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MAIN 0o0 VT Addnst all cpnw 4jn(f aKoiu to Eitnlng Public J.i-vlprr, ndrpmrffnoe Sgyart Phitad'lttltta Member of the Associated Press TIIK ASHOCUTHD PRERB U rxcluahelv f. Mlled to thr lor rrtmblicatlm of a'l ntii upafrhc credilfil to (t or not otherwise crdied n thu I'avtr and ntso the Inenl nnrt pubUshed thrreln. .Ill Hphfs o rtpubbcatim of speWal divatcht herein art a'lo mervrd PblliJelphU. Turidtr, Mtrth IS, 1921 THE GERMAN MIND HEItU HOHKN'.OIJ.KUN'S nttempt to Mhitownnh lilmsi'lf in ii book written to prove that world pence nml o I.enRiie of Nn tioni were boinc nobly dreamed of in ller lln before ever Mr Wilson entered politics represent) fnr more thnn the idle diveraion of n man on n forced vacation We sbnll bear more from Wilh'lm A new act in the grentesr of international eomedien is beginning. The suggestion that Influential Germans hope and pray for u feirtoratlnn of the monarchy was received throughout tho uorld with incredulitv or bitter lnughler n little while ngn. And then it was clear that the nations rvhich fought the (iennons do not jet fully under -afand the moods of the people who recently were their enemies Tlie movement for a restoration of tli" nobenzolicrns did not begin at Doom. It may be said to be world-wide, and the former kaierV book but h Hmall detail of the propaganda orgnn.red to give it mo mentuni. The people in Germany and Germans abroad who like to N- known as "the edu eatcd clnsHes" are forever engaged in a struggle to evnpe from the crowd upward to more or less dubious place on the edges of the world in which the aritocrncv moves German universities taught them to love and respect the rule of authority and the hand of might Hi en the war nnd the things that have followed after it did not leave them with any faith in mass judgment or the democratic theory. So, the influential fatherlHnders of nil ports in the I'nited States and m South America, us well an In Gennnnj nnd throughout Europe, pee the present llerlin government ok nothing more thnn a clumsy and helpless group of unskilled amateurs riparring unsuccessfulh with brillmnt pro fessionals who represent allied interests in current negotiations To the German ruling mind tuerefore. n monarch is needed: a monarch and gut em inent organized with the nid of the skilled men whom Gorman monarchs nlwnis have had about them. A kuiser would know how to lead and inspire his land, jour leal or amateur junker believes The burghers of Havana and PniKKta and ill the other German states are divided bv tradition, bj religion, by economic interest and political feeling. And yet there are few of them, even among the rank nml tile of the social democrats and the nut-und-out Socialists, who have any great faith in their own ability to organi7e and conduct n na tional government Their universities nnd their traditions have unfitted them fnr that ort of responsibility, nnd it is probable that even now thei would prefer to lenve the job to others Give them peace and its simple Toutlne and they will be content Thej need unitj of feeling and they know they need it Their shrewd lenders know thej need it. nml only bv the setting up of a king can 'he strumiug und bickering between state nnd Mute and group and group b eliminated That is the prent view in the north of Genn.inv and it is the view of ih more powerful elements who head what is known as German-American opin on m this country The onlv thing thut is in the war of a new monarchj is the present goiernment at Berlin, What the reallj huntst Senders of democratic German opinion have feared is an allied policj that would prematurelv bring about its overthrow If it were to full to morrow, the Germans would become either monarchists of bolshevists nt once Th rrend of eieuts in Hussln will deeply in fluenee Iwwildend Germniij. A lenetlon to the monarchist!'' forms In one coimtrj would almost inevitably be repented in the other That fart ought ulways to be lemembered by those who would be willing to replace Russian bolhevism with nnvthing els" known in this or other world" The junkers of l'ruRsu have alwujs been Active in wnrs against the crowd nt .Moscow They may vet prove to have had much to do with the present revolutionary activities about I'ctrngrnd Between the German b.irnn and the Kussinn baron of the pnr.t there were innumerable bonds of sjmpathv and material intercut. The misfortunes of m were the mlbfortunes of the other They still adhere to the sjrni point of view. They distrust the musses and thev taught the musses to distrust themsehes But it Is the vhooled mind of f.ermanv-, the average mind treated nnd 'cmpteil iU the older educational system of the empire, that reveals the worst onseiiiences of kais.'rlsm It is n shrewd mind without initiative It in a mind accustomed to revere without question, the mind next above it in authority It is subservient and n is worshipful even now of the ouurl who led a country through wild outluwry to defeat nnd then