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Wlea De tnt vt for republication tit nil nw
ateh credited: fe It or net eHicrul crtditrd
tni paper, and alto tht local newt vuV.lthed
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taper, anil also the local newt publljhca
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I .i nvniv e rrpiieficai
IKretn are alie reerveit.
PhlUdtlphU, FrWtr. NeTtmbr 5. 1920
. A recn-YK,tt rnnenM for
riULADIXriUA
llilnr en which the people rxpret the new
aamlnlstrntren te concrntriite II attention!
'Tht 'Delaware river bridge.
arvdeck bio enough te accommodate the
larpett ahlps.
Dtvttevment of tht rasid (ramie tvttem.
A convention hall.
4Jn'ildJnP. ler the rree Library.
Art Museum.
Knjareement of thn tcater kuwW.
Jtemet te accommedato the population.
NO TIME FOR VARE HARMONY
rIS net surprising tlmt Chairman Wiit Wiit
Ben, head of the Vnre-contrelled Ue
jmbllcan city eeramlttcc, is new nppcnllns
tot harmony. "When the majority of the
Vre candidate for City Council falls ll.'OOO
fehlnd the united Republtenn vote for presl
kntlal electors In the First district, the
leaders who are losing their influence would
miss a trick If they did net c.ty, "Let by
gones be bygones, and let us work together
la the future."
Bat the opposition U net disheartened.
An" one of ita leaders says, the fight has jmt
vbsun. The plurality of the late Mr. Finley
in the district last year was almost ai great
aa the total vote for Peraincr last Tuesday.
The opposition vote was increased from 0000
last year te 17.S0O this week.
This is no time te talk harmony, whieh
would mean compromise of principle or sac
rifice of the ideals upon which the people
elected Mayer Moere. These Involve the
elimination root, branch and stock of con
tractor ivevcrnment: or, in ether words,
,Varclsm in all its forms.
The Mayer knows what the Vare kind of
harmony means nnd he has bet his face
against it. He is likely te be backed in hU
opposition by every geed citizen who knows
what the harmony talkers are trying te put
erar.
WHAT THE CITY DID
FA city se overwhelmingly Itcpublican
as Philadelphia the chances of surprise
In a national election nre net numerous.
Nevertheless, nu examination qf the returns
reveals conditions with which some account
will have te be talsen, especially In local
contests.
In such elections, in which factional peli
tics plays se lively a part, a few thousand
votes ene way or the ether are often suffi
derlt te determine the result. This was true
when Blankcnburg wen the mayoralty, nnd
la the cat.e also of Mr. Moere.
It is interesting, for instance, te consider
the seme 17,000 ballets east for the Socially
party. The number represented a mere than
fourfold gain in four years. In 1!)1C the
Socialists polled some 4000 votes, less thau
half of the number given here this time te
lira. Marlen for United States senator.
Net even Mr. Ilarding's enormous total
represents se large a proportionate increase
la Republican strength as de the Debs fig
ures ns an index of Socialist growth. In
1016 Hughes received 104.1 .' votes in Phila
delphia, and this year Harding wen 307. lit J.
The Democratic vote, with the women en
ifranchlsed, was smaller than that bestowed
lea Wilsen. The 1010 total was 00,SOO; the
920 sum was S0.333. But if the Democracy
fI-weak here, perhaps hopelessly se, it is
' plain from the Debs vote and the 12,000
ballets for Leah Cobbs Marien that the
miner parties are showing signs of life
Which may exercise a considerable bearing
a future political situations.
Times have been when local parties would
have welcomed 20,000 votes with rapture,
aad there is no telling when surh crises may
recur.
5VSMENT RESPONSIBILITY
rfrySiC revision upward is iuewtubly un un-
popular procedure with tlie-e jiervnis en
whose purses increased demands uiv mude.
The beard especially erganUed te hear cmu
plaints naturally expected tliat pietet
against the new assessments of Philadelphia
real estate would b numerous. Hut the
crowds of property owners who have lately
reiccd their grievances In the City Hall de
net ns a whole deserve merely te he treated
as symbols of a universal trait in human
juturc.
The problems arising from the assessment
urvcy nre by no means simple, and there
are Indications that certain factors warrant
ing expert consideration have been rather
flagrantly overlooked.
