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PAVING FASHIONS
TIIEItE is apparently no limit to eirri
ments in iktreet paving. When absolute
novelties are larking, a return can be made
to former methods Rtibjeet to modern Im
provements. This procedure has been applied by the
Highway Itumui in its award of n contract
to lay asphalt blocks on Chestnut trcet
between Twenty-second and Fifteenth
treets. For more than a generation pave
ment of this kind hah not been favored by
the municipality.
The record, however, docs not necessarily
Imply that such a roadbed will not be serv
iceable. The worth of wood blocks svas cer
tainly exaggerated, as has been discovered
after a liberal trial of them.
The paving experts, however, generally
Bgrre that tho most practical street surface
Is the one which, in addition to other vir
tues, can be the most easily repaired. Blocks
of some sort are therefore to bo desired.
The carefully cut stone cubes laid in
cement have proved sntisfactor in tills
city wherever tried. Asphalt blocks will be
a trifle smoother and should present a neat
nppearance. If properly set in place they
may be found suitable to the traffic demands
on one of the city's main nrterics.
LIFE PASSPORTS
DK, FrilHl'SirS plea for greater care in
the registration of births is something
more than a narrowly personal desire to
keep his statistical In lse in order.
Physicians or parents who arc carelesa
about filing birth records increase the com
plexity of an age which has decided,
whether wisely or not, to place much de
pendence on cataloguing, cross. indexing mid
official documentary evidence." The State
Department refuses passports to perons un
able to produce copies of their birth certifi
cates in communities possessing the regis
tration sjstera during the years in question.
The director of public health describes the
municipal record as a legal passport through
life. It is needed In numerous other situ
ations besides that of u contemplated jour
ney abroad.
Attention to the registration regulations
Is furthermore, not grievously onerous. The
health director quite conectls insists on ac
curate birth reporting. There is little doubt
that the subjects of the entry will appreciate
its worth at some subsequent date
SOCIAL SERVICE IN STRAITS
THI" Society for Organizing Charity needs
no apologist. Its ndmlrable aims and
their practical execution have lonj been
recognized This valued social agency Is,
however, seriously In need of funds where
with to carry on its work in these times
Trhen the reactions of the wnr anil peculiar
economic conditions have enormously In
creased the unemployment problem nnd
hence the claims upon the society.
An appeal sshich the society has issued set
ting forth its embarrassments, necessitating
a reduced budget, and the pm-pert of lack
of funds for its projects ufter .May 1 of this
year is emincntls worth heeding. The situ
ation is complicated by the .tatc of the ex
cellent plan of combining the various chari
ties and social welfare organizations of
Fhlladelphlu, which is not set actually in
operation The federation idea has been
eepted. but it will not begin to function u-thoritatl-ely
until 1H2L'
It is the intervening period which presents
difficulties The "o.nts, shich has rthnys
been conducted on unsensntionnl and i.inse
quenth tj3 -ii-nt lines. i assuredly a (rilV
servant of a type wMh the enminunit.s L.is
a duty to preserve nnd uss
SILESIAN COUNTER-CLAIMS
WHll.K it is nf 5' proud timt the
Herman triumpn in the I'pper Snesiuu
plebiscite is (,t a kind lomparabli ssith the
"victorv" .,f the imperial fleet ut Jutland,
the last rt porta eiist considerable ,. jbt
upon the nutiieurli it of the first ntinounce
ments. n..ijorit of ."'J per . 1. 1 i . .mined
by the I'oles m tin important mil istnnl d
tricta of Koenigsht i tie nni .r , n aid in
mining ngion- -i lil-ti v re the .'hi-f j.rues
Of the contest.
Propaganda nnd enth isinMen!! j. resented
misinformation lis Imt.i sides inwtnhl.s loud
a problem wllui is mn of tie most ,mri. ate
arising from the pence treatv That the as
eoeinted powers were 'imler no illusions re
garding the Is .io'eer. e'enr's down
by the test of the V r..i..s pact which pr'
vides that n ' fin', - port" must be made ..f
the balloting prior lo action tiweriung the
new frontiers
It will l..ubtle-s be some time before nny
thing like t!i 'ruth im be sifted from t'ie
mass of lngel.ousl sorted fig ires. It is
worth noting moreover tl.n' 'he powers will
mnke the final decision on the hoiindnr.ci
"with regnnl to 'be wishes ,.f tl,e inhabi
tants," but bj no means wltl.oi.t respei to
the desl-es of s'lb-tai.'in! niiimritl' - nnd go
graphical distnbui.oi.'j
Til" plebiscite was eninl ict.-d ). a guide.
