111 I "I I' ' ' ' 'I. ' JHLM " - r- vt ijr 3.B i p S--' wBJti ' ; M m t itV t tr r1 BuMfcfcfider v- ;wOBLIC LEDGER (60MPANY UfllUS H. K. CURTIS, PItKT littles II. Lurilnaton. Viet, PeeaMentl 'S "j. Martin. Secretary una Treaaureri "PS. Collin. John n. YVIlltama nnd nj. Houra-eon, D'-ctors. rv vJJ'w n.- editorial noAnm t ' ' , Craos 11. K. dims, Chairman lf PAV1U K. BMILET Editor OHN C. MARTIN. .General Ilualneaa Mcr. ("""i'MWIrtaa dally at roLio LKootn Bulldlin, V lV Indenenrlenre Rrtmra. VhltnrielnMa lf" AjataxTtn rtrr. . . . !-.. trMi.IM ItiilMlntf -ft S Tok aM Madlaon Ave,. raw"lK)lt.. 701 Ford HulIdlnK hCmuao,l '. ...,1303 Tribune Uulldlnc , !, .np.iv ntinsiAtlH! "Unfits . IftOfl V.i1THnn Tlnllriln TAatim' K. V Cc Knr ton TON IltrntAn. 'Af. P.nn..lw.t. A., ami lilt, fit YoK Bcriud The Sun Uulldlnc .HUnsCRIPTION RATES Tb 3tn:no Pebmo Lcnarn It aened to aubecrlbera In Philadelphia, and aurroundlnir towna-vt the rate of twelve (12) ctnti per VRIK. Tiarfthl tn (hat inrrlF My. mall to points outalde of Philadelphia. tin , -h, United Statea. Ca otatee woaaeaalona. postal eita Mr month. Six (JO) (.'annua, or uniiea age fret, fifty f0) : Mr month. Hit Mill dollars ner Vfir. parabla In advance . . .. To all forvtxn countrlea one (tl) dollar r month. Iv o x i c Sutmcrtbera wlahlni: addreaa chanted, mutt ilve old aa well aa new ad nreas. , BELL, 1800 WALNUT KEYSTONE, MAIN J00 CT Addrtia oil communfeotionj to JSvmtno Pvbllo Ledger, independence Hauare. PMIadilrMa. Member of the Associated Tress TUB ASSOCIATED PRESS is r-xclutivclv cniltlcd to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in ihls paper, and alio the local news published therein. tAJJ rights of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. fli.UJ'lphla. WedneiJay, Aaiuil 11, 10 A FOUR-YEAR PROGRAM FOR PHILADELPHIA Thlnir on which the people expect the new ndmlnlstrntlon to concen trate It nttentlons TA Delaware river bridge A dnjdock &.17 enough to accommo date the largest ships Development of the rapid transit sys tem. JL convention hall X building for the Free Zlbrari. 'An Art ituseum. Enlargement of the water supply. Homes to accommodate the popula tion. L HUSTON IS INELIGIBLE 0' .TIT of tho many able engineers nnd architects practicing their profession in this part of the country, it ought to be possible to pick 0110 to design nnd supervise the construction of the Dela ware river bridge who has never been found guilty of breach of trust or served a tcrm'ln jail for a fraud upon the state. Whatever the abilitv of Joseph 51 Huston and it is high he ought not even be considered among the available candidates for this great work in view of the. fact that he was the architect X of th-i State Capitol nnd was found guilty and sentenced to the 1. astern Penitentiary for participation in that notorious scandal Mr Huston's fail ure to realize the ethics involved re flects upon his sense of propriety. A man who ha once made a grave misstep, should be permitted to Ihe down his past and encouraged in every possible way to re-establish himself in the esteem of his fellow men if he shows himself worthy o long n he does not again seek to occupy a public posi tion similar in character to the one he betrayed. If Mr. Huston were retained bj the Bridge Commission he would have su pervision over the expenditure of a far greater sum of money than was involved in the building and furnishing of the ;jJ, .State Capitol His public career as rlgntiy Closed wnen tne jail doors kflut behind him, and it ought nccr to be reopened. DR. FURBUSH STANDS PAT DOCTOn FfRnrSH. director of the Department of Health, insists that tie employes under him nre loyal to liini and to the admini-tration. Conse quently he has refused to remove nnj of them. In spite of the urging of the Mayor, "No resignations will be asked for." bo says, "unless by further investigation it is ljound that employes are actually disloyal and not living up to the re quirements of the civil ecrvice " TJiIs Is the proper attitude for him to take. His duties arc to protect the health of the city. He is indifferent to the factional affiliations of the men ' under him to long us the do their whole duty and refrniu from under mining his plans for health protection and do not interfere with the plans of any bther department. Doctor Furbush is admirably qualified foe his post. He is the type of mnn much needed in public office. He de serves the whole-henrted support of the Mayor nnd of Council. He con be helped or hindered according ns he is expected to be a director of public health or a distributor of pntrnnnge. "Vc cannot believe thnt the Mnor wishes him to be anything but an effi cient public servant If the Muvor has proof of the riUlnjalt of nnj of the director's