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VtiatitT. r.bm.ry 0. 11 JOB COMBINE'S LATEST PLOT rlE failure of the Job Combine to weaken the determination of Mayor Moore to Veep bla administration free from a partner Mp with the ponderers to the vicious has made desperate tha men who wish to secure protection for gambling houses and other disorderly resorts. They can't get the police to let up on the WiOTts. But they think they can hamstring thapoUce. Tola Is why Representative Sowers, of the Sixteenth ward, ha.i been induced to offer n SD In tlie Legislature restricting the Juris gifon of the magiAtrnU. Under the law ns it ntnnrts the juusdirtlon t every magistrate extends throughout the whole city. When a disorderly resort in one part of the city Is raided the parsons ar ranted may be taken before a magistrate in ny other part of the city, and bo held or dismissed according as the evidence Justifies. When arresta arc made in the Twentieth ward, for example, it Is not necossarj to taJto the prisoners before a magistrate who la part of the ward machine which may be interested in a policy of tolerance toward -rlciocs resorts if not proGtiug by protection of sach resorts. Snch a maglHtratc would dismiss the prisoners and they would laugh at tha police and go back to the places they frequent and resume their old occupation. This has happened in the pat when there was no disposition In the City Hall to keep the city clean. The Sowers bill would limit the jurisdic tion of a magistrate In cases of arrest with out warrant that is, in the cases of pris oners taken in a raid to the district in which he wan elected. If it should be panted "try the Legislature the Job Combine would And It eosior than it is now to nocure Im munity for those abhorrent intercuts which xre seeking protection. No sophistical arguments which may be advanced in support of the proposed amend JBtnt ought to deceive the Legislature. The parpoao of tho bill in not to protect the rights of the innocent, but to make it easy for the guilty tn escape. When this is ex plained in Harrlsburg no lcgitdator interested In cleanliness In the city's government will vote for it. But even if It should be passed tho Mayor will not bo wholly powcrlens. He is a magis trate himself, with Jurisdiction as wide as the city. If the pollen aro forbidden to take prisoners arrested without warrant in one district before n magistrate in another dis trict there Is nothing which will prevent them from taking the prisoners before the Mayor sitting as a magistrate. The determination of the Mayor to keep tree from everything that savors of a part nership between vice and the city govern ment is so fixed that it is morally certain if everything else failed he would exercise the magisterial powers conferred on him by the charter and thus defpat the purposes of thone who are plotting for their own profit to Meare a wide-open town. BAROMETRIC BOX OFFICES BAROMETRIC theatre prices arc dix countenanced in a new bill in Harrisburg. which Axes a penalty for advanced ndmls slon rates on Saturdays, holidays or other occasions when public patronage is espe cially flourishing There. Is probably not much hope for the measure, judging by past efforts upon kin dred lines. Legislation han been powerless against the ticket speculation nuisance. Bills aiming to abolish it hnvn either been too meek to produce results or elso have failed. The shifting of theatre prices, which is now widely prevalent, raises a nice point. Mer chants do not hesitate tn adjunt price tags from day to day, and the custom is rather favored than deplored. Without movable rates there would be no bargain days. In the theatres the situation is compli cated by the fact that the tradition of the ntra prices constant throughout at least a wetk at a time is very ancient A good many members of the public still cherish tho illusion that the old order is maintained. Hsnco tho dismay at fluctuations in the box office. AMERICA AS CREDITOR FI8 evident, und not in the least a cause for diima), Unit sentiment will not gov ern the question of the indebtedness of the allied nations to the thilted States The problem Is one of practical economics and finance, the difficulties of which would only be confused by theorizing upon the motives which ld this country to become m, large a creditor. Altruists, seeking to enforce their argu ment by an assumption of lennlngs toward the practical, hnvc characterized th" debt fta an American contribution to th war, as nu offering to victory ns much as men or arms. k fancy picture is also painted of the flood of European goodn destined for our shores as a consequence of a Hurnpenn industrial revival, necessarj for the discharge of the left. While this conception has been to some extent fostered abroad, the moral argument is more popular there. Suggestions of the cancellation of the debt, one of which, ac cording to Scoreturr Houston, has already been rather pertinently made by a foreign nation, are based upon the purposes and re nlt of the war and the present