r L k It 17 Socre- Knox or Root May Be tary of Stato, W'.th Wood ill War Post - 'iinnr- nnnurn rrn uiTCDinD URGE HOOVER FOR INTERIOR Hu a Elafl Corrripotidoif Wjuhlngton. Oct 2S. Uepubllrans whj) consider the elei tlnn of Stintor Harding a foregone conclusion are al-" reach Nuzzrstiui: a cabinet for Mini On A . . -i -, . '11 !..!, .. nn,l nil, ' tjie theorj that "he 11 pick n good cab- Irtet, ' an cxpiPRMion frequently applied to the Itepublicnn nominee, the utiomrfal , pickers nre s irtnnll agreed on cexeral selections which could cntlt; come wlth lp that categor.N . "further, nsuming Iliinling's micccss, n" number of his cablm t appointments arc taiil to b" litiinlh settled. Kc ports from Marlon nnd other authori tative sources coiitiiiii tliK Vor tills rcawm the dUeiis-dons current in in formed quarters lae greater weight than the usual guec under slmllnr i circ,uinstaneo- , Jt If giMieialh assumed, foi instame. that Senator Kiiot. of 1'dinlianin. can he secretary ot xtntc if he wnntS the. job. To accept the post in the Harding cabinet would give him the unique distinction ot having served, bv rtgular appointment. In the cabinets of four Uepubllcnn I'r-sldents. ami tem porarily, for a matter of fortv-etcht Iwnirt. or thereabouts, in the cabinet of President Wllon. Km h n record wnnl I be unpiralleted in the annals of Ameri can statecraft. Knox's Distimulslicd Career Tirst. Senator Kno was attorney general in I'resldent McKlnle'i cab inet. When McKlnle was nseassinatecl and Itnowiplt entered the White House U lls'tlf'ltlilHII TT ...o ,.,:, 1 ! tl,o ,.n. nnf Subsequentlv he resided to enter the Senate. In 1000. when Taft was rfectecl. he nuit the Senate to again entr the cabinet as I'resldent Taft's gecretarA of state. ., When President Wilson was inaugu rated Kn icmained nt his pott in the State IK'i'irtment for a in or two until his successor. Wil'inm Jennings Hrjnn nualitled bv the usual proress His friends believe he would accept the portfolio of state under Hsrding a fitting capstone to n distinguished public career. TJlihii Root's name nlso has been suggested in connert'on with the State i Department luiijt and. In general con sent, he possesses the cpcrien e nnd all the quilihcntions any President Wild asl of the man who occupies the highest cabinet office. His nge he is over 70 is the only obt-ticlc to ap pointment, for the next four years arc I lively to be .strenuous ons for the hc.iu i 5f the State Pepnrtmc nt. j J, When Knot was propo-" d foi Presi--' dent in the early dins of discussions of I the present presidential c-ainpalgu. Jong before the nomination, he protestea to i hv intimates that he was too old to con- I Kjder it. Tie. likewise, sered in the c ablnets of Presidents McKlnlcj and ' Roosevelt, spending ten years alto- , gther nt the posts of secietary of war and t-tate. r1 An Unoflirlal Selection JtAn Oho Uepubllcnn. closplj identified with the pnrtj nrgnniratinn. who now holds an nppointhc post under He publican patronage nnd who is a pei sorial friend of Semt"r Harding's, is responsible for the following selections to or ramHrrirreK!airni a iinrrataiai 1918 PAIGE 1 Special. seen - patisener tnurlnz Jr paln'pd dark crefn. Rren upholMpr 3 lonncnu wind -!'ii wire wnrtls iX niGKI.O-MLI I.V MOTOR Ct. ?1"'1 i rn4 N I1KOM1 ST iSLariiniWiiiLJUTJiruiw, & hIhtiUixi Zi COVER IT " Wh !eae mnchinerj costing thou.ands out in all kinds of -weather? Cover it stop unneces sary depicciation loss. Send us your measurementF. X VANDERHERCHEN'S SONS 1 . Malrr strrrt. rhllRdrlphln i:rrjihnij In Cnai MESH BAGS $i REPAIRED Undtrmjr new depart ment Mesh Dags can b. repaired, relnlih ed and rellned at a ery amall coit NEW MESH BAGS $10 Up A. E. Moss, 33 S. 9th SHOP WITH STORE That Buy Anything from the leudtni tora of ORDERS PMln . VU mlnrtwm. f nindn. llun lie Cltr ft Cheater tasj Term FRAMBES & CLARK .: 1112 Chettnut St., Phils. Mf Onnranttt Tr. Hide. Atlantic City ' SO N. Third St . Cmnilm Would You Believe It? Till, picture ahoua n nhne when It mine to ua the MOie nhue uftir tiring rrpalml. .... , , , t lire anrrlullflnit ill whole imiIm n' ! unnderful. aternroof. iluriimr -SrKll.lNi lileli ur equal tit leather lint eoat le. r t Women s . . $1.50 Men's $1.75 niioi:s cmiaskii nn mm SHOE iirDtnAini&rcim REPAIRIN 'JKV N. E. Cor, Filbert Sis. HARDING'S FRIENDS PICKING CABNET ' - IU l&3rA fVufuLiSr , Mf A for the remainder of tfic Hnnllnic cftbl-i net: Secretary of the treasury Governor liowden, of Illinois War Major (Jen cral Wood; Navy Former Senator Weeks, of MaAsacliusetts; Interior Herbert Hoover,' Agriculture Senator Capper, of Kansas: Labor Ucprcsen tatlve No'nri. of California: Attorney General Some well known lawer of Ohio or New York i Postmaster General Harry M. DatiRherty, of Ohio. Thcw selections auree fairly well with !!'.0M! (. 0,hcr Kciiubiicnni Keneralh "in the know." There are some Who believe that DiiURherty Hardlnn's pre- convention campaign manager and his political mentor thioitghoiit his public eareer mlfclit choose to bo the Murk Unnnn or Colonel House of the Hardin administration. Would Kllminate Wood Other "dopestcrs" hne him picked for secretary of war. discarding General Wood on the ground that he is essen tially n military man. mid that the appointment of an army officer to the P"1 ol HC.'ieiury oi war wimill vioinil" '. m,lrtot the lnw wh, , eonll.mnintp. tlv'lian at the head of the big war machine. One or two other shifts and substitu thins are also mare here nnd there. Iormer Senator eeks, for rxnmple. was chairman of the committee mi postofiices nnd post roads when he was in Congress, nnd lias a stronir tired pp. tion for postal affalis. It is nrgued in I some itinrters that lie wnuicl t) tinpplci us postmaster general thnn as secre tary of the navv, although he is ;in i Annapolis graduate and admirably ' eipilppcd to direct the policies of the i naal establlKhment. Ily shifting him, to the Postoffice Department Diiucli erty could he taken care of in the War Dennrtment. Only one department is emitted from i current discussions. That is the sec- ' retarjshlp of commerce, nn Important . hut none too highly regarded cabinet post. Hooer Might Accept Hoover has been Migyestrd foi either interior or commerce.' n one pro fesses to know whether he would take any cnbluet appointment, but It is as suincd he would accept the interim portfolio if offered, as lr would give i him nn outlet for his constructive cuer- girs nnd inclinations. There is ciouot aiso ns to w nether benaior .ni. iwr. ..".""; , i it nCW Illl" "UMi 1'oi.ci-. Ill i-vuilll.i. wiii inlt the Senate for the cabinet : His vv I " V I flu iri , i. 1 J I 1 THERE is a very special kind of underwear made just to wear with the new close-fitting gowns. Carter's Knit Underwear reflects every style in outer clothes. It is so finely woven, so elastic, so soft and firm that it follows the lines of the figure without ever binding or pulling. Its seams, though strongly reinforced, lie flat and smooth. There is a Carter style for every type ot gown. The high necked, long sleeved, ankle length suit for stormy weather street clothes. The low or Dutch necked suit for slim afternoon gowns. And the sheer bodice-top suit that you can wear with your prettiest dance frock. Tncse are a few of die many styles that make women order Carter's for themselves and their families year after year. Carter's comes for men, women, children and infanta in all weights cotton, lisle, silk, merino uuTwooI. Get your supply today at your favorite shopping place. The William Carter Company Nttdham Heights Boston District) and Springfield, Mass. Carter's Ml Ui. 'At Oil. FOR X evening1 rTOLicr close polltlcnl nssoclntc ami personal lricnu, umernor Alien, oi ivnnsas, uns likewise been named (is n poRslble cnb Inct nppolntcc, but In not included in tho first list for the reason Hint lie has just been elected to n four-year term as the clilef executive of bin statf. suggested by Republicans claiming to know what is going on, arc invited to pick their own cabinet. There In no copyright on, the piekfng and there an no restrictions on the nickers, except rhosc ulio don't like tlic selections that Senator Hauling liimelf nui liuw somethipc to sav about the matter. Jewelry- - 1 ST ' t Nn lft hs th