y " K. ., s ,7VY if jwr V "4 f, .j." t " i ;V '(fiV - 'ft -' C A, K J- if C ft' . :s 15 EVENING PUBLIC IEDGER- PHIDABELPHIA, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1920 '? irv .i tv A Mt (. L Euenms public Se&ast t PUBLIC LEDGER COMPANY ( crnus it. k. cuirris. pkmmnt l . Charle JI. Ludlnelon. Vico rrfs.dont: John C. Martin, Seeretarr and Treaeurers Philip 8. Colllna. Jnhti H. wllllim, John J Hmironn. Ilr.-ttnr. KDtTOniAI. KOATU)! Ciboi IL K. Cvxtik, Cliatrmtu DAVID E. 6MII.EY Cdltor i i fOIHT C. MAT.TIN... general Uuilntaa Manager Fubllahed dally at Fobmc Lroats ButlJIng Independence Square, Philadelphia. Atlantic &Ti..,.r rr-li Dulldlnc NsW YoiK 304 Madlaon Ave. TJnrnntT T01 I'ord llulldlne T. l.otu 1008 Fullerton Uulldlnc CniCAQO , 1.1112 Tribunt Uulldlnc NKW8 IlL'ltUAUB: WmpiKoioN nniuo N R. Cor. I'cnny'vanla Ave. end 14lh Pt Vtv Yobk Dceud The fftn Tliitldtri Lo.vpon Dtntrin London Timet sunscnirTioN thumb Tha Evk.viso Potio Lkpobb li arvet to uh aerlners In Philadelphia and surrounding towns rt the rate n( twelve (12) cents per week, payable to the carrier. Tty mall In point. outIde of Phltadlphla. In the United Statu Canada. o United Statu (oi. e-.ilnni, poxnae free, fifty (BO) centa per month. Bit tr.) dollars rr year, payable In advance. To ill forlm rntintrlea ono (11) dnllar a, month. NoTirn Huhacrlbera wtehlrut addreaa chanced mutt give old e welt a new addreaa. BELL, S000 WALNUT KEYSTONE, MAIN Kot CTAddrest all ccmimuntcotlons to Evening Publlo Ltdorr, Indcpindcnet Square, Philadelphia, Member of the Associated Press TffW AlSOClATr.n mFSS is cxeluatielu en titled fo f ti for repueHeaHon of all ncu dlipatchet credited to it or isof olhenrlie credited it this vapc.'t autt alto the local newt published Alt r'lohtt of republication of tpccial dispatches herein ore alio rnened Pkilailclplile, WnUf.J... Oelther 27, 1Z0 A I-Ul'K-YKAR I'KtKlKAM FOU l'lllI.tDEl.VHIA Thlnea on ulileh tho people expect the new ndmlnlKtrntlon (o conrenlrut ll uttrntlom l'w lirluuure river b idoe, A, rlrudocli hip mouoh to accotntnodafe fne fnrwrtt Mpe. Dnelopmrnt of the rapid trantit tyitem, A convention hall, A b'lt'rltng for fit Fret Library. An Art itufevm. Rnlnronnent of th voter rupolv. ffoii((i to accommodate the populntlon. COUNCIL IN WONDERLAND ONLY u few days ago a u city bonds was held ur necessary sale of ip because of an ordinance incorrectly drawn up and hence Illegally passed by the Council. Something ' of the same clumsy, bark-handed method of administering municipal affair" was Illus trated yesterday in the passage of a bill I appropriating ?1.",000 to make up the1 deficit Incurred by local athletes at the Olympic fames. Mr, Derelin has contended that the tax payers' money rantiot legally be used for this purpose. The committee on celebro- 4 tlons lias been commissioned to consider a vr : resolution asking that the question ! re form! to the city solicitor. The logical pro c eedure would, of course, have been to obtain authoritative advice ou the legal point before ""J taking action. Evidently, however, the "Alice in Won- derland philosophy Ycrdict afterwords." Council. of "Sentence first, Is popular in the OUR "CITY ARCHITECT" MAYOR MOORE'S determination to re move the I'liilip II. Johnson incubus in flicted on the city during the days of Durham dnmlninee Is unflinching. In a manner of speaking that is, politi cally Mr. Johnson held the post of "city architect." In reality no such position was in existence. The protection which Mr. Johnson has enjoyed was the result of con tracts of the stranglehold variety. In addition to that, the impression prevailing in political circles prior to the Moore admin istration was thut the "city architect's" role was inviolable. I.Ike the Vicar of Hray. Mr. Johnson was to remain at his ost uo mat ter who ruled. This particular political philosophy re ceived a severe jolt when John I'. B. Slnkler was appointed city architect, without the quotes. The oflice is duly authorized by the new charter The present encouragingly vigorous move is the awarding to Thomas E. Ash of a con- tract lor worn to Dr performed at the Home for the Indigent. The operation is a small one. in Inverse ratio to the principle in volved. If Mr. Johnson feels that he is abused he con go to law for a definition of the validity of the contract for buildings of the Health and Charities Department made tinder the Ash-bridge administration some seventeen jenrs ago. Meanwhile, Mayor ' Moore's independence is to be applauded, and champions of decent government are entitled to hope thut the term of an tin aavorj nirangoment Is drawing to a dose APPLE APPRECIATION -lTTK IV IViuisylvania.' (Jovernor Sprmil, ' are admonishes too apt to hold the apple too Jightlj." The observation Is questionable. Apple eating hardly needs to he encouraged 'Hie habit is Intuitive. Where I'ennsylvanians err, however, Is in the fallacious notion that the fruits of this region are inferior to tiie more gorgeous western products nnd in the depreciating of this staf us an apple-growing countrv. The t me and the apples are ripe for