It Is not the 'Inn' 'wrl m "-. mutir
THE FIRST STRAW HAT
A MAN from I'a-adena i.,re the first
str.iw lint of the eas,,n ,, t),s rjtj on
Saturday and attracted conslib rain.- at
tention. llul whs should this be' Have we not
tern basing straw-hat weather tins month?
The mercury litis been up to TO, and Satur
day nftcnonn it was 75. There are many
Jays in tu summer when it is no warmer
than this Indeid. 7 Is suinmir heat. They
wear strasv ham at I'alm teach in the win
ter when it Is no warmer, and whnr is c,ooj
enough for Palm Heneh is certainly none
too good for Philadelphia.
AVe are altogether too prone to adapt
our costume to fixed dates regardless of the
temperature There Is a custom of donning
atraw huts on Maj 1." In this city and of
calllug them in on September lf ami the
trnw hnt.s i'l appear on thnt date even if
fl.ero is a Hurry of snow They are accepted
as afliftter of course, while a strasv hat on
a much warmer dy in March excites com
ment.
W'c cat hot cross buns on Good Friday and
never think of them on nny other day of the
year, but they are Just ns, good on the
Fourth of July. A Thankoglvlng dinner
without n turkey lacks something, and thou
sands of families eat turkey on no other day
of the year. It Is true that some of them
have cold turkey for two or three days
nfterwnrd, but that is merely bwnuso they
could not eat It all on Thunkglvinic Day.
The l'nsndenn man who dressed according
to the weather deserves the commendation
due to h mini svho has the courage of hia
desire for comfort
MR. LENINE GOES SHOPPING
FOR AID AND RECOGNITION
The Hughei Note Shows That There Are
Still a Few Things That Cannot
He Purchased for Money
STEADYiro minds were needed In the
crisis no lesser word will do created
by the Moscow Itolshevists In a final des
perate effort to Implant In the outside world,
under the mask of trade agreements, the
seeds of an idea that has devastated Kussla.
It Is cheering to knosv that such minds were
in Washington.
The weird structure of Russian bol
shevlsm is wavering. Its supports arc fall
ing nway. It has to have nesv braces, ncsv
props. The appeals to the United States,
to Prltain, to Italy nnd the rest of the
world were throsvn out like anchor lines.
I.cnlne struck for svhat he believed to be
the weak place in the scheme of svestcru
civilization. He appealed directly, in a
mood of frank cynicism, tn the cupidity of
mankind, to the acquisitive instinct svhich he
believes to be dominant over nil philosophy
in every democratic government.
Ilolshevlsts have been taught to believe
that other people ssill do anything for
money and thnt for a price they svill ignore
any obligation. So the spokesmen for Mos
cow advanced into the open to wave strings
of jewels, to jingle gold that doesn't belong
to them, to dazzle business men In Kurope
and America with promises of loot. From
Washington they received an answer that
must have amazed them. Isn't this the land
of the almighty dollar, where all men think
only of money?
The price of Itu'sian trade which in
itself Is still an unknown quantity has yet
to be fully reckoned by the governments
which in this crucial Instance decided to
pay it. All people who arc able to discern
the Inner truth of foreign nesss knosv that
the whole scheme of HoKhcvist government
Is disintegrating in Uussln. Yet the ex
periment directed from Moscow certainly
ssas thorough.
No one svas spared. None of the restraints
common alik to Individuals and governments
elsewhere in the world was permitted to
temper the enthusiasm of men who sought to
reform an empire and mnke It good by the
simple expedient of enslaving it and den.sing
the right of any individual to think, net or
hope without the prior consent of a council
of fanatics.
The cost to the Itusslnn people of this
experiment has been stupendous. Their
sources of production have been dried up.
Individual initiative has been paralyzed.
The life; of a whole empire is stagnant nnd
there is serious douht of the ubility of the
population to provide for Itself even the bare
necessities of life. '
To bring such n blight upon great and
nctivc minded peoples elsewhere accustomed
to live anil find safety and happiness by
means of the delicately co-ordinated mechan
isms of commerce and Industry would, of
course, be to commit an unforgivable crime
and Invite a svhole series of unprecedented
disasters. Yet the effect of the decision of
the Ilrltish minlstr.s virtually to recognize
the Soviets svill be to establish in F.ngland
and elsewhere something like n nesv belief
in bolsiievism and to cause millions of
people to feel that sovletlsm has proved its
utility. No matter what Lloyd (Jeorge mas
say, no mntter 'what the Ilrltish Hoard of
Trade may say. the masses in Kngland will
feel that boHievism has scored a triumph
that would not have been possible if it were
really unworkable us u theory of life and
government.
