Ss?5! fSr 5? f?? 'W fill 3 "f flltfS "k l I '" w ii f ft , .f,. !, V i'.i .'J in n. i H : . I M r . i ifi t : : ,i t M I fit ? f)1 v wt 'Mi T4. !! i lie UiW i i !JH1IKCIVJ. iI- II i .1 mm ti, J" : m i T , ' MI'!-J" &MR TN W x' ' mm l 11 ft; 'v, Ipil " VI JV, 8 PUBLIC LEDGER COMPANY CraUS It IC. CURTIS, rsiilDWT Charles H. Ludlncton, Vle President, John C, JUMIllIlf irOtPUISri l.lllr,r, t ijifi Secretary; rhlltD S. Collins. John. II Willi 8. n. Intnt John. J Spurgeon, Oaorgs I'. Ooldnmlth, Datu 12. Bower, DM lreotor. EDiTontAt no.vnD: Craci II. K. Cnni, Chairman E. RMII.tCT avrep .Kdltor jtOHN G. MAimK. . CUnral Tlualntet Mtmnf Published J illy lit Pcblio Lsdoes BuUdlng Indenen nca Squire, Philadelphia. ATtawtto Cur Prett-Vnkm nundlne Vxw Yoik 304 Madison Aw. traorr TOt Ford Building- Br. Lome 013 a lobe-Democrat Itulldlna- Cnioioo 1302 TritufJ Dulldlnc new3 nvnsAtrs! riiniKOTO.t Dcniwc, N. K. Cur. Penntyhanla Ate. and 14th St. Jfatr Tone l)miC Tho Sun Bulldtnr Io.stjo.s Boie.u London Times scnscniPTiON terms Tha 13tsinJ 1'Lnuo Lrmn la erM to aub erlbers In Philadelphia and nurroundlnjr town at the ratn of twelvo (12) cents per week, parabla to tho carrier. By mall to point outeids of Phllt.delphla, la tho United Statu, Canada, or United State! poa- Stations, poitaee ire, flttr (o0 o-nta per month, Iz (10) dollars per Voar, paynbu In advance. To all forelrn countries ono (ID dollar a month Noticb Bubacrlberc wishing addrtti changed Viutt rlro old a well na n-w addreci. HELL. 1000 WALNUT XKVSTOrfC, MAIN IMP (7 A&irtto nPl enmntc!c to Evening P.Sllo lfSor, InJevendrnr Rauirt, PMadrtehta. - ! Member of tho Associated Press nn AMinciATKn PnKSH It eielustvelu n- ltUA tn thm tui tar rrriibJitfatlMl of all news 1 if 3Uoch credited to f or not ofiercM crrdlten j, '"J j. In IMt paptr, and aUa the fccal new pubtuhel ,"""$ V I -til rtohtt rrpu5;cof(on c ipval rfltpofcftrj ri 'yW nrrli or o!0 retfrt-d. r-hllaJrlpMi. FriJir, Fbrorr H. 1921 THE BANKRUPT BOARD MEUEIA' thi- most clfmunUl understand ing of finance is lmiuirotl i rcalin- the impending banknipU' of the Hoard of Edu cation. Mr. ShalkTom lion explain -il tuat ths borrowing capacity of this bod) Im 54,000,000. that half that amount hu al ready been used to pay the tfacherB' sala ries, according to the new schedule, and that the remainder will be borrowed for the same purpose for February, March and April. There will be no funds for further wages f the school tcachors of Philadelphia after May 1 unless aiMdtanco from the Legislature is forthcoming. Tho situation is ns simple s it is erious. It can bo remedied at lUn-lsburg by an increanc of the board's lorrowtnj; capacity and the adoption of n generous new educational program. There are times then Iegislatuns need m crisis to stir them. If the Pennsylvania Assembly is looking for shocks to justify action, il may eek no further than the al most empty cash drawer of the board in eharge of education In the state's metropolis. MISSIONARIES OF PEACE frtllEUE is working out in Philadelphia a JL plan for better international relations which in some respects is superior to that which Cecil Rhodes endowed in Oxford Uni versity. The Rhodes scholars are in a way hired to SO to Oxford. Their expenses aro paid out if a fnnd. Few of tho students who enjoy the scholarships would go to Oxford if it were not for this fund. But there is a large body of foreign stu dents in the T'niverslty of Pennsylvania and In the other institutions in this vicinity who lave como here for an education attracted by the advantages offered. Little effort, how ever, has been made outside of the University to let these students know that the country is at all Interested in them. An excellent beginning was mad" this week vhen the rhnmb"r of Commerce gave n din er to S30 of them, representing fifty -seven (different countries, and brought them in ?ontact with representative business men of the community It wns pointed out to them that they are ambassadors of a better under Rtanding among nations if thev choose to assume that office They can carrv back to their homes the spirit which they imbibe here, nnd we, if we ore alive to our oppor tunities, can by coming In closer contact with them get a better understanding of the point of view and procese-j of thought of the men of other nations The men of their own generation In the University who rub rip against them in the classrooms are un consciously absorbing something of value to them. The Chamber of Commerce dinner ought to Impress on tho minds of both the native and foreign students the fait that their elders are awaking to tho opportunity at hand to make everv foreign student the jnlssionsrv of a better international under ntsndlng in the world. OLD TARIFFS OUT OF DATE rplIE Imperative need for revenue l behind JL the plun of some of the congressmen to rnact a skeleton tariff law without debate ns soon ns possible ufter the new Congress xnects nnd then to correct it at leisure. Representative Fordney is attempting to eecure the indorsmcnt of Mr Harding for this program The arguments in support of it are simple Whenever it Is