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ART AT CITY HALL
rIB rather ntartllnj to remember that a
city like thin, which already l In poa
etlon of some very Talnablc collections of
palnUors and in a wav to acquire other
collection! that are pricelps. expects the
Department of Public Works to look prop
erlr after these pictures.
The Department of Pnblic Worku In nd-
aalrable in its vir, Hut to ask the technical
Men of tta staffs to care for reat art rol
lections is about like asktnc the police to do
tire work of chemlrcl research In the De
partment of Health.
There oujht to be somebody at City Hall,
la Director Caven'a department or out of
it, fully qualified by knowledge- and ex
perience fenerally to appraise valuable
paintinfs and to care for them and direct
the xrark of their restoration.
NEXT WINTER'S COAL
ITU1K Anthracite Bureau of Information,
J. maintained by the coal operators, re
ports that "barring unforeseen clrcum
stances like a winter of unusual severity
ft can be predicted confidently that there
willAe no shortage of anthracite this year."
The production of a supply equal to the
4emand is, however, said tn be dependent
n the early purchase of coal by the con
sumers. If they dn not order it the opera
tors, will not mine it, even though they know
boat what the demand will be.
The operators profess inability to mine
lame quantities In advance of orders. They
say they have no facilities for storing and
that the coal mast be loaded into the cars
s it comes from the mines and be shipped
to its destination.
It ia wise for the householder to order
this winter's supply early in the year so
that the retail dealer may send his order
to the mines. But if the producer of any
ther commodity were as certain as the coal
perators are that a fixed amount of their
product would be consumed every year He
would arrange to produce that amount and
deliver it when It was ordered Instead oi
following a hand-to-mouth policy,
THE MILLAR BILL ESCAPES
THE Harritburg wrecking crew seems to
have overslept. While It was rubbing
tha dnat from its eyes the Millar bill, pro
Tiding that the Public Service Commission
hall have power to determine the reason
ableness of rentals paid by the Philadelphia
Rapid Transit Compaay to the underlying
companies, snapped spiritedly back Into the
tate Benate.
The measure, which has already passed
A House, Is altogether too lively tn please
thoa political and financial combinations
which shudder at the thought of giving the
public a vquare deal.
Tke Millar bill, specifically enlarging and
tflarag the sphere of the commission's con
trol over a vital pnblic utility, wns thought
to have been entombed. Is it possible that
the bitter penalty of relaxed vigilance In
Bcrrliburg is an access of new life for n
Bjeasnra framed without regard for special
tererests?
THE REVISION PROGRAM
ITlHEHr. Is little doubt that the Governor
X will atgn the bill providing for a const!
tctlonal convention which has passed both
iouats of the legislature.
It fives to the voters an opportunity to
bride whether they wish to have thr con
stitution revised. At the September pri
maries tbey will be called upon to vote on
tie question of calling a convention, and
art tha same time to nominate delegntes to the
convention. If the convention proposition
is voted down the delegates will have nothing
to do.
Tfce task before the advocates of revision
Is to convince the voters of its necessity.
It .is useless to deny that the number of
persons with poltlrc convictions on the
subject Is small. The average voter must
be persuaded to take an Interest In the
matter and to vote on It when the oppor
tulry is offered.
Every oaa who knows anything about it
admits that the constitution is defi-rtlve. It
was drafted In 1R73, since when there has
lseen no revision. Many amendments have
been adopted, it is true, tmt they have not
eliminated the contra lictlnns and they have
a'et brought the do umnt up to the needs
f the present time.
Arrangements have already been made
tor a statewide campaign !n support of the
revision program. It will begin as soon as
tile Governor signs the menmre.
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SENATORIAL RUBBER STAMPING
SENATOR NOnUiH has denounced his
numerous confreres who favored the
treaty with Colombia to the extent of
passing it yesterdav as "rubber stamps of
tie White House. ' Somehow or other this
phrase on senatorial lips lacks novelty,
Mr. Norrls In particular has sung the
asm rune before. Memory Informs one
that when the nation once "nibber-stampei"
it presidential call to war In defense of
American liberties the gentleman from Ne
braska protested
It is always InterrMing to observe con
ulstency, even when this involves obstruc
tionism on any and all occasions. There
it not the slightest likelihood that the
public l deluded concerning the Norrls
bread of statesmanship.
MR. BRYAN RISES TO SPEAK
rp'UlIJUTJO.1' said Mr. Ilrjan In
JL Washington, "Is now the settled policy
of the country." What he meant to nay,
doubtless, was that prohibition la the set
tled policy of the government.