a little home nppiei lotion. The greatest apple crop in the hiitnrv of the commonwealth Is in existence The governor urges that "Apple Week ' be observed here, beginning on October .10. The program i to involve apple-buying for present and future consumption, apple eating, apple-preserving m various forms, apple sauce, apple pie Subscription to this regime ought not to be ditlicult. The fruits will not he expensive If that Is cons.derei a drawback bv habitual pur chasers of apples for tlieir fair exteriors fllnne, such individuals do not deserve to live In this state of thriving orchards, pro digious in numbers und productive of the tastiest fruits. THE SALT OF LANGUAGE rniIE Mayor," said the Rev. Dr. Wil- Ham It. Forney, chairman of the Sab bath committee of the I'hiladelphla Federa tion of Churches, which has indicted .Mr. Moore because of the partial failure of the crusade against Sunday baseball, "has passed the buck !" It is not often that a jewel of slang finds so conspicuous u setting, though the English language will be richer when those who write and speuk It formally learn to illumi nate their Idcns with a little of the dazzling light that shfties now and then from the lower levels of the vernacular. Not all slang is good. But in the main slang Is the salt of any language So 1'ro fessor Louusbury. of Ynle, regarded it, and men like ISrandrr Matthews, John Masefield and other masters of English have gloried in the idiom that unpretentious multitudes de vise to express moods and convictions too profound ur too poignant for ordinary words, florae writers have tried recklessly to make slang to order. They produce only thin and shabby imitations of the real thing, Uke songs that every one remembers, slang at its best is an expression of emotion and the, result of moving experience. It comes from the heart of man. The baseball bleach ers, passion swept, produce gems of vivid speech, "Dead!" shouted an anguished tanatic otce wben, in a crucial instance, a , fetter missed the third time while three men on Base "Dead from Uie ears up!" am, acaawBlclun, nafgat bare written paps without being able to convey jo Tlvid an impression it hnpelcua 'neptitude in hero presented In Arc short word. What other word would be h Rood n "Kraft"? Sy that a man is dlstrnit or sllchtly 'nsniie, and you set nowhere. Hay that be ha lmt In his belfry and you will oppruxlmntc in speech a complete picture of n Vflcnnt and haunted mind a l'oe might have dimly vlsl med It. That, of cotime, is vlaiiR at its .vlldet. Mut It shows what u crowd'H imnf;lnat!ou can be like. Irony, humor, rage and the cheerful noti elmlatiee of the American character con be reflectrd In slang as they are reflected In few printed pages. There l no describing the colors In which man In his tenser moods nee the images with which he Is concerned. "A big steak," says the tired patron in a rough-house restaurant. "Slab of moo!" shouts the waiter to the cook. "I want it rare," continues the man at the table. "Let him chew It!" bawls the waiter. This Isn't pretty. TJut who will say that it isn't picturesque and that It doesn't jar, rather wholesomely, a tired imagination? DESPERATION FORCES COX TO JETTISON WILSON'S LEAGUE His Promise to Compromise Removes It as a Factor, Leaving Democratic Failure at Washington as Real Issue Next Tuesday GOVERNOR COX'S campaign managers must have been dumfounded when they read his Huntington speech in the news papers yesterday. Their candidute abandoned the chief issue on which he has been making his fight, turned his back on the Democratic Presi dent nnd went over body and breeches to the Republican position. Ho not only aDnndoued the President, but he left the Wilson Article X Republicans who have announced that they would vote for him without any justification for their course. And he did this less thnn thirty-six hours before the President was to assure thesu Wilson league Republicans) that there was n vital difference between the two parties on the issue. If Mr. Wilson repudiates Mr. Cox today as completely as Sir. Cox has repudiated him it will surprise no one. Mr. Cox has been ignoring the President ever since he made a formal call on him after the San Francisco convention. He has nnnnuueed, "I am running for the presidency, and not Mr. WilNon." There is apparently ns much lack of sympathy between Mr. Cox nnd Mr. WINon as there was between Mr. ltrynn nnd Mr. Cleveland In 1W. The party is de luornlUed, with its leaders pulling in dif ferent .directions. And its candidate has been continually shifting position iu the hope that he could find some pleu with which to make a telling nppeal for support. He must be in a desperate mood or he would not have made his Huntington speech. We have said he has come over to the Republican position. Now. let us look n moment at what that position is ns set forth by Mr. Harding. In a formal statement given out in Marion on October 11 Mr. Hording said. "I am unalterably opposed to going into the League of Nations at that particular proposition tioir sta.ids." He also said: "I am in favor of u