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PENROSE AND THE PAST
SENATOR PENROSE'S eulogy of tho
pant is unreserved.
'Surveying tho arena of civilization from
Atlantic Cltr, he ndmlts that vc have to
day no Shakespeare, no literary craftsmen
'''capable of matching the verbal beauties of
,the Kinc James Bible, no statesmen fit to
be Intrusted with frnmlng n new rointitit
tlon for Pennsylvania or extending tlie scope
of.' tho civil service.
Tlie era we live in N unfiivornlily con
trasted with that one in which rrnr political
forefathers "revolted from medieval condi
tions and founded the republic." The ol
fiefvatlou can hardly bo Impugned and it
acquires a special validity in the clrcum
atauces of its latjst expro-siiM.
On thcio times of ours Senator Penrose is
. certainly competent to speak.
WHERE "TEMPERAMENT" RULES
T171IETI1ER human tempernments are
I'T mado mercurial, emotional, melodra
matic by association with grand opera, or
whether that tield nttrnrl.s to it at the
outset exceptionally vivid and high-strung
personalities, remains an open ipiestion.
It is not to he denied, however, that in
.few tiehh of endeavor, artistic, commercial
or mixed, is participation so exciting. The
rcenes which stopped the performance of
"II Trovntore" at the Metropolitan Opera
House the other night differed more
in concrete expression than in kind from the
emotional disturbances nccompanyinc many
a performance of lyric plajs.
If presentations uunllv proceed to their
authorized conclusion, tlie feat is seldom
"without some sort of travail. If finances
ore unvoxin,;. questions of health ire raised
and n "sudden indisposition" notice Is
"fudged" upon the program. Mine. Nor
diea, declaring that the stage of the Acad
emy of Muic was dusty, once refused In
take the center of it without a strip of regal
carpet Irading to the vantage sjmt. Caprice
has almost no limits In grand opera, ami oiil
the stronger managerial constitutions cun
'Withstand the fraj.
Oscar Hatnmeritein succumbed, though
ro,t without n gallant struggle. The (iatti
Casazza method. inolving a mask of stony
ImpassUeness, seems ou tlie whole to he the
best. P.ut re elation of heart-buruiugs
would he Inevitable in an autobiography
should he follow the prevailing fashion by
writing one.
THE BOOZE TRAIL
GOVERNOR SPROl'L said jcterday that
wholesale bootleggers have tried hard to
corrupt the state police. Disclosures made
in Chicago show that the whisky rings have
actually been boring into Congress mid into
tho courts. It is n notorious fact that the
organization established by the ivitional gov
ernment to enforce a nationnl law has been
nttaekrd and greatly wakened bv the dry
rot of bribery. This was possible largely be
cause the prohibition field agents are under
paid and constantly confronted with oppor
tunities to make large sums of moue by
merely closing their eyes.
Not long ago it was suggested in these
columns that the inside story of the illicit
whisky trallic would astound and enrage the
country if it ever was told. It is being told
now. And even while the prohibition eu
forcement oflicers are confess n an inability
to atop the general wolutimi of a fetler.il law
they are receding unexpected and most ell!
cieut assistance from the whiskv. men them
selves, who are doing more thau any one
else to make their methods nnd their busi
ness detested een by those ho do not agree
with all the pept isitnis nf the Volstead act.
Revelations such as arc being made every
day nt the liquor hearings will tueitnbly
turn general opinion violently against tho
groups which have ilouted governmental au
thority and sought to make shameful use of
fU4e? -s " i'uikv, i:ie i-nuriM nun even ciecieq repre-
H V aentatlves in C.mgn ss They are not only
'K1 v P"lti"K "hkv out of existence. Tliryhave
H already made nny revision of the dry laws
H jlmost Impossible.
NEW LIGHT ON LABOR
fTlOO much was said iu the last jear and
too little was done abiut the various and
complex problems in American industry,
which were negligently grouped and dis
missed under the designation of radicalism.
Kvery one who didn't agree with you used
to be u lloUlo-vist until recently. Ever
worker who struck or complained was a
Jted or an I. W. V.
Itusiness men ure beginning to realize that
they put too much fuith iu imported phrass
and that they jierniitted blanket indictments
of labor agitators to coumil a great deal
that the should have known for their own
good and the good of their men am! their
community. You cannot cure injustice by
ralllug It another name, and ou cannot
change a state of mind by iguoring it.
Sherman Rogers, who spoke yesterday be
ioje the Chamber of Commerce, was a
worker In various fields who, because of a
clear and receptive mind, emerged from mills
and factories and lumber camps witli a full
knowledge of what the average man in the
ranks of labor thinks and feels and desires.
