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. Chnrlen H. l.urtliwton. Vice Preald-nt. John C.
Itartln, Trea-tirr: Charln A. Tyler. Secretary,
rhllip H. Collltii, John U. Williams. John J.
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WORK AHEAD IN HARRISBURC
SOMK (Towdod hours of glorious or in
Klnriniis llfn nro m stdro (or 1 ln lVnn
KTlvnuin Legislature. Ailjourninvnt
planned for the end of Anril and April 7
has hren fixed us thi- Inn day for siibniittiiit:
bills.
Thus devised, the ro.tor preanges tlio usunl
rush poriod, for o far only ricliteen mens
tiros have lieeomc laws by tlio uiprovnl of tlio
Gorerniir, und few of three are of major
Importanrc. The school appropriation meas
ures arc nupassed. The Sterllne bill. ehanR
irjR the method of choosing the Hoard of
Education of Philadelphia, now apparently
stands but u slim ehoncc of paMaje. The
reapportionment bills, so productive of po
litical heartburnings, have not yet been pro
entotl. Jberc ore before the Senate 1082 measures
pc&a the House hat liuO in hand. More than
half thi- time allotted to the kevsdon has
clipped by. Kucrer nntl the ability and
n-illinRnovs to distinguish vitn.1 from foolish
und extravagant programs aix obviously
needed to vernier the coming six week n
creditable period in llarrisburj. fp to elate
thf ljejjtlntnre's actual performan'o has
been tiiunspiringly negative.
DEBS: BOAT-ROCKER
DnilS. prophet-in-ehief of undilufd ."-o-eialir-m
in the I'nited States, rocked the
boat uith enercj . enthusiasm and fonati'1
leal at it tiini- when no landing was in s-ight :
when on every side people, government", the
institutions of civilization and even the lights
by vvhi'ii nge hnvu teercd were beiug en
gulfed in troubled waters
Once it was supposed that Dcb. despite
all his ways of thinking, was humane and
of generous disposition. During his term in
jail he has done his utmost to banish thut
impression. He hns been n noisy prisoner.
He made his cell a sort of pulpit from which
to preach to his clans. And what he has
tried to tench them is that bouts should
be rocked in storms. He was supposed to
be in some vvnvn wise. Hut he is still tin
nbl' to understand that the President of the
Vnitcd States and those associated with him
do not make the storms or create the tumult
of heavy water' and that their sole duty to
themselves and to humanity was to keep
their vessel afloat anil bring it snfe to a
harbor. Hornuse they did that Debs antag
onized, insulted and misrepresented them
with all the power of his lungs.
Debs may be said to have done more than
any other man now alive to discourage those
who sincerely believe in political liberalism
and its accepted prophets und to give im
petus to the wave of reactionary opinion
that threatened to sweep the country after
the war ended. Whether he is kept in jail
or liberated does not greatly matter. Even
as o voire )eh has censed to he of any im
portnrce to his friends or his opponents.
He didn't know truth in n crisis. Aud
when it was presented to him he turnd
his back upon it.
SWORD-RATTLING AGAIN
MYSTKItHJl'Sl.Y. suddenly nml without
wnrning or am visible incentive, toll;
of intervention in Mexico has been renewed
in Washington. Newspapers known to be
"close to" the people who always have
ached to see Mexico disciplined by an Amer
ican army are finding great fault with Pros
idem Oliregon nnil his methods. They find
that he hns not carried nut his promises,
that he has not set up an ideal government
or brought about an eia of sweetness and
light, though he has had nlinnt six months
in which to miik" his country over, pacify
it. reorganize it und give it a new point of
view.
To Obregon and ht- colleagues this sudden
clatter in the 1 nited States will sound as
strange and as mystifying as the astonish
ing uproar whi-h turned the getie-.i! ntten
tion of the I'nited States uti Panama and
Costa Illcu The Mexican president will do
what the, average American did He will
merely pause und wonder. Me will he curi
ous to know who is turning the .rank
Obregon is merelj trving, against iniher
heavy odds to bring something like order
out of the tangle in v Inch Mexican affairs
were left by a long line of vicious or mipo
tent predecessors. Kisi -shaking and stvord-'
rattling on the border certainly will not help
him. And the people who like to sneer nt
Mexienn officials are in this instance any
thing but consistent. They are issuing
warnings to the new president of Mexico
because he has not linished In n fw mouths
a Job that no living man could hope fully
to accomplish within a generation
PRICES VS. WAGES
IjXIOD prices in this country dropped ap
, proximately 1!1 per ci m situ c January 1.
