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Philadelphia, Saturday, Auguit 1920 A FOUR-YEAR PROGRAM FOR PHILADELPHIA - J" , Thlofts on which the people expect the new atlmlnlstrntlon to. conren 'trnte Its attention) frhf Delaware river bridge. rA. drydock big enough to accommo w date the largest ships. 'Development of the rapid transit ts- tern. A convention hall. ?A bultdina tor tho Free Library. Mn Art Museum. 'Enlargement of the water supply. Homes to accommodate the popula tion. SOMEBODY BLUNDERED? THE Public Service, Commission ap parently thinks it has some legal rights that the courts nre, bound to re spect. A special meeting hns been called for next Tuesday to consider Judge Linn's order, which in effect forbids it to consider the leases of the underlying companies operated by the P-i R- The question of jurisdiction is raised. But it is now pointed out that under 'the law there can be no appeal fron an order of the commission until notice of the appeal has been filed with the Commissioners. No notice was given of the, motion for a writ of huper&edeas granted by Judge Linn. s The call for a special meeting indi cates that the commission is likely to fight for its rights. It undoubtedly understands' that if its power to inquire in'to' all the elements involved in fixing ai' reasonable rnte of fare is denied it might os well go out of business. "H0ME ART FOR ENGLAND PHILATJELPHIA has a suflicient 'claim upon Dr. R. Talt McKenzic to be entitled to congratulate Cam bridge for having secured his services week, pay I lir, mall to points outside or In the United States. Canadi fitatea noaaeajtlnnii. noataae cents ' design the war memorial lor tuat "SHI ' English university. .!" "i,",,4.. ,. .. ..... .. .. .. ... h xne wnuciicm siaiue anu ine noy t Franklin, both in the grounds of the ? University of Pensylvania. are typical ' sneclmens of Doctor McKeuzie's sure 'ond fluent art. Sculpture ns excellent V- ' Is rare cnougli in lintain, one ot tne . world's chief repositories of stodgy me morials. There is, of course, a certain balm for British pride in the fact that Doctor McKenzic is by birth a Canadian, but the local associations are indelible and bo varied that his rani; as a physician and director of physical education at "the University presses hard upou his distinction as nu artist. TIME IT WAS STOPPED rIS about time that the police de partment began to give u little more Berious attention to the bandits who nre robbing people n the struct nt night. The criminals get an automobile and lie in wait for their victims or hunt them down, rob them and then escape. Thursday night four of them in a car operated on North Broud street nnd held up five men within nn hour nnd a half. The amount of money they got was not large, but they ought not to have been able to operate at all. This is only the latest instance of outlawry of this kind. Hardly n day passes without reports of one or more such robberies. The robbers are usually young men or boys who have stolen a car. A little skillful detective work ought to discloBU the haunts of these youths. A PICKWICKIAN COMEDY THE humor of American politics is Intensified by the fact that the staunchest partisans are often so ob livious of its presence. Governor Cox's supportprs who, ac cording to their critics, have been en gaged In offering appealing iuducempnts tq corral o sufiiclently large crowd of boosters from Marion to make in front of the Democratic nominee's home lu Dayton nn effective scene for the movies today, are ohviously taking them selves very seriously. Not to be outdone in solemnity, the Republican Murionltfs have been lash lflg themselves into indignation over tho undertaking. "The entire movement," thunders the Harding headquarters, "is characteristic of machine politics." True enough, perhaps, and yet the enterprise Is" typical of severnl other things, and especially tho amusing side of a presi dential campaign. With npprecintion of the reject dup tp candidates for the highest political office, it may not bo wliollv unfitting to reread that famous I'lcKwlekian chapter about the Eatanswlll editors. If the cinema had existed in his day, Dickens would assuredly have enriched blti classical political comedy with that ""motif." FLOATING FAIRS 'A LMOST simultaneously Itulinus und C Americans have hit upon tho nov elty of Itinerant expositions. The for mer German raider Von Steuben, re cently sold by tho shipping board, is to be refitted as- a Homing iair ior tne dUpIay of home-manufactured prod ucts. Tho Itallnn trado ship, the Trlnscria, will carry its nttractively arranged cargo of samples to the priu Sftil Mediterranean ports. . ' Upon tho fato of these ventures tho .prais of k revolution la trado' expan- jx sion perhaps depends Tho stationary fair, expensively" organized nnd often ending in financial failure, has within the last quarter of n century been car ried to unmanageable extremes. The seas dotted with expositions of diverse nntlonal origins should not bo lacking in appeal to n restless age. In any event, a nautical business campaign of this tyjic is frco from the familiar objections tb some other kinds of trade penetration. The propaganda, for such it really is, will bo frank ond explicit and with these virtues special pleading dulls the edge of suspicion and criticism. If the ship fairs of the futuro may