known that the rates r,re in li ru'sed importers rush goods into the country nt the old rafen It i estimated thnt tlie proposed skeleton bill would save nenrlv 100 00(1.000 in revenue. Its passage would meet the immediate emer gency and allow tinvi for correcting tho in ternal revenue laws -t liil the comnrtteos were perfecting the tariff law. No serious objection to tins plnn could be raised if we are to draft a tariff law of the Wad that used to commend itself to Congress. But the country is now confronted Dy con ditions the like of which it never met before. Ve are selling abroad n much greater amount f goods than we liuv abroad. We cannot t-olleet pay for what we sell in the presont utate of world nffa rs unless we permit for eign goods to come in Ho a tariff law adapted to the situation must be framed with almost its much regard for the foreign producer n for tho home manufacturer. Hut (Vin?rss dues not seem to be aware of this. Its Wder nre talking of putilng up the tariff bars wttnout much regard for the effect of what they do on the nbilitv of our foreign debtors to pny what rhey owe. ONE EUROPEAN EXIT CLOSED THE prompt co- jperutlon of the Italian (internment with the efforts of th United States health authorities to check the spread of tvphus fever by Irnmlgrnnts Is disclosed In an order taking immediate ffect in Trieste. This former Austrian port is nn outlet for the most impoverished. dUease-ridden popu lations of Europe The t,ew regulations not only suspend immigration to the United States from central Europe for a month, but establish n snnlturv barrier on the eastern Italian frontiers tlmn checking the fast rising tide of Poles, Czecho-Slovaks, Jugo slavs and Balkan peoples who have of late been embarking at the Adriatic seaport. The American public health officials In Trieste hare been zealous, but the magnitude of the examination and fumigation duties has rendered n complete performance of tfcelr task almost impossible. Meanwhile, the Immigration and quaran tJno authorities at home have evolvid a twelve-day quarantine for vessels unprovided with clean bills of heulth from certain In fected ports and for ships on which the dls H has broken out en route. Vvnhns Is a disease of squalor and dirt. American habits of cleanliness, unsurpassed H (throughout too ginoe, cousuuue powenui dr1 (armor ugnlnst the plague. Careful official tiitnanectlnn at entry ports is the other nost AP'TlltifectlTe means of combating epidemic dan .ifvj.t'ers. The diversion this week of a Scandt . .- i ----- - - . -(VlRtt i an Itiltau steamship to Phlla dclphla accentuates the respohHlbllltles of this city, and It Is reassurlnit to note that Dr. Furbusb Is conferring with Health Com missioner Copeland, of New York, on the whole subject. Within a few weeks the effect of the sus pension order In Trieste will bo felt on this side of the ocean. Tho Interval wlillo possi ble Infected Immigrants are stilt nt boo. heading this way, Is the time for enforcing the strictest regulations. MR. BRYAN TUNES HIS PIPES TO REHYPNOTIZE HIS PARTY Old Measures Are Sung Again In the Pronouncement Just Issued for Democratic Guidance "XTEITIIER," observes Mr. Rryan, IN speaking, of course, of th future of the Democratic party, "can It again be made n tall to anybody's candidacy." .Such Is life. It la only after you are dead or submerged in woe nnd assorted tribulations that people say and do things which. In earlier das. might have made existence bright nnd tri umphant. Pleasant as arc these latest words from Nebraskn. they still have an ominous undertone. They reveal the old interest, the old resolution of a mind accustomed to dominate. It Is clear that the Democratic party the samo Democratic party that always has hurried away to another place whenever Mr. Rryan appeared on the skyline must rise in Its sackcloth ond wearily flee once more. For it Is being chased ngain by the gentle man who first showed the world how to hitch it to fl name, how to whip It over rough roads like a captive at n chariot's wheel. The twenty-two suggestions for the party reorganization, handed down like sacred tab lets from the mountain In Nebraska, will have no other meaning for sophisticated and obscrvnnt minds. They nre worth reading. They are radiant with fdsnlncance. In them joti may read nil thnt Is wrong with Ameri can politics. Illumined within by a childlike faith in the security of all things, with eyes lifted high nbove the moillnx world nnd nil Its harsh and conflicting realities, Mr. Rryan is again enchanted by the sound of fine words. As blithe, ns (insured, ns distant from Teal life, as oblivious to cold fact is lie as Pan piping on a windy and sunlit hill. He would, for exnmple, "restore the rule of the people." Well, who rales now1 Who ejected Harding? Whose will, whose work, whose faults nnd virtues are reflected every dav in Congress nnd in the Legislatures of the states? Votes nre votes. Thev make our govern ment what it is. Still, as he complnins about that same government, Mr. Bryan's faith in the people Is unshaken. They would nerer elect him to the presidency So