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rrlbcri In I'lilUdeluhl and aurruundlnit tovrni
ot the rule, of tnclvo (!') cents rer wk, rrb!
to tho carrier.
Dy mall tu feints outdd of Philadelphia. In
tho t'nlled 3ut h Canada or Unl'ed Mtatu ro
tMilons, rotir free tl(t (Six criitu rr Month,
filx (tl dollars ?er ', f rouble In ndvanc.
To all fur. len .'..untrlt-i tint- ! dollar a month.
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THC ABSOCIATVK PRESS i. fxciuiH'fly en-
tltlrd to the ui ur rpi.Mirfjfln u' ull nru
dUpntctiet crrdiicrf fo II or no( olh'ru'ljf crfrf(ld
n this rciptr, amX alto the Incnl niir fHinJ
i therein.
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THE WILD EAST
F5U almost a ; nTutini the Wpft hoi
been ablt: to bmiit nbtnit U .tiindnrils
of law anil order. I'owbojF ride In Tordf.
Whin Is known n, "the villa elms" has
taken possession of urens where, in nn older
day, home thieves were h united nltnost
dally. TourUtB go in bllsful pence er
htfthwarp where not so very lone uru KtiiRc
coaches moved cautiously and heavily armd.
It Is in the East that cuns bark In th
etreets and that hlRhwaymen v.-nture out
and come, to ends as ntonihing n.s that
vrhlch a cunmnn mt nt the hands of an
mtonlshlng taxlcabby ut Hldley 1'nrk The
"Wild East is a reality likely to awo the
Underfoot from the plains.
There was nothing in the dime novels
tnoro thrilling than the feat of the taxi
driver who opened the throttle of his ma
chino a wide as It would go, rhased the men
who had tried to rob him and Anally lunged
from his seat and turned a sun that had
been leveled nt him s--o that the man holding
It received a bullet in his brain. It is nig
clficant that even the Hldley Park police
men "hesitated" for n few seconds while
young Mlntzer fought the issue to its terri
ble flnlh. Tt men with iron nerve are
like poets. They nrc born. They cannot be
made. There are few peuple who would not
i "hesitate" for an Instnnt at the know ledge
j that a forty-five automatic pistol wa.s leveled
I at them out of darknes.s.
, SAFE AND SANE PATRIOTISM
IK OCR suburban communities prepara
tions for the celebration of tho Fourth of
July arc already pretty m.-II ndvunred.
Within n week or two we vhull i,ear from
various quarters the usual appeal for a
eafe and .an, Fourth. Th u-.ua! advice
tvIU bo directed against fireworks and there
It will oikI.
We shall have a long way to go toward
rafe and sane Fourths even after dangerous
rlreworks have been eliminated altogether.
Safety and snnlty will not have been
achieved In any putnotlc celebration until
any man who lives by crooked politics or
betrays tin- people who eleet him to otfice
or deliberately makes a get -rich -quick game
out of public service is forever forbidden by
lnw or public opinion to spout pn tentloiis
platitudes in a sn. railed patriotic oration.
That -ort of thing, so common In Amer
ica, is the darkest kind of fnkery. The men
who on one da pervert and frustrate the
Bystetn of free government and on the next
paw the national color and shout about
love of country niTront the popular intelli
gence, and they must lie classed, in any
linnl anal sis. among nr' ..il enemies of the
state. Yet they thrive and thev multiply.
When the are eimunat'd finally we nhnll
bo able to l.ilk without blushing about safe
and saiio Fourths of Julv
RIVER GALLANTRY
""VJO CAl'SK lias been asigmd an yet for
IN th" j.Tid'nt" i in which live pontons
Tere badlj hum. There are kindliness and
courtes in this verdict on tne performance
of th" uurient ferrjbout Hevrly, which
failed to establish the perfect correspondence
between herelf und the f'umiien ferry slip
yesterday morning.
In her girlhood, as Joni of the oldest in
habitants may recall affectionately, if dimly,
the responsheness of me lleerly was tin
Mirpassid on the river .-,uner with sen
hitlvoness, aglow with pulsing life, the lnnd
ings of the Ileverlj were poems, dainty as
u triolet
It is charitable and ji;-: to l-eep this van
ished technique in ui,ni. Age and en
rablcnes do not alw.ijs iinmnnd respict,
but thev ihse-w it. Doddering between two
great crimnmnweaith- to the very best of
lier withered .ibillties, tho Ileverly is n
Bpectiulo net for critiiNm. but sympathy.
She dor j wil. it would stem, to land her
pasM-ngirs ut nil
In a sot,,,. he got th I'lifr she llsteth
and lutet'i uli to e gneth. Hers are
valiant efforts stumblings, bumps, mishaps
uml ul!
