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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
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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
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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.
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- 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. .
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Daily Talks With Thinking Philadelphians on Subjects They
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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
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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
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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
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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!
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