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PUI.d.lphli. Fridij, Mettmber 13, 1910
A FOCIt-YnAK PROOItAM FOU
riiii.Mi;i.riiiA
"TFilncs" en which the people expect the new
administration te concentrate Its attention)
Tht iitluiear river bndee,
-a drvdeck bio tnoueh te accommodate Ins
larpitt ships.
Jrvclepmmt of -tht rapid transit tutttm,
A convention hjlf,
X bulWlnp ter tht Free Library.
An Art Hutcum.
Xnlarsemenl 0 the lcater tuppty.
lienet le accommodate the population.
SEEING PHILADELPHIA
JUDGE BROWN did net Issue n command
te the members of the City CeuuHl who
re te fellow him In n personally conducted
tour of the Municipal Court. Graciously
the judge put his summons in the form of
an invitation. Of course, most of the mem mem
bers'ef Council will turn up, if only for the
purpose of greeting the multitude of their
friends who nrc warmly placed in Judgi?
Brown's paradise for the politically Indigent.
.The court, which spends as If It were the
kipping beard, needs still mere appropria
tions, and Judge Ilrewn is getting ready te
ak for them. Se the tour of inpcctlen may
be viewed as n preliminary survey arranged
te let the members of the Council knew
what they can get for themselves in return
ter some additional gobs of the public money.
A VITAL NEED
TN HOLDING up attempts te prevent the
A condemnation of ground en Itace street
between Eighteenth and Nineteenth streets
Mayer Moero has helpfully contributed te
the convention hall project. Other sites
se -doubt would serve, but here certainly is
one sufficiently near the renter of town te
bt worth careful consideration. It is the
fashion occasionally te decry a city-owned
permnnent convention auditorium. We have
jogged along many years without one. Is it
really necessary?
Visitors te the physically comfortable, ad
mirably arranged Democratic convention in
the great hall in San Francisce have their
enthusiastic affirmative answer ready. It
is part of the firm convictions alee of nny
enlightened believer In civic progress. The
aoencr the convention hall program is ex
pedited the better will the metropolitan pre
tensions of Philadelphia be juhtilk-d.
JURYWOMEN, OF COURSE
FTIHEItn is no reaben te believe that women
will perform their duty as jurors any
less capably than they ciercised the fran
chise right. After an Inevitable season of
snore or less condescending jesting en the
abject, the public will adjust itself te the
ner order, and what was novel will take en
the aspect of authorized normality.
The innovation will seen be manifested.
Names for the first drawing from the jury
wheel in 1921 have already been listed. The
basis is the assessors' rolls, en which the
proportion of women te men is as two te
fire. Later en this ratio will be changed,
for many women net enrolled by the as
sessors under the exceptional rush condi
tions of last fall will have the opportunity
te pay poll taxes before the next election.
The exemption of women from serving in
court en cases of an embarrasetug or un
pleasant nature offers no prebum. The
application of a little discretion and common
sense is all that is needed. "Ladies and
Gentlemen of the Jury!" will seen arouse
no mere astonishment than many another
formal phrase of the courtroom.
DUELS, SMALL AND GREAT
FIlIS condemnation of dueling as "a
foolish practice" and his refusal te meet
hi challenger upon the se-called Held of
honor, Loen Daudet, one of the lending
trwerdsmen In France, cites the war as the
cause of his conversion. Te this prominent
Royalist deputy the idea of killing or the
attempt te kill is barbareuIy repugnant.
Ills position Implies n wholesome respect
for the law and the processes of the courts.
In France perhaps M. Daudet will iSt
accounted a stickler for principles. Tatnli
tlcs in French duels are rare Mark Twain
once whimsically declared that he had re
ceived the Legien of Hener ns the first per
non te be wounded in a Parisian sword bout
for years.
Nevertheless, the theory of dueling is
grounded in romantic medieval brutality.
Individuals prone te admit this de net,
however, always applj the same reasoning te
national conflicts. That M. Daudet has
closely Indicated th analogy Is net the least
Dignlflcant fenture of his stand.
ADRIATIC PEACE AT LAST
BY THE reported settlement of the long
standing Adriatic question Ituly seems
te have been the gainer. Zura Is te be hers,
the railway te Flume and the corridor
through which It runs. The city of Flume
itself Is te be erected into nn Independent
utate. Jtige-Slavia surrenders claim te cer
tain islands in the Adriatic, but gains some
compensation in the favorable rectification
of the Istrian frontier
Te these persons who are net Interested
Socialists In the subject, however, the
word "settlement" lends the most Mgiilfi Mgiilfi
cancete the negotiations The prime cause
of mere than it ear mid a half of obstruc
tion and delay has been the fear that high
lisndcd disposition of ti veed problem would
Implant iu Europe the seeds of a new war.
