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Amuil 17, 1920 A FOUR-YEAR PROGRAM FOR PHILADELPHIA Thlnan on wlilch tlie prr)l? eitpert the new administration t fntiren- trate Its attentlmit The Delaware river bridge. A- drydock big enough to accommo date the largest Mpi. Development of the rapid transit sys tem. A convention hall. A .building for the Free Library. An Art iluseum. Enlargement of the water suppli. Homes to accommodate the popula tion. GORMAN'S JOB THE efforts of diaries Neeld, fecro tary of the inunleipnl (.'ivil Service Commission, to justify the appointment of Frank Connnn, political handy man. to a ?4000 job as statistician" in de fiance of the fact that Mayor Moore vetoed an attempt to create mob a place for him by coiincilmanlc ordi nance, are pathetic in the extreme. K Naturally enough the public might expect the Ciil Serviie Commission under the present administration to b the last place to flud palpable dodging of the law in order to take c-nru of a chronic , officeholder. et Secretary Kccld Htrives to make it appear as casual and matter of caurM as if there were no rules to govern his office. In face of tire fact that an eligible list already exists for a classifier which i the real job (iorman is to fill and thnt (Jormun's name docs not appear on it; thut Mayor Moore de clined to increase the appropriation of the, commission to provide for the place and that the complete work of stand ardizing the municipal pay rolls is being done under contract for a stated sum by a firm of expert engineers, the ommUsion by th majority votes oi lessrs. Woodruff and" Neeld over the protest of Mr. Van Duseu, the third jucrnber, adopts the devious arffl evasive method of adding (iorman to the forces of Jhe contracting experts and increas ing' the compensation which the city will have to pay to that rirm through ft supplemental contract. Fortunately, Major Moore can ic fuse to authorize this ugrecment and frustrate the Hi-home, just as lie vetoed the item in the ordinance. The disheartening feature of the whole affair is that a body created and Kwo'rn to prevent just this sort of hocus-pocus with municipal jobs should have no higher seuse nf the ethics vio lated by the setting of such a vicious precedent. , THE MIRACLE ON OUR HANDS ACCOHDJNG to Assistant Secretary of Wnr Williams, "the govern ment never really ilid intend to sell Hog Island." That this alleged reluc tance developed mainly as a result of a lack of bidders is at least a posi bility. Private enterprise has been loath to embark in the colossal ven ture. The idea of ownership and oper ation by the city of Philadelphia hardly pafsed beyond the stage of an alluring fancy. Meanwhile the plant is n hug'1 fact, and failure to grasp it constructively means the waste of unprecedented re sources and equipment. Mr. Hrush, president of the America International Shipbuilding Corporation, believes that the yard should either be returned by i " the government as an army quarter- master base or else should be used to I take care of the $4..i00,00fl worth of various materials now scattered in gov ernment warehouses. The .suggested concentration has u practical appeal and is decidedly more definite than a i number of the schemes proposed. I The government, ju'titiably, it is true, created the Hog Island prohlcm. I Now. though the particular emergency I for which the plant' was built lias passed, the responsibility is not easy j to shift. Surely even a partial use by l the federal authorities of the costly ' "equipment would be preferable to an abandonment involving scrapping the greatest shipyard ever built. A CULTURAL ADVANCE MMIII5 ...U..nl f fin.. nrN tn ha nn.tmttl ! by1 the I'nlverslty of Pennsylvania n the autumn is essf-ntlally an achieve ment In concentration, since most of the features composing It aie already in ex istence at the West Philadelphia insti tution. It is a sound educational move, how ever, to emphasize the relationship of architecture, music, archeology, paint, jug and design. Divisions in art arc often artificially drawn and sometimes they are barely discernible save to a -lnlnd warped by narrow pedugogy. The new school at the University, broader in Its scope than any maintained under similar scholastic auspices else where in America aims, it is said, to act eventually In co-operation with other art enterprises in Philadelphia, This nvould, brlug It In close touch with the city's new museum and perhaps even with the Academy of the Finn Arts. il)f, Wirfn P. Laird was not talking i''frHs" but educational common sense when hq declared the other day that No longer fhoiild It be possible forxthe ...illfltrH.liPAii itmn In he lirnnrnnf tt arf 'i Its Maiijg,U. the past and its power to vi -, '.ST ' i . reveal lo the mind a rich nntl noble vlto of truth and beauty," It In evident nlo that a fusion of art resources rather than n narrow separa tion of them alone rompetlnR HneH means a stimulus to cultural progress in any community. The growth of I'hlln delphla as nn art center in bound up In the new development, of which an Intact college department leading to a bnclicW degree Is a hopeful preliminary. SIX PER CENT DIVIDENDS ENDED A HOUSING CRISIS The Example of Bridgeport, Conn., and What It Might Mean to Overcrowded Philadelphia TT IS no longer possible for every man who contributes labor, capital, brains or material to the business of real estate development to be his own Pnnzl. We are approaching the cold, gray dawn of the morning after a specula tive riot. The awakening Isn't pleasant, llulldlng. ns Mr. Crawford, of the Heal Kstate Hoard, observes, has almost stopped and there Is nothing to Indicate when It will he fully resumed. In this city a definite check has been put tipon the (Hipulation. The condition is not one that Investors, craftsmen or opera -torn'can regard with equanimity. Idle ness and profitless years arc in prospect for many of them. The larger Interests of the com munity are involved In the singular deadlock. Properly n city like this should regnrd Its working population as its most alunb1e asset. Turn away skilled, indlistrinus mid self-respecting men and itnilo In only those wluV arc billing anil eager to live In slums and cellars and ou suffer n very definite loss. So the bankers and business men in Bridgeport, Conn., felt about t the matter. And Bridgeport is one of the few cities in the United States that is not bothered by dangerously overtaxed housing facilities, rapacious landlords and a prospect if Increasing hardship for the multitudes who have to rent the homes thej live in. There were forunnl-mlnded nnd re sourecful citizens in Ilridgiport who, I opiate with any group of men who confronted with a novel problem in mil- might be moved to support nn enter nlcipnl alToirs, preferred to follow an prsp patterned after that at Bridge- accepted rule ot good industrial manage- i ment. nicy decided to Hold tlieir or ganization together. Thcv made no sncrlpce.s. They were not philanthropists. But in one respect they diffend from many other investors of the hour. They were content with a (I per cent return on their moncj. Thus they weie able to orgnnize n system of housing development that offers many needed lessons to n couutry in which U.". 000,000 people are without proper dwelling accommodations. Governor Smith, of New York, who lias just called a special session of the Legislature to consider the growing problem of the shelterless in and about Manhnttan, may be led finally to seek n remedy in the example offered by Bridgeport. He will find no traces of n miracle in the Connecticut city. He will find an absence of extortionate greed nnd he will find applied business sense. He will find small dwellings, stoutly nnd gracefully built, designed by the best architects in t tic country nnd set in nn agreeable environment, being purchased by tenants with a monthly rental that seldom exceeds $40. It is not fair to asstunc that such houses might be duplicated now at their original cost, though the extensive build ing operations of tho Bridgeport Housing Corporation were carried on nt war prices and under wnr conditions. All sorts of business men put money into the enture, which was inspired originally by municipal officers working in co-operation with the heads of some of tho big manufacturing corporations. No effort was made to cheapen the work. The dwellings nre far more attractive than many of the more ornate buildings designed by less capuble architects. They are scientifically equipped. The archi tects in this instnnce evolved what they called an "apartment unit" in which families pay nominal rent that in time will give them full title to their part of the building. Bridgeport is no longer "red," though once it was known ns a hotbed of unrest nnd a breeding place for dangerous strikes. Those who capitalized the building program draw their 0 per cent annually and lire content. Last apring in these columns sug gestions for a somewhat similar build ing scheme were urged with energy enough to move tho Mayor and others to action. Mr. Moore had plans. The bankers had plnns. Builders bad plans of their own. But a succession of elaborate con ferences ended in nothing for the simple reason, apparently, that there were not enough people about who were willing to accept (1 per cent on their money. Larger profits were too easily made in the speculative field. Small dwellings of the sort that probably will be provided for m one way or nnother by the New York Legis lature are sorely needed here, nnd tho lack of them will continue to be an acute problem for years' to come. But thus far no one at City Hall appears to have beard of what was done in Bridgeport, and Mr. fiproul and the leaders in the Stnte Legislature fcecra still unaware that the question of housing is swiftly becoming one of the most painful of the present decade. In an interesting table of building costs published tho other day, Mr. Crawford showed that the cost of build ing, based rfpon current expenditures for material and labor, has almost tripled since 1014. But It Is clear that even with present costs large, organized Investments in building would bo profitable, Kstimates by tho engineers of the United Htntes Housing Corjwrntlon show thnt the country rs in neod of new houses nnd apartments to ac commodate 5,000,000 families. The de mand for new living quarters will be pressing for at least five cars. And certainly It must seem to nny ordinary observer thnt reol estate development on a large scale, supported through the Joint efforts of municipalities, prhate Investors and building trndes unions, should be profitable, even though It brings no such returns as many land lords and speculators recently have come to expect. What Is needed in this city Is a plan much like that which got Bridgeport out of very serious difficulties and the new standard of building which has at tracted attention to the Bridgeport en terprise. Sounder architectural principles than arc usually applied In inexpensive dwellings were embodied In the building program at Bridgeport. There wasJJttlc of, rickety ornnmrntntion in the houses built for the lively corporation whoso methods are now attracting general at tention. The houses were built almost exclusively of brick. They are simple and even beautiful In design, nnd in no case were they planned without a re gard for Intrinsic grace and for charm of environment. Architects of, talent did their best at a job thrtt Interested them. Anil ns a consequence the Bridgeport corpora tion has long waiting lists of people who arc eager to move from older fash ioned houses into the "model com munities" that were crented within n few months. Philadelphia is more fortunate than Bridgeport nnd It is more fortuniite than New York in having vast aiens of ncarbv land suitable for development nlnne-' Aniline modern lines. Yet i ninny thousands of families in this city will face another winter as the prey to speculators and rent profiteers. No relief is possible before next spring or summer, but relief should be pro vided then. And relief will be possible if enough men In this city can realizo that the problem Is not one that con cerns individuals alone. It concerns the whole community nnd henrs in many ways upon its social and industrial life. Unquestionably the dt and even the stnte authorities would heartily co pnrti rpjIP Pmergeney is really serious. It is social. For the time being nt lenst tho work of building should not be l inc wore. i um h wholly a mnttcr of private enterprise j and speculation. So Mayor Moore might , pn-'orly reopen the discussions thnt ' pri'-inny reopen ended lamentably last spring. If a large nnd general plan of rrnl estate development were undertaken it is not unlikely that leaders of the building trndes would find a way to make concessions of n sort likely to re vive a declining industry, and it is logical to suppose that material pur chased outright in quantities sufficient for thousands of houses could be bought at figures more favorable than those cited by Mr. Crawford. LABOR TRIBUNALS WIN THE square deal through due process of law is a program which inevitably nppeals to the average American tem perament. In Kansas the stnte industrial court law. which hnd been made tlie bosis of the Republican primary campaign, lias just scored n highly significant victory. Governor Allen, running for rcnoniination, carried every county in the state save one. which contains the lcrge-t clement of foreign lnbor. Else where the Nonpartisan League-Labor combination was unable to stem the tide of progress. Elsewhere the in dividual worker in great numbers sup ported the court scheme. The attraction of this method of ap proaching labor difficulties is very sim ilar to that exerted by the League of Nations upon persons capable of seeing bevond their noses, 'if the law, im partially and intelligently administered, Is unequal to settling disputes between nations