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' Member of (he Associated I'ress TltK .IKROCIATKn I'ltrHH ( irclull ilu "' titled lo the ik cr republication a all news rfUpolcif cmIf rri (o l( or ito( otherwise cnilltttl in till JiflH , OHfl no (ir ocol iieiri lutblhnul therein " All rioht of republication of special dltpalchea herein arc alio retrrvcil FMUnVlphU, Tliur.Jiy. Srptrmbrr , 1020 Pntll.KXIl PKOUKA'M nut in r. m:i iiiiA Tl nz on vlilrh (lip ppoplr pp ( (lir r Ifttfnliihtniltou to i enrnlr.itp It ttttrntlnii: 'The tl'tnuttrr rlrtr b-itlvi. A dritlock, bla eovuh to nceomuiotlatc the larwnt flMiY, iKvrl"Pwii' of the raplfl trnnnit AiMfrm. .( roill'riilloM hull A bullillrn lor the I'ne lAbraru. vtn rt Mtnrtwt. iKnlaroemtnt of the water iipii. Homes to aeciimmotlate the population. SABOTAGE TUB outlaw strikers in the nn- A tin lifni.tt.. inhl flitt.lu .nntlmin tfi lirl tltltl force piiiiipinen uml riiRlneers to nbaiiilou Ilieir poxis hi line coiuerieM, tnr iriiin' ui lVnnnylvnuiii lll hnve to utlmlt that tliey Jarc cnnfroiitril by soinetliliiK now in tlio way of labor taetlrs. Kvi'ii In tlie bitterest wnRe rotitliels of the pat the miners' iitiimm nml their leailer fttltnilte'l the rij?bt of immpnien to -lay at 'their posts, bemuse when they quit the juAnes uml their interior machinery may bo 'quickly (liiiiuiKi'il by lixlng wnter. For theii own inke anil beenu-e of wliat mijjht be calleil the ethical restraints of the older ';lnbor code, pumpmen urn! miiup of the ftDsilicrr" nere formerly exempt even in geueral strike orders. A strike policy directed not only to stop production but to ruin property represents a new departure in the IViinsylviinla fieliN. lit represents sabotage and direct action in n form that is extraordinarily daiiKerous nnd vile. Who is responsible for this newer Btrategy? There is a flavor of the later TSuropcan radicalism in this new method of jthe outlaw miners, and it happens thutfor Mkmts are itionicl iimiieious in the an thracite mines. The present drift and complexion of the fcanl-coal strike should be of peculiar inter est to the huyiiiK public. The shortage ' created by a strike will not help to brins prices down. If the coal operators plead scarcity as an excuse for high rates what enn the government or the people do? THE MOTOR JAM '.TUR1X the pust twelve imiuths up- '-' proximately l'."l,0(IO new motor vehicles were added to the swarms that previously rolled in the sft-ccts of this city. There i. an caging up of traffic congestion each sum mer. JThoiiMinds pf machines go with their otvaers on vacations. Hut the return of the multitudes who have been uway during the warm weather, the opening of the thea tre seanin and incrensed activitj in the fihopping and business centers will bring the general problem of traffic regulation for ward in a new and acute form. Whatever is to be done to eliminate simrU and tangles and (lungers in the streets should be done without delay. Even in the equipment for routine traffic regulation we are still far behind n great man other cities. It is a question whether the police department can escape growing diffiru'tics by the promulgation of new nnd casual Jrulcs. A sjstemntic nnd sweeping survey of the Whole traffic problem is needed. The job lls one for engineers. Additional traffic men lire needed Some very dangerous crossings iro without proper protection after night fall. And sooner or later the heavy horse drawn vehicles which obstruct the movement of traffic on the narrow central streets will have to be diverted permanently to other thoroughfares. TWO CABLES FROM JAPAN ..fTIIIE Japanese are the most polite peg- 'J- pie in the world. Exquisite personal manners are theirs by training art! inherit- mice. And et the representatives uf the local government at Toki.i ptobably said no more than they felt when they assured the American congressional delegation of their profound affection for tl e t'nlted States mid a desire to share nnv perils that might con- K front us in the future Ordinary folk in ny country probahlv - fe(!l that wav about other peoples u,oni Sthey know to be friendlr, Intelligent nml e Mrous of pence. Itut there n-e t Vnn .,,, governments nowadays that do not think ai the majorities think or fee! as the ni.tioiiti s feel. One mav find ai: Interesting le-.nn in foreign affairs h n rend'ng of the addresses dcl'vered to the American representatives In Tokio nnd the later cable which announced the refusal of the Japanese Imperial authnri tics to join in any movement for n,,. KOrt of general disnrni.inwnt proposed bv the con ference of Versailles, t'nfortunntely enougi, or fortunately- the two dispat hc arrlve.t within an hour over the same wire SCHOOL LOAN DAY THE citizens' committee, of which (ieorge Wharton Popper is chairman, lias notified Simon (iratz thnt it will secure Subscribers to the Hoard of Education loan providing