1 tia ; 4 X JfSu V.S .SK -. . . U ..... t . -'--J! . -WiMi- fa'J&S ..'..mff?'r W it 4v t i HJ III'"--" f ' 11 : m il ' ..!. f 1 f !' V y ' fc. r" . .'!'; St 1 Fiienmg public Heftier PUBLIC LEDGER COMPANY CTOVS II. K. CURTI8, Pui8loHt Chsrle II. I.udlnuton, Vtco l'rfiitilenti John C. Martin, itoeptarr and Tremurerj VMWv H. Collins, John II. Wllltoms. John J. Bpurneon. Dlrgcfora. nuiToniAt. uoAno; CiBBi J I. K. Ccims, Chairman JlSVro g. flMIKRT..." Editor JOMN-C. afAnTIX. , .general rtuMnrm Mtmgtr Tubllihed dally at rcnuo tamcim Dullalnf IndeiwmF' nco Square, 1'hlln.iMphla. ATUINTIO Citt 1'rcsi-Vnkm llulldlnr Nw York 304 Mn.lti.on Ave. Jtoit 701 Ford nulMIn T. Lotus 013 OlobvDvnyocrat Ilulldlns Clllcmo 1302 rrtb.ifij Uuli.Hne NEWS nftlEAUB! WISHINOTOM OCIIKAV, .,"" 3j K. Cor. Pennsylvania Ae. and Hth St. Nkw losic lltniuc The Sun Ilulldlnir tPKPOM Ukubac London Time t smscnuvrioN teiims . Tho DmNIWO l'tuuc licisiun I nerxd to sub crlbrrr In Philadelphia and surroundlnc town l tho rate of twehe (12) cento per week, parable t tbs carrltr. 'Jy.mAll to points outside of Philadelphia. In toe United Statra, Canada, or United States lie" f'" jPjytaee free, titty (Co) cents per month. "S."0.'. ""lara per year. iayablo In advance. 5T0 all tor -Irn countries one (1) dellar n month. Noticb Subcrlberc wishing nddresi changed must Us.old as well as new address. EtX. JO0O WALM'T Kin. -TONE. MAIN J00 ' Addrets all communications to Evening Public iHdjjtr, Independence Snuare. Vhilndrlvhia. I Member of the Associated Press THE ASHOJtATED PRESS (f exclusively en KJ to the ic or rmiBllriitloii of n.'l tieif dlfpatciy.a emitted to l or not ofnmci-r credited fh( pnixr, nsd nlto fh- heal nctcs riibtuhed therein. 1IJ rlghtt 0 republication of sprrUil dlsnatrhtt ntredn are citno rrrrryed, rhiladrlplilaVlldi-, Jinu.rj Jl. 1911 THE TURNING DOWN OF DAIX SriU'OUTKKS of Stnto Si-imtor l)n!x, wlm Imivc hocii trying ti Intorpri't wlmt linjiiit'iKI ti liim nt IinrrihtirK tliis week jih a "victory." tuny ilerriv tlicmsflvi'H, but will iiarttly tlolmlp 11 n luxly 1n wlio i wise In tbf wh.vn of "the Hill." Tbv truth in that the M-mitor from the fp'vutll llstrlct Kut it colli turn-iluwn, n Irlri'l del, thnt his rccfinl in jmlltlcs bore nil at the Htittc cnpitnl iKd not wnrrnut. In Tffuslnc to reappoint him chuirmnn of the jviu-crfiil niipropriutionx cotnmitti'c. Chief Slntriiififcpr Crow mid the coutrvllinc Irnilprs cunslilcred only political expediency end iKimred the fact that Daix imidc it first rnt rbnlrniati at the lnt schiIiiii. Al fhnuzb lie is 11 practical politician. Unix has IikkI for clean method and no taint of ncnudnl Lk marred bN six yearn' lecislative record. Tkrouchuiit the Smith administration Duix H'M Jin iincompromislni; opponent of Vnre tnn und nil its works, and that tunde him . BinrKi-d niiin for the Kane: but be had tlie confidence of the people In tin northwestern wards and the unnif could not bent him. Thin attitude was maintained In the days when It wns not quite so 'Hipulnr or profit able to fight the contractor b.mnes nts it was lart year. S why the turn-down? The only ffaiible explanation Is that the senator was unfor tunate In bis most conspicuous backers. The Cunningham -Hrown-Vare combine lenders ostentatiously labeled him as one of their on. and by their ollicioiis intermeddling probably cost him the most important chair manship in the upper chamber. It was n bad piece of strategy at this posture of trrnts to tack a tai; of a discredited faction upon the hctmtor, who heretofore has stood firmly on his own feet and made headway by ids own force. Throwiuc a sop in the form of the finance committeeship mny lessen the inipict of his bump, but it does not remove the .sting of the humiliation which the factlonalists have brought tipon him. And. by the way. what business has tho president of Philadelphia City Council under reform charter trying to dictate the make up of the State Senate, anyway? Hasn't Mr. Wcglein enough official duties to keep Mm busy here? Suppose State Chairman Crow tried to dictate chairmanships in Council here? Wouldn't Mr. President Veglein be the iirst to resent it? Ins! cud of a "victory." it looks as if the new would-be bosses got their fingers badly burned and scorched Senator Daix's prestige In the burgain PUZZLING ASSESSMENT TI1K nsessors engage?! in the archaic task of euiolling the names of those persons qualified to register for voting have added 70iS! women to the lists. Tlie total number of feminine electors In Philadelphia is now glren as 'Md.KKl and that of the male sM.tt.7. This discrepancy is surprising. It was believed last fnll that tens of thousands of women were m'ssed either because of their absence from town or because of the delin quencj of the assessors. The latest results suggest that once more the work has been imperfectly done. Women voters, however, need not be seri ously troubled. The December assessment is n useless survival of the dns when elec tions were held in February us well us No Tmber. The enrollment will have to be done nil over again for the fall registration. ' Thnt is the assessment which reallj mat ters, and late in August will be the time for the women to be vigilant nnd nrnn-d against neglect and error. MERIT OF MARION METHODS Mil. IIAItPINtr has been commiserated oil the deluge of talk which has Unwed into Marion. The sjmpathy Is doubtless deserved, and jet if tuny be wondered "whether the conference Idea wns not, after all, a good one. The rresident-ebst has inspected pretfv nearly the whole political menagerie n, so to speak, from behind secure bur-, As he Is not yet an oliielal of the I'nited Sntes. his Immediate re.spunsih'lit Is appreciably lightened. As the outside world is in the dark concerning decision mode, if any, he Js enabled to change tlietn if need he A private lehearsnl is not a h.id thing for any stntesuinn or le.ider about to bo pjjinged into grae rep.msibilitie. It mn provide him with a forctaMe of the worst ahd of the best. Tl hances of delusion and uncomfortable surprises are reduced Sophistication gained in this way can be of lttuiense service to an incoming President. Knotigh, howcicr. is plenti, and thnt Mr. Hnrding is entitled to his Florida vacation ia undeniable. FRICTON AT DIX IN STARTING what appears to be 11 first class row with (ieneral Siiiiiinerall. rom tnandnut at I'nmp Dix, Prosecutor Kelsej, if Ilurllngton county, hns ventured on one f'f the oldest buttleields known to man and nto a discussion tint' has gone on without any conclusion since men first went to war. ' The rights of a large military organiza tion, ruled by us own laws mid observing its nit forms of discipline, sooner or later come joto accidental conflict with the rights of Chilians, and then there is friction ami ? parks. The tone of Prosecutor Kelsey's ommiuiiqtic is suggestive of heat ami tem per. He lias in advantage for the time being lit'cnuM the commander of Dix ia prevented by the rules of his service from making (iirect replv. Small irritations long endur-d by both sidm mid unrelieved by n sense of )ilimor seem to have given rise to the pain lrlt at the enmp nnd in I'embcrton, (Millers assembled in large contingents n, times of pence are not ensy to keep in pee jfeet order They do not nlwnys respect 11 fsrujll'a sacrid right to hi chickens or tho frulta of his fields. Nor can they be ex pected to go about demurely on their days off. In this instance, however, the quarrel seems to be between the ollicers nt the camp and the public authorities In liurlliigton county. Thnt sort of thing should not be. People will wonder why n matter of this sort was permitted to develop to n point which seems to demnnd official attention at Wash ington. When Mr. Kelsey chnrges that the camp ciimmnudcr Ignored the rights of the civil authorities nnd harassed the borough of Pemberton by establishing a ort of military quarantine he says something to which (Jen eral Sttmmcrnll should be permitted to reply nt once, even If the reply must come offi cially through the Wnr Department. Civil rights still are mottew of the first Importance in this country. ALEXANDER WEPT BECAUSE HE HAD CONQUERED THE WORLD If Tears Are Shed Today It Is Because We Have Got a Foothold In Only the Outlying Provinces of Unexplored Realms THK public celebration last night of the eighty -fourth anniversary of the birth of Dr. William Williams Keen wns more than a tribute to one of the most distinguished citizens of Philadelphia. It was in a very real sense a celebration of the primacy of this city In medicine and surgery, n primacy which It shares with Vienna. The first medlcul school in Amer ica was established here, and in all thr inter vening years attention hns been given to training men to treat the Ills of the boil) nnd to prolong life. The list of great men devoted to the healing art who have prac ticed here Is long nnd brilliant. Pepper. Willard. (Jross, Agnew, Denver, Van I.en nop. Northrup and I)n Costa, to name only a few. living and dead, have achieved a fame that has spread as far ns the science of medicine and surgery is known. Dr. Keen is n splendid representative of the medical skill of this city. He is a cor responding member of the French nnd Hel gian societies of surgeons, of the Clinical Society of London, an honorary fellow of lthe Itoynl College of Surgeon of London iiiiu in I'.iiinuiirgii nun 01 two Italian surgi cal societies. He hns received honorary de grees from severnl American universities nnd from universities in Scotland and in Sweden. And he is the author of a large number of books on his profession which have long been accepted as standard works. Hut he would be the last man to deny to his brethren in his profession the glory that is theirs. Hcsidca being a celebration in honor of the position which this city occupies In the realm of the healing arts, the occasion Inst night wns n recognition of tlie perpetual youth of the human mind. A man's body grows old, but the mind remains ever young, with au insatiable curiosity searching out new things. Statistics dealing with the longevity of the grent men of the earth arc always interest ing, but they are not particularly Important. We like to know that Titian nnd Kocrntes were more than ninety years old when they died, and that (iautama. the founder of Ituddhism. lived to a similar nj.'e, and that Sophocles and Thomas Hobbes and John Adams and Sir Christopher Wren belong in I the same group of nunagrnnrinns. It satisfies nn idle curiosity to be told thnt of 11 thousand of the grentest men in history the average age of the physicians was the longest, being a little more than seventy years; that tin statesmen and orators lived 11 little more than sixty-nine years, nnd that the poets, whose uerage age was sixty years, lived a year nnd a half longer than the kings and rulers. When we hnve studied the.