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Pennsylvania Axe. ond 14th ?t New Yosk nrnE.il Tho Nun nullum London BtJKEtV London Ttmta Sf BSCIMPTION TEttMS Tli Evrxisa Prnuo Lramna H nM to sub scribers In I'hltsdelphli itnd surroundmr towns at the rite of twelve (12) cents per vrecV. paisbla to the carrier. Or mall to uolnts ouuld. of Philadelphia In the United Statea, Canada, or United mate po- S-sslons, postage free, nfty (60) cents per month, Ix (10) dolls re per ear, rayahlo in advance To all forrlin countries one (II) dollar a month. Notice Subaerlbora yvlshlne od lress chanted Must rive old as well as new address. SELL. SOW WALNLT KEYSTONE. MAIN JCOO tT Aidrtts all cgsi.niuiilcafion' to Kvtnino Vubt'.o Indgcr, Inieycndcnc ffniKirc. PlAlatlrloMa Member of tlic Associated Press THE ASSOC1A.TKD MESH f nelmlvf'u '" Utltd to the use 'or ivpiibecaMoii ir nil t . dltpntcUr! credited to if oi tint othrrmae credited this paptr and also thr local tin pnblWi'd therein. Jll rights ct republication special ifupafcJifj Afrrfu art also reserved. I'hillilflphla, Thuf.Jir, M.rth .. 1931 TIME TO STOP IT YET Till! pernicious Sowers bill, limiting the Jurisdiction of Philadelphia magistrates to the police districts in which they sit, has been favorably reported by tlic House committee on judiciary and is awaiting pas sage. The purpose of tlie bill is well known. It Is not in the interest of the adminWtrn tion of justice. It purpose is to compel the police to take persons accused of con ducting vicious retort before, magistrates in the districts iti which the vicious resorts arc protected by the politicians to whom the magistrates arc indebted for their offices. Under this plan the prisoners will be dis charged or released on light bail and allowed to go back to their dives. The plan is opposed by the Mayor, by the city solicitor und by the superintendent of police. It is favored by no one who wishes to prevent au effective working arrangement between the politicians und the conductors of vicious resorts It ought not to have been allowed to get out of the House committee. Now that it is out it ought to be defeated, and if it is finally passed the Governor will fail in his duty if he does not veto it. KILLING BY DEGREES REritESBNTATIVR STKKUNO seems to have given up hop" of hecuring n majority for his bill providing for an elected school board in this city at once. His plnn has been object d to on the ground that it is directed against the men now serving on the school boaid It has been said that it is not right to legislate them out of office. 8ome of them huve political influ"nee which they are supposed to be exercising ngainvt the origiuul Sterling plan. In order to meet tliew? objections .Mr. Sterling has amended his bill so us to pro vide for the election of only two members of a board of seven this fall while the other five members would be appoiuted by the Common Pleas judges to servo for the terms originally provided for them iu the bill In this form the bill rips out of office at least ten of the present members, and. prouded the judges iipwint five of the men 'now serv ing, it merely postpones the official execu r tion of the others n little longer. ?ow, it maj be ueressdry to make -ueh changes in the bill in order to ecur its passage. The diauges are evidently made in the hope thnt the compromise uill .ip the plan for an elected board of seven mem hers. But it may be that ome piactii'jl rainded legislator from up the state may ask what is the use of killtug the old boa id by inches wheu it is decided to kill it nny wav, and it will be difficult for any oue to And a really satisfuetory answer. WHO WILL READ IT ALL? THE managers of the Preni h W.ir Mur-eiim are seeking to gatliert'uto meir library all that has been written uunu' the great war. Thus for they have rii'ed tn and one-half miles of shelving v 'th newspaper und periodical riles collected from all parts of the world and in addition tliev have 100. 000 books written about the subject. These collections are i-aid to till so much space that there is uo room for the publii to get into the museum. The collection will huve guater tlieoreiii than practical nluc. .Much that uu printed while the war was in progress was inaccurate, and much wan al'o a telling of the same story by hiindteils of different writers. The labor of going over the whole record by it student o'f the history of (he ,n 'n fifty years will be so great that no one U likely to attempt it Vet it may be mjkI hi justification of what the museum is doing 'that it has accLinulatPil the law inateii.il o.r of which a patient and industrious heanhf after facts ma be able liud i.ie tr o about some phase of the rntlit FORGOTTEN CHILDREN IF LEGISLATION' in this and oilier .it Is often imperfi'it it is uieih bcai.