RHP lllr! rautfa. i ( fMir-iiir. - "w 4Mm Bwrnm iliiSfll: mm', SJirav t' MsWl thu tn iMtWi The rlo H? i li ? i." W; IHW Lh' :5fi ,t i;M4 if -m Hli. . . '.id f!Tlia. m ?'.- t' ,,' L1 IS TJ.S- n. "-j Hi WLWL :';' j KiiT-:i v t Iter A. mV& wtMum 10 fcf'rtMlMlM PUBLIC LKDGER COMPANY . ;'i'!M!Ht-'f Sw.' crrttra it. k. cuims, riiDKT 1 "J tfJ'TUV'U&frWlM.r Cna'les H. I.udltulon. Vie Pr1d. nt John C k tl li' LV'ttiMpia'-S KM Jlrtln, Traaurr; Charlra A- Tlr, 8eortam WM ri rynjfi8.Wr J'hllle t Colllna. Jnhn It, William. John J. ftBa&ii' E T?is$ar' Sk . rtnvirrn. Oadrfs F. OoldiniKh, David t. Smlltr. KDtToniAL nOAHD Cram It. K. C'rn. Chairman PAVID E. mtll.ET .Eclllot. JOHN" C. SMHTIX. ..C'n.ral'BtnlnfK'Manatft I'ublUhrd Ually at Pcsud Ukk Bulldlnr tn'ltndiM:e Square, ITillal-Iphla Atlantic Cm rrrin-tnioit Building .rvr YoiK am Maillton Ave. DzraoiT TO! Ton! Rull'llng HT. Loci,....r....dI3 atcbfDcMacral null line ChiciOO 1312 Trillion IlilllJInc NKVV8 DL'nBACS: Wnmsoiox Iltxcir, : II CVr. 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All rlghtt of npvlllcattan of ipecial dUpotches htrein are olno reserved. PhlllJrlplila, V'rdneKli;, Mah :). I2I A WET DAY AT HARRISBURG Hon of u fodoral law uml evi-n pniviilf a sort of urotwtinn for viulutors. Uiit.' b;caue of a familiar error of the more zealous ad vocates of prohibition, tli bill b'-ian to die almoaf u miou us it van- the liclu. At tbp firct readinc it wan jin ! p)if - writ the point of vinw of extremist and to a atsHlvantai irom tne (-tart. However. , became they in.sir-trd on fichtinit for a Haif" Avhlch care their whole bill n bad name. They fought to give poliee and the fetlernl enforcement officera atithoritv to invade sus pected places without earcb warrantH. Had the bill been passed in its original form even private bnme would not have been Mife from invasion and teareh. It choitld have been apparent to the friend of prohibition that the seareh-und-seizure elaue could not live Yet it was retained for a time in the Martin bill and provided endless ammunition for the wet force". Moreover, it offended a "ood many conservative drys. who fee no reuson why utate nhould et up an enfon-ement code more riicorouM than uny -usgested by interpretation of the tdhtead net. loscnejw of the vote in the loue makes er ad in upcratcd in strict accordanee with the fed eral dry lawn. The polfeo powers of the i-tate and itn municipalities will not be eoin- pelled to aid government officers in the wnr on Uarlcjcorn. THE WET STREETS NUISANCE THK Uureuu of Ilighuas proniieH relii-f from the annoyunies of wet streets in t-ontrnl I'hiladeliihin m tlie morninif ni'h hours by rcfereuee to a rule. This order call- for the Hushing of limad street from Vine to South in the morning in winter and in the evening in summer. After April 1.1 leguhitions of uhieb. the Women's Soriety for the Prevention of "niclty to Animal), and motor trallie inter ests in general omplain vv ill temporarily ease to Is- irritating. EASTER WEEK RKCKNTM . in this coluinn. we endeu ored to ilernoiihtrate that the dress reforrm movement and morals crusades aie not bj unj means new or due to novel inn ditions. ('iiutioiish we quoteil from ill" writings of Isaiah writings that are not o well known a they ougiit to be among tlie rising generation. 'Hie iropliet did not iiiinee his words when he et out lo read a lesson, 'o the daughters .if Zinn Nu one wrote letters to Kill u prigs or llolshevists or disturbers of jnihli" tiiua iiimitj . The experiment imiy. perhaps, be repented with safetj . Of the obligations of ibe human -piril. of the need ami worth of sueritiie. the ninient had a great deal to n U wtis of moisK that are supposed to he unMers.nl lb Master week that Iiuli was thinking when lie lalkcil to tho.-e uio Would listen ti Lmju t peni tence and self-denial. "Ye fast." said lie. "tor strile and debate and to strike with the list of wjkedness. Is not this the tii-t Hint I have ho"iTi--to loose the b:ni(J of wickedness 'o undo the heavy burdens and to let the oppressed go. free and that je break every lie? Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry and that thou bring the poor wiio are cast out lo thv house: when thou seesi the nuked thai thou cover him? Then shall thy light break forth like the morning!" The countr.v has been through a season dedicated b.i tradition to se!f-deniu and the moods of penitence. There has been some abstinence from theatre, uml dunce., nud i.'hueolates have not been so t'reeh consumed tliilesx we have grown less ljrtuou than we were a few years ago UNITED AGAINST THE PUBLIC! AT 'I'HK verj beginning of wliat hn come to be known us "the period of m on struetlon" the newspaper rending public in rhl country was puzzled bv faint and lb et- ing cvJiIences of a pew phenomenon in tin field of industry. In Hip course of wage bearings and price Investigations there wen freillieut iuezplii'itble references to new and secret agreements between trades union rep- lekentutlvrs nud employing groups formed to restrict production and maintain high prices and high wages In the coal fields. The country heard u great deal about llml tort of tiling at the time when Itovernur Allen, of Kansas, was persuading the Legis lature of Ills slate to- establish what later (K'cuuin known na an Industrial court. It was plain, in