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Charles H Ludlmlon, Vic Prealclent; John C.
Martin. Secretary and Treaaureri Philip 8. Collins,
John H, Williams, John .T. Spurion, Director.
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l-hilidelphla Frl!i. September 21 IMS
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TMnrs on whleh the people eipeet Ihe new
nrimlnlMrallon lo concentrate It attrntlom
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rTnlnroemenf of the voter atipptu
llomrt to arror."iodat the pnp'ilaj'on.
MESSING IT UP AGAIN
TUB chronic difference of opinion on the
capacity of the Board of Education to
Increase the pay of its employes Ih typical
and deplorable. The latest obstruction Ih
the failure to aell certain properties from
which some of the funds were to have been
derlrcd.
Joseph Catharine, a member of the board,
explains the lack of buyers by the recession
of the real estate purchasing tide. In other
words, dilatory methods are bearing their
Inevitable fruit, and the confusion In the
situation, which seemed to be clearing up
last week, is again becoming Impenetrable.
Nobody spoms 'o know now how much the
teachers will get whether the money will be
in the form of bonuses and salary Increases
or a combination of them, or whether any
thing will be done at all.
The board Insists that It has only $700,000
to spend. George Wharton Pepper declares
that the treasury also contains $2-10.000 left
over from the last state appropriation, and
that the citlxentr' committee which he heads
will see that each teacher receives $200 at
once.
At once! The phrase is obsolete In this
preposterous and seemingly Interminable
muddle.
PEACE FEARS
TN CHISP, snappy sentencer, new students
- nt the Jefferson Medical College were
told yesterday that in effect nature Is an
eternal scoundrel and In particular that
"world peace means world death." Dr.
Hobart A. Hare, the speaker, was quite
positive. Kor Illustrative purposes the badly
behaved Hon in the preenee of the "suc
culent sheep" was summoned, as was the
avid inquisitive robin preying on the defense
less worm. "War and famine," Raid he.
"are nature's efforts to keep tlve race from
growing too big for the earth."
It Is permissible tc wonder why the first
lawmakers didn't think of that. They might
have refrained from inaugurating the system
of protection and justice which to a more
or less extent helps to safeguard the lives of
Doctor Hare and his fellow occupants of
this wicked world.
In the predatory robin the southern slave
holder had a sustaining example, and like
wise in the tints, who, It is averred, 'have
their serfs. On the whole, using this rea
soning. It may be said that the thirteenth
amendment flew right In the face of nature.
So also, It must be confessed, do many of
the victories which man his won since he
emerged frorr the stone age.
If in surrendering to natuie Doctor Hare,
speaks more as a physician than as n phi
losopher, thnt, of course, has Its profes
sional aspects.
THE ICE CREAM EMPIRE
TCD CREAM Is said to have originated in
Naples, where It still nttalns the most
gorgeous .prismatic hues. As n spectacle,
real Neapolitan "spumoni" as served on
scorching August nights on the sprawling
"terrace" of C.ambrlmis vie impressively
with the perpetual pyrotechnics over the
bay. But ico cream In Naples Is In the
main a seasonable luxury. Chill weather
freezes the Italian palate. As for the com
posite European taste, thnt has long been
excessively timid before the seductions of
congealed and flavored milk and crpam.
Ices in Taris are solemnly doled out as, ac
cording to Mark Twain, were straw berries
in Oermany "like jewelry."
For bona-fide, all-the-year-round Ice
cream enthusiasm, without reservations or
amendments, America rapturously takes the
palm or cone. Manufoctnrera of the In
gratiating dehfcert. meeting in Atlantic City,
have furthermore particularized on the theme
and accirded to Pennsylvania the most sig
nal distinction.
During the la.it year 23,000,000 gallons
of ice cream were consumed In this com
monwealth, or an average of two and a half
gallons per person. The responsibility of
prohibition Is fixed at IH per cent. No ex
planation for ice cream in January 1b given.
Outsiders wouldn't understand it, an) way,
for taste is intensely personal, uud Pennsyl
vania, the ice cresm empire, feels under no
obligation to explain what is Joyously auto
matic. MILLERANDAT THE HELM
NOT' since Adolphe Thiers, its first presi
dent. 1ms the Third Republic of France
been headed by any on possessing the at
tributes of statesmanship and the capacity
of leadership nx they are combined in Alex
andre Millerand. What effect these nssets
will have upon an office long regarded in
France as chiefly decorative, it is not easy
to forecast. Every act of the French presi
dent has to be countersigned by a minister,
and the premier, in practice atffl popular
opinion, is ranked as the real director of
the nation's destinies,
M. Millerand, however, has recently stated
Tiewsi which perhaps presage n novelty In
administrative machinery. That lie will bo
content to remain a figurehead is a sup
position contradicted by his whole, career.
