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.idmlnl'trnltnn to roncentr.ite lit attention:
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A convention hall
A hlitMlao for the Frtc Library.
An Art Mupcum
ftnlarcrment ot the ti'nter tiprhy. ,
Hornet to accommodate the population.
A POLITICAL HACK FOR COUNCIL?
?VrS THE office of city councilman to dc-4-
generate wholly into a City Hall "job,"
the prey and prize of ward heelers? It Is a
X 8 far cry from the Ideals of those who inspired
, 'the new charter movement to the present
' Bchemes of the politicians.
A " The news which is filtering from the rival
t Vare and Alliance headquarters shows
clearly that the vacancy catted by the death
of Councilman Kinley profiles nn oppor
tunity to reward some follower with a SfiOOO
job. And on that basis the scramble is
lively.
. None of those "mentioned in political
circles" as likely to be clio-.cn is one to
51 telie the popular imagination. As n matter
of fact, it appears that the South I'hlla-
3 delnhia slate writers nronose to "promote
a $2000 officeholder to the S.'OOO position
. . f councilman This is the reward of loyalty
J to the leaders. The high office of councii-
j. man is to be degraded and openly converted
' 1 Into an annex of n political organization.
When the first candidates for the new
Council were nominated, the Vares made
some attempt to rise to the occasion. "Will
-. South Philadelphia now tolerate the using
Cof their title to n -eat in Council as u pawn
In the political game?
There was something ominous to the old
time boss In the words of the woman who
told the city committeemen last week that
f women were in politics for the principle.
ot the game. Apparently the leaders are
i. Ignoring both the women and the principle.
HOW THE ARMY APPEALS
AIIMY enlistments during August mounted
to n figure neer before attained by
this country in peace. More than 10,000
recruits entered the ranks of regulars and
more are expected this month.
That this appeal of military lifr is exerted
at the very time when compulsory service
planks failed of the slightest chance of in-
Ja" corporation into the platform of either of the
i freat political parties Is a significant index
of American character. Militarism is de-
tested. The war definitely doused any
clamour remaining to such a policy.
Hut there ore individuals to whom the
regularity of army life, its heuith factors and
Its freedom from some of the heavy respon
sibilities of Chilian existence are attractive.
An additional u-wt recently created is the
system of army schools in operation this
fall. Above all. enlistment is oluntary.
The draft was patriotically accepted in n
($ monumental crisis, but freedom nf initiative
Is a fundamental of the national tempera
ment, and while the army acknowledges it
the ranks are unlikely to be seriously
" .thinned.
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REAL LIFE AT BYBERRY
t J TJILSKWHintE in the countrj mm arc
,,- haggling oer theories or wildlj debating
c " questions of "rights," or v.arring bitterly to
iftl decide the meaning of a word or a theory
applicable in modern industrial relationships,
f and wasting a great deal of time and energy
and making themselves generally unhappy.
Up Byberry waj the count fair is open and
there you may obtain n gHmpi.c of the n tual
realities that hold life together i. the United
'V States.
Count fairs will soon be in full bloom
Terywhere. They are made for the autumnal
Q Tacation of the farmers. They do not change.
Other people may worry about the Einstein
tneory, or the rights and wrongs of (ollnc-
tive bargaining, or the Soviet virus in col-
leges, or the decline ond fall of the Ameri-
b can musical omed
Farmers go ulong normally and with a
concern for good wheat, good horses, good
"J" cows and pigs and goad soil Thc know
how to inuke the best use of th automobile
without huing. as rity folk say, that the
horse is gone forever.
, It is a good thing for the United States
that so large n penentage of its population
Is occupied with farming. Stead contact
with the wholesome earth will keep almost
"any one free of mental fewrs. do to the
farms if you would meet the true conserva
tive. There you will find people who do
raoro than ou imagine to keep the ship of
state on an even keel even while some of the
loudest talkers in politics and in some of the
class journals seem willing to see how the
JJ.old craft would look if it were hailed for a
-,, while on Its side
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THE PLIGHT OF THE SCHOOLS
i.rpHE public schools reopen tomorrow under
e - conditions which can hardly be de-
U neribed as cheerful. The teaching staff is
underpaid, many of the school buildings are
Inadequate and some are even unsafe, there
4, Id a shortage of books and papr. The post
of school superintendent of this district has
not been filled. A suit regarding the prin-
"Mpalshlp of the Central High School is in
tJ3 prop-ess.
