nw'i lW"r, , EcVw 5V" - "T5I f n rm t M- ' . r s EVEXLXG PCBLIC LEDGER PHILADELPHIA, MONDAY, MARCH 14, 1921 xu ttWJpTW? ?" H mp 'MB vM III ive m r WiW M H SS 41t s a 1 ' -' I 41 i w pa m i il 5 M toj 5 'i ! tf. Hi fcfet yoi 82? If 8 ; JNE IsS. : tfi? . nii ;. ' mo tttS-1 , hoi twi rl I 4.1 ii r.i ii, m fr'. r. . "i :m "J J 'AE w4k 'am. m m HU M k i rarmj Euening "publtcHIc&gei: PUBLIC LEDGER COMPANY CYllCH II. K. CL'ItTlB. PiriiDBNT Chtrlci II Ludlntton. Vita Praa.dant. Joan r. Wurtln. Treaaurer, -nr' A Tyler SiemUry; Philip H. rVil'.'na Jrhr H Wllllama John J. Bpunt'oi. Oaorie r. Ooldamllr- "-via E. Snillr. nlreetnra. KMTOnlAI. HOAWJ '"tses II K CrtiTia Chairman PAV1D K SMU.r.Y E.lltnr S' J JPHK C. MAKTI.V. Oinra;'mjatr,m,,Mir,Mr Publlahed dully at I'l-iuc Lrira IJuUd.nir lndnendnce Square, Vh. Ip!i!a ATLANTIC Citt rrtu-Cnxrn Mulldln- Nw YoaK s4 JUdtkoj, -t Dariorr TOI -irl Uuldiri T. Locit .. 613 Olokf-Penrjciot Ht.llJln Cmoico 1302 Tribunf llnlMlnr sews n;riKAf wnnmotoN Uiiiicac. .S K i"r I'rnnrylvama Ai en1 J ith St ?it Yon IiiAtAr rr. ,uk lluilllnr loxoo II facie Unlnn rm.i Hi usiiiiprio." - ep-ms. The BfB.so Hrn'o- I.cu.Ka :a screed 'o jb erlbara in lniit ,j nil 'i.-ro-iidlnc 'on t the i ato of twei . 1 11'; t -iti i"r vr p n to th car - Br mil, tu t.lnn o i ,.i t,f Pmd,pt n Me Unlt'd P(a-a lanajn t rni"- sv,att p oalonj, nnatace r (if if.Ot i."im pr fiwn'.i, Btx (IH) doJiAra pi sr p. m..,. m a Ivan" To a.11 forlan ceunTI oi if 1 1 d:: - a inon'. Nonrr Sun.icr'br -Airsum: lira chimed muat iv old aa w 1 is r,rw (.dure.,. BELL. WW T.WMT KPY'TOSE. MAIS iM CT Aidrtit nil CTirttn-jnlcaMiwij o Eifslnff rutllo ttllarr. -tfpmjnr "guars', rMMdespVo Member of the Associated Press THK ASSOCIATED PRr.HS M ro!uh-.i MIIM to tht n 'or r iuMrofi. o n'l ii tffafoldhrf rrrtlit'd o v or o' a' men rrdud n (n4a paptr and tln th inrnl imu puhUnh'd thrrti. All Hghti nt vpu&'jvjHn-i nt ipoSal ipflleif fcrrrtn or n'io rrfrifd Pallldlphli Mondi'. Match It. I'.l SCHOOLS AND RADICALISM THE public xrhiiuN 1jui niuajs brrn ilif poMl to borrow ihtr i nit" frmn the CollcRa nrjd mil v-ritif. r"rnt nnd fnot ball and thf mnnnRri nf upp'r-olavimfn in the high schools nrc itpitntions of things firct made fnmil.ar hv milijo Tontm The teach fi are not unlike tho pupils m this rpsppi" The firsi ' nnw of railn'rflmm' iu teni-hinc was stnrtnd br vuitthful fni'ultj men who found tho theories of soverDinent oc-r-ptd and practiced o tln fniKd States' not wholly to thr-ir liking What followed wim a matter of nnxiety nnd concern for vbrr mlndrd boards of university dirocton who found that students tu some of their class rooms were bHtijc fnnimrd full of half diireated theory by tnii'tierx "ho hndn't luken the trouble to think twirj. about the new im5 In which thc.i professed to believe In the public schools even while univer aity faculties arn returning safely to nor ma ley, the hubit of 'adicnl thou-i and teaching lias grown Minds too vouthful and immature to hat" the power o' tli crimination ur being filled with doubt Teachers who had neither time nor oppor tttnity to weigh their nord s?rmnniz freelv of liberalism nnd the "radical doe'nnes.' nnd they nr not nUiu averse n snoein at government nx ir ims in the 1'nited Rtatec. Dr l.roome the new superin tendent of schools did n thing when he Informed the teachers In '(! cit they will have to think like Americans nnd depend nn common sens rnlher thnn on emotion or quit their jobs WHAT OF MONROE'S DOCTRINE? TV TUB politicians of I'limimn nnd I'ustn Itica succeed it inrrlng their ilivputo over the head of Washington to ihe I.eugue of Nations Council for ' the final settlement at Genevu spoken of in '-urn-nt dispntches from abroad n new precedent will lmc been PatabHfdied in the politiis of the Ainencnn continent and there will be cnuse for a new scrutiny of the o-igm o' the iarrl between the two tiny republic). The cau"es of the tcrent theatrical dm play of temper in Ontial Am-rna hne alwayn b"en vague nnd hard to understand. So one has looked to the bottom of Ihe trouble Queer (lungs happen ami will con tinue to happen in that part of the world. nnd it may be worth inle nt leist to in quire whether there was a delilvrato effort on the part of outsiders to test American feeling o to tn American patience hy bringing about n state of affivrs likely to force hoinetuing lil.e Ktiropean intcnention in the affairs of nations on tins s,ce of the world We are not m the League nf Nations There is no reason win we uo'.id nut re gard the Monroe Doctrine as valid and in dispensable Vol the disposition of the Latin American-, to refer their grievances , to a council of European- chii be under stood. If tlirj si r- p minted to do thai and if a ' settlement ' m o be made In (Jenea it is neiessmi in asMim that that is where other far more important neltlc tncnt.n may he mad 'n i'n future when Latin ,nieiicnn people, and their -iffairs are involved NAVALISM IN JAPAN ! CHINA huh no nnv to .p'ni of M.inv , man? e.irs ugo the i ''nnr decided that navies wen i'iii'i uHctnss for iiu"- 'i-r Inanent end I he tunc mm .'oine w,in uthr ounger nation.'' 