be inclined to get jammed ond lierhaps bid frantically for advantageous, anchorages in foreign ports, the two pioneers nro unlikely to crowd each other. The cnjjlslng radius of the Trlnacrla will be relatively small. The Von Steuben is scheduled for a world voyage, beginning with South America and then turning to the Far East. American trade can hardly fail to bo stimulated by tho Interesting venture.. GOVERNOR COX'S ACCEPT ANCE CHIEF interest in Governor Cox's speech of acceptance, of course, cen ters on whnt he hns to suy about the League of Nations. It must be nd tnitted that his statement of views on this question is much more definite than that of Senator Harding. He favors entering the lengue nnd he believes in the ratification of the trenty with such reservations ns will secure the support of the necessary two-thirds of the Senate. e This Is the attitude of substantially nil of the friends of the league in the Republican party. There are a few Republicans who nro opposed to the whole undertaking nnd there arc many Democrats who object to all reserva tions save those which will please tho President. As c pointed out the other day, the treaty cannot be ratified by either the Republicans or tho Democrats acting i nloue. Reservations must be framed which will satisfy members of both parties. Twenty-one Democratic sen ators voted for the Lodge reservations and only n small handful of Republicans voted against them. If the Democrats in tho Senate hnd entertained the view which Governor Cox sets forth in his speech there could have been agreement on such reservations as would have commanded the support of two'thirds of the senntors and this country should have been at peoce long ago. The reservations suggested by the governor do not differ in essence from the greater number of the Lodge reser vations. They arc intended to make it clenr that this country in fulfilling the obligations under tho league covenant must net in accordntice with the consti tution. Yet in spite of eerj thing that Mr. Cox says, it is clear to those familiar with the subject that there can be no ratification of the treaty, with or without reservations, until the attitude of the Democratic senators is changed. Of course. Governor Cox attacks Sen ator Harding's intimation that he would make a separate pence with Germany, It ought to bo attacked nnd the plan ought to be repudiated. A large part of the speech is occupied with noncontroversinl mntter. The gov ernor favors better treatment for the farmers and the laboring men. He be lieves that illiteracy ought to be dis couraged and thnt the foreiguers"'should be Americanized, He favors develop ment of transportation by laud and water and he advocates the industrial rehabilitation of the soldiers wounded in the war. And he holds that the budget system ought to be adopted by the national government in the inter ests of economy. Every one is in favor of ail these things, just as every one favors honesty iu men nnd virtue in women. It is really n waste of time to discuss them. If specific propositions were advanced for securing the ends sought, there would be some excuse for debate, but the governor confines himself to gen eralizations. Mr. Cox does claim credit for his party in passing the Federal Reserve banking law, and he would have failed in his duty as a party advocate if he had not claimed it. But tho Democrats are only acci dentally responsible for this excellent legislation. The groundwork was laid for it by the Republican Aldrieh Mone tary Commission, which studied the banking systems of the world and drafted a bill for a federal banking system. The nation wns ready for the legislation, and if the Republicans had been iu power it would have been passed just the same. The only credit that the Democrats deservo for it rests on their acceptance of the general plan outlined by the Republicans in the Monetary Commis sion report. But if it had not been for the assistance of tho Republicans in cor recting errors in the Democratic bill as originally drafted we should have had n much less satisfactory law than wo got. in the Interest ot historical accuracy these facts should not he over looked. But Governor Cox insists that the Republicans fought the Federal Re serve banking plan, when ns a matter of fact they did not fight the plan but fought the mistaken methods which the Democrat were trying to adopt to carry out the plan. This is a distinction with a vital difference. The candidate ought to have been better advised than to attack the failure of the Republicans to modify the excess profits tax laws. He charges those laws with responsibility for all sorts of abuses, including high prices nnd busi ness extravagance. But he seems to forget that every charge against these tax laws is an accusation ogainst the legislutlvo com petency of his own party. These laws were pussed by n Democratic Congress and signed by a Democratic President in spite of the defects In them pointed out by the Republicans. It was known that their effects would be pernicious, I but the Democratic demagogues insisted ""- i"v " b"k " " u's "u- ness pay the cost of the wnr, and thev were indifferent to everything else. They had the votes and they carried their plan, nnd they voted it for tiro years, so that there could be no possibility of letting big business off. And now Mr. Cox is