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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.
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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.
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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''
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Whnt Is mensuration"
Who la the conductor of the Boston Bym-
phony Orcheotra7 "jm-
Who waa Mephlstophelea?
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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.
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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,
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