M i a ir. -n -. ,: ,," 'JRIr'MW 1 i' IfM WAV m m rts.tii 114 mi Wr ' TP ' $JubltcHe&ger IWUC LEDGER COMPANY JMit, LuJlnl CUIITIS. rMinrjl in. Vle President! John C. Trnmntl Phllln 9). Coll nl. John J. flpurgeon. Director. .'- VOITOniAI. BOARD! WB VVBll't .iiniliinil ,,8MZLET, Editor ,RT1N. . . .0nfl Bualnen Mnmr rviMfated dmllr at Pcbho Ijmb, nultdln. J SEi""""- "- "".-V,-T. h..lMI ln( i'llftn'- TSli.''"'.''.' V.V.'.Ywi Fullrrton HulMInc iviso.c . 1302 Trttwna Uulldln t NEWS bureaus: " sUMON llCltiD .London Times lt BunscniPTioN tkiiwb lTh tsixo Ptuo Lxnatm l toiled lo uo "tK'r.'u o7tw"vTci2 nt. rVX pwbi. 'J&ffiS i ' point. euUJd, of rhll.dflphl.. in ffi'ff.TiiKnnfS 180) etnu wr month. '-.JKT .. "T ..... ....kl In ftatl4 "h's-ssl"" Hilt tv old well s ntw addren. , MOO WALNUT KEYSTONr. MAIN J800 fclMfUrei nil communication to Kvenlno Pu U.r nf the Associated Press nfi JattactATED rRBS8h..txclujtofly en- Hiitaih ?. or S.i; ,aW3,U.JT, ?r7-PLTK?0S J?flPr, ana oimo mo om. ... -...v- ,l,.i.l. . ....MlrnllfM of JDf.'Inl fff-lPdtCflM .. , jj-, rival w p -- Jt or olo rum-fit. 1- vniiitaJpW. Siturdir. Auiu.t :. io A row-raw rnoonAM ron V, n "" PHILADELPHIA ' ThtnKi on which the pfople expect the new toWtraUon to concentrate lt attention: ' TA Delaware ritifr brldat. j.. ,,. 4 tfrvtecfc Mo tnoveh to accommodate the ' DwtoA)oi the rapW " wttm. A ronoiton hall. ... 4 iulM((T for the Frtf urarv. An Jtrt .WuMm. ' iiarotti of th trofer supply Homes lo accommodate the population. if NO MORE JOHNSON WtflE opinion of City Solicitor Smyth that fJ- John P. B. Sinkter has succeeded ThlUp it. Johnson ns cltv architect and must hao feoriplete charse of the improveraenti to bo IW on tne minding" ni toe djuwij i :'" tht to'end a lonR-s-tandiuj; sinecure. Johnson had what was called a perpetual ontract as city architect. Attempts, to oust lira had repeatedly failed He wasu brother- i-law of Israel W. Durham, ami mien urbam died Charles Sccer inherited tlie bllgatlon to protect the protese. Rut bej;er i now dead and apparently there is no one la power suiBclently interested In the pre dion of Johnson s job to exert nimcti ui Hthe matter. If The new charter profiled for the appoint l",.nt nf n rltv Architect Mr Sinkler was appointed some months ajo and the city jolicitor's opinion sustains his appointmpnt. j, PENNSYLVANIA APPLES r. STEWART, a former professor in il (?.&.. .. haiiapau tniiT rnwrn is tWmty in Pennsylvania apples. He has just Mid $53,000 for an orchard farm of 120 Mercs in Y?rk county, or at the rate of S-Ho fn acre. This Is a pretty good price for irm lands of any kind anywhere. But. overv one knows that eastern apples better flavored than those rai-ed on the (krifatcd land of the West. Yet the western lit growers t-end their apples to tne easi- .rn markets twierc mey arc soiq ior iai;tj prices. -. When the owners of orchards in this rart V)t the country awake to a realization of fivtteir opportunities they will compete sue 'TulImIIm . III. ill. .. nula.n nrnHiirArk All yrfoaiuilj nuu i.v ...a..." .w... ,. -. .-.. that is needed here is the application m tne ntost improred methods of cultivation and iMckintrto put on the market apples that fre as cood to look upon as tho.e that arc 'hipped across the continent. Then the pur chasers who buy apples for their looks will rdiscover that flavor is worth couriering also, Pennsylvania has n climate admirably adapted to fruit growing tJovernor Sproul ! is aware of this, for he onus .000 acres of ijorchards, and under his direction the State 'Department of Agriculture K prepared to assist every farmer who wishes to coin gold r lrom his apple trees. STOP THE MANDAMUSES STr THE k a law l General Axoenibl) does not pa-s next winter to put an end to the .mandamus evil in this cit it will not be ! because such a law is not needed. The action of the managers of the House I of Detention iu securing a mandamus order- lias the city to pay the salaries of thirty em S'pioyes for which no appropriation has been Vmade is only the latest iu-tance of a per- iinicious method of managing the cit : finances. ,slJWvfS' vo department of the local government It - Kt3'Sw ont' en Bot a rourt order compelling the f.nrovides for an annual budcet iu which an 1 1CJ'R, estimate of the amount ucided for the next tHiT8.5t!.7aif shall be made That provision ought ffVr-SsV. UC OUDIUJUIU ilUU IJJIUH s.