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Enlargement of the tcafer supply. Homes to accommodate the popula tion. ONE DUTY WELL DONE r -WOULD be wt of place to con gratulate the government on the speedy trial and prompt sentencing of Erwin Bergdoll had not such a nau seous muddle been made of the case of his notorious brother. The court-martial has been nnmarrcd by disgusting sensationalism. In a word, a plain duty has been simply and normally performed. The most grati fying result is not only that arrogance and disloyalty will be condignly pun ished, but that the elder Bergdoll will forthwith be retired from public notice. A WORD TO THE NEW VOTERS TTNLESS the improbable happens the J right df all adult Americans to vote i the November election will not be abridged on account of sex. That does not mean, however, that the ballots cast will be equal to the number of those persons enfranchised. There are thousands of chronic poll slackers among the males. In districts where personal registration laws are operative, reformers and gangsters, politicians and publicists, plead regu larly for a full enrollment. Something has. been accomplished, as witness the huge local registration last year, but Indifference and carelessness still play disturbing roles. 'Ie is to be the privilege of the women of Philadelphia to read the men a sig nificant lesson in attention to a simple duty. Two of the registration days will fall in September, the first of them on the second of that month. The third enrollment day will be October 2. The suffragists will have won an empty Tictory if they fail to follow it up by strict compliance with the preliminary qualifications for franchise. The registration hours are from 7 a. m. to 1 p. m. and from 4 p. m. to 10 p. m. It is unlikely that court deci sions will invalidate the nineteenth amendment. But it can be converted into mere pompous phraseology by neg lect of the registration day duties. SYSTEM AND SAMENESS THE beauties of conformity dis tinctly a modern ideal are sought In the plan of standardizing hotels, to bo launched at a meeting of hostelrv proprietors in Colorado Springs next month. The factors which in combina tion con&titute a good hotel are to be officially defined. Rates are to bfssys. tematized. Steps will be taken to pre vent firetrap rooming houses from masquerading as hotels. Regulation will triumph, of course. Contemporary tendency is all that way. The result is often excellent. There are more first-clast. hotels in the United States than in any other country on earth and many more here today than there were a decade ago. But the old tilip of durprUc is hardly to be captured by the most resourceful 'traveler. Contrahts are effaced. If there are fewer bonifares who charge' ex orbitantly for wretched bed and board, there are certainly fewer who thrill the patron with unexpectpdly enticing food and accommodations instinct with origi nal charm. Menus are wholesome and inflexible. Perhaps the time is coming when they will be identical throughout the land. Progress cannot be downed. Security must prevail. There is little escape anywhere not merely in hotels from organized efficient protection. To complain that the age is dull it tp rebel from its governing spirit. None but an old fogy can be so shameless as. to confess to boredom. i NO MORE ADVENTURES WITH Estabau Cantu, the Mexican rebel, abdicating and with the once ferocious Villa sending for agricultural machinery and school books, where now shall the writer of magazine fiction turn for a background for his thrilling stories? Mexico was once the never falling refuge for the scribbler of 50,000 words a month. Ho could find his plat , la any of the novels of the pabt, transfer the scene from Europp to the copper m(nes or the oil wells, use the regular jnoving-picture costumes ami scenery, 1 ccatter a few "carambas," "Si, senors," ! "mananus," "no importas" and "carls- ' ' almas" through the text and the job H was done. i SH; There wero bandits ready to his hand W -. aod no one to dispute bis accuracy ; he i,' could run the whole gamut of thrills and Jj-'X hsrrors and not touch the popular con- P.ceptloti of actuality; he could mix mur 't iH. sad moonlight, thrills nnd heart Mil' oMt it all the perfectly standard- iml, ursU (), tropics, and he never had to Inclose stamps for return post age. But It now begins to"Took as though 'Mexico were really trying to become 'ordinarily human. How long it will Inst, vlio can say? She has always been a land where the governing clawes have represented temperaments exactly the opposite to the deeply rooted char acteristics of her