, The accumulation of handicaps and do-
ineflclendes Is perhaps the worst with which
M the Board of Education has had to contend
R1 la many years. A partial remedy is In
.prospect In tho new loan, shortly to bo
'floated, but such relief will touch only the
wwrfaco Issues.
'i., tP Vigorous and comprehensive action, Icgls
,l ." . tirtive aid, public co-operation and a Board
',., . JMucation aroused, irom a somewhat too
-W--VV'ii'lp'J' normalcy an needed to Institute,
f9wte4 M.eKecUYa. reform, Thetruth Is
nav Beta neglected. JJlame. at-
tachinf, to the direct administration Is to a
considerable extent offset by a variety of
factor. Including specially the post-bellum
high cocts of both labor and matcrlabj. Tho
LcRlslaturc It Icsh easily extenuated for tho
necessity of financial help uas plainly ap-,
parent before the last sessions in Harris
burg closed. Ilut enlarged appropriations In
volve the imposition of higher taxes or cUe
Intelligent economical rclslon of the old
rates, and both performances arc chronically
dhtasteful to "main chance" politicians.
Hut the unusual publicity which has been
accorded the school situation throughout the
summer has rendered the problem one which
can no longer be dodged. Implanted in the
public consciousness U the knowledge that
the vchools are in a bad way. Ihis Is at
least one hopeful feature of the ease, and It
should prompt the bvard, the nvcrag citi
zen and the lawmaker to bestir them
selves. Philadelphia has deservedly been proud ot
its schools. Despite present embarrassments,
the attributes of excellence in the system
are many and vital. It is the danger of
degeneracy resulting from straining insuffi
cient resources to the utmost which must be
averted If the community is to retain its
self-respect as an educational center.
MONEY FOR THE POLICEMEN
WITHOUT HIGHER TAX RATE
Political Expediency and Business Sense
Alike Demand That the Burden of
Government Be Made No Heavier
HlIIB revised scale of salaries In the Police
Department recommended by (irlffen
lingcn and Associates, nctlng for the Civil
Service Commission, is likely to be adopted.
It ought to be adopted. When this news
paper urged n minimum of ?.n day for the
policeman it was said In some qunrters that
the proposed Increase wns unreasonable nnd
was really impractical. The' experts who
have been studying the subject have decided
that it is most reasonable and we no longer
hear that the plan cannot be put Into prac
tice. Its ndvantnges nre so evident that they
do not need to be elaborated. It would give
a living wage to the patrolmen. It would
relieve the men from any possible excuse for
petty grnftlng. It would attract to the force
a better type of public sen ant, and make it
possible to weed out the small percentage
of undesirables who have been retained, not
because they were good officers, but because
they were better than none.
The proposed incrense in pa in all ranks
will add about $1,000,000 to the amount
needed for the support of the Police Bureau
next ear.
The easy nnd indolent and inefficient way
to raise this sum would bo to incrense the
tax rate; the city administration could not
make a more grievous blunder than to adopt
this method.
The city tax rate is already too high. It
was $1 from lOH.' to 1010. It rose to $l.li"i
in 1017 nnd wns $1.7." in 1018 and 1010, and
last jear it was lifted to $2.1f5 for the cur
rent year. These figures are exclusive of
the school tax, which was fifty cents In 1017
nnd for the current year is seventy cents,
making the total tax rate $2.8.", against
$1.(50 during the administration of Major
Itlankcnburg.
While the cost of running the govern
ment has been nearly doubled there hus not
been the slightest evidence of any effort in
the City Hall to apply those economies, the
lack of which In private business leads di
rectly to the bankruptcy courts. There ate
Just as many idle men in the public offices
as there ever were. It has been notorious
for jenrs that jobs were duplicated and
triplicated, not to say quadruplicated, in '
order to find places for political workers.
The civil service regulations hao not pre
vented it, for they have been manipulated in
the past at the behest of the politicians.
More iuterest hns been shown in keeping a
political marine alhc than in preventing
the waste of the money nf the taxpayers.
We have been governed on the theory that
public office exists for the benefit of the
officeholders and that the more of them the
better for the machine.