When you speak of tbe country you have
naturally to think In terms nf the people.
The people would be far better if they
cbeerfully accepted as their own the policy
aunttted l" tbe Volstead act. Even Mr.
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Ilryan, ingenuous as he is about many
things, must know thst they have not done
this. How ran they be convinced? How
can thejy be made to understand what is
best fori them? In other words, how can
prohibition be enfop-ed and permanently
established?
The tireless Nebraskan had a great deal
to do with formulating the sentiment that
at last took visible form In the Volstead
law. Now that the law is on the books he
cannot decently evade his snare of the re
sponsibility which It implies. Vet he talked,
for almost nn hour in Washington without
once suggesting n wny in which the dry law
of his dreams can be made to operate de
cently and efficiently.
THE "YOU TICKLE ME AND
I'LL TICKLE Y0UM POLICY
Those Who Wish It to Continue Are Op
posing the Bill to Put the Support
of State Charities on a
Sclentlflo Basts
fTtHB real objections of the opponents of
X Governor Hproul's plan to crente a De
partment of Public Welfare, embodied In
Senator Woodward's bill, have not been
confessed.
It is charged that the bill is part of a
plan to strengthen the Sproul political ma
chine through the control over patronage
and through the supervision of appropria
tions. Kvery member of the Legislature, how
ever, knows that this charge Is merely a
pretext to excuse hostility to the measure
and that the bill is objected to not because
it will strengthen the Governor, but be
cause it will take from the legislators them
selves one of the sources of their own po
litical power.
A large proportion of the members of the
General Assembly exert themselves every
session to secure ns much money as possible
for the charitable Institutions In thelrdls
trlcts. They engage In log-rolling and vote
for appropriations in one district for which
they know there Is not sufficient justifica
tion Id order to secure votes for an appro
priation for the institutions in their own
district. The most expert log-roller gets
the most money.
The purpose ut the bottom of the Gov
ernor's plan is to put the appropriation of
money for philanthropic and correctional
purposes upon a scientific basis and thus to
conserve the money of the state.
This end has not been and could not be
accomplished under the present system,
where supervision of such institutions is
divided among the Board of Public Chari
ties, the Committee on Lunacy and the
Prison Labor Commission, These three
bodies are abolished by the bill and their
functions are tnken over by nn unsalaried
Commission of Public Welfare, with a
salaried commissioner as its executive officer.
This commission is to have supervision
over all penal, reformatory and correctional
institutions and all hospitals for the insane
or for any other purpose, and all institu
tions for the feeble-minded. Idiotic or epi
leptic persons and all institutions for the
care of the deaf, inebriates or juvenile de
linquents when these institutions receive
state aid. And It is also to supervise all
sV-hiiritnble Institutions und all places where
the insane are detained, whether these in
stitutions receive state aid or not. It is
to look after all the county prison hos
pitals and almshouses and all institutions
to which dependent or neglected children
may be committed and all baby farms. Fur
ther, it is tn administer the mothers' assist
ance system and to manage the lnbor system
of the penitentiaries and reformatories nnd
to supervise the relief from conditions
caused by mine -caves, by fire, by flood or
other casualty which constitutes a menace
to public welfare and safety.
The concentration of supervisory au
thority over these matters in one body is
in line with the best modern practice. It
tends to economy and to the application of
the raoBt advanced methods of relief for the
persons confined in the institutions brought
under uniform control. But the practical
business justification for the plnn lies In
its reform of the system of appropriating
state money.
'Kvery Institution seeking state old is re
quired to set forth its needs to the depart
ment created by the bill. The commissioner
is then to examine carefully Into each re
quest and to discover so far as possible its
merits. Then he is to report to the General
Assembly the result of his inquiry and to
make his recommendations.
The intent of the bill is that these
recommendations should constitute the offi
cial charitable and correctional budget for
the two succeeding years. It 1 assumed
that this budget would hp prcpnrcd nnd the
money apportioned on the basis of the work
done by the different institutions and not
in the haphazard manner now prevailing.
The pet charities of a few Influential poli
ticians would then hove to justify their
existence and be content with such a pro
portion of the appropriation as the work
they did entitled them to.
The measure onght to be welcomed by
the politicians who think thlr political life
is dependent on the amount of money they
can get out of the state treasury for their
districts. It will relieve them of the pres
sure now brought to beer on them because
they can refer solicitors for fnnda directly
to the Public Welfare Commission created
expressly to guide the Legislature in the
distribution of state money. And they can
assure their constituents that every worthy
institution will get as much money as the
itate can afford.