"Men are v.,. arid must grieve when the
flhad" of that which once was grut hai
passed .'nun
PATHOS OF PIONEERING
rplil? iiiuhet:eii! pristhuuiuu'i n-ir.ors
JL heaped upon tie memorj ot Sam M
I'lerpntit I.ungle weri increased .vstcrriay
with recognition of the tiunj fifth nnni'
rersary of Ins momentous xporiment with
the first airman' .
Not nil pioneers have oeeii su luckless as
Luncley. nltbougli it is fashionably philo
Bophlc to beliee that the fruits of Justifica
tion are domed them Fulton saw at least
the beginnings of the triumph of the steam
driven ship Tl ere were eighteen bus jenrs
of railw.iv construction In England to con
sole (lenrge Stephenson before his death.
EdUon und Hell live to nJoy the victory of
the incand'scnt light and the telephone.
These instances, however, bimply inten
sify the bitti moss of I.angley's fate, per
haps if Trowbridge had not written
"Darius (ireen nnd His Fljlng Machine"
the tireless efforts of one of America's most
original ientlsts wuitld have been received
with less mockery
The joke is sardonically rrversed today
In nil this transformed world thrc la none
to laugh at the first mini that flew. Men
who think cannot but be ashamed of their
lack of oharitv
MORE NATIVE AMERICANS
r A I.THOl'iill tic cmis-us figures are not
I completely anal) it cl. it is llkelj that
they will show that the prreiitng of nfjti re
born in the population is larger than it was
In 1010 This inference Is based on the an
nouncement that the forrlgn-born popula
tion In Now York city has fallen from 40 -J
per cent In 1010 to :w t per cent in 1I1!0
Thli .1.1.4 per ceut includes approximately
9,000 000 persons.
In 11)10 the population of the whole coun
try vras nindo up of 85.3 per cent native
end 14.7 foreign born. Immigration vir
tually ceabed for the period of the war, and
in that time many children were born of
parents not native to the country. When
the figures of the 1020 census arc compiled
It is likely that the native population will
amount to 00 per cent of tho whole.
Pennsylvania had a larger native popu
lation, in spite of the great number of for
eigners engaged In its Industries, than the
manufacturing states of New England or than
New York. In Rhode Island the native
population was onlj 07 per cent of the total
in 1010, In Massachusetts only 0H.." per
cnt, in Connecticut only 70.4 ami In New
York lifl.S, while in Pennsylvania 81.2
per cent were native born. In (leorglu,
however, the natives amounted to 00.4 per
cent nnd In Alabama to 0!.1 per cent.
WHAT DOES A YOUNG
MAN NEED TO KNOW?
Mr. Edlson'a Tests of the Knowledge
of Applicants for Employment Havo
Disclosed an Interesting Condition
THOMAS A. EDISON'S discovery of
what ho culls the ignorance of college
men Is not unique. He has been quizzing
applicants for work.
College men would doubtless find Mr.
Edison lamentablj Ignorant of many things
which they know.
It is not likely that he could tell the name
of the star quarterback of lust year. He
may not know where Pennsylvania State
College Is. If asked to tell whnt he knew
about Apollonlus of Tann he might be com
polled to admit that ho knew absolutely
nothing. Vol Apollonius cut a considerable
figure in his dn nnd has been the subject
of bitter control ersy Involilng large groups
of learned and deimtt persons. If asked to
distinguish cetweeti Samuel Johnson nnd
Hen .lonson lie might be stumped. So it
goes.
A western college professor has lately
been bewailing In the Atlnntlc Monthly the
Inmentnble Ignorance of his students. Some
of them when asked what a Eeghorn was
said it was n breed of cows. Others did
not know where Yale Cnlverslty Is. And
still others could not tell whether Itodlu
was a painter or a musician.
Another college professor with a llttl"
broader vision hns replied to the indictment
against the .students that it does not matter
whether tho students are Ignorant about a
lot of facts. Their knowledge varies with
the surroundings in which they have grown
up.
A country boy would know the difference
between T.eghnrns and Shorthorns and he
would never think that breadfruit was a
kind of wheat. Nor would he expect to see
maple sugar growing on trees and he would
not hope to get eggs from eggolant. Hut he
would be absolutely ignorant of a multitude
of fncts with which the city -bred boy is
perfectly familiar.
The average college does not pretend to
touch anything about these things. It is
occupied with f-omething much more Im
portant. For the first two years th students are
put through a course of intellectual gym
nastics to burden the fibers of the mind und
thus qunllfy them to beur the strain of the
tasks which mut bo undertaken in life.
For thy next two years it Is engnged in
conducting a tour of exploration through
the realm of knowledge under expert guides
who do not pretend to hand out facts as
mental food. They arc busy with intro
ducing the students to literature, science
nnd history nnd showing thorn the haunts
of these fascinating subjects. Then they
leave the students free to pursue the ac
quaintance as either the mood or necessity
Impels them.
