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A FOUR.yEAR PROGRAM FOR
PHILADELPHIA
.Thlnara on which the popl expect
tna) now administration to concen
frai ttm .a.hi.
tThe Dtiiware river bridge.
A .drydock big enough to occonmo.
n ? ' l(rqet thipt.
wvfwpmmi or me rapia iranaif y.
tern.
A convention halt.
-A building for the Free Library.
An Art Museum.
Enlargement of the water tuppty.
aomes to accommodate the popula
tion. THE PROCESSION MOVES
THE march of tbe wreckers of tho
North Perm Bank toward prison
continues slowly, it Is true, but surely.
Elwoou Stranc, paying teller, is the
latest to ue convicted. lie Is sentenced
to from two to five years In prison.
Ralph T. Moyer, cashier, has been sen
tenced to n minimum imprisonment of
twelve years, and William T. Oabcll,
director, has been convicted and is
awaiting sentence.
There remain awaiting trial Daniel
T. Lafean, banking commisnioncr ;
Louis H. Michel, president of the bank ;
Evan D. Ambler, nssitant oa'liicr,
end Charles A. Ambler, insurance com
missioner. The district attorney is expected to
brine these men to trial ns quickly as
possible, in order that their responsi
bility for what happened may be in
quired into.
"" THE TICKET ABUSE
DIRECTOR CORTELYOU may in
tend to prevent policemen from
peddline tickets for picnics and balls,
but his statement on tho subject docs
not go quite far enough to satisfy those
who are opposed to the custom.
He saj-8 "there will be no compelling
of men in the police department to buy
R:Btn ,8 wlII,ne or anxious to buy the
. i .. -p- pviiiKu, uMu.m, uuu iirre
to the affair."
iThe abuse of which complaint 1b
Biado is that the politicians havo forced
th6 policemen to buy tickets to picnics
and balls. The abuse of which the
public complains Is that the policemen
ask householders and business men to
buy tho tickets which the politicians
have mado them take.
The only remedy lies in an order
comprehensive enough to prevent the
police from buying tickets against their
will and to prevent them from offering
them to the public under any circum
stances. When a man dependent for
the protection of his property on the
good will of the officer on his street is
asked to buy a ticket he feclo that he
cannot refuse. A form of moral co
ercion is used, which ought not to be
tolerated. An exception may be made
in the case of tickets for entertainments
for, the benefit of the polico pencion
fond, but the wisdom of making any
exception is doubtful. The city ought
to pay adequate salaries to the police
and provide pensions for them when they
are retired so as to make it unnec-
K s essar' 10r tncra o solicit tho help of
IV sthe citizens to increase the pension
THE ROMANOFF FABLE
rpHE tale that the czarina and her
- children were burned alive could be
fineedllv dlsmlnsnl nu mom mmMi a..-
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...v.uu ..c i-viii uauiim s no longer
warrantable. Small wonder, too, that
phroniclers Hko Marco Polo and Herodo
tus failed sometimes to achieve accuracy
when, with all tho superior investigat
ing machinery of the present, the fall
of a mammoth modern empire ends in
fable and conjecture.
BRIDGE BALKING
rnHERE are forces in every com--L
munlty which find reaction profit
able. It is these with which the Dela
ware brldgo project has had to contend
from the, outset, and it is obvious that
tbe traditional struggle will not be over
until tbe span is an accomplished fact.
The hint of a tnxnnvppH emu
tion were not nil the accounts of the ' TB B e '" hCCm '" rctro"
extinction of the Romnnoffs so 11a- I "? as PrimltIre a" the floating log
grantly lacking in circumstantial dc- , th0 "?" who was firRt movl to
tails. The world has its choice of an , rry- , , ,,ey rcnrcMnt tt new beginning
ever-growing number of wild Ntorie-. I of un . story- Arc tIley- t0- tll Pi"
Since history began, few of its major nZr j of at"8tronIies "" os men first
events have been so shrouded in mys- ' , , 0r wlU tlieir "ehievements
tery as the tragedy of Ekaterinburg I on" adventures be upon a higher plane?
The disdain in which contemporary ! ? tSti,"1 ,nnnil,Vvho havc 0 lt it
civilization has held the irrri10'
K f V 'MtJnC nsaiust executing even tho ini
r h. '-" 1 "tops in the bridge proeram ni.
an enabling act Is passed by the Council
Is, a typical Instance of familiar pro
cedure. It can- be parried by un ordi-
hflneft removing nnv ulin.ln m.