Most of the objectors te the 22 per cent
increase In official valuations are small house
owners. Properties sueh a theirs consti
tuted the hnppy hunting ground of profes
sional inflatienists and greedy speculators
bent en capitalizing te the full the housing
ahertage manifested in almost every Ameri
can city since the war.
The peak of values, generally insubstantial
and transitory, was attained lust spring.
Where, therefore, the assessors have bnsed
their figures solely upon the most recent cele
records, it is obvious that u large measure
of Injustice has been done.
The whele assessment undertaking is In
spired, at least In theory, in the attempt te
discriminate fairly in the Imposition of taxes
with a view te avoiding a general iucrease
in the tax rate. It Is no secret that the city
la seeking te adjust Its income te its ueees
nary expfnditures. Hepe has been enter
tained of a gain of SIPO.OOO.OOO in taxable
Talue.
It is net unreasonable te assume that new
aUseasmeuts te this amount can be made
Without resorting te recognition of artificial
r boom prices, laying particular and unde-
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;f ; The respensiuimies suureu uf ueiu Dig ana
! , ..vaTJHH ut'"11 crvBie n ticiuue circle, as ue
atlcuul wartime revenuq luirs.
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oppress the very sources' of taxation them
selves,
What Is needed In Philadelphia Is net se
much a change bf the reassessment principle
as that of the utmost care and fair play In
its application.
Surely the last class te suffer from per
nicious manipulation In real cstate values
should be the possessors of the modest dwell
ings which give te Philadelphia its distinctive
nnd honorable title.
PRETTY GOOD NEWS FROM
THE" ONCE SOLID SOUTH
National Advancement and Better Cit
izenship Oppose Sectional and Class
Interests Everywhere
rnilE rigid and unyielding line that divided
the solid Seuth from the North In nlmest
every natlenul election never was a reassur
ing thing te see en the political maps In the
cold gray dawn of the morning after. At a
casual glance It Implies only political dif
ferences. But all political differences rest
for the most part upon differences of aim,
differences of feeling and differences of eco
nomic philosophy.
If the southern states were te continue ns
n permanent Democratic Hec, with a deter
mination te withstand all influences that
make for change nnd the progressive revision
of political doctrine, political opinion would
naturally harden and settle In Immovable
forms elsewhere in the country. In the
course of time we should have a solid North
and the spectacle of n country pulling In
different directions with little hope of the
gradual readjustment and interchange of in
dependent forces that control the common
life in various parts of the country. The
trend would be te sectional rather than te
national consciousness.
Ter that reason, If for no ether. Repub
lican majorities In Oklahoma and Tennessee
nre geed omens. There are northern states
that appear te have inherited n Republican
stele of mind. But very few of them have
actually get out of the habit of independent
thought. Pennsylvania went te Roosevelt
in 1012. Other states that O. O. P. leaders
used te call rock-ribbed turned suddenly nnd
gave majorities te Mr. Wilsen.
It Is often said that the voting Seuth was
solidly Democratic because the negre popu
lation, that is dominant In some areas, leans
consistently te the opposing party. That Is
In a sense true. Deeper than any question
of rare influence, however, Is that which
has been created in the Seuth by economic
need. The Seuth is still agricultural. It
favors tariff policies that would be destruc
tive te the industrial North. It has inherited
a dislike for the party that has always
fought for protective tariffs. We live at
present in a country that, because of factors
that rule life at its very source, can never
be mere than halt satisfied with either great
party. Yet, if we are te view the two great
parties as agencies established te keep each
ether in order by the force of conflict and
criticism, it must appear that an impregna
ble Democratic stronghold in the Seuth and
nn impregnable Republican stronghold in the
North would net represent a safe or healthy
development of political thinking in the
United States.
When any political party can be assured
of the unquestioning loyalty of great masses
and sections it will net greatly trouble te be
progressive and it need have little fear of
enlightened criticism. What is really needed
is a greater infiltration of Democratic phi
losophy in some sections of the North and
Knst and a greater infiltration of Republi
can philosophy in the Seuth. Better na
tional balance, a surer unity of national feel
ing nnd steadier nnd mere advanced political
criticism can be attained only by some such
means.
As the industrial advancement of the
Seuth continues there will he a further break
in the line that has marked it as an area
with a political consciousness peculiarly its'
own.