He knows, apparently, that there are two
sides to the question of radicalism. lie put
the case harshly when he said that many
business men who want to perceive the causa
et bolshevism have only to go home and look
III thulr mirrors. What he meant, of course,
wa teat tho habitual aloofness of'tite ni
it v
ployer from the employe and the failure of
the man nt the top to have n human Interest
in the mnu at the bottom represent the cause
of conditions vvhlch lead inevitably to unrest.
A good many of the wiser leuders Iu In
dustry have been learning this for themselves.
A BRILLIANT EXHIBITION OF
PRACTICAL STATESMANSHIP
Republican Leaders Prove That They
Are Ablo to Interpret the Thought
of the Nation
SENATt
after
TOR IIARDlNt! announced soon
he was nominated that he would
rail Iu consultation after he was elected the
best minds In the country t'o advise with him
on the best way for co-operating with tho
rest of tho world in an association for the
preservation of pence.
These "best minds" when they come to
gether will, of course, face the facts as they
then exist. They will find a League of Na
tions of which our late associates in the war
are members along with nil the neutral na
tions. The ouly peoples outside nre the tier
tnnns, the Russians, the Turks and the Mex
icans, along with the Americans. Now. the
real proposition to be considered will bl
under what conditions' the United States will
associate itself with the existing league.
Every practical man knows this. Mr. Cox
knows it. Mr. Wilson Is aware of it, and
every other Democratic leader must admit
It to hlmelf whether he will admit as much
on tho political stump or not.
The thirty-one distinguished and Influen
tial Republicans who hove signed n statement
setting forth their belief in nn association
to preserve the pence and their conviction
thnt tho lirm establishment of such an asso
ciation can best lie secured through the elec
tion of Mr. Wu-dltig nre representatives of
the tvpe of men whom Mr. Harding has
promised to call into consultation. Among
them arc 11 111 u Root, Charles Evans Hughes,
Herbert Hoover mid tieorge W. Wicker
sham, men of whose sound Americanism
there is no doubt nnd whose Interest in in
ternational peace is admitted. They are
practical men also, with n wide experience
in affairs. The signatures of Lowell, of
Hnrvard; Hlbhen, of Princeton; McCrackcn,
of Lafayette: Wilbcr. of Leland Stanford,
and the presidents of severnl other great
universities adjoin the names of Root and
Hoover nnd the others.
These men say what has been evident ever
since the campaign began, if not ever since
the debate on the treaty started In the Sen
ates, namely, that the issue is not betweeu
"a league" and "no league." but between
the league provided for in the treaty with
no substantial modification ami such a league
ns commends itself to the best sentiment of
America.
Mr. Harding lias persistentlv declared that
he is In fnvnr of an association to preserve
peace. He does not cure what it is called.
He Insists only that it shall be so consti
tuted aMo make the attainment of its object
n reasonable possibility. When he put his
views In another form a few da.vs ago the
ndvocntes of the Wilou plan, from Mr. Cox
down or up, shouted with one accord that
he had "scrapped the league." anil told us
Hint the only simon-pure advocates of an
association for world peace were in the Dem
ocratic part .
Hut vvc are going into the League of Nn
tions, because we do not want to stay out.
This is ns certain ns nn.v tiling can be In
advance of the eveut. And it bus been ob
vious from the beginning to those who
.Uiidied the forcrs nt work in the world nnd
refused to be deceived by the moves on the
political chessboard made by men who were
pln.vlng for position.
And when we do go in It will be under
conditions that commend themselves to the
best judgment of nn overwhelming niajoritj
of the people. Serious nnd persistent objec
tion has bieu raised against Article X. which
provides that the league .shall "preserve
against aggression the territorial integrity and
existing political independence of nil mem
bers of the league." This was objected to
in the first place as an intempt to freeze into
permanent shape the boundaries of the new
nations set up bj the peace treat. It was
later objected to on the ground thnt it would
force the I'nited States to use the army ami
navy in Europe in order to protect the little
nations which might be threatened. There
has been reluctance to bind this count r to
anj agreement of this kind.
An attempt has been made to belittle the
obligations under it. When Senntor Spencer
said a few days ago that President WiNon
had promised to use American forces to pro
tect Rumania and Serbia if they were threat,
eneil. the President said that the .senntor had
said vvhnt wns not true. Hut when the
Senate foreign relations committee met the
President nt the White House on August IP,
HUH, the obligations of the I'nited Slntes
under Article X were gone into and tlie
President agreed thnt vvc should have to use
our army and navy iu such a case ns was
under dlseussiou with the Rumanian dele
gates. Here is what the stenographic record
of the White House conference sajs about it:
Stnator Knorx Mr. President, .iIIjvv me
t'i ask this question: Suppose that It Is
perfectly obvious and accepted that thTo
is an external uggrcsslon against some
power, and supposo It Is perfectly obvious
mil accepted that It cannot be repelled
except by foico of arms, would wo bo under
.ny legal obligation to participate"
Tho Prcsldtnt No, sir; but wo would be
un.lcr an absolutely compcllli.R moral
(.bllgat'.oii
Senator Knox Hut no legal obligation"
Tho President Not as 1 contemplate It.
