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HOW WILL THE FUTURE VIEW
MR. WILSON'S PHILOSOPHY?
Earnest but Audacious Handling of Tre
mendous Forces Characterised the
Dying Administration
THE criors-out for penre, the haters of
unreason ami Injustice, the crent vision
aries who nre nlwuyn rendy to ilcstroy much
lor the sake of a bettor future, the lonesome
Wen who yearn to be the deliverer! of hu
manity from Its Inherited pain and Its endless
confusions move in a procesilon through all
history. They always have been. They
Ways will be. When one of them appears
he has to speak or perish.
Such as throe sat at the Rates of ancient
cities and bitterly condemned the cztstinc
poweTK. They have shouted dark prophecies
at rassinic king. A few hove led armies
and others have done great services for
modern peoples nnd modern governments.
Most of them have been solitary antagonists
of destiny who were derided bv the mighty
people who, in the course of time, did "sit
Upon the ground and mourn."
That one of them should have been at the
T'ery top of the world, in a position of un
exampled power and unehallenscd authority
at a time when humanity was enduring Its
greatest agony, will be n matter of wonder
to future historians. That he should have
failed and fnllcn in his turn probably will
be a matter of amazement.
For Mr. Wilson unquestionably belongs In
the company of orderly minded revolution
aries nnd venturers who, no matter what you
may feel about them and the logic of their
actions, feel and peak for masses who are
themselves inarticulate.
The President who is about to leave his
office is not essentially n politician. He' re
spects nothing because of the mere fact of its
existence and Its general acceptance. His
first theories of American politics expressed
in his earliest essays and books reveal a
desire to revolutionize the traditional func
tions nnd relationships of the executive, the
cabinet and Congress.
Mr. Wilson was a revolutionary at Prince
ton. He was a revolutionary in Jersey
politics. He virtually revolutionized the
banking system during his term In Wash
ington and he was working determinedly
when the war broke o'lt to revolutionise in
ternational trade by makinj a Democratic
low tariff a harh reality What he would
have been In two terms of untroubled peace
It is not easy to Imagine.
It is the Wilson of the war period who
will be known, studied and speculated upon.
The Wilson of the first administration is
already forgotten. And in view of what hns
hfen happening it is possible to feel that Big
Jim Nugent and Bis Jim Smith and Colonel
George Harvey and the ultra -conservative
board of directors at Princeton T'nivTHity
functioned for ears, without knowing it. as
forces of a higher destiny. Fighting Mr.
TVilson, they aided him enormously. And
svhat other man in America could Lave been
bo brilliant ami so audacious as the Presi
dent has been, so careless of personal con
veqnenrcs in crisis nfter i risls, so steadily
assured of the rigbtnrss of his purposes ns
to overawe for a time even the most arrogant
leaders of Kuropean war Linking cliques?
It is doubtful whether any other American
of the moment could have so nobly expressed
the silent hopes and v.ishes of multitudes
verywherc as Mr. Wilson expressed their.
in his messages of the war period or led the
jnlnd of the world to a place where, for
a little while, it neemrd ready to follow
ajiywhcre.
If President Wilson failed it probably was
tiecnuse of an essential difference between
"Wilson the man and Wilron the revolution
ary philosopher. Kverybodv saj s ho has
failed. That is, ovorvbody but one
It is said in Washington that the Presi
dent does not believe that he has failed
that he iv leaving the White House in nn
nlmost jubilant spirit. That may be. Hut
lie missed Ihe accomplishment of thing upon
which he had set his whole heart, and ho
mirsrd it because of an Ingrowing, change
less and Incurable dislike of every man who
iriakes a livlns by politics and the explolta
tlon of political parties. That trait was
responsible for some of his achievements
Similarly, it has been the caue of loss nnd
defeat nnd humiliation in more than one
eritfiol instance of the last five years.
He was not even fair to the politicians.
He humored Ilryon and used that old leader
for his purposes. Then he treated Iirjan
badly. He dismissed Secretary of War Gar
rison for offering advice that seems now to
have been sound. Secretary Lansing was of
Kreat use to him at Paris, but he virtually
ordered Lansing out of the State Depart
ment. The President's detestation of Sena
tor Lodge and men of Senator Lodge's sort
of mind Is Inexpressible. It is a passion that
Mr. Wilson has never been able to conceal
and it certntnb has had o tremendous effect
on the political life of the country, because
Lodge and his kind make no secret of their
furious hatred of Mr Wilson. There arc
men In the Senate uho could not agree with
the President about the time of day.