Sectionalism anywhere in the United States
indicates merely that we are a nation still
without a perfected philosophy of domestic
government and one that is still suffering
some of the pangs of growth. It is net
peculiar te the southern states. There is
economic sectionalism in the North and there
is in New England the sectionalism of tra
dition. All this sort of thing runs counter at bot
tom te whatever is fundamentally American,
and it will Inevitably hinder national prog
ress toward a true democratic Ideal. There
is consolation in the knowledge that sec
tionalism never did nnd never will perma
nently survive and that in some of its mere
regrettable manifestations it is but a thing
of the moment.
Mr. Gompers, for example, tried te mo me mo
bilize and segregate the labor vote for Mr.
Cox. He did net succeed any better than
ether labor leaders have succeeded In the
past. Laber in the United States is net
confined at any angle by the bounds which
tradition has established in England te give
te the British Laber party in the final
analysis a motive and a cry peculiarly its
own. Everybody uerks in one way or wi
ther in the United States, nnd, what is
nere, lew even of the organized men seem
Illing te permit their own private concerns
ebscure whut they must recognize as a
larger duty te the country.
The labor vote was net delivered. If the
Plumb Plan League made any drive for
power at the polls It failed The railroad
centers should have delivered large majori
ties te Mr. Cox if the calculations of the
mere hendleng labor leaders did net mis
carry. The majorities in Buch Instances
went te the Republicans.
A great deal is being said of nn "alien
vote." Sqme observers insist that it was
thrown against Mr. Cox because of his ad
vocacy of n League of Nations supposed te
be devised for the advantage of .great rather
than of small nations. It is extremely
doubtful whether there was any considerable
alien vote. 'Die returns de net clearly re
veal it. There was dissatisfaction nnd irri
tation among nil classes of people who have
been enduring the mere or less natural con
sequences of the war, and it was expressed
in unexpectedly large majorities aimed at
the party In power.
A new sort of sectionalism has of late
been apparent in the Northwest, where the
Nonpartisan League established itself and
sought converts te the most anti -social sort
of socialism. Mere recently the Nonpartisan
League has, through necessity, been becom
ing mero conservative. It Is manifesting a
disposition te grant a right te live nnd work
te these whose minds de net run along with
the minds of its lenders. Victer Berger,
who ran as a German rather than us n
Socialist In Milwaukee, was defented. And
the Socialists who were elected te the Legis
lature in New Yerk profited for the most
part by the votes of peeple who were net
Socialists. The disposition of the New Yerk
Legislature te set up a political sectionalism
of its own by the forcible elimination of
theso who we're pet of Its own faith was re
sented by nenjfOJists, wne, wniie they
may iHslike a" V harbor an even greater
dtfULfiftr J rVf raXt3 ?t any ,rt.r4
EVEnq. .PUBLIC- LEDGERrI?mLADEL?Hl4L .FBTjDAY, 'NOVEMBER, 6,.
ippe80 any effort te draw new lines
division between American citizens.
of
Sectional Interests will never be wholly
absent In nny great election, but it Is doubt
ful whether theso who try te create sec
tional or class feeling upon artificial or
Imagined grounds will ever meet with any
thing but failure. The country could net
leek with complacency upon solid groups of
bankers or doctors or lawyers marching te
the polls with nn avowed determination te
vete in their own interest rather than In the
Interest of the whele people, and te glve
banking or law or medicine advantages net
permissible te ether professions or sciences.
There would be something In the spcctacle
te irritate every man whose common sense
tells him that nny one who profits unduly
at the expense of the public Is bound te get
Inte trouble nnd te leso in the end.
There Is nt the back of nlmest every
American mind the feeling that ns the coun
try advances the individual will ndvance;
that ns It prospers he will prosper; that ns
its citizens understand each ether and unify
their alms life will be easier nnd happier for
everybody. That is why sectional lines are
breaking down and why exclusive group
nnd class interests are net supported nt the
polls even by theso who have been led te
believe that they might serve their own in
terests by offering such support.
Leaders may tell them one thing.
Instinct and reason, far surer guides, tell
them another.
BRYAN, HOUSE AND TAFT AGREE
Tyj-R. BRYAN evidently fitf In the result
' of the election some justification for his
opposition te the President's plan for a sol
emn referendum set forth at the Jacksen
Day dinner in Washington last winter.