It has been well said that intelligence Is
insensitive to a mere fact and thnt It reacts
only to ideas. Tho purpose of education
is primurily to stimulate reaction to ideas.
They nrc the things which really matter.
It is not facts but idenj that havo
changed the course of history
The idea of human brotherhood empha
siztd in Sria two thousand yers ngo has
done moro to affect the relations of men
with one anotln r than all the facts about
elfctriclty or stinni or coal that have been
accumulated by patient and perslstmt In
vestigators, 'riie application of the fncts
has changed internals of human socletj ,
but the idea has put a new ninth e into
human in tion.
The idea of dirnocr.i. an outgrowth of
the iden of human brotVrhood was npplied
in this country In 177U, and the demonstra
tion of what that idea could do started po
litical movements in the rest of the world
which have not yet stopped.
It is much more important for a bi to
understand what that idea was ami how it
was deieloped than for him to know th
names of the signers of the Declaration of
Inilop. nucaee or the dnte of every battle .n
the Heio'.utionarv war or the size of the
armies or the names of the opjxwlng i.mi-luntider-i
These things are In the book" nr.i!
can ! r. adily learned if one has need for
them. Tl.e; are a mere nintler of detail.
Mr Edison's experiment suggests nn in
quirj into what a man needs to know. It
mnj bi undertaken by a qualified ii.vfsti
gator some tin;-. Hut without !niestlgtlon
it may b. .ild that he should know m.i.gh
to do the work in which he is engaged If
he knows more, that is surplusage, cm
tributing his enjoyment of life and to his
preparation for an old ago of lilsure.
Mr Edison knows about elrctricity i.ml
th law- tha govern its operation. Ho
knows nls.it geologj and phjslcs. b'-t Ik '..
not aiq"ired this information for the mere
sntisfin tion of his intellectual curiosity It
is part of hi business to have it, ft r tie
applies the information to his business m
one av or another every day. He ran be
lgtciran of the Identity of Keats and She;,
lei nr.d Shakespeare and John Hampden
ai.il Martin Luther and Plato wlthm.' in uuy
iii I. --cuing his ability to earn on his
ex) oriim nrs or to mnnufacture the machines
which he has Invented.
Indeed, he has virtual',., kdnuftod thnt tho
ignorance of the college men appliing f. .r
tork with him is not of great sigiiUicni.ee,
for he hns said :
"You take ,i to'.nii man of twenty tvo,
anil if ho Is Intelligent he ( un do at, thing "
Intelligence, h' would admit, does not
consist In knowing how Cleopatra tiled, but
in the abilit to find out anj thing which It
is m-ecssar) to know
That's where a sound college education
helps.
EFFICIENCY IN MINIATURE
T FIND," salt! Tin Man With he Hbin
J. Tie, whoss impromptu dissertation on
present-dny psychology certainly K worthy
of tho space given it here, "thnt drudgery
irks me least in the morning. I manage to
get to my desk by nine. Not long ago I
tool; an early tram because I wanted to pro
cure u few small articles m comfort n friend
of mine who was laid up in a hospital und
waiting for them. I knew tho shop where
thrKe things were to be had It Isn't far
from Chestnut street nnd ordlnurlly It hns
n look of bright ellicleucj. Indeed, It boasts
of its up-to-dnti ness, the lariety of Its
stocks arid Its ongerness to oblige,
"The doors were still closed whn 1 ar
riiod there. Tho opening hour was nine.
A lot of folk were waiting impatiently out
side. At the stroko of nine the portal swung
open and the little crowd trooped In It
was clear, after a first look around, that
thnt shop would not be going normally for
an hour or so. Few attendants were be
hind the counters. A sleepy -eyed boy,
hired, I perceived, to dust and run errands,
tried manfully to get me whut I wanted.
He groped and fumbled helplessly, tlough
EVENING PUBLIC LEDGEBr-PHItADELPHIA,
we both knew thnt the Btuff I wanted was
somewhere within arm's reach. The young
men and women began straying In nnd oil
of them looked drowsy nnd bored. The girl
who could have sent me on my way re
Jolclng did not arrive until about 0:15, Hy
that tlmo I hnd become impatient. 'Per
hnps,' said I to the boy, 'the manager of
this department could tell us where the
things arc.'
" 'The manager?' said the boy jn aniaie
ment. 'Ob, the manager will not bo in
until 10 o'clock.'
"Now, going down the street finnlly with
my packages I couldn't help feeling thnt I
had seen reflected In miniature n condition
that iillllcts n very largo part of these United
States nnd the answer to the controversy
that rages In the field of Industry. Every
body Is more or less disposed to lay down
on the job, nnd since the boss is taking it
as easy or easier than his men, there is no
one to call the meeting to order. Times
have been n little too flush to be nltogther
healthy."