or conflict between employers und employes, then the whole structure of it is u mockery. Sane Americuns are loath to believe this. Labor tribunals with a new body of jurisprudence, consistently developed on the old fundamentals, as the cases arise, are as yet in their Infancy. That a great hope of appraising the issues fairly is btrong in Kansas indicates not that this state is unique, but that it is on this matter representative of prevnlling sentiment in tho nation as a whole. The public, capitalists and laborers have seen other methods fall. In Penn sjlvnnia the Department ol Labor nnd Industry has just estimated that strikes have cost the workmen $,'1,000,000 in wugea. Extreme radicalism will per haps assert that this is the cost of battle leading to more than commensu rate gains. But anticipated profits arc unsubstantial. A comprehensive hearing in law ought to bo able to satisfy such claims of capital and lnbor as are not grounded in injustice. The expression of this belief by Knnsas is heartening and in dicative of the right sort of cvoluticfti in the republic. FIREWATER BY WIRELESS ARE we to suppose, ufter a survey of the moving ense of tho Hon. Muggsy McGraw, that bellboys have been licensed to vend firewater? The Giants' boss was at the T-ambs' Club. He consumed, with the assist ance of others, three bottles of dis tilled violence. He hnd made his pur chase through a juvenile .attendant' in the place of his sojourn. And the last sound he heard before a water bottle swung In the linnd of a person un known wafted him terribly nenr to the pearly gates, was the voice of the bell boy beseeching him to buy a fourth bottle. If the reports of travelers In these United States nre true, bellboys can produce the forbidden bottle nt a mo ment's notice nnd for n price. Tho news should Interest those who nre supposed to enforce the prohibition lnws. An interesting question is in volved. And it should not be difficult to nnswer. What alert candU An Opportunity date will be first to of Gold seize a matchless opportunity nnd de nounco his opponent as a Ponzl ui politics? "' JUNKING THE SEXTANT Science Within Distance of Run ning Ships Like the Trains of a Great Jlallroad System STRP by step, the gejllus of man Is making navigation of the seas easier and safer and is taking from the ship captain much of the worry and uncer tainty of conducting his vessel from one port to another tn spite of wind and weather. The day is" even vlsloned now when the toierchant fleets of the world will be run like the trains of n great railroad system, with all the controls In fixed centers with the schedules made out In advance nnd with something almost analogous to the steel rails to keep them steadily and t me upon the paths mapped out for them. When that day comes, the navigation will be done from shore far more un erringly than It can be done now at sea, nnd the captain will be merely n conductor, to punch the tickets nf the passengers and see thnt all is kept in order aboard. There will be no tcx tant, no pelorus, no azimuth mirror, no dallys calculations of chronometer errors, and the compass will make its own corrections and keep the ship's head on the course requited. THIS latest step Is the laying of a sixteen-mile cable down the harbor of New York and out Hie Ambrose channel. By menus of nn alternating current of electricity In this cable and sensitive nudiphones. one on each side of Jhc ship, a vessel approaching In a fog or in n bad storm can proceed steadily on Its way up the nnrrow chan nel nnd entrance nnd anchor in the protection of the Narrows under condi tions that would now make such n feat out of the question. The sounds in the nudiphones will guide the ship to the outer end of the cable! Hint reached, she . will proceed .tml tlie nmlinlioiips will tell Immediately If she swerves In the slightest from the water directly over the cable, and she can be quickly brought back on her course. It will bo much like a trolley car following its. wire, only here the connection will bo by means of the impulses propagated through the water instead of through the pole on the car. ALREADY the wizards of electricity have famished to mariners on' our roasts n method of locating their posi tions nt sea with greater speed and accuracy than are possible with sextant and man's fallible methods of calcula tions. .lust before the wnr started wireless compass stations, or, ns they are tech nically called, goniometer stations, passed the experimental stage, and when the United States entered the conflict these goniometers, in portable form, were used by the government to j wireless stations whose ,,. wns