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WHILE THE CITY SLEEPS
IT WAS before the proper audience that
Mayor Moure ipokc of "lejtialatlve bodies
elected while jou sleep which liaraHtrinj; the
administration nnd cater while you Bleep to
the viclouB elements and the small-fry Kli
UcinnB." Th nudienco was made tip of btiKinci
men who are member of the Chamber of
Cotnmerre, mid the occasion was the annual
dinner of the chamber.
Hut a single speech like this will not wake
the men from their plumbers in KiifTicient
numbers to prevent the election of a new
legislative body in 10J3 like the one now
aittins In the City Hall.
This nevicpapor in 1010 stressed the im
portance of nominating the right kind of
men to the Council. It pointed nut what
would happen if the citizen! neglected their
duty. The truth of what we said was gen
erally admitted. Hut so much attention was
concentrated on the nomination of a. Mayor
that th couneilmen were overlooked.
The result is that the apparent majority
in support of the Mayor which entered the
Council chamber in January of last year has
beon undermined by the deals of men more
nxious for putting over their pet Job than
In decent government.
What has happened was made manifest
when the Council passed over the veto of the
Mayor an appropriation for 125 superfluous
jobs in the Municipal Court and repassed
an appropriation to the county commission
ers for Sl.00tl.0on for the Municipal Court
house after the Mayor had vetoed it on the
ground that under the law the money should
bf turned over to the Department of Iublic
Works
Soraethins bap been accomplished, how
ever, for Mr. .Tohnson, president of the
Cbamher of Commerce, sa.d at the dinner
'that this eourt has been made into a politi
cal machine und an asvlum for political pat
ronnge, und that its work has been so ex
travaicantlv conducted as to be a public re
proach. He aid nlo that until the abuses
have been corrected publie sentiment will
not unite for the expenditure of the money
necessary to provide proper quarters for
the coutt.
But public sontimnt must be mor thor
oughly aroused than it is nt the present time
before the Citv Council will respect it The
.Toh Combine has the votes. It is absolutely
Indifferent to ordinary protests, even though
those are based on the charge that the law
fs disregarded. Nothing but fear for their
political lives will Iad the members of the
combine to change their course.
And tliev lisve little fear, for they regard
the present discuion -f the situation as
merelv a flurrv an 1 n.-v n-" confident t'.nt
the c'tj will not i.n.. fr.im its slumbers
THE MAN AND THE JOB
THK remarks that Mr. Hoover has been
m,iking about the lVpi.tt tent of Com
merce as nt present administered indicate
that lit is the proper man to put at its head.
The department, he says, consist largely
of a group of scientific bure.tt.s whith hae
only k remoe , otmoetion with utr.merce
itself.
Il- sa.vi, also, thar he .sees a nay fo make
Jt a real I)epnrtmeut of ''.immerce. snd that
nuch (ould be don" bi renrjfanfcation with
out additional leg!.lHtim.
As a matter of fjct. the depar'icent is in
big or as little us the man who is at its head.
It bus been insigniiliiint in tne past because
little men have bien put in charge of it
As was jointed oi,j here jesterdaj, in the
present condition of ufTairs it fan be made
one of the most important departments of
he government if a m.in fit Mr Hooter's
abilities is put over i Indeed, it ,an be
niade so important 'hat in the fut ire it will
a'trnct the abW' bi-lnes brains of the
country
Mr. Hoover p .' jp - ) Mr Hardin,;
to deci'de whether lie i nrj t-erre tne
ountrj better in 'lie department or in
charge of tti work of Kii-njuitii relief in
which be Is ii iw engaged. The iinswer ro
this is that the work of Kuropean relief h
temporary and thnt the emergency which
make it iiifSMtr is rapidlv disappearing
vvhile the derelupiiimt "f the Department of
Commeri'' will demand th uttention of an
able ma ii f"f manj tear
Mr. Harding has recojniie.l tre f.. t.i urn!
ban told Mr Hooter tiint Ins relief work
need tio Interlerc Mtt hw tmrk as a mem
ber of tin. ubiiMf ind Mr. Hooter bus
greed
V;HAT MARKET WONT STAND
SKN'l IMKNTAUSTS have many a time
dxiiini ed the pr.ee jiilng rule of busi
ness which Is to (barge what the trallic will
bear. Vet the rn workx prettt well In the
long run. It puts p-iee up. and this is
vbut is detioiiiiced Hut it also puts pr.crs
down, nml this is uearlv always forgotten
Just now it l working toward lower
nriccs The irallic tumid beur high prli ei.