'Mil !ie"rfnll- nare char I opinion. Iir it is not jo- Thruujtn ncci denls of ftc t,e Kiisih!i nnt has been virtunllv e initiated fiom ih" cnlci Inc'.nns , of var eitoiftH It 'in Ix-en too thorn ighlv ' bolihevii'd ier to recoier nn.vihin; liko t original srringtb I-' or i''iiti' such us ' these, if fin no oth'r the fever -ih i.na' activity of the .lapanise end 'lieii npo;. -cut intention to build imu sprnd m ail . i.h's Unmindful of groaning tnmnrs nt , -nm have flepls lis pouerl'i.1 n 'lei-e of t'le I lutid States und Itr'tnm will eontiri'ie to finm questioning nmr" oi it ilu miutri l is ' onlv on the I'ni'itu tl i ie- might h" e tensive 'oi k fur u .li.'.ic'.' siperfiee- And 'he I'niteil States n Nippon on possilj'e rival in thi".o wnterv OllU tno.e w I use kn iv edge of .tlteinu iionnl nffnii ! "iiperlu ml wi.l i-'ipuni" fiat I the penpl' n 'I'd. w.sh or nxpe-t .m nil meiJinte rimih'e w n merica A wii'- b" l tween .lapati nnd t'.e I intei! Sta'es w j'rl be over a'ni"- In fore t . .nili jr. i w I1 .ud'i wav as tniitiirs siiind now ',. m,. m superior to tie .Inpam-sr . n sie popinntion nnd nggre.-ne nowe. nnd so much ber-i Hitualed Ju ,'incia'l a'oi indintr,.i'.i ti.a' u cotiflu i ol ili -on thni tn.uiv people eon tlniie to whispi'l llbnllt Wi.'d he httle shoi I of a Hiidtien 1'iitnMiophc for h o nation ' lt.it desires to he the dominant Ori"iitni powe' ToUio u fnr tttumied The .Inpatiex made a great Heal of money in uc war They have not intested it in home The have invested it in '.is' rntPrpiiyis estnli lished not without risk in 'he wake of the ttrmies that penctiated Shantung and Si bcria. It is characteri.tn of the .lnptme.se, feeling and the .Inpnnnse method that money was poured like miter into tirritoius wncre tho Investors nn not in assured of inn protection sae thai which can be prov.ded by nill'tar. fot 'i'" I' w hv d'olnmatic rather ihan In tnilitan methods ihat the Uadcru now' in "ti rol n 'I'.ikio hope to (irmly estnhhsii .lnpauc pi we, in nnsr dis Jiilted atPiis nd it mav lie iisi.iiind im fore, thut tlie new gient mi i of Nippon is Intended prmiHtih in 'iti " as a morn! inrcr In the troubled iicgotiatioiis of the lUHnt diate flit ill c Neither in the newly occupied nteas of Siberia or t'liuin hnte the .lupani'Ke nu lights that the Chinese and the HtiHsiaiis us well as the lest of the world, are no: null Contesting with anger and impatience The .'Japanese argue frankly in some instances They insist that they are the superiors and natural leaders of all other Orientals, anil that theyahould be permitted by the western irprld in 'establish, themselves firmly wlier "ivr ibrf ilfNlrii to yo fur that purpose, hi .iniifii frtte ami in ijiigiund hej'y aro a good manv people generous enough to share that view. They would gram the Japanese the right to expand, to be leaders of economic and lndustrl;.l nnd social de velopment in China and In Hibetla. That, they say. would be onlv fair nnd logical They tell only half the story or tliev per ceive only the surface facts The Japanese, according to the reports of impartial ob servers of related events in China nnd Japan, desire, not only to control the In dustrial resources of territories recently invaded. They wish also to control the man power of China as well a such man power ns i available fn Siberia. Doing that, thej could become automatically a sort o super-Oertnany sitting at the door of all the Kat fearing no one and with no cause to dread n war that niijiht require endless armies and endless morie-. FACTS WILL POINT THE WAY THIS NATION MUST CO Thay Have Already Brought About the Indefinite Postponement of a Sep arate Peace With Germany THK reported determination of the ad ministration to sostpone indctlmtcU nn Btt'mpt to make a separate peace wi'h (ierinnny uistlfle.s the faith which the coun tiv lias in Secretary Hughes of the State Department Mr Hughes is n man whoe training has ('inlifleil him to see nil around h question end to take proper account of established i'n ts A separate peace with Oermanv, hen (onsidered in h vacuum, has a very i iiTei-eut tMpect from n separate peac with li'-rmany when regarded in its relotions to me complicated problem involved In impress ing on the CJermnns an understanding that the were the conquered and not the con querors Whatever th's country mnv do nbout peoee, it cannot afford to do anything which will encourage the (lermans to btlieve that they won the war and can dictate the termi of settlement For manv months the Berlin propagan dists hnve been exerting themselves to pro duce discord between the British and the French With subtle suggestions they have fed the jealousies which they assumed ex Istcd They have spread abroad the reports that the two powers were on the ec of a break with each other over questions in Asia Minor They have even gone so far as to say thnt the military forces of the two powers were lighting on opposite sides in that part of the world, each seeking to checkmate the other Every failure of the two nations to agree instantly on any ques tion which thej wore discussing has been hailed ns the beginning of a fatal rupture Whn the tJerman foreign secretary went to Iindon to make his reparation proposals he forgot that the two nations were held to gether by the determination that fSermauy iho ild not be allowed to escape the penalty for dragging Kurope into war and should be forced to pay up to the extent of her ability for the damage which she had done This determination is so strong that it can stand xll the strain that is likelv to be put upon it It was proved as soon as the proposals of Dr