tTEm"- 'W''";''" "rpm yyy"l'"y tTf7r'Si- K; t ' W$JSt?wr K ft IB- 1$ I I h b 10 V : ' Euetung Itobjtc-We&gei: PUBLIC LEDGER COMPANY CTnUS It. K. CUHTIS, PniilPBriT Chrlt H. I.udituiton, Ve 1'i.x.ii nt, John C, Ifrtln, Tturr, Charles A. Tsler. tjiralarri Philip fi. Culllim, John II. Wllltinia, John J. Fpurron, aejorio V, Uoldwnith. Dld C. Hmily. Dlrctor. KOtTOKtAt. nOAHD Ctxrs II K r'tsiin. ch.-iirmnp Tavip b, sMit.nr.. . .-r,Lml! TOI1N C. UrAltnv Cifnrniiiilnfii,.MiiieT Publlah-d dully at Finite Lrn'ics Uulldlng IlilfPflnl"lics Pqiurc, VhllJ'HIphU Atuktic rtti . .. rrcj-f'ito" Hulldins NltW TORK.. . RMI Malison V'O Zctoit ;nt rnrd Huil'iiir OT. Louis 015 Qlobr-I)rinivrat null IIP CnlOiGO 1302 7V(liltl IMIIclInc news nvnnxfs TVunts-oioN litxcti'. N H CW rniiaylHiila Ae hi d tlfli si Nik York Himuc 'Iho Sun lluilillnr Lomwn HciirAt rrnfstirar I lull I lux Pi nsiiuPTiuN -irr.xp The lltr.MMi I'tnili IEtim H umii to ud. crlbera In l'hlliid.l'iil wnJ mrro'iniliiik' t"'i at the r.4lo of tucl' U-l cuts -r w.ri., pi' hMo to tho carrier. By m-ill t" rUiia eutilds pf I'mlnec-iiMi'ii n th United Sit und, or I ni'.'d Mutm rt Ions, postscp tr. nrt ift) e-nta tr month, BIX (ISI dollar p-r 'Mr, rnvnbl- in nlunr To all forMcn countrlrs en efli dollar a tnon'le Notick Bubucrlbors wishing ci'ldfr charged fTlUeit ri . old as vrpll as ll-w ndttrffs. BELL, 3001 WALMT MMOM MMN JC01 7 .teieirtve all ecvivmwTetcej'toetei to '.vein; I'ublio litdpr, Independent Squair t'hilndelipitui Member of the Associated Prcsi THE AHHOCtATl't) rIEi.s (j crWiMfiv 'y en titltd to the tie- 'or ri!ib'i-o, o'i .' nil ni (tUpotco?) credited to it or not oth"e, , rrrd'l'd n this paper, and also tk lev-nt uwi published thereto. All right) of republication of psotjl dlrnl"'iJ Srrtin are aleo reierwd. rhlladrlphU, IrM.. Vprll I. 10:1 THE LATEST TRANSIT COMPACT THE transit Ii-uko stitiimttnl I" ('.unnl yestorday i of u rlmrart'T ulii'Mi -li"iilJ insure the earb opcrnilnn cf tin- iriiiiill. ccmplcted Frnnkfonl eloMitnl and Hie Hu tleton surface lino. Cninfort wlilrh the public mny derive frnni tluit prninit i in Borne oxtpnt offct bj n in. of rmiiiilii'iiti'd provlslotiH of fiucKt lcii:ibli n-l n tn n '" ''" city and bv tlio dlsconoi't litis cii'lnii'"' of linpcrnmncncy to bo found in thn roinpni'i A claue stipulutin;; that tho lcnso -hull cease Mlthotit furtln-r iiotu-i' sit ininthi after thp vuliiatlnn of tlm trnctlon ronipimy'it properties, now ppnding beforo tho l'lihli'1 Service CommlMton. li Mgnihraiii 'I'lu'ri' is an unsutlsfyins cliunre that now pntiiiiKlo tnents may be the Rvquel, protracti'd tu'Ro . tlatlons, another leiife, perhaps a series of ICRBfS. The cascntial relationship of tin- i'it.v to tho r. n. T. is not ileiei mined bj tho present agreemeut and the faro iur".tim is left un touched. Although the old I'ontiiiM ln'teeii tho city and the i-omp.'inj is drelared to be Unimpaired, the tivo-rent rate ..peellled in that pact nssiimes tho nature nf u tisure of pcech. Itnte-fiing Is in the power nf the Public Serviee romniKsion. whlrh nulhnr lzed the recent im,rene. The lease as n liole bears tho dfiimeting tnarks of a makeshift. It mnj, however, enable the rrnnkford I. to be operated. That will be something. THE CASE OF JUDGE LINDSAY 'A Lti thoe persons interested in the ad Jt ministration of justiee will be inter ested to learn wJtat the court does to .Judge Ben Lindsay, of Denver, tomorrow. The judge has been convicted of contempt of court betnusc, while a witness in n mur der trial, he refused to disclose what a boy had told him in contidenco. Ho presides oyer the Juvenile Court in Denver, ind he 'has made it a practice to keep faith with tho boyn who eonie before him. As a result tho youthful delinquents trust him when the will trust no one ele. In refusing to be tray the confidence of n boy he wn-. doing his utmost to prevent the lourt from de stroying tho Influence which It had taken him j ears to build up. The higher courts have refused m inter frre with the finding of the trial judge that he. was in contempt. Thej are technically correct. lie had refused tn nhej an order from the judge to tell what he knetx Such refusal is contempt of court and properly punishable. If Judge Lindsay is discharged with a reprimand when he is arraigned for sentence tomorrow all the technicalities of the law Will have been respected Hut if the judge it fined there will 1m manj persons who will think that there is something the mniter with the Denver courts. Wo can say this with propriety In I'enusjhunm because we re outside the jurisdiction of the Colorado courts. If we said it in Doner we should he liable to puni-hment for contempt similar to that for which Judge I.incNuj i- awaiting sentence, FROM HAY TO HARVEY THnitl' seem lo be u nu'iitx r nf luiluen'i.il Republicans who object to the appoint ment of Colonel Harvey as nrnha,-ador to -3rcnt Uritaln. Thev aie mailing their ob jections known to the President Repilbllcuu President hmo sent throe ambassadors to London in tho last twenty three years. MelClnley appointed John Hay. and when he brought ln hip to JVashlngton he sent Joseph II. Choatc to iucccod him. IIooeeli retail' d Clio.itc n'ntll be resigned, iind tlien ho sent Whitolaw Held us his successor. 