Senator Williams Mr President, each
nation, If I underrtand It. Is, of courst,
left to Judge of the applicability of the
principles stated to tho facts In tho cose,
whether there Is or Is not external aggres
jhr," The President Yes.
Su'iitnr Williams And If any country
shculd ooneludo that there was not ?x
tttnal aggression, but that Trance or simo
other country lnd started tbo trouble n
rtlrrcttv, we vvouid have thrf same right, ns
I understand It that Italy bad to de
clare that her alliance with Oeimany
and Austria was puiely defensive nnd that
sho did nil see an) thing defensive In It:
so when you cimo to tho Judgment of
the facts, ouisldn of tho International law
Involved each nation must determine, as
I understand, whether or not thero has
been external aggression?
The President I think you nro right,
sir Senator 'addressing Senator Knox),
oii were about to ask romething?
Senator Knox I only wanted to tell
vou that I asked that question becnuso I
wis a llttlo confuted by the lammage of
our message transmitting the proposed
l'ranco-Amerlcan treatv to the Senate. In
which vou srld tn substance and I think
p'rnctlcallv In these terms, thnt this Is only
binding us tn do Immediately wlvit we
would otherwise be bound to do under the
I.eiKUe of Nntlons?
The President Yes.
Here we have the President's admission
that under Article X we would be "under
an absolutely compelling moral obligation"
to use our armed force In Europe to protect
the boundaries of another nntion. At the
same conference he said that a moral obllga
tlon was much more binding than n lr,al
obligation.
Now, the real question before the country
so for as the league covenant Is concerned
is whether we are ready to bind ourselves,
morally or otherwise, to send our armed
forces to Europe to assist In settling boun
dary disputes.
.All t the evidence available Indicates that
icayiTi
EVENING PUBLIC LED&El
wc are not ready. A majority of tho Senate,
mado tip of both Republicans nnd Demo
crats, voted against Artlclo X. Republican
nnd Democratic voters iu large sections of
the country nro opposed to it. Whether'
their fears arc groundless or not is beside,
tho question. A constructive statesman who
wishes to accomplish results must adjust
his course to the prevailing sentiment of tho
nation.
Mr. Harding has adjusted himself to that
sentiment even if he has not participated in
creating It. The Republican leaders who
signed tho statement published yesterday
ngreo with Mr. Harding. Some of thein
anticipated him iu stating their objections
to the covenant. If the President hud been
willing to admit the force of these objections
It would have been ratified months ago In
modified form, llecause he refused to bend
ills will to the wishes of the majority of his
countrymen, he nnd his party have been con
demned for their failure to accomplish re
sults, nnd the country Is getting ready to
put the government In other hands.
HIGH COST OF POLITICS
myrONEV. It seems, is tight Iu politics, too, ,
I "J- Itut tho ,'ntwtlltntis nf relative nnvorlr I
found In both big part rumps nnd discussed
by Mr. (Illbert iu his dispatch to this news- i
paper xcNtcrday will not cause nny rational
man to toll a bell of mourning or wet a
handkerchief with tears of grief. No voter
with nn eye or nn ear for what is golug on
about him xvlll feel like robbing the baby's
bnnk to help out. Too much money hns been
available to politicians in the past. And a
taste of wholesome poverty would be good
not only for the big parties. It would be
good for the country.
It Is said that great campaigns cannot he
waged without Inrge expenditures of money.
Hut no one in recent years has made the
experiment. It is foolish to suppose that
nny Considerable part of nnv "general cam
paign fund Is usid for hidden purposes or
spent in Illegal ways. The millions which
politicians linve grown to need lire used to
sustain battalions of stump speakers, for
printing nnd expensive posters, for booklets,
special trains, letter writers, stenographers,
office rent nnd the like. Hut the poster por
traits of the major candidates are usually as
bad as they can be. What thousands of
stenographers nre made to pound out dally
on typewriters is generally meaningless nnd
unconvincing. If there ever was n hired
stump speaker who mnde nu audience nny
wiser lu relation to issues of stnte lie hns
not come to our notice. Slogans devised In
tho elnborate slogan mill without which no
campaign headquarters would be complete
do not stand up under even a superficial
analysis mnde in (he Interest of cold truth.
