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t meet the demand for better means of
communication bctxvren places and men,
which is in itself the best indication of the
human trend toward common interests and
common understandings.
Newspapers have been the first to nse
every new device by which sjince enn be less
ened or, in a sense, eliminated altogether.
Airplanes served in the war to carry new
j before they carried mall.
AC It is not unnatural, therefore, that the
Evening Pitiilio IikDUEn should add nn
rperienced pilot to its news-Ratherinp staff
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ment. The departure is new in I'hilndelnhia.
iiwo'. It is one that will be attended with varying
degrees of success, Hlnee, )ecause of the
scarcity of landing fields, air travel is no
Dimple matter. Iiut Hutu are occasions when
a news organization is temporarily battled by
the knowledge of creat events shaping just
beyond the Immediate reach of railways,
wires or motorcars. Such was the occasion
when n naval submarine sank recently be
yond tbt Delaware capes.
From this on nothing that happens within
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Then nn hour away from this ofijee. Pic
tures of the first world serie.s gume brought
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represent the first achievement of the Led
gers' aerial news service.
A FEASIBLE BONUS PLAN
SOMETHING more than merely amiable
wishes is contained in the latest com
munication of the citizens' committee to the
Board of Kducatiou. A plun for the in
creaiie of teachers' salaries is worked out in
detail. Therein it is .ln.wn that a JiWO
bonus can be distributed nt once to each one
of the 7000 public hchool teachers, ond that,
beginning in January, the Kinegnn schedule
of! pay iucreases can be put into execution.
The nssetB of the Hoard of I'ducatlon, in
cluding funds appropriated, proceeds from
the sale of bonds, money to be derived from
tho sale of real estate and other sources, ure
wtlmated as amouuting to $1,400,000. This
Tvtju" provide for the bonuses, l'o: the in
troduction of tho new salary schedule it is
flUWested that the boon! should exercise its
power to increase the school tux to eight
mills.
It is particularly tmplmsizc-d (hat the
differences of opinion among the school
teachers concerning the method nnd measure
fc"f .of Bid will be obliterated by this comprehen
wire scheme. The sanction of tint Hoard of
Education is iudispensoble to enforcement.
U Delay in acting on the proposition will make
Ti the reverse of a good Impression.
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' DRAMA AND SUCH
IN TUB past tho Drama League of Phila
delphia has done much to encourage bet
ter plays and a better appreciation of the art
.1-t. In Ii!twjii1 in refliwf tlm Inna. m.nii.
n T AJngs of life as it la lived. Rut the problems
ft jjg of those who would make the stage really
if eloquent wltn trutn seem to nave been
i v "t;, greatly complicated.
S.l.fi iYosterday when the Drama League began
y il 'its winter sessions it listened to nn address
W .n 'Comedy" by Grant Mitchell. It was a
Si' '-I j;j .,Mu. Hut where (a the utnire that
if- -" in mirror these days ond mak them un-
tt? vS tandauler
t- ji conuiunie jot wic une-urncy hi tue
ft tv. HTftttest republic making hh campaign from
h -,t X prison ; 80,000 people alpn." In the sun
Ittl'T ..-Mm. mid cheerlnc a ball tfame. while 30.000
f 'ttttws die of cold and b-itger In another
K . . i nt tho irnrM nolltlriaua who never
' 'fy.,. lirtaoua' teJlUyt a neat ittopk how to j
be good and honest ! a man who only a little
while ago seemed to be the voice of the
world's better nature now so lonely nnd in
such isolation that even his friends arc al
most nfrnid to confess their friendship
these are n few of the living dements in the
actual drama of the hour.
Who among dramatists n toll us what
thej really mean? '
HARRISBURG CONTROLS
THE LOCAL TAX RATE
So Long ao the Leglalature Interfere!
With Philadelphia's Expenditures the
City Government Will De Power
leas to Make a Budget
TyrAYOIl MOORE'S protest ognlnst the
-1' intervention of the Legislature In the
affairs of tho city will be Just so much
wasted breath unless he Keeks to have con
trol over local nffultB restored to the local
authorities.
He said that the irritation of the citizens
at on incrennc In the taxes is justified, es
pecially when "the taxes arc raised not be
cause of the city's needs, but because of the
state's legislative action," and he reminded
the public that "tho law permits a judge to
go out nnd buy what he wants nnd have it
delivered and the city has to pay the bills."
