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A SHORT-SIGHTED POl ICY
MAYOR MOOR!: Bripvouly (!l.ippointcd
hid bet frlonda nnil the Mipportern ot
the city charter when he recommended to
City Council yeterdny that only two of the
thirteen Rtreet-clennliiR districts be cleaned
by municipal forces ne.tt year.
Piecemeal cleaning wn never contemplated
by the framen of the charter. Their thmicht
cltarly wat that all of the streets be cleaned
by the city or that none of the street be
elenned In that way. While the charter
provides for possible continuation of the con
tract RVBtem. there is not a word nbout
piecemeal work.
FnHneorin" nml "nnnclal exnerts aptly
point out that a trial of the nlecemeal nytcm
more than anythinj; else wi'l supply aid and
comfort for the enemies of municipal opera
tion. One point appears obvious from the
beginning: The cot of municipal cleaning
for two Isolated districts will be higher than
the cost would be for the same two districts
If the whole city were under the municipal
system, lu the cae of the two districts, the
cost will be concentrated. In the cac of
the whole city, the cot will be distributed.
In short, the overhead charges for the piece
men! system, when compared with the cost
under contract, will have the effect of put
ting the new p'nn in th" worst po-slble light.
Earnest friends of the Muyor will be re
luctant to believe that Ue is d"liherately sct
tiog his course with the view of wrecking
the municipal street-cleaning plHn and per
petuating the contract system with all Its
attendant train of political evils.
Further, it seems plain that, with the two
ystems attempting to function side by Ride,
those whose rich profits will be af
fected will do all in their power to discredit
municipal cleaning. A kind of political and
contractor "abotnge is easily foreseen.
The piecemeal idea cannot but be regarded
as the product of u weak policy. It would
appear to have been inspired by the soothing
yet poisonous whisperings of those who view
municipal street cleaning as an experiment,
aa something to be tried out to see how it
will work. Thero is nothing new to be
learned about street cleaning except in the
minds of some officials who have not mas
tered the simple proposition that a street
cannot be cleaned uith the pookctbook of a
contractor as the standard of cleanliness.
The engineers who visited fifteen cities for
the purpose of lncstlgating conditions elso
4 where reported as not the least .significant
fact that Philadelphia uas the only Impor
tant city which still clung to tho contract
system. They found the officials in other
cities a unit In faor of municipal cleaning.
Mayor Moore ignores this fact.
Tho Mayor, In an attempt to justify his
policy, says that the Hoard of Estimate of
New York finds that city cleaning will cost
$7,000,000 more for the enduing year. Hut
New York officials are not using that as an
argument in favor of going back to the con
tract system.
The Muyor would tind it profitable to read
this portion of the report made by tlm engi
neers representing the city who studied
Street-cleaning conditions in other cities:
irAcM niked n.i to what course he (Com
mUiionrr IfaeSlay, of thr AVm Vorfc
Btrect Clcanmo fjepartment) trotW pur.
tue under existing conditions in Philndel
phin, he replied that he teould not consider
contract icork faiorably for a moment, but
teould go into municipal operation imme
diately for street cleaning throughout the
entire city, and not In ono or two districts
at a time.
, The Mayor's policy is not what was ex
pected. Ho has been badly advised. And
he may find that ho has been badly advised
from a political point of view. He has pro
Tided his enemies ia Council with a beautiful
chance to put him in a hole. They may not
rote to continue the contract system iu any
form.
A SHOCK FOR "ED" VARE
SENATOR VARH must have felt a thiver
ing shock when he heard Joseph C.
Trainer denounce the machine method of
nominating Charles J. Pommcr for City
Council as unfair, illegal and un-American.
The senator and three of his ward leaders
met yesterday in a party "convention" iind
In a few minutes decided to make Mr.
Pomraer the Republican nominee four men
acted on "behalf" of tho -15.000 registered
Voters of the First councilman!?, district.
In other days no one would have dared
to stand up and tell "Ed" Vnre to his fuce
that bosslsm can go too far. That in itcelf
must hare been at least disconcerting to tho
senator. nut to make matters worse,
Trainer wab speaking as the regularly
elected city committeeman from the Twenty
sixth nurd, Until Traineri broke through
': jn ; i south shbfitttiuu c-
grcssman Vnre always answered when the
Twenty-sixth ward was reached on tho roll
call. Congressman Yarc would never hare
said the things that Trainer said. Senator
Vero must have been sorely distressed.