Campaign funds are used in expeuslve wnrs
of propaganda Intended not to enlighten
voters, but to create opinion more favorable
to n given candidate and more unfavorable
to his opponent than the facts in the case
iiiuj warrant. Millions spent lu one head
quarters are uecded to offset the effect of
millions spent in another.
Meanwhile, the newsmpers of the country,
actuated by their desire to give the news,
present the case of each party and each can
didate before the rending public every day.
and they leave nothing to be desired iiy any
one who wishes to know only the truth.
They do their job fairly and thoroiighlv.
They leave nothing to bo said' by nn.v oiie
who has not a special interest to serve. They
give all the facts, not u selected few.
Campaign funds nre established in the
Interest of men ami parties Unit seek to
appear ,lu a better light than that of the
simple fact. And .vet the millions contributed
" ' party or another in each election are
for the most part wasted. Who reads cam
pjign literature? Who goes to nn.v of the
smaller rallies for knowledge or guidance?
How man of the political letters that run
like n Niagara through the mails are actually
opened?
Most people who linve a right sense of the
fitness of things would like to see the day
of big campaign funds pass altogether. Then
the enndidnto anil his party would have to
stand and light upon their records nnd de
pend for salvation on their own abilities to
command the honest respect and confidence
of the rending and thinking public. They
would have to trust to the plain truth ns it
is revealed inexorably and inev itably In each
da.v's news of men and events
Mr. Co.x tilled tlie air n little while ago
with charges about an immense Republican
slush fund. The recoids f t. rnmpaign
show clearly thot the fund lu question never
existed. Roth parties, it seems, will be iu
debt nfter the election, (lood Samaritans
will come to their rescue and foot the bills
for the sake of sentiment or old times.
Meanwhile, monc) i nctuall.v scarce in the
rival camps. That at least is a wholesome
sign. We ought to be able to decide elce
tions in this country according to the laws
of common sense m,d ot obedience to
sentimental or emotional impulses created to
order for the occasion.
- "OPEN" TREATIES
TT IS safe to assume that the popularity
of n certain volume published yesterday in
London will not be commensurate with its
importance.
The work, issued in compliance of Article
XVIII of tho league covenant, contains ten
international ugreemeuts made since the
treaty of Versailles went into force on
.lauunry 10, WW. An additional volume
will bring the number of registered pucts up
to twenty-six. Included iu the list i.s the
first draft of the document binding Rumania
Czecho-Slovakia and Jugo-Slavia, the so
called "Little Entente," in an alliance, and
the complete text of the renewed Anglo
Japanese agreement.
The registration of these treaties by the
league implies that they are in conformity
with principles proclaimed by this orguiilza
tlou of thirty-nine nations. The disclosure
is proof that the pledge of open diplomacy
was not altogether a ligurc of speech.
Theoretically, this novelty In interna
tional procedure is odiulrublc. Hud publi
cation been suppressed lengue critics would
have been purple with indignation.
IF IT WERE ONLY TRUE
VTTHEREAS, It is generally admitted that
' spell -biuding never changes a vote and
that the purposu of an Intensive campaign
is simply to round up the faithful;
And Whereas, Campaigns as at present
conducted nre both expensive nnd exhaust
ing ;
lie it Resolved, That to the end that
public speaking be dispensed with, the fol
lowing rules be adopted by the national com
mittees f the various parties;
First. That tlie Republican party be sym
bolized by nu automobile lioru ; the Demo
cratic party by a tin whistle; the Farmer
Labor party by n cowbell, and tho Socialist
part by a rattle.
Second. Thnt In lieu of speaking, the
various candidates be allowed to honk, whis
tle, i lug uiul rattle between tho hours of S
and II p. in., and that such honking, whis
tling, ringing and rattling be prohibited ut
ill other t nn s.
The -aine bein,' for the good of tlie peiq.le
of the various couimnnwenlths.
We pa.v high prices for scarce com
modities. Time wus the scarcest and
therefore the most precious of commodities
during the war, aud therefore Its price went
up. When workers have tlmo to burn or
throw away Jtajirice will go down.
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-i3HlLApEM?HliigATK 0Q(C0Bi6f 1920 ' , v
THE QUAY INFLUENCE
It Is a Tradition Now to the rJew Gen
eration When Dick Quay Mado
a Lieutenant Governor.
A Reminiscence
Ry OEOROK NOX McCAIN
ON RARE occasions Richard R. ("Dick")
, 9'!n-v. 8CS to PMIndclphla. Ills homo
nnd his business Interests arc west of tho
. Allegheules,
He wns one of the nonofficlnl delegation
from western Pennsylvania to, the Chicago'
convention. Oddly enough, he was for Senn
tor Johnson nnd against Governor Sproul
for the nomination.
