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A 10 lit YI1VU I'KOdll AM Hilt
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Thine on which (ho iwwle expert the new
administration to ronrrntratp Its ultrntlont
The Delaware river bridge.
A drudock big inouuh to accommodate ('to
largest shin.
Development of the rapid transit system.
A convention hall.
A building for the Free Library.
Ah Art Museum.
Enlargement of the vater supplv.
Hornet to accommodate the ijopiilarion.
HARMONY VS. THE CHARTER
TI IS not altogether surprising that City
Hall reports tell of a "mysterious tip,"
received by officeholders under the Moore
administration, to the effect that Alliance
leaders will not be displeased if they make
roluntary contributions to the treasury of
the Vare city committee. This is only symp
tomatic of a certoin sort of harmony in local
organization politics harmony which is a
weet concord of jingling coin.
It is surprising, however, that the cur
rent harmony talk should be seized upon
o quicltly as nn excuse for a covert nnd yet
bold attack on the spirit of the city charter.
For, despite the technical arguments of
lawyers, the new city charter specifically
Intended that political contributions should
not bo exacted of any city employe.
Uio "tip" in question wns not passed
alonp, apparently, to policemen nnd firemen.
The penalties and provisions of the charter.
to far as this special class of city employes
is 'Concerned, are too specific to be regarded
lightly by even the most daring disciples of
the gospel of harmony.
As for other city emplojes, the situation
urges that the Legislature, when considering
amendments to the charter, rewrite the sec
tion dealing with the question of assessments
or contributions.
Section i" is inadequate in that it says
only that no city officer or employe "shall
directly or indirectly demand, solicit, collect
or receive" political assessments. This
language, it would seem, does not prohibit
an employe, other than a policeman or fire
man, from "contributing."
Section 23 contains n further stipulation
to the effect that no employe shnll be "in
nny manner concerned in demanding, so
liciting, collecting or receiving" politicnl os
aesstuents. It is hardly likely that tho law
can be stretched so that the officeholder who
makes a contribution can be charged with
being "concerned" in demanding or solicit
ing a contribution.
The language of the charter in tiiis re
spect needs to b- rewritten, clarified nnd
strengthened. Meanwhile, It is certain that
any city employe who chooves to ignore the
"tip" may feel entirely safe iu his po-ition.
Harmony may succeed in getting money :
the Moore administration gives promise of
making it fail in "getting job."
PRACTICAL REFORM
fTtHE merger of the I5iirenu of Highways
and the Bureau of Street Cleaning, ns
authorized in an ordiuunce just signed by
Mayor Moore, is nn encouraging step in
administrative reform.
The government of Philadelphia is par
ticularly alllicted with the blight of over
lapping or conflicting departments. Custom
born of conditions no longer existing, con
servative tradition and sometimes simple
inertia have long needlessly complicated mu
nicipal affairs.
The fusion of the two bureaus so closely
allied in their functions is especially to be
indorsed just now when the city is pre
paring to embark on its own "treet-cleaning
venture. The fruits of this limited enter
prise will depend wry largely upon efficient
organization. If the work is well handled
the doom of the contractor system may be'
sealed.
The new move, moreover, admirably co
incides with the spirit of the charter, which
is emphatically dim-ted toward a simplifica
tion of administrative methods nnd the de
struction of outworn techuwnlities. There
js need for much morn consolidation f this
sort in the ('It-. Hall oll'n e.
DISAPPEARING JEWELS
fTlHEY need a Sherlock Holmes on the
- Main I. me and in other fashionable sub
urbs hereabouts. No ordinary thieves could
get away with necklaces ami other jewels
Worth almost SWO.oOO within the short
space of fourteen dajs.
The biirglim. s at tin- Mcrndden home in
Ylllanova nnd at tic residence of Mr.
Dcveroux at Diehind are .uggctive not of
the work of routine second -stor. men, but
of thieves who operate with detailed knowl
edge obtained somehow from the inside.
Cun it be that burglary is now organized
upon n basis of scientific efficient' , with card
indexes nnd scouts and tipsters on the side?
A year or two ago the police had reason
to believe thnt a well clipped and highly
organized syndicate was responsible for many
big warehouse burglaries in this and other
cities. The later jewel lobberies hereabouts
yet may piove that the uli-u then tried out
experimentally and with coushleiublo suc
cess hns since been elaborated to meet the
Crowing ambitions of a burglars' bund.