Til" statistics upon nhuh this isijmate rests
were gathered and n ported bj the Federal
Bttreu'i of Labor Statistn sV
The cost of essential food khH shows
downward trend In l-'chruan there was
a 1 per cent decline from th nveruge level,.,
of January Shoes and lothing have been
returuiux even more .wiftly than food to
what the country rcgiinh as normal pines
Rents, remain liigh as high, in must in
stances IIS tllej were w in I c cost of living
reached the topmost peak in t'o- spring of
ll)2t. War prices centinue in the coal
markets, and passenger and freight rates
on the ini'wnys are higher than they were
in the vears of the wai. So are trolley
ares, which must he listed among essential
items in a family budget.
There has been a mniiicd dee'ine in the
cost of building materials, but brick, lum
ber, uullwork, cement, steel, stone, synd
and the like are still held at rates fur in
zeess of those of pre -war .'ears.
It is estimated that a drop of 70 per cent
all along the line would be necessar.v to
bring llie living oMs of an average fnuiilj
down to tho levels established generalh in
the I'nited States before the outbreak of
th war-
Labor blames the employing orgauizatlonu
and the employing organizations blame labor
for apparent inequalities of proposed new
wage schedules and current living costs,
lint it Is hard to put the blame on any otic
group and unfair to suggest that any one
is wholly. Innocent. It Is true that wages
are dropping faster than living costs In many
instances, nnil that tho cuts suggested by
the railway companies arc greater than any
thus far made in the prices of the essentials
of life. The country is feeling its way ns
best It can through the fogs and confusion
created by war.
It would be fairer, perhnps. if such wage
readjustments as nre really necessary could
lie made slowly and gradtinlly. That docs
not seem to be possible. It is likely that the
present downward drift of prices will con
tinue. Wage schedules now being promul
gated will remain stationary. What Is re
quired l patience: but Jt is necessary to
ndnilt that wage earners, whose earnings
cannot bo stretched even to meet declining
eots of the necessities of life need, and
often exhibit, most of It.
Average wage reductions announced since
Inst autumn represent approximately "2,'X per
cent in most industries. The cost of living,
of food, shelter, coal nnd wearing apparel,
medicines, carfare and the like has fallen, on
the whole, not more than 1." per cent.
A TAX THAT EVERY ONE
WOULD HAVE TO PAY
The Proposed Levy on Sales, Either
Retail or Wholesale, Would Distribute
the Burden on All Consumers
IN SPITE of the difficulties in the way
of its application, sentiment among lend
ers In Congress is turning toward the im
position of some kind of a sales tax.
They have become convinced that the
excess-profits tox and some of the higher
surtaxes on incomes are so burdensome Rnd
destructive that revenue must be raised in
n different way.
The extremely high taxes on large profits
and big incomes were levied on the theory
that the rich could be made to pay. Hut
these taxes have brought hardship to the
very groups of society which they were in
tended to protect. They have diverted from
the expansion of business into the public
treasury large sums which ordinarily would
have been used to supply new capital for
industry. And in many instances the money
has come, not from the men wbo pay it in
the first place, but from the ultimate con
sumers. These taxes have been responsible
in a large measure for the prcvnillng high
prices of recent years. Other causes hove
affected prices, it Is true, but the money
taken by the government in an unwise and
unscientific plan of taxation has been
strangling business and destroying the very
vourees from which future taxes can be
collected.
Two kinds of a sales tax are proposed.
One is known ns a turnover tax ; that is.
n tax on the gross sale of every business in
the country, wholesale or retail. It is esti
mated that such u tax would yield .5.000.
0(10.000 a year if it were levied at the rate
of 1 per cent.
Those who object to the turnover tax saT.
and with some degree of truth, that as it
would he cumulative, being added to the
price of nn nrticle every time it changed
hands between the time it left the manufac
turer till it reached the ultimate consumer,
it would become burdensome. For example,
it is said that n turnover tax of 1 per cent
on a pair of shoes selling for ..") would add
fifteen cents to the cost of th" shoes, ns a
tax would be paid first by the manufac
turer, second by the jobber and third by the
final purchaser. Hut this leaves out of
account the business custom of adding n
certain per cent for profit to every item
that enters into the cost of a commodity.
The manufacturer who had to pay five cents
tax on a pair of shoes would probably add
teveti cents to the price, the jobber would
make that seven cents still more. ay ten
cents nt n minimum, nnd the retailer would
add twenty or twenty-five cents to his price.
The government would get its fifteen cents,
but the ultimate consumer would have to
pay twenty or twenty-five cents.
The ndvoeates of the second kind of a
tales tax insist that it would he free from
Ihcsc objections. They would have the tai
levied only on the final sale. Thus, the I
per cent tax on a pair of shoes worth ?."
would be only five cents and only ten n-nts
on a S10 pair of shoes. They argue that it
could he levied and collected just us easily
as the tax on medicines and certain toilet
nrtiiles is now levied and collected b the
drug stores. The merchant buvs a supply
of revenue stamps and attaches them to the
article when sold and collects the money
from the purchaser. It has been estimated
that, such a tnx would produce an annual
revenue of $2.00(1.000.000. or about one half
the amount needed by the government.