The Mayor niipllt hnro rnnn further and
The Mayor might hnvc gone further nnd
have said that the law permits a Judge to
hire as many employes its bo sees fit and
then compel the city to pny their salaries.
This system has made it virtually impossi
ble for the Mayor and Council to arrange n
budget which shall cover nil the expenditures
for the year. The thaftcrs of the new char
ter attempted to remoo the evil by provid
ing In that document that no money should
be paid out save on a specific appioprintlon,
and by providing further that no liability
shall be enforceable against the city by any
action nt law not supported by a previous
appropriation by Council.
The efficacy of this remedy in the most
flagrant cases Is doubtful for the reason thnt
the fiction of n county government Is main
tained. Certain Institutions nrc nominally
n part of that county government.
Take the Municipal Court, for example.
This Is specifically a court of the county of
Philadelphia, nnd the county commissioners
"or other proper county officers" are directed
by law to provide for the cost of its main
tenance. A mandnmus to compel payment
of its costs must be directed against the
county authorities, but those authorities hare
no money to spend save as it is raised by the
City Council. So while the churter provides
that no money enn be collected from the city
unless nn appropriation has been made to
cover the expenditure, it lenres claimants
against the fictitious county government free
to mandamus the county treasurer for That
they please.
The law creating the Municipal Court
wrote n blank check for it and permitted the
president judge to fill it In for nn unlimited
sum.
In the first place, it directs the county
commissioners to provide proper accommo
dations for holding court "at such times
and places" hh the court may decide. It is
argued that this provision is broad euough
for the court to select the site nnd decide the
character of the courthouse In which It is
to sit.
rians for an elaborate palace of justice
have already been drawn nnd the Council
has passed nu ordinance containing a pro
visiou for a bond Issue of 1,000.000 for
preliminary work on u new courthouse. The
judges have not yet had the nerve to go
ahead with the construction of tho court
house and to mandamus the county treasurer
for the cost of it. In view of what ha3 been
dunu in other directions, this moderation is
surprising.
The law further empowers the president
judge of the court to appoint such tipstaves
und oflleers und employes as arc reasonably
necessary, subject only to the check of the
agreement with the other judges ns to how
many are necessary. But the presiding judge
makes the appointments.
It originnlly provided thnt the presiding
judge should also appoint n chief probation
officer and such assistants ns the other judges
thought necessary. But this was nmended
at the next session of the Legislature so oh
to put the determination not only of the
number of assistant probation officers but
of the number of employes entirely in the
hands of the president judge. The law
limits the salary to be paid, but it places no
limit save the discretion of one man on the
number of men to draw the salary.
There is no limit either on the number of
stenographers to bo employed eavc the
phrase "as may be necessary."
Under this grant of power there arc naid
to be hundreds of men and women on the
payroll of the court nnd the court itself Is
costing $2,000,000 or $.1,000,000 a year,
when it was said at the time of its organi
zation It would not cost more thon $100,000.
It waa to take the place of the magistrates'
courts, but those courts still continue and
the taxpayers are still taxed to mulntain
them, while the additional cost of support
ing a new court has to be borne.
It will be imposbible for the Mayor and
the Council to control local taxation for local
purposes so long ns the obsolete county gov
ernment l preserved nnd so long as the
Legislature sees fit to grant to county offi
cers the power to spend money without the
supcrviiiion of the authorities who have to
raise it.
The abuso of power in tho Municipal
Court is fast becoming scandalous. Its pre
siding judge is a ward boeu, and it is sus
pected that he has used his appointing power
to strengthen his political fences. Ills po
litical Influence has increased sinte he has
been in office, and men ore now saying that
it will not be long before he will bo one of
the most powerful bosses in the city.
The propriety Cjf a political boss on the
beucb even in a minor court Is ns question
able as the propriety of u contractor con
trolling the officers who award tho public
contracts.
If tho Legislature refrains from coming
to tho relief of the taxpayers this winter in
the way suggested by the Mayor it will not
b becauso such relief is not imperatively
needed.
WHY THE LEAGUE IS DOUBTED
THE belief entertalued when the league
covenant was framed, thnt Germany
would be keenly desirous of joining tbe asso
ciation of nations, Is not sustained iu two
significant pronouncements from Berlin.
