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A FOUR-YEAR PROGRAM FOR
PHILADELPHIA
Tlilna-a on w lilrli, (lie people expert
Hie new iiillnlnlslriitloti to ronren-
(rnlc IIh ultrntlfint
The Dataware river brlilac.
A. drydock big enough to tciom mo
dule the larpcst ships.
Development of the rapid tianstl sys
tem. A convention halt
A btithlinn for the Free Library.
An Art .1iisrnm.
BnlargemcnX of the tocter supply.
llomea to accommodate the popula
tion. TRANSIT HOPE AT LAST!
THE determination of the Public
Service Commission to postpone its
decision on the P. It. T. fare increase j
until September and its dismissal ot
the demurrer of the underlying com
panies to the complaint against the
ens?s made by the Cliveden Improve
ment Association nle significant.
The postponement menus that it does
not admit the right of the P. It. T. to
change fures without consultation with
the city. It sustains the contention of i
the city that tlic contract ot i-.'oi means
tetlietr lfon-a .
what it says.
The dismissal of the demurrer means
that the commission hns decided that it
bns the right ana the power to review
the underlying leases with all thnt that
Implies.
4 There is now hope thnt nt lust there
in to be a thorough overhauling of the
whole rapid transit situation in the
open.
A SINKING FUND MYSTERY
COUNCILMAN DKVKMN'S curios
ity about the recent purchase of city
bonds by Drexel & Co. and their
sale to the Sinking Fund Commission
before they were delivered is shared by
many citizens,
The bonds were bought by the bank
ing company, of which K. T. Stotes
bury is the head, and the banking com
pany sold them to the Sinking Fund
Commission, of which Mr. Stotesbury is
n member, and collected a brokerage fee
of ?7.'00.
It is not the first transaction of the
kind, but n satisfactory explanation of
none of them has been made. 'Flic Sink
ing Fund Commission has persistently
refused to answer questions put to it
by City Councils in the post. Whether
it will decline to answer ipiestlons put
to it by the new Council remains to be
seen.
There are many things nlmut tlvo
management of the sinking fund which
Council has a right to know . As
Council elects one member of the com
mission every jear, or is supposed to
elect one, it hus power lo choose a suc
cessor to Mr. Stotesbury who will take
it into his confidence, if Mr. Stotesbury
nnd his associates on the commission,
' the Mayor and the controller, full to
give the information sought.
LIGHT FROM THE EAST
rpHD meeting of the Chinese Nutlonal
J- League scheduled for this city next
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public opinion on Oriental affairs toduj
is confused and uncertain. To the
average citizen, especially in the eastern
states, it is often impossible to sift
truth from ingeniously contrived pro pa
ganda. On the Pacific facts are oh
BCtired in passionate prejudice
This foiiutrj, ns a whole, is the
friend of China. Our record there both
ill commerce and in national polici is
hearteniugly clean. It was tins cir
cumstance which aroused the unw of
honest Indignation mer the Shantung
provision of the ersailles Treuty
Allowing for the inevitable and laud
able patriotic enthusiasms of the distin
guished delegates who will assemble
here, the conference should pme in
formntlve. Chinese frankness is often
Komething of n curiosity to the western
mind, but as an illuminator of faits
there nre few rivals of this candor.
It Is, for instance, unlikely that the
.present revolutionary disturhum c in the
Pekin region will be glossed ,,r with
mere pompous phrases. That is not the
Chinese fashion when facts stand in the
wny.
TRADE CONDITIONS
' A CCOKDING lo the inquiries of the
Federal Reserve Hank of this dis
trict into the conditions in sixteen in
dustries, the producers of coal, a iwi.
s.lty, and of jewelry and tobacco, lux
uries, nre the only ones who liml 'the
fcltuution reasonably nntisfuc tnr, .
The ilemniid for coal is strong nnd
the mines arc unable to meet it The
lals-ir situation is improving ami the
collections are good. The only dilh
culty lies in the inability of the nul
ronds to provide cars enough. The
jewelry manufacturers have no trans
portation and no labor problem, The
, demand Is good, the prices nre firm.
They have no difficulty in getting raw
materials or in making collections. The
tobacco manufacturers ure even better
off. The demand is so great they are
unable to meet it, the prices are tending
higher nnd their collections nre good.
k Tliey, however, are confronted with a
''transportation problem which affects
-ry Industry except jewelry making.
f Jjiniitotnoblle mnnufactiiret-s, along
.1. . all .other users of steel, find it
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to get raw .msterlul, and they
Jlcito oupply tho demand fur
.
cars or to jrct railroad cars to transjiort
thorn.