Aa a radical Socialist a good many years
Ogo be was vigorous and assertive. As an
exponent of the protective militarist ideas,
to whleh the French fiovernment seems lately
to have subscribed, bis methods were no lew
frsifc-.
Vg, recognition of Genera Wrangel, which
WeWM miuiuiiuvu iu utuuu iiij(ejw man
the army advisers were moves which star
tled the Entente and elicited the particular
amazement nf J.tojd Georgt.
Doubtless it success of the extremely
long chances taken by M. Millerand In the
pursuance of his -lrastle iillcicr Is partly
responsible foe his .w ailed "elevation" to
the presidency, U is ccncelvablo 'Miat his
opponents hop, rot some wing-clipping (n
an ornamental office and thtt his supporters
arc anticipating an energetic transformation
in the presidency.
In any event It Is clear that the National
Assembly has broken precedent In his elec
tion and has risked consequence Nimllnr,
maybe, to those It feared to take in .hc
easo of that other "strong" 'man, Geoj-ges
Clemenccau.
MORE HEAT THAN LIGHT IN
THE SENATE SLUSH PROBE
What Should Have Been an Expose of
Cox Is Becoming Too Much Like
an Ancient Melodrama
TTNLESS the gentlemen of the United
States Senate can learn to take life a
little more seriously somebody will ret the
slush-fund Inquiry to light music and put
it on Broadway,
There Is an infinite fund of suggestion in
the sessions of the slush committee for an
eye familiar with the needs of the modern
stage. And the senators have all the quali
ties usually essential to success In that ileld.
They disclose nothing new In the way of
IdeaR. They do not take your mind Into
new fields and they arc no rooters for the
arts of realism. They aim to please and to
entertnln. Give them the good old virtues
in picturesque guise could anything be more
moving than Mr. Reed's presentation of the
Democratic party In the role of friendless
nnd desolated Little Eva? and the words
that mean little but carry poignant sound!
Mr. Barnes, nf New York, as the Villain
Who Was Not Half Bad ; Mr. Depcw, jerked
from his retirement for a revival of the re
fined comedy of the eighties; a few southern
Tote brokers for the npte of broad farce
these arc characters supposed to represent
real life In the drama of the day in Wash
ington.
The Senate loves Its old ways. Its in
quiries proceed as evenly an a running brook,
nnd they are no more sensational. Can any
one remember when the slush Inquiry began?
Already It seems to have been going on since
the beginning of the world, so familiar, so
monotonous are the tones and moods of the
probers. I.Ike things heard in childhood or
remembered from past existences are the
questions of these solemn gentlemen, who do
not Seem to know what they want to know.
Senators like Mr. Reed nnd Mr. ICenyon
appear to have a neatly tabulated list of
questions which they dust off and toss nt
witnesses in every inquiry, whether it relates
to coal or boodle, foreign affairs or the rela
tion of the boll weevil to physical inertia in
the muffin-welders' union.
You voted for Roosevelt In 1012, did you,
and for Wilson In 1010! Aha! You did?
Then what right have you to testify as a
Republican or as a Democrat? If you never
used money In politics how can you be sure
that what you believe to be money In politics
Is not something else! Mr. Reed enn talk
in that fashion for months nt n time nnd he
can be as humorous about the baldness of a
witness ns he can bo about men killed In the
war, nnd so divert Inquisitive minds from
the pursuit of a fact.
It is never easy to tell whether a Senate
committee of Inquiry is trying to kid Itself
or kid the country. And it Is no wonder,
therefore, that the current Investigation Into
the finances of the campaign is a thing of
vagaries that has failed wretchedly to ac
complish the one end which the country had
a right to expect.
The committee knows that Mr. Cox was
guilty of ugly and dangerous misrepresenta
tion. Why Mr. Cox and his friends are nof
made to bear the full responsibility for their
sins Is not apparent.
A man who has most of the world for an
audience said that the rich men in the
United States were plotting to buy the presi
dency and to put down the decent aspirations
of workingmen with bayonets.