Herr von Prittwltu, representing the Ger
man foreign office, told the German Peace
Association In Berlin the other day that his
government was not at present longing for
membership. Similar views were expressed
in tho influential and official newspaper Vor-
vrnerta.
la both instances the rcaco&t aJftn ware
EVENING tfUBIJIO iiTOEil?dlIlAiD:
identical. Tho league without tho co
operation of the United States was regarded
as lopsided, incomplete. The verdict la
sound. Without the attribute of univer
sality the league, despite the estlmablo prin
ciples espoused, becomes simply on alliance
of power.
It is not because there Is a special mo
nopoly of virtue In the United States, but
becauso the interests of this country signifi
cantly counterbalance European concerns
that its presence in the league is imperative.
In the sense in which it was intended to
function the league is as yet untried.
Operating according tu original designs,
the most ambitious peace machinery ever
devised should be so Impressive that even
from the selfish standpoint the necessity of
contributing to it should be obvious. When
the case appcurs in that light it may be
safely forecast that Germany will be knock
ing insistently at the league doors.
FUSION VS. BUNK
milU fiction that distinctively local issues
must necessarily be viewed from national
party angles has long been helpful to the
unsavory cause of machine politics. The
Vares, for instance, dote on the idea, have
tultlvatcd it assiduously and have made thu
most of it as a dust-throwing Instrument.
Reflections cast upon oligarchic methods in
in i hh t hI Ttl II ewtittnti la la as liaaais
j aKnantly interpreted as aspersions upon
I 1 l.n ..- ..i. l i. -.
AveiJuuucun uauonai piaiiurui. al ib uiiiiia-
Ing how often this ancient dodge has worked,
rlnce the slightest Investigation of the sub
ject would reveal Itn absurd insincerity.
The common-sense analysis of the situa
tion that has arisen In connection with the
vacancy recently created In the Council
through the death of Wllllnm E. FInley is
therefore decidedly In order. Charles J.
Pommcr is the Vnrc candidate, nnd doubt
lers much will bo heard concerning the no
cecity for n protective tariff, of a revision
of federal taxes and of a settlement of un
finished war issues, to all of which the re
sult of the coming local election la absolutely
unrelated.
The antidote to such nonsense, both now
nnd on similar occasions, is fusion of oppos
ing political forces without regard for na
tional pnrty alignments. The locnl Demo
crats nnd tie Moore supporters hare wisely
embraced a promising opportuulty in the
Indorsement it the same candidate, James
da a hi r, miming In the First Council
manic district.
Judging by the last presidential election
here, when the Democrats polled 11, "SI
votes to 23,788 for the machine opposition,
there arc chances of success in tho new com
bination with the Moore men. Victory,
moreover, would mean a very serious weak
ening of the Varo power in the Council,
possibly the cud of tho obstructlonary tactics
which have already so much embarrassed
the administration.
In any event, the revival of the fusion
principle is welcome nnd healthy. Had the.
Democrats behaved thus sanely In 1910
Teller would not have been elected Governor
of Pennsylvania, for the combined votes for
Rerry nnd Grim far exceeded those of the
winner.
The Democrats, who nrc weak In the
greatest Republican city in America, simply
incrcn.se their futility by allowing fantastic
party allegiance to stand iu the way of
powerful reform combinations; and Repub
licans, deluded by phrases und rubber-stamp
slogans, simply misconceive the nature of
municipal politics,, When this is duly di
vorced from national lines and local ques
tions nrc considered strictly on their merits,
the reputation of city government in America
will be vastly enhanced.
ON BEING HONEST
OLD Stonewall Comiskey, when he be
stowed $1500 like a tear of gratitude on
each of the Sox who remained virtuous, In
tended, of course, publicly to glorify in a
particularly significant way the great virtue
of human fidelity. It was n good thing to
do nt the opening of a world series, nnd
certainly tho playern deserved the reward
that fell, as you might say, like tokens from
the sky.
'Unfortunately for the world, Comlskey's
method cannot be universally applied. For
if every honest mun or ever one who re
sists mean temptations weie to receive a
iJlSOO gift In recognition of his moral stead
fastness the resource of the civilized world
would not be equal to the demands of the
newer code. There would be no more pov
ertv. Wealth would he pretty generally
divided.