NEEDED, THOUGH FAULTY
TUB point rinsed by the Hureiiii of Mu
nicipal Research in critjei.ing the rigidity
of tho referendum on the .f.'l.'i. 000,000 city
loan is well worth remembering for the
future, 1'iifortiinalely, the defects of tho
present situation cannot he rectified and the
public is forced lo pass on the loan as a
whole, without the opportunity to appraise
Individual items on their merits or other
Wise. Obviously this is n bad arrangement.
Mayor Moore is not obliged to adopt the
blanket method regarding coiincilmanic ap
propriations. Nor Is the fiovernor with
legislative monev bills. The public, which
Is, the fundamental source of revenue, should
certainly be allowed a slmrfnr flexibility of
choice.
It is quite within the power of the Council
to submit each item in a mnjor loan sepa
rately, nnd the next time decision on the
rnlslng of funds is sought in nn election
public pressure should bo exerted to bring
about the necessary reform.
Just now it Is indispensable to the progress
of Philadelphia that the loan should pass.
While deploring his limitations, the voter
who appreciates the necessities of the case
cannot afford to permit odmltted defects to
obscure his duty as a forward-looking
citizen.
STILL HUNTING MICE
INSTEAD OF ELEPHANTS
Trje Mayor's Desire That More Trrouoht
Bo Given to a Constructive Program
Will De Gratified When Ho
Leads tho Way
TITAYOR MOOIHJ did well to remind the
" members of the Ileal Kstate Hoard that
the constructive work of the city adminis
tration deserves moro attention than the
political disputes about the selection of men
to nssist in doing the work or 'than the fac
tional quarrels among the political lenders.
The real concern of the city government
is the conduct of the public business effi
ciently nnd economically. Attention is con
tinually distracted from this by other things.
More space Is devoted iu the newspapers to
the political struggles than to the construc
tive work of the various departments. The
newspapers catinot be blamed for this be
cause, unfortunately, the public officials are
frequently more willing to talk nbout their
political plans thnn about their plans for
public improvements, as those officials have
themselves apparently been more Interested
lit times In the political than in the business
side of their duties.
Many thoughtful persons have played with
the theory that the break-down of municipal
government in America has been due to the
failure of the municipal officials to grasp the
idea that they were elected primarily as
business executives to manage the affairs of
a great enterprise. These persons have been
pleased to think that tho surest way to Im
prove city government is for the city officials
to keep before the minds of the people every
day of the year that the voters are tho
shareholders in a large corporation, the di
rectors of which arc the Mayor and the local
legislature.
The dividends ore paid in the form of well
paved and cleun streets, sewers where they
are needed, nn adequate water supply, public
buildings suitable for the accommodation of
the public offices, a school system with school
houses large enough for all the children and
adequately paid teachers enougli to take
enre of nil the classes, n police and fire
fighting force well housed nnd well disci
plined devoting itself solely to the service of
the public, playgrounds in the congested dis
tricts and new streets laid out in the grow
ing sections and in the older districts where
experience shows that new outlets must be
provided for traffic.
The payment of dividends of this kind is
the real business of a city government. It
is theoretically possible to cet the nennle tn
devote so much thought to these matters that t
there will be little attention left for the
fight of the politicians for the spoils of office.
And indeed, it is also theoretically possible
that a people intensely interested in the
economical administration of Its public busi
ness will insist on the election of officers
chosen because they have proved their busi
ness efficiency rather than because they have
qualliied as bell-ringers in a political ma
chine. Many persons would like to have this
theory experimented with so that they might
kuow whether it would work out in practice
in the United States. They know thnt it
works pretty well In some European cities,
and they are confident that what Europe
can do well America can do better.
So they are encouraged by the spectacle
of the Mayor of Philadelphia stressing the
business side of the city government in the
presence of a company of business men.
Mr. Moore told the business men thnt in
the last nine months eighty city blocks have
been graded, fifty-seven blocks have been
paved, forty-eight blocks hnve been repaved,
live miles of country roads have been im
proved, nearly four miles of branch sewers
have been laid, and more thnn a mile of main
sewers has been built.
This is the first time thnt this infor
mation has been assembled for the informa
tion of the people who pay for the work.