A moment's consideration will show to
any one fninilinr with business methods that
there would be many difficulties: in the waj
of working out nn equitable application of
such a tnx. Whether they are regarded in
insurmountable will depend in large measure
on whether the person raising the obje, tions
wishes to find a way out or is unalterably
opposed to any kind of it sales tnx
What, for example should be the tn. on
ii package of biscuits now sellinc m the
grocery stores for eight cents? How is the
sale of newspapers and magazines to he
taxed? Ik it expedient to exempt from the
un the sale of all nrtiiles the retail price
of which is less than .$1 or is tne tax to be
levied on the total amount of the pun bases
made at one time regardless of ihe price of
ea'h nrticle? Are total sales of les- than 1
to be exempted? Ami if so, what is to be
done to prevent the thrifty from going into
,i store and buying ninety -live cents worth
of goods, paying for them, nnd going mil
nt the door and coining right back again and
buying ninety-five cents worth more, and
repenting the operation ns long n lie
pleases'? This way of beating the 'n was
resorted ' by men who wanted to get two
quarts of borr in a saloon when the saloon
keeper was allowed to sell only one quart
to a i usMinor. Two men would go m wiih
a pitcher nntl each would buy n qi.nrt or
the same man would go in and buv a quart
Then ho would go outside of the door ami
i omc right back again and buy his second
quart, und repeut the process fill he ot all
he wanted
Hut no one thinks that n sales-tux law ',m
be frnined which annul he evaded in some
way Ways have been found to evade the
income-lux law and lh" l.iw tuxtug excess
profits Hut considerable revenue has been
raised by these taxes
The ules nn w nduiittediv exper.menta.
in the I'niled States Itcaiise of this
Otto II. Knhn. one of the soundest icnnoimc
thinkers in the oiintrv. lias suggested that
it he listed before being adopted ns one of
tip' primary munes of revenui Hi, propo
sition is that a gross -ales or turnover tax.
confined to oniiuoditics exempting tin
products of the fnrins--bc levied at tin. rate
of one-third of 1 per not. This, ,i
thinks, is so siniill that n wnj, ,,nt Ne
burdensome on am one. vet In estimates
that it would rain- at least !,",o.noii,(ioo a
yenr. or about the amount produced by the
pnsint excess -profits tux. If it wire found
io wort, satisfactorih , then the rat ild
lie increased; and it' it did not work out
well the experiment could be continued in a
different way until plan was found ilmt
would both produce revenue and encourage
business.
Mr Kulm i not dogmatic nienn it 1 1,
udniits that he lilts eome doiilits hut when
the nuti"n Is confronted with tin neces-ity
of raining permanent revenys of vaster
amount than ever before, it Is necessary to
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find some way to do it which is free from
the objections, thot lie ngalnst the hastily
devised war taxes,
As the members of Congress approach tho
task before them they nre coming to agree
with Mr. Knhn, not because lie lias set
forth his views, but because when confronted
by the facts they are forced to come to the
same conclusions which this distinguished
New York banker has reached.
It may be too much to hope tbat Congress
will approach the whole question in a Judi
cial temper. The members ore politicians.
They hold office because they have been able
to convince their constituents that tlicy nre
"friends of the pecpul." Their determina
tion to moke the rich pay tho cost of the
war through the surtaxes on incomes and
through tlio excess -profits tax was dema
gogic. They will find it difficult to rcfrnln
froth the same kind of demagogy In framing
new tax laws. Hut they ought to exercise
all their self-control nnd fnee the situation
in the temper of meu who wish to solve the
problem rnther than in that of men who arc
merely seeking to pandrr to the prejudices
of the uninformed in the hope of winning
votes.
OUR GREAT BEER MYSTERY
THE tone ns well as the text of Attorney
General Dougherty's final comment on the
now famous beer ruling of Mr. Pnlmer was
such as to make the country pause and
iwnder. The dry forces were rallied not
only In Washington but throughout the
country to force n, revision of the decision
under which n doctor may prescribe n keg
of beer for a patient or even n vnnlond of
nle. It wns freely prophesied tlint Mr.
Dougherty would moke wreckage of the
ruling Issued by his Democratic predecessor.
He has done no such thing.
"A case of this kind," said the attorney
geuernl. "will not be reviewed at the re
quest of any organization like the Anti
Saloon League." Self-determination for
the representatives of government seems to
be pretty firmly, established for the time at
least in Washington.
The breweries, according to nil reports,
nro firing up in nn atmosphere of jubilation.
It was 5Ir, Palmer himself who suggested
that before long beer might be bought nt
sodn fountnins. A country trying to adjust
itself decently to n law which nobody seems
able to understand or clearly define is drift
ing further into bewilderment.
And it is altogether probable that a poll
of the population would show nine out of ten
persons to be pretty thoroughly disgusted
with tho work of the extremists on both
sides of the prohibition question, who ore
responsible for the present disgraceful con
fusion and tho debasement of n federal law.