flurin the war. hut Miidliions changed and
the butcri- staved o it of the market
When the Midtale Steel Cumpniiy reduced
lie price of its prodii' t it, whs ttppljing the
rule. The traffic would not bear the old
prices If I he new pnrcs are not lot
enough to produce bu-mcss thet will be re
duced slill lotiir And the t'nifed States
Steel Corporation i onfroiitcd by conditions
similar to tho-. which the independent ,,lim
panics are facing, will be compelled to make
reductions A recent con lecture Is that in
the near future it will . It steel for 510 a
ton lee 'ban the pretailing pm e for the
last two tears
COAL IN THE SENATE
SOMETHING! seems to have been ,ic.om
pllalicil in the interest of coal users
tfirough the Colder regulation bill, eten if
at the last minute, the Senate shrank from
hamllliijr with courage n problem that lias
become a national shame
As the Colder bill wan reported yesterday,
nd ns It may finally be passed, it requires
complete periodical reports of future sales,
production anil rosin of blturalnoup nnd an
ibraclte'mt the flelto Thus it would la
possible for the government to obtain a clear
knowledgo of trends, practices and profits
in the industry.
The clauseH in Mr. Calder's bill which
were Intended to enable tho government to
force Into the business of coal mining and
distribution a little of scientific spirit
nnd scientific order to eliminate, in other
words, some of the nbuscs that long ago
aroused the angry disgust of engineers like
Hoover were struck out. That wasn't sur
prising. The Senate hates Innovations. Hut
It does seem to be succumbing to the pres
sure of public opinion nnd it appears ready
to provide a sort of federal surveillance
over mining.
It Is something to know that nn industry
so fundamentally important as that of coal
production may no longer be administered
largely In the dark.
NO: THE LEGISLATURE ISN'T
SAVING EVEN THE DAYLIGHT!
Bllle Like Those Intended to Lengthen
8umrner Days In New York and Jersey
Are Dying at Harrlsburg
TIMED new daylight-saving bills nro
sleeping what mny be their last sleep
In the lethal chambers of legislative com
mittees at Harrlsburg.
One, presented by Representative Daw
son, of I.ackawannn county, is a trick bill
of a familiar type intended to do the reverse
of the thing for which it appears to be in
tended. It would grant to all communities
a right to make their own daylight laws.
Doing thnt, it would, of course, make any
thing like n stntc daylight-saving law Im
possible. It is a bill clearly representative
of tho purpose and sentiment of tho farm
communities.
Senator Oeorge Woodward, of this city,
has Introduced a measure to establish day
light saving nnd the longer day universally
throughout Pennsylvania. A bill with the
same purpose was presented in the House
by Franklin Spencer Edmonds. None of
these bills was considered or debated. All
three were promptly submitted to commit
tees and put in the places where they are
likely to die for want of the sort of light and
air that the Legislature hesitates to give to
the people.
The clan leaders, hindenburging about, and
their followers lost in the ecstasy of re
unions and reconciliations, haven't had timo
to think of them. There has been nothing
thus far to show that the Pennsylvania
Legislature hat for a moment seriously con
sidered proposals which already are nlmpst
as good as accepted in New York and New
Jersey.
If current signs are not misleading, "New
Tork will continue firmly us a daylight
Fating state, despite the terrific pressure
which influential farmers' lobbies have beon
exerting nt Albany. The Senate has just
voted against a repealer passed in the House.
Local option of the sort proposed by Mr.
Dawson ttus In forfo last year in New Jer
sey. The rural districts lived by the con
ventional time schedule, while the cities,
especially those in the northern parts of the
state, tuned their clocks with those of New
York. You never could be certain of the
time in Jersey.
This year there has been a determined
effort in the Legislature at Trenton for a
state daylight-saving law. It probably will
succeed. That would mean a large daylight
saving block on the Atlantic coast nnd a
difference of an hour in time between Phila
delphia nnd all the important cities with
which it maintains the closest communica
tion. In Harrlsburg und ut Washington daylight-saving
bills have failed consistently
because of the unrelenting antagonism of the
farmers, and the farmers sustain their ob
jection with arguments thnt are in some
ways forceful and reasonable.
The hours and conditions of farm labor
are dictated largely by the sun and the dew
nnd the ancient and changele-,3 habits of
flocks and herds. The dew falls in its own
good time, despite anything that Congresses
and Legislatures may do or suggest, nnd
somebody has to be up early and tolling late
if it isn't to be permitted to turn from a
force for good to a force for destruction.
Tho former who feels that he must shelter
freshly gathered crops from the dew finds,
for example, that though he must work late
ho would have to be up an hour earlier
under a state da light law. The habits of
his herds are fixed unalterably according to
the sun-and-dew time schedules. In turn,
the schedules of milk trains are fixed.