Now, coming from Mr. Debs or from Mr.
Foster, such a statement would be rela
tively harmless. The people know that Mr.
Debs and Mr. Foster resort deliberately to
overstatement and overemphasis. But Mr.
Cox is a man with a reputation for integrity
and temperate utterance. When he talked
of the millions and the bayonets of his
imagination he startled even those people
who are prepared to see the ordinary limits
of folly and nonsenso reached and passed in
the heat of a national campaign.
If what the Democratic candidate said
was half true, violent reprisals of one class
against another would be Inevitable and even
justifiable. Here certainly was Incitement
to radicalism and riot. Every man In the
Senate, every man on the slush committee,
every witness summoned to testify knows that
national elections cannot be bought. Every
man, rich nnd poor, outside the insane
asylums longa to forget bayonets and knows
that his own welfare depends upon the
peaceful reconciliation of group interests in
this country.
The Senate has not shown the country
how folse and shameful tho charges of Mr.
Ox were. It hns not dispelled the ugly
rumors that its own sessions have turned up.
It has not revealed the blmple nnd under
standable truth obout money In the cam
paign. A Senate committee can be more
prudish than a Victorian dnme in the pres
ence of any slightly unpleasant fact. It may
bo wholly sophisticated, but it will stick to
the -gesture of almost unearthly chastity to
the bitter end.
So we have Senator Reed making puns
and Senator Kenyon doing Hamlet when
straight talk and direct questions arc needed.
Upon one memorablo session the curtain rose
at Mr. Reed's command to show the Demo
cratic party tottering on the stnge in rags,
the saddest of all the disconsolate of the
period, with only $3,000,000 between It ond
the poorhouse, yet spurning every contribu
tion of more or was It less? than $f)000.
Members on the Republican tide, can
dream, too. Their party, as they would
make it appear, is too, too good for this
wicked world. The anguished exclamation?
of Mr. Barnes, of New York, when boodle
was mentioned to him by the pitiless Demo
crats would seem unreal even In melodrama.
Only In a Senate committee room arc Such
pretensions of heavenlincss supposed to be
convincing. There they ore a vogue, a de
pendence, a refuge in every crucial Instance.
Mr, Kenyon and Mr. Reed could write,
I masterly volumes abont the Care and Feed
(ling of Political Parties. But they hate to
Jklet the world know the extent of their
Mmowledge. .8"1 tlw re tducatlonal and
heljrM wen now. They ard lnapilflcent aa&
EVENING PUBLIC LEDGERr
:ontftht examples fot the youth of tho land"
f what senatorcAhould not be.
If you wen tc look Into the records of the
Schato steel Inquiry or study tho. testimony
sought and acquired ty committees ent from
Washington to probe the questions it coal
production end supply, ynv) would know ;hat
hit; been the matter with tht slush 'Inquiry.
You would find thnt Senate committer Is
usually disposed to learn, bu not to team
anything that may make Its member un
comfortable. The beginning In, both parties of the
funds called "lush are known t everybody In
Washington, And every von who knews,'
anything about anything In national politics
knows that the report nf - huge Republican
fund have been fantas'c exaggerations
The gossfp of slush funds began with 'or
gaclzatlnnr of professional money-getters
whe had been behind many of Uie drives for
wnr funds. This new profession Is Intensely
proud of what U .alls pep. It seeks ltritf
fields of action. It tumpc,l n bit -whf n the
armistice war signed. Misery and desolation
were still pretty general and need for or
ganlxcd relief was very great. But bonds
were sold ond loans were accomplished, and
the professional campaigners yearned for a
new cry nnd new fields to conquer.
There had never been n Republican drive
or a Democratic drive. Here was a great
hought. Let tho starving wait! Who
would more quickly give up money than
party men, who Inherit their political beliefs
ns they inherit, their .names or the color of
their hair? Some monumental ass In the
Republican national organization was en
chanted by the prospect of what seemed like
n new and effectual method for obtaining the
money that every party needs. Certainly the
Democrats were .convinced, too. But the
Democrats were later In the field and they
were able to escape and cover their tracks
after some professional '.campaigner with a
fool's notion of efficiency In phrases devised
n slogan for his cohorts and gave to the op
ponents of Mr. Harding their "Boys, get the
money." '
So began the clamor and the rumors of
which Mr. Cox made ouch wild and reckless
use In his talk of bayonets and attempts to
buy the presidency. Simple frankness, the
willingness of party managers to admit mis
takes nnd a desire In the Rlush committee of
the Senate to be fair and Impartial In this
Instance would have eliminated from many
minds a lingering belief thnt a deliberate
effort was made to corrupt a national elec
tion with money.