A NEW STATE FANTASY
DISSATISFACTION with Mate frontiers
Is n spirit which has. fortunately, been
but little manifested in the tide of American
federal history. The fostering of such a
sentiment would naturally lead to almost
interminable complication, and it is hence
unlikely that the singular movement origi
nating In northern Idaho will pass beyond
tiie stage of harmless discussion.
The scheme, for which a propaganda fund
in the modern style is sought, involves the
formation of the new state of Lincoln out
of the Idaho panhandle and adjoining parts
of Montana and Washington. The acquisi
tion from the latter state would include the
important city of Spokane, alrendy picked
by the propagandists as the capital. The
opinions of Washington nnd Montnnn folk
on this project have not yet come East, but
it is not extravagant to forecast an un
favorable verdict.
There is. indeed, but a single instance
that of West Virginia in an exceptional
crisis of radical alteration in interstate
boundaries aftr admission of nnv common
wealth to the American federation. In
Texas, it is true, changes nre still within
the renlm of possibility, since the net ad
mitting that state to tho I'nlon in 1S45 im
posed the condition thnt nt nny future date
the largest of our sovereign commonwealths
might be enrved into four quarters privi
leged to solicit congressional approval.
The time is perhaps coming when n state
approximately as large us continental Franco
will be divided. There Would be nothing
fantastic in Midi a process. Hut the Idaho
idea appears distinctly impractical and is
interesting chiefly for its rather nnive oddity.
RUSSO-POLISH PEACE
AI.AH.MISTS who prophesied a reopening
of Kusso-Polish strife with the advent
of spring will experience some difficulty in
reconciling, this forecast with the news t hut
a definite peace lias been sinned at Minsk.
Thirty days are given for ratification by
the Warsaw and Moscow governments.
Poland is to receive an indemnity of
.'10.000,000 gold rubles. The frontiers are
in the main those agreed upon between the
former belligerents in the preliminary peace
drafts outlined some mouths ngo. M.
Durtiski. the chief Polish representative, in
reviewing the events lending to the consum
mation of the pact, particularly emphasized
the good feeling in which the negotiations
were carried out.
The fact i.s thai Itoth Soviet Htissia and
Poland embarked upon perilous and costly
military adventuns last summer. The pen
alty for Polish aggression was a severe scare
whiih reacted throughout all western Eu
rope. Soviet Hussia also presumably ui
quired a sense of realities when the difficul
ties and burdens of world-conquest ambitions
were demonstrated by the Polih counter
attacks. All in ull. it was a miserable business, in
which neither side was guiltless. The pros
pect thnt n repetition of it is exceedingly
small is one of the most t htering pieces of
information that has come out of a war
weary continent for some time
HEX
CI ItUENT revelations of the extent to
which hocus-pocus, vnodnoism. hex doc
tormg and the arts of witchcraft thrive and
prosper in Herks nnd adjoining counties have
astonished newspaper rentiers. The dnv was
supposed to have pas-cd when in this part
of the world any one would seek to find
relief from suffering or confusion by charms
and incantations.
And yet one might stop to determine how
much of modern polities is made up exclu
sively of incantation and chant, 'llie query
will rise naturally in a curiou- mind when
it is observed that the usual reaction has
followed in Harrisburg upon disclosures of
rampant voodoolsm in many of the agricul
tural counties. There nre to he "tighter
laws" and ttututc. directed against witch
doetius
Everybody ought to know that muttering
und mumblings ami speeches and a waving
of hands cannot cure disease Everybody
ought to know, too, that mutterings and
mumblings and incantations and chntitings
and wavings of hands cannot cure ill, due
to political, social or economic causes.
There ought to he an end of voodoolsm ill
the Peiinsvlvifnin hinterland nd there
ought to he nn end in political witih doctor
ing in the State Legislature
The expressed opinion of n Vew York
jinige ihat blondes are fickle has ,cen nmdi
fieil by the opinions generally expressed that
this is ouh true of chemical blondes. The
general opinion may be founded on fact, and
the fact iiiiiv have solid foundation and he
readily explainable There is something
noiablv unstable in blenched hair Even if
ii does not change color altogether, it will
:i-suieiliy take on natural tints as it grows
How en ii n girl he expected to be settled In
hir mind when the temple of what she calls
Iter brain Is bedecked with corn-colored hair
that vvuiils to be brown and may turn green?
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AS ONE WOMAN SEES IT
The Meek Who Inherit th6 Earth Are
Probably Gardeners There Is Rest
for the Weary In the Han
dling of a Hoe-
Hy HAKAH D. LOYVHIH
XJOT long ngo a woman was explaining
AN to nic the work of nn organization in
which she was deeply Interested. As she
talked her face grew pale nnd drawn nnd
little blotches of red came out on htfr arms
and wrists nnd on her neck, while the pupils
of her eyes contracted to mere pin points.