It is possible to understand the objection
of the rural communities to a system that
would jolt the whole sensitive mechanism
of their universe rather seriously. And yet
it is possible to believe that that samn uni
verse might not suffer greatly or at oil :
that the readjustments would be relatively
painless und in no way damaging if it were
attempted intelligently, with a little patience
and with tolerance for the other fellow's
point of view.
Tanners do not look vwtli sympathy or
understanding ut the insistent desire of the
city man for an extra hour of daylight leisure
in summer They themselves have all the
w inds and open air nnd sunlight they want
and n great deal more. They are not accus
tomed to regard life in the open air as a
thin? of luxury, n thing to be craved. That
sort of thing has become n sort of bore to
people who have to tussli with the soil
through long hours of middnv beat
The lift and the rest that a city deskman
or a bank clerk or a tnc'.ory worker can get
bv u flight into the open country on a sum
1 mer afternoon n fanner is likely to feel only
on the rare instances when he can get in
doors, strttcb his tired legs n a chair and
pull down the blind N'ot knowing what the
accumulated gasi s In a foundry are like, or
i the strains of 'le city man's desk, or the
i a' bo 'hnt million of town-bound people
I have for an orcc.sior.nl whiff of country air
' or nn unobstructed look nt open sky, the
I farmer ic disposed to rtgard daylight-saving
scheme as ne- fads inventid by people who
r 1 ate nothing better 'n think abou
So. from tne farm countrr of the Middle
West nD angry and impjtient er. went up
when Congress was trying to decide whether
to make the long summer dav a national in
stitution The agricultural (oiinties have
fought daylight saving in everv Legislature.
They fought it bitterly in New York nnd
thev Io Thev Reem to be losing even in
New Jersey. The people in some of the
dties have simply refused to give up the
onlv rfood thing that thev ever Sot fo?
nothing
As a consequem e, the routine of existence
has been badly confused bv unexpected varia
tions of time in neighlKirlng areas A time
seems to be coming when the farms will t,,1Ve
to prove at least that their working systems
cannot be changed or readjusted or fhnt the
difficulties which the new time law involves
for them are reallv insurmountable Thev
will bate to show whether u little ingenuity
on their part a urue reKourceniiness. a little
of thu spirit of eliuritiiblo co-operation nnd,
perhaps, a little extra expense, wouldn't
make it possible for them to go along with
the millions uho are fighting for nlr and
ilea'
1 The trouole in Congress nnd in nnnj state
! I egislntures is that tho man who can muster
the most votes and the most "Influmce," and
not the man who can muster the most logic
for his cause, invariablv and Ineiitahly get.,
I what he wants on the stntute books
i Concressmen looked nt the census figures
I found thnt farmers still have the most totes
and the federal daylight law ttas instantly
killed Now, because Congress hates to do
its own thlnkiuifvand because manj auite
l.egislaturos do not oven know how to do
their own thinking, laws of a sort that seem
to conflict with the normal and understand
able desires of tho average man are multi
plying. Hlgorous, sudden, revolutionary
and wholly inflexiblo ns it was, the prohibi
tion law was passed with a whoop and es
tablished In a country that wbb given no time
to prepare for it and make its acceptance
easy nnd general through gradual psycho
logical transitions.
The da j light -saving bills were killed. Yot
you never would hear of men secretly con
spiring to work on into the twilight when
line afternoons beckoned them out of mills
and offices to the wholesome country. There
could be no temptation to criminality In
longer summer days. Illngn wouldn't be
formed to evnde thnt sort of federal statute.
If ever there was a needed law and a hu
mane one It Ih thnt which failed most
conspicuously in Congress when the emer
gency time Rchedulo was changed and that
has survived in some' of the states only be
cause members of the Legislatures with
large city-dwelling constituencies hnvo been
afraid to kill it.
The recent success of th daylight Ravers
in tho Legislatures of New York and New
Jersey ought to relnspire thoo who nre
fighting for the daylight law at Harrlsburg.
The Edmonds bill nnd the Woodward bill
ought to be forced out of the committees for
a hearing nnd for the sort of debate in which
the farmers should bo required to state their
case more explicitly than they have stated
it thus far either here or in Washington.
If the opponents of laws which were of
infinite benefit to city working people can
show that nn ndditionnl hour of da t light
would really put them under great hardship
and hopeless difficulties, the public at large
will find it easier to do without the benefits
of tthnt seems to city dwellers to be n
wholly rational arrangement of the clock.