But senntors on both sides cannot always
forget their parties or the party fight even
for the sake of the country. The members
of the slush committee are jocular, urbane,
evasive, humorous, witty, amusing, clever,'
resourceful. They are everything but direct
and plain spoken.
LOGAN CIRCLE DREAMS '
A TRIFLE of $21,BOO,000 will materialize
the "cloud-capped towers, the gorgeous
palaces, the solemn temples" beheld by John
T. Wlntlrlm In an architectural vision of
Logan circle. "Such tricks hath strong
Imagination," observed a ioet who was.
served extremely well by precisely that fac
ulty. The splendor of such fancy Is In Mr.
Wlndrim's drenm of a c.'vlc center to Include
the Free Library. Municipal Court Building,
the Academy of Natural Sciences, the
Cnthedral. the Franklin Institute nnd a
"home" for the Philadelphia Orchestra. In
his program tho taxpayers' bill Is dismissed
with easy confidence In the revenue possi
bilities of automobile owners nnd the repu
diation of economy slogans.
It would be( agrrenble, Indeed, could Mr.
Wlndrim's hopes of the benutlfication nf
Philadelphia be realized with the rapturous
rush of his langunge. In theory no citizen
can legitimately object to a hnndsome town.
It Is the eternal battle between the utili
tarian nnd the decorative, involving funda
mentally, of course, the question of finnnces,
thnt Is so often a serious check on the de
velopment of American cities. The balance
between beauty and necessity Is elusive and
the npproximntions nttalned arc frequently
far from accurate,.
In the case of the. Parkway, Its construc
tion necessitated the delay of n number of
vltnlly Important projects. On the other
hand, the rejuvenation of a rundown dis
trict was undoubtedly excellent for tho civic
morale and has furnished a basis for expan
sion, both of an idealistic and practical na
ture, which might have been held up for
years.
Mr. Wlndrlm Is justified in wishing the
best for Logan circle. The library, at least
so far as the city's Intentions arc con
cerned, has passed the fanciful stage. The
Academy of Natural Sciences and tho Cathe
dral are admirably placed ns nuclei In the
new development. The other suggested
works must, perhaps, wait "upon the adjust
ment of conditions warranting the outlay of
more millions.
What It Is needful to keep In mind, how
ever, Is tho costliness of floundering nnd
contradictions In municipal planning. In
picturing the possibilities of Logan circle
Mr. Wlndrim's general principles nre sound
enough. A comprehensive plan, no matter
how elaborate, may serve to prevent errors
in detail almost as expensive as an entlro
project consistently executed.
If tho administration responsible for the
conception of the City Hall In Its present
location had been fareclng, millions could
have been saved In the work of replannlng
Philadelphia. In the end this Incubus will
have to be removed.
Gradual thought the adornment of Logan
circle may be, It Is obviously proper that
reckoning with tho future should bo made.
For this reason alone Mr. Wlndrlm'a vision
is stimulating. It is lu effect a 'warning
against the kind of haphazard growth which
has made the making over of American cities
ho formidable nnd costly n task.
The British coal strike ordered for next
Monday has world Interest because of the
underlying Intent of the miners' officials to
force the government to nationalize the mines.
This is evidenced by the fact thnt the miners
hnve refused to negotiate cither with the
mine owners or with tho Industrial Court
established to hear and settle just such dis
putes. The Issue thus becomes, entirely
npart from the justice of the miners' indus
trial demands, one between the people ob a
whole, ns represented by their government,
nnd n small e-lass which virtually seeks to
form a dictatorship.
Surgeon General Cummlngs points out
thnt post-war plagues are likely to find their
way Into this country because, of Increased
immigration, and, apart from immigration,
bemuse of tho general Increase of all ship,
ping. Every cargo ship has a largo and In
dustrious quota of rats, nnd some of them
may get ashore and spread disease. The
Immigration Bureau nnd health authorities
may cope with the problems presented by
.immigration; but every citizen may do his
bit by helping to exterminate tho rodents
wherever found. .