Trainer and his friends, who are in sym
pathy with the city administration, propose,
to go further. They intend to ask tho courts
to pass on the legality of original nomina
tions made by four men, to the supreme dis
regard of the thousands and thousands of
ifsti and women voters in the district.
Perhaps even more distressing moments
nro in store for the senator. His privoto
plan of promoting a $2000 a year tlpstnvc to
the $o000 a year office of councilman may
go a-gllmnicring.
FRESHMAN SIGHTSEERS AT
PENN ARE TO BE ENVIED
Something of the Real Dignity and
Splendor of a Great Univer
sity Is Apparent to Their
Keen Young Eyes
A GREAT deal of extremely earnest sight-
seeing is being done in a particularly
animated section of West Philadelphia today.
Something more than the superficial acute
ness of tourists inspires these observers, since
their pilgrimage ends amid the scenes con
cerning the traditions and significance of
which they arc intensely eager to be in
formed. Possibly a conside-able number of the
freshmen of the University of Pennsylvania
will be a bit dazed by nil the novel points
of contact against which they are suddenly
thrust. Here is not merely a new home for
hundreds of students registered as non
Philadclphians, but a new spiritual and
mental environment.
The student guides, drnfted from the upper
classes, cannot be expected to elucidate all
the subtleties of the last chapter of youth,
or rather the innumerable and diversified op
portunities of tho prologue to manhood and
cultural citizenship. There will be mnch
talk of topography and the location of de
partments. The attractiveness of Houston
Hnll will carry its own sympathetic mes
sage. The great library, architecturally
bizarre and yet not wholly without objective
appeal, is likely to seem for the moment
lather too formidable an ally. There is no
companionship in unopened books.
Direct current of appreciation can. of
course, be established with Franklin Field,
with the deliberate yet effective exotic charm
of the museum, if not with all Its contents;
with the grace and Ingratiating atmospheric
values of the dormitories and with the im
posing new buildings that bespeak the justl
fied assurance of n leading institution of
higher learning.
Even the old greenstone structures, College
Hall and Logan Hall, lend the note of dig
nity to the externals of the seholustlo svm
phony. The seventies, during which decade
the fniversity moved to the right bank of
the Schuylkill, are sentimentally enriched bv
the soothing "pathos of distance." The
lines of College Hall have seemingly softened,
and that "rare old plant," the ivy, pleads
for toleration of its haunts.
Naturally, the novitiates just enrolled will
mentally eliminate what to them arc the non
essential factors of the University. The
stately Georgian Law School, the handsome
medical buildings and the scientific equip
ment In the engineering departments will
mean vastly different Uiiugi to alert and
vastly different eyes.
It Is trite but none the less fnfeinating to
reflect upon the reactions upon personalities
by so many facets of culture.
The opening of a college jcar in anv in
stitution worthy of its preteusious inevitably
markH a revolution in thought. The regul
arity of tho event dulls the edge of wonder
ment, especially in communities as Inrge as
Philadelphia and debarred from special
identification as a college town. What is
sometimes called "slowness" in this city is
in reality a kind of complacent sophistica-
nun.
We are used to the University, accustomed
to acknowledge its eminence In many fields
and then to dismiss it ns we do such con
ventional phenomena as day and night. The
practice may denote balance, and as such
contrast favorably with irritating forms of
braggadocio prevalent in newer population
centers.
And yet Philadelphia manners as they
exist with reference to this theme are un
deniably chilling. Th high status of th
I niversity, its achievement and its poten
tialities cannot be cheapened by lusty en
thusiasms. Furthermore, our own self-satisfaction in
poise Is scarcely authentic during the foot
ball season. Theu there Is often much ex
pressed regard for tho University and pride
in athletic victories soars to emotional
heights. The surrender to simple senti
ments is healthy enough. It is an invigorat
ing experience to watch Philadelphia eX
citing itself over n gridiron sensation, but
the sense of proportion is not stimulated by
the spectacle. Franklin Field is un enliven
ing auxiliary In the function of the Univer
sity of Pennsylvania. As a symbol of in
trinsic vitality of the institution it is feeble
woefully Inadequate. '
Joseph McCracken, an old football star
and of course well remembered, was an in
terested visitor at the University vesterday
while the registration of expectant, not to
say mystified, freshmen was at its height.
Doctor McCracken is u medical missionary
with a brilliant record In Chlua. In the
fourteen years of his career' in tho Orient the
meaning of the University as a constructive
force iu civilization was doubtless many
times exemplified.