The great il.tue of the I'reiddent uas his
fa:ta in the wisdom of mass judgment in a
w
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country like this. He appeared always to
feel that there was Instinctive wisdom, pass
ing the wisdom of any one man, In common
judgments and something suggestive of eter
nal rlfhtncss and truth in common feeling.
When he warred with Dig Jim Nugent and
Big Jim Smith he was often in corners. Then
he would go out and, in his own phrase,
"tell the people about It." When he went
to Washington he followed tho same rule.
And In the course of time, when he found
himself confronted with kaisers and chan
cellors, prime ministers and generalissimos,
he tried the experiment thnt nlmost gave him
a fixed place among the Immortals. He
began to tell the people of the whole world.
He did It with fortitude and courage, and he
put truth In terms so simple and noble that
it could be understood in any language.
Whatever one may think about Mr. Wil
son's policies, no one can doubt the com
plete sincerity of his heart. Yet he Is going
out of office in "a storm of unfriendly criti
cism. Debs hnnrls insults from his jail.
The people who like to be known as Intel
lectual radicals are searching their souls for
sounds In which to express their distrust anil
their dislike and their dlslllusloninents. The
average conservative is convinced thnt the
President has been at heart n Bolshevist.
The Bolshevists and their more temperate
friends have already written Mr. Wilson
down ns the mightiest and most cold-blooded
tool of reactionary Interest that ever ap
peared in the world.
Because prices went up and because they
went down ; because wc didn't get into the
war earlier and because we got into It after
a while ; because the Gcrmon Indemnities
were large and because they were not larger;
because Ireland Is not free and the Irish
people nre passionately at war with things
they hate ; because wc do not intervene as
well as because we tried to intervene by a
slow and indirect method ; because wc didn't
let Germany win and because wc let her win
for years i because the mind thnt dominated
the country for n time was radical and be
cause it was conservative, Mr. WiNon. ap
proaching the end of his term, suffered the
deepest humiliation that the voters could
visit on him in the days of his weariness
and his infinite pain.
All this merely goes to show that it takes
all torts of people to make a world and thnt
any one who attempts to do the world a
service or to think and feel for It does so at
his peril. That Is the meaning that most
hlstorinns nre likely to read into the record
of the present Democratic administration.
How wise was the President in the days
of his greatest power? Who knows now?
It Is argued by a good many extremely wise
men who have gained knowledge out of the
fires of hard experience that a traditional
courso is often the wise one. Mr. Wilson
accepted no rule because it was traditional.
He has had a manner of resenting tradition.
And he has suffered by it.
Perhaps, after all, it was Wilson the
revolutionary philosopher and not Wilson
the leader of tho Democratic party who
suddenly appealed for n unanimous Demo
cratic vote In the congressional elections of
1018. It was and is hard for a great many
people to believe that the President was
actually disinterested on that occasion. But
in the light of after events It mny appear
that he had a purpose not wholly related to
the fortunes of his party. He was dead
locked then with what some one hns called
"the dark powers of the world" In Paris.
The fate of his Fcheme and. for all any one
mny know, the fate of the civilised world,
was in the balance.
Mr. Wilson was plajintr against enormous
odds. Europe was filled then, as it Is filled
now, with powerful groups who do not want
a League of Nations, or even the prospect
of a settled peace or the abandonment of
military Imperialism. These people feared
America. And, what is more, they fenred
their own people for the first time in their
lives. Mr. Wilson had established commu
nication with these various peoplca and It
was the desire of his opponents to see his
prestige shaken. He had been saying all
along that he spoke for the American people.
He npproaehed a national election with the
knowledge that in every parliamentary sys
tem familiar to Europe a defeat for the party
means the repudiation of Its leader.
So he fell Into an error that astounded the
country, enraged all Republicans nnd af
fronted large groups of his friends nnd sup
porters. His appeal was a departure from
the rules of tradition and the rules of taste
and the rules of fair play. It was not nn
swered. He should have known that It would
defeat Its own purpose. That Is what It did.
And at that instant the power and influence
of the American group at Versailles began
to decline.
Mr. Wilson was advertised to the peoples
of Europe as n man who had bren repudiated
by his own people.