great mass of popula tion, and the mere fact thnt a Mexican government joins church and goes to Sunday school docs not necessarily mean that the peons will be found nt their prayers. I Still, these are hopeful signs. Even j at the expense ofhe magazine writer, i we should welcome them and trust to ' luck to get our reading thrills from 1 somewhere else. MOTOR ACCIDENTS AND THE MOB SPIRIT IN CRITICISM You Hear Much Justified Condem nation of Reckless Motorists, but Little About Reckless Pedestrians NUDGE In, at the next opportunity, to the middle of one of those crowds that gather in n flash when the driver of nn automobile collides with a post or a pedestrian or the prejudices of n traffic policeman. The unhappy man may have been pottering mildly about in the thor oughly enervated great-grandfather of all flivvers. His very middle name may be Caution. He may loom as nsymbol of profound misery throned on one of thoe portable stoves that cannot be forced to more than fifteen miles nn hour without the risk of sudden disso lution. Yet, seen through the eyes of the crowd, he will be a speed devil, a menace to the community, a gas maniac disdainful of the rights of others. Get his number! If a citizen has been hurt or annoyed, do not ask whether the victim of the accident was wholly or in part' to blame. Suggest thnt the driver of the motorcar be lynched and you will be in the height of fashion. The lingering prejudice manifest on such occasions Isn't directed in reality against those who drive motors. It represents a survival of the human habit to oppose all new and novel thing. Fulton's boat was the work of a lunatic abetted by the devil, nnd the telephone was an unholy thing likely to bring lightning into the parlor and make life generally unbearable. Criti cism of the League of Nations has been mild In comparison with the things said in denunciation of the earliest telescope. Motorcars are new enough to be still under suspicion. It has been most interesting, for ex ample, to study thp reaction caused in all avenues of public discussion by the reports of the National Safety Council, which show thnt motorcars cause one death every thirty -five minuses in the United States, and by the statement of Superintendent Mills that 123 deaths were traced directly to automobile ncci dents in this city during the present year. The implication Ir flat and general that the fault Is solely with "reckless motorists" and the machines they drive. There is a -general outcry for "more stringent laws," for "harsher punish ment." In n way that demand is justified. The total of accidents is really ap palling. But the trouble with the one ideaed and one-sided criticism of the moment is that it can do no good be cause It docs not touch the heart of the question. Drivers themselves usually get the worst of It in a collision. And when it is remembered that pcoph afoot in sistently disregard laws and regulations established for their own safety und comfort, that tho driver of an automo bile in n city street has to watch traffic, the semaphore signals, his own machine nnd keep at the same time a harassed eye on men. women and children who stroll languidly almost under his wheels, it is clear thnt the blame for automobile accidents will have to be more evenly distributed before there is n drop in the statistics of preventable accidents. A great deal has been made in current discussion of motor accidents in the United States about the nbsence of fatalities in passenger airplane traffic i abroad. Absent-minded or reckless people do 'not go walking in the sky. Nor do undisciplined little boys nnd girls go , darting into streams of heavy air traffic I where they have no right to be. Nor j do tbey ride on the tails of air machines to drop without warning into the path of airplanes directly behind. Ladies 'and gentlemen, abstracted and with 'downcast eyes, do not step languidly off cloudy curbstones to give aviators hair- ' raising shocks of fright. I Ordinary caution on the part of po derions would avert at least half of ' the motor accidents that are daily re ported In the newspapers perhaps more I than half. It is true that traffic laws formulated ! to discipline reckless drivers are too i loosely enforced. The time is coming when Jail sentences and the withdrawal ' r r.nA ni!rUorae n-111 hn th mintfch Ul tuuu . t. .. ..... ... ,... . -.. ment Inflicted by courts on careless drivers. Judges will not sweepingly denounce the whole world of motors when an accident case Is before them. People who go afoot will learn that policemen's signals are for everbody alike. Traffic policemen never fall to bawl