-e the people at largi seldom take th" tr.j ibie to translate its meanings into fiiniiim- and personal terms. To the nterage, as -going. well-fed nnd well -wanned community whi. I) has no troubles aside from those rhn in incidental to slightly diminished income;, UU( changes in the stvle of dress, u,c pic, mi tumult in the Legishituie and the feverish activities of the lobbies indiulte ii(hin; Ivit h tow of interests and faitlmis mcr tin thing colled revenue What is tli" moni v needed toi ' Why do the fnrmeri. object to paving more taxes? Why do the corporation and the iminufur -turers obieit".' What will liapmn if the slate cannot git the mon"i whuh im one wants to pay it? The man in the siippi . jniiut answer such questions as these. .nci of . nins-o, he has not vet recognized tin ii;iiitli jun fan that when tiionev is withheld by the I.ogislatun s children must suffer. Children, especially if tliev are vrr poor and very little have im great lolilm s to plead for them at Hiinislurg So In Vlncgtlli. who is thinking of tin children of the pchonls, is having a hard lime nd somewhere at the bottom of the pile bills lemporarllv sid'-traiUed is ihi one w,i li would provide slight pensions to uboia 700 widows in tins city and large nuinlien m evory count of ilie state win, are trmg to hold families of miiiiII chililien tojetner in stead of putting their burdens on the public Institutions of the stale. The women who go in Hum-burg qn b jear to plead for the .Mothers- Assistance Fund have dom 11 great ileal of Imrd work. Hut whv the should have to plead und stand in l'lie and see the tuiiil imperiled with i-locMIke ri";ulnril is inoie than a rational being win easily undeistand. An orphan In au nritli.innvv costs not less than J.r a month A mother, permitted to Keep lier child, can 'h the work for nbout S10 a month The sum asked from the Legislit fure is alumst negliRible. Yet it is not 1111 trommon to hear of "working mothers' with ao raeitp Vj barricade their doors and furiously resist the agents of charity who appear to tako children away from homes in which, because of the pressure of poverty and the accidents of fate, they can hope to receive neither adequate food, adequate training nor tiny sort of ordered care. Once a child has been taken from a mother who cannot care for it because she must vtork, (ho state or one of its communities must pay $'J5 a month Indirectly for the work which the mother herself could have per-' formed far more acceptably for less thun half that sum. Yet the mothers' fund bus to tight for its lifo at every session. Under the appropriation asked this year n little more thau half a million dollars ad ditional would be nuilublc in this county from the state treasury, and tinder the law a like sum would be appropriated by thp county 'Hint much money, used ns care fully us it is used under the mothers' as sistance system, would preserve 07ft father less families that now arc in danger of being scattered to the four winds. THE NATION HAS INDUCED ITS OWN BAD CASE OF BLUES Failure to Form Any Foreign Policy Whatever Lies at the Root of ' Many Ills of the Day WOILSR than the worst of till polities of international relationships, however badly conceived, is no policy at nil. There has been no lack of suggestions In this field in America, but not an atom of performance since Mr. Wilson returned with the treaty of Versailles in the spring of 1019. Thp debate limit has been outrageously exceeded. After two years of internal bick ering and floundering here is 11 nation, once proud of the lucidity nnd directness of its diplomacy, still at the crossroads, still technically at war with Germany. Mr. Knox points to isolation, promising therewith security and progress. Opposing interests within his own party call for inter national co-operative bonds. Mr Hughes is said to have revealed in detail last Tuesday the present state of the world to liis fellow cabinet members The spectacle in numerous features must have been sorry, hut hardly less lamentable than that of nn inert republic which neither shares iu the world's responsibilities nor t ejects them. The public, it has been said, does not cure a button for the intricacies of foreign asso ciations. Flags are waved. Washington's farewell address is reread, there is fervid speech about America for Americans, World solidarity is a tiresome notion. Shelve it, forget about it. stow it away with un realizable fantasies. Let us set to work and show ourselves and the rest of this planet how smart we are, how energetic, how resourceful, how super latively great. Excellent indeed. 11 worthy program, but why haven't we begun it Y Wherefore the delay? The unemployment problem is not secret nor is the timidity of capital The new ad ministration has inherited lean times, mani fested before Mr. Wilson went out of office. AVar reactions have, of course, played their part, but it is mere sophistry 10 as cribe all the depiession to such causes. Dis satisfaction with this world may be justified, but even Americans arc compelled to live in it, and must, however dijitusteful the task, ultimately dertne their relationships to affairs beyoud the three-mile 7one. The outside observer is naturally mm h confused. H. Gordon Selfridge. the Lon don department store proprietor, who le(t our shores for home the other day. is au instance. The grumbling which is prevalent among many widely disparate classes of Americans admittedly puzzled him. "I am surprised." said lie, "to iind a note of pessimism in this country.' Mr. .Selfridge is teturning to a country