-U LI E.S-rT l -JrA Ka bllBlnllinrl Ah1 ifnli.w1 THEY FrCHT IN JERSEY 71IIERE seems to be good ground for the A- report that the Delaware ferrv mm panies are about readv to go back hurriedly to their old schedule of rates m order to avoid an airing of the ae before the inter im M Btate Commerce Commission. TtlwtilAnila hut'A fur rmiru mlliwl In nn fpfrr V etockbolders in a golden tlnod Tim ruilroad rate increases rtcentlj allowed weie nens- sarr to hard-pressed corporations that hud ft' m to obtain additional mimic or rik disa-tnr. ffjThe ferry companies are not m that ila-s. If -JSt -Ther liAve onlv h tee hnn nl iiistifirntinn fop ifgfe the higher charges which they hae imposed 3fit'51,fivvv" lraujl llMrf profiteer . Ew on traffic. Their attitude in tins instam e rceabl) suggesthe of the mood of the ii is nut MjrpriMiiK iu uuu inui hip ror ' rvo rat Ions nrp not disnoscH tn fiehr If fhi jph '1; furrender quietly the credit will belong to swi4 ' e people of Camden, whose fighting spun TOiVfji . . u-jtu fmtphrH n?flin Within n ft luiiim tsttat!! after the announcement of the new rat" LTjlin schedule Mayor Ellis und the Chamber of mHr' Commerce were preparing, with the -o- jj operation of the public, to carry the matter ki tn flit TntAputntn rnmmli.lftti Tim fur .. companies should hnve rtmembereil the ex periences of the Public Kervii e Corporation in the tone-fare experiment WOMEN AND THE FACTIONS 'TIS frcqueuU) said that women will never be eenuinef interested iu politics , that Tfhe ballot will bore them and that they will 4-? n'!Tfr Tote ln KrfHt ",""l"'r''- Sucn XsliVl nay have to be reWscd before long. beliefs There is, for exumple, the beginning of a i'-fSj Bew and lively sort of factionalism in a Mt- . Mt"'i,,"on ",a' has developed between the Penn- vania lifaguc or omen oters and thoso 4 are attempting to organize the newly ni'hiseii ritiretiK in the interest of par- jocal political clans. j, 1 e League of Women Voters Ik an out- Ath of the women's clubs of the state. ) nesn't ask IU members to stand aloof the'recogbized parties, but it does en- " i" 4 or (o cumraw muepeaucne iuiuiuhb ana a state of'mlnd in.whlch men and issues may be fairly assesscd'irrcspectlve of their party nflillatlons. Officers of the league have re fused to issue lists of their membership to thoso who would use it in a large scheme of propaganda devised by one of the state cr ganlzations. Women who do not think ns the women's league thinks insist that this Is unfair, , Hero is discussion that may spread and provide tin issue for women themselves. There jet may be n division of the feminine vote into two antagonistic camps represent ing the docile, party followers and women who happen to have a more serious view of the vote and of their new rights under the constitution. Women arc nt heart more clannish than men. And if ever there is open conflict in their ranks some of the fight ing will probably be pretty rough. ANTI-BRIDGE M0SSBACKS RUNNING TRUE TO FORM People Who Oppose Delaware Span Are Descendants of Those Who Cried Out In Horror Against Gas Lights, Locomotives and Trolleys THE mossback is fearfully misunderstood. Could anything, for instance, be more plaguing to this enrnest prophet of calamity and disaster than the common charge that his mind dwells only ln the past? He will tell you, and with nil the emphasis he can command, that the murky future is his con cern. That, contrary to the accepted be lief, Is the exact truth. The mossback, the reactionary, the tory, the slow-coach, the 'frald cat, the chronic grumbler call him what you will could hardly stand the lessons of n glance back ward. They would frighten the sniveling life out of him. For the past bulges with bold accomplishment, with novelties which worked wonders, with great new ndventures which prospered magnificently, with ambi tious undertakings which bore luscious fruit. Jf he reflected a bit on its "message" he might be forced to conclude that there is actual precedent for progress, that the an tagonists of Improvements now uccepted as commonplaces have been repeatedly proved fools and that the future was not perhaps uurelievedly black. That would ucver do. What becomes of our present-day moss back's "arguments" against the Delaware river bridge, for example, if lie ponders too deeply upon the opposition to trolley cars in this city 'ome thirty years ago? The mossback. who neglected at that time to look up the disfavor with which the first steam rnilwavs were regarded, flatly announced that "lectric transit would be the curse of this town; that Philadelphia with fast trac tion serUce would be a shambles. It is, on. the whole, rather rubbing it in to compel the icrv much misnamed "reac tionary" to undergo the shock of realizing the sins of his fathers. What is pain to one individual Is. however, sometimes good fuu for nnothcr, and certainly, iu view of all the poppycock opposition, expressed and furtive, to the span across the Delaware, there is many a good laugh for the average citizen in the long history of dreaded ble-siugs. He needn't be afraid of the ihrouicle. It will stimuhtc him. Indeed, about the best tonic im-iginable for any one entertaining the least doubt about the immeasurabl-S-ftood to be gained from the sorely needed bridge is an inquest held over old newspapers. Illumination by gas was an appalling menace. iSteiim en gines would destroy the cornfields and slay the cattle. The sewing machine would pau perize thousauds of needlewomen. The lethal trolle.vs would surpa-s the car of Juggernaut. Such wails are all in type. They