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THE WALL STREET HORROR
'J1 THIS writing it fcciiis best to liopc
that yesterday's trngedy In New York
was accidental. There is evidence to indi
cate that it belongs in the category of dis
asters traceable to n reckless habit with ex
plosives whicti became general in the war
time rush and culminated in the blow-up of
an'ammunitlon ship in Halifax harbor and
the loss of 1W10 liven. Any other conclu
sion is almost intolerable. It is difficult to
believe that any one would deliberately
commit an act no xavagely cruel ns bus been
suggested by some of the police. If the ex
pldsion. was planned mid premeditated then
5t will Justify a governmental policy of un
precedented suppression and reprisals iu
every quarter where there is even the shadow
of a tendency to use dyuumlte as n means of
political argument.
The exact cause of the disaster may not
be known for days or weeks, if it was acci
dental, then oue shocking fact will be re
vealed ns a basis from which a relentless
Investigation will have to be pressed. An
enormous quantity of high explosive appears
to have been carted into the most thickly
congested spot In the I'nlted States, into one
of the narrowest und buicst streets in the
world, between high buildings, there to en
danger the lives not of hundreds of people,
but of thousands. There are state and mu
nicipal laws Intended to strictly regulate the
transport of explosives. They are disre
garded every day. Hut no violation of the
ordinary rules of public safety such as Is
apparent in the present Instance was ever
before" recorded in the I'nlted States.
The peculiar place which Wall street has
In the. mythology of the radical world will
ejause a great mint people to view the ex
plosion ns n deliberate act of terrorism,
riuch views should be accented onlv after
they lujTve been sustained by plain evidence.
' '. Those who still believe that there is some-
t tiling inherently decent rVcn In the worst of
Ei men, and some sense of humanity und re-
' straint even iu the most desperate of crimi
nals, will prefer to withhold judgment. The
' time for patience ntid temperate dealing with
' the more radical agitators will hae passed
If the explosion proves to have had other
than accidental causes. A renewal of es
pionage might be a bad thing for the coun
try. Hut it would be a worse thing for those
who make up the lunatic fringe of the move
ment headed by Big Hill Haywood and his
satellites.
Of the circumitances of the tragedy, the
K panic, the" righting and the trampling that
Wo followed the lirst terrible crash, it mar be
-aid, only that such things were inevitable
j wr me circumstances. .Modern cities with
" p'C sKjscrapcr' habit nre uot organized to en
sure such shocks calmly. An explosion in n
fyirrow and crowded street can bo more ter-
riuir .in unytniiig Known even on battle
fields It in for that reason that the crime
thut ' . behind one of the saddest calamities
of fwcoi t j ears is the more reprehensible. A
multyriHle of inoffensive people were mangled
or sift ii Death enme to them like a bolt out
of thrt b'ue in the midst of their day's work.
The a)ithorltie tannot have the hardihood
to saj that thej are unable to fix the blame.
THE HAT
RIO will say that the world isn't settinsr
tllonir tnVWirri lil.tter rlrtta n,. it It !.
to progress through du.t'nnil blood and
?y -"run, wuk uu intn of Meptem-
fcfr, and jet citizens who. moved by Rummer
1 , determined to wear their straw hats
,. the street, were not set upon and mobbed
JV Crowds (if the Hnrt H,,.t .... .. .!... .!
methods of violence to show that tradition,
viiki- me leases nt street -car lines in this city
"i ur, in Mic-reu anil inviolable Iu n small
way at least the right of self-determination
ha been recognized.
The ashnmn will i.oon get all the old straw
hats. Most men stick to the old things not
from any motive of economy, but because
they are consorvatlc. A new hat is tt dis
concerting thing. It makes the average man
Uncomfortable. Women, on the other hand
are. happy in new hats und unhappy in i,
ones. That is a truth. Whoever can get
the Inner meaning out of It win bo Mo t0
foretell just what suffrage will do to and for
the I nited Statcx.
A FIGUREHEAD RETIRES
riEOWiKH rr.KMK.Ti:Ar renounces
any further presidential Inclinations with
the characteristic remark that tiger hunting
IuInritnn is "less dangerous than Trench
politics." As a general observation, this
may be, hut the ex -premier is exaggerating
when he intimates that presidential elections
in his country are exciting.
