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BODINE'S PLAN SO FAIt as t can discover, the latet plan of the l'nltd Gas Improvement Co. provides that the city shall in some way go to the assistance of the gas rompaoy in rais ing $10,000,000 needed for new equipment during the remainder of the life of the lease. The company cannot rai th raonev at present. If it does not get l he money it cannot meet the increasing demand for s" Mr. Bodine. the president would also like a revision of thi company s contract with tho city. He says that "no principle has been more widely recognned by the rourts than that contracts should not he permitted to stand in the way of adequate and tfficlent service by a public utility." If Mr. Bodine's company were making a profit of 25 per cent on its invested capita! t the present time would he b insisting that tho contract with the city bo revised In tbe Interest of the consumers of gas? A rule that works only one way i not a Try good one. A DESERVED REBUKE THE tale that a young woman latclv on trial here 'for murder was contemplating an appearance on the Philadelphia stage may have had no other origin than an ir responsible sensationalism. But whatever its source the idea was offensive and de terring of prompt rebuke. Mayor Moore's threat to revoke tbe license of any theatre sanctioning such audacity la explicit. It is unfortunate that such ele mentary concepts of decency need to be ex plained at all. Mr Moore. howeTer. has covered the case so thoroughly that his pronouncement maj serve as a general warn ing should subsequent cae of this kind of Tulgar exploitation arise. THE AGE OF REVELATION "DEAR ADMIRAL CART T (JKAY--' SON. it I said, contemplates the pro duction of a book to offset the criticisms of former President Wilson made by Robert Lansing. The itenographers and clerks, the stewards on the George Washington, the concierge a' the Hotel Crlllon and the head porter at the Palais d'Oray have vet to be heard from in print. The Pence Conference, shriek its denun ciators, failed to extinguish secret diplomacy. This may be true. But let it never be said that that unprecedented congregation of envoys, scientific experts, statidtlclnns. eth nologists and interpreters abolished nothing of the past. The day of secret memoirs i. definitely ended Retrospection is now com mitted in public nud between covers nelhng for rather more than thir weight in gold. It Is all a glorious revelation If that's tbe way you feel about it AN ARCHITECTURAL CENTER rpHK acknowledged eminence of France in -4-sthe field of architecture lends especial point to the !-nnor paid yesterday to on of the most flourishing and authoritative de partments of the t'niverslty of Pennsylvania The exercises marking the thirtieth anni Teirary of the school of architecture appro priately direct public attention tn n branch of collegiate education in which Philadelphia has made rapid stride- Within a com paratively brief period th. city has attracted ntudenta of the art of building construction and design from all parts of the nation The L'nlversitj's architectural t.chool is of ad tnltted distinction in standing, standards and activities. The medal presented jestetdar to ihis in stitution by the Frenh Society of Architects waa awarded in recognition of the worth of the school's work for the year ltOO-1020 In the opinion of the foreign organization tbe quality of pei forma nee ai higher than that of sny similar institution in the aountrj Dean T.nirri nnd hi no'iate nvl r,r whole communis rasi M'.e a deferred . isfaction in an hot)nr ihnugbtfiit'v and di rlminatingly bestowed 'NUFF SAID i WERE you ever i 1 up t.v a miirab driver? Yes-1 Then ron lnoi nnat you felt like earing when von pan the bill You will also be mter"(ted lo know that the taxi drivers prrplived bv one of the tab companies are to h:ire a dinner tomorrow night and thnt arrangements have been made tp have them addressed bv Warden McKontv. of tbe Eastern J'eni'entinrj What? Yes it i trie THE MINIMUM WAGE FALLACY THE I.nboi ISiirenu. a reaeanh asem for labor organizations has announced 'hat the minimum unge level for a worklngman s rally in this city i .VJ3W The working man who teceives less isnnot jive to hi family the necessltiei of life according to the bureau It WOllld be deliilitful if everr woikmg man received as much It nould be for tunate if the conditions of industry mnn it possible for employers to p."v this mini But evcrv one krious that there are ihou sands of workingmen in mis cilv whose an nual Income is mui b less. And ereiv one known, too that these workingmen are sup porting their families nud thv si.me of them have bought homes and paid foi them m t of a much smaller annual wage In the delH.Vii statement of the obieits for which I he lunnev IS lo be spent Ihere it an Item of SlTiJ .VI for uiMiiance li might ne uesiratue uiui n wnrKingmon Uoult hnie ,5ifc-iiiMirance pnlm wlmU cost him that ,ucn i" i in ri i up insuianie inrnpaniri iVouId insist that li'' ought to nrolei t hi tr... -II.. I,. Iia, n.linl Rnl ,1, l. ...... ff lauiiij i" ii.in v ..,. ,..,v i,,r iiniji uai'e Brompanles know that there in not one man In Ik .1 - .l I. ..l ..AA- l!l.. I. . Sfl llipuirtmi. i "ii nwu i'iii atiRi-, ivno pays M2S2.!50 a year in liisurame premiutni 'Ulie lunu ! nllowil lo lm a new wmi.i y.rton) i'i" ' i i ai Therp are inaiir ,'ll ) Hjc IM' onie ho Imv a new over - 'v.';t )Ut aud pcihap two or luree, but the overcoat of the average, man lasts him four or five years. An allowance of. ?1GO.0O Is made for butter and milk, but how many families actually spend that amount or would spend It If they had the money? Ab a matter of fact, they simply do not do it. An allowance of ,2 ft week Is made for nmusemrnts not enough to pity for many theatre tickets, but the thrifty man on n small Income does not go to tho theatre, and be Is not in the habit of taking his family to the modes every week. Aud so on through the whole schedule it appears that allowances arc made for expenditures which it would be pleasant for a man to make, but which he has to refrain from. When the Labor Burcnu says that n man cannot fcupport hit family on less thnn S23S5 a year, the tens of thousands of me chanics and clergymen and school-teachers who are doing it know that some one with out much knowledge of life has been fooling with figures. MORE THAN FLIES AWAIT THE HAND OF THE SWATTER Sooner or Latar the World Will Learn to Apply the Rules of Sanitation in Public Affairs QWAT cries Dr. Furbueh in a voice O of warning, "the fly!" This is excellent advice. It cannot be questioned on any ground Flics ought to be swatted A worse thing ought to be done to thern if it were possible. Yet the chal lenge that issues rer'ilarly In the first days of every spring ftom the Department of Health will on this occasion bo In odd ways saddening. It will call back to memory the soldcn vanished days when tiles actuallv were the greatest of our troubles. It will cause a great many people suddenly to won der whether, after all, the bright millen nium is in the past rather than In the future. Of course, we shall swat the fly when we have time But we shall need most of our I'nergy to deal with other dreadful and ma lignant things that grew and flourished un disturbed in vears when the mind of the world was turned the other way. The flics may expect if flies are capable of expec tancy to get off rather easily for a few years People everywhere are engaged with other worries. Their hands are full. Thoy are trying desperately to deal with other nuisances that ought to have been swatted when tbo swatting was, at they say, good. There has been a lot of jubilant burning at Harrisburg. No doctor with a -voice of authority has called out with a demand that you swat the Vare or swat the Cunningham. Yet one heeler of the sort that is being re established In power can spread more unhnp piness and ill health in the crowded areas of any city tbe areas about which Dr. Fur bush is concerned than all the flies of n summer. We in this city have not been alone in ab straction. From coast to coast, from Harris burg to Budapest, the dire results of years of negligent thinkiog arc becoming awfully apparent. There, for example, is .tcrsey. Folk who are only now drifting back from Easter va cations In the shore regions bring strange news. They have observed a Teally startling reversal of sentiment with regard to the Volstead act. The people who used to be the bitterest opponents of the dry law have suddenly be come Its most ardent and determined sup porters. They are the vonderR of strong waters in many of the seaside tonns. They legard talk of a revised dry law as an invi tation to black disaster Such a revision would mean a swift decline in the price of cocktails and, what would be to them far more terrible, a tremendous decrease in tv enuee now gained from what might be called tbe Sabbath trade. It would mean state license fes, supervision and Sunday closing for people who, in many instances, know none of the old-fashioned restraints and re strictions. Strange as it may seem, some of the stiffest opposition to any proposed change jn the prohibition law will come from the elect among bootleggers. Meanwhile, speeding toward the west coast is a tiainload of crusaders sent forth to begin the long-talked-of drive against tobacco. It is not easy to view the thickening con fusion reated by tbe impact of a national dry law on incorrigible liquor men through the efforts of people who seem unable to finish what they started to do. without feel ing dimlv that a lot of swatting ought to have been done long ago in a good many dif ferent quarters We have nothing to say In defense of fighting-water It is bad stuff at best And while there are people who believe thnt to bacco is not