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Wbni.t. ;i, l:i THE ANNIVERSARY BRIDGE rpHK t)elawar' bridge projec t has an ud X mirable hpur in thi nequicentennial ei position The onieptlon of linking the undertaking with the celebration is not fanciful, for if the uoik is vigmoulv imshed and the chronii obstrm tionists an- sup pleased the completion of the spau bv .liilj . ltVJO. is a prai tlcal possibility The engineers who bue cstiuia eJ inn. the task can be finished by thut date, li.-ue lo ket a high cost total. The Ilgures givrn are bftweeD .;!." OOrt.lKX) and .Ul) 000.000 Pisumably these .ums aie characteristic of scientiGc experts, uho nro wont to tii ,i lofty limit on constitution expenses The pioicdure foieslalls anv shm k ' suipnse by the taipvers fitixens of Hip tiro states nhieh ti ill dfrive diiect benefit I from the bridge are. however .instilled in I heliering that the pine of materials is Uk-lv to d'erease within the net i'ne vear There is no need for alurm oier the pies nt estimate.-.. What is hiefir requisite is enthusiasm, energy and o-operution in a work which can be -o appropriately synchio nlied with the one hundred and fiftieth an iversefT of the national independence PADEREWSKI STILL HOPES "! BELIEVE de. !aies I;nae .Ian ta- 1 drewski. ' that Poland is mote hungry for peai e than she m fo" bieud. Th ex-premicr and ex-plani'i. b.ii k in America fin the first time in four tciu. do"s not. however bae this riassuring opin ion on a fictitious picture of his native lunil There is physical hunger in Poland, some reckless chauvinism, and around the restnrrd nation thre is a dnngerouB eln le of foc Mr. Padercwski is mnvinceil tliat penie for one var will briug about the stali'lijtion so sorely needed The i-lnef inl. as the former prime ministe now 'he situation. I( Oermon propaganda s"ekinz to pruilm a Tiftnic when the tune uniies. fn- 'he p'ob'it" In Silesis So liti.e rnliab e in'oinia'noi has l.en forth'-oming of lute from Poland tnni Mi. Paderewski's anahi of lier (onditions is extremely welcome His patriotism urn unselfish desire for the resmratiou of his fgtheriand to het onie i nnpicuous and ga! lint role in Iutop is as unquettinDjIil as th" suprema v of the an whuh lie ban doncd for her sake ALLURING "ME" TN llORK tvjT thBn nne ine I-iciko ait a brave race I'her liaro long daied to anctlon Cesf nio wnnh bing infer nretfd literallv mo,in I' me Th rrmh Academy has stumped the phc.-se "itli official approval and in The land of rIistr common mage ha b"come good 'iMge But i' is a -ourageous Cnglnii sp"a'ing grammarian wno will authorize r s me" snd "He don i despite their enormous popular oiitrepcT Hea-in:: that Edntd .1 Tobln. superintendeni o' Thicji-o public chons. had so to spesl !i. d his I.indlev Murray out of Cook 'n.nir. Professor Sehelling. of the I hi'ts i.r of Pnnsyru uIb. voices appioral f",ur ibe indorsemen" not wholly convm ing -nne Dr S( helling confesses to tne wrknnj; tploitatlon of Tt is 1 nnd Fie dne-.n t Tobin tai'f i d-'n ious. "lelightfu temp mg. The maiontv of u -vould inqustion ebly like to imitate the I'hii.igoan nnd pio i 'aim the me witnoui onsi-iouness of 'n Wi'bstet flev i hes tin- use of 'in e'ler ' is i ii 'or.rd'lr uiHiriiAii. No mightiei than mits-'',, -, - s,..jj Shak's pearr Hut ihe.e i no Kr; s' ,idmr io foi 'Ify Uh flur giarrr .i us f-anni-oi a otir BpIling. 'lo'i.. !;,..smet sough! to svr the shf.e ef , i an failed V prate rair.ly r. nn mancipated new vorld And "' i' l- Harding introdmes an ' It is me , "laugura! address nttr w ,t be in' -r e nf i1H proc siomsH. Vlr Tobin wou'd be r.ioV to HMi.ige the 'Hguiah and ! S eljing effo-t, would he similarly fun!' The wort of the . ,, jii.in i uai we !,ie -1 1 ora tica! leiniutiom Jt m peecn r,u n iheor grammat i.n torwn abide, and not even fhc-ai;o .in i a in toe terror ei.it i-tted hr a radu-a' ti i A PENNSYLVANIA CARDINAL S( OH peop'e n mi' .nj,iH 0 t"f-ognie the oppor.un tie, , f deir,oi-.n, Aine.-'.a 'id the pi-osfif. ' o' ..int.niuig repaid fo fhose who are fit sni di---ving tn ghi lead valuable lesson n ie . irumston.es that attended the depart in" or A" nhithnp li,.uKh "tty for his entrap, e .n'o th" fol'ege of Cardinals nr Hoiiie The arohb shop k p r ,,.i i,mr, nim (f, ex a mia of h ;h i-a.tr nDd piofound earning. Yet he begun fi. m ooh of the Hn'est of mining hatn'ets -n I'ennv'Tan.a without any of tae advnnts;es oftn .onid "ifd neeesiaiv to gr.'B fl.-iuei emepts ip a f fain of the wni u . .' .h.. stii.i' fits psrentu wern "r' n. T'i"i ...v ' m.o n the anthra te m n.rg .'