omciai assurance is given that .?700.ni)(l out of the milium to be raised imijH the MtllO.IKHI which it is cApected will be derived from the sule of renl estate will be pioinptl) distributed among the teachers. This ought to mean thnt this time the bonds will not go begging, since the plan outlined by Mr. Pepper Is precisely the one jwhich had the indorsement of Mr. Oratz, president of the bpnrd, some weeks ago, An Increase or bonus of $1'00 to every employe 'In the Philadelphia educational system is, therefore, in immediate prospect. The Allied Teachers' Association is te. niandiiig double this amount. The aim is pot exorbitant, but it is difficult to see how Jit can Instantly be realized. What it l necessary for tlio public to understand Is that today is the data set for elllntthc bonds Vovcr the counter," nidii t swlll beNfccyked for tb, atxt tyeek at the: Philadelphia National BnnV, 410 Chestnut s fleet. ' Doubtless, the citizens' committee will put forth Its best efforts, but these, should not deter the rest of the public from aiding the tenchers. .They hnve been long denied their deserts. The present remedy Js only partial, hut when the loan Is HoJtcd It will at least mark the practical beginning of reform. LOWDEN'S WORK A LESSON FOR MAYOR AND COUNCIL In the Light of What He Did In Illinois There Is No Excuse for Seeking New Sources of Revenue In Philadelphia THE dlscourngiug feature In the report of President Weglein, of the City Council, on his Inquiries Into the way other cities lncreuse their revenues Is that It Indicates that he and his associates arc thinking more about getting mote money to spend than about loliservitig the present lesources of the city government. This is unfortunately the hubitun! atti tude of the public official. The exceptions .nre so few that the stand out like a light house on a rocky promontory In u dmk night. , ' (Jovernor I.owdon. of Illinois, wns re garded of presidential size this jenr because he has proved to be one of the brilliant exceptions. lie applied business methods to the state government and persuaded the leg islature to consolidate !-" state departments into nine and to Introduce many economies b the establishment of n budget system which cientcil harmony between the gov ernor nml the Legislature which makes the aiimoni iatiotis. lie urged these leformslin the Interest of economy. I'ut this wns no novelty. Many other reforms have been urged for the same reason, hut when they were adopted the new pla.is cost more than the old. (iiiveruor I.owdeti's reforms worked. In 11)1(1 the people of Illinois paid a state tax of .sSL'tumMS!);;. In Kill), the tirst year in which tin- governor's plan was in opera tion, the state tax was .$10.1-J0,ll!!. a re duction of $.',n7ri,1l!)U, or 17 -1 -." per cent. There wns Included in the .fUl,()(l()0()() ap propriated SU. 000.000 more for schools than iu uii.v previous year nnd $1,000,000 for waterways. Subtracting these two items and wc find that the goxcrimr's plan made It possible to pay the ordinary running ex penses of the state for a little more than Sin. (100.0011, whereas under the old system it had cost $20,000,000. And 'ct the men In the City Hall arc looking for new sources of revenue and are cxeii miking of a tax rate next jear of silt.-lo ! The hae discovered, for example, that I .os Angeles leics u license tax on about .".."0 iliffcieut clusscs of business und occu pations, ami that in other cities u tax is levied on all chlelcs, whether motor driven or hoi se drawn, and ' thut in stil utheis half a cent is collected ou ever gal lon of gasoline sold within the city limits. Hut helnic they go into the business of levying new taxes ou business they should consider the tuxes already levied. Every wholesale and ictail merchant iu the city . whether he sells iron castings or silk shirt waists, is taxed. The retailer has to pay ;J1.'.."0 for a license to do business und in addition lie has to pay one milt on every dollar of his gross turn -over. The whole saler has to pay .?:r;ii0 for bis license und hi. tax is ntie-lialf of a mill on his total unuuul sales. The city does not get the iiione . il is true It goes to the state treas urerbut it comes out of the pockets of the men doing business here. Tl itv itself is lollictlng U tax otl pawnbrokers, theatu- and other places of i iiiiMiseiucnt. lodging hoiscs und tenement j houses, brokers, uuctiunccrs., pioprbtors of i .mi .ii.il iiool in-, ami .i. inio m dias, cults, wurfun- and carriages. It lii i uses men to sell mill; and meat and collects the fees, und thoie is u tax of $30 u j car ou ever trollu ear opirutul in the .streets. m The fuct thut Some of these taxes urc intended to bring the pel sous pujiug them under the supenisloii of the police bureau or the heulth department uml are not In tituled to produce revenue does not seri ousl uffect the situution. These regulatory licenses ought never to be made revenue -producing. If u ptilk dealer's license, for instance, were increused to such u ligure us to be considered iu leikoning the city in ome, the tost of milk to the poor would be incieased beyond reason. It tosts too much already. A cuse might be made for a tux on auto mobiles. The license fees now paid go Into the state treasury and aie used for the maintenance of the state hlgWa..