onlv harmless but wholesome, we shall, for the moment, leave tobacco to tight its own fight But it is idle to assume, as a great manv people do, that all reformers arn fanatics who must agitate or die. The simple fact is thot even the misguided uplifters are uuallv sincere. Theic are very few of them . ho do not believe that they nre doing n rervi'e for mankind They get themsehes and other people in trouble betause, as a rule they know mor" about alcohol and the like than they know about human nature The work of '"cleaning up civilization would go more unootlily if those who under take it could realize that there is in every mnn a devil of perversity which (ommands him to do anything thai Is formally forbid den bv person" who frnnkh assume to be his moral supeiiors The instinct of resistance mamfeeted under such circumhtanies n not unrelated to the tradition of free wil' ami elf-determination i herlshed through (enturles of fire and flood and war and peac bi the white races ll Is dangerous to tell a leasoning man that be inutt not do nnrtlnng which he considers tight Tell lrm that he i violating the lilies of hesltn m good taste or honor and he will listen Issue orders and you will have h fight on vonr handi The rights and wrong" of hr,uo' and toba(o tnjy be left for the moment aside This, howevei i plain If th- anti tobaeo drive is not conducted with more tnct and patiewe and tolerance thtin the anti-liquor campaign re vealed iluldren will be flicking cigarette asnes M'lteilv about the nurserieK before n.ani yenrs and there may be a nice little teweled p'P in the handbag of almost every sub-deb Svis.1 the fly Do li carries germs ll is one of the dirtiest things alive Hut isn't it about time that we learned thai swatting as it Is ordinarily practiced has been a bit too casnal and far too limited in scope; The human n'e is painfully slow to learn iew things Hungary, for instanre. win flattened out bv the war It was scourged ,iud denuded under the Hapsbutgs. It suf feied etery imaginable affliction because of the stupidity of its kings One might have supposed ton when its runaway etnperot re turned there would have been a wild demand from the housetops to swat the Carl IKt there was unfiling of tni sort llungarv strews flowers and leading cnlens riou and p'i'i to restore ai' the old afflictions Hungai.N. m tne hna. Hnalvsls Is not greitlv different from Pennslvnia Flits carry disease and tney cause irk ness Hnd death. They poieon fond and thej kill little children But, while we are cwai ting them, shall we leave unsnatterl the things and people who spread mifcery and nnfiiion. sickness and unrest throughout nil the pn'itirnl and economic life of Inc niintt Hie peonle of the Fnlted fltates might look iwii .ii llriiMin in e whether il it safe li so alone constantly swatting nothing but flies. For years the British didn't swnt their. profiteers, their poseurs, their rogues, their disturbers of the pence, their conspirators and their politically unfit. Now, to make up for lost time in a way, thnt Is wholly wrong, they nre going nt these things with sledge hammers. All sorts of contagions have been permitted to spread. It would be hard to say who should have been swatted whether it should have been Lloyd George or Arthur Henderson, the labor man, or the editors of the Morning Post or the lending members of the House of Commons. Now nil of them arc in n raelce. Men like Lord Morlcy nnd Lord Brycc. Balfour and Cecil. Gilbert Murray and Ber nard Shnw nnd It. G. Wells tried to Mvat the flics in their various ways, but the job was too much for a few men. There has onsued n crisis that from this distance seems to he the crentest that the British have had to face since the war ended. Th worst of it ia that neither the Com mons nor the Morning Post nor Mr. Hender son nor even Lloyd George is truly repre sentative of the rank and file of the British people. Even the Times ts ashamed of the Commons and says so loudly at regular intervals bscause the Commons is over burdened with men who happen to be nt once rich, stupid and insular, ll is npon the Commons rather thnn upon the prime minister or the old-line Tories that blame muut be put for au Irish policy that i coming to an end in humiliation and con fusion. The British people, angry, bewildered, misrepresented and misunderstood, were for all tbo world like the people in the United States. They were content to drift good naturedly and they trusted nlmost any leader who happened along and elected men who could talk charmingly and make nice promises. They didn't swot the flies of poll tics. They let them buzz around. They nre coming to realize, as we shall sooner or later, that the Jaws of sanitation must be consistently applied In public af fairs if free government is to continue and If social evolution is to proceed in peace rather than in violence. IMPRESSIONISTIC STATECRAFT THE popularity