Tlic textile and leather industries arc
nit HiifTcrliiR from an Inactive demand
with a tendency to lower prices and
with Inability to make -prompt collec
tions for the Roods that are void. Tliey
arc able to meet all demands on them,
there is no shortage of raw material
and the attitude of the laborers Is im
proving. The steel Industries nre un
able to meet the demand on them, but
i ...i.l.
These conditions are without doubt """ vho sailed yesterday to par le
an aftermath of the war. The demand 1 1""" tllc "". Barnes nt Ant-
fur iilltnnmMlnct tnifnlrt. nnil Inhnrro i
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war Work. Thev iin smokilic more and
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uriicr luoarro. xney nre ouying jewruj
and many of them nre buying nutoino- I
biles. It Is CHtlmnted that nmre thnn ;
'half a million motorcar licenses will .
Ix- Issued this year In this state. The
people who did not make money out
of the war and some of thoe who did
are refraining from buying new cloth
ing nt the present high prices. Thovc i
who did not profit by war work have I
not the money and those, who did prollt i
are waiting for the prices to come down,
while they seem Indifferent to the prices
of jewelry and tobneco.
The announcement, however, that the
prices at the mills of woolens, cottons,
silks and shoes, are tending lower on
account of the poor demnnd will b'1
encouraging to those who have been
wenring old clothes.
CITY STREET CLEANING IS
NOT 'MUNICIPAL OWNERSHIP'
It Is Public Service, Like Policing
and Fire Protection, and Should
No Longer Be Done by Contract
!M;
,YHl .MUUHKS problems are;
many and serious, and that he has
the sympathy of the public-spirited citl-
7cns of Philadelphia in his efforts to
I solve them in the public's interest goes
without saying.
Most of these problems are made in
finitely more difficult of solution by the
fact that an economic or political inter
est of great power is involved. Take
the Delaware bridge, the l It. T. fare'
fight, the police in politics, the art gal
leries rimI salary standardfeation as 11
illhfratlons of pressing problems, and
add next year s tax rate as the type of
poser that lurks just around the corner.
Then as a last straw heap on that old
issue municipal s. contract street
cleaning!
As Lytnnn Abbott once sagely advised,
let there be more light and less heat
on these ouestlons. Since last Tliurs
,jny afternoon, when the Mnjor invltedji
number of business men. newspaper men
...Hi ..I.J !.. 1.. .i imii fitmimiit rtt tlm
anil civic workers to a conference on the
matter of street cleaning, many facts
nnd factors Imvc been brought to the
surface warranting a frank discussion
of this question out in the open now.
Only Mich n discussion can he whole-
noinc.
The Mayor spent much time in dis
cussing matters hardly germane to the
problem but concede that as his privi
lege. He was within his rights also ln
adducing every conceivable argument
against municipal street cleaning and
none in its favor. It might be conceded
further that lie was cautiously feeliug
hi' way in the solution of this question
nnd wns justified in refusing to promise
to move heaven and earth to curry out
the mandate of the charter on street
cleaning, but we cannot feel that his
noncommittal attitude on this issue will
satisfy any one except thnt element in
the community thnt fought his election
nnd which hns opposed his program nt
every turn since his inauguration.
Iiiit these nre warm da mid with
Abbott's calm advice ns a text before us,
it must bf grunted thnt the Major hns
every right to his opinions and to their
cnniiid expression. Yet two point ninde
by the Mayor one challenged at the
time, and another allowed to slip by
nusht to bt exn-.iiiieil under the heatless
light.
Thn lirsl was Mr. Moore s repeated
reference to city street denning ns
"municipal ownership." Kxception must j
b 'taken to this phrase because "mil-i
lllcipal owiersiup iiiiiiveriiiij rn-uK-nlzed
to npplv to nty ownership or
operation of u utilit or business' which
might ns readily be privately conducted.
It is applicable properly to city-owned
street cars, light plants, water works,
gas works ur any similar enterprise.
i Itut street cleaning is not n utility. It
is n munhipnl service, nnd tliiH fact hns
long been recognized in every city but
..t.. ...in l ., nil wm.nlf nt rotitrnctiiif?
for .)m1,' protection, for fire protection
llP . t 1 MiPVKC
The ncognition of street cleaning ns
In purely service function was brought
about h'v the passage of the new char
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I ler 1 ll.u issue vn?i prujM'ii, i -huiui-'i
ii. settled- What remained to be settled
was the carrjing out of the details as
ie.piditinusly as possible.
I With these facts in mind we feel thnt
'calling city street denning "municlpnl
ownership" enn only enlist ngninst it
those widespread feelings of opposition
to what is correctly known ns municipal
i ownership. The city's unfortunate e.
periencp with municipul operation of the
I gas woiks might warn Us to hesitate in
I assuming operation of n utility such us
the street-cur lilies or the electric light
plant, but is entirely meaningless ns a
reason for not undertaking municipul
street cleuuing.