Every day. in nil walks of life, men are
resisting temptations greater thnu any with
which the professional ball players were con
fronted. Business in its modern form goes
on only because most men can trust each
other. If men in the professions were to
tuke bribes they might often roll In luxury,
and In dally journalism the men who do the
hardest work, who are the eyes and ears of
the reading public In places where political
fights are waged, where jobs are done nnd
undone, where men get in nnd out of trou
ble, have seen so much of temptation that
it bores them. Mnuj of them are young
men and their service is done iu obscurity,
but they ask or receive neither briben nor
$1500 rewards for the high virtue that cer
tainly is theirs.
It is something in the fiber of the normal
man that makes n bribe detestable Old
'stonewall Comlskcv did a generous thing.
But Ib it so great a thing, after all, to refuse
to sell out jour friends for money?
Everybody wanted to see buseoall restored
in the esteem of the country, nnd for that
reason tho great demonstrntlou In Brooklyn
yesterday will reassure people who weren't
greatly moved by tbe news of bonuses dis
t United to the unsullied in Comlskey'H team,
Tliu ball Bcundal seems to be having some
extremely wholesome reactions. Tho dis
graced and convicted players were former
idols of the young of the laud. Millions of
players In the back lots who ure too young
to know more of right nnd wrong than they
learn in copybook maxims and through
their own inherited senne of decency learned
suddenly to feel n hatred of i-rookednesn and
unsportsmanlike conduct that will Inst with
a good many of them through all their lives,
Their sensibilities were outraged In an odd
way. And they saw retribution work itself
out with appalling sudden' hs to nn end
that proved once, more that jou cau't get
awuy with it. Moreover, the Inquiry shows
pretty clearly thut most of the players were
honorable nnd clean.
It is a human habit to cxprtss disliko of a
bad man by n new sort of devotion to those
who nppenr good in the light of the bad
man's errors. Bo the tumult In Brooklyn
jestcrday was much like a tribute to tho
gaino even when It was nn uproar in honor
of players who survived the nttucks of fixers.
The men who have been kicked out of pro
fessional ball could have no greater punlrb
ment than they must have experienced yes
terday when they read the running narrative
from tho Brooklyn field.
We take it that the murder trial iu
Chicago is designed to demonstrate whether
Carl Wanderer billed bis wife and a ragged
ntraugcr or if he merely said he did to
avoid further puulohment after three days
of the third degree.
Woman has been honored by the election
of members of her sex as firemen In Wild
wood, N. J, But she will not huve secured
all the glory coming to her until she ha
achieved active, memuerauip jo tuo wu
Carrier' Uniaa.
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AS ONE WOMAN SEES It
Going to Church In a Theatrti Eth
ical Culture and Felix
Adter
By SARAH D. LOWRIE
FELLOW CRAFTSMAN. Wllllan
1ft
Shepherd's, pointed article In the An
KlIRt Hnrner'H! "U'lmt ! il.- Mior With
the Chuoh?" or wo-ds to that effect led to
some rather candid admissions, ns well en
truculent contradictions in "religious
circles."
What struck me at the time was whnt be
did not say In his frnnk and judicial state
ment of statistical facts, and thnt wns, why
he 'lid not eo to church!
There nre a dozen rcnl rensons sufficient
reasons thnt Is why one docs not go. One
Is lazy, bored, annoyed, has another engage
ment, in tired, golf, week-ends, journeys,
offended, mad, forgetful, oblivious, out of
the habit, etc., etc. What I want to know
Is whv Shepherd docs not go, or, If he does
go, why he goes 1
The chap who divided nil religious adults
into two classes viz., the ones who go to
church from n sense of duty nnd the ones
who go from pleasure did not quite count
beads.
How about the ones who are to religious
to go to church?
THOSE groups of serlous-mlnded mortals
that satisfy their religious Interests by
forming cults, nnd who meet nt appointed
times und with nn eMii"gntcd i nnl oi i o
cedure, nnd who orgnnlzo their benevolences
nnd oorpornto commuuKy notion under some
name that is their creed nnd confession of
fnith In telcprnnhlc code, thev are many
nnd various ! From the noly Rollers to the
Ethical Culturist they arc religious. But I
have never found any of them who did not
make o. religious point of being cet free from
the church.
It Is hnrd for less scrupulous outsiders
mero lookers on to understand.