out a motor driver who disregards the traffic signals. But they would have no time for any other work if they wero to rep rimand pedestrluns who take their lives In their hands by a complete disregard of street regulations in dangerous nreas. The truth is that the reckless pedes tiinn is In most cases as much to blame for an accident as the reckless motorist. Still iudiguant judges tell the average drrver who is called before them that "they and their contraptions should be driven from the streets." Well, automobiles are actually being driven from the streets in Philadelphia. The right of those who own and drive mnchiues are being constantly restricted. Those who make traffic and parking laws nnd who hnve served notice on motor owners that they cannot expect to use their machines freely are not yet aware that the motorcar is a utility that should have quite as much con sideration as the trolley car. Bccnuse of the increasing restriction of parking rules, men who desire to ubo their machines in their business are in constant difficulty. Yet there Is enough waste space on Broad street, on other thoroughfares and on the side streets to provide parking, space under municipal EVENINGs PUBIM regulation whenever the city govern ment recognizes the need for that sort of public convenience. There will be a quicker solution for the whole general 'question of motor traffic when the courts, the newspapers, the police and the public realize that ninety-nine out of overy hundred motor drivers observe more than ordinary cau tion in the city streets, nnd that if they didn't, if they were no moro alert than many people who complain about them, the total of dangerous accidents would doubVo overnight. A Philadelphia physician with a grim sense of humor tried an odd experiment which proved that the hardships of street traffic are by no menus exclu sively with the walking public. He recently sought out a professional chauffeur of the common or garden va riety, hitched a blood -pressure gauge to the arm of his subject and, sitting on the front scat of a motor, waited to sec what happens to a driver in congested traffic. On the trip from Broad and Chestnut streets to the postoffice and from the postofficc to Broad Street Station, on a Saturday afternoon, the blood pres sure of the driver actually soared. It moved up twenty points. Nervous ten sion and mental stress not uncommon to the ordinary run of motorists was registered for the first , time In black and white. The prim old ladles who proudly in sist on a right to be jay crosscrs, the stubborn citizen who feels, that because he is a taxpayer all traffic should stop while ho idles across the street in the middle of a block, and pedestrians gen erally who refuse to observe even ordi nary rules of caution were getting in their work on that experimental trip ns they get It In every day in the yenr. Drivers of automobiles are forever avoiding accidents that might result from the carelessness of others. They know that jail or a liuc or an ugly wreck and perhaps serious injury will be in it for them first of all. When alrpiauVs arc the new luxury that is, when all the world rides in motorcars there will be n different re frain in the statistical report. Then the public will begin to condemn nvia tors who drop in the streets withoyt decent consideration for the rights of thp humble pcople'who have to get about with difficulty in motor vehicles. LEAGUE AGAIN LIBELED WHATEVER else may be said In derogation of Franklin D. Roose velt's views on International policy, their originality is undeniable. Senator Johnson, the most vigorous of the league's foes, hag not hesitated to twist the lipn s tall for demagogic pur poses, uut his Americanism lias not been carried to the point of comprehen sively insulting all the independent nn tions of the New 'World over which the folds of the Stars nnd Stripes do not wave. Furthermore, the Callfornian is avowedly averse to international affilia tions in general. Standing on n platform which has appeared to favor some peace-promot ing basis of reciprocal agreement among governments, the Democratic candidate does not, nevertheless, propose to be outdone in bad manners. At Butte, Mont., the other day, Mr. Roosevelt championed a bullying peace with all the ardor with which the con firmed militarist might be expected to indorse a bullying war. Obviously this is something new in Democratic argu ment nnd worth heeding in London, in Rio. in Montevideo and Buenos Aires. "President Wilson," averred the vice presidential candidate, " 'put one over' on Premier Lloyd George in the distri bution of voting strength in