ran away Wherever Germans of the fatherlnnd typ are to be found there von v,ll find plans nnd hopes for h return to government by royalty. This is not because the native Ger man ban unlimited faith in u king It is because he has little fnith m himself His faith in himself was usually taken nwav from him in the proi ess which the flohen zolleru schoolmustcrs called education YOUR UNCLE'S PURSE NO QUESTION confronting the 0e ad ministration is so perplexing ns that of national revenue How much more compli cated that particular problem mnj be within the next fiscal year we mm know whn the aggregate of the hrst ineoine-tux pajments for 10-0 is suggested toinoriow The Teturns from this source under exist ing schedules ore likelv to show o startling decline The reatlve and produi tn ener gies nf the Tinted States liuve relaxed and Income tuxes in the final nnnljsis will be the best Indication of the degree of our loss. Slanv people who were earning large nul arles in llt'.'H are now finding it difficult to main both ends meet, ami it is und nlwnjs ban been difficult to make the aveingc dt iten understand that whai he owes the gov eminent in war taxes represents a tithe from his income for the year preceding that in which It Is paid and not A sum to be fixed by hli current Income. Collector Eederer himself was expressing surprise n few dnya ago at what appeared to be a great falling off in the number of reports turned In nt his office. It Is prob able that some people who owe taxes on their lllk'O Incomes will be unable lo pay. And those who can meet the demands of their citizenship without hardship will probably paj less than they did n year ngo. lint the government's obligations ore not lessened in the least. Bonds must be re deemed. Interest must be pnld on others. When- Is the money to come from? Tariffs alone will not supplj It. The country will have to hustle nnd do n lot of hard work. It will hnve to produce. The income-tax reports for the first quarter of this year may provide the stimulant that n great many people still seem to need ns a cure for physical and mental Inertia. SALESMANSHIP IN MATTERS OF MORALS The Churches and the Schools Seem to Be Awakening to the Necessity of Competing With Business for Men to Keep Them Alive fTIHE shortage of ministers which confronts X the Philadelphia Methodist conference nt its sessions in this city opening todiiv is a symptom of a general ailment afflicting nil moral und intellectual activities. There is a shortage of first-rate teachrrs for the public schools. The demand for efficient college professors is greuter than the supply nnd more than thirtj colleges arc seeking new presidents. Neither the medlrnl colleges nor the law schools are turning out so many men as they used to do. And there Is not so large n proportion of high -grade men entering the law schools, the medical colleges or the theological semlnnries ns sought professional training there a few yenrs ago. If the reason for this can be found then the remedy, if n remedy is desired, may be intelligently sought. There are some observers who think they hnve found the cause for the existing eoudi tlnn in the lnrge rewards that go to men in business, revvnrds so large that the income of a professional man seems petty by compa rison. There was u time when few young men went to college who did not Intend to enter one of the learned professions. But with the increasing wealth of the country, fathers have found it possible to give their sons ii college education when those sons had no intention of eutering a profession. As a result, boys who went to college intending to teach or to study law or medicine have seen their classmates go into business and within two or three jenrs get nn income larger than they could hope to get after j ears of professional experience. When, for exninple, u youth of ability re. elves from .$5000 to $10,000 n year for selling life insurance, while bis classmate does well if he gets ?2000 ns a teacher, the other bovs in the college who hear of the big earnings of the instirnnce agent will hesitate a long time before they decide to teach or even to study law or medicine They know that it will take them years to build up a paying practice in either profession. Unless their jenrning for the intellectual life is so strong ns to make them willing to pay a high price for gratifying it. thev will seek emplojment in an insurance office or In an office of some other kind where they ure en gaged in selling something besides Ideus that are intended to help men nnd women to live a fuller nnd more satisfactory life Different considerations affect the decisions of the student for the ministry. He is not interested in money getting, and he can look with complnceucy on the rewards that come to his classmates in business until he mar ries and tries to rear n family. The average salary of clergymen is about $1000 a year. The devout joung man who wishes to live n human life with n wife and children finds himself