Tho fashionable thing to say now u thnt
"Wilson is a tragic figure.' It may yet
appear that the people who insistently mis
understood hlro are far more tragic than he.
It W said that he was leading the nation
into a blind rond, into a trap from which it
could emerge only ns. the ally of forces that
breed war and that are seemingly ready to
be?in new wars. Thnt is not a fair state
ment, since no one can know what the be
havior of Europeans would hnvo been had
the American delegation achieved the ends
they sought nt Versailles.
When the nllied governments began to see
little hope of security through accepted world
understandings, they turned about to seel:
safety and protection and adrantngc by the
old-fashioned methods, the only methods then
at their disposal.
The Senate group, which sincerely feels
that it has saved tho country, hns not yet
wholly justified itself. We shall have to
know where that group is disposed to lend us
before it is possible to say that the Senate
was wiser or more far-sighted or more
patriotic than the President. And neither
victory nor defeat can change the logic nf the
general printlple.l ooed from the White
House. Their logic was apparent even to the
Germans. Ludendorff has admitted that Mr
Wilson's notes were as destructive to tin
morale of his people and his army as artillery
In thu rear.
Mr. Wilson was and is a pacifist. Hut he
is a pacifist for philosophical rather than for
ncrely sentimental reasons. If to have
tnown at the beginning what many Euro
pean statesmen were willing to perceive only
nfttr their countries had been bled almost to
death, that war is futile, without any justi
fication and without any recognizable end
beneficial to civilization, then Mr. Wilson
may be condemned for many of the things
which he sld and did before re entce-l the
European conflict. He saw tbr catastrophe
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EVENING PUBLIC LEDGER
as the result not only of one nation's ag
gression, but of the constant jostling and
crowding nnd fist-shaking that has been gen
eral In most parts of the world for a genera
tlon. His hope was to get nt the root of the
matter. That Is what his Leaguc-of-Nntlons
plan meant.
First In New Jersey, again at Washing
ton and flnnlly nt Paris he fouzht the rules
of silence nnd secrecy In public affairs. He
ttusted first In the plain people of America
and finally In the plain people of the world.
And at the last they turned ngalust him.
The lfblt of opposing the President was
common to no particular class. Tne reform
of the banking system was fougnt sincerely
tnojRh by all sorts of people. Tlu hankers
lelicied that the banks were being gcn
rer to tho politicians. Partial to labor
Wilson was. And labor lotcd against him
and the things he believes In.
It is nnd will be n matter of pride with
this newspaper that wc tried to understand
his motives nnd not to minimize the Presi
dent's efforts for n permanent peace. Ho
seemed to us, in the war years of his term,
to have been an American rather than a
Democrat, nn American with a great heart
and a greater mind. lie was courageous and
venturesome enough to go nlmost single
hnnded Into a conflict with all the brute
powers that curse civilization by their stu
pidity and blindness. Ho nlmost won. He
may yet win, In some far day, long after
every one now nlivc Is dead. For the hopes
which hove been like dim lights in every
human heart nre braver and clearer now be
cause a man appeared to define them ex
plicitly and talk of them in unforgetable
words.
Such words will retnrn. Rome of the
promises Implied In the early outlines of the
Paris plan will be like n cry upon future
winds to rouse men to resolution and action.
The great hopes of the early days of the
Peace Conference nt Paris cannot be wiped
out. People will coutiniie to wonder why
they were not realized. Tides of opinion and
feeling hnvc been reversed. But arc not the
tides fotcver changing? Hope has been de
ferred again. But hope Is cterunl.
Ho wo arc not ready to list Mr. Wilson
as a complete failure. He worked till ho
fell for what he deemed just and right. You
cannot do that nnd bo called merely a failure.
With him when he leaves the White House
tomorrow go all our good wishes for happi
ness and long life nnd the health that he
sacrificed for a world of people too bewil
dered by passion nnd prejudice to under
stand an epic that was performed under
their very eyes.
CHAMP CLARK
THE passing of Champ Clark will leave a
considerable void in Congress anil a
pang somewhere within every one who likes
and believes in the old-fashioned Americans.
It will leave more than that. It will leave
a gap In the skyline of contemporary Ameri
can affairs as conspicuous as that which
would be npparent with the sudden death
of William J. Bryan or .Henry Ford or
Fncle Joe Cnnnon or nny of the other men
who have vivid personalities tinged through
out with the peculiar and unmistakable spirit
of the native soil.
