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THE ASSOCIATED MESS Is exetuilreh en titled to the use tor republication 0 all news tilipatche errdtfetf to it or not otherwise credited in this paper, and also the local news published therein. f 411 rights of republication of special dispatches Tisreinartalso reserved. Philadelphia, Sainnlaj, January S, 1921 BRIDGE OBSTACLES LESSEN TESULT.S of the first test borings pre XV llmlnary to Delaware bridge construc tion suggest, as was expected, that there arc no insuperable natural handicaps to locating the span near Market street. In 'Water street near Walnut roek strata have been found at a depth of eighty fret, nnd on the left bunk near the Federal street ferry solid foundation was discovered at no hundred feet. Further experiments will fct made to the north of these two points. If somewhat n'milnr results ore obtained, pie problem of locating the bridge wOI recohra ItMK Into ooo relative only to trsfflo ccndl fleut snd street planning. It may t taken for graatod that federal t auction of the project will soon be lecured r tn-passage of a bill Just Introduced In the Hoaso of Representatives by Congress man Darrow and the adoption of a com panion measure to be proposed today on Behalf of New Jersey by Sonator Edge. Legal and physical obstacles to tho work lure, therefore, retiring with gratifying speed. HOME RULE PROGRAM FRIENDS of home rule in Philadelphia will tind considerable sentiment in sup port of their plans when they take them to Harrisburg. This is because the Issue af fects every other city in the state. The law committee of the League of Third Class Cities has drafted a scries of bills in tended to secure to the cities a greater con trol over their own affairs. These bills will be introduced when the Legislature meets gain. One of them provides for home rule. Every argument that can be offered in support of a fuller rontrol over local affairs for third class cities applies with greater forco to Philadelphia. The attention of MnyorMoore will bo distracted from his proper duties this winter by the necessity of seeking relief In Harrisburg from the laws which now hamper him in the performance of his work. And the time of tho Legislature will be occupied with eonidcration of details of local legislation which might better be dele gated to the localities concerned. ?.t it is nnr iikpiv innr np nriPR win rnr n M they ask for this year, but they will ulti mately get homo rule if they keep on de manding it. BANDITRY CODE PROBLEMS DRACONIAN methods applied to crimi nals are tirst of all to be judged on the score of efficacy. Considered theoretically, severe laws against banditry such as are now forecast for discussion by the Legislature 'inspire fear and respect. Experience has often shown, however, that the inflietion of extremely heavy penalties has a tendency to encourage a brutal recklessness that moy defeat the object of the measures. The public entertains no lenient senti ments regarding the so-called crime wave f this after-war period. Senator Daix's nponsorship of n bill compelling the court to Impose a life sentence upon any felon con-, victed a second time accords with tho pre vailing belief that no effort should be spared to preserve publie security. Undoubtedly, moreover, there are instances in which the )iaro!e system has been abused. Governor Sprntil is right in seeking reform In this field, and in principle his support of the proposed changes in the criminal code is commendable. Yet there are already excel lent laws against hold-ups. burglary, rob !)ery nnd what is broadly termed banditry in this state, and in their rigid enforcement a Btern warning to criminals is to be found. It is a historical fact that when lesser offenders were punished with the sum' se verity ns those persons guilty of major crimes, theft, for int.ince, was often accom panied by miirdei For this reason the eighteenth centurj criminal code was, on the whole, far less elficacious than its suc cessors in more enlightened and more or derly times. It is incumbent upon the Lcgisiitiire to jrlve full weight to these aspects of a com plex question ABOLISHING THE UNHYGIENIC SOUND hygienic reasons can be advanced in support of the bill intioduccd in the INcbrnsko Legislature, at the instance of the women's clubs und the osteopaths, forbidding tbo sale within the state of shoes with Ik els more than one inch high Yet, however wise it may he to wear low heels, the shoe merchants suy that not more than one-tenth of the women's shoes void in the state have heels low enough to be within he limits of the pnipoMil law. Nine-tenths of the women prefer the high and slender heels which carry th" graceful lines of the figure to the very ground itself If they can be foiced by law to conform to the rigid rules of health, the shoe mer chants will continue to have their custom. But if they prefer to gratify their taste they will buy their shoes outside of the stnte in the remote event of the passage of the bill by the Legislature. While the reformers are about it they ought to introduce bills