If similar information is mnde public
periodically the people will know more thnn
they have known in the past about the kind
of a business administration they arc get
ting. The Mayor indicated some of the other
enterprises on which lie is engaged. The
city is preparing to improve the port facili
ties by building new piers. It is carrying
on the work on the Art Museum, nnd it is
expected that that magnificent structure will
be in shape to house the art collections of
the city within three years. It is making
some progress toward the building of the
Delaware river bridge. It is arranging to
build new firehouses and to buy new fire
lighting equipment. It is getting plans
under way for an extension of the wnter
supply and for building more sewers and
openiiig and paving more streets, and doing
much other important work.
Money cannot be got for enrrying on this
work without the exercise of the greatest
linanclnl wisdom, backed by n determination
to prevent the wahte of public funds either
by the payment of salaries to superfluous
employes or by extruvagant payments for
work done.
One of the most pressing problems before
the Mujor is the repaying of the streets. It
has been estimated that tho old pavements
cannot be put in proper repair for less than
jVJO.OOO.OOO. A quarter of this amount wns
asked for to be used next year ; but only
about a quarter of this quarter has thus far
been apportioned. At this rate it will take
sixteen cnrs to repair the streets which
need repairing today. Ilefore the sixteen
years have gone by the streets will bo Im
passable unless some way is found to hasten
the work.
This is a business problem, pure nnd sim
ple. There Is or ought to be no politics in
it, save the kind of politics that there Is In
business efficiency. The bad streets are
costing their uers enormous sums every
week. They delay business vehicles nnd
make It impossible to do a full day's work
within the limits of a daj. The cost of this
delay alone amounts to a considerable item.
The rough or broken pavements wear out
tho expensive tires of motorcars and break
the springs and fracture the nxles and
wrench the steering gear so that it will not
work, nnd do innumerable other things the
correction of which costs money.
The present city administration Is not re
sponsible for these conditions any more than
any past administration. The trouble is
with tho whole system of city government.
If the Pennsylvania itnllroad were managed
as wastefully It would be bankrupt within
six months. The Mayor liimi-clf knows thnt
If he could put a successful business admin
istrator in charge of tho conduct of affairs,
nnd could give him a freo hand, it would not
be long before money enough would be found
to push Hie work on repaying nnd to pay
living salaries to the police and firemen and
the school-teachers, and to do well every-
MI-
EVENING public lek
thing that needs to be done with no greater
delay than tho successful prosecution of the
work requires. Hut because our government
is tied up with a political machine and be
cause it is believed that it must bo used to
keep that machine in running order no one
has a free hand in the City Hall. And no
one can have n free hand so long as tho
system is allowed to continue.
Tho Mayor has pledged himself to "con
structive Improvements to the limit of our
capacity.' We have indicated how that
capacity is limited. If ho enn keep the
nttentton of the public centered on the con
structive program he will do something
townrd escaping from his limitations. This
newspaper believes In that constructive pro
gram, and because of this belief it lias for
months been printing at the head of this
pago a list of the chief Items in it, in the
hope that it could help toward its accom
plishment. WILD YOUTH
OTITIS is a very remarkable cas6," said
Superintendent Illchnrdson, of the
House of Detention, In speaking of a fifteen-year-old
Colllngswood boy who is charged
with forging checks for $1000 and sprinkling
the money like n rajah of the story books in
tho hotels and cabarets nnd theatres of
Uroadway. "He is quiet and refined. Hut
he could not resist the craving to spend
money!"
And( because little Charley Hoffman
couldn't resist the craving to spend money
that didn't belong to him. n psychologist has
been summoned to look Into his mind. His
case is indeed remnrkable. And it is slg
nlflcnnt in more ways thnn one. It sheds
some light on the extraordinarily deficient
system of relationships which exists between
society at large and Charleys In general.
A time wns, not very long ngo, when this
juvcnllo bounder would not be left to tjic
mercies of n gentle and sympathetic psy
chologist. He would have been summoned
to the woodshed for a glorious whaling with
n barrel stave a whaling that would have
stood out In later years as one of the mo
mentous episodes of his life. And In those
days youths of fifteen were not In the habit
of forging checks and stealing automobiles
nnd playing hide and seek with the police.