Mr. Bryan opposed the referendum then
and insisted that there should be ngrccment
en the trcnty and the league covenant. The
course of Mr. Wilsen made such agreement
impossible. Mr. Bryan new says, as he said
earlier, that the American people lire in
favor of entering a world association te dis
courage war, and he remarks that "Governer
Cox, instead of repairing the Injury done by
the President, aggravated the situation by
the manner in which he avoided domestic
issues and misrepresented the position of the
Republican party en the league Issue, which
he declared te be paramount."
In view of the known sentiment of the
country, Mr. Bryan apparently thinks that
the se-called solemn referendum was neither
a referendum nor was It solemn. It wn?
farce comedy staged by the candidate In the
hope that it would win him a few votes.
Colonel E. M. Heuse apparently agrees
with Mr. Bryan. In his illuminating dis
cussion of the result, written for the Puuuc
Lnnann yesterday, he calls attention te the
assertion of mere than half of the Repub
lican leaders during the campaign that the
League of Nations "would be safer in the
keeping of the Republican party than in that
of the Democratic party," and he adds that,
while no one knows hew many votes were
influenced by these statements, they were
sufficient te make it impossible new "te
claim that the result of the election was a
vote against the League of Nations."
All the evidence supports this conclusion.
Sir. Taft, who is a Republican nnd a be
liever in the league, U assuming, en the
strength of the premises of Senater Harding,
that nn immediate attempt will be made te
frame such modifications In the covenant as
will satisfy the sentiment of 'the people, a
sentiment as well known Inst winter ns It is
known today. These modifications, he
thinks, arc likely te include the elimination
of Article X, the strengthening of the reser
vations in favor of the Menree Doctrine,
arrangements for judges rather than poli
ticians and diplomatists en the league courts
and the correction of some defects in the
labor chapter.
But these will be modifications of an ex
isting cevepnut te which twoscerc nations
have already subscribed, aud they will be
primarily a statement of the conditions under
which the United States will co-operate with
the ether nations.
Mr. Taft undoubtedly expresses the an
ticipations of the great mass of the people.
What he has said does net differ in sub
stance from what has been said by Senater
Harding, by Elihu Reet, by Judge Hughes
and by Mr. Hoever, net te include Senater
Ledge and Senater Brandcgee and many
ether senators.
With n Republican raajorityef twenty in
the Senate and with hulf of the Democratic
senators favoring modifications in the cov
enant, it ought net te be difficult after
March -1 te ceme te a quick agreement nnd
bring an end te the suspense.
FOR THE GIRL SCOUTS
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T IS seldom that nny organization is pesi-
vely embarrassed by ltB popularity. That
such a society is well worth extricating from
its predicament must be generally admitted.
If there were no ether reason for supporting
the Girl Scout campaign, this unusual In
centive should suffice.
There nre, of course, many ether solid
arguments which need net be reiterated,
livery one knows thnt the Girl Scout ideals
are high, practical and constructive. Ameri
can womanhood is going te ewe a great deal
te sueh principles, just ns the debt te the
l!ey Scouts will be stimulatingly large.
But what should be emphasized at this
time is the fact that -1000 girls n month nre
rtfused admittance into bceutship for the
vciatleus reason that funds nre lacking.
This means a deficiency of organizing assets
and trained leaders necessary te carry en the
work.
Te repair this singular situation, a cam
paign for general expansion is te be stnrted
en November 7, designated Girl Scout Sun
day. The sum te be raised during the next
ten days Is $1,0.13,400, representing the
actual immediate needs of the organization.
The nppeal te the public is for 1,033,100
sustaining members, qualified as such by the
payment of $1 per year.
The demand is net exorbitant. The cause
is unlmpeachably worthy. Philadelphia's
quota Is $27,000. It should be the reverse of
painful for this community te sear ever the
top with celerity.
BAD STAGE MANAGEMENT
PRESIDENTS are inaugurated amid the
winds nnd rains of March. National
elections occur in a month famous for pneu
monia. The festal air with which meny
European peoples surround themselves when
great affairs arc being dealt with is almost
unknown in the United States.
Yet there Is mere thrtn psychological jus
tification for criticism aimed nt the rule
which calls voters out te the polls In au
tumn rather thrtn In spring or early slim
mer. An election ought te be cheerful.