Her voice, which had beVn ordinarily mellow
to start with, got tense with the rest of her,
so that her tones were shrill nnd overempha
sized. It was very difficult to listen to her
storv of (he wrongs she wns attempting to
combat without becoming Infected oneself
hy her nervousness, only with nic it took the
form of pin pricks all over mo, nnd I had to
exercise positive self-control to sit quiet and
allow her to complete her report. Tho
minute she departed und I could turn to some
one else nil restlvcness left me nnd a mill
pond could not hnvc been calmer.
Two nights Inter her name enmo up in, the
course of conversation nt dinner nnd sdme
one present casually put her down ns a
subject for psychopathic trentment, while
nnothcr person opined thut she was just n
crnnk. I doubt If she is either to nny dan
gerous degree, but I think she is n very
tired and not a very happy woman wbo has"
let herself loose on the public, with a Cause.
She hurts her cause by her uiihapplness
and by her fatigue nnd by her letting herself
loo3C quite ns much, if not more, thnn she
heltis it, because the imrrcsslon that she
strives to give is blurred by tho impression
of herself.
I suppose she thinks of herself ns willing
to bo persecuted or even to die in harness
for her cause; but the truth of the matter
is she would get it over far better If she
could get herself thoroughly liked and ad
mired for It if slio did not nppenr to be
dying from strnin under it instcud of living
with great und encouraged hope for it.
INTENSE souls con always get n hearing,
but generally it is little more than n
hearing of wonder and curiosity, with a kind
of aftermath of pessimism. It is the buoyant,
serene souls that get a following.
A man said to me of a certain enthusiast,
in this town: "Why, gracious, it is not thnt
she tries to hustle you and me ! She would
hustle the Creator if she could!"
I do not know nny better cure for that
particular form of irreverence than gnrden
ing. And ns these spring nays mnko us
town folk n little languid about our board
meetings and n little wistful for certain
countrysides whoso contours nre as familiar
and ns dear as the faces of our friends, per
haps it would be as well to take the hint
some day soon and go off and find our level
among the things of nature that by long
habit have acquired the great virtue of never
arriving too soon nor yet too late, but al
ways just on time.
Nnttire is n great mistress. You cannot
deceive her by cunning or capture her by the
blowing of trumpets; you cannot cajole her
by promises or frighten her by violence. You
cannot dictate to her n new law or worry her
into abrogating nn old one. Hurrying her
will not force her secret ; bullying her will
not wrest from her n single clue. No flat
tery will make a flower grow. Y'ou may be
clever at a bargain, but you cannot bargain
with nature. She fixes the price and the
time and the process. Nor docs she ever
wholly part with her possessions. She has
a long memory for places. . Time is her con
federate and lets her back into her old prem
ises, over a ruined wall, through a broken
hedge, to work her will; the beasts and the
winds nnd the birds arc her allies, her
children.
THERE is a dictum in the Hentitudcs that
used to puzzle me :
"Hlessed nre the meek: for they shall in
herit the earth."
It is the last thing thnt one would think
they would get "the earth '." 1 went to the
dictionary, thinking that the vision which
"meek" evoked must be a caricature. Rut
no; the meek nre even more so than I
dreamed I To he meek is to he "gentle."
submissive, yielding, mild of temper, un
assuming, patient '. All these pneked to
gether make n mnu fit to inherit the earth.
He does not hove to push and strive after it ;
it is his naturally: he is born to it.
If the gardener s earth, not the capital
ist's, is meant, then surely it is pluin enough.
All simple folk, from St. Francis to David
(irnyson. nil gnrdeneis, fanners, naturalists,
artists, the poets and philosophers of nature,
all to whom the earth has yielded her se
crets, have been the iever.se of proud men,
arrogant, impatient men.
From CincinnnttiK to Hurbnnk thev have
Biihmilteil themselves to Nature's laws and
yielded to her dictates with a reverence that
was patent to nil men. (ientle they must be
who deal with animals or plonts, mild of
temper and patient, or they court catas
trophe as they grow in wisdom they must
perforce grow in wonder and in admiration
and in humility.
Put your naturalist, your farmer, your
nntural philosopher, omong n crowd of
world hustlers; gentleness, submissive yield
ing to the world's laws, mildness nnd pa
tience will not get thnt world ; he will be
lucky if he docs not get the poorhouse. Put
him in n garden nnd his gentleness is a
money-maker, his patience n master touch,
his humility in the presence of great facts
of nature and his submission to law give
him the essential quality for success.
I WAS talking ibis evening to n grent
healer of mental ills, Dr. Charles K.
Mills, nnd he said his recipe for keeping
one's brain tit good order was to use it !