What he saw on his return w.is evidence
of growth which cannot have failed to bo
strengthening to thut interpretation. The
University, unrhanged in basic principles, is
In resources greatly altered since he wus a
student. Money In the amounts necessary
to so authoritative an institution hns not
swelled the treasury. Great inheritances
such as have been the portion of sister uni
versities. Yale, Harvard, Princeton and the
others, have not been its portion. Endow
ment fund machinery on a suitable scale and
requisite tate appropriations have been lack
ing. And yet the progress of the University,
a product of fine, unselfish loyalty by re
sponsible factors in its management has
bfen exceedingly impressive. The popularity
of the Institution among tho college-going
c!ase4 of the land also has been notable.
When "Joe" MiCracken played guard for
ODft of George Woodruff's winning teams the
population of the University was about
.'(000. It is estimated that the number of
matriculates this year will reach 10,000,
distributed in courses which comprehend
education in its broadest aspects.
The University may without exaggeration
be termed an agency of universal knowledge.
Within Its halls may be gained education in
the classics, general cultural subjects and
languages ancient and modern, chemistry,
bcience, engineering, medicine, law, eco
nomics, sociology, biology, architce lire In
fiirt, virtually everything that run be sys
tcmatiscd and classified into a brunch of
learuliig.
The opening of the fino arts school this
year is a thoroughly noteworthy step in cul
tural advancement. In its resources and
ambitions It has few if uny rivals in any
other universit).
With this, breadth of endeavor the in
valuable tribute of attendance is in the ut
suct decree bee&bliig.- hmmtg Anucfem
Institutions of its kind the University is con
spicuously celebrated for Its democracy. It
is needless to expatiate on the importance of
this asset to a college depending on general
support rather than specific aid by a wealthy
benefactor or millionaire founder. That
this gratifying atmosphere of anti-snobbery
exists Is a factor by no means to be disre
garded in analyzing the causes of tho "ca
pacity" registration.
Doctor McCrncken's eyes would undoubt
edly aid the average Philadelphia to recog
nize the University In the spirit of appre
ciative, intelligent admiration. Rut the
naive If stil' limited viewpoint of the bands
of personally escorted freshmen, ambling
through the botunieal gardens, trooping down
Kami ton W.,n nnd investigating the recrea
tive allurements of Houston Halt today,
might be profitably adopted as a preliminary
by considerable numbers of somcwhnt uu
reflective persons. What is particularly good
for the University is the sympathy that is
accompanied by throbs of awe. It will not
harm Philadelphia to thrill a bit over Its
magnificent agency of higher education. It
is not boastful to admit the splendid role (t
plays in the development of this community
nor to tingle with outspoken pride ns the
great machinery of civilization renews opera
tions in the autumn.
Acting Provost Ptnnlmon and the fruit
ful, long-established enterprise which he
heads command the respect of the city, which
tho University honors whenever that city can
paue ennuch in Its course of Its adult con
servatism to realize the wonder in actualities.
AT ,JOME AND ABROAD
TY AN odd and dramatic coincidence, the
-' cheerless survey of European trends and
conditions b Sir Philip Glbbs and the wholly
different summary of economic nffnlrs in the
United States which FroukUn K. Lane pre
pared from an cxtraordImy array of data
gathered by one of the great Baltimore
financial Institutions were published on the
same dav. No American can read these
parallel reports without experiencing a star
tled s"!i'p of his own good fortune and the
good fortune of his country.
It is probable that Glbbs, sensitive, ardent
and knowing, because of his terrible years at
the front, how great a price was paid by men
who hoped to win something tangible for a
world that seeks peace nnd light, sees too
many immediate disappointments in the Old
World. Yet he hns been able to perceive
beneath the passion for diversion in Eng
land, France and elsewhere only discourage
ment that verges closely to utter despair.
Tho peoples who were closest to the war
were left somehow without normal powers
of recuperation. And the confusion and
conflict of natioual motives thnt ensued upon
the partial failure of the Versailles plan
make matters worse. On one hnnd are na
tions impoverished nnd in idleness because
of a lack of coal and raw materials for their
factories. On the other are peoples whose
demands for high wages and high profits nrc
driving up the prices of these necessities to
figures which needy peoples cunnot meet.
There is little normal ambition left in Aus
tria, iu Germany or in France. Such ani
mation as is apparent In continental Europe
seems to be directed toward new military
enterprises. Drift is everywhere in the Old
World. And the power to come back up
pears to hnvc gouc utterly out of more than
one country.