-j outside of the cities. Not u dollur of this rexeuue is spent in Philadelphia, although it is morally certuln that loeal motorcar owueis pay moie than u quarter of it. if uu uvcruge tax of $.1 u yeur were levied on nil motonurs in the citj. vuriug ac cording to the weight, there is little doubt th(it it would be gladly paid if the proceeds were used to keep the streets iu repair. The motorists would sue more than !f." u jcur iu lepairs to their machines if they had smooth pavements to ride ocr. Utit a tux on gasoline sales would probably defeat itself. Its first effect would be to boom the business of all dealers in gasoline iu Cum den ii ud beyond the city line in Delaware utid Mouigonier counties. It is a confession of ineffieieni y to be si'iinhiiig for new sources of revenue at this time, in order tot keep the real estate tux rate down.- It is the same kind of camoullage that used to be practiced when deficits were allowed to run over from one year to uiinther so thut we might not get the im pression thut the city government wus ex truMigant. Tlieie can be no deflcltH pussed on from year to year hereafter, for the new charter has ended ull thut sort of thing. The city imust pay as it goes even if it has to curtail Its activities. Itut no business man tu miliar with conditions in the City Hall can be persuuded that thrro Is any need of cur tuillng any legitimate activities or that it is necessary to levy new taxes on men engaged in various or'upatlons und professions in order to provide revenue to meet the cur rent expenses. There must be concerted effort on the part of every one in office if the desired re su't W to be accomplished. Councilniun (iaffuey's ordinance introduced this week, pro. ding for a loan of ?:0,000,(H)0 for new woik and for (arrylug on improvements al ready begun, does not seem to have been con iclveil iu the spirit of hurmoii, Its intro duction wns a factional move. Mr. (iaffney is not the dialrman of the finance committee through which the ordi nance to be adopted must come. He did not draft it nfter cousifltution with the Mayor and the heuds of the departments. And he knows ns well as any one that Ills ordinance will not be seriously considered. lint Mr. (iaffney has a broad knowledge of citv finances. He can give valuable assistance to his associates nn the finance committee when they begin to consider the lonu bill that must be pnssed, after the Mayor and the de partrfient beads Jiare made their recommendatiouG. He will serve his EVENING PUBLIC LEiDGEKr ... ,.. constituency and the people generally bet ter by doing this than by trying to put some one in a hole. And then when the lonn bill Is passed the executive officers will be without excuse for falling to do the work for which the money has been provided. There are great public projects thnt arc lagging because no one has the courage to push them to completion. Among them are the Free Library llulldlng. the Convention Unll, the enlargement of the water supply system, .the drydock nnd the Delaware river bridge. Money must be borrowed for these projects. Some of It will run against the debt limit and some of It will be Invested In revpnuo-prodiiclug Improvements, the cost of which will not prevent the city from spend ing nil that 1 necessary for improvements from which no return In cash Is received by the city treasury. The amount of money to be spent on these things for the next year must be fixed by the men rcnpnuslblc for the conduct of the cit government and agreed upon In the or deil maimer prescribed by the rules of the ('Itv Council, nnd not on the initiative of ii member or a faction of Council engaged in sl.vly trigging the plans of the Ma.vor and his associates. THE ASSESSMENT FARCE DISFRANCHISEMENT of some ".00.000 women of Philadelphia follows upon the heels of the constitutional nmendinent If theory granting nil American citizens the light to vote. Wlh the exception of six divisions, repoits of the recent assessment In this cltv are complete. It is untiounced thnt iolMU-' mill have been enrolled and only :J."t.ll!7 u. .nieii 11 mi juggling f ligiire's can tbi ilisparit of totals bo made to disguise the fmi that injustice bus been done and upon n wholesale basis. While It Is true that in somo Instances the summer vacation exodus wns responsible for (he fnllure of women to hnve their names placed upon the assessors' lists, this line of reasoning wavers before the revelation that wards containing the greatest numbers