int ality from the expenditure of tbo funda
already appropriated for the prcllml-
Lrcioy uy me council will certainly be
ccnstruablo as subservience to special
Interests. The Mayor has frankly de
'lonV1 hi8 position, and his warm In
fHtI'nent of tho bridge is equally clear,
the Ktntcuperfluous to expatiate on tho
Hfdill Mhe span and tho popular lm
!? ifl aV2 I,.'17 L hlr-spllttln
-rt .nir.l,on' lf lno council has the
tnliA or responsibility It will act
Its' ."?a.mo te expenditure of the
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city, state and New Jersey approprla
tlons on behalf of the preliminary sur
veys. The very serious problems concerning
the cost of construction will not come
up in practical shape until many months
of necessary preliminaries have been
passed. It is folly to balk at progress
on that account, for by the time the
first contracts nrc let decided changes
in the economic situation may have in
tervened. THE DAYS OF REAL SPORT
HAVE A NEW MEANING NOW
Something About Sails and Air
planes and the Undeslrablllty
of Unearned Victory
rpOWERINO above a waste of blue
J- nnu silver waters, in the diffused
lights of a misty day, a vessel like the
Resolute or the Shamrock is as Im
posing as a cathedral. And it is n
symbol of purposes and impulses more
Micicut than any reflected in spires or
domes. It tells of man's unending
pride in himself. It is the result of nn
Irresistible curiosity and tireless wlllN
In the very twilight of the world
some ancestor of tho bankers and
schoolmasters of today, fleeing from an
enemy or In pursuit of a wife, flung
the Bkin of an animal above his float
ing log to get tho afd of the wind.
There must havo been a moment of
terror nnd revelation before he shouted
"Uy George, she moves!" or words to
that effect. That man was tho EdlsOn
of his time and he was loudly acclaimed,
you may be sure, in the caves of the
Intelligentsia, who naturally recognized
tho importance of the discovery and
knew thut it would have a revolution
ary effect on all human affairs.
It had. It was the first sail. Its
Inventor gave to men a device that
'afterward led them to great victories
i ana great Io, great glory and great
shame, great happiness and great suf
fering. A new ago began then. Now
it is dying, and new age saluted it
when a .quad of big-lunged nrmy air
planes boomed across the sky above the
Resolute and the Shamrock at the bo
ginulng of the great flight to Nome.
There are areas of Alaska that may
be to us what Hrltalu was to the Ro
mans. There vo may have to do some
of the hardest fighting of our lives.
The army's planes arc on tours of ex
ploration and experiment. To people
who still live In far isolation tho array's
air squadron may seem as Etrange and
as terrible as thu first triremes appeared
to the people of the British isles. " And
so It goes.
A pewter cup and an idea are the
stakes in tho international yacht races.
Factors not alvas understood have
made tho event the cleanest nnd most
splendid of all contests called sporting.
On the north Atlantic coast there nrc
groups of Americans who, since the
beginning, have had to match their
courage, their wits and their strength
with tho forces that prevail over deep
waters. Their strong and hard-fisted
ons niHko up the Rcsolutc's crew. Tho
Shamrock is sailed by descendants of
an island people. who had to know and
fight tbe sea and make themselves in
mauy ways equal to it or perish. They
havo not perished.
Their sailors, like ours, long ago
found a common country, n common
cause and common aims. Life for them
has been a long tussle with invisible
forces that seem endlessly bent on their
defeat or their destruction. The winds
nnd gales, the cold and the roaring
waters that would trample them under
arc the only enemies of humanity rec
ognized by men who live long on sailing
ships. They haven't time to quarrel
with one another. They are too busy
in a hard game with mightier elements. ,
Here, theu, in two vessels magnificent
and frail, is tho refinement of all their
lore, the ultimate fruit of hard, bitter
experience.
The codes that rule the cup race arc
sterner, nnd cleaner than those com
monly found on land. They are an.
inheritance from the rea. Linton wns
genuinely grieved by a victory which.
because It was not earned, seemed worse
than ilcfcnt. W hat would life bo like
if statesmen could borrow something
from the fine philosophy that seamen
have developed out of their common
hardships in the common world of tho
deep?
Infinitely complex arc the ways of
men hampered bv the concerns which
nourish oul. nn dry land. An endless
capaeitj for friendship and understand
ing is theirs hut they nic not under
standing or friendly. They have a
love of fair play, but they are not per
mitted to piny as fair us they would.
Chivalry they rceognizo nnd esteem, but
they rarely ran afford to be chivalrous.
They do not shrink from unearned vic
tories. Something intervenes invisibly to
confuse existence for them. Tho skill
of men's hands and the resourcefulness
of their minds aro without limit. It
is their collective spirit that bhows
signs of a retarded development. .Some
(lay the array planes that are now
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to know every trick of the winds that
assail them, every malignant tide thnt
would kill or defeat them, every cloud
thut tells of coming gales likely to drive
them out of their courses and far from
the ports they seek. Landsmen have
no such wisdom, no such foresight
They are beaten and buffeted and sent
to loss, or death by tides and forrcs
which they do not understand and
against which they arc therefore pow
erless. (iiant impulses, generated in tho
greed, ignorance or cupidity of others
drive them like grcnt storms to sue-'
cesslve disasters. They haven't the
codes and compasses by which sailors
prevail against the less deadly forces
that rule over the sea.
