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TOLL ROADS AND MOTOR FEES
THK license foos Tor mutortruck. cannot
be iiifronsctl utiles tlio suti" is reaJ
to go bai-k in pi'iuiiile to the old toll-road
yitrni.
Etcrj nrR'iniPiu aininTd n tnoe "f
hcA firs fo" moior -liirl( is mi hpsu
niTit for t"H ioad; rha' i1-. toikN Hi'" up
keep of wlii-'li ii iaid for bj the wunles
that use them.
Free stRl"1 lii;hnj. have uperedel the
private roads maintained br toll-gat'1 com
pa-ics. They arc open lo the public arid
kept open because it i belicred that it is
the fuiK'ttou of the stato to facilitate mm
ruunication. N'o otiet- of a horse -drawn
Tehicle ha to take out a lifue permitting
him to drne on public hicliway.
0Ilor of nintor-driten veliiclo. how.
ever, are lirei)."d. 'I'liis liceun is justitiable
as n police measure. Iti purpose is to
register the name of oc- owner of stun a
vehicle. o that when an accident ncturs
the pei son responsible rM be disi-overeil and
reached. This is not tioi-ess.iry in the case
of horse-drawn vehi'.lex. or thei lannot
travel at u wpiil rate of speed end dis
appear before the in Hired premn or wit
nesjea tau tako notuc.
Hut tli" v?sil"riiiF of motorcars, de
fensible and rlp;r. h.is been followed bv
the levvin? of a tax on the owners to bo used
for th" upkeep of the highway? It was a
amall tax in th besiiuiinc. I'.iit m lias
been increas"d from time l' tun"" until non
it is proposed l ' harse the owner" of li".ny
trucks a nun h m .'.'M) n rear for the
prhilcgoof uins the highway. The police
function is liomc stiperseneil bv the taxitie
function and it i argued that the truck
owners should be taxed heavily because their
vehicles wear out the roads on whiih they
tre run.
Hut the people adtoiating tins heavy tax
arc neitner logical nor fair. They propose
that all the money collected shu'.l be turned
over to the state in spite of the fact that
not more than ."0 per cent of the inntur
trucfc in use are driven on the stale roads.
The other TO per cent are operated within
the limits of the ritie and on highway for
the building and upkeop of which the smtc
does not pa. a single ient. That is to s.iy.
70 per cent of the truck owners aie to be
faxed heavilt in order to maintain roads
for !!0 pep cent of the owners to use
The trucks winch use the sinte high-.ns
lrre the public. A license tax big enough to
keep tho roads in icpnir would drive eery
one of them out of business. No nv has sen' -ously
proposed that, though -t is likelj lo
be suggested in the future if the competition
of the trucks with nthe" me; hods of trans
portation becomes keen
Although a a tax measiu" u is wrong
In principle, no owner of a motor vehicle
of anv kind will obie't lo a reasonable
llccn" fee. II. is w;Mir.: to lonrrihute that
much toward the state highwav fund. Hut
very one w ln believes in the theor of free
hlglnvnvs should oppose the P e.inblili
raent of toll roads in an' foi m in this Mtate.
ASPECTS OF THE NAPOLEON
THE V reui ii League ior tne f'roiei tion of
Men s (',tii"'nslHi K'ghts lias urged all
its mcmb"r to i"frr.in iron taking n.irt in
rh celebration of Ma I and T lonmieino
rating the centeparv of the death of Napo
leon l.onaparic The Socialists ar also
vigorous! opposing the fesfval. This i
ooneistent strategy s.nce NapoVon while on
mauy snlrs of man; nuestion; cannot be
regarded as ever an exponent of the ('om
munist philosophy.
On the other hand n is of roul unit
the deteat of the omne-or :n Waterloo
although lo" a time n clicckoil militarism
in Europe, was a prelude to one of the
most oppressive p rod. "f reai lionarj 'sm
ever eperif lied on 'he "ontinni. The
Huh Alliao' ii '-0111, i.ii of thiee kings
ruling h "dn ne rigl.' wje h product of
Thin era
Liberal. 'in sm b ns Nario'eor pemesen'ecl
at lrat in woid. ih nng the llundied Dnjs
did 'lot leiurn I" Europ' un'il l'. mem
orab'e evc''l,Tioll-. ar of J'!' 'Hie
tlrcesor of N'auolc m as the dominating
force in En"' ne vn- i e nprrnw bizoted
and t. rannieil I'p'pi e Metfrni'-h
Hackers of rhe leniena' of the imssing of
a human prfligt wno.e harai er is still a
matter of ! ! i ii' el no be wholh at
lofS fop u"juwents on thf.r s'dr
VOLSTEADING JAZZ
Till, ladies and gentlemen who a1 Mirror
.Moure tenost. went sppkmj nienns to
eliminate jaz,: and th' ja dan'es in public
and semi publu places. hae d-an up t
report and presented it to me M.nur and
the members of Council. Ii is u v r eacn
it repoii ilood nutout ion- 'uine brightlj
in its even paragrapli
.Tar., we ai e told, is d"tiii' tie ol morals
"he music mlled jai'z encourages liap-oper
dancing and ihe impioper dan'jiig threatens
the well-buns of 'oulh ami ociet j;en
erally. Assirung all this, rhe ieport uggeMs i hat
"lndiudiia! ilani-ms permits br .s-iied when
the uppii' .nil is inuorsid by hi least the
repulable uti.cns iiiui tiled hi least im-ee
da.n la fore the dale of the proposed dunce
Preniinial lj Ihe restri'imn is jnletided to
nppb "l,lv 1 publi' dam ek. Tiie report
does not 'in .