The compromise between mild liberals and
mild conservatives, which is the foundation
of the third Kiench republic, was reached
with the understanding that the ostensible
head of the uation was to exercise chiefly
decorative functions. The ornamental prcsl
dent furnishes, indeed, a rnther close parallel
of an ornamental constitutional monarch. In
both' eases the dominant power is in the
hpnds of the prime minister, whose respon
sibility to thtjibicamcral legislative authority
U constant und direct.
Tho prospective election of a successor to
l. Desclmnel has not, therefore, much more
than a theoretical Interest. Tho Chamber
t.f Deputies and the Senate, meeting as one
UUUJ Bb li-inuitirn, niv vu ruuuacj wig now'
president on September t!5. I'nlesn all
p-jecedent is brokeu by the choice of a
"jKrons man," the current of, French poll-
tics will not be greatly changed bythe re
sult. Doubtless, however, more than ordi
nary consideration of the health of tho
newcomer will be registered. '
M. Desclmnel, a scholar of soma literary
gifts and a statesman noted for quiet ca
pacity rather than brilliancy, was said to
have been a prey to neurotic misgivings
almost from the moment of his election.
Humor has it that a single speech, wnlch
he, was scheduled to make upon some unim
portant occasion, was revised or rewritten
by this embarrassed "executive" somo fif
teen or twenty times. The real circumstances
of M, Dcschanel's fall from a railway train
last June are still unexplained, but there
Is no doubt that he has been ill for several
months. His resignation, delivered yester
day was fully due. He is entitled to the
sympathy ok a nation, which, though emo
tional under some conditions, need not con
template another presidential election with
any nervousness. To Americans in the
midst of. September campaigning the coming
event in France has aspects of incomprehensibility.
TEACHERS' PAY "VICTORY"
IS FAINT LIGHT IN, A MUDDLE
Comprehensive and Generous Reform la
Needed to Render the Public-School
System Worthy of This Ctly
TIIFi school loan has fatted again.
The underpaid employes of the Hoard
of Education arc to receive some small
monetary aid.
This npparcnt conflict of results is thor
oughly typical of the clumsiness, the iudo
clsion, the wrangling, the cross-purposes
revealed in what has been flatteringly called
a "campaign" to secure justice for the
teachers of 1'htladclphla.
Mr. Tile Barnacle, of the circumlocu
tion office, has undergone a most remark
able series of manifestations. He hits sym
bolically appeared as the Hoard of Kdu ca
tion, conservative often to the p'olnt of
inanition. He has personified the public
loath to assume financial responsibilities.
He has even in some degree paralyzed
progress by groups of teachers unable to
agree upon the nature of measures for their
own relief. And nt an earlier stage his
warped soul inspired the conventional do
nothing policy in the Legislature of Penn
sylvania. The tangle of errors is indeed so intricate
that the apportionment of blame lu any ex
clusive direction is vulnerable to the charge
of injustice nutl bins. The meager and
temporary assistance nt last In prospect for
the teachers touches only the edge of a situ
ation stupidly muddled and thickened with
neglect.
At the top of the school system of Penn
sjlvania there stands, it is true, a compe
tent official, a broad-minded and energetic
executive. Doctor Finnegnn. Hut to a con
siderable extent he is a workman without
tools. In view of the enormous upward
drive of costs of living and, indeed, n com
plete revolution in the economic scale the
state appropriations for the schools arc mis
erably insufficient.
In Philadelphia alone many schoolhouscs
arc hopelessly Inadequate; some arc insani
tary ; others unsafe. Usable structures are
overcrowded. Building on a lnrgp scale is
necessary to bring the physical conditions
of the school sjstem in this city up to date.
Doctor Garber has resigned as superin
tendent of schools here. No successor has
been appointed. Doctor I fancy's incumb
ency of the presidency of the Central High
School Is temporary and the case is compli
cated by Dr. Hobert Kills Thompson's suit
iu protest of the retirement rule.
Scores of teachers have resigned since
September 1 to secure positions paying
fairer wages. Had not the state and city
health authorities threatened to intervene
the system of anuuul physical inspection of
the school pupils would be in chaos. Doc
tor Furbush and Doctor Mnrtiu were
heeded only after their warnings were about
to nssiime practical shape.