Even while politicians are insisting
thnt nations can never reach a statu
of understanding that will permit them
to live together in peace, the ruce for
the America's Cup and the preparations
for the Olympic games prove that men
know of ways in which to meet and
settle differences of opinion and try for
glory without resorting to butchery
These are days of real sport. And what
they prove is that peoplo left to them
selves and relieved from tho pressure of
tho organized Insanity which In some
parts of the world has been called Im
perial government will have no differ
ences that they cannot settle In a clean
and orderly fashion,
Upton has spent .more money trying
lor ino i'ui muu iias came to some
ruler we could mention In long and
EVENING PXJBLIO
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bloody wars of conauett. lie is a
reckless spender, according to common
gossip, But ho isn't half so reckless
a spender as the kings in Europe have
been. For he may yet get a pewter
cup. And the kings who poured treas
ure out in their wars didn't even get n
pewter cup though they impoverished
the whole world.
If tho peoples who bide on land ever
learn to know tho perils of winds thnt
don't blow out of the sky, the pioneers
of the air may lead the world to a
peace that, wasn't discoverable by those
who first began to explore tho seas
when ships with sails wero rnore won
derful nnd nwe-insplring thnn the air
machines that have started the flight
to Nome. We shall havc to learn navi
gation. And wo shaft" have to learn
that political weather is about tho same
in nil countries, just as it is tho some
for all mariners who desire only to get
from port to port and mind their own
business. i
All seamen have a common code of
discipline. British and French, Italian
nnd Spaniard, American and Scandi
navian, Malay nnd Japanese, depend
upon the same rules for tho preserva
tion of their lives nnd fortunes when
they nrc afloat. When their country
men ashore do likewise, tho men of all
nations can be relieved of the necessity
of killing each other en maeso.
STUDENTS NOT LAW EXEMPT
THE father of the Dartmouth College
student who killed another student
In a quarrel over illicit whisky has de
manded the resignation of the president
of Dartmouth. He charges that the
president neglected his duty in thnt he
did not prevent the smuggling of whisky
by the students.
It would be unkind to say that a
father whose boy would engage In
whisky smuggling In violation of the
law had not dono his whole duty In
training ins sou in uuuic. jloo qucs-
tion raised, however, is not one of
parental responsibility, but 'one of the
responsibility of college authorities for
the conduct of the students. There was
a timo when the young men in the col
leges were subject to discipline similar
to that of boys in boarding schools to
day. But it is the general assumption
now thnt a boy old enough to go to
college is old enough to be allowed a
certain degree of freedom. If his con
duct is such as to demoralize tho other
students he is usually expelled.
The conduct of the Dartmouth whisky
smugglers was certainly demoralizing
to the students. It is said that the
smugglers were in the habit of hiring
an automobile truck to go to the Cana
dian border and bring back a load of
whisky at night, which would be sold
to the other students at .$10 a quart.
If this was kjiown to the collcgo au
thorities they1 ought to explain why
they took no action to clear the campus
of the whisky nnd of the men engaged
in selling it. But the federal and state
officers who failed to stop the truck on
its huntlrcd-milo run from the Canadian
border to Hanover havc also some ex
plaining to do.
The public officials may say that they
have not assistants enough to prevent
the smuggling, which' is said to be
common In all of northern New Eng
Innd, and the college authorities i. y
say that the had been scekinc the
guilty students but had been unable to
get evidence ngainst any of them. But
if tho president shall say that he as
sume no responsibility for . enforcing
the civil or the criminal laws when vio
lated by the students, he will be taking
the position occupied by the presidents
of ninny other colleges, who have suc
ceeded iu teaching their students that
they nro not a favored class by turning
them over to the public authorities vvhen
tuey havc been guilty of conduct for
bidden by the laws.
ANCESTRAL PROMPTINGS
WHEN Charley Barr used to sail the
cup defenders, Americans of the
110 per cent variety were occasionally
slightly annojed on being reminded
that, although a citizen of the United
States, the gallant skipper was n native
of the I'ulted Kingdom of Great Britain
and Ireland.
But qualms concerning the nativity
and nmestry of tho present director of
operations on the Resolute nre alto
gether untenable. Skipper Charles Fran
cis Adams is the grnndson of tho Adams
of the same name who was ambassador
to Great Untaln during the critical
period of the Civil War, nnd he is con
sequently the great-grandson of Presl
dent .Tnlm Quinoy Adams and the
great-great-grandson of President John
Adams.
All this is reassuring. It is especially
interesting, however, as offering a, field
fur speculation. When tho throat bnl
yards parted the other day. was possi
bly the influence of his distinguished
forebears and kinsmen trnccablc in the
language and sentiments of the de
fender's commander? Was it his ever
"imediieated" Uncle Henry's classic
phruseology that ho echoed or the poised
critical temper of his great-grandfather's
relebratcd treatise on weights
and measures?
