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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
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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
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"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
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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.
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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'-
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