bankruptcy if the Old World following colossal sacrifice. Bnt the motives behind the conflict, In cluding those which animated America, are far too complex to be decided in this offhand way. Furthermore, the hngc armament bur dens now deliberately carried by Mine of the major European countries render the cry of unavoidable poverty somewhat uncon vincing. No sane Amerlcau will claim that any nvenopoly of righteousness exists In his country. It Is indisputable, moreover, that unsettled conditions and vast new repsonsl blllUcs opernto against the wholesale reduc tion of armies and fleets. It Is natural, too. for Britain, France and the rest to seek fWj tho United States the least oneroux of Vancial terms. ut fXT legitimate American &Ifi, Interest is unquestionably on the sldo of the enforcement of the original contract. Such a policy appeals to common sense, which in this Instance is a much more reliable guide Uinn speculation about ethical questions for which n yet no completely reassuring an swer has been found. Acknowledgment that the relationship of debtor and creditor is not in Itself reprehen sible should absolve the United States from the charge of harshness or greed. DANIELS AND A LAND ADMIRAL AND SOMETHINQ NEW IN DUELS Would the Naval Secretary and the Army's Only Seaman Rlak Their Lives In Vain? ONCE in every little while, when the voice of III Johnson Is not heard in the land and the ranking diplomatists of Europo go nway to the Riviera to rost, thero cornea on Interval in which It is poBslblo to believe that there yet may be some hope for thU civil Izcd, so to speak, world It doesn't last Some one Is always snatching the Joy out of life. Now the snatcher happens to be Secretary Daniels. When Mr. Daniels shouldered briskly into tho foreground to challenge Becrotary Baker and Admiral Mitchell the army's only ad miral, tool to a superduel of a sort In tended to determine the relative killing power of battleships and airplanes, ho showed how far and how swiftly the fevers of war can spread. Tho secretary of the navy used to be n pacific man with a rationalist's hatred of futile slaughter. Mr. Baker didn't talk of plowshares mado from swords. But he thought of thorn Blithely now these two good men talk of deadly combat' Tho spectacle suggested in Mr. Daniels' challenge certainly would bo one to lift the hearts of men. On the front piazza or Is It the battle porch? of a great Bhlp of war tho secrotary of the navy would stand alone and defiant. His vessel would be alive. He would make her dart from left to right and from right to left and to and fro and fro and to. whllo aloft in the cerulean, flickering and flashing on silver wings, Mr. Baker or tho army'fl only admiral would maneuver to drop nn annihilating bomb on the gallant craft and its proud navigator. There would be, of course, the pittor patter of great guns handled by those of the ship's crew who had not been ordered to the basement. And in the offing, on n, decorated barge, the Senate foreign relations committee and all the war investigating committees of the House nud the Great Oligarchy itself would kneel in prayer, beseeching the heavens for a bit square in the chimney of Mr. Daniels' craft or a shot adequate to give Mr. Baker to the ages The Senate Oligarchy would, of course, pray for two hits simultaneously delivered. A great spectaclot But It would prove nothing Mr Daniels' ship might skid under him. Mr. Baker might fall out of bis airplane, and then the Senate Oligarchy might be moved to violate all the proud tra ditions of deep waters by refusing to save life at son. Tho trouble with the reasoning of Mr. Daniels and Mr Baker is tlint it is con cerned with effects rather than with causes, with surface manifestations rather than with the origins of tilings. Both are in their way excellent men. Some timo or other in the far future tho country will admit that they really pat un over, militarily speaking, in the great war. Many people have forgotten that there ever was a war. But thero was one, and it was very widely discussed and much was written about It in the newspapers of 1014- 101S. Is it to be supposed that Mr. Daniels and Mr. Baker and the army's only ndmiral are nmong those who need to be referred to the files? Have they forgotten nil the evi dence Indicative of better wnys to peace than that now suggested aud better schemes of target practice? There, for example, is Colonel Repington, most eminent of all tea-table warriors in Great Britain and one of the most gifted and tireless press agents for the "next war." How many pounds of TNT, exploded at close range, would be necessary to destroy the Invincible sang frold of Colonel Repington, and how many rounds of heavy ammunition would be required to silence his innumerable Imitators? If. as Mr Daniels observes coldly, the American army has the only land nilinlral alive why should we expose him in cold blood to forces so violent ns those normally concentrated In a battleship? The man might be seriously hurt Meanwhllo, it is possible to find In every