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A rorn.vr.R i-nnnKAM ron
piuii)r.i.riiiA
Thlno on hlch the people expect the new
administration to concentrate lis attention!
Tht Dclaxcare river bridge.
A drvdock bio enough to accovxmodate tht
largest ships.
Development of the rapid Irnsjlt tysfem.
A convention hall.
A building for the Free Library.
An Art Mutevm. '
KHfarormetif o fhe trafer supply.
Homes to accointnortate the poptifatlon.
A DIFFERENCE
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fP YOU drive a motorcar with nn open
cut -out or if, driving, an nutomobile
muted, you sound n danger slgnnl too in
sistently, you will be summoned by tbo po
lice and fined. There is a way, however,
by which it N possible to do tlioxe things
and yet escnpc fines or punishment. Carry
n gun in your motorcar and hold somebody
tip, and you will be sate.
This simple deduction is not inspired by
any lack of appreciation for the work done
by the traffic squad or the policemen on
other posts. They nre capable men who
reem to do their best with poor facilities.
They work under haphazard rules that are
always chnnging. The city needs a btnnd
nrdiied system of traffic control, such as
might be formulated quickly by a commission
of traffic engineers. It needs, too, some
1 fast motorcars and good drivers in the serv
ice of the Police Department. These ma
chines should b on regulnr patrol at night
to eliminate motor yeggs, even if thnt work
necessitated n few healthy machine guns
mounted conveniently on the hoods.
There is n simple caitse for motorcar ban
ditry. A policeman on foot has small chances
against armed thugs in a fast nutomobile.
PARKS THAT PLEASE
THE various city "squares" and open
spaces under the control of the Fair
mount Park Commission have, in the main,
been taken careof so admirably that the
Mayor's program for curbing this jurisdic
tion Is somewhat surprising. Certainly the
major squares in the "old town," Klttcn
bousc, Franklin, Independence aud Wash-
'"'Tngton, have not in years been so admirably
kept as nt the present time. Paris and
Washington can boast of no prettier diminu
tive parks.
If the Council, at the Mayor's suggestion,
sees fit to. rearrange certain details of police
authority In these recreation grounds, Fome
needless confusion may be eliminated. But
it Is to be hoped that such action will not
be n prelude to any sweeping change. Fair
mount Park and its satellites in the built-up
portions of the city are physically trim and
successfully ndminUtered.
The operntion of the park commission has
the respect of the community, nnd the
glades anil greenswards of this otherwise
rather monotonously constructed town nre
among its chief causes for legitimate pride.
As matters now stand, n let-nlone policy, if
not too rigidly applied, commends itself to
.-tpopuljir approval.
A SHEEP IN WOLF'S GUISE
WE MAY be said to be getting into the
last lap of the national campaign. Mr.
liar ding has been accused of going too cnu
tjously amid the new nnd stupendous isanes
created by the war and the war's after
math. There are times when caution pays,
and this ix one of them.
Mr. Cox is not cautious. He speaks
bravely of International affairs because he
does not understand them. He is silent or
evasive in the presence of every question
related to issues that demand frank and
ekplicit utterance. In "wet" territory, for
"""example, Mr. Cox is a "wet." In "dry" ter
ritory he is a "dry." Thn delusion that tho
Democratic candidate will force a modifi
cation of the Volstend net has been care
fully built up by Ills campafgn managers
In regions where they think it will do the
most good.
The fact of the matter is that Cox is not
a "wet." He knows thnt ultimate decisions
relating to the prohibition net will be made
by Congress nnd the general public. He has
not said this in any speech. Ho will not
say it. lie prefers to talk of things that,
being further away, may easily be discussed
in picturesque generalities.
MUSIC AT ITS BEST
mllAT the nrtistic enterprise of the Phila-
delphia Orchestra is fully consonant
with its present gratifying financial vigor is
indicated by the ambitious and interesting
program outlined for the new season. Fur
ther details will, of course, be forthcoming
when Mr. Stokowskl returns from his first
European visit since the outbreak of the
.world war.
Among the new offerings some may be
confidently expected from Italy, which has of
late experienced a healthy revival of purely
instrumental music. Mallplero, who has
nlready figured on Philadelphia Orchestra
piograms, has been hulled as a leader of nn
Italian .reaction against opera. New sym
phonists nre arising and the land of song
In plainly competing for position with mod
ern France in the orchestral field.
The movement is especially welcome ninco
nothing can be expected at present fiom
Russia, nnd inspiration in contemporary
Germany i at low ebb. The older Herman
masterpieces will, of course, be ployed this
year, and it is not presumptions to forecast
the revival of all-Wncner concerts.
,Apart from Sir. Htokowskl's discoveries
severnl attractive newcomerB will strengthen
tho nlrendy brilliant standard list of soloists.
