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"r(n arc ato rctervrd.
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I'MII.AURLrillA
TtUnca on uhldi tho proplo rxprct tha new
administration to concrntrata Ita tlcntlont
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larpcat thiut.
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NOT MUCH OF A VARE VICTORY
A NOTHBIt such victory as the Varcs won
t 'In the First Councilmanlc dUtrict yea
jsv terdny will be their ruin.
Charles J. I'ommer has been elected by
n plurftllty of nbout 7000. TTto lte Wllltnm
I'J. Ffnlcy, whom he is to succeed, was elect
ed a 'year ago in the name district by a
plurality of 23,000. polling a vote of 27,000
in a J ear when only men had the franchise.
The women voted this year. Yet Mr.
Pommer hn received only ubout 25,000
votes, or 2000 Ices than wore cast a year
oro.
Three candidates ran against Mr. Finley
lust year nnd their total vote amounted to
only 0000.
James Gallagher. Mr. Pommcr's oppon
ent, received the vote of nearly 18,000 cUc
tow yesterday.
The result ia most encouraging. It shows
that remarkable progress has been made in
, Ihe campaign of education. All that is
necessary now to chango the 7000 Vnre
" plurality In the district to nn effective nntl-
Vnre plurality is to continue that campaign
for the next three years. .
, THE POLICE MADE GOOD
SlTEHTBUDAY police uniforms and police
dubs were not used to intimidate votera
at the city polls. A detested nnd detcstablo
j. in; wh(,n jinyorH nn,j Directors of Public Safety
made no secret of their belief that raids and
brnstt knuckles might properly be used to
Mwing a ward or a district, was not put to
the police on this occasion.
Mayor Mooro promised to keep the men
out of politics. He kept his word nnd saw
-j ro 11 mat none ot mo coercion tnat ordinarily
would have been applied In some areas was
liprinlff oil nrnti in tlm mt.to rC n A........
Jf lipon which much of the buccess of his
V' administration may depend.
f The friends of Mr. Pommer filled the nlr
wiui rumors 01 impciuiing jionce lntenerenco
at the io11h. ISut the police, even when
they appeared in great numbers, kept at n
distance, maintained order nnd conducted
themselves impartially and with consistent
restraint. For this the Mayor, Mr. Cortel
i .iou and the men themselves deserve Infinite
rrrillt-
credit.
A UNIQUE BIRTHDAY GIFT
T E(KNI)S eoneerulng Presidents and
- Presidents-elect nre tjuickly manufac
tured. It was energetically proved, for In
stance, that Mr. Wilson's career and the
fateful number thirteen were in intimntc
relationship. Probably if some other num
ber had been selected a series of equally
striking coincidences could liuve been re
vealed. In Senator Harding's case, however, the
myth manufacturers are unnecessary. The
Presldeut-elect is the recipient of what is
perhaps the most tremendous birthday pres
ent ever known. Fifty-five years an yes
terday Warren (J. Harding was born in the
little town of Corsica, Morrow county, O.
rt It is superfluous for the American people to
' reiterate the wls'j that he has hnd a happy
birthday. Their sentiments, concretely ex
pressed in ballots, constituted the unique
' Sift.
, Seldom, indeed, hnve the dealers ip au
gurirs been so freely furnished with an in
contestable basis of solid, happy fact. That
Mr. Harding on the day of his inauguration
will hove attained almost precisely the nvcr
. age ogr of American Presidents entering
oflW completes the remarkable posture of
tircuniBtances.
ONE PERFECTED THING
A I.I. claims made by party managers yes-
terdny were based upon hope. No 0110
really knew what might Imppen. The de
t'lston was not mude by vumpniKners. tandl
dates, cliques or clans. It was rendered by
tho people, who had in their hands the only
perfect mechanism ever devised for tho ex
pression of popular opinion and the conduct
of "popular government.
The country hud a free choice. It could
have had a Socialist President, a Single Tax
President, a Prohibition President, a lln
publlcan Pres'dent or a Democratic Presi
dent. The election, Involving as It did men
and women and the greatest number of free
cltirens ever listed In any country at any
time, was an impressive spectacle In more
ways than one. Bach voter acted, or hnd the.
right to act. neeord'us to the dictates of his
uonsclence.
' What better system can be imngincd? Hy
what other method could the. collective will
of. the people be better expressed or tho
desires of n nation he made manifest?