.untrr in snxge t love of know edge or a devotion o tli n;i "Of materia' 'n in s son o' min.hle pen pie. who found ii -eiinve withn 'nituself a all ab'e men find .t is to take Ins p'g.e n a OUrni! where h. ho'ar'hip ot on nnn-'-ji ,ji I! ifiessatv n religious si. r i REALITIES FOR THE LEAGUE epHJj gessions of the League or N'stions I, Council, wh" Ii open in Paris tndnv wd1 e concerned o's wtn general pnimnles ;hU with specifi. pi.ib'eins of wiibh u spc 'no Holufion is hOii?ht Expeotation of suiii .etein(rtH of out IBdlng questions as will forestall criti. ism .'of oourae. unreasonable The council is SftV body o( tmpernien and the issues be WsiT it hvilm with difficulties 0 T VdriTfta of the mandates for control of l-nt'rfiprman oloniev will b sub ml cnnslilered A iiuis of amend baA fhf Ictigui! vo'.fiinut will be pre HfiitrJ, including (itprolnll.r the Canadian prorxunl for Ilia elimination of Article X. (be Argentine, motion for tlie mlmliston of nil statei Hiid tlie Norwegian rrn,"0-1 tliat the world court be given compiltsory juris dii tlon. A formidable dilemma is the matter of the plebiscite for Vllnn. for which city Poland mid Lithuania are making contradictory claim. The rrcent refmnl of Switzerland lo permit the league "police force" cotnmU aloned to supeivle the balloting to pan through the Alpine republic's territory fur thcr compllcntea a situation calculated to puwle the mo.it adroit diplomatist?. The mot that can fairly be asked of a council burdened with Mich heavy icponil billtles in that it should approach its tu-tfcs houcUly unU wit,h a snc of lealltien, and. above oil. that it Fhould not attempt to ob score the amendment machinery of the coi cnaot. Establishment- in the mind of the norld of the lonvlction tbnt the charter of the International society U not necessarily ironclad and Inflexible will contribute mote iJian auvthlng elfc to the lepute of the peace plan. It is not so tnui.li ttctual changes as the dieclositre of the possibilities of alterations that will win respect for the council, (trice the fiction of utter ligidily is dispelled, the appeal of the league is certain to be vustly enhamrd and practical international prob 1'ins stand an increased chance of solution becauso of the world credit and confidence behind the decisions. A STRONG MAN IN THE STATE DEPARTMENT The Appointment of Mr. Hughea Meant That the Senate Will Not Dictate the Forelfln Policies rpHE selection of Charles Kaus llughe, i. to be Hccretary of state is Mr. Hatdinj s answer to Senator Penrose and those other senators who have been saying that it did not matter much who presided in the State Department as the foreign policv of the government would be managed by 1h- for "'gn iiffuirs committee of the Seuat- If is mi assurance to the nation that Mi Harding meant what he said when he told the Senate last January that he would ir spe. t its prerogatives, but that he would nlto insist on the prerogatives of the executhc. The initiative in foreign policy Jies with the Piesldent. ITe conduits all negotiations with other nations, and the Senate cannot iiiterfen- with him during the, progress of those negotiations It may ask- him for Sn formation if it desires, but if oatinot demand if w hetluT the President -hall give the information sougln oi not tests within his own discretion The Semite usked tor information the other day regatding the ptugress of nego tiations with Jupan over the immigration of Japanese, but Secret ly Colby declined to give it what it sought And 'be Senate bad to be content. Mi Hauling could nm have found a man better quabiied than Mi. Hughe to main tain the rights of the etemthe in the management of foreign uffairs. He iJ a man of firmness of purpose who cannot be brow beaten or bluffed into the surrender of his powers into th" hands of any congressional I committee So long as he holds the office the initiatWe in t'oieign nffuirs will remain i with the executive branch of the govern -I nienr. Hut Mi. Hughes is something more than , ;i man witii a backbone. He has u teiord 1 for mastering every problem that lias ionic , bi'foie him. It was his skill in unraveling t the tangled details of the insurant e com panies during a legislative investigation in I New Yoik that first brought him into prom incni e And it was his sterling integrity in the pres n e of great temptation that led the people of the stale to make hitn gov rnor twite and that ultimatelv secured foe him the nomination for the presidency It ma be argued that he is not an ei pert on either foreign lelatinns or on mter- nntinnal law P.ut he was Hot tin eipeit on insurance lompanv management when lie was summoned to (onduif the investi gation He did hae those mttllcctual qualities which fitted him for lomprchetiding hov subject to which he btought his trained attention. His knowledge of Internationa; affairs is that of iin educated nnd pttblb i-pirited citi.en The mastery of the detail is nierelv u matter of dire, ting his attention fo them. He will not be in the State l)e-pa-tment lung bfoie the permanent staff the. will di'iover that lie knows more obout the relations of the Cnitc.d State with other nations than they have oter learned We have bad international lawyers ar the head of tbe department, but these tei fa ii d 1 experts have not shone with the dn tin. (ion that has ome lo men with a l.rnadei training .lohn V Foster, who served under ISeniamln Harrison, was su. ',i a man. but he made no impression on mtei national