forbidding the sale of corsets. Every phjsieiuii can tell tho women thnt corsets are frequently injurious. mi, especially when they are laced tightly. They ought also to oner a bill making It a penul offense for women to wear low-necked gowns in the street in the winter and punishing parents who permit their children to go about with bare knees in cold weather. No no of these fashions can be defended on hygienic grounds. They nre as unwhole some ns drinking coffee or smoking tobacco. Laws against the Mile of cigarettes have been passed lu some of the western states, but coffee lias thus far escaped the legislative ban. And tea, which in the opinion of some specialists is more injurious thuu coffee, has hardly been attacked No diet specialist will permit his patients to eat hot biscuits or pie. They disturb the stomach and produce dyspepsia, an aliment which has been said to be responsible for more domestic uuhupplness than all other os uses combined. If thlnjs keep on an thev have begun we W" ' n?ar of n "'" liiiro'lticed lu the I "qrw 0 mssWU'j "'3j.U. . . ' . . . WBBilfciSBMWWSMSSal ' i ' BHB9nBjpBJpsjI9r'7VAtt Tt t ik Legislature of Kansas or Oklahoma or North Dakota if not in tho Legislature of Ne braska making dyspepsia n penal offense,. If thnt would only put nn end to the ailment It could be welcomed with bells nnd banners by n relieved and delighted world. Ilut it has yet to be shown that any set of words written on n pieco of paper will accomplish very much of themselves, WANTED: A HUMANIZER FOR THE U. S. SENATE One Part of Congress That Might Prof itably Go Out Upon a Voyage of Discovery In America IF THEUE were in Washington a benign dictator actuated by u true and abiding love of his country and the people who live in it he would rise some day, grip his scep ter, jam his crown firmly upon his head, call a taxicab, drive to the Sennte, shoo Mr. Marshall out of the rostrum and address the members in n loud voice. "(Jentlemen." he would say, "may I be permitted to suggest thnt it is my earnest conviction that you need a vacation?'' Henlgn dlctntors always talk in that man ner. They ask permission to say something and then say It in the same breatli without waiting for dti answer. Tho great man would continue: "I am moved," ho would say, "to remind you that this is not Olympus. It is a city in the United States. You nre not members of a celestial company. You nre elected mem bers of the government. Ilut," nnd here tho nccuslng gaze of the IJig Uoss would travel from Mr. Penrose to Mr. Lodge nnd from Mr. Lodge to Mr. Polndextcr and from Mr. 1'oindexter to Mr. Ilrnndegce before it fell heavily on nil the senators In turn, "you sit about and manage to look horribly like the stone gods of legend whose bosoms were full of ice. They Rat, you will remember, in the frozen solitude of nn Inaccessible mountain nnd hated mankind. You arc ac quiring something of their mood. (So out. therefore, nnd walk through the country nnd feel the winds nnd sit on doorsteps and talk with the people. "Smoke a pipe In the calm of tho evening with any man who to father to a family and learn what Ufa la about. Play with little children, U U kill you. Try, for God's ssJcs, to cat btek some of jtmr lost Illusions, jour lost hopes, your lost kindness, year lost understanding. Out out I use, with your permission, tho idiom of the people you are supposed to know and represent the celestial pose and all these wretched and irritating travesties on freezing and unfeel ing dignity. You make me weary and I am afraid that the country shares my fatigue!" Senators who, in obedience to some suoh command ns tTfis, went out to discover America, to lean on fences and talk with farmers and tramp roads and eat occasional meals in the warm kitchens of little houses and sit In courts nnd movies nnd ride in smoking cars and wander througli bhops nnd factories would afterward be worth their weight in gold. The Senate wouldn't be so ready as it is to turn its Great Stone Face upon every high hope and generous desire that springs out of the heart of the multi tudes. The Senate is in a bad way. You have only to rend the newspaper" to perceive that. The Ilousq is different. You would have to travel far in any country to find a contrast more marked and more significant than that which persists between the two sides of Congress. Wisdom is not nlwoys templed in tho Mouse. Hut representatives are often fnirly young and, though their speeches nre sometimes woeful enough, they haven't forgotten how to be human. They nrcn't afraid to laugh. They have oven been known to sing in unison on festnl days. Jt is in tho House thnt the varied, sensitive nnd impulsive spirit of this Innd finds its voice and talks freely. Over the Senate the tradition of exclu siveness nnd aloofness hangs and hardens like a blight. The man who enters it ac quires before long tho manner of one who had left not only all hope but nil laughter and nil humanity behind. He will sit glumly in his seat, joyless nnd without emotion, and. confronted by tho example of some of the older members, he