Only those who wish to ploy favorites
can oppose the measure. It ought to be sup
ported by every one who welcomes the be
ginning of the work of abolishing the nu
merous commissions now managing various
phases of the public business and the con
centration of authority In as few hands as
is consistent with efBclency,
FEMININE HUMOR
MOST men, accustomed as they bavo been
In recent years to doubt their fitness
for lordship, will read with gratification and
relief Miss Agnes IleppUer'a assertion that
they actually ere monopolists of the peculiar
wisdem that is manifest as a sense of humor.
Certainly you see only half of life if you
are unable tn see a funny side to almost
every affair of dally existence. Men are
more tolerant and in some ways more
charitable than women. Few of them ever
r'ally grow up or away from habits of
irresponsibility which all boys have. They
can loaf gracefully and with extreme pleas
ure. Women .-tnnot. Men can laugh at
poor jokes which women would greet with
a critically lifted eyebrow. They used to
waste Innumerable hours In bars talking the
Idlest nonsense, fraternising with arrangers,
pledging everlasting fealty to one another,
and they were seemingly content with the
sound of their own voices and the more or
less uncertain light of an occasional kindred
spirit. No one ever cojld remember what
the others said or any of the topics of their
conversation. Boys flock In groups on
street corners Girls are too fastidious-
that Is. too sensitive sod analytical to do
anything of the sort.
The easy-going masculine mind responds
readily to any invitation to a romp or a
riot. Women have the appearance of think
ing twice and viewing and measuring In a
flash a whole series of possible future con
auencei before they accept an introduction
or even offer tea to a friend. They are
slow to like sny one end quick with their
dislikes and prejudices. They are far more
critical of small things than men are and
far more apt to take unimportant things
seriously. Yet it will not do to assume that
they have no humor. If they are careful It
Is, perhaps, because men are notoriously
careless, and some me certainly has to be
the steadying force In the social, qnlt called
home. It has been said, that women will
always hoard food and money. That is be
cause Instinct tells them that If they do not
somebody Is very "likely to go hungry or In
want, since a man, living as he does in the
moment, often will fling his money and his
fond broadcast and forget his "own children.
If women were without a sense of humor,
if they were not able to langh often at the
men closest to them, tbey would be crying
most of the time.
As professional humorists women do not
shine so brightly as men do, and that may
be because they have not had time .to de
velop a habit of expression. There has been
no feminine Dickens, no feminine' Mark
Twain, no feminine Hans Christian An
dersen. But behind .every great humorist you
will perceive the work o! a woman who tn
obscurity did her share to make the world
laugh. She was the one who made the
genius happy, who ordered his life for him,
kept him from catching colds and dying
before his time, collected his. papers, picked
up bis scattered things and did all the
hard and dull and thankless services with
out which the mind of her lord could not
hare glowed at all.
What time had she to be humorous and
clever and irresponsible?
OPERA OUT OF BONDAGE
T'D ENJOY grand opera if I knew what
JL they were singing about," As in some
circles it was considered cultured to sneer
at this familiar confession, the proponents
of lyric drama in English had anything but
an tasy time. Perhaps they 'overplayed their
band. Propagandists of all hues exhibit a
tendency to do this.
In any event, the ualntelllgiblllty of grand
opera to all save polyglots was generally
regarded as permanent. Then came the war
and the German tongue underwent the ban
of numerous other things Teutonic.
Peace, however, raised the old question
concerning the devil's ' monopoly "of the
good tunes. It was seen fit to pursue one
of his alleged manifestations around the
stump and some engaging Wagnerian melo
dies were recaptured.
The offense, it was held, lay inthe ver
biage, not the harmonies, And then, apolo
getically enough, the operas of "Tristan
and Isolde' and. "Lohengrin" "appeared in
lucid Anglo-Saxon. In "their new linguistic
dress Pbtladelphtans have heard both of
these works this season.
"Lohengrin" wound up the series at the
Academy this week, and the audience fol
lowed the details of its action with the zest
and genuine interest that is accorded a
worthy new play. For opera' In English Is
not In the least nn outran to the sensibili
ties, but a revelation of long-deferred com
mon sojise. rt
Of course, there are old-fashioned libret
tos In need of editing, but the task is not
insuperable, and what has been done by
SIgmund Spaeth with the old, stilted trans
lation of "Lohengrin" can be imitated in
other lyric plays.