Dr. Charles K. Mills, of this city, who
knows as much jw any man alive about the
origin of human impulses, normal nnd ab
normal, said yesterday that war psychology
is largely responsible for the increase of
violent crimes. This is undoubtedly true.
In the war years multitudes of young men
became familiar for the first time with fire
arms, and they lenrned, too, n rough and
adventurous way of life. Hut it will not do
to nssumo that no other causes exist for the
growing habit of youth to run wild nnd get
into trouble.
It has been plain for years that boys nnd
girls and young men nnd even young women
nre disposed to be free of the restraints
established by the old-fashioned home, the
old-fashioned school and the old-fashioned
church. It is difficult to maintain any de
pendable system of ethics without a founda
tion of moral teaching: or, indeed, to im
nglnc the one without the other.
The rising generation does not go teadily
to church. It seeks recreation nntl illrcrslnn
nway from home. It Is the young who arc
Krowing niase ami oored nowodays. Many
parents, teachers nnd clergymen nllke have
felt for n long time that the children were
getting out of hand. And It is only neces
sary to rend the newspapers to see that they
were not mistaken. Ten years ngo the
country would hnve opened Its eyes in
speechless amazement If it heard of a move
ment to compel dress reform at children's
parties and to provide new codes for sub
debs, who, innocently following nn accepted
fashion, go forth plteously in clothes copied
by frantic drcssmukcrs from the costumes
of the stage vamp. Xow such news Is ac
cepted as a matter of course.
Ilecause of laxity somewhere and because
of a habit of cynicism thnt seems to have
penetrated even into the schools nnd colleges,
the boys and girls of today look lightly nt
the agencies established for the promulga
tion of Christian ethics. Only a small mi
nority of them ever see the inside of n
church or listen to those who might inform
them of the practical value of mental and
spiritual restraint.
Meanwhile, the modern cities stimulate
and excite youthful minds in a thousand
wnjs. New desires of o sort unknown a
generntlon ngo are created and life for the
young is swiftly becoming a competition of
idle and unwholesome vanities. And it is
odd to observe thnt in a time when moral
restraints are most needed the agencies es
tablished for that end are somehow losing
their grip. Thnt unquestionably is one of
the reasons why a fifteen-year-old boy is
under arrest for forgery and why n coilege
student twenty years of age is being hunted
by the police, who charge him with murder.
A professional psychologist isn't needed to
tell us what is wrong in such instnnces.
The parental rpd is out of style. It ought
to be re-established in general etfteem, meta
phorically anyway, as an instrument of ex
traordinary value to society.
When the Democrats and the Republicans
hnve censed to talk of the remedies which
they hnve devised for national salvation,
when wars are temporarily ended and when
the militant feminists nre weary of their new
agitation, tho country may have time to
consider the complex problem which is flatly
presented to it by n new generntlon with a
stubborn distaste for discipline and n dis
position to Ignore the exnmples nnd counsels
of Its elders. Tho state of the country as
it is reflected In the news from the political
camps, from Washington, from the borders
where rum smugglers work and from the
police stations shows plainly that some re
formers are too ready to start thlngH which
they hnve not the energy to finish. They
are overwhelmed with uncompleted tasks.
Each new generation is the greatest asset
of ony land. We cannot be content to
nllow the youth of America to grow in many
instances like the weeds of the field.
BEAUTY AND THE PAST
THAT the upper Wissahlckon is something
more than a hypothetical haven for
devotees -of carriage riding ami horseman
ship wns demonstrated today when Mayor
Moore's second "expedition" of citizens
enlivened one of the loveliest ravines in
America.
The committee in charge of the excursion
particularly Insisted on the value of fore
stalling any possibility of opening the shady
roadway to automobiles. But such fears are
hardly justified. The weight of sentiment
in Philadelphia is certainly in favor of main
taining the present restrictions, The field
of the motorist's opportunities is broad in
deed. The upper Wissahlckon occupies a pe
culiar place in the affections of this com
munity. Not even parades of horse-drawn
vehicles are needed to test the worth of the
present arrangement. The charms of soli
tude nre fast evaporating from n tumultu
ous planet. There nre still times when the
philosophical pedestrian can imbibe them
along the leisurely Wissahlckon.
This is not to say that blithe expeditions
of horse enthusiasts are unwelcome. As time
goes on they will not only be Inspiriting, as
they are today, but of signal historic appeal.