world associa tion coll it what you will, the name is of slight consequence that will discourage or tend to prevent war and that will encourage or tend to encourage a better understanding among the nations of the earth." As to his plan for modifying our entrance into the league Or association "ns that particular proposition now stands," he announced that ho would "call into conference with me the best minds, the clearest minds that America affords." Mr. Harding has amplified these state ments and put them In n different form on other occasions, but nothing that he has said justifies any one In assuming that he Is not In favor of the entrance of the I'nlted States Into n league of nations on conditions satis factory to a majority of the American peo ple. In fact, he has persistently announced Ills belief in a world association for peace, and he has been persistently opposed to the league covenant "as that proposition now stands." The form of words he has used has been prescribed by the exigencies of the campaign in which he Is fighting the party which entered the contest definitely com mitted to the proposition "as it now stands." He voted for the Lodge reservations twice, along lth an overwhelming majority of his Republican colleagues and in association with almost half of the Democratic senators. These Republicans nnd Democrats were and are opposed to the proposition in its pieseut form. Mi. Cox seems to have made a belated discovery of the sentiment of the nntion. and in the last week is making n desperate at tempt to put himself in line with it. He said iu Huntington, "I am willing to accept any reservations that nre helpful and that clarify," In order to discover what reser vations were "helpful," that is, what res ervations were necessary in order to secure the ratification of the agreement, he said : "I will sit down with the Senate and reach an agreement about our going into this leugue. If too much bus to be given in compromise now in order to insure our entrance into the league, the people themselves will have an opportunity to modify nnd correct later. It cannot be a matter of the exercise of merely the execu tive will." The position of the two candidates Is bliefly this: Mr. Harding is opposed to the league in its present form and will consult the best minds in the country In order to discover how that form must be modified. Mr. Cox Is in favor of the league, but knows that it will be impossible for the United States to enter It unless some modi fications nre made in It, nnd he will consult with the Senate to discover what modifica tions arc necessary. One of them is definitely committed to tweedledum, The other takes his stand without equivo cation on twecdledee. Now that Mr, Cox has at one stroke swept the League of Nations issue out of those which are seriously contested, what remains? There remains what has been the pre dominant Issue from the beginning, namely, the failure o' the Democratic party, Mr. Hoover compressed it all into less than fifty words when he said a few days ago: "To hove obstinately held up tho peace of the woild for eighteen months; to have rejected the opportunity of amicable adjustment of differences so as to meet those; to have projected the issue into a presidential elec tion, is the greatest failure of American statesmanship since the Civil War." Mr. Cox is asking the country to give his party another trial on the promise that it will do better next time. That is all he has to offer. And in offering it be is slapping In the face the President who has been ac claimed as the greatest Democrat since Jefferson, Rut Mr, Cox is saying by im plication that Insistence on the will of the executive has cjyfustd matters so badly thut If anything, Is to be done there must Ve a chttDft'of poljcy.im the White, House, The Republicans agree with him in this. They will be delighted to discover that he also agrees with them, for every open or covert criticism of Mr. Wilson that comes from him justifies their demand thnt the management of the government be turned over to n party which does not Ufcivc to mnko apologies for the blunders of its leaders iu office. The complete break-down of the Demo cratic plan of campaign is of n piece with the break-down of Democratic statesman ship In Washington. Mr. Cox has given his whole case away, very much ns the south erner did to whom the West Virginian monu tulneer referred when, in speaking of the Cox meeting nt Huntington, he remarked, "This linn been the most excitement we have hod hereabouts since they threw that fellow out of church up our way for telling the revenue officers where there was a still," They won't throw Mr. Cox out of the party, but it will not be for the reason that soma thinking Democrats would not like to. ROOSEVELT: HIS DAY TN ONE way Theodore Roosevelt remained nlone and apart omong the people who are celebrating the anniversary of his birth today. He did not consider himself as n superman, nor would he ever admit the possession of qunllties of mind and heart essentially different from those that belong to the man in the trect. He