damuing the Republican Congress because it did not .correct the blunders iu tho Democratic legislation as soon as it came into office Tho popular memory iu this regard Is not quite so short as ho thinks it is. And even if it were-short, the Repub lican campaign orators will not allow the country to forget that tho Demo cratic Congress is responsible. There still remnlns timo for tho Re publican Congress to chango the tax laws before the bills for 1021 arc made out. Tho real reason for Republican inaction on revenue laws, however, lies la the fact Unit there, is In tho White EVENING PUBLtQ I Houso the President who signed the pernicious Democratic bills and ..who is altogether out tot sympathy with the Republican taxation theories. The ways nnd means committee has long been working on revenue bills, nnd ns soon ns there is a Republican President it will make its report nnd nsk Congress to go ahead with n thorough revision of tho statutes which the Democrats passed and are now condemning, , The governor is silent on two notable questions. He docs not say a word about the splendid work of the food administration under the direction of Herbert Hoover, one of tho achieve ments of n Democratic administration of which the whole country is prolid. It must have been an oversight, for it cannot be that lie would Ignore Mr. Hoover merely because he happens to be a Republican. And the prohibition issue, which the Tammany Democrats of New York have met by demanding the right of the state to fix tho alcoholic content of bever ages, he has treated ns though it did not exist. Neither tho wets nor the drys cau get any comfort out of him. THE BARRIER TO PEACE THE latest -Soviet note transmitted to Lloyd George through Leo Kn meneff is much more explicit and in telligible than its immediate prede cessors. Denial is made of nny intention to deprive Polond of independence? Boun daries more liberal than those indicated by the supreme council nre promised. Request of n geuernl couferetico to con sider the international status of Russia is repeated. The guarantees sought from Poland nre the chief features which reflect the swift success of Bol shevist arms. Desire for Polish dis armament nnd the cessation of recruit ing of both volunteers and conscripts is expressed. It is the position tnkeu on this sub ject which inevitably constitutes the barrier to Entente acceptance of the whole proposal. Against the prospect of a Poland rendered even more help less than she is nt the present critical moment must bo weighed the thoroughly distasteful prospect of n new war by the western powers against Bolshevism. The peoples of England nnd I ranee arc tin qucstionnbiysick of fighting, sick enough in some instances even to light ngninst a large-scale resumption of hostilities. The most disquieting feature of the entire situation, however, is the miitunl suspicion of both sides. Tills obstacle is foremost in the way of removing a crisis by negotiation. Upon the senti ment now prevailing In the opposing camps wars thrive and wax unmanage able. Of this fact the world conflict was a sinister instnnce. But in the early part of the struggle, nt least, wnr weariness had not overcome the bel ligerents. Little ns is actually known of Bol shevist Russia, it is impossible to con ceive that unremitting military cam paigning is its ideal. Tlic further the Red army advances into foreign terri tory the more it will be embarrassed by its remoteness from the home bases of supplies nnd the accelerating difficulties of transportation. Tho wnr, should it be expanded iu a wnj that sane civiliza tion dreads, will then become nn un controllable juggernaut crushing the in stinctive desires of both combatants. The folly of such an outcome is so ghastly that it may possibly give pause to heated councils and undoubtedly a grcnt deal of bluster in both the Entente and the Soviet chancelleries. To avert a hideous catastrophe a certain amount of mutual credence seems indispensa ble. Without it negotiation becomes a futile instrument of peace nnd war be comes interminable. I.enine nnd Lloyd George nre alike facing these alternatives, whatever their disparities of character and ambitious may be. SUFFRAGE PROSPECTS EQUAL suffragists arc discouraged over the prospects for the ratifica tion of the constitutional amendment by the Tennessee Legislature, which meets next Monday. The Legislature has been polled nnd n favorable majority is lack iug in both houses. N ilr. Harding has been asked to urge all the Republicans to support the amendment, but lie hns refused, in ac cordance witii the policy which ho nn- tiouuced as soon as ho wns nominated. He holds that the Tennesseeans must decide the question for themselves. He has said, however, that he favors the ratification of ilie amendment. If Teuncsseo failed tho suffragists they were counting on North Carolina, but It is now said thnt the Legislature of that state will not consider the amendment until it meets in .Tauunry. The women are saying thnt "some sinister and hidden influence is at work to prevent the ratification," nnd thnt the opposition in Delaware to the suf fragist feeling "has never been com pletely unearthed." As to sinister influence wc know noth ing, but the women cannot bo ignorant of the reasons offered for the failure of 'tho Delaware Legislature to ratify. A complete explanation