Clearl.i u is ihe desire of lac authorities
ri wipe out tin1 nuisance of snnl-prirate
lOUSts organized m the small and moie or
lets disreputable ilubs. where membership j
IndiHcriiniuaie and adminisn-ntiou unrritli.il
Most of the i lulu about which i oiupliiints
linve bceu nuide are political urgauialious
under the wings of ward heelers. Otber
v lie they wou'd have been raided and
broken up '""S o- Will thej be la.'ded
not on general prlnup'es o" i it mun's vlr
III' o lio Jtldjcd solcl.i lJ ihe sop of jtnuie
) 'ikes'
The ork Hippodrome, wbcie little
but jar. Is played, paid enormous- dividends
or the vcaon Just closing. The Metropoli
tan Opera Companj. (onsecratcd lo the
classics, lost mone. The people nccm to
like jara. Ii is up lo some one to llnd out
win they misuse il and. Indeed, why they
like it.
l is not easy to read Ihe report of the
Ma.ior's committee jf jazz investigators
without feeling 1 lint the committee was con
tent to new surfaces. It appears to know
Utile about -the true origin of the trouble
with which it seeks to deal. The singe was
the first leachcr of jazz and Jaw. dancing.
K It to he .supposed that the stage in Phila
delphia will be censored, too?
It will seem lo a casual observer that the
nuestiou of Immodest dancing resolves Itself
iitull lo iiic.stlons of taste and good man
ners. Some of the modern dances nrc ugly
be.Mind words, uttcrlj foolish, and at times
disagreenblj suggestive. When the urowlng
generation is made to understand that It Is
making ltelf appear ugly and ridiculous
and generally unatlnuthe. dancing will te
form itself. In other words, when children
are inushl belter manners ut home and iu
school there m.ij be ja,i'. music, but there
wi'l be nothing to complain about in dancing
tllslliolis
THE MOVING FINGER WRITES,
AND, HAVING WRIT, MOVES ON
Not All the Wit of Penrote Can Cancel
M!f a Line of the Fateful Record
on the Books in Harrlsburg
nil IE tiguiticaiice of the flare-up in the
. House of Keprescntntives in Harrlsburg
goes far deeper than the fate of the public
welfare and other bills on Governor Sprout's
program. It presages a change in the man
agement of the Republican party in this
state.
Trouble has been blowing beneath tuc
surface for a 'ear and a half It was
agreed last year to arrange a truce because
It was the jenr of a presidential election.
A lnlc the truce was still on the speaker
ship of the House was privately promised
lo Kobert S. Spangler by Senator Penrose.
Major Whitaker announced his candidacy in
good faith. He was backed by Oovornof
Sproul and by Senator Crow, the chairman
of the republican state committee. Major
Whitaker. however, was induced to with
draw in the interest of harmony and on the
assurance that Mr. Spangler would befair.
As the legi.slatite session progressed it
became evident that Spangler was itsitig his
power to obstruct the legislative plans of
the tiovemor. The men who trained with
him resorted to tricks to prevent the House
from voting on bills to which a majority of
members were committed. The logical con-r-etpiencc
was the ousting of Spangler ami
the ele. tinti of Whitaker as the regular pre
siding oflicer.
The truce has ended The attempL of the
Peurose-lirundy faction, who controlled
only a tmnoritj of the members of the House,
to dictate what should be done has been
frustrated and the control of Governor
Sproul over the Legislature is now undis
puted. All this should mean that the days of the
supremacy of Senator Penrose as master of
the purtj organisation in Pennsylvania are
numbered.
The power whiih he exercised in Wash
ington is slipping away from him. Al
though he is chairman of the powerful
tinanoo rommittee. there is said to be only
one Republican member of that committee
who absolutely follows his lead.
The patronage which has been given to
this state by President Harding has been to
men picked bv Senator Knox. Not a single
place has been filled at the request of Sen
ator I'etiroe. To date he has had no
intcrv.'-'s with the President save as a
member of a committee 'Hie President has
not sent for him. Whether he has usked
for an intcniew is not known.
Hut it is known that the indiscreet re
mark of the senator Ust December, that
it did nnl matter who was secretarv of
stKte. as the foreign policy of the adminis
tration would be fixed bv the foreign rela
tions committee of the Senate, was not
agreeable to Mr. Harding. Indeed, the
President took particular pains to tell the
Senate when he appeared before it on his
return from Florida that, while be intended
to respect the prerogatives of the Senate.