same ttntl mrnlnl isJao m othrr rift will rl" the mm plntnre. OV rnn hnr inr Kind of Jenr elrr Ton dwlri wleh. Hnrt, broafhr. rtr.. an terms lib-ral-ii nn Co hm alnifMtt M I Mil tllinrl K i Ar made. unttrltrtablel Take vnur rlmlre it n ubont foliar a rcrck. crrdlt It iMi n f irui thii $15000 iTil-ri( E!iAllt'' I -' Diamonds X AS T"."itilinvr-i-' J nj cHf Operating ix big $tor in various State give ui fremencfou baying power. We get rock bottom prieet and thare the taving with yoa. Ruby Ring hand chased mounting. La dy's or fjcntlc man's; solid gold $27.50 Tall or Mrilc for I'm, cirni "IS! T-Telrnhom Walnut tom .!? , IV nli;t V. J'llifJ'Ats m- " - Mi an-'ijjiwfrw.fir im m m. ,, mwuii .MrTi tv, ' I'll mi : i eFn m&m U &. ML l."JO' The lines of today!s dinging gowns in knit underwear When skirts began to be so very brief, and bodices so snug and smooth, we wondered if we'd ever be able to wear anything underneath them without ruining their slender lines. Only a very special kind of underwear could be soft and snug and smooth enough to satisfy the new frocks. kns Underwear ALL THE FAMILY liETOEi - 'PitrEMnBLlp: Beverage Names Barred Washington, Ocl. 28. Tho govern ment took steps today to orqhlbtt not only the use of beer, nle and nWer, but the Use of the names of their widely known synonyms. An order to federal prohibition directors from William M. Williams, commissioner of internal rev nue, sold: "The use of tho words beer, ale or porter and tho well-known )nonymn for the same, such ua lager, bock or stout, either with or without prefixes or suffixes, is not permissible on labels for cereal beverages." The Best of AllXmaiGifti All Platinum Scarf Pin very fine dinmonds $100.oo iunr Handsome hand carved white Cameo. Oynx back ground, green gold mounting. $27.50 XHT Ohfcv A DOLLAR Week'lY SSmSSxS ad wwarj fjM SSr?. isr n2Su S mm II & W In'' IT imWftrrj . iIk & !f " rflr ATKimsrMKrr' ADVERTISING & SELLING A Distinction with a Difference1 y .Robert ROxton Editor o(:Knou)ledge "Down in Philadelphia" said The 'Maihiag reeehify, " is a man who has achieved a most unique success His ,only tools are a desk, a pad of paper and a pen. But with these tools he sells more goods than scores of salesmen put together. With these tools he has built new factories, doubled and tripled the sale f slggHng businesses, and in some cases made independent fortunes grow almost overnight." This man (Robert Ruxton) is the author o( the following article; his results ought to suggest that'it is Worth-while reading: BEFORE a man can adver tise he must buy white space. This accomplished, he then prints words in it. These words, in advertising parlance, are termed "copy." There are two kinds of copy. . Good copy and bad copy. The advertiser pays the newsr paper for the amount of space he uses. What he pays represents the value of the space to the news paper publisher. It does not represent the value of the space to the adver tiser. The value of the space to the advertiser is determined by the kind of "copy" he puts into it. There is an easy way to tell good copy from bad copy. Good copy is copy that is good enough to sell goods, day by day,, at a profit over its cost. If it can't do that, it is as good as a man who can talk, but can't sell. COMBINE PUBLICITY WITH SALES Is your copy, Mr. Advertiser, tested by this standard, earn ing its keep? If not, why do jou stand for it? "Because," you say, "it giving me publicity." is That's all very well, but if the copy is any good at all it should combine publicity with sales. Just as your salesman does. He advertises your goods by word of mouth, but he also sells them. When he draws his compensa tion he draws a proportionate equivalent to the sales he has made. The "publicity" he has also given you is "velvet." COMPARATIVE COPY TESTS Put selling copy into your space and your advertisement does all that a salesman does. It should, while giving you valuable publicity, pay for it self; and show a profit over its cost. You, Mr. Advertiser, are compelled to pay roundly for space, therefore you become ac quainted with the value of publicity. The value of space is a mathe