This point was not challenged at the
meeting, hut another liinccurucj was
Mr Moore cited on experience during
the Ashbridge administration when
street-cleaning contracts were let to n
new competing firm that underbill the
former political contractor. The 1m
Ii r, however, controlled the polii e, the
.Major said, and also the labor mid
equipment supply, so that the utihappj
siicieshful bidder was harassed and In
terfered with nt every turn, with the
inevitable result that he threw up h.
job, and the political contractor v t
gien b.ick his melon.
This wns actunllj used n the Mum.
as mi argument ngainst municipal .ti-e
cleaning, whereupon one of those pr, .
cut challenged Mr. Moore with tin
query whether the city, in the pieseut
urguiiient, could on any conceivable
ground be compared with the competing
contractor whose plight was recited. To
this objection the Major made no
nswer.
The Mayor forbade his hearers to
quote him as definitely abandoning the
plan of municipal street cleaning, but
certainly no man left tlic conference
feeling that the charter program had
any zeulous friends on the "second
floor' for 1021, at any rate. No won
der the contractor counciliueu are re
ported In the newspapers as "exultunt,"
Hut as the Mayor has not positively
committed himself os yet, ther is still
hope for rlty street cleaning, The pro
grunt of thii chartor and tbp rccomuien-
EVENING PUBLIC
datlons.of the Mayor's own commission ,
of three engineers are entirely practical ,
and feasible. That there arc difficulties
in the way should not surprise or over
whelm us, for every great governmental
advance must be made in the face of
difficulties. .
The way to inltintc municipal street
cleaning Is to initiate it now. In a day i
or two we hope to present on this page
a concise discussion of the practical
step needed to attain that long-awaited !
result. I
ANTWERP ENTANGLEMENT
I iiiiimwoiuiu IU ilKipilt'j MUi
'
This much, however. Is certain, An
International agreement In which for
eigners greatly outnumber citizens of
our own country has involved us In
serious obligations. If American inde
pendence is to be maintained, is this
cherished freedom consonant with an
elaborate and costly venture abroad, j
the outcome of which no man can fore
see?
The country abounds In ndmlrablc
athletic fields hallowed by exploits il
lustrative of American strength and
kill l',.uv..Oolnn f II, nan nlt-ll,.. !., l I
great numbers of the youth of the and
is not a matter for nrenment Still
is not a mailer lor nrgtimi lit. Mtui
ess is it a sunject in wine . foreign j , , i:rnMH Urnlnerd was a inero
interferencc Is to be regarded without ,' t tl, iltorlul start of the I'hlladel-
gravity
In the light of precedent there Is
scant reason for believing that the site
of the next Olympics will be within the
hemisphere safeguarded by the Monroe
Doctrine. Only once, at St. Louis In
liMH, was the necessity of sending our
boys nlirond obvinted. Thnt wns evi
dently the exception which proves tho
rule.
The entire Olympian scheme Is, In
deed, of foreign origin. The Greeks.
who began it nil some seven centuries
I Imfnrn our era. had never even hennl nf !
in it mi Minir pcu-ii rvnuines
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America.
Not lightly nre the responsibilities in
which wc are now involved to be con-
.
sidered. It is to be hoped that tlic
bojs now nt ten nre Inspired with a full
sense of the situation. And yet If they
nre, it is not easy to reconcile their
recordrd eagerness for world honors In
preference to those distinctions to be
acquired within the three-mile limit.
These competitors are yonng, of
course, nnd tit their age the poison of
internationalism perhaps acts with n
special potency.
LAWS ALONE WONT DO IT
PLANS nre said to he under way to
amend the charter provisions for the
election of members of the City Coun
cil. The members hold officii for four
years and nre nil elected nt the snme
time. It is desired that the date for
beginning their terms should be so
changed that ten of them would be
elected In one jrar and the other eleven
two years later. This arrangement
would give tho group of lenders de
feated in tho quadrennial election under
the present plan an opportunity to win
nt the biennial election aud it would
mnke of the Council a continuous body.
The unsatisfactory character of some
of the present councilinrn is urged as a
reason for the proposed chnnge. Hut it
will take more thnn n new law to give
the city the kind of a Council it ought
to have. The men plnnuing the chnnge
should consider a little longer before
they ask the Legislature to amend the
chnrter which, when it wns passisl in
Ilnrrishiirg, held up the business of the
rest of the state for weeks. The prom
ise wns given then thnt if the Legisla
ture would consent to the law It would
not b troubled again for n long time
to come.
Instead of seeking chnrter changes
so soon it would lie better for the
friends of reform to devote nil their
energies to seeing that the present ad
ministration is so much better thnn we
got under the old system that the voters
will insist that the same sort of thing
be continued. If they cannot do thnt,
then no change in the charter will help
them.