'Ilioe three nun were distinguished mori. ans ami distin guished Republic nns. Colonel Harvej", friondi regird h -h Ms worthy to be comparocl ui'h them . bit tl'rc arc undoubtedly tnanv l(ec.ibliciiu Icnrti influential and unlnlluential. wim .ociild HUo to see u man with a different re ord dent over lis the nnihassador of the incrienn people to the M:!tish people SLAVERY AGAIN THE latest eid"nces of peonage m me South, notoricnislj in ("jcor0'ia. are p.ir ticularly sensatojnal. but the despicable practice there cannot be described s par ticularly new The jailing of Negro's for Slight Or ltnaglll.'tr rifl'euses 1" II convenient practlco among plantation owners, who are permitted under state law-, to make u-e of COnvll't labor The cousiquenee is slHierv, not virtual but actual. Another form of servitude is the rcmli ( holding black wage li.ni'lr, tc, iincdiiniiir'. labor under slatuies which impose lines on the workers for breach of contract and tlon Compel the men to lork out lho.se dobla With their old masters. The whole bitudiinn Is disgraceful in t1P ztremc and a Hat breach of the federal con stitution. Congress mid the I, partment of Justice cannot afford to lose tun" tn iuiiR ttgating this stain on American cmlmition and In taking steps to punish exponents of barbarism. MORE HAPSBURG INSANITY H' irj UcftNwAHi rfnu .v.xrriH nuiv ijpjrp Hapibtllg ruler if thev are mad enougli to choose one It is howeicr, too f 1 1-1 to Indict the peoples of these nations fur n peculiarly dopraed brand of Institute, until definite 1'ildences of a return to ineilicwil- ure forthcoming. No special cueitemciit in (,P chancelleries ef western 1 jirnpq has. et been repotieil con cerning the mbentiiie cif 1'hiirles the clepee-ec ?mperor-king It vt slgnlficiint moroow-r, that special attention Is being gnen b. the financial rommission of the League of Na tion to the proposed plans fur the relief nf ."Austria. That such negotiations would he 'immediately halted by the recovers of the ITap&bura frown, cither by Charles Ar his COn IS pCpiWf W UK liUl-suumu. I VieunH' and Budapest have, UU-CJ.euui3 abject miseries which have evoked Bjmpn llij sae In the hearts of the most hardened, tti'siitltclont though il has been, help In gen erous amount hns been administered. It is hnrdb conceit able that iitnld the ruins nf a discredited empire a inniemeiit Instantly cnlciilateil to alleiiale these fefllngs and Ibis assistance would be Ihougbllessl jeopanl icd s for Chnrles, whose record on the throne was fairlj creditable, he has by his miity and gross seUishiiess forfeited claims for decent consideration Poelrj about rojal pretenders was written sonic centuries ago It is maudlin and outmoded now. PLANNING TO DELIVER LETTER THAT NEVER CAME If Postmaster General Hays Means Busi ness Me Can Get the Best Men In the Country to Help Him rplll.151. is encouragement in the news from L Washington that Postmaster (iciicral llms, after announcing that Hubert M. Ashtotn former president of Hie Chicago and Nnrlhuestcrn Railroad Comprint, was being urged upon litm for the second assistant postmaster generalship, said that eery effort would be made to get tome man of the SI -a -j ear tjpe for tho office The second assistant postmaster general has charge of the parcel poht, railway, ship transport and nlr mail service Tn any pri inte corporation n department handling so much business would be in charge of an expert who had proved his fitness and a large snlnr would be paid to blin. Th" government pajs a salary of js.'OOO a year to the second assistant to Mr. Hajs. This 1 not large enough to command the crvlecs of n man big enough for the place. Indeed, the salaries paid to the members of the cabinet itself arc petty in comparison with what the men could get In private em ployment. Secretary Mellon, of the Treas ury Department, for example, could easily command $."(1,000 a year as the presldenr of n bunk, but he is serving flic government foi Srj,,"iOll. Secretary Hughe-, of he State Department, lotlld make ninny times his sa'.nj by practicing law, and Secretary Hoover can command his own forms ns a mining engineer. The government can secure the services of first-class men when it puts them in po sitions of honor and prlinnry responsibility. It is not so easy to find men of the right typo for the subordinate positions. If Mr. Hays can appeal successfully to the same kind of patriotism which led the biggest men in the country to servo the government for nothing during the war and can induce them to devote themselves to the peace activities of tlie government, he will deserve nil the fine things that can be said of him. It has long leen notorious that sound business brains are needed in the Potoflico Department. The collictlon and distribu tion of the mall Is one of the most important functions in which the government is en gaged. It affects every citizen. There Is much dissatisfaction with the way the work is being done, n dissatisfaction that began long before Mr Iturleson took charge of the 1'os.tnfiioe Department. A parcel post package mailed In New York today Is not likely to bo delivered In this city until ne.vt Tuesday or