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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.
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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
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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,
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to leave part of or..
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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
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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,-
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