compelled to decide between follow ing his inclinations to serve his fellow men as their religious guide nnd providing the ordinary necessities for those dependent on him. Because young men have found that they cannot live on the pay of n preacher, the churches nru confronted by a decrease in the number of able men seeking education in the theological seminaries and by a conse quent ileurth of qualified pnstors. They are trjing to meet the situation by providing funds to help the small churches to pay a living snlarj But they ore fixing the min imum salary at $1000 a jear as though that were noiigh to enable a man nt family to live in comfort and keep himself abreast of the tunes us the intellectual and spiritual leader of the group of families he is serving Dr Fincgan. the state superintendent of public instruction, is following the example of the churches and is urging the Legislature to fix the minimum salary paid to school teachers nt n figure much higher thnn that paid at present His minimum is higher than the minimum salnry which the churches are trjing to fix for the preachers He nigues that if the Legislature should adopt the schedule the quality of the teaching force of the state could be improved becouse men and women of better ability would be at tracted and could be put in the places of the poorly qualified teachers now in the service as fast aH they resigned or were removed for inefficiency. There is back of this suggestion a realisa tion of the necessity of ompeting with tiuui ness for the brnins of the rountry. The war show ed what competition could do. The high paj offered in the munition industries stripped the teachers' training schools of their students just as thej took from offices and factories engaged in the works of peaie and even from domestic service thousands of joung men und women. Young people who had been getting .$15 a week received $10 a day nnd us fast as their friends learned of their good fortune they sought work in the war industries. Generous par is uttractive to every one. And it is the rule of business to give it to those immediately connected with bringing in the income The selling agent is generally more highly paid than the technical expert because he proves thut whnt the expert does has ii lommerdol value. He can make it bring in dollars and cents to his employer It matters not that without the expert there would be nothing to sell for the expert, wbntever his abilities mav be. is usually not u salesman. The importance of salesmanship has be come so generally recognized that it m stressed outside of the realms of business, Ministers talk about "selling" religion. Men organizing drives for college endowments bonst that thej hnve "sold" the idea to the alumni committees. A more enlightened plan for benevolent work is something thut must be "sold" to the public or it will he ignored. The terms of the business ofhee are used everywhere else but those terms are based upon the accumulated experience )n the way to produce results. We nre so accustomed to this terminology that we feel no shoi k when we are told that a successful preacher, a popular novelist, a cartoonist a painter of pictures or a writer of philosophy Is u good selling agent He hns a way of attracting attention to himself He is a good press agent and gets the peo ple to talking about blm He mav be no better than scores of others, but he under stands the arts of salesmanship and he reaps the rewards of that knowledge iet the rule is that the man interested primarily iu Intellectual and spiritual mat ter! is rarely financial succesB. His mlnd Is so fully occupied with other natters that ha cannot find time to think of money get ting. Now and then he will find somo ono with n commercial Instinct to exploit him, but it Is seldom that this happens. And now and then he has a canny appreciation of the value of what he has thought out so that he Is able to put his own price on it and to get It. But unless the spiritual and intellectual life of the country Is to be starved there must be a better appreciation of the value of things of the intellect nnd of the spirit. An era of mere materialism Is full of dan gers even to that materialism Itself. The sanctity of property rests on a moral basis, on the recognition of the right of a man to possess thnt which he has accumu lated. If the moral sanctions should be broken down, no man would be safe In his house nt night. No woman could walk the street with any assurance of safety. The beast In man Is so near the surface that the better part of him needs contlnunlly to be kept awake and nllve to his moral ob ligations. If we are to forget these things in an absorbed pursuit of money, If every thing Is to be judged by the standard of Its immediate worth in dollars without regard to its relation to the whole moral nnd In tellectual btructure of society, then we might as well write the doom of our present civ ilization. That is why many of the biggest business men nre found stressing the importance