matical proposition. ' Its measure, or standard, is number of subscribers. "Copy" also has its mathe matical value, ascertained by comparative tests. If you are dependent on ad vertising for your business, and if you spend ia,ooo annually for I 200 inches of space, the "copy" you put into that space determines your gross sales. , From "gross" we can easily determine "net." If net profits are $12,000 annually, the copy is worth $12,000. If you doubt this, advertise white space in your list of news papers and see what the pub licity given your space will be worth. Suppose your $12,000 is ex pended in a group of five Phila delphia newspapers. And suppose you have a piece oinew copy that you would like to test against the old. Continue the use of the same papers, but, while running the old copy one month, alternate the new copy the next month. Let this continue for, say, six months and then you will. have tolerably accurate facts as to the resDective merits of "codv" indicated by the rise and fall of your gross sales. In making this test it is not necessary that, the same copy be run during the entire six months. All that is required is that the same group of papers be used and the same space given the new copy as is given the old. J4 45 ' SafiSst.V'weSWK 0 m a ti AnVKRTlfcKMKVT Put one man's copy against the other, month by month. Let each change copy as often as wished. Credit or debit the rise or fall ingross sales to or against the man entitled tp it. This will give you a practi cally exact approximation of the value of each man's "copy." Results' thearJ are liable to set you thinking hard. If, for. example, gross scales double, net profits also double, and the new copy, having in creased profits from $12,000 to $24,000, would be worth $12,000 more to you every year. By an exact comparative test of this nature you will get an exceedingly important sidelight on the value of copy. You may learn, for instance, that ic,ooo words by one man are worth $12,000 more to you, each year, than 12,000 words by another. You will learn that the "copy" that fills the space frequently has a value greater than the space itself. TESTING THE CIRCULAR LETTER "Facts are stubborn things"; they are also staggering things; they knock out opinions like heavyweights knock out light weights. The test here outlined can be applied with equal facility to another form of advertising the circular letter. Divide a mailing list into two equal portions. Mail the old letter to the first half and the new letter to the second half. Let each letter carry a return postal card or coupon the old in white and the new in red. The proportion of returns will give you the basic facts about the pulling power of old anc new copy- If the new letter "pulls" even 5 percent better than the old, it is worth a good deal of money. But as repeatedly happens, if the old letter brings 3 percent inquiries and the new brings 6 percent, the new is just 100 percent better than the old. In many instances this means an ultimate doubling up of net profits. Many firms mail a million letters, yearly, and many letters produce a dollar each, gross. Assuming net profit is 10 per cent, the yearly mailing would produce $100,000 clear. A letter that pulled 5 per cent better would be worth $cooo a year more to that firm. If it "pulled" 100 percent better, it would be worth $100,- 000 a year more. That such a difference in results is entirely possible is daily proven under such test conditions. , A bondhouse with a good investment offering, and a good list to mail to, could only pro cure 2 percent inquiries with various test letters used. Outside aid was sought and the writer-salesman produced i letter that ran the percentage up to 7 pfrcent. In many instances the per centage has been forced even higher; how much higher we would prefer not to say aS the relation might tax credulity. ADVERTISING HANDICAPS AND ADVANTAOES This varying power of "copy" is not as fully appreciated by business firms as it should be. All other things being equal, a firm using t percent copy, pitted against another firm us ing, 0 percent copy, is nanai capped oo -percent. This fact largely explains why some firms handling the same class of goods as others, under practically the same conditions as regards terms and prices, find themselves going bankrupt V V .. 