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rMtadrlphli. Satardar, Ocleber 2. 1920
A FouR-vr.Att rniiiiRAM roil
I'liu.Anr.i.iiiiA
1 . Thlnta on whleli the people fipctl the new
amlnlatratlon tn ronrrntrato Ita nttentlom
5 he Delaware ritcr liridae. ,
drvdocK bij envuvH to accommodate the
larpesl ships.
Development of the rapid transit evttcm.
A, convention hall.
A bulldina foe the Free Library.
An Art Slutcnm,
Enlargement of the renter suppri.
Homes to accommodate the population.
LAST CHANCE TO REGISTER
nEYERAL hundred tbousand men und
SikJ .nn,nn t ),! H,. n.nv If liot- r1innit.
'register at their respective polling places
J (today and thus qualify for the November
J J election.
Voting is called a duty. U is not, how
Ter, compulsory, nor' is there any law
compelling; the indifferent or the obstinate to
3reUter. The statutes, however, do provide
J .for the fixing of dates in the autumn on
which, enrollment may be made by electors
J I duly assessed.
J Neglect of these opportunities Is penalized
jln two ways. Either the unregistered per
"Jjion must lose his vote In November or he is
- "put to the bother of applying fnp redrei on
pecial days of grace at the City Hall. That
comparatively few electors ever profit by this
leventh-hour reprieve machinery is evidence
of tho nuisance it entails and of the finality
la 'a general sense of the last regular regis
tration day.
Tho stated series cuds today. Assessed
electors with a spark of civic conscious
ness, excepting, of course, those who are ill,
"Shave a simple duty to perform if they al-
lowed the two previous chances to slip by.
For a presidential year, the enrollment has
been exceedingly slim. Tnless the district
'registration places are crowded today be
tween the hours of 7 n. m. and 1 p. m.
fcnd. between 4 p. m. and 10 p. tn. the con
"i:lusion that political pride hero is ut a low
ebb .will be unavoidable. The appeal, rc-
Iterated by the politicians, by the press, by
jjmblie-Hpiritcd citizens, organized or Indi
Yidually, is "All out for n banner reglstra-
"tlon!" The excuse of insufficient warning
' is absolutely invalid.
, THIS GIDDY WORLD
UTlTOrtE than !50,000 people in New .York
." city were ordered to move yesterday.
i'More than 10,000 vans were available to do
Ilttf moving. Only about oOO people left their
Jhousea and flats. All the rest seem deter-
(mined to sit tight under the shelter of laws
J "rushed through nt a special session of the
"legislature to protect tenants from hurd
Jihenrted landlords. You cannot five In a
Jran, so the trucks that paraded grandly up
he avenues yesterday paraded grandly back
Jfto the stables after a profitless day.
J ,; There is a moral in all this for people
ifrrho believe that till evils can be cured by
J law. At the next sefsion of the New York
Legislature bills will be whooped through to
protect landlords from hard-hearted tenants.
JJ Life moves so swiftly in its uppointed
j 'Cycles nowadays that one becomes giddy
i matching it.
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A TENDERLOIN TO GO
rpnE so-called municipally owned tender-
iloin, bounded by Lombard, Hodman,
Tenth and Eleventh streets, will in n few
days cease to be a reproarh to Its landlord.
Mayor Moore has alreudy ordered the Hu
Teau'of City Property to notify the tenants
tp' vacate these ramshackle buildings. The
nextistep will be demolition, to make way
for aclty playground on the site.
The wisdom of this program is manifest.
xn Wblle it is true that bousing needs and the
razing of dwellings are In principle contra -'Vdictory
factors In an acute situation, he
1 general theory Is hardly applicable In this
) .ipeeial case. It Is no secret that the ten-
irioln block was a nest of vice nnd squalor.
' 4 dwellings, the buildings are said to be
!te Irreclaimable.
The loss of seventy-nine houses In an
American city ut the present time is. of
course, not to be justified unless exceptional
circumstances prevail. Iiut they do exist
here.
fTN The citv will be entitled to nrlilo In Its ntn
playgrouud In a section in which mnn,
$ breathing spaces are wholly desirable. Not
II' OiV'wii regrei couiu me municipality ac-
p' KuuwicuKu iu uuMirury conuiuons ns iney
were.
DIRTY STREET ANTIDOTES
li '"nOCTon FUItni'SH quite correctly sees
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co-opcrntion the remedy for street
conditions menacing the health of the com
munity. Laxity on the city's part is, of
courso, inexcusable, hut the responsibility
of tbo individual citizen cannot be refused
without, placing unwarranted burdens on the
administration.