preferred to feel nnd believe that he was one of the great crowd and that he reflected only the crowd'H virturn and spoke with its voice. This wns an opinion which Roost velt's enthusiastic countrymen refused to share. Yet it wbh rooted in simple truth truth which, upon closer analysis, goes for to explain Roono velt's force, his usefulness nnd his immeas urable popularity. There nre two sides to every human character, and one Is good and the other is not so good as it ought to be. Yet it is before the lonely altar of his own better spirit that a man does homage in secret even while thnt better part of him is aban doned to the dust nnd to defeat. So we ore made. Iu Roosevelt the average American snw his own secret virtues triumphant nnd marching unafraid. He saw his own better nature personified and freed, by some mlracl$ of circumstance, from the hindrances thnt disturb nnd confuse existence for most of us. All men retain through most of their lives something of the Imaginative quality that is supposed to end with the visionary days of boyhood. How many Americans dreamed, In the days of Mark Ilnnna nnd dollar-marked politics, of playing the knight to th-: lady with the torch; of mauling the bosses, of great assaults iu which the de spoilers might be kicked out of the temple? Roosevelt dfd whnt millions of other men thought of doing while they lacked the en ergy nnd the determination necessary to do it. He went to battle for things thnt others had not time to defend. It was no wonder thnt the crowd followed him. He was what is noble in every crowd. If h differed es sentially from his fellows, it was only be cause he listened to that voice of conscience which, though it Is never still in any one, is forgotten or avoided for the sake of com fort or exedicncy. When Roosevelt boasted that he shared only the gifts of the plain man he generalized largely. He dld'dlffer from countless Amer icans In one respect. He was able to think of the spirit of his country ns if it were a visible and conscious entity, n living and present thing not without n coustnnt need of passionate nnd courageous friends, America was not an abstract thing to Roose velt. It was more than a country, more than a democracy, more than a system of government and a collection of Ideals. It was n symbol and a hope und a promise of incalculable importance to all the world. While other men who could think ns clearly and feel as keenly ns he were con tent, for the sake of their own peace nnd welfare, to drift nnd surrender, the man from Oyster Hay went out to Bcuflle, to strike blows, to fight furiously with the powers of darkness In politics so long as there was fight left In him. He was, as he said, a. practical man. He started nothing without the hope of finishing it. In other ways, too, he was tho typical American. Ho had the normal man's hatred for ugliness nnd double dealing and unfair play. His philosophy and his breeding left him happily free from the acquisitive instinct that has overwhelmed and driven many great minds In this country to futile effort, and so he turned easily to a career of great service. On the birthday of this great American many people will again speak of him as a man of destiny. Roosevelt himself would say that he was no more a man of destiny than any other good citizen of the United States, and that he did his greatest work when he carried to realisation the Ideal of citizenship which every one of his hurried nnd harassed and negligent countrymen know to be the only decent one. He put his coun try first even among the things of his inti mate life. He snw America clearly and he saw it whole, and deemed it worthy of the best that was in him. Any American will ing to forget himself nnd risk the battle can be, in a sense, as great as Roosevelt. Rut how many nre there who are willing to do that much? AN OUT-OF-DATE LAW THE anti-profiteering law, known as the Lever act, was admittedly an emergency measure. Its practical effectiveness was dis puted even during the war, but there is no doubt that some sentimental satisfaction was derived from Its indictment of overcharging practices, and from the penalties with which offenders were threatened. One weakness of the law lay in the diffi culty of defining "unjust or unreasonable profits. " Another, not considered too curi ously during an International crisis, was the immunity from the operation of the law granted to agriculturists. This feature has now been held by Judge Thompson, in the United States court for the western district of Pennsylvania, to be unconstitutional, clashing in particular with the fourteentli amendment guaranteeing to every person "the equal protection of the law." This objection, leniently passed over In wartime, is almost certain to arise again. In other words, the Lever act, with its in consistencies and anomalies, was accepted under abnormal conditions. Now that they have passed it is clear that either a revision of the law or its extinction is in order. AN EASY WAY OUT THAT Staten Islander who Is solving the housing nnd heating problem by building n