of the present impression istic Interpretation of diplomncy is not surprising. In the old uninspiring days factors of logical growth nDd the sober processes of evolution entered into tbe comprehension of world polity. A private interview between two statesmen of divergent views was not invariably regarded as muking tho utter conversion of one spokesman by the other. It can be rcalired now how dull this all was. Consider, for instance. M Vivian! and his mission Appraised in the outmoded fashion, facts would have !npertlnentlv em barrassed the diagnostlcinns. Chief umong these realities is tin- terse nnd vigorous nolo lately dispatched to Germany by Secre tary Hughe This missive ilearly expresses the disin clination of the United States lo play a dog-in-the-manger role in the war settle ment. The Berlin Government is informed of American sympathy with the efforts of the Allies to secure a settlement of the reparations problem. "'This government," declares Mr. Hughes, "stands with I he gov ernment of the Allies in holding Germany responsible for the war nnd therefore mor ally bound, so far as may be possible." Language more explicit than this could not have emanated from Washington had the United States ratified the treaty of Ver sailles nnd indorsed the covenant of the League of Nations. The note plainly serves notice upon Germany that her program of driving a wedge between America nnd her former associates in the world conflict is fantastic. The State Department particularly stresses the fact that Mr. Hughes' communication was dispatched before the arrival in this country of the French envoy. This is hard upon tbe impressionists, assuming for the moment that they are susceptible to the in fluence of proved realities. The favorite way of avoiding such handi caps just now is to fancy Mr. Harding and Mr Hughes as instant converts to the Vivianl principles nnd then to conceive the French legate as completely overwhelmed by the logic of Senator Knox on behalf of tea olutlon to establish a separate peace with Geimany. Under such cireumstnnees life cannot b called boresomc. One must be stoical indeed to reject the rich kaleidoscopic harvest of hypotheses. In a few rircles where chill old fogeysm peisists there will be a tendency to dweil on the implications of Mr. Hughes' note and to consider also the long and necessary processes which stand in the woy of anything like a hair-trigger settlement of the peace ques tion nnd the American foreign policy. In dulgence In reflections of that character dis qualifies the participant for the game of dramatic theorlnng. The outsiders can only nurse a few meager facts offensive stains upon the glittering -cenerv of speculation. IT IS TO LAUGH THE iepreentatives of the Job Combine in Harrisburg nre objecting to ,he so-called Sproul drr bill because it empowers tho police department to enforce the liquor laws. Thej un that such a provision will enable the Mayor and his police department to use the saloonkeepers as their political allies. Rut do they not know that the enforce ment of the liquor laws was under the di rection of the police department until the possaje of the Volstead net' And do they not know that a Mayor and director of rublic safely in sympathj with i hem would have the same power which they nbiect to having reconferred upon the present Mavor and his director of public safety1 Any power which the Mayor has con be ued to advance his political ambitions. .Some Mayors in the past hnve used the Miloonkeepers fls part of the political machines uith which, thej affiliated, nnd other Marors hnve mntfe n conscientious ef fori to enfoire the liquor laws impnrtiiillv. The res I eource of the objection of the Job Combine to the Sproul bill lies in its fear that lr will enable the Mayor to inter fere with its plans to tuc Ihc saloonkeepers for its nun purposes. The Combine has alrrnch tponftored two bills intended to pre ent the Mayor from interfering with it system of piotecting vice by nrralgning siiBpei ted lawbreakers before an impartial magistrate When its representatives sa tnat thev tear the Mayor will use the law-breaking saloonkeeperx for political purposes Ihcy ten l mean that thov are afraid he will put ihc fear of the law into their heart I lie Aiiiericnn soldiers who pursued Hergdoll into Germany are hack with their ii run llui money is still on them. '.i Emperor Chailes. who sneaked back into Hungary, is sick. It is good lo know thai somebodv reacts naturally to the sit anon in eastern Europe Railway men are still thinking of the Piumb plan. For a good rnanv of them the Plumb plan, if it er were adopted, would i ave lo be written without the b Twenty-five Pennsylvania counties. kuts a dispatch from Harrisburg. may go wet under the Hproul dry bill. English is some times a hard language to understand The iiens that John I) Rockefellei has Mintiibiitril S.iHO'i In aid the enforcement of the oUtcjd law suggc-la uuj tu uiiicn the id. best mnn In the countrr msv die pnni it lit' lle IIH -U li IP ll DALE, OF YORK ! A Fine Type of Politician and Phllan- ' I 4l....f.A fU- M... All. I I!.