Cyril Scott, the noted English pianist and
composer, will be.n stellar feature. Homo
Iftknt of conspicuous quality will be repro-
, MAted ib Cnrlton Cooley, violinist nnd win
i' ir'ot, tho Stokowski medal last year, in nd
,vKien 'tojhose gifted members of tho or-
(A4Mff! Tr? " aoiuiai. iuuug iuo
major productions of the season will be the
Uccthoven ninth symphony, the llrahms
requiem and the Mahler1 second symphony,
nil entailing the services of n chorus.
The plcasuro which Philadelphia takes in
one of the foremost orchestrns of the world
is certain to be intensified by the new season
scheduled to begin on October 15. Tho re
stored Academy will also contribute Its share
toward the popular satisfaction.
PUTTING RESPONSIBILITY
WHERE IT REALLY BELONGS
The Adoption of the Home Rule Amend
ment to the Constitution Will Stop
the Practice of Passing the
Buck to Harrlsburg
pYltt'S E. WOODS, ' secretary of the
- commonwealth, in obedience to the com
mand of tho constitution, is publishing in
every county tho text of six proposed amend
ments to that document adopted by the gen
eral assembly nt its last session.
The constitution requires tho publication
of the text of proposed amendments adopted
by one general assembly in order that the
voters may give a mandate on thc subject
to the members of thq next general assembly.
If the amendments ar$ ratified by two suc
cessive general assemblies then they are'sub.
mltted directly to the voters for their ap
proval. The publication of the air nrnnnsori
amendments in the newspapers of the state
Is for the Information of the voters. But,
notwithstanding the theory of the constitu
tion, it is doubtful If any member of the
general assembly will be elected or defeated
because of his support of or opposition to
any or all of the amendments. Neverthe
less, it is prudent to assume that the voters
arc interested in propositions to change the
fundamental law, for you never con tell
when that interest will not become acute.
Four of the' six proposed changes are of
vital Interest to Philadelphia. That one
officially designated as Number 4A will,
if adopted, pave the way for freeing this city
from its dependence on Harrlsburg. It
changes Section 1 of Article XV of tho
constitution so as to read :
Section 1. Cities may be chartered when
ever a majority of the electors of any town
or borough having n, population of at least
ten thousand shall by vote at any general
or municipal election In favor of the same.
Cities, or cities of nny particular class,
may bo given tho rlsht and power to frame
and adopt their own charter? and to ex
orcise the powers and authority of local
(clf-eovernment, subject, however, to such
testrlctlons. limitations and regulations as
may be Imposed by the Legislature. Laws
nUo may be enacted affecting the organ
ization nnd government of cities and bor
oughs, which shall become effective In any
city or borough only when submitted to tin
electors theteof nnd approved by a ma
jority of those voting thereon.
The incorporation of this amendment into
the constitution would open the way to real
home rule for all the cities of the state.
It does not go so far as many advocates of
municipal autonomy would like, nnd it stops
short of the point reached in other states.
It merely permits the Legislature to pass
laws giving the cities the right to frame
their own charters.
The Michigan constitution provides that
"the Legislature shall provide by n general
law for the incorporation of cities and by
a general lnw for the Incorporation of vil
lages," and that "under such general laws
the electors of each city and village shall
have power and authority to frame, adopt
and amend its charter and to amend any
existing charter of the city or village here
tofore granted."
This Is an actual home rule provision. It
leaves nothing to the discretion of the Leg
islature, save the limitations under which
tho cities may exercise their powers.
It is evident that Pennsylvania is not
ready to go as far as Michigan or nny of the
other western states which have freed their
cities from continual interference by the
Legislatures. Hut it is n -sign of progress
when the general assembly can be induced
to approve so mild and experimental a
change as that, embodied in the proposed
amendment.
A careful rVidlng of the text will show
that the way is opened to making the ex
periment with any group of classified cities
or with nil, as the judgment of the legis
lators dictates. The language, "cities, or
'cities of any particular class, may be given
the right and power to frame nnd ndopt
their own charters," leaves a very wide dis
cretion to legislative judgment.
That there may be no doubt of the power
of the Legislature to legislate for special
classes of cities another amendment is pro
posed which declares that while the Legis
lature may divide counties, cities nnd school
districts into not more than seven classes,
laws relating to any class Fhall b'c deemed
"general legislation" within the meaning of
the constitution. The purpose of this is to
nullify the existing prohibition against
special legislation nffecting cities and
counties.
These two amendments ought to be passed
by the next Legislature nnd then submitted
to the voters at the next succeeding general
election. And then the Legislature should
pass a law giving to the first-class cities, nt
least, the right to do what they will with
their charters.