1 vs. fc Ik Tin- AnTTKTIWKMBXT .. ' while witnessing other firms flourishing exceedingly. The difference-ithe handicap the advantage is in Vie copy. If Smith and Jones are rival merchants, sharing die same trade, reaping, say, 25 percent profit, and Smith invents some thing 'that wilUenablc'him to manufacture 50 percent less than at: Jones's, cost, he can sell at Jdnes's cost' 6 manufacture andhtill make, 25 percent profit. So far, he has Jones at his mercy, but if Jones, thrpugh better selling copy, gets 100 percent advantage, of Smith in his inquiries or ultimate results, Tones can despite the manu facturing handicap, put Smith down ana out tnrougn nis sett ing advantage. THE DECIDING FACTOR BETWEEN SUCCESS AND FAILURE In a crisis of competition or business depression, good "copy" has frequently meant the difference between success and failure, defeat and victory. In countless instances in com mercial history "copy" has been responsible for the success of on6 firm and the failure of another. "Copy" is the heart and soul, brain and body of advertising space. Given the necessary pub licity, the income-producing power of .space depends on the words that go into it. Everyone knows that a group of "mail order" words can sell goods or services. Therefore, an advertisement a similar group of words can also sell goods. The advertisement having, like the salesman, selling power is a salesman. Correct advertising" space filled with selling copy can sell as a salesman sells. If yours doesn't, scrap it; it lacks selling power. Keep the space, but; kill the copy. And get selling words into it quick. If corn was $1 per bushel and I had quantities stored that 14 could sell at 90 cents a bushel, I would do an enormous busi ness if I mailed 600,000 postal cards to 600,000 consumers of corn, which I offered them at 10 cents less than the market price. Yet many an advertiser send ing, in effect, 600,000 postal cards to 600,000 consumers by advertisements in a paper like the New York Journal is really offering goods below the market price, yet fails to get back the cost of the space. To illustrate, a concern in the city of Philadelphia special izes on coffee. By direct impor tations and one handling be tween producer and consumer it can, and does, give the public a 35-cent coffee for 25 cents. Yet the responses to its ad vertising 'in three Philadelphia papers are very, very small. The publicity is given beyond a doubt; the blame rests on the "copy." As practically every reader of these three newspapers (whose combined circulation reach the million mark) is a consumer of coffee, the position of this adver tiser is in many respects similar to the position of the man with corn to sell below the market price. A stupendous business will be done the moment the public are shown this fact; they will be shown when selling copy pre pared by a writei'-salesman goes into the space now abused not used. The man who can produce and deliver to the public a better article at the same price, or the same article at a lower price than that public has been accustomed to pay, has a for tune in his grasp the moment he shows the public that fact. The above is an article from Knowledge, "a Journal of Information, Advice and Suggestion" on business and sales problems published monthly by us. Every man that sells anything can get Knowledge w'J,0"1 obligation and without charge by simply Usking for it. Call, phone, write or use coupon if more convenient. THE DANDO COMPANY Furnishing a Speciahud stdctrtising-StlK ing Service to Manufacturers, Whole, salers, Jobbers and lttailtrs ' S23 North Eleventh St., Philadelphia ; '9S , Ctetfl wt-iA i.HJ ySyXw, h OTrKTtMrrVXT The sliowintr'.' means ma cop4 presenfafion-skWirig I ability A t: J CjAMPING ON A GOLD MINE ' The advertiser using space in five, Philadelphia newspapers is advertising to at least a-million families whqse aggregate pur chasingjpowcr'is enormous. ' If such.an