Simons were disclosed. Those pro posals were so preposterously inadequate mid the failure of Dr. Simons to admit the guilt of his country was so nbysinal that the Kreneh and British negotiators united iminrdinteh m rejecting them, and Lloyd (ieorge. ns the spokesman for both nations, read to I'r Sunons u lecture on the rights of the victorious nations and on the obli gation of the defeated which made that gen tleman squirm in his seat and impotently lull- his nnll" When fie could find his voice he penfesred astonishment that his offers nnd nor been regarded ns generous and for giving to the nations which had "forced hi1 lo'iptey to go to war The concerted move of the French and British troops in occupying fierman cities and taking poscssion of th" custom houses is reetited. but it is the natural and logical reply to the German proposals. The stu piditv o' the Teutonic mind was never bet fr illii-fufed thnn bv its failure to per ceive th.s So long as it ' neiessnry fo- France nnd England ti n' m comert for the collection of the rcpar'it'"!) funds no amount of Ji" man propaganda can separate thos-e two ns lions The German ui.ihilttv to bring about d's eo'd in E nope however, has taught 'he Berlin htateiTncn nothing Thej are mo have been seeking to separate tl.e I n.'cd States from the nations with which it fought They wee g'cftil when the ratification if the Versailles treaty failed They were de lighted w itli the Knot resolution for o stpi I "ate piaio i ney nre ii'iunj us iiihi we in to b l"f' out in thi dicion of the spiels as I though w went to war for tl.e sake of plunder, nnd fhev think that th.s sort of thing will nffecr sentiment here nnd that we snail ilf innte'v he sidinif with them in their dis pute with the B-itish and the French One Hn reudllv imagine their surprise ..on when thev heiir thnt the new adminis tration, from whi'h thev were ixpeei.pg imu I ha decided tiinr it will do nothing whi'h will emba-rass Frame and England I'l ev are unab'e to pen-el ve that the questions a' ishue tiffed every nation thnt wn enag'.d in the war nnd that thev have a:i intimate telation to nil future isintlicts The I'n ted States im just ns intimatelv interehted in the adequate pi.tiirhment of fiermnny us every rl,i.en is iniere-li'd in the punishment of n man who sets pre to h s neighbor's house If his house is to U' m. urc the incendiary must he made to feel tiie we ghf of the law 1' we bre to wa'k ihe ,treei in safety tho lnghwnj man must I-' piiiitshiil If we an to seep peaeefullj in bid nt night burglnrv must he disi i. i.-ng'ed b henvv penalties rigullv en. -fori ed Tl e ' npp.trentlv a who i some rceogn t on in Wa-h.iigloii of this fundamental fu Wnstivi mnv he our theories about the de 'glitfi.'tiess of isoiiiiion, there is a realisation o' international obligations uhiei inntiot permit us to be wholl'. isolated nnd n"h our hninl "f repnnihll lv ! Where ' ,i ill lend us in ile ,mmil 1 'uture t reinn.us foi the President, the sec reta-i of ulate nnd the foreign retnt onj com I inil'ee of ihe Senate to decide "he first I nod mo-t impoitnnt vtep inward a decision s i taken when tie-e authorities begin to study I the facts ns tm-y appear at the present time Those farts siippoited bv s sense of morul responsibility will point the wui this nation must go The most powerful mHiiem" m present working toward tne entranie o' ihe I'nited States mm ihe League of Nations is the uu'cpentant altitude of tiermaiiv Expert in International nffairs are tcHius: is tlmi i we had joined ' "ague it would not have been necessnrv fm France nnd Eiig'and to lake possession "f the (ii-iiniin cues for ifcrmanv vwuld have known ii.hi the moral fon-e ot the I'lii.ed States was unn iMHl.nb'v ariaveil agauisi h-r and thai she could not hopi to div.de the allied and associated nations and deal with them separately, us r.ne tned during the wai to divide them Then' is no way of proving that the expetts use light or wrung for it is nlwnvs unpos sible to prove that what might have been under certain cin iimstunies would have been if those cln uinstances hud existed Yet a is morally certain that the problem of dealing with Oermnny would have beru simpler if we had wholeheartedly joined the league at the beginning. Other ,Woblcni, also, would have ccn simplified, 'tfy decision to refrain from still further complicating matters by taking ipriitutiYC' ucui'n, nsuui'i tne league iiiuicutla. that the authorities ore thinking of something else beside the letter of AVashington's fare well address and that they are living in the twenty -first year of the twentieth century, and are alert to the conditions which sur round them. In other words, they are doing their best to decide current questions on their merits in the light of contemporary facts THE FIRST INTERVENTION IT WILL be remembered to the credit of the administration that Mr Harding acted swiftly and firmly wuen he found the country confronted again with the danger of one of those strikes that react overnight to drive the cos of living upward for millions, The effort to bring peace In the packing industry through government mediation pro posed, iu this Instance with firmness and a note of determination hat was meant for the owners of toe meat Industry as well ns for the dissatisfied unions, may not be wholly successful It may brint about nothing hut nno.her