has been made in private conversations with men familiar with the coudltions there, but for lnck of positive proof the explanation bus never been printed. If the Amendment does not go through this yenr by the action of n Democratic stato it is likely that tho thirty-sixth stato will be provided by the Republi cans next winter. But the women wish to vote in tho presidential election this year and they nie naturally indlgunnt nt the delay iu ratification. NO CHANGE NEEDED milERE is probably no document of J- which the politicians Know less than the constitution of tho United States. The delegates to the New York Democratic "conference" in Sara toga Spring were unfamiliar with its nrovisions or they would not hnvo adopted a platform in which it wns de manded that the constitution be so amended as to provide thnt nil subse quent amendments should be submitted directly to tho voters for approval be fore becoming effective. No such change In the constitution is necebsnry. Two ways of amendment are already provided in thnt document. Tho amendments must first be approved by a two-thirds vote in Congress. Then they may be submitted to the Legisla tures of the several states or they may bo submitted to conventions In the sev eral states. If three-fourths of the Loglslutures or three-fourths of the conventions approve, then the amend ments become part of tho constitution. A convention, the delegates to which are elected on the issue of tho ratifica tion of an amendment, will servo every purpose of testing popular sentiment. It will do more, for In convention there can bo debato and delegates unpledged can be won over by one side or tho other. It Is not necessary to change the constitution in tho way tho New York Democrats propose, LEDGERr-PmijBi&I,A,' SATURDAY, .. . . , . "i i . i , t , HILAIRE BELLOC 27iv8 is the second xof tho new scries of essays by tht3 cele brated writer. ON INACCURACY TnE other day I was writing In other fields than tljcsc, plowing another land, which for the honor I bear it I will not give by name, nnd I hnd occasion to speak about tho Nereids who swim about in the sen. I very pompously announced their nn pentanco in tho Sixteenth Book of tho Iliad. I should have said the Eight eenth Book. Why did I say th,c Sixteenth Book? I cannot tell. I have been awaiting since the nppcaraucc of thnt article letters written to me privately, letters Written to the paper itself, written to other papers, nllsaying: "Why do you talk about things you know nothing of? You call it the Sixteenth Books it is the Eighteenth Book." So far no letters have come cither to mo or to the paper in question. Nor hns nny one even written to nny of the great daily papers on the subject. So perhaps it will blow over. But my mind returns tp the matter. Why did I write "Sixteenth" wheu I meant "Eighteenth"? What is inaccuracy? What are its sources? Whence docs it spring? Whnt makes one mail more inaccurate .than another, and why is one innccuratc in some things and not in others? What the devil is it nil, anyhow? I KNOW very well why accuracy is such nn anxious matter with men. It is because, nloue of nil the factors ,lf learning, it is easily and mechani cally attainable. It is no good a man tr.vlngto be just in judgment about a tiling which ho docs not really know. It would be no good, for instance, my trying to look learned through n just judgment off Russian poetry, because I cannot read Russian. No man cau mechanically nnd as a mntter of course set himself right in nil the major fac tors of learning. But both he nnd others enn get references right, now NJmt there nro so many printed books of reference. And therefore men study accuracy because they say to them selves: "Fool I may be, nnd ignorant I may be, but anyhow I can be accu rate with the help of a public library." And nt the same time they say to themselves: "If I nm inaccu rate the biggest fool born can find mc out." So far so good. I know well enough why one bothers so absurdly about uccuracy In HUchtletnlls, or, to put it otherwise, why mere slips of tho pen nnd misspellings frighten us so much. But what I do uot understand Is how and ,why they take place. I remember once writing a long book about 1'nr.Js n long, long book to pay my first nunrter'snent as u joung man. Aud iu that book I found mjseif per petually saying "north" when I inennt "south" in the mutter of the Immortal hills in tho mntter of tho hill of the university. I always talked of going up tliut hill as going "north," whereas if you go up that hill you walk due south. Aud again, I once wrote a very nice, little, well limited, accurate and lucid account of the Battle of Nnseby,(or Maiston Moor 1 forget which, but anyhow it was one of those two bnt tlcs). I knew he ground well, nnd none tho less I put "left" for "light" nnd "right" for "left" nil through. And 1 knew a man once who, when ever he went into n shop to buy razor blades for his patent ru.or, always said "railway blades." Yet in other le spects he wns an ordinary man. I WILL not nttempt to solve the problem. It is not fatiirun thnt does it, still less it is real ignorance ; for jou will notice that a man is inaccu rate ubout things that he knows thor oughl well and that the mistakes he makes are always of an absurd kind, which lie would he the first to spot in others: for instance, calling Notting ham