When this is done the woy v.ill,be open
for the people of Philadelphia to put back
into their charter those provisions which had
to be eliminated in Harrlsburg in order to
secure the approval of the attorney general,
provisions most carefully drafted by experts,
but rejected because a man who is not nn
expert in munlcipnl government could not
see their pertinence. We shnll have this
power, for the permission to frame a charter
inevitably carries with it tho provision to
amend it.
One of the other proposed changes in the
constitution opens the way for the city of
Philadelphia to "acquire by contract or con
demnation the franchises and property of
any company owning or operating transit
facilities, or nny part thereof, within its
corporate limits, or the shares of stock of
the corporation owning or operating the
same, or nny part thereof."
The adoption of this amendment, followed
by the necessary legislation, would put the
city In n position to solve tho problem of
the underlying companies If It chose to
cxercUc the power conferred. There can be
no objection to freeing tho hands of the city.
When it is enabled to do what it will with
the transit companies then it must bo de
cided in the light of existing circumstances
what it wishes to do.
Another proposed change in the constitu
tion provides for the consolidation of the
numbered Courts of Common Pleas in Phlln-
delphia nnd Allegheny counties into a single
court in each county with a presiding judge,
and for an increase in the number of Judges
by law from time to time as the busluess
seems to warrant.
This chango has been urged by lawyers
for years. They will be gratified that it is
in a fair woy of being made within a year
or two.
The home rule amendment, however, is
the most vital, for It marks tho beginning- of
a cLroge In the policy of the state toward
the cities. It is In line wltb the best
thought on municipal government, which is
based on, the assumption that people in the
cities nro just as good as pcoplo in tho
country and can be trusted to manage their
own affairs without undue Interference.
MILITANCY REVIVED
VOTES havo been achieved by women, yet
it appears that the militants who march
under tho banners of Miss Alice Paul nnd
Mrs. O. II. P. Belmont still feel that they
must be tireless and sleepless In a 1ioly war
for further guarantees of equal rights. "Tho
fight," cried Miss Paul at a meeting where
it was decided to continue the Notional
Woman's party as a thing apart, aggressive
and exclusive, "is just begun l"
The fight for what? Militant leaders, who
have begun to talk with the ardor of re
vivalists, do not say in explicit terms. The
world had come to suppose that tho fight
had ended. But Miss Paul' and licr friends
have a new set of grievances. They nre
unhappy because women were not appointed
to membership in the Federal Coal Commis
sion, because women have no scats on the
Ballnny Labor Board nnd because men still
continue to fill "all the high-salarlcii posi
tions iu public life." Are we, then, on tho
eve of nn agitation for women senators,
women representatives nnd a President
whom the country would have to address
as Her Excellency? Or have the militant
suffragists been bo long jn the field that the
prospect of pence and warm firesides is in
tolerable to tbem?
Life moves in cycles. Certainly the male
of the human species cultivated habits of
tyranny in the days of his undisputed politi
cal authority. But he has never ceased to
be naive. He was never the power that ho
Imagined himself to be. If he ever began
n passionate agitation for equal rights on
his own account women of nil lands might
have reasons for long regret. We can tell
Miss Paul something. We can tell her why
the President didn't ask women to serve on
his various federal commissions. Work done
or attempted by these boards is gruelling
hard aud thankless. It is wearing. Mr.
Wllsou did not ask women to serve because
of the habit of mind that would make it im
possible for him to ask a woman to change
a flat tire or stoke n furnace. The feminine
militants are not frank. If they yearn to
f-hjiro the rough work of the world they
should say so explicitly. 'One may doubt
that they want to share tho stresses that
men bear without complaint or questioning.
Life, as we sold a moment ago, moves Iu
cycles. Biologists say that war Is inter
minable beneath all the surfaces of existence.
Here and there in the feminist world there
appears to be a dawning desire for ven
geance ngainst that half of tho human race
which for a while was lu some ways domi
nant. Once, it is said, iu the very early
twilight of creation, women ruled. Do they
wish to rule again with the authority said
to havo been snatched from them nt the be
ginning of things to be-magistrates, judges,
senators, bosses, presidents, miners, public
executioners?
If some such hope stirs In the mind of
any feminist then there Is trouble ahead for
the Indies. For they may lose heavily,
even while they appenr to win. They will
lose the numberless advantages that have
been theirs through all generations as the
unquestioned rulers of a subject world of
men. The subjects of womcu do their fight
ing for them nnd benr the wounds. They
go out and limit food nnd dig coal and bring
back the fruits of their labors in all the
various forms that range betweeu food nnd
diamonds. Lie the serfs of old, they must
not sit while any representative of the ruling
class stands. They get out nnd get under
while their rulers gaze in royal abstraction
at the landscnpe. They take the blows, pay
the bills, run the locomotives nnd dig in the
mines. Do Miss Paul and Mrs. Belmont
intend to picket nnd demonstrate some more
for the right to share these labors?