When the personal registration law was
passed, providing for n lot of registry clerks,
the office of assessor was. not abolished, al
though other officers were created who lould
assess the voters just as well. The sum
needed to pay the assessors is not large, but
it is spent needlesM , for the reason that the
most difficult reform for a democracy to
bring about is the abolition of nn office onie
created.
A more flagrant instance of indiffennee to
economy is found in the crcatio.i of the
Municipal Court, nominally to take the place
of the magistrates. The power to spend
nionc with virtually no limit Is conferred on
the court nnd it iH now costing the lit S2,
000,000 a year. But tho magistrates con
tinue in office and druw their salaries and
perform their functions about as they did
before the Municipal Court was created.
The maglstihtes are allowul to continue I",
cause the politicians want the jobs. The
Municipal Court lias been allowed to expend
enormous sums because the politicians were
pleased at the creation of a new patrefnage
dispensing device exempt from the control
of the Cit Council, with power to man
damus the city treasurer for nil its expend! -tuics.
No determined effort hns been made to
bring about a consolidation of the itj and
county governments because the county
offices, exempt from the jurisdiction of the
Civil Service Commission, offer a huihor of
refuge for all the old political hacks who
could not pass a civil service examination
and because when one faction controlled n
county office and another faction was in the
saddle in the City Hall, the fartionallsts
discharged from a city office could be taken
care of in a county job.
This is practical politics, but it in not
business efficiency. Under it we are paving
a tax rate of S2 8,", which, in spite of the
effect of the war on prices, is largely due to
the absolute indifference of the politicians
to the couservutlon of public funds .
There is a tremendous task awaiting Mayor
Moore and his department heads v hen they
make up the budget for next jear nnd send
it to the Council for the basis of the new
tax rate.
More money will be needed for the schools
if n living wage is to be paid to the
teachers. When the city tax was $1 and the
school tax fifty cents, one-third of the
total amount raised was usid for the support
of the schools. Less than one quarter of
the total tax levy has been set apart for the
schools this year. This is one of the reasons
why the school system has been starved.
Under the law the school tax for next
jear may be eighty cents That sum will
have to be raisid If the sdinol board Is to
keep its promise to the teachers. Then if
the total tax rate is not to exceed that for
the current ear the rate for city purposes
must be reduced from $2.1.' to $11.0.".
This cannot be done without practicing
the most rigid economy in all departments.
The superfluous employes will have to be
discharged, J$ureau will have to be con-
solidated ,to do aw&y .with duplication of
EVENING PUBtld LEDGER
work nnd duplication of Jobs. The nmount
of work to be paid for out of current rev
enues will have to be limited nnd such of It
as Is done must bo done with the same care
that Is shown In private business.
If the experts making a survej of the
city government and n classification of its
employes do not point out the way for
getting rid of a lot of useless men they will
disappoint popular expectation. Their re
port should be in tho hands of the Mnyor
long before October 15, the date fixed by the
charter when the budget must be submitted
to the Council,
But whatever the experts may do, the
political exr.edlency of running the city next
car without adding n dollnr to the burdens
of the taxpayers Is so much greater than
the expediency of keeping it lot of men In
superfluous jobs that It is inconceivable that
the Major and his advisers will not take
the expedient ns well an the business
like course when they-frame the budget.
STOP THIEF!
TN THE newspaper business ns in other
affairs of life imitation Is the slncerest
form of compliment. That Is why we call
attention today to the wholesale and bnre
faeeil manner In which the Evening Bulletin
j.sterilny stole thU newspnpti's exclusive
Interview with Commander Cooke of the
submarine S-i5 nnd the account of his tcstl
moil before the Nnval Board when a re
porter of the Evening I'imimc LEnciEn.
was the onlj newspaper man present.
This is not tho first time by many conn's
tint the Bulletin has been guilty of lielplnj;
Itself edition liv edition without leave from
our news columns. But it has been graduall
b coming bolder with each instance nnd this
time the offense Is so flagrant that It ought
not to be passed over again in silence.
AIR MAIL
A'
T DAWN tomorrow n regular daily
coast-to-const nlr-mail service, with
termlnnls In New York nnd nt Sacramento,
Calif., will be inaugurated by the Postoffice
Department. Only n few yenrs ago trans
continental airplane flights were regarded
as experimental circus feats.