Northampton and the other way nbout. All one ran say is that it imp pens on variations happen in the gen eration of animals or any other iiuke happens. Some god guides it. Inaccuracy is a very powerful and fruitful creator of things. It not only creates legends j it creates words. There nre hosts aud ciowds of words which have come in through the tnlcnt of men for innccuracj aud through the inspiration of inaccuracy, which is blown into men by this god of whom I speak. Hence, whnt is called metathesis, the very fruitful parent of many admirable words from turmeric to Hercules. Hence, also, the untth ralization of French ami other foreign words. It is a pit. I think, that so much printing and the foolish pride of those who can read checks the process nowadajs. I live in hopes that it will not check the process fur long and that our coming barbarism will return to these popular words. , "Chauffeur" should be "sliovcr," and "nsparagus" which I like to hcur called "grass" lias, I hope, taken root lorevcr as sparrow-grass ; a very good name lor it, lor it is not a grass and sparrows have no particular bond with it. They well might have if they only knew how good it was, but thev nre stupid little beasts and good for nothing. And If jou tell mo that thus to brauch off upon the mutter of sparrows is disturbing to the render, nnd that one ought to keep the main thread of one's discourse, I answer jou with a book alwnjs well praised, nnd iu parts quite on the highest level called "The Book of Job." If you will lend "The Book of Job" jou will find that In the catalogue of strange beasts which the writer brings forward in defenso of the mnjcBty of God lie gets to tho ostrich. But hardly has lie mentioned the os trich when tho inane habits of that enormous fowl provo too much for him. Ho forgets nil about God and ei cation nnd tho rest of it and allows himself u little, separate dlutribc against the idiocy of tho ostrich before getting bnck to his theology. So I with spar rows. And now that I have taught jou this lesson from Job I will leturn to the matter of inaccuracy. INACCURACY is also the breeder not only of good native phrases, but of excellent tnles. like the well-rnlilinil. polished, ancient nnd now immutable storv of the boy in buttons who irnt nervous nt tiro grandeur of the bishop and said when the sleepy Jiibhop asked who was knocking: "It's tho Lord, my boy." And inaccuracy is the pnreut also of that still older nnd still moro im mutablo story about the Pyramids of Egypt and their builders, which I can not print here. It wns lnnccuracy which made the guide-book man so angry nt tho phrase, "Our Lord God the I'ope," his trans lation of "Divus Pnpa" put before the title of somo canonized pope of the past. , And it wns Inaccuracy which made tho medieval story-teller talk of tho "Emperor Pliny" and of Vtigil's bra zen tower. And what a picture I get of the Emperor Pliny senditig for tho Mnglclnn Virgil, who builds the brazen tower. It is n mighty mother of works. It pleases mo also especially ln this that you cannot teach Itj you can not make a man inaccurate. There is no way of becoming inaccurate by in dustry, nnd if you deliberately try to be Inaccurate you iaii. inaccuracy Is perhnps tho most spontaneous nnd tho freest of tho gifts offered by tho Spirit to tho wit of man. It is even more spontaneous nnd moro freo thnn tho gift of writing good verse, or that raro gilt wnicn i uuvu uiso wtmuu oi nero lot shall .write of here, according to the ,v , , SHORT CVTSi The Bug river appears to be Jiving up to Its nnme. Wets discovered that tho Cox speech lacked kick nswcU as punch. Oklahoma cleared her skirts by ripping out tho Gore. ,-"" Ever so ninny political planks seem designed for bunk houses rather than for platforms. Tomato pickers nre getting $12 a day in New Jersey. These arc salad days for brawn workers. . 0 The President's objection to the dotting of an "1" is due to his belief that "I" Bhould bo capitalized. Szczvczyn, Poland, hns been at tacked by tho Bolshevists, but looks as though it had been worsted in a crap game. As wc understand it, Mr. Cox is peeved becnuso tho Republicans neg lected to repair the errors tho Demo crats made. Accounts of the third degree being administered to The Crank may cause the woman In tho Coitghlin kidnapping case to give herself up. Verhaps Governor Cox expects Ty Cobb to show him how to make .a home run 5 forgetting, for the momenti that a home run .will take him back to Dayton. '.1 Ludendorff's offer to help fight the Bolshevists is somewhat marred by Reventlow's suggestion that; Germany make nn alliance with them to attack Rumania. Increased freight rates nre bitters designed to improve tho country's blood circulation. A pcopleshould not only be willing to take its medicine but to pay for it. x, New York Democrats are divided in the matter of n beer plank in the platform of tho state convention. They arc In doubt as to whether it will prove a gangplank or a skid. More than n million acres of agri cultural land in Alaska will be opened to settlement by' tho new government rallrond, and in the course of n few years tho population may be complain ing of a car shortage like the rest of us. Kentucky's governor hns announced J that henceforth those who tote pistols will be imprisoned. The writer hns seen stalwart friends of Colonel Jack Chinn rally to his defense in dramatic fashion. This is enough to make them froth nt the mouth. Chicago's chief of detectives says that if his cops don't soon make a bet ter showing by nrrcsting nuto bandits he will recruit some cow cops from the lnrint belt. But whnt chance will n cow pony have with a flivver? "Pascol's parents nro French. They came tolhls country ftom Brldgepart, N. J." New York Times. Entirely French nnd entirely funny. We par ticularly like tho Bridge part. And the whole thing gives a new nnglo to the ancient quirk concerning "The United States and New Jcfscy." After n Sunbury (Pn.) painter hnd been shocked by electricity nnd tumbled Into the river a fellow worker, himself slightly dnzed by electricity, jumped into the water; and rescued mm. 