He was discussing with a few of us a very
modern book by a mnn named Kempt on
psycho-analysis, and lightly as one would
run one's lingers over a scale he compared
it to kindred hooks on the same subject from
Freud to Suetonius, thereby proving casually
thnt he practiced what he preached. There
are. I should think, some few men and
women who, like him, find their relaxation
from active work in n mellow, leisurely ex
amination of other mens theories; but'inost
of us lire too tired to read when we arc
tired without dropping off to sleep.
That is where gardening comes in '. The
physical port of it keeps our liodles alert
without nervous fatigue, ond all the happy
growing sights and sounds about us. the
pleasant smells, the comfortable natural
things to touch nnd handle, give us n sense
of being part of n great whole. We niergo
into somctlimg greater than ourselves,
greater thnn our span of days. We feel
humility without humiliation. Our hurry
slips from us like a garment, and serenitv,
that difficult height to ottaln, that strong
hold once possessed, seems of a midden
ours brjftud man's power to give or to tukc
away.
A good nnd nblc executive to gel ie
suits should be allowed to choose his own
working force. Not nU executive,, are able.
Not nil the utile ones nre good. An execu
tive who puts political power above the
public weul will prefer faithfulness in his
henchmen to efficiency In his subordinate,,.
So in public life n check is wisely put upon
the executive by the civil service regulations.
Public employes must first he competent and
then they must be protected in their jobs; a
desirable coudit.nn that puts the kibosh on
that other desirable condition where the
good nnd able executive is permitted to
choose his fellow workers. Here there is a
task for John Q. Compromise. There is no
valid reason why nn executive should not
be allowed to build up n "machine" so long
as it is a competent and on honest one. So
John I. Compromise would suggest that
prospective i.fIiceiol(er.s continue to be ex
iimlnrd for fitness nnd that the executive be
allowed to choose from the eligible not
from the first two, ns the law now stands;
nor from the first four, for which Mayor
Moore now pleads; hut from the first dozen
if needs be. One of the first needs in any
business, public or private, is smooth run
ning efficiency with the emphasis on the
compound adjective.
If wages drop 10 per cent and living
cost drops 1 per cent the grude of living
drops 1 per cent. We just love arithmetic,
don't you? Hut we would prefer rosier ex
amples.
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Daily Talks With Thinking Philadelphians on Subjects .They
Know Best
MISS CORA ELSIE KINZIE
On Teaching the. Deaf to "Hear"
AFKW years ago the man who found
himself being overtaken by deafness gave,
up, by n supremo and grim resolution, nil
cherished bones nnd accopted isolation us
inevitable. In the business world it was n.
matter of course that the deaf mnn should
be subordinated or dischnrged. In the socinl
world the joys of humnn comradeship were
for hmring persons and no longer for the
hnrd-of-henring ones.
Miss Cora Klsle Kinzie, in her own per
sonal life as well ns In the lives of hundreds
of other hnrd-of-henring persons from all
parts of the country, has proved that toda(v
the deaf do not need to "take u back seat.
Thev can make their eyes substitute largely
for 'their enrs. Through lip-rending they
may lenrn to take their place among henr
ing persons in normal work und pleasures.
As director of the Speech-Reading Club of
Philadelphia, 1000 Locust street, Miss Kin
zie has seen what lip-reading can do to
bring happiness und usefulness back to men
and women who had lost interest in life.
Much Deafness In Philadelphia
"It is surprising," said Miss Kinzie, "how
much deafness there is in our community.
It may be Philadelphia's moist climate that
is responsible, or it muy be that we are just
finding out what a large percentage of the
population hns defective hearing. Formerly
when a man or woman became deaf, family
and friends sympathetically accepted it as
an insurmountable obstacle nnd the deafened
person bernmo n 'back number.' It is pa
thetic In many cases to see the rejuvenation
brought about today by lip-reading. No
matter how deaf a person muy be, if he can
read lips cusily he will be able to hold his
place among normal persons, and often the
public cannot believe he is deaf.
"As for the joy it brings. 1 have seen
manv examples. Since the wur I have come
in contact with many soldiers who were
made hard of hearing during the war. One
bov I know wns ready to commit suicide.
Despondent nnd hopeless, he saw nothing in
his future except dependency and menial
grind. Then he learned lip-rending.
Drought in contact with many other deafened
persons who were happy, and given a chance
to mingle with henring persons in u normal
way, ho regained courage and cheer. Now
What Do You Know?
QUIZ
t Name the author of "Jane Eyre."
Who Is Knut Hamsun?
.1 What Is epigraphy?
I. Who wns the composer of the "Unfinished
Symphony"?
5. What Is the difference between an "epic
of Krowth" and nn "epic of urt"?
. Name the capital of Serbia.
7. Wbo Is Urltlsh secretary of suite for
war?
8 Of what country Is the thistle the na
tional flower?
9. What Is the family name of the- Hritlsh
reigning houso?