of comparatively well-to-do residents show the largi st totals for the women. The best record Is mnde in the Forty-sixth with. '-'1.IIS1 nfales nnd 1.,iK)l females assessed. In political chaiacter. moreover, this ward is noted for Its Independence. On the other hand, iu regions where the Vnrc liMihiiie control is not seriously challenged, the f mini IK' icpicsctitutiou is almost uegli. gihle. Ai cording to the ecus is of 1010, the last one piihlismd in detail, there were ill th's tit "v. .pi H more women than men. The huge industrial changes wrought by the war unqiiestionnblv brought an influx of mules, but women, ton. were attracted by new op- poituuilics In a great urban district. Ii any event it is iucoucehitble that the proportion of residents, male and female, has been accu rately reflected by the new assessment lists. The officials are not authorized to uccept the refusal of un.v wnniun to be assessed. It is the dut of these officers to secure the nnmej of all the citizens. Time was when political ardor drove some assessors to grave ards where tombstones furnished inujy a batch of mum s for enrollment. Hut prcsci'1 indications are that the old gang maiiiiiiei' litis be n seriously cmbar. rassed. Political!) tlio women are an unknown qiiautil). lias it seemed simpler to disfranchise them temporarily than to experience the nervous trcmors of u novel situation'.' Judge Ferguson tomorrow will hear peti tions from men and women whose names aro not on the assessors' lists. Some changes will of course be made, but they will not materially alTeet the pr(serftatio of the som's. Experience bus shown that the cum ber of these eleventh hour revisions is never large. The ugly truth is that whether willfully or as a result of incompetence the assessment has ber'i wretchedly botched. Women not upon the finals lists will be deharied from registering and hence from otlng in Novem ber. They arc victims of a ltivv long abused und now farcicall.v administered. THE GAMBLING LEGEND COMMON sense is good enough in Its way. Hut there are times when uncommon sense is preferable mid far more useful, It is needed now for a proper assessment of the report that the latest bank embezzler to go on the rocks in this city lost over SL'00.000 to shrewd gamblers within a few months. The implication of a "wide open town" is not quite fair to the police, nnd Director C.utel.vou is justified in resenting it. The police are far from perfect. Pi tty gamblers operating furtively in side rooms can be found by nny one who goes looking for them. Hut the big games of un older day have almost departed from the view of all but the elect. This does not mean that honv gambling is n tiling of the past. Any one who knows an.v thing of the routine doings in big and little clubs, or of the night life iu a few of the pretentious hotels, knows that an.v one who believes thut lie cun beat the experts still can find plenty of trouble at the end of a short search and with the assistance of the wrong sort of friends. The police department seems to have been making a consistent efTort to wipe out the worst of the dives. Hut it bus no nuthority to go pr.ving into cl.ubs or into hotel suites engaged by men who have all the appear ances of respectability. And it is asking n great deal of the department to demand that it protect people who stubbornly refuse to protect themselves. The Democratic women in Philadelphia announce thnt they hnve achieved a state of complete harmony. Mr. Cox should hurry some of his uides here for lessons iu purtyt management. r - - T.awn tennis players at Forest Hills, who have asked police protection from nlr plancs, have uttered n iileu that may be heard pretty generally before long when the ulr is tilled with nose-diving ainuteurs. The troubles that afflict Europe can be eiiBlly understood. The old world still has too mauy swords and uot enough plow shares. If the Dauntless and Fearless ever brave the passage between Philadelphia and (Jloiicester ugain it may be apptopriutc to rename them. . It is typical of political inversions thnt electlojjH, dubbed primary, often necessitate the services of the moht advanced and Sophia ticuted purtlsau experts. The opening of the schools prompts the thought that, though the world Is better educuted than it used to be. It doesn't ap pear to be getting much wiser. If oome one could manage to have the troublesome blue laws called red there might be n little more pence for the folk who go out to seek healthful recreation ou Sundays. The Democrats have their haze, but this is compounded uot so much of will n of purulysls. The revolutionary Italian metalworkers seem to have entered the earthquake compe tition iu their natlvo-land. N t An might bo expected, the egotist , is' usually 'naru-Doueo. x f - PHILABELPHlA, flJfitrftoAyi SEPTEMBER . i - . ,. .. ,. .... ii i i 1 1 - THAT BUZZING OVERHEAD Torresdale Citizens