A freshman In the college ot Emporia,
nan,, is paralysed ueiow Uie waist at an
result of hazing Haplntr, you will remem-
ber, wac abolished fronr our colleges' yearaji
tad nan lie. ' r
. -. ., ,
- PHlLABELPHIA,. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 2i,
SCIENTISTS' DEVOTiObJ
Mon Like Professor Doollttla QM
Lives With Little. Hop of
. Matorlal Rewards
THE late Prof. Eric DoolltUe once quoted
hit distinguished father as haTlnf said,
"The most remarkable discovery In astron
omy would be finding some way to make a
fortune out of It." Yet the elder DoolltUe
spent his life In devotion to this scUncs and
raised two sonr who bare followed lh his
footsteps in spite of the fact, early Instilled
Into them,, thht they could hope for bo ad
equate motcrlal rewards. .
Years at o the astronomer was a moo, who
studied the stars and the solar system In Jtll
aspects. Comparatively llttie wds knowiil
one m,n could find time to master '' t
hid been learned. As the science broadened,
as Instruments multiplied, as separate nhe
nomsna revealed themselves, each promising
to lead to some new discovery, astronomy
became subdivided Into branches, ahd emy
branch became so important that few mn
could master moro than one., So the as
tronomer became a specialist; he devoted Ml
life to collecting data and formulating hy
potheses which should bring out some hltu?
erto unknown fact lu his own brauch, leav
ing to others its possible application tc their
branches.
PERHAPS In no other phase of human
endeavor except religion has such utter
devotion of self been shown as in astronomy.
Always before the student of the stats looms
tho fact that his tiny span Of threescore years
and ten Is not sufficient to unfold the re
mits of the gigantic forces Whlfch remain as
puzzles to us ; he can but gather his share Of
the data and pass on. He devotes himself
to tt'new phase of his science, knowing full
well thnt he can do no more than build a
yart' of the foundation and that other hands
sud other brains will rear the structure 111
all Its benntv lone veers after he Is dust.
Yet he goes devotedly on at bis chosen .
work.
ERIO DOOLITTLE specialized In double
stara. Most persons do not even know
what a double stnr Is. There are thousands
of amateur astronomers who look at double
stars and find in them a certain delight that
they possess a telescope good enough to re
veal two points of light where the naked cyft'
can see only one. It Is n pride In a physical
possession; there their interest ceases. But
to Professor DoolltUe tho phenomena of the
double stars loomed as the most important
thing In life. He was firm in bis belief that
s6me day man would know mare of the great
forces that surround them, but thnt to know
that he must have tomes of data, laboriously
and painstakingly gathered, upon which to
base his calculations and prove his theories.
PERHAPS the best example to explain
popularly what a double stir Is Is fount!
In tho star Mlzar. which Is In the Big Dipper
ot the break or bend In the "handle." To
a person with defective eyesight this nppeora
to be only a single star. Persons with good
eveslght can, however, distinctly sec a tiny
stnr so close to It that the rays of the two
seem to merge Into each other. The Indians
call tho pair "the squaw with the papoose
on her back," nnd they used them to test
the eyesight of their own papooses. With
the ordinary Opera glass tho two stars can
be widely separated, and with a big telescope
they seem quite far apart.
Miliar and Its little companion make' a
"naked-eye" double; thnt Is, the com
ponents arc separated widely enough to make
a telescope unnecessary to "split" them.
But tlwre arc thousands of doubles In the
heavens so close that only powerful Instru
ments can detect the space between. And.
Incidentally, Mlzar Is notable again among
double stars In thnt the large star Itself Is ft
double, but no telescope can "split" the com
ponents. Its duplicity has been reveoled nnd
studied by means of the spectroscope, nnd
the results Indicate that the point of light
which we see at the crook in the Dipper's
hnndlo Is formed by two huge bright bodies,
the pair together hnvlng a mass perhaps
forty times that of our sun, nnd revolving
about n common center. 140,000,000 miles
apart, with a relative velocity of 100 miles
a second nnd in a period of about 101 dnys.
A CENTURY nnd n half ago Sir William
Hcrsehe began to stud? the double stars
thnt were then known. The theory nt the
time was thnt these doubles hod no connec
tion with each other, that they were simply
two stars which happened to be. In the same
line of sight, but that one wns Infinitely fur
ther away from us than the other.