some instances, that the lead ers of Home of the miners' unions were no more eager than the coal burous themselves ' ncrmlt niiylhliig like a thorough probe Into the priee-llxirtg system umlntaitieil by coal i producer!. rV t llnrrisbtirg, Colonel I McCain has found tliut lobbies, leprenentlug fut the. minew' orKpnJMttonH lotis'H ffi 3 ll'ri fffaMF ' ' y should the be onerous at all? ''i'lj '' j''Ssi1j. '"ler(' 'K n" 'eus. not even that of a stutid- ' Wffl i"eiW'sr ,ns "'''' for "''l,int t'"' ,,r,,''t'' '11J1 ""' r1 ,S' ' ti'j'iB1 '???J3ar iinilanueritig and ineommoiiimr trailie at n ih'V ''' nTl 'line when it is heaviest Then' should aaai i aawi mi an m iirir im ii ill till liletrack (lie move to permit a stnte survey of coal mining and coal price in wholesale and retail markets. It would be Idle and even unfair to sug gest that the rank and tile of coal miners are In n secret alliance with the operators. Hut It is easily poslble to understand wby some of the aggressive and astute repre sentatives of the mine workers' organiza tion have found working agreements with the bosses In some ways desirable. So long as the retail costs of coul can be advanced at regular intervals the producers will not be unwilling to pa.s a little of the loot along to the miners in the form of wage Increases. To maintain exorbitant rates the coal supply must be restricted at the mines or In the distributing system. That cannot be done without the knowlcdjo and perhaps even the co-operntioti of some of the union ehlcfs. If the miners feci that fliey cannot live without wage Increases, It is not natural to suppos" that they will always bulk at such ti unified purpose with the bosses. The (JIass bill was successfully buried without debate. Mr. Glass said when he presented the bill that coal may go to Si-'O or $2.1 a ton next winter. The public hud no lobby at Hnrrisburg. The Legislature is supposed to do for it what unions and lobbies do for miners anil mine owners. tt did nothing. SEPARATING EDUCATION FROM MONEY RAISING With General Wood as Head of the Uni versity of Pennsylvania a Notable Administrative Experiment Will Begin THK nomination of (iencrat Leonard Wood its "head of the University of Pennsyl vania." to be voted on at the April meeting of the trustees, indicates a purpose to at tempt to solve the complicated nnd perplex ing problem of University administration. In most of the universities of the country the president is both an educational nnd a business administrative officer. There are few men, however, who combine in them selves the technical qualifications of a great educator and a great business administrator. The kind of mind that finds satisfaction iu considering the details of business admin istration Is different from that which is occu pied with the intellectual problems connected with the administration of the scholastic affairs of u university. For this reason university trustees have hod difficulty in finding a man to fill the presidency. The scholars fitted for the cdu at'iinal functions have in many instances been unwilling to take on themselves the business responsibilities which the tnutecs have wished them to shoulder. In many instances the scholar, when elected to a presidency, has insisted that he should not be troubled with financial problems. Harvard University is probably the one great privately endowed university which has solved the problem now receiving the atten tion of the trustees of the Lniersitv of Pennsylvania. It is governed by a board of overseers, which corresponds loosely to the board of trustees of other universities, ami, in addition it bus u corporation, known as the president and fellows, in which the business administration is centered. The fellows huve frequent meetings. They look after the financial affairs and relieve the president of a large mass of detail which the presidents, of other universities have to consider. This system works well. It leaves 'he president free to concentrate his atten tion on the scholastic functions of his office: that is. on the administration of his trust as the director of the educational policy. The University of Pennsylvania is gov erned by a board of trustees. This board lias elected a provost in the past and it lias looked to him to bear u large part of the financial burden. Provost Petipor used to make frequent trips to Harrisburg to per suade the Legislature to make an appro priation big enough to cover the deficit be tween the proceeds of the endowment and the annual expenditures. He had tn deal and dicker with the politicians, much to bis disgust. Provost Smith during his term was also a frequent visitor to the state capital during the sessions of the Legislature. He could be seen in private confabs with the leaders almost every week until th" biennial appro priation was agreed upon and passed by both houses. Thus,, who think that Dr. Smith enjoyed this part of his work have a peculiar notion about the things which please a scholar nud n scientific specialist. P.ut as lobbying iu Harri.