The Hoard of Education cnu quite truth
fully retaliate that It is poor, that it has
been asked to accomplish impossibilities to
buy school books to accommodate thousands
of new pupils, to take decent care of the
schoolhouscs, to build new ones, to pay
the teachers properly aud to remain solvent
simultaneously. I'nder existing conditions
such comprehensive reform is, of course,
impossible, however badly needed.
The fundamental responsibility und the
fundamental duty rest upon the dispensers
of state funds at Harrisburg, There will
come before the session in January no nior
important obligation than the restoration
of the school sjstem of this city and the
wholt commonwealth to health and the
paths of progress.
Half mensures will no longer suffice. Not
only should the appropriations be generous
nud consonant with new conditions of life
and labor, but administrative revision must
ensue. Despite the weaknesses obvious to
any one the school system of Pennsjlvania
has until lately been u credit to the com
monwealth. Hut the structure is in many
ways worn out. The reconstruction will be
spurious unless every unsafe beam is re
moved. Meanwhile the teachers of Philadelphia,
after a struggle so confused as to weary
the stoutest hearted, seem assured of an
amount of increased compensation, i Just
how much the rise will be is left in doubt.
By September !.'." a definltc'figure will, it is
said, be announced. If such should not
be the case public patience will indeed have
reached the breaking point.
The present snarl Is directly due to a
disagreement between the Bonrd of Educa
tion, which protests that it desires to help
the teachers and the citizens' committee in
spired by a similar purpose. It is conflict
over method the rock on which so many
otherwise laudable enterprises here split
that is responsible for the delay.
So quietly that the public had scant
Knowledge of Its intentions the Board of
Education some months ago mnde two sep
arate attempts to (lout a loan enabling it to
finance pny increases for its employes.
Many of the teachers took the position that
although a comprehensive wage scale rc
islon ns impossible, the board could, if
it chose, grant bonuses of $400. Subse
quently it wns proved that by no method of
bookkeeping and by no manipulation of
available financial assets could this sum be
paid to each employe.
The board, which had long postponed
definite action on the wage .question, did,
however, eventually point out the way by
which a sum sufficient to cover distribu
tions of $200 each could be raised. It was
suggested that certain properties be sold,
certain funds rearranged and that thp so
called "Parents' Loan" be publicly sold over
the counter. But summer vacations inter
vened and the board had difficulty in se
curing a quorum. The proposal lagged.
When action was Anally taken It was
unaccompanied by any effective program ot
publicity such as has carried many a less
worthy undertaking over the top. The
bonds were placed on sale. Buyers were
slow. At the end of the specified wCek it
was announced that the loan hod failed.
Aroused, if -somewhat belatedly, to ..'.i.
ousuess of the situation, the Hoard of rj,,.
cation yesterday decided to extend the ntj
period for another week and to retain aa
nucleus tho $202,000 already subscribe
At that juncture the citizens' committee
reiterated Its promise to buy the remainder
of the bonds, with the condition that the
board promise to distribute a flat bonus ot
$200. On this point action has not been
'taken. Some members of the board favor
the "string" proposition. Others balk nt
this limitation of their authority, for the
counter program involves the payment of
a $100 bonus! and an upward revision of
tho salary schedule on the Dick plan.
That the teachers shall not lose in either
event was assured yesterday when tho
finance committee of the board decided that
if the outside help was rejected the use of
the money from the insurance and building
funds, together with whatever sum is real
ized from the bond sale, will be sufficient
to furnish the temporary assistance. Hut as
tile loan has up to this point been anything
but a success, it may reasonably be won
dered why the board did not adopt its latest
relief plan long ago. Granted that its path
is not rosy it certainly cannot be said that
much practical grappling with the difficulties
was attempted until the emergency had be
come painful and publicly acute.
The edge of victory, such ns it Is, lias
been dulled by a qunntity of needless bick
ering, hedging and procrastination on sev
eral sides. It mny be said, however, that
n beginning has been made. Hut the gain
Is n mere trifle compared to the still neces
sary redemption of the school system as a
whole.