advertiser has something thosc-fdmlljes want", it he can give them better service at the same price, or the same servicp4t a loiyer price, put circumstances is not fully productive lie is, in suuqr (rum, camping On a gold mine without knowing it. The clerk, overworked bookkeeper or "ad school" graduate that writes the copv, by his inability td write the rig kind of copy, is keeping such a nun, from his heritage and birthright. And a few thousand otherwise-bright men in this prolific land of America arc'b!eing thus innocently defrauded. Theymame conditions; selling copy would niter conditions. Old-time scientists once thought of electricity as a- feeble force by which they made handkerchies cling together ot light pith-Balls engage in a merry dance. They were playing with a terrific power, without knowing it. This is the position of many adver risers earning money through salesmen or other- channels, paving it out for space which, in the absence of selling copy, is not giving them a fraction of the returns it should. They are simply playing with their space. Instinctively they feel that publicity is a business power. So it is when ' harnesse'd to selling copy, as fire is power whdn harriessed beneath water in a steam boiler. The combination of, publicity and salesmanship is needed to drive the business-engine ahead. When that combination is effected, the contrast is as between pith-balls and dynamos, teakettles and steam engines. " THE MIRACLE OF WORDS Some genius will yet arrive who, with Miltonic inspiration, will write an epic on the power of words that will grip the hearts of men. Consider what they! do. They suggest thoughts and every thing man creates is crystallized thought. "Men suppose," said Bacon, "that their reason has command over their words; still it happens that words in return exercise authority over reason." Heading, satd Schopenhauer, is thinking with another's head instead of one's own." Thought, the compelling force, ii frequently taken captive by the worts put before it. Words right words bring mind in harmony with mind, and, said Carlyle: "There is still a real magic in the action and reaction of minds on one another. The casual deliberation of a few becomes, by this mjnteriouj reverberation, the frenzy of many. Men lose the use not alone of the understanding but of their bodily senses, while the most obdurate, un believing hearts melt like the rut." Post thought Grape-nuts wis the finest health food that ever hapfened. Eighty million fellow-beings had no such thought, but Post, crystallizing his conviction in words, brought n.inds in harmony with his own till a million thought as he wanted them to think, acted the way he wanted them to act and gave him the fortune he hid deliberately aimed to get. And don't forget the miracle wii performed by words. "Let me write the copy," said Post, "and my office boy can make the advertising contracts." TheVoy is vastly more important than the space or the picture or the border or the style of type. In the world of commerce the power of words is stupendous. Hourly, they make sales and break sales; they build up and tear down; they bring ruin and bring fortune. Men frequently nttributetheirliandi cap3, the financial difficulties, the stress and strain under which they labor, to circumstances; jn reality, the con dition Springs from the. words used arid misused the words their sales men are capable of speaking, the words used in their business presen tationever these potent magicians are working by "action, and reaction on mind." The effect of that power is seen in the business which, under its influence, becomes n "money maker." Selling copy pays. It spells the difference between small and Inrgt profits, grinding work and easy afflu ence, poverty and wealth. Slightly paraphrasing the advice of the old Hebrew, we would say, Get selling copy quickly, if you can, but get it." Please send Knowledge to Name ' ' Street .1 HMiMiiiiii" " City 1 j State ,,,.m. ...m ....."'"'''V to economtcjorces are oenina fus campaitn if he knows howto utilize them; if he does- not, if his publicity under such M 3 1 i V.t. is YTy-" '