-burg every two years was pan of his job, Or. Smith did his lobbying with such good grace as he could muster It is the apparent purpose of the trustees to make General Wood the business execu tive of the University and to make Acting Prmosi Penniinnn the educational executive ami thus to relieve the educational depart ment of the institution Irom all contnet with the financial department. There is not a college president in the country who will disapprove such a plan. Its working out will be watched with acute interest in Princeton and Yale and Lafay ette and Lehigh and Havcrford and Swartii more and Jfryn Mawr and Williams and Amherst and Colgate, and in all the other big ami little colleges. If there is to Is; efficient aumiin-'trauon 'here must be a division of labor. A university with an endowment of S.I.OOO.OOo or SlO.dllO.IMMI or SI.I.OOO.OfM'l is u big busi-ne-s institution when regarded from the material side. If the trustee., busied ihetii selves with the details of the administration of I he institution, the situation which pre vails in almost all big universities would urn he o acute as it now is. lim the trustees shift the burden upon the president, not of their own Isiurd. but ihe until whom they bun' elected to preside over all the activities of the institution. Harvard, as already indicated, is a notable exception. There are business questions before the University of Pennsylvania which require the i oiiecntrntcil attention of an efficient administrator. The material equipment of the institution i, too small for the demuuds made upon it. There is no assembly ball large enough to accommodate a quarfer of liie students. There is no adequate i-hilpel for religious exercise,. The classrooms in many departments, ale too smull for the number of students taking the courses given by the professors who use them. Tim en dowment is so small that an annual uppio prlation from the state of half a million dollars is needed to cover the expenditures. If the business affairs of tin-- institution are to be put on a business basis, ami if arrangements are to be made for its expan sion to meet the growing demands upon it, ouie one must give about ull his time to the mutter. Committees have been appointed by the lieneral Alumni Association ami uy the board of trustees to nrr.inge u drive for an additional endowment of $10,00(1,0110, the minimum amount needed. This wotk Kiiuiol be properly organized without ion- 'titration of responsibility for general direc tion in the hands of one man or of a single general committee. Although the commit tees were appointed many months ago, noth ing has been done for the rather obvious 'easou that every one has been waiting to ce what some one else was going to do. With the election of General Wood as head of the University, which seems to be agreed tipou. the delav in taking up the purely business ipR'Stloiis ., likely to come to nu end. Then the hands of IQe hi holnutle uuthori Men of the University will ho freed. Tlpi provost van elye lilx whole attention to " v.. ,"'ui'..ji '-..u'..v. .i ..-.in .i..i .... :, ' EVENING PUKCIC .!nEDOER pelted to make bargains, express or im plied, with any one for funds with which -the salaries of the professors are to be paid. He can assure the various faculties that they are Absolutely free to pursue truth In what ever direction It may lead them and to pro claim without fear the result of their inves tigations. And what Is of almost equal importance, he can also assure to the professors salaries as large as those paid In institutions of a similar size, and thus hold the first-clnss men already here and attract young men of ability with the prospect of rising to a full professorship at adequate pay. The Uni versity has lout many of its best professors in recent years becatv It could not pay them as much as is paid at Columbia or Yale or Chicago. Uttt there Is wealth enough in Pennsylvania tn provide all that is needed to enable the University to attract to its faculty the best educational ability In the country and to keep it here. Hut mere money will not keep it. There will have to be that absolute freedom which is possible only when the teaching force feels that its sole function is to tench to the bc"t of Iu capacity, with thought only of lis responsibility for imparting to the stu dents such measure of truth as It has mas tered itself. What relation the Imminent election of General Wood lias to the relation of the University to the state government is still a matter of conjecture. No action has been taken by the trustees on the question of future policy, save us it relates to internal administration. Hut the decision to elect a business administra tor seems to indicate that the trustees lire, inclined to make an attempt to solve their own financial problems without asking the state to take the whole burden off their shoulders. COMMON SENSE ABOUT RUSSIA IN THE presence of the obvious, Herbert Hoover's courage continues to be re freshing. Krom the secretary of commerce i omes a statement concerning trade with Itussia that is so plain and simple, so in accord with what arc. at least in theory, the ordinary dictates of common sense, that the most amateurish economist should long ago have grasped them. Hut the public acquired during the war ami its aftermath a taste for mysteries. One must be a privileged Character to be re ceived as a spokesman for the common place. And even when a Herbert Hoover, commanding respect on a record of solid achievement, appears, the tendency is .to seek for the cryptic in what is essentially plain nnd self-evident. In