delay and prolonged quibbling. But it was made clear to everybody at the special eablnct meeting called to consider the Im pending meat strike that the great Industries upon which the nation must depend for con tinuing life nod safetv are not to be left by the new administration as playthings for either financiers or labor Ieaderr. The Big Five nnd their employes were lining up for n tight Then they were or dered peremptorily to Washington to ex plnln not so much to the tfovernment ns to the people of tho I'nited States, The action was that of the new secretary of labor, who moved at the direction of the President. But the strategy nnd the method strongly suggest the fnmil'iir rnood of Secretary Hoover and the powerful will of Secretary Hughes SHADLESS DAYS? FOB new proof of the adage which nts that fo" everything won something is lost read the dolorous account nf shad ex termination in the Delaware written re centlv bv Mr Meehan. director of the city s sqc.nrium and an authority on tlie lives, habits, temperament and dispositions of all fish A time Is coming, Mr Meehan ven tures to believe, when there will be no shad in the Delaware. Indeed, the fish that once made that river famous arc becoming fewer every year. They are becoming fewer be cause of the pollution of the water, the deep ening of the river channels nnd the turmoil caused by the increasing shipping Even the marvelously efficient and devoted work of federal and state fish hatcheries Is not serving to keep the shad in the place where they were once at home The work of the hatcheries has been truly remarkable Shad eggs gathered in millions I are subjected to an incubating process and ' the infant fish, when they are hardlv bigger I than toothpicks, nro placed in tanks and ' nurtured nnd permitted to grow to a sizo nt which they are likely to have fnir chances for survival among their devouring enemies in the open waters When fish hatching was first undertaken on a large scale the Dela ware became almost thick with shad In later years the fish have been refusing to come up the river. They look in nt the breakwater and puss on. The deeper chan nels make the water too cold for theni Tin crowding ships scare them off. This year'N supply will be very slim. It is probable that there will be few eggs to hatch. And even science cannot make a Bhad without an egg to begin with. SHORT CUTS Perhaps Rntun's mysteiy man is s press ngenr Cuba find" no sweetness m the present scgar situation. Every income tax blank is an eloquent protest against vnr. Some time this week we shnll know whether we shall save or waste daylight. N"o politician con keep his opinions under his hat when his hnt is in the ring. The plnnt the world is most snxious to see hlouni in tho spring is the industrial plant. Of course, we don t blume Lnddie Bov for the blather that is being written ubout him. What given Hoover the confidence of the n'ib'i'' i- his niifninilinritj with political jargon , Disloyal propagandist, appear to be getting far more publicity thnn tiiej bar gnined for Tlie poorer the gos tli more success fail I v if illuminate, the kinship of divers communities. We may surmise that .Mr Pulnier didn't nd doesn't cure how much trouble he give h,s successor. By the time we have di ruled just whet caused the crime wave then- i hope that it rill have subsided The remedv for the housing diortage will probably have arrived before we ,nvc dei iuer what it in The ex kaiser ha written a book hlmn ng England for the writ- The roar is tons succeeded by a sqttenl: The Sterling qualities of the Board of I'.il'uation demonstrate thut it is at onu- tm he.t ever ind the worst evei We ire strougij ill favor of Simon Petlurn. Kussinn revolutionnrv lendi-t He uns a uaiiie ve can proooiitiri Visitors at Ihe Penrose home ate evident lv of the opinion thnt an uupoitant pnrt of uie Plum Tree ha been grafted on a Spruce Burglar in nn Atlantic City drug sime took nothing but whisk? Tucstv ones, evidently, who haven't yet ncquired the d-ux linblf. Senator Lodge i-ees peril 111 delav in i ratifying the Colombia treaty He nughi i try iookuig at the Versailles trcan in the sn'me light Franco's hope mat Amerim will jom rhe League of Nations is stripped of enmou llagt. a fatrlj reasonable demand for n show -dovvu. Hermans apparently rlnil it a hard io understand "peiinllv" us ihey did to niHstei icpnratiuu Thev seem surprised and aie uiiglitilv indignant because it hurt There is unnuimllv of opinion that aftej wages have been mi business will improve Differriice of opinion begins with the allega tion that out will be ihe result of the oihe 'I he New Jersey Senate fine lilt! hil'i mill nine I'csuniuoiis and the House ,"HS l,i i ' anil fifteen resolutions And it i a safe bet there as elsewhere thai ihom of theiu urc unimportant If the packing House employes go on strike we all ujiy be'.ome vegetarians Which unmeet a the thought that if they must strike a good time would have been at the begin riing of Lent The world moves when n duel in France may be avoided by arbitrn?on . nnd this hai really hnppeued In the caiAjif two deputies, l..i.ln.il nf (.VtriSur tiAttit nTrSlltiivnil s...l !.... IIJPVSuu . y wv.mh -"vu aim huuwi declared satisfied confrrejoccs; were belt and offi'iislvr' ithratfesJ withdrawn. .,,. AS ONE WOMAN SEES IT New Election Bill Before Legislature Suggests