Helng without oflielnl recognition, Dick's
Influence did not carry very far. One rea
son mih ... w,lM t,at the inngle of his
father's nome has ceaBCd to bo a talisman in
Pennsylvania.
The old Quay guard Is rapidly disappear
ing. To the younger generation of politicians
Matthew Stanley Quay is a tradition.
BUT Dick Quny, not alone because ho wns
his father's son, hut because ho hnd,
thirty yeors ngo, a certain aptitude for poll
tics, once nominated and elected a Lieutenant
v.ovcrnor. it is an episode that has been
forgotten. I think, even by the survivors of
the politlca' cont" ts of those days. '
Ocncrnl Daniel II. Hastings hnd been de
feated by Senntor Quay's-Inllucuce for the
gubernatorial nomination In 3800. It wns
handed over to George W. Dclaraater by
Quay in the face of a big party protest.
In the ensuing election Dclamatcr wns de
feated by Robert E. Pattison.
Hastings maintained a strong party or
ganization during the ensuing four years,
when he wns again n candidate for nomina
tion, won it nnd was elected Governor.
There wns nn interesting struggle for sec
ond place on the Hnstings ticket. It wns a
foregone conclusion that it would win in
the state.
The lending candidates were Senntor Wal
ter Lyon, of Allegheny, nnd former Senator
John R. Robinson, of Delaware county. It
was one end of the state against the other.
Dick Quay, who hod been u member of the
House when Walter Lyon was In the Senate,
was a warm personal friend of the Pittsburgh
man.
Robinson was counting on the support of
Senator Quay, but for some reason or other
Quay side-stepped und Robinson was left to
his own resources.
According to John II. Robinson. Quay
gave hlni the excuse that lie wns pledged to
George Handy Smith, of Philadelphia, for
Lieutenant Governor, nud could not shift
ills position,
I HAD more than an ordinary interest In
this contest for second place. I kucw
both Lyon nud Robinson intimntely.
John 11. Robinson, the grandson of sold
General Robinson, was born within three
squares of to here I spent my enrly childhood.
Walter I.ou nnd myself had been members
of the same literary society when wc were
boys.
Dick Qun.v's influence with hla father
doubtless induced the latter tn keep hands off
in this light for the lieutenant governorship.
Senator George Ilnudy Smith did not enter
the contest, and Quny was In n position
therefore to bnck Robinson. He preferred
to remain neutral.
Jack Robinson wns n fighter. He upset
Senator Tom Cooper's machine, in Delaware
county, nnd ns he had an indulgent mother
who wns financially able to assist him In
his political ambitions, he stnrtcd in to put
up a light.
lie was tinder a handicap from the start.
Senator Chris Magce. of Pittsburgh, wns
in a way committed to Lyon's candidacy
from the stnrt. Congressman George V. Huff,
of Westmoreland county, wns anxious to be
n'liomlnnted for congressninn-nt-lnrge. mid
as he nnd Mngec were warm frleuds, Magee
i lie- e wis or iiimv's man flint he might
bold the senator in the support of his friend
Huff.
RICHARD R. QCAY personally fought
the battle of Waller L.von. He had the
inside track from the start. As it was, Jack
Robinson went to Ilarrisliurg with about 100
delegates scattered over the stnte.
It was about as vociferous n delegation
as ever gathered within tlie walls of the
old llarrisburg Opera House. An outsider
would have thought there were 1000 of them.
It was nt this convention that Attorne.v
General William I. Scluiffcr first came Into
prominence ns an orator, a reputation lie
has maintained justlv since then.
Schnffer nominated John H. Robinson and
Walter Merrick, of Tioga count, sec
onded it.
The case of Walter Merrick was another
in which a man who wns to piny a conspicu
ous part iu Republican politics made his
initial bow to a state convention.
Mr. Merrick afterward became I'niled
Stales naval officer in Philadelphia, and held
tlie position under three administrations.
Dick Quay was one too many for Jack
Robinson. He made Walter L.von Lieuten
ant Governor.
It was a Lieutenant Governor of which he
mn.v well have been proud. Lyon wa a
clean-cut. able official. He went with Quny
in his light on Governor Hastings. That
was to be expected, lie was ruthless in
Uii-rlm 1 ! n ' I oca'"" lioecHsnrv to put
an.v thing through, but his personal character
was of the highest and of his ability there
could be no question.
THE death of Senator John N. Neeji was
the cause of Walter Lyon's election to
the Slate Senate as his successor, aud the
beginning of his closer intimacy with Itiili
ard It. Quay.
Nceb was one of the largest men, phjsi
call, that ever slit iu the Stnte Senate. He
was eoVo ., I'Ht dii'-cb's 'endlii" German
dnilv of thnt period, the Ereihelts Prciind.