Similar reaction;' of mass psycholoz will
be nppnrent wherever the representatives of
going governments appear readv to deal with
the Moscow regime on anything like equal
terms or to appear to condone the outrages
of Soviet practice b.s temporarily ignoring
them.
It ought alsvnys to b" remembered that
I.cnlne set out to dictate to the world. It
isn't like him to appeal for anything that
lie could get by force Without the aid that
lie has been seeking and the shade .,-,s recog
nition implied in agreements such as have
just been negotiated in Kngland and Italy,
he couldn't have ln-nd another six months,
and no one knows tins better than he.
To say that a trade agreement with ltussia
is not governmental recognition Is to say
what is not in any practical sense true.
Trade In n.usjn now is not like trade in
any part of the world. It is nothing more
or less than a monopoly of the Moscow (iov
ernment, or, rather, a monopolv of the
energetic fiOO.OoO active Reds who hnve im
posed th'-ir will and their theories on the
lhO.OOO.OoO people of Russia,
It svill be argued, of course, thnt the rc
establishment of international trade and the
opening up of the channels of commerce in
Hurope are neces-ary preliminaries to any
thing like settled pence and a renewed
equilibrium on the Corn merit and elsewhere.
That Is true. Hut Itus-ln cannot trade In
ans normal sva.s svhile the land is under Its
present dictators. The world that could
benefit b.s trade with Russia needs things
which Russia hns not got. It needs food
supplies, the raw materials for clothing,
ores and the like. What I.enine offers it is
gold and jewels lib hed from the palaces of
'he aristocracy Rus-iu is not prodintlve.
It is not productise because the initiative
of the Individual was destroyed under a
rule of government svhich made It a crime
for any one to benefit or profit directly by
the results of his labor
The note sent b Secretary Hughes was
not unfriendly. If tne masses In Russia
couhl read they probably would he the first
to applaud It. The tone of the communiiu
tion r veals an intention precisely similar
to that which inspired Mr. Wilson's notes
to the beleaguered liermans. Mr Hughes
talks of the d liberalization of trade, and
advises that it be accomplished In Itu-sin ns
a preliminary to uny acceptable order of
industrial relations between th Russians
and the Tinted States. I)o they know- in
the foreign chancelleries thnt this is pre
. isely what ninety-nine out of every hundred
Russians openly or sefretly delr ?
What the State Departinu.t means is the
democrntinition of governrm nt. There U
nothing in the note to encourage the rcae
nonaries svho are poised for a leap into
power over the wreck of bolsiievism. Tin;
course of action which it suggests is one
thnt the Russian libern.s now alliul for de
feuslve purposes with the KuNLevists might
easily force the evicting goserriiucnt to adopt
If tlie events in Rusta wer" permitted to
follow a natural course without interferon t
from the outside in the interest of one group
or unother.
Such an analysis as this is prompted by
a regard for the interests of the Russians
themselves. Auy one who hopes to profit
by the present fluid condition of Russia or
to find extraordinary prizes in the svpskage
which I.enine has made will probably be
disappointed. 'oneesslons granted from
Moscow will Bst certainly prove to be
liabilities rather than assets to those who
achieve them. They will surely havo to be
fought for" before very long. So It is en
couraging nnd reassuring to find that tho
attitude of the United States Government
is to remain consistent. We hnve' expressed
eagerness to deal with a really freo Russia
and n really representative Russian govern
ment. Until it is possible to do this we
shall remain aloof. Gold mines nnd oil and the
loot of churches cannot bribe Washington.
Lcnine has probably learned this with com
plete nmnzeinent. Ho nnd his associates
nlsvnjs hnve said that "gold can do any
thing In the United States."
Well, it can't. And thnt is fortunate.
It is not too much to say thnt the Hughes
note, finally denying anything resembling
recognition to bolshcvlsm, will be remem
bered as one of the most Important state
papers ever issued from Washington. It
will stand as un almost Insurmountable bar
rier in the svay of demagogues who are seek
ing .to win abroad victories which they were
unable to win In' years of ruthless nnd
ruinous experimentation nt home.
HOW BACON SAVED HIS SKIN
THI2 announcement by Professor Voynlch,
of New York, thnt Professor William
Romalnc New-bold, of the University of Penn
sylvania, has discovered the key to the
Roger llncon volume In cipher In svhich there
is a record of the use of both the telescope
and the microscope in the thirteenth cen
tury, is likely to pros'okc the Inquiry why
llncon concealed the results of some of his
scientific Itiv-1 ligations from the people of
his generation.