--...!. I i un uuibi i ne mcicaninc Liorary a Record Charity Organizations for the Sproul Bill n- GEOROE SOX McCAIN DR. JAMES A. DALE by his will has left the York Hospital $150,000. He whs for nearly half a century one of the most conspicuous figures in York, its ' leading druggist, a clean, clever politician and at VHrlous times member of commissions appointed by the Governors! of Pennsylvania. Dr. Dale was n politician not for what there was in it, becnuso lie was beyond that sort of thing, but for the fun and excitement of it. For n number of yearn he was the moat potential figure in Rcpubllccn circles in York county. He had very strong independent leanings, and was more often against Quay during his life than he was for blm. And yet each man respocted the other and acknowledged the fact. A curious incident impressed this upon me. DURING one of Quay's fights I called on blm in Washington. On such occasions the senator was the Interviewer nnd his caller the interviewed He was not at all optimistic about the sit uation In York. I had just coma from there and my own Information only added to bis uncertainty. "If I only had Doc Dale with us we could enrry "Vork county, He's been fighting me nnd 1 don't believe he'd go along this time," he said "Why don't you sen him and find out," I suggested. Get him on the telephone now nnd talk to him." Quay was under the weather physically that day and asked me to conduct the con versation. I got Dr. Dale on the wire, told him that the senator was very anxious tn t'Q him nnd nsked if he would take the first train to Washington. T was nt the house when Dale arrive)! a few hours afterward. The greeting was cordial und the conversation for about five miuutes straight, unvarnished and to the point. Dr. .lames A Dale told Senutor Matthew Stanley Quay just whnt he thought of certain of his political doing, while Quay regaled the doctor wPh a fine recital of certain al leged political shortcomings of which th York citizen had been the principal. Then Quay said : "Doctor, I want to carry York county You're the only man that can do it. Will ou do It, and how much will It cost?" The' doctor frankly told the senator that it would cot quite a Bum for workers, and to get the voters lo tho pollsttinder the cir cumstances. There was a lot of preliminary work to be done, meetings held, with all the usual overhead expenses. He named a sum up in four figures, nnd added: "I want ,ou distinctly to understand, senator, that I want not a penny for mrself. and all the money will go for legitimate campaign expenses." "All right, doctor, I know that. Spend whatever you think necessary and aentf me the bill." That closed the talk. The bill fell hun dreds of dollars short of the estimate. Dale enrried the county nnd, as far as I know, he and Quay were friends to the latter's death. James A. Dale was one of the finest types of political leaders I have ever known. THE Mercantile Library Co of Philadel phia will celebrate its centennial next jear. In spue of Its respectable age it Is a child compared with the Philadelphia library. The Philadelphia Library Co. was founded ninety-one years before the Mercantile Li brary was established. That was back In 1731. In the quaint descriptive of the writer of those far-distant days, "a numlifr of gentlemen having raised the sum of 100. the Philadelphia Library was commenced with tho intention of disseminating knowl edge by the ntd of books taken from the library room," All libraries have had rough sledding the last few yeiiis. The wonder is they have conquered the crisis instead of the crisis conquering them. The expenses for maintenance of the Mer cantile Library were just about doubled during the war period. In some things it was trebled. In 1014 the printing in round numbers re quired by the library cost J300; in 1020 it was .$1000. Fuel In tho former year cost U00 nnd in 1020 152700. The library Bpent for hooks .$3000 the first year of the war. as compared with $0200 in last year. JOHN FREDERICK LEWIS, president of J the library company, offers a very in teresting explanation for last year's increase in the number of subscribers and stockholders over the preceding years. "The increase is due no doubt to tbe in crease and Increasing high cost of books which has led book loers and readers to avail themselves of the facilities of the li brary instead of purchasing books direct," he snjs Mr. Lewis also puys a deserved compli ment to the efficiency of T. Wilson Hedley, librarian of the Mercantile company, "The success Is due finally to the activity of the librarian in advertising the library and thus inducing members to unite in ita enjoyment." THE Mercantile Library is n fair