bungalow on his automobile in which he will ride to Florida to spend the winter has not exhausted the possibilities. There is a food and clothing problem as well ns a housing and heating problem. Why not solve them both by migrating- to the tropics? There ore South sea Islands where food grows on trees nnd all one hns to do is to reach out one's hand to get It. There are no hat-check bandits and the waiters do not demand a tip, for every one is his own waiter. Clothing is not a burden. A towel suffices for warmth and decency. Shelter can quickly bo provided by weaving a few palm branches into a roof. The ground is unit nnd Warm enouzh for, a bed. And It Is a region in which the cohbaronB cease from troubling and the ashman fglvts the tab tantu a rtat. AS ONE WOMAN SEES IT The First Symphony Concerts, for Whloh Mr. Gillespie Jeopardized Her Little All to Bring to Philadelphia By SARAH D. LOVVRIE THE Monday after the first symphony con certs this nutuinn I was linilcd on tho streets by a teacher of music, Miss" Martha Barry, whom many of us kiiow and honor in this town, and what she had ou her mind to tell me was thnt she had bceu so refreshed and thrilled by Saturday night's concert that the momentum of it was still carrying her along. I thought as she spoke about the evening's inspiration of a story that had been told me only two days before by a woman who was once also a teacher of music, apropos of the dearth there was iu Philadelphia of any such inspiration for either pupils or teachers or ordinary music lovers in the early eighties when she was young and most of us were children, ALL THE way up tho street I thought of Mrs. Gillespie. What a great old-evcr-young woman she was! Hdw much the big audiences that crowd into the symphony con certs this winter owe her for her spirited venturesomeness, her almost willful perti nacity In bringing symphony concerts to this city steeped in inartistic interests, jeopardiz ing her little patrimony indeed, losing more than a little of it so far as ever having any return in dollars and cents Is concerned iu ordrr that tenchers of music nnd the few that hungered and thirsted after it should have an inspiration from hearing great music greatly played. Her own daughter was a teacher of music. If things had gone differently that daughter, Ellen Ulllcsplc, might have been a great avtist. She had temperament enough and technique she studied with Von Bulow and for four years at Stuttgart but not tho physique. Now she is something quite dif ferent, i. e., the wife of a great physician and just this year the Democratic candidate for presidential elector by way of proviuj her mettle as a new woman. SHE TOLD me about the way Philadelphia first had a chance to hear symphony con certs. One day Theodore Thomas, who was her mother's warm friend nnd, indeced, like a member of the family said to her; "(irnnny, Nellie can't teach unless she hears music!" The question was, how "Nelllo" or any of the men and women of her profession In Philadelphia could hear music. They could not go to Now York to hear It every week or every month even. The most highly pojd received $3 a lesson. A woman teacher was generally supposed to bo thank ful for ?1 a lesson. If Mrs. Gillespie's daughter had not been a pioneer in those do.vH, as well ns in these, she, too, would have been thankful for $1 nn hour. She ashed and got what the men teachers nsked and got, however, nnd incidentally made it Possible for all the women who succeeded her to earn a living salary. THEODORE THOMAS, for his old friend's sake, nnd for music sake, made a most generous. Indeed, almost a quixotic offer. If Mrs. Gillespie would guarantee the pay of his orchestra men for a series of con certs, he agreed to forgo any honorarium as reader and to divide the profits, If there were any. on n fifty-fifty basis. What the present orchestra committee and the women's auxiliary have accomplished with the help of the whole city one woman some thirty years ago started out to put through by her own initiative. And she put it through! The concerts were given, the muslcinns were paid and the artists received their honorariums, though nt what cost to her own capital the following little colloquy between her daughter and herself on the night of the first great Wagucr concert goes to show. The artists were Materna, Fischer, Win kelman and lesser lights. There was a great turnout in the Academy, for many persons were hearing Wagner for the first time and had come from curiosity, but even a great turnout could not cover the expenses of nn operatic concert at the then concert prices. So that when Mrs. Gillespie settled herself beside her daughter in the parquet circle she knew to n cent what the deficit for the evening would be. "No one hns paid so high a price for his seat as you nnd I hnve, Nellie!" said she. "How much have we paid?" her daugh ter asked. "About ?2o00 apiece!" her mother sold Berenely. Iu the end, in spite of fearful prognostica tions from the onlookers ami subscribers, the concerts began to pay. That is, Theo dore Thomas and Mrs. Gillespie did