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! Charlr II. Ludlnsten, Vic President! Jehn C.
tlln, flecretary and Treasurer) Philip 6. Cellins,
Jahn II, Wllllame. Jehn .t. Kpurneen. Director.
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PENNY WISDOM
rpO THK over-nn.fiuili(iiw member of thu
Delnware lirMjre onmmlevlnn It seeineil
KlioeklnB tlmt tlie niBlin'erx niipnlnteil te
mnke prellmlnnry siirveyx in this ritv mill
Cnmilrn slieitld Ineluile in lliclr liudcet n niiiii
for the niirr-hiMe nnd innlntcumire of nn nii nii nii
tomeblle. Tlie riiiii'xt wiih refiihed.
Thin Keems like n hnd beglnnlnK. KiirI
Beers wln linve tu innke survi-.vs fur n erk
Ol tlie elmnieter ennteinplnted in thl in
atanet mut move nnniinl a Inrge aren.
Would the hriike eenimlsainii be hnppier If
the engineers traveled with u horse nnd
bUBSj- or in wheel chnlrsV If the reininlx
loners are te be xe rlcnrmiHlj wutehftil n(
the pennies, the people here Mini in New
Jersey will prebnbly be rldlnic in ferryboats
for n koeiI many years te i-enie.
m PASQUALE, A "LIFER"
5J AW'l'STO I'AKQUAI.K. a eoiupeiiml of
. dancereiii. low- cunning nnd bnlTlliii;
innrnl Inieniiblllty. beeemes a life prisoner
g !n the Kastern I'enltentlnry.
Frem the rrenture who e.teeuted the de
pleable mnek ransom i heme, productive of
geni7.ni',' fnls' hepet In the distracted par
ents of Mliikely CeiiRhlln. publle pitv Is per
Binncntly and deservedly withdrawn."
A despicable siiccesilnn of lies still, hnw
every lieelnud one nf the most peicnant of
kidnapping atrocities. Powerless te e-eape
the law. "The Crank" has been Ironically
enabled te (lout the course of full retribu
tive Justice. The fate of the (Yiushlln child
has been variously and contradictorily de
scribed by him. It r-mnlns. after the trial
and n series of "confessions," 0 mystery.
The public, while certain thn Pax.pmlc's
punishment Is wnrranted h proved facts,
while appreciative of the difficult task of the
police, still hopes for further light upon one
of the most loathsome crimes ever committed
In this region.
CUSTOM AND CONVENIENCE
fpHK ingrained local custom of crowding
"- the south side of Chestnut sheet has
aenietlini'N been compared te ineilicable
metropolitan hnbits elsewhere.
Just why tl - elite of Iluenes Aires insist
en wnlklnc In the roadbed of the Calle
Flerida and ousting all wheeled traffic
therefrem en fine afternoons remains n mvs
terj. Imden nud Paris have their prome
nading perversities whose erijlns are
wrapped In obscurity. It would be tlaverful
If the predilections of Philadelphlaim en one
of their main business streets were equally
bnffling.
Truth, however. Impels the belief that our
local beulevardlers have thronged the lower
Hide, of Chestnut street for the eminently
practical reason that the pavement) were
wider there.
But n test of the vitality of habit is new
bout te be applied. .Majer Moere has or
dered condemnation proceedings compelling
the demolition of several building fronts pro
jecting mere than six feet into the sidewalk
en Chestnut street below Fifteenth. Com
paratively few Infractions of the revised
Chestnut street building line are te be found
between Hread street and Sixth.
The remaining term of privilege is prob
ably brief.' With wide pavements en the
whole thoroughfare, the contest of fictitious
inhibitions and convenient realities will seen
be en. It will be Interesting te watch the
bbnvier of native sons and daughters.
CENTRALIZING CHARITY
miHC centralization of the charitable and
J- social welfare activities of Philadelphia
has happily passed beyond the theoretical
Btnge. Hepreseiitatlv- of mere than 100
Hclnl agencies are new .rganizei in n single
body, the prime object nf which will be
v elimination of hundreds of diffeient cam
paigns and drives after the m thru mi suc
cessfully introduced by the War Chest.
The sjstem as applied te charities has
.worked well in several ether cities. The.e
.is every reason te believe that Philadelphians
will continue te be as generous and philan
thropic an heretofore, while rejoicing in the
scheme of simplification which at once re
moves the Inapprnpiintc spirit of compel!
a tien from Immune enterprises and cuts down
wantc and duplicating administrative ma
chinery. The state of Pentiiiylvnnin has occasion
ally considered adopting a mere compact and
equitable method in making its appropria
tions for charities. Fertunutcly, by the time
the next Legislature ends Its sessions the
t central welfare federation in Philadelphia
' will be fully under wny and its ipieta pro pre
grain reudy for presumably faveruble In
spection. The charities and social undertaklngn is
this city are te be congratulated for the
spirit of sympathy which they have brought
te the development of u welcome reform.