Air machines timed for ninety miles an
heme will deliver mall nnd make train con
r.ift!rn along tho route marked by Belle
fonte. Pa. : Cleveland, Chicago, Omaha,
Chejenne and Sacramento. All territory
adjacent to these cities will, of course, bene
fit somcwhnt under the larger plans of the
aerial mail service,
( 'early, however," the government is not
thinking of mail alone in this instance,
though a whole business day will be saved
between coast and const for important let
ters and business pnpers. The elaboration
of the air-mail s.vstem means the establish
ment of full equipped landing fields at all
points where they mny be needed in tho
dnv's work or In unexpected emergencies.
The mail aviators arc learning all that
can be learned of nlr currents nnd the gen
eral weather onditlons thnt nffect flying in
diffi rent seasons. Fuel, equipment and re
pair stations nre being located rapidly along
the lino of the shortest route between the
Atlantic nnd Pacific coasts. In a word, the
mail lines are providing the basis for a
new system of transport and communica
tion that would play an important part in
any militarj activities that future emer
gencies might make necessary. Thenlr-mail
service, though intended primarily for a
practical purpose, will enable the experts in
the army nnd navy to observe progressive
experiments- with each new typo of plane
nnd engine and with all the devices of ad
vanced aviation.
Air mall is here to stay. Whnt is needed
to make this quicker method available for all
first-class mail arc landing nnd taking-off
facilities in the cities. A way will be found
before long to bring the mail planes down at
points close to the central distributing sta
tions. Whnt this would mean is apparent
when it is remembered that three hours'
time, at least, is required to get a letter
by train from the central postoffice here to
the central postoffice in New York. Oue of
the mnil planes now in generul use could
cover the same distuuee in sixty minutes.
Landing stages orl the roofs of the big post
offices nre perhaps not far off. Nowadays
fighting planes take the nlr easily from
battleships. It Ih not too much to suppose
that airplanes will boon do us well in the
peai vful routine work of the land.
WHEN A WOMAN CANT VOTE
B
El-'OItE the status of married women
under the equal suffrage amendment to
the constitution is clarified there will have
to be a lot of legislating botli in the United
States and in other countries.
The Bureau of Elections in Harrisburg
lias ruled that un American-born woman of
Stcelton, who hut! married a foreigner, can
not vote, as by mnrriage she became a citi
zen of tho country of her husband.
This rule is in accordance with long es
tablished precedent. If an Aineilcun woman
runrrica an Englishman or a frenchman or
n Herman she becomes an English or n
Trench or a Get man citizen And If a
foreign-born woman marries an Ameiican
she becomes by that fact an American citi
zen. This is because the social laws and the
political laws, so fur as they upply to the
social relations, hnve alwajs bieu based on
the theory that the familv is the social unit
ami tliut its status depends on the status of
the man at its head. He was delegated to
represent it at the polls and his citizenship
carried with it the citizenship of the whole
family.
The suffrage laws, however, have changed
the social unit so that it is now the indi
vidual. There will be complications until
the other laws nre changed to meet tho new
conditions. Unless they nre changed
throughout the wotld we shan have Ameri
can women married to Englishmen, for ex
ample, who are citizens of both England and
the United States with political privileges in
each country.
A way out will be found, for American
women living in this country will probably
not be allowed to lose their vote merely be
cause they have married an unnaturalized
foreigner.
Mr. Bryan appears to have retrieved his
heart from the grave. If current omens
mean an tiling he is uhout to present it to
Mr. Cox. And, oddly enough, the presen
tation speech will suggest what millions of
people think after each new speech by the
Democratic candidate, ".limmle," Mr.
Brjan will say, "have a heart "
Whatever the Major or Council may
thing about it the (iriffenhagen and Asso
ciates report will receive tho indorsement of
every policeman in the city.
W Jett Lauck, the "expert," who
declares that coal should be lower, has n
hard name, and that is precisely what ho
will be called by the deliberate price
boosters.
Running, home !s no Idngir an nccom-
ttUahwej with Babe Butb. It Ja a babU.
- PHILADELPHIA, TUESDAY, SffPftEMBER
THE THREE BLAINES
Memories of the Plumed Knight and
(Hls Namesake "Don't 8hoot the
Real Estnter"
By GEORGE NOX McCAlN
TAMES O. BLAINE, Hd, has been, np-
pointed to organize the financial cam
paign of the Republican party In the Enit
He Is the son of James O. Blaine, Jr.,
and the nephew of Mrs. Walter Damrosch.
wife, of the noted musician and impresario.