Ii- also intended to insist on th preroga
tives of the Kxeuitive.
Senator Penrose's sneets at Herbert
Homer as an assistant Democrat also ure
said to have told agniiist him at the White'
House.
The senior -euator ha maintained his
machine by patronage The state patron
age has befii controlled for more than two
vea"s b' Governor Sproul. an experienced
politicii.ii with ambitions. The federal
patronage has thus far been distributed bj
Senator Knox, who has lately displaced an
unusual interest in the matter. He wishes
to be sent back to the Senate when his
nre.ent term expires in 10'J.I. ne has ben
observant enough to discern the weakening
of the hand of Penrose and shrewd enough
to decide that if he is to be re-elected he
must not trust his political future entirely
to th" man who in tho past he has al
lowed to attend to the political relations of
the federal government with Pennsyhania.
The Harnsbiirg flare-up has brought into
ihe op'-n the tight for conttol which has
been going on under the surfm e for many
months It ha proved that ill the talk
about the Penrose control of the House
which has been h"aid this winter was base
less, and that Spangler was eleit'd speaker
not because he was the i-nob e of the ma
jority, but beeai.se the Sprnul-Crow leaders
were not j el ready lo fnne the issue
The Spancler people plaved into the fiov.
ernor's hands bp their unscrupulous methods
of suppressing meritorious bills. '1 here is
not a single -.alid argument against tin
n'an to ireate a Department of Public
Wilfaie to supenise appropriations for
charitable institutions and to nssume the
duties of three independent departments
Hut because It interfered with the distribu
tion of money to Institutions favored by
certain politicians it was opposed and tho
bill was sent to a i ommittee to be killed.
slde from the political phases of the in
cident, eiery belieter in popular goernmcnt
should he gratified ut the determination ot
rhe Governor to frustrate the plot of a
ininorilv of the House to prevent the ma
jo'ity fiuiri having their will. It is a big
acino'cment anil it has lifted tiie Governor
into a position of leadership fiom which it
will be diffiiult to dislodge him. A man
who has the nerve to do what he did must
he reckoned with so long as he cares to
interest himself in public affairs.
either President Harding nor tin" Re
publican majority of the Federal Senate will
fail to understand the meaning of eveul.s in
llnrrishiig. nd Senator Penrose, who
long ago sensul what was coming and did
his best to avert it knows what it all means
as -veil ns am one eho. Hut as he is not
a man to lie down and let his enemies walk
oer Iii ni. there is likelv to lie a luely time
in state polities for the next sear or two.
THE CHURCHES AND LIFE
WHAT part shall the churches plav or
undertake in the social, political and
eiouomic oontrotcrsies of the times? Must
they be content to deal with abstract prin
ciples and to promulgate great lentral
truths and leave those they tca-h to go
fo'- as .hampmns of right? Or spall they
ov as a pra'-tha' and driting force into
."(t of the strife?
Vi s iucstton Is JiVlly to sroiv larger aud
more prominent as time passes, and it will
coutluue to be the subject for debates such
as that which was prcelpltnted at n recent
meeting of Lutheran ministers in'llils city.
"The ministry." said the Hcv. J. Prank
Eric, pastor of Trinity Lutheran Church.
"Is n spiritual tilllee. When the church
fastens its eye on temporal reform wrought
chlcllj bj the nrm of the law in the state
rather than In addressing the word of God
to the conscience of men. it will foil short
of lis great regenerative mission."
The church." said the Hcv. .1. (.'. Ktin.
nian. "should represent the voice of God In
the world and she cntuiot do so by mere
protest."
The hopes and aspirations that lay be
hind the Intcrehtirch World Movemcut and
the failure of that vast plan were among the
most slsnltlcant happenings of recent years.
The mood out of which the effort to Chris
tianize politics and industry grew still
persists. All the earl Christians wcic
tireless champions of the weak nnd the
oppressed Luter Christians cannot be
olhcrw ise.
GERMANY AT HER OLD TRICKS
GERMANY is playing for position and
time. Lest any doubt tvhould be enter
tained on this score, the Hcrlln Government
is ttnashumed to confess this major prin
ciple of Its diplomacy.
The latest reparations program dispatched
to Washington contains this significant
clause: "If it is belie cd by the American
Got eminent that another form of proposals
would make the matter easier to handle, the
German Government asks that it be notified
on the poluts on which modification appears
desirable to the American Government."
Jn otlier words, while sparring for place.
Germany is pleased to make extravagant
and fantastic propositions upon the theory
that something may be saved from the
wreckage after revision has been applied.