PETER PAN AT TRENTON
DEMOCRATS of various sorts, geed and
bad, of the left wing und the right, have
been doing fine and awful things for many
yearn In New Jerney. The contrast of Jim
Nugent anil Jim Smith en one hum! and
Woodrew Wilsen en the ether will continue
for generations te dementtrate the meaning
Jesaness of purty terminology In the United
Btates.
In New Jersey, tee, the people are learn
lt rapidly that the Important thing now new
pdaya la the difference between man und man
rather than the difference between party and
party, .Fer that reason Mayer Harry Run Run
yen, of Warren county, who will be the only
Democrat In the State Assembly, has oppor
tunities greater In many ways than these
thnt might fall te the member of a majority.
Mr. Riinyen bus made a geed start in what
luay be a spectarular career In Jersey poli
tics. He has put his faith In the young men.
Youth has courage and It has Imagination.
It Is net hypnotized by hnbits nf Introspec
tion, nor Is it hlnderut by a tee greut rever
ence for traditional rules and traditional
evils. The Isolation of Ilnnyen will have the
character nf drama. And If the youthful
assemblyman knewH hew te dramatize the
advantages of his. solitary state he may go
far In a short time. Mere men with n habit
of looking forward rather than back are
needed In public efflcex. nnd mere people
ought te be willing te put them there. That
Is why Kuiijeii of Warren It a geed omen
for the future.
FAIR PLAY FOR THE PEOPLE
AS WELL AS FOR THE U. 0. I.
Contract Rights of Gas Censumers Are
as Sacred as the Rights of
Gas Producers
THK predicament In which tlie Cnlted Has
Improvement Company finds Itself In
this city Is similar te thnt in which every
ether' producer of n commodity sold at a
fixed price has become Involved through the
luctcasc in the cost of labor and raw ma
terials. Relief, however, is in sight, both for the
l. (i. I. and for nil ether producers. The
peak of high prices has been passed. The
coal used In the Manufacture of gns, which
n few months age was selling for .$10 nnd
:J12 n ten, has recently been offered nt .$5
and ?ll n ten. The prices of feed and cloth
ing are coming down. This means that the
rate nf wnees will be reduced as the pur
chasing power of the dollar is restored te
something like its pre-war state.
Yet. In spite of the general tendency
downward of all the materials used In the
production nnd distribution of gas, Mr.
Hedlne, president of the gas eempan, is
asking for a revision nf the terms of the
lease. He hns Informed the Mayer that the
company l losing SlO.niM a day en its
Philadelphia business. This Is nt the rate
nf ,$,'!,l!"0,0fln a year. He says that no com
pany, however strong, can sustain such a
less for any considerable period.
Ne one Is Inclined te dispute him nn this
preposition, although it Is known thnt the
holding company has a book surplus of if.'U,
000.000. being the accumulated nnd In
ested earnings nf tlie company net paid out
in dividends. The survey, which Mr, Undine
asks for, should be nmile In the Interests of
the whole community and net alone in the
interest of the C. (!. I.
New let us consider for n moment the
lease, the terms of which Mr. Hedlne wishes
te hne modified. The lease was entered into
in 1 Si J l T for n period of thirty years, t'ndcr
it tlie company was required te inxest .$15,
(100,000 in impievcmeiits within the first
three years mid $15,000,000 mere within the
succeeding twenty-seven yenrs. And It was
te supply public buildings and street lights
with gas without charge te the city. In
return it wns te receive eighty-five cents for
every 1000 cubic feet sold te private con
sumers until Jnnunry 1. ini!l: eighty cents
until January 1. 1II1S. and thereafter
seventy -five icnts. Tlie ce:iumerH are
charged .$1 for every 1000 cubic feet. The
difference between the sum paid by the con
sumer and the contract price is turned ever
te the city treasury, and te thnt extent re
duces the amount which must be raised by
taxation. I'lider this arrangement a little
mere thnn .$.'10,000,000 has been paid in
during tlie twenty-three yenrs since the
agreement went into efTcet.
In the early jcars of the contract it was
possible te manufacture gas for about
thirty-five cents n thousand feet. This left
fifty cents te the company te paj overhead
expenses and divideuds. Fer five years the
company continued te have this money. Fer
the next five years it had forty-five cents
left nbeve the actual cost of production.