country new hate-singers, newly Inspired propagandists of wars, plotters and counter plotters. It Is odd that hitherto no one has suggested that they be put In a boat and sent out to sea, where air fighters might practice on them at leisure. In Berne. Genova, PariB, Pragup, Hel singfors and such like places there are now many, many dukes, counts, barons and princeH. They are not pleasant dnkes, counts, barons and princes. They alt pa tiently In clumps and cat five meals n day and weep Into their liqueurs becanso the armies of tho world nre not being mobilised to restore to them the peace und ecstasy of other days. They mourn bitterly for old times at dear old Klshnov, when one lashed one's peasants in the morning for exercise or turned out the hounds to hunt democrats along the beautiful Volgi.. One admiral In the army is worth a great deal more to civilization than all these waiters-around-for-war. They might be lashed together and sent out upon the bound ing waves, and if an aviator could drop one good bomb on them the world would In that Instant profit more than it ever could hope to after a thousand duels between the secre tary of war und the secretary of the navy. At Berne. Geneva, Paris. Prague and HeMngfors and such like places whero the counts and dukes and barons und princes weep Into their HqueurB there are, too, hordes of furtive and professional liars who go to Incredible pains tn get poison Into the news in order that the red winds that blow out of hell may again be turned loose over unsuspecting nations. It Is clear that the people nt Washington do not take these people seriously enough and that Paris and London hove not yet found nn efficient method of dealing with them. They, too, might be assembled by some act of inter national authority and sent to sea while the bands played, and thereby the best sort of target would be available for practice sniping with slxteen-inch guns. Why waste Mr. Daniels or Mr. Baker o the only admiral that any army ever had while these other folk are at largo? Why should Mr. Dnnlels risk the Great Socrlfice to prove that his staff knows more nbout the needs of naval warfare than General we mean Admiral Mitchell? Why, In other words, talk endlessly of the means of fight ing war while nil the people who make a business of stnrtlng wars arc left to work out their plans unhindered? The battleship which Mr. Dnnlels has offered to navigate as a target for army aviators might, by chance, be blown up or tho air machlno carrying the army's only ndrairol might be rendered into dust with one shell, yet we should know nothing of the relative value that such devices may have in a future International riot. Nobody can know with certainty how to stop any war, But by this time people ought to know how to prevent it It la properly jrtntended by Mr. Daniels that airplanes arlfoo match for naval yes- sels. A battleship viewed from au altitude of S00O feet looks like nothing so much as a floating toothpick. Aviators havo hit ships with bombs. But their success was almost Invariably accidental. Fighting ships arc equipped with anti-aircraft batteries of ex traordinary range and efficiency. The navi gator of an alTplane who got low enough to have one chance In a thousand to hit a warship squarely wouldn't live long enough to pull the triggers of his bombing mechan ism. It is possible to understand Mr. Daniels' fierce partiality for dreadnoughts when It Is remembered that heavy vessels are particu larly useful to any country which Is given to viewing war as an net of defense. Such ships have much of the solid utility of for tification, and they have, besides, enormous power of aggression and an ability to movo swiftly when the need arises. But they will have to contend with something more deadlv than an ordinary airplane in any future war. What that something will be no one knows. It may be some terrible device steered through tho nlr or under the water by wire less. It may bo a variation of any one of the terrible devices that governments and chemists nre working at in bee ret. And, similarly, fighting ships thcmeolves may soon be fitted tn wipe out whole nlr fleets without half trying. 80 the duel between Mr. Daniels and the nrmy's only admiral would be whollv futile. It would be too much like a duel with flint lock pistols. DR. BROOME AND HIS TASK DR. E. C. BROOME'S election to the su perlntcndcncy of public schools not only ends n lamentable and unnecessary deadlock in the Board of Education, but it emphasizes the high responsibilities of leadership. I The new incumbent faces a difficult but not an unconquerable situation. Among the afflictions of the city's educational system are too much politics and too littlo money for legitimate needs. Dr. Broome is not called here to supply the latter defect. Ilia duties nre administrative. The community welcomes him and will support Lira In any effort to reduce pestiferous Interference and political maneuvering by the board to a minimum. Courage and competence can solve the school problem so far as the execu