MIsppr,C(i. Tlip c,ntir(l cngtU o t, Atlantic coant was also equipped with tliem. and this important branch of nnvnl work wns nlaced for development in the hands of a Philadelphia!!. Lieuten ant Appleby, who had been known here for many years as a maker of wireless instruments for amateurs. Today these compass stations nre busy twenty-four hours In every twenty four, receiving requests from -ships nt sea for position reports, and the speed and uccuracy of these reports nre caus ing cuptalns to depend upon them more nnd more. THE method by which tills most im portant operation is done is in tensely Interesting and entirely un known to the general public. Let us suppose a ship is bound up the const for New York and, somewhere below Hatteras, has struck bad weather, which has made her dependent upon the uncertain methods of dead reckoning for her position. Her captain, knowing that ho may be many miles put of his course, asks the wireless operator whether lie can get her position from Virginia Bench or Cape May. The wireless operator, listening in, finds, perhaps, that he can hear Cape May strouger than any other station, so he calls up that wireless oflice and. getting an answer, sends the signal "QFT?" which, in lodio parlance, means, "What is mv position, please?" The Cape May station will give him the signal "K." which means "Go ahead, and the ship operator will send his call letters over and over for thirty seconds, and then make dashes of live seconds' duration for one minute. LnrEANWIHLE. on shore, two other m-L stations, connected by private wire to Cape Mnv, have been told to listen for him and. while he is sending his "tuning" cnll letters and dnshes, these two operators, at Cnpc Henlopen nnd Bethany Beach, Del., hnvo been ma nipulating their goniometers until each one has determined the exnet direction by true compass from which his signals are coining. These twm directions nre sent over the wire to Cupe May, nnd an expert in that station, which is known as the "compass-control station," hns laid down the two lines on n chart and located the point at sea where they intersect. This must, of course, be tho ship's exact position, and Cape May immediately sends it to the operator upon the vessel. ALL nlong the Atlantic coast these control stations, with two or three goniometer stations, have been located at every important harbor entrance and give positions for ships fifty miles distant. At other points nlong the coast nre independent stations that operate with vessels up to i,'iii innes and give Dear ings only, but when a captain gets an accurate benring of his ship from two different points he himself lays tho lines down on the chart in his chart room and so locates his position. The system is sufficlentlv devel oped nt the present time to mnke it pos sible to take a ship from Boston down the coast and into the port of Havana without a sextant aboard. The new submarine nlternntlng-current cable in New York makes a pilot n longer necessary. I S THE time coming when even the nnwer necessnrv tn run the Fhin will he transmitted from shore by means of the mysterious radio impulses with which we do such marvelous things, but about which wo jet know practi cally nothing? One of the most joyous bits of news the papers have carried for weeks is to the effect that the Northern Pa cific Railroad has increased its freight car movement from 20.4 to .'13.2 miles n dav and that carloads aro heavier than last year. This means that earn est nnd efficient means arc being taken to move the banner crops and that next winter we may begin to feci the beuefit. After loonlne the loon eighty-seven times in a two-mllo airplane drop a girl aviator in New York leaned out of the cockpit, asked her maid for her powder pfiff and calmly powdered her nose. And the correspondents seemed surprised. But they tieed not have been. After following her nose on so tortuous a course she just knew that it needed nttcntion. Any nice thinr? we lnnv have han- pened to say about the weather man we hero and now ladign.aatlj'wUMr-Tr. SHORTCUT Suffrage Is siill playing a wnltlng ' game. The critic Is n skcetcr the word smudgo cannot kill. 1 Poor little excess profit tax ! I Hasn't got a friend In the world.. j r The Bolshevists nre within four teen miles of Warsaw one for each point, . , .Tohn Barleycorn Is llend. of course. but his spirit goes hinrching on, ap parently. What the country nppcnrs to be suffering from is overproduction of ' political piffle. , "Not to put too fine a point on It." the Gorman appointment is nt least unfortunate. Tomatoes must be cheap on Fifty eighth street when people can use them to throw at deputy