the League of Nations." It was Mr. Roosevelt's exultant contention that the United States in contrast controls the votes of twelve Latin-American nations, nnd is in a position to dictate to them to sit up, to lie down or to play dead. Needless to say Argentina, Brazil and Chile will note this interpretation of the covenant with some Interest before collapsing into supineness nnd servile prostration. And Britain will ut least be made aware that she was victimized by a. slick Yankee maneuver before she accepts the role of subordination in nn alleged partnership. Democratic enthusiasts are welcome to figure out for themselves what will happen to International good feeling when the Monroe Doctrine is converted into n gag and the British empire takes its orders from Washington ! Mr. Harding has not yet divulged his detailed idea of n new league, but Mr. Roosevelt has no patience with such conservatism. In spirited, not to say slangy language, he hastens to explain what he thinks the old league really is. The revelation is not without piquancy, since the former assistant secretary of the navy has not permitted himself to be encumbered by facts. If Mr. Roosevelt has heard of an American suzerainty over Brazil, Peru, Uruguay, Chile and Argentina he is unique. By the terms of the Piatt amendment, the Uqlted States stands in a peculiarly intimate relation to Cuba, and by special treaty also with Panama. We are maintaining a temporary guar dianship over Haiti and Snnto Do mingo and to a less extent over Nica ragua. But where are the twelve tame na tions to illustrate the acutcness of Yan kee trickery in the Peace Conference? Just where are those dozen votes enpa ble of inspiring a European former ally with feeling of abject humility? Mr. Roosevelt, like a good many of his compatriots of both parties, appears to have a somewhat erratic acquaintance, with the actual text of the league covenant. It was explained ad nauseam to Hiram Johnson, it will evidently Jin ve to be explained to Mr. Roosevelt, that it Is the council of the league which is endowed with rights of initiative find action, and that in that body Great Britain nnd the United States may cast exactly one vote apiece. The British dominions and the Latin American republics under our tutclago are members of the advisory chumbcr, the assembly. Their admittance by n rotation. scheme to the council is con tingent upon u unanimous vote of that upper house. This is the incontroverti ble nnswer to the twaddle about British domination of the league, nonsenso which seems to have bothered Mr. Roosevelt on one side of the fence al most as much as it has Mr. Johnson on the other. Of course, if the vice presidential candidate enjoys contorting facts and arrogantly Imperiling international good will that is his privilege, unless his po litical managers should see fit to shut (off hla prattla. lyEDGEKr-paUADELJalA; FRIDAY, CROPS ON VACANT LOTS Success of War Gardens Is Being Repeated by Many Indus trious Phlladelphlans WHERE once tho only crop that flourished wns of tin cans, thrifty Stone and pound -large Pondcrosa bear burdens of tomatoes, now "red ripe," ns they say in Jersey. Broomsticks that once littered the ground arc now sup porting luscious lima beans. Brickbats have given way to beets, and miscel laneous debris to small-cared but tooth some Golden Bantam or fine-grained Shocpeg corn. It is hnrvest time in the gardens of the Philadelphia Vacant Lots Cultiva tion Association, and bumper crops ore tTic rule. Chard, lettuce, cabbage, cauliflower, carrots, potatoes ai.d other varieties of hardy "truck" are in their, prime or verging on maturity. A bum per crop of "cnrllcs" has been followed by one ns bounteous of main -season varieties, and the "late croppers" will be ready In time for the home canning and pickling season. HARVEST time in the vacant-lot gardens means tho mensurable re duction of the cost of living by the urban agriculturists in their toy plots; which, however, are big enough to sup ply the family table nnd often to nfford a surplus to sell, thug augmenting the family income. Despite the handicap of wet and cold ground that prevented planting in ac cordance with the old reliable Formers' Almanac, this has been one of the best seasons In the history of the vacant -lot movement, which Philadelphia has de veloped on a larger scale than nny other city. John K. Snyder, superintendent of the activities for many years, is en thusiastic over the project, and his roseate outlook is confirmed by n visit to the scores of once vacant lots re claimed by amateur intensive farming from their former fallown'css into nn