A MENACING MIRACLE
A1
UI'N'T phones upon the water just
the same as on the land? The
"Captain's 1 laughter" nn npproneh
ing day will be justified in expecting nn
nffirmnthc reply. The transmission
of the human voice from St. John's to
the I'eli gates of the Imperial Press
Confeieuie aboard the steamship Vic
torian, more than .'100 miles off the
Newfoundland coast, marks the latest
development of the wireless miracle.
The mnt is amazing nnd jet in some
q-i:irii-i, notnbly the poetic nnd rliup-
i odic, it inn beget uneasiness.
I "There is society where none in
I trades by the deep sea," averred one
i hard There is likely to be more pnthos
(linn sublimity in this confidence when
Mediterranean exchnnge is crossed with
I Cnspiun, Indian Ocean is jammed by
! Sea of Azov, while nmid imperious
itinklings monotonous oice-, reiterate
"eiineiits busy."
I However, poetry and progress never
did mix. while enterprise and intrusion
i have for some time assumed the aspect
of boon companions.
THE RECOGNITION RIDDLE
Till: possibility that the Sovjet Gov
ernment will inject into the peace
negotiations with Pnlaud n demand for
recognition by the Hntente emphasizes
, an old dilemma under new conditions.
Hi-rtrand Russell, one of the leading
intellectuals among the English radicals,
has. after his recent visit to Russia,
! siimimbed to the deepest disillusion
I mint regarding the practical operation
1 .f P. iMievlsm. He describes the ruling
! system as internally aristocratic mid
j externally mllltnut." Trotzlcy is pic
I tared posing spcctiiculurly in his opcrn
I box and calling for "three cheers for
lour brave fellows at the front." . Pro
, f.-ssoi Russell regretfully interprets the
sce.ie us a re-ennctinent of episodes in
tin England of 1014.
, His in tide In the Iondon Nntion Is
indeed illiiininnting in many respects,
but In none more significantly thnn in
the contrast drawn between the present
manifestation of Holshevisiu and Its nl
i h-aiil original design.
i Two factors have, as nearly as ran be
I judged, contributed largely to .the sur
vival of the Soviet regime. The I'ollsh
war has reawakened national enthusi
asm, which was certainly all but extinct
nt Itrest-Litovsk. The reluctance of
the Futente to recognize the existing
Russian Government has enabled tho
Bolshevist leaders, effectively but spe
ciously, to ascribe the deplorable condi
tions in Russia to n "conspiracy of
capitalism."
With peace nnd recognition whnt
would become of these stock arguments?
Tl is is a question which Is probably of
noinc Interest to the chancelleries of
Huropo just now There nro few hu
man f
man d
li':rot,o;
gures so iiiilnably weak an tho
rspollcd of the grievance? that Las
fore been hlu fnvwrUc arnmnv
.W&V'.ki-T .
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LEDGER-SILABElJpai 'tftffl&iXi,
OUT OF THE WEST
Drainerd as an Official Booster.
Hot Weather Vagaries Queer
Things People Do When the
Thermometer Climbs
Uy GKOKGI3 NOX SIcCAIN
TpiiASlV.S lUtAIXEltD is in tho
-J city. .He has changed considerably
"luce he left thirty-one years ago to as-,
suinc ail editorial position .and subse
quently to become editor-in-chief- on
one of Seattle's dally newspapers.
Now he Is back In the Kasf as the
official "booster" of Seattle, "the great
est fishing port In the world," as he
puts It.
Hut that pre-eminence is only an In
cident of .Seattle's greatness, lie sajs.
The city Is now, as It has been from
the fir-t, the entrepot for the vast
! region they call Alaska, but which in n
fcw Kcncrat Ions possibly less -will he
come a populous hive of human Indus
try. . . .,
Mr. Hnilnerd tells me tliut he recently
returned from n trip through southeast
ern Alaka and that the development of
(lull kPnlllltl of tllC IlPllttlSUU IS
progressing with wonderfu l'dl,J'
part culnrly as to its i mineial wenlth.
r ... . . ,,...,...., toward the set-
iihia Press. Later on he went over to
the Kvenlng News, then the officio! and
political organ of Widencr and Llkins.
Then the Kast became too circumscribed
for the hori.on of his ambitions nnd
i.n "lilt the trail" for the state of
Washington and elsewhere,
INETKttX 5 ears ago the approach
IN Ine August a man in the garb of
in tier, nrosnector. engineer or cnnuui
it. just as ou please, for lliey an oress ,
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utniimer. Will II. 1SOI11, SOII1CW ih-iw
above Uie mouth of the 'lniinna river.
The boat was ou the way down from
Dawson City to St. Michaels.