I go occaslonallv, for Instance, to "look
on" nt the Ethlcnl Culturlsts. I went the
last time Felix Adler wan In town tp listen
and to observe.
THERE were little men 'who came in late
and sat on biggish seats on a platform ;
there was nald music nrovlded. there wan
n reading of some poetry and aomo prose,
toiioweu ny notices oi wceKdny nctivlties,
with a slight tone of urgenco' nnd n
slight tonn of rcpronch ; there wns n ser
mon listened to with rnrying degrees of
rcst'essness, nnd there wn embellished by
n rendition by the paid musicians a collec
tion, nl' as In omo of the churches of or
thodox denominations. In the Ethical Cul
ture theatre service there seemed, to my
casual observation, to be more freedom of
departure before the collection, nlmost n
stampede, thon In the churches where the
congregations sat tight and produced small
chaugc with the air of benefactors.
On the other hand, the music was better
In tho theatre, more simply offered, tban I
have encountered It In some churches.
THE pipe-organ and choir nre nn anach
ronism In n Cnlvlnlstlc setting. They
were evolved to celebrate the ritual of the
mns nnd the evnnt;e'ical inusl- of tin -ritualistic
services is, to tho observer or
father to a listener-in, like myself poor
art The Schmidt Ounrtct. tmobtruivclv
playing in the right stage box nt the Ethical
Culture service, made one forget the un
lovely nnd shabby theatre, the lines of
prosaic occupants of the cramped Beats, and
even the mental fatigue of the somewhat dis
cursive sermon, nnd remember high things.
For the moment it was like the opening of
a door through which one heard sounds
from another state of existence.
THE mere fleeting possibility that there is
another state of cxlstcnco is a spiritual
cut in'' a inento' stimulus thut tastes
mighty like religion to me.
Perhaps Dr Ad'er's sermon gave some of
his culturlsts just that. As a preacher or
s be n" il like to '" -iMed 1 teii'lur .he
seems always to be skillfully lopping off the
branch upon which he is sitting, and
whether it be his half-bitter, half-tender
emlnlscences of orthodor. Judaism, or his
'iidMnl nnd aloof nnnlvnis of orthodox
Christianity, the philosophic crust he offers
as a support and Incentivo for living has a
synthetic tang about It which makes one
wonder if his cult will outlive Its founder.
I HAVE an Idea that It is his society, not
his ethics, which has created his cult.
His values nre ull moro palpable nt close
quartern and under the lesii formal environ
ment of conversation. His spiritual essence
-intellectually spiritual rather tliau beuev
"Vutlv spiritual, in smite of his eapnclty
for nffnlri Is very marked in conversntion.
The curious egg-shaped hend, the odd mark
'nvs nnd nmlssloii in his face, hi" tscs
tuies, tbe faint nccent, nre discounted on n
nenr contact by something supremely kind
n hl attitude of tiolaed judgment and
amused comprehension.
IT IS this polocd judgment and witty,
genial responsiveness, bis cool valuing of
'setr- sncio'oi'ical. scientific, art'stie or
ethical or whatever is brought to his con
sideration, as to a Solomou for judgment,
that make Dr. Adler in u persoual contact
t finished master of the situntion, a born
arbitrator between the old and the new, the
demagogue and the capitalist, the crude of
the coming generation and the crude of the
nnsslng.
So well dots the rule of nn arbitrator be
come him thnt he loses something ns u
dogmatist, which Is whnt a prenehcr is fated
to be.
As long as Fe'ix Adler lives he will have
the open sesame to ardent, young minds by
his personal contact. When he becomes a
tradition his power to found n cult will bo
I'ifficnit to explain. The blend of Judaism
and Christianity and his revolt from the
tvrnnnv of o-thnilo with the ''rogeilv in
volved In that revolt, the Teutonic environ
ment of his student affiliations, and etc bril
liant artistic potentialities of his contacts
Vive i" coue to the makiug of a unique
personality.
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The Deserted Garden
UNDER the sagging arch of vines
The rustic gate still swings,
And just Inside, a gnarled old tree,
In which a redbird sings.
Down grass-grown paths where long ago
The sweet olyssum marked the way,
The vine-entangled dial stands
Shadowless through the day.
The crumbling fountain's song is stilted,
The bowl is filled with sodden leaves ;
The old stone sent, moss-stained and grav,
For old companions mutely grieves.