Among the elementnry duties of the tenant
er.propcrty holder ton frequently disregarded
, ia the placing of rubbish and gnrbage In
propef rpceptaclcs, Similar breathes of good
citizenship in fo many American cities is the
littering the streets with trash merely be
cause the offenders are too careless to de
wnlt it in the nroner containers.
?' ,NTho American array in Havana taught the
i i CSMns Homo memorable and remembered
"-"' If .lefions on this subject, with the result that
y" S the 'greatest city of the Antilles Is now by
,iar ine.cieanegi.
'If Philadelphia unofficially does its duty
ftwjll not bo easy for the Department of
public Works to defend any wriggling out
' rfits own official obligations.
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! MR. BORAH RETIRES
iHT WOULD bare been amazing it Mr.
J- Borah bad got through the campaign
. .wltbrat row of some sort with the party
MMgenf, And It should surprise no one if
l!feftUr JohnBon follows the example of hit
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cent Senate session is repeating itself, in the..
national campaign, v
Mr. llornh aud Mr. Johnson were a Sen
ate minority of two when the tremendous
question ot our future international policy
wns tinder discussion; Their minds did not
go with the President'. They did not go
with tho minds of Mr. Taft or Mr. Hoover
or Sir. Lodge or Mr. Wickcrsham or with
the mind of any one else in either party
who Insisted on meeting realities in a realis
tic way. Against every plan to avert the
unthinkable catustrophes of future wars or
even to assure for the United States n place
of relative safety in days that may see sud
den nnd unexpected alignments of Old World
powers the two senators were violently an
tagonistic. They offered no alternatives.
They were the apostles of Drift.
It happen now that the men who are,
running for the presidency have to formu'
late schemes of action. They have to defino
und describe the courses which they hope to
follow. They have to be definite. Mr.
Itornh is definite only In his objection to
every definite plan for future peace nnd
safqty advanced with the support of en
lightened opinion in the two political par
ties. So ft is altogcthci natural that he
should retire to the sidelines as he retired
iu the Senate.
GROWTH OF THE CITIES
A PHASE OF EVOLUTION
No Need to Be Alarmed Because More
Than Half of the Population Lives
In Urban Centers
TT IS the fashion to bewail the rapid In-
crense In urban population in the United
States as If it were un unmitigated evil. ,
The announcement from the bureau of
the census that the completed figures will
show a rural population of 50,1)00.000 nnd
an urbnu population of iVl.700,000 is likely
to be followed by a flood of comment ou the
unwholesome tendency nud by Innumerable
suggestions nbout the wnys to correct it.
The commentators nre likely to cite the
ratio of urban to rurul population indicated
by previous enumerations of the people. They
will tell us that in 1800 the urbnu popula
tion was 30.1 pr cent of the total, nnd
that it grew to 40.15 per cent in 1000 and
increased to 40.3 per cent in 1010, nud it
is now 511 per cent.
This draining of the rural districts will
bo described as a terrible thing. Hut a little
examination of the figures will calm the
excitement of those who have any folth in
the processes of social evolution. In the
first place, it will be discovered that urban
population is reckoned as that living In com
munities with 1!."J00 population aud over.
Now, a town of 2."00 people Is tssentlally
rural. Many of its Inhabitants arc directly
dependent on the soil. Most of them have
gardens in which they raise their own vege
tables. Cows and chickens nre kept and the
people live in detached houses in wholesome
surroundiugs.
In the second place, It wjll be discovered
that there ure many states iu which the
urban population is much greater than the
average of ,"2 per cent for the whole coun
try. In Pennsylvania, for example, the
census of ,1010 showed that 00.4 per cent
of the people lived in villages aud cities with
a population iu excess of "00. Conditions
in Pennsylvania are not very bad. Wc have
farm land nnd farmers enoftgh to produce all
that wc eat. Ve buy much from other
states, but wc also sell much to other com
monwealths. The sales offset the purchases.
Our urban pnpulntiuu could be increased
still further without producing serious com
plications. Pennsylvania stood second iu the
production of butter in 1010. third In the
production of milk, apples and liny; fifth in
the production of potatoes aud seventh in
the production of cheese.
In New York, one of the richest agricul
tural states in the Union, the urbun popu
lation wns 78.S per cent of the totnl nt the
last census. In 1010 New York produced
more liny, milk and apples than any other
state, und it was second in the production
of butter and cheese.