subordinate, no doubt a wnj can be found to get rid of them If thnt proof is submitted to their t-uperior. But In the absence of proof Doctor Furbush is very properly standing be kind bis men. k .. CHItr- WtBtslbKb IDtA S rpHE project for connecting League A J- Island Park and Fairmounr Park with n boulevaid has not udvunced be yond the map-making stuge. As origi nally planned by the ordinance of lf)l,"i, the boulevard was to follow a route in which there is much Improved property Mr. Webster, the chief of the Rurenii ef Surveys, Is now suggesting that a different route be followed in the In terest of economv His plan involves a relocating of Vare avenue and the widening of Thirty second street nnd the relocation of I niversitv avenue further westward "o that it would miss through Woodlands Cemetery. This route, it is said, would take tue boule vard almost entlrel.v through unim proved propertv nnd would reduce its cost to such a figure that the execution of the project In the near future would bo feasible. The" boulevard would open a large sec. tlon to pleasure drivers and would muke Falrmount Park directlv accessible to the people of South Philadelphia, and would attract to League Island Park thousands who have never seen that newest breathing place, which In a few years, when the trees nre grown, will be & delightful spot. Plans which can be carried nut should be adopted forth with nnd then quickly executed instead Of put awny to molder in a pigeon - R hole lor anotner uecnue. AN OLD ACTOR'S LOST ART THE passing of James O'Neill thins the ranks of exponents of an obsolete rt, The "palmy dn8' nave neen cen- tured for bombnst (In spito of the no- West npuom iu """"I""'"''.?"1 P JMIfll XWuCiw flayg-ocrn fnrn jq iircds: ,thetr pretcbsloas have been callnd florid and utlflcial. . Hut James O'NelH, and Bben Plymp ton, and Charles Walcott, and Frank Bangs, to mention a few who survived their artistic generation, mastered through the ancient discipline the rich renponslbllltles of English speech. Slovenly diction was not In their his trionic nature. They could read majes tic verse nnd glorify the spoken word. Itemorseles realism has Its place and the character acting of tho period Is often uncommonly convincing nnd sure. Amid present styles our present actors do well. Hut they cannot catch the vanished cadence. O'Neill never lot It, as was elo quently demonstrated of lato years in MoM-idi nnd His Brethren" nnd "The Wanderer." His true distinction in this line will perhaps outlive the fnded melodramatic of the once Immensely popular "Monte Crlto." Fittingly enough, he died In New London, where Muuslicld sleeps. THIS COMMUNITY IS OUR UNIVERSITY'S DEBTOR Payment Should Be Made In Gen erous Organized Aid to Secure the Financial Stability of Pennsylvania THE Cniversit of Pennsylvania is Insolvent. This community pri marily Is its debtor. "Nothing will be gained," ns a contempornry statesman once remnrked in a different crisis, "by leaving this essential thing unsaid." Tho 11110 financial report of the chief institution of higher learning In Phila delphia, nnd one of the foremost in America, nnenlcd n deficit of .$410,000, the largest In the history of the t'niver slty. The half-million mnrk is now snid to be passed. This means, more over, that the expenditure exceed the sum total of income derived from all sources, from tuition fees, bequests nnd donation. Not the least of the disturbing fea tures of tho disclosure is the emphasis placed upon the relation of money to spiritual and scholastic values. The public would like to ignore this, nnd not because humnnltj in the mass is tight fisted. On the contrary, its impulses are often idealistic. Hence the re pugnance to connect cash with culture. It would be so much simpler if busi ness could be business nnd educntion could be education, the latter soaring to the heights of progre on wings fashioned of lofty thoughts nnd elevat ing purposes. But renlitv. if it be franklv faced, dashes any such illusion Tho people of Philadelphia and the commonwealth of Pennsjlvnnia must either help to fur 11M1 In some large -scale wa the finan cial fuel necessary to enablo the L'nI ersity to function properly or else stand convicted of indifference to an Illustrious institution nou at the part ing of the ways. Without material aid. degeneration is inevitable. Dr Lightner Witmer as verted the other dav that the prevailing low wage -calc at the 1'nlversity i driving experienced instructors to seek morp lucrative fields. Lower the facultv standard and nndsome buildings and elaborate equip ment typifv pretense. A decrensed stu dent bodv is the next index of dlinte grntion and the descent to obscurity and futility Is swift. At the present moment, happily, the corrosive process mny hardly be said to have started. The reputation of the T'niversitv. notwithstanding faculty losses and the Inabilit to replace them fittinglv, is still brilliant in the r-cho-inotU 'tnrlrl. Its nlicht has n.