Have the farmers ever tried to adjust
themselves to the new system? Have thoy
ever actually sought a way out? Or hove
they merely reacted to nn Instinctive preju
dice against n plan that happens to be of
particular boncjit to people in cities, who
are wrongly supposed to be nlways getting
the best of things nt the expense of the ag
ricultural regions? That is what tte ought
to find out while we ore about it.
If the Legislature isn't willing to bring
the daylight bills out. Governor Spronl him
self ought to tiBO his influence to that end.
And be ought to use it without further delay.
Spring is just around the next corner.
SHORT CUTS
Mandate debates appear td hate more
than their tmare of Yap.
Come to think of it, a man of Hoover's
size could make any old job a big one.
The bitter pill prepared for the sick
man of Europe is being sugar-coated.
The I'nlted States Senate will now pro
ceed to heighten Hoover's popularity by
fighting him tooth and nail.
Plans for the City Iloautiful. we note,
permit the property holder, within proper
restrictions, to hold his zone.
There appears to be growing likelihood
that at last we nre to have n. really truly
business administration nt Washington.
Tenrose is reported to be angry nt the
selection of Hoover for n cabinet position.
Hut that isn't news. It is a foregone con
clusion. Rightly or wrongly, there ar those who
believe that Mexico will nooner or later try
to take a Pall out of the Harding adminis
tration. There is always suspicion that the open
diplomacy of the loudon conference is re
enforced by the brand turned out in a star
chamber.
The jwwcrful opposition expected to
develop against the Develin bill to tax the
real estate of public utilities should awaken
public Intei est in tho measure.
What consideration will Turkev affoid
he Allies, more particularly Great Britain,
for being permitted to regain Smyrna? In
the name of the prophet. Figs.
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The New York acrobats who were
robbed in this city of $813 by a mun they
hod befriended will probably use him for n
mat the next time they run across him.
First-class passenger rates fji Europe
have been boosted 10 per cent. There might
be less cause for complaint if steerage rotes
from Europe to America were boosted 100
per cent.
It is comforting to know that Director
Furbush and his assistants will vee to it
that the 1000 passengers of the Orizaba do
not smuggle ashore any additional nnd un
desirable immigrants.
The conferees were seated at the table
with the avowed intention of having all their
cards fnee up. "What's the matter with
making it stud?" some one asked, and har
mony ruled forthwith.
I The general superintendent of the Anti-
Saloon League of America characterizes Mr.
I Harding ns "a cold, intellectual proposi-
I tion." Whrther this be libol or flatterv de
pends entirely on the viewpoint.
Advicts from Harrisburg seem to indi
cate that in discussing the political welfare
and the political future of some of our more
or less well -known legislators it would be
advisable to look for the woman.
If the London conference can't do any
thing with it, the matter of Turkey might be
turned over to n committee of American
farmers armed with little hatchets The re
sult might be cause for thanksgiving
The fact that a man who has just been
released after nine months spent in Moya
meiislug has been nble to prove thut he is
not the man tt anted, that It was n case of
mistaken identity, suggests the thought that
somebody has been remiss in not giving him
an opportunity to prove it earlier
An order calling for two nnd -a half
im h ui!Ts ou policemen's pants in New York
city appeara roineidcntally with un adver
tisement in all station houses setting forth
that a former police lieutenant has resigned
to enter thu tailoring business If there is
anv connection between the two it Is graft
that needs the cuds.
t'ne suggestion of the Federation of
Labor that the federal emplojment service
be restored draws attention to the fact that
it should never have been abolished. If the
employment bureau was usefil during the
war. and l' was, it should prote equally
useful during the period of retonstruetlon ;
and singular short-sightedness ttas mani
fested in bringing it to an end
Because there is no picture of Cuesar
Itodne), of Declaration of Independence
fame, available, a composite picture of all
his descendants will be mnde and the result
embodied in a statue to be dedicated In
Wilmington July -L The sentiment back of
the scheme is admirable but, well, aH n
mutter of fact, the picture may bear less
resemblance to Hodney than to bis wife's
father. One never can to!!
While John Ilarlejcorn no longer has
any official residence in the I'nlted States,
he oontinuos to awaken considerable interest
as a lively trunsUnt. He hns been refused
permission to use New ork ns a shipping
point between Caniidn and Cuba, and there
in likelihood that he will not even bo per
mitted to grin at the Statue of Libertj from
a Khlp traveling irom one lorvign port to an
1 other Meanwhile, ho gives enforcement
1 officials the merry ha-ha in every section of
the country If he tun'M laughing fn Ills
i .Icm' b is at least snickeing f rom a booties.