may very easily be come a very devil of snarling cynicism. The Senate assumes that it must be hard and cold to be on effectual intellectual balance-wheel of Congress nnd the govern ment. Itut it can be nnd often is extraordi narily emotional in wrong ways. It fosters a tradition of chill dignity nnd nt the same time docs many undignified things. The other day Mr. I'oindexter did one. In the absence of the majority he rushed through the Sennte a bill thnt would make a strike a jail offense for labor lenders and give all trades unions a right to say that a knife had been slipped between their ribs. Even if such laws are to be accepted as tolerable, the fact remains that they ought not to be passed without publicity and debate. There never was any hope for Mr. Foin dexter's bill. Mr. I'oindexter knew there wn no hope for it. His was a gesture of spite ns futile as the vicious gesture of a bad-tempered child. It left more bitterness in places where there was too much bitter ness before. It was Senate influence that revived the War Finance Corporation and crowded the scheme through over the President's cto and so offended all reasonable minds in the business nnd banking world, where the un wholesomencss of n measure devNed for po litical purposes only is clearly recognized. It was in the Sennte that Mr. Heed arose to pour n tirnde of abuse on Sir. Hoover nnd to misrepresent cruelly n great 'and huninnp enterprise nnd those engaged in it. When Mr. Heed said thnt American relief -upplies were used to keep tho Polish army in tin' field he said what he must have known to be untrue. Hoover fed the Polish chil dren. The Sennte should have known this. Itut Hoover Wolutcil the sanctuary by enter ing nntinnnl politics as an antagonist of party bosses. So no wotd of defense was uttered for Hoover until Hitchcock replied to Heed as u defender of the administration policies. Cnrpiestionablj there N talent and sin cerity in the Senate, even though the decline of tho intellectual standards of its member ship has been almost spectacular in the last decade. Tradition and tho hnbits of leaders to presume that they are by the will of Providence nppointed to be the active mind of the nation have done a great deal to Isolate the upper houso In nn unhealthy at mosphere of seclusion. Tho Sennte is removed too far from tho people. ,H lives nnd has its being in a sort of shell through which most of the really significant sounds nnd rumors of the times cannot penetrate. It lins gone voluntarily to n mountain top to breathe only thin nnd cold airs, nnd that perhaps is why It is growing to seem likp n bloodless and nerve less orgnuism. U is seldom that any spnrk of kindness or humor warms a Senato debate. Mr. Lodge is n distinguished w holar and in many ways an able statesman. Ilut he can anil does talk of International peace and of pluus to avert war lu the clipped nnd sleety phruses that normally seem appro priate to u debate on tariffs in the pig iron trode. The meaning to the world of words like "pence" and "war" seems almost un known to Mr. Lodge. And to the magnifi cence of the hope nnd the splendor of the aims of those who were moved to great effort nnd great sacrifice by the spectacle of n world in agony he hns seemed wholly blind There is no reason" why the Senate should I V lAr EVENING PUBLIC LEDGER not be as thoroughly representative as the House. There is no reason why it should not share nnd understand the moods of tho country. Hut it does not. It has inherited the baronial mood and even a few of the aberrations of the. House of Lords. Even political liberalism when it appears in the Senate takes erratic forms. It pro duces cranks like I,n Follettc or headlong nnd tincriticnl zealots like France, of Mary land. The majorities representative of both parties seem lost in worship of high ab stractions nnd too deeply contemplative of ancient rules nnd thoorics to look nt the surging life below. The Senate is suspi cious of the people. It doesn't trust them. And that is why it is always unfriendly or openly antagonistic to those who organizo in one way or another with a view to better ing and brightening the common life of the country. Now nnd then people talk feverishly of abolishing the Senate. But the Senate doesn't need to be abolished. It needs to get off its mountain top and take a vacation. It needs to feel the familiar earth under its foot, to listen to plnln men and women nnd even children, nnd to get n full and Intimate view of tho life which it assumes to direct. It needs to know more of the living realities of everyday exlstenco in the United States. A very old tradition is responsible for the cumulative austerity of the senatorial mind nnd the Sennte chnmbcr. It hns cut one part of Congress off from the mainland. It hns made inflexible nnd untenchablc mar tinets out of many able and generous men. For it was ordained in the beginning thnt the Sennte should stand npnrt and nt its leisure pass judgment upon what other de partments of the government nttempt or do. The Senate inherited its pride nnd the aristocratic tendency