a way this is fortunate for Mr. Hoover, for thereby he gains a hearing even when he is merely re stating what any one ot us should huve gumption enough to discover for ourselves. The gist of his review of the Russian trade situation is that healthy economic relations . itrc impossible unless Muscovy has something to exchange with us. As that country is without many of the bare necessities for itself and production is at a standstill, then is nothing left to barter except the confis cated stores of gold, platinum and jewels, title to which is seriously clouded. When this bargaining material is ex hausted "this parcel of gold," Mr. Hoover calls it economic stability will be exclu sively dependent on the return of industrial and agricultural production. Such u re sumption is foreseen us impossible under the Holnhevist teginie. The general position taken in Mr. Hoover's bulletin is that of the Department of State, under Mr. Colby. Mr. Hughes Has said nothing on the subject, but it is incouceiv able that his present view should differ from that of a fellow cabinet officer who has so tully and convincingly explained the ease. Great Hritain. however, has negotiated a trade agreement with the Soviet Govcrnmeut, and tules are abroad that I.eiiine fears to have "become respectable" and that the Communist system i breaking up. Exactly what this means is, nevertheless, uncou vincingly described. It is easier to see iu Mr. Lloyd George's sudden professions of economic friendship a strategic political move to placate radical interests in England than the prospects of a largt scale and per manent trade awakening. International business i, no more sta bilized by agreements on paper than gov ernments are necessarily fortified by formal constitutions. There must be subtanee be hind each of such proceedings. Until pro dmiion on the normal economic bust, is re stored iu Russia the development of trade with that nation is a mere fantasy, Mr. Hoover, moreover, demolishes the illu-iou that the alleged blockade is the cause of the Russian failure to submit any thing in exihaiige save gold and platinum, rated in sonic quarters us stolen goods. "There has been." he declares, "no prohibition on trade for a long time so fur as the inter change of commodities is coiiccrircd. Trade t open in the Hiiltlc states Und Italy has been trading iu the south." Vet the im ports from an impoverished nation erected on a false economic basis have been negli gible. Cliui'iiiteristii ally Hooven-h. iiiiieticul. plain, axiomatic is the implication in his statement that American fears of other na tions superseding us ill the competition for trade with Russia may be di-inis-ed until some prospects of revived production are discernible. . condition precedent to the industrial revival is the overthrow of com monism, and this cannot he brought about by a few vague and smiling phrases from Niiolai Leniuc. This, of course. Is merely ihe ,tiiity com mercial view of a case and distiir t from its significant moral aspects. Mr. Hoover does not enter extensively into tlii.c. tmt l,js repugnance to the quack economic v stein iu vogue in Russia is as clear as his invigorat ingly Im id business sense. POKER AND RAILWAYS LEADERS of the railway labor movement have been openly assertin. that General Ancillary has had complete control of the movement Intended to bring about wage nits simultaneously on all American romls. The fact seems to bn that the general bus lucicly been flic spokesman for institutions whose needs he fully understands, but the brotherhoods and their leaders are in no mood for temperate and impartial judgment. They will be less inclined than ever to think fairly and calmly after a reading of the testimony given before the Hallway Labor Hoard, when General Atlerbury mid that railway men ami the representatives of the management ought to sit down at n table and arrange their own nfl'ulrs without inter ference from unions, "us in a game of poller." Men of action are naturally reticent and in a pinch they often find themselves at a loss for the right word. General Alter bury 's illustruthtii was unhappy. Poker is a game of bluff in which the man with the most money has the advinituge on his side. There nie triendly games of poker in which the players sit down, count the chips, talk over one thing and another and. in pt-ifccl amity, fix the limit and ctublish rules sup posedly favorable to every one concerned. That, apparently, was the sort of poker that the Peiinsy's spokesman was thinking of. Hut it was a slip tha't may be suscepti ble of distortion in the mouths of unscrupu lous opponents of the maiR Sincriaiis have kindly thoughts toward tm ricans, and this is largely due. according to Warwick .fames Price, addressing a local ilnb, to American chewing gum uml moving pictures Friendly relations having been thus established, we should 'promptly con- ullllIM ItllU l.ll.fll.ll ll.,,1 ,l.lAml,.n I . . , pni'1 I.O..W3 ,"i,t, iiuiii- 1-SIV.Jiniiril, ,1 llhl. for a starter, we propose the swopping of V,oit iMmuiyfne.he.. sinrlroui -. '" , ,..t;u.. PHIIiADELPHIA', WEDSD&Y, SrRGH 23, AS ONE WOMAN SEES IT Because Woman Is Mother of the Race She Mutt Open Her Ears to Vicious Facts So That She May Combat Them Uy SARAH D. L0WU1E A GREAT deal has been said of late about women serving on