J was alarm ever such u prospect which
tiudeubtedly moved President Wilsen te deny
support te the Italian claims te Flume at
the Peace Conference. Later the Interna
tional perils of the case became extended,
and' Inst March the Amurlcau .State Depart-a-nt
outspokenly resented nttempts of
Italy. Great Urltaln and France te reject
A plan In which official American opinion
bad-been, represented.
jLt''that time the alternative suggestion
rande by the European powers was the rigid
enforcement of the secret treaty of Londen.
Mr. Wilsen emphasised the virtue In a third
course, "mutual agreement between the
Italian nnd Jtige-Slav Governments," with
out outside Interference.
It is precisely this policy which Is re
sponsible for the present tangible results.
Evidently restraint has been exercised by
both parties. Neither one acquires Flume.
A fcense of realities has developed faith in
compromise nnd adjustment. The pact of
Londen, while observed In most cases, has
been changed In some ethers, in accordance
with reasonable adjudication.
The remaining riddle is Gabrlele D'An D'An
nunzle. At present he commands an outlaw
state. When the little new nation Is offi
cially organized It will be Interesting te note
the effect upon a position thus far main
tained by armed force and enlivened by ro
mantic pronunciamentes and an exception
ally poetic constitution.
AN INSTITUTION TO DO
WHAT NO ONE ELSE DOES
The Bureau of Municipal Research Jus
tifies Its Existence by Its Achieve
ments for the Taxpayers
rpiIOUSANDS of citizens are doubtless
wondering what Is this Bureau of Mu
nicipal Research which is about te make a
survey of the Municipal Court, and why it
troubles itself with such matters.
With the knowledge they have they can
not understand Its latest activities, nor can
they appreciate the significance of the big
advertisements about it which have lately
been appearing in the newspapers.
In the first place, It should be said that
the bureau has no official standing. It Is
n voluntary organization of private citizens
maintained by private contributions. In
the second place, it should be said that it is
net n muck-raking society. '
It maintains a staff of technical experts
who establish working relations with the
different city departments. It gets nil the
facts about the duties and methods of these
departments, subject te confirmation by the
public official in charge. Then it makes a
constructive report, pointing out defects and
showing the way te remove them. It sedu
lously lef rains from offering any criticism
when It cannot suggest a suitable way for
curing the defects. When the head of the
department affected desires te make the
changes recommended It assists him.
On Its staff of experts are accountants,
engineers, technical investigators, lawyers,
social workers and statisticians. They in
terest themselves only in the business
methods of government. They have no po
litical ends te serve, nnd they have proved
se many times that they are impartial and
disinterested that they ure welcomed In nl nl
mest every department of the city govern
ment. The nrrangements made for their survey
of the Municipal Court, which Is just new
under fire, is n tribute te their demonstrated
fair-mindedness nud Impartiality. Ne one
who Is aware of what the bureau has done
in the past thinks for n moment that the
investigators are going Inte the Municipal
Court with the purpose of serving the ends
of anything but the truth. With their cus
tomary thoroughness they will study the
problem of the relation of n court of this
kind te the people who are brought befere
It nnd the success with which this court
fulfills its functions.
The survey will doubtless Include n study
of the laws creating the court, the propriety
of the control of all appointments by one
man nnd the bultabillt of continuing Its
independence of the City Council.
The report will be framed, net in n spirit
of hostility te nny one, but with the desire
te point out the way by which the people
can get the best bervlce from the court.
It will be such n survey as it made prier
te the reorganization of the Bureau of Com
pulsory Education, nnd it will resemble the
survey which was followed by the creation
of the Bureau of Weights and Measures.
The activities of the bureau are continu
ous, whether its experts are called in by the
city or net. Among the subjects en which
It has been gathering data for years are
municipal street cleaning, the budget sys
tem, the classification nnd standardization
of the salaries of civil cmplejcs, the correc
tion of the mandamus evil and the freeing of
the city from meddlesome interference by
the stnte Legislature.
When the city is rendy te move in these
matters the bureau lias the information nt
hand for its gilidnnce. There must be
changes both In the statutes and In the state
constitution befere the mandamus evil can
be wiped out entirely nnd before we can
have that measure of home rule which is
required if we are te be able te carry out
a consistent policy In the management of
our own affairs.