Ask Protection from Noisy Airplanes, but, Orfly Ten Years Ago, Waited Many Hours to Hear Just One rpEN YEARS ago there wns n little group -L of men composing tfie )oung Aero. Club In this cltv who nntlcntly. boro with the sneers and Jeers of their friends nnd tlio open ridicule of the public In geiiernl nnd who learned lo endure, without resentment the gentle Intimation that they were Hot quite right In the head. These men were simply firm believers iu the coming triumph of the then unfamiliar contrivance culled the aeroplane. In spite of all opposition, they stuck to their prediction thnt they and their detrac tors would live to seethe day when the air plane would be so common ns scarcely to I provoke more than a passing glance us it J Hew overhead. They sold thut time "would I come In twenty enrs or thirty. They even went so far us to sny tliut, In fifty years. It would be necessary to invoke the aid ot the law to regulate llyfng people laughed outright at them. -und. then The time has come much sooner than even these devotees expected. Citizens of Tor resdale have asked the aid of the police to regulate the hours of flying over their pretty suburb, complaining that the inccssuut buzz ing of the engines of nirplanes is Inter fering with their life, liberty and pursuit of happiness, f IT DOES not seem possible thnt so great a revolution can Irave taken place in so short u time ns ten years. )ct, if memory is not nt fault, Armstrong Diexel was. the first uvlntor who ever Hew over Torresdale and his flight was made in November of 1010. Drexel did not Intend to fly over Torres dale at thnt time; iu fact, until the day before, he had not Intended to lly near this city nt all. Yet, on the spur of the moment, be gave Phllndclphlu the right to claim a world's altitude record of J1S07 feet, which, iu these days, is only considered a moder ately sufficient height for sine tlyiug, but which, ten years ago, made people fairly gasp. Claude Graham-White, an Englishman, was the individual sensation of that meet, and members of the Aero Club here suc ceeded In inducing him to come to" Phila delphia for un exhibition nt the Old Point Rrcczc lacetrack, whcie Chillies Foster v illard, the year before, had been the first man in the city to rise from the giouud in a licuvler-thun-nir machine, n week or more ufter the (hi) on which he was scheduled to mnke the flight. The fiasco made by Willard inevitable In his duy when he had onlv u cinireilneail noi. chine with a putt-putting little twenty-live oor.sepowei; engine was not so liKelv will: (irnhnille-Whltc. who barf a hli? Kiirninn l.l. plane und u speedy Hleriot monoplane, each equipped with the then seiisutionul fifty horsepower revolving (inom igiue. Wil-' lard was held to the ground by a fifteen-mile breeze; tlie Englishman could negotiate a thirty -milt! wind and think little of it. BY the time Ornhame-Whitc came here, interest iu aviation had been consider ably stirred up locally by the flight of Charles K. Hamilton, on June 13, 1010, from New York to this city and return under the auspices of the Priir.ic Lkdokii. Hamilton's flight in a lift) horsepower Curtlss biplane wns a record-making cross country performance. He wns piloted by u special train, with the cur tops covered by white cloth to guide him. nnd he landed on a triangulnr bit,of ground beside the Penn sylvania railroad track near the Potter oil cloth factory, ut Front nnd Tioga streets. GRAIIAME-WHITE and .)rexel had struck up a friendship at tlie Helmont Park meet, ripened by -the succeeding ex hibition flights in Hnltimore, so when the English filer came to this city Drexel came with him. not only for companionship but to meet the hosts of relatives he had here and tlie friends he hud made during Ills New York visit. Hut Drexel intended to be merely nn onlooker nnd announced defi nitely that he would not fly. A day or two after Ornhame-White had started his exhibition here, he and Drexel and the present writer were in the aviator's room in tlie Hellevue-Stratford, waiting for n cur to take them to Point Hreczc. Drexel had been standing looking out of tlie window at the clear blue sky and the slowly drifting cirrus clouds uvvny up in the regions thnt he and other fliers wore dreaming of in vading. No one lind ever been 10,000 feet high in nn nirplaue iu those days und there was keen rivalry among tliem ns to who (should first rencli that mark. Drexel was evidently feeling tlie spirit move him thnt day ; it was ideal weather for it. Suddenly he turned to Oruhnme-White: "Have you got nn extrn flying suit?" lie nsked. "Yes." Mild the- Englishman. "WhvV" ' "Is your Hleriot in good shape?" "Perfect." "Then, if you don't mind. I'd like to borrow the suit nnd the Hleriot. I think I'll try for 10,000 feet this nfternoon." It wns enough to muKti nny press agent tear his hair with rage. A definite an uouueement of such an