which suffered fur mine from the war tlnin our own and to a civilization which is in part wrecked. That he failed to recognize the particularly mischievous condition of doubt that atilicts the richest and strongest nation on earth is proof of the comparative immunity fiom that disturber abroad. The worst and the best aie pietty well known in Europe. Pespite all the appalling difl'u ulties. definite construi tive furies have been pu' into play there, eten in defeated Germany Cyniis cannot ontend that there is much obscuritv of purpose, worthy or unworthv. It is p'ain that Frame seeks full renin pensp. or more, for the lmrm done her bv Germnuy. It is plain Ilritain hopes to en tieneh herself in a new world position as a result of the war. I? is plain that Ger many, as is human, is seekine to diminish the coiisequeiircs of her failure. , New policies, retogni.ing at least in pan Hie effei t of new fonditious aie in the m. iking abroad. If several of the nations are distressed, if many of their programs are as vet imperl'ci tly realised, these ji -eminent, thcoietieally representing the people, know at am late where they would like to stand. Policies are becoming im plicit. They mn be right or wrong but there they are. I'.ut fhe calamitous tyranny of doubt rules in America. li i not inoiiy months since abundant forecast were made of the application of a remedi. Irreconcilable on the subject of the League of Nations and the Versailles rreatv prophesied that the Knov resolution pronouncing the existence of pence with (ierman would sperdilv lie passed in Con grees and that its sequel would be a sepa rate treaty with Germany. Ili.t although Mr. Harding lias (ailed the national Legislature lo conn lie on April II. (lie program thus far outlined is whollv ijomestii Its promote! s are apparently loiitent with the anomalous position if it 1 an be called a position ,at ail- now- 01 1 u pii d l the I'nited States with legaid to intei national nf!uii'- The illusion of our detachment not 011U persists but. what is more iiisasirou.s, there i a ridiculous notion that we nre exempt trom ani pressing lie cessiiv of (Mining a course of isolation. Tins newspaper has consistently disap I proi'd mill spoken against a treaty -scuttling I polii y It has had ami letanis fuitli in the essential principles of a League of .Nations. It is (onvmced that the majority of the (lonnnuiii political pam in the land fniors mi international association to forestall wais ami to preere pi ace within the limits of human frailty Vet it perceives b ss liaim iu the most tun low -minded parochial policy than in im policy whatever. If the public and' its representatives .'ictiiallv believe in throwing the tnatj over board, a pressing obligation of spec,) ,. . ,ts The economic, industrial and tlnain lal struciuie of I lie iPpublic would then be founded on 11 fuc t. roriunately . however, siwh signs of policy development as uro visible point to a broader and less antiipiateil treatment of the case It is ii-uiarlifd in tructworthv circles that Mr. Harding was puifectlr well aware of Mr. Hughes' sympathies, for u modified League of Nations when the secretaryship of -tnte appointment was made The campaign rumors of a prompt with drawiil of the American tioops from the Ithine have evaporated 'llic bitter-enders will haie to confioiit n formidable element in their party which beholds both practical ami idealistic wiIuch nr 11 paittiership of nation- With tlie elimination of Mi Wilson s pet -Minaliti us a fin tor in the situation the case ran be atgui'd on its merits in u inn pie vioils'v made difficult Whe'liir Congress ia iclene'd or otherwise the international prob lem 's bound to intrude upon- the coining session Tlie Viviani mission will bavo reactions. A British delegation Wo sound the current EVENING PUBLIC (LEDGER of the times has been mentioned as n. possi bility. Wo can inform these legates that their ideas offend us or that they evoke In large or small degree our sympathetic In terest. To tell'them the nothing that' we have told their home governments nnd others of the bad Old World Is tho paralysis of statesmanship. It is not primarily Europe's chestnuts that we will pull out of tho fire by the formulation of some explicit policy of state, but our own. Stating the matter in the simplest terms, we should be thoroughly ashamed of our selves for our own lock of intelligent self interest. MOTORS ANDJHE CORONER N IT MAY be worth while to remember, In the Interest of clear general thinking, that Coroner Knight, who has suddenly be come nn advocate of "drastic action" nnd even widespread espionage in the new move to make street traffic safer, Is tho same coroner who, only n little while ngo, was using all the whitewash available In his office to protect Magistrate Wrigley now in jail whose motorcar killed two persons In quick succession. Certainly there is abuse of motor-license privileges in some instances. But offenders are in a relatively small and easily recog nized class. The grent mass of nutomobile drivers have some reason to resent tho blanket indictments directed against them by the authorities who havo done most to encourage violation of