-e figures we have learned nothing that will profit us. It Is necessary to go behind tlie statistics to discover whether the world has progressed since the dnys of Sophocles, who lived more than ninety years und is still regarded as one of the great men of earth. He died In the year 4(l."i II. C. There was born about iifty years later n man who wns typical of his period. He conquered the known world and died at the ngt of thirty-two after having wept thnt there was nothing left for hlin to conquer. Those who take the trouble to give 11 little thought to the intellectual activities of the modern world as sugg steil h) la-t night's celebration will discover thnt something has happened in the two millenniums that hnve passed since the death of Alexander. Men nre not weeping today because ther arc no more worlds to conquer. They know thnt there are vast realms still awaiting con quest and that they have succeeded in getting u foothold In only the outermost fringes of those unexplored and enticing kingdoms. They weep, if the) weep at all, that the) are not to be allownl to live until tlie secrets of these kingdoms have I n wrested from them and until the mind of man lin- mastered all their mysteries. Yet such progress has been made in medi cine, for example, during the lifetime ..f Dr. Keen that we nre sopietimes inclined to boast as though we knew nil about tin cause and cut e of disease, nighty -four years ago nnestheties were unknown and when surgical operotions were performed the patient felt even cut of the knife nnd the grinding teeth of the saw as it rasped through the bones The common .operations of the present time were impossible then. Antiseptics were not then used, mid when an operation had been successfully performed tin patient died from blood poisoning induced h) tin unclean instruments and hands of the operator. Hospitals wire binned down In un attempt to get rid of the poison which it was thought infected them, but when It dawned imiii one or two men that the trou ble was lack of what we know now as surgi cal cleanliness the reform began and un in fected surgienl wound is now rare Following the lead suggested b) antisepsis, men be ti to stud) tho germ theory and bacteriology wns deudoped as the hand maiden "f medicine lb cause of this, yellow fever and typhoid and diphtheria Iiiim been shorn of their terrors, and there Is hope that tuberculosis and cancer will in time be con quered. The nnqties's oer disease made by quiet and painstaking Investigators working in la'horatorie.s during the last eighty-four years are of greater benefit to the world than all tlie military conquests from the siege of Tro) to tho defeat of tlie Prussians. We have i-iinqu red tin iestro)er of life in two or three outlying prownees, where we have intrenched ourselves prepurator) to pushing still further into tlie hostile country. lliit.it is not in medicine alone that we hnve accomplished something, Gilbert K. Chestirlon in Ins latest hook reminds us that wo hu.e made political progress since Home succeeded the empire of Alexander as the dominant political powir. The Human citUen could not conceive of u slate without alnics JJecause of siimuthiiiK that happei.ed In Jerusalem nnd thereabouts tlie Fri;nih. when the) icvolted agniust the abuse of ro)iil power, could nut conceive of a statu in which there were slaws. And today there are liopetiil anil enthusiastic souls who nre looking forward to a stale In which thcni shull be industrial us well as political equal ity und democracy. And this, too, because of what b.ippeued in Palestine. So Ions us we can look forward to still uncouquereil rwlms of disease or of social or industrial JnjVcc there Is no danger thnt any alert mau will grieve because (here is nothing left for him to do. The immortnllt youthful mind will then keep the mortal bjddy young for greater periods, and the time lpay come when tho Insurance actuaries will '"discover that a man of eighty-four has Rtlll nn expectation of twenty more years of life for his body. And the psychologists may succeed In proving to n innthemntlcnl cer tainty that the mind itself is imuiortnl, a thing which we all accept ns an article of our religious faith, but hnve yet to sec es tablished so firmly thnt the exercise of faith about It Is ns untiecess-nry ns exercise AT fnlth nbout the rising of tho sun tomorrow morning. SoJong ns we refrain from self-conceit nnd ndmlt that what we cnll the conquest of tiaturc is merely the conquest of our own ignornnce nnd perversity we shnll make progress. We do not conquer nature. We merely discover how nnturc nets aud then adjust ourselves to her immutable laws. We know thnt It we put a lighted match to shnv Ings they will burn, and wc know thnt if we throw water on the flames they will be put out. We dojiot try to extinguish fire by legislation, nor do we try to cure dlBcusc by stntutc law. Wc employ the modicum of knowledge we have acquired about natural processes and congratulate ourselves that we hnve dissipated a little of our ignorance. DAYS OF JUDGMENT TT CANNOT be said that the twelve law X )crs who, in a brief just filed with the Judiciary committee of the Senate, charge gross nnd secret nbusea of power In the at torney genernl's ouicc, nre spokesmen or representatives for rndlcnl political opinion or ambassadors in Washington for the IlciK Dean lloscoe Pound, of the Harvard Law School : Dean