The prices, of raw innterinls began te go up
when the price the company received for its
predurt was reduced te seventy -five cents.
The net earnings of the company amounted
te .$(1.(I00..0.- in 1017. tlie yenr before the
last reduction In price, and after paying
dividends there was a surplus of S'J.OlT.TeO.
In 101S the net earnings were .$."i,Slll.ri(IO,
and the surplus a hew dividends fell te
.sllTO.'Jil. I.nst year the earnings fell .$.'IO:i.-0-14
short of being enough te pay the divi
dends. Hut the usual N per cent dividend
was paid as It had been paid for years.
These figures represent the earnings of
the company net in Philadelphia alone, but
in all the forty cities In which It is engaged
in business. Mr. Hedlne Is, of course, anx
ious te continue te pay dividends en the
shnres of the company. Yet, ns the company
Is paying out te Its shareholders at the rate
of h per cent en ever dollar invested the
sum of .$1,M''1M1 every year. It will be np
parent thut If the less of .$10,000 a day
in Philadelphia should (eutiuiie for a year
it would net exhaust the sum set aside for
the shareholders.
A reduction le the dividends would nfTcct
the profits of the shareholders. Their trus
tees, the president and directors of the I.
(!. I,, would prefer that the people should
pay u higher price for gas rather than that
the profits of the shareholders should be
reduced. It Is the business of the Majer
and the Council, who arc trustees of the
people, te be as solicitous of the Interests
of the people as Mr. Hedlne is of the inter
ests of his shareholders.
When the gas corporation's profits nre
threatened the president of thnt corporation
has no hesitation in suggesting a modifica
tion in the terms of u enntruct with the peo
ple. He does net insist en the sunctity of
agreements, for apparently nn agreement
affecting the public interest is inviolable
only when the private parties te it nre
making money out of It. If the public suf
fers, ns it is suflerlng under the contracts
of the P. II. T. with the underlying trnnslt
companies. It is outrageous te suggest that
these contracts should be modified. Haven't
certain Iawjers und certain bankers been
saying this for months?.
Yet the survey of the l O. , which Mr.
Undine hns asked should be made in the
interest of fuirnesH. Thnt survey, however,
should net be confined te the business of the
cempnnj for the past twelve months. It
should go buck te the beginning of the con
tract, in 1M7, and should disclose the profits
made in the early years, when It cost only
thirty-five cents per 1000 cubic feet te
produce gas.
Kxpert accountants should be put en the
books In order that the earnings nf the
company In this city may be discovered for
every year from the beginning, nnd se that
the prebuble profits for the remaining seven
jenrs of the life nf the contract mny lie
computed. Then facts will be available from
which ii trustworthy oplulen may be drawn
concerning the propriety of going te the
relief of the company in the present tem
porary and disappearing crisis.
The mere fact that the company is losing
money this year Is net sufficient te Justify
n demand that it be allowed te retain for
itself a larger part of the price paid by the
consumers of gas. If it shall appear after
Investigation thut the average profits for the
life of the contract arc reasonable, then the
demand for a modification of the contract
will uet buve a leg te etuud en.
It, may be thut the Investigation will
evening fti&fafe iiEaiSBiawiM
Justify the demand' of Mr. Dedtne. The case
should net be prejudged, In that event and
in the event of the decision of the city te
go te the relief of the company, net because
It must, but because It desires te be fair, It
should be definitely arranged that net a
single dollar of the extra money turned ever
te the company should go te the shareholders
in dividends te Increase the value of their
shares and te make profits for speculators in
these shares.
The Inquiry Inte the condition of the
company ought te go beyond Its financial
affairs. In seven years the contract with
the city expires nnd then the gas plant re
verts te the city en the pnjment te the com
pany of the money It has Invested In Im
provements, provided the city wishes te
exercise Its option. The Inquiry should go
into the Issues Involved In the retaking of
the plant by the city. It is net tee seen for
the Mayer and the Council te begin a con
sideration of this matter. Ner is It tee
early for the gas company n begin te make
plans for the future.
"BUT ONCE A YEAR!"
TTTIIKIIK there Is n great ileal of smoke
there must he fire. And where floods
of color are spilled and bells are persistently
rung mid echoing legends fill the nlr te
nttett that there Is a world of faerv and
that the wise are always and Inevitably
gentle; where n continuing song In praise
of kindness seems te be justified and ex
plained by corroborative human experience
longer thnn any individual life, there must
be something mere te existence than Is
apparent en familiar surfaces.