-t yet affected the attendance. v,hich ranks with that of three or four of the leading colleges in the country. The immediate enkness is the bank balance, or rather the deficit Thnt this cannot be wiped out hv carefully dcied economies or even b organisa tion carried to the pinnacle of efficiency is of course lnrgelv due to the dimin ished purchasing power of the do.lnr, which is another way of chnrncterl7ing our unpopular incubus, the high cost of production. Hence it is not merely the present debt which is nlnrming. but the trnin of enlamitous consequences which inny issue therefrom The complete extin guishment of this deficit, however richly welcome, would lack permanency as a restorative Post helium economic enn ditions call for n revised post-bellum view, generous nnd comprehensive, of the l'nivesit nnd its needs. The secretnrv of the Alumni Society. 5Ir Horace Lippincott. urges the crea tion of an endowment fund, similar to th,e possessed by Yale and Princeton. ,,s a solution. He alludes also to the difference In the policies adopted b Piovot Harrison and Provost Smith. The former was exceptionally resource ill Tinning financial support for the University from private individuals, T e latter has adhered more particu lnrh to the program of state aid. Both methods served well enough amid con dit.ons thnt have passed Till- ear the state appropriation of WOO 000 is not ...... of ml tit cover the debt. Obviouslv the time has come for the University 'and the public frankly nnd vigorously to join in some system of support which may consistently be fol lowed and which will elimlnnte for good and all the recurrence of crises on an nual davs of reckoning. An unstable nohev will lead only to confusion nnd deenv. . .. Candor is among the prerequisites University pride, understandable and vet not alwnys salutary in its effects, iius fostered a reluctance to accept dom inating state control ns the price of financial stnbilitv. Mr Lippincott speaks for a consid erable portion of the graduates when he advocates the endowment remedy. Manv arguments In its favor are ap parent Although never In the slightest degree n rich man's college Indeed, the democracy of the University is one of tts prime virtues there nre thousands of alumni sufficiently wealthy to come .. ,, ... u M tt tr. nlmn suostnnuaii i" i"-- mater. Beyond these is the general public of the citv. whose interest in the in stitution and pride In its fine achieve ments are deeper than is sometimes ad mitted. An endowment drive, should one be inaugurated, ought to reect the slightest tendency toward excluslveness. The University is an integral pan 01 Philadelphia considered ns a civic en titv Manv of its most vitnl claims to scholastic eminence are pinned upon this institution. In a sense this com munity is the largest of all college towns. In few of the great metropolises of the world nre the higher educational interests so concentrattd The failure of an endowment cam paign. properl) launched, is almost in conceivable f'erttnulv no public spirited Phllndclplnnn cares to eontcm nlnte such an outcome. There are un tapped millions here to prcvint It. ilnl M ,1,- .lt, - tmM)&suiuuun..i..,i'.iwwiaiiiwfi" - . ,ij scale can be equally effective- In this connection, moreover, it id worth pointing ou$ that assistance need not necessarily ibo contingent upon a monop oly of governmental administration. The state university plan has worked well elsewhere and has distinct merits. There Is little reason for fearing that the standing of the University would be impaired by such an arrangement. It Is lack of funds alone which Is or can be the most formidable menace. A string, however, is not Indispen sable to the aid the Legislature or Council can afford the Unlverslt. Tho city has to.u-d with this Idea, and on the whole not very creditably. Promises of the Bloekley site have proved ephemeral. Pack of the archcologlcal museum there is n plot of ground formerly granted to the 1'nlversity nnd afterward with drawn. This kind of maneuvering be trays a woeful lack of understanding of n major asset of the city. It is penurious and narrow-visloued. It matters not if n elty-nlded uni versity, not merely, as In New York, an expanded high school, bul a sensoned and authoritative group of colleges de voted to learning In its brondest as pects, is a novcltj. So much, In fact, the, better. No more constructive act could char acterize the present administration than liberal finnnclnl support of the Univer sity. The city and state, the