of conserving those things without which money would be mere worthless paper and metal turning to ashes in our hand. OUR WEAK ARM -xrCASIONALEY there ure signs to in dlriitn thnt Congress has not greatly changed its estimate of the possibilities of aviation since the days when it used to laugh nt Prof. I.angley's first experiments on the Potomac It appears certain now that virtually all the country's naval strength is to be con centrated in the Pacific. The Navy Depart ment appears to have been the original nu thnrity fnr the statement thnt the ships are to be moved from the Atlantic because "it would be relatively easy for an enemy to de stroy the Panama canal from the air in the event of a sudden war." Would it? It ought to be about as easy for on enetnv to destrov the Pnnsnia cnnal from the air as it was for Allied fliers to destroy the Kiel canal or for the Germans to niako the passage of Suez impossible. But neither of these canals wns dninaged. They were protected by well organized and equipped nir fleets nnd plenty of anti-aircraft guns. The Panama canal is not so protected. When Congress set about to cut down money allotments for the urmy and navy it begun with the air service and hewed to the bone. The development of military aviation was virtually halted In the United States. All the other nations have continued to build and study nnd improve nir machines of the types used in war. The Canadian bonrd of nir control has just issued an order forbidding American air planes from passing over Dominion terri tory because there has never been estab lished in this country a bonrd which, under the international air code, would be re sponsible for the stability of such machines. The I'nited Stntcs Government apparently never thought enough about aviation to ap point a bonrd such as now functions in the interest of fliers nnd the general public alike in every other civilized country tinder the sun SHORT CUTS The Wngley situation continue' wrig- xle.v. The Philadelphia Fire Department knows how to keep fit at fifty. The Fool Killer has a watchful eye. for every aspirant for the tall-spin record. Tomorrow you may worry over what you forgot to put in your income-tar return. About half the time Mnrch appears to have a foolish notion thnt her name is June. The bill's problem wns either to save its daylight or have daylight knocked out of it. In some cases getting down to brass tacks means getting down to brazen tax col lectors. Now that It has engaged the earnest at tention of the Home Hooch Association, the dandelion bids fair to be more populur thau ever it has been before Mrs. Harding hn been urged by a cor respondent to "make" her husband wear whiskers, as "onlv whiskered men nre great " But perhaps the President will ob ject to being the goat Bepresentative Dunn's constituents nre about equally divided between farmers op posed to daylight snving and inlllwofkers who favor it. Whichever way things turn out Dunn is, as it were, undone. The White House kennel is to be aug mented by nn English bull pup. With the Airedale nlreudy there, all that will b0 needed to complete the hounds-ncross-the-sen en tente will be nn Irish terrier und n Welsh rabbit dog. There is nothing worth while done by a strike that cannot better be accomplished at a conference table. The meeting of railroad executives and labor leaders In this city, therefore, is legitimate excuse for hope fulness. Among the disquieting tilings rumored in Washington is that Laddie Boy. a one man dog, is about to choose not the Presi dent, but the little man who ministers to bis wants. That dog doesn't know on which side his bread is buttered. A hundred and fifty shots were fired in a revolver fight between locul police and bundits yesterday morning, but onlj one of the bullets, apparently, found its billet The others evidently thought this wus still the Burleson administration and failed to reach their destination. After n Lancaster, Pa , blacksmith Imd been kicked through the roof of his shop he returned and subdued the hofte and finished bis work. Then nnd not till then he had time to realize that he had three broken ribs and a bruised foot. We tuke off our hat to that man. He knows that his job'a worth while. Once upon u time," smd Miss Hard ins, "when Brother Warren heard the bells ringing for President Garfield he suld, 'MayiMi they'll be ringing for rne some day.' Aud It turned out thnt wuy." But the real news story will come when u President is elected who never In his life thought of tht possibility. In the Franklin Repository, Chambers burg. Pa., these two ads appear together; LOST Bunch of keys containing eleven keys. Finder please return to Repository office ... tf FOUNT) Bunch of keys. OwneT can have same by culling at this office und prov ing property. 