Only a wandering butterfly
Comes near to kiss the rose,
Or a quivering silver humming bird
Dips where the poppy grows.
Through mists of silvery, shadowy dusks,
In hours of deepening gray,
Th hnp'iv spiiit- steal ndowu
The old remembered way;
Tbu-e phantom sweethearts keep their tryst
Beneath tbe sheltering troughs,
And whispered benedictions rlso
In love's repllghted vows.
Whltelaw Saunders, in the Kansas City
Stai.
Tho Unknown Quantity'
rrora the ntchmond Ttmeu-DIpatch.
The Bureau of Foreign and Domestic
Commerce supplies figures showing that le-m
distilled wines and liquors were consume,
in the United BUtes per capita during the
twelve months of last year than In any other
like period since 1870. Aye, verily leaving
out of account the amount consumed from
the bootlegger supply
Lenlne's Failure
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NOW MY IDEA IS THIS!
Daily Talks With Thinking Philadelphia on Subjects They
Know Best
dr. r. tait Mckenzie
On Physical Education
UNIVERSAL pnrtlclpation in competitive
sports by the entire student body of
American colleges will never be realized, iu
the opinion of Dr. R. Tnlt McKenzle, head
of athletics at the University of Pennsyl
vania, because of the peculiar psychological
reaction of certain men against athletic
competition.
According to Doctor McKcnV.le, class work
in gymnnsiums will continue, to be necessnry
as the American colleges progress further oud
further on the road to the ideal method of
physical education.
"It is needless to say," ho declared, "that
the fact Is becoming more nnd mote iccog
nized that a college mun must be nn nil
around man, and that his physical educa
tion playn Just ns large n role ns his mental
equipment. A grcnt many of the men who
go to college nrc Ignorant physically nnd
have to be taught u number of things which
nre In the primer class of body building.
"Especially do tho city boys show n com
plete ignornuce of tests of athletic ability
which to the country' boy would be ever day
occurrences nnd with which they nre well
ncqunlnted. This untaught percentage must
be given n directed course to teach them
things athletic, In their Moglcal. regular pro
gression. In addition, nil men, including
both those who hnve had nthlctic trnlnlng
nnd those who hnve not, must be given
enough exercise to keep them in good physi
cal health.
"If they have that health they should bo
encouraged to go into games, but they should
not be forced to do so.
Had to Excuse Many
"At the University of Pennsylvania last
year wo had 4300 men who had to take
physical education. Of this number, 400 hud
some illness or defect making It necessnry to
excuse them cither entirely or in part from
the regular class and field work. About
half of the remainder took class work in the
gymnasium for body building. The other
holf were candidates for one or unothcr of
the nineteen sports recognized at Pennsyl
vania. "Tliere were a great many men who went
out for track sports who may never become
team members. The same applies, of course,
to football or swimming or rowing. Yet If
they like the sport and ore properly directed
the exercise will be good for" them. In tho
matter of swlmmlug, particularly, It is truo
that If a man lenrns the strokes and can be
taught how to take care of himself in the
water ho has gained what should be part of
the equipment of every well-educated man.
"I hove found from my .experience at the
University that It Is Impossible to expect to
get all men definitely taking part in sports.
Nearly half tho overage student body is not
interested even dislikes competitive work
and desires only iducatlon. For this reason
the bulk of the student body will always bo
fouud on the floors of gymnasiums engaged In
class work. Any set rule to change this
would be a failure.
"Instead of anything like this, I have a
system which I call the 'prescription method.'
At the brgiunlng of every year we have n
complete physical examination of the entire
freshman class. If a man uppenrs before me
in a poor 6tate of health and with n body
run down, I do not allow him to take the
regulor gymnasium work or to enter into
any one of the nineteen sports. If he did so
the result might be decidedly Injurious.
"Instead, a partial course Is prepnred
which may include the ordinary setting-up
exercises with the class, but none of the
more lolent forms of exercise. He con
tinues this method for a term and then re
ports to me again, so that I can see what
progress he bns made. It may be that after
one or two terms, or at any rate before he
grnduates, he can safely take part In auy
form of nthlotica he desires.