English is not the most mellifluous of
tongues, yet that It is singable was long
ago proved in the Gilbert and Sullivan
operettas and other similar works. More
over, the German language can scarcely be
called dulcet.
The difficulty of obtaining artists to sing
in the vernacular has not existed for some
time. Mr. Gattt-Casazza possesses plenty
of stars in his organisation to whom the
English tongue is native. Mme. Easton,
Mr, Harrold and Mr. Whitehill showed
with what lyric eloquence and clarity it
conld be voiced In the interesting Wagnerian
performance given' here on Tuesday night.
Geraldlne Ferrer, Thnmas Chalmers, Charles
Hackett are also available, and Mary 'Oar
den and numerous others in the opposing
camp. Caruso has mastered English and
several of his compatriots on the operatic
stage have overcome its pitfalls.
Opera in English may come to prove that
the war was a liberalizing agent after all.
Once out of bondage, the lyric drnmn stands
nn excellent chance of escaping also from
exoticism.
The emergency which brought about this
commendable reform has passed. There are
rumors that "Die Walkuere" is to be re
vived next searon and that it may be pre
sented In German. This feature of the
restoration might well be spared.
There Is no valid reason for restoring
the seals of mystery to grand opera. The
glimpse of emancipation Is. altogether ton
delightful to be clouded.
ROYALTY BURIED IN BERLIN
NO BECENT spectacle In Europe ap
pealed so variously to the ordinary
Imagination as the funeral of the former
German empress in Berlin, As was ex
pected, all the remaining available properties
of royalty were gathered hurriedly by the
militarists, the junkers and the reaction
aries for a spectacle Intended obviously to
revive in th people the old mood and to
recreate the old spell under which Germany
gave itself unquestloningly to tbe Hoben
zollerns and doom.
Some one brought from hiding the purple
funeral cloth of royalty. Flags flew and
silver helmets, glittering in the sunlight,
bore streamers of black crepe, I'nlfonns
blazed in a way that, in other days, would
have moved tbe sentimental Berllners simul
taneously to pride and tcarS. The old
crowd turned out with about 30,000 mourn
ers to reassert their allegiance to an old and
terrible and colorful tradition.
It was clear from the first that the
funeral of the ex -empress would be made
the basis of renewed Hbhentollern props
ganda. Through it the junkers hoped to
excite first pity and then general sympathy
for the absent Wilhelm. But the crowds,
worn and disillusioned, looked nn without
'emotion and turned away before the spec
tacle ended.
The correspondent who wrote that the
royalists of Germany buried their last hopes
with the body of their former .empress put
a great deal of truth Into a few words,
WHEN "MAY" IS MADE "SHALL"
IT 18, of course, within the power of the
Legislature to nullify the charter under
which the city governtnent of Philadelphia
is now operated. Such a performance, how
ever, is much too crude to appeal to the
well-known fine Florentine Instincts of the
Yero organisation. ,
The attack directed by Max Aron in a
bid introduced In the State Benate subtly
proposes a mere change of a few auxiliary
verbs in tbe charter wording. "Shall" j
to be substituted for "may" in the provl
slon authorising the advertising for bids for
street-cleaning work by contract, if voted
for by a majority of Council.
Under this arrangement the municipal
street -cleaning program could be rather ef.
fectlvely crippled. It is not Inconceivable
that the world's once largest contrector for
removing ashes, refuse and garbage would
profit thereby.
Th charter amendment suggested Is ho
deftly phrased, and with such exquisite re
gard foT the arts of a Talleyrand nr a
MarhUvcIll, that it seems almost a shame
to speak of It harshly and with candor.
Surely some of the amenities of high state
craft ought to be preserved,
FOLKS AND FANCIES
Glasgow at tha Miner' Chief Counsel.
Henry Klrko Pocter't Llfework.
Miss Grundy and the Antl
Suffraglete Judge Thomp
son' Dilemma
ny GEOBGE NOX McCAIN
WILLIAM ANDEnSON GLASGOW,
JB., of this city, succeeds the new
secretary of state. Charles E. Hughes, as
chief .counsel to tb United Mine Workers
of America.
Mr. Olosgow is a widely known member
of the bnr of Philadelphia. He has been
practicing here since 1004, prior to which
he practiced In Boanoke, Va.
He was chief counsel to Herbert Hoover,
national fond administrator, during the war,
with headquarters In Washington.
The particular significance that attaches
to the selection of Mr, Glasgow as chief of
the legal department of the United Mine
Workers is that he Is a corporation lawyer
of high attainments.