might be called inconceivable if only the other day the "menace" of the Delaware span had not been circularized. This time it Is the poor farmer who i to be "victimized." sacrificed and taxed for the benefit of the Insatiable automobilist ' Of course, the ordinarv inhabitant of tln populous metropolitan and interstate dis trict is uot casil gulled by such nonsense. He knows through altogether too much ex perience that the ferries are hopelessly in adequate and out of date nud that the bridge will transform this region. I!ut the iost unquestionably fu-scs him. Sometime, with the mossback iutcrrupting the icv of the past, he wonders in a muddled way whether the project isn't too huge. Hadn't we better wait a while.' One wav to oorcomc this foolishue-. m addition to f.u ing the past with manful ap preciation is to per cheerfully into the oncoming jcars We haven't, natural!, begun to grasp tithe of ecn the elemental benefits of the budge Progie-s grows out of progrcjs, und it is difficult to jump men t.ill thiough stages of development to be inlinrited. Rut no special !nirmnnn is nettled to nalize a few ot the banc piofit of the pro tett fin whn!i T'hiladelph'a and Camden. New Jers-oj and Piuuham:i tire cmbaikud. F.terv one can understand that the ferry irritation wtH-ease. It is also obvious that despite state lines Philadelphia and Camden will inhiee a metropolitan unity of enter prise which must be invigorating in the highest degree Hut bcnd these Imme diate gains thtie uie aspeds of the under taking w'lich spur tin- imagination without for a moment transgressing tn field of per feitH logical possibilitj . ., Colliiigswooil. Huddoufirld. I'alm.rsl, Mer chant ille. Gloucester will be subuibs of u new luterstute t tt , quite as intimate! parts theicof as (iermuntowu, Durbv, 1'tankford and Haddington a if now- i omponents of Philadelphia. The limits of initropolitun expansion not congestion, be it understood delight the fan') v ithout dt ludlug it. And as transportation condition will be changed, so will the gincral development of trad" and mdustry he revoliitiouUi d, not to sa emancipated. In all sobiictj it may he fo'nceivrd that the gieat twin metropolis on the banks of the Delaware will oujov oppor tunities of growth unrivaled iu anj iltj in the land. It is hard, because we are o accustomed to fcir plight anil its antiquity, to appreciate with due clurit the preposterous handiiap to this region which the lack of a span has been The Delaware is a noble stream, but it is not the Amazon ut Para nor the St. Lawrence at vuebec The latter flty. it may be mentioned, bonsw a gigantic bridge, the construction of which invoUid engineering and (manual dillnulties lirsitle whlth the burden of our project is feathery. Furtheimore, our nwe of the Delaware has rather outstupped the respd-t wortln u majestic nwi. I'litll i oinpariltively iei i ntly it seems to haie bi en icgarded in the light of a veritable Mediterranean. Iteallj, it isn't quite that broad ! Nor is th financing of tho bridge the least comparable with the nuperb array of engineering wonders of which civilization Is rightfully proud. We are not planning a Forth bridge, nor a Panama Canal, nor a Oatuu dtiin, nor nn Alaskan railwa. The highest estimate of cost of the bridge is 40.000,000. the lowest about 520.000,000. Evm the heaviest of those sums would not bankrupt the com munity. JVhat Js JKtded is fewer easps pf astonish... EVENIN& frUBEIO LEDaEB ment over our alleged "daring" and moro practical initiative In n work decidedly moro indispensable than miraculous Not nil prophecies arc dangerous. Some have the nature of a bet on a certainty, and so fnr ns the bridge is concerned it may be pretty safely wagered tbat tho first span be tween this city and Camden will not long remain unique. What hnppened to the East river is n heartening precedent. The public of Greater New York wasn't the least nervous about cither the advisability, the practica bility or the expense of the second, third and fourth bridges between Manhattan and Brooklyn. These were calmly regarded ns steps in the ordinary march of public Im provement. And so It will probably be with the companions of the first Delaware river structure. As wo erect them w'c shall be inclined to view somewhat contemptuously our agonies over the pioneer span. The numerical equivalent of nbout tho population of Nevada will migrate to the seashore today and tomorrow. The crowd will be jammed to the utmost on the river passage and, for those moments of archaic inconvenience, undeniably fretful. Ask nny' member of It on landing whether he desires the bridge, nnd be careful not to stake more than n German pfennig on the chance of nn unfavorable reply. T'nllkc the mossback, ho is nbout 100 pef cent likely 'to rccali the past as the most vivid of all arguments for speeding up the imperative work that lies immediately ahead. ROOSEVELT WOMEN IN POLITICS rpHE Roosevelt women, now that they have the privilege