juries. The papers have given space to many verdicts on the subject and many judges Interrupted the or dinary proceedings of their courts, to excuse women from serving. This "excusing" takes the form of an nouncing that what is nbout to follow Is unfit for decent women's ears, or Ii suggestion from some court official that the women would rather be excused on the ground of business elsewhere, or n ruthless (turning down of women in making up the panel by one or other of the opposing lawyers, or an 'opinion" from the bench that women on n jury make the trial Illegal. The judges who excuse the women by an nouncing thnt no decent, women will care to remnin where she will be obliged to hear the Indecent and foul testimony about to be. given in the case called for trial no doubt feel thnt in so doing they are maintaining the spotless purity of good women a purity tha't Is not supposed to be- nwnrc of the ex istence of some forms of abnormal crime, or to be more than vaguely cognizant of the implications involved in technical names und phrases, or to have more than a conventional knowledge of the commoner forms of vice. And they lire correct In stinnosintr thnt most protected women nre ignorant of the A common terms tor varieties of vice; are 1111 nware of the details of the business involved In pandering to It, and are only vaguely conscious of the abnormalities, physirnl or mental, thnt ure the exaggerated results of vice. And never from choice would n woman of this sort add to her knowledge on this subject except for one thing to safeguard the coming race. It is not chance that has made women mothers. All their instincts really focus there. Which fact- makes the following story of peculiar significance. THERE was lately in a nearby county i judge who felt a sudden shame nnd loath ing that a group of women who were present in the-court as observers, Kent on a general mission of citizenship by the League of Women Voters, should hear the testimony involved in it case that was scheduled for that morning's session. In urging them to leave the court, how ever, he used such technical language to de scribe the crime of which the plaintiff wus accused that several of the women present did not comprehend his meaning, and, seeing ii group of children brought in, mndc n point of staying, believing that if cnildren were involved it was their duty to stand bv r.nd see justice done. The children were examined in language no one could fail to understand, and vet words hardly describe the sheer horror" of their testimony. The women lmd a sort of double pain of comprehending certain enor mities for the first time and of learning it from the lips of ruined little children. What further added to the hideous im pre.ssion of the hour wa thnt the court was full of a low und vagrnnt crowd of idle men anil boys, who were there for the purpose of finding amusement or ut least a low pleasure out of the details of the testimony. I-or in warning the good women out of the court the judge hud been at no pains to warn the idle crowd of men and youths to be gone. The children too were not brought in separately, but listened to one another's stories, and had their memories dragged for the last detail, with all about them faces, curious and lustful, or Intent on catching all thoy had to say. It is not to be wondered ut that present ly on a second intimation from the judge that they could leave, the women observers went out of the courtroom thankful to cut short the experience and desirous never to repeat it. AND then there came to one of them, at least that night this natural revul sion. "As long as those children were there, it was not a place from which women should be banished or even excused." She said to herself; "Whose business was it to be there. If it wus not mine?" Her very goodness and loathing of the thing made her imagination -proof. Nothing of the evil there could harm her. and her being there- put the whole miserable business into its shameful place so that all men of any worth, from the judge to the stirlv door keeper, hated the sin of it and th"" wuste und degradation of It till they could hardly go on with their parts. So much for women on juries under the most trying of conditions. THE judges who would put them mil of the court us being too pure and wom anly to face the evil there would doubtless have put them out of the hospitals and clinics forty-five years ago when they went there to learn to nurse the victims of vice and degraded habits. Rut no one chal lenges their duty to nurse these sick tnduv. In a clinic with which I have something to do. the questions that were asked those children in court have to be asked of dii!. Ireu or of their mothers nuy day. The nurses unit tiiieniiiinis catalogue theni in scientific medical terms with kind, impassive faces. They are long accustomed to horrois that have etched scars on mind and bodies and played irreparable havoc. They do not shrink from u knowledge of evil ; they are in tent only on the possibility of healing or at least alleviating. In order to cure or com fort they must have full know ledge, hence the long, painstaking examination, the pa tient listening to facts. NU MATTER how wrong 01 how wronged the victim bus been, he is no longer right or wrong; he is a patient to he ex amined, to be diagnosed, to