The answer is simple. Bacon lived in
the thirteenth century. All scientific dis
cussion of his time was based on custom nnd
authority. There was virtually no experi
ment science. When an alert and curious
minded man studied nature itscif in order
to find out its secrets he was suspected,
especially if his conclusions differed from
those bnsed on nuthorlty uiul custom. As
It was, llaron, who was one of tho greatest
scholars of his time, spent many years In
prison becnuse of the views which he ex
pressed. They differed from those of his
contemporaries.
There is in existence a cipher manu
script, however, which is generally credited
to Hacon. It has passed from hand to hand
for centuries without ever being translated.
Dr. Nesvbold has been at ssork on it for n
long time, nnd he will tell the College of
Physicians next month some of the things
sshlch he has found. Among them, as al
ready indicated by Professor Voynich, is
thnt Itacon had both a telescope and a
microscope nnd that lie used them. The
date of the invention of the telescope' is
usually put about three centuries ln'c.- thun
Rncon, or in the early part of the seven
teenth century.
Hut the interesting nnd significant feature
of the Hacon cipher mnnuscript lies in its
relation to the iutellectunl temper of the
thirteenth century. A man svho set forth
views on science or religion which differed
from those of his time did so nt the peril
of his life. This condition continued for
centuries. Galileo suffered because he said
that the earth revolved around the sun. His
contemporaries insisted that he was wrong.
They could sec the sun revolving around
the earth, and the Hible told about the sun
standing still in the heavens. What better
authority was needed to prove Galileo wrong
than holy svrit nnd the evidence of the
senses? If Hacon hnd announced that Sat
urn had rings and thut Jupiter hnd moons
imprisonment would hnve been regarded as
too mild a punishment for his heresy
Whether he knew this much about the
heavenly bodies we shall not knosv until
Dr. Nesvbold tells svhat he has found in the
cipher manuscript.
We arc svont to congratulate ourselves on
our more liberal point of view. Hut it is
not so much more liberal us we think it Is.
Two or three generations ago all the ortho
dox were denouncing Darwin as a heretic
because his announced theories ubout the
creation of man differed from the account
In Genesis. In an earlier nge he would
have been burned at the smke. The nine
teenth century Kngland of Darwin was a
little more humane in its punishments than
the thirteenth century Kngland of Roger
Hacon. Otherwise they svere very much the
same. Views which differed from thoe based
on custom and authority were denounced in
both periods. A little progress has been
made, however, for the number of men who,
with William James, are willing to admit
the chance that those svho disagree with
them may he right is much larger than it
used to be.
Hut it is not so large as it ought to be.
Take for purposes of illustration an extreme
and controversial case at the present mo
ment. The Holshevists of Russia are try
ing to set up a communist system In place
of what they call the capitalist system of
economic organization of society. There is
a disposition in the rest of the world to
regard Its own system as perfect because
it is the .system to which the people
are accumstoiiied. Virtually all of the
arguments used against communism are
based on custom. The relative merits of
individualism and communism arc rarely
discussed. They are not even considered
by persons In places of authority. If these
persons could get hold of I.enine and
Trotzky they would be disposed to treat
them as the authorities treated Roger
Hacon because his views on religion and
i.'i( nee dlllercd from the views of his gen
eration We are not arguing that communism is
ruht. We do not think it is workable or
will evir be workable on any lurge scale
so long us human natuie remains sehnt it
is. Hut we ure willing to ndmlt that our
siesvs on svhat is economical) possible in
the organisation of society mny be us mis
taken as were the views of the contem
poraries of Roger Hacon on the organiza
tion of the solar system. Yet we and ull who
believe in the present system, with all Its
defects, will continue to oppose lommunlsrn
nnd the Holshevists und will insist that it
is our duty to do so.
THE FRIENDLESS
WHEN all else fails, when no other victim
is in sight and 10 otlnr alibi is possi
ble, blame it on the automobile driver. If
other people refuse to accept ne.essary tax
burdens without shrill outcries anil lamenta
tions and calls for the police, take a little
more mono) from the owners of motorcars.
They are used to being manhandled und they
do not seem to have any friends
The pioposnl to put a state tax on gaso
line was to have been expected. The tax
of a cent u gallon on retail sales could be
paid, of course, without any great hardship,
The price of gasoline has dropped It may
again tnl.e unto itself wings. Hut a cent a
gallon is not much.
It is the theory, not the condition, so
generally apparent thut must irritnte those
who own motorcars. A man who buys a
new automobile pays a Hat tax of per cent
to the government. Then he must pay any
where from S10 to $20 a )ear for the privi
lege of driving on public roads. Often
enough lie has to puy license fees in more
than one stute. For doing all this he is
denounced by the upllfters, bawled out by
traffic' policemin and blamed fo,- uccidents
ihut are the fault of other people.