public, n,lumnl nnd others will utterly miscon ceive the significance and worth of the grent university if they disregard or dally Ineffectually with its present diffi culties. The entire community Is honored by its attainments and owes to It the full est loyal, active and material uid. FOR SHAME, UNCLE SAM! EVERY electrician, every carpenter, every mnchinlst, every painter, and plumber nnd every other technical ex pert In government emplojment should receive the same wage paid to similar men in private employment. This iR n rule to which there should be no exception. The people have no right to ask the men who serve them to make financial sacrifices. But the government does not pay the same wage scale as private employers. We have an example right here In Phil adelphia ut tho Mint. The carpenters there get 54.7fi n day, while the mini mum wage outside is ?0. The 5Iint workers ns a whole receive a maximum of ?4.7r and n mluimum of $4.."0 n duy. Every man employed there bus to contribute to this rich nation the dif ference between his government pay nnd wlint he could get outside Not only is the pay lower in the local Mint than outside of it; it is lower than is paid to 5IInt employes in San Fran cisco. The difference is about SI 40 a day. In order to provide the absolute necessaries of life the men nie often compelled to work twelve hours a day so that they may get the extra pa; for overtime. These facts have been brought to the attention of the director of the Mint They will be brought 'o the nttrntlon of the delegates to the National Fed eration of Federal Employes in St. Louis early in September, nnd the con vention will be asked to protest against the continuance of the liumillnting con dltioas; humiliating not so much to the emploves ns to cverj self respecting American citizen. Like the postoffice, the 51int, too. seems to have become Burlesonized under the Democrats Or are the civil service rule, so aiitUht that the cm ploves need not be reckoned with po litical! ? A REAL RUSSIAN POLICY IT IS impossible to misread the intent and couitene of American pollcv regnrding Russia and Poland in the strong, clearl? reasoned nnd heartening note addressed b Secretary Colbj to the Italian ambassador. Vignroif statesmanship, instinct with the national tradition and tvpical of President Wilson's diplomacy at its best, is expressed in the distinction drawn between despotic Soviet rule nnd the mas-, of the Russiun people. The warning against unwarranted dismemberment of the former empire is explicit. No less emphatic is tiie de fense of Polish nntionnl entitv. The definite position taken should serve nt once us a guide und a powciful stimulus to the Entente. The proml-e o' "the eniplovnient of all available means" to render American aid in the crisis effectual is not constru able ns a forecast of military interven tion Moral strength supporting a pol icy set down without the slightest eva sion is obviously our very vital contri bution Technicalities aside, it may be snid that in a sense the League of Nations is thus already functioning. Among the desired principles of such an association is inevitnbl one thnt is .inyl- d ng in ts repugnan.eto recognbe the Bolshevist nutocracv or anv other oppression of n majority by nn un- scrupulous armed clique American sentiment must imsuredl) be in hearty accord with this doctrine 5Ioreover, with our support the allied chancel leries can well afford to abide by it. AN ATOM OF PREVENTION R ECENT serious fires in this city make the people willing to listen to Fire 5Inrshal Elliott's plea for a larger appropriation for his department. He is getting S50.000 n jear. He wishes $200,000 With the larger sum he could emplo.v a force sufficient to make n thor ough inspection of all buildings and to see to it thut they are made sufe. At present he has n force of only slxtv. of which fortv-tive nre detailed from the engine houses. The fire mar shal in New ork hns a foice of 210 employed directly under him nnd S00 additional detailed from the regular fire fighting force. When one consider that sixty men are doing the work in Philadelphia which it takes 1010 men to do in New York, if is surprising that we do not have a greater number of serious fires in buildings whose owners neglect proper precautions. Yet New York, with its largo force, does not escape disastrous fires. This city has had nothing so bad as the Triangle Shirt Waist Company's fire a few years ago, which resulted in tho loss of a great manv lives. The girls could not get out of the building be cause the doors to the stairways were locked in violation of the law. But it was discovered at a reient fire here in whirl) several lives were lost that the windows of the building were covered with nn iron grating on the outside winch mnd" it impossible for the firemen to get in that wuy or the employes to get out. Mr. Elliott's plan for enlarging his department and making it n separate bureau of tire prevention deserves the serious consideration of the Mayor und r..ti,inll 1ml whether his whole nlnn in ..