intention, with two or three (lavs' advance advertising And pub licity would have brought a record-breaking crowd to the grounds, but Drexel did not do things thnt wav. Much ns any business man might get Into his niitou'ioblle today to run from his home to his office, Drc.xel climbed Into the Hleriot und started. The plane grew smaller and smaller ns It nscended iu wide grnceful circles until it wns lost to view in the clouds. Then, four hours, the audience ut the track waited for him to return. They tried to he interested in Ornhame-White's flights In his Fiirmmi, but Drexel and the world's altitude were the thing then und nothing else would sntlsfy them. LATE in the evening u long-distance phone cnll came in. Tt was Drexel. He hnd lost his wny. hnd run out of gasoline and had descended In a Held at Orehmd, not far from Ambler. Hut before he hung up the nhoiie be said thnt, so far as he could tell from a rough rending. of Ids barograph (the Instrument which measures nltltudei. lie hnd nchleved his object and set the world's roc ord above 10,000 feet. It was announced that he would fly the machine back to the track next dnv ami thnt the whole city would he able to see It und thnt was when Torresdale turned nut for the first time to crane its collective neck backward to peer for hours into tlie skv in hope of seeing him. And Torresdale 'was more richly rewarded than nnv other part of the city due to n mistake. When Drexel wns started from Orehind be was headed west and friends told Mm to keep headed in thut dlirctlon until he came to the river meaning the .Schuylkill then turn to IiIh left and follow the river until he saw the truck, rnfnrtiinutelv, ,i clrclln- in nn '" " ' iieigiii ne losriifs sense of direction and started off eastward Instead of westward. Consequently, when he saw' S V inn i . ' ,:,'la""r( '""ti'Ml of the Schuylkill and, turning to li left, accord ing to his instructions, headed him for Tren ton Instead of Point Hreeze, . Thm is vvhv Torresdale saw him better (linn any place else, for he llevv directly over that Nibuib and kept on until he knew that something wns wrong. When he Anally came to eurtb he wus just outside Tienton, uml for the Bccoiid time he missed the ovutlon thut wns xvnitljjig for him from crowds at the track Stfll, the element of doubt, Increased I bv the fact thnt Diexel had landed so far from observers, caused skepticism In the minds of the Aero Club of America committee, and before a definite decision, could be reachel' the altitude record hud again leeu rVk'' two or three .time. wivki.ii Afei& ffir& Wm m I, Mi "&ili' PPraA 3iJfflL WH '" PgfH "-'ffiiJ feralMll'i'il-lKl -liWSsLiir 'It'ii wSPMBHE.ira!c rr,ffTOplJtraflCJlTrffn - TTOfliM5fWWSl53l??iMM - : NOW MY IDEA IS THIS! Daily Talks With Thinking Philadclphians on Subjects They Know Best EDMUND W. FRAIN . On the Dangers We Meet I T MIC.IIT he a mutter of interest for the average man to know the enormous num ber of hazards which lie faces iu tlie course of nn ordinary day in the peaceful pursuit of his business and recreation, points out Edmund W. Frain, accident claim expert und superintendent of commercial accidents and health of the (icnernl Accident, Fire and Life Assurance Corporation. "Without taking into consideration voca tional risks that is. tlie dangers run it pursuits thnt are admittedly hazardous in fact, merely considering some of tlie chances run every day in the course of u normal life, it is'nmaziug the chances we run. "At home. In the street, in public places, on vacations, on the water, traveling indoors and outdoors, wherever we may be, the dangers we run would appall the average man If lie but snt down for a short time and thought about it. "Even though he be in perfect health nml has on the one hand reached years of dis cretion and ou the other has not aged be.vond the veurs when he is fully able to take care ot himself, he every day faces loss of life, physical Impairment or tho ability to emu u livelihood. "In our business we do not insuie un.v -bodv under eighteen )c.us of uge nor more than sixty years of age. o do 110I4WU0 risks ou extremely hazardous occunatinns. ct we get a large number of accident cases, due to thoTcasons which I am about to men tion, which cost on nn average about a three weeks' period of totul disability und a ihree weeks' period of partial disabilit), not to mention death r permanent 'Injury and the loss of income due to lost time or ph.vsi nil and inentul ability to earn a living and the costs which such accidents entail. Always in Danger "From the time a man or woman" wakes in the morning until after the) have ictired at night, statistics show that the) are in danger. Thus when the sleeper wakes iu the morning, it has been shown that many have sustained Injuries, of various degrees of seiiousness by fulling on the floor as they huniedh arose. The. last thing at night, the tired