Se the average man, touched by the sound
and color of approaching Christmas, Is apt
te reason almost against his will. He will
be awnre again of many things ordinarily
forgotten but tee nobly believed In te be
otherwise than true. Fairies? Well, It Is
nstniiishlng te knew hew many wise men
have believed In them. And many hooks
hnve been written In their pralje and filled
with most convincing pictures in full color.
The star nnd Its premises? Who knows?
What Is it that hnpptns te the world nt n
time when everybody Is In a hurry only te
be kind?
There has been a conspiracy of opinion
te establish the notion that Christmas Is a
time exclusively for little children. It has
been Inspired by the diffidence nnd sensitive
ness of people who, growing away from
youth, have net the courage te admit their
loneliness or te let ven themselves knew
hew eagerly they turn back te the land c,f
realities from which the years have exiled
them. Children, if the truth were known,
are only the guides and spectators at that
annual adventure, Wonderment makes all
.their dajs beautiful. The elder world Is
ashamed te wonder about anj thing until It
threw off the mask nbnut the middle of
December and Is led by the finger baekwnrd
ever a read cluttered with treasures which
most people abandon In the rush for nowhere
in particular and presented finally In regions
of murmuring bells and laughter und a
welter nf things that seem unimportant until
j mi remember that they are made of nnd
for pure happiness of heart.
Then for a time we live again. A me
chanical railway train in miniature, "with
landscape, slgnnls, flagman and tlug com
plete," breezing untroubled ever bridges and
through tunnels, will refresh and exalt the
smil of almost any tired business man who,
In eleven nnd n hnlf months of the year,
must sternly cencent a real and passionate
interest in such things. Tlie dignity of ma
turity must be preserved, though whatever
it is for no one knows. One who Is net
young mny merge his Identity with the
identity of n crowd and snatch occasional
moments of ecstasy nt the windows of toy
shops. Further he may net go. He mny
piny with the fiscnl policies of rnllrends or
with their stocks or their programs of ex
tension, but the delights of actuality are net
for him until, with a lifting sense nf blessed
reprieve, he returns nt this time of the year,
trooping In the vast straggling army of per
petual refugees, te live In the world of
children. They, being the wise ones of the
earth, core only for things thnt make you
Kind.
The very colors of Christmas us they are
reveuled in the hooks, in the uniforms of
toy armies nnd through the sjmbels of the
season nre the reverse of subtle. They lire
as bright and as honest us life Itself can be
ut bottom. They nre us stlmuluting te weary
eyes ns a trip te a far country. The pig
seized and carried away by the Piper's Hen
lhcs in an environment of red und yellow
nnd blue colors us unmistakable and cheer
ful as the simple truth Itself. The skies
in the Christmas story books are always
filled with stars. The snow is always lm
maculnte und untredden. Soldiers nnd cru
sndeni go always upon noble errand, and
the very cows and horses ntpl the Indispensa
ble reindeer seem In the literature of the
greatest of days te have the friendliest of
understandings with the folk about them.
Yeu may search all through and among the
books nnd the things that make the Christ
mas of children without finding anything
suggestive of ugliness or cruelty or cynicism
or lack of fine faith. These, then, must be
things thnt the normal mind rejects until it
is forced te uccept them. Since they arc se
prevalent in the world, it Is no wonder that
tired business men nud tired business women
nre glad once a jeur te be led In places where
they nre taboo.-
That may be whnt children nre for. At
Christmas they seem like the guardians of
nil the enduring realities, dwellers In reulnis
from which beauty and belief hnve net jet
been cast out. They de net knew this, of
course. They will net knew It until after
they hnve grown up. Then they, tee, will
return with marveling ejes for occasional
glimpses into the lest country.
IMMIGRATION RESPONSIBILITIES
A1V
PARISIAN shnrper hns disposed of a
batch of -."0 bogus stenmshlp tickets te
uninrtunnti' immigrants, who nre new
stranded en the decks at Cherbourg. The
trick was shameless, contemptible.
It Is questionable, however, whether the
moral obliquity displajed was any deeper
than that contained In the present wholesale
methods of corralling Kurnpcnii populations
for shipment abroad.
The Immigration authorities In New Yerk
are painfully aware of hew ruthless and
commercially greedy some of these practices
ere. Ceses of passports Incompletely vlseed
and of Infractions In Kurepe of clearly
specified health regulations are numerous.
In principle, America welcomes the
stranger. She is properly loath, however,
te rcreive victims nf systematic delusion.