-. .i . ,, i,. ,nii i,m i.... wium ,.. ..... .... j ".." .. an appropriation Dig enough to enable m tamwr MmrlME nrfth Wnmen XL GOING UP! Six Hundred Miles a Minute la the 8peed at Which We Are Traveling Toward tho Star Vega AT ABOUT 8:30 o'clock at night, every night for the next week or more, every man, woman nnd child in Philadelphia will be traveling almost directly upward at the dlizy rate of 000 miles a minute. Any one who goes out on the street In the early evenings just now has but to look overhead, slightly to the north, to see a brilliant, bluish -white star, un mistakable because, In the lights of a city's streets, It seems to be alone In its part of the sky. Those with keen eye sight will see two fainter stars near It forming a triangle with It, so It is a particularly easy object to Identify. And It Is toward this star, Vega, that we aie all. traveling nt Buch an unbe lievable rate. IT OUGHT to be soothing to the man who Is worrying over the high cost of living and the Polish debacle and the sluggish stock market and such petty human 111- to step Into the observatory of nn astronomer nt this time of year and sec how utterly Insignificant nre nil these things compared to the vnstness of the great universe 11s revealed In a contemplation of this blulsh-whito speck from which the spectroscopes of the world are learning such startllns lessons. From the early days when It first be enme certalu that all the stars in the sky nre iu motion through space nnd thnt our own sun Is but a star, scientists have set themselves the problem of as certaining the direction in which tho sun, carrying the earth and the other planets with it, was hurtling through infinity. This line of flight they call "the sun's wny" and the Hpot toward which it Is directed they call "the apex" of the sun's way. This spot Is now universally believed to be very near to Vega. NATUItALLY. the questiou comes up : Are we going to collide with Vega nnd will that be the much -advertised "end of the world"? But the astronomer allitys these fears with th" facts tha. he has gathered. It will, In the first place, take the earth fiOO.000 years to reach the spot where Vega is now. But Vegn, too, is in motion nnd by the time we reach her present position she will have gone more than 200 million million miles awn.v from it nnd will therefore be even further from us than she is now. To us. it seem that Vega is merely a tiny point of light Vet it is probably nt lenst a bundled times as big ns our sun and our sun is 330,000 times as big as tills earth which we seem to think so important. And Vega shines with fifty times as much light as the sun gives out and is tremendously hotter So it is n good thing that she will not be there when the earth arrives With such titanic facts as thee in mind, it is a tremendousl impressive tiling to gaze up at this twinkling blue speck in the silence of the night nnd let the imagination have free rein. What will things be like when this globe reaches that light overhead? What were they like when it was at the anal ogous point in the opposite direction? Where did we come from? And where nre we going? And what dots it all mean? While waiting for reports from checkers-up ot vesicular passenger traffic nt the l'euernl street terminal nnd ferries of the Pennsylvania Itnflrnnd at Camden, with a view to relieving the congestion, o'licinls of the railroad and membeis of the Chambers of Commerce of C'ninden and Philadelphia might find Mcntllt'.uuc us well 'us lelaxation in putting lit their time with a game of bridge. New York, through its State Land Bank, Is considering tin- establishment of a revolving fund for mortgages in nn effort to solve the housing problem. The abolition of the war tax on mort gages, making them at least as good as bonds, would turn the trick with fewer frills. France, ravaged and plundered, is working and saving, snvs. M, Cnsennve, nnd will psv her debts Here we have excellent reason why flermnnj. ravnger nnd plunderer, herself unscathed, should be forced to pa her debts. What Do You Know? QUIZ 1 What Is the familiar name for a monkey'' 2 Whnt Is nn eerglnde" 3 Who was Xerxes nnd how should his name be pronounced? 4 What Is a liorologisf r What Is a lcmprej 6 How An fuchslns cet their name? 7. To what countries arc. theso flowers iiatlvn? S. How manv symphonies did Ileo- thoven write 9 Who wrote the novel "Quentln Dur- wnrd" ? 