On the whole, it seems reasonable to
suggest that Skipper Adams explored
even deeper into the past. Sturdy old
John Adams was altogether unafraid
of his emotions. The Democrats of his
day were quite cognizant of the Adams
temper So very likely wero those
throat halyards, had they been sentient
and were ancestry on the job.
COOLIDGE'S FUNCTIONS
SENATOR HARDING'S announce
mint that if elected to the presi
dency he will invite Mr. Coolldgo to
attend all cabinet meetings is interest-
I ing, but it is not important.
A .imilnr announcement was made by
McZklnlcy when ho was first nominated.
He did Invito Mr. Hobnrt to attend
cabinet meetings nnd Mr. Hobnrt at
tended a few of them. But legally he
was an outsider. There was nothing
that he had to do which could be affected
by decisions of the cabinet and there
wus nothing that the cabinet had to
do that could be nffected by anything
that Mr. Hobart might say. The ex
periment of lifting the vice presidency
into n placo of Importance In the gov
ernment was nbandoned and Mr. Hobart
contented himself with presiding over
the Senate nnd attending dinner parties
to tho rulu of his digestion.
Until some legal status is given to tho
Vice President in the executive depart
ment of the government the attempt to
make the incumbent of the office any
thing more than the presiding officer of
the Senate is likely to fall.
It has been suggested that the Vice
President be rondc chairman of tbo
budget commission, but If this plan
should be adopted It would put the fram
ing of the budget In the hands of a man
over whom tho President has no control
imrl tvmihl itnflftrmtnn ...mat.. ....
Bibilltj' for public estimates.
LEDaE)mOJ)EIFHI SATURDAY VJTO Vt,:i
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TO SCALP LA FOLLETTE
Q. O. P. Will Probably Aid Len
root to Deat Wisconsin Sen
ator Because of Third
Party Trafficking
Chicago. July 17.
SENATOR LA FOLfjETTE'S traf
ficking with tho third party move
ment here has given his opponents
in Wisconsin encouragement in the fight
which Is being made there to take the
control of the Republican party in
that state away from him. The Issue
In Wisconsin is whether Senntor Len
root can be returned to the Senate next
fall.
Senntor Lenroot has the support of
all the regular Republicans and the
sympathy or the Itepubllcnn national
organisation, but It Is conceded that up
to the time La Follette indicated his
willingness to leave the itrpuniicnn
party nnd lead a movement which
threatened its success Lenroot would
have had the fight of his life to secure
re-cleetlon.
La Follette nnd Lenroot were old as
sociates In Wisconsin politics, Lenroot
being originally La Toilette's noiest
supporter. The two parted company
some years ngo, Lenroot remaining n
progressive Republican nnd La Follette
going far toward radicalism.
Differed Over War Declaration
Thev differed over the war. Lenroot
supporting it and La Follette being one
of the few members of the Senate to op
pose the declaration of war. In the
primaries last spring for the control of
the delegation to the Republican na
tional convention La Follette. with a
platform thnt was not Republican but
intended to be used ns the basis of the
third-party movement, defeated the
Lenroot ticket.
Since that election it has been gen
erally feared In Republican circles that
Lenroot would be unable to secure his
own rcnomlnntion to the Senate. Thii
has been a cause of great regret in
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The nttnek upon La Follette will be
based upon his disloyalty to his party.
The senior senator from Wisconsin is
now n Ropubllenn only in name. For
months he has been at work trying to
build up a third party which would take
away from the Republican party several
normally Republican northwestern
states.
The third party convention here has
furnished the evidence of his activities.
Gilbert E. Roo, of New York, formerly
bis law partner, was one of the original
members of the committee of ten which
organized the Committee of Forty-eight
ot the convention hero. Roe twice pub
licly stated thnt he was tho agent of
Lb Follette. He did this at the com
bined Labor pnrty and Committee of
Forty-eight convention In Carmen's
Hall, when the labor people accused the
Committee of Forty-eight of leaving out
n plank in favor of tho colored raco be
cause Senator Ln Follctte's agent had
deemed it cxpulicnt to do so at that
time.
The Intention seems to have been to
keep I,a Follctte's relations with this
third party movement under cover so
that he would bo no way committed to
it in case it failed in the earlier con
ferences here. Roe participated as one
of the members of tho executive Com
mittee of the Forty-eight, but he re
mained silent, listening to tho discus
sion nnd limiting no suggestions, thus
in tine no tiresHiim unon the conferees
in behalf of the Wisconsin senntor.