STREET REDEMPTION
rpHB promise of paving reform which has
, j just in- uiuue iij i nici uuuinp, of the
af$ ir Bureau of Highways, Is magnificently com-
r prfhoiiHlvo, Within one month, declares Mr.
punlnp, all the principal streets of the. town
wijl be put in good condition. After the com
ploWoii of the new municipal asphalt plant.
1xril for Janunr. I. the city is to iln Its own
repairing" nud hope Is held out that the
present state of degeneration will never be
ycued ngain,
TMoMrmented by ntta-ana dec,
j '. '"' fu' '" .' a ' '"""-., ' ' i"'t'i'
holes, pedeifcUnsvIctimlied'oy mnd-spksh-
Ing can 'haMpy. bo expected to grasp this
complete pfefu're of efflclency all at once.
Intentions, however, decidedly count for
ometllnf, nnd if the city is actually em
barked on the enterprise of redeeming tho
long disgracefully neglected streets, fbo pub
,11c will await tho transformation with mora
than an academic Interest.
Heretofore it was despair rather than
philosophical patience that characterized tho
general attitude, and now that betterment Is
forecast, gratitude for some realization will
bo profound even though swift sweeping
miracles are not forthcoming. That tho
administration is aroused to elemental ne
cessities Is a. cheering thought.
THE PEOPLE HAVE SPOKEN
AND THERE IS NO APPEAL
Tho Country Will Now Await With
Calmness the Aciumptlon of Power
by the Republican Party
fXN THE marbh slab over the gravo of
James Wilson In tho yard of Christ
Church in Second street there is this in
scription taken from tho writings of tho
man who did more than any other to make
the constitution a charter of democracy:
Tof the tvprcme power, therefore,
should he veiled in the people U tn my
judgment the great panacea of human poll'
rtcff. Jamei IPiljon.
The people exercised their power yesterday
in a solemn referendum. It was an awesome
spectacle, that of the electors Of a nation of
100,000,000 pcopla going quietly to tho polls
nnd registering their will,, confident In the
Justness of their verdict nnd confident also
that It would be accepted by the vanquished
as well as by the victors.
This is the democracy which Hint great
Pcnnsylvanian, James'Wiison. advocated In
the constitutional convention nnd in all his
writings indefense of the principles which ho
sought to have embodied in that document.
The verdict has been rendered by tho
highest tribunal. Thero is no nppeal from
it. And in ten years those who have lost
their case will admit that the verdict was
in accordance with the evidence.
The last four monthB have been devoted,
not to a 'framing of the issues, but to a
summing up of tho testimony and to tho
crystallization of the opinion of the great
jury of the electors.
The question at issue was whether tho
Democratic party had made good ns an in
strument of government nnd whether tho
country would continue to use it. Hut aside
from tho success or .failure of the party in
power, that party had to face the reaction
in feeling which always follows a great war.
The party under which a war is fought al
ways suffers from this reaction. The con
dition is not peculiar to America. The
government in France which prosecuted tho
war has gone out of power; the same thing
has hnppened in Italy, and it is morally
certain that there will be a change of the
party in control of the government in Great
Britain before many months. This desire
for a change persists regardless of the merits
or demerits of the war government, and is
based on n feeling that the men who have
conducted war have contracted political
habits which will mnko it impossible for
them to carry on the work of pcaco.
The position of the Democratic party was
weakened nt the outset of the campaign by
its conduct in San Francisco. The national
convention hnd not been in session twenty
four hours before it was manifest that the
party was not united. There was a Wilson
faction and an anti-Wilson faction. The
anti-Wilson faction, composed of the worst
elements in tho Democracy, fought for con
trol and won. It permitted the President to
write the platform, but when It came to
making a nomination, Murphy, Taggart,
Nugent and Brcnuan united their strength
with tho strength of those other spoilsmen
who sympathized with them to force the
nomination of Governor Cox, a nomination
agreed upon by them at an Indiana gam
bling resort several days before the conven
tion met. They put Cox over, und Cox
turned his bock on the Wilson-inspired
platform and hns hardly referred to it during
all the succeeding months. It was not until
the closing weeks of the campaign that ho
began to talk about the League of Nations
which the platform pledged the party to
support, nnd ns he talked ho cot farther
and farther from the platform until the dis
criminating voters were unable to find any
vital difference between his position and that
occupied by Senator Harding.