'inat s tne kind of incident that mnkes one realize that human nature is a mighty fine thing and thnt this is a pretty good old world after all. Tho State Department of Agriculture Notes the fact That apples and peaches Are plentiful this year. Let us, therefore, Give a toast To Cider, Flappers nnd Free Verse ; Which is as near ns we can come In these days of near-beer To Wine, Woman and Song. Senntor King thinks the President should call nn extra session of Congress. He is apparently willing that the President should throw a couple of monkey wrenches into two smoothly working political mnchincs. And not the lenst interesting phase of the matter is that the President, under certain cir cumstances, is quite rapablo of doing that very thing with his eyes wide open. "It is easy enough to get n lino on n man s character' by considering whether lie would bo elevated or pulled, down by being elected Vice President." Now York American. An excellent example of pure piffle. lie ought to be n big man so that he may fit into n big place in n dire contingency. In many cases ho proves his bigness by his willingness to serve his country In n more or less thankless position. THE LAWNMOWER 01 LD Mr. Wobble -wobble travelm' 'crost the lawn Sometimes bents the robin bird at wel- comin thj dawn. Thcro nre bnrytones and tenors gayly warblln' round the place. Old Mr. AVobble-wobble sings n little bass. Old Mr. Wobble -wobblo when the twi light falls Thinks he Bings ns sweet as any mockin' bird that calls. I'd like to hear his music underneath the sun or moon If ho didn't undcrtnko to keep mo danc in' to the tune. Washington Stnr. order in which the editor puts this paper) the gift of writing really nbomlnably bad verse; criminally bad verse; execrable verse. And inaccuracy is a great lcvcler like love and death and other less com monly quoted levelers ; dike wine, nnd war and repentance. For there is no one, whoever he may be, however learned or however ignorant, who may not suddenly bo found inaccurate. And, whnt is more, the same mnn will be Innccuratc in one period aud accu rate in another, entirely as tho, Spirit chooses, nnd not ns he choos.es. LASTLY', inaccuracy has tills great ond noble quality attached to it, tt,nt it breeds real tragedy, nnd thnt is n finer thing thnn breeding mere stories or even noble words. Try shouting "port down the decks when you menn "starboard" in somo narrow, crowded fairway against n racing tido nnd you will find out whnt I mean; or, again, inaccuracy in the setting of a range, repeating (as I heard a man do nt n ninnsl US millimeters for 1.3 milli meters nnd they plugged n village church miles nnd miles outsido tho enmp. In tjicsc matters thnt which was but a trlflo or n comic accident takes on And of all tio forms In which in accuracy builds up tragedy tho best I lmnw is that form whereby tho end cuuscs two letters to bo put each into tho envelopes meant for the other. Out or o get of one such moment ns that you might Bet tho Trojan War ! j atpurloM, mt, bv Mew York Evening pott r ;AXJGrtfc 7? ilMfi? "SMALLrCALIBER STUFF CAN'T iSaB5Sf3;,iAr. '4'.?-th:" r MAYOR URGED TO SUPPORT MUNICIPAL STREET CLEANING Expert Claims It Is Practicable as Well as Necessary and Gives Reasons BY AN EXPERT ON ON JULY 30 the Mayor exercised his optional right expiessed ln the new charter and advertised for contract bids for street cleaning nnd the collection and disposal of municipal wastes. He also asked for prices on new and tiscdj equipment. Proposals will be opened on September 15. Contract work Is based on n new division of the city urea into thirteen instead of the former nine districts. Printed specifications have been issued to prospective bidders on three sched ules. Schedule 1 covers street clean ing by districts for 1021; schedulo 2, the collection nnd disposal pi asnes. and rubbish by districts in 1021. while schedulo 3 includes two' plans for the collection nnd disposal of garbage First, collection and disposal in one contract for the year 1021 ; ond second, separate collection by districts or for tho entire city iu 1021: with disposal alone iu ono contract for one or fiv.e ears. Schedules covering the furnish ing of equipment have uot yet been issued. THE most important change in the specifications is the rearrangement of the existing nine districts into thir teen districts. Of greatest interest is the dismembering of the hnppv hunting ground of the "largest strcet-clenning contractor in the world," the present third nnd fourth districts, which are cut In twain bv Biond street ond. with a strip of territory added