His father and uncle were the founders of
the paper, in which John Nceb Inter ac
quired an interest.
To the end of his life he retnined the news
instil" i ' his icpoi'torbil davs. an Impu'se
that led him to seek the cause of popular
turmoil and excitement long nfter he became
the head of his newspaper.
The Nccbscs lived in u fashionable section
of Allegheny. John hart n miniature fire
alarm In his bedroom, and whenever n glare
in the dnikness of tho night indicated a um
llngrntion of any hIzc he would leave his bed
nnd walk miles to observe tlie progress of
the tire.
The appearance of Mr. Nceb one night nt
a particularly large lire In Pittsburgh in the
eighties, at on hour when nil icspoiisihlo
editors should linve been tucked in their
little beds, led to nu expression of astonish
ment. mi my part.
'M boj, the ruling passion's strong in
denVh. I can't resist tlie temptation to run
to ii big fire. I do not think I'll ever be nble
to overcome it."
He was a tine newspaper man.
IN CHINA
THE sun is only the sun here,
Hut every day when he goes to China
He is a celestial dragon, breathing gold and
scarlet,
And the moou here is only a moon,
Hut over the pagodas she is a white phoenix,
And thctv the stars ure little silver unicorns
with crystal crowns.
The irises are uot like our irises, nor the
chrysanthemums like our chrsUU.
themums,
Tor at dusk they hide bewitching mouths be
hind little faus
And the gardens are rilled with the sound of
their shoes;
The willow trees there cover while faces with
their long sleeves "
And the fox bride is pledged In cups of green
jade . . .
Aud wc, we nre only lovers heie,
Dut who knows what wc might be . . . in
China!
-ElUabeth J. CoaUwortb. fn Asia.
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, NOW MY IDEA IS THIS!
Daily Talks With Thinking Philadclphians on Subjects They
Know Best
W. BRADFORD WILLIAMS
On Philadelphia's Future
A HIGHLY optimistic view of the indus
trial situation in this country, and par
ticularly in this citv, is held by W. Brad
ford Williams, industrial engineer, author
nnd expert with the ordnance department
of tlie army during the war.
He also pays a high tribute to the enor
mous growth of this city Industrially, which
he declnres Is not only first in more brandies
than nny other American city, but is also
the most important industrial center in the
world iu many things.
"The other day I talked with John C.
Jones, chief of army ordnance in the Phila
delphia district, which district embraced half
of Pennsylvania, half of New Jer.sev aud ull
of Delaware during the war." he sa.vs.
"We were going over the stupendous produc
tion, program allotted to Philadelphia by the
chief of ordnnnce nt Washington, nnd veiily
the achievements of Philadelphia during
those nineteen months were such as to make
the creations of one Aladdin, assisted by his
responsive lamp, seem a trifle. Aladdin
rubbed his lamp nnd produced in units, tens
nud thousands iu fairy lore. Philadelphia
rubbed its ejes nt the colossal program in
trusted, nny, nssigned to it. ns its share,
its 'bit,' a program demanding utmost im
mediate production and delivery of munitions
of war totaling between S'J.OOO.OOO.OOO and
$.1,000,000,000 !
Philadelphia Went to Work
"Hiibbod its eyes nnd then proceeded to
roll up its sleeves nnd, presto! Steel, some
of which may have beeu Intended for plow
shares, was made into guns, bayonets, in
struments of the finest precision and the
greatest importance.
"To Mr. Jones wns intrusted a budget call,
lug for a greater undertaking than has ever
before been iutrusted to nny one mini. The
last sentence is used parenthetically here,
but might well have a place in first chapters
of bonks dcaliug with the vviir.
"There were many other large production
centers in the Putted States, but Philadel
phia wus the largest. Pcuus.vlvniiia pro
duced the coal and steel and Philadelphia
fashioned Into completion a cornucopia of
materials for warfare which taxed the ships
to transport nnd hastened the Gorman emis
saries to tlie Halg-roch-Pershing tribunal
with pleas for an armistice.
Turned to Peace Tusks
"Then industrial Philadelphia the job
fiuished laid aside the blue-prints, jigs, dies
and gnuges which hail beeu interpreted 'fioni
the Preach,' pigeon-holed the metric s.v tern
of centimeters nnd nil'llmeters nnd returned
to inches and industry in an effort to put the
productions of peace back on Its feet.
"When the revulsion, due to physical and
mental overstrain resulting from the super
human efforts called forth, has subsided,
then the tales which the historians are pre
paring covering the work of our city nud
outl.ving cities nifll towns in war and iu' pence
will make us thrice proud, nor only of our
community, but also of our citizenship
therein.