The classification of the civil bervlce em em
peoyes and the standardization of salaries has
made borne progress. A report en the sub
ject has been made te the Civil Service Com
mission by its own special investigators. The
bureau is committed te the adoption of such
a plan as that recommended by these Inves
tigators. It can back up the principle of
the recommendations with convincing data
that are new available te any public official
who wishes te bring nbeut the reform.
The experts of the bureau have been
studying the municipal budget problem for a
long time. It was with their assistance that
the original budget section In the charter
was drafted. The Legislature amended that
section in such a way ns te weaken it In
vital respects, because the politicians did
net wish te give up altogether the old prac
tices. The campaign Is still en and the
bureau is en the front line with Its ammu
nition dry and rcadj for use,
The bureau also hud n hand in the street
cleaning section of the charter. Its experts
discovered lung age thnt the Philadelphia
sjstem of cleaning the streets was bud, both
politically and financially. It attacked no
man or group of men. It has merely pointed
out the evils iu the old practice and indi
cated a better way. It will continue te
supply the responsible authorities with facts
net only until the contract sjstem is wholly
abandoned, but until under the new system
the streets thtniselves nre clean.
New it may be asked why private citizens
should butt in when officials hove been
flirted te de the work. The answer Is that
the bureau serves the same purpose for the
people of a city that an etpert accountant
serves for a private business man. The
expert accountant audits the books. The
bureau, acting in belinlf of the people, audits
in a bread sense the books of the public
officials in the interest of the whole city.
I'liiladelphla is net the only city In which
such an organization Is working. Public
spirited citizens have Joined themselves to
gether in a large number of ether commu
nities for the purM)se of doing a work which
otherwise would be left undone.
These organisatiens are Independent of
nil political control or bias and are In
terested solely In the conduct of public busi
ness iu the most efficient manner. They are
equipped with professional experts qualified
te decide where there Is efficiency as well as
EVENING PUBLIC LEDGERr-PHILAPELRTOAr EKqbft NOVEMBER, &?; 192ft
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where there is Inefficiency. Their recom
mendations are based en a study of the
facts ascertained at first hand and inter
preted in the light of bread knowledge. The
accuracy with which they work is well
illustrated by the fact that the local bureau
in the eleven years of its existence has never
been sued for libel.
Still further, the work of the bureau Is
continuous and Is net interrupted by a
change of administration in the City Hall.
When the study of a problem Is begun It is
continued until it Is finished. This may take
six months or six years. There are certain
sections of the new charter, inserted en the
recommendation of the bureau, which were
framed as the result of five years' study.
The Institution Justifies its exlstcnce both
by its purposes and by the efficient way In
which it carries out these purposes. Just
new, when the Council is al work en the
budget for next year preparatory te fixing
the tax rate, the bureau Is devoting special
attention te the Sinking Fund nnd is back
ing up the demand of the Council for exact
Information concerning the status of that
fund.
The statement has been made that the
sinking fund commissioners have in their
possession a surplus of $1,000,000 turned
ever te them out of previous tax levies, and
that this amount is in excess of the legiti
mate needs of the fund. Ne ene but the
commissioners knows the exact truth, and
they have net yet been persuaded te tell.
If se large a sum raised by previous tax
levies is in the hands of any city depart
ment, it ought te be turned ever te the city
treasurer te be applied te the payment of
current expenses. It would provide money
enough te keep the tax rate at its present
level and justify the Beard of Revision of
Taxes In cutting down the horizontal in in
crcase in assessments made this summer.
Then the small householders would have
brought home te them the value of the work
done in their behalf by the privately main
tained Bureau of Municipal Research.
JOURNEY'S END
"pOETS and n great many journalists are
and will continue te be profoundly moved
by the spcctocle that attended the burial of
an unknown British soldier In Westminster
Abbey yesterday and by the thought of all
France fallen quiet while nn unidentified
pellu was carried te a grave' made for him
under the Arc dc Triemphe. Toe much of
what they have been writing reveals a sort
of passionate admiration for what they
frankly regard as supreme magnanimity or
fine condescension en the part of govern
ments that permit such wide departure from
the rules of ancient precedent. And by this
you may knew that poetry and journalism
are net yet quite what they ought te be.