When the suffrage amendment wns passed
women were accorded recognition thnt was
their right. It was n formal sort of recog
nition. They were given an instrument with
which they may work out nil their purposes,
and yet they were not asked to share the
routine hardships of political responsibility.
More could uot well be asked. And, be
sides, if ever there was u dumluant sex that
sex wns feminine. The cruder mind of the
male has always manifested a sort of pride
in its chains. If women nre wise they will
not try further to change n condition thnt,
as it stands, 1b almost wholly to their ad
vantage. If the National Woman's party
continues to wage the "war" of which Miss
Paul speaks it will not fight upward. It
will fight downward to a place nmid the
obedient slaves of tho sex it represents
down to levels from which, iu the future,
it may not easily escape.
THE OLYMPIANS KICK
IT IS idle to deny that the showing made
By Americans in the Olympic games was
in some ways disappointing The return
of the teams nnd the statement Issued in
behalf of the athletes bj Earl Eby, Peun
runner, may explain tho failure of some of
our men to llvo up fully to Jhe hopes of the
country nnd the expectations of their friends.
"We were eighteen days in the hold of n
ship," said Eby, "and we lived on poor food
nnd in inadequate quarters while we wore
abroad. The men had no opportunity for
exercise on tho wny over. No wonder some
of them got slow and fat."
Newspaper readers will remember the
wireless reports of a strike of the athletes
declared a few days after their ship had left
New York because of poor food and poorer
quarters. What is to be said of tho com
mittee in charge of the Americans? By
what rule of reasoning can it be innde to
appenr that athletes trained to a hair for
competition in the world's greatest contests,
can safely be shipped about the world in
quarters of the sort usually reserved for ani
mals. Here Is a lead for a sure-enough
muckraker who wnnts to do" some good.
A WASTEFUL MOTOR RULE
FItOM the extreme of allowing motorists
to do pretty much ns they pleased, the
police now seem in danger of going to the
opposite extreme of enforcing new rules nnd
regulations in such nn obnoxious manner
thnt the use of motorcars In tho city may
soon be intolerably discouraged.
The latest idea requiring thnt front and
rear lights be kept burning even when cars
are parked together in rows, end to end, or
side by side, along the streets, oftentimes
under the full glare of street arc-lights, is
absurd ; and can be helpful only to the battery-charging
stations, by inerenslng their
business.
Leaving cars standing along the streets
in dark places without lights certainly was
wrong. But to overcome this abuse it surely
ought not to have been necessary to apply a
rule universally even where the streets were
plainly lighted.
Only a blind man could foil to see a car
standing by the curb under a street lamp or
in front of stores where shop windows nro
lighted, as in many of tho outlying shipping
centers where cars are parked by shoppers
or patrons of the movies.
The rule should be modified because it
can only result in waste of battery current
aud useless expense to car owners.
DON'T NEED PLUMB PLAN
Expert Tells How Employes May Own
- Railroads Without Govern
mental Disturbance
EMINENT economists havo from time to
time suggested many plans for tho
elimination of dtTfercnccs between, capital
nnd labor, nnd many employers, actuated
by sentiments not, perhaps, wholly altru
istic, for contented workmen mean moro
efficient workmen, have tried them out.
Working conditions hnvc been improved;
means have been sought to bring about n
return of tho personal touch common be
tween employer nnd employe before busi
ness grew to Its present enormous propor
tions! profit-sharing lias ecu trlebd out,
and, here nnd there, this last has been car
ried to its logical conclusion shareholding.
Several Philadelphia firms, Including tho
Stetson Hnt Co., encourage their employes
to hold stock.
Approaching the matter from n slightly
different angle. President Mitten, of the.
P. It. T.. urged employes to start a saving
fund, which they did, nnd the moncv they
have accumulated now runs Into millions.
Tho good feeling existing between employers
nnd employes m this concern recently evi
denced itself in ii striking manner, as nil
Philadclphlans remember.
Now both shareholding and saving have
n distinct bearing on the suggestion mado
by n writer In the current issue of tho
Hallway Age. That the wage problem
solves itself when the woge-earncr becomes
also n wnge-pnycr is a delightfully simple
economic pronouncement yhlch has never
been presented more entertainingly than iu
the article here appended.
'"tXTHY do not the railway employes buy
W the railroads of the I'tilted States?"
asks tho Hallway Age. "The propaganda
fur the Plumb railroad plan, which Is but a
pnrt of the Bolshevistic crusade for the de
struction of 'cntiltnllsm' nnd the establish
ment of the political and economic rule of
tho proletariat, still goes on. If the em
ployes of railways, foal mines and other
industries really believe that those who own
them derive immense profits from exploiting
their employes, why do not the workers buy
the industries iu which they nre employed
und get the' profits for themselves? .