When the radical tendencies of the
Labor convention threatened to make it
impossible for La Follette to become n
candidate, Roc submitted to the Labor
conferees a platform upon which he
said La Follette would be willing to
stand if all the elements would ngrcc
to accept it, und from that time on he
participated openly in the discussion
as the agent of La Follette, finally, as
already set forth, publicly declaring
himself to be La Follctte's representa
tive. Planned Third Party
The so-called La Follette platform
was written here by one of the men
associated with Roc, but it is pat
terned upon the La Follette platform
used by the Wisconsin senator in tho
primaries last spring and Introduced by
ills representatives in the Wisconsin
delegation into the Republican national
convention nt Chicago. The evidenco
is conclusive that La Follette had a
third-party movement in mind when ho
drew up this platform, which he used
in the Republican primaries.
It was common talk hero among the
memberr cf the Committee of Forty
eight thnt in all mgotlatlons for the
formation of the third party extending
through many months, they were in
frequent communication with Ln Fol
lette and were assured of his willing
ness to become their candidate if they
formed a movement sufficiently promis
ing. There is little doubt thnt Roc entered
the executive committee of the Com
mittee of Forty-eight months ago ns La
Folletto's agent for the purpose of or
ganizing a party which would contrib
ute to the defeat of the Republican
pnrtv. All this evidenre is now In the
hands of the Republican partv man
agers. The third party convention, with
its public dispute, disclosed the whole
story.
Anti-Rcpubllran Movement
It Is a matter of word thnt La Fol
letto was an active promoter through
his agent, Roe, of an anti-Rcpublicau
movement ln the fight for the renomlna
tion of Lenroot. This evidence of La
Follctte's disloyalty ro his pnrtv will
be put before the voters of Wisconsin.
The national Republican organization
wants to get rid of J.a Follette. His
name was hissed every time the Wis
consin delegation recorded its twenty
four votes in his favor at the Chicago
convention.
What impression the proof of Lu Fol
lette a disloyalty to tin Republican
party will make upon the Republican
voters of Wisconsin no one here knows.
A large section of thise voters have
followed La Follftte personally rather
than the Republican party, but ho has
never before openly tried to lend them
into a new party
If Sir Thomas Lip
Ups and Downs ton wins the cup the
, , , , , next yacht races will
be held in Bangor Down, Ireland. Ncwb
of Thursday's race, therefore, set the
peoplo of Bangor Down up. But since
there is many a slip 'twxt the cup and
tho lip, succeeding races may decrco
that the bang-up time In Bangor Down
be deferred.
, A l c 1 1 e r received
Lawlessness from the prohibition
in the Mahln's c o m m i s sioner in
T, ,L , Washington by a
Kansas City firm that had asked for a
ruling forbids the sale of ingredients
that may reasonably bo expected to fig
uro in the manufacture of "homo
brews. Every time John Barleycorn
gets a black eye he furnishes evidenco
that ho Is not yet dead.
The btatute of limi
tations will doubt.
Solid Concrete
u w ii. .i '?ss Protect the men
who built certain city bathhouse pools
of cinder with a thin layer of concrete
instead of bollrl concreto, but their
names ought to be posted in every bath
house as a horrible example of con
tractor po tics In the meantime, the
nvcrago citizen who has permitted him
self to be plundered wonders If t Isn't
iSuZpSi that ia con8tructed ot
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SHORT CUTS
Tllden tilt still net results.
St. Swlthin hat already lost caste.
i
Sir Thomas mnv now take St.
Swlthin as his patron taint.
Senator Harding's telegrams are
at least graced by a fine diplomacy.
The defender now knows thnt one
must be Strong at well as Resolute.
The mystery of the Mtinn Jowel
case is that a $10,000 collection should
be stone broke.
Sir Thomat is now more convinced
than ever that ho ran lift aomethlne
more than a teacup.
The Brutal T!eh ears woman's
softening influence is usually exercised
on tne mnneunne brain. '
It is really wonderful how some
men succeed in splto of handicaps.
Three blind men beat up a New York
cop the other day.
napplly thero is no reason to be
lieve that Russian Red is a fast color.
It may eventually reach the industrial
pink of condition.
Of the two yachts, it may be said
that one is fast and the other strong,
and that tho weather man has the de
ciding of the cup race!
But, of course, remarked the Quiz
Editor, unbreakable throat halyards do
not necessarily mean the winning of the
raco. Look at Mr. Bryan.
Sir Thomas seems to havc been of
the opinion thnt hn would he n nnor
fish to claim a victory on a fluke; but
nmerlcana are good sports, too, and
insist on tne rules.
Let us hope for the best. Per
hops the (1000 striking miners of Old
Forgo nnd Plalnsvillo will have re
turned to work by the time tho prob
lem of a coal-car shortage has been
solved.
The giving of a medal by Governor
Sprout for marksmanship nt the Mount
Gretna rifle matches may be considered
as a conservation measure. Good
marksmanship is a great saver of am
munition. ' That Dickens's .To, forever told by
the police to "move on," has his mod
ern counterpart in a different station
of life is evidenced in the case of tho
mother and son, who, after vainly seek
ing hotel accommodations, went to sleep
in their auto ln Falrmount Pavk.