Reasoning of this tpe was evident in th
Gciiuau peace offers of tho autumn of ISMS
It is worth noting that while, such tactics
did not pretcnl progress In the negotiations,
these were carried to u point which mennt
the surrender of the original German posi
tions. There are indications that history will
lepeat itself. It is inconceivable that the
Allies will listen to n icparations plan
based upon the condition that the "regime
of penalties" must cease. The occupation
of the Saar alley nnd the Rhine district
furnishes the Entente with a practical ar
gument in suppoit of the execution of the
Versailles treat. Under the new proposal
Germauj pledges herself to pay G0.000.000.
fVIO gold marks, a sum approximate to the
financial demands of the Allies, providing
that the international pact shall be re
opened and reargued. In this case the Allies
would forgo material advantages for the
sake .of a German promise.
Su'-h portions of the scheme us dircttly
afl'eit the United States are equally rcmaik
able. To begin with. "Germany suggests
the appointment of an unbiased commission
lo tix the total sum of her war reparations,
whi'ii she p'edge.s lo accept as binding and
to carr out in good faith."
I' is not easy to reconcile this proposal
with that of the specified total of Indemni
ties. Neither does "the suggestion bctrns
the least comprehension of the categorical
"No" uttered by Secretary Hughes when he
informed German on April L'l that "this
government could not" agree to mediate the
question of repaiatlons with a view to acting
a umpire in its settlement."
Tantamount to acting as mediator would
be the acceptance by the United States of
the role in which the responsibilities of
naming an unbiased commission would be
assumed. As she hns often done in the past,
Germany still clings to a proposal after It
has been flatlv rejected.
The mffer to accept the allied financial
obligations to the United States to the limit
of Germany's capacity is illuminated in a
dispatch from Purlin which declares that
payment will be made in goods. The pros
pect of a graud dumping rarnhal i one
which decidedly lacks appeal for mot
Americans. It is. Indeed, another form of
the bogie which has been alarming the Eng
lish. D appears that German wishes to
transfer the scare to this side of the At
lantic. Hut perhaps the most extraordlnar no
tion advanced by the Herlln foreign office
is to be found in tho insistence that once
the indemnities scheme is adopted. "Ger
man 's other leparatioiiH nnd obligations
will be annulled and nil German private
property In foreign countries be released."
Should the State Department tiew this
idea with any favor. Mr. Kno. would do
well to treat his peace resolution to nn
unostentatious interment. Stupid and il
logical as is his plan for disposing of I hi
International situation, the scheme Is for
tified by American possession of German
property, which thus became a bargaining
unset. If this pawn is to be given up. the
United Slates will be entirely without an
means of exerting pressure on Germane
should action ever be taken upon separate
treaty nonsense.
OUR CLOISTERED SENATE
EXCLUSIVE!: and excl isitcn as A!,, e
would sav if she were viewing the Won
derlnnd of AVashington. glows the Senate of
the United States and the senntonal soul
and mind
Everywhere else iu the world the tenduicy
of statesmen is toward more intimate rela
tionships with the plain people and gi enter
knowledge of the busy and nctive worn) of
thinking nnd laboring men and women.
Hut the Senate druws further and further
within its marb'e and tessclatcd shell Its
collertivc soul ilambers upward and on to
chillier nnd further heights, where no e. ho
of the common life can reach it.
There was a time, for example, when
ai.redited newspaper correspondents were
permitted the courtesies of the Senate lob
,iostliat is. they were free to mote among
tne Great Men in the corridor adjoining
the Senate chamber, to put queries and seek
tho information necessary to public enlight
enment. That piivilcge has been withdrawn and
another of the few remaining links that
conncted the upper house with the public
that it i suppo-cd to serve was broken
Robes and ciowns "have not yet been dis
tributed by the Senate to Its members. nu
mere are really extraordinary marble baths
and lounging spaces and servitors iu hordes,
and an underground railway from the Capi
tol to tne Senate office building, and nn
open air lcstaurant all for senators and for
senators alone. The ntmosphere in the
i hamber is be oming distressingly sugges
uvo of the Egypt of old nnd of Nero
Why ihe Senate is as it is no one knows.
Tdit ilic further n member can get away fron
the outer world and the ilamor of toi'-es
the ensier It is for him to imagine himself
nnd his associates as lordly superlois of the
President, the Supreme Court and the rest
of the government.
Sooner or later something will hate to be
done about the Senate. It is becoming not
only n stronghold of rem tion. It is alto
gether too much like the Council of Ten.
Certainly it is not a dcmocrntieally minded
body.
The press has been excluded from the Sen
ate corridors with the explanation that a
blanket rule was necessary to keep lobbyists
and tipsters off the floor That, of course,
was siibtcrfuse. 1 1 e .-scume nates to be an
noyed by pointed iiti'itlons. And It doesn't
want to' have it dicauij disturbed.
AS ONE WOMAN SEES IT
The Reactions of Amateur Theatri
cals Upon Young People Are Often
Wholesome and Far From
Ephemeral
y SAKAII I). unVKIH
THE little amateur nuisicnl cxtraaganr.J,
"Why Not 7" that is to be repeated by
lequest tonight this time at the Acrtdcmy
of Music was a success for one whole week
lu the Little-Theatre in March.