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ANOTHER VOLSTEAD MYSTERY
IF HALF that is suggested in newspaper
reports and rumors is true, one of the
biggest scnndnls of the prohibition experi
ment Is being kept under cover in the Fed
eral Hulldlng at Ninth and Chestnut streets.
The Immediate duty of the local enforce
ment olHcc is to clear the nlr with n full
and frank statement, to exonerate officials
and men In the service or to set rumor nt
rest by admitting and explaining nn ugly
truth.
It is pretty generally understood, largely
because of guarded statements recently mndo
by tho enforcement officials themselves, that
large quantities of confiscated liquor have
ben taken from the storage rooms of the
postofllce building where It was placed under
gunrd us evidence to bo presented nt future
trials of those charged with violation of the
dry laws. The news of the shake-up In the
local enforcement organization just issued
from Washington will naturally be asso
ciated in the public mind with the per
sistent reports of plundered whisky vaults.
If the Federal Hulldlng was robbed, n
great deal of evidence needed in pending
liquor cases has vanished. Hut it hnppens
that the corridors of tho Federal Hulldlng
arc supposed to be guarded night nnd day.
The ground-floor corridor is brightly
lighted. Mr. Slonnhcr himself, by occa
sional hints issued to the newspapers, has
done more than any one else to encourage
the suspicion of robbery and "an InRidc
job" of considerable magnitude.
If the prohibition enforcement system is
hopelessly weak or hopelessly deficient, or
If any of Its divisions are corrupt beyond
remedy, the public ought to know about it.
The days of governmental secrecy are past.
The revenue officials have no more right to
hold hack news of n significant chnracter
than the officials of any other department
have to conceal tho truth nbout importnnt
public afTulrs. If the people uren't to be
permitted to know nil the results of Vol
stendism, how are they ever going to deal
with the numerous complications that the
'dri laws have created? An explanation is
overdue nt Ninth nnd Chestnut streets, und
if it Is not obtainable there It ought to be
wrung without further delay out of the
prohibition office nt Washington.
$800,000,000 FOR WASHINGTON?
THE House In Washington continues to
be in pleasant contrast with the Senate.
The House has faith and It has imagina
tion and the vision thnt often is a consoling
substitute for temperateness of mind.
Here, for example, is Mr. Focht, a rep
resentative from Pennsylvania, clamoring
for n federal appropriation of ?$00,000.000
to make the city of Washington "fnlrer to
behold thnn nny city of the undent Nile,
more imposing than Nineveh or Tyre."
That Is optimism for you,
Mr. Hlanton. of Texas, rising to remark
thnt $S00,000.00O Is n lot of money, speaks
a truth thnt cannot be doubted after mature
consideration. The foil: in tho jnck-rnbblt
country, Mr. Hlanton observed, would be
shocked if it were to be spent to recreate
Hnbylon In the heart of the Fnitod States,
We agree with Mr. Hlanton, who objected
shrilh to the Fucht plait. Wo agree with
Mr. Foiht. who cried that S800.000.000 Is
what lo'i might call small change In this
fair land. The expenditure of that amount
would no: ruin us.
Hut Isn't Washington, in Its mental stnto
at least, a little too much like Habvlon al
ready? Why create a new Nineveh if you
are to go on thinking In a manner calcu
lated to insure Its fall?
For ourtelvos, we should npproio u
scheme for the appropriation of JMlo.OOO.OOti
to Improve Washington If that money were
to be -pont to improve the collet live mind
of the House and tho Senate.
PITTSBURGH DOES IT
rpHF city of Pittsburgh, It appears, has
JL surmounted the legal barriers to daylight
saving. While it Is true that n law of 1SH7
established eastern standard time in this
commonwealth, this statute does not prevent
a municipality from turning Its own clocks
nn hour forward during the season of long
days. Such at least was the decision of the
court, which refused to grant an injunction
nullifying the Pittsburgh councllmnnlc or
dinance. The point is of special interci.t to Phila
delphia and hns been omphnslzed by Mr.
Itnper in his advocacy of another daylight -saving
venture b Council. The desired
light economy may be attained by voluntary
action of Individual citizens Tho simple
expedient of bringing privately owned time
pieces in conformity with the city clocks is
all that would be required.
There is not the sllghti st doubt that the
majority of Phlladelphlnns favor the summer
tin'! schedule. The power of encouraging
this program Is in the hands of Council. It
Is not too Into In the your, as Mr. Itoper
points out. to perform this easv, Inexpensive
act of public service.
PIE EFFICIENCY
A SIT
r open
sj it in an unless snoum oo, pn. lv
tne
lug wedge, i he campaign on
be.
hHlf of thi
fabricated menu Is now vigor
ously under nny with the stern program of
standardization adopted In Chicago bj na
tional pastry men. Pie in Oallup, Ariz , in
to tate precisely the same us pie in Ilnn
gor. Me.