tive side is concerned. The door of a great opportunity is open, and a public heartily sick of alternate cross-purposes and inani tion is privileged to entertain hopes that a change is in prospect. The deplorable state of the materials with which Dr. Broome is summoned to work arc largely a matter for legislative action. In his report to the Board of Education, Acting Superintendent Wheeler reviews the case ex pertly and In detnil More money is sought, of coarse. Knowl edge that the whole state educational sys tem is insufficiently financed is not confined to the working official. But Dr. Wheeler supports his claims with sound argument, in which the intricacies of the case arc clearly recognized. The Im portance of properly adjusting appropria tions to the several items In the right rela tionship is properly emphasized. "To spend less than is necessary." declares Dr. Wheeler, "may bo quite as uneconomical ns to spend more than Is necessary Good Judgment con cerning the purposes for which money Is spent is quite ns needful as tho introduction of n policy of llbernllty." Tho conventional theory that the present fixed rate of taxation Is adequate for school needs because the revenue thus secured grows from year to year is offset by the fact that "the growth of the school system has been most extensive where the costs are great est. " This may readily be seen in the remarkable development of high schools within the last decade. Six additional high schools hnvo been erected since 1010, and with one ex ception all nre of comprehensive type, offer ing a wide variety of courses for study. The changed situation stresses the obligation of the Legislature to readjust the school tax und to bo generous with appropriations. High schools, however, are only a part of the general problem of education reconstruc tion in Pennsylvania. The lack in some In stances of suitable buildings, wasteful ar rangement of classes and ineffective distribu tion of teaching forces arc other aspects of the case which calls alike for open-handed-ncso and nn intelligent conservation of re sources. Fortunately, the analysis of conditions in Philadelphia deals practically with questions of administration and expenditure which arc of the utmost Importance to the community. PROF. WENDELL'S DEATH BARRETT WENDELL, professor emeri tus of English litcraturo in Harvard University, who died yesterday, was one of the moat distinguished American men of let ters as well as one of tho most successful teachers of literature. He was one of the fifty members of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, elected by his peers. This academy has been ridiculed and belittled with slight justifica tion. It was organized in order that wen who have done notable things in art, music or literature might honor the greatest of their number. The National Institute of Arts and Let ters. which contains 250 members, elects periodically men who hove achieved distinc tion. Joseph Hergeshelmer was recently ad mitted to the National Institute because of the quality of his novels. Membership of the academy is Tecruited from tho member ship of the Institute. On its rolls now oie the names of John Singer Sargent, Woodrow Wilson, Brnnder Mntthews, George Edward Woodberry, George DoForrcst Brush, Owen Winter, Augustus Thomas, William Roscoe Thayer. William Gillette and Ellhu Root. At the tlmo of his death William Dean now clls was the chancellor. To be Included In this company is nn honor of which any American might be proud, for it involves recognition of merit beyond the ordinary by men whose Judgment is sound and worthy of respect. This camo to Professor Wendell after years of strenu ous pursuit of the higher Ideals in his own work and years of effort to persuade others to appreciation of tho best In the literature of tly English language. BRITAIN IN PALESTINE TnE draft of the British mandate for Palestine, which will be submitted to the League of Nations at Its noxt meeting, plainly Indicates that acceptance of the plan will give sovereign powers to the national trustees The widest measure of self-government Is promised, religious and racial claims are to bo protected and Jewish im migration, in execution of the Zionist pro gram, Is to be facilitated. Critics of tho way In which the Peace Conference treated the problem of the for mer German possessions can, of course, argue that something very UKe n new colony has been added to the British empire But tho whole plan Is not one whoso virtues or de fects can be discovered by theorizing. The mandate system is experimental It con tains possibilities of national aggrandizement and possibilities of the establishment of a new order In countries whose absolute Inde nondence Ih not generally approved, Disputes under the mandate regimo which are not settled by negotiation aro to be sub mitted to the league's international court of justice. If. when that tribunal Is organ ized. It nttalns virility and actual authority, the sincerity of tho various mandatories will be tested and their motives will