that now lies north of tho fourth district, ore made into four new districts, the third, fourth, fifth and sixth. Tills is prob- nlilv less iliseoneertllic to the IH'OIKI possessor, of the above title. Senator Vure. thuii might be nt first imagined. because the specifications permit ns many as tour districts to oo given m anv ouo bidder ; und the four new dis tricts are laiger than tho present dis tricts which lie holds. Among the other changes' in district lines, it is of interest to note that ltox borough and Maunyunk together form a new district, the twelfth, separate from Goininntowii nnd -Chestnut Hill district, while the spnrsely settled northeast tenitory is set apart oh the thirteenth district, as distinct from the Frankford urea, which uow becomes the new eleventh. . IT HAS been intimated for some time nt City Hnll that the districts were to ho increased in number to provide grenter competition in bidding. Whether new competition will enter is doubtful, in street cleaning nt IcaBt, in- view of tho ceitninty that municipal work, if postponed In 1021, will surely come in 1022. Furthermore, tho specifications provide that tho contracts mav even be terminated on October 1, 1021, ot the option of, tho city. Under such con ditions new contractors may be un willing to enter the field nnd to Invest in plnnt nnd equipment for only one j ear's work. Evidently the city is not definitely counting on the entrnnco of new com petition. Witii four nddltiouol dlstiicts to handle by contract, the city has ap parently sought to avoid nny of dip work going begging by permitting more thnn the customary two districts to be given to ono bidder. Such an arrangement wns probnbly necessary also to Insure thnt tho "Inig est contractor" would put in n bid. The rearrangement of the districts is a logical development in tho work. It is doubtless advisable for matters of administration to keep them within certain population or street mileage limits nnd to mnlntnln tho several dls tiicts ot approximately tho same values. It is to be hoped, however, that tills new arrougement of districts indicates carefully prepared plans for municipal operation, since It is much less important to increnso the number of districts If contract work is to bo continued than if municipal work is to be undertaken. Anil it is advisable to secure contract prices, so long as they nro being nsked. on tho same areas for which municipal operation is being plauned. THE detail specifications issued for street cleaning woik in 1021 nro relatively uninteresting. A discussion of such specifications is quite aside from tho main Issue nnd might throw U fog around moro important consider r ' -v DAMAGE, J1MMX1" fi-JJ& '"J ri:J.--"-' STREET CLEANING ations. Previous experiences with con tract work have demonstrated all too forcibly that it is impossible to draw specifications that will hold water. The heated discussions of the past arc eas ily recalled, while the report of the Mayor's commission of engineers leaves no doi(bt of the truth of this state ment. Tho public doesn't want contract specifications nt all any longer thnn they at6 necessary." Municipal opera tion has been written into the litw und the new administration is looked to for early compliance with the man datory provisions. The Mayor haR been ,mw nc. nnnarcnt v. to make a btnnd for muulcipal operation until certain information hns been collected as to plant and equipment. A stnte ment from him that he supports munic ipal street cleaning on principle would grcntly clarify the situation. Thnt decision would not interfere with his plnii to proceed cautiously in formu lating a program for 1D2P nnd thoroughly to demonstrate the practi cability of municipal operation before deciding to follow the charter provisions next yenr. It is his duty os administrative head of the city to undertukc only practical measures. The city deos not nsk him to do the impossible, but it docs want him to support municipnl street cleaning because it is the' proper method.. If lie supports municipnl street cleaning, a delay iu its initiation would no doubt .be sanctioned, if it were demonstrated to be necessary. Conetctc information will probably be received on September 1." concern ing the availability and cost of new and used equipment. The Major has enmmcudably advocated the appoint ment of a citizen commission to ap praise the contractors' plant nnd pnuln- incut. This woik should be begun at the earliest opportunity. It would un doubtedly snve much effort und worry to nceept the street cleaning bids thnt have been invited. Since nn easy road is open, it is particular necessary to bend nil efforts to the determination of the practicability of municipal street cleaning so thnt the administration will uot bo open to the criticisid of not haviiig made a thorough investigation of the rase What Do You Know? QUIZ 1 Which one of the four gospels Is said to have been wiliuu by physician? 2 Whnt wns the real name of the leader of the first expedition to clrcumnavlgato tho globe? 3. In whnt j-enr was this great voyage of discovery begun? 4 In whnt famous battlo In the New World were tho commanders of tho opposing armies killed? 5, Who was Philip Frenenu? fi What was tho nationality of Alfred Stevens, tho noted modern painter? 7. Whnt President nf tho United .Stntes had tho shortest term ln " office? S. Who wrote tho English novel, "Tom , Jones"? 