A survey made with great care over every
section of the United States shows that this
country is passing naturally, without stress,
hardship or friction, from conditions of war
to conditions of peace. The national mind
is cool and balanced. Labor has been moved
from the hectic atmosphere of emergency in
dustries nnd transferred to the activities of
peace time without shock or stress.
In a few of tho Middle Atlantic manufac
turing areas there are slight evidences of
unemployment. Everywhere else in the
country there is plenty of work nt high
wages. The immense transference of human
energy from war activities to the labor of
normal times has been smoothly accomplished
without intervals of enforced idleness. Crops
have been good and tho farmers arc pros
perous, and nil tho banks in the country re
port an increase in savings.
What is even more significant is the drift
of mass opinion, which seems to be generally
unaffected by hjsteria of any sort. In Ituly
workers have been seiziug the metal factories
without thinking of the credits and ruw ma
terial without which they are helpless. Hero
so mildly socialistic a plan as the nationali
zation of rnllways is universally opposed by
people whoso opinions are usually supposed
to be representative farmers, small business
men, skilled workers and tho like.
The country seems even more tranquil
minded than the politicians. It U uble to
take a calm measure of parties and issues.
The drift is toward the Republican party
everywhere, but it is not so strong as it was
a few weeks ago. Wages are still liiyli. but
labor's productivity is not increasing. Here,
of course, is tho effect of propaganda di
rected by those who wish labor to believe
that it is systematically abused and over
driven. Cut business men seem content to
wait cheerfully for the mood to pass and to
do the best they can meanwhile without per
mitting their spirits to be depressed.
The contrast between America and Eu
rope is not a matter that should stimulate
our national vanity. The situation abroad Is
too tragic to permit complacency on this sldo
of the world. We do not deserve all the
credit for our good fortune We were 3000
miles away from the battlefields. Shocks
that left some of the old nations quaking
were not even felt in the United States. And
yet, if we wero UOOtl mile, away fiom the
actual conflict, we hac been even further
removed from some of the delusions for
which all Europe Is now paying so terrible
a price. Half of the troubles of Franco,
England and Italy might be said to be due
to inexpert bunking and business methods.
The French financier has been going far
afield for his opportunitits. He will leud
money In Algeria or in Asia when he will
not lend it to his own people at home. Tho
llrltish bcatter their energies. They have
to hold an immense organism of empire to
gether with bonds that an- none too strong
and with an rxpendituie of strength thnt
leaves them little energy for other mutters.
So internationalized is commerce and bank
ing in Europe that a crnsh or a quake in ono
part of the world will have instant reactions
in a hundred quarters far removed.
Fortunately for America, it Is iu itself a
great field for its enterprising citizens. Our
good fortune now Is simply the good fortune
that falls naturally to people who are able
to stuy at home and mind their own business.
A SHOW THAT FLIVVERED
THE bombing of the New York Custom
House, of which the police were warned
was not called on account of rain, becauso
thero was no rain yesterduy. So the crowd
that turned out with a holiday air nnd
shoied to get up close for a good view hud
to udmit that it was fooled.
Auy one who wanted to know how (seri
ously anarchists and anarchism are taken
In this country might have learned a lot by
u look at that same crowd. Only the French
could have equaled it. If it wero announced
thnt tho Chamber of Deputies wero to bo
blown up, the Parisians would put on their
best clothes and turn out with red lemonade
and popcorn to see tho show. Then they
would build a new Chamber and feel glee
fully that the Joke was on the bnmbmaker.
Downtown New York was more like Paris
yesterday-han upper Broadway can be even
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THE "EQUINOCTIAL STORM"
Amateur Weather Prophets. Farmers
and Seafaring Men Still Persist In
the Fiction Despite Science
THERC win be a fiendish sort ot glee In
the hearts of many old-fashioned weather
"prophets" should tho storm, lately browing
In the Gulf of Mexico, develop into a genuine
hurricane and swing up northward in time
to arrive here tonight or tomorrow morning.
For farmers, hard-sholl seafaring men and
amateur weather men persist In the super
stition that there Is always bad weather at
tho time of the equinoxes, and this tradition
has gone on year after year for several cen
turies iu spite of all that meteorological ex
pert have been able to do to disprove it.
Tho nutumnnl equinox arrives or rather
the sun nrrlves at tho autumnal equinox -at
3:20 o'clock tomorrow morning. At that
moment the sun will cross the celestial equa.
tor on Its way to southern latitudes for tho
rest of the winter. Every year this event
occurs on September 21. 22 or 23, aud as
this year is leap year, the last date obtains.
