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PhllsdtlpnU. Tuetaiy. 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.
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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.
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Everybody h.l.tllnft..w SOUSA
SOUSA AND HIS BAND
Four Concerta DallyAttern'ii nrnl Evening
THURS,. AUfl in BOUBA DAY
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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.
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