It is to be hoped that the county
detectives arc right In their surmise
that they have broken up the auto
bandit gang that has been terrorizing
the city for wecta past: and the wish
is without prejudice to the guilt or in
nocence of the individuals under arrest.
To paraphrase an ancient saying,
we take it that a feminist Is one who,
being grieved thnt nature did not make
her a man, does her best to prove to a
wondering world thnt she Is not a
woman. As witness the skirted one
who insisted upon being shaved ln a
Chester barber shop.
It may be said for the reporter
who discovered on a Lisbon boat in this
port nn operatic tenor employed ns n
deckhand, n seaman who suddenly dis
covered that he is worth half a million
dollnrs and n woman supercargo, the
sister of the American consul nt Seville,
Spoln, that he made the Western Belle
ring three times.
With the price of the finished
product of beef too high to ent nnd the
raw product too low to produce, what
is the answer? asks, in effect, the Kan
sas City Times. Apart from the fact
that we decline to eat prices be they
high or low, nnd whntever the amount
of "jack" required for the gome, tho
question is respectfully referred to the
middleman.
Talk about equality of the Rexes,
a single standard and things! Here's
n forty-year-old Camden widower ad
vertises for a wife, gets a hundred ap
plications for the job, picks a youngster
of twenty-five nnd marries her. Now
what chance would a forty-vear-old'
widow havo had if she had dono the
advertising? There are still a few
"rights" tho ballot docs not provide.
The house shortage is no longer
wholly duo to labor scarcity, nodal dis
content or lack of transportation facili
ties. An added trouble i.s lack of capi
tal, n condition brought about by the
working of the Income tax. Why pay
taxes on mortgages when returns with
out taxation may be had from federal,
state and municipal bonds? The diffi
culty is not unsolvablc. Mortgages
might be freed of the income tax for a
stated period. Or municipalities might
do their own building. Or one of many
other suggestions made might be car
ried out. The alarming feature of the
situation Is that to make things bear
able next winter construction on a large
scolo ought to bo already under way,
and such Is far from being tho case
What Do You Know?
QUIZ
1. Name the twelve fllselples.
2. Where Is the Essequtbo river?
3. What Is a eackbut?
4. During; what battle of tho American
Revolution was the Marqul.de
Lafnyctto wounded?
5. Had Andrew Johnson been found
pit lty In tho famous Impeachment
trial, who would have become
President of the Urtted States?
0. What is the original meaning- of the
word catastrophe?
7. What kind of weather i.s inCicatcd
by a rapid rise in the barometer?
8. What Is Senator Hardlng'n middle
name 7
9. What number of persons or things
constitute a myriad? B
10. What is a bissextile?
Answers to Yesterday's Quit
a$$s&ti!g iu asanas
MeadVU?rthampt0"' mS-
2. The Liberty Bell cracked whiU toll.
3. The America's Cup has been In the
possession of the New York Yaoht
Club for slxty-nlne years
4. Brahminlsm 1b older than Buddhlam
The latter dated from the Sixth
century B. C. "6 slxtn
6. A swingle is a wooden Instrument
for beatlnff flax and removing
woody parts from It. vina
6. The Latin phrase "ultra vires" mon
beyond one's power or authority
7. John Tyler, Grover Cleveland unci
Woodrow Wilson were nrri!J
during their terms of office.
8. The word umpire Is deilved through
the Middle English '?nomD9r$
from the Old French 'fromnVr"
meaning peerless, not equal n.
sense a third man. ' a
9. Joan of Aro Is called the MuM nt
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v. ""E " u.i' . : .,.,'rr.v'.rj'",y pvr
the English resulting ln the ralsine
of the Blege of that city In 1489.
10, Mark Twain
was a native of
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SHIPBUILDING'S GREATEST
ROMANCE NEARING END
Last Chapter of Hog Island's War Achievement to Be Written
When Seven Boats Arc Launched in Day
rjIHE romance of the Hog Island
A shipyard is nearlng tho end.
On Wednesday will be written one of
the closing chapters In the matchless
tale of the world's greatest shipyard,
arising almost overnight on approxi
mately 1000 ncrcs of swamp land along
the Dclawnre river.
Tho "last seven ships" built by the
American International Shipbuilding
Corporation for the shipping board at
rYog Island will be launched on Wednes
day before a distinguished gathering.
The work of construction will bo over.
America's world -renowned experiment
in quantity ship production in turn
ing out ships "Hko snusages, like
molasses candy out of n enndy machine"
as the man who has been in chnrge
of the gigantic plant since December,
1018, puts it will be a matter of
history.
What will become of the mammoth
ahlnvard no one knows. Even Matthew
U. iirush, president of the shipbuilding
corporation, does not profess to know.
Conceived ns a wartime undertaking it
has served its purpose, he says. As n
shipyard in pence times its continued
operation Is impractical. It probably
will be entirely scrapped.
The last ship is scheduled to "go
over" Wednesday afternoon nt fi :24
o'clock. It will be christened the M.