Why, after all, is there anything awe
inspiring in the thought of a martyred
Temmy In the Abbey or a pellu under the
Arc de Triemphe or a doughboy In a tomb
such ns ordinarily is reserved for the exalted
of the earth? Great poets are burled in
Westminster. They only wrote epics. The
soldier lived them. Kings are in the Abbey,
tee. They reigned. But they reigned only
because of the strength and the patience
and the generous faith of men like that ene
who new shares their resting place.
If Infinite knowledge wrung from the fires
of hard experience makes for greatness; if
service done in travail and long jeurneyings
amid nameless terrors are proof of valor,
then the soldier who wns burled in West
minster Abbey fairly deserved the honors
that were done him. Wisdom came te him
in strange ways, and it is net likely that he
would have experienced any new emotion by
the sights and sounds that filled Londen at
his homecoming. Flags blazed against the
sky. But they were net se beautiful as his
snerifice. There wcre tears everywhere.
This man, whoever he was, must have seen
eyes he loved blinded by them when he
went awny. Great guns rocked the forts at
Dever. This unnamed soldier walked Inte
fire such as theirs te find for ethers the
peace that he himself never was te knew
again. All the world that stayed snugly
at home and read the papers and danced nnd
made money and walked In spotless uni
forms honored Itself by honoring him, end
showed merely that Its soul Is a little nearer
te salvation because its heart has become a
little mere sensitive te the fundamental
truths of this life.
There has been a great denl of talk about
the White Man's Burden. The English nnd
the French have merely done full honors for
the first time te the man who actually bears
It. And It Is futile te draw lines of na
tionality or race between the groups of sol
diers who fought and died en the allied side
in the war against German aggression. They
were a nation in themselves, with a purpose
higher than any single nation ever had be
fore or since. They wcre the plain men of
all lands, the sinews of empire nnd the hope
of the world. They have ranged and ven
tured everywhere and they have endured
every sort of pain. They have made nnd
broken kings, they have built and tern
down, they have settled continents nnd
devastated them, they have mode great sac
rifices and they have been guilty of great
follies ever since the dawn of civilization
in their restless search for better things and
better ways of life. They are the elect
because, when they have gene farthest, they
have gene net in nnswer te commands or In
search for glory, but In response te a voice
that is within their hearts. They are the
force that was prophesied, and kings are
honored who share the tomb with one of
them.
Toe much publicity cannot be given te
the declaration of the executive secretary
of the California State Tuberculosis ASso ASse ASso
elatien that California is net n cure-all for
consumptives nnd that money spent en rail
SS5 Travel would bring health If spent en
treatment nt home. It Is a Point that has
frequently been made by high authority In
this city.
Knut Hamsun, the Norwegian author
who has received the Nebel prize for liters
tiire. was once the driver of a horse car In
Chicago. These were the days before the
sneed mania afflicted the populace and the
embryo author had time te dream as he drove
hi" hacks. What u lessen we have here, my
children I If this Knut had been a geed
driver! had loved his Jeb and had given it all
his best efforts, he might have been a motor meter
man today I
The Baltimore woman who declares her
husband is merely a boarder, paying no
mere than her ether boarders and being in
finitely mere objectionable, evidently has
never been impressed with the belief general
In Europe that the Great American Husband
mistakenly subordinates himself te his wife,
caring for her whims und permitting her te
neglect his comforts.
There are sick veterans who enn't get
medicine; veterans Incurably gassed lacking
ntteutlen ; wounded veterans shy of adequate
clothing; and bureaucratic red tape Is keep
Init them from what they need. Uncle Ssm
I nist pay bis debt te these who suffered for
him before distributing meager largesse te
ales' and well alike.
New that the New Yerk Call admits
that the "Russian experiment" Is a failure,
It may be that the parlor Bolshevists may
eventually see the light;
AS ONE WOMAN SEES IT
Outslde View of Philadelphia That It
Is a Gerles of Connected VII- -lages
Is 8emewhat Berne
Out by the Facta
By SARAH D. LOWRIE
A WOMAN who has been off doing war
f- work and then reconstruction wprk for
four years and has just returned assured me
that she found Philadelphia changed I
She said that she had met whole families
of us swarming en the coasts of New Eng
land in the lste summer just after she landed,
and the expression of our faces was different.
When I urged her te be mere explicit, she
said t
"Well, befere the war if you' had been met
in bunches nt a summer place your eyes
would have been indifferent, verging en te
hostile, as though you were murmuring at
sight of a stranger: 'What new enemy is
this?' " ,
"Wherens new?" I asked.