bn lit for survey. , As a tip to the overmodest, it may be noted that the man whd aVfcs for everything' In sight usually geb ,sommni. AS ONE WOMAN SEES IT Occasionally Lover of Art Long for Something Eli as Some Fleeting; Observations of Galleries and Stunt Night Demonstrate By SARAH D. LOWRIE fTlRIAL by Jury Is "some trlaL" when.it X comes to passing on some thousands of paintings in a few days and choosing, from the lot tho few hundreds that the present Academy of the Fine Arts will hold. The physical fatigue quite opart from the mental blankness that must overtake even the sturdiest of the artist judges after the first thousand must be "almost decapitat ing" I 'One realizes that the freaks that get past the Jury into tho show come along when most of the poor things are wall eyed and nauseated and can only wave fceblo hands of faint protest, I heard of a Jury not long ago that got so worn out that they sent out word to the picture shifters to only tote in every other canvas, and they let the rest go unseen. But one has only to go to a picture exhibi tion where there has been no Jury to realize what a lot the public Is saved by having even a tirecT-out one. IN LONDON I went to one In the Albert Hall jammed with paintings of artists that felt they bad been discriminated against and who not up n show of their own. Any one could exhibit who paid 1. It was a nightmare of mediocrity. Imnglnc nil the pictures out of all the hotel bedrooms you have over slept in or anv one has ever slept In framed In heavy gilt and hung in compartments covered with red baize that di vided Albert Hall into hundreds of little rooms. Imagine hundreds of pictures of sheep, of flowers, of ladles, dressed and undressed, of etony-eyed men and gutta-percha chil dren, of still life, of beaches and mountains and croquet games and hay ricks. All hung on red baize in and out of little com partments I You longed for a cubist or a fourth di menslonist to cut the awful sameness of the sentiment. You would have bought a "prlsmatlst" right off the walls for the re lief of one clear clash of color. But tho Bolshevists were holding another secession ist show somewhere clso for less thou a pound each, so one sighed and moaned through acres of English sentimentality, until something gave way in the mind and one made a bolt for the exit. POOR as in the taste of an art jurj , it is 100 per cent better than none nt all. So do not let us curse the poor tired things as we walk about the present Academy show. Let us be kinder to them than the 6tudcnts are, for instance. Let us remem ber what they have spared us, that the art students would havo ndmlrcd. However, I like art students for everything but their art. They are an interesting lot those bojs and girls who nre studying to pnint, if you do not have to be polite nbout what they paint. The other night I went to n studio party and sat nmong thpm for some hours and was greatly entertained by them and in their company, for we laughed together over the amusing doings of some older folk who were fellow guests. To reach the place we plunged down a dark alley protected by posts in what corresponds, I suppose, to our Latin quarter not far from Cnmac street. We climbed to a big loft over a warehouse that is tho studio end the workshop for toy making of two desultory young artists. Miss Dorothy Stewart and Miss Otey Williams, who were our hosts as well ns the im presarios of the evening's uplift. THE toys made or in process of becoming were strung along the beams and, as Innes Forbes, who moved out of the gloom to sit next to mc. remarked, the stuffed ele phants hung like Jorge teeth dental signs In the shadows of the rafters. A drop cur tain of very moth-eaten blankets was hitched across one end of the room on wires, the cleared, place on the floor for a stage vns fenced about with bulky properties be longing to the toy making, a starred patch work quilt formed the back drop and the scenery was of fluttering shreds. We sat on anything handy, except chairs, and as the place hos no visible means of heat, some of us brought our oil stoves, which burned purringly in the dark corners and made n sort of ring of warmth. Sometimes the audience got up ono by one and enjoyed themselves on tho stage: sometimes there whs what appeared to be a more or less rehearsed program. That is, the play tho three Biddle slaters gave was .written by Gcorginn Biddle and played by nil three. But as It had only been completed that afternoon. It was read some what wondcrlugly by Constnnw and Alice Biddle and prompted uncertainly by the author when she was off the stogo. It was very, very funny really funny both as to its wit nnd ns to its acting. Tho other somewhat preconcerted item on the night's progrum was a Bab Ballad acted In pan tonine. The audience never knew who tho actors wero because they woro masks painted on hat forms by Otey Williams. Those masks wero dreadfully clever, much more so than nnv picture she is Hablo to paint or toy she has yet Invented. That Is the characteristic of those art