sheriffs. The Poles ore just 'one lap ahead of the rest of the world in appreciating what the Red menace means. In New York the definition of ' "hooch" seems to be "something everybody but law officers knows where to get.'' Of the slacker It may he said In the words of Koko that if Uncle Sam has him on his Hslt be never will be missed. I It will nflcnst-bo conceded that the fourteen points have more friends i in the South than the fourteenth ' nmendinent. ' I Villn's announced intention to cm brnce his enemies must make them hope thnt there was plenty of soap In liis immunity bath. McGraw having admitted his in-i ability to answer the question, "How did it hnppen?" will next be asked, uncre aid you get it?" which every reader of the clnsslcs ' will remember is the exact distance from Wlbbleton to Wobbleton. , In order to meet the dVmnnd of lawyers for the defense we might just as well cnll our penitentiaries insane asylums nnd let It go at that. Dr. Carl Michel, who rid Vera ' ( rtlZ flf tile bubonic tlWmv rinnlmM. cnlly declares Inoculation for the dis ease valueless. Hats!" he says. It is interesting to note that there Is possibility of our being involved in another European war even though we nre not yet a member of the League of Nations. When the story of the housing problem comes to be written the quiet work of the local building and loan associations may he given the appreci ation it deserves. We nre inclined to think that per baps the Tennessee legislators have a hazy kind of notion that it is not with out the bounds of possibility that they know tlieir own business best. ,. 4 NtMV Yorl mnn lms !'l10t his wife because she dressed too "young." Happily. mo3t husbands will continue to prefer the dressmaker tn the under taker as an arbiter of fashion. When Chairman White says he has a hunch that Mr. Bryan wili sup port the .Democratic ticket "whole heartedly" one wonders if he lms his union ticket ns a grave-digger. A polo pony wns sent by airplane from London to Lympuc the other day In time to take its nlnre in n schcdnlxil game. Sports may now take their plncc with poets in their possession of winged steeds. Uncle Sam hns put nn end to the bubonic nlnirue in Vera I'm ti,. I,-- just finished a slmllur job iti Europe, Js i ' iui?i:.?5fl 30t' l .c ' !lc,io .of ' And in every ense when .... -,.,,,, -tint til'llll, I.t HUH 10 dO lie helps nnotner He helps himself, Thomas W. Cunningham would be justified in declining the finunce chair manship job foisted upon him bv nre followers; but there would be far morn public service and far more fun incidentally, in tnking the job and hoisting the Vnreite on his own petard. Having received on good news paper authority the information, first, that tlie speeches of Governor Cox sound better. than they read, and, sec ond, thnt they rend better than they sound, we unhesitatingly arrive at the conclusion that he means what ho says when he snys what he means. What Do You Know? QUIZ 1. What kind of animal Is a caracal? i. wno said. "My mind to me u ltimr dom is" ? 3. What is tho laity? 4. How should tho word bo nro- nounccd. 6. Where nre the Atlas mountains? 6. Why are they so called? 7. Who waH tho Greek (rod of wnr? 8. What w.is the middle name of ' President Hayes? 9. What flower Is sometimes called hearueaso? 10. Name two cities in Porto Blco. Answers to Yesterday's Quiz The South Sea, Co., Incorporated In l'.nKlnml in 17 11 umlertnnlr , or fir . t firi.nin 5?i, nn"oni", "o1" of On at Brltnln, Tho scheme hased .,., -, -- ,..-...... v.. ... v - I, if ' l,roaPeciivo proilts was iviiuiy aiincuiaitve. it collapsed, ruining thousands of atockholdors and leveullng a scandalous com plicity on the part of a member of tho British cublnet 2. Aleppo Js nn important town In northern Syria, about seventy miles from tho Mediterranean. 3. The first declaration of war In the world unr was that of Austria ngnlnst Serbia on July 28, 19U Germany declared war on Jlussla on August 1, 13H. 4. The word plckannlny is derived from tho Spanish "pequeno," small, nnu "nlno," little or little baby 5. The republic of Franco claims most of tho Sahara desert. 6. The engagement between the Brit ish, under Clinton, and tho Amerl. cans, undei Washington, fought at Monmouth. .V. J., on July 16, 177 wub virtually a. drawn battle, with perhaps slight odds favoring the Americans A number of men on both sides succumbed to tho In. tenso summer heat. 7. Tho constitutional amendment nu- thorlzInK tho electing of senators by direct popular vote In their re. enectlve stateH became effective on May 31, 1913. n 8. James Shirley waaa noted dra matist, generally reckoned an h.. last of the great playwrights bom In the KlUnbethnn age. HIS dates are it-ibtn, 9, A pibroch Is a serlts of variations for bagpipes, chiefly martial in uimiavtc,. 