For an insight into some of the manners and
customs of the "good old days" Inquiring
travelers will have to include Philadelphia
in their itinerary.
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PENNSY'S WATER SUPPLY
Pure Water Indispensable to the Rail
road's Operation The Old North
State Trial Trip Our 8hlpt
on Every Sea
Ily OEORGI2 NOX McCAIN
WILLIAM II. McCALEB, according to
official announcement, has been ap
pointed engineer in charge of the Pennsyl
vania Rnilroad's water service.
For some yenrs pnst Mr. McCalob's title
has been superintendent of water companies.
In his new capacity he will be in entlro
charge of all the water systems nfflllatcd
with or controlled by the Pennsylvania Rail
road in the territory covered by that system.
His range of control extends from New York
to Chicago and St. Louis.
In placing under one official hentl its vast
interests in the storing and the distribution
pf water for Its use, and for communities
bordering the thousands of miles of its sys
tem, the Pennsylvania Railroad has done a
greater thing thnn is suggested In the mere
announcement of Mr. McCalcb's appoint
ment. The one great effort of the system is. the
securing of nn adequate supply of pure
wnter. In this work It Is co-operating with
state nnd municipal governments nnd indus
trial corporations.
It Is not, let it be frankly sold, n purely
philanthropic movement. Pure water Is just
ns essential to the operation of the Pennsyl
vania Railroad's thousands of locomotives as
it is to municipalities who store nnd dis
tribute it for domestic purposes.
ENORMOUS losses nre incurred every
year by the railroad systems of the East
thnt operate through mining regions, where
the wnter supply is contaminated by drain
age from conl mines.
The presence of nelds in quantities that
might not render it harmful to the huinnn
organization is destructive of boilers and
holler tubes to nn extent scarcely conceivable
to those unfamiliar with the subject.
It requires hut a short time for n Incnmn.
tivc which uses chemically impure wnter to
break down as the result of leaks and the
"pitting" of Its' boiler tubes
This means a reduction in motive power,
to say nothing of the expense for shop re
pairs. It is worse than useless for coal corpora
tions to mine millions of tons of cool nnd nt
the same tlmo pump the mine drainage into
the streams of a wnter shed that empties
into a great water-supply basin, ultimately
to find its way into locomotive boilers nnd
thus render them incnpnble of moving the
coal to its destination.
It is for this reason that state authorities
ore being urged by the Pennsylvania to co
operate with It in protecting the wnter sup
ply of this country, particularly In Pennsyl
vania nnd the middle western states.
Incidentally, it is also a -benefit to the
population at large.
THE magnificent steamship Old North
Stnte, the latest product of Delaware
river shipyards, had her trial trip tills week.
She is already under charter and loading
for her maiden voyngc.
Her trial trip was nn event in itself.
Prominent men of affairs were the guests of
her builders. This in Itself marked with a
white stone the line of demarcation between
the war days and the present.
When the Delaware shipyards, not so long
ago, were smashing out n record Unparalleled
in the history of the world, of one ship every
twenty-four hours, there was little time or
tendency to celebrate these events.
But the war is n tiling of the pnst except
technically for the United Stntes, thanks to
Mr. Wilson.
There is opportunity nnd occasion now to
observe with greater formality the success
of such great undertakings.
Twenty years ago the Cramps celebrated
the trial trips of their battleships, cruisers
and merchant vessels with a certain social
accompaniment that has become memorable
The presence on board the Old North
State of n select company of prominent men,
the guests of the construction company,
marked a return to former traditions and
customs.
It In reality marked the beginning of a
new era.
AMERICAN ships are sailing every sea
today. They nre found in every port.
They are in reality Philadelphia products,
for the vast majority of them were built nnd
sent forth on the Delaware.
And yet the newspapers of Hamburg in
1807 announced that thirty years had elapsed
since that port had seen the Stars and
Stripes at a masthead.
r,' V10 thirty-seven years from 1800 to
181KS the tonnage of the United Stntes regis
tered for foreign trade was but one-fourth
of what It had been before the Civil War.
In the same period the merchant tounagc
of the British empire more than doubled.
In the last decade of the Inst century it
was estimated that American ships carried
less than one-half of the total commerce be
tween this country, Mexico, Central America
and the north coast of South America.