I linve some very vivid r. collections of the
young man's father and grandfather.
While the latter wns In every sense a
great nntlonnl figure, James O. Blaine, Jr..
his youngest son, vvns merelj n local char,
ncter, save when he broke Into print through
some Idiosyncrasy or bit of freak conduct.
I wns one of tiie five correspondents who,
In the presidential campaign of 1884, ac
companied James G. Blaine on his incmor
nble tour, lasting n month, which began in
New York and ended out in Michigan.
He was n remnrkable man, one of the
most magnetic speakers I ever heard, while
-his fund of historical and statistical facts
was secm'.igly inexhnustlble.
A FTER tho campaign and while lie w'n
resting in New York just prior to the
election, nnd after the wretched Burchard
had worked off his disastrous nlllterntivo
epigram, I spent some time with Mr. Blaine.
On the right of the November election
he received the returns nt the old Everett
House, where, with three of the other cor
respondents on his memorable tour, w-;
foregathered with the Plumed Knight.
The four correspondents other than myself
who nccompnnled Bhilne were E. J. Gibson,
of the Philadelphia Press; Tlieron Craw
ford, of the New York World ; W. V. Ogden
nnd Fredeilek Mussej.
WALKER, the oldest son of James G.
Blnlnc, nccompanied him on that torr,
together with Joseph Mauley, then post.
master of Augusta, Me., Mr. Blaine's cam
naign manager, a sturdily built, big-headed
little hunchback.
James G. Blaine, Jr., in the Inter eighties
drifted out to Pittsburgh. He was just out
of n rcpnratory school and was basking in
the sunlight of his great father's name.
Chris L. Magce, then' tho Republican
boss of Pittsburgh, extended a helping hnu.l
to young Blnlne. nnd gave him a job ns
reporter on the Pittsburgh Times, which he
had but recently purchased from Robert
Nevln, one of the famous Neviu family of
western Pennsylvania.
Young Jim Blaine didn't last very long as
n cub reporter. He rather mnde n mess of
It. I presume lie hnd tho ability, but he
lacked cither the persistence or the stnbllity
to hold down the job.
Then suddenly one day he surprised Pitts,
burgh by mnrrying a Miss Nevln, a remark
ably pretty girl, whose family had settled
in Pittsburgh some .veers before.
After that the .voiing man drifted nrnund
from post to pillar and finally landed In
New York, where there was some unhappy
matrimonial tnngle.
Though Jnmcs G. Blaine. Jr., never
amounted to anything leportorlally or polltl
call. It would seem that his son Is destined
to occupy n considerable space In the public
eye before the present campaign closes.
TIIE story of the frontier dance hall, with
its placard above the head of the solitary
musician, "Don't shoot the fiddler, he's doing
the best he can," has a counterpart on u
wider scale In Philadelphia today. In less
expressive terms it would read:
"Don't blnme the real estate man, he is
doing the best he can."
That at least Is the interpretation Tliomns
Shallcross. Jr., places upon the housing
situation in this city.
The real estate agents, according to Mr.
Shallcross, and he is one of tho best known
and most responsible real estate men, aru
the victims of circumstances.
And they are circumstances over which
they as reputable business, men have no con.
trol.
The liousiug problem is a notionnl and not
a local question.
Every great cit In the country is suffer
ing ftom Inck of dwellings for its popula
tion. It is u nation -wide crisis.
(( A REAL estute man occupies the Mini
" position as any other business man
dealing in n certain commodity. He bandit s
a manufactured product, namel.v dwellings
nnd apartments They are a manufactured
product, the same n niitoinoblles or loco
motives," said Mr. Shallcross.
"During the war the labor and matcrhl
heretofore utilized in the manufacture of
dwellings was conscripted for war work.
Later on the shipment of building mateiial
was forbidden. Then the railroads placed
nn embargo on lumber, until at last building
operations ceased tluoughout the countrj.
"In the meantime the population in Phlln
delphla continued to grow. There wns a tr -
mentions tnrusii ot skillet: workmen, in rid
clitlou to the normal increase in the cit
population.
TT REQUIRES 7."(I0 new homes everv
T
year to meet the norma ileinnml ..f
Philadelphia's increasing population." said
Mr. Shallcross, dropping into statistics.