There are many states which nre com
monly regarded as purely agricultural that
stand, low or in the production of food than
cither Pennsylvania or New York.
Massachusetts, with 0U.S per cent of urban
population, is not so degenerate that It needs
the serious attention of the soclnl reformers.
It has to buy from producers in other states
a considerable proportion of the food con
sumed by the people iu Its large manufac
turing cities, but its farms ure productive
nnd profitable.
It will be muny years before the propor
tion of population in the urban districts in
the United Stutes will be as great as It is iu
England and Wales. According to the
census of 1011, the" total population of these
countries was .'10.000,000. Of this number
27,000,000 lived in communities with 3000
population and over, or a little more than 7,"
per cent of the total. Here is a whole nation
with nn urban population within 3.S per cent
of that of tho state of New York, but It
manages to worry along pretty well.
Wc are worried here over the concentra
tion of population in cities because for years
the United .States was almost exclusively
devoted to agriculture. Tho development of
manufactures has been followed by the build
ing up of cities, und the building of cities
has created new industries which have at
tracted more population to conduct them.
The gas companies, the electric light and
telephone companies, and tho street railways
arc all products of urban conditions. Tens
of thousands of men nud women are needed
In every big city to carry on these enter
prises Which servo the hundreds of thou
sands engaged in productive industry.
There is ulso n feeling that people living
In cities nre nut quite so good citizens ns tlio.se
living in the country, uud that the political
conditions of the country will become de
moralized if something is not douo to check
the present growth of the urbun centers.
Hut no one fumiliar with rural politics is
alurmed by the agitators who attack politi
cal corruption in town. Neither is any one
familiar with the morals of tho rural dis
tricts afraid of soclnl degeneration arising
from the increase in city population. The
morals of city bojs and girls will compare
favorably with the morals of those in the
country, nnd the politics of the cities is, on
the whole, much cleaner than the politics of
the country. No city boss ever gets the
power that scores of rural bosses wield. Nor
is tho city boss ever so tyrannical as the
country boss.
Hut it is important, after all, that every
agency engaged in nmxlng life in the coun
try more attractive should bo encouraged.
In fact, those ogeucles which arc seeking to
give to the family living on a farm some
of the social aud educational advantages en
Joyed by the people living In town are work
ing in the right direction. Hut In order to
succeed It must be shown that It pays just
ns well to live In the country as In the city.
No amount of urgument can counteract the
dollar. During the war It is estimnted that
1,000,000 young men and women left the
country to engage In some kind of urn- uork
In the cities, attracted by the high wages
offered. Most of them havu rcmulucd In
the cities, where they have got employment
In peaceful occupations. Tho result bus been
an increase in the wages paid to the farm
workers and a consequent increuse in the
cost of the food which we all must cat.
Nothing that can be done is likely to check
the. tendency to an incrcaso in urban popu
lation. Tills tendency is not confined to the
United States, but Is operating in every
civilized country. It 'la one of tho incidents
of the development of civilization nnd the
multiplying of the wants of the people; But
people can be kept on the farms by an in
telligent exposition of tho opportunities
awaiting the wideawake and enterprising
producer of food. There is no manufactured
product for which the demand is so steady.
People must eat. The fashions in food do
not change with tho seasons. They arc not
fixed in Paris or London. Meat is meat,
whether raised In China or Colorado. Po
tatoes arc potatoes nnd wheat is wheat, nnd
have been from the beginning of their use as
food. If an urhnn manufacturer could be
assured of a steady demand for tho product
of his factory he would not leave it to en
gage in some other business. The country
food producer Is unique among the manufac
turing classes. He knows that sonic one
must buy what he produces.
What wc need just now is a careful study
of the arts of marketing the product of tho
farms. The manufacturer has his ware
rooms in the centers frequented by tho pur
chasers. He sends his agents about the
country to sell his product in advance of
manufacture. But the American farmer ns
't, rule trusts to luck. Tho farmers of Den-
mnrk arc leaving nothing to chance. They
have organized co-operative selling agencies
which work so successfully that their butter
is sold ull over Europe, nnd the other day it
was reported that they were ubout to send
butter to America. An intelligent system of
co-operative marketing will remove nine
tenths of the uncertainty which now worries
the Amcricnn farmer, nnd when that uncer
tainty disappears there will be no Industry
under the sun In which the returns arc so
sure, the profits so generous and the life so
independent. Then the country boy who
goes to the city will go because there is no
room for him on the farm.