"This brings up the question of present
dny production or underproduction, To my
mind the pleseut-day condition is psychologi
cal as well us physiological, and has its cause
iu the revulsion which is even now sweeping
the civilized world, but is soon due to puss
avvnv. Ii mi vi tui to consider, the
tiend of world disasters, pandemics nnd even
world political movements has always a wes
terly course and It Is a fact ! Starting iu
Em ope, it cio.ses the Atlantic, spreading
over the I'nited States or rather the cutlre
American coutinent, nnd thence to the Par
West and Par East,
Room for Optimism
"Strange as the statement seems, it is
nevertheless true, nud if one will go back
over our history the statement here made
will be been to verify Itself. This leaves
much loom for optimism ns to the neur fu
ture. These waves, while they Mein to re
main hovering over us nu Interminable period
of time, ns a mutter of fact soon 'fold their
tents and silently steal away.'
"The readjustments which we arc now
worried over aside from those which mu.v
ni considered as of the elements of national
politics-will to n great extent work them
eclvt's out uukyiiatliull.v ; that Is to say, the
londitious of Tcnuse' will be fouud-to change
nud gradually the atmosphere will clear im
oftsV a long 'pcll of extremely bad weather.
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WON'T NEXT "WEEK SEEM fiUlW '
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"This is not prophetic: it is a simple
natural fact based upon past performances
of untlite, nnd nature never falls.
"Certainly wc may assist by doing all we.
enn to onset the condittous which nre sway
ing us hither nnd thither, just the same ni" tt
fintiiin of n ship takes the nelm 'when h.s
xojJspI gets into the 'trough' of the sea. He
sets the rudder so that the ship will breast
the waves or ride 'over' them hut nntor.
I Is there just the same, and were it not tor
. the firm holding down of the helm the ship
woiini soon yield to the battering wares and
be bc out! control.
"Philadelphia has suffered from the ef
fects nf the war, and so hns every American
city and town, but our city was afflicted
heavier, if I am not mistaken, than nnv
other city in the country dining tho terrible
influenza epidemic.
Philadelphia Is "Riding tlie Waves"
"Yet with nil this. Industrial Philadelphia
is riding the waves and has kept out of the
'trough,' a fact which should help us to con
tinue to keep our e.ve upon the compass and
oui hand upon the helm.
"True, we labored under the highest pres
sure during these nineteen months of inten
sive warfare; true, we cut one speed notch
after another iu production records until we
marveled ut the work of our own hands!
AH the more reason for nature's inexorable
reaction: 1 ndcrprudtictiou after overpro
duction; rest after toil; phiy after work,
but It cannot hist.
"Then when our ship runs into smoother
water, when the sea has calmed down, we
shall discover that our muscles, our minds
nnd our self-confidence have undergone tre
mendous development, which In turu shall
stand us in good stead in the great big pro
duction program which Philadelphia will be
cnlled upon tn get out to make up for the
period of underproduction vvhlch we have
beeu passing through."
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What Do You Knoiv?
QUIZ
What Is meant by .lousllng?
Mow should the word be pronounced?
vvhnt Is the first name of M Mllkrnnd.
tho present president of Franco?
v ho was Zenohla?
In what century did she live?
When will the electoral college meet to
ballot for President'
Who wrote the celebrated treatlso on our
frovernmem ami Institutions. "The
American Commnnvvealtls"?
What was the maiden name of Lillian
rillssell?
In what state Is the great Itoosevelt dam
located?
Where did pajamas originate?
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Answers to Yesterday's Quiz
1. To Israel Putnam, the American general
Is attrtmited u dramatic exploit of the
American Revolution. In 177D. when
stationed In Connecticut. Horeneck
one of his outposts, was attacked bv
tho Ilrltlsli under Tryon win, J 500
Ivi'IV I,u,nm- Mn closely pursue
while on his way with his men to
swamp. Is mild to havo dashed on
horseback down a steep hill and
escaped. lu
2. A mirage, seen sometimes lu deserts Is
the result of n. deviation of the rays' of
Ight caused by lefractlon and refie?!
Ion and objects seen with the ee a?e
ma le to appear In unusunl positions
anjl often multiple or Inverted One
cause of desrt mirages is a limlmi
tlon of the density of the air near th
surface of the earth, oft", popjeed
by the radiation of heat from t e earth
The denser stratum Is thus ,i,.J3
above Instead of. ns Is u.u.,livJ,lHncrt
'el,?w the rarer stratum The ravs , f
light from a distant object mSt th
rarer medium at n very ol tuse LJ 1
and. Instead of passing Into it ",fje
jellected back to' the dense medlini"
the. common surface of the two i emV
acting ns n mirror media
3 Na,HJXdI3?nna,P8Y1,e "V"' """ ,,
4" Tl HnKand'8 ," "Cr b"ma.lc of
6' n",hm"iVncnn' hnv,IW ,l rc"-"3" Clow.