'Since the armistice about .Ti.00 bonus
only have been erected. Uor 1010 und llrjil
the total will not exceet1 fl.'OO, which Is less
than one-half of what we need Take iutu
account nKo 1017 and 3018. when buildlii!
operations were at a standstill.
"The sent cor nn article tho higher its
price. Until we enn catch up with the
demand f'r homes there will be no rolb f
from high rents.
"A great many more homes would be
erected this car were It not for tho cost nf
labor. Ninet-five per cent of the entiie
cost of building n house goes for labor. I
speak now," suid Mr. Shallcross. "0f i0,(l,
from the brick kiln or lumber camp up t
the completed dwelling.
"You can rendilj see what chance time u
of a decline in rents. And .von uin hNi
understand whj real estate brokers, us tic
agents of the owners, cannot be held iuor.i!l
responsible for existing housing conditions "
CT. MacDONNELL, executive head of
another Inrge Philadelphia firm, voice
similar sentiments
"Peonle frequently snv. 'Don't vou know
that the price you aie asking for this imuc
or npartment Is outiageousV I confess Ih u
circumstances justify such a belief. But
what can we do'
"There Is an Increasing demand for home.
nnd apartments at iinv price. Wherever
possible we ndvlse re-leaslug propeit by
the year at n reasonable advance to old or
exceptional tenants. When- an owner ele.
mauds a very material increase we simplv
pass the demand along to the would-be
tenant; he pajs or moves.
"It Is this scorcltj of dwellings that is
ioomli'g rents to tJie most unheurd of
figures.
"Only jesterdny I rented n house for $sr
which Inst year rented for $15 nnd the jear
before commanded but $.'!0 a month. Ami
the lessee was glad to get it at $85."
Our hearty commendation of the decla
ration of Grlffenhngcn und Associates that
policemen ought 'to get more money Ik per
haps Influenced by the fact -.hat we said it
first; and said it when the saying wasn't
popular.
One reason thnt Dick Turpin, Jack
Hheppard and the James boys were pikers
compared with tho Jinn of the anthracite
ring is that they were cursed with con
sciences,
The traffic cons have orders from head
quarters to be pollto. Now who will say
xnmeilllUK m me snmf ovu iu uw niuu
k BQtnlng mojor unversf
NOW MY IDEA IS THIS!
Daily Talks With Thinking Philailclphians on Subjects They
Know Best
DR. JOHN M. MACFARLANE
On the Trade Situation
EUROPEAN countries are coming back so
much faster than is generally known
that It will be only a short time before this
countiy will again be forced to resort to the
protective tariff to meet foreign competition
succesesfully, 111 the opinion of Dr. John M.
Macfarlane, librarian of the Commercial
Museum.
"The European countries are beginning to
find themselves again, sajs Doctor .vine
farlane. "Figuies show that they are - j
ginning to produce again and arc exporting
to this country, nt a tremendous rate. It
will be but a short time until, with their
lower wages and longer working hours, these
countries will become dangerous i-ciiiiicu
tors and the United States will ha e to file
a new list of tnrlffs to meet the situation.
"I look for the tariff question to be the
question of the hour by the hrat of the ear,
eertainly within a ear's time. In fact it
is quite possible that it will become the
principal issue of the campaign, later lining
up the Republicans and Democrats in the
old way.
"Congress with its Republican majority
will be certain to nice this question up in
March of next jear and it is not at nil im
probable that it will do something about the
matter at Its December session.
"The general trade of tlie world has i .
creased enormously since the war. A glance
ut the figures will tell their own stnr.v.
"For the iiscnl year ending June iiO, 1014,
the import trnde of the United States
amounted to $1,80:1.000.000. villi, its ex
port trade nt that time totaled S2,:i01.000.
000 leaving tt balance In this country's
favor of $471,000,000. This was offset b
the fact that we hnd to pay large amounts in
interest and for our lhlpplng, which made
things about even.
"Since the war thpse figures lm in
creased. For the fiscal year ending June
I'.ti, 1010, our imports amounted to S.'t.OO.'.
(100 000. while our exports reached the im
posing total of $7,232,000,000, making a
balance In our fnvor of $1,000,000,000.