QUAKERS AND THE LEAGUE
OPPOSITION by tho International confer
ence of Friends in London to the League
of Nations In its present form, reported by
Dr. William I. Hull, of Swarthmore, who
was a participant in the sessions of the con
ference, should be Interesting to Philadel
phia. The Quakers of this community have
been doing irjigreat service In Europe. Their
consistent attitude of compassion and for
bearance in a time when most of the world
was tilled with passion and hatred was a
reassurance to every one who, even in the
years of conflict! stopped to remember that
nothing violent can endure. It is for that
reason that words of denunciation coming
from the Friends in 'London have a strange
sound. And it is only fair to suppose that
antagonism to the present plans for the
League of Nations expressed at the London
conference Is reflective not bo much of
Quaker sentiment generally but of liberal
opinion in England, where the inconsisten
cies of France and other allied countries
have been shnrply apparent and resented
with great bitterness,
France hns been accused of a desire to
boss the Continent, yet there is good ground
for the opposite belief that France, through
her activities In Poland and elsewhere, is "j
merely acting for the time being in self
defense. But is France not to bo more
greatly trusted than the German junkers?
Did modern France ever start invasions into
friendly countries? Were they not even un
ready for the German onslaught? Arc they
not to be trusted .further than the desperate
and cruel minority that boasts in Russia of
a contempt for agreements made upon honor?
No one can deny thnt there ore groups iu
Europe who, if they are permitted to do so,
will use the power and the mechanisms of
a League of Nations for their own particular
purposes. But to take these groups too seri
ously is to reckon without a regard for the
restraining force of public opiniou that is
now being asserted iu new ways every
where. Wise observers have ceased to be seri
ously concerned about Hussion bolshcvism
or Its futile Imitators iu Italy. They are
looking to the future when the defeated
masses in all countries, left prostrate by the
collapse of these new experiments lu oppres
sion, may be nt the mercy of the strongest
ndventurers. Who then will keep the peace
aud protect human liberty nud put a check
on militarism and the forces that encourage
it? Will not the drifting nations drift natu
rally into the alliauces of their own, without
nny of the restraints contemplated In the
Paris plan? The League of Nations ns it
is uow coming into beipg Is not n perfect
thing. But when you 'put It nslde no wuy
seems open but the way to chaos.
THE GOVERNOR SPEAKS
AN AFTHOIlITATIVlC voice was needed
to dispel- some of the confusion created
by those who seem eager to forget all plans
for a Camden bridge for the remoter vision
of a tunnel. Governor Sproul lias fitted ad
mirably into the emergency.
"We want a bridge," said the Governor.
"The people who want a tube will find that
it takes a long time to build tubes."
If there must be ns much preliminary tall;
nbout a tunnel ns there has been about n
bridge, no on,e now alive will ever get ncross
the Delaware by means other than ferry
boat, and flying machines. The troub'e
with the tiiuue! scheme ought to be apparent
to ever body. One of the first results of the
new agitation would be divided interest aud
a decline in the enthusiasm that now is
growing In favor of n bridge. The advautoge
gnlned through years of work and agitation
by those who desire better means of com
munication between this city and South
Jersey would be wholly lost. Later along, if
it were shown that the cost of a tube would
be stupendous, there would be a collapse of
interest in tubes. By that time tho bridge
might he almost forgotten and we should
have to start all over again.
Governor Sproul should keep in the fore
ground during the present conflict of pur
poses. The bridge project seems to need
some powerful friends.
THE MIRROR
IF YOU were in Russin. able to read the
printed lingo of the Bolshevists, or In
Italy looking for news in journals dedicated
to the sort of radicalism which survives by
putting an ugly color on everything opposed
to It, you might feel like despairing for the
United States.
Headlines in the morning would Inform
you thnt the chief of the Democratic party
had exposed plans of millionaires to buy the
presidency. Simultaneously you would be
told by the newspapers that Philadelphia
was terrorized by motor bandits who op
peored every night in the streets to rob and
shoot nnd defy the police. Whisky rings
would be shown rising in power to set aside
the laws of this land, even while coal min
ers were engaged in n campaign to freeze
the country to death.
The presidency cannot be bought nnd
millionaires are not trying to buy It. Whisky
rings operate In a few enstern communi
ties. In some parts of the West their mem
hers would be tarred. Two-thirds of the
country is dry by Its own volition. Motor
bandits nre a nuisance, nnd they ore being
eliminated in this city nnd everywhere else.
The coal strike Is settling itself.
The moral of all this Is that Incidents
that figure most conspicuously In ono day's
news do not always reveal the full truth
beneath the surface, DUtnnre magnifies and
sometimes distorts a dramatic fact. And
even a truth, when It is seen without tho
conditions of n tempering environment, ran
become something else to n hurried eye.
The world isn't nearly so badly off ns sur
face events sometimes make it appear.