affair And Itnbert Lansing his son in-law is distinguished rhiefly u h man who wa Mr. Wil'on's eiecu'ive .leiV in the conduct of toteign relatione Ibe giem ipcretaiieg ot stale of mod-in times have been men more after the tashion of Mr Hughe. There was Richard Oluer. a Itoston lawyer whose vigorous nsertion of the determination of the t'nited States to insist on the application of the Monroe Do, trine tn the settlement of a boundarv ditpute in South America lifted him ibon the horizon and has assured him a p'an) in history as one of the big men in the fabinet .lohn Hav and I.lihu Hoot will eompa-c favorably with th" best foreign wcietnr'es in anv countrv at any time. Jtoot is a !j' yer with a i mil for the sanis kind of thoroughness that distinguishes Mr. Hughes Hay had eiperieme in the diplomatic wh ice. it is tni" but without this expeneme he would haM" been a great seiretarv of state became of the breadth of bis tision and beiaus" of tne genuineness of bis Amir ii osm Mr llighe ni'nta bigger nun taan nas he'd the nffi' e sin. e Elihu Hoot lerited from i And in spite of Mr Koot s ej tierieni e. he is n bttei man for the ofjn e than Mr. Koot would b at the present time H. - in the prime of life, with all tne nleit interest of n vigoious man in the questions thut will iome befoie him And. like Mr Itoot he is qualified to assiit the Picsident in deciding on his foreign policies He will be muih more than un egeiutive lerk unvlng nut tne ordeis nf Ills su periors. Mr. Harding has iilieady indicated the plate that he is to hold in the muncils of the administration by announcing to in qinrrs about h:s fore gn poll, v that ii will be set fo'fh tnisigh tlie Departnien' of State I o .ome down lo detailh the . o.mtiy Hon nor have to hpi'c.'a' uhujr tne views n' Mr Hughes on the most piessing question ilist wll come before the neu udministra i, on "e has ejpiessed his opinions abouf me pe. e tieaty and about ilie I.eague-of Nations covenanl And the ai" the opin ions of a great majority of tne s.mein.n pimple If Mr. Harding had made David lame H'i! hl anretarr of state those Airrr'cans who have been hoping that thir countrv would nsr to the fulfillment of its niotal obligations in the familv of nations would have been disheartened Mr Hill has been an adiocate nf a scuttling policy. Yet ne is un expert in international law and a ti allied diplomatist with a greater eipen ence in foreign affairs than anv eecretarv of state since John Hay. Mr. Hughes is i,o far superior to Senninr Fall, of whom theic was gossip for a ift(h, that there is no com .. !.. li.rn.An .(...IttCft inn I' n'.u w. .mi-. ...01 ' ...-... Ale lTos-Iiea nfil lnr holds the nrernllim American view or the treaty, b'lt jio h quallilca u Tliin aJ temperamcui lor mn' EVEXIXG PUBLIC LEDGER terlng the questions involved in the proper disposition of the'debt wbleh the Alllos. owe to this country. There Is more Involved in this question than the payment of a debt. On its satisfactory adjustment the amicable relations of the United States with Franci and England and Italy arc likely to depend for a long time. Our trade lelatlons are tied up with it. Diplomatic skill of the highest order will be required to prevent serious complications. The Senate is al ready trying to get the control of this issue into Its own hands, but if Mr. Harding's purposes, ns indicated by the appointment of n man of the qunlltie's of Mr. Hughes, aw not misunderstood, he will insist on the rights of the .executive in oil negotiations connected with the loans abroad If the otbe'r members of the cabinet are as well fitted for their post as Mr. Hughe's is for the State Department the new admin istration will come into power under most faiorsble auspices, for it will have iuitificd the conlidenLe of the men who voted it into office THE SPENDERS WHILE writers of all soils politicians and business men continue to insist in punt that economy of expenditure is the great need of the time among all sorts of people, the government at Washington and in almost all atates and important munici palities tontlnue to behave ns if money grew on trees. The advlre which politicians gie to the people they forget when they sit down to spend the people's monev. It would be n good thing, in view of all this, if the men who rule In Washington and of Hurrisburg. for example, were to sit down lor a day or two and gather wisdom ut the feet of (Jovernor Miller, of New York, who with fine consistency has practiced a theory nhlch others are content merely to preach. Jly an orderly but inexorable pruning of items in the state's budget the governor of New York cut about 575,000.001) out of apptopriations that ordinarily would hac been passed without a murmur in the Legis lature Governor Miller was told that the thing couldn't be done, that rigid e. onoinv would be inipinulc.il nnd unpopular with tlie ser bosses Hut he wasn't motcd in the least bv the sort of arguments that usually snuy those in high public offices Through a forced reorganisation of many state