Te say that Samuel (iempers Is a mas
terly politician is te say nothing te his
discredit. Politics clenrs the ground for
constructive statesmanship, and the masterly
politician ill foreseeing events helps te frame
them Laber and the country at large may
benefit by his present conciliatory attitude.
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When two Chester men went te law
ever n pig the Judge was surprised te learn
that they didn't knew that keeping pigs was
net allowed In the city. New if it had been
a blind pig It would still have been against
the law, but the Judge would net have been
surprised.
A man may reasonably fight shy of try
ing te solve another mun'B problem, for It
may possess angles of which he is Ignorant;
but assuredly that Is the problem he attacks
with great vigor; which Is doubtless why It
is se easy in tlie Kast te settle California's
Japanese problem.
AS ONE WOMAN SEES IT
Mr. Bek, the Academy Peyar, an An
dent Mirror Frame and an Old
Tlma Pageant Prompt Seme
Interesting speculations .
ny HARAIt D. LOWRIK
YOU may have u constructive wind
which is the mind of the builder or the
engineer or the Inventor and yet net have
n reconstructive mind which Is the art of
the historiographer or the archeolegiat or the
collector. Anil you may have both, like Mr.
nek.
I SAT gazing admiringly en the very agree
able stuge setting of a rcenc in the house
nf Relay Resa, where the lady was receiving
a visit from (leneral Washington and an
other military gentleman relative te her de
sign for the ling. This was down at the
Parish Heuse of Christ Church, en Second
street, during the celebration of the anniver
sary of the founding of the parish In the
days of Penn. There wns en afternoon de
voted te story telling old talcs of the col cel col
onics of n casual, chatty, personal nature,
by Herbert Welsh, Miss Wharteu and
ethers; many of the descendant were Bit
ting about me, some whose ancestera had
been Teries, some whose ancestors had been
Americans from the word "go." The tea
that was served, the little cakes, the aspect
of the hall, the quietness of the old street
leading bnck from Second street, all lent n
'certain nlr of reality te the tnhleau en the
stnge; but once I had wnlked from the dark
stillness nf the little street and met the netse
nnd traffic and quick, home-going crowds
en Second and Market streets, once I had
Joined the obstacle race across Market street,
the old town they hnd nil been talking about
thnt afternoon vanished In the night,
T TRIED te make It come back by walking
up Chestnut street past Independence
Hnll and then ever te Walnut street past the
old theatre nud se en up te Hread, looking
new nnd then nt houses that had still an nlr
of "has beens" about them but it wns
no use! The eighteenth century stayed
where It belongs te most of us, bnclc' In the
history books and historical societies, as far
removed from the noise nnd glare and rapid
movement of the twentieth century as a
canal beat is removed from a hydroplane.
AT LKAST that Is what I felt as I walked
home te dinner that evening. When I
get te Hread nnd Walnut streets I thought
hew ridiculous It seemed that an IrUh great
great uncle of mine had paused about there
en his walk up from Chester, where he had
landed, te Inquire the wny from a man dig
ging in a potato field hew far he wns still
from the town of Philadelphia. I thought
Gracious. Kven our grandfathers would
feel "Lawk a mercy en me! This Is none
of I '"If they hnd te cress this street at
5:40 p. m. of n dnrk. early winter evening
with the whole world hurrying and hurling
by.
Yet the very next morning a man told me
n story about the great, great, great an
cestors of his wife that made me feel that
human nature had net changed In spite of
modern Inventions.
rnHIC story Is of the first woman lawyer
J- nnd suffragist In the colonies. Strangely
enough, she come from Maryland. Or
rather, she lived In Maryland. She came
with her father and slater end their servants
from England in the daya of Lord Raltl Raltl
mere. The first governor of Mnrylaud was one
Leenard Calvert, a brother of Lord Haiti Haiti
mere. During his governorship there settled
In St. Mary's county m gentleman by the
name of Rrent, with two daughters, one of
whom was known ns Mistress Margaret
Rrent.
Possibly the fact that "Silence and Dil
igence" wns the motto en the Rrent coat-ef-nrms
may hnve accounted for certain
traits In Mistress Margaret Rrent. possibly
the traits accounted for the coat-of-arms.
I de ret knew! Rut nt nil events when the
governor died nnd his will was read, It wan
found that he had left the bt:lk of his estates,
with his Maner Heuse of St. Gabriels, St.
Mary's county, te Mistress Margaret nrent,
with this sole public message appended;
"I make you my sole executrix. Take all.
Olve nil."
Whatever story lay back of these words,
the lady gave no clue. "Silence and Dil
igence" was her motto. In RHO she ap
peared before the Maryland Legislature and
demanded two votes, one as a cltlxen and
one ns the executrix and trustee of the Cal
vert properties! True te form, the Mary
land Legislature turned her down en the
ground that she was a wnmnn.