Must Get Back to Normal
"Euiope up to this time has been upset,
with no money to pny for goods, and no im
ports for us to balance their account, t,o
that theoretically we have heeu tho gainers.
For the fiscal year of 1020, our impoits
i cached S.".2il8,000,000 and our exports $8,
111,000.000. "The problem now is to get back to nor
mal. We don't know the real condition of J
Futope. We shall certainly negin to nave
less exports and more Imports. We .hnll get
to the point ngllin Wine, impuuts mm vapurin
pretty well balance. There must be a trade
balance of goods, gold and services to make
things light. There is a laige amount of
money sent out of the country by foreigners,
especlallj Italians.
"The whole world hns greatlv inci eased
its trade in the last six months. The United
States has Increased its impoits, but (heat
Biitnin has to an even greater extent, nnd
France, Itnly and other countries nre coming
back. Even Germany has Improved mntc-
"lii June, 1010, the import trade of Ger
many am'"'tod to $044,000 and its exports
totaled SB.OOO.OOO. For the present fiscal
vcar their Impoits have jumped to $45,000,
000. while their exports have sky-rocketed to
$202,000,000.
"TRe increase in United States shipping
will be n favorable factor. It means that
ubout $100,000,000 nnnunlly, which was
formerly paid to British Interests for ship
ping churges,' will now go luto American
coffers. Where formerly only 10'per cent of
our commerce win done through American
vessels, now- they figure about half of the
world's trade.
We Feed the World
"The League of Nation will have little
or no effect on tho world's trade. People
will still adhere to the ancient custom of
buying where they ran find the best values
for their money, whether there Is n league
with or without reservations or no league at
all. The world still needs our cotton, cop
per and petroleum nnd they still have to
come to us to .eat. Last vear wn uni.i ,i,
I say world $701,000,000 worth of breadstuff's and
(orjiLttM.OW.OOQ wjorthf jneat products.
" tjjjjJrccbniiM Wvs are Kotos ti.bfl'a '
7 1920
"YOU'RE THE ONLY G-G-G-GIRL THAT I ADORE!"
factor in tho trade situation. They, of
course, nffci t wages and while thev must,
barring disaster, rise, they nre still so far
below that they are affecting cost of labor
on the other side decldcdl).
"Prices must come down nujhow, but
the chances ure that foreign goods will come
down faster than ours. Present Indications
arc that by the end of the calendar year the
export trnde of Great Britain will have
surpassed ours. France, Itnly, Germany
nnd other countries whose unsettled condi-
tioiis have prevented the gathering of stn-
tsfp( ., flr(l rommf,m.r,nB" t0 mn
whIoh ,. , dowll"our trU(
.. , ,
Mc ho (.rea Brita u s ady
Tng to manufacture,
de.
antage in
export trnde is clue to her re-export ad
vantage, five times ns great as ours. Mexico
has enormous resource to be opened with the
beginning of settled conditions theie. but so
have Russia ami China. China could pro
duce more coal than any other country in the
world except the United States.
"One factor that may upset calculations
is the British labor situation. If the im
pending strike of ralliond ami mining men
materializes in the United Kingdom, the
whole situation will bo complete! upset.
Our own labor situation is a question too.
So it is really impossible to foretell exactly
what will happen."
1
Barncgat Light
BARNEGAT Lighthouse is tnpering, tall,
Like a heroine lofty in fiction free;
And her spirit stands ever Its back to the
wall
As with ilglitconsiiess royal she faces the
sea.
"Stand off. sir!" she cries. "I am proof
'gainst jour might
For my feet nre on rock and my soul Is
alight !"
Old Neptune persistent by night nnd ,v dnv
Still woos her, though vainly, so gieat is
her piide;
"Sweet one. be my own! Let us up nnd
away!
Come, 11 with me
bonnie bride!"
now! Be my own
But scorning his blandishments, firm in the
right,
Her virtue shines forth in the Barncgat
Light.
In spite of his pnssiou she's alwavs dlscicet
His moods nre erratic but great is her
skill.
He smites her in auger and plays at her feet
He gives her quuint gifts and be lobs her
at will.
But steadfast she stands nnd luminous.
bright.
A bencon of hope shines the Barncgat Light.
Does Love guide old Neptune whenever he
woos?
Ah. no! To extinguish her light is his
plan.
A wieik she pi events is n. prize he will lose.