Questions, All but One of Which Are Answered Fly SAItAII I). LOWRIK THEltE Is a' bill in the State Senate, sponsored by Slate Senator Patton, con cerning slight changes in state election laws which, to those who are "In the know," Is not only very interesting, but which may have a very decided bearing on political activity should it be successfully engineered through At nil events, it will be on Inter esting bill to follow, because of its origin, its backers and Ita character As to Its origin : It began in a committee of city and county officials called to discuss changes in the election lows; It received the recommendations of the City Council of Philadelphia, and. thus brought Into being, was handed on to Patton as pilot to to be got through the shoals of the State Legislature. At least two and possibly more large city organizations of women voters were con suited n to their viewpoint on the changes proposed in the bill while It wns still In committee It now remains to be seen how the state nt large will regard changes iu its eleitlnn laws proposed by Philadelphia. I was Informed by a Pittsburgh politician that the state at large will take It very ill. But I cannot determine whether that is a worm's eye or a blrd'a eye point of view. THE proposed changes in the election laws have to do with the assessment, regis tration, care of the bullot-boxes, publishing nf assessors' lists and the date of assessment and printing nf the ballots Instead of seventy-five ballots being printed for the use of every fifty voters, fifty ballots shall be printed. Instead nf two ossessments of voters, there shall he one, and that one in March. But It is recommended with regard to the assessors thnt they be present nt the polls during the hours of registration, so that citi zens intending to vote may apply for regis tration, may be assessed, pav their poll tax and enroll as party member at the same time The Inst dute for registration nt the polling place shall be the sixty-second day before the November election. Electors who cannot register then or before then nt their division polling place shall be required to file petitions with the registration roiumis sion setting forth their reasons for not hnving been registered at tlie polls nt leost three days before they appear before the commls sion to npply for registration The assessment lists printed by the county commissioners should also be made to show the registration of elector instead of the lists called street lists now printed by the registration commissioners TMb last gives a person whose name is omitted an oppor tunity to ascertain the fact and to fiio a petition to be placed on the lists. It is also recommended that after all elec tions the ballot-boxes and their contents be returned to the Mayor and the prothonotary as joint custodians, nnd better provision he mude for the safe keeping and handling of the same. THE reduction in tlie cost of printing two lists, the convenience to tlie voter of being able to be assessed in the spring if he is to be out of town all Hummer, of register ing and being assessed and enrolling at the polls nt the same time if he i in town Nitty-two days before election, tho provision made for registering before the lommissiou if he cannot do so at the polls bv filing a petition three days before the dale et to register with the commission, the safe keeping of the ballots in thcil lioxes by the Mayor and prothonotary nfter the election, nre all excellent provisions, and if Pitts burgh turns them down because her town council did not think of them first, so much the worse for her '. I WAS osked the other (lav by n lot of girls the following questions about our Penn sylvania elections. 1 think they asked me to stump me, nnd they Micceeded on one question ! Why are primaries very important in Philadelphia? Ans Of c niirp. thnt is very easv Be cause the minority party is too small to make n general election doubtful, therefore the only election thnt really counts is ihe one nt which the candidates for the Repub lican party are nominntcd. Once nominated, thev nnve every chance of being elected. How does a challenge at a primary elec tion differ from one at u general ot a mil nicipal election'' Ans. That is not so easy The elector at a primary must announce the name of the party with which he wishes to vote He must, if challenged, swear he voted for tliHt party at the Inst general election or lose his vote on the party ballot. So the challenging differ from that of a general election in that the voter, in order to cast n ballot, can be requiied to execute an affidavit that he voted fnr the majority of the landidntes of the party in which he claims to belong. If the voter can be challrugnl at the pri marj to swear ns to what party he voted for at the previous election, how is his ballot a secret one? An. That's n hard one! In fact. I do not know- the answer to that Why were primaries made constitutional elections? Ans. That was done befoie my day as a voter, but I put it to a very erudite lawyer, who spoke thus: 'The primaries are nn afterthought of the constitution, hut ti very important afterthought Perhaps they aie still a little clumsily devised, hut they are preferablo to the former method of separate party conventions before each election, when tlie choice of candidate wus not safeguarded bv law or nny uniform legal