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.ffFOUR-VEAR PROGRAM FOR
PHILADELPHIA
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Thlnsja'on which the people expect
the. new administration to concen
trate Its attention I
The Dcjuare river bridge.
A drydock bio enough to accommo.
date the largest ships.
Development of the rapid transit sys
tem, A coxvonflon hall.
A building or tho Free Library.
An Art Museum.
Enlargement of the water supply.
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
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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. '
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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!
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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
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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.
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