10. Whnt King of modern Itdly was as- sasslnattd.' Answers to Yesterday's Quiz 1 The College de Fraiire which exists mainly for tho encouragement or research work nnd t. ittiact to IU lectures persons other than regular university students, holds no ex aminations und (rlvcs no diplomas Instruction Is gratuitous As at tendance mny bo begun and endea nt any time, tho college ma be said to have no regular body of students Tho Institution, located In Paris, wns founded by Francis I in the sixteenth century 2. Madeira is the Portuguese word for wood nnd the Madeira Islands, which belong to Portugal, received their name from their growth of troes 3. Tho battle of Waterloo, tho great Engltsn military victory in tne Napoleonic wars, occurred In 1815, ten years after the Kngllsh naval triumph oft Trafalgar 4 Horatio Seymour wnn Grant's Demo cratic opponent in his first presi dential campaign. ti. Joel Chandler Harris wrote tho "Uncle HemuB" stories 6. The most famous painting by Leo nardo da Vlncl Is the "Mona Lisa." or "Olocondn," now In the Louvro museum In Paris 7. The roynl palm Is the highest of tho palm trees. It Is native to the tropic. 8. Romo fought three wars with Carthage In tho last one, In the pecond century H C , the African city was totally destroyed. J The normal value of a German mark is about twenty-four cents It Is now depreciated to about i twem tlfth of Its original value, 10. Tho c;ountoss or Uniterm was a finnm Ian vaeht which comnttert f0r tlto America's Cup thirty-nino ... vMj-(taraw ut.f . WVT,jnf JL7X1 : v I 1 1 . J t -. " - " -1 SHORT GUTS' f Draw one I Erwln is getting his, The Dally Dall intrigues attention. A round of pleasure Rotarlans nt the ih ore. Not much kick in a Philadelphia Mint julep at $4.50 a day. Tennessee suffragists are seeking the rat In ratification. Dog days and the campaign against rats ought to make them Cat days. Bj the qualms It Is subject to, one might Imagine the Chicago wheat pit Is a stomach. Recent happenings seem to show that a wolf found Its way into the Lambs' Club. Add heroes Dr. Ocorgo D. Heist, killed by tho meningitis germ he had fought for years. "While the lamp holds out to burn the vilest sinner mny return" but not to public office. Breaking the Solid South is as fas cinntlug nn amusement ns finding the fountain of youth. The thermometer has nothing on the politician in the matter of response to outside Influences. The camp ground nt 5It. Orctnn has a fine bunch of game birds and not a grouse among them. The biggest arguments for the Del aware bridge are made Saturdays and Sundays at the ferries. Wonder If the Lambs' Club would be willing to make honorary members of the White House sheep? Tho Democratic choice for a po litical chariot seems divided between a dayton and a baby carriage. Franklin D. Roosevelt says Cox is an engineer-statesmau ; and Frank lin himself is the little foot-toot. A blockade on the Soviet Govern ment will help the peasants in the civil war that is coming in Russia. There nre 173,011 slackers in the United States if the draft board records arc correct. Let us hope they are not correct. Wonder what 11 scarecrow thinks about? asks Brlggs. Question disre spectfully submitted to the attorney general. So far as public information is con cerned, ever so many factors in the sinking fund muddle have been sunk without trace. It is now the task of the fircmar shal to persuade Council that even more valuable than u lire department is u fire prevention department. The campaign against the rat is extending all over tho country which is honor nnd glory for our own Director Furbush, who started the present cru sade. lift guards at Atlantic fit.1 nre still showing friendliciss toward Phil addphia's ifnMis returns. Thev Mivd eleven Pnil.idclph'Jus from drowning on 5Ionday. Stewards in convention in this city say that lestaurant patrons are going to pay higher prices for smaller por tions. The answer to thnt is that more people are going to eat at home. Somebody paid Ponzi's profits; paid them in sweat and blood. The old say ing. "You can't git something for nothing," still stands despite those who occasionally dodge their debts. It might be the part of policy to let the P R T. underlying companies prove thnt they are not operating pub lic utility concerns nnd then demand of them what rxcuse they have for ex isting. The story the Inland AVntcrvvoys Association will tell nt its convention in Atlantic CItj in October is designed to prove to the world thnt the fish hnwk can carry more freight than the rail bird. Chief Webster, of the Rureau of Surve.vs, hns outraged precedent bv sug gesting a cheaper way of building the University parkway. Why, that man acts ns though it were his own money thnt was to be spent ! CENSERS i A SWINC.ING censer in