Notwithstanding this, no vessel of the
merchant type flying the American flag en
tered the port of Buenos Aires for one year,
1807.
HERBERT HOOVER on Wednesday last
at a hearing before the International
Joint Commission urged a deep-sea water
way from the fireat Lakes through the St.
Lawrence river as a means of holding Amer
ica's supremacy In grain shipments to Eu
rope. Mr. Hoover knows whnt he is talking
about, for lie has the data on this subject at
his fingers' ends.
Had he been disposed, he might have in
formed the commission thnt prior to the
world war British and German vessels car
ried 85 per cent of our grain exports to
Europe.
The fart might have been disclosed also
that in the same period ships flying the
American flag carried only nbout seven one
hundredths of our exports nnd imports to
points on this hemisphere south of the
Equator.
But nil of this is changed now. Our
ships passing through the Straits of Gibral
tar arc ns familiar as were the ships of other
nations in other years
j ne port oi I'liiiaiieipuin lias os
regular steamship lines for foreign
today as New York had twenty-five
ngo.
many
ports
years
HENRY S. WILLIAMS, president of
Williams, Brown & Earle, Inc., is the
latest Phlladelphlan to land an uppereut on
the chin of the Pro-League Independent Or
ganization. The league functions from New
York nnd its object is the election of Cox
and Roosevelt.
The chosen subjects of its propaganda are
Independent Republicans of the Progressive
school.
Hundreds of letters have been received in
Philadelphia from this organization in tho
last ten days, Prominent men nre Invited
to lend their names for use In the literature
of the organization.
This Is the way Mr. Williams, in his quiet
Quaker wny, deftly bunded out the "rough
stuff" In a letter to the pro-leaguers:
"From my point of view, the election of
Cox will only continue the attitude of the
major portion of tho Democratic senators
toward the League of Nations, and I feel
that the election of Harding will eunble the
United States to adopt n modified form of
the League of Nations with such reservations
ns were originally offered by the Senate, but
which were rejected by President Wilson nnd
tho Deinoerntfc party.
"I must decline to join your organiza
tion." Paris automobile manufacturers nre try
Ing to solve the housing problem by building
cars large enough to be transformed Into
bedrooms, living rooms and kitchenettes
This may solve the servant problem also by
forcing women to do their own housework,
Davis, W. Va., Is the latest place to
come forward with the story of n man mis
taken for n squirrel and shot. Being shot
didu't make him n squirrel, of course, but
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Daily Talks With Thinking Philadelphians on Subjects They
Know Best
DR. RUSSELL H. CONWELL
On Our Reawakening Conscience
rTIHE time is coming very" soon in fact,
the tide has already begun to turn
when the conscience nnd moral fiber of the
country will again reassert itself, in the
opinion of Dr. Russell II. Conwcll, pastor
of tho Baptist Temple, president of Temple
University, nuthor nnd lecturer.
According to Dr. Conwcll, tire war caused
a moral let-down in practically every walk
of life and in all parts of tho world. In the
United Stntes, in particular, Dr. Conwell
declares that recent trips which he has taken
have shown hhn the evil which the war left
in its wake. '
"During the war," says Dr. Conwell. "it
wns not only justifiable but necessary thnt
lying and deception be practiced to defeat
tho purposes of the enemy. The whole na
tion wns trained to take rfdvantage of Gcr
mnny, nnd, nt the time, tills was only right
nnd proper.
"Unfortunately, however, the deception
practiced in wartime and the doing of things
then which at normnl times had been con
sidered criminal caused many individuals to
lose sight of the real right nnd wrong in
questions nffecting everyday life,
"As n resuK, everywhere thnt n person
turned he found evidence of forgotten con
sciences and n general weakening of the
moral values. The conductors on the trains,
the waiters in the restaurants, nil of them
seemed suddenly imbued with the idea of
giving ns little courtesy nnd service ns pos
sible. Deception Va8 Everywhere
"In the markets the dealers placed a few
good npples or tomatoes on top of their
piles and filled in with inferior products.
Tailors put out cloth cheapened in some
places in its manufacture. The farmers
didn't supply provisions to the public with
out first thinking if, by holding the same,
they could not secure nn unfairly high price.