Fer yenrs. In the administration of the
estate, after that Mistress Margaret Rrent
appeared in jiersen In the courts nnd was
her own lawyer when necessity arose, being
acknowledged te lie better versed in the law
than most of the legal gentlemen of the
colony.
The descendants of the nrent family, who
still held part of the original estate in St.
Mary's county, Maryland, were, te Judge by
the one I knew, for suffrage as lately as
last sprlug when, ns firmly as In tlie year
10-10. their legislative assembly voted It
down.
AND Maryland is net the only place that
runs true te form the form of an
other century In spite of outward changes.
I wns in Suybroek. Conn., Inst week ever a
night In the Inn there nnd during the course
of a desultory conversation with the owner
and proprietress, she expressed surprise that
the form of popular government known us
the "town meeting" was net practiced or
prartlcal for Pennsylvania.
"Why we decide everything in our gen
erul town meeting from who shall he the
presidential electors te who shnll mend the
town bulletin beard!" wns her complaisant
announcement.
"We could net de thnt In Pennsylvania,"
the woman I waH with said opelogetlcnlly,
"because you sec we have se many foreign
born voters who have te have the issues ex-
f dallied te them by their lenders. It would
ic dreadfully confusing te them If they had
te decide at a town meeting,"
The Connecticut wemnn looked amazed.
Then she looked superior.
"We have ferelgn-lmrn citizens here in
Connecticut, tee," said she. "here In Sny Sny Sny
broek ! Rut I never remember te have seen
one at the town meeting, Just the old
families vote that hove always voted,"
SOMRTIMER modern Inventions and old
customs meet pleasantly, however, and
nre both the better for the change.
There, for Instance, is the return te
Philadelphia life of that charming posses
sion, the Academy Feyer!
Modern invention hns made it once mere
a quiet place. Rrend street might be a vll
lage green fpr nil the noise that percolates
In. It Is a well-ventilated room by modern
Invention and as charmingly lighted and be
comingly aa though these beuutlful chan
deliers actually held wax cundles, also by
modern Invention.
Thanks te Mr. nek and his clever com
mittee, the mirrors that fill the window
siiuces, and the color of the woodwork, and
the lighting of the celling belong te the very
noble period of the room, In spirit, if net in
the original design. These responsible for
the adaptation of the new tt the old have
been both constructive nud reconstructive.
While they have restored nn old pleasure te
an elder generation, they have, in a sense,
created a new one for a new generation
coming en.
Rut there are still persons about who can
neither reconstruct old possessions nor value
them. I picked up n very lovely old gilt
mirror frame oval, Inld across an ash bar
rel en Kleventh street today. I hope some
day anethrr foolish person will put the mir
ror te fill It In my, path.
NOW MY IDEA IS THIS! '
Daily Tallcs With Thinking Philadelphians en Subjects They
Knew Best
JUDGE NORRI8 S. BARRATT
On Women and Jury Service
WOMEN called for Jury duty will net be
Inclined te shirk this most important
civic responsibility ns a great many men
seem te de, according te Judge Nerrls
Stanley Rarratt, of Common Pleas Court
Ne. 2, who believes that women are .going te
assume their new privileges with just as
much success as they have displayed In war
work.
"Jury service," declared Judge, Rarratt,
"is the highest civil duty a man can render
te the state. In the performance of that
duty, the Juryman has In his hands the de
ciding of disputed facts between all classes
of his fellow men. He, as a member of that
Jury, hns jiewer te take away a man's
money, liberty or life, n prtlver grarited him
In no ether way according te our legal ap
paratus. "But the businessman does net appear te
take this matter of Jury service seriously.
He feela that It Is a sacrifice te leaye his
business te serve In the courtroom, and he
tries In all manner of means te escape this
duty, HIh excuses are Innumerable and
often amusing. He is forced te be in an
other city te put through a big business
deal, he Is Just starting out te sell a stock
of goods en the read or he must remain close
by his business te put through a certain
financial deal which will menn a great deal
both te himself und te his family.
All Want te Serve, Rut
"Many of these reluctant Jurymen get
suggestions from the! physicians, and the
prevailing sentiment of one and nil Is, 'I
enlv wish I could serve. I've always
thought it a very necessary duty und one
which I weuiu iikc te perierm, out you ve
picked Just the very worst time for me, I
cannot possibly get away right new; If only
the call had come a little later,' and the
like.
"They seem te think that the sheriff and
ethers, who have the picking of names for
Jury service, can arrange each individual
case te suit the whims of that individual.