AS ONE WOMAN SEES IT
Occupational Therapy, What It la,
What It Doe and What It May
Do When the Training School j
Turns Out Workers
n- SARAH I). i,ovniE
SOME people were discussing not long
since the possibility of doing without
newspapers and getting the news by some
other medium, I do not know if they were
contemplating the possibility of the nub
Ushers going nut of business. At all events,
they could think of no substitute except
general goeslp, or a series of dally current
events classes with the on'e-timo reporters
nnd journalists turned lecturers.
In the early eighteenth century, when
there were no newspapers In our sense, such
cities as Paris nnd London had news
rndcrs of two sorts a sort of public crier,
who cried the news items In the parks nnd
streets, ond the renders of news letters, who
gathered groups about them in certain nd
crtlscd spots ond read letters from the
provinces or from abroad written for that
kind of publication. I rather think that our
generation has invented another way of
spreading the news in our "propaganda
lunches and dinners."
I do not know just what I think about
those "helps over hard places" for philan
thropic organizations. Like any form of
advertising, it pays more than it costs ;
that is the propaganda does get over to
enough new people to make It worth while
to the organization, but I sometimes think
it Is a dangerous misuse of hospitality to
Invite one's friends to one's house to feed
nnd then to bleed them. When the affair
is arranged by o club and the members com
bine to lunch together once n month and
give the time to the discussion of some
neighborhood activity about which they
wish to be intelligent, I think both means
and end arc justifiable.
I WENT to n Long Table Luncheon at the
Chestnut Hill Community House last
week of the above, sensible get-together
sort, nnd I was very much Interested in the
community audience, nnd also in the neigh
borhood activity tbat was discussed or
rather reported, for there wus no dlscusslori.
The Community House Is n left-over from
war work and has proved so useful to the
community that it is being kept on os a
civic center nnd is running n very well
patronized cafeteria as well. The subject
discussed at tho February Long Table
Luncheon was the introduction of occupa
tional therapy into hosptnls und oanato
riu. I got a good deal besides it very well
served meal at thnt luncheon, but I got
even more coming back to town on the train
from Miss Florence Fulton, who is the dean
of the Philadelphia School of Occupational
Therapy.
OCCUPATIONAL therapy is tho scientific
name for what your baby does when he
finds his bands to play with when he is
lying on his back resting his little self. It
is nny kind of a hand exercise that can
be ptirsiiisi se-ith pleasure and with beneficial
results by persona who arc weak or who
ore semi-invalids. It is something to keep
the mind pleasantly occupied while the body
is more or less quiescent.
Suppose a physicinn has n patient who is
nufTering from overwork and who needs
something to let his mind down easy. He
can put the man to bed and then call in the
occupational therapist, who would probably
be a pleasant, quiet-voiced, youngish woman
with nn artist's clever, composed hands. She
would Interest the restless, tired mun In the
making of something with his hands that
would take a sort of pleasant monotonous
skill, easy to ncqulre, easy to keep up and
soothing In its very regularity of rhythm.
While he was doing it his mind would be
diverted but not fatigued, nnd under Its
very monotony his muscles would relax nnd
his nervous system lose its tension.
Suppose, again, the physician bad a pa
tient thnt needed stimulus. The therapist
would then treat the whole situation from
another standpoint. The occupation chosen
for the hnnds nnd the eyes nnd the brain
would intrigue the interest nnd gently tax
the will power and subtly rouse the energy
by leading up to a climax of effect.
Suppose, again, the muscles of the patient
were flabby and the mind relaxed, the occu
pation chosen would be such as to use mus
cular force and require tense concentration.
THESE and other treatments for other
phases of convalescence would be given
by the therapist with the same care for re
actions as n nurse would give any other
treatment ordered by the doctor, und would
be varied along u well-digested plan of pro
Kresioii. In other words, the mind ot a patient is
not allowed to play havoc with the body
during the recovery from an illness or during
a long Invalidism, as it so often does when
it is left to its own devices and to weave
its own sick and discouraged fancies. We
all know how temporarily selfish invalids
ran become and how exigent about all the
little minutiae of their sickrooms und their
restricted lives. Their egotism !h generally
the result of a mind too much nt leisure, an
activity tethered to too small a space, with
nothing vital or even occup.ting to use vital
ity upon.
If that mind could be ocupled by some
thing not related to past worries or future
worries, on end in itself thnt is both pleas
ant in the doing and worth mushing, which
takes only the vitullty one can spare from
the body's needs und no more, which con
nects one little by little ttitli the real no
tlvitles of the outside world, just as the
body is being strengthened to go back and
to go on, then much that bailies the doctor
uud wears out the family and leaves a rut
of invalidism on the patient difficult to
eradicate would be uvoidid
THE Philadelphia School for Training
in Occupational Therapv was founded by
the Natinnnl League of Woman's Service
nnd was financed during the tvnr by the War
Welfare Council. Of i nurse. Its reason for
being then was the shell-shocked soldier and
the con.alesccnt soldier and the permanently
crippled soldier The Middle West had tried
it out in its ever day liopitals and sana
toria und found that whut was good for the
soldier was Just as good for the civilian.