Williams, of the Law School of Washington L'nlvcrslty of St. Ixiuis: Judge Alfred Niles, of lialtimore ; Swinburne Hale, recently n cnp.aln in the military division of the I'nited States army, nnd .Inrkson II. Hnlston, one of the leaders In the American ltar Association, nre nmong those who nsk for an opportunity to prove that Mr. Palmer nnd his nssoclntes. in dealing with suspected aliens and others, ignored the fundamental laws of the laud and established themselves as lenders in n reign of terror in which the common law. considerations of justice nnd even clear evidence had but a secondary effect or no effect at all. The complaint grows, of course, out of a spirit of rational antagonism to Mr. Palmer's espionage system ami disgust that hns followed nn intimate and honest study of tin treatment accorded people whose theory of politics nnd economic procedure didn't parallel those of the nttolney general anil his agents In the Department oft.lustlce. The American Hnr Association Is already on record with an Indictment of the Palmer method of prosecution mid judgment. And the committee of lawyers formed to force n rei iew of Pnlmerism in the Senate is clearly actuated by patriotism inspired by full un derstanding of the true sources of national strength and n desire to safeguard them. In the days when Mr. Palmer was lighting .single-handed with shadows, rnlil fr.lt..,. ...1 rnid; men nnd even women were locked up and kept behind the bnrs for months without a trial and often without the privilege of communicating with relatives or counsel. A great many of these people were later dis charged for lack of incriminating evidence. There was a time when common rights that are centuries old nnd indispensable to fn-c anil enlightened government seemed abolished because of the dangerous whims nnd aberra tions of one man. The chorges now made before tho Senate judiciary committee have been formulated before nnd presented in vnrious lights und half-lights. They were flung in tho faces of Democrats during the period of the cum pnign. and politicians did not hesitate to read into them new nroof of nn orgnnbed movement towntd autocracy in Washington. Hut the indictment may not properly be framed against n party or even u group of individuals. It rests flatly ngainst the sort of party practice that gives great authority to men unlit to use it. Mr. Palmer was probably no more cruel, no more blind to the things and principles upon which the honor mid safety of our gov ernment depend thun an) other man of average intelligence. Hut he acquired wrong beliefs nnd cherished them. He seems tn hnve believed firmly that an organized nnd formidable uioiemcnt wus afoot to menace the government and Its arious agencies. Swayed by that unwholesome delusion, he forgot the law. He borrowed the methods of Czarist Hussia and netualH aimed to direct and limit, by federal action, common thought nnd common speech. He considered criticism a crime though the stimulating force of criticism is something that ever) able statesman in this country always recog nized and welcomed. Mr. Palmer was merely nn nmnteur toying with tremendous forces, u,. supplied the renll) malevolent radicals with ammunition viiwii tney could get from no iitljfjBLfili;eo in in- was nearer to nil nlu thnn any man who fans I I'nited States In this e.n. nutl held the nLanAlft lls trv' fiervcM -- w ' --' Bwar ss tiliillll. sum hinrS. Ha nlnrrrm nn.) ,. 1..M " 'iiu iirononnrc- ments were for a time generally biifeved It was not until the country had time for li sober second tl ght that It could reaJlw how futile, how needless nml 1,.,,.. ......... .1..11.. shameful the trnnipUg and throttling and I IUUIIUJ4 iiiMi-uuircs 01 tne nttornev genwuJ really were. ' Neither F.nglnnd nor France permitted, i " "' uercesi ami most perilous daH of the war. such wide departure, from tin fixed principles of law ns have been charged h) able, impartlul and renllv imt.;nii. ngninst he present attorney genetnl of the J I lilted States I BORAH'S WHOLESOME MOVE THC Horah disarmament resolution, wGir was f.ivor.ihl) leporteil by the .ScifaK foreign lel.itions committee yesterday, IU the merit of frank and explicit langiingti. Tlie President is impiiwered to notify tUtt) governments of Great Hritain and .Japan of the desire of the I'nited Suites immediately to begin muni reductions nnd in the end to negotiate a treaty embracing n disarmament agreement. It is assumed that other nations will imitate the policy If three first-class naval lowers inaugurate it. Senator Walsh's effort to amend the reso lution so that 1111 American representative could participate in the disarmament com mission of the League of Nations met with Inevitable failure. Mention of the league In stnnth relives partisan differences. Peace lowrs are wear) of the Injection of politics jnto a subject on which so much unanimity of public sentiment exbts. Adiocntcs ,.f the leogue need not, moic omt. fear thai the Hornh resolution is in effict a thrust at the existing international soeuiv .No movement looking toward noild peace guarantees can really damag'e tho liiigm so long ns thnt organization Ihcs up to its professed principles. Ciiiigie.sioual interest in disarmament is an exieedingly cheerful sign of t. roturn of sanity It may presage period In which quarreling hut commas will not imperil nm bitioiis and sorel) necessary International reforms An Angln-.lapnnose. American