the traffic Ibwr t!i rough slack administration of their own offices. - About 11000 trolley cats are operated on the streets of Philadelphia daily. In one week they killed sir. people. It is safe to assume that the number of motorcars op crated iu Philadelphia at this season is not fewer than IfiO.OOO. They ate again being viewed with alarm from City Hall because iu one week seven people, were killed in automobile accidents. The record of stieet fatalities is shocking. P.ut it does not prove that any great number of people who drive motors arc either negli gent or contemptuous of traffic laws. We have said before that the dlsrpgard of motor laws by politically influenced public officials, rather than by drivers, is chiefly responsible for most of tho nccidetits thnt result from speeding, In the days when any man arrested for traffic law vlolationscould be pretty sure of finding a politician to inter cede for him with tho powers that rule over magistrates, criminally negligent uutomobil ists multiplied nt a great rate. Vine motor owners out of every ten feel that it is the part of skillful driving to obey the laws, go carefully in dungerous places and to react to every traffic signal and re spect every rule of the road When laws uow in existence are enforced against the remaining minority the streets will be far safer than they are now. A system of irresponsible and unofficial spying such as has been suggested to the general public by the police could ouly cause endless confu sion, and it certainly would make a good many law-abiding drivers victims of igno ranc e. prejudice, cupidity and spite Common sense anil not panic will lessen traffic accidents. And when the people in authority show a consistent respect for the low those who drive automobiles will quickly follow their example. WHERE IMPORTS COME FROM AKEADEH in Trenton has asked us to explain how it is possible for the Amer ican manufacturer to be menaced by the importation of foreign -made goods in view of the fact that European industry is still suffering fmm the effects of tlic diversion of its energie to tlie production of war ma terial. The leader thinks there is some thing strange iu tlie increase of total imports from .Nl.00,n00.on0 for the year imme diately preceding the war to So.r.OO.OOO.OOO for the fical year ended last June. And there is M)iiothing strange about it. In the first place, it should be said that the higher prices thut prevail now are partly responsible for the greater value of im ports. 'Hie increase in volume is not so great as the increase in amount as measured by dollars would indicate. While the im ports from Europe have fallen off from pre war levels, the imports from eVher parts of the world have largely incica.sed. Hut Euiope is not in such u bad stale as many would have 11s imagine, tiur imports from' that part of the world wete much larger in 1!20 than in HUfl. Take the I'nited Kingdom for example. Our imports were worth SL'7.000.000 in 11)10. but iu 1020 when the prii es were about the same, tliev nee to WJ 1 (rflO.000. Imports' from France increased trom Sti'J.tMIO.OnO to 17''. 000.000. nnd the goods brought into this country from the Netherlands, a huge part of which doubtless had tin ir origin in Germany, increased In value from M'.il. 0(10. 000 in l.llil lo .100.000.t)0tl ti llrjO And Germany itseir seiit us directly Si:..O0O,O00 worth of goods in 1020. while the year be foie it sent us less than Sl.tMMUillO worth. To look outside of Europe, we nnd that last year we imported mote than half a billion dollars' worth of goods each from Canada. Cuba and .Japan, while our im p.ots from Argentina. Brazil and China re spectively amounted lo more than a quarter of a billion. Although it does not bear direeilv on the countries 111 which our imports originate, it is interesting to know that of ten- S.VIIUO, 001 M 100 worth of goods that we bought abroad in 1020. .SM.4OO.00O.O0O came 111 free of duty, and that on tlie balance of nearly .', OOolnOO.OOO we collected in duty only S.n.-"J.0i)0,000. 01 $7,000,000 less than in lli(i7 wheu the total dutiable imports amounted to only JP77.'t.O00,O0O. or less than half of the value of the dutiable imports last y en r Tins js whv ilie (ongres.sini'ii in Wash ington aie taming aooui uic HISH1111111.V 01 laising S.IOO.llOl 1.000 by a new tariff law. WHO'LL TEACH THE ELDERS? IV EACH wiling person who studies ut ihe South Philadelphia High School will aiefulh lead and memorize the Manual of Ji.nU Conduit written uiui issued by the fucnltv and then, from the knowledge so' inquired, go forth to guide and instiuet her eldeis, the soeual procession will be a little less like a New Year parade. The Manual of Dally Conduit, piepuied for the benefit of girl studentr. in one of the laiv'st of American public schools, is ud mirnbly written It is searching and widely inclusive. Its rules are In every way ad mirable. 