It was lirostus llraluerd returning
from a visit to some of his "claims
or gold property in the interior. Lvery
body in the Northwest in those days hnrt
stirtie "prospect" in Alaska, but not one
in a thousand of them ever saw- their
property or the "claims" in, which they
were interested. , , ,
Hrninerd not onlj visited his own.
but did n lot of investigation of other
properties whose wealth in gold was nn
unknown quantity. This latter on behalf
ot Philadelphia capitalists.
As I recall u separated nt Nome
City, Hrninerd remaining to look after
some other interests while I proceeded
on to Dutch Hnrbor and linnlly to Se
attle. The meeting in this city ycstcrdi
was the first since our parting on the
shores of Hering sen in IDOL
Hrninerd sujs that there is quite a
trathc building up in reindeer meat in
Seattle. It is shipped from Alaska in
a frozen state and sells for fifteen cents
a pound retail.
I
F Till: heat of the July sun affected
the natives qf tropic lands as it does
some people in riillaucipnia wnoie na
tions would be "Hooey" and the circum
ference of the globe under the equator
would be n girdle of lunatics both Irrc-Hiinnslhli-
mill incurable.
There is no question that hot weather
does afreet people of a certain consult!
rinnnl hnblt to the extent of develop
ing mental crotchets, or fostering lapses
of memory. .
A widely known Ph. D. In educational
circles confesses that on unusually, hot
and sultry days his memory is like a
colander; everything runs through it
and nothing remains permanent.
He tells me thnt he left his home one
humid morning Inst week und before he
got away linnlly hud returned three
times for tilings he had forgotten.
The official in charge of the vaults
in a West Philadelphia banking insti
tution, which does n lurge business In
renting private sjifes, tells me thnt last
week he recovered and returned over
$:i00() worth of bonds left In the ;unnll
retiring compartments where coupons
are clipped and wiluublc pnpers exam
ined by their patrons.
"There isn't a week that we dou't
find something wiluablo that a customer
hus left behind. Particularly is this
true iu the summer mouths, and espe
cially on days when the thermometer is
very'lilgh." he said. "It's the weather,
of course."
A
NOT11KR
trust
company official
orroliorates the experience
of my
West Philadelphia friend and contrib
utes this unusual addenda :
"One of our vault guards found n
$1000 Victory bond lying on the floor
of one of the little coupon rooms. It
so hnppened that the initials of tho
owner find been written on it in leud
nencll.
"The gentleman had been in the vault
room thnt dn and so we called him up
and asked him to drop around. We
didn't enre to tell him of his careless
ness over the phone.
"lie cume, and when nskeii If hn hnd
not lost u Victory bond, became highly
indignant.
" 'No. sit : not so careless; business
mnn who looks lonely after details. My
bonds are snfelj lu the vault ; counted
'em. Lost? No, sir. Pooh! Pooh !
etc.. etc' "
"We flniillj persuaded him to exam-
ino the contents' of his safety box, nnd
sure enough, ns we well knew, he dis
covered thai one SI 000 bond was miss
ing. We oerlonked his indignation nt
our suggestion of carelessness In han
dling Ills securities, for like Its loss, we
credited his bluster to the effects of hot
weather."
THIS vagaries of fate, like the elusive
laws of chance, urn) beyond nil
humnn nnnljsls.
Never was this better Illustrated than
at the fatal tire of the Fritz & Laltue
rug establishment last week. Fate in
that instance was running neck and
neck with death.
Fireman Wolfram, whose funeral
was held yesterday, was the victim. If
the conilngratinn had been delayed tor
twenty -four hours the dead fireman
would today have been alive and cap
able in the discharge of his municipul
duties.
Director Cortelyou, of the Department
of Public Safety, tells me that Wol
fram was slated for transfer from his
engine house to the office of the fire
marshal.
Not more than fifteen minutes before
the apparatus ou Its way to the fire
dashed iitnuiid City Ha,ll he had writ
ten and signed the order making the
transfer, which would have become
uperntiw within twenty-four hours.
If nuto bandits
.Merely a Suggestion could bo induced to
return stolen enrs
In good condition after they have pulled
nif their little highway robberies, it
would be a great relief to owners, As
things nie, a mnn never knows what
bunch of hoodlums will bo Dick Turpln
ing in his machine before midnight and
few- of (in- snid hoolicnns are at nil
careful. Or, better still, if tho police
dennrtment would carelessly leavo ly
lug around at night n hunch of flivvers
nuite earn! enouoli for bnndlt nurposcs.
it might he that really good earn would
he unmolested.
The Young Lady Next Door Jlut
One declares that the bathing beaches
might huvo stronger clalrati for beauty
ri men were compelled to wear ekirtp.
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, It's hard to understand the drift
of n yacht race argument.