10. Slam, and Japan ay Inrlcnendenr monarchies of tho , ir East. HARD TO TELL NOW MY IDEA IS THIS! Daily Talks With Thinking Philadelphians On Subjects They Know Best BRUCE M. WATSON On Garber's Successor NEED for the best available man In tlie country to fill the vnenncy of superintendent of public schools in this city is e'mphnslzed by Bruce M. Wat son, secretnry of the Public Education nnd Child Lnbor Association. Mr. Watson snys thnt wo should pro cure the best man, even if it is necessary to make n world -wido search. "Philadelphia should have the best educational sjstem in the country," he said. "This is the Greatest opportunity that the Board of Education has ever had to raise the school system to nhlgh standard. The choice of n new supcrln tendent is the most important thing in .. .1 ., , , improving tins system tunc me uoaru will be ( ailed upon to do,' A new man should be the head and front of tho school system in fact ns well ob in mime. "No man worthy of tlie job will be likely to accept the post unless three important conditions nre observed. "Tho salary must be made more at tractive. No man of sufficient caliber will come for $0000, the present salary. Cleveland .pays $12,000; Pittsburgh and Seattle pay $10,000. A dozen cities pay more than Philadelphia, "A mnn worthy to head -the Philadel phia siliool system should receive not less than $1. 1,000 a year. If more money is necessary to attract the right man there should be no hesitation about paying it. The extra few thousand in volved would be Infinitesimal in. com parison with the worth of that man to the city both in dollars nnd cents and in other wns. There arc many cor porations in this city where the re sponsibilities nre not nearly so great, jet which pay for greater compensation to the executive -bead. Must Have .More Freedom "There should be a longer tenure of office. Three yenrs should be the very shortest term to begin with. No fit man Is likely to accent the position if he ennnot he assured of u term nt leust as long as this. "Absolute freedom of action and power under the rules of the board to administer the public bchool system In the. way thnt he sees best should be at corded tin new heod. He should not he curbed by petty policies. This free dom former supeiinteiideiits in tills city have not had. "The board need not fenr. In grant ing this new freedom to this coming i,iih iiiin ,., ...."... ... ,...u ,w. ,.., ndiiiliiistrotor. that he will take the bit ... , ,, ,i r ... tTnm n,, In his teeth and run nwny from them A man big enough to qualify for this post would have shown by his adminis trative record in other cities that he is not so foolish as to refuse to work In harmony with the board. "Philadelphia needs the best man procurable. The teachers want him. the principals want him, the people of the city wnnt him. Educators in gen eral wunt him, nnd tho .board has agreed that we ought to have such a man. "Philadelphia is the third largest cltv In tho country, nnd It is time thnt it should have a bchool system commen surate jvlHi its standing. Millions of dollnrs are spent annunlly to conduct Philadelphia schools. The cost recently has been about $13,000,000 to $11,000,- E I T H S Homer R. Marguerite MASON & KEELER in 'MARRIED HILDA CARLING & CO. Anrl Her Famous Dancera EUFEMIA GIANNINI m JOE COOK: SISSLB & IlLAKEj EDDIE jiisilr.-i --- ifiitiHH. THE JANE P. C. MILLER' oANCIKg CONSERVATORY 1028 CHESTNUT ST. Walnut X2T PRIVATE LESSONS DAILY BANCINO. .''UBICAL CULTUBB PRIVATE INO )DE11N. XI MUUUU. MMiUlliiiU ,!. fcHOI WHICH ONE HE'LL 000 n yenr; $20,000,000 n yenr would not he too much for the city to pay for an adequate school system. This nmount Is quite smnll when one considers whnt is at stake. It becomes nil the more npparcnt therefore thnt we should hnve n broad -gouge mnn of high cnllber to administer such n system. "The difference between such a man and u small or mcdiocie man, apart from the value? which cannot be defi nitely measured, would mean thou sands of dollars. ' "Of course, the state nnd city have improved in recent years educationally. Since the enactment of the school code of Pennsylvania 1 venture to say educa tion has improved .10 per cent. But there has been a decided reaction since the war began." Philadelphia- Standard Iw A Report made by Lvonnrd P. Ayres, director of the Department of Education nnd Statistics of the) Rus sell Sage Foundation, nt n meeting of national educators held in Washington In May, shows - Pennsylvania to be