So when the voters went to the poIIb they
were confronted by the necessity of retain
ing a party in power which hnd repudiated
its President in the selection of its candidate
and which, ns the campaign progressed, re
pudiated the one issuo which the President
hnd insisted was more important than any
other that had been submitted to tho elec
torate for a generation, or of giving a man
date to a party which professed belief in
tho ends Fought by tho League of Nations
and had a record in the past of successful
achievement.
Under the circumstnnce.s, it is not surpris
ing that tho Democratic party hns been sen
tenced to hard work In the opposition for the
liext four j ears. No sophistication of argu
ments has been able to conceal from the
voters the real Issue. With their usual per
splcacity, thej have sensed its essentials and
have reached 11 conclusion which time will
show was inevitable.
The defeat is the most clashing which has
come to any American part in many years.
I11 virtually every state in which thcie was
a contest the Democrats havo been repudi
ated. They carried tho solid South for the
single reason that the Republican party has
no real existence there.
The responsibilities now to be assumed by
Senator Harding nnd by his associates in
Congress will have a sobering effect upon
them. They cannot contemplate tho tasks
awaiting them without awe, They will take
over the government burdened with an enor
mous war debt and with a wur organization
still In existence. It will be necef.ary to dis
organize the war ugenclcs uni return tho
personnel to private life, n v,.rk that ought
to have been done months rgo. It will be
necessary to provide reve; no for ordln-iry
expenses und In addition jr tho payment of
interest on the billions o' the wur debt.
Tho Ingenuity of the 'est economic brains
in the country will bo taxed to the utmost
to devise revenue Jnwr which will raise the
necessary money whllp doing nothing to ham
per the conduct of legitimate business.
Such laws rnnnet be drafted by cross
mods Htutesmrn r'vho never heard of a
business uuilertnlcinff involving more thnn
St 00.000.
Tho advice of nen accustomed to deal in
billions will luye to bo secured and the
assistance of men who arc familiar with the
I SSTSS.
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KAim even then It will be remnrkablo It ho
blunders are mndo -
Under Republican leadership tho primary
purpose of these laws will be to raise rovenno
nnd not to penalize success or to mulct tho
rich ot what tho demagogues call their "ill
irotten gains." Tho existing revenue laws
will servo as a horrible example of how not
to do It.
While tho internal revenue. Taws must bo
so revised as to freo Imslncss of all un
necessary hampering restrictions, tho customs-laws
must be modified so ns to adjust
them to the new conditions brought about by
tho war. No tariff theory on which any
other Republican Congress has acted will
servo next year, becauso the conditions on
which those theories were based have ceased
to exist.
When 'wo wero n debtor nation wo could
regulate imports without regard to any
thing but tho protection of tho domestic
market. But wo nro no longer n debtor
nation. Tho greater plirt of tho American
securities held abroad havo been brought
back home. We have lent $10,000,000,000
to Europe on which tho interest must bo
paid every year, and arrangements must bo
mado for the payment of tho principal. And
the balnnco of trade with foreign countries
Is now running at about $-1,000,000,000 a
year.
Our customers cannot pay us this enor
mous sum wholly in cash. We cannot con
tinue to sell to them unless wo mak6 somo
arrangement by which they can make set
tlement of the balances.
j The situation has arrived which McKinlcy
foresaw nearly twenty years ngo when he
mado his Inst speech in Buffalo, urging such
n modification of the tariff policies ns would
permit the exchange of American goods for
foreign goods nnd thus develop the export
trade.
Tho export trade has expanded enormously
without such arrangements because of the
necessities of the countries devastated by
tho war. It will contract ns those countries
recover, but It will continue largo for many
years. The surest way to destroy it would
be to pass nn old-fashioned hlgh-tnrlff law.
Tho Republican legislative lenders cannot
be unaware of this, for they are accustomed
to facing tho facts. There can be no doubt
that they will do their best to framo a
scientific tariff suited to existing conditions,
confident that tho American producers can
hold their own in all markets provided
nothing is done to handicap them.
Senator Harding will assume tho presi
dential office disposed to co-operate with the
leaders of his party in the formulation of the
policies of his administration. Ho will un
doubtedly summon to his cublnct the nblest
men available, so that that body will be a
group of reul advisers. Fortunately, there
is no lack of nblo men from which he can
choose, and It is fortunate also that he is so
constituted temperamentally that able men
will be willing to sit nt n table with him
to thresh out tho policies to be adopted.
We nre to have responsible party govern
ment for tho next four years. If it is suc
cessful tho country will indorse it for an
other four years. But If it fails to function
satisfactorily, the supreme power, which
James Wilson Raid was vested in tho peo
ple, will dismiss It from office nnd try tho
opposition party again."