It Ks Johnson's HI endeavor to
proves that the tall cnu wag th'o dog.
After yesterday nnd Sunday ye
may forglvo the weather man a whole
lot.
All the city. wants to do Is to make
sure that the sinking .fund nest egg Isn't
addled.
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The motto of tho Heading Iron
workers appears to bo "strike while the
iron's hot."
Hiram Johnson will be Interested
to learn that Tnlne also disapproves of
the Leaguo of Nations.
And while wo hnppen to think of
It what is your opinion now concern
ing thnt St. Swlthfn dope?
. Mr. Gruenberc seems to be of the
opinion thnt the city has that sinking
fund In the pit of Its stomach.
Too much of anything satiates; but
out in tho West there are not enough
freight cars to go against the grain.
One difficulty in tho matter of
swatting the. profiteer Is that he has to
be Identified before lie may be swatted.
Whenever we hear of political co
horts rallying behind a man we begin to
wonder If they arc getting ready to kick
him.
Interest grows in the T.usltnnin
lifebelt found in the Delaware. Why
not put It In n museum with copies of
the Cox editorials?
Judging by the track she took nnd
the tacks she made, what the Yankeo
skipper contributed to the Sluimrock
wns n hnrd apple cider gnit.
A Gloucester justice of the peace,
not content with fining a wife deserter,
gave him n severe tongue lashing. Thnt
kind of tiling would be plum discourag
ing to n man who had left home to avoid
one.
Perhnps Mr. Debs counts on getting
the drnft-deserter vote, which the War
Department esttrantes nt 100,000, nnd
the draft-dodger vote, which is prob
ably as large.
Cox adherents think their candi
date's nickname will help him to win
favor with the common people that, in
fact, he will be able to "jimmy" his
way into the White House.
Since nuto bandits invariably first
steal their cars, it follows that an in
crease In approved parking places where
earn could be carefully watched would
have u tendency to decrease crime.
If the Pennsylvnnin ItnilroarCom
pany In discharging some ten thousand
of its employes is sincerely trying to
practice some of (he efficiency advo
cated by Mr. Gompers, isn't it a trifle
embnrrasslng for a thoughtful labor
leader?
Commercial interests nre already
after the timber supply and the water
power of the national parks. If it ever
becomes necessary to use them It will
he a costly wny of pnylng for pnst ex
travagance. We have viewed with nlnrm since
the country wns born nnd the country
still lives; we have pointed with pride
since it was able to walk nlone and
there is still room for Improvement.
I'ncle Sam isn't going to die of either
modesty or conceit.
New York's nerial police have been
in action during tho yacht races, nnd
radio warnings were sent to nircrnft
thnt flew too nenr the yachts nnd ex
cursion vessels, It will be only a little
while before reckless speeders will be
holed before the courts for traffic viola
tions. The fact thnt the yncht race hnd to
be postponed from Snturdny-to Monday
on ueeotint of rough weather suggests
the thought that there would bo more
real sport in the contest if it were un
derstood that at least -one of tho races
had to he run during n gnle. That, at
least, would insure the building of sea
worthy vessels instead of freaks de
signed to win speed if the word mny
be used for a run of thirty miles that
muy take sl hours.
Governor Hickett. of North Cnro-
llnn, objects to hnvlng the Prisoners'
Relief .Society, of Washington, investi
gate the prisons-of the stnte. Ho hns
been cussed by every tnr heel In the
stnte. he sajs, but he draws the line nt
cussing from outsiders. He is to be
congratulated on having mode n valu
able contribution to governmental liter
ature. Many have wondered just where
the abrogation of state rights would
hnve to stop lie has definitely set the
limit at "outside cussing."
What Do You Knotv?
QUIZ
1. Who was the first President of the
United States horn In the United
States?
2. What Is the "Silver Republic"?
3. Who were the twelve major gods ot
tho rtomnna?
J. By what name wero they collectively
Know n ;
C. Name four nationnl parka in the
unitea tstat.g7
C. Who is tho present premier of
Canada?
7. What typo of boat was tho orlclnal
America, which lifted the fumous
cup?
8. Who Is tho Third party candldnto for
President?
9. Who was the first poet laureato of
Kngluml?
10. Whnt was thn battle of Navarino
and between whom was it fought?
Answers to Yesterday's Quiz
1. LoWIh XIV of Franco ruled accord
ing to his enunciated principle, "I
am tho state."
2. A gadget Is a general term applied
by uvl.itoiH und mechanicians to
any small special mechanical dfl
vlce used In the construction nnd
equipment of airplanes.
3. Rio de Janeiro takes Its name from
the great buy on which it is Hltu
nted. The early discoverers
thought this body of water to bo u
river and named It lllo de Janeiro
(river of January) In allusion to
tho month In which It was found.