deportment.", the elimination of waste and graft and lost motion, he is establishing it system under which the affairs of the state government will be managed as efficienilv as ever with a having that mav mn close to $100,000,000 a year. For the moment at leant Governor Millei stands ulone Washington has vet to teel any of the urge that moved him. The people in Washington nre a little like the people in Paris. The French (Jovernment is spend ing sums far in excess of the immediate or prospective national income. The Uritlsh Hre. following a somewhat similar trend. Washington in its own way fceems to he affected by these examples. It tells you to larefully guard your resources and the na tion's resourtes at least until the lountry bus passed altogether out of the period of tem porary business depression. Then it om placently looks on at its own flagrantly wasteful system of superfluous jobs, super fluous departments and disordered spending. No rational effort has yet been made in AVasliington to stop tbe upward flight of the (osts of governmental administration. Duplication of effort is the rule. And the infamously profligate system of ci eating jobs in the interest of politicians nnd political rings operates smoothly and without ques tion The newer tiend foi actual and visible finnomy in public affairs was started bv CJovernor Lowden in Illinois. Governor Miller, however, has attempted to do the thing in a big and almost revolutionary wav. He has attacked tb question of wasted pub lic money in tbe spirit of a scientific yealot. He began with the logical assumption that p man working for tbe stHte ought to be as careful of the resoutces at his command as a man working for a private orporation. He believed, too. that you never know that vnu cannot tin a thing until after you have Vried One of tbe officials at Albanv whose iob ir is to keep the roofs of state buildings in icpa'r asked for .lo0,000 He had ill wum had about that nitp h money to spenn eaih vear in his particular department 'You'll get $."0,000," said the goenu,r through the Senate committee whiib is working for and with him. ' and if the tnofs leak von 11 lose your job ' The keeper of the roofs finally decided that he ould get u'ong with S.10.000 What unbelievable maivels ou.l be at i ornpltshed by the introduction at City Hall and in Harrisburg of a system suih as New Yo-k's new governor is. giving to b state? After ail it is useless to wondei Why worn about things that cannot be BAD FOR THE NAVY NONE of the technical niles quoted b naval offii ers at League Island justified the discharge fiom the servii e of enlisted men without adequate clothing or the allow anes due them by the government No man who has served in uniform ought to be turned out. for any reaon us a pennilev nibict of ihurity The municipal liepartment of We!fdo did a good thing when it brought to the attention of Washington an incident ISvbicu rrfin ted in a particularly unpleasant wav the faults t of a particular type of naval ofhon a torn missioned officer is the ofln ial super, or of an enlisted man. lie has iiiiqui'stloned au thor.tj. He ought, to have u kcnse of ,om plete responsibility us well if d'n'er"nccs in mnk and the requirements of nw iU. ; pline aie to be justified by log. A ships officer ought to be the last rnnn n tne world to HUbject an enlisted man io nine, cnsary hardship or indignity If tbe navy is to be made popular the hiefs at Wa'uington will have to teach some of their ommissioned refnesr ntatives that patience and tolerance as weM as cour age ate essential qualities in the higher d'seipline. without whiih no man no prop rrlv disi barge ibe duties inip'.d bv the stripes of rank CHEAP TALK MADE COSTLY IK ALL tbe electric current that is burned up eiery day in aimless t. lephone con ersations were to be other ise applied it probably would propel a heai1v loaded tiol ley ,(ir fiom Darbv bang to iui DelHuie r ver ferries For reasons whuh no one nas nei been able to explain, the telephone seems to en- mirage idle hatter Siibscr.bees to patty line seri.ic especially find that the utility "of Mi. Hell's extraordinarr deuie is ledmed gieatly bei aits of the habit of other ub vribete to goss'p bv w.re for hour alter houi Loi -making by telephone is ,o a new tiling under the sun. and it is n prai ti. r thut prnfoundlv dUtuibs busy people vhn lue other and inou piessing tilings to bok alter. The telephone lompanv is uutifieri .n in decision tn adhere more Htr rtv to the mle wnnh provides for an eitia charge for long winded wiie tal 'I he order will imptoie the telephone sewn e And. what is more, it muy make ever.ida talk mote to the point by making if a little less (heap I'.ven the sternest critics will nue to admit that Secretaries Daniels and Dsker performed useful work during the war Thev have just been presented with fue shovels by the crew of the Leviathan to commemorate the occasion when they took I urns in the stokehold .for, a brief p.el0,i during their passage from 1oboken to Urest. - -.: :- W fll. nren I jou flai you dldn t ,sel) tiitir tfiiov kliovi'l; - -1( PHILADELPHIA, MONDAY, FBBRDARY'21, i AS ONE WOMAN SEES IT Reason Governor Miller's Strictures May De Ignqred by New Voters Outlined In League Bulletin lly SARAH . i.OAVRIK A WOMAN with whom Governor. Miller dined the nigh before he made his much -criticized speech attacking the League of Women Voters wrote me that both Albany and New York seethed with the fray for a week afterward. She Is a member of the league and a very potent llepubllcan woman, and she likes Governor Miller, so she was herself rilled with conflicting emotions. I wondered ns I rrtid her letter If possibly something she had said carelessly tn her guest of honor nt that dinner might not have confirmed hltn in his prejudice, or perhaps, being o silent person, she hod just said noth ing. He would think of her ns n llepub llcan thei state woman's llepubllcan execu tive committee had, in fact, met on the pre vious week in her ballroom. He would think of her n only sjmpathetle. nnd could easily have launched forth against the women who had taught the women voters of New York state that It was perfectly possible to split their ballot and yet have it lount. The result In New York state of the women's split ballots was that Senator Wadsworth ran far behind his party, just as Senator Penrose did hero in Pennsylvania. It w-as a little fruit of the tree of political knowledge that the managers of either party did not intend their new women voters to bite Into, let nlone learn to like tlie taste of. Part of their "old-time relijlon" is that splitting a ballot omitting to vote for one or another of the partv isndidates nnd substituting an otheris dangerous, first for the validity of the ballot, and, if it succeeds, for the success of the parly. U looks us though the voter owned the ballot, not the partv! Which Is the last thing n Mr. Harncs of New York or a party whip of auy stutc desires AS T-Till the lady in question, who was a member of tlie league us well as a leader of her Republican committee, I know for a fact that it wns her long and energetic work hs n member of (lie great Suffrage partv. which eventually turned into tbe League of Women Voters, that has "made her mi useful and so intelligent a Republican partv member, and If she let the league go iinsung to her guest that evening it must have been because she felt it useless to press the point just then and there. Many of ua league members who aie also good patty members find it difficult to get the idea of fiee will and partv loyalty across to snie of our own sex Their whole idea is that of conscription instead of volunteering They understand the "stund snd deliver" order of the party machine, but not the "iome let us reason together of the free Miter Their idea of following n leader is. ' theirs not to make reply, though some one .ir. ...ii, it.,-., -u. auu ho ir comes nooui mar ' some of us through carelessness let it go, and ' some of ns through inability to give a ie;.son I for the faith that is in us for the league let I if go BI T in the February issue of the League P.ulletin of Philadelphia fountv I find an excellent statement ns to whv the mem her of any political party should em oil in the League of Women Voters, Governor Millet, of New York, to the contrary! "Why You Should Knroll "P.ecause as a voter you wish to hea.- all sides of a question before vou give vour name to its successful issue, llccausc suffrage to you os h woman does not mean only voting for a party's interests, no matter how good the party, but nn intelligent vote through the party, irrespective of party interests. Ile cause if you want to work between elections for legislative measures, or if you want to use j our Influence for propaganda for future legislation, the league provides you with the means to do this in the simplest and most intelligent vvaj. llecause when you vote with jour party ut election time you can do so witii a background of knowledge gained in dependently of your party leaders that will out your vote on a more logical basis than mere obedience to machine dlittim " THE fire following questions as to ,he league hnve been answered to mv satis faction by the five following answers. jo sibly if the hostess of Governor Miller had had them handy that evening he would have saved some present it n novum p to others and much future annoyance to himself. T quote these answered questions from the same number of the League Bulletin . "What the League Is The League of Women Voters is a nn tioti-wide organization of women for political education, and for united action on legisla tive measuies that belong to all parties. "What the league Is Not "the League of Women Voters is not a woman s partv. It is not separate po liticul purty. Its members belong to all par tics It does not work through anv one patty, therefore it must work through n union of like-minded women in all parties "Why a League of Women Voters? necaii.se many women ote not jet ieadv io vote for party candidates irrespective of their merits. P.ecause before they do vote for a candidate or a legislative n'.nsijr they wish to know all the reasons for and against llecause, though nil election work muf be done tlnough political parties, muih legisla tion propaganda between elections can be done by n union of fortes Itemtihc H po litical body that is not partisan, but that is intelligent on the issues at stake, is a verv good medium of exchange on tn subject where there is a sharp division of feeling "How It WoiU First IJv education through MlmoN ot citizenship. lonfiTt'mes Hnd public meetings Through standing committees that work witii other standing committees of other organisa tions, namely, committee." on American citi zenship, women In lndi.