"v ft, h ,;r 1 ., :i .- I . a v w. A '' r'Vi c ft ' i-J , 'H. 1 ' PJ& ; iv C,-?.h,. 4 ? IN. N ' 11 f I ,s .; . ' i. V, 8 Eliciting public 3Ie&aer rum.ic logku company OYItUB II K, CUP.TIH. I'kemmist T.ET'1!-.1''".."., I-rtlnlon. Vice ItreHdentS iA!L,pi1'u '""" J"hn Williams snd John J, 'Hpjrircon, Director r KDITOIUAb HOARD1! 'Afc..'.5l;l.,.'.K- Cchtis, Chairman iV" '" B. SMILEY. . .Editor ,"" 'tt0HW C. MAKTIN ..Oener.il ntitlnes Mar. rublljhed dully at l'l m li) Lrj-nrn lliilldlng. Independence Bqutue. rhlUilttptmt ATl.ANTio Cliv . . . I'rcKH-Unlon llulldf; IKW lltllFC 'till frll.H wintJlT , , . .... 701 Kurd llulldlnr I0H8 Kutlcltnn tlullillnii CUIOiUO.. . 1..UJ Tribune llulldlnr ,., . NEWS IIUtlEAU3i "iMIIsnTns i ii i, ??. U. Cor IVnnsvhanlK Aw. mi, I Uih St Xw luiis. in-RUtt . .TIio-Hhii Utilldini: i .suitseniPTioN ratkh TIM l;i.MNu 1-rnllr T.r.nnrn I. Mtri;1 ti yuhecrlhere In Phlladolnliln and surrounding lowtid at tlic rnte of twUr (12) centi per . Py mull to tinlnln oulaldi- of rhlladlphU. In lhf I l.ltfirf HfnlM I'.ninlu ft. Itnll.I ,,r. I'Hvninr in mo rnrner. 8ttee rns.rs.lonn, roMne free, fifty (M)) cents per iniinth flx ($0) dollars per J car, pmblt to adxanrc To all foreign countries one (It) dollar tr month N otic r-5urTirierii nhlilng HMre.-s enancca must ule old as ell as new ad- nn.u'iooo w.t m t ki ystonf. main soon CT Attttrcia nI roDitiiNfifonltoTtj to llifuino I'nhllr f.tilorr. 'itriiiuliice Siut.re, Phllmlrtiihln Member of the Associated Press run i.v.s'of.ir;) press u ereluKivrlu entitled to the me or republication of nil nrict dispatcher credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper, and also the local ncics puhlishrd therein. All rtih'i of republication of special dispatches herein arc aha reserved. ' rhiladrlphu, Wfdnrtday, Augmt 4. 1920 A FOUR-YEAR PROGRAM FOR PHILADELPHIA Tliliics on ulilrh (lie iienple expert the tint nilmlnlntrntlon to concen. frnte It attention! The Delaware river bridge. A ilryttoek big enough to accommo date the largest shins Development of the r ipfrf transit sys tem A rotnvMiffou Anil. A butlttlnfi for the free Library. An Art Jtoemn. , Bnfnrpeinciif of the icafer supply. Homes tit accommodato the popular 'ton. THE FIRE RECORD A S tniK fire Ios ill this clfy In July r i.. .:.. ....! i. i,.. mArn ,1,.,., H, ftl wu f..r i, rt .lx mnntl,. nf hwt ' i l- li ill I (i ill ift- uiwir liiiiii tii .- i. i ii ...J.iui... '.i... i. ' fire underwriters lire "giving some at- j tention to the subject. The disastrous tires in July were ex ceptional. Philadelphia has n record for extinguishing tires which does credit to the cmVicncx of tin fire department. Yet the Jii nes were due in part to defective apparatus The director of public snfct. i- now having nil the apparatus inspected in order to dis cover just what mu-t be replaced the men are provided with ho,o th will not burst and Inilders that will not I lirnnlr tlmv .Mm ktn'n urnnnrti- frfim ile ' U....!. .. ,. ..... .... ,-...,-..,, ...... ... structinn ns efficiently as the firemen In nny other city. It the agit'itiou b the lire under writers haptens the displacement of the poor apparatus and the purchase of new, then it will sero a good end. Yet It Is unjust to condemn the city's fire ! service as a whole because of u few j exceptionally disastrous fires iu one , month. ' MUNICIPAL TAXIS fTIHE high cost of automobiles for city -L officials has led to nil experiment j begun in New orl this week which deserves the attention of Mayor Moore. The city has bought :i lot of automo biles that are o lie run as tuxicub. Instead of proidinc: n cur and a chauf feur for each official who thinks he needs one. it has arranged t'.'iit when the services of a car arc repilred the official will telephone to the dispatcher on the stand udjniuijis tlie municipal building. A car will then await him at tlie entrance of the building. He will enter it, co about his business anil return, when the car will be free for the Use of tlie next man. It is estimated that this plan will save a large sum ccr year while in no way interfering with the freedom of movement of the officials. And It will make it morally certain that the city cars arc not used for joy riding after hours. ONCE TOO OFTEN 05 kMAR LOCKLEAH. the first man to lenp from one airplane to another while both were In motion, went into the nir once too often. He met his death while spinning to tlie earth at ,I.os Angeles iu nn exhibition flight. It is doubtful if nnything thnt he cer did in th-- sky added to the sum of in formation about flying which 1ms been Hccumulnteil since the Wrh'ht brothers discovered the principle on which nil airplanes are now made. lie was an expert aviator, of course he had to be In order to run his machine but he seemed to be more interested in spec tacular "stunts" to thrill the spectator tlinn in the progress of nviution. I1U death was the natural end to the career on which he had entered DR. THOMPSON'S SUIT THE meaning of the tenehers' retire ment law will be clarified as a result of the suit for reinstatement ih presi dent nf the Central High School begun by Dr. Robert Ellis Thompson. He has been retired bv h Hoard of Public Education. His nttomey is understood to hold that the state re tirement board must act affirmatively before a