naval re duct ion treaty would not in the least In validate the functioning of the league should this eoiintr) ever decide to assiini" member ship obligations. Tin disnnn.iiiient pact coiiiii men iiu registeiq' wjtu the league secretarial. SsVK &, I AS ONE WOMAN SEES IT ' I If Every Citizen Learned the T9Xt of tne Bill of Rights Its Implies , tlons Might Bear Fruit y SAIIAII D. L0WK1E IHAn-ENKD to be stains between two men nt dinner the other evening. They were Interested in discussing the state constitution nnd the pros nnd cons of revision versus nmcndmciit, nnd ns one of the menjind beep on the committee appointed by the' Governor which, so to spenk, sat upon the constitution all Inst winter, his point of view of the document wns very interesting. The other mau Is wlint few of us Americans attain to a putist as to the meaning of words. He is incidentally the president of a very great business; or ganization, where I dnre say his strictness about the carrying power of .words hns its uses. It begnn by his challenging' me to rebut his assertion that the Culled States of America was not n democracy but n repub lic. As I hung buck from the hnttlc. the other man, the lawyer, looking on ready to back him, he shot this question nt me: "What is your Idea of the form of gov ernment of a democracy?" "A kind of town meeting government," 1 faltered. "Exactly, where the people express them selves upon each question by voting! An impossible form of government for anything larger thnn 11 village," was his retort. "Now, then, what is your Idea of a re publican form of government?" I clutched wildly nt tag-ends of floating memories of Ilryce'a "American Common wealth": "The oeonle ileleentc fhelr run. erning nnd legislative power to represen tatives," I faltered. Hut though I felt worsted, I did not yet feel beaten, so I ventured to nsk them if thev rcnlly believed the people in this country had ft fnlr chance to choose who should legl!nte for them: were the) not rather put in the position by the political machines of both parties of having their representatives chosen for them by a few persons who worked behind closed doors, nnd I mur mured something nbout nn olignrchv. They riddled thnt idea with the buckshot of mnscullne common sense. The mat) of business opined that, if the people left It to a few peisons io uirry on the political business of the country while they attended to the business of making money, it wns their own fnult. As well might nbsentcc and forgetful stockholders blame the direc tors of a company for running the business of the company without consulting them between bnnrd meetings. The inn n of low pointed to the constitution not only of the I tilted States of Amerlcn but of the com monwealth of PcutiMiivnuin. and not only to the constitution but to the bill of rights. I wns flippant about the bill of rights being too grandiloquent nnd hoping it would be tinned down In the proposed new consti tution. After I got home I "bad n look" nt both federal and stnte constitutions ns fur ns the sections regarding the rights of citizens nre concerned, aud I concluded that the man of business wus light we hnve enough rights If we only use them. Those granted to us as citizens of the I'nited States arc almost enough to scratch along on : "Ihe I nited States shnll guarantee to every Htnte In the union a republican form of government. (Art. IV-4.1 v "No stnte without consent of the Con gress enn puss mi) law impairing the obli gation of contracts, or ex post facto law. (Art. 1-10.) "Slavery or involuntary servitude, except ns punishment for crime, enn neer be en for 1 within the Ciiltcd States. (Amend- mi-lit xrn. "No state shall make or enforce nnv Inw which shall abridge the privilege or immu nities of citizens of the Cnited Stutes. nor shall any state deprive nny person of life, liberty or property without due process of law. nor deny to nny person within Its juris diction the legal protection of the laws. (Amendment XIV.) "The right of citizens of the Culted States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the Cnited States or by any stato on account of race, color or previous condition of servitude." (Amendment XV.) Hut as I'ennsylvanians we have even more rights than these! Tin first article in the stnte constitution (adopted in 1.S74) is the much-debated bill of rights. 1 stin hold that the language Is grandiloquent, but tlie rights nre nil very solidly ours. Inalienable rights guaranteed to evcrv citizen of Pennsylvania known as the blil of rights. 3. Inherent Itights of Mankind. "All men are born equally free and independent, and have certain inherent and indefeasible rights, among which arc those of enjoying and defending life and liberty, of acquiring, possessing and protecting property and rep utation, and of pursuing their own hap piness." ''. Political Power. "All power is in herent in the people, nnd nil free govern ments are founded on their authority and instituted for their pcice, safety nnd hap pinesH For the advancement of these ends thc have at nil timss mi inalienable mid Indefeasible right to alter, reform or abolish their go eminent In such manner ns they ma) think proper." 