sleeper jumping into bed has iu many cases sustained serious injuries by striking his head as he slipped going to rest. "One of the most iuteiestiug points Is the fact that tlie majority of accident insurance cases do not come f'om the dangers whie.h are usually feared by the uvcruge inun. Thus the apparently safe operation of taking a bath lias proved to be one of the sources most prolific of injuries. Falls entailing serious injuries due to missed footing mid slipperv, soapy tubs have resulted In 11 gieut number of serious injuries. "Shaving is another daiigcrntiH operation. Tlie number of cases of serious cuts has (cached gieat proportions, even with the safety razor so much used. In Pullmans this has proved to be especially dangerous. Many men have sustained serious injuries by the train swerving at 11 ccltlc.il point, while other cases have been known where an outsider neaiby has been caught by the sbnver struggling to get ills balance and severely cut. Domestic Dangers "The simple operation of cutting corns has proved to lie exceedingly dangerous. There nre many injuries due to uccldcnts while lighting cigars, cigarettes and pipes. "The sleeper who rises und goes lo the bathroom during the night takes man) clinnecs. We have many cases of fhlls down stairs due to the half-awake person slip ping or tripping while on the way to the bathroom, not to mention the. chniu'es of this sort which he tnkos iu tlie ordinary course of ascending and descending. Many women fnll during the dnv and night as thev go about dressed In loose negligees, which. catch und trit) them. "Pets nwnit the house, from an accident standpoint, nre u great source of danger There nre hundred of cases of bites, which are not only sometimes serious, but ex pensive. Hydrophobia Is likely to develop from the bite of a pet animal and it takes from sixty to iilnet) iIiivh for it to manifest Itself. The Insured man nafurallv t ,,,. tect himself niusl- take the Pasteur treat incut, which is expensive How mnnv cases there nre which are not Insured It would ho Impossible to say, he roinphig .lu cf pets hare ajso 9, 19&) r 1 1 1 1 j "AW-W-W, IT'S EARLY YET!'' t .i been responsible for many serious nrcidcuts. Children nre responsible for many injuries. The number of eye injuries due to children is very high. Their propensity for suddenly plunging n chubby linger into the eye of a parent or grnvvn-up who might cut up with them is very great. The. sudden blows which they strike have cost untold trouble. It has also proved a hazard to carry children. Chores About tho House "Tripping over rugs und carpets Is a pro lific source of trouble. Household duties, such as cooking, bevving, und even the dally pleasure of eating, have furnished large quotas of victims. Men undertaking to do women's work during their absence have contributed heavily to casualty lists. The (lumber of people who have choked on fish bones and portjous of meat is too great to mention. s. "Chores about the house, both for men and women, furnish nii kinds of hazards, statis tics show. Falls from bidders und chairs resulting in srrious injury botli inside and outside the house have been very numerous, not to mention accidents in dnrk'rooins, acci dents due to defective electrical apparatus, cuts from lawn mowers, exposed old bottles, cans and jars, burns vhlle cooking, falls over furniture and injuries due to defective appliances about the house. "Hut we must hasten out of the house. It isn't safe. In the street our dangers arc something appalling to contemplate. In fact, if we stood still long enough to do this we would probably meet with all sorts of accidents. On the street, he who hesitates is lost. The number and seriousness of injuries due to automobile pleasure cars is something that staggers one. This one factor alone In everyday life affects vitally our whole business. Many are killed cross, ing the streets at undesignated points, hut there are thousands killed and Injured every year at street intersections." The hardest thing In the world for a democracy to do is to kill a public Job some body has been foolish (Hough 'o permit to he born. The Democrats insist that their war chest is emptv. Whcie, then, do thev hide their mono) ? What Do You Know? QUIZ 1. What Is the origin of the name Dixie? 2. What Is nn arpeggio in music? 3. How should the word lie pronounced" 4' fuWM t.irP!e!'ra,,Pl1 "roll,lc "ll'-1'0'- "s it hi 1 thut be found Ills native country without books and provide, lit wit" in lllnary ftom his own pen? D- W1unicV,"i.,.l,P,m"no of tl,c """l In April 1 I. l'sBr"? "'"H """"""""d 0. Why nre caraway seeds ho culled? 7 When did the Johnstown Hood occur'' 8. Whom did Ueorge Washington marry' 9. How many times did Wllllum J Urvin run for tlie presidency? di uran 1 tft In (ili it t.iws.1 ,.r ii. i-i,,. ",.n,i,.V1i TnV ," .. "''Ja "c 'ot-y of Joseph- and his tout of manv iinV ,,. In- found? Answers to Yesterday's Quiz 1. .Moscow Jles a few miles further north hail t'openliniien. The Utter cltv Is 2. Damascene ware 1h oiiiaiiieniiii ., . 