example of the far-reaching influence of libraries ns n class. Its membership is scattered over a dozen states and is not like onr dis tinctively local institution, the Free Library of Philadelphia, confined In the distribution of i's benefits to the tity alone. Forty-five hundred packages of hooks were sent by mail last year to subscribers in adjacent states. Every year both the Philadelphia and Mer cantile Libraries purchase whnt to n wealthy book lover would lie n small library, for the lite of their stockholder" Last year the Mercantile purchased nnd nlnced on its shelves 3700 books. This is exclusive of government documents and presentation volumes which numbered seveial hundred more The largest circulation the library has had for the last thirty years was that of last vear. when 172,000 volumes were passed across lis desk. KARL DE SCHWEIN1T. informs me thnt the Society for Organizing Charity is standing as a unit behind Governor Snronl's Department of Welfare bill. Mr. De Schwclnitz. who it general secie tarv of the society, its executive officer. In fact, knows just what he h talking about, His declaration will unquestionably carry weight at Harrisburg. for the organization which he represents and speaks for is the largest in the state ond one of the most in fluential in the United Stales "We believe in the concentration of of forr. partlculailv where so many intciests are involved nnd where hiicIi vast Bums of money nre to be expended for charity," said Secretary De Schwelnitz "With one lesponsiblc head and a dis tnut department to handle appropriations, thousands of dollars will be saved through systematized effort. It is doing for the state what lias been done for the city by our society." Well Represented I l cm the Chlcaao J-enirtit l'oil With the home town editor the home town doctor nnd, probably, the home town lawyer serving the nation in Washington, Marlon, Ohio, will need ice on its head The Soviet' Way Fieri the 'Vaauneton Po" When 105 Russian laboiei. asked for more pay last week they were piomptly hauged the Soviet's humorous way of giving labor a nils. Self-Explanatory I .in tl, VVl hit - H 'aeon Strange manuscript found hj a Wichita teacher on ber desk : "Please exciine Jennie, She was sick ami had to tnv home to do the "kaliiug and It oiili. I "CAN'T SWIM, EH? Km iSS ) K-t - 'eOJfc. '- ,f&'- Je,-1" - vv )jwii IflVlw lvlr it j- .1 Byr 4J&F7 "-t." SllWfcv.5f BiFir5tfelMJrrb . rr-jiga--,-... MMwMM&mMX i rMjj!iijjWWiB:i oiBgMaairK P ' 'Jt VK5hx2&$fiit.''.i'T.irr":AM' . - , ,(Ki4rnVfV ' W ' TREES' n--Bd6 y arRr!233"J! i5i--ir"'':TJArrJI'iiJ Ak rTMl" n"b" '.' Mif'i'iFirapir jjMflhgii iim ifiaMn 2V'M... iii"tfn 'jp11! 1 "HIUmS5g ff y sSiSpT 3liE NOW MY IDEA IS THIS Daily Talks With Thinking Philadelphia on Subjects They Know Best MRS. WILLIAM B. ABBEY On Housing In Philadelphia MXJO HOUSING evils are necessary: none IN need be tolerated. Where thej exist they are always a lcflection upon tho intel ligence and moral tono of the community." This is the statement of .Mrs. William B. Abbey, chaliman of the church woman's housing committee of Philadelphia, who has made a study of housing conditions here. She says: "Toleration of bad housing in n city means nothing less than consent to rotten founda tions for the whole civic structure. Present day ngitatlon for change in this basic mat ter, therefore, means something move than nltruistlc effoit to improve living conditions for large numbers of citizens j it is, ruther, born of the instinct of self-preservation, for the body politic is n whole and no part of its life can be In a state of chronic decay and the rest thrive The admonition, 'Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.' Is plainly the expression of a universal underlying economic law, and its fulfillment will mean a maximum of endeavor and attainment, carrying with it in relation to civic inatteis nothing less than the realization of n com monwealth in line with the laws of that kingdom for the coming of which the church prays, but seems scarcely to expect. "In considering the subject of housing in this city it must bo recognized that existing evils arc not of musliioom growth nor ie sultant from the great war, but nre the accumulation of jenra of neglect, luck of vision on the part of the builders of the citj . failure of property owners to comply with sanitary regulations secured by legislation and a confusion of standards and values. The question was once nsked, 'How much better is a man than a sheep?' If we are to iudgo by the provision we make for lioim ing the people the answer must be thnt the man Is of negligible value compared to tho animal, for leilain it is that no one would house his cicaiuics as wn do our fellow beings, for it would mean the loss of all the potentinl alui of his property. Jacob Rlis Buyn: 'You can't let people live like- pips and expei t them to be kooiI citiens' (this