And besides, It ought te be held In weather
that doesn't cause voters te stick tee closely
Indoors. One might Imagine even a national
olpctien held en the Fourth of July. Ameri
cans are always alert en that day te the
real meaning of Americanism, And it Is
net tee much te suppose that they might be
i te suppose mat tney migut be
arnest with their ballet!
a little neri
'rr w-- ft
AS ONE WOMAN SEES IT
Debta That Women Owed Miss Mary
Celes May Be Paid te Others,
Which Is Something That
Would Have Pleated Her
By SARAH D. LOWRIB .
TTTTIEN a wetnnn Hke Miss Mary Celes
VV closes her account with the great bank
of the world and theso who ewe her long
standing debts go te her funeral reflecting
rather remorsefully thnt what they ewe can'
never be paid te her In person cither by word
or deed, a geed many of us have te come
squarely up against the fact thnt these we
ewo the most te seldom de get paid In
person.
When we "come te ourselves" we make
up for lest opportunity ns best we can by
paying some one else.
Which, after nil, could they but knew It,
would please the big, generous souls better
than any canceled I. O. (J. placed te their
private account could possibly please, them.
Passing en a favor Is probably the only
sure way of squaring our accounts with life.
A whele generation of women, perhaps, two
generations of women from fifty years old te
twenty-five, ewo a debt te Miss Mary Celes
that can only be paid by seme such vicarious
giving.
TTIOB, twenty-five years she had a very
X great influence en n certain type of
young girl nnd young married women of this
city. It was net because she was particu
larly modern or flexible or even tactful In
her stand with them. She was monumental
physically and spiritually. There was mere
of "In Memoriam" in her outlook than of
prophecy. She steed for principles rather
than Ideas nnd for a way of life that fitted
a creed rather than a creed that fitted a way
of life.
She was direct and rather unswerving in
her judgments of persons nnd of their acts,
which yet made her neither harsh nor un
just. She was Just simple the way of a
child is simple because his mind Is untram
mcled by doubts or by conflicting points of
view. A thing was cither right or wrong,
te be done or te be quietly set aside.
Youth con understand the logic back of
this directness and does net Tescnt It. Eer
that reason Miss Celes could fill her big
drawing rooms with young girls nnd young
married women and yeung-in-miud elder
women every week nnd sometimes nn evening
n week besides ; she could get them there and
keep them there early In the morning after
n late dance; she could make them listen
te what?
The Bible! She could make them work
nnd give for what? Foreign missions!
She could organize them e identify them
selveswith what? The Churchl
And she did this for mere than twenty
five years! The gayest, most sought after,
most carefree girls of the city went te her
for instructions nnd for counsel about the
things enrefree, Idle girls nre supposed te
find least attractive nnd te neglect.
InAVE always thought the secret of her
power was the surencss nnd calmness
of her own convictions and the vitality of
her Interest In the persons she touched. She
considered them and thought all around
them very much ns an nrtist thinks around
his subject or a doctor thinks around his
patient. She diagnosed them and was con
vinced they would respond te treatment
her large, calm treatment. And they gen
erally did.
I venture te say that there ere some hun
dreds of women in this town today who,
when they think of religious energy adjusted
te a life, think of Miss Mary Celes. And
her personality will define religious energy
te them for all their thinking years. Which
is no small part te play In the lives of even
a score of women, let alone some hundred or
se!
IN A VERY fine, high sense she practiced
what she insisted upon as essential, never
mere se than when she was b'iml and deaf
and nearly n cripple from rheumatism. She
did net "go back en her religion" when
little by little the doers of life shut in her
face; she did net cense te tal;e a personal
energetic interest in individuals, although
she could no longer see them and their voices
reached her faintly and with great effort en
her part; she never lest her pense of
responsibility as a factor in the life about
her. Old as she was, she did net scrap her
self or lay herself aside. But she waited
with e singular dignity and composure for
the "lead for her exit" te be given her by
the One whose business only it is te give
that lead.
A LITTLE ever n year age I went te her
by appointment te consult her about
something we were both Interested in n pro pre
posed club for undergraduate nurses nnd
she said te me, apropos of her physical de
pendence en ethers, that she wondered what
she was meant te learn by the discipline. I
suggested thnt the rest of us were learning
n great deal from her patience and serenity,
nnd perhaps that was it. I thought at the
time bhe had never taught n lessen at se
great cost te herself as she was teaching
then or get it across se successfully.