DIRT AND DOLLARS
TT ISN'T often that tho spirit moves any
-- man to better and saner speech than that
with which Judge Dickinson interrupted a
session of the Uulted States District Court
to discuss from the bench, largely for tho
benefit of Lincoln L. Eyre, attorney for on
accused salooukeeper, the ethics of law and
business.
Mr. Eyre, ns counsel for n mnn charged
with violations of the Volstead act, de
nounced what he called the general tendency
to put unjust restrictions upon personal lib
erty. Judges hear a great deal of that sort
of discussion. They hnve been listening to
it for centuries. And what Judge Dickinson
said in answer might properly be regarded
as a summary of what nil jurists have
learned in their efforts to do Justice between
society and those who disregard or violato
codes established progressively in the inter
est of the greater number. They seem to
have learned thnt dirty money, rather than
money In general, is the root of nil evil.
Blue laws nro things abhorred by many
men. Mr. Eyre clenrly felt that he was
upon safe nnd indisputable ground in hold
ing these ancient statutes up to derision nnd
contempt. The Volstead net, similarly de
nounced in this instance, may represent nn
Invnslon of the rights of personal privilege
iu a free country. So, too. does the Har
rison drug net, which forbids the snle of
narcotic drugs to nn addict, who feels that
he has a free man's right to become a mental
and physical wreck and outcast. The talk
of n taboo on tobacco certainly will irritate
innumerable people nnd cause them to feel
that the days of freedom nre ended. And
It Is interesting to henr a man so experienced
nnd so observnnt us Judge Dickinson inti
mate flatly that most taboos of the modern
sort nre made necessary not by the things
directly antagonized, but by the dirty money
thnt tends to pervert these tilings nnd make
them dangerous nud, in the end, intolerable.
It was tho pursuit of dirty money by
brewers nnd, distillers nnd saloonkeepers thnt
finally made the liquor business menace to
the health and morals of American commu
nities. It is the purr.ult of dirty money that
is causing innumerable men nowadays to
flaunt u law of the country and vend poison
ous imitations of whisky concoctions of
nlcohol, ether, tincture of pepper nnd the
like to unsuspecting multitudes at fantastic
prices. And certainly tho money earned by
men who do their best to aid and encourage
and protect this sort of outlawry caunot be
culled clean. That much .Tudgo Dickinson
intimated very plainly to Mr. Byre.
Tho simple and obvious fact is that uo
business can survive the effects of dirty
money nnd dirty nlms. Money spent by
specially interested groups, who hnve reasons
of their own for wishing to break down the
Sunday laws, will in tho end only strengthen
tho determination of society to keep these
laws Intact, unreasonable us many of them
may sound in a literal rending. The Blue
Laws, so called, serve nt h-trt one useful
end. They insure a day of rest for oil people
who labor, and they keep people In mind nf
tho hopes and beliefs upon which tho wholo
system of modern law and modern ethics
has its foundation. If it in n fuct thnt
buflness interests with n view only to profit
seek to hnve, the Sunday laws set nsldo in
order that a way may be opened to put
nsldo all Sunduy restrictions, then that is
n very good reason why public opinion will
Insist upon keeping the Blue Laws In their
present form. Thnt is Judge Dickinson's
view, nnd it Is sound.
BecnuHp It iiritftted her. a womnn suf
ferer from cancer in a I'tlrn, N. Y hos
jiltnl threw nway a bandaije contnliilinr n
milligram of radium valiiPil at $13,000.
Apart from Its vnltie In ensh, its loss In
terns oi prssinic cures is incalculable. Ig.
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AS ONE WOMAN SEES It
' 1
8ome Remarks by a Chauffeur Con
cerning the Technique of Get
ting Out a Newspaper
By sapah d. xowrireS -
IF YOU think of chanco encounters as
mcro chance you miss half tho adventure.
If you think of them os part of tho plot and
your lines quite as necessary to tho denoue
ment as those of tho leading ladyj It makes
a best seller read tamely.
I knew a woman onco who thought every
timo tho whistlo blew from n train on the
elevated it was a slgnnl to her to got up and
save the state. That Is going rather far tn
making much out of little 1 .But, on tho
other hand, It is quite possible to make littlo
out of much.
I was exercising tho dog the other day and
trying to get window Bhndes to fit window!
longer nnd wider thnn the stock sizes, win
dows of a vlntago older than the Centennial.