"Whereas new, you go out of your way
te talk te strangers, as though you had
much in common." ,
I asked her why she Judged us off our
own ground at Northeast Harber instead of
Chestnut Hill.
She said that she always felt humans
were at a disadvantage out of their environ
ment, and that only when a person was at a
disadvantage could one really get the essence
of him,
I REMEMBER an interesting outside
view of Philadelphia by a' man who had
every reason te knew It well, nnd who cer
tainly judged It very kindly. He said It was
a series of connected villages, each village
having had an original life of its own, and
naving kept certain et its qualities intact.
Se that West Philadelphia was net Seuth
Philadelphia, and North Philadelphia was
net Gcrmantewn, nnd Gcrmontewn was net
Chestnut Hill, neither wns Ovcrbroek the
West Park, or Manayuuk, Conshehocketi.
Bryn Mawr could never net like Swarth Swarth
mere, nor qeuld Darby feel like Jcnklntewn.
Each section of the town and each suburb
of the town kept the tang of its original
villnge, yet all of them had this in common,
that they were settled by persons who had
spread out from one main village en the
banks of the Delaware, the first village of
Philadelphia or, If they were n6t settled
from that main vlllnge altogether, seme
family of importance from that main village
had been a factor in the making et the out
lying village, se that there was a certain
family resemblance.
As for Instance, he went en te explain,
most of the villagers of the connected vil
lages that mnke up Philadelphia and its sub
urbs liked geed feed, and insisted upon the
best quality of feed ; they are very fend of
outdoor, open-air sports. The farmers have
hunted for generations, rowing and cricket
and tennis nnd golf nnd horse raring and
gardening, fl'-hing and sheeting, relay rac
ing, hockey, soccer ball, stock farms, deg
fanciers, cattle breeders, dairy termers in
fact, outdoor men of all types and outdoor
games of nil types come naturally te Pblla
dclphlans. There nre mere country clubs
and mere spaces for exercise In the open
near Philadelphia than nny ether city in
the world possesses. Its foreign populations
swarm In the narrow streets in intersecting
alleys ; the veritable Plilladclphlans make for
the country as early In the year as is pos
sible and stay as late as is possible. These
who can afford only ene house go te mere
ample streets in outlying sections.
AS A RESULT, the kindly critic went en
te explain, though the main villagers of
the first Philadelphia are scattered new from
Whltcmarsh te West Chester and from the
Main Line te Terresdnlc. they can always
be counted upon te rally back te the center
of things which is net far yet from Inde
pendence Square; te help or te enjoy any
thing that belongs te the life of the old
Philadelphia.
He insisted, by way of proving tills theory,
that the old village famines wcre still tlni
ones te take, the most Interest in the old
village; that you saw the same names en
(very charity and public undertaking from
i lie erchestru convince t" the new woman s
Republican committee, with only new and
then an outsider or newcomer. And he main
tained that the newcomer was generally
there because he had married into en eltl
village! family, or was by friendship cr by
business Intimately connected with one.
Well, it is a pleasant theory. Maybe it is
true I
SOMETHING happened last week in my
little neighborhood that seemed te carry
out the theery that it still has village in-
tit- inptti
'A woman who kept a little stationery shop
a bleA or se away died suiTdeuly of heme
disease the ether morning. Her first cus
iimier found her very 111 In her little room
back of tiie shop and summoned two of her
neighbors. Something like consternation has
been felt since then by us nil. )e de net
'.mew hew tc get along without Miss V,on V,en
ilcrly or without her hop. Her mother kept
It before her. and when she celebrated the
fiftieth anniversary of the little store nei
long age most of us cither wrote or stepped
in te congratulate l.er and ourselves. Bin
wns "Miss Bella" te seme of ub, and she
pawed her notes around for our enjoyment.
Geerge Pepper's, whom she called .Mr.
Geerge," was specially appreciated.
THE newspaperman and the dry cleaner
nnd the apothecary and the postman and
the umbrella merchant, the tebacccnist. the
comer grocer, the upholsterer nnd nil tha
rest of us who live up nnd down and across
nud back have met and shaken our heads.
Wp are pleased and excited. She had left
everything te the cripples' home because she
wen ilwajs Interested In shuL-liis and helped
us te be when we stepped In te get our desk
rnpplles. We nil feel sorry for thnt last
lonely suffering night she hed when she
wrote n little diary of he. sufferings te thnt
oil of us -night knew just hew she felt lurln?
the attack. We exchange theories as te
whether the fall down the stairs nt the
Pennsylvania Station the week before may
net have brought en the ncnte end.
