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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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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 !
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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
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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
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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,
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