some nge-old fane Delights me with Its wreaths of tenu ous grn.v : The merest dream of smoke, they float away, To lightly cloud the galaxied, rich pane, Or chapeled candle Soon of them re main, Tlut sweet and subtle breathings of a day Long gone, whose saintly legendry can sway. And with a visionnrv throng entrain. Hut not for long, since soon mself I rouse . Those fragrant four wollw hold me but a while. And but n time those sumptuous glooms withdrawn. Strnlgbt up, beyond the roof of an house. An incense rises; nnd, free mile on mile, To trace it at its source I would be gone. II The censers of the earth lo! how they breathe Their henling sweetness on the com mon nir What precious things they burn, who Is aware! Winds swing them, but no vnpors round them wreathe, High noon, or morn, or star set vault benenth ; 'TIs where the cedars toss their scented hnlr, Or upland wastes their spicewood treasures bare, Or dells uznlean dewy blooms unsheathe, Or 'tis all gardens thnt have ever been Of Persia, with the lyric mated rose, Of Como bovver deep swooned in jessa min Or some small plot where thyme and lavender And dim reseda lade each breath that blows ; These least of censers also minlfter. Edith 51. Thomus, iu the New York L 0aiu DON k ' f ' - ' r&L Pif. B&Sb W.Q'S. " - 40 - '7Lt y ' BOUVELARD RESIDENTS FEAR TROLLEY LINE "DEATH TRAP,f Protest Increase Against Transit Extension Menace to Life and Traffic, Says Improvement Official "PEOPLE living in the neighborhood of the Cobbs Creelt boulevard are cl.iinc everything they know to fight plans oi the Philadelphia Rapid Transit Co. to Inv a double line of tracks on that beau tiful thoroughfare. The P. R T.- Co. at present operntes cars on Spruce street to Sixtv-first. The plan, sanctioned by nn ordinance which Council hns passed, but that the Mavor has not signed, is to carry those tracks to the boulevard, otherwise known ns Sixty-third street, and swing north to Lancaster avenue. There has been a strongly organized protest against the proiect. Some time ago the Cobbs Creek Boulevard Home Association called on Mn.vor 5Ioore with protests signed by "0 residents of the section against the project. Just n few nights ngo two other local .,..,-.- .,.- ClnAl TTnmfl Town associations, iim- -mki' ;", e,,i Improvement Association and the Sjoutn Sixtieth Street Business Men s Asso ciation, met jointly and resolved to get similar protests signed and present them to the Mayor. Mnvor Moore has inmrnicu i..n. ,vlll be "In nn hurry" to sign the ordi nance giving the PR. T. Co the rhzht to lav tracks on tho boulevard. ihc members of the improvement nssot'n; tons say tnev nre gon B ...I :- f r.M r. tv nnd protest ineir i-iiuiihuk" ... r....... .... ----- until the Mnvor vetoes the ordinnncc. Added Danger to Trnlllc George It Sciffert. president of the Cobbs Creek Roulevurd Home Associa tion, pointed out in nn interview; thnt one of the most weighty reasons against Idling the transit eompan lav tracks .i. i..i.,..,. u the milled dnniter nil ill,- im'hm-iii , .. .. - - -- - - these tracks would offer for both motor ist and pedestrian. "Even motorist knows Xlnrshall road." said Mr. Seiffert. "It is a new rond leading to I.nnsdowne. It crosses Cobbs creek opposite Pine street und swings in a long S shaped double curve to the boulevaid at Spruce street. It climbs a grade nt least 100 feet high. The rond strikes the boulevord just op posite the point where the double tracks would turn into it "Last Sundnv some of the members of our association counted the automo biles which used Marshnll road at vari ous intervals during the day. At ,1 :,10 o'clock iu the afternoon we counted .'(0 niarhiues i limbing the hill, .10 coming down, 14 going south on the Pnrkvva 'it the intersection. H7 going north, all within n space of ten minutes. There was a total of 117 machines in these ten minutes, which would be nt the rate of 720 machines in an hour "We took another test nt 7 o'clock in the evening, when the traffic was even heavier. Then 10 enrs climbed and .'tl descended the hill ; -40 went south und .IS north on the Pnikwa, and S more came out Spruce street. That was n total of 10S in ten minutes, i more tnnn unni in nn nour. Nino Accidents Last Week "Last week there were nine accidents at the point where Mnrshall road meets the boulevard, just opposite the point where Ihp trollnv lln U'mild Riiini, In. If there nre so many mishups when the METROPOLITAN OPERA HOUSE n SHOWS DAILY 2:30, 7 '00, 0:00 ADMISSION 2Sc and SOc UPIN MARY'S ATTIC WITH THE Bathing Beauties in Person Fhllatlrlphin noi'apnpfr critic? apctalm ( a rpally onjovahht entertainment. "Actually Rooa Mark Srnnett ono httr "Mflry'a Attic' will prohnhly enjoy an unlim ited prosperity "The Presn. "Cftrrlon