When I had run them to earth in a very
downtown storo the pup hnd I were too
fatigued to walk home, bo I hailed a cab.
I looked carefully at tho serious young
thug that was driving tho enr, so if ho
killed mo I'd know him, nnd then resigned
myself to his careless keeping. Cabs being
rather a luxury for me, 1 bethought me o!
combining business with case and picking
up a pair of andirons that belonged to mo
at the office of a friend on my way homo.
No sooner sftld thnn done I My friend, on
lifting them into the taxi, snid something
I do not know quite what nbout my writ
ing up her favorito charity for this column
in tho paper.
T JUST grinned nnd let it go. But nftcr wo
had driven away the chauffeur leaned
bock across the open window between us
and as he drove with ono hand remarked
casually to mo that his best pal had been a
reporter.
"We broke into the newspaper game to
gether five years ago," ho said.
"And you find chnuffing more remuner
ative?" said I, considering him opon-eyed.
"Well," he said. "I went to tho war and
dropped reporting then, and I havo just not
gone back to It."
"But docs this pay better?" I said.
He nodded emphatically. "Much better."
I looked nt tho taxi; I looked nt him; I
looked at the ticker running up toward the
dollar-mark. Then I snid persuasively for
tho honor of the guild of writers "but you
must get very good stories from the pcoplo
you drivel"
"Well, co I do; mighty good ones! Too
good to print with the namos. I'll use them
some day, but not In n newspaper in a
book!"
WE HAD nrrlvcd at my door by then nnd
the ticker had arrived nt eighty cents.
I fished out a dollar nnd begged him as wo
were in tnc same business to keep the
chnnge. He eyed mo calmly nnd did so.
"What is jour name?" lie asked.
I told him. "Mine," said he. "Is Charles
- -. and then he mentioned a perfectly
familiar name up the state.
"You recognize it?" he said.
I acknowledged that it was familiar. "My
undo wns Brigadier General ." he re
marked, eying me seriously. "But," ho
ended, "I find this pays better than writing
nt present!" and lie drove off.
I HAVE pondered upon this episode nil
week. Today I got further light on tho
boy's point of view from a well -reasoned
newspaper mnn who hns now retired from
the fray into a more lucrative, if less ex
citing, occupation.
Ho said tho boys starting in were not
worth to the papers $30 n week more than
Hkcly, but they were worth more thnn that
on other Jobs that took less vitality und
ended for even the mediocre ones in a surer
raise.
There will always bo high-class men for
the big jobs, but fewer fine young men to
start in nt the bottom to wijrk up unless
tho minimum pay is such that they can live
on it. was his verdict.
He said that since he had got out of the
rush he had begun to consider what the
news was the public read, and he had come
to the humiliating conclusion that It was
mostly the headlines. He seemed to think
thnt was a great discovery." Whereas, of
course, to the rank nnd file of us renders
of the dally news it goes without saying.
I ASKED him why he thought it was that
the headlines were so often misleading,
so thnt one got an entirely false impression
of the text below. He said n rcnl hcadllner
was born, not made, and that there were
very few.
But lie ndded somewhat pessimistically
that a oungstcr going on a paper thought
copy readers were shelved men nnd never
tried to lenrn their art. "They miss out
there, just as an ordinary editor misses out
on tho small Item!" he ended rather
gloomily.
"It Isn't always the editor's fault: some
times it in the reporter's missing the little
essential that makes the thlug only nn item,
not n story," ho ndded, and to point his
criticism he showed me n news item that
had been in all the papers that morning.
Tho rector emeritus of the Church of the
Redemption, the R"v. Thomus List, hnd
died out nt Lnnrel Hill Ccmetcrv while
rending tho committal service over the grnve
of his wife. .This fnct and the main fncts
of his life were given, from the cavalry
record he had held In the Civil War to his
being made rector emeritus by his grateful
congregation after over forty years of
service.
"What they should have told was just
this:
"He was very old nnd his wife hnd shared
his service and he faced a lonely old ace
nnd slender means without her help to finish
serenely. So, knowing how he felt, his
parishioners stood about him, troubled for
his future and trnuhled at the strain he hnd
placed upon his feelings to say the prayers
at her grove. He got to the part,
" 'The Lord glvctli nnd the Lord taknth
away. Blessed be the nnme of the Lord!'
when he snnk very, verv gently to his knees,
so gently they thought he wns praying
silently before closing but he wns dead!