before the displacement of the old 'htj ' on model farms by the iiiudeiii c unci cte, well -lighted nnd ventilated strui'turel. Vol we are doing this very thing in Philadelphia today. How Does "Other Half" LUe? "On nanow sticetu, dead-end alleys anil tear courts we haic n popu'allon of .IS, 000 souls practically unknown lo tho 'other half of the 'wot Id ' lo icyerse another saying of Jacob Rlls. but contributing, despite the fact that the people arc 100 per cent better thnn their surroundings and in many in stances achieve homes iu n very wilderness of difficulty, their shnte to the corporate life of the (oiiimtinlt In n ghastly quota of disease and crime, legitimate produit of their environment. Today In u 'back' street I saw seven small houses of the 'bandbox' type which for twenty yeais have been de pendent for 'toilet' facilities upon two de cayed and tottering closets in the rear of one of them, and this in not nn uncommon con dition In Kensington, .where the people live upon whose lalnu the prosperity of the city largely depends, there nio mau streets with only nut face drainage, wheie yards nnd pavements aie aliwns wet and htagnant water breeds chills and fever, uphold nnd klmlird ills, while as many us M100 'out -bouses' on sewered streets witness to failuic on the pait of piopeily owners to make con nections required bv law. In passing it may be worth while 10 ask whether cvaslou of law which Imposes hurtful conditions upon one's 'neighbor' is not as culpable as the commission of the more familiar crimes against societj "A pamphlei issued by ihc Natlonul Housing Association. 'What Bad Housing Means to the Cutiimunilv ' denial es thai 'the most pitiful vlitini of modem city life is not the Blum child who dies, but the slum child who lives' . thai in every slum child who lives the nation has a prVibable consumptive and a possible criminal ' The same publica tion sums up the loss to the state on ac count of had housing, 'loss of propertv' if have by me a list of JiOO houses so ruinous an to be uninhabitable), 'loss In property values, loss in the expense of nime and de pendency, loss In the expense of disease nnd in the deaths of citizens, a loss In the efli riency of the worklngman, a loss in homes, a loss in citi-ienshlp.'' Change la Needed "And wlial Is necesan lo chsnxe all lhl to in. u.' Philadelphia in "' 'il. as in rvi HADN'T YOU' BETTER utution, a city of homes? Jinny new houses are needed, large building projects must be undertaken, larious economic problems solved, sanitary measures must be enforced and much lehnbllitution accomplished. I know nothing more fascinating than the con version of unfit properties into decent homes. But the essential element iu nil this must be nn nwnkened and enlightened public plrit, nnd this enn only come bv n knowl edge of conditions. The comfortable 'half of this world must know 'how the other half lives,' and wbfcn it dors iu 'intelligence' will condemn our stupid waste of life nnd property, its 'rlghtnundedne.ss' lesent the glaring inequalities and unfairnesses of pres ent conditions nnd its 'moral' sense 'will seek and find the way out.' " A Striking Invitation From Hi llornil. :. V . Tribune If the coulemptible liar who started the m 1'?,nnrt ih!" ' had n slioke jesteidav will call on me I will endeavor to convince him t,hat I am in igorous working order CHARLES ADS IT. Lodge's Handicap Prom th On .smi. journal. Thoie are so few Democrals lefi in posi tions of Brent trust anil responsibility that we hardly know how Hint great scholar in politics. H. Cabot Lodge, is going to get along fur lintlng material. A Carnival of Taxes twin tl s.u. lost.lntlliRenci They ve taxod everything we own, and now Ihey ll tax our memories in lr. rfjmr rn remember all the things for which we're being taxed. Open Diplomacy I'miii Hi llei.olt N'mi Government by women will do awav with secret ticnlies. "" The Bigger Bill 1'inin li . lliiIH Muiiiii V Another thing thai mnkes i. ;PIIans moiose ,s ih,. slr- of the Allies' bill , ,'.., pauson with their William. What Do 1 on Know? '' QUIZ ' W')'r'.l',a"he KIK,,incan;f' "f 'h- name .us- Who was Annie l.oulsc faij ' " What arc torts? I What Is meant In Hritlsli consols r. Mow should tl,e word consols bo i,to nounced .' ' mo" s w;?a;,7srvu':''7An,e,iM" " " 7 n,u"e'vBaIl0ni '"ake H "" '" liquid S What relation was Chaile iiin.k., I he late Kmperoi K inclV J01- "J Austrla-Hiingaij. Joseph of ! Miai in the 'Tin of , lo.t c IU nistinKUl.sl, between rhatlcH A. D.inu ami r.t'liaril 1 lent liana. -'"i.i aim Answers to Yesterday's Quiz I l.otd Kilniunel Talbot I,,ih been nrni. . , lord lleuieiir.ni ,.d nor o r ? ',' ' of Ireland to B.icceeU VHcoin, FreTc,', i Ldgar Allan Poo created ihe famou . i,.,,.' neter of nupln. the detect in ?i. 3 Great Britain len,. tn ,e possession til most ocin passence shins ' , f I'nlied Slates and Frano r.n- ' lle speothely. second