1 nm told by some of the stars that the
mere Idea of the vast Academy stage makes
them feel pop-eyed! They say they nctcr
would have hnd the temerity to try the
"stunt" ngaln, lei alone stretch It to oper- .
atic proportions, hnd they not been urged,
with a vet- substantial argument juf n back
ing of money for the expenses, by a man
who has pioved that he tindcrstauds the
public and can perceive n long way off
whnt will amuse nnd cntcitaln it.
As there Is sure to be a good nudience-and
as about every dollar that Is taken in will
go toward the Chinese famine fund, nnd
ns most of the audience will go with a sense
of its being a family party, no great harm
will come of It if it loses n little by being
stretched. What ou liked about 11 Is sure,
to be there on this second rendering the
gaycty of very ciitefreo youthful persons with
a good memory for tunes and steps nnd
latches, and n biitnp for mimicry nnd a
sense of rhythm.
And the talent thai went into making the
Red Cioss or the Emergency Aid public
services successes is the same talent that is
organizing this night's entertainment for
charity, so that it has n tang of the real
thing, a veritable touch of snappy profes
sionalism Hint twenty painstaking rehearsals
a generation ago could not have produced.
PUHL1C performances or performances for
the public, whether they be military
di ills or putting on plays or driving nm
bulances, have ghen the youngster of today
a certain steadiness ()f nerve that Is neither
bia'en nor embarrassing: il Is just simple
go-nheadness with no apologies and nt the
same time no undue demand for applause
They may have mistaken their talent for
driving or for acting, but they do not wnste
your time or theirs by self-conscious de
preciation. It was considered only polite In the young
days of these boyr' nnd girls' grandparents
to depreciate anything one possessed In the
way of talent or good looks or worldly as
sets. This was carried to such an extreme that
everything for which one was praised, from
one's food lo one's children, was npologjzed
for as being palpably unworthy of mention
I remember n woman telling me that so well
had she learned this lesson of humility that
oiu e when a friend of her family said to her:
"Lizzie, dear, what n lovely mother you
have!" she was grently embarrassed to
know bow to teply with proper gentility and
blurted out, "Oh. do you r.cally think so?
I think she's horrid!"
It wr.s the snnic sort f curious dislngcn
iiousness that lingered in my youth concern
ing matters of religion, in grown-ups as well
as tu children. Or rather giown-ups and
even ililldicn labored to say what was ex
pected of them rntiicr thou what they know
to lie true.
1 was reminded of that the other day by
a woman whom I had not met for yenrs and
years. I was astonished that she remem
bered me. nnd she said the reason she dlij
was because once In my teens I had been
hastily gathered In to substitute as teacher
of a class In Sunday bchool.
The lesson was about the hcnliiig of the
leper by .Icsus. At the end of the lesson
paper there were a number of questions
called "Lesson Helps." One of these was,
"Which would you rather be, a sinner or a
leper?"
The class received the question without
the bat of an eyelash mid replied lu chorus,
"A leper!"
"Oil. you know you would not!" said I,
in a sudden buist of gcnulticncss. nnd hefoio
I could repent and point tt moial the bell
rang.
BUT if the young things of today am
more simple than l heir parents wcic at
I heir age It is because they have been
trained that way by those tery parents.
Sometimes one wonders if simplicity cannot
be pushed too far, so that it is in itself as
artificial as the other extreme.
t heard an amusing thing about one' of
the grandchildren of John Rockefeller last
week. She and her brothers liate been
brought up to be unaware of the fuinlly
prosperity, nnd nob long ago she spent a
tery happy day as a guest with sonic other
children on a yacht. She was evidently so
full of plcasuic at the experienic that her
liosi said :
"You ought to persuade your father to
hate n yacht!"
"Jlv," said she. "what do you think wc
aie Vnndcrbills?"
Wc were discussing the bringing up of
rich children the other day. and a woman
who has the care of man such In her
summer lamp said Ihe ones who were
taught to use money very early for other
people weie to her thinking the only safely
ilcli children. The ait of spending well and
justly nnd generously Is so great and line
an an that not to cultivate it early in n boy
or girl who will have the terrible responsi
bility of money was to her thinking a very
grave error.
Indeed the ait of giung, whether one is
rich or poor, has to be acquired by all but
oi optional children. In a most lovely book
thnt lias come out lately, written by u
sster-in-law of the redoubtable Margot As
iiuitli. the short and charming life of young
Edward Wy milium Tcnnnnt, this whole mat
ter of children's gifts is most Interestingly
touched upon. He was allowed tery early
lo taste of the joyful pain of belf-Micilfice.
Hefore he had uny pocket money he was al
lowed to give his dearest toy to his mother
as a birthday gift.
Givi;
of
IVING up whai one needs, not to speak
likes, is the dally luead of poor
i hlldren, just as a sense of lesponsibility
for others is developed very enrlv in the
child who renlires how much his little
strength counts in the sum of the family
happiness. A child of a household when
there aie many to wait on his every need is
handicapped for that gieat lesson of life
unless something more helpless than he is
put in his care, Some wise mother gite
their children animals to feed and exercise
nnd make hnppv and keep wholesome with
this very end in view. There is nothing
like a trusting, loving, willful, playful little
animal which depends on you for life Hself
to affect Tour own little ego as u child.