We nil admire gallantry uudcr fire. I
doubt if any of her physical handicaps really
shook her as the coming en of the war nnd
all the chaos and revolution that has suc
ceeded the se-called peace. Se many of the
things thnt she had supposed were moving
steadily en toward the millennium have been
scrapped or are ignored by the generation
she had 'counted upon te put the finishing
touches te what her generation began, that
I doubt if the physical world seemed ns
strange te her darkened eyes as the spiritual
worm nau uegun te appear te ner soul; yet
she was gallant through that pain ns well as
through the ether. She laughed heartily
when I told her she reminded me of a woman
who described herself ns "having faith, with
uneasiness." She frankly confessed te having
the feeling that things were drifting onto
the rocks, although she knew in her soul
that could net be.
THAT temptation te fall out of step wit!
the march of Time which comes te the
physically disabled or the mentally fntigued
or the spiritually disappointed was con
quered by her at what cost it would be hard
te gauge.
I was listening today te Dr. Madisen
Tayler, who is completing his great book en
longevity, nnd he was charming enough te be
both ninuslng and clever about it te it group
of us. He confessed that his own favorite
nppreach te the general subject was through
the chapter entitled: "Handsomeness as n
Werthy Enterprise for the Matifte Adult,"
which we all agreed had much sound philos
ophy In it which would, no doubt, turn into
a natural law under his whimsical though
keen observation.
Of course, Osier's accredited theory of
retirement nt sixty came in for n short com
ment from one of the group, nnd Dr. Tayler
averred that Dr. Osier's being funny with
out being understood then was still having
disastrous censcqucncees. Only lately a
ruling from Washington In the Postefllco
Department threatened te shelve the mall
sorters ever sixty. New it tnkp seme six
years te be n geed mail sorter thnt in nn
automatic one and, until ene is blind or
maimed, ene can continue te be nn expert,
once the art Is ncqulred. At the worst ma
turing years between the sixties nnd the
seventies may take a little courage for new
ventures out of one, may slightly decrease
the Initiative, but If you have learned your
art you de net need initiative; if you are
successful you de net need extra courage, se
why be set aside for the lack of either
or of both 1
Such, at all events, was the argument of
the authority en longevity.
His coming book should be n "best seller."
Whatever else we face In the coming years,
all of us save the chosen few loved by the
gods face old age.
May we meet It gallantly ns did Miss Celes
nnd gnyly nnd with flags flying as Dr. Mad Mad
ieon Tayler insists we can.
An Ozark Attack en Rascally Profiteers
Frem the Conway New.
The man who peddles "boese" is se low
r - 'w. KAfilA.ef mtnurtahlllfv. l.i. W.
A"fr ,'-',' e sealo.ef respectability that tial
tadr"w r VgihU SrW& '
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NOW MY IDEA IS THIS !
Daily Talks With Thinking Philadelphians en Subjects They
Kneiv Best
SIMON GRATZ
On the New Tax Assessments
TVTAUKET vnlues of real estate, which have
''-' increased greatly in most sections of
the city in the last year, furnished the meas
uring red for 1021 assessments, according te
Simen Grntz, president of the Beard of Re
vision of Taxes.
Substantial increases in renl estate valua
tions are shown In the returns of the real
estate assessors, most of them en two nnd
three story dwellings, which hnvc been sold
nnd resold nt high prices since the begin
ning of 1020.
Office buildings, where ren'nls have been
boosted te unpreccdentcdly high figures, also
share in the assessment increases.
"It is true that property owners are pro
testing against the increased taxable valua
tions put upon their property," said Mr.
Gratz, "but the pretests are net out of pro
portion te these of ether years considering
the tens of thousands of dwellings and busi
ness places whose values have been raised by
the assessors.
"Real estate values are constantly fluc
tuating, but wherever they could the nsscss nsscss
ers made the last known market values the
basis of their estimates.
Many Properties Sold
"Se many properties have changed hands
within the last year that it is net difficult te
ascertain the market value. Naturally, If
a heuse In a row of similar houses sold for
$,'000, it was logical that the ether beuses
were worth 5000, and the assessors went
en that basis.
"Where no recent sale had occurred, the
assessor used his own judgment as te what
Where Rehan Played
THE big steam bhevel gouged a mighty
hole
In the faded wall, nnd in one huge bite
Ripped paper, bricks and plaster from their
place
And swung them ever te the waiting car.