Indeed, the new hnsplta's of the Middle
West include workrooms for occupational
therapy in all their p'uns without question.
The doctors uccept itv aid us a matter of
course. Here it It. bein tried out tentn
titely: the very fact that it is a new thing
puts ti question marl, over it. Even the
specialists in ncrtous or mental diseases
have not quite waked up to it so far as
much personal contact goes betwten the
neurologists and the alienists on one bund
and the school finultv on the other, al
though by consultation nnd adjustment a
very facile and useful tool might be made
practical for the doi tor's hand.
D
R KIRKHRIDK r much emphnsued
!.! wavJ tllon of nntle.ltu StflVInn ,l.t...i
nun , '- - -- I".....,. iuuntuN iiuiiRn
with their hands aiuot.g his sick people out
ut the iiospiwi 'or me insane nnn a cen
tury ago. He bud a museum where the most
curious nnd the nio-t artistic articles made
bv the patients wen on view. Dr. Iliggs
has done the same thii.g in his sanatorium
in the llorkshires, nnd so ban Dr. Ludlum
out at Oladwyne, but the idea of having n
school to tench tear hers how to teach pa
tients is the newest phase of Ihe old idea
und one that desert es the quick encourage
ment not only of tl public but of the
physicians.
Miss Florence 1 ult.m is n great find for
such a school. Sho has something of the
authority and ihtc than a little of the
acumen of that remarkable inno, her father,
the Kev. John Fulton, I). D., LL.D., the
cleverest editor of the only great paper
that the Episcopal Church has ever Inspired
In this country She studied art in general
as a painter, and then In tills country nnd
in Europe made herself n master of the
bookbinder's art in particular, so thut she
stands high in that class. In connection
with the White (late Studio out at Ilryn
Mawr she and Miss flnrber huvc turned out
class after class In stained wort In glass,
wood carving, Illuminating;, painting nnd
potitrj, modeling, flazlng, ttv,
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NOW MY IDEA IS THIS
Daily Talks With Thinking Philadelphia on Subjects They
Know Best
STEWART A. JELLETT
On Fire Prevention aa Business Policy
TJURE prevention as a fundamental of
good business Is a phase which is often
overlooked in this important subject, in the
opinion of Stewart A. Jellett. construction
engineer and chairman of the Arc prevention
nnd insurance committee of the Chamber of
Commerce.
In addition to the appalling loss of life
entailed everv car in this country through
preventable fires, and the staggering losses
of actual physical property, there also Is the
very vital question of the loss in business
sustained when a firm is forced temporarily
out of business by a fire, according to Mr.
Jellett, who puts this matter squarely up to
the American business man with the aid or
a list of official figures for the entire nation
and for Pennsylvania. Mr. Jellett says :
"The matter of fire prevention is nt last
beginning to receive the serious attention of
the American public. It has demanded our
attention for many years, but except for fire
Insurance experts, underwriting boards nnd
others (often classed as cranks) It has re
ceived but scant consideration.
"Tho American business men have not
considered the matter of fire prevention us of
first importance or of nny great Importance,
provided he was fully insured. It seemed to
mnbe little or no difference to him that the
fire was coined by his own or bis employes
gross carelessness or that his neighbors suf
fered fire nnd water damages, provided Ills
own property losses were covered by lnsur-
"This is a rrther severe indictment, but
one that is justified by a htudy of conditions.
81,000,000,000 Estimated Loss
"The Nntional Hoard of Fire I'nderwritcrs
has recently completed a very careful survey
covering fire losse.t on Insured risks occurring
in the I'nlted States during 1015 to 11)10.
inclusive. The total known loss was In the
neighborhood of $1,410,000,000. Of this
amount the stute of Pennsylvania alone
shows a loss of practically $7oa40.000 and
If is added to this n reasonable amount (say
5 per cent) to cover uninsured losfcs, which
ore not reported, the totul of Pennsylvania s
loss amounts to the enormous sum of ap
proximately 508.000.000. a little short of
20.000,000 per .tear; und unfortunately this
loss is not decreasing. The reported losses
In Philadelphia for the year 1020 exceed
$8,000,000.
"The national fire losses for December.
100 totaled .141,000,000. compared with
SS27.OO0.OOO In December. 1010. The figures
just published by the National Roard of i Ire
Underwriters are classified Into three groups
fires that are strictly, preventable, rartly
preventable and of unknown causes.