Mr. Clark was of and for the old school
of politics. He had iinrm nnd Integrity of
chnrncter. But he had the continuing habits
of mind of days that loved hound and ap
pearances more earnestly thrn the achieve
ments of devoted reasoning. For that reason
he was not quite n great man according to
the standards of later and more exacting
times.
Tho Gentleman from Missouri was the
gentleman from Missouri. The phrase de
scribed him accurately. He had a most
useful career in Washington. And he sur
vived n test which few men endure without
being spoiled. He jut missed the presi
dency. And afterward he never revealed a
sign of disappointment or bitterness.
After serving thirteen consecutive terms
In Congress Mr. Clark was recently defented.
He was involved as an incident in the gen
eral Democratic disaster of November. And
there is moving significance in the fact that
his life ended with a career that was In every
wny honorable and useful.
NICHOLAS THE LAST?
THEKE Is something pathetic In the death
in exile of King Nicholas of Montenegro.
He was the patriarchal ruler of a little king
dom, 100 miles long and eighty miles wide,
in the mountains on the eastern shore of the
Adriatic. He sat under n tree near his
"palace" In Cettinje nnd administered jus
tice to his people. The palace was a more
modest dwelling than that occupied by many
a Philadelphia!! in the suburbs of this city,
and these same Phllnilelphliins live more
luxuriously than he did.
Yet two of his daughters married Russian
grand dukes and one married the king of
Itnly. In order to raise him to the rank
uhich he ought to have to associate with
IiIh relatives by marrinye lie took the title,
of king in 1010. He had been a simple
prince before thnt and his predecessors had
been prince-bishops, combining the secular
and religious headships of their people in
their own person. He enme of n sturdy race,
for since Ihe first of his line assumed power
in lflOfi there had been only four successors
before the title descended to him In 1800.
The war drove him out of his kingdom.
It is reported thnt an offer of an annuity of
$,1(10,000 was made to him if he would abdi
cate. But the sturdy old mnn refused to
give up his rights to the throne of his
fathers. Whether his son will succeed him
is yet undecided, for the fnte of the country
"till hangs in the balame. But so far as
he could see when he died he was the last
nf a line of patrinrchnl rulers of the country
.if the Black Mimntnin.
NO TIME FOR SENTIMENTALITY
GERMAN propaganda in behalf of re
taxation of the allied demands for rep
aration will avail nothing if the allied na
tions keep in mind what Germany did to
France after the wur of 1870 and what she
had announced she would do to tho allied
nations If she won in this war.
The allied seizure of the German customs
houses, now proposed, would be justified in
the event of the German refusal to make
adequate payment. The sum which she must
hand over Is to be fixed bj the nations she
dejpoiled and not bv the Berlin financiers.
It cannot equal the full measure of her debt,
because she wreaked destruction upon France
r.nd Belgium most ruthlessly. These coun
tries, no matter how much she pays, will
still suffer greater loss than she.
A little hard thinking will prevent sent!
mentnlism from confusing the issues. The
Supreme Council, now in senslon In London
to consider the German compromise offer, is
evidently doing this kind of thinking.
France may benefit from German stu
plditv. If Simons had made an offer of
reparations large enough to strike anybody
as being fairly reasonable and reasonably
fair Germany might hate won some sympa
thy. But the offer made is so absurdly low,
viewed in the light of damage wrought and
estimates of present German resources, as to
lead one to the belief that Germany is blind
to the crimes she hns committed and Is cheer
fully bent on dickering for terms ns mlvao
tiigeon ,is if.s-ille Oni " again sin- has bein
so in . ci siur.it tuut iht has. uvur tit-bul
herself.
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AS TO CONTESTS
Congressman Farr'a Cats Recalls An
other Famous One The Oabourn-
Devlin Most Noted In the State.
My GEORGE NOX McCAIN
CONGRESSMAN JOHN R. FARR, of
Lackawanna, who has just won his
seat in the present Congress over his Demo
cratic opponent, falls heir to political treas
ure trove worth something more than
?SM ,000.
Mr. Fnrr has had an unusual exper
ience ns n public man.
It is just thirty ears ago that he ap
peared In Harrisburg as one of the repre
sentatives from Lackawanna county. He
served continuously, till 11)00. In 1SSD he
was elected speaker of the House.