His work, however, has been largely upon
constructive lines In the way of compelling
great corporations to observe the law. In
this he has been matched successfully against
some, of the brightest minds in the country.
His most prominent work Was bis handling
of the celebrated Pennsylvania Ballroad coal
cases some years ago, in which he qualified
as an expert both in mining and railroad
law and their relation to the common law.
John L. Lewis, president of the .United
Mine Workers, himself an exceedingly able,
conservative man, knw his business when
he hit upon Mr. Glasjow to succeed Charles
E. Hughes. ?
XITHEN Henry Klrke Porter, of Pitts
W burgh, died the early part of last week,
that city lost one of Its finest citizens and
the state one of its roost progressive men.
Yet Klrke Porter, as he was popularly
known, did not have a state reputation of
the same extent as some other man who
have been lees closely Identified with its
manufacturing interests.
For fifty-four years he was one of Pitts
burgh's lending manufacturers,-philanthropists
and civic reformers, and withal a con
sistent Christian gentleman.
He wore eyeglasses and Burnsldean
whiskers, was of an active, nervous tem
perament and spoke with n slight Yankee
accent.
I think his partiality for the side-whiskers
was due to his army experience, when that
style of hirsute decoration was in vogue
during the Civil War. General A. E. Bunif
side set Che style.
Mr, Porter's religious activities assumed
tbe form of Sunday school work, in which
he was on enthusiast.
A NEWSPAPER statement proclaims that
the death of H. K. Porter completes a
coincidental trio of deaths of three great
Plttsburghers Andrew Carnegie, John A.
Brashear and H, K. Porter, whose birth
days fell upon the same day.
It is an error In so far as it relates to
Mr. Cornegle.
John A. Brashear, scientist, and H. K.
Porter, manufacturer, were born on the
same day nnd yenr, November 24, 1840.
Andrew Carnegie was born 'on November 25
three years earlier, in 1637.
There, however, the comparison ends.
Andrew Carnegie and John A. Brashtar
were agnostics as to religious belief. H. K.
Porter not only believed in but supported,
with the utmost liberality ns to financial
aid, the doctrines of evangelical Christianity.
In the business world lie was a manufac
turer of narrow-gauge and light locomo
tives, and it is a safe venture to say that
the product of his mills and factories Is
.j be found in practically .every country
today.
Mr. Porter, who was of New Hampshire
birth, originally intended to become a Bap
tist clergyman. He pursued a course in
theology at Rochester Theological Seminary
after graduating from Brown.
He was for nearly half a century a mem
ber of the board of trustees of Croxer The
ological Seminary near 'Chester, and was a
member of the board of trustees of George
Washington University at Washington.
His list of religious corporate responsi
bilities embraced everything from president
of the American Baptist Home Missionary
Society to member of the international com
mittee of the Y. M. C. A.
The wide range of his usefulness also in
cluded his election to the Fifty-eighth Con
gress from Pittsburgh.
A RE we down-hearted? NO I"
A If this old slogan of world-war days
is not the,battlecry of the National Asso
ciation Opposed to Women Suffrage, it
should be.
It is not-only not down-hearted, but it Is
today as defiant, active, aggressive and un
dismayed as it was before the nineteenth
amendment went over the top.
Its platform is a modified states' rights
one.
Its cardinal principle is that equal suffrage
by United States constitutional amendment
impairs the very life of the republic.
It demands local self-government to the
extent that the citlscns of the Individual
state should determine whether or not they
desire the extension of the suffrage.
MISS MARGARET R. GRUNDY, of
Bristol, is ajreretory of the national
association.
She is the only representative of eastern
Pennsylvania on the official board, though
Itttaburgh Is represented by a vice president
and a member of the board of directors,.
She is a sister of Joseph R. Grundy, thr
militant head of the Pennsylvania Manu
facturers' Association.
Miss Grundy Is every whit as persistent
and clever a fighter for what she believes is
right as her distinguished brother, aa the
two outstanding present purposes of the
association demonstrate, vis:
To expose the giant lobby of radical women
now In Washington, and to Impress upon the
American people tbe fact that opposition tn
woman suffrage is not a dead Issue is not
even a aide Issue but is the most persuasive
of all Issues of the post-war period.
Tbe association has two big lawsuits under
way challenging the validity of the nine
teenth amendment.
Who is there that can or dare say that
women cannot fight?
JUDGE ,T. WHITAKER THOMPSON, of
the United States District Court, has
had pretty convincing evidence of the per
sistent contempt of trial Juries for the law
recently.