3t This seems lo prove thut it pays to ad vertise. A West Point cadet has committed siti cide. because he feared "he would not make u good officer." Longfellovv'H line, "Life is real, life is earnest," properly belongs to, a book of Juvenile verse. Onlv the very joung view it that way and the fact is trnglcaflv brought home every oneo in a while, Had the young man elected to live, the years would huvc brought him cynicism and stiff joints. Assuredly, he wouldn't hnve worried over bin fitness for bis job. He'd cither be making good or be convinced that ho was not getting a square deal. VEST-POCKET RACING New Gambling Devloe Where Yot Carry the Ponies In Your Pocket. "Let George Do It" Horrora of Our Immigration System My OEOROE NOX McCArN DIRECTOR JAMES T. COUTEIA'OD, of the Department of Public Safety, last week onme Into possession of the latest gambling device. It Is the oddest combination nf its kind the director or any of his chiefs have yet seen. Can you conceive of vest-pocket horse racing? A race course nnd roulette wheel that can be operated on o round-top table in a Boda fountain shop with the same Instrument; or on the level expanse of n mahogany bar in any one of the hundreds nf s-aloons thnt hnve survived the zero weather of prohibi tion? If you don't care to "spin the marble," you can "follow the ponies." U'h n matter of choice, for the machine Is adaptable to either kind of sport. And you can race two nags or sir, ac cording to the number of bettors. The "horses" nre numbered, the same as a jockey with a placard on. his back. There's n red flag to mark the finishing wire, too. With all that, though, it will be some time before vest-pocket horse rncing puts the f tipsy curse on Hnvre do Grace or New Or eons. It's n criminal device, just the same. Tnn machine consists of u metal case about half n size larger than the largest Wnterbury watch on the market. It looks like one. There Is n glass or crystal that covers the dial or what in a watch should be the dial. This dial spins around when a spring thnt projects from the side of the wntchllke lontrapllon is released by the finger. On this movable metal dial nre a series of figures. Around Its outer edge, circling the entire dial, Is a small circle three-sixteenths of an inch wide of metal. It is immovable. At the winding stem of the "wntch" is a tiny red flag. It serves as a point or pocket when rou lette is the game. Also as the "finish" when horse racing is the attraction. The roulette gambler bets on a number, the dial is started, rotates rapidly, nnd the number nearest the red flag when it ceases to turn wins the money. AS TO horse racing. Set in this immovable metal circle or rim on tho circumference of the device arc six small pockets or compartments. Each one contains a xvee celluloid disk an eighth of an Inch in diameter. If sir bettors nre "In" on the race, the six tiny disks nre dropped out on the re volving dial. Each gambler selects a "horse" or num bered dlbc and the spring is released. Instantly the tiny tokens go dashing around the circular inclosurc, helter-skelter, but, of course, always in the direction of the red ling. The "horse" nearest the flag wins, when the dial or track becomes stationary. It's all over In five seconds. This unlawful Invention comes from Ger many. It can be'cnTrlcd in the vest pocket without any more Inconvenience than a watch. It is a gambling device. Users arc therefore liable to arrest for having it in their possession. DR. GEORGE WILLIAM LINCOLN, the bibliophile whose delving ufter the odd Hnd unusual in literature Is always pro ductive of interesting results, calls my at tention to the antiquity of a modern slang phrase thnt is popularly supposed to have been coined within the Inst twenty years. "Let George do it," is the expression. As I recall, It was twenty years or ho ngo that George Luks, now a celebrated New York artist, brought the words into gen eral nubile use. Luks twenty-five years ngo was an illus trator on the Philadelphia Press. He was one of that brilliant galary of young artists and Illustrators among whom were Glackens, Gruger, John Sloan, Henry McCnrter, Williams nnd others, once Press men. After leaving Philadelphia Luks became a comic illustrator on a New York news paper. One of his features was the daily exploita tion of n pair of "kid," George and Aler. The pet phrase ever on the tongue of Alex was "Let George do it." Since those days George Luks has become n widely known pnlnter, Gruger a famous magazine illustrator and Sloan the leader of the artist colony in Greenwich Village, ull of New York. Now as to Dr. Lincoln's find ! TnE phrase goes back four centuries. Luks, I am sure, is unnworc of the fact to this day. With him it was a chance phrase born of his labors. Louis XII of France wus indolent, care less and extravagant. He wns led around like a prize ox with u ring in its nose by his fnvorltrs. Ills prime minister nnd man of all work wns George of Ambbisc, Cardinal of Rouen, un able, hard -working courtier. The great specialty of Louis XII wns that of getting into hot water with people. His cleverest attribute was sidestepping re sponsibility. Whenever something unpleasant hnd to be done or