Robert Lansing is described In certain
Washington circles ns the spirltuul father
of tho .world court of justice. In the same
'circle Woodrow Wilson is doubtless con
sidered the cruel step -father,
,
A NEW EDITOR
Morris L. Cooke In a New Role An
Unusual Publication Judge Oar
man and His Vision of
the Future
. Dy GEORGE NOX McCAIN
DR. CIA'DH Ii. KING, of the University
of Pennsylvania, is editor of Tho An
nals Of the American Academy of Political
and Social Science.
That Is, when he does not sink his per
sonallty and position and, descending from
the tripod, surrenders his prerogatives to
some one else.
It is all for a purpose, though.
His latest period of self-effacement was
during the last month. Doctor King and
his associates of the editorial council of the
American Academy were out of tho running
for that brief period.
In the vernacular of the miners of the an
thracitc region, they were "vacationing."
Meantime the editorial tiller had been
grasped by other hands.
MORRIS L. COOKE, or, as the title page
of the September number of The Annals
hns it, Morris Llewellyn Cooke, became tho
ad interim editor.
He had been invited to undertake the tem
porary responsibility by Doctor King nnd
the editorial council.
As his fellow editors there were Samuel
Gompers, ,prcsldcnt of the American Fed
eration of Labor, nnd Fred J. Miller, presi
dent American Society of Mechanical Engi
neers. Some powerful combination, most every
one witl say. A publicist, n labor leader and
n distinguished engineer.
Hut what was it all about?
Simply this: Six Issues of The Annals
nre published every year by the Academy.
Each issue, as far as possible, is designed
to present a variety of serious views, slants,
angles or whatever one mny choose to call
them, on some particularly timely, important
or conspicuous social or political question.
Hence Morris L. Cooke, Samuel Gompers
and Fred J. Miller as editors.
t.pAPTAIN OF INDUSTRY" is a title
J that has served its day and purpose.
It's as dead ns day before yesterday's news
paper. "Scientist of Industry" hns come in its
stead. x
That ought to hnvc been, but isn't, flic
title of Editor Cooke's editorial prcfaoc. It
deals largely, however, with this new per
sonality In the field of human activities.
The "Scientist of Industry" is destined to
become the biggest figure for the future in
the field of the world's endeavor.
And Mr. Cooke writes n corking editorial
to lead off this magazine of nearly 200 pages.
Mr. Gompers writes of "Workers nnd
Production" nnd Mr. Miller of "Manage
ment and Production."
There ore twenty-eight nrtieles by twenty
eight men nnd women of national nnd inter
nntinnnl fnmc.
The product of their pens shows forth in
the shnpc of serious discussions affecting
labor, management nnd production.
It is the Joint (Work of the lenders of the
organized workers nnd the "Scientists of
Industry" in an effort to present a compre
hensive nnd fundamental program for Amer
ican industry.
Most remarkable of all, as a concrete
summing up states, "A general agreement
has been reached as to essentials."
It Is the most unusual publication that
the American Acndcmy of Political and So
cial Science has ever put out.
As an editor, Morris L. Cooke is an un
qualified success.
As n oIc(,tor of ad Interim substitutes,
Doctor King holds rank superlative.
JUDGE JOHN M. CARMAN, of the elev
O enth judicial district, which same being
Luzerne county, oucc every couple of months
drops nonchalantly Into Philadelphia.
The judge is a good deal like Charlie
Donnelly of the East, William .1. Hrennen
of the West and Vance McCormlck In the
center of the state: hl's known all over
wherever n Democratic politician hangs up
his hat.
He's better known nt home, though. So
well, in fact, that nt the last November
election he was Indorsed by the Republicans
as well ns Democrats, and went silting into
Ills secoud term on the bench without oppo
sition. The judge's "fightin' Dlmocrntic" dnvs nre
about over now. He reluctantly confesses It
himself. His Inst whirl wus nn nttempt to
carry the Old Guard Democratic banner to
victory ns n delegate to San Francisco.
The Palmer-McConnlck coterie, with all
the saloon and spenk-ensy privileges with
them nnd ngainst the judge, caught him on
the Inst lap and the Kej stone special to Call
fomia went west without him.
JUDGE CARMAN knows every square
mile of Luzerne, Lnekawannn nnd Le
high counties.