Still, a great many motorcars continuo t0
trundle around It seems almost Impossible
to get them ofi the roads.
Count Greppl, IC.'I years old, of Rome,
sass the wuy to live long Is never to be in a
liuriv. to walk a lot and to live a life of
single blessedness On the other hand, John
Austin Kit! yinrs old, of Rutland. Vt ,
blacksmith and fanner, was married and
had a family So vou may puy your money
and take your choice.
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AS ONE WOMAN SEES IT
Change for the Better Has Taken
Place In the Relationship Be
tween Scholar and Teacher
Uy SARAH D. I,0VUIE
I WAS going out to St. Davids the other
day on the 12 :ir from town, nnd nt
Overbrook, and a few minutes later nt
llryn Mnsvr, the car was invaded by little
groups of children homesvnrd bound from
school. Teachers saw them on the train
and in some cases saw them off the train
into the keeping of a variety of caretakers
cabmen, parents, governesses, maids, neigh
bors. Their parting from their teachers
svas v.cry affectionate nnd happy. If it
lacked ceremony, so also did It lack uny
buggestion of escape.
Remembering my own childish reaction to
my teachers and that of my generation, I
nm continually amazed by the Immense
change for the better in the relationship.
Of course it comes entirely from the changed
viewpoint of the teachers the children are
no better and no worse thnn in my day,
except that being in a better utmosphero
they net more normally.
THK change in teachers is not eo much
In what thev teach as In how they teach.
A generation ago good manners were insisted
upon from tho pupil to the teacher, but
many very clever teachers had distinctly
bnd manners toward their pupils. Ono
heard very often of a "cross teacher" In
my school days; there are such abnormal
ities nowadays, but they nre generally
eliminated by the head mistress or head
master, notsvithstnndlng other vnluablo as
sets. One came in contact with teachers
ssho wept from anger, or were sullen from
fatigue, or were stony from sheer dislike
of their job. Fortunately teaching is no
longer the only way a person without a
vocation can earn a living the weeny kind
enn become private secretaries, the sullen
ones can sell sweets nt a confectioner's or
preside at a dyeing and denning counter,
while the stony ones can sell rnllroad tickets
or repel questions at an information desk.
Kven the good-natured foolish virgins that
never matured and whom their pupils used
to alternately "rag" or cajole arc no longer
found among the ranks of teachers. There
is many a good, lucrative uiehc, from the
shoe department to a point a little lower
than the angels, for an immature, kindly
soul who can be imposed upon to the verge
'of mental collapse.
With colleges and high schools turning
out hundreds of women mentally equipped
for teaching who have chosen teaching as a
career, even the kindergarten and primary
children have less to fear from their pre
ceptresses than the children of my day, who
generally were handed over to the keeping
of some one's poor relation.
Hut all the colleges in the country would
not make good teachers whom the children
enjoyed as u matter of course If the whole
point of view of teaching and, indeed, of
training children for life-had not under
gone a revolutionary change in the last gen
eration. CHILD psychology is a term as familiar
In this day as "nntiglity children"
seemed to be in my childhood. You were
either a good child or a naughty child in
those days, never just a child.
Y'our faults were treated like enemies'
forts to be stormed, bombarded, called to
surrender with no mercy, the flag hauled
down, the stronghold evacuated and the
walls demolished and left starkly, unpleas
antly remindful while the conquering army
marched on to the next obstacle to raze it
likewise to the ground. You were never
allowed to outgrow any imperfect trait, or
grow into uny maturity through awkward
phases without being distinctly reprimanded
for being In the grub stage.
The punishments dealt out to you had no
relation to the crimes you committed. If
you scratched the eight -day clock with a
hnirpln that you found on the floor you svere
whipped; if you glued the family album
with some mucilage left nearby on the table,
you were whipped ; if you were Impudent
to au ageo relative, you were stood in a cor
ner; if you broke your sister's toy wash
stand, you were placed on a chair much too
high for your legs to touch the floor and
compelled to remain still sshile your heavy
little feet dangled without support; if you
dropped the cat out of the window, back
you went to sit n half hour on the chair.
Tennyson's "Charge of the Light Bri
gade" was in great vogue with the teachers
of those days. They neser paid any atten
tion to the "Some one had blundered" in
it. but they would have liked to have every
blackboard in the land embellished with;
"Theirs not to reason why,
Theirs not to mnke reply!"
They explained a problem In arithmetic,
but not n problem in conduct.
"It Is enough thnt I tell you not to!"