of voting, arc following the example of their distinguished kinsman nnd preparing to take an active part In politics. It will b6 recalled that one of the first things the Colonel did after he wns graduated from college was to join the Republican or ganization in his district. He believed that It was the fluty of every citizen uot only to vote, but to assist in shaping party policies. He could have no Influence iu party policies unless he associated himself with the men active iu the management of the party. Mrs. Corlnne Roosevelt Robinson, the Inte President's sister, has arranged to make political speeches, her first appearance being in Portland, Me . on September S. When she spoke at the Chicago convention it wns not as a qualified elector, but as a represen tative of the women who hoped to vote. When she speaks in Maine it will be ns n voter capable of casting a ballot on the same terms as men. Mr. Alice Roosevelt Longwoith. the Colonel's daughter, has offered her servircs to the Republican National Committee, and they are certain to be utilized where they will do the most good. The exninpl" thus set is likely to be fol low eil by other women fitted b. contact with public men to sove the nation iu political campaigns nnd ulthnitely in office. If we nre to get the benefits promised from equal suffrage we must use the abilities of the women in every way possible. The Roosevelt women doubtless were in hearty sympathy with their kinsman when he led a bolt in 1012. but thev nre aware that he returned to the Republican party and at the time of his deatli was planning to give to it the best that was iu him in the approaching presidential campaign. No American was more fully convinced than he that if the nation were to be restored to nonnal conditions after tho war it must summon the Republican paity to power. The Democrats hnve proved their incapacity for the task. Under these circumstances the Democratic campaigners who are seeking to lure the old Roosevelt Progressive following, which wns teally the forward-looking wing of the Re publican part . into support of Mr. Cox nre likely to find their task exceedingly difficult. UNFASHIONABLE STRIKES ANY ONE who reads the newspapers is aware that strikes are not so fashiouable as they were a ear ago, either in the I'nited States or in Europe. The Rritish foal miners have iu a few months aban doned one strike plan after another. They are eager for arbitration. Threats of an anthracite strike have been made in this state, but the miners' leaders are now seeking to have wage disputes set tled "without the interruption of produc tion " The fact is that labor and the employers nMke have been learuiug some bitter les sons. Ever) body loses in a strike. After idleness anil htudship and loss on both sides, everv great labor question is settle'd on n basis that would have been easily attainable through peaceful disiussiou. Labor und the emplo.vcrs are in a mood o perceive the unreason of industrial conflict. It is not unlikely that witliiu a year or two strikes mn.v be eliminated altogether in the i'nited States through high!) systematized arbitration inachincr.v i stablislied under the auspices of the government iu forms accept able to capital and labor. COLLEGE CLUBS JCDGE TERGT'SON'S giant of a charter to the Yale Club of Philadelphia has added one moro to the number of legally incorporated organizations of graduates of universities in the fit). It also calls attention to the lack of a I'mversity of Penus.vlvuuin Club. The Yale men will have a common meet ing place fiom which will emanate as inuch fif the Yale spirit ns has survived bincc the giaduates left New Haven. Some du) the University of Pennsylvania graduates will organize u club here for the accommodation of the 10,000 alumni who live within the metropolitan district and for the convenience of the alumni in other parts of the country who return to town nt inter vals to renew their associations with tho institution from which they got their edu cation. The loial alumni have allowed the New York alumni to steal a march on them, for in New- York a club has been organized that is alread) planning a maguificent clubhouse. THE TEACHERS ARE QUITTING rnHE loss of twent.v-fivo instructors iu the -L division of physiinl education in the pub lic h hooN hardly hnrmonlr.es with the op timistii picture recently drawn of the full enrollment of teachers. William A Steelier frankly asserts that manv of the resignations have been due to the low pay si ale. The new shortage, moreover, m curs at the very time when Doctor FurbiiHli is insistent upon n start" in this department siifliciently incrensnl to tuuble the schools to conform to the stnt luvv prescribing early ph.vsical examinations of all the pupils. The date for the opening of the school loan is approaching. Theoretically, it ought not to he the dut) of individuals to buv bonds to enable the public school s)stem to be con ducted properly Hut the gravit) of the