his faith may be In a wny justified. But it Is about time that the people of the United States got out of the habit of blaming their lenders for all their own mistakes. The people speak in Congres. They speak wherever laws are made. It would be far fnirer if the Congressional Record were to say that "the people today introduced n bill intended to keep up the cost of their food nnd their coal," or "the constituency of South Philadelphia today presented n reso lution in the House to provide a billion dol lars out of the treasury to pension super annuated ward bosses." All thp squalor of the present legislative session nt Harrisbnnr as well as nil the fine and humane things that are done occa sionally in the name of the state or the na tion, shows the people nt the business of ruling. rciecfed representatives nre merely inci dental to tho process. Does the master of the old-fashioned Democracy know all this? Wo believe thnt ho docs. But he Is not the man to tell plain and wholesome truths to the people or to talk lo them like a John thp Baptist. He probably has no desire to do nnj thing so unconventional. For he has in him n great faith He has In a truly magnificent form the will to believe. That is better than being hard boiled, nn -way We have nlwnys liked we always shah like the Bweet mlddlewesternesa of Mr Brvon He clings to his illusions through thick nnd thin. The trouble with him is that he insists on believing that all peoples everywhere are as simple-hearted and as trustworthy ns the folk of the corn belt, nnd upon that assumption his ex tremely dangerous theories of national nnd internntionnl politics nre based To such a man facts and the evidence of progressive events ran mean little. What will the world be like nfter four rears? What will It be like in a rear from now? Whnt will life and the problems of govern ment be like? The snge. ifting down to write his epistle to the Democracy, seems never to have put these questions to himself. To henr STr. Bryan talk vou would suppose thnt we were still living in 1010 that in other words, the motlie power of civilization wns still being smoothly npplled that people everv where were at pence nnd working happily, that stnndards nnd codes of human conduit were fixed nnd ncceptcd, thnt nit.ons were prosperous, busy and able nnd willing to pny their debts, that nil governments were stnble. None of these thing- l true. Statesmen nre now working twenty-four honrs n dnv to regain control and direction of wild forces that thev deliberately let loose. They mnv succeed nnd they may fall. Llotd George nnd M Brinnd, like the Russians nnd the fjermsns, nre for nil the world llko lioi tamers who have-Met the beasts out of the cage Suppose the lions get into the grandstand or deeide to take n turn among the specta tors' What then' The Democratle psrty if If Is guided from Nebraska, will piously refuse even to think of n possibility so terrible, so repellent tn gentle minds It Is ndvised ngnln bv Mr. Bryan tn work tlrelesslv In order thnt there can be no deelnrntlon of war bv Congress until nfter the matter has been decided by n national referendum. It Is hnrd to believe (hit men so recklessly trustful as to make that proposal In a time like this still dwell upon the earth An enemy might seize Cuba An enemy might snatch every important naval bae In the Pacific and bring heavy guns netunlly to bnr on coat cities while we were voting to de termine n course of nctlon under thn plnn outlined bv Mr. Brysn. The man who still hones, apparentlv, to regain ontrol of one of the two great parties suggests further "a plan of international arbitration" for moot Issues under whieh nnv nation coujd with draw whenever it felt so moved or refuse altogether to accept the ruling of the world court Here Mr. Brynn tnlks. r.ddb enough, like the former Oerman kaiser World courts wl'hout power, arbitration svstems that can not nrbltrato are precisely the sort of seda tives thnt militarists have alwnvs sought to nnlet public opinion nnd conceal their own devilment. Referendum before war would be a most eM-ellent thing If It were to be held simul taneously by nil the peoples nnd nil tho nations concfrned To one nation standing nlonc It might mean disaster utter nnd com plete. The Pence .Conference sought to es tablish a svstemthnt would make n sort of universal refsTSndum necwamry before EVENING PUBLIC LEDGER - war. And there Is nothing on record to Bhow that Mr. Bryan did much to encourage that plan or to help the men who burnt themselves out in tho effort to make it a reality. Where Mr Bryan puts his faith is easy to see. He reasons In tlno nbstrnctions. Ho believes In what the Chantauquns know as Broad Morality. Almost rerybody Is broadly moral. The job of the present Is to get average men and average governments to translate consistently In practice the good Impulses that are never absent from theni even when the powers of dntkness rule their minds. It Is a big job. Mr. Bryan doesn't show how It enn be done. Reading him, jou have tin uppallcd sense of a man who actually Is unaware of other nations and peoples close at