ACCORDING to tho tradition, the weather
is almost certain to be bad "luring the
week or so on each side of the date. It Is
supposed to be worst on the octunl day. So
far do some of the traditionalists carry their
belief that the local weather bureau is nn
nually besieged by scores of letters asking
for information nR to the direction of the
wind nt the exact time of the sun's crossing.
From this these "prophets" claim to be able
to foretell the kind of weather wo will have
during the rest of the winter.
How absurd such a claim must bo was
shown last year and the jcar before, when
this section of the country was covered by
an nrca of calm which made the direction of
wind at places no farther than twenty miles
apart exactly the opposlto of each other. The
winds then were governed entirely by local
conditions nnd not by any widespread
meteorological phenomena. This yenr such
a condition is not expected, so that there
will probably be a fair ngreement nmoug-
tnose persons, and the fact that their pre
dictions in the previous two years embraced
every possible kind of winter will be for
gotteu. IT IS Interesting, in view of the popular
and really firm belief in the "equinoctial
storm," to look back over the weather rec
ords for the equinoctial dotes as found In
the weather bureau here. The forty years
from 1871 to and including 1010 show how
absurd the superstition Is, at least so far
as weather in this part of the world is con
cerned. Here, for instance, arc the recorded
rainfalls in inches and hundredths of an
inch for the three dnvs during the time men
tioned. "T" in the tables means only a trace
of rainfall too slight to measure.
Threo
days' Month's
1S71 o O 0 II O.0S
1872 O O 0 O 8.70
1S78 O 0 .01 .01 3.03
,S7' OOOO 01
1S7S 0 0 0 0 2..SS
18711 0 T 1 42 1.42 8.77
1S77 0 0 0 0 2 74
1A7S OOOO 0.00
1S70 T .IS II .IS 1.12
1SR0 02 (1 0 ..02 1.10
IBM 0 0 .05 .OS 0.04
1KS2 1.72 4. OR 3 72 10.00 12.09
183 OOOO 4.21
18R4 n n .on .on 0.20
1SS3 0 .13 .112 .15 1.17
1RRH 0 T .11 .11 1.20
1RS7 0 .U. .31 .40 4.02
1A&S 1.30 0 0 1 8!) B.73
lfisn oi o (i .01 .m
ISHO 0 T n T 2.81
isni o o o n l.no
1SH2 0 .111 .47 .60 2.08
I 0.1 0 T .01 .01 3.7U
1604 0 0 n o n.u
sn.i o o o n o si
SOS 0 .04 0 .04 2.7ft
t97 0 0 .20 .20 1.10
MS 0 T 1.01 1.01 1.H2
1stl 23 0 0 ,2.1 3.611
1001) T 0 T T 0 31
1001 TOOT 3.I1S
1002 08 .20 0 .28 4.07
1003 0 II 0 0 2.31
1004 noon 7.21
1110.1 0 0 II 0 3.0
won 0 .OR 0 .OR 0.30
1007 0 ,nn 1.14 1.70 n.p.i
KII1S OOOO 1.70
WOO (1 .02 .12 .14 ar,-,
1010 OOOO 3.0S
i far eepi. 21 sept. miz scpt.J3 total total
IN THESE forty years there is just one
18S2 when the rninfnll could be called
unduly heavy. Thero were four others when
the precipitation for the whole three days
could have been considered sufficient to
make persons growl nbout the "bud
weather." This would menu un average of
half un inch a day, though thero arc other
times of the year when the rain gunge will
show an inch In twenty-four hours on sev
eral dajs within a comparatively short
period.
On these equinoctial dates in forty years,
fifteen years show absolutely no rain 011 any
of the three days and eleven others show
only n trace, or less than one-tenth of an
Inch, which is nothing more than a shower.
In fact, these three days show n much
smaller total rainfull in the forty years thnn
most such combinations picked nt random
from other months would exhibit.
rnO THE senfnring man,
'bad weather"
means wind rather thau rain, fo an ex
amination of thr wind statistics for Septem
ber during the same forty ears should dis
pose of his claims for the validity of the
tiadltion. The following table gives the date
of September when the maximum wind was
recorded, the strength of the wind in miles
per hour when It was blowing its hardest
nnd the direction from which the wind came
Tar Vol. Dale Dlr. Year Vel Datr rilr.