Ah, base Is the heart of this wicked old
man !
Her viitue iinnojs the cantankerous wight.
His darkness Is pierced by the Barncgat
Shine on. clour old Bainegnt! Long mav
jour beams " '
Give aid to all mariners out on the deep.
All plans to supplant ou are veriest dreams
asleep, '
We" b!ij7' 5"" Uml b"tk yml whatl'er jour
Kor vit',h,,n hmiles the Bamegat
GRIF ALEXANDER.
Hie loung Lady Next Door But One
sowly i cud the newspaper h,.adllIP
Uangel K,;eps Up Ills Counter Drive '
One never knows what one will m ,lt
these baigaln counters," was her comment.
Gee, ain't it tough? No sooner does
Mr. Palmer settle himself down for n lUle
needed lest than soinebodj comes nln ,r . i
hits him on the head with a lump otW
We note that thousands of Phllndel.i
phians are aunn ne for mil i.i-.i V,1?"'1"'
they're commuters who object to 'increnftH
PMsenjjer ratarf, ,4 ,Dcread J
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SHORT CUTS
S-5 equals Honor unci Glory.
Some recoil to the Cox blunderbuss 1
All ubonrd! Next stop Tin nksglvlngl
Mr. Cox nppcars to be tho victim of bis
own false alarm.
New York's enmel onnei.rs to be well
supplied with humps, !l
Small as a teacher's salary is, It roaj
lane ten mills to turn it out.
It takes more, than a crash dive to shakj
the morale of our navy boys.
When a man says "To maki a lone
story short," the chances arc he doesn't, i
Nowaclajo when anthracite operatori
talk of raising Cain they preface it with i
Mc.
Melodrama never cveloned nnvthlti
more thrilling than "The Escape of the Em
Fivers." Any boy will tell you that there in
distinct difference between nchool bells ind
joy bells.
While the Cox cohorts nre looking for
that quota peihaps they'll run across GroTM
Bcrgdoll.
Ln Follette is going to hear somethini
in Wisconsin today that will make his hair
i stand on cud.
The good stuff in n Man-o'-War lias
recently been demonstrated both at sea and
on the race track.
But, of course, there is nothing to pre
vent Congress from voting mcdalt to the
heroes of the S-5.
Governor Cox Is probably satisfied that
it was u sinister infltici.ee that prompted
him to make his charges.
The tiouble Governor Cox is havine
with that "quota" leuils one to the belief
that he oonfiues it with nn appendix.
It will please women voters to note that
Betsy Ross shaicd honors with Washington
and Lafayette in Independence Square jc
teiday. JFiflf Do You Know?
I
QUIZ
1 One-tenth of the people of tho United
Mates dwell In thrco cities. What
cities are these?
2. What Is tho origin tit the expression, ' The
cup that cheers but not inebriates" '
3. What Is ii chasublo?
. What Is tho fnstest mile evef run by
horse and what Is tho namo of the
animal?
5. Who were the, three ancient Oretli
dramatists of whom nlone complete
plajs survive?
0. How many furlongs make n mllo?
7. When was tho first battlo of tho Marnl
fought?
8. Whom did Abraham Lincoln marry?
9. What Is the Geneva kowii7
10. What is a moricanatlc mnrriage?
Answers to Yesterday's Quiz
1. The giraffe la tho tallest of the animal"
2. Hartoloma Estehnn Murlllo, the famoul
palmer, vviib a Spaniard. Ho wus born
in Hevuie in 1018 and dletl tnere
1(582.
3 Tho line "Consclenco has no more to do
wun gallantry than It hns witn poli
tics" occurs In Richard Ilrlnsley Sheri
dan's play. "Tho Duenna."
4. The cat was u sacred animal In ancient
iifcypt, especially in tho city or "
bastis.
5. Tho globe is divided into 360 degrees of
longitude.
C Concord is tho capital of New Hampshire-
7. Von Moltho vvnH the leading general n
i no Herman sldo In tho Krnnco-i'nw-slan
War.
i William Miller, a Scotch poet, wm th; ,
author of the noem "Wee VfUW
Winkle" Ilia .IntfH urn 1810.1872.
9, The Koran Is the sacred book of the ,.
Mohammedan re.lg(on. -, . h
40. The wealthiest man who tvef ran J j
the presidency tm the .candidate or .
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