He was born and raised up there, nnd has
watched the wonderful development of the
anthracite region for more than sixty ears,
"It will nil end one of these dnvs in the
future," he said. "The last pillar will be
robbed and the last hoist mude some time,
nud what then?
"It's too lute now. They're here, nnd here
to stay till the grcitt change comes. I mean
these cities nnd towns built in the valleys.
"Have you ever thought what the outlook
of Pennsylvania's millions for light and fuel
and industrial power will be when our coal
mines, bituminous ns well ns anthracite, nic
exhausted?" he usked In a whimsical way,
"Well, then Is when these cities will ills
appear. They'll be deserted. Other cities
their successors, will spring up on hillsides
and mountains.
"Because these valleys, with huge dams
stretching across them, will become vast
reservoirs. The storage places for billions
of electrical units for light, heat and power
Tin- deserted cities will be submerged.
"That's the mngtclan of the future, elec
tricity, "Electricity generated bv water
power, nnd this power derived from these
vnlleys when they hnve been transformed
Into great lakes,"
THE HOUSE OF PAIN
I AM no stranger iu the house of pnin;
I nin familiar with its n ,y part.
From the low stile, then up the crooked lane
To the darkened doorway, intimate to
my heart.
Here did I sit with Grief nnd ent his bread,
Here was I welcomed ns misfortune's
guest,
And there's no room but where I've laid
my hejul
On Misery's nccommoilnting breast.
So. Sorrow, dops in knocking rouse jouun
Open the door, old mother; it is I,
nring grief's good goblet out, the sod, sweet
cup ;
Fill it with wine of silence, strong and
dry.
For I've n story to amuse your ears,
Of youth and hope, of middle nge nnd tenrs,
Robert Nnthnn, In the Atlnntlc Monthly.
When we 'read that preparations nre
going on for recruiting n Soviet nrmy iu
Rome, Nnples. Turin and Milnn. it pleases
us to realize that these nrmlcs do not exist
and that preparations may go on for n
long, long time and never bo realized. News
Is Invariably magnified by distance.
Superintendent Mills ncted wisely when
he rushed n heavy detail of policemen to the
local financial district when he heard of the
explosion in JVnll street. There Is always
danger that a blast of that kind .will havo
its echo In the cracked brain of some homi
cidal crank.
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Daily Talks With Thinking Philadelphia on Subjects They
Know Best
THE REV. CARL E. GRAMMER
On Prohibition Enforcement
UNQUALIFIED and strict enforcement
of the prohibition amendment is the only
sane nnd proper course of procedure on tho
pnrt of the Amerlcnu people, in the opinion
of the Rev. Carl E. G rammer, rector ot St.
Stephen's Church.
Doctor (trammer expressed himself as ab
solutely opposed to nny temporizing or ijt
tempting to soften the rigor of the net. He
predicted thnt there will be violations for
several yenrs, especially in the seuconst
cities nnd ulong the Canadian border, but
declared that such evasions would gradually
die out. He made a parallel of tho case of
smuggling In England, which nt oue time,
was supported by it great deal of public
opinion, despite tho illegality, but which
eventually dropped away to nothing,
"I am much concerned " sniit Doctor
Crammer, "that Doctor Couwcll hns al
lowed himself to be so much pcrtuiucd ny
the vlolntions of the liquor luw that he is
condemning the principle on which they arc
based. This country has iu the most con
clusive manner, by on nmendmeut of the
federal constitution, decided in fnvor ot pro
hibition uot iu fnvor of high license or light
wines, but positively In favor of nctnnl pro
hibition. If the decision expressed In such n
decisive nud Inclusive manner by the vast
majority required for u constitutional
amendment, is not carried out, and because,
iu particular localities, special groups are
allied to defeut it. what safeguard hnve we
that any luw will be executed by those sworn
to enforce it?
Guins Already Secured
"It was to "be expected thnt nbuses of this
kind would occur. This bootlegging und
drinking nre to be regretted, but we must
not allow these evils to hide from us the
magnificent gains already secured, poor
houses half emptied, Jnlls with few inmates,
court dockets; on Mondays less than u moiety
of the old number.