resttietions. Confusion and corruptions marked the con rontinns. which dictated to the voters rather than accepted from the voteis the party can-' didnte." I put it to a waul lendei who spake thus "It nil settled now hcfoichnnd without any talk The names of the fellows for the dif ferent offices get sifted down and sifted down by a few meeting together nt the cull of one man and doing the sifting And when thev get through there are maybe three names left for each place. And then the Vitrei nnd the Crows and the Tiainers mid a few more of u go to ir. n ml the man thin gets the .oh is the man whom tho big boss ha sifted out When- do the party vnieis lome in'' Why, ufter it's all over but the shouting One other question that those girls put to me 1 forgot the answer to, but I remembered it later, or rather I icniembernl the page in the book and just how tlie sentence looked that contained the unswer. It U headed "Nonpartisan Voting". "Candidates for the office of judge of any i ourt of record 111 thfs state nnd for all elec tive otlices of cities of the second class in Ibis state, nre now voted for on a separate nonpartisan column or ballot. Tlie voier does not have to declare himself a memhei of any political party in order to vote for u nonpartisan candidate I shall forget thut again by tomorrow hut 1 shall not foiget that I onlj have to vote for a majority of a paitv in order to belong to that party and have a vote in the pri maries. I i-nn cut out quite a number of cundidates at the general election that I have reasons for not liking nnd vote, for other men in their places, and still be within tlie law and qualified to vote at n primary. And if KHI.OflO good party members did the same thing for oue or two party candidates that smelt to the moon of corruptions ut a general eleitiou, the sifters who put up the cundi dates nt a primary election would sift kind of inrefiilly the next time For ull things b"ing euiiul thev would lather tilcase us than not. If "us" means the majority There Hie two wuvs of .lenling with tue pi-ohh'iii presented bj the tearing up of the roads bj lieavv trmkh One is to prohibit I lie use of trucks above h ceitnin weight Another is to inuke the highway more dur albe. The first Is the easier vvaj ; but it too closely resembles the old English rule to have a man with a Hug precede it when the automobile first made its appearance The second way is costly nnd slow but the end will Justify the cost and the movement will galu momentum. The Delaware county gramf jurv has. found three men in jiiil who ought to' be nt liberty. Perhaps Justice, ronsolcs herself with tho thought that there nra'at least three n) Hl'TlT who ought to be In Jail; which, of CtUar'iJi '!:! u" attcr nfrtA.V'X ' - SOMETIMES THAT '5s 4s hw U&$0M& rfci fv3? My MteSSML Hi -s-,".i-r - i tsflts-a MmaS-tiWy ' t I -iV. visit r"pJ pith Iff 'j J i smKtKKBtnmtXMmMmtmmTSP?11''" - ' "i-teiiJ; . J-r''l(r t-- ,7eri zjz: v'!i';&ut?T'" Jnm ' jaiijr- IfrrfKfT' iLJac"j-.'''aW:r ... ''"' - ' SSrtCiieti!K4C-S"i" - -, "t ' t&JrfKSilB&PiilJQ itV'' i ilmf mi tr" Ji! -'" NOW MY IDEA IS THIS Daily Talks With Thinking PhiUidelphians on Subjects They Knotv Best CLARENCE SAMUEL. KING On Marine Week THE celebration of Marine Week in Phila delphia this week mark the accession of this port to the commnnding position in world ship lonstruction circle, according Clarence Samuel King, secretury of the At lantic Coast Shipbuilding Association and member of the industrial relations conimittoc of the Chamber of Commerce. Mr. King says: "In a period of four years Philadelphia has stepped from the position of a ship building section of importance to America to the position of leadership of the entire world in this field. , . , "War produced thi change, but the pass ing of war i not going to put Philadelphia back in its old place. It Is true, that the ultimate status of Hop Island is in doubt. It mnv or may not be letained for sh.p b.iildin'g purposes. But even w thout .it Philadelphia nnd by that I mean the Dela ware river In its stretch above and below the titv still will remain the greatest ship building center in the world, with the rapid adjustment to peacetime conditions com ,... i it-. .. .,., tr, L-eeii the merchant pieieii e nn- u. " --.- ---- - - murine of the United States in the fniefront and our facilities nre equal to the task. "Tlie Delaware is no lunger the 'Clyde of A merit a': tl.e Clyde is the 'Delaware of (;reat Britain.' Ship launched here sail to the four corners of the world Here are built battleships for many foreign nations. Transatlantic liners are christened In the vard along her bunks. These shipbuilding plants are scenes of restless act vity both .lav and night Well may the Philadelph an be proud of the fact that this vicinity is the first in shipbuilding in the entire world Wonderful Itesponse In War In (onsiderlng the shipbuilding industry of Philadelphia and vicinity the mind is most impressed by the wonderful results! that were achieved during the world war. When the i all came for ships, Nhips and more ship, the most generous and prompt response cume from those wavs whose keels first kiss-ed the Delaware The menace of the submarine had to be conquered. Fighting ships, tank ets transports and freighters were an im perative net essity. Speed was all-important. "The vords along the Delaware