1871 lSfl 2rt 7 Nv
1872 24 (20 1NW 1802 21 20 N
(23 (SUV
1S73 28 .. 1803 37 rt SW
H74 24 211 N 1SD4 ,17 10 rv
17R 31 10 N IRIS... . 31 IS v
1S7II R2 17 HK '80(1 42 30 SK
1877 .. t NK " -'7 17 N
1878 3ft 13 HE JSIIK 32 27 NW
1R7P S3 17 NVV 1890 2R 211 NW
1SR0 30 10 N 1000 ,11 18 SUV
1SS1 24 21 W 1H11 28 11 W
1882. -" hi NU in2 :'- s
(12
1883 ... 20 12 NE 1008 30 111 .v
1884 . ... 28 1ft S 1004 IS 11 N-w
188.1 .... 31 2.1 'W 1008 30 13 N
1sn 28 20 MV 10011 27 30 N
IRST . 3ft 7 MV 11107... . 32 21 NW
1888. .. .31 11 NK "'08 ... 30 R pf,
,f,sn . '. 11 NK inno ... no n N
18!i0 ..38 21 NW mill . 2H 6 ov
This table proven the whole month of
September to be fnlrly well-behaved. And.
remarkably enough, the "equinoctial"
week, figuring the 10th to the 2.-ith inclusive,
comes Into the table only six times In tho
fortv five renlly, for two of the times ap
pear in one year. Still more significant Is
the fact that equinoctial winds In these
forty years have never exceeded thirty-six
miles an hour, mid any skipper (.0s
that u storm had better run n barge nn the
Cbesapeako Cunal nnd keep away from the
Three times the equinoctial period shows
winds of twenty-four miles an hour, oneo
thirty-two miles, once thirty-three nnd once
thirty-six. , These are nil quite mild Mows
and certainlv have no right to he dignified
as "equinoctial storm.
TWO GROUPS
From the Run and Nw Vnrk Herald
In his speech In Sun lTaucisco on Friday
Candidate Cox denounced the nomination
of Senator Hnrding ns having been made
by "a small group of men." ne named
thcin:
Ixidge Wadsworth
Watson McCormlck
Harding Smoot
Drondeeee Harvey
If the charge were true, the group would
still be infinitely more acceptable to tho
taste of the American voter than the smaller
group which, after 11 frame-up conference
at French Lick Springs, "put Jimmy over"
nt San Francisco :
Murphy Tnggart
Nucent Hrennan
Seven of the men In the upper group are
men who sit in the United States Senate
the choice of tho people of great states.
Hut the members of the little group 0f four
that nominated f ox are not senators. They
are business men and their business is
politics ward politics Cox polities.
What Becomes of Them?
Tho Immigration nt the port of .v y. k
continues nt u rate unapproving lt, ..,.
history, and one begins to wonder wuero
do they. Oil go from there? Do any of them
ms wfc 4ok-Kiaa City a01
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Daily Talks With Thinking Philadclphians on Subjects They
Know Best
MISS EDITH DAER
On "The Home-Maker of the Future"
THE woman of the future must be a hoinc
mukcr and a good one at thn-, is tho
opinion of Miss Edith Bter, nssistnnt pro
fessor of home economics In churge of the
newly created department at tho University
of Pennsylvania.
With the Inauguration of this course nt
the University, putting the science of home
making on 11 college basis for the first tlmo
in tills section, Miss Uaer believes that an
important step has been taken toward dig
nifying this department and giving it its due
ts n vitul feature in our everyday life. 1 ho
course is for teacher training, but ultimately
it is hoped to put It on a brood basis iu
every high and elementary school.
"With the passage of the Smith-Hughes
bill, the legislators recognized tho impoitance
of this Btibject, when they guaranteed federal
aid for schools in agricultural and vocational
training nnd home economics.
"If the educational forces now nt work
achlevo their aims the woman of the future
will be a homemnker in the fullest sense of
the word. The principal difficulty with the
average woman, whether she be n housewife
or not, Is that sho is likely to fnll Into one
of two classes, both having grout limitations
nnd both reducing the amount of hf.pplness
which they could encompass if they were
moro rounded out.
"We have always had tho old-fashioned
woman, one who was a good housewife, lo
that sho busied herself about tho home, kept
It clenn, did the cooking and the household
chores nnd mechanically, so fnr as it was
possible, mudc what was considered n domes
tic woman. But often sho so neglected her
self aud her other duties that she was merelv
11 drudge nnd did nothing in tho fullcrt sense
of tho word to make a home.
Need a Happy Volnan
"The other womnn never ccred for the
home, at least not tho work of It, but was in
teresting, n charming companion and in
mnnV other ways added to thu happiness of
the iionie. Hut she was often wasteful and
extrnvagant. with 110 sense of values, did not
excel In the domestic arts; in fact often
knew nothing i.bout them and, furthermore,
did not even wish to.