and thlN '"'" ,e' I Tim present claimant to iho ,ilrm ,, China Is Hie boy, Hsuni,.'rp ro,U! r 5. ' l.e Matin ' imn ,, ,m, HHWrpaper. means ti. i " " I a c 1 1 Catherine theOrcai .i, Bmn., , A ' Sim Used , ,,, I,,' ,P , ' wnlefi,lli and .l, tlrai n,!, ' " -iRl.te..!,,!, c.,llur, 7" "" ' III. True Pieslclcni, or Hie ,,,, , who wrote niuoliOB,.pm, '.' '"'iVcs nuieii. fJrant and ltooHevoi' "r" Angola is a Portuguese t.n. tropical Afrl... It In i," ',l,n ' Atlantic coast between Z t n, "f ,l,fl I south and imand' ? tT" "C" Nu.ncu and ZamhfBl rlie ti,.h. '.ho !X about alf tJ1,;;;"! I'M I l.. I. The Ilia battle of tl. Sorc , i, llnpl, wai occuire.l .. i ,,,,,,,,, ",ord Ui,iii, L. ... . e """" ' i' I JIB ill lr I I U 1 ,1 HURRY 'N' LEARN?" Humanisms By WILLIAM ATHERTON DU TUT WHEN Byron S. Newton was assistant secretary of the treasury he used to run hastily across the street at noon and grab himself a mug of milk nnd a sandwich ' one of thoso left-handed nnd informal dairy lunches. He was just turning into one of ths places one day when he was accosted by ar associate. "Surely you are not gojng lo eat here, said the friend. "Such londuet is not cem patible with the dignity of your position And then, besides, you nre nn ambltlou mnu. You can't expect advancement unless you inhabit the haunts of the successful "Listen." said Newton. "The colleele of cuVoms of the port of New York is the best job in the gift of the Treasury Depart ment. Isn't it' Well I waa appointed t" thai post this morning," In pleaching his gospel of brevity. Rr rcsentative F. W, Dallinger, who grew up in the same town with Hnrvurd, who wesrk whiskers, and who is author of a long book on "Nominations," gives the following el ample of tho limited space into which l is possible to compress n tale. Tho teacher had developed a hvpothetica situation in which a man named Elijah, the owner of a covey of bears, had found him self the victim of n group of boys who fo lowed that savage Instinct of youth to tcse the animals. Finullr, Elijah issued an ulti malum. He said that it the boys did not lay off he would turn the beam loose. Thi pupils were asked to tell as briefly as poa sible the story from that point on to th tragic denouement. Here is what one bsr wrote. The boys didn't. Elijah did. So did the bears Do not waste that greatest of all boom the vote, on any fly-by-night third part' Representative Simeon D, Fess, of Ohm told the members of ihc Woman's parM when they met in final convention. Ve' with one of the old parties, preferably tne Republican. They govern the nation " lliinl part? ever amounted to anything. "How about Ihe Republican party in the beginning?" piped up Mrs. Frederick Wil liam Kiudall. of Buffnlo. who had don time as n picket ' ll was quite disconcerting, ll called for a lot of explaining that Mr. Fess had n"' figuied into his ten minutes at all. It ju spoiled his speech These newly enfran eliiscd women should adopt a more Fyrar thctii: attitude toward the political sn!' binder. Theodore Roosevelt, nssisunl scuctaiv of the navy, snjs that when he was campaign ing in Kentucky last fall, a big sen" man "rode night herd" on him, This urn lissuicd him that he was voting for tb party; that the crvictj man was doing h. political duty. "How old are you?" asked the colonel "Nineteen." levied thn servlco man Rooseveli sal:l they were elbowing theh wn tin oiigh a dense crowd and obstrr n square-shouldered fellow doing likew'se and lacking in the same general direction "Gaiigwn." foiled this man lustily "What ship " Roosevelt called back "New York, ' was the response. The assistant secretary Fnld that he took his me ns to his position iu Ihe depi'' ment with lelatioti to the secretory fr.un reprimand that he once heard the sklpr of a fishing boat give to his mate. The Uln per said : "All ! want fiom you is silence an'. damn little of that." "in- iii me mellow, tuougltlful minus ' fongiess from the southern slates is T H . .....-, ,, ,,- -luiuiicin Piuiru is i Intawai. of Arkansas, long in the Hous ,llt n marmk.. n, ,1.. C . if f .1. 4 i 1 "... .."iitun in in,, ncuuic- since .Miir'u w,,,-,,,,,, ne s.u uiui laiKeu ot many tninx' lang'ng from ( oon dogs to tho opportunit' of the Inited States to hold high the Imc of Idealism for the whole world. Finall f askei him this one: "Whut. senator, do jnu conceive as tl' situation in the I'nited States on the tit' question 100 jears from now?" "A hundred yeat-8 hence." he leplin' the Negroes will ho segregated. They wi either be colonlted in some such 0lace as liv Philippines or Africa, or they will be ism lined to some area set aside for them ft the I niled States. The drift Ik In that ' reel inn now. Nobodv has ever niggctJ nil' nllier solution. II Is one of the Ml thin.u that will be doot within u criiu L v !SiuV " i. ,.J Wm .' 1. 1 ii '-. , SL L..U ,, t4WLji
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