3. Heliginus Freedom. "All men have n natursj anil iptlefensible night to worship AlinigMy digs, ttoriling to the dictate of their sm .flfJHlrfri'e j no mnn can of right be ctHiitcrWr,f attend, eicct or support nny plaor tVf srorslilp; or to maintain nnv ministry ngafwt tils consent: 110 hiimnli authority enn. in any cne whntever, con trol or interfere with the rights of con science, and no preference shnll ever be giicn by Inw to nny religious establishments or modes of worship." 1 Hi ligtoug Trsts. "No person who ac knowledges the being of n God nnd a future Htnlc of rewards and punishments shall. 011 ycount of his religious sentiments, be ills llIUicd to hold any office or place of trust w profit under this commonwealth." .j Elections "Elections shall be free wyfl'iual : and no power, civil or mllitnry, slihTI nt mi) time Interfere to prevent the free exercise of the right of suffrage." (1 Vjsjnl hi ,Iur). "Trial by jury shnll be as ftrclofnre, and the right thereof re main rnviolstc." 7 Fn-fdoin of Pre s and Speech Libels. ' Thi'lfrrlliting press shall be free to every person wjio may undertnke to cxnmine the proceedings of the Legislature or nny branch of government, and no law shail ner be made to restrain the right thereof. Tim free communication of though. s mid opinions is one of the Invaluable rights of mini, and any citizen mny freely speak, write or print on nn subject, lining respon sible for the nhuse of that liberty." S. Security From Searches und Seizures. "The people shall be secure in their per sons, houses, papers ami possessions from unreasonable scan lies and seizures, nnd no win rant Io search nnv place or to seize any person or things shall issue without deserlb' ing them as nearly ns may be, nor without probable cause, supportid by onth or affir mation subscribed to bv the affiant." !l. Ex Post Facto Laws. "No ex post facto law. nor any low impairing the obliga tion of contracts, or milking Irrevocable any grunt of special prl. lieges or immunities, shnll be passed." 10. Might to Petition. "The citizens have a right in a peifceable manner to as semble together for their common good, and to apply to those Invested with tlie powers of government for redress of griev ances "or other pinper purposes, by petition, nihlicss or remonstrance." 11. Might to Hear Arms. "The right of the citizens to bear linns in defense of themselves und the stale shall not be ques tioned " 12. Titles and Offices. "The Legisla ture shall not grunt any title of nohlllt) or hcrcditnr. distinction, nor erente nny office the appointment to which shnll be for a nngcr term thnn during good behavior." I suppose If one leiirned the hill of rights I bv henrt Irt could go nbout his ordlniir. I nffnlrs with the loftv milliner of n king and potentate The thing to remember, how ever. Is thnt "' o'lier citizen Is also III. I.... ...,1 ...,llof M i Ami, Mini jivu iivut, - H.-,. p-v lrsy, y llfPt'iiijiCi it-, "u.. "i,.- ". ' ... ",- -en.- ., :,:;. - i' AtijEjCii mamrw ft7N.flrw,Kffl.flGi: y Me Hifl m WW'S , 0& SWC. r . m 'if. I I f 1 1 1 1 ; ! J II 1:::J" iT f.; -" .- .fr" ." . ... ..a" ..- Jj".' . TTli .".- ... i-i NOW MY IDEA 1 Daily Talks With Thinking Philadelphia Know Best C. A. SIMPLER On Necessity of Making Wills THE necessity of mnklng a will, not only for the individual of large means, hut for Hie mnn or woman with n smnll estnte which he or she is nnxioiiH to sec divided in a particular way, is emphasized by C. A. Simpler, trust officer of the Land Title rnd Trust Company. The old beliefs and fears concerning the making of wills nre rapidly being thrown aside, according to Mr. Simpler, who out lines the reusons for will-making nnd the way to go nbout the snme, in conjunction with Mnke-n-Will Day, which Ib being cel ebrated today ns n part of the Thrift Week campaign. "A man or woman going nbrond or on some long and extended trip," .says Mr. Simpler, "thinks very naturally of lenvlng his or her affuirs in good order before they depart, ff only as u common -sense matter or a principle of good business. Death, after nil, is In a sense a long journey with the element of return eliminated. Therefore it is again only just mid reasonable to settle one's affairs before departing, rather than lenvlng them in u hopeless tangle when death suddenly overtakes one. "Hut besides the fundamental advantage in making a will there must also he consid ered the iiinnuer in which thnt will is made. A big trust company such ns outs always urges Its clients to consult reputable lawyers in drawing up their wills. Jl'he reason for this is obvious. There are so ninny small technicalities which crop up in the settlement of mi estate and which mny result in the bequest of the decensed going to some one other thnn when; It wus intended. "These small points uppenl to the legal mind nnd nre not overlooked; thus the pro duction of mi Ironclnd will. Even further thnn thnt. however, it Is often advantageous if the lawyer consults with officials of a trust company, who cun give suggestions of n practical administrative value which may not occur even to the Inwyer unless he has n great deal of special training in respect to wills, gained in sonic branch, such as the. Orphans Court, Cure In Heque.sts to Charities "All wills differ, of course. In one respect or another. Take, for example, the case where the testator wishes to make speclul provision for charities. In this case it Is not unusual that .some small technicality will be overlooked, so thnt no such bcqucbt What Do You Knoiv? QUIZ 1. Of what country was St. aeorgo, tho patron taint of Kngland. native? 