"This question hns been given increased
pertinency," continues the Hallway Age,
"by the advances in the wages of railway
employes which recently hnve been made.
The wages now being paid to them amount
to nbout $3,000,000,000 n year. The ad
vances iu thoir wages granted iu tho recent
award of tho Hailrond Labor Board amount
to $02000,000 a year. They easily could
and should snve this pnrt of their nnmml
incomes. Why do they not do this nnd
ndopt, say, n co-operative plan, through
their labor organizations or otherwise, for
acquiring the: ownership of the railroads?
They could easily save enough money to
do this.
rpiIE total par value of railroad stocks
-- outstanding lu the hninls tft the public
on December 31, 1017, as reported by tho
Interstate Commerce Commission, was
S()..mi,000,000. The saving by the railway
employes of the recent advance iu their
wages would give them $U2..000,000 an
nually for investment. On this bnsls. if
they bought at par they could, by investing
all their snvings and their dividends' on their
savings in rnihvay stocks, become owners of
$:i,4l(0,000,000, or n substantial majority
of all the stock outstanding within live
years.
"But they would not hnvc to pay par.
The averago price nt which the stocks of
twenty-five large railroad systems were
bought and sold in the open market last
week wns $,"8.50. Taking this ns the aver
age market price at present of the railway
stocks outstanding, all the stock could be
bought for $:i.851.n0fl.0n0. nnd one-half of
it. or enough to give absolute control, could
be bought for $1.1)2(1,(100,000. On this basis
the railway employes, by saving and invest
ing their recent Increngi- iu wages in rnil
road stocks, could acquire ownership of a
majority of the stock of all the railroads
within three years.
TF THE co-opcrntue organization which
a. we have suggested the employes might
form did not wish to invest iu the stocks
of nil the railways simultaneously, it could
acquire first one railway nnd then another.
Tin combined outstanding stocks nt the New
York Central uud t!i Pcnnyj Ivimia in the
East, nnd the Atchison. Tupeka A Himta
Fo nnd the I'nlon Pacific lu the West
amount to less than $1 ,-117,000,000. If the
employes desired to hcquire control first of
thu ownership ami management of only these
four great propeitirs they could buj o ma
jority of the stoics of all of them at pur
with their remit inoicass In wages iu four
teen months.
"The financial power of the employes of
the railways wov'd he enormous if they
would but snve a nimpitratlvely smiil! part
of their wages ami inc-t them insei-urities.
The sume thlnt Is true of the. workers in all
other lines of industry. Why should they
carry on propaganda to get the public to
tax itself to bi,y and turn over to wot king
men the management of the industries lu
which thev nre engaged whei. it would be
easily within the power of the working men
to acquire both the ownership and manage
ment of nil th industries they nre engaged
in if they would oul practice the thrift in
their expenditures upon which hus been
iMginnlly foutnl the fortune of every man
who ever advanced from wnge-earner to
capitalist, (ir fiom farmhnud to fanner?
If thn opportunities for profit aie so great
and woiking men nre so sure that their
management of industry would lie n,on
efficient thin, that of the capitalists, they
, should feel sure thnt if they saved their
money nnd bought the capitalists out th-v
would have just ns goodn chance of making
large profits m the fntute as the t-apltullti
would hove.
"tVTEVEH was there u time in the history
L i of the 1'ulted States when the wages
of railway employes nud other woikers were
so large in proportion to the prices of rail
way arid other sicuritics as they nre now.
Never, therefore, were conditions so fuvor
nhle for the workers to, acquire llnuni-Iul
control of the industries in which thov work,
atid show how well thev could manage them.
"Of one thing we warn the workers now
however. This is, that if they do snve their
wnges and invest ns suggested, they will
soon find thnt the difficulty of making profits
in business nnd the ease of incurring l.,-ies
ore much i.rcr.ter than they wow'd ever mis,
pect from rending the literature of the
Plumb Plnn League nud other Bolshevistic
organizations."
The two soldiers who were assigned to
guitrd Grover Bei-gdoll were swiftly ncqultte'
at a court-martial. That Is an it ought to be
It wouldn't be pleasant to see enlisted men
with 1-lenn records of ninny years in the
army subjected to punishment while the
people who jobbed them esenped.
You have to put two nnd two together
nowadays tn get nt the truth. Six months
ago Emma Goldman sent secretly to this
country n scathing denouncement of the
Hussion Bolshevist regime. And now the
cables -tell us that on her arrival in Itiissla
Miss Goldman wns promptly put to work
lu a railway repair gong.
Tho Sennte committee cannot be bhuni
for refusing to cnll Mr. Cox. The Demo
cratic candidate would like nothing better
than nn opportunity to make a speech In
Washington, where all the reporters would
gather to listen.