hand nnd far away filled with good and evil nnd by no means so trustworthy ns the folk of the corn country. The Orcat Commoner Is altogether woo good-hearted to be snfe in tho present state of a fallen world. As n private citizen he is likable enough. He Is u lover of mankind with a few drastic reservations itppllcnblo within the Republican party. As a prophet nnd leader In polities he might nctually be dangerous to the peace and snfetv of the country. Cox nnd Tammany are far less subtly dangerous than he. Words bewitch Mr. Bryan If thev have n tender cadence or even the shadow of a noble meaning. He Is, for exnmple. In favor of "federal nctlon to restore Liberty Bonds to par." Who Isn't? Whnt man In nny party would not do nnj thing possible to restore Liberty Bonds to pur nnd feel that he had done a great thing? But with the mnster mind nt Lincoln, Neb., the expression of u wish appears to suffice. A method Ib not discussed. Perhaps it is not even thought of. Profiteers, questions of utilities and national finance ure similarly disposed of In the twenty-two points. In ringing words Mr. Bryan suggests courses of netion that men less expert In party control strive In silence to follow. The Democratic party was bndlv wrecked It has been through n year of weariness nnd disaster. If, beginning life all over again, it can start with n fresh outlook and be free from the hypnotic force exercised over it bv the gentle-minded visionary from Nebraskn. all its seemias hard luck may be good luck in the end. Its hope cannot trust longer in Mr. Bryan. It needs ounger minds. THE FIGHT MUST BE KEPT UP THE Job Combine Is still working, for it succeeded in mustering the necessnry thirteen votes to override the Mayor's veto of the $1,000,000 appropriation for tho Munleipil Court dream palace. It Is determined to get the money re gardless of everything but its own hunger. The thirteen cnuncilmen who voted to reject the veto ignored the cogent reasons given bv the Mayor for his opposition. They hnd decided to stnnd together in support of the npendthrift ordinance regardless of whnt might be said against It. But the Mayor did his duty in vetoing the item. He has placed himself straight on the record. And he hns put the Council on record ns ignoring not only tho objections of the Mnyor but as disregarding the advice of the chief law officer of the city. The city solicitor, ns the Mnyor Informed the Council, hns ndvled him that the law creating the Municipal Court does not cm power the county commissioners to build nny building. It merely empowers them to pro vide nccommodntions for the court. The evident intent of the law is that rooms In buildings already in existence should be .fitted op. But undor this limited authority the county commissioners are planning to erect a costly palace. Not only Is the power of the commission ers to erect n building for the court in doubt, but even assuming thnt the law when passed gave them that power, the chnrter. pushed six yenrs Inter, clearly provides that the plans for all public buildings erected in the city and paid for by a city npproprintlon must be drawn by the city nrchitect nnd that the Department of Public Works shall have the supervision of the erection of all public buildings nnd all structures of whateter kind for public use. The cltv architect has not drawn any plans for u municipal courthouse nnd It is proposed b the Council that the county commissioners nnd not the Department of Public Works shnll have chnrgo of the erection of the courthouse, in arrogant disregard of the charter protisions. While the Mnyor hns done well in vetoing the spendthrift Item, he should not stop there. It is his business to see tlmt public money is spent nccording to law If the contentions of the city solicitor nre sound, there is no more Justification for the Council In appropriating jl. 000.000 to the county commissioners for tho courthouse than there would bo in appropriating it to a South Philadelphia chowder club. The validity of the appropriation must he fought in the courts until it Is established that the city which raises nnd appropriates the money hns control over the details of its use. The Muyor cannot let the matter drop now without neglecting his obvious dut. CENTER OF THE UNITED STATES THERE is a gront difference Utween (en ters of population nnd the center of the population of the United States Philadelphia. New York. Boston nnd Chi cago are population centers, bei iiin-e there are hundreds of thousands of men nnd womec congregated iu Ihose small nrens. Whether the center of the population of the T'nited States is in a hog lor ()r n rorn field In Indiana has not yet been determined. Engineers from the University of Indiana are just now engaged In locating the spot which the crnus experts sny is S ,'t n.lles southeast of Spencer. "Uncle Jlmmle" Horrin bus n fortv-ncre farm nt thnt distance nnd in thnt direction from Spencer. Somewhere within ids acres is a spot on which. If n pivot wfre erected, the population west of if would balance tho population east of It. nnd the population to the north would exactly