Hersehel's Interest was In using them to
find out their distance from the enrth. He
made exnet measurements of the angular
distance between them and their direction
from each other: then six months later, when
the earth wss on the other side of the sun.
or some 180,000.000 miles from its first
position, he measured them awin. Ills
theory wns thnt, with so great a change
In the earth's position, there would be
nn alteration In the apparent distance be
tween the stars because of the change In
perspective, nnd that, hr using this change
nnd ,the known base line, whleh was the
earth's distance from the sun. he could figure
tho dUtnnce of the nearer component of the
double star.
BUT the results did not encourage him,
and after a time he gave It up. Some
twenty-five years later, with Improved In
struments, he made one more attempt, nnd
this, compared with his previous records,
gave him not what he was looking for, hut
something infinitely more amazing, thnt
opened up n new branch of investigation in
nstronomy.
For ho saw that the motions of the com
ponents of nlmost all of his double stars
proved that they did not merelv happen to
b Independent and merely by chance In the
line of sight, but thnt they actually belonged
to each other physically nnd were revolving
about their common renters in great orbits
some of which might take centuries to com
plete. ''I went out like Saul." he wrote,
"to seek his father's nsses and found a
kingdom."
SINCE then astronomers the world over
hnve been delving relentlessly Into the
mysteries of the double stars. So huge ore
the motions nnd ho long does It require to
make a perceptible change In the nnlin n
some thnt many generations of stnr-gazers
must nass before their orbits, their masse
or their distances can even be guessed.
There is one famous double which excel
lently Illustrates the marvels about which
we nt present know prnotlcolly nothing. In
the constellation of Lyra, near the bright
green stnr Vega, which Is directly overhead
about 0:rtO In the evening now, Is a little
stnr known by the Greek letter epsllnn. It
Is the northernmost of the two that fprm a
triangle with Vega. An opcrn glass or even
n Been nnaro eye will spilt tills Into two; S
three-Inch telescope will prove that each of
these two is a double.
IT HAS been estimated by some authorities
that the two tiny stars of one of these
pairs revolve nbout each other In something
like 1000 years; the other pair revolves In
about 2000 years, and. the two pairs revolve
about each other In n period which is nrob
ably many thousand years longer, and has
even been thought to require close to 1,000,.
000 years.
It can easily be seen how many, many
generations nf observers like tho late Pro
fessor Doollttle must come and go and leave
exact records behind them before the mys
tery of epsllon Lyrne can be solved. To the
layman this painstaking, thankless work will
seem foolish when there can be no reward
for It. But to the man filled with the true
sclentlflo ardor every observation carefully
I erAllons brings a thrill of genuine joy, for lie
maae onu reroracu ,nuu ipji ior ititure gen-
nows mat nt is uuuing ins mite to the sum
of knowlrdse that will lead one day to
Achievements whose glory no man can now
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Daily Talks With Thinking Philadelphia on Subjects They
Know Best
DR. JOSIAH H. PENNIMAN
On Otoser College Relationships
A CLOSER relationship between the Uni
versity heads and the student body,
especially members of tho freshman class,
Is one of the desires of Dr. Joslah H. Pen
nlman, acting provost at tho University of
Pennsylvania.
With the University opening Its doors to
dsy, Doctor Petinlman told of a few of the
plans which have been devised for the better
Inculcation of the best possible spirit among
the student body.
"One of the Innovations," explnined Doc
tor Pcnniman, "Is the establishment of what
we are going to call 'student conferences.
Following tho custom, recently revived by
Doctor Smith,, of nll-Unlverslty chapel It
Is our Intention to amplify the Idea this
year.
"On Monday there will be a conference
Intended principally for the assistance of
first-year men. There will be a speaker on
every Monday, who will talk on some sub
ject touching on university life of the proper
Pennsylvania spirit. The speakers chosen
will be either those who have some connec
tion with the University, those who haVe a
knowledge and Interest In the University or
prominent' men of Philadelphia who may
have a wotth -while message for us.
"On Friday ot next week there will be a
similar conference, but this time open to Ml
students, and ngaln there will be a speaker
who has a message to five the University.
Upper Class Students Help
"Especially T desire to bring a new spirit
to the incoming boys. The task of teaching
them what the University stands for will
not be in my hands nor In those ot any fac
ulty members, but will be conducted by
Upper classmen who are best fitted to do tho
work.
"Along this line It has been arranged to
nut one senior In every dormitory. Ills role
will b that of adviser and counselor to his
particular group of first-year men, nnd wo
expect tills plan to accomplish a great deal.