'arty gowns shoiridn t be worn on tlie stieeth'or to school ; dress should be inodeM ; voices should be low and well modulated; enunciation should be precise; gum should not be publii ly (hewed and manners and appearances should always bo gracious and iimiliti unite. So says the book, and it icully ought to accomplish a great deal toward the revival of good manners. Jf anything .an uml.i- .in., as unfashionable as it ought 10 be, such instiue tion ns this ought tu do it. What we should like to know, howevet. Is w(iv a book of this sort is to be limited 10 circulation uinoug the young? They do not need it half m badly as many of their elders do. Children learn lar more by ob servation than tliev ever learn from books. Somebody ought to write a Manual of Daily Conduct for tho older folk from whom school hove and school gills have li-arned many of ihe habits for which they ate blamed 'Ihe navy n midnight lunch, unoflii uilly known as Java and goldfish, started during the war. has been abolished by executive nrdiM. And Mr Daniels probably sa.vs to himself "Ah, now I'll bet there are nome guvs on the night watches who are sorry ,f I've gone," PHILADELPHIA, I'J-UfttSDAY, StfAKCH 24, REAL ESTATE SHARKS u A Sharp Stick Being Whittled for Their Benefit Rollcjlls at Har rlsburo Our1 New yAm bassador to Spain IJy GEOKGK NOX McCAIN ROBERT J. NASH, secretary of the Philadelphia Ileal Estate Hoard, with Thomns Shallcross, Jr., its former presi dent; Carl Hclmetag nnd others of that organization nre engaged in n highly inter esting and laudable undertaking. They nro in n driving chase after crooked, pnprinclple.il, evasive, irresponsible and gen erally disreputable real estate agents. Their chase takes the form of n bill, drawn by Charles .1. Hepburn, the ntlorney of the board, to license real estate brokers, agents and realtors. If tho measuro becomes n law a broker to operate In the state must havo a license. To impress the necessity of some such ac tion the gentlemen were in Harrlsbitrg this week Interviewing members of the. As sembly. ASIMILAU law is operative In twenty eight states. Licensing a man lo conduct a real estate business or operate as a broker will not in Itself drive the disreputable dealer and sharper from the business. But, as Mr. Shallcross points out, when the penalty for any Infraction: of this broker's license means prohibition from further oper ation in the commonwealth, its value to the reputable operator becomes apparent. California was Infested for years with these parasites. The rich, semitropical re gions of southern California seemed to fairly spawn thenv. All was fish that came to ilieir nets. Eastern suckers were their biggest catch. There was no such thing au u closed scaboo for them. They operated on u shoestring, vometimes not even that, and had neither responsibility nor respectability. A law similar to the proposed Pennsyl vania law was enacted, and then, like the traditional Arab, they "silently stole away." Often with other peoples' money nt that. Hut the state was well rid of them. Pennsylvania is now asked to do what California und other stntes have demon strated can be done. V "ALUABLE hours of every legislative session are wasted in unnecessary roll calls in the' House of Representatives. It requires from seven to ten minutes to call the roll. A still further waste of time occurs from the failure of members to answer to their names. They are cither gossiping, swapping stories, reading newspapeis. writing letters or doing something else to distract their at tention from the immediate business nt hand Ihe roll call. Now comes Franklin Spencer Edmonds with a scheme to end it all. . He suggests that on each member's desk there bo placed 11 push button with on electric register for tlie member's name on the clerk's dais. At the call for a ote on any question each member could press the button on his desk and presto ! the thing is done. By tliis method silently and swiftly, the work of ten minutes could be condensed into ten seconds. Tho wear and Jear on the clerk's voice, the waste of valuable time, the murmur of hundreds of- voices with its accompanying annoyance would thus be avoided. But who could guarantee that it was the member himself who hfid voted? TVL . -L of t ADDINI'.LL HEWSON, secretory lie executive committee of the ana tomical board of tlie state of Pennsylvania, regards the proposed merging of ull exam ining boards under one head in tlie De partment of Education as un excellent move. In fact, the medical fraternity as a whole, pretty much, favors this as the solution of a vexed and unsatisfactory situation State examining nnd other similar boards have heretofore been a law unto them sclws, functioning as independent units with no responsibility to any one department. Dr. Hew son is of the fifth generation of men who huve been distinguished in medi cine and stirgcrv. In Itself this is enough to single him out in his profession. He Is at present connected with the Post Graduate School of Medicine of the Univer sity. Sino his graduation from the I'ni vemty in IWH he has, in the intervening years, been respectively connected with St. Mary's Hospital, Jefferson Medical College. Philadelphia Polyclinic College 1or Gradu ates in Medicine, Episcopal Hospital, St. Timothy's Hospital and Temple College. He is one of the most distinguished edu' tutors, in his profession in this country. mllL plpsent is the time of year when X lecturers, entertainers