he helped, per imps to he cured. And this attitude of the uuise toward tin- patient is the only attitude good women or good men cau have toward the victims of evil wheiever they arc found. That woman was right. If the court wus no plui'o for her neither was it for men spec tators: if it was no place f,,r spectators, neither was it u place for children to listen lo children. TT SEEMS a strange tiling thnt ihe depo sitions of minors could not be taken bv doctors or nurses iu such cases or at least a way from a crowd, und trad iu court with them absent. Mr. Hoover's story of the French orphan who would not look up after the atrocities he had been compelled to witness bus this comfort he did look up at the cud of the year spent in happy places. In spring when birdies sing, as Shakes peine says, a young man's fimcy lightly turns (to quote another pnetl to thought's of Nuney, and Nancy's turn to him. Hut Nancy's mother I Ah! She knows an urge, a lifting of the spirit, u craving for u high ideal lhat adolescence cannot grasp. Her swift imagination touches heights that poets ciitiuot reach unless their wives are there to pioinptthem. llfv soul aspires to purity and cleanliness that only come with labor. There is thai within her that demands that what is here shall soon be there, and what is there be straight transferred to hero. She dusts the universe and sweep., the Murs. Slie scrubs philosophy and washes clean the cal endar. She mops up error and rights all grievous wrongs. Site cleans the cobwebs from a mind that's wiuterworn and clears the decks i which first she swubs nnd holy stones i for summer action. She heals the rugs of indolence which hurbands oft en courage and flings unto the lncczc on taut ened lines the raiment cusiom cherishes and foolish moths desire. Swift flies the time, and every gentle breeze that wafts the scent of wakening earth to poet souls, und every opening bud, sun-kissed nnd grateful, that looks upon the '"orlil and knows it to be good, is sending greetings to her; is telling her tliut work must soon begin, Yea, bo! She'll soon be on the job! Spring cleaning time draws nigh ! , The chief of police has Issued un order forbidding the -ivlne: of nrlzes at nrivntn bridge parties nt Marblehcud, JIass,, Mors tit-i-ar honjv-vt'a all nm- ..n.v-i ..''MtiMiA - a -5 :- ; -.:..,. . ,&gmt 3 t. ? - si; -" 1 J v' -.; -. . -r.x'.ir-.'..- . j.f NOW MY IDEA IS THIS Daily Talks With Thinking Philadelphians on Subjects They Know Best t MRS. STANLEY ADDICKS On Popular Music THE influence popular music has on man ners and -morals is discussed by Mrs. Stanley Addicks, a musician of ability and one of Philadelphia's most ardent lovers of music in its highest manifestations. '"There is quite a discussion going on in the women's clubs about the music our young people buy." Mrs. Addicks said. "They speak of music as being good or bad iu the sense of ethical values; as -if it had the. power to express definite ideas of evil or show us thV way of salvation und teach us the amenities of polite society. And finally American parents arc besought to waken to their responsibilities und teach their children how to be refined and cultured. "Without the use of words, music cannot p.xpres an evil thought; without the contor tions of tlie body, music cannot portray an objectionable dance. It is the glory and limitation of this particular art that the emotion it evokes, though to many of us tlie jrrofoiindest expression of our souls, is in capable of definition and has 'no concrete significance. "It may be, none Ihe less, the moat renl tiling about us. "Music cannot draw with the certainty of paint or speak of the verities in tlie grandeur of verse ; it cannot house the poor or build temples of worship ; It cannot thunder the judgments of outraged Immunity against 11 vain aud frivolous world. "It may, perhaps, do more than this: it may touch powers in us that arc the very fount of our highest thinking; the eternal symbol of what we feel In our little jour neys into tlie infinite where words or sight cannot follow. Now what is tlie mutter with popular music? Mrs. Oberndorfer. the chairman of music of tlie General Federation of Women's Clubs, sujs: " 'When one knows that in one of Chi ruga's biggest and best high schools the stu dents bought -000 popular songs iu one cek. and that the committee of students nppoiutcd by the school found only forty which it considered fit for boys and girls to sing together, don't you think that some thing should be done to waken American parents to their, responsibilities?' "And she adds: " 'In the Middle West, where I had been giving talks in which 1 attacked the evil popular songs, 1 said to the manager of 11 music shop that I hoped I had not hurt her business. Slip replied: "If I could help you in this enmpaign I would give up every thing in the world." She Jold me that "" per cent of the pupils hoii'tht trash und blushed when they asked for it.' "Now it seems incredible to nip that there are I (100 had popular songs in tlie world. I went to the largest music publishing house iu our city and unblushing!) asked for the very worst songs they hud for sale, and they gave me three that they considered not very nice. The rest were songs from the musical comedies that were popular last year und those tliut were new this