The old man en the sidewalk winced. He
looked nt me
And shook his head nnd gray te silver curls ;
Reproach was In his eyes and sorrow keen
Broke the deep voice that many years had
cracked.
"That was the room where in the ether days
I saw her Rehan In her golden prime,
I brought her flowers and I kissed her hand,
And told her hew we loved her and her work.
She spoke te me!
Net nil the music drawn
Frem Krclsler's bow or from Caruso's threat,
Or any Instrument thut men or women play
Can thrill my soul as Just one spoken word
That fell from Rchnn's lips.
The flowers I brought,
That were se lovely, fresh nnd wondrous
sweet,
Died en their stems or se it seemed te me
Comparing them with her mero perfect
charms.
The joy of her ! The rippling, laughing words
That leapt in sunny sparkling cascades flung
Frem heights of happiness where her soul
lived!
And'new!" He waved bis trembling bnnd
te where
The picks were digging in the beards that
once
Were Daly's stage. The monstrous shovel
gulped
Anether lead Inte Its mew and still
The old man watched under the binding spell
Of his own past watching the ghost of his
Own youth in that old place where Rehan
played,
Harry Varlcy, In the Sun Dial.
On Early Rising
from the (feattle Peit-Intelllicencer.
It will be recalled that the poet, Jehn O,
Haxe, rather neatly culls the turn en a man
who wrete much concerning the beauties. of
early rising. The poet informs us that the
reusen he wrote se well was because he wrete
In bed at 10 u. in. Alse It will be remein
bcredithat Themas A. Edisen let it be known
that he get along comfortably en four hours'
letD in the twentr-feur. but when he vis
ited Seattle a few yearsage It. was observed
and .recorded that -be took eight hours, of
atlas mtiAM,r -. t
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estimnte should be placed upon tbe prop
erty." Mayer Moere, at a conference several
months age with City Controller Hadlcy and
Mr. Grntz, Indicated his approval of in
creased valuations en real estate if they were
warranted, stating that he did net think the
tax rate should be raised, but that the city's
impaired finances might be met by higher
assessments.
Asked if the Increased assessments for
1021 were the result of the administration's
policy, Mr, Gratz replied :
"The assessors could net pesslblv have
foiled te note the rising market values of
properties. The increased assessment for
1021 hns net been forced beyond that war
ranted in p: rleus years. It is a known fact
that the assessors rarely if ever assess a
property at its full value.
"Eight or ten years age Market street
properties lying between the Delaware river
nud Seventh street were commanding low
prices. The assessment then wbr In rcsponse
te the selling vnluc. Today these properties
are selling at fancy figures and the assessed
values arc accordingly higher.
Other Values Down
"On the ether hand, properties in the old
residential section along Walnut, Locust,
Spruce nnd Pine streets, from Bread street
te the Schuylkill river, nre depreciating in
value, and naturally there cannot be in
creased nssessnicnt'hcre.
"Some of the large central department
stores and buildings also have been taxed te
the limit of their assessment value, and
there will be no increase for them in 1021.
"On the whole, the assessors were careful
and thorough in their work. Their valua
tions In most Instances will be found war
ranted. The beard of revision will give due
consideration te nil appeals."
What De Yeu Knew?
QUIZ
1. 'What Is an enclave?
2. Who wns Sir Richard llurten?
3. What was the origin of the reyn! heuse
which formerly ruled In Brazil.'
4. With what attempted eutrage is Ne-
vember 5 associated?
6. What nation Is at present dominant In
Morocco ?
C. What will be the number of the new
Congress under the Republican admin
istration? 7. Hew many years mnke a chiliad?
8. What Is the meaning of the word pld-
Bin In the phraee pidgin English?
9. Undar what emperor did Chrlstlnnlty be
come the official religion of the Reman
empire?
10. What Is another nnme for the sensitive
plant?
Answers te Yesterday's Quiz
1. The I'rlmroje Lentjue wan an nssoclntlen
of Kngllshmen pledged te principle i of
conservatism n.s represented by Btnja
rnln Disraeli. The name originated In
the belief thnt the rrlmro.se was DIs-rasll-H
favorite flower, stiengthened by
the story of the placing of the prlmrose
by Queen Victeria en the great states
men's bier. The tilbule was nctompo nctempo nctompe
riled by n. card with the Inscription, "ills
favorlte flower." The allusion, however
was te tne Prince. Consert's tnste in
flowers.
i. Aneroid, the word appllud te barometers,
la (rem the a welt "a-neres," net "vet.