situation transcends this sort of logic There should be a full subscription foi the school loan The way to prevent teachers, either iu tho pl steal education division or an) other, from legitiinntcl) seeking more lucra tive positions is to pay them what they 1 decexvc ' - POBXL'ABELPHIA , SATUBDAYirAUGUST A COLLEGE FOR LABOR Trade Unionists of Philadelphia Will Go to School to Study the Eco nomics of Modern Business and Industry TO THIS city of many shrines of lenrning, of schools of the nrts nnd sciences, of col leges where law and medicine and- engineer ing flourish, of neademics where the fino arts nnd their handmaidens, tho mechanic nrts, are fostered Bide by side, comes a new cducationnl institution, the Trndo Union College of Philadelphia. IT IS worth noting nt the outset that the Trade Union College is precisely whnt Its name implies a college by nnd for the trade unionists. The men on its executive council represent the railroad shop workers, the upholstery weavers, the machinists, the carpenters, the bricklayers, the hosiery knitters nnd the metal polishers. They nro union men. all of them j they are members-of unions affiliated with the American Federation of Lnbor ; they Btand for the great conservative nnd con structive force In American industry. The Trade Union College is not designed to be nnothcr school of parlor bolshcvlsm. THE plan nnd purpose of tne college can. not be set forth better thnn in the words of the preliminary educational program put oct by the committee which has the project, in chnrgc. "What we want and need is to know nbout those things that directly nnd powerfully nffect our lives. We want to know why it is that the worker who spends his Hfo making things that arc supposed to be for the use of bis fellow- men so often has nothing for his own use in his old ngc. We want to know why there is no work to bo done when the workers need jobs nnd need things that other workers make. We want to know why, when we nre the biggest share of the voters, our elected representatives can pass Esch-Cummins bills, nnd, as judges, can get out injunctions that deprive us of nil rights. We want to know whether it is necessary that the children of the workers should go to work at the age of fourteen Instead of having a chance to develop body and soul until they grow to manhood nnd womanhood. We want to learn to discuss these things, and we want to know bow to get the facts about them." TT IS a characteristic of organized labor, -Land one of the sure Props of Its power, that it seekR Its ends simply and directly. There, fore the plans for the coilegc have been developed without much concern about the purely physical concomitants of n teaching institution. The college is not going In for clnborate nnd costly equipment. In fact, it Is not even decided definitely where the classes will be held. The main thing is that there will be classes, pupils and teachers. There will be places of assemblage for the lectures in Kensington nnd in the central part of the city. Per haps a college building will come later. Six courses have been outlined for a start. These have been chosen from considetations of practical effectiveness. The courses nat urally divide themselves into two groups; the first hns to do with economic informa tion, the Bccond with its expression. In the first group come the history of labor organisations in the United States: labor and law. and labor and industry. The second group of studies will embrace English, public speaking and current even's nnd parliamentary practice. It is not the plan of the projectors of the college to limit the courses to the subjects just enumerated. Whenever twenty students agree upon a course the executive committee will arrange such a course for them if it can be done, liesides the formal covrses, it is intended to have a couise of popular lectures dirlng the fall and winter, open to all members of the college upon the pay ment of n nominal fee. As an adjunct to the college, it Is hoped to huve u public forum for the discussion of questions of the hour. A SIMPLE plan has been worked out for the government of the college. Each of thp affiliated unions is entitled to n delegate to a centi.il educational council, which will have final decision in nil matters pertaining to the college, deciding on courses, teachers, location ofchishes. The council will choose annually nn executive council of srven ot its members, n president and a becretarv, treasurer Tln-.s the entile supervision of the college will remain in the hands of the unions themselves. The college hns been modeled in part on a similar and highlv successful institution in Washington, I) C. located at 142:1 New York avenue. During the spring term nf the Washington College, which began this jcar on Pebriiar) 2, there were ten -week trout ses of lectures und class work on ele mentar) and advanced English, modern literature, the vocational education move ment, economics, practical mathematics, industrial