The thing thnt develops first in children
along the line of ethics Is of course a
sense of justice. If you offend that you are
a "goner" with n child. He will forgive
you, he will love you, but he will not ac
cept your verdictK unquestionably after
such n stepping down from the pedestal.
ALONG with child psychology has come
the study of child physiology of late
years. I was Interested to sec liosv many
private school as well ns public school
teachers had gone to the lectures on the
combined physical nnd mental stages ot
child development thnt were given here at
the Friends' Select School under the nus
plcts of the Society of Mental Hygiene.
The particular one I went to dealt wjth reme
dial physical defects which produced men
tal retardation in children I doubt If two
teachers out of tin, thirty years ago, could
havo picked out a first-clnss moron from any
other mental defectives or would huve known
what was the essential difference between
idiocy nnd retardation.
I linve been reading a book this evening
which I picked up the other day ut the
Philadelphia Library bv Wilfred Lay. called
"The Child's Unconscious Mind." It deals
with the relations of psychoanalysis to edu
cation. It is very illuminating to, I was
going to say. the "lay" mind without any
desire for u pun.
He hns a chapter entitled "Sublimation"
in which he analyzes those traits of child
hood svhich nre marked ut certain periods
and svhich cither become vastly less con
spicuous In succeeding stages or are sub
limated, changed, so ns to become displaced
from their former trend and used to lit
another purpose.
He cites svhat Is called technically "exhi
bitionism," the "come see mo jump" of
most cihldren, ns r trait thnt is normally
outgrosv-n, or svhich, when It K not out
grown in certain peculiarly gifted indi
viduals, can become sublimated and made
socially available in the actor or the artist
bv society itelf, which encourages the
iihibitionlst traits for its pleasure nnd
profit. All this Is dealt svlth in a most
Judicial and scientific manner. Whereas,
in my youth what might be called the
exhibitionist instinct In my ynuns breast
was dealt with by iny early preceptress in
the following lines which I was set to learn
by heart :
"What, looking in tho glass again!
Why's my silly child so vain?
Does she think herself ns fulr
As the gentle Illy there?
Does she think her eye us blue
As the violet wet with dew?" etc., etc.
Well, most healthy little children are uh
pretty us (lowers, and why, after ull, should
adults huve all the looking in the glass?
Resides, when I looked In the glnss It was
generally to make funny faces. Hut it had
been n long, long while since that teacher
hud been u child, n child .ssychologj was
not then In vo-tue, so I remember the inej.
dent without runcor.
The curious fact has been discovered by
government investigators that the automobile
business is the one that is suffering least
from unemployment. Perhaps families ure
living in their machines because they can't
gel houses,
A Pittsburgh huckster has acquired n
job In Italian opern. He will never, how
evr, have a more filling role than the one
1m has discarded:
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Daily Talks With Thinking Philadelphia on Subjects They
Knoiv Best
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On Americanization
AS A blind man needs light, just so do sve
need Americanization, in the opinion
of C. C. A. Bnldl, banker uud prominent
Itnllau of this city.
Peace, which right now Is n vital requl
sito of this nation, ns well ns of every other
nation, can be best gained, according to
Mr. Baldi. by inculcating that peace into
minds which ore restless nnd Irritated and
rei.dy. nt a moment's notice, to flame up In
opposition to law and order.
"Amerlcnnlzation," says Mr. Baldi, I
regard as the best method of attaining that
general happiness which means success to
this great country. No mun can do proper
justice to himself and to the public in gen
eral who Is not In accord with the spirit ot
Americanization. .
"Ry interesting ourselves in this tiling
thnt we call Americanization, and which in
cludes many and varied phases, we make our
own lives hnppy, we benefit our homes, we
absorb obedience to lnw, sve aid and en
courage others In the search for happiness.
Hv practicing the spirit of Americanization
the foreign -born resident secures the con
fidence and good will of Americans, and he
soon becomes nn American himself in fact
as well as in theory, thereby obtaining all
the privileges nnd advantages which cuch
individual state, and the nation as a unit,
offer him. , , , ...
"What Is wealth to n resident of this
republic if he has not the privileges of the
free-born nnd the approving consideration
of his fellow men? Whnt Is a profession
worth if he hns not the same rights that
other men possess? A crlmlnnl may make
SIO.OOO or even 1 ,000.000 by a single
nefarious operation, but is continually
haunted and oppressed by the shadow- of the
law, whereas the honest man who has earned
his right to svhat he possesses hns the
respect und love of his friends and asso
ciates, and can hold up his head confidently
nnd proudly without a fear.