Wc need not worry overmuch about the
growth of urban population. It would be
as useless to worry about the growth of n
child from youth to maturity.
THE FARE TEST
rTtHE manner and method of Mr. Mitten's
-- appeal to trolley users, who were asked
yesterday voluntarily to relinquish their
legal right to exchanges nnd transfers, make
the experiment notable in more ways than
one. As u precedent indicative of a new
code of corporation ethics, the P. It. T.'s
newest approach to the patrons of its lines
wns almost astonishing.
Utilities corporations have not always the
habit of simplicity und frankness in their
dealings with the outside world. That may
be the reason why so many of them ure
forever getting Into trouble. Street railway
companies of the pust looked for no qunrter
from the public and they gave none. They
dealt in the days of strikes and bankruptcies
and inefficient service with the men higher
up, nnd felt that they had followed the one
course open to them. If you had ever sug
gested to one of the old-fashioned traction
ranguates that he go over the heads of the
men in office and trust himself to the grace
and reasonableness of the people you would
surely have known what ribald luughter
sounds like when It comes from the heart.
The fact that the P. R. T. did this is in
itself something to wonder at.
More significant still is the relative posi
tions assumed by the company, its men and
the people who use the trolleys. In every
other street railway crisis the corporations
and the public have reason to mnke a com
mon cause ugaiust the men who operate the
lines. Here the men were aligned with the
company nnd iu sympathy with a manage
ment which sympathizes with them. Mr.
Mitten and the employes have takcu a long
jump und they will be widely tnlked ubout.
And the interesting thing about yesterdnv's
experiment is that it Vould not havo.bcen
attempted If the P. It. T. had not won. by
years of good conduct, the right to appeal
fairly, hands down, to a friendly and unprej
udiced jury- That is more than you can
say for a good many other corporations
whose aches and pains nre matters for daily
diagnosis and speculation in the newspapers.
If the results of the fare test were not all
that the street-cnr management expected, It
is not necessnry to assume that the eud of
the matter has been reached or that a finul
verdict Is rendered. A great many people,
taken unaware, proved to bo not quite so
magnanimous or self-sacrificing us they
might have been. Hut the general response
made it plnln that, whatever general opinion
may be in relntion to fare schedules nnd the
underlying leases, the majority of the people
have developed a sympathetic interest in
Mitten und his problem and u disposition to
view his troubles ns they view their own.
To usk a man who is in a hurry to work to
walk six blocks or pay an extra fare, and
10 un mis wuuout warning, is to put ordl
niry human nature to a pretty severe test.
Hud the riding public been given a day of
(.ln.n t., fl.t,l. . nn..l.l it.- . . . ..
h." - ... i,.i tu luufuuur im. nature oi tlie
PhI the results of the fare test might
have been far more cucouraglug thnn they
proved to be from tho P. It. T. viewpoint.
The attitude of the company's employes was
admirably tactful. Most of the people who
rode on the cars yesterduy felt a sincere de
sire to help the men aud the management to
maintain n relationship so obviously friendly.
'The direct results of this unique and in
formal appeal to public opinion mny bo in
conclusive iu a general way and even of
doubtful value, in the light of larger surveys
mode on technical grounds. Hut the manner
In which it was presented proves ugaln that
tho Mitten theory of intimate co-operation
between the corporation aud its men Is a
valuable asset for the city which should be
retuined nt nil hazards, no matter what the
outcome of the official fare discussion muy-be.
RIGA PROSPECTS
rplIK meager news from the Polish-ltus-
sian conference at Itlga gives little as
surance thnt moderation by victors lias
ceased to be rare. The Poles aro winning,
the Soviet offensive hns failed to materialize
oud the Ilusslno winter Is approaching.
With these facts in mind, the delegates
from Warsaw are said to have proposed an
eastern frontier line running far cast of the
provisional boundary drafted by the Entente
council nt Paris. That the Soviet Govern
ment may none the less accept it is sug
gested by tho one encouraging fact of the
continuance of the parley.
The establishment of absolute justice in
terms of frontiers Is perhaps impossible. It
would bo henrtcning, of course, If tho Poles
gave evidence that they were seeking to ap
proximate that ideal. Hut in default of such
testimony It mny bo said, brutal as tho truth
seems, tliat tlie worm wouiu prelcr even a
defective decision in this ease to none at All.