have a dividend. The first fifty-fifty division they made netted each sixty-one cents. I ASKED Mrs. Davis ouce wheic her mother got her music. She said the Duanes were very musical, nnd so was her grundmother, Deborah Bacbc, Franklin's granddaughter. William Duane wns a lawyer Incident ally he made Stephen GIrard's will so cleverly that never n lawyer since his day haw been able to show how it could be broken. The family house for nil the young life of his children was at Sixth ami Chest nut streets, where the Public Leihieu building Is now. The girls went to the fashionable Madam Picot's school, where music of a tinkling kind was taught after a bomewhat dracnnlan method. But they had private teachers nnd the house was full of music. Sarah played the pianoforte, Mary sang, Ellen sang even better "superbly ' was, I remember, the traditional word for Ellen's singing. Elizabeth otherwise Lib, or Lizzie ufterwnrds Mrs. Archibald Ham ilton Gillespie, ployed. All the new music was tried over ns n matter of course. THE musical center in those days wa Musical Fund Hall and the great musi cal events of a local kind were the concern of the CliornI Society. Dirlgo was the leader. He was superseded by a Frenchman who had a fashionable following for a while, but the Duanes. being both musical and fashionable nnd loyal as well, did not swerve from Dirlgo and brought the leader ship hack to him. Even iu those days the one they called "Lib" was n great cham pion, It seems. IN 1807. when Mrs. Gillespio took hef young daughter to Europe her husband, a noted soldier, had died In the Civil War it was with the intention of giving her girl the best musical education Europe could afford, no matter what the cost might bo to her somewhat slender means. She evi dently realized from her own experience ns a girl that America did not then afford many muslcnl Incentives for n young student. What she did then und some years later In pursuit of that musical education umdc her on authority in tho eyes of her fellow countrymen. Indeed, it was through her that Richard Wagner was commissioned to write the music for the- Centennial march. He received $5000 for that very mediocre composition, and Mrs. Gillespie wus ever afterward somewhat sardonic concerning the episode. She could be sardonic on many sub jects. She was not one to endure fools gladly. She uever hesitated to speak her mind from motives of prudence or policy. Her remarks had the effect of a thunder shower, therefore they cleared the air of sub terfuge. Things were always more Interest ing and to the point after she had had her say. She was kind, however, to needy fools and loyal to her faiths, and she had the mas terful vision of n great seer. She fanned the little spark of music in this town Into a sturdy blaze, And she did it at the risk of all s'.ie had. A Cautious Critic From the Itoone County Ileadllsht, A Kansas man was recently fined $10 and given thirty days in jail for murder. It looks line a iignt punishment for such a crime, but not haying been acquainted with the victim, we are, of ppurse, opt competent I "80 much haa, ftt jrfe. '4 ,, vTilagrUfcBWj 4tY ...... .' Ik 1 Cm V ft NOW MY IDEA IS THIS! - DailyJTalhs With Thinking Philadelphia on Subjects They Knoiv Best DR. ELLIS P. OBERHOLTZER On Moving Pictures "W, rIIEN I became a member of the Tenn- svlvnnln Stntn Hoard of Censors about six years ago the work of supervising and nAnidnllltiH 1ia MAttlnn tilnfiifn wnt HOW. said Dr, Ellis P. Oberholtzer, director of the State Bonrd of Motion-Picture Censors. "Now this branch of social service covers the world. There is control of the cinema house In England, under the direction of T. P. O'Connor; in ninhe provinces of Canada, in Australasia, Scandinavia, Japan, Ger many nnd elsewhere. "In general the Inspection is physical be fore the picture Is released for circulation, nnd it.Is aimed at one 'or nil of three or four offenses indecency, obscuritj, sacrilege and what Is contrnry to public policy with refer ence to Incitement to riot and the spread of crime. When a picture hns been looked nt with these ends in view it is certificated and sent on its way. It is marked with a Bcal of approval so that it may, be Identified, like an automobile if its owner or lessee shall be guilty of misconduct. It hns been inspected like ment nnd milk nnd butter to discover if it is fit for public use. "Our law in Pennsylvania, prohibiting the exhibition of film which in the judgment of the Hoard of Censors can be held to be 'de basing to public morals,' wns enacted in 1015. At first we had two or three machines in a little projection room on Vine street in the heart of the so-called 'film district,' a neighborhood in which most of the picture distributing offices nre located In this city. This seemed to me to be an arrangement not designed for the best service, and we se cured from the Pennsylvania Railroad Com pany an old church at Eighteenth and Fit b rt streets, which I had used, to make the costumes and build the properties for the Historical Pageant of 1012. New Quarters Found "When in two or