2. .Name four famous Semitic peoples In history 3. What animal Is regarded as the nncestor of the Iioim-7 4. When did the Hundred Years' War tnko pbice anil who were the liclllircrei""? B. Who said "Hvery man Is as heaven made him and sumctlinea a good deal wprse" ? C. Who is the present sultnn of Turkey " What Is a chmitry? 8. How many I'nited States national parks an- there-' a. When was the first United .States census taken? 10'. Wliiit Is tho salary of tho Vice President? Answers to Yesterday's Quiz 1. Thu first proclamation of tho German empire of the HohenzolleriiH was made In France In the palace of Versailles on Jauuaiy 18. 1871 2. Benjamin Franklin married Deborah Head, of I'hlUdclphl.i. 3. A itrluu Is a glass showcase for display of fine wares, specimens, etc. 4. President Wilsons secretaries of tha treasury have been William O Mc Adoo, Curler Glass nnd Diivld Frank 11 ii Houston. 0. Grunt, HayiH and Ilenjnmln Harrison wen tint Presidents of the United States who wore full beards. C. Perev H Sic lb i ' roto the famous "Ode to a Skylark." 7. Kilimanjaro, In the cut nil part of Africa, Is thu highest mountain of that conti nent. ItH summit Is I !), 000 feet iibuvo hc.i level s "A snupper-up of unconsidered trifles" Is the description of lilmseii itu n by Autolyctu, I ho peddler In Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale." 'j. Cryolite Is fluoride of sodium and alumin ium, found In Gn.cnl.inil, usually In white cleiivnble masses of waxy luster, much UHeil In sodium, aluminium, etc. 10. M.ilmrajali means a i;reat nijah tTu Juli menus one who reigns from tho Hindu "raj," relgn. Hcsldcnts of a section in New York city known us "Hell's Kitchen," once tough, now quiet and orderly, wunts Its iiamu changed, nnd the World suggests "Quaker town." On tho other hand, iherc are taxi bomb-throwers in this town who seem deter mined Io turn Quakcrtowu into Hull's Kitchen, 1 T NOT C A' i-Z ."-: .Jr"-' - m;,,'", results. For ext. realize the Inw wh to leave part of or.. will So stieelfvlni. imiis not order .ty the i thirty days before the denth 01 jr or this clause of it will be invalid v. ... this portion of the estate will be distributed according to me icmiiie mws 01 mc stutc. "Another requisite that should be remem bered by a person desiring to make a will is thnt he should do so while in possession of the best possible health and mentality, so that no question will be raised after his death as to his competency. "No definite Ulme of life :.t which a win should be drawn up enn be given, nor is there nny pnrtlculnr regularity to 4e found in the nges of those making wflts. They arc drawn up at nil times of life, mid the only me "lie to apply is that the time to make a will is the time when the individual has anything to lenvc. "And this, naturally, brlugs up the matter of the very possible fluctuation in a mn's worldly estate which will require n changed will. It Is not nt all unlikely thnt, nfter mnking his will, a mnn may either. add greatly to his wrnlth or suffer some consid erable loss. And so we have ninny enses of more than one will being made. I know of one mnn who drew up seven wills becnusc of Mich n fluctuation in his worldly fortune. This is especially the case in respect to men of considerable means. Often .Make Trust Company Executor "Men and women of the hitter tvpe very often appoint a trust company as executor and trustee for the business mnniigement of thPir estnte nnd nn individual for tin per sonal interest which that individual would have for the family, "As an interesting sidelight to the ques tion, It Is interesting the confidence that some persons making wills repose in trust companies or in mi indlvidunl executor. I his follows the line of the English solicitor, who Is the only mnn who knows the skele tons In family closets, nnd whose knowledge Is pnssed on to his son nnd so on along. This hns not generally been so In the pnst In '.his country, but Is coming to be more mid more the case. "At all events, the old superstition thnt most women mid some men held in regard to the making of a will us notuol preparation for death s rapidly dying out, nnd a more sane, sensible point of view is being tn'-eu toward this subject, which is such a vital one for the men nnd women of nny com munity. OUR LAND OF OPPORTUNITY IV- I- GorKe In Harper's Magazine. I suipect thnt the only way in which one an obtain n truthful picture of middle west eni psychology is by realizing that the Middle West is still a pioneer country. In n sense, most of America is still pioneering. U i-us only touched the edge of ts mitiira resources; the Individual chances are t inmense, and thnt Is perhaps why socio llir os made In America less i.roBnss tl m i has in Europe. I have been told a i, A i.erlai u mm. of forty has either made hi" way or will never make it nt all. I , ? mean by this that ot forty li " must be m II lonulre. but nt forty he ," list have nehieved'h s position ns director of , corpo ration, maker of chnlr or urtlsnn. nccordln" ralii1 ,n,,"M,- , A' forty he hns ,d h"r failed or succeeded; ns he grows older he will not find himself more respected as e h?' ." i1?"'