Wednesday. Yet the two cities are only ninety miles apart, with trains on two railroads running between them every hour. It takes about as long H get u packuge from Philadelphia to Atlantic City or to Raltimnrc or Wash ington. A letter mailed at the cornrr of Sixth and Chestnut streets nt noon of one day was not delivered at the corner of Tenth and Chestnut streets, only four squares nway and within one square of the postofiioe itself, until the morning of the neit day. A letter mailed in the city in the morning addressed to Lnnsdowno, for example. Is not delivered until the morning of the next day. It would get to New York or Iloston or Washington just as soon. In Now Jerey, where ninny suburban postofficos have been consolidated with the Camden postofiioe. the situation is still worse. The citizens of Collingswood nie just now complaining that a letter mailed to Wet Cnlllngswood, onlv a lulle or two awav, is not .delivered f"r thirty-six hours. Thus, n letter dropped in the box In the afternoon is collected the carrier and sent in to Camden, and from Cnraden it goes out to West Collingaunnd on the morning of the duv after This ciiinnt bo called efheient service. Hut we have had tills kind of service for years, and no one in authority hns seemed to think that there is any way tn Improve it. When the 1'nstofiiee Department has been crlti-oi-.'d ! have been told of the speed with which letters arc carried between New Yoik and Chicago and Philadelphia and Wash ington as though it removed the grievance of a business man who wished to have a letter mailed to n correspondent five or six squares away delivered a little sooner thnu a 'otter mailed to n correspondent ninety mil's away. There is tin iipportunifv in the depart ment presided over by Mr. Mays fur the displny of th" highest kind of organmng business genius H mnv he objected that th" politicians do not vish business effi cirncy to interfere with the distribution of the spoils They hiive not let it interfere very much in llio pn-t. tor thev have hud sufficient intlueiiie to secure the appointment to office of men whose qualifications were based on their sonic to tie party lather than on their npiihiiiti", for the work to be clone And co have muddled along under this arrangement for a gnat many jtars Mr llais himself is m the head of the I'fistolfice Department hfeiiun it was thought necfs,nry to leward bun for his political services, e has ou opportunity to prove that he can be as n. eessful In orgunlaing a business department as ho was in organizing u political campaign. Ho it noted that his uri'os in politic i is due to his organizing ability If lie reall.es that tho coriection of the long-sinnding abn-is in the rnlleetinn and dehviry ol mull would bo the shrewdest po litical move tliut he could make, there will be hope for improvement The muil touches every liodi . In the morning when the post man appeal e women go to the dour eagerly evpecting h letter which doei not e-oino be I'liii'i cif inevi uw.ible ildiiv somewhere They write a letter late hi night ami i-end their husband out to mini It in the hope that it will be dc Iiverrd within a fe w hours, Ilusi ness. men are incnnvenlen' ec because of their failure to get a reph to nn important eoinmunic tition Muny of Ihem u-.o the tile phone at a hoa v cupenv rather than trust ie the mall- and friepiemh use speoml incsi-cngeM instead of tlir ponohVi. when they wish to delivir elociiments which can not he sent over a telephone wire The wu' to help make, the peop'e satisfied with the party in power is to in.tk." every branch of the governmental seivin which touch's nil the pce.ple s a 1 1 sfhet eerv that thin N no rcnsoiMhle ground for complaint. If succe, fn biisincs. orgnnters, such as the former prrnc nt of the Chlcugo and Ncirlbvi'siern Railroad Company, can be assured that they will hnve a free bund to opp'v their Inouleelgp unci experience r u specific problem, they will be more willing to serve the government than they, hnve been In the pust There is ability enough in the country to do ull that is required. There Is patriotism enough to Induce the men of ability to de vote thcmsolvoi, tn the sen lee of the people If only they con h allowed fo act without tho Interference of the political bosseu who EVENING PUBLIC LEDGER-PHILADELPHIA, wish to get soft jobs for their followers. What hns been lacking In the past has boon a disposition to use (he ability nt hand, President Harding has got some of the able men In hi- cabinet, men who will not consent to pbtv politics when it Interferes In any way with the successful prosecution of their work Many observers will be sur prised at the protestation of h desire for business ofl'trloncy from flic man who comes nearer to being a professional polltlcinn than any other member of the cabinet. Hut most of us will suspend judgment until Mr. Hnys has the opportunity to demonstrate that he uiobiis to put efficiency nbovc every other consideration lit the conduct of the postollice's. DISAPPEARING "MANSIONS" rpHI sale of the grandiose white mnrblo J residence nl Nineteenth and Chestnut streets, which David Juyno built for himself half a century ago but never occupied, em phasizes the