Considering the prospects, it doesn't
seem to mnho n great deal of difference how
Governor Cox answers those three questions
concerning what he would do ns President,
Inquiring when the P It. T. lines stnrt,
Mayor Moore simply echoes tho indignation
burning question of the rush hours.
In the politlcnl movie,-ns In any other,
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NOW, MY IDEA IS THIS! .
Daily Talks With Thinking Philadelphia-its on Subjects They
Know Best
MATTHEW C. BRUSH
On Qualities for Leadership"'
GOUHAGE, willingness to shoulder re
sponsibility nnd n feeling of confidence
in himself nre the prime qualities for a suc
cessful leadership as seen by Matthew. U
Brush, president of the American Interna
tional Shipbuilding Corporation, -which
made such n wonderful record nt Hog
Island during the war. Ability to co-ordinate
with his subordinates and to secure
teamwork by making them feci that they
arc nn important nnd respected part of the
general machine arc other important requi
sites that he names.
"Tho greatest single requisite, in inv
opinion, for n mrfn to be o leader," declared
Mr. Brush, "is Vie willingness on his part
to take responsibility nnd to have confidence
in Ills judgment. He must, above all things,
be able to handle men successfully, nnd to
do this ho must hnve the pow'cr and faculty
of compelling their confidence in him.
"Successful leadership consists todny in
perfect teamwork, and the most successful
lender is he who con. with tho power of
nnalvsls of men, surround himself with nn
organization where there is, between him
self nud his associates, a perfect exchange
of Ideas, comments nud suggestions, with
flic nbilitv on" his part of inviting fice and
frank discussion or criticism by the mem
bers of his team and then nrrivlug nt n
decision which the entire team will under
take to carry to a successful issue.
"No one man can by himself be a suc
cessful chief executive of a large institu
tion. He must pick men for their respec
tive duties who themselves will create in
their divisions n 'subdivision of the team
and who must have the confidence of their
subordinates as ho has the confidence of his
chief executives.
"lie must pick men who ore not afraid
of responsibility and who have for him not
only tremendous respect nnd confidence in
his' judgment, but who hold for him also a
feeling of affection. He must he able to
create an atmosphere of close, Intimate as
sociation, where the men nre not only not
ufrald or reluctant to come to him. hut feel
free to discuss any matters with him
frankly expressing their opinion and in
tensely nnd earnestly carrjlng out his de
cisions. Must Know What to Do
"Ho must have for his team men who nre
big enough, stroug enough, loyal enough,
nblo enough nnd earnest enough to tackle
their problems with the ultimate good of
the, team ns n whole ns their goul. He must
pick men who .work together, who do not
think they know it all, and who ore willing
at all times to take counsel and advice from
thoir associates and subordinates. Above
all things, he must pick men who run their
jobs nud who come to him with definite,
crisp, constructive, well thought out and
well explained matters of importance, nnd
under no circumstances at any time ever
come to him aud ask what thej shall do
without a definite idea of their own of whnt
should he done.
"Leadership today In any large institu
tion requires intense application, complete
control of one's feelings, the power of
analysis of Individuals and, nbov all, the
power to moke tho membuis of his team
feel nt such ease and feel in such u way
toward him thnt they are thoroughly com
fortable and frank in their discussion of
problems with which they nre confronted.
"The greatest leader of men would be he
who could succeed without having to issue
instructions or orders, but who, in general
discussion with the members of his teum
us to policy and procedure, could convey to
Ills men the genurn"schcme of operation, as
well as the specific result to be obtained,
aud then have tile respective members of
the team carry out the scheme according
to their best judgment, coming to him for
advice, Counsel or help.
"In other words, the successful leader is
he who puts himself in a position of en
deavoring to help his heads of divisions nud
his heads of departments run their jobs in
stead of their helping him to run his job.
"I have in mind very clearly nn instance
of my own experience, where my predeces
sor hod so Impressed his subordinates with
their subserviency that iu my first inter
view with one of them ho spent all his
time, all his thought nnd nil his energy
thinking on how he should net lu the office
and conduct himself to show proper respect
to fi superior olllicr, und how he could snv
things which would most plcuse mo, witii
the result that he had left no thought, time
or energy for consideration of the question
we were discussing. It took me months to
untralu this man so that he would enm..
into the office ns u coworker aud not as n
slave.
Develop Itcsotircefulness
"A member of the team can give inti
mate, close, cordial, even friendly relations
wltll the lender and still not brenk down
nny attitude of respect or courtesy. The
samo spirit of gcntlemanlincss should exist
between the leader and his men in mi office
as would exist In his club or home. The
lender holds It entirely within his power
to compel such nu association by his poise
attitude nnd courtesy nud in the choice of
his men.