teacher who has reached the ago1 limit is separated from his position. Tlie retirement board has not net! in the case of Doctor Thompson. It is also held that tlie retirement net Is un constitutional, us it is class legislation. The purpose of the act is to insure greater efficiency in the conduct of the schools and also to provide for the old aire of teachers who have reached o , entv years. The desirability nf a valid act to nccomplisli these ends is ad mitted. It is important that then should bo n judicial interpretation of the. statute nt the earliest possible mo ment for the guidance of the school au thorities in the future. AN ARREST AT LAST IT WKRY parent will hope that the postal Inspectors hnve at last nr- rested the man who lias neon leiiiug George II. Coiighlln. of Nnrristown, that he would return his Infant son for a rewnrd. ' The, money asked for was oner put la the designated spot and taken nway -by some onc.tiuj the child wus not re turned. More money waM.nsked for and was promised, uud tin postal Inspectors .',-j their assistants hiirrpunded Hie ' - feM'V'we Iti'.a be put and ar- '" . ' ..mtfrf " fwQ I'-'cnt to the place. ; '. N llLZ..-mMil Insist that be Is the man m , , f T1:'! i' '.i.t M I. wt amim ." " " vv " rlmrccd with uslne the mnlln to clcfrnuil If lip knows anything nbout the child, and If his connection with Km kidnap, pins inn bo proved, he will bo i-linrjtctl with thp serious crime of child slcnllnK. Hut whoever demanded the reward on promise of the return of the child, nud then look the 'money and disappeared, is Kiillty of n crime no luhtminn that It Is dlfllcnlt to believe that such a thing happened. Yet the evidence seems in disputable. FOREIGN POLICY PUZZLES THE AMERICAN WILL Di8tastefulncs8 of a Paramount ' Problem Explains Why Politicians Approach it So Gingerly 'TinUIUCN policy Ik a deal In future. American character considered a a whole N not celebrated for Its patience. Obviously, therefore, discussion of the role which this nation mar or may not elect to play with reference to other countries Is almost certain to be heated. There Is no particular objection, of cnursc. to argument vigorously waged. Indeed, it is a popular belief that truth lies somewhat between extremes of opin ion nnd thnt its clear Aplrit can be forced Into the open by the very stress of contrivers.'. Put foreign policy as a political bat tleground canuot be mude to conform to this engaging theory. Its defects ns they affect the American electorate are twofold. The opinions advanced by the average voter are second-hand, lie is loath for that reason to accord tlieui n fu'l measure o' confidence. The inevitable result is mental fog. stultifying wrangles and political confu , sinn. which In the most erratic fasjijon plas fast nnd loose with traditio'ual i pnrti-nu nliucmonts. j No snoner. for example, had Senator I Hurtling declared himself upon the 1 League of Nations In sjjch n wny that .several Interpretations are permissible I than Chairman White, of the Demo j emtio National Committee, subordinates , the league as an issue to n nebulous , "I'rogresivism." This does not mean that the league and the treaty are shorn of their iin j portnnce. That is intriniic. Hut the ' shuffling and hedging from which, ap parently, neither of the two great par- tips free is reflective of tlie native . teiiipernmeiit in its reaction to que tion. iifTectlnc our cour-o bejond the three-mile limit. Foreign problems are kuotty. They call for speculation about the future, nnd immediately the boun daries of controversy are embarrass ingly widened. Furthermore, home dilemmas through out our history have occupied most nf our attention. We can "negotiate" ticm. visualize them with direct rela tion to our own instant affnlrs. The ' protectionist is likely to discover strong ' , nersonal reasons supporting his stand "for a high tariff. Argum-nts which move the intimate. free trader are often equally We and our ancestors have been I busily enc.iged in creating nnd develop j ing a great nation. To think beyond our frontiers, notwithstanding tlie tact that we have had our share of foreign wars, is disconcerting. There is public floundering and political blundering, Exhibitions of both hnve been given i,y party leaders nnd their supporters ever since tlie simple, dramatic and cumtio'.ial .irguiiiciits for war were su l perseded by the complex, ponderous land, by contrast, uiithrilliug conten tions on behalf of world peace. And it ,vas rv(.r thus The ibrant patriotism of the Anrrl can Revolution made way for a treaty row which for bitterness engendered am1 misconceptions displaced is hirdly ,'ir nlle'eil by the adventures iu Washing ton, and now in the campaign arena, of the pact of Versailles. Repugnance to the treaty with Great Ilrirnin which John Jay brought back from London in 170." wns bv uo mentis exclusively mi sou on tlie nature oi tnai document. lns lion of Ills work de- mnuded international thinking, and that , tribute the public was disinclined to j I"1"" , . . . , ,, . It was simpler, tt inolvel less study. less effort in pursuit of real information for the House of Representatives to l bolk for n time nt making it operative than for this body sincerely to appraise i its wortli or demerits. Mail a presi dential