True American Win Respect
"Just so the true American, who is faith
..! nil lovnl In word and deed to the conn-
trv of his adoption, possesses peucc of mind
arid the respect of other people, while the
man who tries to serve two masters, or
lives onlv for his own selfish Interests, is
continually distraught and unhappy and
discontented.
"Becnuse nn Italian or n Frenchman or
n visitor here from some other land Is loyal
to the United Stntes does not mean, as some
oennle have claimed, thnt he Is disloyal to
his native country. On the eontrnry, he is
a credit both to us nnd to his own native
land. If he commits a crime, people say,
'Oh yes, he's an Italian,' or, 'He's 'a Ger
man. '" and It is equally true that if he Is
honest and successful those same people
mnke the same remarks. Thus the man's
native country gets tho credit or discredit,
ns the ense may be.
"If the immigrant coming here hns no
intention of ndnpting himself to the cus
toms nnd spirit of our country, we do not
want him: he might better stay on the other
side of the Atlnntlc. It Is just ns If u
guest in a home Insulted and disregarded
the wishes or arrangements of his host, only
in this case the host Is not nn individual,
but nn entire people.
"Anierlen has everything that any other
nation in the world has and more, and yet
.1 great many foreigners are forever com
paring thts countrv unfavorably with their
own birthplaces. It Is perfectly right for
them to love the Intter nnd to svlsh to re.
turn to visit them, but they should learn
to revere nnd love their nesv home nnd give
It implicit and unquestioning loyalty. And
so, after all, he can serve two masters, but
in such n way as to make his loyalty to his
adopted country stand as a credit to his
nutlv-e land.
Prvir Needed Most of All
"Right at this particular time, what we
need most of nil is peace. We have shown
in the recent svur what sve might have, hut
now we must base peace and u contentment
of mind. It is nn unfortunate fact that
certain forms of industrial unrest and
trouble we must always have. What wn
do want to do is t prevent more of those
who might foster such unrest from ever
leasing their own countries to bring trouble
to nur land.
"Amerlcanlzntmn Is the best thing that
this country has undertaken to remedy
whatever faults there are In our nran
I relationships. The American who does m.t
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tuke part In this campaign or is not inter
ested in it Is doing as much hnrm nnd is
often just us dangerous ns the man who
needs to have Inculcated in him this Ameri
can spirit. i
"The whole plan cannot be accomplished
by one or a few people ; by one political
party ; by one religious sect ; by any one
portion of the people. It Is something that
must be united in by every one. regardlcsH
of whether he is Socialist. Republican,
Democrat, Catholic, Jew or Protestant.
"It Is the root of progress In the nation,
and probably the only thing that svill bring
us up to that standard sve are entitled to
r.nYpi Jt miIst De shared by all, from the
t liief Executive of our government to the
humblest man in the country. The common
good of all will be served bv si general devo
tion to the practices and principles of
Americanization."
( PLAIN TALE
THE simple truth we tell to you,
And tell it without trvlng,
Of companies that lie In view
And others underlying.
Said T. H. Mitten svith a frown,
Though finances muv nhm sick,
e vc really got to buckle down
And find n fare that's basic.
" 'TIs easy, as it well can be.
To solve the pretty pickle;
nil- fare should naturally be
A jitney that's ii nickel.
"Or (since one does ns one is told
As faithful servants ought terl,
The basic fare I now unfold
Is six cents ami a qunrter.
' Assuming that that price perhaps
(tlves no one tnste of heaven,
Since life s a gamble let's have crap
ho come my little seven !"
Here Fnncy cried, the merrv jade
...im . n'lllI ''n,),t ro'ic her!
I hats not finance. I'm much afraid,
Hut just progressive euchre."
G. A.
What Do You Know?
QUIZ
" WHttttcni1"e" dld C1,rlst0P"?r Columbuo
'i u'h2 i'!1;' H? "'os'le of tho Indies"?
3. ho holds the world's parachut record'
4. How many years lntervr,a '...." Vit
er more"?
In what ntnte is the city of Spokane'
From what Is chocolate derived?
.. ,.ui . ,, . ui ancient urene.,
ehiee .;..,";':' "r" w. me
training? s-,pU,ory military
' W,'melN13 U'e "m nai" of "cau nrum
10. When did ho live?
Answers to Saturday's Quli
1. Anatole France in n celebrated French
novelist and philosopher, noted for his
clear style und delicate Irony. Hla real
mme Is Anatole Thtbault
2 HeonP;gC;ic'u.',lulreC' " ,he "
4. The Fraiieo-I'rufslan War ueicnn In i70
B. The Aleutian Islands, or Catharine Archl
pelago la extended In the Pnc IfiV S
beyond the southwest peninsula of
i .: im: vr, ;'vvf,"'u"' .no'" pr
his Impositions In Rils.-ilu,' Paris, ho
Last and elsewhere. He died In nrlsoi.