The peculiar thing is that it very often hap
pens that the very sume big business man
who has evaded Jury duty by some weak ex
ruse afterward criticizes the decision ren
dered, because the make-up of the Jury,
composed of mechanics und workmen, mekes
it Impossible for them te understand or ap
preciate problems Involving finance and big
business,
"In the case of some worklegmrn it is
very often a sacrifice for them te take three
weeks out for Jury service. I had one case
of a man who hud been out of work for a
long time, nnd whose family was In very
great need of his support. This man had
only Just secured a position which returned
bim $12 a week nud he admitted frankly
that he could net afford te take three weeks
out for Jury duty without ruining his
chances of putting himself en his feet and
paying his debts. I excused this man, and
I have always made It a point te try te
render Jury service as light and as com
fortable as possible.
Haa Educational Value
"Anether great feature of Jury work is
Us actual educational value. Every phase
of life passes before the eyes' of the juryman
as he sits In the courtroom. Every con
ceivable question of man's activity, what
he wears, what he eats, what he does In
work and play hours, his relations with his
fellow men and women, his ever complex
personality, his dally habits, all of these
things nre threshed ever and acted out In
court.
"Despite undeserved criticism, I de net
believe tnat mere coma nc anything much
better than our present Jury system.
Through It we get men for only three weeks,
during which time they cannot stale or lese
Interest In the cases. Furthermore they are
all men who are earning their own living In
some line or ether and hence have a wider
perspective than If they were nothing but
Jurymen year In and year ut.
"Ne Judge Is capable of deciding the trre
facta In the Innumerable cases which come
before him In the clear, Intelligent nnd un.
biased way which the ever.changlug juries
can decide them, It has very often hap
pened, In my knowledge, that a Jury has
rendered a decision contrary te that ex
pected by the Judge and the court officers
simply because ome member of thut Jury
was tee keen 'or tee well versed in some
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peculiar feature of the case te be taken In
or befuddled by the 'testimony of se-called
experts or the cunning but superficial argu
ments of lawyers.
Women Mean Changes
"The entrance of women Inte this field or
Jury service may mean all sorts of changes
and new standards. I firmly believe, how
ever, that women will carry out their work
here, as they have always succeeded In doing
nnythlng they have mode up their minds te
de, thoroughly, faithfully and well. Es
pecially. I believe they will net shirk this
particular duty. It is one of the troubles
or the American people that they love te
talk nnd wave the flag, but cannot get down
te doing their own part. ' This has been the
case of the men who said they were picked
for Jury duty 'at just the wrong time.' They
were like the men who snld 'The wnr wns
se short and caught me se unnwares thnt I
did net hove time te enlist.' I firmlv hope
thnt the women will never allow themselves
te drift Inte this state of nffnlrs.
"As te just hew women will act when
members of juries, and whether of net thev
will be stricter or mere lenient. It Is very
hard te sny. Time alone can tell. 1 de
.think, however, that the only successful
method will he te mix Inen and women, just
as they nre drawn, en Juries. In time, of
course, some special legislation may have te
be passed In this connection, but I think
we will find thnt. us u whole, the women
comport themselves pretty much the Mime
ng men."
Slightly Inaccurate
from the Pert kind I'reits.
"The triumph of the workers' cause in
Russia Is n historic milestone In the progress
,f fK w.erMl eml "" Influence for geed has
''WT '"J."1 amI 8lm" 'Hreet the course
of the future." proclaims Eugene Debs from
ftf Cik rs,",n. I" A,lnn!n- .","l the fa
that the Soviet cause hasn't yet triumphed
and that the only Influence eutslii" it hns
...... r invii uuu. uie statement Is nil rli.t
statement is all right.
What 'De Yeu Knew?
QUIZ
' '"timeUlr.lw'JaT " ,re Preh,"'
3' V: vvheCr,a7Mt ra"B0 f "ns
3. Who wrote, the story "Dnlsy Mler-
4. Whnt nrlllsh general In th. Zi '
was captured by Ihe. Tufk! ffthi 5".r
" P:,n,a?,verkwne0, jf T '
WnshlnKten hi December' "
6- 'arpieSnu's:1 ube ef',h ""
7. What relation Is the nne.n ,
Greece te the late WnJ'Xf&XV "'
8. What Is the origin of the word buch.ne,
9. Which Is the youngest of thesVe.e ?
Iluddhlsm. IJrahmlnlam Alf1 ?"'nH!
Mohammedanism? m' chr,Hlanlty.