In the Polish -Husulan situation the chief
offense to civilization is tho war itself. If
that can be ended through negotiation h
subsequent adjustment of grievances is not
altogether Inconceivable. Peace is the fun
damental necessity.
When that Is attained tho League of Na
tions may start to function. Otherwise it
is merely nil attractive machine bused on a
theory und wnltlng for its motive power.
The policeman Is a pretty good scout.
It would be tough if the populace should
let his pension fund suffer simply because
tho law prevents him from usking for sub
scriptions.' This is n prettjr good time to
buy, u-caruivttl ticket.,.- (
law bows to Kindness
Notable Case in Which State f Penn
sylvania Desired to Bo
Defeated
By GEORGE NOX McCAIN
OUT of tho mazo of legal entanglements
and mass of court decisions there occa
sionally comes to the surface .something so
unusual that It demands special attention.
Here's a case as illustration.'
It is a little drama it came very near
being a tragedy In which the retnarkaWo
feature Is thnt the great state of Pennsyl
vania' notified the presiding judge that It was
desirous of losing Kb case.
Thnt fact in itself puts the hallmark of
the unusual and unique upon the wholo pro
ceeding. It was so unusual nnd tho attitude as
sumed by the state so out of tho ordinary
that the -judge complimented the attorneys
on their attitude.
'
TO BEGIN at tho beginning, tho dramatis
personnc nre: "
Mildred Wargo, aged twelve, a poor little
girl.
Henry A. Fuller, a presiding judge.
Samuel I. Splkcr, nn attorney nt law.
E. F. McGovcrn, an attorney nt law.
William J. Honey, a state insurance
manager. .
Sccno I The Interior of a hospital m
Wilkcs-Barre.
Sccno II A courtroom in tho Luzerne
county courthouse. t
Mildred Wnrgo, twelvo years oA, ' the
child or poor parents, "got a Job" in the '
Wilkcs-Barre city hospital.
The hospital authorities had no right to
employ her. She was under nge. It was
against tho law,, but she was poor and her
people needed the little she could make.
On August 15, 1010, Mildred Wnrgo's
birthday, she met with nn necident in tho
course of her usual'dutics while at the hos
pital which resulted in the loss of her left
hand.
She was a minor. She had been em
ployed in violation of the law which pro
hibited the employment of children under
sixteen yenrs of age.
As an employe of a purely charitable in
stitution she had no recourse for damages.
Her fate loomed up as that of n crippled
girl uuable to secure compensation for her
injury; doomed to go through, lifo almost
helpless.
.
THE workingmen's insurance fund, of
which William ,T. Honey, of Philadel
phin, is manager, is n stnto concern. It is
opernted by the commonwealth In conjunc-
tiou with the workingmen's compensation"
act.
.This state company had insured the
Wilkes-Borrc hospital against injury to nny
of its employes.
But Mildred Wargo was beyond tho pale
if the law was rigidly enforced.
A referee appointed In the ense had,
under nil the circumstances,, found for the
child, nnd tlie state workingmen's compen
sation board, of which Harry A. Mackcy is
chairman, indorsed his finding.
But would the Workmen's Insurance Fund
fight the case? If it did, it certainly would
win. Thnt wns a foregone conclusion.
Here ends Scene I.
WniLE It seemed hopeless, E. F. Mc
Govcrn, nn attorney at lnw in Luzerne
county, took up the case for Mildred Wargo.
It wasn't really a case of law; rather one
of humanity nnd common Justice. On that
ground the plea was made.
The president judge of Luzerne county Is
Henry A. Fuller. The case came up be
fore him.
Samuel I. Splker, of Huntingdon, the
usFocIntc counsel of the state Workmen's
Insurance Fund, appeared for that organi
zation. Messrs. Roney, Splker nnd. indeed, all
of the principals in this unusual case have
bowels of compassion nnd hearts contain
ing the milk of human kindness.
Likewise also has Chairman Mackcy and
others of his board.
The members of the state Insurance board
are State Treasurer II. M. Kcphart. Com
missioner of Labor nnd Industry Clifford It.
Connelly nnd Insurance Commissioner
Thomas H. Donaldson,
I don't know whether 'or not they got
their bends together over the case of Mil
dred Wargo.
One thing I do know, that after Messrs.
Roney and Splker got' through with their
survey of the ense, Associate Counsel Splker
made u most unusual presentation for the
insurance fund really for the great state of
Pennsylvania to Judge Fuller.