We are all agreed that it is a mercy she
did net have te be laid aside or miss a slngU
dny behind her counter. We deplore nil her
bteek being sold, yet would resent a Btranger
New If that is net village Inntlnct te the
fore what 1? it Is the xme neighborhood
'nterett that Impelled mv oppenite might cr
n night or two age te call me up and te tell
mp that a lamp was turned up dangerously
high In the third-fleer front. He it was, and
I had been sitting under it when the phone
rnne. all unheeding my danger. In what
ether city of 1 .100 000 inhabitants would
nnv one bother te de that or knew the name
of her opposite neighbor?
TTTHEN I arrived home tee late te regis -YV
ter for voting en the regular days I was
helped by the whole nciehbirhoed'to find lb".
mftntbe son of the tlnBmlth who would
knew what I was te de. He did knew and
I did it and en the second day of October
found all obstacles smoothed for my regis
tration. We did net knew each ether, but
he bad known my father and I had known
his, se it was all right I
EACH winter there is a great coming and
going of snow carts at either end of this
block, nnd what leeks like two manholes are
used, down which snow Is shoveled by the
wagon lead, PaBsersby stare In amazement
nt the rniidlv disappearing snevelfuls Wi
the Inhabitants of these sheets tnat enee
was nn outlying village of the town, are nit
amazed. We knew that between the rows
of houses nnd built ever by street and trolley
track is the stream that encp meandered be
tween green banks down te the river. Tt
flews en unseen new, but 1( is there. It is
like our instinct for old ways, old ties. We
may be slew In acquiring new Ideas, but
. Ma nnf easily fercet -e'd -friends or break
old tits. r;rbp waVaxe iet,.a'vIJljttl' 1
NOW MY IDEA IS THIS!
Daily Talks With Thinking Philadelphia en Subjects They
Knew Best
GEORGE E. NITZSCHE
On Working Way Through College
TTE WORKED his way through the
XI University," is a slogan that nppllcs
te a large number of University of Pcnn
svlvania students each year, says Geerge
E. Nitzschc, recorder, who for twenty years
has given enceurngement, sympathy and as
sistance te ambitious undergraduates who
entered college en a shoestring, plus nerve
and resourcefulness.
"Bccnuse the University of Pennsylvania
Is part of the third largest city in the United
States and only seven minutes' ride from Its
business center, It offers unusual opportuni
ties for the student peer in purse," says
Recorder Nitzsche.
"Hundreds of young men new high in
business nnd professional circles worked
their way through ; hundreds of ethers con
tinue te de se.
tvuub .a iiiu ui'Bk-imyiUK uiiuk -uu
de?' Is a question I am often asked by the
student who must work. Newspaper cor
respondence, I can tell him, offers splendid
opportunities. There nre six dally news
papers In Philadelphia, each with corre
spondents covering University departments
for local news and another set collecting
sporting items en Franklin Field.
Newspaper Werk Profitable
"These University correspondents, as they
arc called, earn comfortable sums in n man
ner that offers slight, if any, conflict with
their studies. The limited number of these
newspaper opportunities is, heweveri a fac
tor te be reckoned with.
"One young man that I knew of worked
bts way through the Wharten Scheel and
the law school en newspaper work, helped
te support a widowed mother and bad $1200
saved te meet exigencies when he bung out
his hlngle in a law office this fall. I recall
several who earned as much as $3000 a jenr
without letting such outside work Interfere
with their studies, and that was years be
fore these high-price times.
"Quite a number of students, especially
these In the professional schools, act as
tutors In their leisure time, for which they
are well paid, and In addition become ac
quainted with well-known Philadelphia fam
ilies who are anxious te help them in ether
wnjs, often putting them In the way of
profitable openings after graduation.
"Acting as University agents for firms
that supply wearing apparel, selling books,
clerking in the afternoons and en Saturdays
in department .stores, nnd even writing motion-picture
scenarios and short stories for
inagnzlnes have supported students.
"Waiting en the table at fraternity and
bearding houses has helped ethers, giving
them their meals, hut tills work must usually
be supplemented by some ether means. A
student who later became track captain and
one of the most nctlve and popular members
of his class started In at the University by
serving meals te fraternity men. Tending
furnaces and carrying papers, although
sometimes given an exaggerated Importance
In fiction and magazine stories, are resorted
te by comparatively few undergraduates.