"I have before me the testimony of a
merchant of Provideuce, It. I., who did not
believe in prohibition but has been convinced
by the inurve'nus improvement In the homes
of the workers. Let the doubters reud the
record of Peoria. Ill,, n town whose pros
perity seemed bound up with the liquor
trade. Today tt Is more prosperous than
ever. Take the experience of the grape
growers of California, who find that the de
mand for soft drinks has increased the
profits of their vineyards,
"Already the blessings of the new regime
There are, urgent, reasons why Con
necticut should ratify tho suffrage nmend
meut entirely nnnrt from the wisdom of or
the necessity for womnu suffrage. With
ratification being attneked lu the Tennessee
courts.lt is well to make iissurauco doubly
sure that the coming presidential election
will be a valid one.
When the Young Lndy Next Door But
One read that French and Spanish patrols
were co-operating lu operations against
Waznn. the capital of the Moroccan sherifs,
she snld she supposed that there was somo
trouble ubout fees, and why didn't the con
stable or deputy sherlf levy or something?
Tho Chemistry of It ,
Men of the laboratory will not be the only
persons interested iu the nppenrauce of what
we believe to bo u new chemicnl compound,
If it is uot new. nt least it has never be
fore been found Iu n natural mixture.
Tho main constituent of this noveUy Is
carbon mouoxld, that unpleasant gas which
forms when the combustion of carbon with
oxygen Is lnrompleto, A faulty coal stove
will emit It. In tfie present discovery, how
ever. It comes from the poor draft In a
mental furnacu that Is stuffed with false
mathematics. The second ingredient is
xenon, a gas usually distilled from liquid
nlr, but in the new d'.iwvery uhtniiiPi from
tho cold perspiration ;' n gentleman who
tried tu get uway w'.tb .methlng nnd failed.
The combination is a political gas full (,f
hot nlr, sulphurous odor uud malarial
shivers.
As tho chemical symbol of enrbon monoxld'
Is CO (Hid thnt of xenon Is X, tho symbol
of the combined gases Is easily arrived at--Now
York Sun. .
have manifested themselves, and the experi
ment has not had anything like a fair trial.
"The worst feature, however, of these
counsels of fear and half-heartedness is that
they are counsels of tawlessncss. We see in
Ireland the distressful state of- land where
people have got Into the habit of securing
changes in the law, not by argument, but by
lawlessness nnd nnarchy. Celtic Ireland (to
speak iu general terms) will not obey the
will of Great Britain, because'-Ulster, or
Scotch-Irish Ireland, under the able lead
ership of Sir Edwnrd Carson, proved that
the will of Great Britain would not be mode
supreme if the local opposition in Ulster
went to certnln lengths and Ulster took
(his course of gun-running, because it re
garded the action of Great Britain as the
result of previous successful lawlessness on
the pnrt of Celtic Ireland.
"Is our couutry to follow such dreadful
precedents?
"We hear far too often in the papers such
utterances ns I rend lately, that nn execu
tive did not intend to enforce certain laws
suy, certuln Sunday laws because he did
not believe tho people wanted them en
forced. "General Grant used to sdy, 'The best
way to brjng about the repeal of a bad law
is to enforce It.' Indeed, thnt is the only
proper course for tho executive.
"Legislntures exist to nmend, abolish and
enact lows, and it is the: duty of sheriffs,
mayors, governors nnd President to enforce
them.
"Now, it is inconceivable that the prohi
bition amendment will be repealed cer
tainly not till the country has made a' full
and fair trial of its effects. Therefore, the
proper course for all public-spirited citizens
is to call aloud, not for laxity, still less for
alteration, which Is virtually out of the
question, but to demand obedience to the
law from all classes, '
"Certainly, this is the united voice of the
churches, which have almost all of them
placed themselves on record ns fnvorlng this
greut national experiment.
What Do You Know?
QUIZ
1. How is the president of Franco elected?
2. How fnr Is tho moon from the earth?
3. What great river Is known as "China's
Sorrow"?
4. Who wns Denvcnuto Cellini?
5. Nnrae two celebrated Inventions by
Thomas A. Edison.
C. Whnt nre the two salient points of the
Monroe Doctrine?
7. What Is the Ilrst nnmo of Darwin?
8. Of what country Is DuchnrtBt tho capital?
8. What king of Scotland became, klmr of
KnglanU?
10. Whnt states were members of tho South
ern Confederacy?
Answers to Yesterday's Quiz
1. Therapy la that part of medical science
which treats of the discovery nnd np
plication of remedies for diseases.