Inlutici the popu lation to the south. We do not suppose thnt ' I n-lo .Iimmie" would object to the erect on of n post on that spot by nny ono intirtstui enough to pay for it. If It served no other useful pur pose it would provide the hogs u place on which to scratch their fluiiH JITNEYS: NEW STYLE ALMOST since tne uaj wiun tne nrst automobile ran nnaided. street iir com panies in nil parts of the United States have had to face the question of i i.mpetition by jitneys. That question lias loomed Inrger with each succeeding year. In New Jersey it has been viewed as nn overshadowing menace bv nn anxious public service corporation. Every one wondered und still wondtrs, for thnt matter why, since motorcars wore so useful ns public conveyances and such valuable auxiliaries to trolley lines, the street-cur companies didn't buy some of them nnd put the jitnev business on a tirm footing In stead of doing tills simplu nnd obvious thing, the stree'-car corporations havo been spend ing fortunes In the courts to suppress u taiunbln public utilltv. A bill presented in Hnrrisbiirs this week by Representntite Craig broudlv interpreted would give the P. It T. a right to operate motorbusses on the Uoosctelt boulevard and other trackless streets. So, If the passngo of the hill would bo uccepted by the P. R. T us a charter for operating comfortable motor vehicles as feedcra for Its main lines nnd hs conveyances on streets where trolleys ennnot b operated, It ought to bejmssw! -with Joud applause. d PHliAOTJHiA, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY ' T3, I AS ONE WOMAN SEES IT Physical Indications Aro Not Alwayt Conclusive as to Mental and Moral Qualifications, as Many Hlus- tratlons Prove By SARAH T). LOWKIF. rIE principal of one of the big public schools in town was relating an experi ence with nn expert who had beeti allowed to experiment on some Of the primary chil dren not long since along the lines of phys ical nnnlysis. The expert wns permitted to look over some hundred or bo chlldreu and from the lot pick out the ones that he thought showed facial or bodily signs of being mentally subnormnl. Ho renched his conclusions partly bv measurement, partly by classification of features, shapes of head, sire of hands, manner of walking nnd tests ns to reaction of muscles, etc. He had it all In u book and illustrated with outline drawings, marked A, B. C. He picked out as stupid some very stupid children nnd some very bright ones and some neither bright nor stupid nnd placed them -to the tenchers' vast but secret nmazement In n class apart for further testing on yet another day. The other children Immcdlottlf eauglit on and dubbed them "the dummies, greatly to tho indignation of the sinnrt ones ninong them, nnd greatly to the wrnth of their par ents when they arrived home to tell their tale. On reaching his desk the next day the principal was met by a Rcore or more of ex cited mothers demanding that their offspring be released from the ignominy of the "dittn" clnss instanter. They produced marks nnd testimonials from admiring teachers to prove their case that their children were in most instances shend, not behind in their grades, nnd In spite of the expert's testimony ns to crnnlums and set of eyes or tilt of nose or flap of ears, the prlnclpnl felt the mothers had n good case nnd forthwith purged the "dum" class of some of its most perfect specimens of physical subnormnllty, return ing them to shine ns hends of their classes In their various rooms. The theoretical ex pert left disgruntled. B UT "thing's nre not always what they seem, even to the more expert- enced eye of an old practitioner. I once baw a doctor hurriedly jotting down notes on whnt I supposed wns the sermon In church. I nsked him about it inter, for I hnd not thought the sermon worth listening to, much less Jotting down. Ho snld he had been picking out the persons nil about him who were physically degenerate or had nil the face marks of a psychosis of some kind or rimer or had marked criminal characteristics In the shnpe of their heads or the relation of their features. He remarked thnt they were not degenerate mentallv probably, or criminals or Insane. But if he hnd been trenting patients in an insane nsylum or in t psycopathic ward or in the police courts he would scarcely have found a more com plete outwnrd witness of their Inward plight thnn the perfectly sane persons showed here nnd there In that congregation in church. All of which went to prove, he concluded, that persons who bad mnrkH of degeneracy were not of necessity degenerate, or persons who showed Rlgns of a psychosis were not therefore psychopathic. But it did look, he thought, as though we were nil built in pat terns, so that If a man with criminal skull or hand or face characteristics went insane It would be ulong tho line of his pattern. r1 IS all very relieving to those or us who have eyes set close together that we need not be llnrn nny more thnn those who have little mouths need to be stingy, especially if we are taken young enough nnd our action so to speak Ib reversed. I wns very much Interested, ns