4, The Crimea. Is a peninsula In south
em Russia, nearly surround d by
me ijiuck sea and the sea of Azov.
C, Merlin was a mythical enchnnter
or 'magician, who figures In tho
cycle, of tho legends of King
' Arthur.
0. Lady Tcazlo Is tho sprlghtlj-, In
genuous and Indiscreet heroine of
tfhorldan's celebrated comedy, "The
School fop Scandal."
7. Tho Suez canal waa opened In 18C9.
8. Tarragon Is a plant allied to worm
wood nnd used In salads nnd In
making tarragon vlnegur.
9. Tho Urecks computed their calendar
by Olympiads, thu four-year period
between tho Olympic gnmes, and
counted from the first athletic fe
thai 770 B. C.
10. .JOelawaro was the fli-nt ptuto tq
. Tty thj tvHm cWltutlom fi.
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COX FLAUNTS OHIO RECORD
TO ENTICE PROGRESSIVES
Bearer of Democratic Gonfalon Seeks to Divert Attention
From League to His Acts as Governor '
Hy CLINTON . GILIJKKT
Blnn Corresimnilrnt of the Hienlne TuliHe Ledger
Columbus, ., July 27. Governor
Cox will base his claim to the progres
sive vote on his record ns governor of
Ohio. Ho hns been whnt is known ns
a progressive governor.
This country has had many "progres
sive" governors. Ln Follette probably
started the fashion in Wisconsin and,
being n pioneer, was of the crudest
and most violent type. Iowa had pro
gressive governors. So Jind Kansas and
Nebraska. Then eastern stntcs began
to get progressive governors: Hughes in
New York and Wilson iu New Jersey.
Ohio n little later had its Governor
Cox.
These governors all rnn true to type
in the administrations. Much social
legislation went on the statute books :
Workmen's compensation laws, school
reform laws, laws for the regulation of
corporations and laws limiting the hours
of labor cspeclullj of women nud chil
dren. Their record was a sensation in its
day. Wilson's wmk made him Prcst1
dent. Hughes's work almost made him
President. Cox came a little too lnte
to obtain the advertising out of his
work Hint the earlier progressive gov
ernors did. Itut his work hus been
tdmilnr to theirs.
Fifty-two Reforms Credited to Cox
If public attention were focused upon
state reform ns it was in the dnys
when Wilson wns governor of New Jer
sey or Hughes governor of New- York.
Cox would today he much better known
to the people at large than he is.
His campaign literature, issued when
he was seeking the nomination for Pres
ident, lists fifty-two reforms accom
plished during his administration as
governor. Of these the most outstand
ing are the workmen's compensation
act, consolidation of the country schools
and creation ot an industrial commis
sion. Most of the better-governed states
have workmen's compensation acts und
consolidated school districts. Some hnve
industrial cqnimifislons. New- York, un
der Hughes n dozen years or so ngo,
adopted a workmen's compensation net,
which was iudeed the basis of tho Ohio
act.
This is said not with an intent to dis
parage tho progressive legislation put on
the statute books under Governor Cox.
It is said merely to give soino iden of
the difficulty of selling Governor Cox to
the voters of the nation as a progressive
governor.
Progressive legislation in most stntcs
is an old story. It is not front-page
news any longer. Give the list of Gov
ernor Cox's fifty-two reforms to most
voters and the voters will read over
and approve them, but fall to be stirred.
Public Favorably Impressed
Cnx"s record ns governor is nn ex
cellent foundation for an anneal to thc
puhlic, but it is not an appeal to the
public, it win dispose voters lavorably
toward him, but it will not move them
If their minds are fixed ou other issues.
There is nothing arresting about a list
of reform legislation, not now. There
is nothing arresting vbout efficiency in
the governorsnip.
Cox, besides keeping social ends in
view, seems to have been a more than
usually efficient governor. Good execu
tives nre 1111 old story. The cquntry
generally takes them more or less for
granted.
This Is ono sldn of tho difficulty
which fnces Cox us he attempts to draw
the picture of progress against reaction
and to shift the Issue awuy from the
League of Nations and Wilson to onu
which will improve Ills chances of elec
tion. Another sldu of It is thnt the
country's attention bus for several
years been directed nwuy from btatc to
national problems.
Times Have Changed
In tho duys of Hugliea nnd Wilson it
was otherwise. Htuto government hud
largely broken down, Klihii Root, then
scci-etnry of state, had, nt the instiga
tion of Presidant Roosevelt, mndo u
speech warning thu states, thut they
would gradually Josh their powers tn
tho. federal govOruiipnt if they did not
mlphd' their.' 'warMi; It was1 cany then
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to gain nationnl nttcntion.
It is not so today.