"Now that was very wonderful aud happy.
But j on did not qulteget that from the
way it wns left, without the little finishing
touches. It was not told as tho-.o who were
there felt It!"
I did not rend the reports, so I do not
know how far he was justified In Ills criti
cism, but his telling of thu story was very
touching. A long life ns n copy reader hail
not dulled his sense of beauty and goodncs.
BOOKS
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"Y DAYS nmong the dend are passed.
Around me I behold.
Where'er these cnsiinl c.vns nro cast.
The mighty minds of old :
Mv never-faillne friends nre they
With whom I converse night und day.
With them I take delight in weal
And seek relief in woe.
And while I understand and feel
How much to them I owe.
Mv checks have often been bedewed
With teurs of thoughtful gratitude.
My thoughts are with the dend. With them
I live in long-past enrs,
Their virtues love, their faults condemn,
Portuko of their griefs nnd fenrs.
And from their sober lessons find
Instructions with n humble mind.
My hopes nre with the dead. Anon
With them my plnco will ho.
And I with them slmll travel on
Thrnuith all futurity,
Yet leaving here a name, I trust,
Which will not perish in the dut.
--Robert Bouthoy.
An Expensive Victory
I'rom th Kansas City Htar
This new Germnn tnx wc rend nbout,
which virtually nmnunts to ronflscntlon,
prnbahly will be taken by tho German pcoplo
as just another evidence that they wou tho
war.
Gone and Almost Forgotten
Prnm the noftnn fllnbe.
Where's William .Jennings, Bryan this j
but breathless week? i
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Dai(y Tallcs With Thinking Philadclphians on Subjects They
Know Best
WITIYIER STONE
'On Protection for Bird Life
A PLEA against the wnutou and care
" less killing of birds is made by Witmer
Stone, executive curator of tho Academy
of Natural Sciences, president of the Audu
bon Society and prominent ornithologist.
Such wasteful slaughter, says Dr. Stono,
would eventually exterminate vome of our
finest birds nnd work havoc with many
things thnt they now protect.
"Every one today," said Dr. Stone, "is
interested directly or indirectly in the con
servation of wild life. We have laws pro
tecting insectivorous birds nnd more re
cently all birds thnt arc uot Injurious but
which add to tho beauty of nature and the
enjoyment of'the great 'outdoors.'
"We hnve national, stnte and private
bird und game refuges where birds and
animals may breed or rest free from nil
persecution, nnd wo have nntionnl parks
where the forests and natural conditions are
preserved for posterity. Wo have hnd to
fight all sorts of hostile interests to accom
plish these ends nud eternal vigilance is
neeeded to keep them from stepping in and
upsetting whnt has been done.
Fought by Millinery Trade
"The millinery trade has opposed every
effoit to prevent the use of wild bird plu
mage for ornamentation, lumber companies
have made every effort to secure timber
privileges in forest reservations and wnter
compnnies to get control of wnter rights ns
witness the present nttempt to Invade tho
Yellowstone Park for private benefit.
"Recently another problem presented it
self. In our zeni to protect beneficial birds
or animals we have excluded certain
'nor ions' species from the benefit of the
laws.
"Certain hawks the sharp-shinned and
Cooper's have becu denied protection be
cause they feed on poultry and small in
sectivorous birds. Certain small animals
prairie dogs and gophers, etc., nre systemat
ically poisoned In the West on account of
the injury to crops. This Is nil right in
sections where nctunl damage is being done,
but there is a grave danger in the extension
of tliis principle. Many predacious birds
and animals do a vnst deal of good under
normal conditions in destroying mice and
noxious Insects, but" in the vlcluity of game
farms nnd poultry yards they are led into
bad habits by the food in the shape of
young grain nud poultry that is here offered
them.
"Kill those that are doing the damage,
by nil means, but why condemn the wholo
rnco, most of which nre doing us benefit.
"So, too, becouso he catches a few fish
the bald- eagle bus recently been denied pro
tection in most pnrts of our country, with
the result that thousands hnvo been killed
in Alnska alone and the nntionnl bird se
riously threatened with extinctlou.
Crow Is on the Fence
"The crow, which expert investlgntion
shows is at least 'on the fence' so far as
his economic value goes, destro.ing vast
numbers of hibernating insects nnd weed
seeds in winter as nn offset to his depredn
tlons to corn, etc., in spring, bus recently
been marked for cxterminntlon by nmmuiii
tiou manufacturers and crow shoots uie ad
vocated all over the country.