-ti,. child welfare election laws oud methods, social hygiene, uniform laws iimcerning women, research, community service, entertainments. ".Second. IJy legislation To back in the state and in the munii ipulify better laws or the enforcement of olreadi existing laws and by a legislative ptogram ciplained bv frequent bulletins snd the latest news on the subject. "Third. Tlv the piih'nation of a riewH bulletin, whuh deals with the laws pending in the Legislature and w.th proposed enact ments under consideration "Fourth. By propaganda. Thiough tep resentation on other committees throughout the state nnd inuntj bv its chairman and its members who make its interest felt bv uuit ing wilb other organization "Kestill 'learn woik bv wntneii foi the common good of the lommunitv THE team woik moi appaient mat now N the great mass-meeting of the women nf Philadelphia county at the Academv of Music February 'J.'! nr 8 o'clock, w'hi. h has been called by the League of Women Voters, the Philadelphia women's Demo cratic iptninittee and the exeiutlvc commit tee of the wotnui's Republican committee. t ii I twenty -tour other oigunuutlons co operating J.ittle fault un be tound with tu de ( ision of Judge Wi( kerhiim setting uside certain provis.ons in u will made ' vear ago unci permitting the tuistces of the Eniaus Orphans Home at Middletown to cut twenty-seien acies ot the foir ground into building lots A man should be per mitted to do what he likes with his own. but, entire! apart from the merits of this partiiular case dead hand should not too long be allowed to hold buck naturul prog rrsa. On the other hand, thoughtful citi zens may uIwhvs see to it that vundul hands do not in the nutne of progress tear down monuments of sentiment und beauty. Tim Quaker Cltv Chapter of the I), A R. is l,..ml.tff lOlI'Vl II nollll,. une.'1.n h .a nril.J....."n " " im.,v r...,,.v in JIU testing to secretary Houston against tin , lltn !, ..1,1 Vl..l,ln lll.l.ll. I B demon"" u. v.iv uo ..luiviuii ,iuiiii iioini op Hansom street near Fcjurth, .noty goy. ernment .property, 'All the old historical spots In Philadelphia should be preserved. Thcr .make the town distlnct-lre and give it Hiarm.. ..mM. 4 ' -' 7 , """ rfBfesw 4 .. .:.- .TS-Hg ' r - Wr I j&z&2i&3irfY fliilHIHML ' i -? (wmmwt - -SbSSPB ffJwm ills?--"' JMk; 'TiaS .( ' '"SmSsP l8BSaSSBSSIsS ,,5S!iv yyw ,1 I NOW MY IDEA IS THIS Daily Talks f ilh Thinking Philadelphiais on Subject Know Best JOSEPH F. HASSKARL On Needs of the Port of Philadelphia THE eaily completion of the thhty-Jive-foot channel in the Delaware and enough iceboats to insure safe navigation during tlie winter are two imperative needs if Philadel phia wishes to take her rightful position as a prominent port, in the opinion of Joseph F. Hasskarl, former director of whurve. docks and ferries, and at pn-sent n member of the harbor and navigation committee of the Chamber of Commerce. The state should make more libeial nppio priatious for the port of .Philadelphia, ac cording to Mr. Hasskarl, sjnee this city is teally the port of the entile comtuouweulth and "means very much to the welfare of the state as a whole. Tl.e present onditions existing in the vX compared with its ur gent needs are outlined by Mr Husskail iu the following vay : Philadelphia is nt picscnt the second largest port in America lis measured by number of vessels, toiiunge and vulue of car goes handled. Owing to tier geographical location. Philadelphia should be the greatest freight distiibution point on tlie Atlantic seaboard The fun that Philadelphia is niiiftv miles nearer to Chicago and the Mid die West than New Yoik and 11(1 miles nearer to Liverpool thun P.ultimore (summer route, east-bound) aie niituiul udvautiigcs that will eventually assert themselves. "At the presentvtimc there Is in the Dclu wute rivet n clear tliirty-oue-foot channel imenn low water I to the sea. u distunce of 100 miles. As the runge of the tide is ."'