of its collective mind. It has been too long cloistered. It needs humanizing. It needs above all some younger men who will be able to think for themselves instead of going along with the minds thnt dwell perpetually in high hats. As an institution the Senate Is indispensa ble. And it In its present form it lenves something to be desired, the people have little right to complain. It is the people who elect senators. VANISHED FAME AN ENGAGING tale of spotless town is told by the Bureau of Municipal Be search in its buHstfa recalling Philadelphia's reputation for cleanliness between 1826 nnd 1840. The record shows that the streets of the original city of Psnn wero as nearly immaculate as any In the land. Emphasis Is laid upon the point that thoroughfares between Vine nnd South, the Deinware and the Schuylkill wero cleaned nnd kept in repair by the municipal corporntion. Tho contractor system was nn affliction that came later. A partial return to original methods is now on trial in the city's direct authority over streets between Columbia avenue nnd South street nnd between the two rivers. Hut the problem is far from being exclu sively one of mere administration. Funds of imposing proportions aro needed for repairs alone. It is estimated by the Research Bureau that the streets of Philadelphia cannot be put in condition for less than $20,000,000. The budget item for this work nroounts to less than n million dollars. About tho same sum is apportioned for cleaning. Tho inadequacy of these funds is as ob vious as is the fact that the prerequisites to neat streets is good paving. Considera tion of these hnndicnps is but simple justice to the city. Thejxst that can be hoped for just now is good intentions nnd ns much sincere execution ns is possible under the limitations. The bureau's suggestion thnt a clean street squad of patrolmen be employed to educate tho people in orderly civic habits mny be worth developing. The responsi bility of the individual citizen in these mat ters is frequently overlooked. When the public as n whole learns to regard its obli gations the dnnger of lop-sided budgets, favorable to extravagances nnd cold to ne cessities, will be materially reduced. It may be safely assumed that the pride of Pliiladelphians in their clean streets during the era that now seems almost apocryphal was nn mean factor contributing to the lustrous result. BACHELOR'S CHILDREN REAH ADMIHAL McCULLY. n bnehelor within two years of the retiring age, has just discovered for the first time what every young father nnd mother find out when their first child is born. He hns been representing the United States in southern. Russia. While there the pathetic plight of seven orphan children np penled to him. He decided to mnke them his wnrds nnd bring them to the United States and educate them. The youngest is three yenrs old and the oldest not more than ten. When he arrived at Ellis Island the immi gration officers refused to nllow the children to enter the country. They were detnlned nt the immigrant station. What happened next is best explnined in the renr admiral's own words. lie said : I went back to my ship without tliem. loitering their room on the ship I founa some of their little traps and playthings, end began to collect these childish relics. L had to sit down, nnd, hurjing my face lu my hands, I shook with tho realization that tho destinies of these children and myself nro Inseparably linked. I knew then that a man's love for a child tran scends all human laws, tho machinations of statesmen, the intrigues of International cabinets. Because he felt this way the rear admiral went to Washington and induced the secre tary of labor to overrule the order of the immigration officers. The children have been admitted and are now in charge of their benefactor. What did the children do thnt stirred the heart of the man so decplj V They did the same thing thnt every child does. They simply trusted in the goodness of tlfr people about them nnd expected kindness nnd gen tleness nnd love and got them, nnd gave love and gratitude in return There nre many thoughtful persons who are convinced thnt If there could be the same trustful relations among adults that exist between adults and children the world would be a much better place Victor Hugo was in,, nt tltnm fr lwi mml.. ,l.n nl.1 vln.. 1.. I win. Ul ,IW.., w. ..- K.UIIU lll Ullt Iflll'Bl. ill "I.es Mlsernblcs" like a little child who re. fused to admit thut men were bad. He went among the most desperate chnrocters with impunity nnd induced them to do his will. He trusted Jean Vnljean nnd discovered that the man was deserving of trust. Modern prison reformers nre doing their best to apply the same principles in their treatment of convicts. And Judge Lindsay, of Denver, applies them in his dealings with juvenile delinquents. The judge has said that there is good nnd bad in every one, nnd that society can devitalize tho good until there is nothing to check the bad or it can encourage the good until it crowds out the evil. Little children nre habitually treated as though the good predominated and it per fumes the home with Its blossoms. It is not until they grow older nnd until their elders begin to change their system of treatment that the trouble beginH. Hut if men and nations could live in perfect confidence with f one another there would be no business for the courts and wars would cease. Indeed, there is high authority for the saying thut unless a man becomes as a little child he cannot enter the kingdom of henven, "Youth must hnve its fling," remarked Director Cortelyou as he flung the young cops from City Hall to outlying .districts; but the old members of the gunrd need uot surrender their present positions. ',vt'""'i'''"'tvt)1wii''i'?"'