election been iminiueiit nt that dale it Is possible that party Hues might hac hern winy. This conjecture nnt i urally eliminates Washington, wjinse treaty stand was obstinately unyielding, but the professional politicians would lime had their ears close to the grouud. as they have today. I low extremely little professed prin ciples of partisanship count when the question to be decided is of broad sig i nitiennce and scope is illustrated in the j case of the Louisiana Purchase. In a win the trans-Mississippi M'ritory . question in 1X01! could be classified ns I foreign. The thirteen states and their new sisters were far, indeed, from New Orleans. Demagogy naturally had its innings. Politics made strange bedfellows. It wus the .Tcffcrsoniun party, by profes. I sioti "strict constructionists" of the constitution, which demanded imperinl ! increase of the federal domain. It wus , tfie so-called Federalists, up to that I point zealous advocates of strengthen ! lug the national power, who sought to I bl..'k the moe! j The epilogue to the Spanish War is 1 an especially typical instance of tlie j confusion and cross purposes which I quandaries relative to foreign nffaiis i breed in the I'nited States. The slen j del jess of the margin by which tin- na tion was saed from n protracted and ' disgusting political row is sometimes 'forgotten. The treaty with the Madrid Government, after bunging tire for ' weeks in the Senate, was eventually I passed in February, ISO!), with n single I ote to spare. The Philippine question wns an irri tating novelty. Acquisition nl thr shinds mnrked the entrance of the nn tion as a power in the Orient. It pleased the Democrats to view the fu ture with tremulous alarm. Hud thev possessed sufficient representation in the Senate they would in all probability huo defeatcil the treaty. Passed though the pact was, the ex pansion iuestlnn"was carried over into the piesideutial campaign. The Denin-i-rats. however, were unable to make the country see the importance of this subject, upon which they were so fun damentally wrong. Free silver, a theme upon which tlie Individual Amer ican believed nt least that he could make up his mind without arduous labor, became for a second time the dominant election Issue, to the destruc tion of the second of Mr, Ur'yan's presidential hopes. Unquestionably the desire to stress Issuen which thp average citizen re. gards au vivid and concrete is behind h nrticnt Jockeywk strategy dlslln- lulihinf the Leagua. oi Nations atU EVENING PUBLIC ' tmlo hi both parties. The treaty is a "bard" topic. It Is monumental, ex hausting. It relnlcs to foreign polle.x, and that alone Is ruffling to the domestii.' personality. This time, however, the distasteful ncff of the tlicnu? fs a miserable urn! impotent i .reuse for lazy-mlndcdncM. The primal responsibility is the public's. Whether we like It or not, the task of reaching some decision upon foreign policy must eventually be faced. Mr. Harding us President would um quPAtlomibty give it his first considera tion. If we arc Inexperienced at the Job. If obstinacy in the White House has long delayed u settlement, that Is an explanation of our prcdlcniiicut. but it does not exempt us from meeting It. Meanwhile, the attempts of politicians to avoid It or to approach It glugetly are, amusing. They reveal thereby greater knowledge of n temperamental weakness of the American public than a realization of marching events. LEARNING MADE ATTRACTIVE "D M. IirtiHKS. president of Mluml 1'uivcrslty. of Oxford, O.. seems to think that students can gel education informally outside of the classroom as well as in it. He has arranged to pay a full professor's salary to Percr Mack nje. poet and dramatist, and give him a house to live In nnd a studio In which to work on condition Hint he will live on the cinnpus and meet the students In nnglisii around the opeu fireplace In the studio in tnc winter. The purpose of Mr. Hughes is evi-. dcntly to bring the students In contact with a man who is doing creative work and to give them the benefit of Ins pcnt of view on liteiuture and life. He will apply the principle on which is based the old ( hinese sn.xing, that nu hour s conversation across a table witli a wise man is better than a year's solitary study of books, only there will be con versation with u literary man nround'a fireplace. College faculties will doubtless watch the outcome of this experiment with some curiosity. Theoretically it is a good plan. How it works out in prac tice will depend on the adaptability of M Muckajc to the conditions about him. lint every one familiar with college life I nnwb that there is not enough In timate contact between the students and the learned men on tho fneitlties. The sfiideuts do not want to intrude tliein sflics nnd the professors arc sometimes too inoiljs.1 to force themselves upon the bojs outside of the classrooms. Hut if Professor MeMastcr, who bus just re tired from the faculty of the 1'niver ity of Peniisjlvnuin. could be induced to meet the students In Ainetlcni) hls- toiy In the big room iu Houston Hall one eeuing a week and talk with them I nbmlt IMlrr,.nt problems with their his- t()rie background and provoke informal discussions there would follow a clari- licatinn nf thinking on liistoi ' and cur rent questions which would be beucliclul all around. Tlie College of France practices this system on a large scale. It has a ' acuity of specialists who dcliw'r courses of lectures on their specialties to all who are interested. It gives no diplo mas and holds no examinations, hut the professors hold themselves iu rendi nes.s to meet nil Inquirers and discuss tilings with them, as Percy Mackaye Is to discuss literature with the Miami students who are interested enoiign to go to his studio and talk witli him. ! LABOR'S POLITICAL PROGRAM IT IS aiinouiiced that the American , Federation of Labor is not to engage iu partisan political activity tills year. Th.it is. it is not going to support He- , lt)v stonished eyes mid I could hardly publicans as Republicans or Democrats' hclieve it. ns Democrats. Instead of doing this j ror i,mlI XV. in his proudest lim it will, according to Vice President ,m.t. hud engraved upon, his cannon, Duncan, "adopt the only lngicnl posi- hist aboe the middle point where cau tion for workiugmen to udopt. and that js in support Its menus loyally every- where and tight its enemies everywhere witli might ami main." , ,.. f ,,,, ,,,., t N ,,, to send into every congressional district thr abor rPrr, 0f every congressman fcip i, rP. election, in order that not . ,Il(, j 1(.rs ()f the feih -ration but i mny llie memtters oi wie leiierniiou nur lull other voters mny know where the candidate men will stands. Then the local labor decide for themselves whether they w i to support the candidate or not. This is n perfectly legitimate course. It is pursued by tlie equal suffragists, by the prohibitionists and by ail other interests. Indeed, it is pursued by Un political bosses. Hut the bosses go further. If a member of tlie Legisla ture, for instance, shows too much in dependence tliey will go into his district nnd preyent his rennminution if pos sible. "Speaking of the housing short age," remarks the Hnston Evening Trauserlpt. "how many houses would the money that workers have Invested with Mr. Ponzl hnr built?" Tlie con jecture is Interesting but uiiimportnnt. o have had a labor shortage, a raw lliaierini snoriuK- iiiui ii iranopoi iuii-mi shortage; but there hns been no real money shortage. Money there bus been in nbiindnnce, Pnn.i is onlv one of ninny instances where would-be build ers have seen it otherwise employed. A Summer Sermon amHE sou thnt sinneth, it shall J- die." The parson preached, one summer dny, T heard the text and then mv thoughts Through open window sped nwnv. I heard the bees and blithesome birds T swelled the scent of meadow flower, And .warm, sweet grass and fragrant rose Thnt lib-nd their odor nt the hour When noon draws near. I snw the sky, And watched the drifting, clouds. Tlie heat waves quivered on th fleecy ledge; And then some gnats went by in crowds. In distant field I heard the bleat rt t -1... 1 U 4 l...,.....n.. Ill UHU.V IMII1IJ. . UIIIM-IHj Soiled just iiside the church, then out, I..I I,., he nrUnned. ns wns I. t felt n faint, soft, strolling wind Steal past my cheek ; some far off trees Swnyed languidly, touched gently by Some other happy, vagrant breeze. A croup of crows exactly nine Flew enwing'past mv bit nf view. A env cicada scaled his z-z-z-z, . With all the fervor that no knew. 1 A flutter near the window frame! A spnrroy. poised on beat'ns wing, Pursued n search for spider there, And tried upon a vine to cling. And then I smelled the breath of corn You know it. From the 'tasseled field. The sunshine draws perfume to which Your sense nf joy is glad to yield. "The soul that sinneth. it shall die." My thoughts came back and budc mu givn Tlie sermon of the summer world: "There Is a chuiice. That soul shall t lire." i-Blancbq IJlUabctU WniM In thi New Vf " .. -, LEDGER - PffiTJATjELPHIA, WEDNESDAY, 'AUGUST ' HILAIRE BELLOC Tho noted, writer begins herewith a series of delightful essays in a style which hatt made him famous. Others will appear on this page from time to time. ULTIMA RATIO T CAME out of the sea the other dny Into a little Kugltsh harbor nnd landed there. After I had put away everything on board and left my boat in charge of the old man who looks after her in the tidal lock, I stood waiting outside the railway station till lily train should come nnd take me homo. And there it was thnt I Haw a Oerinnn gun. They hud put It up for n trophy. Never was n war with trophies so pro miscuous! Neter uns n war with lio- Iphlcs sk much of nil autlclimnx! The nearest thine to a renl tronhv which they hnve had since this war ended was u great pyramid of guns in the middle of the Champs Fljsecs, all heaped to gether pell-mell, with (lie cock crowing on the top of them. Hut 1 never see u Knvttrlan or n Prussian gun stuck up mournfully in a little KnglMi town without thinking of the English and French guns which are knocking nbout somewhere nmong the German stntes. And what is more, I never see one without thinking how poor a trophy the modem gun tunkes; cspclally the Her man gun, the carriage of which always leminds me of rather heavy and bad agricultural machinery. I think of the trophies of old, of the fine bronxe guns of the French wnrs. and cspecinllj tluit amazing ragged, dusty Hue of them in the Invaliiles In Paris, which look down