.j ! feet, it gives ."O'-j feet ut high water, l ne thirty -live -foot project of the Delaware rlvei is now uppioximatelv 70 per cent completed. When this bus been finished Philadelphia will have a clear channel thirty-five feet deep nt mean low water from S00 to 1000 feet wide in the straight i caches and from 1000 to 1-00 feet wide in the bends of the Iver. Philadelphia has u frontage of twenty miles on the Deluwaie river and deep-water frontage on both banks of the lower Schuyl kill river of fourteen miles, making u total of thirty-four miles of deep water fnmtage within the city limits. I;i Piers on Delavvute From "Tlie city during tlie lust ten vtuis e pended approximately $12,000,000 on bar bor improvements, and there nre ar present nmple funds Hvuilablc to continue that line of progress. There aie now 17JI piers along the Delaware river front within the city limits, ranging in size up to l!i(K! feet long by ,'!."0 feet wide, of whi li number thirty one belong to the city There nre uKo large sections of bulkhead on the Schuylkill river affording ducking spate for man latxe es sels. Philadelphia liastwo large grain elc vutors with u combined slot age capacity of :i,200,000 bushels "There Are also a number of me-haudling piers here, ono of which has u opacity for handling 100 tons of ore per hour. "All Philadelphia piers uie or can be con nected with tbe licit Line Railway, which enables shippers to use the three trunk ruil wayH entering the city or equal terms. As a result there is practically no lighterage, of freight here as lOtnpared with New '.nrk. Iloston. llultunore and most other seaports along the Atlantic coast, which results in s great saving of time and money in the handling of vessels and cargoes "There are also many freight yaids con venlently located or closely o-oi (limited with our port facilities, thus obviating congestion and delays in handling imports and exports, The annual average foreign and coastwise commerce nf the port of Philadelphia for the last ten jeuts has been approximately "(!, 000,000 tons, at un aveiuge value of .$l.fi00. 000,000. Of this amount tlie foreign com mcrce bus amounted to (5.000,0(10 tons, ut a value nf SliOO.OOO.OOO The customs re ceipts during this period have nveraged up pruximutelv X17.000.000 aunually dvanUges iu Canals I lie Delaware and Karitim mid the Chesapeake and Deluvvure canals also give Philadelphia unusual (ulvuntoges for ship ments by water to New York and the South "On November 1, JOIN, there were sixteen shipyards With 157 shipbuihllng ways on the Delaware river or Its tributaries within thirty -five miles of Philadelphia "Philadelphia n close pfaiiinity to the great coal, iron, petroleum and cement fields nf Pennsylvania; olso (hat she is nearer the (treat cotton fields' of, the South than anv (JPhcr '-n.1; nianufai'turlntt city, fouplfd vvjjh v tKe fact that tt Is almost In the renter of tiye bent labor tnurket In this country, riyV n?.t1,v1nt,tu uilrnntflfteti nnvtnuui.4 t. I... 4tier viy 1" tM ch?1." flu' ve-linix1 !.rtle 1921 "TIP POOR FISH!" YV.cv Wi?' I '"' "'"'"ficturing. shipbuilding and allied industries: also for the economical and expeditious handling of vessels and cargoes. "The immediate needs of the port of Phil adelphia aie : "The early nmpletlon of the thirty-five foot ihannel in the Delaware river and eftcc five maintenance of the completed sections of this channel by I he Foiled States Gov ernment , ."More liberal nppiopi i.itions for the poll nt IMlllurlnlitltln lie .I... ., nr ll..n ... . t.... , .,.-, i in,- pint. ,o i ruin,, on- I ma. us Philadelphia is the port of Pcnti"jl- , 1 U n in I "fine udditionul fiieptoof gtHin elevator in the upper pait of (he hurbor; 'Ktiough iieboats to insuie safe and with out delay navigation between Philadelphia and the sen during times of henw ice in the i iver. Miould ReoiganUe Hell Line "The Kelt Line Railway should be icnr guiiized and new management if nccessiirv ttistulled and more modern und eflectiv'e methods employed in its operation. It should then be extended so ns to covei the entire ..'!,m'"0 ,ivpr '''"nt W,,H "lnt svslem. "Ihesp needs or suggested inipiovenient as outlined can and no doubt will be attended to in due time, so there need be no apprehen sion on Hut si ore. Rut the sooner these iin ptoycimnts ate made the better mid moic rapid will he the jirogiess of the port . ""ilh, so many natural advantages and i?iSi ,H,,uV)ri,,S ,1,is '',.'1 "l I'"' I'OM of I hiludelphla we may .oniidentlv look f.u ward, us the future of both seem :nuied." if evidence wete wanting (hut (ieiniunv will not play fair unless she is obliged to", that evidence is forthcoming iu tlie Allied plea to Argentina that she take nieusiuvs to pi event German evporiuflon of war materi als to the South American tepublic Time seems to be jiMiticition for the claim that if the ptactnc is not stopped-in- the Argen tine and other neutral counti ic it will be possible for German polithn! groups lo con struct outside of German teiritotv. and fiee from all loutiol. deposits of arms tlTev mav be able to utlll.e later Theie mav be'justi' Jicatton also for the belief that Gorman v is ilcher than she i. willing to admit ; 'and loom for suspicion that Argentina's with drawal from the League Amembh . after she hud consented to take iiiciubet,,hip. was not wholly unconnected with