2. The nanat Is ii district In southeast Hun
gary which was connuered hv tlm
Turks In IBM. liberated by 'iJuSen. of
Savoy in 1716, was governed by Aus
tria, Inter returned to Hungary, be.
came an Austrian crown lnml and wns
ynllJnco,on,e,1 In Hungary In
1860. The word Banal originally meant
tt frontier proNlnco ruled by a "ban."
3. John Kents wns the author of the celo.
orated poem. "Ode to n Oreclnn Urn."
4. John Adams was tho first President of
' Vnlled States to live w..hlf
Pa'plrm.'" h'8 ",Clal W&
D. The emu Is a Inrgo Australian bird, nl
lled to the cassowary, nnd Is nnturally
n two-legged animal. "'
6. Nepotism Is undue favor from a holder
of patronage to his or her relatives
Ty word originally meant sucl favo"r
'n'r ,0 n"l",w. from the Italian
7.
A cm.J.M tt lnrKe llrlnl'S vessel or Its
8. The tuba Is tho largest of tho horns. It Is
n brass valve Instrument. s
9, Tho uludlolus, which has sword.ahancd
eaves and bright flower spikes Xs
' from the Latin "gladius' a
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"AS!.?CiV.' ,,,Uera,,Jr meaning "to this," Is
SHORT CUTS
Happily the wheels of justice have not
yet turned into galloping dice.
Mrs. Mallory appears to be as good a
tennis player as Miss Alolla Bjurstcdt.
Italy as much as any other country In
the world knows that troubles never come
singly.
t
Women may bo talkative, but every
skirt in town knows that brevity Is the soul
of wit.
'Tis not surprising that voters work
at cross purposes. That's what the ballots
are- made for.
An executive begins to lose some of his
effectiveness when he realizes that some
tasks are "impossible."
Just as soon as it is known what caused
the Wall street explosion everybody will
know whom to blame.
French nnd Spanish efforts to subjugate
the Moroccans arc narrowing down to
committee on Wnran means.
The way local thieves arc cleaning tip
suggests tho possibility that they might be
useful in the street department.
President Wilson is said to be anxious
to take part in the campalgu. He will,
though he mako no move and speak no
word.
The suggestion that Lansing is the
anll-lttlftl fnthni nt tl.n ...m11 flAi.,1 tirtnet
-,- a--.... .h,..v U. I..V ..U.dl kUUI, UIIU,.
to mind the aphorism concerning the wise
ciiiu.
It is at leost comforting to realize that
after politicians get through with their
campaign hullabaloo they will become con
structive statesmen.
Tho. facts .haven't changed since elec
tion. Now as then the way to get rid of
contractor government is to get rid of con
tractor government.
Wien it conies , to a' show-down the
average citizen is likely to remember that
he can run his flivver over a bridge but
not, through a tunnel.
Agltntlon is a great Instructor. Vtbfa
tho teachers get their increased pay the
most apathetic among them will at least
know just where it came from.
"America is the only country in the
world for music right now," says Stokovv
skR The fact is without interest for the
bollermaker and the Jazz-band couductor.
Indiana Democrats are running Jamel
Whltcomb Riley's physician for governor.
It Is expected he will get the pills and
Pegasus vote; but the Republican bogey
man will ketch him if he don't watch out.
"We nre having trouble getting inone
for a moderately financed campaign,
Democratic National Committeeman Josepn
F. Guffey. This shows a shocking lark of
confidence on the part of tho Unterrificd.
Clemcnccau says ho is too young to be
president, so is going to India to mini
tigers. That's the way with these hot
headed younkers. Not satisfied with what
he knows the Tiger wants to learn some
new tricks,
Not the least sinister of the factors
that give the European sttuhtton u serious
aspect is the fact that Ololittl, in Italy.
taking no action against the metal worKerar
nnd that Lloyd Georgo. in England, con
tlnncs deliberations with tho Bolshevism
Krassln.
If the machines of reckless driver!
were sentenced to city . employment iw
thirty dnys for a first offenso and iocrea"
Ing sentences for succeeding offenses u
problem of transportation for city ropiJfj
would be solved until the tlmo arrww
when tho city knew no moro recwe"
drivers.
A woman advertising expert, d4''',Ve
ing meat packers in convention In AU"
City, told them that if they would take we
women of the country into their con "". ,a
public opinion would show appreciation ot yi
what they, the meat packers, had done wj
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