all the wav from Bristol to Wilmington were the thief factots in supplying the need. Ihe human element executives and workers sorting to the gignntlc task and produced ie suits that had been deemed Impossible 1 hey vviote glowing puges in history Sh pjards I.,..,,, ii II In- manic, nnd nil kind vino'- io ,,b " ; "--' , ,- ,- of craft were produced at a rate nothing less than marvelous "In the heart of Philadelphia i a ship vard the name of which Is a household word in the shipbuilding world that of Cramps' ll is offiriallv the William Cramp tV Sons Ship and Engine Building Companj . This vard was founded in 1S.')0 to build wooden ships. The enteipriso has kept pace with progiess and today rivals any shipyard in the entire world "lleie have been prndui eil some of the most efficient torpedobonts of which the gov ernment wii-. hi such dire need during the war "lleie were built the St. Paul and ihe Si Louis The St Paul "held the trans atlantic tei'iu-d for speed in 181)0. "Here were built the tireat .orincrn . nu Northern Pacific, which were taken to the Pacific coast trade and with othei ships of this vartl were used as transports to take our troops 'over there.' Big uril In Camden Act oss the liver in Cuinden is the hig yard of the New Yoik Shipbuilding Corpora tion Operating lodu.v the largest self -ion taiued plant of Its kind in the world, it is equipped to build entirely within it imu tard from raw mnterials utiv type of ship from collier io passenger liner nnd from de stroyer to Miperilreadnoiiglit "Designed primarily for the construct-on of large passenger cair.vlng vessels, the ex panded fuellities of tlie jonl are contributing to the American merchant marine many of the most important groups of those ocean liners now lielng built for our incrthnnt licet, and at the same time adding more naval vessels to that splendid list whose service lecordH made renowned the name of tho New York Shipbuilding Corporation "The flhlpway capnclty of its pntiro plant ..... i,ninlunii Siva lai-rA lnilKln toneu J.Li large single ways nnd ten smaller shlpways fr the construction of destroyers nnd other ajl craft, givlhg a total shinvvay rapJflty of tweutytcigut vessels of ordinary Bzti, iu addition io ttuj hlps- tlat can n( the shu lime us iu utykHes- m suMwwtvu SMALL CHANGE POCKET SEEMS AWFUL HARD TO FIND " ,,r5sV . ,!ZJ-- .fJ.' ...I- j-" - JZ-x" rr " .- fitting in the wet bnins. Philadelphia can justly be proud of having such u modern shipbuilding plant in its midst. "At Wilmington Is located the oldest iron shipyard in tlie 1'nited States. It was es tablished in 1W(1. It lias changed hands several times and is now the Hurlun plant of the Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation. "Another Wilmington ynrtl, founded in 18-18, i operated by the Pusey 4 .Tones Company, which uNo controls yards at (Jloucester It was this company that is tablished for ibelf u lusting reputation for seagoing yachts ami Inter the larger types of ships requiied duiii.g tlie vvur emergency. Chester. Too, Has Ulg Plants "In Chester, fifteen miles down the Dela ware from Philadelphia, we have the home of the Sun Shipbuilding Company, one of the new lurge shipbuilding concerns which has attained much pi eminence during the last few yours. "This company established what Is prob ably u world's record when it launched u 10,000-ton tanker iu four months. This lompuny now has under course of construc tion n tiemendoiis drjdock which is certain to prove of great value In the further devel opment of the port of Philadelphia. "In Chester also 1 one of the plants of the .Merchunt Shipbuilding Corporation. This is the old John Itoach plnut, at one time one of the best -known shipbuilding plants in the world. It wns here were built the I'nited Stutes wurhlps thai comprised the fumous While Squadron. "The Merchant Shipbuilding Corporation at BrlMol was one of the foremost yards during the war producing fabricated ships. This plant becume the center nf a small city which sprang up overnight under war condi tions, and the same efficiency that wus shown in producing ships governed living londltinns nnd the protection of lives in this ship) aril city. The story of Hog Island has been told so many times and is one of the marvels of ihe ages that it does not need repetition here." What Do You Know? QUIZ 1 Who is the conductor of tho Chicago Symphony Orchestra" : Whot prominent Hungarian statesman is called "the man without a country"' . If uny, namo tho surviving former Vlco Presidents of the United States l When was Philadelphia founded and by whom7 Ti Name the author of "Hngged nick t. What Is meant by the "eight-eight" nawl proRram and by what nation la It being used" 7 What Is a parnlleleplpednn ' s Namo the capital of Switzerland 3 Whnt is a paraph' 10 What Ih inoant by the abbreviation "D S C." after a name" Answers to Saturday's Quiz I St I'atiick is thu upostle Hnd natron saint of Ireland .' America was discovered iu the jear HSi. 3. IlcpMwhlte. was one of the creative artist-cabinet makers of the luter (ieorKlan period. His clinlrs, etc aie notable for grace nnd IlKhtness or aspect combined with stnnch construe- 4 "The Excuision i H long narrative poem, meditative, and philosophical tu "B .J."8!1!." nT"' v,y William Words' worth, English poet 1770.16GO .'