slantwise through a yellow window and sec in lis solemn pit below the huge marble sarcophagus of Napoleon. However, there wns the gun. And as the time of wtw.hig for u train is the most empty time in the world (because you cannot limit it and ,ou do not know whether it is long enough to-start u geometrical problem or some oilier en- .tertainiug pastime) I tilled it up by walk-lug ron ml that guu. I guessed it to be a loO. say six inch, but I am often wrong. At nny rate, it was a heavy piece; not a how itzer. I KNOW not what It is; It may bo youth and its permanent moinWics, hut wSien I see u gun firing at the moon, corked up nt its utmost eleva tion. I feel that t tic weapon has suffered nu indignity. It is as though It were nu auimal going through u performance. For usually th" natural position of u gun is some slight elevation for a nor mal range, and not this isolated, head-lu-thc-nir, barking attitude which the suns of cuntivity too often wear. They nolilest, tliese poor prisoners, wiien I rlutv stnml icvnl with the e.'lrtll. ns though they were firing at close range ' in tlie hopeless effort to stop au ad vancing wave. WcJI, anyhow, there it was. all lifted up, absurdly like u dog baying. Then when I gut nearer to tlje gun nnd looked closely nt it I saw some thing which I hud seen so often in n million German tilings that it had be come a commonplace fo'r them in my mind. The tiling that lias become n 1 commonplace iu my mind is the fact ! that Germans cannot make, but can , only copy. They have many negative ' viitues, very unsuitcd to their lust nber- rations. They arc fairly industrious, very simple, normally kind nud domes tic, nnd in their dreamy way they half cutch now and then what the older civ , ili.ntinu of Europe expresses iu strong and positive beauty. Hut they copy. They are linpicssed. They are u soft ' metal mid ancient Europe is tlie die. ' What made me think of this common place was the seeing on tliut gun uc- tuaily engniM-d on a modern gun! n poor little enpv of Louis XIV. Think of it! After now much more than two tintiili-.t.l uiiii'u ! 'I'lit.i.' It wns lipfmc nous turn upon their trunnions, a great i '' wriiieu in iiuunsiniis sciipi wuu '" crown above It. nud then along the breach, just above the touchliolc. he had ;K,..,j,lt'1,;;i,11 ra,rreS',Mn." "ft a famous plirasc in Euiopc then. Swift. the greatest of 'English writers, made i good fun of it when he said, "It seems that his arguments have bceu turned iiiui ins inum; un ' against liimsell. That was suy. Louis XlV's little nianucr 1 thought everybody hud and, 1 forgotten it. I thought that uo one remembered those guns except u fe.v miserable people like myself who pottir about doing useless tilings. Hut I was wrong. The lust king of I'russiu, tin last of the Hoheiizollerns, the man upon whom tlie famous oracle of the thirteenth century had fallen, he re membered it. TT'OR there on that gun. in the wretched little, absurd little, squalid little station square of n little English port, with no one to pay it even the honor of curiosity. I remarked graven tilings slavishly copied from Louis XIV. First, just above tlie trunnionu there was n crown, nud under It, in exuctl, the same flourishing sciipt of the seven- tcf(th r(,ntllrV( the two letters W. R." interlaced, and between them an eagle looking tieicely to its right. So I take it thnt this guu worked for the king of Prussia and not for the emperor. Then at the breach there was a scroll, nnd in tlie scroll was a similar script, just like thnt of Louis XIV. And the motto ran: "ritimii ratio regis" "regis," mind you. not "icgum." We all liuve the defects of our qual ities, and there does go with the Ger man, eien with the l'russlun. Mmplic itv, nn astonishing lack of critical power. "l inula runo icgum" is one I'lttniti rntio iprriw" Is .nilttfC nn- thing; , ,.. It n.,niiidcd me nf the famous , li( ,. "i.-railty .thy name is 1 ad v." Now why was that script ever en graven (tlie date wns lfinili? Against whom was this king going to use his urguincut his lifst argument? I carry back my mind to lliO!) uud I uin re member no one against whom nt tliui moment he was preparing to argue in such a fashion. It wns a quiet tune. There wns no worry within the Prus- ,,,, ,, "'. n v.V .i,-.t u ' .'t "int. w udir liiitl not been henrd as the date and that was tlie mono, .win mere was me eagle uml there was the iuscrlbrd flourishing initial, and there wus the crown. I KNOW very well that some, per haps most, of my leaders of those who do me the honor to read 'this ram bling will think me a fool for what T am uex to sny. Rut I confess to a sentimentality toward that gun. When I was n boy and they were t( aching me to drive in the artillery school at Toul they used to give us as a sort of vile body on which to experiment our horses and ourselves, old guns nf 'IS; old bronze guns. And these the French had made with great art. They were beautiful things. Whnt touched me most about them wns that each of them had 0 name. One wns called "Lib rty." another "The' Voire of the Pen. pie," another "Knuulity," and fro on. K Is ft by-maa instinct nd a Just rob SHORT CVTS Ho Is npw niorcly a semi-detached villa. I t OI17.1 publication. Ponzl money is bllll talking tfor 1 A n stunt aviator, holds the