By the same token, these same jurymen
openly disregarded tho explicit instructions
of the bench, which is a thing unheard of In
tbe procedure of XJnlted Sjates courts.
Worse still, out of a dozen cases verdicts
were returned In every case of a character to
demonstrate the sympathy of the jury with
the defendant.
They, all of them, were cases involving
violations in some form of the Volstead act.
Two sidelights on prohibition are of addi
tional interest.
A prominent prohibitionist told me that
the drastic features of the Anti-Saloon
League bill, which was defeated in Harris
burg Iwt week, were placed there by the
insistence of the radical elemeut In the
league.
A citizen of western Pennsylvania, who
knows tbe land und the people, brings me
tbe Information that there are ihoro moon
shine distilleries in operation along the
Laurel and the Blue Ridges In Westmore
land and Somerset counties than there have
been in the last forty years.
In explaining its refusal to make fur
ther comment on the Yap situation, tie
Japanese Government refers to the "mutual
understanding" with the United States re
garding such reticence. Oriental courtesy
can go no further.
I'hiludelphluns are eager to make tbe
sesqulcentcnulal a pronounced success just
as soon as they can twist their tongues
around it.
There are several of the opposition
senators who are Inclined to hail Colombia
with anything bat delight.
NOW MY IDEA IS THIS
Daily Tallu With Thinking Philadelpliians on Subjects They
Knotv Best
THE REV? ROBERT NORWOOD
On Religion and Art
A RELIGION that disregard the beauty
of created things, to hedge its ministers
with dogma and choke spiritual growth with
ancient beliefs, is a religion that cannot
survive. This, In effect, is the opinion of
the Rev. Robert Norwood, rector of 8t.
Paul's Protestant' Eplscopul Church, Over
brook. "My idea of religion is that religion is
life, human relationship," he said. "It is
based on revelation, and revelation is the
child nf vision. The human soul will find
it difficult to obey the Master's injunction
'love your enemies' without that vision,
because only with that vision will it be re
vealed that what is 'enemy' in the other Is
only physical, and that the soul Itself it
always n thing of beauty. Unless religion
has .in it that thrill of ecstasy that the
artist has who sees beauty in what he
creates, the form of religion becomes unreal.
"It then becomes what Paul really meant
when he described tbe 'sounding brass and
tinkling cymbal.' Religion is love. The
thought of love as between soul ond soul
has been made by many a mere family re
lation, whereas what is meant Is what
Browning describes as 'that first, fine, care
less rapture.'
Follows Paul's Words
"Theology and theologians err in that
they destroy that notion, of the rediscovering
of life in terms of beauty and power. If by
their fruits we shall know the truth from
tbe untruth, then surely religion must al
ways best express itself in creative power,
as Paul said, "That I may know Him and
the power of His resurrection.'
"One reason why religion has lost much
of its power to arouse men and women in
these days to anything like vital awakening
is because it has lost sight of the fact that
religion and art are one thing, the expres
sion of a creative power whose result is
Invariably, in Sta true manifestation, beauty.
"A freat many men who call themselves
Christians, even a large proportion of our
ministers, have put their belief and their
vision on a traditional basis.
"My idea concerning the modern religious
situation Is that instead of working from
God down to man, we must work from man,
through man's experiences, up to God. We
mutt reach the divine through discovery,
which Is a better word than revelations,
Jesus said that we cannot see the kingdom
of God by- mere observation, and that is
' What Do You Knotv?
QUIZ
1. Where and what is the Sorbonnt?
2. Who wrote the poem, "The Man With the
Hoe"?
3. Who was
France?
the last nourbon king of
4. Name two noted American generals whn
became college heads?
5. What Is a clavier'.'
0, What is the dtlTerenco between a hem
stitch and a hemistich?
7, What la the correct pronunciation of
Chihuahua, an important city In
northern Mexico?
8. What Is the original meaning of pinJe-
moniunw
B. Who were the ancient Hellenists?
10, How many men composed a Roman
legion?
Answer to Yesterday' Quiz
1. The last action In the Civil War occurred
in July, 1S06, when the Confederate
raider Shenandoah destroyed tho ves
sels of the Derlng- sea whaling flwt,
whrch flew the Union (lag. This was
three months after the surrender of
Lee at Appomattox.
2. A solecism Is an nftense against grammar
or idiom: blunder In the manner at
sptaklnr or writing: piece of 111
brecjllng or Incorrect behavior.
3. Kl-Kuds is the modern name of Jeru
salem.