Tho assembling of parts, regulated to the
subtlest fraction of crust overhnng or
structural contents, will render posdble
Identical Inunchlngs from ovens of the
humblest hnmlets and most majestic cities
of this republic. 3 Confusion resulting from
pies cross -barred, open fared or covered Is
to be checked In perpetuit.i .
The reform will not, of course, stop wth
this Impressive Imitation of Hog Island
methods. Maryland chicken. Philadelphia
pepper pot, Fulton Market dam chowder,
New England boiled dinner, New Orleans
gumbo, Virginia corn cukes -tin se are but
n few of blll-of-fnre items Indicative of be
wildering distinctions, rprohonyhlo Indi
viduality and temperamental sectionalism,
and In a land the synoiiin of which Is
En ion
Efficlei.cy experts uie loath to dwell on
these facts. Fashions, railwiiTs, ships, time,
are to some extent standardized. Should
consideration of loathsomeness nnd the
cursed personal equation justify the ex
emption of food? Perish the thought nnd
the dainties!
Thnt one man should eat a better pie thnn
his neighbor or should even differ In gastro
nomic ambitions Is this not the rery nega
tion of democracy?
COLLEGE AND BEGGAR
Pennsylvania's Standing on Higher
Education Away Down the Llat.
Solicitors of Alms Busy These
Days A to Market Houses
Hy OEOROIS NOX McCAIN
PUOF. E. K. HIHSHMAN- lays this dried
wreath on our Pennsylvania educational
system.
It Is In connection with the tiresome
weeping nnd walling over the unprece
dented extravagance for educational de
velopment under the Flnognn system.
In 1018 the great State of Pennsylvania
appropriated Just nineteen cents per capita
for the support of higher education, he
tells inc.
It ranks twenty-ninth In the United
States In that respect.
Nevada held the record of money given
for this purpose.
It spent $1.70 per head.
Of course, the pullbncks will yell that
Nevada Is a small State with a small popu
lation. Itlglit 1
Hut how nbout California? It contributed
eighty-three cents per cupitn.
Ohio came through with forty cents nnd
tho great state of Illinois with thirty-seven
cenfs. Twice as much as Pennsylvania.
Minnesota appropriated eighty-five cents,
Oregon $1.10, Michigan slxty-slx cents and
riotous West Virginia thirty-four cents.
DU. EDWIN B. "SPARKS, now presi
dent emeritus, pulled State College out
of n rut,
It wns languishing for lack of money and
suffered from paucity of students and equip
ment. Dr. George W. Atherton gave his Hfo to
the work. He laid the foundations.
Dr. Sparks, with Walton Mitchell and
n board of tru&tces, all of thcin live wires,
worked for years on the Job.
They finnlly succeeded, but Dr. Sparks
broke under the strain.
I happen to know, for I've seen him under
pressure nt intervals over since they called
lilm nut of the West to head the college.
Heitig it college president of the right
kind Imposes more worries thau the presi
dency of a great city bank.
Especially if you have to go down on
your knees every two years to n Legislature
nnd big money to keep their Institution
Kolng.
Hy "their" I mean tho Legislature's, the
people's college. It is the one educational
institution owned nnd operated by the Com
monwealth. Have you ever thought of that?
It is the one great educational plant in
Pennsylvania that hus no rich patrons, no
prlvnte endowment and no tuition charge.
FREDERICK RASMUSSEN, secretary
of agriculture, wns one of its faculty.
There are other big, nationally known men
like Frenr and Armsby nnd a lot of others
on Its staff.
Its graduates, particularly In the engi
neering sciences, ure scattered over the
United States. Yet it has been only in the
last fifteen years that it got going properly.
Its school of clcctrlcnl engineering hns
the finest equipment of any institution in
the United States.
State College cannot accommodate the ap
plicants for admission. It's got an enroll
ment now of 4L1I7 students.
Twenty-live years ago, when I first lec
tured before the student body, the old chapel
accommodated all of them.
iJurlng the last seven years 3500 students
have been refused admission.
Last fall nut of nearly 1800 applicants
for the freshman class only 750 could be
admitted,
A PROMINENT "phTladelphian recently
remarked on the rccrudosccuce of beg
ging on the streets.
In the course of a walk tho other day
on one side of Market street, from Seventh
to Thirteenth, I counted six mendicants.
Thero was one to every blocjt. I did not
notice how muny were working tho other
side of the street.
Possibly these persons are not classed ns
beggars. Under our paternal clt ordinances
they might be Identified as "peddlers."
Throe of them, though, were beggars out
and out. They made no pretense of holding
two thumb-worn lead pencils as a raw
camouflage.
A fat, one-legged solicitor of alms held
n lighted cigarette in one hand while with
the other he shook some pennies In n dirty
cup to nttract the attention of pnsscrsby.
I
bureaus, charities und police may declare
to the contrary, there are more beggarn
that's the word on the streets of this city
today than have been seen here for years.