10. Who was DaphnlnjIasBicai mythology
Answers te Saturday's Quiz
1. Bel'hevlkl means members of tn ,.
5. A heath Is a bare Oat want
peeially If covered wUh bs1' e0'
a. An Isejceles triangle Is en. i,,..
sides equal. one navliur two
4. Punjab, a vast plain In i,..,.,
meani five rivers nehwet India,
5. The Americans wen their ,i.iei
ever the "rltlsh "ft Hur fSl'Ve v,c,ery
properly Ilemla' Helnhtl "r mere
1777. ""Bnia, en October 7,
. The transcontinental canal mm. ,
urged In opposition T, he 'n""1"
canal route ran through Keim,Aana"1R
aragua utilising Uke S5ji?.-'NJ
part of the distance. ',cftrlfua for
7. A cenotaph Is u spulehrnl men,,
a person whose body ea.whnlent ,0
I. The Merris chair Is nan led ItZ
Merris the Engllshand 1 1 Um
decorator. l ana artistic
9. '"M la u Mexlcnn fermented h,, ,
from the sap of the agave ,nk
10. James Marshall, ai carnent.e .
Jersey, In th emptoy'ef jehiT e!v
ter. u Hwl. whA i,.i .:..mi. A- Hut-
valley of the BacramTnte ' " , '" "
coverer of geld in CallfeiriVlM?.18,
SHORT CUTS
As a repudlater, Germany still holds
first place.
The news from Oreece waa read with
,avld interest in Deem.
The Mayer apparently doesn't care hew
blue blue-law advocates feci.
New we alt knew the chief constituent
of the soup in the Yale bowl.
Recaiisc life has a way of confounding
logic, flermany's sentence may yet be com
muted. Taking it by nnd large, this yenr there
lias been no reason te complain of .November
weather.
Extremes met in forcing Lloyd Cleerge
te (virtually) recognize the Russian Soviet
Government.
It ought net te be difficult te get a
unanimous vote in a New Jersey Democratic
legislative caucus.
If it is thrills they nre after, the auto
bandits are going te have nil they want in
the near future.
Net exactly a harpoon Fair-Price Com
missioner McClaln put Inte the retail meat
men j merely a skewer.
Refined sugar has taken another drop.
Relng refined, we may feel assured that It
will never take a drop tee much.
When It comes te providing oil te pour
en the troubled waters of future trade it
may develop that Uncle Sam haa exhausted
his supply.
An Omaha woman ninety-five years old
says that some day we shnll live te be a
thousand. Somebody is always taking the
Jey out of life.
Rrlndell's private excuse is deubtleu
that his victims were se darned easy te
bleed that it would have been a shame net
te take the money.
Perhaps the speed developed in selvlnc
the problem of the shortage of houses is de
signed te remind us thnt the s'lull carries
his house en his buck.
A nuffole, N. Y Judge who has fined
muny speeders has hliiiNclf been fined for
speeding. Justice Is swift and is sometimes
swutted for being tee swift.
V hen Teledo, Ohie, housewives began
te bake their own bread bakera' prices came
down. "Seme crust!" snld the bakers.
"Saves dough!" mid their customers.
hen Harry Runynn begins te make a
record for himself In the New Jersey Legis
lature somebody will proceed te get hunk ea
him by calling him the llelvldcre Apelle.
Thieves stele five barrels of whisky from
a Hfth street saloon. They may have been
the outlawed Tem nnd Jerry. If se, their
next raids will be en a dairy and a anlce
factory.
It must appear te the fair-minded that
u case has been made ugalust the Pooh -Rah
of the Municipal Court since se far the ar
gumentH In rebuttal have been merely Pooh
ainl Rah.
Secretary naker says he will be gUd
when he pan lay down the cares of office.
It Is u gladsome moment in which we find
ourselves in sympathetic accord with Secre
tary Raker.
There Is strong possibility that New
Jersey s single Democratic legislator will
stay In politics long enough te revise his
platform. "Youth" has its appeal, but It
doesn't stand the wear of years,
A Blgnbeard In Van Cortlandt Park,
New Yerk, objected te by nearby resident!,
has been burned by masked "nlKhtrlders.'
Which gees te show that even esthetic sen
sibility may be allied te lawlessness.
Ne fault will be found with the Kansas
Industrial Court in suspending decision In
the case of flour milters charged with if
creasing production. The millers were abli
te prove that they were grinding ten tlm
the amount of grain consumed In Kansas,
and that the disposal of the surplus was a
matter of flnanclnl life or death te them.
Fer n court te try te force flrnin (7 i?
business at a less would be te put them out
et business altogether,