were some twelve or so other women, nt Mrs. Arthur Sewnll's the other morning listening to the report of the clinic for bnckwnrd nnd sub normal children that the Farmlngton Clinic, under Dr. Seymour do Witt Ludlum nnd his staff, have been conducting. Their theory thnt subnormnl signs nre due In many enscs tn n physical cause, which In very young children enn be rectified, nt least partially, bv physical remedies, has been taken immensely to heart by many teachers in the public schools, who have got the parents of their backward or wavward children to take them to the clinic for di agnosis and for treatment. THE cases reported on the other morning to the women Interested in supporting the clinic cume under fite distinct heads, al though to the ordinary observer the back wardness of the children did not materially differ In any one of the five classes. That Is, tho child that was being poisoned bv an Intestinal stoppage nnd the child that was not secreting the proper alkalis or acids or the child whose glands were not function ing or were functioning too rapidly, the child with too large a heart for his body or with too small a heart, nnd tho child with poor chest development and poor breathing capacity might nil be bnckwnrd children nnd If not rescued from their physical handicaps might. In time, be hopelessly retarded men- tnlly : but to tho tostn of the laboratory nnd the fluoroscopo and to the prnctictd eyes of the clinic doctors, the signs of the plight of each little body might be as different ns the color of their eyes and the shape of their IIOeB. THERE should be such u clinic in every school, or rather there should be n thor ough phys'ril examination of every child showing signs of mental arrest' wlth'a view to discovering if a'l the nlr the bodv needs wns aerating- the blood and expanding the lungs, if the henrt was up to m job nnd tho intestines nnd digestive imces were up to theirs, if the glands were functioning nor mally nnd the bones were getting the right proportion of lime. Between the poor children born without sufficient brains nnd the children whose brains nre not snffielentlv nourished there is all the dllterenec timt there is between n plant that is dend nnd a plant that nerds wnter or light or air or soil. Tho child who has been born with n diseased or deficient hrnln Is hopeless, but the others nre not, Mnn of them hnve verv good brains waiting nourishment that must be forthcoming before It is too lnte. Even normal children in the vents of their growing up hnve times of npnnront nrrested deve'npnient, of intense restless vneultv, of nimless fits nnd starts nt work or play. ' The great complaint of mothers nnd teachers is thnt they do not concentrate, that thev sleep nnd vnwn over their lesons nd only wnke to play. Tho effort of growing up must be terrific, nnd jet into thnt period the teacher piles nil the Intensive study that lj to last for a life time, or trifs to. I think verv few tochers renllv succeed in furnishing the house of the mind with nny but a few bure necessities, such ns the three R's j the rest gets piled into a sort of attic stored with nil sorts of things that the owner means some day to use nnd puts there nnd forgets. The Chninber of Commerce committee declaration that workmen of the building trades must submit to u 24 per cent wage reduction before renewed construction is possible would perhaps have more weight If the chamber wa not so franklv In favor of the open shop nnd the Woodward bill, Though It be tho strongest kind of common sense and though It should proto that the jlgureB aro ns accurate as may be. It still mnv prove that becnuso of suspected bins union moor mnv iook upon tne proposition with some measure of suspicion, The British India office hns issued a commiinl'l11" letting forth that Russian Hoi (dievlst troops huve b"gun an armed invasion of the Pamir region of Central Aslu, on the thresholds of India and China, and are car rying on propaganda to Influence the people of India to retolt against the British. AH 0f which may not be wholly unconnected with that portion nf the king's speech to lurllament favoring tho opening of trade with the Soviet Government. The Delaware Senate has unanimously adopted the nineteenth nmendment. The rtino lien may now cackle While tho fem- Inlat roosUT cjj -rfJrf-Ktf " V.S tVs n'-'y-i. NOW MY IDEA IS THIS Daily Talks With Thinking Philadelphia on Subjects Ttev Know Best MRS. SARA YORKE STEVENSON "On Changes In Manners and Customs MANNERS nnd customs of mHny years ago hnve undergone a severe mauling and are not likely to be "stored. accord !.. . !, fioimnint of Mrs. bara lorne iiH i.. ws '--,.,,-... , ie viewpoint o -"-- w nf Stevenson, writer, pull :.., J, t mnw!. the editorinl stud or ' ' V ,.n nVo eolng Mrs. Stevenson believes that we arc going through a revolutionary trnnritlonal stage from which in time will probaWs emerge a new code of manners adapted to the new society. , . tv. "I nm asked to compnre 'man"'" "..' present day with those of sixty "0nf do inys Mrs. Stevenson. " but how " af thut when today we ve no standard oi wmnprlMm? In