-'"'j' '"" """' '"" i ! ii n'lii i ill iii Mirr'i'Trrf'grM'i'niiriifi ii'ir-i mi - PHILiVDELPHIA, SATURDAY, JANUARY 8, GOTTSCHALL'S BIG JOB How the Statistician Put Over a Groat Work In Record TlrVie Facts About Philadelphia's Industries. Tho City's Financial 8tandlng By GEORttE NOX McCAIN MHOKH 'aOTTSCHALL, chief of the Bureau of Statistics in the Department of Internal Affairs at Ilnrrlsburg, has com pleted a remarkable undertaking. It is, I think, without precedent in nny department nt the capital. Tho work he hns performed has been so tinusunl thnt Secretory of Internal Affairs Woodward characterizes it as "truly re markable'." It consists in the production of a volume of statistics of nearly 1)00 pnges, including n full report for the year 1!)10 and a con densation of the statistics of tho department for tho three preceding years in record breaking time. It represented nearly -1,000,000 separate tabulations. These were made In n nine months' period nnd they contain tho story of productive in dustry In the commonwealth. The work was completed nnd produced in book form nnd was placed in distribution over the stnte within n cnlendnr year. And that is mighty fnst traveling for a Harrisburg departmental report. SECRETARY WOODWARD in his "Fore word" to Chief Gottschnli's volume dis closes some interesting facts. One is thnt the report of the Bureau of Statistics nnd Information which had been compiled in 1010 wns still in the hnnds of tho state printer nnd had not been stnrtcd on Jnnunry 1, 1020. Four years nnd noth ing done. The secretary courteously ascribes this astonishing condition of affairs to "extraor dinary demands upon the facilities of the state printing office." .A few more Gottschnlls in some of the stnte cnpltnl departments might work n revo lution in the methods of the stnte priutcry. Anyhow, they should get his receipt for putting tilings through. CHIEF GOTTSOHALL discloses some very unusual things In his statistics on labor and industry. Here Is one of them : There wero fswer peoplo employed in tha ateto in lDlfJ by more than 200,000 than thaw wow in lflie, yet they earned nearly $600,000,000 mow. At the same time, while there was less capital Invested, the vain of. the production was over $2,000,000,000 more. The shutdown of Industries engaged in producing war material accounted, doubtless." for a decrease of ninety-three plants in the four years. Tho days worked, on the average, in 1010 were twelve less thnn in 1010. nnd yet, as observed nbovc, millions more in wnges were poid out nnd billions more in production followed. THE stntistics for Philndelphlo rise to the point of being unique. What is true of the state at large is em phasized to greater degree in this city. The comparisons nre between the years 1010 and 1010. There were 10 per cent fewer plants in operation in the Inst year thnn In the first. The nvcrngo of day's work was about C per cent less. As to Inbor, there were fewer persons cm ployed by 15 per cent. In the mnttor of capi tal, there was $500,000,000 less invested, nnd yet the increase in the vnluo of produc tion wns 02 per cent greater than in 1010. One noteworthy feature in connection with tho labor phase is that C5 per cent more col ored employes were in the plants in 1010 thnn in 1010. By the same comparison, nbout 1.1,000 fewer foreigners wero employed. Thcro were 15 per cent fewer boys under sixteen drawing wages, although tho number of girls hnd increased 1.7 per cent. THERE is more money by double in the building nnd loan associations of Philn dolphin than there Is in all the Ravings de posits in nntionnl and stnte banks nnd trust coiupnnles. Ti10. ""'.''line nnd loan associations number 1000 in this city. Total resources of these organizations come within n frnctiou of being ono-third the total resources of all the trust companies of the city. Tho capital stock of the thirtv-two nn tionnl banks, fourteen state banks nnd sixty trust companies Is approximately two nnd one-fourth times less thnn the total re sources of the city's building nnd loan asso ciations. These 1000 associations hnve savings de posits of $174,400,147. Philadelphia deserves its name of the "City of Homes," based nlone on facts re lating to these orgnnizntions, THE per capita wealth of Philadelphia is .S2.T7...0rt. The average savings of every man, woman nnd chilinnthe city, based on the census of Per cnplta savings of the people of Pitts burgh nre only $2.10.57, though the per capita wealth is $2380.41. ' It is interesting to know thnt the assessed value of all real estate In Pennsylvnnia is $0.8.10,105,155. J'vuuiu The state's total resources, banking capi tal, real estate, personal property, livestock nnd bnnking deposits, nmount to $1.1,455. 