three years the railroad company required this building for its own purposo I found and the Department of Grounds nnd Buildings at Harrlsburg hired another old church on Cherry street near Eleventh street, and it is to this place thut every foot of film must bo brought for review before it may be shown anywhere within the borders of the commonwealth. Hero in the auditorium upstairs wo havo installed six picture machines, which throw six pictures, simultaneously If need be, on six screens set upon the opposite wall. When I became a member of the board in litlf we looked at film nt the rate of nearly 20,000,000 feet in a year. Now, because of a reduction in the output and by reason of a change in our system of inspection, our service in a year covers about 12,000,000 feet. This is tho whole product of the United Stntes plus a certain amount of imported film, for there is littie that is intended for circulation any where in this country which docs not come to a largo state like Pennsylvania. Our 1000 picture houses transact about 8 or 10 per cent of all the film business in tho United States. "In the Interpretation of tho meaning of the words 'debasing to tho public morals' we have formulated a number of 'rules and standards,' with the support of a scries of opinions of the county and Supreme courts. By experience wo have come to Judge pic tures rather Instinctively. Wo know by automatic understanding what violates n standard, and in the performance of our duties hnve wholly barred a large number of so-called 'enlightenment pictures,' having to do with white sluvery, mttlpiactleo, birth control and disease, as well as pictures of other objectionable kinds. There nro 200 or 300 separate subject which may not be ex hibited in Pennsylvania. More than this we 'reconstruct' ; that is, we require the making over of 150 or 200 pictures in n year. Through chnuges of captions the ten dency of Immoral film stories is made good, or at least not offensive to public tasto, A theme dealing with the betrayal of u girl, for example, or the use of drugs or the exploita tion of crime, which the immature or the ill-conditioned mind may be led to imitate, Is altered when it can be and it is given it different turn. We have co-operated iu this way tediously and patiently with the film companies. In many other cases our changes or 'cllmlnotlous,' as wo call them, are Blight and cover only the rembval of indi vidual titles and scenes. It will be Held, I think, that wo have accommodated ourselves to the picture Industry by long experience, nnd that the industry with some grace has ordered its business to conform with our requirements. nun imq wany lawsui'3 l?.WMkoilJ,at.J jiwtr mtHLrMNtv "REMEMBER, LADT, Y GOTTER HAVE FAITH!" longed denlings with attorneys at law and judges of the courts. Only decision, courage, eternal vigilance, indifference to criticism when you know you nre right, will nvnll the film censor- Then after great toil of the eyo nnd some dernngement of the nervous sys tem, his reward will be satisfaction iu well doing. I know there is treasure in henven for nn honest public servant of this kind. He is beset with temptation. Beguiling men full of subterfuge come to visit him with their own ob'jects in view. He is cozened and pressed nnd banished from the company of man, sometimes ns n "great Torquemadn," nnd ngnin as an Anthony Comstock full of prudish ideas, though ho has been so moderate In his judgments that he knows of a certainty thnt 11 million per sons will still think him n libertine. "For nil of this in Pennsylvania we have cared not very much. We have built up n Kystem which is generally held to be as just ns it is effective. "At once intelligent nnd rcnsonnblc, it is known nnd respected, nnd to a considerable degreo followed in other pnrts of tills coun try and in Canada. It is commended on 0110 side for the consideration it expresses for the property interests of the 'film men,' and on the other for an indexible antagonism to the indecent and dangerous tone which charac terizes the picture ns It comes, in too many cases, from the producing studio in Los Angeles nnd New York at this day." Inspiration to Home Affection From the Illchmnnd Tlmes.Dlapalch. "When a man bet on n lame boss," said Charcool Eph, rumlnntivoly, "hit sure do git inspirln' how he yell fo' laigs t' git on dat old crowbalt fo' de sake o' his wife an chillun." The Reason of the Smile SHE smiled nt me! I knew not why, But that she smiled is not n He. I cnught the flashing, laughing blue Of her Bwcot eyes I Hwcar 'tis tVue Hhy should she smile at such as I? She smiled at me. n I passed by ; Oh I for n smile llko that I'd die. And so, I'm pretty sure, would you She smiled at me! But I I looked nn awful "guy." For let mo heave .a heartfelt sigh I soon found out what wns her cue There wns a frcnklsh wind that blew To catch my hat I had to try She smiled nt me ! La Toucho Hancock In Cartoons Magazine. ( What Do You Knojv? QUIZ 1. What groat city, one of the foremost In o wrW. was originally known by a o TOin(Vn.e at ""P1 mud hovels? dour? meanlnB f the Scotch word 3. How should It bo pronounced? 