It was n very turbulent session, but Farr
handled it with a grip of steel.
The same good luck accompanied him
when he entered Congress In 1011. He
sorted four terms without n break.
His contest hns landed bltn for n fifth
term, although he has the unique distinction
of serving only a few days of actual time,
though he draws the salary and expenses
for the entire term.
CONGRESSMAN FARR'S case directs at
tention to the fact thnt contests In the
House nnd Senntc nt Harrlsburg arc going
out of fashion.
It has been a long time since the Scunte
particularly has had the even tenor of its
way disturbed by nny such rude nnd un
lovely peiformnnee'ns a contest.
They nre things to be avoided wherever
possible. They Inevitably result In opening
the doors of partisan closets nnd the drag
ging forth of grinning skeletons of political
chicanery that are best bidden from public
Kaze.
Contestant for nnd defender of the title
usually crawl out from under tho debris
equally besmirched and battered.
JAMES FRANKLIN, of the Twenty-first
West Philadelphia district, called my
attention yesterday to nn almost forgotten
senatorial contest that was the most fninous
in the history of the State Senate In the
last half century, if not In its entire history.
It was the celebrated Philadelphia rase
of Osbourn vs. Devlin in the session of
1880.
Osbourn was a red-headed, combative,
one-armed survivor of the Civil War who
had completed one term and was opposed
for re-election by Charles Devlin. Senator
Osbourn has been dead twelve or fifteen
years or so. Mr. Devlin, I understand, is
now a resident of Delaware county.
Devlin, who was very popular, defeated
Osbourn by something like slxt votes, but
in the contest Osbourn won the seat, not
only because It was shown that he was
really elected by the narrowest of narrow
margins, but also because It was a case of
grove political expediency.
J. Donald Cameron was coming up for
re-election a second time the following year,
and Republican votes in Houso and Senate
were needed.
The drninntic Interest in the contest,
however, centers nroutid Mr. Franklin.
AT THE opening of the session of the
genernl assembly of 1SS0 the position of
sergeant-nt-arnis of the Senntc was offered
to Anthony J. Bannon from MoKcnn
county. He subsequently became a member
of the Senate.
The job was not to his liking, nnd he
decided to take the place of journal clerk.
James Franklin, of Philadelphia, was
chosen in his stead.
Mr. Franklin had not appeared in Har
rlsburg to be sworn in before Senator Os
bourn filed notice of contest. A committee
of the Senate was appointed and John C.
Gradv, then retiring president pro tern of
the Senate, administered the oath of office
to Franklin In the old Glrard House, at
Ninth nnd Chestnut streets.
That was the beginning of the most pros
perous jenr thnt "Jlninile" Franklin ever
knew in politics.
He Is willing to testify to the fact for
reasons that will appear.
AS SERGEANT-AT-ARMS of the Senate
It was the duty of Mr. Franklin to
toko charge of the contest, so for os pro
viding n place of meeting, with accommoda
tions of every kind, handling of expenses,
subpoenaing of witnesses and settling their
fees for attendance.
The greatest number of witnesses ever
subpoenaed in nny Pennsylvania contest were
railed in this one. The total number was
-i!i;:t.
For summoning these witnesses the ser-gennt-at-arms
received Sl.iiO each.
In addition he received mileage, his own
salary, all necessary expenses nnd ncted not
only ns the legal but fiscal officer of the
committee.
All the fees, incidentals, niileago nnd
other expenses legally accruing to Mr.
Franklin in his official capacity netted a. sum
total exceeding $13,000.
Throughout the entire course of tho con
test he was compelled to arrest but one
witness for failing 1o respond to tho com
mand of the committee.
THE committee on contest consisted of
Senators J. P. S. Gobin. of Lebanon,
chairman, nnd O. C. Allen, of Warren, sec
retary ; Senators John Cpperman. Alle
gheny: A. F. Thompson, Dauphin, nnd
Luther R. Keffer, Schuylkill, Republicans,
and George Ross, of Bucks, and Henry D.
Green, Berks, Democrats.
Senators Green ond Thompson, now both
retired from active life, arc the sole sur
vivors. The committee sat in the Girnrd House,
and tlicro nre, no doubt, scores of Phila
delphlana today in the north nnd north
western parts of the city who recnll how
the witnesses stood in line in the tcssclntcd
marble corridors awaiting their turn to be
heard.