the good oM of AJam and Eve In society part of a gent crnan s i cau cation was to read ISort Che aterfl c$f to his son. Here, at least, ?Mw.m"hi"h" i-fi,,!!, r0(ie of 'noblesse oblige, wnicn, ofiugh7 hoSs fairly elastic, gave the young gentleman a very definite notion of the ex- treme limit wnicn ne coum iwi. i- tain the name. "Social Intercourse was regulated I to 'some extent by rules which every one remmla ami obeyed. If yo " nsUcn tVlinnCf dlnners'were functions in those , nvs-you were expected to answer, If possible. "'" twefntv.four hours; to omit or PoneM. formality was accounted bail form and there Is no doubt about It. it was. Alter nil n code of manners nnd usages springs un among cer aln peoples from the necess y for centlemen and ladleH to show consid eration or others. This thought also led ate. 2.3K w ostracized, were not then Irksome laws lm- possible of observance, as they would be now. . , . "In our time, with U'O jump ti.Ven v' .'!' " Ann an nnn n oune man couh not pos" b v attend to business and keep UP with such social obligations: and w-ei -bred voung men now endeavor to dis charge these by showing some onrtcsv to their hostesses of the week or the month when he meets them out. If .he (Iooh this systematically in these rushed days of ours ho Is doing well. Influence of Telephone "It stands to reason that the great sel- ntlfie nnd lnd"S'rlnl ennnpe "n" i". ;""".' t, .,., the refinements oi norsom i ihiiimh-i nnv other earn. The (.'most Impersonal 'Ilello" one hears over the wire has been adopted by the voung ns the common salu tation of one friend to another when meet inYnn tho street. An o'd joung friend of nine was telling mo onlt; the other . that V wns nbout a" she cnubl do to avoid 'King his sort of undl nlfied. bovlsh ball-fel ow we'l -met sort of greeting when suddenly ineet'ng her contemporaries on the street, "The calling-'ip of women, tnung nnd old over the telephone also breaks down n.rVlers of decorum thut be'onj- to the dsvs gone bv? when men cultivated exniiWIe deference in approaching women of all ages ns we'1 ns their elders. A joung man Mil now call nn an older ""man from his office throt.fh bts clerk o- office bov and keep her nwnltlng his own pleasure whPe ho Is being ,ft. .," , nhone. I know one old 'adv. nt lcat who ns soon ns she hns sized nn the situation hnncs up: and the voung business man in turn has to ring her up neuln and nwnlt her coming. She lauch iiiKly sns that ho should be tauirht man ners, nnd she Is the best one to help him In that respect. "Mnnrers were already gradually be ginning to give way to free-nnd-ensv cus toms of personal and social Intercourse when this century wns ushered in. When the war broke nut all barriers nf conven .i.,ntv went down w-th a crash; an Im r hundred venrs nne huiic n-i, sniVnl intercourse, nnd even the o'egnneies of persona gm tine and address. The tele ot person'" h des'rov iuione mense wave of pood-feollng swept over the countrv an enormous amount nf klndlv nets and compassionate deeds. But girls who get Into the habit of plckln? up strange men on the street or on the high road nre not especially punctilious about appear ances Kindness stepped '"to. tho place of fcouvcnilonal refinement. The. thine was to u 1921 EXCEEDING THE LIMIT -W-., r. - put tho stranger at his ease, whether to the manner born or merely n plain man accus tomed to plain ways, und four or five tenrs of this free-and-easy Intercourse broke down in many cases all the training of years. Satire In Miss Thayer's Booh "Miss Molly Thayer recently wrote a little book of satire which she entitled 'Tho Intellectuals.' In it she has a chapter on the Intellectual debutantes nnd flippantly shows how those should-have-bccn war debutantes, many of whom, with brothers at the front, deprived of their rights to a so cial season by tho war, took It out, when nfter tho armistice they nt Inst were given their long-dclnycd chance, in u somewhat erratic, devil-may-care style of conduct which called down upon them the censure of their elders, although It wns the tcsult of nntlonnl conditions. "We ary bound to suffer from a conven tional decay and 'manners' like every other feature of our social life huve suffered. Mnn ners, like cvcrythlrtg else, are In n revolu tionary transitional stage from which prob ably in time will emerge a new code of manners adapted to a new society. Just now every one seems to be u law unto him self and parents do not seem to care much." Representative Davis, who has Intro duced a bill that will remove certain edu cational restrictions that prevent children from taking employment, may be actuated by the purest motives. His solo enre may be the children themselves and their parents who need their wages. His bill may be nn utter stranger to employers of labor, but It s unfortunate that it should be necessarv to isfue un explanation and a disclaimer. But the law as It stands marks nn upward trend i? h?ciul nml industrinl betterment. Any bill with a tendency to check thnt up ward trend should bo viewed with suspicion and examined with the utmost enre. The bill may be all right; but it is up to Repre sentative Davis to prove it. What Do You Know? QUIZ 1. What capitals of allied nations wero enn. thV'iorld waV?rmanS ln th0 COUrB0 of 2, What Is an acrostic? 