. Prince Bismarck, the chief statesman of the former fierman empire, was called "the Iron Chancelloi " .imu fi A lipezluni I il plane llgurc. none of ( ii. o.Uv.c uii- ijuai in icngtli or par- 7 liover is the capital of Delaware i The. lllook l-'aiin expenimmt was a sort of communistic iiRilrulturai omernrise with literals and ultiuistlc p , ' I Massachusetts prior to the nVldtJle f tho last centuij Among thoVe ite . nMed In It wero Amos 1'ionson Aleni. Margaret l-uller. iialnh Wnld, Zmll son and other Intellectuals of ih, period ' ule 9 llengist and Hois.i were the chleftnmu of the, first Oeri.uw.lc bands' " VeoSi and settle In Britain. Thev cume . it the lnlttUloii of Ktnir Vortlerii tn ..t,i lil.n iu his wars with iho l'c," tovW. are Bupposed to have landed In whit Is luvbltatloii they soon 5 ernowed on , the malolnnrl mi.i i... .."."cu n to attained a peramncTi'i wXok prWe!"' jo, rt. h y TV ia an ubbtWhu o i fr n,. plait," rtvunliK? 'lWr If yU nlei?.''! ! iV V . S(r HUMANISMS I i By WILLIAM ATIIERTON IU PUY QJHOUTLY after James M. Cox, the de- feoted candidate for the presidency, had colled at the While House on Ills way to Europe, his trip wns the subject of conver sation in n group of which Mr. Wilson was a member. Some one nsked the purpose of Mr. Cox's journey and It wns cxpluined that lie was going over to inspect the devastated legions. "Why fare so far nficld?" asked Mr. Wil son. thereby demonstrating that his sense of humor has survived even the debacle of lust November. No general lighting in the wars has to meet more trying situations, lias to act with more judgment than does a member of Congress who is in charge of some piece of legislation affecting n whole people, says Senator Morris Shcppard. of Texas. Not many battles of armies, for example, will leave the permanent impression on the life of tho tuition thnt la left by the winning nf the fight for prohibition. It actually af fects the everyduy life of every community and of nearly every Individual. After six years of fighting here was an alternative that was put up to Senator Sheppard, nnd which he must accept or re ject offhand. The enemies of the measure would nllow it to come to an immediate vote if the senator would ugree to un amendment which limited the period in which it must bn ratified by the htatcs to six 3 ears. The anti-prohibltionlsts believed that in this way, they would defeat the measure They thought they could hold off ratification It had always taken longer thou six years to ratify a constitutional amendment. Acceptance of this proposal meant possible immediate success nnd a possible setting back of the program for twenty years. Sen ator Sheppard had to decide. He accepted the Hix-year limit. Events showed that he chose wisely, because the states acted in less than two years. The He feat would have been dire, however. If Mi judgment had been In error. Mrs. Florence Patullo Stewart used to be known as "the butterfly of the army" before she settled down to authorship, but. despite that fact she has been officially assigned bv tho War Department fo write the history of the participation of the Ohio troops in the great war. A romantic incident in a full life was the fact that she was married in Borneo to Co' oncl Oeorge Washington Stewart, of the army. Captain George K. Shulcr. of the tnsrlne corps, is the only officer of thut service who ever ran for Congress. He was in ever' fight from Bellcau Wood to the Argonn and all the allied nations pinned medals on him. His home happened tn be In the di trlet of Ilcpresentutive Gould, up-state New York, nnd everybody1 knows that Oould just cun't be beaten, So tliero was one battle thnt Shuler lost. But he told u class in his old Suoda' school back home a story about a helmet he found In Belleau Wood that made mighty hit. Four months after the armi stice those woods were full of souvenir hunters. There was a morbid desiie to carry off something with a bullet hole In it. Shuler just beat a tourist to this helmet that had beeu plugged through and the blood on it indicated the tragic results There came near being another casualty in the woods Mien the tourist offered him hnndsomn piece of money for it. Then h stole away in the solitude of the woods and buried It deep. A grave is the way-station 10 the hereafter, he said, and this was t;' best chance to get tho helmet to his buddr In case he should want It where he went. opvrtaht, mi Iu PubHc I.nloor Co. Negroes Study Russian From Clary, lnd.. comes the story of t" colored boyst who have joined 11 Itussisn school In that city, with the intention " learning the Russian language. The school was established by UiissIuiih and fnr Bus aians, and is sixty pupils are taught b.v Timothy Korabllnofr. n Russian teacher but tho two Negroes have been welcomed and tnfV participate In all of the school's activities', which indue the language, history and ii?r ture nf Itussla, Russian folk dances and even instruction iu tho balalaika and the Htisslnn guitar. According to lntest rei'Oi" their progress has proved satisfactory. It Can't Be Done Kram I he. tlnatnti Transcript, Willie I'ltnarcs: Is cutllns down tho tw- our reitlti'i iirtnv. Why 1I0J h!o cut il0?,' Wl- A rriuti! nnny. wuy no, nw ; .- . .ltiVOi' pur- ifrubSorjWelous.1-, P"11' J L)'"P'J.J." sh" ifetj...aJ!ejJial .ine .,'- '.-v n r ..' .'.'. 1:. ...it w.111
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