"Unfortunately only too many of this class
hnvo developed iu recent years. It must be
remembered though, taking it from any
nnglc that the home is a fundamental in
stitution, and no mutter how fur we rauy
wonder from it. wo nro forced booncr or
later to como buck to It.
"Wo hnve to try. then, to develop the
means between the old-fashioned slave, who
spent ull her tlmo In the home nnd none of
It on her personal development, and the
pleasure-loving woman of today, who in
her inordlnnte pursuit of diversion neg
lects her Plain duties nnd thrcutens the
existence of our most cherished Institutions.
"There is every reason why tho woman of
today and tomorrow should be a thorough
homemaker. ono who nttKcks it us a scien
tific problem, both iu its practical and its
cultural aspects. We nro getting ready to
r.av good-by to tho dependent woman who
sought a husband rather than s. mate, be
cause she needed a home, und we will soon
welcome, ns in fact we havo already wel
comed, the independent woman who is ablo
to earn her own living nnd manage her own
affairs and incidentally tho affairs of others.
All-Round Better Equipment
'Whether she havo n home with husband
and children, or simply a place for herself
alone the homo-making art will be equally
valuable to her. There are endless possi
bilities for the tralued homemaker. Sho
can at all times make her own living and a
good living and run her own establishment
ut the same time.
"Sho is more independent and therefore
better equipped to choose her own course
in lif nn(' follow it up successfully. If
she choose a mate, as iu the course of nat
ural life she likely will, it will bo her own
choice and not a matter of expediency.
"There will therefore in all likelihood
bo fewer Ill-advised marriages and more
real happiness In the home. Whether she
has a home or not, whether she chooses one
or not, the average woman will bo a more
rapablo and charming woman, and withal
a more understanding and cousliler.itc one,
if she is trained as n homiuiiaker.
"When one considers tin; wnsto due to
mlsmansgement and lack of training In th"
average woman, the economical saving of
a generally trained womanhood (n the art of
hoaiwuifclat 3111 U t RBOutfat,
LONG AND THE SHORT
Many nn income now inadequate could be
made adequate if tbcro were more real
home economists.
"One is often tempted to wonder why
the young man, after answering father'!)
questions as to hiH ability to assume the
responsibilities of a husband, is not given,
or does not take, the similar privilego of
asking mother what resources daughter
has as n homemnker. Suppose the youns
man said, 'Oh, I can't do anything cspe
ciullv, hut I guess ufter we're married
we'll get nlong somehow.' What would
father say?
"It looks as though the women In the
future will work u great deal outside the
home. Women have their careers ns well
as men ; they have their outside interests
and it is right and necessary that they
should. It looks as though, whether from
necessity or desire, she will do her share of
tho work for a time nt least, perhaps later
to come bark to home fully.
Dinner Moro Than Food
"To be a successful wife, a womin
must not only excel in the household arts,
but must be developed culturally ns well.
Suppose she places on the table the finest
kind of 11 dinner. What is sho golug to do
afterward? What kind of conversation
has sho to offer to go with this dellcluus
meal?
"In arranging her household budget,
tho homeniaker should consider first of all
food. That is ono thing sho cannot do
without. Next comes shelter.
"Then comes clothing, but not luxurious
dressing. Women should learn to dress
with taste and to suit their own individual
ity, but not extravagantly. The average
woman in the street today not only dresses
that way, but indecently as well. Then
comes operating expenses of the home, which
Include both the practical and the artistic
side.
"This latter is one of the most difficult
problems of all. How to instill tnste whero
there apparently is none is a conundrum.
But tnste really makes fur economy as well
ns beauty. Then of course, saving should
be considered, but, of course, we ull recog
nize thnt Is a difficult operation on n mod
erate incomo in these days of abnormal ex
penses. "Much could be snved if people could
only realize that tho homo Is the real center
of pleasure and entertainment and that there
Is after all no pleasure so substantial and
permanently satisfying as Interchange of
ideas."
What Do You Know?
QUIZ
1. What is u patois?
2. How should the word be pronounced?
2. Who Is accounted the greatest mllltnry
loader umong tho Roman emperors?
4. What Is tho quarterdock of a ship?
G. Who wroto "Over tho Hill to the Poor
house"? 6. what Kind of an animal is uu ounce?