THIS Is what he said:
The state Workmen's Insurance .Fund
desires to impress ou the mind of the
court that nn the one side we have a
claimant who is only twelve yenrs of nge.
und while working in tlie Wilkes-Hnrre
city hospital lost tho use of her left hand.
On the other side we hnve the State
Workmen's Insurance Fund with a sur
plus of $2,313,770, with no stockholders
or nny interested persons looking for
profits. Therefore the defendant In the
case is uble to pay the child claimant al
most without knowledge.
The State Workmen's Insurance Fund,
therefore, requests this court, If it can
find a legal nay, to sustain the findings of
fact und conclusions of law made by the
referee aud approved bv the State Work
men's Compensation Hoard of Pennsyl
vania, In nonlegnl term's what Counsel Splker
said to Judge Fuller was this: "We'd like
to lose this case, your Honor. Give the de
cision to the kid."
NOW what did Judge Fuller do?
Just what might hnve been expected of
him. He decided in favor of crippled Mil
dred Wargo.
He found n way all right. Judges, from
the black-robed row of Supremo Court dig
nitaries down to the little fellows without
u collar who sit us justices in back-country
quarrels, have a fashion of finding a way
when they want to.
In the course of his decislou the president
judge of Luzerne county said :
"It would seem hnrsh to put this poor
girl out of court on her present proceeding
for compensation only to throw her out of
court later In her action fpr'damnges against
tho hospital, or to leave her In tho end with
only a barren, uurollcctnbte judgment per
haps against the individual representative of
tho hospital directly concerned in the em
ployment." BUT it didn't end there.
The attitude of the defendants' counsel,
Attorney Splker, in nsklng for a decision
against his compnny in the Interest of justice
nnd .humanity called forth this letter from
Judge Fuller: '
"The court was much pleased with the
humane attitude displayed by defendant in
the submission of Wargo vs. State Work
men's Insurance Fund, involving right to
compensation for a minor unlawfully cm
ployed by tho city hospital, wlierclu de
fendant avowed Its preference to lose rather
than to win if the law should be so declared,
as nothing was sought bejond a decision of
the legal principle.
"In our decision w-e trust that
we have fully subserved the defendant's de
sire by recognizing the principle for which
it contends, hut sustaining the awurd on
grounds peculiar tn tho position of the em
ployer as an Institution of purely public
charity.
"It Is unusual for a court thus to com
municate with counsel, and we have only
done so because wc regard the case us ex
ceptional and wish tn express our approval
of the defendant's attitude,"
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Daily Talks With Thinking Philadelphians on Subjects They
Know Best
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WILLIAM A. LAW
On Price Trends
AN IRRESISTIBLE trend of commodity
prices downward toward normal is seen
by William A. Law, president of the .First
Natlonnl Bank. Mr. Law says thnt this
was luevltablc, but that it is being accom
plished in a more orderly fashion than has
characterized similar decline's In the past.
"There is no doubt," said Mr. Law, "that
commodity prices are coming down. Con
traction in business is inevitable. The evi
dence of this is plainly visible on every hand
und in nlmost all commercial lines. The
basic staples nre to be hod at lower prices.
On all sides wc arc witnessing a buyer s
market.
"The great fundamental staples, such as
wheat, meat products, sugar, leather, wool,
cotton, rubber, steel und copper, have been
tending toward lower prices. Wo have had
bumper crops of wheat and corn. No mat
ter what Is done, this can mean only one
thing, lower prices iu foodstuffs.
'Not only arc there a great variety of
foodstuffs that nre made from these grains,
but they go into the feeding of cattle, hogs
nud other meat-producing animals. There
nre many manufactured products comiug
from these animals that nffect our food
prices. The hides go into lenther nnd other
forms of skins thnt are Important in our
industrial and domestic lives. A plentiful
supply of these materials "fcnnuot help but
affect prices.
"The markets nnd storehouses .nre full of
wools and cottons. There has been ft
dead market for many of the products thnt
. may be made from these rnw materials, and
the result is that there has already been n
noticeable drop In the prices of clothing both
for men nnd women. Hut the near future
will see. these conditions trunslated into still
lower prices thnt will be decidedly below
those already in force.
Coal Situation Complicated
"Sugar, as Is already well known, hns
declined greatly. And so more or less we
might run the gamut of other materials that
directly affect the cost of living.
"The coal situation Is complicated. Soino
operators report that they find their do
mestic markets in some parts of the country
i,nnllwl hv nther comnunlcs. The foreign
demand for American coal still continues ns
strong as ever, and the prices offered ore so
alluring that no good business man is likely
to feel thnt he can afford to turn these
orders down.