and heatrieal producers start abroad on their annual pil grimage in search for new material. SVftrwick James Price is going to Eng land and the Continent to get into intimate touch yvith European events und politics at the fountain head. Dr. George I'arle Ilaiguel will peregrinate soutiiwurd to Ihe Argentine and elsewhere in search of nctual color for his next yvln ter's platform work. Talks ou current events have been par ticularly stressed since tlie wmhl war. Both gentlemen are current eveuts lecturers, The breaking loose of that tremendous event created a demand for a general knowl edge of currint affairs, world wide nnd pre sented in an authoritative tabloid way. In other words, il yvas a demand for utii vcrsal. up-to-the-minute. ea-1 facts, with a description of the springs of action which led to their development. Women, particularly, diniiiiided this sort of information. Women's clubs every w Ik ie have given this (lass of lecturers prec cclencc over the morning lnusicnle, or the pedant who could discourse for 1111 hour und a half of an aft ernoon on the abstract and the infinitesimal and the bcmlprofehsionol musician with an abundance of nerve and 11 paucity of talent. It is entertainment and instruction of the highest class. And it has come to stay. CYUl'8 and YKl S r,. wid-irs. vvno nils ace 1 epted on v awaits Ills coutirmntinii iih MoihicHsaclol- to Snilill. is one of those rare ( haracters who conceal 11 vast amount of ability, energy mid general effectiveness un der 11 calm and at all times unruitiid exterior. In an aeipiaintance covering prae ticallv ihe entire period of hie active life as a mem ber of the bar. and poltical factor out in western Pennsylvania, I do not iccall an instance where be lost control of himself either in anger or indignation. , And j el in his suave way lie can handle Ihe king's English attar the manner of a verbal sclmetar Temperamentally Cyrus v. Woods is an ideal diplomat. His experience 11s minister lo Portugal a few yeais ago will prove an invaluable usu-t in his new position. He Is familiar with thp procedyre ami official etiquette of courts and he ijoes to Madrid, to tlie most liiinctilious and formal diplomatic circles in Euiope, fully equipped to represent this republic us it should be represented. When lleprcsentative Edmonils told uiral members of the legislature that uni' reason tor defeating tlie Sowers bill was to pi event prisoneis with political liillucme from being f 1 il by friendly magistrates he was told by them that thnt was tlie argu ment put forward I in reverse) bv the other side, that they declined the bill wus de signed to prevent pirsons arrested from being discharged at central station because they could Hue political Influence on ad ministration niaglsttates tlieic. It seems hard to believe that the story could deceit 0 even u truly rurul irglslutor. With 11 choice of magistroteB before them, is it reasonable to suppose tho pflicera of the law would rush their prisoners to magistrates sure to release tbfin? 1 - 1 fn 11 1 - j e Miinr -iTr' .. .ti b GR-RR-KR! . j iililiill ii II . JKZlF0-fi!Cjm 1 . '"r.HV.'S'.ir ...r"7 ..'' ,iy." NOW MY IDEA IS THIS , Daily Talks With Thinking Philadelphiatis on Subjects They Know Best MISS BEULAH FENIMORE On Responsibility of Parents- MOTHERS' misplaced ambition for their daughters, too many automobiles, borne plays and motion pictures, congested cities nnd perhaps, indirectly, war influ ences these are the things that cause to day's tendency" toward immodest dress and dancing, bad maimers nnd impropriety among young folk. Such is'the opinion of Miss Beulah Fenl more, principal of the Kensington High School for Girls. She does believe there is such a tendency among the young folk to experiment with the thrills of life. And the reasons given above are the oiics she names in their relative Importance. The solution, she believes, is plain home training; implanting in child minds the clean, wholesome habits tind beliefs of life. "I sav 'pluiu' home truining advisedly. Miss Fe'nimore cxpluined. "A woman re cently complained to me that the schools to dav did not teach manners nnd morals iim thev should. My answer was to ask if she realized the schools were doing virtually everything except bear children these (lays. Have parents no responsibility whatever in training these future citizens? "If I hau- a bobby, it is citizenship. My highest aim-in this high school, where more thau a thousand girls come each year, is to turn them out as useful 1 itizens. competent to take their place among real Americans. No Regular Classes We do not. thank goodness, have ngu lar classes in manners nnd inornls. But in directly tluisc things uic tuught in every classroom by. example and suggestion. In home economic classes, where the girls learn to cook, serve and act as hostesses, they are taught courtesy nnd the niceties of maimer. In sewing classes they uro taught modesty of dress. Through their physiology they leurn the clean facts girls should know und indirectly they are taught morality. "In this school wc have very few cases of immodest or even extreme dress. The girls wiar simple ginghain frocks or middies and skirts. Seldom do I see any wearing jewelry and when I do. I usually mention that, school is not the placebo wear il. I have an Intimate personal talk with evory girl who is graduated here. Then I talk with her about the most serious things sh.e will be apt to meet iu her life. Frankly 1 dis cuss dress, moral standards, proper attitude toward men, tho pioblems und temptations that yvill face her if she enters business. Many mothers; Have tliiniKcil me lor 1111s nisi, intiuintc talk yvith her daughter. 