They were called up, recorded, sworn,
tabulated nnd dismissed in one, two, three
order ns fast ns the clerks and officials could
handle them,
Sergeant-at-nrms Franklin utilised the
services of five process servers for weeks
in summoning witnesses.
Each process server at the beginning of
the day was provided with a bubpoenn con
taining twenty names. Each witness re
ceived his notification officially with a post
card notice to appear on a certain day.
THE peculiar feature of Franklin's con
nection with the contest was that, while
It was htlll In progress nnd he was acting
ns sergeant-at-annH of the Senntc the con
test continued for months he wns elected
by his constituency n member of the House.
Hn thus served as a dual officeholder.
Immediately following his first session as a
member of the House he was elected ser-geant-at-arms
of Select Council,
To the day of his death Anthony J.
("Tony") Bannon bewailed the fate that led
him to accept a clerkship in the Senate in
stead of the position of sergeant-at-arms.
Franklin took the rejected position nnd
reaped a small fortune from the emoluments
of the office.
Tony Bannon was n fine, upstanding,
McKean county Irishman who had but two
things in his later life to command his in
terest: regret over the sergeant-at-arms
incident and his desire to give his sons an
academic education.
He Needed No Interpreter
Horn th Wall Htre Journal
A banker who had visited China several
times on important financial missions thinks
the "heathen Chinee" Is not onlr Intelligent,
but thnt he has a delicate sense of humor
as well. He tells this one on himself:
"I called on nn Important Chinese official
for a conference, and supposing he knew no
more of English than I did of Chinese, I
took an Interpreter. When we arrived at
the office of the official I told my business to
the interpreter, expecting him to translate
my statement to the Chinaman and then to
repeat the replv to me In English. However,
1 had haidly finished speaking to the Inter
preter when the Chinaman, with a humorous
twlnkli- in his ejes, leaned over and snld to
me In perfect English. 'Mr. .Imies. please (ell
lie A.i-i it pii-uin: for Pilubuigb llilf
year.' "
PHIIJADE'LPHIA; THURSDAY, MAROJSC 3,
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YES, THE IMPORTANT PART OF TODAY
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NOW MY IDEA IS THIS
Daily Talks With Thinking Philadelphia on Subjects They
Know Best
HENRY PENN BURKE
On Dredging the Schuylkill River
PHILADELPHIA'S supremacy nt rowing,
virtually the only form of nthletlcs nt
which in recent years she has been nhle to
produce world's chnmiilons, is being men
aced, in the opinion of Henry Penn Burke,
n prominent amateur oarsman nnd a member
of the American Olympic Commission, by
the failure of its citizens to fully appreciate
the value of the Schuylkill river rowing
course in the development of its sculling
athletes.
For more than five years. Mr. Burke de
clares, the city has failed to appropriate
sufficient money to keep the course in shape,
nnd ns a result the famous stietch of water
fronting "Boathouse Row" in Foil-mount
Park is rapidly becoming unfit for use.
In commenting upon Mayor Moore s re
cent appeal to Council for an appropriation
of $!)0,000 to be used in dredging the river
nt that point. Mr. Burke points out that the
greatest damage is being done by the ac
cumulation of silt in the bend of the river
just above the dam at Spring Garden street.
This, he declares, has been permitted to pile
up to such nn extent that the bed of the
river Is only n few Inches below the surface,
making nlmost impossible tlie launching of
rowing croft into deep water.
Dredging Request Gntflfjlng
"It is verv gratifying to nil oarsmen mil
those interested in seeing Philadelphia main
tain the position of pre-eminence, says
Mr. Burke, "to learn that the Mayor has
asked for an appropriation to dredge tho
Schuylkill river in front of the boathouses
immediately above Fnirmount dam.
"The Mayor is fully awnro of the serious
ness of the condition, thnt as a result of
little or no dredglnjr for four or five eara
the entire basin of the Schuylkill river above
the dam Is filled with silt to such an extent
that Inst year it was a very serious handicap
to the local and visiting club nnd college
crews, and it is most timely that the Maor
is taking a personnl Interest In the matter.
"It will require an early start in order to
get the river in good shape for the early re
gattas, particularly the American rceattn on
May 28, in which eight-onred shell crews
from practically all of the universities in
the East and from Annapolis will compete.