9. What Is a hemistich? 10. Whnt Is -the monnlng of tho word luplno? Answers to Yesterday's Quiz 1. Snchnlln Is nn islnnd In tho sea of Okhotsk, east of Siberia, divided between Russia nnd Japan. Tho Intter country has recently occupied tho Russian section. 2 Senntor Wadaworth is from Now Yoilt slate, 3, Felicia Homnns Is tho uthor of the poem beginning "Tho brenltlng waves dashed high on u stem and lockbound coast." 1. Queen Victoria was tha grandmother of Wllllum llohenzoilorn. G, Antolno Haryo wns a fnjnous French sculptor. Ho dlod In 1875, G. John Dartram fou'nded tho first botanical gaiden in America in 7. It vns located In Klngsesslng, now Included In Philadelphia. 8. Ono of tho groat discoveries of Pnstour was tho inoculation treatment for hydrophobia 9. The Columbia successfully defended tho America's Qup In two series or International yncht races, 10. Virginia and Maryland orlBlnnlly ceded torritora to form tho D s trlct ot Columbia. The Virginia Ec & XXL f Jbntly redded j r'x , - ,1 ' 4 . . 1 ') 'vi DO REAL . -twr- A in-" DRY AGENTS WOULD 'END WHOLESALERS Business May Be Eliminated Altogether, Federal Com missioner Intimates By the Associated Press Washington, Aug. 7. Elimination by the government of the wholesale liquor denier as n means of simplifying prohibition enforcement appeared a pos. slbility last night with the announce ment by Prohibition Commissioner Kramer thnt the issue of wholesale permits in the futuro would be "rigidly restricted." Mr. Kramer declared that the whnli". snle traffic presented the greatest prob lem with which enforcement officials were confronted. Wholesale dealers, he nsserted. resorted to subterfuges which perplexed government agents nnd vvlilrh made the dry law difficult to enforce. This phnse of prohibition enforcement wns said to have developed considera tion by officials of thev internal revenue, bureau of a plan by which the qunntlty dealer would be driven out of business entirely nnd the liquor transfer made direct from bonded warehouse to re tailer or consumer. Although no decision tins been reached nnd, none probnbly will be immediately the approaching period when wholcn!e licenses are reissued for the next rnl endar yenr is expected to bring the question to a head. Applications for wholesale licenses must be in the linnds of federal officials by October 1, giving tlie govenment the three months prior to January 1 in which to investigate the responsibility of the applicant. Officials snid thnt regardless of the bureau's (le sion with respect to elimination of the wholesalers the number of licenses in sued for the ensuing year would be smaller. In event the government per mits the wholcsnlers to continue in bus iness, it wns said, n policy of investi gating the record of npplicant "and all of his nffolrs" would bo employed. Treasury records reveal that more wholesale licenses are in existence now than immediately prior to the effective date of the Volstead act. Commissioner Kramer sold thnt while tho wholesalers were being watched closely drastic ac tion had been made necessary in ceitaln localities. Tho situation in Baltimore resulting from the ruling of Attorney. General Armstrong thnt no Maryland state or Baltimore municipnl official could aid in dry law enforcement work has com pelled tho transfer of ndditionnl fed eral agents to the Maryland dlstiict, Mr. Kramer announced. He added that " enforcement work would bo pushed everywhere rcgiudlcss of local co-operation. NEW PHILA. PHYSICIANS State Bureau Gives Out List of Thoss Who Passed Examinations Hiirrlsburg, Aug. 7. Names of those who passed the recent stato medical ec nininations were announced yesterday by the State Bureau of Medical Education and Licensure. Successful Philadelphia medical candidates ore II. T. Antiim. Henry Bnrenblatt, Joseph P. llesscr, Stanley E. Itlttlo. Elsio Blnnchnrd. H. A. Bognw, Harold W.Bottomley, Harry L. Brockmnnn. Louis Brady. ManT Ester Burns, Frank M. Condron. C. A, Copolnnd, Matthew F. Czubak, Her bert J. Darmstadter. Joseph A. ' ' Medio, Charles W. Dunn, Milton V. Emanuel, C. It. Entwistle, Martin .1. Inrrell. George D. Geckoler. Ellis Gray, Dwlght C. Hannn, Jr., Henry B. Harvey, H. R. Hawthorne, Isidore Hendel, Clinton S. Ilcrvmnu. Chatles V. Ilognn, N. S. Houseman. W. F. .Tor- . rick, Mnude M. Kelly. Baldwin Z. Kcjes,. Henry L. Klein, F. W. Konzel mnnn. Francis J. Kovvnackl, Frank II. Krebs, Robert S. Kropp. Benjamin Left, Moses JLeln, L. E.McCren. Jnmcs H. Medell, Theodore E. Orr, Clareme A. Patten, N. F. Pnxson. A. A. Pies', Mnrguerlto E. W, Scott. John 8. Seoul ler. Morris Smith. M. A. Steffin. A. J' Strlkel, Herbert W. Tnylor, R. A. To massene, Carl V. Visscho, James 15. Wadsvvoith, Thomas J, Walsh, S. D. Weeder, Joseph B. WolfCe. Nlshnn H. Bnyendcrlan nnd Floyd n. Randall, Philadelphia, passed tho bedside examinations ond Bessie C. Friedmnnn, George A. Holfand. D, II. Kino, Mrs. Arlenno L. Manloy, L. L Mayer, S CI. Rex, Ucorgo IC. Schac terle, Philadelphia, posBod the chirop ody examinations. Russell T. Rarrf Earl L. Compton. Frank F, .Friend, Matilda Frlcmd. Mnrgorot.Anna Lang lev. Donald . C. T.lrtlelinles". Phllttileh , phln,-passcd the examination In mas sago nod vllicd branches, JSg!?1 ..eS?.flc LK .-mV .-?. ySjrSA rf-mrtfii
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