3, Why Is the Amazon river so called? 4, How high Is Mont Ulanc? 5' WuMllhaedT,,L'nCto Tm'a Cnbln" firct 6" W ordinate?010 PhrM0 'Vanlty " 7. What American President onco served oa governor of the Philippine Islanda? 8. What Is n Bittern? 9 What Is a falcade? 10. What Is meant by a fiscal ycur? Answers to Yesterday's Qulr 1. The Atlantic is tho uecond largest of th world's oceans. bKal ot tn8 2. The American, or Know-Nothlnir niriv which advocated the contrSf' or the government by native citizens. L secret iraiernity prominent In Amen, can politics obout tho mlddlo of the nineteenth century. Millard FlHmorS was nominated by the Know-Nothtm-S for President in 1856. "Otnines 3. Albert Thorwaldsen waa a noted Kcnndl navlan sculptor. One of L S famous worliu designed by him li thn colosuM "Lion of Luconio. I o dutd m Copenhagen In 18(4, ,,ta " 4. The battlo of KencBaw Mountain wna nn encasement foupht between tho Union" troops under Sherman and tho Con federate troops undor Johnston l.i, Civil War In June. 1881. Kenesaw llh2 mountain In Cobl. county, Oforiiu iwenty-llvo miles northwest bf Atlant't' 5. An oratorio Is n. hrinldmmntla muni,..', i composition on u eBcred them, i,$J formed by nololsts, chorus nnd ore cs" tin without scenery, nctlon or costume 6. The collego of cardlnulu electa tho popo" 7. Two boy kings of Kngland wore ICdwnrri V, who wus murdered nt the niri .S thirteen in 1483, and Edward VI wh died nt tho age of Mxtcen In 1663, 8. The foreign relations committee In ' up of United Stuteo senator nnd t S foreign uffalrs commltteo of reprcsen- 9 Bftturduy Is named after tho Roman cod Saturn. ft 10. An anagram la a transposition of lottem of n word or phraso to form tt now word or phraso, as on jp, from & t;vsw i - J. . ' SHORT CUTS Did you ever know a summer quite to free from mosqultoc3? The motto of the combine Is, "Whil'i a city charter among frlends7" Tvnhtis fever is bringing home to u the fact that the cootie Is only n Joke at lost range. Tt ha heenmo n hnblt with Henry. Even outside of business hours he oakes flivvers. It must be admitted that Congress h on I the hog; meaning the one nt the first itep ment Armory. If it were to be n flowing bowl Wt the U. ot i'. mignt nave lnvitea .ur, in stead to act as referee. The present demand for a constltutlonil convention seems to empnasize tne uriw ncss of a rrcent makeshift. "H'twlnnta nt Ttnnmiet ItenrPSCnt Flltl- seven Nations" reads a headline. And sot one of tho fifty -seven pickled. Hoover Is too busy raising money for starving children to be worrying over uu chances lor a cabinet position. X.. MnA.. f.n,. vnll vl.W It. AtllV &S unlucky thirteen could pass the Municipal Court grab over the Mayor 8 veto. mi..-.. .... Ul !., luAn i-vnt1ml Sit nlficance in Mr. Bryan's planks if he addN one more: Twenty-three, sKtaaoo. Much as everybody would llko to fort all nbout Hergdoll. he snouia not De ioi until the law has been tborougniy vibukw- People hnvo become so spoiled by tit weather that they refuse to worry over ytti. March may do to them, mcteorologlctuj speaking. The only good thing about the pawil' of the emergency tariff measure is that clears the way lor tne worn uu awr tion bills. Efforts nre being made to equip til jitney emergency tariff with a eclf-starter. but that doesn't menu that the darned Uanl will get anywhere. Snowstorms reported In Minnesota j Winnipeg. Strange ns It may seem, tww aro oldtimers who remember hating snow In Philadelphia. t -i.i.. i.,- in rrnri-lctnira- seems to dwnoa' trate that l-rctty nearly everybody 1. tercBicu in wnus uiv ....-.- except the pcop'.o nt largo. . In the matter of 'the i committee of . einoers desired tiy i uouc orio rn.t Kfncnn' City Council has proved OA It is somewhat ot a t,nip-8(o um . . .. .im rordotf !KS5SUA may nil be. but its sense of touch is " diminished. . . .. .. ct .. EVa.ien. of Mlf" The met tnai oroowi '.T.rAi.M natn land, .has blocked a vo e ' ft y i" ?nel rj ''zv: , t that imm- some miK"iy t""" i"" gratlon bill. Tho first baby born in a certain rWj; burgh apartment house will bring id , a month's rent free. There I bj re e appreciation of tho fact that the so serves n bonus for building a nest Smoky City. Freak economic and f''du,!1a$k,'j'i tlons-hlgh prices, houso toffi' m0Cup freak diseases-sleeping, ?"""?, ,"i,bl ln; freak feminine ijui ',"iD.w--skir'ts and painted face.; freo j. fi w.mi prouuering ami nw """"YC' - on the W' all. Including tho freak weather, on .... .....i tn knot Ju" .11 A trimm rd 'by tire.so QK latlon In Petrogrud anil N'w' .," , i?V ' nr . "v1""; ; : M..bouii ?. creusc-u, mm i.mi.j -.mien' bill " born drafted for thq Red armies . '" ,.,,. pdsslble that this dotsn t ""!";. popU;i Vs there likelihood thnt Mtt of tbJl t on nas urmcu iuc "'",", t0 tre pfB J the peasantry notoriously deuf to ire j hea oi bolsacvuo' .-t.t yj ' '. f: . -.w . ') H
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