The mind of the people is occupied
todny with internntionnl relations, with
the conflict between Congress nnd the
President, with the relative capacity
of the Democratic nnd Republican jmr
tles to govern the nntion, with the in
dustrlnl problem ns it uffects the whole
country and with the record of the
Wilson administration.
Of Cox's record as governor only two
things of national interest stnrtd out.
One is ills record in the Inst year in
handling labor difficulties In Ohio. The
other is Ills liberal attitude toward free
speech, not only iu labor disputes but iu
general.
Co's handling of strikes mnkes him
strong with organized labor. One of the
Gompers men at Han Francisco said
Cox was more iigrceable to union men
in general thnn McAdoo would hnve
been, though MeAddb, of course, wns
stronger with the railroad brotherhoods.
Wouldn't Summon Militia.
The' Ohio governor's nttltude during
the steel and coal strikes Inst year wns
thnt ordinary police protection wns
sufficient to keep order. He declined to
cnll out troops. When the Democratic
mayor of Canton kept demnuding
militia. Cox removed him from office nud
left the Repnhlicuu vice mayor in his
place. The governor declined to plncu
nolleo in vehicles corrying strike
breakers to work, but enforced thn law
strictly against all violators of order.
There were some dramatic incidents
during tlic strikes. For example, some
Pennsylvania miners, saying they were
denied the right of free speech in Penn
sylvania, came over into Ohio to hold a
innss-meeting. They were 5000 strong,
and Cox was besieged with requests to
cnll out the militia against the "in
vaders." He held that the Pennsyl-
unions lis .llicricilll fllizcnu in,l 11
right to enter Ohio, nnd, moreover, had
11 rigor 10 meet nun in t. Tie .,111111
talked themselves hoarse nnd then went
uumi- wiinnui lining damage.
Another incident, wns when a lot of
Ohio union strikers decided to go into
Virginia and dean up a place employing
nonunion miners. Members of Cox's
industrial commission dashed to the bor
der uuil persuaded the Oliloaus thut the
governor had given union labor ir sipiiire
deal anir that it must give hint a fair
deal. It was a close call.
Sechs .luMlce for Ilolli Sldei
It gives the key to' Cox's success in
dealing with labor, which is that there
Is only one law for lubor or cupltnl alike
and that so long as that law is not vio
lated there is nn occasion for special
protection for citlipr one.
In addition, the Democratic nominee
deals with lubor Hjmpatheticnllv mnn
to man and possesses its confidence.
He says ordinary police piotection is
enough and then lie sees to it that labor
does not force his hand by breaches of
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peace. In this he has aided by nis In
dustrial commission raado tin of labor
men, or men who understand and have
the confidence of labor.
The result is that Cax, while winnloi'
labor, hns not alienated capital in Ohio.
A Republican business man in Dayton,
reviewing the situation, said: "Cox his
been neither nro-lnbor nor pro-capital.
He has kept an even hand and shown
a lot of sense."
His labor record means some votet
for him nud it is his best talking point
if ho should be able to switch the issui
awny frpm Wilson and bis league to do
mestic problems.
Hut so far as Drogresslvlsm is con
cerned Cox is able to point only U
what he hns done rather than to what
he will do. Hli mind has not been oa
national problems. His primary cam
paign literature had no constructive
program. Cox has to think his way out
into the national field before ho finds
an issuo which will give vitality to his
cry of progress ugainBt reaction. '
MEXICO MAY RETURN RAILS
New Government Authorizes Com
mission to Consider Project
Washington, July T27. (By A. P-)-
rpsslhility of an abandonment by Mexico
ot her experiment in government owner
ship of rnilronds is seen in a dispatch
received today b.v tho .Mexican em
bassy. The dispatch stated that the
ilennrtmeiit of flnnnce. in behalf 01
the federal government, had nuthoriwl
a commission appointed by tho Doara
of directors of the Nationnl Kailwan
of Mexico for consideration of a project
tending to tho return of the railways
to their former owners.
The federal government, the dispatch
ndded, has announced It was not op
nosed to return of the railroads pro
vided tlic means of bringing about tbi
return fully to meet the government'!
requirements nnd Its execution may M
cnslly carried out,
SEEK AMNESTY FOR GIRL
President's Son-ln-Law, F. B. Sayre,
Signs Petition for Mollle Stelmer
New York. July 27. Harry Wein
berger, counsel for aliens held nt Ellii
Island for deportation, said yesterdij
ln u-nn clrpiilnllni n nnHnn-wlltc OCti-
tlon for granting amnesty to SIollU
Stelmer, the Russian radical, who ii
serving n fifteen -year sentonce in tbi
federal penitentiary nt Jefferson. M-i
for distributing circulars in war tiro
advising American citizens to resist
the draft.
Market St. ab. 10th. 11 A. M. to 11 F. It
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