O. Brush. A grent gathering Is ex
pected to witness the launching of the
M. C. Brush nnd tho six other vessels,
for It will be the Inst opportunity the
fublic will have of inspecting Hog
sland under tho management of the
American International Shipbuilding
Corporation.
Will Complete Work in Hand
Work will not be entirely stopped nt
the island after Wednesday for there
will be thirty vessels in the basin to fit
out before thev embark on the seas of
commerce. This, according to Mr.
Brush, is the greatest number of Rhips
ever gathered In a wet basin nt one
timo. It only one ship a week were de
livered, which he says will probably be
exceeded, work at Hog Island will con
tinue for some months.
Thero nre now 11,000 men employed
at the yard. These men are gradually
leaving for other work. When the
yard finally closes the remainder will
easily be taken care of by other indus
tries nnd thero will be few men out
of work, it is expected.
nas Hog Island been a failure? Was
It too big an undertaking? Was the
experiment Justified? Have its ships
S roved seaworthy built as they wero
y men recruited from all walks of llfo?
Success, Declares Mr. Brush
Mr. Brush, sitting in his office with
his eyes turned out over tho great acre
ago of tho plant, answered these ques
tions. "The American mind," he said, "has
not yet grasped the magnitude of tho
Hog Island undertaking. It may never
grasp it. But to tboso of us who havo
lived here for the last year and a half,
it is a magnificent achievement of
American Ingenuity, of the basic prin
clple of quantity production, of the In
domitable qualities of tho American man
and woman. Hog Island has been a
success.
"Conceived ln war times under the
stress of war conditions, and built under
similar conditions, nt a time when
every one on earth seems to join forces
to discourngo tbe efforts of thnso who
conceived it, it has turned out perfect
ships.
"With the launching of the seven
ships next Wednesday, there will have
been launched ono hundred and twenty
two ships. Ninety-two ships have been
delivered and these havo traveled ap
proximately 2,000,000 mllcsover ull the
seas of tho globe, carrying American
cargo, on American ships, under nn
American flag, with American crewm
earning money for Americans, and there
has never Dccn an instance ot the fail
ure) of one ot these ships at sea due to
poor workmanship or material.
"Had not the kaiser beat it to Hoi
land, Hog Island would have been able
to produce six complete, ships ready to
go to sea every calendar week,
"Drafting workers from every walk
cl Ufabarbers, bakers, jewelers, manl-
"GIMME IT!"
eurists and everything else Hog Island
nt one time employed 30,000 men and
women, of whom 14,000 wero graduated
from n school as shipbuilders.
Moro Thnn Nino Miles of Shins
"If the 122 shins launched from TTos
Island were placed end to end they
would ' extend nine and a half miles,
or from the foot of Market street to
Eddystone.
"To build these ships It was necessary
to erect 8158,018 tons of steel plates and
to drive 01,573,480 rivets of approxi
mately one and one-half inches each.
"Nearly one-tenth of the entire pro
gram for contract steel ships given to
nil the shipyards ot the United States
by the United States Shipping Board -Emergency
Fleet Corporation has been
dono at Hog Island.
"The launching of seven ships next
Wednesdny, will be the greatest number
of ships ever launched on one day In
nny shipyard of the world. This would
be considered a full year's Job for most
shipyards.
"Hog Islnnd ships have rescued thir
teen crews or ships and the Liberty
Glo, which was salvaged off Holland,
was declared to bo the strongest and
most remarkable ship the salving com
pany had ever seen."
The pieces for the completo bow -of a
ship arc now wnitlng to bo fitted to
gether nt Hog Islnnd, after which they
will be transported to Holland to be
attached to the remains of the Llhcrty
Glo, which struck n mine in tho North
sea nnd wns cut in two.
This Illustrates what can bo done
with a Hog Island ship, Mr. Brush de
clared. Enemies Spread False Reports
Apropos of the Qulstconck, the first
ship launched nt Hog Island, Mr. Brush
said:
"This ship was advertised all over
tho world as not being able to float
when launched, as being tied up with
rope Instead of put together with rivets,
as put together with lead rivets Instead
of Iron and everything else anybody
could say of a derogatory character.
Yet she has cruised 62,000 miles, has
earned thousands of dollars and has
proved perfect since she was put ln tho
water in August, 1018."
Regarding malign influences which
worked against the shipyard, he told
tho story of a German (Hog Island was
permeated with Germans during the
war, he declared), who went to Con
gressman Edmonds and begged him not
to allow the Qulstconck to be launched
ns it was so unsoaworthy. "It would
sink nnd block tho channel," he said.
This man claimed to be n workman at
tbe yard, according to Mr. Brush.
All criticisms of Hog Island, ho said,
havo come from those who never went
through the shipyard or who had axes
to grind.