"The laborers quit work n few minutes
before their allotted eight hours and came
to work In the morning n half or quarter
hour late. The former sense of honor iu
factories which hnd resulted in hundreds of
workmen In a single foundry preferring good
work nud less pay to poor work nnd more
pay wob gone. Thee seemed no longer such
a thing ns pride In one's work.
"Officials at railroad stations nnd other
public service institutions were ruder nnd
less sympathetic with persons bewildered or
in distress.
"The purchase of stock for house building
resulted in the procuring of poor quality,
much doctored, and nt n price far above
thnt which would be reasonable. In tho
older days, before tho war, if a person con
tracted to build a house or a hall or a
church, he took great pride in his work nnd
finished it complete and satisfactory In every
detail even if he lost money on the trans
action. "The spirit of heroism, self-sacrifice nnd
martyrdom in the ministry of the pnst ap
peared to ebb out. Questions of snlnry, edu
cation and 'having n soft snap' became the
prime consideration. The religious life in
the churches became much moro superficial
and the creeds of the various denominations
were much less binding on the conscience of
the worshipers. Observance of the Sabbath
became an almost forgotten thing. Divorce
Inws wero much more loosely nppllcd nnd
the enforcement of law In general was very
much weaker than It hnd been n few years
before.
Change for Better Coming
"Tho very best of men were weakened In
conscientious behavior by the changed moral
atmosphere around them. While giving to
missions nnd hospitals, to' the iioor nnd
charitable enterprises was greatly Increased,
It seemed impelled more by n matter of
pride than anything else.
"The war wns the one fundamental cause
nf the wholo situation.. People saw the for
tunes made by profiteers nt tho expense, of
the government, nnd nsked themselves the
question, 'Whnt Is the use of being honest?'
"Thnt is the ugly shin of the picture.
The other Is much moro plensant, I can see
on every side the first Indications of n
change for the better. I have seen laborers
who admit thnt they are not earning tl(c
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"I hnve seen grocers and dealers of all
sorts who refuse to charge profiteering
prices nny more, even if they lose money.
"The country will readjust itself by n re
assertion of the common conscience, in which
work the churches and schools must piny
n leading part. Tho Ten Commandments
will como back into respect nnd the old
sense of fairness will aguin take the plocc
of the policy of 'get all you can while the
getting is good. "
Very Lovely
WQULDN'T it be lovely if the rain carao
down
Till the wnter was quite high over all the
town?
If the ciiiis and busses nil were set afloat
And we had to go to school in a little boot?
Wouldn't It be lovely if it still should pour
And we all went up to live" on the second
floor?
If wo saw the butcher sailing up the hill,
And we took the letters In at the window
sill? It's been raining, raining, all the afternoon j
AH these tilings might happen really very
soon.
If we woke tomorrow and found they hnd
begun,
Wouldn't it be glorious? Wouldn't it be
fun?
Rose Fylcman, in "Fairies nnd Chim
neys." n An..!jtorIal to the Daily California
alleges that girls In the University of Cnli
fornln vamp their way to the head of their
classes by resorting to feminine wiles with
the professors ; and n professor of psychology
in the co ege admits thnt the charge Is psy
c hologicnlly sound. This will be n severe
blow to Miss Alice Paul nnd others who wish
the sexes to be on nn nbsolute equality.
What Do You Knoiv?
QUIZ
1. How long did hostilities In the Spanish-
American war continue?
2. When nnd whero did the defeat of llcn-
taUo laco? C ""d hlB Urltlsn "my
" Wh,?tr i,M. t,1,0,r.lKln of "io expression,
"Hoist with his own petard"?
' Unnttrst,a"tes0s'eenlS,olrSrU:m f t'1CCtlnB
C 'Klmyyaml'voT n"d WhCre
G. What Is a "Jou d'csprlt"?
7. How should tho phrase be pronounced'
S. Who was HecntQ In claraic.nl mythology?
9. How Is tho displacement, used In measur-
Ing tho size of ships, detormlned?