?1" tr. he knows thm the individual struggle Is hot : he struggles and bus little time for socio! , tic Idea'i Moreover he is born to n birthright tl.nl 1 western European enjoys. An Engl s h 1,3 of seventeen knows pretty wel'wh, he future can give hlin. If he is born In o gentleman class and has monev. he knows hnt he can be prime minister ; If i the ge - lenian class, hut without money, he knows hut he cm, hope to muke ten t., twe.tV thousand dollara-a year in one of the profesT sions anil perhaps in business; but if . is a poor boy who has gone to the national school, he know rfectly well thnt, bar- ring extraordinary accidents, he will always be u small man. an employed man, minor shopkeeper, etc. Thnt Is not the situato n In Amerlcn. Every hoy knows that no I C need stop him. thnt no elnss bar will c,it hiiii off from nny position or any office. I no tics, notably he knows that he has not o fear the rivalry of the old American fnu lies because they stand ,,onf from polities lastly, he knows thnt In the West of I Is country lies land which lias never been trod" den by a wh te foot. Therefore there in resources which he. can tnkc. and, being a normal human being, he tries to secure his shine. In other words, hi is born n pioneer I do not want to exagiternle: many millions of Americans are perfectly content to go , Indefinitely In he occupation they hm" drlfled nto and seek only more wages or more Hilary: hut the thing that mutters is tlie consciousness In the American mind that everything Is open and everything u possible l ."li JE - . - ",,''1"Vr.ui B .-(Ifi.. 'P&JrS, . 7. :,tt '; v -":.. aJfV "1 SHORT CUTS If Holland evicts tho HohtnioBenil they 11 hnvo nowhere to go but out. The weather man suw tn It that Bt Agnes' Eve needed more thnn a Jig leaf. One of 'the trying Incidents of the r blank income tax is the income-tax blank. The bomb-thrower seems determinrd t revise the old maxim to read "Dtsth and taxis." No industrial system can call Itself per fect until there is work for every man who demands it. That money has been banned In Pftro grad is probably simply another inntaoce of the paper shortage. , D'Annunzlo. it Is said, has bfen twice savea irom suicide. Don t despair, (i6. The third time ia the chnrm. Perusal of Hnrrlsburg dispatches tot confirms the. belief that true harmony It wlr possible uftcr n severe licking. The Mayor continues to have the id vantage of not only knowing exactly whit he wants but also bow to go nfter it. If there is harmony in Harrinburg, fht Oliver contingent of the Allegheny rountr delegation has been left in ignorance of the fact. Let us boon that when the new till ordinance is passed It will contain prorliloai tor condolences to bo sent to relatives el future bomb victims. The Chicago aviator who proponed and was ncceptcd at an altitude of MOO fwt broke no record. Many another lorer hu iieeu up in the air at such a moment. The danger thnt Hrlnnd fnro in the matter of reparations is that the belief tbit unit n lont is better thnn no bread may tl suit in France getting nothing more than t uuro cruse. Mr. Cntcrmycr seems to insinuate thit tilings arc not what they seem In we i linrtinent of .TimHee. It mnr he. of course, that lie Is simply confounding a palmer villi n prestidigitator. s, rl. I....... ., nnln l.tn. c.n..c ll.nl IS ft . ...s.isj" r ifiiiiiu H Du. o int.. mw -- i mnnd for onions hns almost doubled since proamnion went into eitect, out tans w lighten us ns to whether this Is due V rctormnllon or desperation. Messages to MayoffMoorc and Chalrmil . ,,. pt-i-tu ui iiuiii-iihciiui nriitti.ii s... vi llas discovered that ofie tiethod of apiwarlil to have one's own wnytjs heartily to aire ...lal. t. ...I I.. . k.I.a twin must- woo ri-iuse ru i oinirniin-c. 11 Is not enough thnt the nation shall painfuny right itself after the passing of tM present industrial depression ami unit ui'w shall he ns "well ns ever." The M11 leurned will be in vain if conditions urc nof "better than ever." Tnlent brought out by the Limping Limerick contest encourages the hope toil the public conferences to be innuguraira w the Chamber of Commerce will bring an ni swer to the social, economic. Industrial inj fiunnclul conuiidrum, "Why Is a homim sliortagu.' ' The fact that latchkeys art,Mnictinif lost, thus cnusiirg fheonvenlence, "".: ,,1 objection that nt once presents ,''.'' Senator Woodward's suggestion ht 'Df.r be issued u vtst-pocket-lotehKeyauUJ-u cense-tng mid, of course, that is realV " objection at nil. Iflmt Pennsylvania lends Amrrlea AincMcn leads the world In tne uxo "" " berctilosis is no certain Indication that creri thing Is belnIone that should be done. the fact leiiita acute interest to tne ""r, cure of the Pennsylvania Tnbcrculosii ciety In thfci city. A woman bandit In Chicago, after rob blng a young jimn while she held "'J. J1?1? of a long knife at his ribs, demandid tnj give her a kiss, jie had imnueo in -- vilunbles, but nt this lsilnt he fled. H wry properly. This blamed femln t M' ikss tins gone jurt about iar runus" The state legislation Hint will ma' '' possible for the city to llnnnee "'.? provemeutH will go fm-in the right jllrc tion. it will provide work for the iiiiunipWl "' the imm put to work will spend money, ' providing work for others at l'rnpUS;,B( .loved. It Ik hut the start of a beuflK", circle. Incidentally, It should be nolfd M when work is found for the utfcmP'Wi'S necessity on the pnrt of the workers anwf no excuse to the municipauiy. sum- i try nt large for cutting Mages below " The one, virtue ot employing ii en "V'lA works in hnrd times' is In puttjsg 'A circulation,- T'v- -. .-1 fCw "V- -" Y J. izant -:. gy'""'- . VSSP. "-s " S t .
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