"Them does not seem to be much improve
moiit In siirht In thp housing situation. One
of the biggist factors in this is the rest
lessness of labor. Until labor conditions nre
bettered and we get more satisfactory re
sults ns to efficiency and continuity of effort
we nre not likely to sen nny mutcrinl better
ment In construction.
"One of the biggest factors iu the hih
cost of living, if you nnnlyze it, has been
the automobile. The motor industry is dis
tinctively American, us this country owns
8." per cent of the world's automobiles.
"Tho extent to which automobiles have
been used in recent yenrs may bo guthcrcd
from the fact thnt recent production np
proxlmated 10,000,000 cars per annum. The
population of the country, as you know, is
probnbly not much more than 100,000,000,
"The nutomoblle consumes so mnny of the
materials used In our everyday life that a
falling motor market affects inoy other In
dustries. "Copper, rubber, cotton nnd leather, nil
necessities in Industry ns well as for house
hold and personal use, arc consumed by the
nutomoblle in great quantities. It might be
Interesting to note why, with bumper crops,
women have had to pay high prices for the
cotton materials they wore. The higher
grades of cotton are in enormous jlemnnd In
making tires, and as a result the amount
available for the ordinary user is greatly
reduced. '
Transportation; Is Better
"Mnny of the leaders In tho automobile
industry ure laying the blitine for conditions
they nre facing entirely on tho lack of bonk
ing support to tho retail dealer. There Is
no doubt that banking credits have affected
many Industries one way or another, but
whatever Is done In this mntter by the banks
is done with a view to benefiting the whole
community os well as keeping the particular
Industry In n healthy condition,
"A hopeful sign Is to be found in the Im
provement of the transportation situation.
Where a few months ago transportation was
down to its lowest level, now conditions ure
steadily continuing to get better. A better
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tofore. "Nevertheless, the retail buyer finds very
little reduction as yet In the price of com
modities, Let patience do its perfect work
nud in due course of time tho prices of the
necessaries of life will be substantially re
duced, just as certainly us the ebblug of the
tide thnt flows. Thrift nnd economy will
ngnln hold sway and the country will be nil
the better for simple living nnd nbstlncnce
from unnecessary luxuries and from the
elimination of waste in everyday life."
What Do You Know?
QUIZ
1. What Is the capital of Czecho-Slovnkla?
2. Where Is tho Monte Crlsto ot which
Dumas's hero Kdmond Dantea, claim
ed fo be count?
3. What percentage of tho whole Is tho
urban population of the United States?
i. After whom Is Rhodesia named?
B. In what play by Shukespeure docs the
character of tho sprite Ariel appear'.'
C. In what year did the British under Corn-
wallls surrender nt Yofktown?
7. Who wns the first American President
with a middle name?
8. In what month of 1018 was the Brest
German drive on the western front
started?
fl. Who said "Surely In vain tho net Is spread
In the sight of any bird"?
10. Who wrote the music of "Tho Merry
Widow"?
Answers to Yesterday's Quiz
1. "Bun" Is nn olo Scotch word for tall.
Bunny, a dlmlnutlve.of bun, applied to
H rabbit, menus the animal with u
little tall.
2. Attlo salt means elegant nnd delicate wit.
"Sal," Latin for salt, was the common
term for wit. Attlo refers to the Greek
province of Attica, of which the chief
city was AthenB. whose inhabitants
were noted for their wit.
3. "Kvcn worthy Homer BomeltmSs nods" In
(i translation from the "Ars Poetlca"
of tho Latin poet Horace.
4. Dog watches are from 4 to 0 and from
0 to 8 In tile evening.
B. Dog watches were Introduced on ship
board to dodge the routine or to pre
vent tho same men from always keep
ing watch at thu sanu time. Uog watch.
Is a. corruption of dodgo watch.
6. A ilddlcy Is nn Iron framework around
the opening of u stokehold.
7. Tho party bringing nn appeal In n law
case Is called the appellant.
8. Sir Walter Scott wrote thu novel "Tho
Heart of Midlothian."
3. Uncial If Iters wero a kind of capital let
ters used In manuscripts ot the fourth
to eighth centuries A. D., Inclusive.
They wero nbout uu Inch high.. Tho
nnmo Is derived from the Lutln
"uncla," Inch.
10. In traveling around the world a day Is
lost or gained at longlludo 180.