the tiulhc now ills closed. The fuel thai .. London banking hoiiro is negotiating a loan f WO.OOO.OUd for the Iliazlllati stale of Sm, a(, llls inU.,(,s, for American merchants I'm- the iihuii thut a countty iisnully bujs wheie it Iioiiohi )Fhat Do ) on Know? QUIZ H't.cie is Ilie i itv of Tiflu What is meant l svnetdo. lie" Tii what tentuiy did Luenv.ln Doiul., live Who wiol "Moll Fiaiidata" Who was 1'iesuleiu of the ,ie, Slates duiln the .Mexican War' What Is the middle name or ciianc l' Hughes'' o.iiicj, i. Of what countM wai le,,,U,. am. Ilton ii nalive" '" What is anotlici Way name f,,, ,, ,,v4 Wliat is a Imlbiil ' What is the tne.iili plcnaiv ' of th, Answers to Saturday's Quiz I'll" til Ht run?" of i'olcilU,i. Hi I l,oet. v .1 i suii,ii..l ' ' " uli three F.uronean nations vvlinli ln, ,, viirlous I l,ues contiolleU inipo.ij, J,S5,,i..tt...,.."a ",c ,,"""8:"' ''"'- Antlope in clasial invtlmiogv was ihe queen of the Ati.azon, lon'iiuei nl l Ileriules i no ii Ths citcuinfeicince of the enrth ui n,c euuator Is M.'iCii) miles Mall is a --neltcied wall; as n pionieuade A leroration is tliu .omlusloii o L in,. mltig up of a speeUi ' fc"n' A ciiiliinin Is an niianueinent of live oh. jects set so tnnt fou. i.io in o nils if square o, ,.. tangle ,,,id the , I, hi Ibe ceptei The Pv, ,t ,, ,ir J Piaving ciud in n qulncuii r '' Miordln to th inforiiiiitloii on tlie :,i inc ouice of iiuvaI Ii (l i'. ".,' . ---- mu....,UU llll' el i.r ;...:,lr.S.,, ."A". "m 'VHP Jiavaj . it. ., ;.,i. .-iv " V..... v' ,v:' . !' wmusiy ?.vd' "IU; 2P..V'lfifc.iiiM ...in -daiicil fr Ilie (ie tai on .. , .... , i i. . . .. ' " "HIIBUI til llll -l.lei iV liit," i'"rD' 'B3W io Noveiit- rutlier than for the ai'riiiiiir m ,,v"". "hw k'1STVWW, '"J Ul tnC,Vi,lp '"fv? ahe'ee! ?i 1ft 'i n'fihto iim ur.. .r. ..c ?....'?' . itnrmniiv'iibiiuld nay nnil What -'p.,' '",,.,. - 10,rVnmi;VadVcudv! SHORT CUTS Well, we kind of lar its it's got. like the cabinet II George did it with his little listlil .Modern executives use an ax. Germany's insistence tbnt she won't pnj begins to grow hysterical Tlie man who said "Talk costs until ing" never .used n pay station te.lepbtnv 'I Judge l.atidis continues to get news paper advertising, and. gee-! how he bJtfs't Theie is no likelihood thai rherr' hoiince will tiguie in (onion ow s e'ebra lion , In the tcpaiation poker game Germain pines foi a smull ante und the lowest t"i sible limit. The upliflets wlio uplift at m mn per will tlml no comfort in the WeUir Federation. May the occupation of Tiflis ht ih Jlolshevlsts be considered in the ligli' of Georgia cracker? Isn't theie a possibility that those il" speak of u gcutleman's ngrccmeni flattc "themselves somewhul '' Well, the fnieign cootie who land" en our shores iun'1 complain that he i-n ' ;" t ting ii wurm Reception Common sense should kill the cit" luiv born of h.vsteria. Shush laws hiv f plucc iu u free country. "It's me" Is good Knglish ajk I1' S.'lielling. "Rully:" says Ucnvislhem' MiGluuis. "That's me every time Kvcn his enemies will have m adm1' that ihe "raiding parson" is s brave nim who is mting nc-cotding to his lights A Chester cnup'li' bus been fined ln ".'' iosiv for spooning in n emeterv iM' seems tiifllug. but, on the dead, ii h.v ii'aT iiupoi t. Then- is no immediate likelile on tin"' Ilui lolinson will whole-heartedly """'"; Mi lluiding's seleitlon for sect da ' '" stale Though no pi'bes' uie iiinte,i "", "siricll.v Iresh eggs" or (flesh ?' "eggs" are being so'd ill ork I twenty -five cents, n dozen liob (mwe'l may claim the dutimti0" of being the only man who has inten '' Ilie President -elect without making n Z'"' ut the iiicnibcis nf his cabinet Admiral von Tirpitz believes ma' ;' iiinilnes vvcte overruled during the wa' " iillinli'ul ugtees with Tony teller m (' "ndvisobility of slicking to the alibi . Murv service is- a gtfat sight h-tt" limn washing." a , local iur.yjvofoan 1' quoted us sii.ving. A true femlifW '"'J have used the moic familiar qua' "I". adjective. The fact that urtnins have bceij In stolled on jury boxes in the f" "'"'" ' " Courl of SpringlU'ld. O.. to hide " " of women juiors suggests Ihe thought i skirts miglil be better. The Commissioner of Internal ''J1'' hus ruled thut liquor inuv be '"r' '' legnllv transterred at cleat "f "",, The n.ling may be all iU.hr. bu the intcrprctiilion ot th; law be 'f u goverument official V So far as ! ' ' ''t cnieriied we appear to have gov man by edict. Rttthci than i einuin idle fo "' nuiinder of h" 1 1 f - , " " '' ' " . ,, , M.mrdiuti. bat, burned, his, ipsuian e tic nnd elected to continue hij ''.' w ances. Since idleness vyouh have bee., rw. pulsoiy to allow him to collect ?.. ' for ihe i-ost of his life, all "overs or tut iM.il. will nnnlnud his decision J Premier .Irland - Ihal W $ wold no more (o .Germnn.v S,'l,r' Vv And.lt inajTjet b eml01,,r'!i',Mvve Will be an equally jvi lo inrln W""'J And.lt inajr jet m lemoii8tralei-J ,- wlmi.tiitfVJIiP lfAM!LOy'i',t.g
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