some difficult question was to bo decided, his invariable expression was: "Laisir: foire a Qcorgei" ; let George do it. Kitchiu in his history of France quotes the lazy king led by his favorites" ns using the expression : the George referred to being George of Arabolse. Thnt was In the summer of 1504. FREDERICK A. WALLIS, immigrant commissioner ut New York, made an ad dress in Philadelphia one day recently. It wus so Btartllng in Its presentation of certain facts that some uf his hearers aro still talking about it. The occasion was u one-day conference of life-insurance underwriters ut the Adelphla Prof. John Dennis Mahoney, of this city, was fhe other principal speaker. Here are some of the nigh spots touched upon by this federal official concerning im migration at the port of New York. When he took charge the detention rooms had not been cleaned for four montliw. The floors were slimy with filth. Children were playing nrnuiid in It. Diseased aliens slip through by the hun dreds because of lack of fucllltlcs und work ing force to prevent it. Ilecently two men, lepers, were on the point of being passed when the skin odor of one of them attracted the physicians' at tention. Outwardly, they were above suspicion. When the shoes of this man were removed it was found that three of his toes had sloughed off from the horrible disease. Hundreds of stowawuys get ashore and dibnppear. Moat of them nre "Reds" or crimlpnls. Whnt is the remedv? Commissioner Wallls replies as follows: Screen out the diseased und the unde sirables on the other side Increase the examination force on this side It Is hopelessly inadequate now. Compel a closer physical examination of every adult and child demanding admittance. Arrunge some system of distribution for immigrants. There is none now. Cities and towns are crying for ublo bodied emigrants: farms for laborers, Other communities are frantically pro testing ugainst any more coming to their section. Let the government institute a wiso sys tem of distribution, Send the aliens where they nre needed i prevent them going whero the labor market Is glutted. These nru only a few of a multitude of other needed reforms. Wallls is an expert. LETS REAP IT! j jZ g v.r iri ii - vHiini -mrr2rKmLLrjmmrLr.minMiL.Tmm jm --x-mmn ? . VWv rfSmSMfflZEMW ;iuieftttfOfe NOW MY IDEA IS THIS Daily Talhs With Thinking Philadclphians on Subjects They Knoto Bat MRS. SAMUEL B. SCOTT On Women Voters' Opportunltiea THE full responsibilities of voters w ill fall upon women's shoulders when they hnve thnt longed-for opportunitj "to get In nt the primarios." ' Just what they have a chance to do and how they may be expected to take au vantugc of thin is outlined by Mrs. Snmue B. Scott, cbairmnn of election laws and methods of the Philadelphia League of Voters and a member of the executive board of the Women's League for Good Government. Mrs. Scott says: "Will the women of Philadelphia make good ut the next primaries? This is the question that anxious observers are ashing. For It is still one of those interesting uncer tainties what effect the new voting clement U going to have on the result of elections. What part the women's votes had In rolling up the big majorities last full would be almost impossible to analyze out from tbe many other factors thnt influenced the na tional verdict. So that, although women have voted once, there has been no real test as to the difference their vote is going to make. , . . "Gaining the right to vote only a short time before the general election, the grent mass of the women of the country had no sav in the choice of candidates. And it is just in the choice of candidates that those who have hoped for u gradual lifting of the tone of public life when women shoulder their share of political responsibility look chiefly to see the influence of women s ideals. ' The Appeal of Local Problems "The world is watching to see how much they tan make themselves felt. 111 they slide into the old easy ways of inaction nnd criticism, forgetting ull about the rights of any group of citizens who will take the trouble to affix their signatures to u nomi nating petition, to hnve the name of their candidate appear on the primary ballot: and then growling ot tho poor choice that Is pre sented to them when they see the printed ballot? Or will they recognize their power and their responsibility for selecting per sonally the officials who are to bo intrusted with the community interests? "It is fortunate that tho first primary in which women take part in Pennsylvania is that of u municipal election, because local problems come home strongly to women. In their everyday home life they come Into dally contact with city politics nnd they realize the difference that an efficient und public spirited city government can make in the weltare oi every iuiuiij. "And If they see fit to fill some of the places on the ballot from their own numbers, as undoubtedly they will, what better of fices could women have with which to begin the career