Hne Compulsory Physical Work
"I believe that Pennsylvania's system of
physical education is as good as can be ob
tained. We hnve hnd in practice there for
twelve year what Harvard introduced Inst
year after much debate, that is, compulsory
Mxerclscs for students. The number of vears
in which such exercise is required nnd the
exact form that it is supposed to take differ
for different colleges, but 00 per cent of the
colleges oil the Carnegie Foundation have
some sort of corapulsorj physical (duciition
rule.
"Last year, for the llrt time, we were
able to introduce at Pennsylvania . more
complete nystea of crediting men for their
"QUIT KIDDIN1 YOURSELF!"
,
participation in sports. For example, Law
son Robertson, the track coach, now has
rolls just ns the gymnasium instructors have
rolls, on which he keeps n record of the
different men's work. When they first come
out to him, he finds out whnt they have done
along certuln lines und makes them pass a
preliminary test.
"Then he tells them the mark or record
which they must achieve before the end of
the year. This was determined by taking
the average of n thousand students in the
particular branch In question, whether It be
shot -putting, running or high jumping.
"The man then practices three times n
week in order to achieve the desired mark.
For the first time wc have been able, be
cause of this syftcm, to introduco regular
marks In different sports Instead of giving a
straight pnsslug inurl to every student. A
mnu who makes the raraity team In football
now. receives a D, or distinguished grode for
his work, just ns he would receive n similar
mark for excellent work in English or Latin.
"And we nrc keeping our squads together
throughout the yenr instead of cutting them
off as soou ns the varsity team is chosen.
Last year we kept 400 men In swimming und
ICO men in football up to the end of tbe sen
son. This year we will be able to keep 800
football plavrs through to the finish.
"Wc will be able to do this better wheu
the playing fields which we are building along
the Schuylkill river by tho South street
bridge nre completed, so that we can take
tho pressure off Franklin Field. The re
sult will be to she ull men nn ndded Incen
tive und a fnirer chnnco In nil branches of
sport without wcakeuing to the least degree
tho strength of tho various teams."
To Resume Saw Edges
From the Kansaa City Times.
A 12Yj per cent reduction in the price of
collars, announced by one of the Inrgest
manu icturcrs, will ngnin mnko It posslblo
for thj average man to keep his laundry
supplied with something to test the power
of Its machinery on.
What Do You Know?
QUIZ
noW,.,'uith.0 Vlco p8ldent elected if no
candidate secures a majority of Votes
In the electoral college?
, ho was Alnxriiul t von HumbMrft?
Sir T th fl,,th H00,c ln "hi nibio"
What Is tho leading city of rstiinni.s
Who Is the present premier of Snafn?7
Where did Stradlvurlus. the I most famous
of violin mnlurs, live? ramous
' fi'K1 "y u" "na Vnlore'" y
W ?!"'" rl8lnttl meanln ' tho word
Columbia''? "" m,ion t0 fl"5 "".
What kind of an animal Is nn ocelot?
Answer to Yesterday'o Quiz
General Wlnfleld Scott wns n, ..
ecssful Whip candidate "or ho "S'
lcny In 18B2 nnd aencrai Vni.,1!
Sum Hancock was tlio unB,,!1""?1'
Democratic condldate in S""""1
Peter Cooper wns a noted American in
veutor, manufacturer and hl an?hJH"
Plst. est ecially known ns tho ? "J'
of the Cooper Union" the coVerstonJ
of which was laid l ," y?i ?
U(W. Ho w.s the QftVnbaSk candlrt,. "
for President In 1876. K""'lCK tandlduto
"N'ot a drum was heard, not n e,.- .
note," Is the opening line of "r.aI
r.uti.il -f Sir John Rt.erew?tte. 7 13
Charles Wolfe an English poet " b
The poem refers to the unfortunatn t-
fh expedition In northern "&,"&
the Nunoleonlo wars. The nrmv iVi".
Sir John Moore retreated tothe nort n?