"It will be necessary for America in gen
eral and Philadelphia in particular to keep
on its toes to maintain the worlds su
premacy In rowing which was won in the
recent Olympic games.
"World's champions cannot be developed
in one or two years. As Annapolis Is now
making a special effort in developing 'plebe'
or freshman crews, with a view to producing
another world-beating varsity for the next
Olympic games four years hence, so should
the college and club oarsmen nf this city
look forward and begin now to develop crews
and scullers which will just about reach the
peal: uf perfection by the next Olympiad.
Distinction nt Olympic Contests
"The fact that all of America's repre
sentatives in rowing in the recent Oljniplad
were from Philadelphia, with the exception
of the elght-oared shell crew from Annapolis,
is a great distinction nnd honor to our city,
SPRING
AS I went out when day was young
I caught the green leaves dancing :
His jeweled notes the gray thrush strung
Upon n sunbeam's glancing.
A little subtile breeze of morn
Ran hither, thither, whispering.
The buds were on the tl-trec thorn.
And so I laughed : "Is this the spring?"
As I turned home at even fall
My true love came to meet me ,
And he that loves me over all
Forgot the wny to greet me !
He kissed me not, nor touched my hands
But looked beyond me hungering,
And sighed and spoke of other lands.
And then I knew it was the Spring.
Nina Murdoch, in the Sydney Bulletin.
What Ii an Open Shop?
I-iorn the Topelia Plate Journil.
"I run an open shop. I make employes
sign a contract not to Join u union," said
an Indianapolis manufacturer at the na
tional conference of State Manufacturers'
Associations at Chicago recently. It might,
be Interesting to know what this man would
regnid ns a "closed" shop. It Is such ns
he in tlie ranks of both emplo.u-rs and em- I
plot oh wiio arc keeping (he flies of industrial
strife, buruins.
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1921
and one of which every Philndelphlnn must
feel proud, particularly when he recalls how
tho Philadelphia onrsmen led thoM- from all
parts of the world. It was due first to tho
fine type of Philadelphia jouns manhood
which constituted the crews: it was due
partly to the splendid organization of tho
Schuylkill Navy, which is the oldest body in
continuous active existence controlling nny
branch of sport in America today, and in
n very large measure it was due to our un
surpassed rowing course on the Schuylkill
river, which is admitted by lowing experts
to be second to none in the' world.
"Wc nie now facing the coming rowing
season with an assurance we hnve not felt
for several years. Each car wc have seen
the river rapidly filling with mud and seri
ously interfering with rowing. Last car
it wr.s a most serious handicap to lacnl'and
visiting college nnd club crews alike. Much
valuable rowing equipment was broken by
reason of the mini, and this jenr, unless
something is done, we shall hnve to call oft
our regattus, as it would be impossible for
crews to get in and out of most of the boat
houses.
"We have every confidence that the
Major, realizing the seriousness of the con
dition ond taking a personal interest in the
mntter, will see that the wnik of dredging Is
started at nn early date, so that Philadel
phia's splendid rowing course is restored to
Its former condition nnd that our city may
continue to malntaiu its supremacy in row
ing." What Do You Know?
QUIZ
1 What is a littoral V
2 How many cardinals make up the Sacred
College?
3 What Is the form of address to a car
dinal?
4 What Is tho Immediate order of micocs-
slon to tho presidency of the. United
Htntes In case of death, disability, etc
of the Incumbent.' "
o In what American city doc3 tho motion
plcturo Industry center"
C Who Is tho president of the council of tho
Leacuo of Nations?
7. Who Is Dr. Wellington Koo'
h What Is the national anthem of Unc.
land h
9 What are two meanings of the nbbreMa
tlon "A. D, ' ?
10. In case, tho British relCTinfr family's first
child Is a daughter, what Is her title?
Answers to Yesterday's Quiz
J Tho order of seniority of oltlcl.ils In th
cabinet of tho President of tho United
States by statute followa the chionol.
ogy of establishment of the porfollos
secretary of state, secretary of th.i
treasury, secretary of war, attorney
;", i "i-i K-viiwrai, secretarv
office. S.
four
2 Louisa May Alcott wiole. the "Mttlo
''Men'and'i
3. President-elect Harding's full num. ic
Warren Gamaliel Harding S
i. Taking a list of tho President., nf .