of public service? Probably very few American women ns yet, if any, have the training and experience to fill satisfac torily important state and national offices. But many women are fully qualified to stop into some of the positions whose incumbents we select next fall and do the work creditably. Women as Election Officials ' In every one of the 1380 election di visions in Philadelphia are to be nominated at the September priniurles three election officials a judge of election and two in spectors. Their work is one well suited to women's ability. Women are doing every day In the business world with ense and awurucy the type of clerical work involved; and the personal qualities drslrable In an election official, tact nnd courtesy In meet ing voters and fellow otliclals, should be found In women, who perhaps more thnn men have special training in the nrt of human contact; while the alertness and quick wittedness desirable are proverbially feminine qualities. Far be it from me to infer that all election ofliciuls up to this time have been conscientious clerical experts with personal charm and nimble wits I But If we might have such, why not prefer them? In western cities where they have for some time hail ex perience with women Iu politics the women liuve so fully proved their fitness for the tusk of election officials that they ure con stantly chosen for this duty. "Philadelphia women should pick out the right ones from among their own numbers ab election officials and carry out the simple technical requirements of getting their names on the primnry ballot. They will probably find In most districts that the men nre quite willing to vote for them. If any opposition develops, they have only to remember that there are as many women voters as men, or- HE WHO FIT AN' RAN AWAY HAS GONE AN' WRIT A BOOK, THEY SAY. s s- "--C- . "V s l gunize the women of their divisions, run a campaign nnd push their candidates through. As Candidates for Magistrate "Another office to which some women might well aspire is that of magistrate. It has, already been suggested by thoso who know our city conditions well thnt one or two women, either lawyers or experts in sociological problems, would be well to have on our minor judiciary. We women have an important task now in the next months to find one or two available women and per suadc them to run and also to find some men who may more nearly approach our American ideals of justice and the dignity of the law than hns been the usual tradition among our magistrates. We should study the records of the aspirants for re-election, give indorsement to those only who have done well and defend the city bv our votes next September from danger of' recurrence of the problem as to whether u magistrate in jail Is still a magistrate. "When it comes to the county offices nnd the judges, women are probably less pre pared to take the Initiative in choice and certainly will not present any women as randidntes. But wc trust that they will be more insistent than the mufjc of voters has been in the past, thnt the candidates pre sented for their indorsement shall be really fit for their jobs. "If the legislature gives us a chance to vote for members of a constitutional con vention, It will be a matter of deepest con cern to women to sec to It that their In fluence counts for the election of the right men to make our new fundamental law. Although it Is doubtful whether there is any woman in the state of Pennsylvania sufficiently versed In the problems of consti tutional law to make any valuable contribu tion to such a convention, It may be well to huvo a few women as members of it to rep resent the women's Interest. Any elected should be women who know enough to know that they don't know anything, who know how to learn from those who know and who huvc high ideals and good common sense. e women have a responsibility before us for the September primaries, it is for us now to set the precedent thut women's influence in politics is worth while." What Do You Know? QUIZ What is the capital of Alabama'' lSXC,7PreS,denta "h " Whnt Is mensuration" Who la the conductor of the Boston Bym- phony Orcheotra7 "jm- Who waa Mephlstophelea? '"orN-'atfons?0"10"11 "at f ,h" I- W Waters1'? '" l",Wn " "Ule Fatl,er ' Whnt Is un umlaut? Where and what Is the Alhatnbra? Answer to Yettbrday'a Quiz Frederick Stock is tho conductor of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Count Michael Rarolyl. the first executive, of Hungary aa a republic ha iliS called "the man without n coun&" Italy hns i Issued a decreo of eipSlaTo'n ?' hln? on account of politick activities. Austria nnd other count rlei haye refused to admit him aiid hfl can ,"' ?. back his native Ilin.SK" The allusion a to cv story by ' Krt5f Bverett Hale, entitled "The Yla , WUh out a Country." ""wiin. The only nurylvlnij; formor Vic President of the United States Is Thom.it !, Marshall, who served two terms will Woodrow Wilson. "" '" Philadelphia was founded Iu i8 h,. William