10. What Is u palindrome?
Answers to Saturday's Quiz
1. 'A cupplla" Is n term applied to choml
slinjlng without Instrumental accom
paniment. It Is n font, of muslo chiefly
found In tho older schools of eccleslas
tlc.il music.
2. Virginia Is known ns "tho mother of
Presidents.' Amonff tho chief inairls
trates b"rn there were Washington,
Jefferson, .Mudlbon, Monroe and Wil
son. 3 lenotnph- sepulcliml monument to
one whose body lies elsewhere.
4 The abbreviation "I.ltt. 1." nfter a name
stands for the academic degree of
doctor of letters fljitln. lltternrum doc
tor), borne by tho person concerned.
It Is n distinction conferred for 'noln
hle achievement in belles-lettres or
literature as a fine art. In the I'nited
Suites it is conferred by colleges lis
no honorary degree.
I "I.ovo In the Valley" Is u tlno and Innjr
lyrlco-nurr.itlvc. poem by (ieorgo
Meredith, the great English novelist.
6 A colophon: A tailpiece In old tinoks.
often ornamental, kIvIiik Information
new usuully placed on the title pane.
;. I'etci llytch Tauhnlliowsky, Russian com
poser, wrote the "I'athetlquo .Sym
phony." 5 Home prominent defeated candidates for
the presidency who are still living nre:
Democrat!!- William Jennings Hryan.
Alton 1). Parker. James M. Cox . I5e
publlcaus -Wllllnin Howard Tnfi
Chiirlis K. Ilufihes; Socialists -Kufceno
Victor Debs, Allan Benson,
'.i, HnrrlshurK Is the capital of Pennsylvania
10. Rlcochutf Tho skipping on water or
giuuud of a. cannon ball or bullot.
AN AWFUL WALLOP
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he expects to resume his education und prob
ably will study law.
Industrial Leaders Should Help
"The most vital problem facing the deaf
i.s recognition nnd co-operation from indus
trial leaders. It hns been proved thnt deaf
people arc more efficient thnn hearing per
sons In some types of work, nnd that along
many other lines they can work equally well
ns nnrmnl men nnd women. Some firms and
Inrge Employers know this nnd are placing
deaf persons in their plants ns much ns
possible. Hut tho nirijority of industrial
lenders have not as yet accepted this fact.
"There must be n greater willingness on
the purt of employers to give deafened men
and women a chance to show what they can
do. Those firms who have been willing to
test them out have been more than satisfied,
Mid employers hove reported that the nppli
cants have made good ond they woultl not
want to lose them. The highly developed
powers of concentration which many deaf
persons possess, coupled with close applica
tion to work resulting from the keen desire to
make good, give the deafened worker an nil
vontogu over the hearing one in muny posi
tions, nnd ho is frequently of more value.
"The deaf do not usk for nny concessions
or sacrifices on the part of business men in
their efforts to interest them nnd secure their
willingness to give the deafened applicant a
chance. They oniy nsk for nn opportunity
to prove the efficiency of the deafened person.
"Rccaiise of the old idea that the deaf
person could no longer hold his place In
society, harU-of-hearing persons nre not
leaders. They have allowed the reins to
fall to others, nnd most of them need to bu
directed. Hut they nre being tnught to go
ahead on their own responsibility, learn
ugaln to he leaders, to substitute eyes for
cars as far ns possible,
"There is no question that lip-reading
is going to bring nbout even greater better
ment for, the hard of hearing."
HUMANISMS I
P.y WILLIAM ATIIKKTOX DU PUY
POST WHEELER, diplomat, and HalHo
Krmlnie Hives, author, his wife, vvero
being entertnined in Washington ond Mrs.
Frnnces Herger Mnran. grand dnmc and de
scendant of the Wnshingtons. of Charles
ton, W. Va., where every other man you
meet is of that chin, was telling of having
witnessed John Hrown's execution.
Mrs. Monin hesltnted over the story be
cause the date of the tragedy of John lirown
convicted her of having accumulated uuni
erous years.
"The only age," interjected Mrs.
Wheeler, "is the lack of enthusiasm."
Colonel George Washington Stewart, of
the unity, is now stutloned in Italtlmnre,
nnd goes nbout in the urtistie und literury
set of that city.
His wife Is Florence Pntullo Stewart,
who writes books, who bonsts n studio with
oriental draperies anil who refuses to be
spoken to before 10 o'clock in tho morning.
They have u friend, Mrs. Hnrrlctte flunn
Rohcrson. of Washington, who conducts a
school of personality, nnd who savs that
the color which represents her individu
ality is pink.
Mrs. Ida Clyde Clark, magozlue writer,
who contributed only wln-the-wur stuff
while the contest was on, stayed up all
night papering her room in Washington red
before she could comninud the muse.
And Colonel Stewart, after listening to
all these eccentricities of genius, Hold thot
they were undoubtedly evidences of "esthetic
temperaments."