In Urblno, Italy, In 1795. p lB0"
,. iiie ni st mtmo or Marnhul Koch Is Fanll.
nand. "'
8. Thomas Nast was a celebrated American
cartoonist, especially famed for In r,t"
torlal attack on the old Turn ma i y r g
He uivs born In Landau, (lerinunv in
mo. and w-Hfl brought to Aim" lea ut
the K of six. President Roosevelt nn
pointed him consul geneuil lo Oiiriva.
quli, Lcuador, wher he died In lao"
0. Shakespeare vvrotu tho play "Tlmon of
10. Tho word, liibdomudal means weekly.
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...,nrst "I'd second bnttles of the Marri"?
Who said "As it .was the beSmi, ng la
everm'o"?1 ""'nlnK' ""'' """ be tor'
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SHORT CVTS
Perhaps a visit to Mr. Daugherty m;
uv urrnngcu lor Jir. iterguou.
A Blloxl, Mo,, mnu has captured I
forty seven pound driimfish. Can yon
beat it?
The finger of unworthy suspicion ma;
now he pointed at the physician who owo
brewery block.
If n tax were placed on sprin; poiirj
there nre those who wouldn't care If It were
so high as to be prohibitive.
Government by conference being oa
trial in Washington, It would be unkiuil i!
unwise to anticipate a verdict.
"He's forever blowing biibblu,"
hummed Major Sprague when he heard of
the. suit entered by Colonel Procter.
Keeping a basic five-cent fare, re
marked Pericarp, is like trying to button
your overcoat with )our mittens on,
To give tang to frivolous comment, !e:
the fact be noted that 1.100 persons die of
starvation in Honnn, China, every day.
The genial philosopher says he is ex
tremely glad there are so many good beokl
he hasn't yet read. There are good timet
still ahead.
That the Boston Health Department
should prepare to give free medical atten
tion to nil citizens is calculated to mile
practicing physicians sick.
The size of the Faster egg presented J
io me resident suggests the fact that three
feet don't make a barnyard, though the
product be all to the candy.
Bubbling enthuslni'm end welllnir kdmb 'I
ration force us to admit that if Mr. Mitten ll
were not a competent traction manager hi
would make u dandy horse-trader.
All thieves nre mean, but some irt
meaner thnn others, us witness local Instances-:
One thief robbed it baby's bank
and unother stole a girl's Faster outfit.
The 'motto of the P. R. T. an""1
to be:
Punch, brother, punch with cap-;
Punch in the midriff of the pnsseugare
A Boston florist lias named n striped
red carnation after the Vice President True
fame svill not have come for Calvin, how
ever, until his name is on a pair of rw
suspenders.
Foster hats and frocks for American
women thla venr hnve I'nst In the neiltllbof
hood of $'.!00,000,OiMi. Perhaps the monej Jl
nugnt nave been upent more wisely, w
You tell 'em!
A Susquehanna woman trimmed (",';
Faster hat with the 'skin of n blocka'
There muy be here nn earnest attempt w
dlscouruge the manufacture of bome'waai
hooch,
Pennsylvania is in the position of til
housewife who has a limited purse and rail"
to buy. And she hesitates about approM""
Ing Friend Husband Taxpayer to mnKC
touch, us he possesses u most unholy groucn.
When u condemned slayer entered tij
death house nt Sing Slug recently his '
question svns, "When do we eat' "
fact, however, ceases to he startling u"
one realizes thnt his conscience It proM&V
nothing more than nn appetite.
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T. K. Mitten nt his pro? cm
Mumbles over basic fares;
"One, two, three, four, live, U. S'ven,
Street-var fares are bound'for lieaveq.
Patrons, quaff your bitter cup, ((
Watch 'em, watch 'em going up.
Penn scientists have discovered ')'), I
Roger Hacon had knowledge of the '"" "fj. 'i
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UI1I1 HIP IIIIL-Itiai 0ir, link . :- , t.
knew because he feared persecution pj ' J
fellows. Kvldently then as now there wri
those who stressed the evil of a gin" w
much.
The West Philadelphia mar. who j lh5,e
fifteen eggs la the gnrnagc emi !"""',MUf ,1
lillil neen in an inciinuioi m g
unil lefused to ha tell proven ""&,! ,!
benefactor to the guibnuo man NV" ,0,Jj,Uj
the fenlhered Tonsys 1,;'nP &,l,ft
wagon. "Barter, fOes' fulls PP" '.1
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