record. Death 6till Come to think of It, eYcry has-been is a finished artist. Whenever an nutodrlvcr Is sent to jail for (jpeedlug, the fooiklllcr takes n day off. The Chaplin divorce proves that not ccn pie comedy can kill romance and tragedy, Mt. Gretna furnishes additional evidence that the military life has Its fascinations. !so far we have heard ncr complaints from the lifeguards about the one-piece tn'hlng suits. Judging by thiuopen mufflers, most of the autotrucks we have met must hae stiff necks. Mortl comes from Paris that the Tiger may "come bnck." Tammany finttcrs Itself that it thought of it first. November will decide which party will he In power when the United Stntes enters the League of Nations. it mny yet come to pass theSfiSfei Kansas farmers will have to move tfilW -wheat in their own motor cars. Have yon noticed how tjie vpruue during the last few years has moved from the cheap boarding houc into high Society? . Senator Penrose says he has a first class appetite. Nothing new in that. Messrs. Wood and Low den can testify that he eats 'cm nlivc. King Alexander of Greece says he would willingly trade his crown for a derby hat. Some other kings have al ready made the trade for a brown oue. Two men arrested for shooting at robins nnd blackbirds had narrowly es caped hitting n woman. Thnt dope nbout every bullet having its billet is. happily, bunk. , Hooze Is going to be the hardest thing in the World to buy. snys the United Slates commissioner of prohibi tion in New York. Living up, to its name of hard liquor, as it were. The Houston Post speaks of "the depraved and devilish Republican . ., .... . pari. i ms. nowever, nwiiKcns con cern for the Houston Post rather Jlian for the Itetiubllcau party. How does it get that wny? "" A Newark. X. J., ennnrv hns heen given n .$200 funeral. Including a hearse, five coaches nnd n fifteen -niece band. We know a cat that could hnve done the job just ns effectively (with music) nnd much more cheaply. "Wets and wets only" is to be the slogan of the New Jersey Wholesale Dealers' Association during the primary and general election campaigns. Thnt Is to say. the members propose to be Honor den'ers first and Americans as an afterthought. Is there not beneficent significance in the fact that all treaties between nations are submitted to tlie lengue? The leaeue will pass on the pact be tween France and Helglum ; and later will scan the agreement between Eng land nud Japan. It is tlie beginning of play with all the cards on the table. Once upon n time nn eloquent statesman In the Hritish House of Com mons declared that the proposed tax on leather would work n great hardship on the bare-footed peasantry of Ireland. Ou exactly the same principle and with as much whimsical though concealed truth it may be said that the railroads arc victims of the excess-profits tax. A careful canvass of Tennessee leg islators by woman suffragists hns re sulted, they sny. In the certainty that tlie woman suffruge amendment will not be ratified, nnd they hnve appeared to Governor Cox and Intend to appeal to Senator Harding to hnve these gentle men use their influence in the mutter, the supposition being, we presume, that the Tennessee legislators don't know their own minds. Franklin K. Lane' says the rail roads are now entering n test period and Hint "if they do not make good something else must lie, nttcmnted the Plumb plan or some form nf govern ment ownership." Hut perhnps there is another alternative the unrestricted competition of pre-war times. H may not lie popular: it lunv not lie wise; but while Considering diie possibilities it cannot l)e ignored. And, anyhow, it may not be as black ns it is painted. to give names to things. It is a purt of the truth thnt we ourselves are madi In the image of God. Why. my boat, i which isbutli material, jnnnimnte body, has a name. I must tell you, though you ridicule me, that when I saw that German guu I wished It also had u nnine. And what sort of name would it have had? It could not hnve had a nnine for nn anstrnct virtue or idea, like 11 French guu. It might have hurl the name of u great German mnn, hut tlie names of grent men are soon exhausted. It might have had the uunic of 11 jest, for jests in i- innumerable; but. then, tlie render would hnve hnd to under stand the jest, which would probably have been local, like "Grundiiiumiiia" or "Archie," or the French gun I knew which the men of my youth called "Silence iu the Ranks" an enormous niece on the top of u fort. Indeed. 1 I cannot conceive what name could hnve .