FOR the school of manners foi licli child
or poorer child theic is no better initi
ation than the spoken and ucted drama. A
child leauis while impersonating some one
else the why of so iim h iinionrentiniiul
mnnners thnt is never otherwise explained lo
him; he learns the value of words and ges
tures and expression in intn eying a mean
ing; he ncquircs a public behavior; he Is
made nttnrc of botli the dithculty and the
case one muy have in making an appeal.
By becoming in dress and behatiov and
circumstance some one else for a brief while,
he is conscious of the entitles of the persons
about him. '
A boy I knew who had taken the part of
the .lew In the ".Meuliimi of Venice" m it
boys' dub in Kensington told me long after
wa'rd that often and often in his business
life since he hnd recognized In himself every
character In the play . I met a man on the
street the otlier day who as a lad had been
in that same cast of the "Merchant of en
Ire." He is a doctor now, but he has still
his Scottish burr
"D'y you mind," he said, "tho time wc
had gelling those speeches bj heart? Wc
heard them so many times wo learned .one
another's just by leiteration ! Well, there's
one I think of every day of my life, yet!
"It's
" 'The quality of meicy is not strained.
It fallcth like the gentle dow from heaven
Upon the plaie beneath; 11 is twice blessed
It blcsseth htm that gives and him that
Likes'
Piny In'.' In thnt pliy taught me n lot that
life lias ol continued."
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NOW MY IDEA IS THIS
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Willi Thinking Philadclph'ums on Subjects They
Know Best
I. E. FEINSTEIN
On, Value of Community Centers
A COMMUNITY center in eterj public
school of the city is the ideal, of I. E.
Feinstcln. diicclor of ihe community center
In the Elaine School, Thirtieth and Jsoitis
streets. This center is maintained bv the
redetatlon of Jewish Charities, the Hoard
of Education furnishing the school property
and janitor s,.rvii e.
"A community center." said Mr. bciu
stcjn, "Is n gnlheilng place for the people of
a community, wlieie they are allordcd tin
expression of their ideas, and where they
juav meet their neighbors for a common pur
pose. Il is In such a plncc thut American
ism receives its giealcst impetus.
"We hate siu-li n center at the Hlnlue
School. For the children there are provided,
after si hoed hours, classes lu dramatics,
pantomime, dinning, art. sewing, dress
making, uiilllnei. story hour, study hour,
indoor games and athletics and mauy out
door ai-thitics
Classes for Adults
"In the evenings, for the adults, we hate
classes in English, Amcrli-uiiizntlon classes,
art. dressmaking, millinery, a chess mid
cheiker dub. and there is ulo n library
wheie books iu many languages may be ob
tained. "These ailivilies aie tiemendously popu
lar, nnd it is leinarkable the ainoiiul of good
thai Is done in this community hy leasoii of
this center. The children, in the stud
hour, do then- lessons mid aie icllcved ot
the tedium of 'home work.' Their study i"
laiefull snpei vised, and Ihct lurompiisu
much liiuie lu their stud hour heic than
they would do iu several hours' study at
home with the lai-ions distractions theic.
"The ila-ses in dramatics ate nlso veiy
popular, giting tho chlblieii opportunity
for self-expression, and in tho plays that
aie ai iimged their passion fc$- dressing up'
is given fne leln The millinery classes aie
populai iiNo. while at Ihe dressmaking
eliiss,., ihe childinn have the regular chool
lire ssmnking couipe supplemented with ex
peit instuic lion, and it i" remaikablc how
well i bet burn lo make their own frocks
and diissep
iStiiiy Hour for Tuts
"Ai ihe iiu y hour the chililicn hear Ihe
tales all iluhlien yen in lo lieni; --tales their
own tiled, hard-worked mothers are fie
ipi'tuly unable lo loll iheni. The athletic
feutiiic is iiKo eiy iupoitanl. The chll
dicii's in 1 1 It it-.sj in this direction arc cnie
fnlly siipd vised, they nn- (might Ihevarious
games ami the pioper cipilpiuenl is supplied
them Thu-. at ihc'.ond of the day. Ihev
i-eiurn lo their lioines with llielr' Utile
bodies i H cil wiili n healthful weariness ami
(hey arc tlii n i emit for beij
"tljr Mothet.-' Club intels once n month.
It Is loriiied of mothers ot the children,
and lis meetings are of Ihe gienlost inter
est to the women. Hero tliey listen to lei,
tines fiilm medical men nnd tinined nurses
upon tho leceni licit nines iu child hygiene.
They n'e liinght the pioper feeding of in
fants mid me given a thorough couii-c,
which. 1 am sine, lines much to cut down
(he rule ol iiilnui moiiality iu the neigh
borhood 'I his c oui-sc is pailiciilnily valu
able iu pi'piniig ihe inolhci.s lo bring llieii
ihildien Ihiough ihe hot summer months.