"The resourcefulness of men Is amazing
wJien once they nro made to feel thby on,
nn integral part of a machine of which the
."LEMME LISTEN!
leader is the head, nnd when they then
tackle their problems they do so with that
extra 10-per-cent of ability, energy nnd
earnestness of purpose, which money cannot
buy nnd which con only be secured by the
lender himself being the right type.
"A big leader must, to carry out the
nbovo principles, select men who nre 'go
getters.1 He must select men who when
assigned to a, duty are given instructions
as to the result to be obtained, nnd who,
with all the benefit of the judgment of their
chief nnd their associntes, go out and tuckle
their task, and, as we say, 'go get what
they ore after. You cannot buy with money
that kind of service, but by oil menus do
not fail to recognize it ns for os is possible
with proper compensation.
"I cannot possibly too strongly empha
size the Importance of a lender always being
n gentleman nnd recognizing the importance
of courtesy. Merely because one man hap
pens to be n leader nud another man the
subordinate is no reason why the chief
should not show him the same considerntiou
and courtesy that he would to n trauger
coming into the office.
"We nil know that in n football gome
today individual star play does not win the
game, but the tenm that has a captain who.
In the first pice, knows how to piny football
himself nnd who does not nsk his men to
do things which he himself is afraid to do,
who has every member of the tenm not only
loynl to him but actually love him, who
shows no favoritism toward Individual mem
bers of the team and who realizes that there
is plenty of ci edit and glory for each mem
ber in the success of the tenm ns a whole,
is the team Jhnt wins the game.
"Iu every respect is this eqttnllv true of
n successful industry or public utility insti
tution. "The greatest man, In my opinion, that
the United States hns produced, from the
standpoint of leadership, wns the loto An
drew Carnegie. Hun over in your mind
Cornegie's original thirty partners, com
posed of such men as Charles M. Schwab,
illlnm S. Corey. II. C. Frick. A. C.
Dinkey, A. It. Peacock, L. C. Phipps, .Tomes
(aley, 'J homns , Morrison, P. T. Berg. II.
P. Hope. Joseph E. Schwab, Daniel Clem
eiison. Homer J. Lindsay, A. C. Case,
James Scott. Captain L. T. Brown, E. F.
Wood, James Hunter and E. A. Hunt. It
Is Interesting to note that he was 100 per
cent tierfei'!- In lliL ,i,in,:ti.. .. ..'..
single one of these original men he selected
us juuiig men to act os chiefs of his vari
ous mills, has been successful to the nth
degree iu respect to worldly goods, popu
arity in the eyes of the world, nnd lost, hut
by no means leant in being big. human men.
"Mien a man like Mr. Schwab, who was
a member of Mr. Carnegie's team, suvs
forty years after hfs association with Mr.
Carnegie. 'No man hns had a greater in
fltieucc on my life than Mr. Carnegie." that
Is evidence that the leader was a 100-per-cent
leader.
What Do You Know?
QUIZ
forte'? U, ,1UrM metl,,lnS of piano.
Whovyas Molly Titcher In American hls-
Wllfin?ld .''i? Rrcnt Btrlk0 I" tho steel
plants of Homestead, Pn occur?
JJJtnl city was the birthplace of St Paul'
What Is tho Important word missing in
goodCans,Tm.?o-!Vres8,on "A
Wttus1eSotf,ar,eaCt"nnrt.,aninm0 0t ,h r'al
W,Ia Wir''e' tU "0Vel "Tno Man W13
How mnny persons survived the terrible
eruption of Mount Pelee at St. Pierre!
In tho Wert Indies? '
Who wns Claude Lorraine?
Whnt Is the orlirln of tho melody of
"Home, Sweet Homo"? ,
Answers to Saturday's Quiz
In tho expression "case-hardened," mean-
1.
hk iiiiiiciii-iiuiiib io on sense or honor
mid shame, the allusion Is 5 Iron
toughened by carbonizing the surfneo
In contnet with chnrroul In a enso or
o m-u0'0? 'Tx- TnlH H "one by heat.
2. The Llgurlnn coast extends along tho
Gulf of Genoa. In northwest Italv.
3. The constitution of tho United States
provides thnt the states, regardless of
t , ' Si!11. ha cau?1 "Presentation In
the Hcnate, tri or(Ier t relieve tho
original fears of tho small states that
their ontrnnco. Into the union would
result In political domination by tho
larger commonwealths. '
4 Lllns Hpvy, Invented tho sewing machine
r' lliZ nil nfflaml ""rrledRli t imeS:
C. In tho first Palltnn war of 1012-13 null
garla. Serbia, Greece and Montenegr
wcro ranged against Serbia. In tlvt
second war of 1013 Serbia. Orerc" nn,l
Montenegro took up arms against null
, , B'jrln nnd were Joined hv itMnianln
7. In tho classlo version of tho "Cinderella"
story, written by Porrnult the sii..
pern of the Heroine were "o "v "'.
l;ronch for fur The pronunciation of
"vnlr" Is exactly llko that of "verre"
mennlng glass. Henco the confusion
nn0"V'u'.,a n,sult f "I I'm "Cinder
J!"1" l" K"8 tale wea.s gins,
S. La Hallo was tho first white man to ex-
I?'0" Mississippi from "it" uppw
reaches to its mouth He arilved nt
n aJ.'.V? U,,f "J? Mexico in 1683. " "'
' 8o!5c?lro,ln. lna the nr"t southern
in Th2,antLVL',,'ce'le f,rom ,no Union.