They don't pay enough.
Seme Cannet Stand Strain
"Of course, net all working students are
successful in keeping up with their studies
nud eventually graduating. Some lack the
phsslque. Some nre unable te adjust their
work te fit In with their studies, due. per
haps, te the nature of the work they cheese.
Others cheese a work which proves mere
alluring te them than studies and they re
nounce the classroom.
"It has been argued that only a low per
centage et working' students really get the
most out of their attendance nt the Univer
sity, lnusmuch as frequently, it Is said, they
have no time te make friends with the ether
studeuts, and they miss. the excitement of
playing or watching an intercollegiate sport,
arid are necessarily excluded from active
participation iu college activities, such as
publications, debating societies, theatricals,
etc. On the contrary, my observations have
been that the working student tastes college
life as fully as the average undergraduate.
Even If he mUses the opportunity of going
In for this or that campus activity, he has
gained that breudenlng, cye-enenlng contact
with the workaday world which his mere
prosperous, classmate has yet te experience.
Many Werk in Vacations
"Just as mere students are working in
school term, the number working out of term
la increaslug. Each SeDtember sees score.
1. It.l... I. .U l L f .l.lMM t
of- fellows, bronzed and fit, .fortified .with a
HweU'flHed. purse fretmsummtr 'employment
"LEMME DO IT FOR 7OU!" i Viir?"
back en the campus ready for the new school
year. Werk in the summer, with perhaps
some extra work during the Christmas holi
days, tides these students ever the winter,
their bed and beard assured. Seme of them
even have a rollicking geed time nt this Rum
mer work, for instance, ns lifeguards at re
sorts, the admiration of the vacation girl
and the envy of ether males,
"Certainly the young man of meager cir
cumstances should net hesitate te seek a
college education, though it means outside
work of some kind. He has nothing te lese
and everything te gain."
JOHN BURROUGHS
Jfi'is Ursula Hums, who lives in Call Call
fernia and is just twelve years old, has
written the folletcing little poem aleut Jehn
Burreughs:
""VUT in the wild where Nature Is queen,
y Clothed In n beautiful robe of green,
Jehn Burroughs sits in the shade of a tree.
Is there ever a thing that he docs net sec?
Seft blows the wind through the rustling
tree,
It brushes the coat of the weed pewee.
It sweeps back the brandies nnd sighs ns it
cees.
I'm off for n place where the sea -weed
grows."
On Jehn Burroughs' shoulder a squirrel is
sitting.
While net for away a spring frog is skipping.
"Caw, caw." cries the crew as he flies over
head, "Chirp, chirp," calls the sparrow from his
messy bed.
On the face of Jehn Burroughs the sun is
playing
As o'er mother earth his keen eye is stray-
And every one asks as he passes by,
"Is there ever a thing that he does net
spy?"
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What De Yeu Knew?
QUIZ
1. Who web Pleter de Hoech7
2. What sum wns paid by the United States
. te I-rnnce for the Iyeulslana territory?
3. What Is meant by n "ralsen d'etre"7
4. What Is the largest city In Mexico, after
the capital?
5. What country Is ruled by Klne Haaken?
. Who wrote "The Blglew Pnpers"T
7. Hew does breadfruit grew?
8. In what century did Jean of Are live?
9. What French general wsb wounded at
the battle of the, nrandywlne In the
Revolutionary War?
10. What are ephemera?
Answers te Yesterday's Quiz
1. The only American President lnaugu-
rated In April was Oeorge Washington
The ceremony took place in New Yerk
en April 30. 1789. There are no formal
Inauguration ceremonies when Vim
Presidents beceme President threuiTh
the death of the chief executive c5n
theso occasions Blmply the oath u
administered, ,s
2. A mesalliance Is a marriage with a per
son of Inferior Beclal position
t. The word should be pronounce ',...
zal-ynns," with the last vi KL
he last syllable
sounded nasally
y.