Herbert Drone, a boy of twenty, with a
weak lung, in 1SM.'I went from Kentucky
down into Florida as far its there was a
railroad to curry him. There he entered
mi office and asked for work. It turned
out thnt the name of the mnn to whom
he applied was likewise named Drnne and
thnt the two were related,
"I will give you a contruct building a
piece of railroad." said the elder Drum
"If you will walk to -It." '
"Let's go," said the younger man.
So he walked forty miles south to u cer
tain landmark ami begun building. He put
himself up a shuck anil bus lived right there
ever since. His shack wus the first house
In what is now Lakeland, Fla., and he hns
watched the wilderness transform Itself Into
a bower of orange blossoms, for this county
produces more oranges than any region of
like urea in nil the world, Now h is n
member of Congress fr4ui the land of
oranges, 1 (
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SHORT CUTS
Kvcr aud anon it is cold Iamb March
resembles.
He is a lucky guy, no end, who haa a
doctor for his friend.
Of course, Lenine can't help his face
but why should he want to save it?
It will takcmoro than A Line O' Typj
or Two to tell of. the affection II. L. T. In
spired, The Soviet treaty seems to prove thit
Lloyd George doesn't care what company
he keeps.
It will bo following precedent if Lenin
and Trotzky grow conservative ns they grow
prosperous.
The P. R. T. of the first part appear
to be preparing the sourest kind of kraut
for the Krankforders.
Nowadays when people discuss illumi
nation one has to guess whether they refer
to gas, electricity or hooch.
From the U. O. I. hearing we gather
that I'niler Grade Illumination still mani
fests its Unspeakably Gloomy Idiosyncrasies.
The Allies may yet reach Berlin, Why
doesn't Joscphus Daniels get a Job as cor
respondent and make good bis proud boast?
The coroner is investigating I'olU
vllle's haunted house. What's the matter
with the prohibition enforcement ajent?
This efficiency, business is being ran
into the ground. New Jersey chicken tnievM
nre now making tbeir collections in an auto
truck.
If there is the least suspicion that the
spirits that hnunt that Pottsville house are
distilled there will be no lack of willing io
vcstlgators. rPho Helton nf n elmrch in Allegheny
county was found drawing several gallon' I
o liquor from n still Dehlntl tne cnuruj
organ. Pipe organ, of course. Full of jll
notes till the cops struck a blue one.
Washington newspapermen are havinf i
some fun with a cub reporter, one JoPJu! . I
v 1 i - . 1 . a. i - . nlil In fit I
wamcis ; out ni least u may ue uiu
when Reporter Daniels interviews Secre
tary Denby he will have some familiarity
with his subject.
In a liquor seizure cusc in Tampa. Fl'-i
the members of the jury were invited to
.iimnn 1i Aililnnn HlVn ttrOnK. 01
sniffed, ami the verdict was guilty. J' ?"
intent nerc to mane jury uuiy popuii -
men and to frighten off the women?
A Mlddlctown, N. Y., man, 101 yr
old. has just had a tooth pulled. It '''
last. We Ket his point of view
Unless n tooth can meet one of Its "'
lows once In a while it is worse than lone
some; it is plum good for nothing.
The Soviet Government has refused W
admit Into Russia six men deported from "'
United States, nnd they nre "now; nt i;
bound for nowhere." Russia won t accfPf
them; Uncle Horn nioy refuse to reajm"
them; nobody else wonts them. ln i
hard lines on the steamship company.
When a victim of bootleg w,(",1,'fc,j
arrested in McKces Rocks, Pa., tl''1?1
of police puts him In a cell with six W ""
harmless Mexican snakes, whirl; K'
persunde him to sign the pledge. .h rd
a story from Pittsburgh. Hut not a
is sold of the jng thnt follows when the k
tlm learns how he has been lioodwlnlfi.
Say, girls, you can't use the JJ
walk on the straight nnd narrow notn '
health. We have always h15ht ":,.Jtic
are emboldened to say so by the n,,a$
declaration of Vera Roehm. an ""-V"0.,
In this city. And listen, girls. ' J1' JS
wnlk is worse than iintie-iUhy i it is """'
unbecoming.
a thing about tj
We don't know
slxtyseven-year-ohl New n ...nr.olJ
... Vnflier wii
wished to adopt a tweniy-iin" . -woman,
described ns a profess loiia MnfirJ
singer nnd entertainer, ns his dough ler, d
cept that he is suld to be vigorous
stately. And we don't know n thlnfnfl,..
the lady. Hut we seem to ge a mcnljl l,h0
Hire olr the Surrogate who in di ) in'
motion tnoK occasion io in-ui. ',,', la u ,
to it. It bears n striking rcsenibln net t
well-known character In "M,'""1' A"n ' (u, I
K-...i.t..i .i ,.,. in be making u"
AWllllll MUX Ml'J'Vint.
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