tribute which plcliiresqueness continually pays In progress in this city, The Jay no tntitision, without either ram his toric or especially iirlistle title to distinc tion. Is tieverttioksH reflective of the digni fied, comfortable and In its way Imposing residential Philadelphia of a not distant past. Although the change lu only partly regis tered, for some of the most attractive Colo nial or enrlj nineteenth century houien in America are to be found in many sections of the oily, the physical differences between the eetilrnl Philadelphia of today even uside from the skyscraper development and thnt of little more than n generation ngo arc striking tine does not have to be venerable fo re call the charming Haldwin mansion ami lis attached conservatory, stranded among the commercial structures on Chestnut street between Twelfth untl Eleventh. The Wisler house at Eighteenth and Wulnut btreets and the portioned Lippincott mansion, with ample garden, at Broad and Walnut, were other landmarks. tlnlv the other day thr old Norrls house, at Sixteenth mid Locust streets, was torn down to make way for un apartment build ing. The Roberts mansion, on Riltenhouse Square, survives, vacant and lu uncertainty of its fate. Of course, not all of the fine old specimens of the more pretentious phases of our do mestic architecture nre threatened with Im mediate destruction, but the evolution is steady and should bo recognized. To lament the new order to the point of poignancy is, perhaps, carrying Philadelphia conservatism a trllle too fur. In all great metropolitan communities sentiment must yield to growth. The Jnyno house in its two decades of vacancy has born ruther n depressing relic. The westward business development of Chestnut street rendered unlikely any further use for domestic purposes of whnt must have been regarded ns one of the "grandest" mansions of the town. Little good is said nowndays of either tho late or early (ienernl Grant periods of archi tecture ns displayed In American cities. It is ngc rather than intrinsic beauty which gives those structures their charm. The older residences, those nf brick and marble trimmings, of fun door lights and ovul side windows, have preferrcel claims to distinc tion. Philadelphia is by no means stripped of these memorials. What are disappearing are the mansions, with their appealing nir of serenity and soothing self-Miflioicnoy, with which the en croaching atmosphere of trade and com merce will not mix. DISORDERLY TAXICABBIES TIIL ruling of Superintendent Mills re garding taxicab stands at Broad and Walnut streets is explicit and should bo con sistently enforced. Tho rivalry of the cab chauffeurs for posi tions of vantage would be perhaps amusing if restrained within decent limits. Hut these hnve been disgracefully overstepped In dis orderly nnd pugnacious maneuvering.1), which on Wednesday night assumed the proportions of n near-riot. The police department hns, bottled n long standing cause of disorder by its definite regulations. Infractions should be promptly punished. ' JPir Do You Know? , QUIZ VvTio is Vbnlr.vl Horthy? What is the difference between ,i brls nnd u hripantlno? Wlmt amendment to the constitution for bids slavery In the, L'nlted States? t!y whom vv-us T-ewls Cass defeated for tho presidency of the L'nlted States? What is meant by u "mnnuna" policy? Itow shodUl the word be pronounced? When w.re tho United States nnd I-'rnnce 'nRiiced In u naval war? Whn Is Midsummer Hve? Where s thr. White Sea? 10. What !-. the correct pronunciation of Seine ho Panza name of one of tho most f.inioun chnractcru In Cervantes' "Don Quixote"? Answers to Yesterday's Quiz 1 The battle1 of c"aporetto In the world war oce-urml In 1917 C The lulliiterentH wero the Austrluna nnd the Italians. 3 Tins lion's share means the lartte.r part, or marly .ill. of .i thing In Aesop's ful'le tovern.1 I ohbi.s Joined tho lion In it hunt. When tli. spoil w.is ejlvlded tl" lion claimed one-epjarter on ilKht of hts prerogative ono for his .superior cour.iKo. one fot his dam anel cubs, .mil as for the fourth, let who will c!' 'puto It with me." i I lev I,tho In Greek mythology was ono of tho rlveis of Hades, the vvuii ra of which stream tho souia of tho dead were obllRcd to taste In order that thev mlnht forgot nvcrythlntf said and done (n tlielr earthly listener. fi Nathaniel nan the Ural name of Uener.il Oris-ne, ono of the foremost American commanders In lliu Revolutionary War 6 Tne f.n ions diamond, tho Koh-i-noor, In;- lonns to tho llrltlth crown 7 Tho p.mcy Is omatlmc3 knerwn an "Iovb- In-ldlenesB " t The cliuruuter of Lady Teazle .tppe.ira in Sheridan's comedy. "The School for heluuUl " 9 "Lind of tho Jy-nl" Is the jx iic.il .scotch name for a bjpothntlcal region of liap PlnciiH, loyalty and virtue Tho word lc al means loyal 10 J'lMle'c of the I "tilled St.ncs Supreme Coin t iiro iippolnlud for llfu THE QUEST '.. - -' OH, Till, stars are out. the tuoou is up, 'lho wood lire thiol, with night; Hut the boekdiiiny; rrnij ncrots tin; hillii Is caught in misted light. There's silver dint gleams ahead of us. SliiuloWh under our feet ; And the breeze that blows from far off In Ida Is country fresh mid Mvcet. Whenever