0. The word ny means yes. The word ave
means evar, always. '
4. Ay should be pronounced as theuch It
were spelled "eve" Ave should he pro pre pro
neunced as though it wcre spelled "a"
sounded 'elUr of th0 WbM Is
0. The Mackenzie rlver ts nnmed after Sir
Alexander Mackenzie, who discovered
t in 1781). It rises in 'the nockynJJun neckynJJun
tains tjnd flews through Canada In a
pencral northerly direction, emptying
Inte the Arctic ocean. h
6. A carcacal In a kind of lynx
7. The word decellete or decelletee should
"daniN"3" Bh " Wer Bpe"
5. It literally men ns "dc-cellnred" ; hence
a circus without a cellnr. ".,
0. In English fcudil law eschent was the
epsin J cf pieperty te the crown or t lie
lord of the manor en the owner's dying
without n wll nnd without helrS in
the United States, escheat Is lhiap."
ing of property te the stute by failure
of the persons legally entitled te held
I rfttf1? nal? V!, Wtt8 ,n English .cava-
aav eiMi
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SHORT CUTS
Sugar Is uncontrolled; let joy be uncem
fined.
The nation shouted and the echoes still
resound. '
Youth and cosmetics are uncanny run
ning mates.
We await a motion for the Seuth te
meke it unanimous.
Whnt seme public men need Is en editor
with n blue pencil,
j
The fates looked after Pemmer by elect
ing him in Apple Week.
The country just new Is check-full of
amateur cabinet makers.
The heart that Bryan buried In the
grave still knewcth bitterness.
"Wilsen's Cabinet Dozed." Headline.
Condition evidently unchanged.
It would appear that Mr. Gompers
wasn't able te deliver the goods.
There are times when Bryan would
rather be truthful than diplomatic.
The I-told-you-se orator will new pro
ceed te spend his breath en the football field,
i
New that the election Is ever, Senater
Harding continues te win friends among the
Dcmecruts because of his modesty and geed
tnste.
Extravagance, is the indulgence by ethers
in luxuries for which we have no particular
fondness.
Governer Smith, of New Yerk, was the
one Democratic figure that loomed large de
spite defeat.
A man has learned wisdom when he at
last realizes he isn't as important te ethers
as he is te himself.
Listeners may net hear nny geed of
themselves, but they're net giving themselves
tfway while they listen,
i
It isn't youth, but the pharmacist, that
nowadays recognizes rosy checks and a white
nose as proprietary articles.
We may, if we will, still dominate th
world, says Colonel Heuse. And there is
no reason in the world why such great ex
pectations should net be realized.
It Is very evidently the opinion of Mr.
Teft that theso who sen In the election re
sults a slap at the League of Nations nre
suffering from meutnl nstlgmatisin.
Thnt young man of Norrlstewn who
traveled from Australia te vete nnd Is new
going back again is ut ence an example and
a reproach te theso who foiled te register.
A local poultry expert, a night worker,
has been given two years In prison for an
nexing eighteen chickens. This Is his third
term, nnd once he was filled with blrdshet
by an angry farmer. But Art Is' exacting
and the artist must be prepared te pay its
penalties.
California by approving n law depriving
Japanese of the right te purchase or lease
laud in the stnte has stressed the truth of
Kipling's lines that "East is East and West
is West and never the twain shall meet":
but the deduction of the New Yerk World
that the state has thereby virtually voted In
favor of war with Japan is far-fetched.
We resurrect the story of the man who
ordered ham and eggs and then asked te
have the eggs eliminated, being regretfully
told that the eggs would haie te be fried
as they had done lest their eliminator, merely
te point out thnt something of the kind must
have happened In the Whlte Heuso when (he
covenant wns returned te have Artlcle X
eliminated ; but after March 4 tbe President
will be willing te use the Sennte eliminator.
Commonplace job that of a cop. Tak
the case of Michael Newell, patrolman. lis
snw a thug held up a citizen with a gua
fourteen Inches long. All the policeman hud
te de wa te rap tlyi bandit ou the knuckles
and mnke him drop the gun. Se he did It
and pinched the highwayman. And after
iv u uiruugu went an newcii nau te qw
was te aiieuu the hearing- and tnn I
home, flelghel Dea'J i some, people hart ;
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