"'1.. ch'"tnut St. bi. ibib WALl'ArP RP'rWanBEBE0 P' tt WALLACb KLID ona BDEABNE,-.. - , NEW "SICK-A-BED" PiCTunn ADU1iD?1iiEnNI:ST SHACICELTON'fl TRIPTO THE SOUTH POLE VICTOR I A yarket s,rt Ab. oth THE SEA WOLF ZT HAROLD LLOYD "J?" 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