we see a little house Wliere tirelit windows glow. Wp'II stop for a bit unci usL our way Itut, ad, they will not know. I or some will sh.v lo follow the wind Sonic lo follow u slur , Rut we shall keep to our winding ru.nj Though il may lead us far, Kor uoniewliern it finds a little bouic, A friendly open door Our bouse, our hearth aud our own fucllght A-tllckcr ou tlie floor! Abigail W. CifciVbou. in e ti. 11. UerahJ, AS ONE WOMAN SEES IT Charlie Cliaplln vb. Organized Society. Why Women Cannot Laugli nt Things Men Find Funny The Obcrholtzcr Case and the Governor It SAKMI 1). LOWHIK W13 WKHP. discussing nt n dinner the other night the merits nnd demerits of n ploy in which Cliaplln was the "slap stick" hero with a little boy us co-star, 'lhc discussion was brought on by one of the women of the party, who had found the per formance depressing nnd the Implications of th" plot cruel. The child In the movie play was a waif whom Chaplin, In his usual guise of comic hobo, befriends and brings up In spite of I lit heartless interference of the police, the health bureau, the child-welfare association and the poor neighbors of the slum into which the two derelicts hnve drifted. In order that Chaplin inny have a chance to make his Chnpllnesque escapes down lndders, across roofs, through olleys nnd tinder fur niture tbe whole world, upper and under, Is made fo act the part of hounds to his rnbbll-llke scamper. And an added zest is given to his "off again, on again, gone ugnln. I'inegnn" style of humor by fhe fact that the appeal of a little child's fears and fears, affection and dependence are the end all and be-all of bin capers ngnlnst the heartless nnd cruel machinations of his pursuers. rpHIl woman who Inveighed against tbe X performance bold thnt If it wns true, then weeping, not Iniighlug. was in order for the audience, and n quick setting of the police, the state and private welfare asso ciations, not to speak of neighbors high or low, to nn Instant overhauling, moral and physical. If It was not true of Hie police, of tho neighbors nnd of the ohlld-welfnro organizations, then It was on immoral per formance inasmuch as It created, or nt leabt encouraged, n public sympathy against law nnd order nnd public hygiene by making flic ngents of tho state Invnrlnbly cruel and silly nnd revengeful, persons to be knookwl down, evaded nnd distrusted, from tbe doctor who represents the dispensary to the public wel fare agent who represents the stute or phanage. EVKRY ONi; agreed wl the plot was based 1th tho woman that on uufair If not wholly untrue cxngccrntlons. The talk rnged around the question whether or not Chaplin had made it funny, nnd if fro, why. Tor funny it was undoubtedly to the great majority of thp audience; they laughed In cessantly and came agnln, bringing others to laugh with them. The question for those discussing if was why hail it been funny fo most of them, who rnthcr fancied themselves us critics of a specially removed order. They buttressed themselves by implying gently that the woman who had not IniiRhoel with the crowd, us they bud, was super sensitive, perhaps overrcfined. To further put her in the wrong, one of those present an nrtist dwelt fondly nn Chaplin's won derful subtlety of fnclai expression. She wondered meditatively if he did not do it ull with bis eyes! S.J OMK ONH told n neat little story of on liver Herfordlsm. A woman bud gravely opined to Herford that the reason women could not laugh nt things men found funny lny possibly, did he not think, in the fact of their minds being purer? Herford had hemmed nnd hawed gravely. "Women's minds ought to be putter, lerlninly, than men's," he ngreed, searching wide-eyed for the reason, "because1 they chance them so often, don't you know!" As n mutter of fact, as between the chang ing mind of the female ond the persistent mind of tho eternal feminine, Oliver Herford would lose out on his quick rensoning, with n crowd of witnesses from Solomon down to Punch to contradict him. It is lo "the sticking to it" habit thnt women owe their power with their men folk nnd their chil dren anel, of late, with even their legisla tures; though that lust sticking to it is more difficult to maintain ami easier for pollllolnnw to ignore, since in politics the game of one fellow standing behind another can be successfully carrieel out ad Infinitum to nu ignornnt constituency. ISOMRTIMKS think, however, that some feminine persistence Is more provocative than just in certain political Issues. Tho following bending is, I think, a case in point: OP.RRHOLT.r.IfS CHAMPIONS WANT HIM TO IIRAD CENSORS Women's Societies Petition Governor Sproul to Have Demoted Member of State Hoard Made Chntiman of That Hody When Office Becomes Vacant in Muy Now, as a mutter of fact I happen to belong, in one official capacity or another, to a gro.it many women's organizations, pn lltlcnl and philanthropic, and to a variety of clubs, ami 1 happen to know that this matter of the reinstatement of tho former member of the censor honrd hns come up for consideration and been pussoel by ns not ap propriate for notion by muny women's or gnni.atlons, on the ground that the notion of the Governor in the mntter of appoint ment, disiuissnl or reappointment would bo best left unhampered. Curiously enough, the self-appointed body that bus championed the reappointment idea has never given any but the most general reasons for pressure to be brought tin the Governor to rescind his action, has never produced the candidate for public appraisal In any successfully arr.ingeil gathering, Iiiih no statist les or practical propaganda to offer b way of backing their e-andidutu un less their tuklng it for granted that the work of Dr. Oberholtzer In the past had been so speotnciihirly atisfuelor,v thut to know it and him was to be convinced without pledges or promises that plans or power of putting them over were nrcessary. 