h.vgiene and the co-operative movement There was also a course of lectiiies on the dcinociatic control of in dustry. w IDLE Philadelphia labor unions are nrenaiing to open their Trade Union College, the faculty of Amherst College, of Massachusetts, are making icady to con. duct classes for woikers in Spriugficld, Holvoke and neighboring towns. "The teacheis of the college believe they can help the workers to a better under standing of the problms of the indiistriil world and the place they occupy in it, ' says a circular just issued by Amherst. ' The) (the teachers) nKo feel," the clr ctilnr continues, "that they have much ,o gain from intimate contact with men and women who have gained their knowledge of modem Industrial tociet) by first-hand experience." It is inteiesting to note that while tho Amherst plan provides that the teaching force shall be made cp from the college faculty, the contiol of the courses is vested jointly in the college nnd the representa tives of the labor organizations. TO Philadelphia the plans of the local trade unions for their own educational institution must make more than a per. funetory appeal; for the city of Ren Frank lin, who wns nt least us much nn artisan ns he was a philosopher, cannot forgn that she is the mother of those sttong chil. ,imn of one birth, the Continental Con gress and the Universit) of Penns)lvani i The city that has fostered libcrtv and education 'through all her da.vs will give a kind!) welcome to this new pioject, born of the workers' desjip foi full and free self-exntcssion, and of their deep-rooted conviction that it is through the knowledge which is power that tin) must work out their industrial salvation. Kipling on John Knox WHEN Kuflvnrd Kipling was awarded tho degiee of LL I) by the University of Edinburgh iccuntly he paid the following tribute to John Knox, the grent noncon formist: "A stinnger. speaking with due ilefereme. might be forgiven for thinking that, though the liberality of )our citizens made nud adorned )our univiislty, none the jess, the ihiviug force behind this .'100-) enr oll) dominion of the Scot derives its esseiico from the strict and unbreakable spirit of that gnat educationist John Knox, who, whatever he iniiv have said about the mon stious regiment of women, neither flntteieil nor feared anv flesh. It was John Knox who, at lifelong hazard, laid down nud maintained the canon that it should be law till foi nun so to use themselves iu matters of leligion nnd conseieiu-e as they should nuswer to their Maker is it too much to sny that after all these .vcara. on these triple foundations of freedom, authority nnd re- 1 sponsibility, the moral fabric of your unl ' xersitj-jwaa reared!"- . . , 'TAiMT IT'LL INSIDE he -pirj-trcoote haJ to V- 2s- thef JNd TROLLEYS ON MARKET .STREET THINK OF THE DtADLV VJ RES, THE BABES AlHP WOMEN RtiN OVER AND SLAUGHTERED i Then Pad tad -to hear of btxrvb. cSo -Ufye-" . . i WWhA " -a. ,wt, vllnis - JSialK. ec6 -$ t)P' m 'A, i 7 -A- . t" TV jsl I 9 T??iak J X as!K.uWP svninmra-r .!- iunarr v. .- WU" a Sy7 r. grit" on tuorking f NO W MY IDEA IS THIS ! Daily Talks With Thinking Philadelphians on Subjects They Know Best DR. GEORGE WHEELER On Shortage of Teachers PHILADELPHIA high schools may facu a berious shortage of teachers befor the winter is over, according to Dr. George Vheeler. associate superintendent in chnrgt of high schools. "At present, while the situation has Its difficulties, it is not nny worse than it has been from time to time." said Doctor , Wheeler. "But us the winter goes on and we get into the Tcbruary term, or second half of the school year, wo are likely to encounter serious difficulties and perhaps a shortage that we cannot meet, unless the incoming supply of available teachers proves satisfactory- "While we have filled most of our exist ing vncancics up to the present time, we have exhausted our eligible lists in a num ber of subjects and wo are still eight tcaphcrs bhort. "Resides this, we have u)t .vet received the fall batch of resignations which gen erally come in .September. Uy next week we shall' likely know the extent of these changes. "Tifcrc are some teachers who do not resign, but simply do not return for the fall term. Of course, we shall not know nbout this until after tho term opens. Great Need of Teachers "As it now stands, our eligible lists are exhausted iu the branches of English, his tory, modern languages, commercial sub jects and ninthcmatics for both men und women teachers. Teaihcrs In the commer cial branches nre particularly hard to get, because they arc in such great demand in other schools nnd in Industrial plants. "In fact, conditions an- such that we will be unable to wait until the regulnr time in Murch for conducting examinations for eligibles, but shnll probably be forced to call for u special examination for such a list in October. "We are forced to depend for higher school teachers largely upon out-of-town places, since