season, "I found them very charming, talented and with considerable harmonic inventive ness. Such comedies 11s 'O Hoy,' 'Leave It to Jane,' 'I) Look.' '.Mary' und 'Irene' 1 consider superior to anything Sullivan evnz wrote with the exception of 'The Mikado.' "The music is melodious and the words reflect tlie thoughts and ideas of the young boys and girls in a manner they understand ami like. ' Trash Hought in All the Arts "As to the pupils buying trusli, most peo ple buy trash In ull the arts: that Is, If we are comparing popular things with master pieces. And that is as true of one generation as another. "The reason is that culture is u fur. more difficult thing to uttain than we suppose, uud taste is a matter of opinion. "That some popular songs ure vulgar I admit, but they arc not specially harmful, because vulgarity is not Immorality und re fineiueiit is not virtue. Did you ever reflect over the splendid qualities you discovered iu some coarse soul and how very unpleasant your refined friend could be? There is nn element iu human nature tliut we cull char acter, und it is not dependent on aijy exter nal thing we know. "Wliut do wo nicuu by vulgurlty? Is it the wuy 11 mini cats, or a woman laughs? Ir. it the grimy figure of tlie miner going down to rescue his buddy from death? is It tho woman of thirty 'who makes wicked lightnings of her eyes'? Or the. bhiso man of forty who grusps ut jouth to despoil it of its lluwcrV "Perhaps it Is the young boy of forly or fifty nud the old men of eighteen or twenty ? "Vono of the'C. you say, I kubw; It is, that boy and girl who, check to, cheek, in the delicious glamour of youth und strange, new "emotions, whirl their woiitlej-ful young bodltsj nround, in, unreserved tlelltht, to the lOSt HIGH TIME TO. WAKE UP - :--. ' '&-m ? v-ist'.jfijs jfHr .! ffAFrr. ustf til 3 1 sh.W7 fWIIII-III I Av ' PKc f y TB&gir B i J Ft fit? ii ii j r.n .r 1 m - a.n'i a t 1 iia ?-. . . rv nneip? .!? '''Limtil! ; T Hit'' I 1? bewildered eyes follow them in frightened appeul, "No, they nre not vulgar; they are young, defiant, selfish and strong; they want nd venture beciiusc they ure romtfntie aud dan ger because they are curious; and we who .have lived fear lor them because wc love them und know the wcary.old world and its judgments. Only let's not get excited. "Do you remember bow, 'only a few short months ngo, we took those vulgar bovs to our hearts, caressed them with our eves, cooked for them with our own bunds und culled them young gods? And so they were, "Do you remember how our young girls, ciur lovely daughters, with white, strained faces, went over the seas alone and un guarded to nurse and comfort and saw sights they never can forget? "Those vulgar boys who ate with their knives, blew smoke in our faces uud hob nobbed with our daughters. "'What ho., ladies! Coffee for .Take, here; more smokes for Tom!' How we poured the cigarettes into their hands! 'It was cat, drink and be merry, for to morrow they will He in a ditch in France. "I hey were not vulgar. Reality walked among us once more. We lived exalted mo ments; heroic days. Hey, Mr. Homer! Hero is another chance for you: The youth of the world is going out to be crucified, r.nd they re smiling.' "And now we are worrying about their morals ami forming societies to suppress cigarette smoking. "Put Socrales Out of Huslness" "Popular 'music lias put Socrates out of business nnd is corrunting our children. Dear parent, when you have taught your child the fear of the Lord, a few man ners und the difference between n liar and a tactful person, vviiut can you do? "Respect for old age? Yes; if that is all they deserve. "Hut if it is 'the glory of white hairs.' the beauty of youth will respond with its love. 'Let us nsk the youngsters to bo generous iccuuse we are generous; to huve restraint because it is noble, and reserve because it makes social life more charming. I supposo u hoy can be kicked into courtesy once or twice, but it s a poor recipe for gentle man ners. No, dear parents, our ellldrcii are very much like ourselves; perhups a little better. I hat Is what we hope, what we of all the societies for tlie prevention of children having a fe of their own." What Do You Know? QUIZ U nui anVio",-.0 bn '' I'uimma u-i . .' ' ' Su" Francisco.' "hat Is the meaning of th term blot icsque us applied to paintings'.' ic.i.i!2.ri v,.f iV"e,rlca W"B originally in Habited by th Incus? vv no Is the prtsfiit secretary of labor? Wio was Hlmon Bolivar? " hat is tin, meaning of tlie Initials A. I' u'i..".ap,,l,''i!.0 ua,eH 'n Roman history? hy Is a rabbit called n bunnv? M hat Is the corona of tlie nun? s"a ,fn,theIwo;rTd?C0,"P,',te,y lRnil'ocl'l What Is u duenna?' Answers to Yesterday's Quiz c,,,mn. la "'e capital of Xew York Ihe Hans Ureltmuiin Halluds" were written by Charles Godfrey Inland an American writer and publicls " who flourished in the latter half of the last century. Tle. wert written n a sort of Pennsylvania Dutch dialect. Austen Chamberlain Is the British chan- chellor of the exchequer. ,the prlnilpai llnunclHl officer of tho British cabinet Tho former Kaiser of Germany Is i"nfc' W 1nolIa"u u,lue'- tlie name of Count Holienzollern. A drypolnt etciilngr is one In which tho needle, records tho lines of tho picture directly on tho plate Instead of follow- tig tho usual