'I do believe that till the Improper man ners and mm ule can be traced back, to the home training. It ib not at school bill ut evening affairs Unit I see the .shocking dresses. 'What can the mother be thinking of to allow such things? It makes, me ut terly sick to see beautiful young, girls in dance frocks that leave little to the im agination, thut are short above and below the waist. Very often you can look from daughter to mother nnd bee the latter clad in much the same fashion. Conscious of Sensation They Create You cannot tell mci that those women, with their bare shoulders and too-short skirts, are unconscious of their own immod esty. That old excuse that only lic evil minded think wrong of such exposure is not convincing to me. These women, hulf clad, in operu boxes with meu bunging over their shoulders nnd sitting close I tell yiTu they deliberately dress that way. They are per fectly conscious of the sensation they crcafe. "There are still mothers whose chief am bition is for tlielr daughter to 'marry well,' And that lust may mean many things. Theie lire mothers who are overnuibltlous, who believe ull things fair In the legitimate game oMiusbund-hiiiitlng. There are otheis who merely want their girlh to have 11 good tune, perhaps tho Kod times thev themselves have missed. They soothe their consciences by saying that times have changed and young foil, don't do the same tilings today that former generations did. "Probably the things young folk do today are no worse than In other generations. Hut tlieic 1110 more of us today. -There urei too many uutoinobiles, there ure iclous and do innriilUiiiK motion pictures and there an other temptutlnns thnt neyer existed for past generations. Motion pictures huvo a tremendous influence upon the youth of to day. 1 do wish producers would give us more, of the clean, wholesome films that would tend to build up character rutlicr tlmn destroy moral standards, w'l arc all more or less gamblers, We 1921 -tsitors,. like to tuke chances. And the young people, seeing these tempting nctions they have been told were not right, arc led to experiment for themselves. "Immodest dress may be blamed largely upon tho stage, I believe. People go to the tJieatre almost as much to sec the beautiful clothes as the play. And some stngo people today make a shocking display of them selves. If actresbcs and society women could be induced to dress yvith greater care and modesty, perhaps the young folk would bo led to follow the good example. Society may talk all It pleases about morals and manners, brtt until these good traitB ure practiced, we will never better conditions. "My plea is for moderation. We cannot stem tlie tide of modern civilization. But as wc merge into new customs with neiv ud yjintagcs us well as temptations surrounding us, wc can always be moderate." Humanisms By WILLIAM ATIIETITON I)U PUY JOSEPIH'S DANIlhTs, until recently secretary of tlic navy, relates u contro versy between himself and Postmaster Gen eral Burleson back in 1013. Mr. Daniels had gone up in a hydroplane of the navy and it with an event so unusual as to get a place on the front page of the newspapeis of the day. At u cabinet meeting Mr. Burleson pro tested, Hp said that a cabinet officer hud responsibilities, that bis safety was a mat ter of importance to the ,nntion. that his untimely demise was moie than a personal matter since it would interfere with tlnrpro gram of the government. A cabinet officer had no right to do foolhardy things. Mr. Daniels should stay out of flying muchinps. I lie secretary of the navy took the up braiding good-naturedly. lie made so bold as to defend the airplane. He prophesied that before he went out of office Mr. Burle son would be carrying mall bv airplune. Ihe postmaster general scouted the idea und the other members of the cabinet joined with him. And this was ouly eight venrs ago. When Representative Carl 1 linden, of Arioua. was u student ot Stanford Cniver nty he vvns the college orator and the lender or Ihe plebes. AVill and Wallace Irwin were there ut the Mime linm und the methods the trio .'iiiployed in working their way through were often weird. Wallace Irwin charm tenerf the stories of their existence as "the Mioit mid simple siniulals of the poor," What Do You Know? ! QUIZ li W'.Yal lh tho '1llul of I'oitn Ituv," -. vvliat people spoko the Sanskilt Ian- 3 martValV"' "U""' "' "l0 "oriJ courl- 4. Which is the "Sunflower Stato"? 0. Who yyas tlie god of tlie reBloq of the dead In classical mythology? 0. WIii. succeeded Zachary Taylor as Prtsl- rtent of the United States? l rtsl . Name the climate -nones of the world In what Island was Napoleon Uonaparte n u-,00.'