7. What Ib the abbreviation for pound?
8. Who was Kitty G'lvo?
9. What Is dross?
10. Of what state Is Jackson the capital?
Answers to Yesterday's Quiz
1. Tho highest mountain on any Island In
the world Is Mauna Kea on Haw-i
The BUmmlt 1h more than 13,000 tVJi
abovo sea level. el
2. In tho word nephew the "ph" should hav
the sound of "v." tt'
3. Tho Unious literary Bronte sisters were
named Charlotte, Emily and Anne.
4. Only one Republican Preeldent served
two full terms. Ho was Ulysses H
Grant
6. Tho Germans mado their unsuccessful at-
lacs un vernun in laio. Tho nialnr
attack began In February. J
6. Tho majority of the musical compositions'
of Chopin were written for tho piano"
7. M Mlllorund In tho present premier of
France.
8. A genuflexion Is a bending of tho knee
especially In worship. '
0. Oalvanlo batteries are named from the
noted Italian scientist, Aloyslus Oal-
vanl, who discovered the principle of
h-alvnnlsm. Hla dates aro 1 737. j 71)8
10, Trade wlndn blow from tropical )ri,,( .',
high pressuie to eou.itorlnl belt r
low-pressure They blow frow' tin
northeast In the northern lif.iilsnhera
nnd from tho voutheaat In the som Wn
iKmlswrv, and are fsceedincly ruKii.
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SHORT CUTS
Pity tho straw vote didn't go the wj
of the straw hat.
A bored populace cannot altogether
avoid the straw vote, but it can ignore it.
Erwin Be red oil is now in a position to
realize how a yellow streak will muss up 1
family picture.
The speaker of the Now York Assembly
seems determined to give the Socialists plenty
of advertising.
The miners have returned to work; but
a brief interval must bo allowed while they
tiplt on their bands.
Well, Mr. Fischer got a nice trip nnd
lots of notoriety ; and he was not averse to
either, judging from his pictures.
When it comes to standing up for the
usual divvy, Union Tractiou is as firm and
unyielding as tho rock of Gibraltar.
One advantage Mr. Mitten has lu th
discussion of P.' R. T. problems : He knowi
exactly what ho wants and why he wants it,
Nicky Arnsteln is in n New York Jail
on a silence strike. Why doesn't some dii
ease of that kind occasionally strike a can
didate? Ono thing that prevents Frofcssor fied
dard from hitting the moon with 11 rocket li
lock of money. And there may be a better
reason.
Millcrand hns expressed his wlllltignrti
to ncccpt tho presidency of France if it
thrust upon him. 'Tis an attitude nf mind
toward nigh honors not unknown in tnli
country.
Perhaps one of tho things the feminWi
will take up, now that the mutter of votlnj
is decided, is just why a healthy woman wiln
no children should collect alimony from a
mere man.
The fact that n Maine judge has decided
that a womnn need not give her ago vn
registering simply proves thnt while gaining
her rights womnu does not inteud to Iob
any of her privileges.
Very fortunately some loud-moutlied
idiot will give the police some new line on
the perpetrators of tho Wall street outrage
when all other clues havo failed. Cranks an
never able to maintain silence for long.
There is strong suspicion that
"scores of conscientious objectors" to having
a womnn executed who were tbus relieved
of jury duty entertained more or less con
scientious objection to serving on a Jury.
An Austrian at Atco, N. J., when b
learned that ho had been left a fortune ot
10,000 crowns, was jubilant; and nd''"!"
when he found it was worth but 50. 1"
present rate of exchongo is a great dastteroi
fond hopes.
For the week ended September- the
railroads of the country moved n8.",000 car
loads of freight. Many of them contalart
fruit that traveled clear across the cpntintm
to Philadelphia, whllo Pennsylvania fruit
lies rotting on the ground.
The forts of Warsaw have been "P'j
bv vegetable gardens. This Is not bKi
the danger of war Is past, but becair , W
Germans proved in Belgium that the "
wero out of date. Nevertheless, there
joyous promise iu the fact itself.
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rinniuigu, vmic, "'.',-:;" f (he
Chilean ScIsmologlcni iiuscrvnun.'. ..,
glad tho earthquo
irthnunke nrriven wn. --
ns It would havo been ever wwwj'j
ns It would havo been ever so i , . j
If It hnd been delayed. Peeved If It bad m
to wait, as It were.
A rorresnondent of the Becoj
Thoughter in the morning P"u"C"tbe clot '
seeks to know what has become of w . ,1
dancer with his cornucopia ',",,, '
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rlog duii'-er didn't carry n cornuco nia.
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