1 venture to say !H) per cent of the women approached by the candidate's advocates have never seen, much less worked, with Dr. Obeiholtzer. Till" only ground for mmpelling the Gov ernor to reinstate him would be thai he is the besf mail for the place in the stute. Hut is bcV If there are other men quite us good and more conscnlnl to lhc Governor or to the other workers, why keep up this din for Dr. Oberboltzer? If ho wns sucrificed because of his infog rity, 1 t us hnve the elireot facts, not the orles; facts with the dates, the place and the issue sot forth If it is simply n case of "I do not like you. Dr. roll," and there is some one just as gooel whom the Governor has in mind to suit the job, I fail to see why the women's clubs of tbe Htate shniilel chumplon n candidate whom the Governor finds iiieompulible. WP, ALT, know what il is to have to work with or over a person who does not suit us tempoinmontully. no matter how worthy he muv be as to morals Ruth MeHcnrv Stewart's old chnremun. who got bis rations out of trash barrels, remarked, "When gar bage goes ugen you you can'l force It " It seems to me there lire times when even good fuble food cun'l be fnrceel There tiro times when the Angel Gnbriel might hamper you on your job. I heard a country deacon preaoli a funeral sermon on n neighbor with whom he had b'-en nt v.iriance. "1 might say n number of things agnln'-t our depart eel brother, I might point to the place where such failings us were his lend to and not seem unreasonable1," said he. "Hut 1 shall not do tn, because in such ensi's I always give the corpse the benefit of the doubt." Tor nn part. Inking it all in nil, though the Governor is no corpse, I do not see whv in this censorship case be. rather than (ho lutelv- demoted member of the censorship board, bhould not have the "benefit of the doubt." Let the women make It plain by the kind of movifs they pntronlo the kind of censor they want, and not waste their voices on n personal side issue BefoTo nnv of them buck a cnndldnln It would ho well to have a look at him and bear him talk and see him work. y FRIDAY, APRIL 1, .j '','5!.s'Zi''-r..ii' .''"jzL." " '.' 'i 'j-' y .i Fpffii' .',&'? 'r? S J NOW MY IDEA IS THIS Daily Talks With Thinking Philadelphiais on Subjects They Know Best JAMES FRANCIS COOKE On "The Golden Hour" "rpIIL Golden Hour" ideal, which has the X enthusiastic indorsement of many per sons, U explained by one of its heartiest advocates, James Prancis Cooke, editor eif the rtiulo aud president of tbe Philadelphia Music Touchers' Association. "The quicksand In the way of the progress of America," says Mr. Cooke "Is not con cealed from the eyes of thinking men and women. I'nless we build from now on upon the rock base of character- character with the grnnite of honesty, faith in the best, truth, Hplrilitnl responsibility our whole natiounl structure must Inevitably fall. "In tin' words of Roger Habsou, given tn support of the 'Goldeu Hour' ideal, 'The great need of America nt the present lime is not for more wealth, more factories or more cities, but for more character.' "The character of the America of to morrow must be the character we uru milking today in the minds and hearts of the youth of America. Plfty-elght million Americans attend no church, Protestant, Catholic or Hchiew. The Sunday school Journals re port thnt a survey in cities made by the Y. M. C. A. anil the Hoy Scouts revealed thut only 1ft per cent of the children in muny cities attend any Sunday school. " 'The age,' with its endless distractions, encourages parents to neglect that home training which N of inestimable vulue in the righteous upbringing of children. Owing to religious dissensions, the reading of the Bible In muny schools becomes almost a pnrody on religion. "Wluit is to happen if vast numbers of our boys ami girls are brought up without dnily drill in those principles of honor and morality which have alvvayH been the back bone of the true greatness of America V f'vnli'.'il "Klevenlfi f nitinmnelmpiit" "The cynionl and blasphemous 'eleventh commandment,' 'Thou shalt not get caught,' has become the invisible moral code in count less juvenile minds Recently I wont to u home where disaster had come to one of the sons. Ruin, obviously due fo n moral col lapse, hoel made n hi d of misery for him und for bis futlier. Yet there was another boy there who, when asked his age, replied, 'I'm sixteen to the trnfli p.' "Rverybody laughed at his cute little lie, boon use the