-'?" aUeV)l fl,'"t abdication? in xIm!! '.V.0 eRr"eH. "' ':"'lsli comedies? i" mi 1 bi!!!.n,nc n "f ,l,c ,N"rps'i Answers to Yesterday's Quiz 1 Tlie distance between the Panama canal and San Francisco is SilD miles .' Blottesque painting is done with' licavv blotted touches. " lcluy Z. Peru and parts of Iiollvla and Lcuador were f originally inhabited by the Incas "labor' Present secretary of E Simon UolKar was the celebrated libera- tor of South Aineileu. He organised isoscf, 1 'fctor' ar"lU'H against tho Snanluids. 1 1 0 was born In Caracas. ene-.uuln. in ITSn. anil died in Santa -Maria. Colombia, In J830 ' 6 The Initials A C C, applied to dates In Roman history . stand for -anno urbls cotielltae meaning from the foundlnic of the city. ' riibblt Is called a buimy frotu tin. pro vlncial LiikIIsIi and Scotch woul -bun " ' n tall The diminutive huntiv, there to! e, signifies the animal with "tho llttlo 8. Tho corona Is a small disc of light uioiind tl.la Kill, P. Tim r.isplamls tho most completely land locked sen in the world. tO. A duenna is un elderly woman ncilng as , governess and compnnlon In charge of 11 girl, originally und especially In a Spanish family, Tho word U froni the Suaiilsli "dticna ' from jlio Latin "domlna," mistress. ' . 1 SHORT, CUTS Isn't the thermometer liable to trrest for taking a drop too much? Perhaps it was Mr. Palmer's ides to improve the sodn water fountain produit. We are forced to the conclusion that only the biggest warships are launched. When Russia has beaten its swords into i, plowshares it may have somcthlug to trade with. The legislator who lias n string tied to him may always congratulate himself that it isn't 11 rope. Tomorrow every middle-aged grouch will think of the suvor the. hot cross hue used to possess. There are certain members of the fniTu'v who havo to walk on eggs until the Easier hut is purchased. It has now developed that Poitsville s haunted house harbory no ghosts thut cuunot be laid by rat poison. Great Britain Is building battle.iq that will b(tli sail and fly ; but we refuse to enthuse until they uro also suhniersibles Smoking gowns for women hnvr ap peared at the fashion shows. Siiuff-colorcel doubtless, with piped scams and puffed sleeves. The fifteen -year-old boy who climbed to the top of the Brooklyn bridge lower. .".00 feet above the water, probably thought there was going to be a parade. - If Secretary Hoover needed any proof of being right Iu ills attitude toward ltusslt it. yyould si'cm to be afforded by the opposi tion of Senator France, of Maryland. Residents of Sharonvllle. O.. shoiked at tlie bhiiiiiny, rottcn-egged the dancers nt, n local hotel. It is at Sharonvtlle, evidently, that the ancients und the moderns meet. It is hoped that the Port Chester l' magistrate yvlio has promised to spank a six teen -year-old "bad" hoy won't spring the ancient gag on tlm kid: "This hurls me more than it hurls you." The French Chamber of Deputies lm made a layv making physical training com pulsory for the young of both sexes. Apart fiom the military, implication Ihe idea 11 backed by common sense. No system n education is complete unless the sound hotly and the sound mind arc considered togetlicr. Thut the thirsty man can get his hooch in New York by giving the right tune to an affirmative answer when the Iceman hol lers "Ice!" 1111 the shaft proves that eten 1 dumb waiter knows that money talks when John Bnrleycorn Is ou hand to bandy icpai tee. The Adelphln 'Angling Club will gii"' silver loving cup to the fisherman who laiuh Ihe largest freshwater lls.li (luring the coinua .season anywhere iu Pennsylvania or ''1' Jersey. What yVould you suggest as a con solation prize for tlie fisherman who li"'1 llie story of the largest fish Unit got awuy-' liur's licenso? it must huve been a gi'ca,t relief to lr Coolidge to find (,'alviii's gloves safe i" '' pocket of the ovcivout she iclileved of If Judge Bufllngton had walked off with H Due never can tell about these federal JinlR It is on record that the PIttsliurgher !"' Ambassador Jusserand's hat the vaine d.iy and Ihe judge, whom we Iiiup known Ions and respect highly, kriows the effect of u mulatlvo evidence. Where, we pause lo in quire, did lie get' his coat and vest"' When East and West, Don't Meet 'I ho llurrait of Markc'a m H '""! '"." announce tho fuel Hint href xlccrs ','' ratio have ileclinrJ from W.fl.5 tu V.7 i hundred pound tcithin the hut ,e'r ''", 5i vl hut iii eastern market) the price ht''l ''"! Jl (imieup from $16.17 to. $11.63. ll'mf ' fJ the uoett Shout tlm glad tidings with zest . Quell your forebodings ntr least "Steor'pricps down in the Wet Beef prices up Iu tlm East." Now that the battles have ceuscd Profiteers hope for the best. "Beef pricex up in thp Enst. Steer prices down in the West. Dealers hope's nectar may sup. Stockiiien disconsolate frown. ",In tho East heef, pHcpm up. 1 11 tho tyt utoi-i- prices down. Consumer enn get no relief. One fact's ndmlUt'flly clear.' TTrxfn'ne mucin ll IlllVPr may UPPt .3 a 'i The dealer wll Blve,;iiiui i etccr, ( !VW!ry&-Ci'r l-d Vf X , 01 , - si- V ' t, J A. y2r ,-v "4wt sytttftu SsitijJ i'.
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