10, What la the meaning of "i Pagllacol "
tlio name of Leoncavallo's popular llttio
Answers to Yesterday's Quiz '
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Amsterdam,
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Holland, Ills
1072-1725.
oates nro
2. A shoat Is a young pig,
3. A visa Is an Indorsement on a nassoort
showlnfe that It has been toumrr?cct
4 Scino members or the British forces In
Ireland uro cnlled "Black nnd Tuns"" lie
enuso they year,llle lthnld suits of sol
dlers mid the flack Isored caps or
constables. ' l
S, Hornblende Is
n dark brown hinnv n.
p.-.. irarawi, u uunniiiuent or t'ran-
in'i''nd m,lny, rockt'. aml composed of
silica, magneslii and lime.
"Mary Had a Llttio Lamb" was written
b fiarnh .7 Hale. She wns a native of
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Tho territory of Hawaii has n population
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a. There wrrn four Whig Presidents of tho
United Stales William Jlonrv Hi".
UmU', iJoiln. Tylor Zac,linry Taylor and
Millard Fillmore.
10. The Times, of London, has lone been
known as "Tho Thunderer."
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We'd brag a little nbout the weather If
we were dead sure it wouldn't change before
wc go to press.
Tho extra two cents for carfare will
probably put money in the pockets of the
shoo repairers.
New York is still saving daylight; but
visitors will bo glad to know she continues
to wnstc nightllght.
In laying tho present crime wave to
cocaine, the presumption is that the police
have tire right dope.
United States warships engaged in
watching ships of the Russian Soviet in the
Black sen may be said to be engaged in a
game of "rouge ct nolr."
The Lockwood committee, having en
gaged some of tho plumbers, will now assist
them in going after their tools.
Fate seemed determined to get the man
knocked from n train nnd then killed while
he was iu a patrol wagon pn the way to a
hospital.
Chester appears to have more than its
share of femiuists. It comes to the front
now with tho story of a cow that gored and
kicked three men.
It was testified nt the building invest!
gntion in New York that tho price of fixlns
strikes has gone up since the war. The high
cost of living hits everybody including
bribers.
Chicago girls too young to vote will mind
the babies of "women citizens while they
wrestle with the long ballot. Evidently
Chicago women haven't sufficiently trained
their husbands.
The Columbus, N. J., delegation to the
Cox meeting in Trenton last night wore cox
comb blossoms in their buttonholes. Saylnc
It with flowers, however, is not so effective
as saying it with votes.
A brnid of hair was shot from the head
of a girl who disobeyed tho command of ban
dits to keep her seat when n New York Cen
tral Railroad train was 'held up near Buf
falo ; literally a hair-breadth escape.
City job holders aro said to be con
tributing money to tho Republican campaign
fund in defiance of the law. 'Tis a hard
thing, mutes, to make n man hold on to his
money when he wants to give it away.
The Chester police have captured n
husky hold-up woman said to have sand
bagged aud robbed numerous men. A woman
companion escaped. Doubtless n couple of
feminists who uphold tho right of woman to
break the law in masculine fashion.
From New York comes the story of a
model husband who washed the dishes, swept
tho floors nud made the beds. And then tlin
partner of his joys nnd sorrows discovered
thnt ho hnd another wife with whom he lived
part of the time. She might have known lie
was too good to be true.
The high price of clothes nnd the his'i
wages paid to their builders is of course re
sponsible for tho fact thnt 000 boys wish to
take up tho courso of tailoring approved by
the Board of Education. Which, also of
icourse, means n little more future readjust
ment by the ever-ready law of supply una
demand.
Mrs. Harding makes waffles, while the
specialty of Mrs. Cox is doughnuts. At a 1
breakfoBt given by the Y. W. O. A. in Jort
Dodge, In., to stlmiilato the interest or
women voteis in registration, Hnrding wn'
lies were ordered by seventy-seven nnd tot
sinkers by thirty ; which, perhaps, is a
conclusive ob any other straw vote.
Because n man has the patience of Job
it docs not necessarily follow that ho pos
sesses other of Job's virtues or misfortunes,
but the antic fate that permitted two bur
glars to saw off the hinges of n safe in a
locnl grocery store apparently hadn t rea
soned the matter out. What they got for
all their trouble wns several jars of saiva
for boils.
When Rupert Hughes was accused of
belug n nature faker because ho spoKo oi
pet dog purring, ho explained that he in
ferred to u Pekinese, nnd Insisted that . tne
little brute really did purr. But there doejn
nppeiu' to bo much chance for A Ice 1 r-'"1' ,
Marshall to clear himself. Ho pc' "(''il
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