students and young artiste what they do for fun Is so much better and more worth whllo than what they do In earnest. FOR Instance, there was a young Danish chap there, named "Jo" MIcMncr, who took off two of the Academy professors, painters of no less fame than Mr. Henry McCarter and Mr. Garbcr. He did it with u finish and perception and accent that, put into a painted portrait, would make him famous. I discovered afterward that ho is not all Dane. His grandmother is nn Irish woman who, oddly enough, has lived in Paris most of her life and writes for the French Journals under the slgnaturo of "Frcnd. She is over seventy and got to the front at the battle of the Marno and covered her assignment with the best of them. Two Russian artists danced for us; ono they called for short Lola LomiRch and tho other Is nn army officer nnmed Parflellef. wha had been alde-dc-camn for fSenernl Denekln nnd who escaped via Siberia after tho defeat. He has among his few be longings, nfter that dangerous trip, a book of photographs that he has taken himself of the "terror" that beggars description for awfulness and horror He Is a very serious vniini? chan. but he did for uh the nnh- happy thing ho knew to do In English danced n peasant dance. There was a Japanese there, too. who did something that in Japan is meant to seem like the flying of a bird. It certainly would add to tho gnyety of nntions ! BESIDES tho artists there were art pa trons, oven nrt critics Mr. Langdon Warner very kindly obliged with an Im promptu bogplpe solo. He dressed In kilts and bare legs in what might be called the twinkling of nn eye. They were his own legs, but not his own skirt! Miss Joline sang topical songs, dressed In her brother's khaki, and Miss Gertrude Ely In some one'o little hat sang a inuslc-hall ditty of piercing shrillness. Even I obliged seated on a minute stool nt a toy piano. In fact, it was a very happy, mcrrv party, every one mimicking some one else! The next day I listened to two anxious matrons discussing what they should do to entertain their guests nfter some dinners they were giving. The dinners would cost nbout $100 each, and if they took boxes for the play thoy would be considerably out of pocket, but they could not contemplate doing nothing! It never occurred to them tn turn their guests to nmuslne themselves. and the guests not being art students might not have taken to stunts with gay abandon. Terhops, too, an elaborate dinner does not entico ono to perform. At the studio party what our hostesses called the "eats" came afterward. We enjoyed them heartily, tmlni' Imnirrv from cavetv and verv much at liome with one nnothpr, even with the Japanese nnd the Armenian whom we laughed at and who laughed back at us. Sympathy for Germany nowadays Is on . nn, with the maudlin svmnathv which prompts women to send flowers fo condemned ictons. , ., . - v. I I I rffSrv A , 1 Wbytt s itfi 1' ?'& .. Nav f .J.- v.-. " mr':' , . -'j 1 .4ftJ.. (w 'jM t'ittrMvtjt 7lBnBMHn j -e?7Yl ' .view- r 7JrjM. FmB r, 411 nWKlmi2iMtlFLr9ym "l" JPTAmn IBf Hh sWCIXJIJUUiliH f aikiisVPULK WrmSKk Wt WSBx I'M. WW ,v t. p-' -..MTppirgSffiwraty MS t ""Jfl " o Tin - 1 si -nil wlk "TtlfiiffrKiBaL if T "rri I fW ..... ' till IK: ,,.,,p-f;. xp&iM fwT'ifttlBStmN mr P- I'-WCt "'SJ ," Mil liVrnr ii iiiyriMtfnMffifflnsiTwHllf n IfiT? Jn- vutu fri ilr - rtrv.."1"1 osfijSrRSufi'ff " ; yf'-itua ""''"iMflfciiiB&PvnlaHSIsKrJ ?Tt3ir vi'itit--j ' .'- -,-, lkc 7MMtftal&!?v , , n--, '-- "-- r .mrr ,. .u-vPii"---- ;-a,i- r.1.:-giK3i- . '"WSt--' rrr'Msi.. '-.tir,. -I'nRjwHi".... -.... u,tntr.,r.. if. - '' '-W rr ' cr::;nI'' "" Jicu.'irvvT "'1'"- , f'pA- "'-" .- ..- u3T V -ltmrT?Tlr . ... .- "n;,!,,, "-slgi.'.- -.!. -li.JJ-. J1 ." ,? jF. "i- -tf '- r: - ,, . '-"'riucainrr..,;, -"" "- - rw.- ..? tr3 & f NOW MY IDEA IS THIS Daily Talks With Thinking Philadelphia on Subjects They Knotv Best N. B. KELLY On Daylight Saving LEGISLATION, either national in scope or at least for tho eastern zone, should be enacted for daylight saving, nfnrdI"i? .J0 N. B. Kelly, executive secretary oMne Phil adelphia Chamber of Commerce, which Is ad vocating local daylight saving. The reasons for the passago of sum legislation are so numerous and the oWec tlonH arc so weak, in the "Pinion of Mr. Kelly, that public opinion should be firmly behind the movement. The features of health, increased production nnd the reduc tion of bills for electric light and gas arc a few of the points brought out by Mr. Kelly in his defense of daylight saving. "So nmny good reasons can be adduced end have been presented that it Is difficult to understand why the rather weak reasons brought forward by some of the agricultural Interests should stand In the way of the enactment of a law either national In scope or nt least for the eastern zone. "For instance, our investigations in this section of the country-, which led to thP Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce joining with the Merchants Association of New York nnd other big eastern commercial or ganizations in this move for the