-en gien to this one gun out of so many guns. Still I wish it hud hud 11 name. If it had had n nnine. now thnt 1 have left it, I could look buck on it nnd say to myself: "What fun I had in those few minutes before the train cume in, cxuiiiining the outward ex pression of , his character, bis toilet. his elevation, and nil the rest of it." Hut the gun hnd no name uml so I must still curry it iu my mind ns "the German gun." Of nil tjic hundicds nf guns tliut I have seen lying uliout or being carried oh trucks or drawn by horses or stand ing in the grent factories dining .11 these- years, only one gun has torn l. me more, nnd this also wns a Germiri gun. 1 saw it In February, llllfi. It I lay deiclict in a ditch close to the 10.ul ! near the River Ourcq, within an hou ' of Meaux, anil Paris not so fnr 11 way. j It wns pel Imps the extreme guu of nil the Invuhlou the mark of the high tide. It lay pitifully on one side, like tin corpse iu Hnudeluire's poem. One wheel It had nnt nt nil, but only the nxle sticking up into the air, and the other wheel wus rotted into the ground. And there lay the poor dead guu likc u fool. 1 snid to my companion: "Why dors not some one nf the peasants take it nwuy and keep It for n relieV To which my companion answered Jii (lie French fashion (which differs so much from our, I think, mora human and, at any1 rute, more tsemiuieutul way) ; "Why should ho?" ' Gftvrum, lit p. a, ir. veni rotf.inc. 1920" "GOSH! IF Ybtl&E ''J "Self V" PHILADELPHIA'S CLUBS ARE VALUABLE ASSET This City Ranks Above Most Others in the World in Influence and Variety of Organizations PHILADELPHIA is colled the City of homes, yet It Is doubtful If any city on enrth owes more to its clubs thnn Philadelphia, says the Corn Ex change, published by the Corn Ex change Nntlnnnl Hank. Not only Is there u grent number of renlly great clubs with un immense membership, but some of them have played a prominent role In tho history of tho town. Whnt la the o'dest active club in America Is the "State in Schuylkill." It came into existence about two months after George Washington was born, in IT.'t'J. The original nnme was the "Colony in Schuylkill." which wus given to it in jest, tho legal title being the Schuylkill Fishing Co. It is nnd has always been purely a social organization, noted for the good cheer of its entertainments and famous as the ereutor or the iiqmortnl ".Fishhnuso Punch." Hut while the "State In Schuylkill" Is the oldest living club in the city or nation, there was n club in Philadelphia before its organization, which exerted a potent influence upon the town, the country nnd eien the world. Krniihlln Started Movement Henjamln Franklin's .Inula was a very smnll club, measured by tho num ber of its members, but very few socie ties nny where ever wielded u wider sway. What did not Franklin nnd Ills Jiiutii originate iu Philadelphia? What now thoughts, new- ideas and enterpris ing civic plans did they nnt inaugurate? There are booster clubs In ii thousand towns today, but compared with Frank lin's Junta tliey are all small fry. The Junta was 11 hhe of restless bees which constantly stun-; all the neighbors into tin liveliest nt-thity. .Vnd from Franklin's day to this tlie club idea lias been strong in Philadel phia. There is scarcely a field of human activity which does not possess Its club in Philadelphia. So we iiae a great variety of social clubs, business clubs, college clubs nhd literary clubs, each doing its work more or less unnoticed bv the big municipal ity. There are musical clubs to promote and widen the interest in music; art .mil sketch clubs to foster u. love and knowledge of the arts. There are engi neering dubs to further the interests of practical men of science. Rotary nud Kiwnnls clubs push for ward the living ideas of business. Advertising has its Poor Richard Club, and there are some really vital business men's clubs which lunch or dine regularly while listening to a dis cussion of ways uud means to promote trude. Union League Is Unique There is haidly a limit to the political clubs, foremost nmong which I. the most notable organization of its kind in America, the Union League. Some of the older members object to its being cnlled 0 club on the ground that It was not created ns a club and that it is greater than 11 club could be Pulque stands the Philadelphia Club, the most widely known of our distinctly social clubs. It is eighty-seven years old and lias occupied Its present house at Walnut and Thirteenth streets for just seventy years. The immense ginwth iu the miIuc of real estate is indexed well in the case of the Philadelphia Club house. It cost only SL'.-,,0()( In 18."i0. Twenty times thnt would not buy it today. People do not seem to remember It. 1 but the fact Is tliut among our' most ancient clubs now virile and thriving is (lie Mercantile Club. It is the grent Jewish club of the city and its beautiful home on North Rroad street Is only u I sign of the prosperity which reigns Iwilhin and, without among its lingo 1 membership.' The I nlon League was horn of the Civil Wur and is unique iu many ie sprcts. Its club property is the most valuable of any social urguuizutiuu iu tlio I'nited States. The membership now exceeds !,00, but the waiting list is so great that new members now being elected were pro posed eight years ago. Iltg Dividend for .Members It may give un idea of tho extraor dinary character of the league when it is stutcd that wen: the club to bo dis solved uud liquidated, vuch member would bo entitled (o a dividend of uiir ward of SL'OOO. The Union Leaguo'a activity Iu poli tico la acrer jjkown. In local contests, GOIN TO PLAY, LEtf'S GET STARTEDll but In national affairs. Iu that field it lias hud a noteworthy record, un matched anywhere, and has entertained n greuter number of famous men thnn nny other club In the country. A distinct credit to the city is the Racquet Club. It owns 11 superb house nnd us the nnme would suggest has u sporting tinge to its enreer altogether admirable. The Racquet Club Is thor oughly cosmopolltun, mid out-of-town visitors who arc permitted to sliure Its hospitality go away again with a heightened opinion of 1'hiludt-lpbla ns a place to live. The Hittcnhnusc nud the Art nre a pair of exceptioiilly high-class '.