042,014. INNUMERABLE oddities mnrk a recapitu lation of Philadelphia's industries for It is popularly supposed that charcoal burning is confined to the remote bnckwoods. But this city produced charcoal burned within her borders to the value.a,$(l 2,000. Cleansing and polishing preparations nnd this does not include dyestuffs, were 'pro duced by thirty -five concerns to n value of $1,040,500. it is tne trinute tne country pays to I'll II ndclphlu for keeping its homes clean and bright. To paint, powder, perfume and otherwise bcnutlfy its gentler sex. ns well ns mnmnim pastes and unguents for "dolling up" men in the barbers' chairs, tho world contributed $748,000 to Philadelphia For suspenders alone it paid Philadelphia $1,405,000 in 1010. ' WE DO uot manufacture wooden shoes, a lending industry of Holland nnd Frnnce. but we did manufacture shoe lusts to the value of $20,000. Philadelphia turned out needles, pins, hooks nnd eyes from five establishments in 1010 to the value of $1,000,000. Pens ns a manufactured product were pro duced to the value of SS7.000. Cold nnd silver leaf for signs, picture frames and ornamentation in nrchitecture was beaten out worth R000.00O, In the manufacture of oilcloth and lino leum we bent the country, for our floor covering output of this kind exceeded $1,1, -000,000. Teeth molars, innines nnd every other kind used In dentistry millions of them nro made here. They were mnniifnctured in thnt year to tho value of $.1,524,000. Of such a prosnic thing os bags not the Enper kind, but burlnp, muslin and woven ngs there were $.114,000 worth put on the market. It requires sixty-seven laundries to keep Philadelphia's linen spotless, employing 20SS persons ; uu average of more thnn $2 a year for ench person. Pntent medicines nnd nostrums, pills, pow ders und propiietury remedies, were fed to the world to the amount of $0,002,500, Wo washed the face of the linivorso and laundered Its linen with soap to the total of $11,814,100 in 1010, Philadelphia "'stuck up" the rest of the country with mucilage and paste worth $001,200. The eternal harping nbout the cost of women's clothes over those of men gets n backset from Mr. Gottschall's investigators. The value of men's clothes manufactured was s:t5.012,(100 as compared with $27,1)57,500. Nearly $8,000,000 in favor of tho ladies. The Lockwood committee is still inves tigating New York's political uquarium. The poor fish nre now specializing lu red herrings. . wwynrs) fc a i " lt i ts. . 1 ' . I ifVSTTrlTT -VTk.Tt V a. .. NOW MY IDEA IS THIS Daily Talks With Thinking Philadelphians on Subjects They , Knoiv Best DR. ALEXANDER GLASS On Demand for Veterinarians THERE is going to be a big need in the near future for trained veterinarians, and when thnt crisis comes peoplo will dis cover the lack of such material, according to Dr. Alexander Glass, professor of canine pathology at the University of Pennsylvnnia and one of the leading veterinarians in the city. According to Dr. Glass, the horse is not a thing of memory ; nnd further thnn that, he will gradually come to be used ngain where it has been found thnt motor-driven vehicles .. ..... nnllnln .i.nn..fll Tlltd f.K.f n,l WU1C IWL I'lllllllJ ailllinaiili. iiun .mi... m.. . the continued demand of the nrmy and of federal and municipal governments, win ne cessitate men trnined in the treatment of animals. "I ennnot do better than to preface my remarks," began Dr. Glass, "by saying that in 1002, in the area between Broad street and the Schuylkill, Pino nnd Arch streets, I had 285 clients, averaging three horses npicce. This made about 000 horses, and thnt number included only thoso owned pri vately. Last year there were just five horses, and since thnt time their owner hns sold thorn. This looks ns if the denth-knell of the faithful horse had been sounded, but such is not exactly the case. "There is more demand thnn ever for horses, and, by the same token, those who undcrstnnd horses. It is simply a matter of adjustment. "During the war the veterinarian got his proper place in the army nftcr a spirited fight. Now he can reach the rank of colonel, nnd while the veterinarinn corps is still under the bend of the medlcnl department, it is only n question of n short time until they have their own corps. As soon as that stngc is reached a man can rise to the rank of major gencrnl or nt least to n grade cor responding with that title. Army Needs Only Ono Phase of Situation "But the nrmy, which Is even now always on the lookout for trained men in this line, ind will continue to be a ready market for such material, is only one phase of the situa tion. "The old-fashioned 'horse doctor' or 'cow leech' is seldom found any more, nnd not genernlly verv highly thought of, but the veterinarian is more and