establish ment of nn eastern daylight-saving zone, have brought us such Information as this: "The extra hour of daylight available for healthful outdoor recreation tends to Improve the health of the worker, und so enables him to produce more and to be more contented In nis work, factors of vital importance in theso dnys of unrest nnd underproduction. This is especially true as daylight saving makes for more working hours during the cooler part of the day nnd reduces acci dents. It has been determined as a result of accurate studies that the majority of Indus trial accidents occur during the closing hours of the day. when artificial light Is required. Adding the extra hour of daylight will tend to reduce such accidents. "Because of Increased production ns a direct result of Improved efficiency of the worker. "Daylight saving conserves coal and re duces bills for electric light and gas, and last, but not least, permits the cultivation of home gardens. Indorsed by Medical Men "Daylight saving also is unqualifiedly in dorsed by the medical profession. "The American Medical Association, the National Tuberculosis Association nnd other medical organizations hnvc adopted resolu tions strongly favoring daylight saving; j What Do You Know? QUIZ 1 What is th original meaning of quaran tine? 8. Who was Henry Purcell? 3. Whell did Oencral Ornnt maUo his famous tour of the world? 4 Who were tho original Huns? 6. What Is tho name of tho period from one moon to the next? 8 On what river Is Vienna located? 7. What are the colors of pimpernels'' t. How many years did Washington live nfter th expiration of hln last term? ft When did the American Revolution break out? 10 What Is a rurxo? Anowers to Yesterday's Quiz 1 Ducnos Aires should be pronounced "llwenos nye-raco." 3. Aubrey Vincent Ueiu-dsley was a noted English nrtlst In black and white. Ills dnteo nro 1872-1898. 3, Cuba wan the lan?st Island discovered by Columbus on his first voyage to the New World. 4 Only one American President. John Adams, was really elected by the Fed- crnlluts. WaRhlnirton, although a Fed eralist, received In both elections tho total electoral vote, s Chalcedony Is precious stone of the quarts kind, with many vnrlelles, ns agate, cnrnellan and c.lirHoprnse 0 The scene of Shakespeare's "Tim Taming of tho Shrew" Is laid In Pnrt.ua, Italy. and the nearby country 7 Count Cojilmlr I'ulaskl wan n famous 1'ollnn aenerni. ue ioukiii on tho Amer. lean side In the American Revolution and wnB mortally wounded ncur Ho vnnnnh In 1710. 8. The greater number of rhododendrons nre natlvo to temperate North America although a tow small species nre found in Continental Kurope nnd Plhprln 9. Two Important battles of the Russo- Japanese war were Llao-jung nnd (Mukden. 10, The selsmotrraph is the Instrument used in (nvtumii VKiMKiunrvcVi ALUS WELL THAT ENDS WELL vmrmntiamjmmKijiammmr iv - ""-T-r--"' nir-7Jr?'--w " --V V nnd thousands of physicians and hospital superintendents have testified to the hcalth i ,Ye,nc"ts derived from the extra hour of lU..lf,iU, By far the greater proportion of milk that 1CS (0 tlllS CltV 1U Tint cl,lr.r....l I... .U. comes dairy farmer direct, but is delivered by him ,, 1,1 ltlirr"liig stations of the great milk- distributing companies. It la tl,nr,.fn ..! necessary for the dairy farmer to time the operation of milking with n view to shipping the milk on an enrly morning train. wm"(',, 'Is tl,c18''PP,''K is only to a small degree performed by him. .Hr.',"0,1' m "" .'""k Producers who do ship i tu,0.t,,e mil,t distributors In the city ?hi.w mvp n Rnthprlng organizations of their own would undoubtedly be Ineon venlci.ced. but not to such an extent as to inflict any substantial loss ; but the number of these is so small as to he negligible, as fwi?'1 wi,th ,hc vnst n,,ml)er benefited bv daylight saving, "It is possible for tho agricultural workers to adapt their work to a change of hours. It is not possible for city workers mni? ,?, nfcnllR0, tho hours during which fti .1 ,l',,'lr .wor.k ra,!Bt bo Performed, ns PrescrfbneT;ly,iVbnnk,nK P"atlon3' Local Option Theory Fallacious 2El S(lvi,1i ,vou,d mcet the needs of various parts of the state and satisfy nvcry body is fallacious. It would satisfy" nobod v. Mthe 00"trnr it would lead to Into. .M f"sIn'? '" """'"d movement and would Inconvenience many millions of per sons every yeur. "Wo have therefore recommended the reduction of the months of daylight saving from seven to five, which should remove a lrr,fcr?i,!it-le W" hitherto raised by industrial Interests. In the face of this array of facts Is itronrgBlrg,eda?"dflyl,Kht 8aV'nB ' b?,n ' WHY AMERICANS TALK W. L Oeoriri. In Harper' lUMimiinf. iKil(,nflTis.,a,"10Rt "nlveraal In America; iL.iK ' ,n,r mnnthfl T Mllocted onlv thrco deliberotp rudenesses, though, doubt less, I deserved many more. I have found everywhere assistance and, what the JKT1"0 '"-l'. information. Some times I hnvc found a little ton much, for the American does not always realize how- l0i?i.l!li,he 1tr"nKer '" ,his '""nense, com plicated