Magnitudo Hard to Grasp
"Never since the plant was originally
conceived has the average American
been able to grasp Its magnitude. Re
peatedly from the thousands nnd thou
sands of peoplo who have visited tho
plant wo have heard the comment, 'al
though I read about it nud havo seen
pictures and heard it described I
never had any conception of it until I
saw it.'
"It is difficult to comprehend Its
magnitude in figures as figures mean so
innn' but lf on. Y111,810.'1 ani1 Mtlmatc
1000 acres and check this against tho
sumo urea in a city, the individual
will have some conception of tho terri
tory covered by the plant, and If ho
will stop nnd reallzo that the wavs
occupy a water frontage of a mile and
a quarter and that the wet basin oc
cupics another mile and a quarter
and thnt two miles nud a half of
river front is occupied by the shin
construction ways and outfitting basin,
ho will gain some conception of tho
hIzo of the plnnt. Then if ho wfll fii
uro olghty-four miles of railroad and
appreciate we have thut much on iho
imaglU'lonT mCaD 80mCthI,1 -S &
"If he stops to realize that hero U
a complete self-sustaining munlelufilt?
with fire apparatus, high-pressure dn
mestlc water system restaurants L-''
eectrle light, hospital .ervlco aml'cvo y-'
LW" " goes to mako u" a c It,'
j SSSXffiRP nnd En, BOrau wfc
A
MAYOR ASKS BODINE
ABOUT GAS PRICES
Wants to Know if U. G. I. Plans
to Increase Bills If Stand
ard Is Changed
Mayor Moore wants to know whether
tho proposed change in tho gas standard
from light to heat units will add to the
cost of gas to consumers or will dimin
ish the service of gas.
The Mayor in a letter today ad
dressed this query to Samuel T. Bo
dine, president of the United Gas Im
provement Co., who advocated the
change.
Council pasted an ordinance author
izing tho chango until January 1, 1V2Z
The measure now awaits the Mayor's
signature before becoming oporative.
lVnn triA ArtlnttAAA hafana "imi-
" " J williuitl,u nun UGWtC WUW
cil Councilman Cox inlscd the question
oi a posiiDio greater cost to consumers
nnd said it was estimated the heat
standard would add 15 per cent to gas
bills.
Tho Mayor's letter follows:
'There is now before me for approv
al or disapproval an ordinance of Coun
cil authorizing tho temporary suspen
sion of the operation of Clause 0 of
the ordinance approved November 12,
1807. relative to the lease of the Phila
delphia gas works so far only as relates
to the candlepower required therein,
which contains a proviso 'that the
change in the agreement as aforesaid
shall be conditioned upon the company
executing nn agreement with the city of
Pllllfldelnhln ronfnlnlnf. nri tirmnnrl
conditions Including a minimum re
quirement of 530 for dally average of
British thermal units., at tho Mayor
may consider to be fair and Just under
all circumstances.'
"Since the Council has thus im
posed upon the Mayor the duty of
determining what is 'fair and just under
nil .li.nn.BfnniiAB T ..niiMf knfrA
ucting upon the ordlnnncc, to be advised
i'v you wnciner tne temporary suspen
sion of Clause 0, which substitutes the
heat or British thermal unit standard
frtr ihm llwlif a aanillanAiira atoned fil.
wa vw ai(,ut, 1lv.UUUIClIUWC. DtntiURXM
such substitution being in the interests
oi tne united uas improvement uo. ana
for the purpose of saving fuel, will add
to the cost of gas to the consumeras
provided for ln the agreement of No
vember 12, 1807, or will work any
diminution of tho service to the disad
vantage of the consumer."
ff Tl AIt MA bmM auanit., t, a kallaPftrl
gas service would be improved and the
i-uai, to mo consume no greater.
SEA CHANTEY
Contemporary Stylo
rtfjoliire and Shamrock JV are icon
dert in 4(111, tofndfcjs teeaiher.
Yachttmcn'a dope.
SING hey for the strife in a sailor's
life
And ho for the ocean blue I
Apportion praise for the sun's bright
rays
And the clouds that they filter
through.
But of nil of the glee from port to lee
There's none to compare as balm
To tho skipper's hopes, as he eyes bis
ropes,
To the heart of a dead, dead calm,
Yo, ho l .
To tho heart of a dead, dead calm I
For bards may prate of the tossing sM
Of a craft in a scudding breeze,
And the splashing foam of a race to
home
Anil thrt lllrA MnHrmlHAn f
But it's naught they know of the stately
now
Of the ships that never mind
A single snare in the summer air
Save the puff of a faint, faint wind!
Yo, bol , ..
Save the puff of a faint, faint wind J
Oh, his hopes aro high for whatever
sky
Or tho boundless main may bring!
For he scoffs at fog and bis agile log
Will whiza like anything.
But the boss ot sallo full well bewails
Ills luck and a nasty turn, . ,
When bis art's denied and his skill
belled
By u stiff stiff breezo astern I
'o, bol
By a stiff, Btlffbreeze astern ! .
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