When I say that the work of asslying the
freshmen will be in the bands of the stu
dents themsolves, I will add that these
upper classmen will work In co-operation
with us, and will at all times have our hearty
support And co-operation.
"Pennsylvania s peculiarly situated In
that it is in the heart of a great city. Many
of the incoming first-iear men have never
been outside of tho limits ot a small country
town. Naturnlly they have uo desire to 'go
Wrong,' as the oxpresslon goes, and in many
cases would not do so If they were given
good advice at the outset.
"It was for this reason that so much at
tention was paid this year to the reception
and guiding of the freshmch on their arrival,
Including the information desk at the rail-
roan stations ami me oooins tocaieu an over
the camptls. We hope by all these mrons
not only to steer these men tight at the out
set, but also to Instill In them the real spirit
ot Pennsylvania, first and foremost and be
fore all else.
"The University Is opening Its new year
under the very best ot auspices and we are
all looking forward to a most successful ses
sion. Of the new professors I need only
say that the very fact that they were
brought here Is proof that 'hey are of the
highest caliber.
"Three familiar faoes are gone, and there
Is not one of us here at the University who
will not mlsa Dr. Edgar Fahs Smith, Dr.
John MacFarlane and Dr. John Bach Mc
Master to tho fullest extant. They have
been with u so long and were all so well
beloved that they must of necessity lvo a
void, that cannot be easily filled."
Teachers Are U. of P, Men
In commenting nn the fart Mint so many
of the new appointments of pwfessdrs and
Instructors are Pennsylvania men Doctor
penolman declared that he ;ould not say
whtther this was a matter of policy or of
accident.
"There are a greet many of our own
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other angles of view to bear on our own
problems.
"Of the enrollment I have no figures os
yet, but can only ssy that the numbers will
run very hlehi many of them being women
J, In the school of education. They will all
nnd places for -them and ell the tmtiuicis
will be open.
"The new. year must speak for Itself In
the matter of scholarship. Whether it will
rise or fall now that the influx of war stu
donts has ceased I cannot soy, but the re
sults will be shown In February and June.
At any rate, the outlook Is one to inspire
optimism and hope."
NOT 'IN THE UNION
I MET an ancient, groy-halrcd man,
A scythe upon Mr shoildcr;
Than he no one I'd ever seen
Who weaker looked and older.
I stopped him and I said: "That thing
You carry like a saber
Proclaims tho workman, but do you
Belong to union labor?."
lie looked nt mo and shook his he'ad ;
"Mv work Is never censing;
The field I reap Is very large
And ever more increasing.
"No leisure I've for foolish strikes,
I ask no raise or bonus. '
I never rest my name is Time!
In Greece they called me Chrnnos."
W. W. WMtclock, In Sun nnd .New York
Herald.
What Do You Know?
QUIZ
1. Which state was the birthplace of more
Presidents, Virginia or OhlcT
2. What snake Is capable of swallowing- a
live plg7
3. "What Is the cockpit of a ship?
. WMo took command of th British fleet
at the battw of Trafalgar after the
death of Nelson?
5. What Is the origin of the word Hngol
6. What name of a flower Is nlso given to
an edible shellfish?
7. What is cloisonne wnre?
8. How should tho word be pronounced?
9. How mnny square feet make an acre I
10. Nnme two great rivers which form parts
of tho boundaries of the United States?
Answers to Yesterday's Quit
l.'cjeneral Obreron wob recently elected
president ot Mexico
2. The first amendment to the United Slates
(.-UIIBlllUUUU
dom, freedot
constitution gunrnnteen religious free
dom, rreenom or me press and
i of the press rtnd of speech
and the right lo petition.
3, Two grtat oll-produolng regions outside
of the United States are the Tsmplco
district In Mexico nnr the Baku dis
trict near the Caspian Sea.
4. The two principal gases In air are oxygon
and nitrogen,
t. Jean Louis Ernest Melssonnler wns a
French palrter of the realistic school
especially noted for his effective treat
menL?l nUi,ary juhjects. His dates
nro 1813-1IB1.
8. A debacle Is n iantueed rout, a rush,
stampede. The word also deecrbii
the breuk-up of Ice In a river.
7. The. Aland Islands ore nn nrohlpelaKo in
the aulf of Bothnia, n arm of the
Battle sea In northern Europe. .