Coruna. nnd In the battle previous ?
tho embarkation for Engla'n!. Jloore
tho commander, wus killed ill S,J
thrown' "lBht '" th & ataE
Mi& "therx is riot
France Hr dates nro I72i-t7ru ol
Her real name, was Jen mm Antoinette
Polsuon le Normant d'Etollcs e
The Isthmus of Teliunntepuo l3 j,, ,,.,,
i astern Mexico, lying bVtwe!ntli Brly
of Cnmpeehe on the north and tho Guff
of Tehuantepeo on th south. A. Hi
narrowest pnrt It Is 135 miles across
Tehuantepeo should be pronounced '"i'i v.
wan.tay.p'ck." with the ncoorit 0n the
second syllable. " '",
The Hcglra Is tha name given tn th
(light of Mohammed from "leu? t,
Mrni-a In vr D I'ron. thai " er
Uie. Mosle-nn l.rirln tliir ciiImkIhi
up i lett r to EIImh Milpninn, written i-.
1801 Thorn.-r .Infers .! W,i ,'ji
matter of rk'lit. how i-u vacancies tn
bo obtnlne.lt Tho-e by Uon i nr. fevV
by resignation, none.'' e '
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SHORT CUTS
P. R. T. believes in direct action.
Even the panhnndler finds this braclnf
weather.
"B" Btands for Burleson, Baker nod
Blundering.
Interesting old gentleman, Uncle Jt
Cannon. No smooth-bore, anyhow.
Wc have not yet reached the absurdlt
of calling woman's the silent vote.
"Another break In sugar." First thiol
you know the 'ump will be pulverized.
Tho baseball scandal at least demon
strated that Comiskey is a flno old sport.
"Write it 'Cox the unbeatable.' " mti
Marsc Henry. Docs he mean hard boiled?
Deflation of the currency docs not ap
pear as yet to have hit tho bandit business.
The candldato who prepares for a whirl
wind finish is liable to find himself up In
the air.
The milk retailer hasn't the excuse ot
getting rid of old stock before reducing
prices.
Russian pensnnts seem nbout ready fo
kick the .Bolshevists in the empty bread
basket.
nerc nnd there nrc milkmen who art
eligible to membership in a waterways con
vention. Any fnu will ndmlt that the greatest
event In the world happened In Broekljn
yesterday.
Despite nil his bluster, the unregistered
citizen doubtless feels Just a little nshamtd
of himself.
W. Murray Crnne wns the latest to give
point to the saying that the Old Guard dies
but never surrenders.
Bnsobnll enthusiasm yesterday prow
thnt the game can emerge, from the cloud-,
that have temporarily obscured It.
One cannot hnve everything in thin
world else one might expect to see H
Ruth knock n homer In n world series.
A perfect trnnstt system has n direct
benrlne. on the housing situntion. Phila
delphia's outlying districts nre not yet lull
tapped.
Apnnrentlv everybody Is sntlsfled that
evervbodv kuows how cvervbodv Is golne. to
vote; yet nn"bodv can tell that somebody
may upset calculations.
The plensont things that have been said
of Murray Crnnn prompt the thought that
even Lodge could get n kind word from the
Democratic press by dying.
A dispatch from Hartford. Conn., t
forth thnt Babe Ruth devoured eleven i lamo
chops. "To return to our muttons.' re
marked Babe, nnd every one was n homer.
Just how the Incrense of the nseed
vnbmUnn of renl estnto In New Ynrk na
Philadelphia Is due to uatural development
nnd how much to the decreased value nt tne
dollnr only time enn determine, ana tM
demonBtrntlon is bound to be n painful one.
Ah linns Clirlstinn Andersen might
hnve said: One could well have snnnnsea
from the earnestness with which suffraJ
worked through tho years that omf.'"f
Imiinrtnnt wns hnnnenlng In the politic'
dtiekpnnd; but reglstrntion dayn proved W
mnd perndventure thnt nothing was Hap
pening. 15. V. Lucas In tbe Outlook says
thinks American men nre more nllfce tni
Englishmen nre, nnd thnt frequently be n
been nbout to accost strangers he W"
thought ho had recently been introduced w.
discovering lust In time that they wr
merely doubles,' 'Tls nt once an "'"f' '
truth nnd n nnturnl error. An American
Etiglntid might rnslly have the same JP",
cice with n reverse application. We do IW
1 i.n ii lately differentiate In the members l
1 inn Mew true. As one mnre or lesK fslllt"
1 iilisionoinint oneo phrased it, "All cot.HA
1 ln'e rill n fn mo." PAmlllnrltr enrrcrtS t-'l I
. """ ' ''. M
error. .n pxnnrt cowmun may grow j ,j
know every critter on the range. -But J
course Mr, Lucas may be rib it uum.
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