U for ? ,SPan,.Mi55n nff pfutne wor(l PI'
4 Frnen h &' BUch n worn V
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SHORT CUTS
"Ouch!" said Camden hooch.
What has become of the third party)
The next step will be to take the magis
trates out of politics.
True to type, the liquor sellers continue
to work for their own annihilation. ',
What Italy needs geographically and
economically is a rctnrn to normalcy.
No politician, apparently, ever bites oil
more than he can chew the rag about.
The Bcrgdoll guards having been ac
quitted, search should be made for the man
higher up.
The red flags Italian revolutionaries ars
flying hnve not the patriotic significance of
the red shirts of Garibaldi.
The demotion of General Barnett seems
to suggest that woman didn't need the vote
to get into politics.
Reports from the South give cheerful In
dication thnt the eighteenth amendment ha
not affected the cotton gin.
What the prohibition enforcement
fishermen ought to do is to lay off the min
nows nnd bait for the whales. . i
The Crank appears to hove demon
strated thnt a good llnr can always keep
one lap ahead of the Third J3egrce.
The young womnu who quizzed the ch!"f
justice on the street in Wnshingtou wo
evidently a believer In direct action.
It seems n sod wostc of money to go to
Paris to excite oneself to denth when one
can be run down by an automobile at home.
What Governor Cox appears to have
demonstrated Ms thnt there are thousand
of Hepublicaus willing to help their can
didate win.
Woman vote or no woman vote,
woman's first hunt in the newspaper will
continue to be uot the political page bt
the department store ad.
If Doctor Foster wonted to go to (ilou--ccstcr
nowadays lie would become nn ndvo
catc of n bridge, for the Delaware Is to
deep n puddle to get out of.
Somehow or other we are not In a
position to pat ourselves on the hack for
helping France by snapping up her bomk
Eight per cent Is n high rate of interest
to charge a friend.
A New York judge hns announced that
henceforth all convicted hold-up men will he
given the maximum sentence of twenty
years in the penitentiary. A simllnr an
nouncement lu Philadelphia might lessen the
evil here.
The good psychological effect of a cam
paign fund is that the men who put up th
ensh or work for It nre likelv to vote the1
ticket in order to make their expenditure
of time und money wortli while.
Tho reduction in the price of woolen
goods Is but a step on on economic roil1
which must inevitably have some rough cor
ners for tile consimer who now rejoices.
But sufficient for the day is the detlatioa
thereof.
The greatest enemy to the republic ii t
class consciousness. The disease is not t't
nnl.lnttttn .. 1 ,.1,,-it. Imu u!int.,, nlnrmlrf SVIllll
. I...ii, . .Muni nun i.i.v.11,, .. ---.
toins. There nro unfortunately n Inrge
number of sporadic cases apart from labor.
Thu remedy is clean living nud plain think
ing. Or plain living ami clean thinking.
Whnt particular reason is there for
supposing thnt now the women have tli
vote, they will demand of the Legislature a
law making nbllgatnrv the payment of
substantial poll tax? Of course, It is con
ceivable that thev might be Intrigued (lovely
word!) by a $l.i)S poll tax marked ih'n
from $.".
The Interstate Commerce Commission
today begins an investigation of New York
Public Service Commission's refusal to allow
railroads to Increase intrastate rates to phvd
them on n parity with interstate rates, V'r
York will probably learn ns Texas learned In
o similar case, aud ns,tho whole country
learned in the discussion of the eighteenth
amendment, that the old Idea of state righta
is (is dpiwl nn ii Innrnntl A Rtnte llOS I'.O
rights that run counter to thu will of tho I
nation at large.
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ijiiesupcaitc nay nsiicrmen, n""..
Washington dispatch, nre making tlie lbv
gest hnttls on record, being aided thereto n
seoplones that spot the fish and communl (
caiu io mo nsiiing ncets by radio. rrr
nbly tho government is taking wise eognl'
"znnco of tho tons of bunkers, nlewivcs or
menhnden and other fish being used os fer
tilizer; has investigated 'rumors that fooj
fish nro throvvn bock In tho sea, uw",
,W'"t to affect the market, nnd 1 WW
that there Is no danger of,, future famine
ucmuso oi present record uauis,
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