ngency of real' helpfulness. One must dissociate the idea of char ity from the vncant-lot movement. Philanthropy, yea.; charity, no. Rou tine relief work is likely to exert a more or less degrading influence on the minds of the recipients. Frequentlj it causes a physical degeneration as "well, on account of encouraged idleness. Vncant-lot farming, however, requires the industrious participation ofthe benefi ciary. It encourages ainbltion nnd self reliance. Instend of having their effi ciency lesfyned, the workers on the vacant-lot farms become more efficient nnd diligent. For they will reap no harvest unless the und till. VACANT LOTS' CULTIVATION ASSOCIATION has been operating for more than n score of years. Its motto is "Increased opportunity for self-help." Its purpose is not to give chnrity, but to open the way for those in need of aid ,to help themselves through their own efforts. Its work is the cultivation of gnrdens by the needy on unused land, subject to dispossession when tho owners want the land for building or other purposes. The result of the work is briefly summarized in the statement that each dollar expended fructifies into four. In other words, vegetables are produced to four times the value of the subscriptions made by civic-minded and public-spirited per sons to finance the work. Sometimes there are in different parts of the city ns many ns twenty different garden "farms," divided into nearly 1000 lots, each allotted to n family. Analysis of a season shows the benefi ciaries to have been laborers, mill hands, railway employes, building trades operatives, persons engaged in miscel laneous occupations affected by "sea sonal" conditions, and persons closely confined to office work, who thus coun teracted potential illness through lack of outside recreation. All nationalities are found among the vacant-lot farmers. All ages are rep resented, from the kiddie in knicker bockers to the old man of eight . The best garden one yenr was the result of the toil of a nonagennrinu. In every respect the work of this broad and use ful movement is highly diversified. PROFIT ns well ns healthful exercise follows engagement iu vacant-lot farming. Its economic value Is obvious. With the quotations on green groceries this year higher than ever, savings ef fected by the vacant -lot farms have en abled thousands of persons to cut fresh nnd health -giving vegetables in abund ance. Many a well -filled market basket, laden with more than enough to supply the half week's needs of a tolerably large and hungry family, is taken from the gardens every morning. The gardens vary from one-eighth to on-sixth of nn acre. The association arranges with the owners of idle land to turn it to use until It is needed for business development. The land is put into shnpe by the association, which plows and harrows the soil. The min iature garden's are then nllotted to the applicant families iu order of request. Receiving the land free, of rental, the society assigns it on the same basis. Its only charge Is a nominal fee to cover expenses of plowing, harrowing, fer tilizer, seeds, etc. THE families spread the fertilizer, choose their own crops, plant the seeds, till the crops and gather the ma tured produce. After supplying domes tic needs they sell anv surplus or store crops that keep over winter. If nn in dividual or family cultivates a garden resultfully one season, the association generally reallots the ground the en suing season. Directly, the labors of this useful en terprise assist the beneficiaries in mak ing nosBlblc garden "sass" for home use without nny Implication of charity, ns the results ore sheerly dependent on personal effort nnd efficiency. The "city farmers" sometimes devote most of their ground to one crop, attaining bet ter results by concentration, and then trade portions of their crop with their neighbors. Many of them "huckster" the surplus. Others practice diversified agriculture on a small scale, to give variety to the family table. The lots are kept free from weeds nnd unsightly objects, which removes all opposition from householders near the vacant-lot gardens. INDIRECTLY, the association is in fluential. Its workers set a valunble object iesson to others in the vicinity to utilize backyards for intensive garden ing. Many of the gardeners secure practical training enough to set un "trucking" in the nearby suburbs. It thus fosters the "back-lo-the-land" movement. It serves as a desirable agency in the general uplift movement, which is so promising under the guid ance of sociologists nnd settlement workers. At last we have Tell It to Congress traced one of the hidden