system, and so burdens him with detail. The American is often quiet, hu fcircir i !" onnv',rs',Ion- nnd. on the whole, it is better that people should talk too much than too little; this contrlhiiteM to general sociability and ease of n ter" co,n u i A1"0-, conversation help, n mn ,0 exhibit himself. Very fw 0f ' ever u tempt to discover what the other mi n th,nfei! u0 ttk Vns ,n RiHftt t'kta whit we think; this help, ,ls to (icovr n we really think. I suspect that the Amer- ienn, more than any other kind of mot, his mind being filled with a v? mTor physical Impress nns, nerds conversation to sort out these impressions. Rurdened l" certain forms of national pride, local pride and personal pride, by old puritanic vews and new efficiency views, by sentiment ami by ruthlessness, he needs conversatlo ins n sort of clearing house. H n THE DREAMERS QN THE uttermost rims of creation, ", J he ends nf the seven seas. lBnnWltV,!,;!.rnn,,t1' For they toll with the hearts of homes and v . ,i T ii",SPr f,nr''orne In tlir r S or IT tuXsh """ "r.,iT-.s;M-,,lSi- -- lfiflFAnu n ma ... Is the death of the toul of the dreamer oe the hurt lu a woman's heart T -JSdaiynd Unofl Jai thjW y, gUn, And n few will achieve their purnoM. ,,i a few will go down tn death ' " '' Aml "J,;?.:,...!'",' '""ttnlned But those l,n anTlcft tl'co'n ueWih, : mm-mm ; tOfSWim vniiniFHEiiiis SHORT CUTS Lost, strayed or stolen The winter of 1020-21. The leather scandal seems to prove that the profiteer has a tough hide. It is astonishing how much Austen Chamberlain resembles Brummagem Joe, Ms father. The egg market has more than one demonstrated that Humpty Dumpty It a false fable. An appropriate motto for the city com missloners might read, "Charters scrapped while jou wait." One thing bridge boosters must not forget: A bridge may be double-crowed be fore it is built. All gangsters arc adept at fighting fire with fire; and nfter every bump they re form to fight reform. Secretary Daniels doesn't think murti of General Mitchell as a bomber; but pcrhnpt Secretary Daniels doesn't know when no is hit. As a bridge can't bo crossed until it i built, Congress did the next best thing. Having reached the Delaware bridge bill, it passed it. Every political boss is a faithful rcpre sentatlvc of the people who made him. If you had no hand In the making of him. blame yourself. We might work up a little sympathy for Germany In her present plight if we didn't need nil we have for her victims, who are still suffering becauso of her misdeeds. Wc nro convinced that one reason why local traction problems remain so long un solved Is that the Skipper of the Toonervllle Trolley has ucvor been called Into consul tation. The Rhode Island State College has dis covered a fertilizer that will grow grass but kill weeds. Protesting against such dis crimination, wo may now expect a roar from the dandelion. Now that tho army has been reduced we may'confldcntly expect that the number of army posts will also be reduced In order that the smaller army may function effi ciently. Or mny we? A French scientist estimates the age pf the earth at ."500,000,000 years which might impress us more if wc hadn't been surfeited with figures relating to new stars and the amount of the war debt. Having lifted the clothing Industry from the sweatshop to the sanitary workshop, there is danger thot the Amalgamated Cloth ing Workers of I)'cw York will let It fU through careless handling. The local schoolteacher who admits that a good husband is worth nt least $200 (the amount of bonus she had to forfeit by get ting married) deserves a vote of thanM from Benedicks who have been led to doubt It. There is melancholy in the reflection that when the Frankford L and the Br berry-Bustleton surface lines and the Broad street subway are all running It will still be dlliicult to get a seat on a car during th rush hours. Because a city should get the best tn"1 possible to run its schools, wherever he i rosy be found, the bill of Jeremiah II. Mill', restricting choice to a citizen of Pennsyl vania, is, not to put too fino n point on it, un unwise one. It would utrlke the average decent eitl zen that all that would be necessary to de tent the Rowers amendment to the law re lating to magistrates' courts would be to explain the motive back of It to the legist' tors. But one never can tell. There Is n certain moral fiber that In sists upon the payment of a debt. llapP"' for the race, ihc moral fiber is usually " the debtor; but occaslonully It owes iw growth to the insistence of tho creditor There Is no Pharisaism Jn the belief tMt Europe would not be benefited by a clcauint nf the shite. Mondell of Wom!ns to Consrvi 1M mlit. and rls words nro re-echoed uin-uk'-out the whole lard. It in time the world nunc- hud iluiudl-d n hit and tli.it f a,r0 eledeil ns dwindle: . lint Fncl" Jnta I'1" jitreil l feniB thai the iioirjs, 'J.ai ll'l aides, will not heed hl xiiiiiide. v which should teinptfr.thii ssjl nnd the wa,a of Mr, Mondell of Wyoming,
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