1 'stei' B,d "ml ""'"' "'ttJ 3. Hans Holbein tho elder and Hans Jiol. belt, the jounger were ecu hinted Ocrl' nan painters. The former died in 15J4 and the latter In 1543 4' T' Wr"! li,yl!a,h"leWOr,, K0"'10'" " " 5. Unseed oil la pressed from tho seed of C. A thousand millions tnako n milliard 7. Donley engines are o called because thilr horsepower Is small ",eU8B 8. The mythical animal, the gilffou lurpolv rj.nr. sented In heraldry. &"..?& eagle!0 olfHrln'-' of "'" Hoi, and the! 9. The e.xpHssloii "to walk 11 oriBliMteU In the chalk wall a ue on ittr1...?" !i!f .If. .."'tuxlcat'lol, .10, A toTtege. '1 " "axltvr specially of ft , Ij. SHORT CUTS Frnnkio has uot as yet developed an; impediment in. his speech. Mr. Cox xvould never hnve grown n reckless If he had stnycil ou his own front porch. It is noteworthy that friend and fui nlike ure always ready to listen when Calvin v-ooinige talks. Strange that Governor Cox didn't nU Mr. Moore, his pergonal representative, lol 111s commence : Scnutor Harding would huvc the tPfli'l for the neacc tribunal nrovided bv ou Aiiic'iil ican dentist. TheCommoucr is firm in the conviciiou thut Johnny Hurieycoru und Jimmy Cox are little pin) mates. A local trade school has undertaken t) "tone down the iluppcr." Must be gulag W iukc away licr rouge pot and lip Mick. I Ilrytln suya "I'm a Democrat still." And the wettest of his foes lind no juy is the moonshine that "still" discloses Local osteopaths declare that theic i mix 0 hay fever than ever this j ear. Nature Is making the sufferers pay for the seamin't uouud'ous crops. Washington is uppureutly uudieiM whether jazz Is pink or genius. Tlie national capital shows similar iudccisioii iu the mat ter of political leaders. The Kcnyou investigation ccinu.iittce mil) jet develop the fact that 11 cainp.ilj- costs money und tliut thu way to gu i" money is to ask for it. "It isn't the number of persons in Ne( York which is m extraordinary." reinarki tlie New York Tribune; "it's theii uiuc ity." Every guy. uppaicntl), a member incj nisi set. " A camel drank ten "allons of nlnk loin- ouade at the Indiauu State Fair, and fiftf policemen placed it under arrest. If it ta been iKcompanied by nn elephant with nag o( peanutH they would have had a cirru. Timber in tlie Cnited States is LioinJ used and destroyed four times as fast as in' timber Is growing, Miys 11 repot t nt lli finest service. A true beuefiiilor of tw liumun nice, therefore, is one who inakit four trees grow where onu grew before. A Cleveland Spiiuith-American War veteran lecently committed suicide to sa IS W'lte furl her trnnlilc in tlie i voice mi soueht nml nun riled line his oenslon Us all' nioiiy. Sho-s,UH uovv an opportunit) to leyril separation irom u man who proven r.ia ' iugness to die for her. Two Hnverfnril lownshlo men have l)fl! discovered making liquor with a Kl k fn- overripe tomutoes; fiom which it will M seen that there arc many ways of puiimji the town red. uml thut "circuhitbiS 'f; rosy." us Dick Swivcler would suy, iiilf", he merely u synonym for pussing the Kctcs up. Two TTflnlr nnonnlf AT T l.nvs VirP 8(" rested in a school by seven de'tecllves fr naving used lluckensiicl; iive llsiieruie : tlll'L'ctx in tlinle sl,r.ill,i nrnettce. 1M seems a lot of detectives for two poor snoi'i tor it isn't on record thnt they mi body. Perhaps they were merely tr)inj i stir up tho lii.li. Samuel Untermcyer sn)K If the M lork State and Federal Departments of J" '. tlce will give him proper nuthoiitv he yu prosecute without feo men guilty 01. ,,r ' !,,i .. 1 . 1 . .1... i.: r lui M' ....ll 1 llisjlll i,u.v iu uoiisl 111c iiii-i- ", It. Ing luuteiials": and he expects to te ''' 10 mud some of them in Jail wiiiim da)s. This Is another way of apiic''ll," the liouse-shortugo problem. nM. r . . .t t i..n..vn la cell'. iin- ivi'imi iiueiii 111 4irii'iiiii!i' ,,,(., temiilntlpg un cmbnrgo on virtually ' ! lirnilonlu rxt tl,n t..ll I.. !., ovK'.'lllIll t" .-. .,,,...1 ... .,,,- n.rii ,11 t iii.,. .1., New Jersey Imeimun rt tl.A rnvilffes 01 l" Japanese beetle, nnd farmers and tlorlst- nrennrltliv In i.nAf .lA.,lnllnif that C: quarantine should not bo t-KtablisIied, jf, thnt the government should light the Df""j It innv be. nt nmirao llnif tlio (tinners '"". Ilnftufu rt (I. a ...n ul.,lna l.nira uOMU C ...,,.r,.n ... ,, ,v mo pinna iu.i ,....- '...a nrgiimeiits ns set unstated, but. on tlio (-'.J of it. It would unpear thnt the'depurtrnM ' prcpurnig 10 ngnt tlie pest W(ii ('v ""j most effective weapons Uiownja KJCJ"J21 wit. the gunrmUlD'opf which coionUM made. r . 'M i, v .&,. s H ,t?2fcl,Ji-J.-.l,ALV,,fc.-4?.ll -' a& VfvAitJ?-, .-' r-vti.trfofHt, 4 . -. -Si'ii 'ni f ' v't'jstri(a
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