causes of tho prcbent white paper shortage. It is in the untold number of paper nap kins which, handed out In the quick lunch dens, Invariably blow away and disappear before they can bo captured and firmly held The wonder is, after It Is Always So all, that theauthor v itles In Boston didn't get Ponzl before Ponzl got the money 1 SHORTCUTS Susan B, marching on. Anthony's soul goes What ''Southern chivalry" said wns, "Oh, well, take It, darn Ul" What Frankle D. seems to be, suf fering from is immaturity. Decline in sugar prices may be de scribed as little drops of sweetness. The political capital to be drawn out of Poland's disaster will eventually demand a ruinous amount of interest. The Candy Box and the Cigar Box now march side by side to the Ballot Box. Fireman Statesman Roosevelt's difficulty appears to be that every timo his whistle blows his engine stops. If some rclatlveof Joscphus Dan iels could get a Job in the navy it might give the country a needed rest. After days of muggincss, yesterday we momentarily sensed tho "raw gust ot August. t Here nnd there aro those who con sider Reno tho capital of the land of the free. The Poles may yet proceed to prove the truth of Mark Twain's declaration that nothing succeeds like success. When Grovcr learns how free from worry Erwin is ho mny decide, to give himself up. The Bolshevist program is n com prehensive one, but, very happily, it is subject to change. Shlbe Park being like a sponge yes terday, the scheduled gamo was wiped off the slate. The women nt least proved their possession of political strategy in Ten nessee. They made the two national political parties fight for their votes. Forgetting for the moment thnt we arc Republicans or Democrats, we re joice as Americans at the news from Antwerp. In the matter of votes for women we have it on unquestionable authority that the Hearst newspapers did it. They admit it themselves. Doesn't Secretary Baker realize that he is making things harder for Postmaster General Burleson by send ing those bulky Democratic speeches of his through the mall free? Among the Bolshevists there aro military visionaries who see world con quest ahead of them and fanatical vis ionaries who foresee uprisings of the proletariat the world over; nnd back of them both is the silent peasant, who yet may prove moacrn civilization s strongest ally. The fact that Secretary Daniels chose the day on which womnn suffrage won its victory to'send his communica tion on political activity in the navy to all employes causes one to conjecture that perhaps l'inlnnd might not have had it all her own way in the javelin throw If Joscphus had entered for America. A mother's appeal to her boy is said to have brought about the deciding vote in favor of the ratification of the suffrage amendment in Tennessee. "Don't forget to be a good boy," she wrote, "and help Mrs. Catt to put the rat In ratification." A new nursery jingle for Tennessee youth Is here sug gested: This is the letter that turned the vote thnt enabled the state to help Mrs. Catt to put the rat in ratification. Sn.vs Josephus Daniels, secretary of the navy: "Employes are account able for political activity by persons other than themselves, including hus bands nnd wives." Thus, according to the gospel of Daniels, husband nnd wife are one politically as well as socially. Dangerous doctrine, Josephus, nt a time when Democrats are wooing the femi nine vote nnd women are celebrating their emancipation. Philadelphia Egyptologists are much interested in the alleged discovery by n Washington student of the fluid with which mummies were embalmed, but they apparently have not taken cogni zance of n noteworthy Iocnl case. There is evidence that when the present street car company was organized the under lying companies were dipped In mummy fluid. AtT'nll events they seem to be pretty well preserved. What Do You Knoiv? QUIZ tho words 1. Who wrote of "Annie Laurie"? 2. What Is a elborium? 3. How many federal constitutional amendments hnve been ratified within the last ten years? 4. Who won the battle of Srandywlne in the American Revolution? 6. What Is tho largest tldeless sea in the world 7 6. What famous republic had St. Mark for Its patron saint? 7. Where Is Benjamin Franklin burled? 8. Name a small animal of which gnnkeB are Intensely afrnld? 9. Distinguish between a hassock and a cassock 10. What part of a fathom Is a. foot? Answers to Yesterday's Quiz 1. The difference In time between Lon don nnd New York Is Ave hours. At present both cities are using daylight saving. 