Philadelphia is unable to sup ply the demand. "One thing that increases our difficulties ln the present situation is the law which lenuires that all our teachers in the higher schools shall be selected from an eligible list of those who qualify nt our examina tions. Thus we nro not benefited by the let-eutly organized State Registration Hoard, where applicants ma) he registered and placed on the nvallable lists for duty in their favorite subjects. "Superintendents in other cities in the state outside of Philadelphia and Pittsburgh hnve much simpler problems, as they have but to refer to this new board, and can fill their vacnncics from its lists, if they desire. "It is nlso required that our higher echool teachers shall have nt least a college education In un institution of accredited rank. This, of course, narrows the field from which we may choose. "Our eligible lists are good for three years. In the time which has elapsed sinco some of the teachers qualified for posts In the schools here conditions havo changed radically. The cost of living has gone v,p considerably, nnd some of those who might have un opportunity extended them to teach here have declined because the salary does not meet their dequirements. Still others have bettered themselves materially in the meantime and were not available when thb vail came for them. Great Inerease in Students "Our enrollment of high school students for the coming year in Juno Inst was 22,500, while a year ago It was 20,000, making an increase of 2000 students in tho higher i pchoals..ovcr last 28,r "Iflgfr . CONCERNING CRAZY CRITICISM A . NtVrURMt 5COR.CH Y AN Voy'LL 7r" L-Vl ' SMRtVfcl.iAKiHT-OpJ vfkvWJ JAfcSI l f Zt NsV . rSMr.Sri YOU R.HME-V h heap Mr ALL THE CHILDREN t WIUL rftLL UHllrCV LMURDErs.ERyAry.lT 'AIN'T BUT EIGHT Miles toth'crick, nvI'.av' Anyhow ! -A diJ , 3te h WJ 4 jy . 3wl rchitecr-And fy-AnA , oVi bg fc Wnte. of in '-v" me jamtoaac-irur cn&l- irstr well-digger came in for! ro OT,Jg3iotft ever forvAA sytrcfj Jbhrotxhout- liu-o til CjrarNdpa-'or vrfmc, Verier. The tire this sort , , let's1 ju-ftr grin at fchw S chatter and leeep " f I I I 1 I lf I ' H"'Mi or 3 oooa cninP' classes this will mean an increase in the number of teachers needed for the coming term of not less than thirty over the last term, which has been met. "But even after the returns nre all in nnd the present school term is under way, our problem is uot settled. In February we will have another Inrgc enrollment of pupils coining iu nnd that will mean that more teachers will be required. "With the school vear In full swine it is difficult if not almost impossible effectively i to recruit tno ranks ot teachers, (jualineu teachers whom we demand nre already tied up with contracts for the year with their respective school boards, nnd it is next to impossible to effect nny change in between seasons. "Then most of those who arc seeking new and better positions have mnde their plnus by that time nnd arc definitely connected in one way or another. "The February enrollment of pupils bids fair to be very heavy. And the prospects for securing nddltional teachers to meet this increabo is none too good. Some of our eligible lists nre exhausted and others well depleted. We have only this method of obtnining new teachers, nud the require ments nre such ns, to narrow the field. The snlnries, too, arc such that other fields of employment appeal more to many candi dates. "So, unless the coming examination shall produce a large list of eligibles, we shall indeed face a serious situation. Future Is Uncertain "We do get some teachers from the cle mentnry school ranks. But we do not wnnt to denlcte the forces of the other branch, for that would be only transferring the burden. Some teachers, of course, point themselves for high school teaching. It is the advancement which they hnve looked forward to from the time they entered the bchool ranks. Others, on the other hnnd, hnve uo desire to get out of the elementary schools und into the higher schools. "We have a prospective enrollment of high school pupils in the nenr future of 23,000. The list of teachers does not num ber more than 1000. That makes an aver age of one teacher to each class of twenty five, which will just about meet require ments. "Rut what the future will bring forth is the question. There are not as many trying for tencherH' positions as formerly, and more nre constantly needed. And competi tion in other fields Is strong. So the future is nt nny rate uncertain." KROONLAND GREAT u thing as is"u liner, Kroonland, )ou were greater when, Stripped of finery, you carried Hordes of seasick fighting men. Down your rolling mnin compnnlon World-famed passengers have trod, But moro famous were the plain men Khaki covered, hobnail shod. Belch your black smoke to the heavens, Baro your white decks to the sun, Turn )our heavy, pounding engines, Churn the seas, as on jou run. Crenk )our panels in the runwa)s Through the night, by cabin door Great