'With the extermination of the crow our
crops will be no better off thnn before, nnd
wo shall lose one of our most Interesting
wild birds, while the flight of crows to nnd
from their roosts, ono of tho most striking
fentures of our winter afternoons, will be n
thing of the pnst.
"One more exnmple tho draining of
marshes to destroy mosquitoes, This
is n praiseworthy thing if done intel
ligently, but we should be sure that wo
nie drnlnlng tho real breeding places of the
lui-ectH and we should consider the effect of
the work iu other forms of life. In some cases
marshes nro drained where no mosquitoes
breed und hoptoads nnd dragon flics are
exterminated, the latter of which (aud
probably the toad) is one nf the great
est natural enemies of tho mosquito.
Furthermore, millions of other Insects, acres
of cattails and marshmallows and many
other plants are exterminated. Who knows
what part they may be playing in limiting
the increase of other noxious organisms.
Experts Too Narrow
"Tho wholo thing narrows down to tho
fart that it is dangerous to upset the
balance of Nature. Wo nocd tho broadest
expert knowledge on tho relation of one
form of life to unother beforo w'e arp war
ranted In decreeing its extermination,
"Too often experts In only one line, who
aro sKewarlly narrows ipslut upon pressing
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their views nnd in government, state or
municipal work the policy which offers
plenty of employment, consciously or un
consciously, gains favor. If every one keeps
his eyes open nnd npplies or advocates the
extreme measure of extermination only
where absolutely necessary, and disturbs
the equilibrium which Nature has established
os little us possible, the better off we shall
be.
Sign of Progress
IYmti the .w York Herald.
The French Government has presented
nn army tank to Vassar College in recogni
tion of the "moral and physical contribu
tions made by Vnsnr graduates to the clause
of the Allies." The world has moved since
the early days of Vnssur, when n good many
persons considered higher education for girls
unbecoming and tiumnidcnly. No govern
ment would hnve thought hnif a centurv ngo
of giving an engine of war to u "female
academy."
Reflections of a Kaw Valley Philosopher
Trom the Knnsaa City Star.
The world never moved so fast before. Wo
have winter ice on the Fourth of Julv, spring
vegetables on Christmas; wc buy our 'straw
lints in February and our felt hats in Au
gust: we pot our Sunday paper on Snturdnv
night nnd our magazines n month nhead of
time. If we telephone n mnn In Snn Fran
cisco from New York ho hears our voice
nbout four hours before we speak, and If
somo ono in Japan sends us a cablegram
tomorrow we get it todav.
Effect of Habit on Some People
I'rom tlia I)-ii N
A West Dnllns widow savs thnt the oulv
reason whv she would ever take another hus
band Is because it Is so hard to stop marry
ing when once beguu.
What Do You Knoiv?
QUIZ
1. What sometimes causes the clocto-nl
ynte of n stnte to bo spilt In n presi
dential election? '
2. Whnt clinmplon-b"p hnH been flerldert bv
tho victory of th schooner Uspcrantb
over tho Dolnwnna?
3. Hnw should the surname of Samuel
Per.vs. tlm famous diarist, bo nro
nouneed? '
4. In what century did Pipys live?
b. Whnt wero tho "Contcmptltilos" In tlio
world war?
6. Senator Hnrdlnp Is paid to havo spent
Bnrt. ",' !1 '','?"' s"nl'iy l'i readlns
Suetonlu"? Wlo wus Suetinlus nnd
wlnt was the subject of his famous
book? '
7. Whnt Is tho capital of New Zinlnnd?
5. What Democratic candidate opposed tho
re-election it Abraham Lincoln In
IS til .'
9 Who wroto "Ood mnde him and there
fore let him pa..s f)r n man"?
10 Whnt Is tho origin of tho word
Dunkum?
Answers to Yesterday's Qui
1. In i;.iropo ortolans are small birds, gar
den bunting! e'teetned n table delica
cies In America th nnmo is jjiven to
bobllnks (red birds) and Rorn rails
Nolhcr of these hns tho slightest rela
tion to true ortol-xrs but both are small
blrcs much sougrht after by epicures.
i, Thi rlKht nf primogeniture Is the rlcht
-f succession to the first born csne
clnllv tho feudnl rulo by which the
whole ostato of tho lntcstnti) pnssoH to
tho eldest son.