4. Ohio Is the "Buckeye State."
C, The official name given by the historical
branch of the United State Depart
ment of War to that portion of the
world war In which the forces of th
United States were engaged Is the War
U. A cord of wood cnnUtno U'S cubic fcot.
7. The word cemetery Is derived from the
Oreelt "Uclmetcrion." n dormitory.
from "kolrnao," to put to g;eep,
8' Th?r.!J,nclE?1. ,r'f cutfo'" timber In the
united Htatea Is yellow pine,
9. Ueorce Kllot (Marian Kvans Cross) wrote
the novel "Daniel Deronda."
10. Plutarch was u Oreelt historian, cele
brated as the author of forly.slx par.
allel lives of Greeks and Romans. He
was born In Chacroneu, Qreec, about'
19 A, D.
ALL'S WELL THAT ENDS WELL
why I associate the light of xclencc nnd nrt
with religion. Whatever there is for man
in the future, knowledge of It run only be
gained through discovery. If wc broaden
and deepen human experience we shall
broaden and deepen man's knowledge of God,
and it Is along that path that the religion'
of the future will roach its goal.
Minister Must Understand
"It would be iih easy for a man who is
color-blind to appreciate a Turner sunset,
as easy for a man who is deaf to appreciate
a Beethoven sonatn, ns for n minister de
void of the art Impulse to understand the
greatest collection of poetry in any book
since the making of books began. The
church should be more than she Is the
patron of fine arts. In the days of old, no
spiritual power was so associated with the
great nrtH us was the church. But the
church has lost its fine interest in the
holiness of beauty. Tbe fact that we have
today such ugly church windows, to say
nothing of the prevailing architecture of
our edifices of worship, the fact that we
enn so easily tolcrntr mi imit-li llutt i-
ecrable In music, Indicates that the church
has failed in thnt it hns appealed too much
to prejudice and not enough to the emotion
and the imagination to which Christ ap
pealed when He said, "Consider the lilies of
the field.'
"The reason why so few preachers preach
with authority and power Is because 'to
tli em the Bible I a book of toxical deduc
tions. The Bible is not like that. It is n
book of great poetry which represents the
expressions of artists of Christ's world.
Wc cannot make art express dogmatic
thesis, only the truth of human experience.
Art must be sincere or It Is not nrt, and
the man who preaches should cultivate the
arts in order to be a better Interpreter,
"Whatever we mean by religion, the
church must face this fact : She cannot
divorce herself from life. She must tnke
her stand on the experiences of the heurts
and tho minds of humanity, satisfied to
move up with the growing consciousness of
tbe masses toward the kingdom of God.
And that kingdom will be the discovery of
the human race, as men nnd women ure true
to the unfolding of the beauty of life."
Scintillating Watch Dials
Floyd W, Pardons In thn World's Work
One common use of radium Is for making
luminous dials on watches and clocks. An
examination nf one of these radium dials
through a powerful magnifying glass fur
nishes a sight thnt will never be. forgotten.
The luminous mntcrlaMs seething with tiny
flashes of light, caused by the explosions of
nullum atoms. As cuch utnm explodes a
particle files from It like a projectile from a
gun. While It Is Impossible actually to see
one of these particles, scientific Investigation
has shown that when one of these particles
Is suddenly stopped by striking n crystal of
'.Inc, sulphide the heat is sufficient tn make
n flash of light the eye can see, and it Is
these flashes that are seen under tho mag
nifying glass. They occur nt the rntt- of
!!00,000 a second, nnd their combined light
produces u glow that may easily be seen
without a lens.
Bait for Gulls
Krom the Ijlvlr.s Ae.
Sir Henry Layard had a short wav with
omniscient jnuths, who gushed over Clma
bue, Giotto, Danlelo dn Volterro. "Do you
seriously think." he would usk with his
rasping drawl, "that nny of them can com
pare with Mortndella da Bologna V" Some
would fall into the trup and discourse nn
the chiaroscuro of that great nrtlst ; others,
more hopest, would invite scorn by confess
Ing ignorance of his work. It was only
when they reached home that thej discovered
thnt "mortudella" was n sausage.
A Gigantic Lie
Sir I'KU! riul8, In the World's Wor.:.
The fundamental principle of communism,
as interpreted by the Bolshevists, Is the
'reed suppression of private enterprise, in
dividual initiative and personal munition
bused on hone of profit. Yet the only
means the Bolshevists ever possessed of per
suading the Russian workers and peasants
to support -the Bolshevist regime was the
promise of something for nothing. And this
being contrurj tn Communist principle, it
follows that communism Ims not been es
tablished. James M. Beck's idea nf H monument
to the federal constitution suggest another
convenient wuy of honoring it without nec
essarily obeyliig t.