you arc, but you were greater When armed seasick men you bore, P. K. Lima, in New- York Evening Post. Mrs. J. Gnrdner Cnssatt, who was op posed to equal suffrage, now sa)s that it .Is the duty of every woman to vote. Let's hope that they will all see it thnt way. If they do they will do better than the men huvo ever done. Director Caven reasons like a human being In explaining why he hns refused a permit for the erection of n vender's stand nn the sidewalk hevond the building line hn said thnt the city is about to spend ?.'i8,O00 to cut off the part of two buildings in Chest nut street nenr Fifteenth that extend ton far Into the sidewalk, nnd he can sec no reason for permitting other obstructions, He says all stands beyond the building line must go. Ho has authority to make them jjnd u ne exercises it every ono butthe rwip I ivi w . ju w , i - wnvravMVTHMKj , ww viuquui. T- A TRLt Alh'r Good IHOlKtH FORiHEIf? THAT CONTRfSPTION'JJ .SMASH YOU RfiME-V THINK o'TrfE.J3UGS! theFirj - b bulUer - GAS?aO'Y WANT TO BLovAl up THE- TOWN? AND THE STUPIFVlNCt FUMES'. agatTst-illumma.cor ... ImiroW Wd" i"""' What Do You Know? QUIZ 1. What la nn argosy? 2. What is .the meaning of "Istan" as af fixed to euch words as Afghanistan, lleluchlstnn, Kurdistan, Arablstan? 3. What Is the most wostern state from which any candidate hns ever been elected President of the United States? 4. Who was this President? 6. Who was Thorw-aldsen? 6. Which of the two celebrated statesmen named William Pitt was tho Earl of Chatham? 7. What do the Initials A. j. as applied to time stand for? 8. Whero and when was John Wilkes Booth captured after his assassination of President Lincoln? 9. What is preferable as good English, "I differ from you on that subject" or "1 differ with you ort that subject"? 10. How many yards make a rod, pole or perch? Answers to Yesterday's Quiz 1. Allan Plnkerton, the famous detective. declared that he had found evidences of a plot to assassinate Abraham Lin coln while on his way to Washington to be Inaugurated In 1861. Plnkerton had tho duty of guarding Lincoln on this Journey. , 2. Oxide of hydrogen 1b water. 3. Oliver Hazard Perry, winner of the bat tle of Lako Erie In 1813, lost his flag ship, the Niagara, and moved to another vessel whllo tho conflict with the British wns In progress. 4. Borneo is the largest Island ln tho East Indies. 5. The November election falls on the first Tuesday after the first Monday In No vember. 6. Jane Porter wrote the historical romance, "Thaddeus of Warsaw.." 7. Carnation tints In painting are flesh tints. - 8. A yak la a long-halrod, humped, grunt ing wild or domesticated ox of Thibet, Asia. 0. The great fire of London occurred ln the seventeenth century, In the year 1666. 10. The tides are caused mainly by the moon, the tide-raising power-of the moon ajid sun being as flvo to two. Gasoline, says a headline, is coming down. In quality or in price? So far as the anti-suffragists are con cerned the fall and the summer overlapped. Before he gets through with it Gover nor Cox is likely to decide that it is better not to know so much than to know so much thnt isti't so. "Prices," declares a headliuc, "take two drops." But n larger dose than this will be necessary beforo the complete knock out can be induced. The figures "revealed" by Governor Cox seem to be of thnt fancy order which nre bometimes outlined by reckless bkuters on extremely thin ice. Fourteen points hnve been added tbl" week to the reasons for the abolition of grade crossings. They arc the names of tho fourtccu persons killed ot such crossings. Ex-King Constantino asserts that he is waiting in Lucerne "with resignation. And, one might add, precisely because ot this and a few accompanying compulsions. The Cubnns nre trying to merge their two big political parties into one in order to avoid strife and discussion. And the new purty that will immediately spring up what is to be done about that? If nny one in this world is qualified to know what hard lucks feels like it is the plain, uverage, evcryduy Russian who wants to be decent and Work for a living and in in peace. , The Orient is bidding farewell to the congressional delegation that went to Inspect It. And it isn't apparent tbat the better understandings that every one has been making bpeeches nbout exist between tne I'nited States and Japan. Willlnin . Folwell. In charge of rnls ing money for the Republican Nntlonal Con i niittct) here, said that he never beard ol tno ullotineut of S500.000 which Mr. Cox an nounccd had been made for him ta get m Philadelphia. But then Mr. Ko'well has not had the advantage of lisleulus to Dwna cratic dope attlsta. ' v.'-s- wf""AWi xn. '' SJ'" l . V .1 I i tl M vMl.lvv,IWllu..TSfllJ T 'IMlff., . '""Vt-v 'iff nfvu ki r rw-- - .i si I illal " A ffA mtit 1 1 vwel. js- vtc jfu Wm3j(jljjf t '"ss$Stv0rtA' 1 jM ' . t '.?' ',-- ji'i. TTTsaiBBEWHBaHPETwmt, f , & ., h .WiV J-'i. i . 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