8. Cacao Is really more correct than cocoa.
the latter word being a osnuptlon of
the former, but now sanctioned
through usage.
. A "bob" In Ungllsh money It a shilling,
10. Th tlpantsh Armada was destroyed by
the Kngllsh and by storms In 1688.
Keeping tho Record Straight
Prom lh Mletliilppl Bun.
In Its Issue ot July 23 the Sun toll ot n
vagrant mad dog loose at Mehr Spur, one
how it had bitten a pony and the pony had
bitten fourteen mules owned by V, E, Me
Lcllan. From Mtleel wo received word todav
(bat a mule owned by T. F, WilllMgho.ni hd
Plnachlto In l.ouuvllle Tlmti.
SHORT CUTS
Piecemeal plans mike- pi. or pcrrldge.
. It's a Sweet buoch of ncir-st:t(im
Uiey b.ive at Albany.
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By the tttne f man refs ready to t'hj
a tun-pic to nimscii ne ates.
The Cox nejildcntial csapoign trail 1
proved to be an Arizona kicker.
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Our paper currency is apparent!; rjlHl
10 justirynne phrase "tiithy lucre."
Cox's friends" sem to t of the opioid
that If he Is euchred It will W beau. till
has chosen to go It alont.
Apparently the rnlv dlffientc if nW-
Ion -Is ns to whether the Dtnioj-.tlj iiihl
needs a bridle or a ge.j.
Flfly-seTen divorces were gristid U
this cltv Tuesday and Wednesday TM
usual varlbiy of mlxej sliikles, we fitron.
It may be lhat benefits would rcsa't H
the deflation which Is slowly lu iiiw,
taking ploon tould include rouolrlpsl lou',
bills.
A Chieaco hide l.rs ruled thnt . vomit J
doesn't hae to kiss be; husband until after 1
hr has washed his foce. A rent womtiJ
finicky?
The Cubnn Jobber who wants to buy til
ear so that he ma.v win his lady love MM
dently Intends as a mnrrled man to Mil
good listener.
Two Massachusetts electors voted (ef
Charles P. nil for state treasurer Pm
sumably they thought he could nl "
mnnnv ti.f1,tit (avdIN, i
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A Chicago mBn has been .ha t'd by M
wife with stealing cookie? rem tlt'lr lJfi
He micht urge In rebuttal that he did It W.
the baby s own good,
Admission to o Bayonne. N J cnnrfl
social is n penny nn Inch waist mii
This s poetic Justice for fat men, but bin.
treatment for plump girls.
Georw Creel sajs h Is 'Tola In "P1
his ears In the '.ampalgn to fleet floneJ
Cox." In n flood of words, of courx.
no. tlmo tt '-omo up. to breathe
sense.
A Massachusetts man who ran for '
Republlcon nomination for state trMiur"
on stickers not .nly won. but received vow
for every olliCt nn no naunt. i
can't keep ri good man down.
A .. 'IH referendum in N't"''
has declared for an industrial court for w .
..ii..ji it . MAn,.AntttAc hpttvren tP
mi.liiiiicai.iiiu ui muuuinuii - ,.,.,(,
ployer nnd .employe. 'TIs another Inwr."
Ing and hopeful sign of the tiroes.
When a couple of footpads tried tb,
a Bristol woman she landed one a rW"
the law and. floorlns'the other, ?
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thaf woman Is entitled to all the rl.M
man. and one right more, the rig" ,
protected.
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mat rerorm is niwuyn """"rj ,i i
other fellow was recently ""'"'ftftlj
meeting of the officials o five Mmmcbw '
southeastern counties with the stw l, tfj
mlssioner. They had five Bood-lw J i
nnd not huslncss enough for one. "" y
were a unit In declaring that flw IV,
nnirhr n hi. nhnllshcd n the Interest fl". ,
omy. After which each county lni ,
Ueerilng Its own Jhll (arid .the Jobs I But" ;j
with If), and things remain u tw
From Pittsburgh comes the WiJ
twenty-five chickens developing J( .4rt
eating fermented berry jn y, JcJUVf W
that story; but it Ib a 1M !
srlelnal. Devotees ot Joe Ml Iff l u . j
ber that It was geeseithat ? 7"v ,iriji
41d woman plucked them thlnkiaj tn ejr, i
dead j.nnd, later, wnen umj ' , M
in their noKcdness, sne wn ",:.:,; i,cn
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