Panhandling, too, is becoming a populur
nuisance once more.
Tho "Say, Ho, could you spare a nickel
to git mo a cup n coffee?" citizen Is again
lurking on the side streets.
Always they light shy of tho big thor
oughfares. They re too conspicuous for
their purposes.
Tho tons of thousands of the jobless may
be urged in extenuation of this.
It Is not an available excuse, however.
The diameter of the "macers," their voice,
manner nnd language nre evidence nbsolutc
thut they are "regulars."
Where's the police beggar (.quad, any
how? GEOROE W. RICHARDS has been a
market superintendent for a great many
jears.
Wednesdays nnd Katurdais. he tello n.
are tho big retail market days. '
Twenty-five yenrs ngo e'verv dnv wns
market day, though Wednesdays and Satur
days were always overflow days.
They're still overflow days in most of the
smaller market houses.
The curbs are then lined with furraers
and the sidewalks nre pretty well ohtructed
with the wares of gardeners und flower
sellers.
Old residents of West Philadelphia, in
particular, recull when there wore farmers'
stalls In operation every day at the Fortieth
Street Market House,
Not nil of them, to bo sure; but a fair
proportion.
Mr. Richards succinctly accounts for the
chnngo from u quarter of a century ago.
TN THOSE days the neighborhood store
1 wns simply a small grocery," he said
"Tho extrnt of Its vegetable offerings werii
potatoes and cabbage.
"Today they carry all sorts of early
southern nnd winter vegetables. They
handle everything but sodn water and wear
ing imparcl.
"The gardeners and small farmers that
formerly occupied inurket stalls four das
a week nre gradually disappearing.
"It is impossible for tiiem, with their
home raised and hothouse vegetables to
competo with southern growers In quality
or price,
"A market farmer cunnot rnulntnln a de
livery bystem for two das a week ut a
profit.
"Just the same, the regular small retail
neighborhood shops cannot supply such u
fresh stock of farm products as the market
house stalls on certain days.
Tor that reason the fnrmers' market
house will always be n public necessity."
Phlladelphlans, who consume r0 000
pies dally, will be Interested in the news
that the Horner treasure nnd ri,n..ti
missii
Assoc
e has been ainnilardlzcij, the National
Intlon of Pie Rakers, in convention in
tnicago, iiiiYiuK uwiiit-n, iiuer gentle prod
ding by the government In Washington,
that some plc-bnkcrs were "getting tempern
mental." A tempernmentnl plo-bnker
(usually an alien of Hnlshevjst tendencies)
In prone, we are told, to use substitutes for
epgs, sugar nnd other necessary Ingredients.
Henceforth, we nre assured, nothing but the
real thing will find Its way Into the national
mnw-llller. Up to this point we are ull for
standardization. And happily stondardlza
tion can go no further. We may still show
our enthusiasm for the home ple-lmker whose
temperament puts Individuality Into the pie
she bakes; who fills it with sweetness that
never cloys and gives the crust exactly the
degree of "shortness" to titillate an eager
palate.
SATURDAY, MAY 7,
(ESS
NOW MY IDEA IS THIS
Daily Talks With Thinking Philadelphia on Subjects They
Know Best
MISS MARGARET T. MAQUIRE
On the Spiritual In the School
mIIE three It's and tho materialistic con-
X ceptlon of public education are
doomed," believes Miss Margaret Maguiro,
principal of McCall School, Sixth nnd Dc
Lancey streets.
"A few evenings ngo a group of business
men were hoard to discuss the inadequacy
of the school In achieving what they con
sidered the world had a right to demand
-from the schools in the way of training for
life," she says. "Some of their statements
were justified by the results which they
were able to quote froni their experience In
the business world. The general impression
one gathered was that boys and girls prove
themselves unwilling to mnke effort. If
the work wns simple nnd the tusk obvious,
it was performed in a rather spiritless man
ner. When real difficulties presented them
selves the voting people did not show initi
ative and o'riglnnllty, they asserted.
Hlame Traced to Home
"The failure is not entirely to be attrib
uted to the school. More than half of it
is In the home. .
"The modern American parents seem
obsessed with the Idea of removing difiicul
ties from tho pnth of children, demunding
no understanding from them of the work
nnd sucrlficc which nre necessary for the
happy circumstances in which the children
find themselves. Mothers overwork in per
forming the duties of the home, while the
boys nnd girls arc excused for any effort
nlong these lines under the mistaken notion
thnt this is kindness. '
"It Is a distinct deprivation to child de
velopment If they arc not trained to see
opportunities for service in tho home and
made efficient in the performance of duties
which such service entails. No single factor
In child life is more 'significant than this
thoughtful appreciation of obligation toward
tho happiness of the home ns the common
cause. It develops that part of child na
ture which makes for personality in the
future, and that Is his spirit.