Iliiinr mid Silioul League
"The Home and School League is anotlici
of our iniiMiies. Tills brings the pnieiils
into much with i he teit'lieis am) arouses
their interest in the bdioul Itself. As aie
hiili tiny lal-e nn nclhe pan iu the tcliVml
activities, lor instance, here the are mis
tng a fond If i n unlnm for tne auditorium
and hate iaied a fund for a moving-plctinc
machine Thus ihey me assuied their c In!
dren will icceive the educational liriielil of
the films, mid at the same lime will only see
the films thai aie pioper for them to walcli
''I'hcie is no enrthh reason why the
schools should be (dosed fimu '.;'M o'clock
ctery iiflcinoon until !l o'clock the following
morning. Chicngo has sixty -four public
school lomniunitt (enters, Washington ha
twenty and many other cities arc doing Ihe
proper ililng foi the cili.ens of Ihclt loin
uiunities in Ibis intuitu r.
"In Philadelphia tins is ihe only school
community center so far established. This
inuto to make of i-wry public school n om
uiunlty culler should hute (he indorsement
of cveiy public-spirited citizen It would
he a cure for the uunst uiul make this u
truly dciiiocintic country,
"The siu'hil mid n-ntiomlf unrest In the
cuuqu')' it the. miction of the lato war. The
HOME BREW
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war brought about u spirit of co-opcratiou,
of mutuality of purpose, ami of community
service In this ns wcdl as in other countries.
The comiiiunity-ccutcr Idea received n big
boost, and in both rich and poor sections of
the city community centers were established.
,'T hnte alwny.s contended that the public,
siliool is the logicnl place for ii community
center. The schools belong to the people,
nnd (be people should use them ns their
meeting places. Heic can be held open
forums, community entertainments, meetings
for civic betterment, Americanization
classes, while a library established in the
school would attract a great many readers,
theic being a scarcity of libraries in this
oily.
"I should like to see Philadelphia eVpial
the recotd of other cities In this regard."
Painting the Rtd Army Red
Fiom tho New York 'I'lmes.
The Holslievik'i mny be slow tu learn sonis
tilings, but lliey aie opcn-inluded enough
on matters of military policy, for on the
support of the army their government de
pends for Its tery existence. The recent
Conuniiulst Congress, ns reported in the
Izvcstiyn, toted against the inlioduction of
the militia system and decided to maintain
n strong professional army. The experi
ence of the Romanoffs pioved that con
scription, instead of being (he engine of
deputisni thai radicals asserted, really pro
tided the machinery for revolution.' The
revolution of 100," failed becuuse of the torn
pnratitely small perccntugo of able-bodied
Russians then under arms not many had
been converted to i evolutionary ideas. The
i evolution of 1!H7 came nt n lime when all
Russia was mobilized nnd nearly all of It
converted, and Ihe Romanoffs were oter
lurned with hardly a struggle. Lcuine nnd
Trotzky will take no chances on iirming
Russia. Their arm- will continue to be.
ns nearly as the can make it. a dynastic
instrument of well-paid nud well-fed pro
fessional soldiers.
What Do You Know?
QUIZ
What is the meaning and oilgln of the
woul era meicy '.' '
To whnt nation jloe,s tho largo Island of
Formosa belong.' ,
What Huropcnu prince In a noted scien
tist In the; field of occanojfiapby?
Who wioio the music of the opera
l.'Afrtcalno" .'
Name the prefctiit scualors ftom .Massa
chusetts Who waa liion no-uclcaull'.'
Where Is Ihe Uay of Ben gal"
lu what century did Captain Kidd. the
notorious pliatc, Uvo'.'
Whnt is tho inuiulns of the name Chateau
Thierry'.'
What noted American gcncial ran neulnst
Aliraluim Lincoln for (he picaidency In
1SUC
Answers to Yesterday's Quir
l Mart II. queen of Kngland. died of small,
pox in li'ifit.
- gl.nte Is a hioailswoul
.1 The tf i in ' Merry Andrew ' Is applied lu a
jesln In (illusion tu Andrew Hoide
physician to Henry VIII. In ouler to
Instruct tho people he used to address
I hem In an Intimate and amusiiiij st.t lu
nt falis and other public gatherings
1'ii-soici who IniitiUed his popular droi
I try txnno to a called ".Merry An
llll w s "
1 A sword of lee-brook liinper Is one of
Ihe eiy best uunllt. The Sp.uil.uds
used to plunge tlilr mturils while ,0:
fmni the forge. Into biooU Xulon In
"i 'lei lo harden them The ttnter of
ibis ntieaiii Is extremely cold
r Itjin IV, HUriMineil "I Inj Terrible' )0
caine cur of Moscow in 1517 i.
grently expanded bis Itusalan iloiniu.
ions, carrying out .1 pulley of ej.in.uie
1 ruelty and lulhluss severity. Ir (iia
of piissloii lie ordered tliso nearest
him lo be inuidcicd. IncliidlnB his bou
and lieu. Itnu whs married witcn
nines.