boy was fourteen unci had horn driving an automobile in defiance of the law. Are wo to remain u law-abiding. God-loving people? We cannot unless something is done to bring nil the children of the land fuco to face with the responsibilities without which human society cannot exist and prosper. "To this end an hour known us the 'Golden Hour.' every day in thu public schools, to he devoted lo I'hnracter develop ment, with a background of Inspiring music, has been pioposod, and has been meeting with the most enthusiastic indorsement of many of America's greatest eibicutom, statesmen, clergymen fof many needs), scientists, bankers, merchants, manufacturers!. "In this hour, which should be conducted so that it is the happiest, brightest, most fascinating moment of the day, the children will b" given little problems In morals and ethics to work out before the class, as they do problems In arithmetic, geography, sci ence, otfi, "Then there will be talks, moving pictures, playlets and, most of nil. readings from re ligions works of nonsecfnriun character, as well us texts lo b memorized from the writings of great American? Washington, Jonathan Hduurds, Pranklin, Jefferson, Reechor. Lincoln. Archbishop Ireland, I'm erson, Tliorcau, Krauskopf and others- after the manner in which our loicfuthero used to copy character-making texts in their oopv-books ''Hacked with inspiring music by (he ever-Increasing school orchestras, the talk ing machine and mass singing, this 'Golden Hour' must beiome an unforgettable part of the vnutli of every e'liihl "Host of all, I nm informed by June AildnniN and others that the 'Golden Hour' U really here In munv parts of the country that il lias been tried out In various ways with immense success, and thut the name Tlie Golden Hour' Is thus merely a form of crvstnllllng the ideal so that It muv bo taken up bv schools everywhere and mtido n national purpose "Clearly, the obieet of any school system supported by the state is to muke good citi zens as well as competent citizens. 'J'ho jails are liberally supplied with finely educated people. Literacy, necordlng to crlmlnolo- pIrIu elnPM nnt main ,liavn,ilOH i...l make I 7 "it 'is a l ......,. ..... ........ ,,..., vni, uui may niuhf the criminal more dangerous, in hot represented that music In ilsclf builder of character, In fact, music 1921 "GTT ON TH' JOB!" may be used to degrade as well ns to exalt. It docs, however, when properly used, form an indispensable background for inspiring the child mind to absorb noble ideals of honor and patriotism Ideals needed more at this hour tliun ever before in our nation's his tory. " 'The Golden Hour' as an Ideal Is not limited to any group, creed, organization, party. It is nll-Ainericun. At tills time, when our country bus been passing through the grentcst wave of crime known in our history, Is there any more vltnl object lo which you, my fellow citizen, may devote your time than by giving u few minutes each day to promoting this Meal through nny practical means which may present them selves? Pomous educators nnd economists have emphasized In the strongest terms the feasibility of the Ideal administered In each community according to the obvious needs of that community. A cut-nnd-dried plan designed for general use would doubtless prove Impractical. "The ret I need is for a Moses, n Loyola, a Wesley, a Garrison, a Moody, a Jeanne d'Arc in urban sections nil over the land to work with the true zeal of men and women who know thnt humanity must have leaders who will labor unsparingly, with no hope of gnin, to restore righteousness to tho coming generations. This is the outstanding need throughout all history. The present situa tion demands the biggest and best from tho noblest workers. "Thomas A. ICdison. who has taken a personal interest In 'Tho Golden Hour,' writes: ' "The Golden Hour" has struck a keynote thut, If heeded, would work an evolution in morality und home life.' "Tbe churactcr, honor and morals of your child and my child today will be the chnrncter, honor nnd morals of our America of tomorrow. Cun we give too much or too earnest ottcntion to it?" How to Make a President V ilium t.illot Orlftls In N. . Trthuno Nathaniel Fillmore, born nt Bennington, vt.. April 111, 1.71, pioneer and frontiers man In central New York, in Cayuga countv, where his son Millard was born in n log cabin January 7. lMlOhls cradle being a muple-hiignr sup trough saw this son in the White House in lSoO, und gave as the rcoiie for an American boy's arriving at the White House. "Bring him up in n snp trough " ' Advertising Stunts Jhn K. 1Unv.e, m tho World's Work Mr. Olds, the inventor of the first car produced quantity, know that with the cur going in New York the rest of the coun try would clunior for It. The trle-U to which the Miles agency resorted lo attract the New ork public n utlentioti- oven to vcttinc arrested for speeding on Fifth UVonie nd for upsetting n bicycle policeman -is a unique story The not .Mlt was the sale Now'rilVityt '" """" There Is Still Time I'rom thu nw Torli Kvcntrc pnet There are still four or live towns which have net invited Pre-ldcnt Harding to cone spet .1 the summer, but that may be because M'Uri1,,XM b,n!u l Kuc,,,",lpl I" straightening out things at the pcistofficu. The Gallant Turk 1 reim -In Now Yoilt Hun The Turkish Parliament nl Angora is con sidering a bill to compel all men t?nty -fiv years old or more to murrv Th ,. "Angora" will w taki'a Jwllffl cam e to bachelors. fignin- I TMWIWSGRWF flMIi; wind is grieving Ov e, what old woo Howls it us though Its very heart would break'' The roving wind, who merrily ,.i make "crLv'e8,5 '''Vr"1." ,'""" ""oudeiw's gav Grieves in the night. fs it for olden evil it hath ,,,m Ncuth moon and sun Since first it reeved the vwirlil'' ""Mirier ",r"",,,' M,ii;- "'"I "Hois To stormy deal h? r f01. ,,, b Of flowers blight.' 