more In demand, as the value of cattle, hogs, horses or dogs goes up, as It has done in recent years. In the first nlnce. speaking generally, the in creased valuq. of these aniinnW results in n desire for more expert medical inspection nnd treatment to prevent such serious menaces as the hoof and mouth diseuse, hog cholera or pleiiro-pneumnnla. "When I first made n study of such mat ters, values of $10 and $00 for cattle and horses respectively were the usual thing. Now a good horse is worth as much as $500 nnd a cow $150. Even n rom brings ns much as $75. Dogs have increased propor tionately, und there is nothing more natural than that the owners of nil these animals prize them that much more and insist on expert treatment. "To return to the specific case of the horse, we cun see other reasons for the in creased need of the veterinarian. Not only arc some farmers Inclined to doubt the en tire efficacy of the tractor and other motor-, driven farm implements a question which I will not iirgue but a great many industrial concerns, henvlly stocked up with trucks, ure beginning to renlize, so their officials tell me, that horses ure superior in certain re spects. Short-haul people, bakers and milk men, for example, have never chnnged from the horse to the truck, nnd never can, "Finally there is one great feature to be considered lu this connection. The federal government is urgently in need of men to till the responsible posts of examiners in all seiiports in order to prevent the importation of the hoof and mouth disease and its like, lu the future, too, there will be just ns close a wntch kept ou departing vessels to seo that no infected animals ore shipped to European nnd other ports. The other nations will insist ou that. Precautions by City Governments "That Is only the federal side, all done under the direction of the Bureau of Animal Industry. In addition, there nie the city governments, which must tnkc similar pre cautions. At piesint in every city there nre a lot of clienn, little abattoirs, shoddlly run There should be ono large, well-equipped union abattoir in every city, with n corps of trained veterinarians, to examine every ani mal killed. At present many of the men who Inspect the carcasses have, at. best, only a sketchy knowledge of veterinary subjects. Holland audn few other huronean countries hnve such up-to-date ubutlolrs us I have JflsV ' t ' 1021 just mentioned. Cities of the United States should 'hnve the same. "A kindred subject, nnd one just ns im portant under modern conditions, is thnt of milk Inspection, the demand for which is increasingsnll the time. "And now, to consider just what is being done nlong the lines of training men to fill these much-needed positions. The colleges and universities nil over the country which have veterinary departments nre finding themselves depopulated. Whereas they once had from sixty to a hundred students in n first-yenr class, they now have from one lone jnnn to ten. At the University of Pennsyl vania there nre five freshmen. "The renson? I see it in the period of big business' which this nntion has just passed through. Business wns everything; the laboring man, the mcchnnic, the mcr ehnnt, they all mode money hand over fist. The professional man, ns is usual in such periods, suffered. As a result, the medical, law and veterinary schools suffered depiction, w-hllc the Wharton School was crowded to the doors. This same situation existed most strongly this year and mny continue to exist another year, but after that, and because i? the depression which lias come in busincs-, I look to sec the professional man come Into his own agnin. Facing a Serious Problem "In the meantime, however, we arc facing n serious problem, namely, the result of this emntviiiir of Mm vntnrl,in..i. uni.nAt t. .i live years to develop a finished veterinarian, nun wu uuvc oniy live men in the iirst-ycnr class nnd small numbers in the other classes. '.The situation is twofold in its possible serious consequences. In the first place and as a more immedlntc fenture, the veterinary school suffers. The one nt Pennsylvania, which people do not genernlly renlize is the best equipped in the world, faces n serious financial question. This school gets an ap propriation of some $30,000 from the state. With its small uttendnnce they will need more money in tho coming years. Speaking entirely personally as a veterinarian, but in no wise in my official capacity at the Uni versity, I believe that the taking over in its entirety by the state of the veterinnry school would be the best solution. "The second nnd more serious possibility, nt least to the general population, is the possibi ity of n crisis, such ns n recurrence of the hoof and mouth disease epidemic, nt u time when there nre not enough veterinarians to cope with tiie situation. This indeed, must be carefully considered. Instead of wuiting to howl uftcr the horse has escaped through the opened burn door, it would be much more sensible to renlize the seriousness of the situation now nnd close the door be fore it is too late." What Do You Knoiv? QUIZ. Nome an American waV of tho nineteenth r?BhtUsry fUght " tho "ueatlon ofaea What were the Federalist Papers' Who wrote them? 