3. Kurmn Is a PJuddhKIc doctrine. The sum
of a person's actions in ono of the suc
cebHlvo stnten of his existence Is vlevod
ns deciding his fnto In the next Tho
word Is also used In the yense of des
tiny. , Th longer.t perl.irt dttrlnjr whkh the
Hepubllcnn party whs In power wn.s
twenty four years (11m isri to lsvi
j. Tho longest perl.'d In which the D mo.
cratlc party wun ever in power wan
forty vrar-- from lsoi to isu
C. Charles D'ckens wroto "Tho Uncommer
ctnl Traveler."
7. The exeat painter Velasquez was a nntlvo
of Hevillo, .Spain. nne
s, The venr nf th,i "(rlorlous Revolution"
In Rnrlnnd was 16SR Tho result was
tho o 01 throw of th Stuart dynasty
and the nccawlcn of William and Mary
In IBS!). '
9. Fredirl" Cuvler" was a celebrated French
nnturiillst and fr.nnder of tho eclonco of
coim nnitive anatomy. His dates aro
10. Romalo ia tho vernacular In modern
Greece, It Is derived from ancient
1 f,.reeJt JIl,yect .t0 many influences,
1 glavlo, Italian; etc, ,
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Wo told you ho!
Brindcll
lasted.
had a bully timo while II
The trees continue to cast their ballot
for winter.
Esperanto, like a ballet dancer, talked
wit!) her le;s.
The fool killer continues to consider tB4
hunicr fair game.
Yesterday demonstrated how quietly bijf
issues may be decided.
And the rnin turned the landslide into
mud for the Democrats.
Straw votes look Insignificant now that
the hay crop has been gathered in.
Mr. Bryan, incidentally, exorcised hlfl
undoubted right to '.ote a secret ballot
Wc havo it on good authority that ad
election was held jctteiday.
Perhaps voters will now hnvo tho time
to read the covenant of the Lemjuc of Na
tions. Not even nn election could keep tho
nuto accident off the first page of tho news
papers. A Chicago mnn who is sufficiently bald
may luugh at the barbers who charge $1 for
n haircut.
Scnntor Harding went golfing yester
da.i. but lie would be n mean man who would
nsl; his cnrc.
We gnther from the remarks of Attor
ney General Schaffer thnt tho Brooks law
supersedes the Volstead act.
Here and there while the local omelet
was being mndo n Democratic chicken poked
its bend out of its shell and cried "Peep I"
The closing of the saloons yesterday
prevented several busy voters from becom
ing half of 1 per cent drunk nud disor
derly. Yesterday's experience may1 cause
county commissioners to use whisky barrels
Instead of garbugc cans for ballot-boxes in
tin; future.
Ono cannot but feel thnt the campaign
had litt'e to do with the result of the elec
tion : that the election was decided beforo the
campaign bgnu.
Perhaps there was. as has been alleged,
little Interest In the election, but what about
the damp enthusiasts who watched the bul
letin boards Iu the rain last night?
''Exnmple is bettor than precept, " said
Senator Penrose ns he voted a straight Rn
puMicnn ticket. But he was not voting In
the Gallagher -Pommer district at that.
It wns simply nn easy" transposition tho
peoplo made. In the morning their slogan
was "Elect Harding President," and In tho
evening it was President-elect Harding,
The nttitmlc of mind of tlio mnjority of
Americans today is thnt they should neither
ciow nor blow over the result of the oleo
tlm but they're kind of glad things turned
out the way they did.
Herbert Hoover says 3.500,000 children
in Europe will die of stavvaMon uu'ess
Ameiica comes to their rescue. Hoover Is so
iMirio'irly constituted thnt ho thinka this
initlcr more Important than politics.
Negro women hnve been refused a voto
In Georria because tho state law requires
icgistrntion six months before election. Tho
nnson ic n perfectly valid one but ono
minders what the exi uso will be next time.
The Short Cutter walked on his heeh
jeiterdtiy with pride in his port, for he
sported a lliwep thut a nite old lady gave
him for standing nsldo no thut she' might
cast the fii.U ballot nf tho da in their pre
cinct. A New Yorker with 11 sense of humor
threw nn ironworker into tho North river
niul lutcr comnlnlned thnt Home people can't
take n inke. Rut tho comedian wns mistaken.
The police can nnd do. Ho was tho Joke
the took.
We venture tho guess thnt the fishlnf
host cup rnc will grow in Importance with
each succeeding year, nnd thnt it will tako
tho place of tho International yncht race,
which became uninteresting Jis-tbe rules b
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