procedure of cngravlm; tho picture on a prepared coatltiB u d eat tur 11 tho lines with ucI.Ih. Die, Jupiter' symphony win composed ,," Wolfgang Aiimdeus Mozart. Alliteration Is a literary device of beKln- nliiK successive or related words vv ill the mune sound. Anglo-Saxon poetry wuh ,UIItd n an elaboruto iillltcrntlvo system or initial rhyme Insteiul of the terminal or end rhymes of later Kiik- llsh poetry. An example of allltenitlon is Swinburne's -The Miles aiid lin- ulre of 'vice!' the ,'8e nna r"'1 Ruymoml Polncaro was the war president A "stute subvention" is a. governmental subsidy granted to some enterprise Abroad operu houses und theatres are often, subsidized by the atuto. In this country mall ahlpa have received fed eral subventions. f Theodora Roosovelt und WooUiw Wll- Hon nrn ivt l,i.Aut.i,...,. ... ...... , lo 10, h, , 1 ..17 . w r,,u u'litew '" i"v aiiuiuvu noiituniiyns ms ! y VltlttfZ $&&& SHORT CUTS Pennsylvania legislators know that old King Coal Js a persistent old soul. Come to think of If. the navy didn't hand Mr. Daniels any bouquets when he returned to private life. Seventeen thousand pounds of soaphaTe been, sent to Soviet Russia. Must be ex pecting another clean-up. It is humiliating to realize that, snr small organized group can have more influ ence with legislators than the people who elect them. The weather sometimes has a soporific effect. On Sunday three tons of powder ex ploded near Wilmington und barely dis turbed the Sabbath calm. ,1 1 1 Douglas Fairbanks has sprained hi ankle and Charlie Chaplin has hurt his foot on a nail. The movie walk in life appears to be beset with difficulties. e One bit of comfort we may extract from existing conditions: Though times arc ad mittedly hnrd, there Is nothing so bad here that you cun't find something worse in any country in Europe, That we should all havo a calm and judicial temperament; Is perhaps ' much to be desired ; but it must be remembered that the only antidpto for a wave of hysteria i sometimes u wave of hysteria. To give'joyousnessto the Easter season the Great American Hen (or the Great American Cold Storage House) is providing eggs for thirty-five und forty cents u dozeu Rut we, continue, to prefer the candy e??s laid by the EaBtcr rabbit, If the five men captured in Rio de Janeiro nre really responsible for the Wall street bomb explosion of last yeur. the IHipulace will willingly accord the police all the csedit due them, the credit $p long with held, n'nd will be disposed to pay Interest. If in Wilmington you buy strictly fresh eggs you are liable to find them hard-boiled. This is because Sussex county farmers who laise expensive chickens nnd do not wis-h neighbors to hutch out tho eggs dip the hen fruit info boiling water before shipment Later on the dealer finds himself in hot water provided by his customer. The man of distinction in the borointb of Tavistock, N. ,L, which has a populs tion of twenty nnd the right to elect burgess, members of council, tax collector, assessor und patrolmen, is Ihe man who holds n office. We don't know that there is any such individual in Tavistock. We siinplv venture the opinion that if there is distinc tion is his. England's new "tin" coins arc Mini to be turning blue because of the booze with which they como in contact on tho bsr. It seems a joyous wuy of turning u nickel into a greenback. Rut. on the other hand, though booze may make coins green and noses red and lives rose color, the silJ permanent hue It imparts is the bliiencss tlist comes with the disordered stomach und the flat 'Juckntbook. One of the most exciting and delightful of modern sports has received a hetbncK Fishing for hooch in tho Delaware river 1 beiug discouraged by customs inspectors. Some excellent catches huve been made re cently In tho neighborhood of liners. A line would bo baited with 11 few greenbacks oud the ilshermuu would invariably hind 11 bottle of choice vintage. Hut it's ull over now. The season is closed. Senator Edge says Congress would Vtf fcr to avoid the question of nulllfyini.' ','"! ruling of Attorney General Palmer permit ting the unlimited manufacture of beer fr medicinal purposes. Wo incline to tnc belief tliut the senator has the right dope. Tlie average congressman would prefer not to commit himself on any question under tof sun concerning which there is mare tlum one opinion wherein the congressman is u' unlike the vast majority of his feliovys, vvtio cheerfully sidestep responsibility whenever possible, A womun correspondent of the 'ff York Times, deploring the fact that Jnoney lent to foreign countries ton frcqucnlly t. Into war vessels, suggests that I tide !,H " lend his money dollar for dollar to nmtu reductions tniido by foreign isjiintrles in mcir army und navy upproiiriatloiis. Ihe iiior they reduce the mure they can borrow plan sounds good, One muy readily, '0tuj that if It were rigidly followed the ' would soon como when they would not na to borrow ut till. Is it not unfortunate tn llfo und government nro not run " f.'ll. simple und common. sense lines.' It "'' easily lead to further simplicity. As I' are np.vv, there arc European stuiesuieu ': would consider tli" plnn simple tt hc TXtd ,.t r..llul,..Auu U.x Vnrllml III1IV O U1P( V,V, JH ,-! ' I 1' s
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