Somehow or other tho disinclination of
the Germans to port with their gold sue
peats that they arc not paupers,
Humanisms
; By WILLIAM ATHERTON DL rt V
SAM LUNSFORD wsh a "boot" ot Tsrli
Island, which means that he wns t
marine corps recruit. He went "jiround the
loop1' with Edwin Denby, now secretary o!
the navy.
"What kind of a boot wns Dcnby?" I
usked Sam.
"He was a hard guy," wan the reply
"He never asked, for the easy end of it
The men ull liked him."
"Did you know that he had been a con
gressman?" "No," said Lunsfnrd. "We didn l mi
no questions. We used to auction hlra off
though, to sec who would go on leave ust!i
him. He always had money and it rti
awful easy to borrow from him.''
Dr. W. J. McGee, profound government
scientist, who died a few years ago, couii
use his left hand as well as his right, and
his right as well us his left.
He revealed a peculiar thing about thost
who arc ambidcxtfous. They never dreira
he said. lie had never had a dream in all
his life. None of his ambidextrous friends
ever dreamed. Dreaming comes from the
fact that one part of the brnln is awake
while the other part is asleep. The arabi
dextrous brain works ns a whole and Knows
no twilight zone in which dreams come.
When Tnsker Lowndes Oddie, of Nevnii
came down to Wuiihlngton to swear to do
his duty as United Stntes senator, he haii
something of n feeling of returning lo bin
native heath. This was due, in tbe firt
place, to the fact that over in the Xav
Department hangs the picture of Benjamin
Stoddnrt, Its first secretary, of whom the
man from Nevada is a direct descendant
and from the fact that Benjamin Tanker
nnothcr nncestor, used to preside as oliiff
executive of Maryland at Annapolis, not fir
o,way i and that the name of William l'rout
yet another progenitor, appears in the rec
ords of thousands of properties in Wash
isgton, for he used to own nil the linu
away to the east of the Capitol Building,
W. L. Bruckart, who writes the Asso
ciated Press dispatches about tbe domes of
the Houso of Representatives that evert
body rends in his newspaper, the other day
did a good deed.
He was going home on the street ''
and a small boy next to him was telliuz
friend that he had lost his job as page in
Congress becuuse the member whose patron
nge he was had failed of re-election. It
was pretty hard because he was the sole
support of his mother and their little Hal
The boy got off ot the same corner ui the
newspnpcrmnii. He went into the ssn)
apartment house. Bruckart observed t!i
number on the door he entered. He colled
up the manager of the building ami con
firmed tho boy's story.
Next morning he went to see mi Mon
dell, tho majority floor leader, and told nn
story This gentleman was once an orphan
boy without even u mother. The mail''
wnnd was waved that restored the page tu
his place, and tho kettle hums happily o-n
the little gas stove when lie goes pome to
mother in the evening, but to them th" m"
ncr In which the miracle was worked i
still a mystery.
Senator Thnmns Hellin, nf Alabama i
never declined ,nn Invitation l Pfh '""
to him by u group of his constituents o
matter how Isolated the couimun ty frw
which the call may come, no matter no
primitive the means of transportation, no
matter how wet or dry. hot. or rob i
weather, the senator accepts und sets out on
the journey, . ., , .
Sometimes he arrives Into. He
punctual man. .But regardless of the .hour
despite the fact an olid otico hns been
sembled for hours, Mr. Hell n repairs o
hotel, to the home of a friend. In the w late
barber shop. There he carefully balh".
carefully sUves, carefully arrays lilmw
fiom the skin out In spotless linen
summer time he is likely to appear in
snow-white suit, gleaming shirt Iront. id
brimmed hat. Even in winter he
white, starched vwtH. He. arrives Iat(
homewhut florid, perspiring treely, but in.
maculate. , ... , ii.
And his country constituents lis."
long served in the House from thai iob
gresslniml district which thr Census llurei
set down lis the most Illiterate n the I ""
States. He ndiiilts It, but explains the H
..-..., ,, I, Mm. ilni, in the nri'iHimlcnim'C "
colored tiopuintinn. But tin; voien- s -him
credit for showing them the ""'?'' .
preparing to meet them ns a lirldrgriHini
might make ready for the foiiilnts "'''''
who s to wear the flowing veil "' "J
white. They llk It, Tbey cvprcss tbdr i,
preclation In votes.
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