Penn. ,6S- bJ "Bagged Dick" wxiH u juvenile lmni, i... iforatlo Alger. Jr.. tl pro StyS? of J long line of boys' hook's. Hi-fi ,h rtu'enw. 1,Cr rBe ,0 fame The "eight-eight" nnval program Is nn. In contemplation by Jurwn, the fomX tlon of which is the. t.u Idlng of Srtn capital ships, eight In "uch of 'two classes. lwo A paralleleplpedon is a solid contained bv parallelograms. u "' Uerne Is tho federal capital of Hwltyir hind. "ir- A paraph Is ti distinctive nourish after a signature. The custom of using It n un old-time precaution of KUttrdlnr ugnlnst forgery. "'" The abbreviation "P. H. C" usually after a- name, Is for "nistlnirulshed .Vrvlce Cross." a military decoration for ,x. 10 ffiit war for the urmtd forces of the r viii.vcu uatcn, J HUMANISMS By WILLIAM ATHERTON DU PX THE task of meeting the demands of audiences is no mean one, says Repre sentativc Philip P. Campbell, chnlrman of the House committee on rules. Audiences hnve a way of insisting. There was the ctrse of one gathering which he addressed in n very large nnd very packed hall where the acoustics wen bad' and the assemblage noisy. He couldn't make the folks in the back of the room hear The cry of "Louder, louder," came In nistently. Mr. Campbell shrieked, but to no avail. The cries were repeated. Finally there pierced the confusion a clear and bell-like call from tho gallery, which Mr Campbell holds, sums up the modern demand of the audience upon the public Bpcaker This voice sold : "Louder and funnier." Senator Pnt Harrison not long ago tt ceived n reminder of the time when he was a newsboy in Crystal Springs. Miss., and used to sell the Memphis and New Orleans papers. It caused him to run through the inter vening years, four of them In college, where he worked his way, two of them tenrhlng a country school at $!0 n month, of which he paid (8 for board and laundry. It was during these two lonesome years that be rend law and passed his bar examinations Then there were sir years as district attor ney. eight years In the House of Repre scntatlve.s, two years in the Senate and all by the time he wns forty. And this package that be got was from Silver Springs. It seems that they were tearing up the floor of the railway station down there and underneath it they found a roil of fifteen Memphis papers addressed to Pat Harrison. Dated twenty-five years back they mutely told their tule of a careless baggage man and a sad day in the life of a newsboy who failed his customers. Dr. Robert 8. Woodward, for sixteen years president of the Carnegie Institution, of Washington, and for fifty-five years sn active worker in advanced scientific circles. . having reached the ago of seventy-two, bs retired. In doing so he sent out a card to nu friends which said that "he hopes to resume Ms ancestral profession of farming and his adopted profession of civil engineering. To me he explained that be thought it advisable to retire while still vigorous and avoid the tragedy of being put out lifter he had begun to fall. , , , At the same time he told me of his plan for prosecuting future scientific work. There is no greater tragedy, he sold, than tnf of the man who had led an active life try tig to quit altogether. He had Just been talk ing with nn army surgeon. That gentle man had confirmed the theory thnt army and navy officers, retiring as vigorous men la the early sixties, usually rile within me years. Having been active for so long Idle ness kills them. It robs them of twenty years. Local brewers put out of business fo manufacturing beer alleged to have an alco holic content of more than one-half of 1 per cent probably read with uvld Interest tlie ruling that beer nf strong content may l made for medicinal purposes. It may even Bcem to them that If under the law they are permitted to make regular beer, interference, with such manufacture wns an Infringement of the law and punishable. Assuredly tH ruling of the former attorney general J some Interesting possibilities. The point at issue would seem to hinge on whether It to be considered In the light of an edict or merely an Interpretation. In Barcelona, Spain, there is being held under the auspices of the League of Nntloni n conference on communication and trans port In which nn attempt will be made to settle international controversies relative to railroads, wnterwnys and ports. Ihlrtj eight nntlons nre represented nnd regret was expressisl thut the United States was not among them. In the Interest of our world commerce this Is a luck that ought to oe remedied in the near future. Leon Trotzky hns. offered a reward it five million rubles for the body of the revolu tlonnry lender, General Koslovsky, Dl1 Koslovsky has raised the bet by offering ten million rubles for the liody of Trotzky " ' a million rubles is worth nil nf fifty dollars It will be seen that the gaming spirit nas inveigled the revolutionary leader Into ""'fj ing nn extravagant price for the leader o the Bolsbevltd, I
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