"The strictly preventable equal 21.3 per
cent of the total known fauses, and the
partly preventable 40.0 per cent; the un
known. 34.8 per cent.
"It is fair to assume that nil equal per
centage of the fires classed nnder unknown
causes would. If the causes were known, be
divided Into the first two classes in about tho
ratio given. If this is done the final results
show that about 118 per cent of the total loss
of between $37,000,000 and $38,000,000 ip.
resents the loss In Pennsylvania aloue in five
Tears due to fires that were strictly patent
able, or In other words, caused by gross
carelessness or neglect. ....
"This money loss, great as it is, is not the
most serious loss, nor is It the total money
joss The most serious lobs is that of life
and' the maiming and crippling of many per
sons caused by fires. Thlsloss in deaths has
reached as high as 10,000 persons In one
teur In the I'nlted States. The addltlonnl
money loss to which I refer is the loss of
business when ii fire occurs, which loss of
business is not covered by Insurance.
Iss of Utislness Serious Matter
"It may happen that a manufacturer is
fully repaid for the actuul physical loss of his
property, and ot the same time he mny be
practically forced out of business because of
his Inability to fill the orders of his custom
ers, It being impossible to replace the ma
chinery and patterns within any reasonable
time. To my mind this loss of business Is
for a going concejn just as serious and In
some rates more so than the loss of physical
property. , ,
"The fire prevention and Insurancb com
mittee of the Philadelphia Chamber of Com
merce is endeavoring to bring this Important
matter of fire prevention to the serious utten
tlrfn of the people of Philadelphia us a para
mount civic duty, one that should no longer
be neglected.
"We are not so much concerned with the
iew bulldlnjs erected nnder the present
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building lows and ordinonccs, because under
these laws the protection of the buildings is
carefully looked after. Exits, fire and smoke
proof stairs, fire-escapes, etc., are provided
for; but the great risk in Philadelphia lies
in the old buildings erected before modern
building methods were adopted, located in
congested districts. These buildings are a
continuous menace to the lives of the people
who occupy them cither ns permanent homes
or during working hours.
"Many of theSo old buildings house a num
ber of small manufacturers whose employes
nre in many cases foreign born nnd not well
acquainted with our language and customs
and likely, In the cuse of nn alarm of fire, to
become highly excited. A number of the old
dwellings have been converted into tene
ments, occupied by a number of families.
o believe It is of the greatest importance
that the inspection of such buildings be taken
yitorously in charge by tho Department of
Public Safety.
"In nil our principal cities we spend large
sums of money on our fire departments, but
the amount of money that Is appropriated for
the purpose of lire prevention as compared
with the amount for extinguishing fires is
notoriously insufficient.
"The Department of Health is on the look
put to prevent the spread of contagious and
infectious diseases. It does not wait until
the epidemic is in full swing before actually
taking hold of the situation. Wo would blame
them if they conducted the department in
nny Hiieh way.
"It is equally important tbat the office of
the tire marshal should be equipped to, as
far as is possible, prevent the occurrence of
Arcs ond thereby lessen the menace to the
whole community.
Marshal Here Alive to Conditions
'-We hate in Philadelphia n lire marshal,
ill C.eorge W. Klllott who is fully olive to
the seriousness of this situation, but his
office is greatly undermanned by lack of in
sufficient appropriations to carry the work
on effectively. There should be constant,
regular inspections by qualified, uniformed
men of nil buildings of the cIbbh particularly
referred to. so as to insure safety In such
buildings, nnd change in occupancy from a
tenant whose business Is reasonably safe to
one whose business is notoriously unsnfe
should be guarded ugalnst by requiring the
Issuance of a license by the fire marshal.
The issuance of this license would onto
matically bring the building so occupied
under regular supervision.
"The National Hoard of Fire Underwriters
in calling attention to Pennsylvania's
known fire losses from 101! to 1010, Inclu
sive, equaling the huge total of 78.340,000
calls attention to the fact that this money
would build 15,007 houses nt $5000 each,
sufficient to furnish homes for 78,340 per
sons; a rather startling statement.
"As soon ns we Phllndelphians fully real
be that property destroyed by fire represents
an utter and Irretrievable loss, just so soon
will we become pructlcally interested In the
importance of fire prevention.
"There Is and can be no satisfactory ex
cuse for further delay In n matter of such
vital interest to our city's welfure."