2. "Unensy lies ths heati that wears a crown," is spoken by King Henry IV In the Shakespeare's "King Henry IV, Part II." 3. Neptune Is farther from ths sun thnn any other planet In the Bolar Bystem. 4. General George I) McClellan wns tho Pemocratlc candidate who ran unsuccessfully against Abraham Lincoln for the presidency- in 1864 5. Most of the scene of Stevenson's romance, "Treasure Island," Is laid in the West Indlea 8, Bllhu Root has been Instrumental in drawing up the plaas for n world court of arbitration to operate under the League of Na tions. 7. Gilbert Stuart wns an American painter, especially celebrated for his full length portraits of Wash ington, of which there are Ave Stuart was bom In Nurrngansett, It. I., In 1755, died In Uoston In 1828. 8. Tho tomato was formerly called love-apple, was thought to be poisonous and was grown for decorative purposes. 0. Augustus was emperor of Rome at tho time of the birth of Jesus Christ. 10. Count Caslmlr Tulaskt served In the Continental Army In the American Revolution and in 1778 formed a corps called "Pulaski's Legion " He defended Charleston In 1770 and was mortally wounded near Bavannan ine same year. 1M 'AUGUST 20, 1920 OUR POSITION IN ONE LEAGUE NOW MY IDEA IS THIS! Daily Talks With Thinking Philadclphians on Subjects They Know Best .JOHN H. MASON Teachlnp, Sound Investments "TNSTRUCT people who wish to in - vest in what is sound," is the ad vice of John II. Mnson, president of the Commercial Trust Co., "if you would steer them clear of the rocks of financial disaster." Mr. Mason, who had charge of the Liberty and Victory Bond, nnd Vnr Savings Stamps sales during the war, wns commenting on the campaign ogalnst fake stocks being waged by chambers of commerce nnd civic and Industrial associations all over the country to protect savers and investors, especla'llv holders of the government bonds, from the machinations of un scrupulous stock operators. In the campaign being waged invest ors aro being made acquainted with the method of procedure pursued by fake stock salesmen, nnd warning is being ex tended against placing money in con cerns operated nnd backed by persons with whom the Investor is not familiar. "To my way of thinking, the only effective way to Instruct investors is not to attempt the impossible nnd tell them what is bod, but to devote our energies to educating them as to what is good. The teller in the bank does not detect counterfeit bills by being trained in knowing bad money, but by lenrning to recognize what is good, "So used does he become to seeing good monev that he instantly recognizes that which is spurious by the contrnst. Anv ,.! nerson knows that no one t can promise fnntastic profits on invest- ' ments nnd gunrontee them to be safe. It is simply not in tnc woon. "There is an educative process now going on in this country to show people how to walk In the straight and narrow path, financially spenklng, but it will take years to become genuinely effective. Cannot Stop Gambling "There is no better or sounder invest ment In the couutry today than Liberty or Vlctorv Bonds or War Savings Stamps, but it is always n question how far jou can Influence the specu lative element in human nature. "You cannot change human nature. It's human nature to fight, and It s also human nature to gamble, to specu late. No law has ever been devised that would change this clement, and no teaching, no training, no influence will ever be found thnt can eradicate this human trait. Gambling and specu lation, in my opinion, will continue to go on ns long ns the world lasts. "This Is particularly true of the American people. There are no people on earth so cxtravogant or 60 reckless. Comparatively bpeaklng. they earn their moue easily and spend it in the same way. The tendency to plunge, to take a chant c. to try to get something for nothing, is ever present and no amount of warning or advice seems to stop it. "Consequently, the promoter always has n chance to flourish in this coun try. Working on the principle of 'rob bing Peter to pay Paul,' he is always nble to promise enormous profits on small Investments, nnd, with glib tongued representatives, he always finds people ready to fall for his schemes. "The millions of dollars which Ponzl was able to get people to invest is tho most concrete proof of this at the pre's- E'lTH.'S Horaor D. Msrurit MASON & KEELER In MAIUIIED" HILDA CARLING & CO. And Her Famous Dancers EUFEMIA GIANNINI & CO. JOE COOK; HIHSLB & DLAKE: eddib nonnBN & co. others. Walnut Abova Elahth 8I2AT8 NOW OPENS TOMORROW NIGHT 'Sliding" Billy Watoon 'A " WILLOW GROVE PARK Ths Ons and Only SOUSA A,S BAND four. coNCEivra each dat ' TOMORROW S-IREMEN-fl niTi KeJLiMd ' WW:W'W "BBAUTT THUST- LuMBiiT.. .tl..:. --...