Its humor with laudable dignity." Evening Bulletin. "A atrlklnfr, dashlnic (how " Thn Record "I'acke.1 houaea with atandlnfr room only, arreted the opening performance Js cer tain to npp.'al" -North American I -luht anl -umniir entii ,i n m t 0f merit ' Evening Publlo ledger. "Evokea loud lauKhter on many occaa it!on "- -.Public Iydsrer "It one la ti.f4.lru; an evening-' diversion MarTa-AtU wlU jiUir-toaiilrar, QUIXOTE'S1 UNDfcRSTJUD ' j ''.i .vj' r r "vr- j- jr v.yji i --- nt Mm ' l mm MriAXnt?rfLXt-J-r B-ttMJ IMT'ifJfr r ,,XJJJ: iWLUltfAt it u r. rwriiMi -ti iwrirM i j5&- s boulevard is free from trolley cars, how many more might we expect if we had a two-track trolley line there?" There nre other reasons, too, which the residents of the neighborhood urge against the placing of tracks on the Parkway. "It will mar n snlendld highway part of the Lincoln Highway, it might b" noted," snid 5Ir. Seiffert. "It is one of the' few parkways in our section, and is considered n substantial part of the Cobbs Creek Park system. "The heavy1 automobile trnffic of which I spoke uses the boulevard for a very good reason it is not only a quick E I T H ' S Billy B.-Van & Corbett-James J. "The nishteenth Amendment" Gladys-Clark & Bergman-Henry In "Tunes of tho Hour" Eva Shirley & Her Band Dolly Kay; Marshal Montcomory; Othera. CHESTNUT faT- OI',KUAf Last 4 Days MATINCIIS 'J ,10 r-VEMNGB 7 i 0 thi: iovn .tok or am: aoks Advnteil from thn ston nf Southern Call forrili by HELEN Ht'S'T JACKSON PPMa KtaDato tacw eccdl ?Caic. CoihiCt! WILLOW GROVE PARK I.EPS AND HIS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA TODAY 1 .in unit 7 4'. VERA CI RTIS Sopnno (i .)-, STARAT MATER with Emllv Stolt's II ., r M irle htnnn L.umittori Roman! I'oliml RelnhoM Sihmhlt ami a chorus ot lh I'hiliiilclplil i Opojvile Society Tomorrow NlBht ' LUCIA" TROCADERO ''nXA daley and i iwjwale.i.w m;il KANOV Kms) I zMz i wcw i mwm 7 " nnnrxn inPfi7f?r n (f Mil! ll Y if t i ' - ! ll W 1 w uuuu uu UUL3VJUUI-3L' VdLTUUUULIUU'LJ UU31 fthr fbemna lOnllctm "An unusu.il picture- Nothing HKo It has eor been shown In n, Phila delphia playhouse Once seen, will bn remembered when tho flctlonH of o'her films tiro only hnzy mem orteH " CONTINUOUS FROM 10 -TO -10 PUBLIC tg& LEDGER "Ah picturesque as It Is amaliiR Ite.mii rk.ibla ew of a tiger hunt. Tho Infuriated animal Is seen sprlnKlnsr from a thicket upon the Intrepid photographer " Itc gffigKffittkft Press ' ,iciT it i f lb- i iif- n i i ii '(rll scenes over caught by a cum era A truly extraordinary record of llfo amnriB savages." nP 7 AW il 1 1 l . W i? A M&S 2f&h &M S. lit' efefe HOM' "-&?? wav of reachlnc both north and south sections of West Philadelphia, but It is. also the most accessible highway to manv suburban points. "Wo feel also that the matter of real estate values ought to enter Into con sideration somewhat. Heavy expendi tures have been made developing this section because every one felt that the boulevard would be maintained free from danger, noise and eoufusion Incident to the operation of trolley cars." Mirknt St an inth 11 A. M. to 11 P It Thla Wek Only Flrat l'resentatlon THOMAS MEIGHAN L.ILA LEE ard KATHLYN WILLIA5I3 L "The Prince Chap" A PARAMOUNT PICTURE Directed by DeMille ADAPTED FROM THE FAMOUS PLAT Next Week "DON'T EVER MARRY" PALACE J21,0; MARKET STKEET A M . 12. : 3 4f r,:45. 7:45, 0.30 I' U William Faversham In "THE MAN WHO LOST HIMSELF' NEXT WEEK "A COMMON LEVEL ' ADPAH1A Chcttnut St Dl lClb -l.N-'-I--'iT. 10 A M . 12, B 3 45. Ill 0 30 I' M i :4S. "Sins of St Anthony" A PARAMOUNT T1RST PRESENTATION T'"VTVD I A MnrKet hlrct Ab St V 1 1 UKIA, n a m to u is v u, D. W. GRIFFITH'S "The Idol Dancer" CAPITOL 721 MARKET SI DUIGLAS M-ipLEAS nn 1 UOIUS JIAI In "LETS UK rASIIION.U I.E Thura , Trl . Sat.. C1IAS ti In "HOMER COMES HOME REGENT MARKET ST Rl 17TI! KINO VI DOR " "THE FAMILY HONOn" GLOBE MARKET STREET AT JUNIPEI 11 A. M to 11 1'. M. CONTINUOUS VAUDEVILLE JACK ROOF AND HIS RREEZE GIRLS CROSS rCFYS 00TH A .MARKET STS. FOLLIES OF VALDEV1LIE RRDAnWAY Iirnail nn1 Snyder i. UtUSU WAI ,r(, .45 a P .v. SWEET SWEETIES; CLARA KlMHAl.L YOUNC, In "FOR THE SOUL OF RAFARI" )YF in THE NORTH AMERICAN ' Thiee stnr- mean picture of especial excellen c A modern miracle The wholo film abounds In unusual ami strange scenes which must be e' to be appreciated ' ( (? i V ii eH&STNUT N&AR. BROAD THE PHILADELPHIA RECORD "Tho pletuto Is ono of the most remarkable tho screen has fr.1"?. ealed Tho film open- a new tl'ld for adventurous souls who na virilization a bit too tame' (Tup PilabclpfhaJnnuirM An inhlfM, iciii In oinetrs. a ' peculiar, startlniK and nt rw ln&" m ., T 1&& U.t. ,fl A'ytMSlfc.iia .i U: . iJ .eeV ESLL
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