How to Avoid Typhus
Trent tha :e-v Tori, Tribune
The typhus of Europe which Is leaking
Into New York through Immigration should
not unduly alarm the country. America
generally speaking, is tho land of the hath-'
tub, and bathtubs and typhus are enemies
Typhus Is caused by a louse, and none else"
Ono must be bitten by this Insect to contract
the disease. The average New Yorker can
put his mind nt rest If he Is a consistent user
of the bathtub a,nd observes the usual pre
cautions of ablution. For the others, de
lousing is indispensable.
Tjphus has existed In New York for manj
years endemlca ly. The Insect which spreads
the disease epidemically must have long been
n contact with typhus sufferers to carry o
virile germ. Cleanliness Is the remedy. In
eastern and central Europe, where clcanli
ness does not prevnll, typhus thrives. Rut
It can neter thrive In New York If New York
remnlns normally clean.
Immigrants should be introduced to New
York and u delouslng station simultaneously,
and tutored thereafter in the great American
habit of bathing,
Inoluslvo
Trnm the New Tnrk Herald,
The World, the Flesh and the Devil
Ye make a pretty good league all by our-
Behest - t
What Do You Know?
QUIZ
What are tho (Jerman names for the
provinces retained by France as a con
sequence of the world war?
Where are tho scenes of Khakerpeirt'i
comedy, "A Midsummer Night's
Dream," lald7
Of what state Is Careon City the capital"
What was the title of General Lee's
main army In the Civil War?
What nre the colors of the Dutch Hai?
What was the first name of Krupp, the
Qerman cannon founder?
What U the literal meaning of "dichi-
hund"?
What is tho meaning of the heraHls
expressions dexter and sinister?
What planets rotate between the earth
and the sun?
What Is the name of the last book C
the Old Testament?
Answers to Yesterday's Quiz
1. Charles I Charles V, emperor of tl.e
Holy It oman Empires was king or
Spain during the period of Its greater,
world power. He ruled from 15H lo
1SB8.
2. A cyjrnet Is a young- swan.
3. Brand WhitIoc.lt was United States mlr-
lBterto Belgium during the world fi
A. The former German colonies In the P
clflc ocean have been divided between
Great Britain and Japan.
S. Do la Huerta was president of Meslei
Immediately preceding General ObfC'
gon.
C. Tom Taylor's "Our American Cousin"
wns enacted In Ford'e Theatre on w
night Abraham Lincoln was ass(-
alnated.
7. A hidalgo is a Spanish gentleman.
8. The word literally means son of sonu-
body, from "hljo de algo."
0. A cutworm is a caterpillar that cuta o
joung plants level with the ground.
10. Ethan Allen Is particularly noted for M
exploit In capturinu Fort Tlconderojit
from the British on May 10, In',
Loud Cries of Pain Will RIm
From 'he New York Times..
Among ten causes of crime given by Pi'
It. H. Gault. psychologist at Northwestern
University. In his report as chairman .
the Chicago crimes committee's committee
on the origin of crlmlnalltya fine 1 1 !'
that! place some way from the end of im
list is given to "commercialized recreation.
The term Ir somewhat enigmatic, n
wbat the professor means by it can m
guessed by anybody. Probably the gue .
will be surest by those whom his use o tw
phrase will most offend by the commfrcll
izers of recreation, that is.
There are manv of them, and the re
of many kinds. What special or PrtlUr
responsibility for crime some of them M"
it is not easy to define and yet he Juoi
ment of all the ages has been that tbere
something wrong about making money on,
of sport and amusement. The ,
everywhere nnd nlways holds hro'
the "professional" In one way, if below "'a
5 another, and few parent u" '$"
for their children a career In c0",n,f,frf Jl,
iied recreation," profitable ns such careers
often are.
It Should Have Been Arranged
., - .,.. entir.ll
SOMETIMES the incnunuon m ..
world's nxls ,,
Balks human Inclination very ha Hy. ,
And souls that should foregather are
Uke Christinas gifts that come In ft'
And that8ris'why so many men go seellM
Out of all season for the tninrs v'i
You kn'Sw'what I mean-there ..$
Who by themselves have done, wen,
Rut Htiir'bave sighed for sometbint. !&
for Instance, dlvcrteJ
There's Henry Adams. "" nec,ef. "
Into forgetting his sad, misfit , ,er
Why couldn't be have live la , Uj ' tb
And had the sense to marry Marioi a y
Refore she o.qulthed and was : ' J,,
Dancing to deans? Just think how
Would have taken his lucid mind from oJ
at0?;0enTy.rCnr?e9 K fffig
Lacked due respect for human h'r,
Oh, well. John Milton and the tfli
Byron d Theda Rara "'ofnlU
And II. O. Wells and f hnr.ran',.Trot.lr',
Literals Borgia and Jrfnln.onrt ir k.
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