-.".'SM,.! ent time. If there were not great num-Ix-rs of persons who cannot seem to realize that you cannot get something for nothing, it would not have been pos sible for such a scheme to have got over. "But the speculative element seems to be almost an Integral port of the man himself. If he did not gamble in stocks, ho would gamble on horse races or cards or something else. .You cannot train or compel people to be wise any motn thnn you can make them good 'by the samo processes. Cannot- Avoid Mlstakes "It is not within the province Vf the banker to say what investments arc bnd. They are, after all, only human beings nnd just ns fallible as any one else. They have made many mistakes. That is, in fact, why they are bankers. "For instance, some years ago it would probably have been tho thing to say that telephone and typewriter stock was a bad investment. But time has proved otherwise. There is no positive way of telling just what is behind a certain stock, or what elements are going to enter into its development or its failure. There is no man living who can do this. "Besides, it is n question just how much weight our opinion would have. Many persons come to bankers for ad vice and arc shown comparatively safe but conservative investments or methods of investing, only to go out nnd totally disregard this ndvice nnd invest iu some superficinlly attractive scheme thnt promises big returns for their money. It is only by being stung that such peoplo learn. "During the war, when peoplo were in the right frnmo of mind, the env- ernment with Jts Liberty nnd Victory Bonds nnd Vnr Savings Stamp paigns contributed inacnlficent nrnnn ganda in this direction. It did have a beneficial effect nnd there are thousands of people In this country today who are better off for it. "As n matter of fact, despite the fact that the bonds are selling below pur at the present time, there Is no better METROPOLITAN OPEHA HOUSE ' THREE SHOWS 2:30, 7 AND DP.ll LAST TWO DAYS TO SEE Up In Mary's Attic An5c,,,;r',JH,Na' noAnmo riot OF MIRTH AND MERRIMENT Bathing Beauties in Person 8II0WIKU LATEST 8TVL.E COSTUMES WORN AT THE SEASHORE RESORTS SECURE SEATBINADVANCE LAWN PARTY AND FIREWORKS DISPLAY Dfnent Italian C. Hchnnl E HAINES & MORTON STS. oSrmantown, Tonight, August 20th PROGRAM: 7 I M Opening of tha Kolr p P. M Firework'- 21 Ilombs of dlff.r. ent colors, a hel with alnrlnir Mtrhta and a Ray of th, brjehtest colors.6 a ' T?oa with little flowers NlAOARA FALLS. 20 t -.... ,-" ,- "hii miver rain 100 roarlns shots and uuMin.it. jui"i'iii hi, ma Finale of brilliant TL Hflftflrv tultVt rftrrt. ENTRANCE rREK ALL WELCOME Tho Holy Roiiary Catholic Club CHESTNUT ST- opera house 3 TIMES daily MATINEES. 2:80. EVENINOS, 7 & 0. ncr unciw Biurin rarricn realism to a urfiirc wiifUBotuio un uny Biagf " JiulJetln, a&KEBKI OF (,. Corjfouj Jrvj VOIOHJI aptciacie -W People's Theatre Kensington Ave. --"b MAIDS OF AMERlffi WITH HORRY HARRY AND OEO. LEON. BlJUU JAZZ BABIES IT I 10TII IHn inn, i... .. . 11UU1UCIO "-""-" " US1B jg -ol t' jjyr -w kiX- fSr OF NATIONS or Houmler investment to Jjo had than these same bonds. 'But it will be only when the hpecu lative element in human nature is mini mized that one cau hope to curb the schemes of the dishonest promoter. "One bolid proof of this is to bu found in the fact that nearly every one who tries to get rich quick, be ho pro moter or investor, is to be found trying his luck in some other scheme, if' the ono he is in nt the time fails. In the language of the poet, 'Mdiemcs may conic nnd schemes mny go, but the gambler goes on forever.' " A very large clump We'd Make a of senators nnd con Gallant Effort pressmen head the expedition now coursing through tho Orient. A plot to seize and hold the entire delegation has been discovered among influential Ko reans, who believe thnt they might thereby stir up a row between Japan und tho United States Government. We shouldn't like to lose our congress men, even temporarily. But one may venture to suggest that the country would potter nlong somehow until they were returned from captivity. r Every once in a Quito So while the revered citizen who insists thnt old-fashioned weather has pasied for good is given a shock of surprise. This state, for example, Jias just passed through a period of the sort of weutber they used to have in Noah's time. When the hot weather is over the general public mny begin to take ome slight interest in what is happening in Europe, outside of Antwerp. cam-lliari(t St. ab. 10th, n a. m. to 11 r. M. MARSHALL NE1LAN . 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