B Slrlus is the brightest of the ik..i .
7. The Zoological Gardens I. Vhlla ,,&
form the oldest zoo In the I' . .
States. The Philadelphia vi "',,ei
Society was founde.l TWM
gates of the gardens were first , J-1
to the public in July, 1871 "neil
8. Thlrty-nluo nations nre officlalU. .-
" Hlom.nio offlclas"',,;
Washington
9. I'mber Is u natural pigment into i
but darker nnd bro vne? . ii1.1 ? ,?,c'!,",,
Is of a dark yellow co or uErf.f
(10. Conitintlne U . th. eli'ifln, .7 Q
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SHORT CUTS
Governor Edwards thought it an In
utility board.
The weather man is working off tome
of Ids left-over summer days.
A painless dentist is one who can assure
you it doesu t hurt him in the least.
Opponents of Mitten's basic fare seem
determined to mnke it a plugged nickel.
Expert opinion, has it that the Demo
crats are whistling to keep up their eonrar.
It ought to be easy to run fiii.nclal
drives in soviet Russia. Iron nails arc cur
rency. The profiteer who went up like n rocket
is protesting mightily against coming down
like a stick.
Not n whimper of protest hns been
raised by tlie 20,0011 school children who
nre ou half time.
Metropolitan Opera House experience
demonstrates thnt while singers uhlior blue
uotes they have no obiection to green ones.
Th' cranks' who write follow -up stuff
after every crime of note seem deterrainrJ c
to disprove the oft-repeated assertion that
Inter-vviiting is a lost art.
Federal officials have diseovcrnl n Bos
ton restaurant thnt charges $1.40 for n pi'tt
of pie. At leust it may be said for the I!o'
ton profiteer that he is achieving lots ol
publicity. f
The saving of u Washington nffro
woman from tlie gallows draws attentiou to
the fact that no amount of 'equal right'''
will overcome a mau's repugnauce to Imiiginj
a woman.
If the Park Commission falls in with lb
suggestion of Mayor Moore concerning the
Wissahlckon it will soon be possible for non
walking lovers of nature to greet her smilirl
face with u sight-seelng"bus.
Sudden masculine manifestations of di'
taste for women holding office arouse su-pb
clons that when mnn was nagged Into grunt
ing women suffrage he was ut heart nu In
dian giver. The thought ought to gbe tl
feminists pause.
There is, of course, no connection be
tween the Vinelnnd, N, J., cow that
mad and the Newark. Dol.. cow Hint j"'
driven by freshmen into Delaware t'olWJ
and was left to roam the classrooms, but
don't .vou biippose there would be
Justification for th6 Newark cow getW
mad?
Girl members of an art club in ChicaU
have protested to the election cominMonert ,
.l., .. i...i , , r.....! tn ni ntf
nun ii vvoiuuii judge lino reiusiu ," -- ,i
iiiem to register necnuso. "iney wm- "
wholly self-supporting." We'll wiiK" "
they do the lady judge inlu-tice TM
chnnces are she wouldn't allow them
register on the higher grouuds that slieuw1"
like them.
A New York wnltress who sots fJ '
week snlary and makes ?"." a week in 'P
tearfully told a Judge tliat she stole I
diamonds nnd pawned them for $.100 In "V
to buy clothes for lier eleven-.veitr-olil uuj'
ter. Naturally tlie judge was touched
ue uuoweii ner to pieau giiiuy u i""', ,i,
ceny; for we must pity the plight lM
poor; their lines arc hard.
A nine-pound wcakfih with a,slul!!
coin dated 1700 iu its little tummy lif
captured nt Cope May. The cola i OT
lioM'ii in imvr come jriiui inie ", '"-.,' ar
ships wrecked in thut year off the I)f f j.
rapes. There is comfort and iimnm
the little Incident. All that a person IimJJ
do to recover tho thousands of go Id w "
'ost ut that tlmo is to train wciiklun
swallow them.
If every man had nt least two lrM
, .....I '.,...,. .. tl.n nllief ' I
nuu couiu Hwncii iroui one in ,
i-.. .i i.i .i. I...I .,f reenustfUC
iicrutvioil ut'llluuilt'U. me iviivu ". rt-d.rt
tlon would be less of n problem "j
would, on the. one hand, be no shorten M
hours so ns to provide work for an '""" u
while, on the other hnnd, another line "
nut be suffering from Inch of lubor i
have been times, for Instance, when nnu"
might well havo been at work on the frH
und other tlmca when farm laborers .
advantageously have been engaged 10. " t
ing freight cars.
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