-lull, while tlie University Club, .wits. Its 1400 resident nnd non-resident members, all graduntes of some college or university, hns its own distinct field. Among the colleges, Princeton bus led with its well-established club, but the alumni of Yale have recently organized a club which may rival that of the Tigers from Nassau. Camnc is cnlled tlie "grentest little street In the world." Thnt is because it houses such a fine assortment of the smaller hut thoroughly good clubs, such as the Franklin Inn. made up of 100 men, each of whom is supposed to hnve done n more or less notable thiug in u literary way. The women of Philadelphia have their New Century nnd College Clubs and the more famous Acorn Club. Resides thnt. they have hud great success iu keeping ullve musical clubs and clubs whose ob ject is to foster personal welfare. Around the rim of the city are about twentv-five country clubs. The aggre gate membership of these runs up into the thousands, while the uiluo of their proncitlcH mounts into the millions. Since no city, not even London, the mother of clubs, surpnsses Philadelphia in the variety and excellence of its clubs, they comprise a civic asset of real Im portance to our wc!l-beug. I EITH'S "A TRIP TO HITLAND" With 10 Katnous Sons Writers s ED. JANIS & CO. S'ongr, Music and Dances I'llUl Mr-Cart.. H, yI7 .BUI. i,isv.u,,j, .i uyc ItOSK CLAIIR; MOSS ft F11YB: CIIAItLIB WILSON ami a nig Hummer Show. METROPOLITAN OPERA HOUSE .1 TIMUS DAII ' matimu:. i- an pVUMNU, 7:00 AN& 0:00 1 M, V.'.o COMMENCING Monday Evening, August 4. filiu 9th tini: auts riwHGNTH UP IN MARY'S ATTIC WITH Tlin FAMOUS CALIFORNIA BATHING BEAUTIES IN PERSON Plo Mlnelnc Clown Policeman Tik-k Automobiles S'lro Hose Manholes In the Tu vemenl A I'luy for Children Kroui Nine to Ninety riJPSTNl IT fit. Opera IIoukr " " 3 TIMEH nAII.Y Mais. 2..18. i:ue HI) THE LOVE STORY OF WE AGES lD)AMrtR Adaritstlon from Helen Hunt Jackson's ticmsma MONDAY mm. N0 ,M2 ."priiiA 1 m ,r I jffi &ky Adaptation from il WJ3 lh Helen Hunt I Fjtth yip, Jackson's i 111 lllV tory of Southoru , "l IbJrUz' . Cslllurnln 1 What Do You Know? , QUIZ 1. Who wns Caesar Itodncy? 2. How does poplin get Its nunie? 3. Who was Guldo ItcnlT 4. What patriot of the Ametli Revolution was celebrated engraver7 5. Who were the predecessors of t! Aztecs In Mexico 6. Who wns Stentor In classio tnjal oogy7 7. What Is the name of the chief Wi of the American humorist, Arterai Wurd? 8. What Is tho capital of Sou' Carolina? 0. Whatvero moldores. which ofli netffo nromlnentl.v In accounts I ho treasure of the Spanish Ml! buccaneers? 10 What Democrat wns defeated for, tl nresldcncv bv Garfield? ' Answers to Yesterday's Quiz' I Kpaghetto Is tho singular spaghetti. It literally means a little cord. The first recorded date' of In Olvmnla, (tames Is 776 13. C contests were held at Olympl 1 mo l'eioponnesus. urecce. ,1 "I'ut your trust In God, but mlndil keen vour powder dry." is a rJ marlt attributed to Oliver Croil welf. nichard Crashaw wns an KnrlM poet. He died In 1G50. His secu,i and religious poems were publliBra hi IG46 under the titles "Steps If the Temple" and "Tho Dtllshtiil tho Muses." St. Kwlthln wns bishop of WlrJ Chester.-In which English tovwi kl was horn about tho year SOW A. II He Is noted 111 folklore. .1 coni 111011 adage being that If It rainio St. Swltmn's day. .luiv 10, It rain for forty days more. Flemings Is tho name for inhabitma or Flanders. Adrlnnople Is a town Iu what wv formerly European Turlcey It I 137 miles northwest of Constant uople. Tho city was founded bl the Iloman Emperor Hadrian tho second century A. I. Ballistics Is the science rclallng Hi the burling of missiles or Ikf motion of projectiles. A cathedral church is 11 dome 10, Market St. ul. Iflth II A. M. In 11 P. 1 KATHERINE MacDONALD in "THE TURNING POINT" NEXT WEEK THOMAS MEIGHAN In Oi; Mll.I.Ii production "THEPRINCEsCHAP" A PAHAMOUNT PICTUilt: PALACE nXZW?!& OHO, 7115, V.av r. PUADI CC OAV In CllllMI.lt v,i miiio irt I ,-ciMKb HOMIl A.5E!?.... LARRY SEMON In .New Comedy "TIIL! STAOB IIAM I ARCADIA Chestnut St lid 1M 10 A M. 12. 2..?;,,1 "Tl XT Ii 5:NV.4rv;'f ' i uc woriu ana nm wiic FIIOM I'l.AV or HAMi: NAME VICTORIA WirSTWM IIOnAllT "Below the Surface I uosworiTH f A niTM 74 H.inKICT STREP rr 1 1 JVu ConsLanre ToWI In IN HHAnCII OK A 8INNCB" DTPUMTJunKCTST net. i"l ll-.VsaJlN 1 AI.1CK BnADiJ In "SINfW" GLOBE "Ttk1SnY.JS"J VJ II A. M. to 11 r. l CONTINUOUS VAUDEVILLE "PUTTiNa it ovnn," othwi. CROSS KEYS $ ur.ii jack noor and amw BROADWAY $ r PA'I MUSICAL MaoI.AriBNSJ; WAI.I.AI.-U "-j AND DETIH DANIELS In "BICK-A-B" WILLOW GROVE PARK, LKPH AND UIH HYMPHONV OPCIIESinJ TODAY Minn Dorothy vox, Boprani -9..i ifui... pi.ni.t. n-45 noniintlciC (nACHACClO'' with Emily' Stelces 1M - "''vffltlKi.CASVM C"? .Sh.Y Vs , V..:;.h. '; nhoia BchmtM MurRutrlta rlni W "lf-. """. . QaPaOQ Th4rJ.,iik BnriwrBsrAintM" Mm MEM VXl vass to xhn.cmmJnq.lWH oc J-V .ft.,:., 1 -r- .. t 'A ( h f Jlafiii ; l .''
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