twenty -first among the states of the country in cducntionnl rating. It has been said that the educational standard of Philadelphia is- now below that of Pittsburgh. According to the report, educational, standards hnve been improved in the last fifty ycats. In lh"0 schools, according to the report, were working nt about 2." per cent of the efficiency standard thnt they should have. In the intervening spnn of years they have risen to about n 51 per ccut standard. The report shows several other in teresting fncts. First, that three west ern states. Minnesota. California and Arizona, have tho highest educational standards of the countrj : that New Jersey, Pennsylvania's, sibter state, is fourth in this rating and Ohio, on the other side, ranks twelfth, and that tlie rating of far-off Huwull, one of our most iccent possessions, is almost on n par with thnt of Pennsylvania. CHESTNUT 8T-IK!A NOW AN ABSOLUTE DRAMATIC TRIUMPH! 3 SHOWS DAILY MATH. a:.'10 UVC13. 7 & 0 with IIKI.BN WARIJ nnd THOS, SANTHC1II vMmai Che itnaXfiear Broad GtnJfmousfomflto7 MitfMalfit.?2uiJ.50 sfAMPWKgCI! mmm 8eittfiJio imsjty acfonlunrcf&A fc -i" vriunrramoit0Uteman eahngs&wgesofMw Guinea Second and Last Big Week WILLOW GROVE PARK Everybody h.l.tllnft..w SOUSA SOUSA AND HIS BAND Four Concerta DallyAttern'ii nrnl Evening THURS,. AUfl in BOUBA DAY Pcople'8 Theatre Kenalneton Ave. w MAIDS OF AMERlffi WITH ROnnY HARRY AND (1EO. LEON bljUU JAZZABIES Trocadero l0TH fep arch. Mat.'o'.ii, ( uSr GET LESS FROM V lUnicr In the. IllrniliiKhanv Age-Herald OPPOSE WIDENING STREET Board of Surveyors Objects to Cost of Fifteenth Street Project 'The proposition to widen Fifteenth street from South Penn square to Chestnut street was disapproved vester tiny by the board of surW-yors. Opposi tion to the project wns based upon the estimated attendant damages of $701, 100. This sum, it was maintained, would bo excessive in comparison to the ndvnntnge to be derived from the imi provement. ' Action wns nlso withheld at the same meeting on the widening of Fifteenth street from Mnrket to Filbert street, under the Pennsylvania Railroad, and returned with n negative report the jw- posal to strike Elgin nvenue. from Cott-' man and Castor rood to Gleudole Te -nue, a distance of two blocks, from the city's plans. , In its comment in the negntive report the board states that if the property is to be condemned nnd tnken entirely the improvement would make the street seventy-two feet wide from South Penn square nnd Ranstead street nnd scv enty feet wido from Rnnstend street to il Chestnut street. The amount of the dnmnges. however, wns considered ex cessive in proportion to the extent of the improvement. The snme physical ndvnutngo for traffic could be secured by taking only the first floors of the properties In the form of nn arcade, the report stated. Market St. ab. 10th 11 A. M. to 11 P. M. MARSHALL NEILAN PRESENTS FIRST 8HOWING OF" "Don't Ever Marry" NEXT WEEK NORMA TALMADGE In "YES OR NO" PAT A fV 1" MARKET STREET rVL,A.Llli 10 A. M., 12. S. 3i- 0:45. 7:in, 0 30 P. ?' A MASSIVE SPECTACLE oF TREMEN DOUS DRAMATIC POWER "A Common Level With Edmund Rreese and Clalro Whitney Added Charlie Chanlin ln "rl" ... Feature nar;Ie -napiin ,mm6ranf' NEXT "SFX" Featuring- ,., WEEK OL" LOUISE CLAUJ! ARCADIA ?oTm..sS, , " 7:45. 0 30P M- JACK. PICKFORD "Kiver" vw, r.u ntr.f.lT' TlPltKK in ...,. ,,... --------.-.,,, AWAY GOES PRUDK.m VICTORIA m jnr.fr "Dangerous Days Adapted From the NVel by MARY RORERTS RINEHART ,, Nt. Wk., MAY ALLISON In "THcnew CAPITOL "Jofiji-a fi:4.1. Ti4. 0 3(1 P THOMAS MEIGHAN ,nP5. "THE PRINCE CHAP" IDtr"' CrvlT Market St. Bel. ITU KhliLN I ENID lffNNplKr GLOBE MARItCT " ATUNIPES U A. M. to It P- CONTINUOUS VAUDEVILLE Wroe'a Ruds, "Sweet Sweeties": Otnen CROSS KEYS 00 o " A?" PRIMROSE MINSTRELS II BROADWAY n3VS?4B8BorpS ERNEST EVANS i 'COMPAN ALTCE nRADY In "SINr-ERS , METROPOLITAN I OPKltA Jiwufir. . 3 SHOWS 3 ISO T:00, Of0?' " ADMISSION 2-1o "iJ"''-0 FINE ARTS PIIKHBHTP f Up In Mary's Attic 1e Picture That Has Taken Philadelphia by Storm WITH THE Bathing Beauties in Person I7MTPD TUP" MOV1ESI EACH LADY ATTENDING AW" p $fl. FORMANCES t'P Tl"USnSTnST TQ i IS IILirmiLE TO ENTER. COVn-JJi ,0 SELECT MOST np,,,7'FJ'i.'.',Wlpl OT0S,. .1 STARRED IN MOVIES. I.KA BPIKfJ WITH NAME AND.AppRHHS ON " iUg,i AT-ROX- .OFPlllKr' W'NNUJ ...VgTjL A-JM iNvnitrcifan SATURDAY. -AVUHr "T,uH ANNOUNCED n ATURUAY, VVST "V i -i. -. i.j lilsJimK tO , W atalrFleMTpVodtUtlo r5?'r"' " -vVf iH:;s DEAUTY rn,UBT- 2U. 'H-i, ..; ,,,,k. fa -? !LiAia!ifc,iVA& ifrir'''-wV "A ..... .-.. .. X'i V.4 rii.n :' fc A."- .t.il
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