The sixth President. John liuS
Adams, was tho first to i,Z .... ' ?
narno Some of th ' a Incfc-i LL"i J(11,u
donts orlKlnally 1 a, ml rtmo"'? 5 fesl
names which they',? , X
early career, notably (Htei.heni ol.?lr
ieveland and rtj
on the death of ft? i.'i.l'11
s(ty of PennsMtnnla. ,l10 "nlvcr-
7. The Christians wero iioi ..
Tiberius, Nero ami ' nlnt.i i1 u,nder
naMlcularly -AViSSlToVAS
mlsliborlnn counties la nn"
JOTI.,l"Ur',,n W,,M c"lle" ' Hodfor.1
1U. ihu slate on ihe P.irlfl. ...-.,
,.,.i..i .-. -""ni
u tne navy, secretary of tho Interior,
secretary of agriculture, secretary of
commerce. Bccretaiy of labor Tho first
v llillllCL IIIWULIUU I II V liir. si-.
-. niv all SL
' which hns
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13 TOMORROW
SHORT CUTS
Tomorrow Mr. Wilson will March forth.
On the dead, we are becoming some art
center.
The Blumbcrg bill seems to indicate tbit
crooks prefer a cash business.
Pessimists nre still looking forward to
seeing the March lion gobble the lamb.
"Blue Laws to Be Aired." Headline
Piobably because they have grown musty.
With nn imposing nnd graceful getturt
the Mai-ion front porch has retired from the
news.
Those who think the Major talks too
much will at least have to admit that he
says something.
In your search for something pretty
soft, queried Mrs. Arabella Mixing, did you
ever consider kittens?
Whether Sowers' legislative seed foil"
on stony ground or legislative cider, Soncrs
is all a matter of pronunciation.
The trials and tribulations of Juilj
Landls make a story full of thrilling and
joyous Interest for Standard Oil officials,
The man who succeeds Will Hays m
t-hairninn of the Republican nntlonal coca
mittee is going to have his work cut out
for him.
"Be not weary of ill-doing" is peilup'
the motto of the local legislator whose heart
bleeds for the petty violator of the law in
his home district.
Even if the Federated American Ea?i
neerlng Societies do not get all they ask for.
they will be pretty well represented iu the
Harding administration.
Resolved, Thnt in tho death of Kim
Nicholas, late of Montenegro, the world hm
lost n picturesque old sport, but will doubt
less be abla to worry nlong.
1 1 has been my expeiience, said Dcmoi
thencs Mc-Ginnls, with somo notable excep
tions, that the slogan of the average poli
tician is "Loyalty For revenue only.
Why all this concern for violators el
tho law? Are they of more concern than
the great mass of the common people our
legislators are supposed to represent?
One of the first effects of the jitney
emergency tariff bill, if it becomes operative,
is indicated by the declaration of Argentina
that It will force her to buy her goods else
where. A sneaker at tho convention of the N
tionnl Educational Association in Atlaatu
City says the United States is lip-lazy: but
the Congressional Record refutes the alle
gation, Once upon a time legislative bills were
carefully examined to see if perchance on
of them contained n snake. Nowadays en
has to skin the snake to find the seinblsnc
of a bill.
The scientific basis and technique ol
child training being taught local parents b?
the Pennsylvania School for Social Service
doubtless Includes instruction in the rig"'
way to handle a hairbrush.
That the Berlin Zcitung nm MHW
should declare that the nttlttide of the AIHm
is to be found in the Gospel of St. Matthew
fifth chanter and twenty-sixth verse, is p
Imps designed to show that the devil can oc
easlonally quote scripture to some purpose.
Secrctnry Alexander urges all gnoJ
Americans to cut at least one meal of nll
next Wednesday, National Fish Day. "'
trust our legislators everywhere will heed
the admonition. Fish, they say, make'
brain. Let them cat a lot of fish.
Senator Leslie, of Pittsburgh, has spon
sored a bill providing for the establishment
of a stute rogues' gallery. When this ha
been accomplished steps should be taken to
have another established In Washington
Duplication of energies is a great inonufse
Hirer of jobs. When the average rogue h
his mug not only In the collections of even
great city in the countrv, but also in even
state capital as well as the notional caplM'
he will be in greater danger of rapt"'1
than he is todaj. If the state must man"
for the desert-In politick".
low the appointees to urns ''"''
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