"It beems jto me thut both home ami
school may be falling short because of their
failure to catch all that is involved when
children nre trained bo that tho results of
the training 'carry oyer.' The actual
existence of the spirit In children is only
casually admitted by many educators nnd
often Ignored by parents, unless perhaps
they conceive their full duty to the training
of the child's spiritual sldo is performed
in church nnd Sunday school.
"The Intelligent realization by the chil
dren of their relation to the homocalling
upon the deeper centers of their mind for
appreciation of service and sacrifice by par
ents causes a growth in spiritual life that
has inestimable human values.
New Ideal for America
"If tbo new Ideal for America is to bo
realUed that Is, making u good, wholesome,
serene world for people to live in the de
velopment of chlluren's emotlonul reactions
must be definitely cared for, because the
world grow better only us people learn to
think and enjoy nlong ever higher and
higher levels. The realization of the Alncri
can Ideal is not to come to puss by knowing
more facts about things, but rather through
feeling moro deeply the satisfaction for what
is rigtit and hatred for what Is wrong.
"The will to do can be developed for
children, through nppcal to their emotions.
When ho developed it has a lnstlng quality
which makes for effectiveness when the de
mnnd comes, ,
"It Is Interesting to study modern edu
cational methods and find tbot teachers nro
sensing this need for the human touch and
realizing that recitations may he so organ
ized that children may be trained in de
veloping keener understanding In humnn
relations. The so-called socialized recita
tion Is built upon this Idea. Instead of the
old method In which the child answered
merely for the sake of his own mark, the
skillful teacher of today sets up the recltu
tlou as the common cause of the class, and
each fellow playsi his part. If this method
of approach to the dally recitation Is per
sisted In day after day, It Is fair to immune
that children so trained will have a richer
emotional nature and better understanding
of tnclr"relatlnii to each other.
"It Is only. In such fashion we can avoid
the creed of self-interest upon which pre
vious educational methods have been
founded. It Is only In this way that the
doctrine of man's brotherhood can be prac
tically worked out, because the child has
found for himself that it Is the better doc
trine. "The dominant note in an effective per
102X
OH, PLEASE BE A SPORT THIS
M p ' I wd jyL ' $ tftf
sonality is spirit. Why, then, do we spend
so much time- discussing content in courses
of study and so little time in finding the
way to the deeper spiritual nature in chil
dren? For two reasons:
.Must Recognize Emotions
"We have not yet realized in American
education that the emotions play a very
determining part in the final product of our
educational system.
"In the second place, we Americans have
learned to bo satisfied with a very inade
quate muss education which compels the
missing out of many children because of
the over-large classes that teachers are asked
to handle. ,
"The school may be compared to a great
crucible Into which Is poured the raw ma
ti m, n ui(lcly varied class of boys and
girls. There nrc not enough men and women
to tend the furnace. There are too few to
test the ingredients. Hence much thnt comes
, our public school system Is no much
Mn.?Tflt , oul' t0 build the rondbeds on
which tho juggernnut of ignoruncc and
blind mutcrlulism rolls on as it has rolled
for ages past.
"The hidden gold is still thero. but we
have missed most of it. If it comes to the
surface, oftentimes it is in spite of. rather
than by virtue of, any ideal or practice pos
sible In tho average school.
"Fortunately, wo have passed the day
wl"'n n Practical education could define
Itself. A practical education used to he the
Three R s, with enough of the spiritual
thrown In to make girls run from thunder
storms nnd keep boya awny from grnvo
yards nt night.
"The materialist who wants to hold down
the future of America's children with tho
chains of his own limitations simply does
not belong In the new scheme of things. The
great common cause is the right of hu
manity to .happiness : the right to grow tin
normally, well fed, well clothed, hhnrlng In
tho Inughter of the sun and the cheer of u
"ome that Is fit to live nnd love In.
To this common cause home und school
are together committed. The most casual
glance back over the last six years will re
veal what the materialists have done for
civilization. Supposing the real spiritual
coders had had the ghost of n chance it,
their nntions councils, would there havo
been this endless smcur of blood across tho
pages of history?"
' What Do You Knoto?
QUIZ
1. "Where and what is Carcassonne?
2. What Is bronze?
3. Why la It so called?
4. What Is meant by "the deflcent to Aver-
C. How many provinces are there In tho
Philippine archipelago? ,n
C. Where Is William and Mary Colleire sit
uated? 7. Wliat are Wellingtons?
8. Who was John M. Synge?
5. Of what Is brnss composed?
10. What is the capital of North Dakota.?
Aniwero to Yesterday's Quiz
1. A half-nelson in ft hold In wrestling In
which one arm In thrust under the cor-responding-
arm of the opponent, jrrntl.
unlly from behind, and the hand placed
upon tho back of his neck.
2. Cabotago Is navigation nlong a const
coasting pllotnge, coasting trade, '
3. Ancient Babylon was situated on tho
Euphrates.