'Namo tin BngUsh king who married n Spanish princess and an nngllsh queen cmim,nrricu,a Spanish king. ",,uceu What is laches? I.n,i.w!,!t ?.tat0 wns,Abrnham Lincoln horn? X8Brnt!a"P"nlnB f ,he Lnlln n Tnmtnatlrve7f th" worUI ,s ,ho breat- WIB'clle'?nd f a b'rtl '3 eallea a dcmo1- ' W'tS thodvlew!??nnCe lc"ds enchantnent Answers to Yesterday's Quiz The Canadian phrnBe to "mush on" means to walk or march. means It is n corruption of the French nhrasn ;r; wn,ch me,",s wMH? Coleslaw, not cold slaw. H correct it literally means cabbage salad Tho four largest cities of Cuba are ClenfunengosSnnt'1,8' Maguey1 n,1 Thnerovfn1aof ,,' a Wl" ls " ela, Cerfo? cl,eCrr"y.ry ""' Tlle wor" French W. S. Gilbert wrote the "liah" i.niio i The Clalatlans, to whom S v!u, , I8' . Mb famous epistle, w"ere iihabltan s If an upland province of Zl m of They were bo ca led becnli M.'"?r Cauls, who Invaded and settled' ,h1'? region in the third cen ury li A hnt Mansrwaszlrel0'-1 10, the first thennom.i'.a" ln l0:" """lu 'I "iVIUOJtl UiNl - 'i .... SHORT CUTS Another feather in Hoover's cap is the wny Reed gets after him. District Attornoy Rotan appears to -have put a match to straw bail. It has never before been suspected, but Ciute, Ont., Is n great news center. Morgcnthnu's job in Armenia, it would appear, is to make bricks without straw. Gump fans will rejoice to learn that Andy has realized on Corp Caviar riftcr all. it is n cinch that the navy balloonists will hnve hnd nil tho mush they wnnt before they nrrivc homo. A bulletin of style from Chicago says thnt overcoats nre to be worn longer. Does this mean a late spring? Hardly less thrilling than their balloon trip is the snowshoc return journoy of Un united States navy men. Senator Penrose's acceptance of the emergency tariff bill seems to indicate thnt his "popgun" hns exploded. ' And just when we chronicled n dozen signs of spring, Old Man Winter stuck hi head in long enough to say howdy. The war vapor known as diphcnylchlo rnsinc, Invented by tho British, mny help the nntions of the world to comblno for peace. , Forty-seven million gallons of booze nie stored in United States warehouses, accord ing to a report mnde to Congress. And not a drop to drink. A Boston sculptor has boen fined $10 for carving n statue on Sunday. If he had shot craps on the Common he might have got nway with it. c. ,(l0V,cn,J' Mi'lcr, of New York, having $140,000,000 to pay for a program culling for $201,044.202.4,1: like n wise tnilor, cut according to his cloth. He cut the program Tho Brownsville physician who is study ing to become n coal miner becnuso there U more money in it is evidently satisfied with his own diagnosis nnd nlms to get the right medicine. Whether one npproves or disapproves of the Supreme Court decision mnklng the sec ondary boycott illegal, oue must concede thnt it is a pretty good argument for tbo cstab llshment of nn industrial court. . ,.Ma"y.. IPlc who deploro the production of "crook" pictures in the movies will hesi tnte before indorsing Chicago's plan to abolish them by law. The way of the censor often leads to pettiness and intolerance. Shoes to retail at $100 per pair have been mude nt North Adams, Mass. A watch is inserted just ubovc tho nnklo of the left shoe, lth clocks on her stockings, North Adams bhocs ought to give Eves a good time. Time will wenve romance nnd high ad venture into the stnrk discomfort and immi nent danger of death experienced by tli iittvul aviators uow beating their way toward civilization from a frozen Hudson bay post While thero is no expectation that peo pie will more readily obey tho laws because they ure set forth in simple Inngungc, the lubors of tho commission to revise the penul statutes ought at least to make tho trial of lawbrenkers easy and their punishment sure. The Board of Revision of Taxes has re duced rates on small home properties. Ex ports who combine knowledge of finance with appreciation of psychology aver that the way to reconcile a peoplo to the payment of taxes Is tp demand n lot and then, after protest is made, to tuke n llttlo less. Governor Sproul favors severer penal ties for bandits. This mny or may not be wise, but It will assuredly hnve little effect nn the number of cases of banditry. The death penalty long ngo failed to reduco casei of theft, 'lhe mental attitude of tho crlmi tial is thnt he might just ns well be linnged for a sheep ns for u lamb. But 'anything that tends to make tho capture of criminal') more certain nnd insures their punishment (of whatever nature) when caught, will in cvitably act ns a deterrent. Tho remedy for banditry lies with the police departmeut and not with the Legislature. And tho "speeding up' suggested by District Attorney Rotan Will bC of morn nemnnnl Intnraut In 111! frnilklt Hinn nuw nn... IA... .!.-.. ....... U- Ja. &l -:.": - mj mutt iuw iiiai. umjr uu u- VlKI'll. 1 -v & steam! ifyzjjmt3aKM-& ,&
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