'i' u"i"" -V. AY. Uurvey iti Atbelueum. . Mi Humanisms By WILLIAM ATIIKKTON DU PLY IONCi; asked Captain Hill McDonald, of flic Te.xns Hungers, how it wns that a hnndful of his men isnild fling themselves into any tumultuous .situation where the odds were n huntlrcd-to-onc uguinst them and win. These rungers, their chief explained, had n motto. It ran like this: "No man who is in tlie wrong can stand up uguinst the feller who is in the right und keeps on a comin'." Rvery outlaw in Texas knew that the ranger would "keep on n comin'." Scores of heroic lives had been sacrificed in estab lishing it us a fuel Unit, despite odds, dan ger, certainly of death, the rnnger never stopped. This reputation lent unmeasured force to his onslaughts. There wns u riot in ti Texas town nnd s hurry coll wns pul in for rangers. When the next train stopped it lone Individual, with n riflle over his arm, got off. "We expected a company of rangers," th mayor explained. "Well. I'm here," drawled this individual "Hut there is a riot," said the mayor. "There ain't but one, is there?" said the ranger. When Gencrnl Pershing was a lieutenant, back in the early fiOs, ho was military in struotor at the FniVersity of Nebraska P.liner J. Burkett, later United Stntes sen ntor from Nebraska, was one of his inti mote friends, as was Chnrles K. Msgoon afterward American governor of Cuba. The three oftcu discussed the future as young men do and wondered if they would ever amount to anything. The one point upon which they- agreed was thnt Pershing find no cliune-e. thnt. there would never bo another war. thut he had better get out of the tinny. The lieutenant did actually studv law during his two years at this station, but could never quite bring himself to break away from the service. Dr. AVilber J. Crafts, blue law crusader, who bus gone lancing with the dragons for twenty -five years from hendquarters in the very shadow of tlie Capitol, in Washington, explains thnt the blood thnt flows in his veins is exnetly that of Cromwell and his associates back In Lincoln county. England, 100 years ngee. Ho believes that his ze.'l for reform is inherited. The originul Craftj was n friPiid of Cromwell nnd curac frotv, Boston, Lnglund, to found a city of thu sumo name over here. Heredity in citiw has hero demonstrated itself, he believes for the new world metropolis was likt unto Us parent. Wililuni Miller Collier, president ol Gcorgo Washington University, has been minister to Spain und solicitor for govern meat departments in Wushlngtou, so hi should speuk with authority when bo starta "lit to define the throe terms, diplomat, politieiun and slatesmun. The occasion for Ills exposition of termi arose out of the fact that he dug into the records of the institution of which he is th head and found that it uted to have divinity school. This school was, howuicr moved to New England und tho reason set down wns that Washington was dominated by three cIusscm of individuals, diplomats, politicians nnd statesmen, nnd that tho at mospheie was not favorable to a study ol theology. . A diplomat, says President Collier, is a man who deceives without lying. A politician Is a man who IJes without deceiving. A blutosniau is a dcud politician. When George M. Boners, represcntativu iu Congress from West Virginia, woe l.nited States commissioner of fisheries decade and a half ago, ho guve a laj named Joe Walsh, up Cupe Cod wuy, a job as s laborer at the Wouds Holo fish hatchery. Walsh uftervvurd became aii expert incu bator of fish eggs und poured littlo ones back into the ten as fast aa the Mssen chuscttH fishermen could pull tho big oneJ out. Mr. Hosvers bad been in pblitlcB all hi' life and had always bort of looked to Con gross us his ultimate goal. The Irish boy working at lhc fish hatchery bad tho taw sort nf idea lu bis beud. Fortune so (.unfiled the curds that when, in P.'Hi, the public exorcised its fundamen tal privilege ami duty, ami cast its vote, Mr Hcnvcrt, was uu flic congressional ticket in v i m;in!ti. nnd Mr vVulsh oooupM a -iml'iir position in Massachusetts. Hui il oiimiissloiier of fisheries was do fiatnl and iho Iiiiicltory woikinnii waJ eVeU"! '.Viibh got fe, Congress first. S '. however . )ui. was un unexpired vacancy I b' filled In W osl Virginia; Howcr.s trie" it .'lguiti win. elected untl has been in Con feoss ever since. Such is American politics. L v.a r ,1m.., I J. sXa t eU- w-. J3M&4HHI&Q&&&&& -v T' - miwr m ty'rwiHtrt "c!(ieTi."'.wwlj v .
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