Cornelius VnnderblU, born In Htat.n t.
land, 1794. was the founder of ts
fortunes e the Vanderbllt famUy. Tt
the nBa of sixteen he established n
freight and passenger ferry between
New lerk and Staten Island. Later
he became n large owner of atcamshlns
and a dominant figure In ralirenlP.
notably the New Yerk Central S
he consolidated will, the Huften rtw.r
Railroad In 18G7. He died In 1877
6. Tarragon Is a plant allied te wormwood
and used In salads nnd in making
tarragon vinegar, "mains;
6. Amnesia Is n defect or less of mnmn.,,
Aphasia Is total or. partial les? nm lLy'
use or understanding of langutg- En
Vecal organs remalnlnc Intact
7. General llutler, military governor of Vew
Orleans after Its capture by h0 ilni0,
forces In the Civil War, wA2 kne ?S
by his opponents as "Old Ceck yWR
""Wayside In" Wr'e "" & a
Th,n.rsPOant,afln?ngher,r1!e,r-!ve?Bhflt8her'n
,n n.POimi,1 -""VM 'V'1' !lx feet100
10. The omplre of thB IncnH, principally in
i .Peru, was conquered ,fir SpalnA bv
Plzarre'ln the -sixteenth-century" by
SHORT CUTS
Se far the only cut in bread is with the
bread knife. .-.
Only a Public Service Commission can
suppress a Snow storm.
Baseball magnates have postponed cel
ebration of Armistice Day.
As a mirth-provoker, the theatre ticket;
scalper considers the law a headllner.
Considering the pap en which they wcr
fed, it is no wonder some war babies thrived..'
Ever and anon the shrewdness of
knave hides itself In the frankness et a feel..
It must be confessed that the Armistice
Day celebration lacked something of glad
abandon.
The shipping beard investigation proves
that truth is net only stranger than fiction,
but nastier.
Among ether things, the American poe-'
pie voted Senater Harding a 1000 per cent
salary boost.
Veterans are new reaching the point
when they are willing te declare that it was
c pictty geed old war as long as it lasted.
Kind Cern, as usual, will be master
of ceremonies nt the Thanksgiving celebra
tion ; but Barleycorn will be an outsider.
Herbert Hoever has greater interest in
the fate of 3,500,000 children in Europe
than in the likelihood of his having a place
in President Harding's cabinet.
Is there any likelihood that decreasing
living costs will cause public utility cor
porations te cease agitation for higher rates?
Ne, we don't think se, cither. v
United States marines are alleged te
have killed Haitians at the rate of three
day. There is something wrong with the
schedule when tragedy runs en vaudeviUl
time.
When Mayer Hylen blames the press of
New erk for the crime wave which is hit
ting that city in common with the rest of
the country, he is merely giving an imitation
of n worried civic official passing the buck.
The, secretary of the Notional Coffee
Roasters Association has figured out that,
as n result of prohibition, lO.fWO.OOO.OOO
mere cups of coffee have been consumed se
far In 1020 than In the entire year of 1019.
Seme bean, seme bean 1
It is extremely fortunnte that Leen
Daudet, who has just refused te fight a .
duel en the ground that dueling is a foolish tf
practice nud that there Is no place In
France for It since the war, has fought
eleven et them and there is no posslble ex.
cui-e for misunderstanding his declination. '
A pugilist has been sued by his wif
for divorce because, she alleges, he used her
for a punching bag. But is that any worse.
we ask you, than for a poet te insist upon
reading his stuff te the partner et bis occa
sional Jeys and multifarious sorrows?' New
Is It?
Vvhen a foolish knnve in Wilmington,
Del,, tried te rob a house occupied by five
sisters three of them screamed from as many
windows and two fired nt him with pistols.
It may be taken as axiomatic that everr
knave Is also a feel; there is one who new
will admit 1
Somehow we can't work np any sym
pathy for "Sylvia Pankhurst'a girls" who
wcre thrashed by the women members of an
augry Londen crowd because they had sud(
and beaten tin cans during the mlputts of
slltnce dedicated en Armistice Day te th i
fullen dead. A geed spanking seems te hart 1
been what they meat needed,
Bolshevist Propaganda '
Frem th Les Anstles Tltrss.
The Chicago barbers announce nn advsne
In the price of hair-cuts te an even dollar.
There nre a let of Bolshevists In the Illinois
city new and this will net tend te reduce tbs
number. There nre plenty of men who fl
that no hair-cut Is worth a dollar npd they
will let their decorations grew before shtd- 1
ding this exorbitant sum. The barbers as
sert that they have te pay $10 a gallon for
hair teulcs that used te cost them $2; but
that doesn't explain anything, as they Disk V
a separate and a fancy charge for bathing
a man's deme in that stuff anyhewi The'
principal -reason for theilncreaie Is thattnt'
baib.crs think, they con ceJlect' it. Maybs fi
they can. but long hair is apt WW fa s
ienable this winter. .
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