4. The battle of Austerlltz In which Nnpo-
leon and tho French army defeated tho
Russians and Auotrlans occirrmi
December Z, 180&, "
A coppice Is a thicket or grovo composed
other purposen on ft short rotation
A Host Inn Is u form of rhymed or un.
rhymed poem with six stanzas of alx
Ints and flnnl triplet, each etanav
having the wmo words as thn othnrn
ending Un lines, but In dlffuront order
W. M. Thackeray wrote the nvel ''He'nry
Esmond." '"'
"Tho Honnle Illue Flag" waa tho prln
clpal patriotic song of the Southern
Confederacy "
Tophet was the place In the valley of
Hlnnom, near Jerusalem, used for
Idolatrous worship and Inter for de
posit nr refuse, for consumption of
which rtrea were kept burning. Tophet
tUllfl utur. f. II..1.H..... . r."SS
10.
...... ..... .. .,..,,. uinc tor lieu.
Aegis was the name of tho shield of Zeus
or Athene In ancient (lreece. The word
Is also a metaphor for protection or
Impregnable defense.
ONCE!
SHORT CUTS
Well, If nobody else will pluy at Matter
and Jefferson streets, members of Council
may.
Many n guy gets the reputation of being
a sphinx simply because he doesn't know
what to say.
May tho movement against the "per
petual contract" be characterized ns "per
petual motion"?
The Hlbulous One complains thnt the
prohibition shake-up is a poor substitute
for a cocktail mixer.
Rnndlts may eventually come to the
conclusion thut these taxlcab drivers tie
good guys to let alone.
Tho airplane was twenty-five yean
old yesterday, and "Lnnglcy's Folly," llviDf
after him, gives glory to his memory.
When Senator McCumbcr grow s pessi
mistic over the emergency tariff bill, ndro
catcs of a sales tax perk up and take notice.
The Allies declare that Ocrmany must
say "Yes" before Mny 1U, but our own
Qutzcdltor opines that they will be satisfied
with "Ja."
Let us forbear criticism long enoujh
to admit that In the matter of plebiscites
the ficrmans can, ns It were, bcis opposite
as the Poles.
And there are still pessimists in plenty
who believe that after (icrmany has prom
ised to pay she will think up an excuse for
breaking her promise.
Thnt young Chicago man who had cards
printed announcing the birth of u little son
anil then became tlie father of girl twins ha
lost faith In the hunch.
London was fooled, says a dispatch
from across the water, Into thu belief that
Harry Thaw was in town. Hut why, we
pause to Inquire, why the cxclteiucut)
If ijvcry voter were n member of i
working political organization It wouw
really be of little Importance whether the
convention or the primary system obtained.
Ho would receive the adequate represents
tion his indifference now denies htm.
There has been found In n New York
saloon n telephone booth equipped with
spigot. After a dollar has been chunked for
n nickel nnd nn empty glass, "Hello
brings hooch. The liquid tones have now
boon dried un by prohibition ugents, who
forced the white-aproned central to ring off.
Sixteen girlish lean protruding throuh
tha curtulnflof nn auto traveling forty-five
miles an hour through a Chicago subotb
caused the arrest of the driver for violation
of tho speed laws and indecent exposure.
Thnt the legs wore papier-mache hnslerj
forms seems to show that the authorities
hadn't u leg to stand on in the mutter ot
the second charge.
A sixteen-year-old Chicago boy uooi.i.sl
of tho larcouy of $772,000 in Llborty Hondi
has been freed by n jury, which declared
that ho was "bond-drunk and dldii t know
whnt ho was doing," Thero Is nothing i"
the law of the land to justify such a ler
diet, but it may be,' taking Into account tne
youth of tho accused, that It is not wuolij
devoid of common sense.
Fronch scientists who arc grieving f"r
tho numerousneas of the grnphouiiiiilnc l.c
who Is "k prey to an Irresistible passion to
wrltu" should exult over rather thnn nr
plore the fact that there are so many of lin,
John Lewis Rogct a few generations bac
drew attention to the truth that words iw'
only explained Ideas, but also guvei birth "
them. Why should wise men sorrow i
cause so many In a thoughtless world bring
Into operation by phllologlc moons a bene
fielnl excrcitatlnn of the intellect?
Let brothers, sisters, husbands, chunrn. t
cetera, et cetern,
Their buttonhole bouquets display
And give the world a cheer.
Let trumpets sound and beat the drums, ei
cetera, et cetera.
Tomorrow Is the glorious day
Wo honor mother dear.
Dear mother, high In church nnd court '
cetera", et cetera,
Throughout the country has her wuy
And finds no moment dull. .
In politics, finance and Bport, et cetera,
cetera,
Ah. Mother'a Day Is every day
And every day is full,
etc., etc., etc.
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