Household Gods
From tho Ncv York Tribune,
Accumulating junk is the fuv'oritc pastime
of V family, und tho junk's presence never
Is more obviously felt than at moving time.
Our new handmaiden, gazing ut our furni
ture and modest trappings contemptuously,
said yesterday, "You rent this pluce fur
nished, don't you?"
Cruelty to Tenants
Fnini the New Yorl Mall.
Some of the apartment house superintend
ents are getting rnther particular, It seems
to us. Our superintendent won't allow nny
of the tenants to park their Fords lu the
lobby.
Rashness of an Ancient
OBELISK so tall and grnnd
Reared on the Egyptian sand,
Did some ancient Royal Boss
Carve upon you to his loss?
Do your hieroglyphics dim
Show the goods nre caught on him?
Did he make his blunders known
On imperishable stone?
Did he say thut he was for
The unrighteous. In tlie war?
Did he chisel thus his creed
For posterity to read?
Down the centuries you came
Telling how he played the game :
Paper only five yenrs old
Makes n cuudldato turn cold
Tall and Mutely obelisk,
Some one ran un nwful risk !
-Mcl.undburgh Wilson; in the New York
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SHORT CUTS
Register I
Hay fever victims now breathe ngala,
October pods nre hampered by the ab
sence of nut-brown ale-
General Apathy registered early and
often ; he is now due for a challenge.
One ndvantage of the small Council li
thnt it is a shade easier to place responsi
bility. There is sometimes political wisdom in
taking what you can get when you can't
get all you want. ,
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The moving van is nn important figure
in life's checkered career. You're lucky if
It isn't your move.
If councllmen would remember thut they
aro business men rather than politicians N
why, how nice it would be !
Tho presumption of the P. R, Ti h tLat
if you ask for nn exchange you don't glfe
two cents for traction betterment.
The cnrry-your-lunch movement func
tions on the hypothesis that restaurant keep
ers will have to see a deficit before they see ,
a light.
The New York milk drivers who are
demanding $10 n dny evidently have not jet
been informed that the peak of prices hns
been reuched. ,
Edison is snid to be nt work on un In
strument designed to effect communication
with the dead. Case of putting Oulja's nose ,
out of joint.
If nil that is said about the Rodman,
Lombard, Tenth nnd Eleventh streets block
is true, how would you describe what the
city Is going to razo?
If Congress keeps on growing larger
with each succeeding consus It will event
uallv he time to ndjnurn by the time the
clerk finishes calling the roll.
One of the little things thut will even
tually help to solve tho housing problem will
be the return to tho fnrms of the people uho
Hocked to tho cities during the war.
A Chicago dispatch tells of the mail
doings ou the public streets of "a mule with
nothing on his mind." Sounds like a de
scription of the Democratic party.
Maurice Casennve, Frenah high com
mlsslo'her, says women, the denrs, should
have everything they want within reason,
The mean thing! Why did ho add "within
reason"?
While the strike of street-cleaners'
drivers Is on, citizens may ward off the
menace of disease by providing receptacles
for garbage nnd seeing to it thut their side
walks ure kept free from filth.
Resolutions passed by civic, patriotic,
Industrial, commercial and religious bodies
are excellent as barometers, but the world
bus renson for thankfulness, In perhaps
innjority of cases, thut they are not execu
tive edicts.
Evidences of rnpld deflation of currency,
with accompanying prostration of business,
Fccm to indlcnte that an elastic purreney.
designed to give and take, mny, in the
hands of the Injudicious, sting the business
it aims to help.
A Camden hoy, accidentally shot. Inst
his life from loss of blood because a hard
hearted motorist refused to carry him to a
hospital, as lie feared the ldoo'1 might spoil
his wife's dress. One wonders what manner
of woman was lu that car that she would' lot
a selfish fool play so heartless and brutal a
trick.
Philadelphia has just made n record that
gives it a right to a feeling of pride. It
Bundle Day donation of clothes for suffrriut
people of the Near East was more than the
total donntion of the rest of the country.
Father Pcnn is ns thrifty as his fellows
but there Is good reason for buying neff
clothes when he has given his old ones away.
A dispatch from Iluclva, Spain, wis
forth thnt 000 striking miners In '.the Wo
Tlnto district have decided to emigrate to
the United States. Iu view of tlie fact that
we have enough striking miners of, our own,
there Is justification for the thought that
perhaps- the letters have .been transposed In
the name of tlie town ant that It Is, l t
wero, a Heluva dlspaclfT .." ' ,
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