4- Af,.anaWname?K f KranCa Was "- B- Wdesc,ralpli,ve oioc AvateVwa'ter , everywhere and not a drop to drink"? dent? C0U"try '" G1U8ePP Ma presl? 7. For what was the Gideon of tho Blbla especially noted7 ulw 8. "ow do"aTPennon differ from an ordl- ,!! Swnt kln(lTf n animal Is a steenbok? 10. Who was James Clarence Mangan" Answcra to Yesterday's Quiz 1. The inhabitants of North Carolina nm sometimes called "tarheelX" a 2. Praxiteles was a famous Greek sculptor He nourished' about 360 D. C u""or' 3. Shalloon Is light cloth for coat llnlnes and women's dresses. The word come. from Chalons, In France. wKre The . -mntl?., wns orlKlnally made. 4' hwamlAlian!,nm ' CheSter A' ArtIlur 6. Saltntlon Is 'a leaping, dancing-, a jumo BUdden transition or movement ' 0. Damson Plums take their name from tha city of Damascus, In Syria. Damson . corruption of Damascene. n ,s 7. drover Cleveland Issued his famnn. r... sago urging that OreYt Britain SuhmU the Venezuelan boundary d ami. . arbitration In 180E. " PUte to S. Three of tho most frirnbus payB hy Mollcrp nre U m santhropi," y"TBr tuffe" nnd "La Medecln Jfahrr. vii (The Doctor 'In Spite 0 HlmelM . ' 9. Senator Harding Is nf ty flv years old . and Cloveriior. Co nfi , ? 'cr old ID TV, ollu nt rii.l la Ii...l.'',-1 .. ;; rv,T rr.VJi -'J".' at - JtHji i; awineni jreian , u iur avwr nariL ia ,nn in iai... .. QUMnitowB. rMpWiiY JF . i"" ai tivnr a .' '. ,rr. r- UlUr; WWW 'post. rf( .'i:r' 'A' "iiaiaM;aM'ap" SHORT CUTS Old General Apathy has so far bad at difficulty in lining up his cohorts. The Ited germ seems to thrive ii whiskers. What Russia needs is a safety razor. Published pictures of Prince Paul, 0! Greece, seem to indicate that he is a regular fellow. Theodore Marburg may have set a riol example to other members of the stiliplD Doaru. We toko if, that the present notable de crease in crime is due to the passing of the saloon. Even tho members of the American Le gion will expect the President to be deal ai to Post. And not n newspaper In the countrf grudges Julia Arthur the publicity being given to her. One thing thnt disturbs the optimfaa of Democrats is the fact that Governor Cox is already preparing his alibi. Now that Carpentier and Dcmpscy art to fight, the presidential election nnturill; becomes of secondary Importance. Well, nnyhow, both parties ngrec that there Is going to be, a landslide, Not tha most nrdent ,rwet" has ventured to proplieu a flood. - - The naval court of inquiry into condi tions in nnitl will now proceed to determine whether it is the killings or the charges that have been indiscriminate. Judge Brown probably knows by this time the number of really useful things that could be dnno with the money he wants for tho Municipal Court. There seems to be n disposition on the pnrt of appointees to give the President an other chance to name the very best men possible for the shipping board. oj The executive secretary of the National Homcraakers' Guild remarked at the gu'11 breakfast In Chicago that home-mnkln,- ! nn expert profession ; which appears to M stressing the obvious, Mrs. S. A. Barnett. founder of Hamp-, stead Gnrden Suburb, London, and now a visitor in this city, knows, no pewon better. that the very best thing that grows la garden is contcntmont. It may be remarked in pasiing that girls subjected to insults from nutomotiiie mnshors .and left to wnlk home from remote places might ave themselves annoyance 07 .refusing to take rides with strangers. Membership in men's clubs bn.s W off, says n dispatch from Boston. . -5 because highballs havo been blackballed "Here's how" is now nothing more than" explanation of the eighteenth amendment Tho Now Syndicalism born In Fran" may not bo the pannccu its advocates w: licve, but it may at least prove a health"" antidote to the Bolshevist canker wn seemed for a time to bo spreading a" IW ropidly in Europe. It took the southern planters six Trj in xlmnirx their oWnri from "Buy a bale " cotton !" to "Thirty-cent cotton or '"' For the old cry, It developed, were - real' reason. For the new one, It mr there la no real need. Candidates in the Cuban presMentUl lection, which takes place on Monday. a earnestly beseeching their constlti ents w behave themselves. Hero in At"f.r!c?,nX Htltuents uro more or less carelessly uoi"" ns much from their candidates. ( There is a constable in Wilmington who, can't be persuaded that woman know" ; political tricks. One induced him to 0 j church last Sunday by promising to yoU" , Republican ticket. Later ho le arnfd im aha bad intended to votb that ticket ! , Now he sr ya he is unalterably opposed w dragging the church into politics. V..-.. I., ..nn.orlnir TTfllf Of faCT W' torn lands will yield harvests tl U p 'u $ per cent of her war-destroyed ". 1 are' operating; coal inlnes have bn -i oneoed hard and .intelligent .. j r1,jii InVreaulta, -wP.Mt ?cn ?" VdH'Vi laWhlhV-rdjaVje-WtHlM 1 "0, I FO"" " 7,Vka'- Ut one reapon!u -- -m iwv"". iry; 'x Sr'V',',",ji 6t,fJ.t. 3 ..:,-. w;,v ''x
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