ti .North LmLoiii Is the Sioux, or FllciV'rlnll
State
7 AlcMindcr the Great lived lu tho fouitli
century II. C. Ills dales aro aoo-aja
S Charles Hemic ttroic lb- uotcl -I'm
ourilf In His Pl.ic. "
li The Hbrictallj Is (ho sheriffs uffleo or
Jurisdiction
10, A xebec In i. t.niullvthle matted UcdlWr.
hi nca n tcstcl with smut t'liiare and
feomo lutein tall, v
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Humanisms
.M ATIIKUTON )V
By YVIE
PLY
H '
ERE is au Impasse from which there
exalted circles down Washington way hn
given up in despair, has gone' right along
and done things in n way thnt it knw to
be wrong. Diplomacy lias done this anil It
mntters social.
The nmbnssador extraordinary and pleni
potentiary from Brazil, Mr. Augiuto Coch
rane de Alencar. is the victim of physical
circumstance. His country Rnd the United
Stntcs nre on n bnsis of such cordiality
exists between almost 110 other two nations
in the world. Brazil, wishing to favor the
United States above nil other nations, and
holding to the theory that the best material
comes in small packages, selected Mr
Aleiicitr. who is very small of statute, fur
the Washington post.
He was n minister, but suddenly his sta
tion was advanced to ambassadorial rank
Very shortly thereafter President Hitrd
ing announced thnt he would receive the
diplomats. There was much scurrying among
them to get mhttcrs in shipshape for tin
reception by the new President. At th
Brazilian embassy the tension was great
because new ambassadorial uniforms mutt
be prdvided.
In Latin America diplomatic uniforms an
very definitely prescribed. An ambassador'"
coat must have just so much gold braid on
it of Just such and such sizes. The impasse
occurred when it was found that the coat
of tho Brazilian representative was not bi;
enough to hold all this braid on. It had
served nil right for ministerial purpose"
but it was impossible to get the ambassa
dorial braid on. So this popular and punc
tilious oflieial had to go to the White Hon"
quile improperly clnd in the cont of .1
minister. .
Sirs. Susie Root Rhodes is head of the
playgrounds of the nation's capital and mi"
of the outstanding woman officials of tli'
government.
Seeking to show the world just what
playgrounds should he she recently had mo
tion pictures made of those in Washington.
Then she nrrnnged that they should be siioitn
for n week at one of the local theatres.
Stic invited Miss Mallei Boardiuan. ill"
triet commissioner; Sirs. Calvin Coolidge,
w'ife of (he Vice Picsitlent. aM others, to
share her box for n performance.
Imagine her chagrin when the p'0?"""
was run through and no playground pic
tures appeared.
"Did you find your pictures?" Mil.
Coolldge asked when next they met.
"Yes," Mrs, Rhodes replied, "and l
made the manager gite my children tliret
fiee mntinccs fur having lost them."
"I nm recompensed." said Mrs. Cuolidje
.
Thai destiny often finds us unw illing tools
sin her bunds is attested by Senator William
Paul Dillingham, of Vermont, one of thu
cultured nnd distinguished members of the
upper house of Congress.
Senator Dlllindiiiiii. for Instance, claims
no credit for hiivlng chosen the course that
was his. Ho did not want to be u lntvyci
His father was a lawyer ahead of him and
had u reputation for being a brilliant adiii
cnte. The 'youngster was discouraged by
his father's pronounced success. Ho could
never expect to approximate it.
So he wont to wprk in n grocery ore rii
found that he had no I'onitiicrcial instinct
whatever, that ho did not hike to this call
ing. that it was iiiromparohly nhhoirent to
him. He ttns a very unhappy young mnn
At about this time nn uncle wrote him
from Minnesota, The uncle suggested that
the youngster come out to Minnesota and
read law In his olllee. Ho accepted the in
titnliiui. not thnt be had any ciilhuslanii "
the piospcct, but that he might escape the
grocery store.
So was he started toward the Lnited
States Senate.
It is further from the Bnvery to Fiff1
avenue. It hns been asserted, than II is fiem
Vevnihi to that stinii fnshionablr tliorou.,li
fare. This. ()f (ourse. is hut another wu w
asset tin,' that the haunts of the sueccMfill
are more tccesslllle tb tho.e residents of l"
great walo placni than to tho teeming M1-'
nictils next door. .
EttiiiK Lnpnitc, who grew up on a m'l'
much In Wyoming, subscribe to this llH'orjr
lie Is iissIhIiuiI secretnry of tho treasury el
ihe United States nt the n-je of twenty- ''V"
He leeched 11 eon. mission to flutt ,(ost fr1
President WHmui in Dceeinber last '
Mnich he got n second hiininiiieh nigra w
llt-to-frame ni-dbnai-d ixvitfiic the signi. ,
lure nf nno WniTen 0. IliirfUng. 1
The cnitl? country chnUengos Wall Mr'Jj
Ve.w orid uiul IJroad Vtreed Phlladdpll'1' 1
to beat - tuts , record.
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