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ITELL, 10OO VTAI.MT KEiSTOJ.E' MAIN 3000 T3" AtUlitxi all ooimti"ii!.ccRoitj to ttlna Piibtlo IrtJffrr It ilrymdinct1 Square, rhffosfrif'Vo Member of the Associated Press THE ASSOCl.lTUD PRESS Is exckmitlu til Ut'ttl to the ! 'or tcvtWcatl.Ji nf o'l re d(pcife,f. CTif'fi' fo (t or t of ofVnU'Tr nrdlt'tl in tnt raptr, mill nho the toenl news pio.'Hifd therein. .11 rights ot republication of special WJpafciM herein are ntm reserved. riillidrlphn. TuriJ.r, Mat 10, 1921 A BLOW TO SUNDAY BASEBALL IF YOl'NG men wish, t.i play ball on Sun day thev will luiM' to show mure respect fol the omuinn decern tcs Mian win shown by the mrn wlin were playing in a vacant lot at Almond nnd Ann (trolls while services were in progress in St. George's Episcopal Cluirrh ncross the street These men nmilo so raiirli noise Mint they interrupted tlm religious services They were nsked to Mop plnying until the scrv li ri were over, but thej refused Then a pilicomnn wos summoned to stop the giune. He was knocked down nnd beaten nnd com pelled to drn( hli tevolver in self-defense A man was killed b the (.hot One incident of this kind Till do more to bring about a prohibition ngalnxt Sunday ball games thnn nil the arguments offered by those who are seeking to prevent all uports on Sunday, from baseball to croquet. No one ran possibl defend the conduct of the men who interrupted religious serv ices by their game. They were guilty of one of the most seriou- offeneeH in a democ racy that is. inter'ferem e with tho roeog nired rights of others. The right to worship in pence is civtnmlj ns sacred as the right to piny bull. The worshipers interfeie with no one The simply nsl- that they be not disturbed. They protested Inst Sunday, not o much against the ball game, as against the noise attending It. jut as thev would hove rightlj protested against nn not in the neighborhood of the chur ii which made It impossible for the hervices to tontinue If the.-o riotous plnjers had planned to strengthen the cause of the cxtieine Sab batarians thej could not have planned better. THE TRAINING-CAMP CALL AS A soldier (Jenernl Perching frankly eulogizes the worth of preparedness As head of the newlv organized war stnfi he is professional!? consistent in his appeal for the preservation and development of the rallltnry education disseminated among mil lions of Americans during the world war His emphasis on these points is made with particular reference to the system of eiti xens' training camps which is to be organ ised b the Federal (Jovernment tnis sum mer. (Jeneral Pershing calls for enthusiasm and it new !ensc of patriotic obligation. Nnturally he is desirous that the expH. ment authorized b.i the army reorganization act of lid) should be successful Citizens, however, who in consequence of Gotii-rul I'ei-hing'.s feror nre inclined to believe tlmt thev nre being urged to Hock iti (jrcat numbers into the drilling ground' nre mistaken Thev may apply and thus dis close their sentiments Ilut .vomnioiliitioni will be restrii ted The War liepiu imenr is planning fur a total of lll.ll(M) cjtuens this summei It is unimaginable that the oluntecr-. will be InnunVti-nt to -atisfv this modest retpift. WHAT UTILITIES NEED QTi:i:i, wlm ii next to lat'ot is tie great sJ determining tn to" in trie er.eiul cost of riiilwnj main'ennti" is e'owlv but steadtl) npproncltlng norma1 pneo level-. Wages are tending steadtl downward There is. Iinrill an Industry in tin- (Oitntry that jsu't lieinc assailed for asking too much from the public's pm-kptbook All are trying and promlolng to do Detii They aren't unking larger I nue Fo- tlielr own and Mttie puoiic gooii tnej nre trving to get along with lessened revenues ami demanding only a little time to remvr f'i r equilibrium In New .Irre, tin. I jbli. Servke Corpo ration is fiirlitlnL- hard '"m nn inn'nii. in B trollev fare It s rrertv irenrttlU- n,. mitted thii. t n n fit" in New .Jersey would be follow til b lugher street rnilwa fares elscw In n- It is prorihe-ieii tout 'ne Public I tllities fommissinu nt Trenton wi'l tefuse this ween to permit tin i-eieuse There is i-otnething that might In -..ud b tr... I'tilitles Com mission to 'lie law mis for the trolley folk. The commls-ion will not -av It We shall saj It for tln'in It i tins The los-.es un.l tlilHejltle tomplaincd ot on ninny big and little railway lines m the I'niteil S'tnt. arc due to the fact that trans portation ssiciiis 0f ni kinds haw- been too often directed from the viewpoint of high iluanciers and politi. inns rather than trim the viewpoint of enginiers and 'ientltlt reehniclntii- iiL' n. make the er.-p proli' -able by making it good (iiw. th engineers n clintice Tr m iem n wliei'- mere business shrew dtMs nnd the gospel oi opportunlsti, have failed. If then the revenues urn riot adequate to maintain rnilwij and general transportation service and par fair return' on nionei in vested the publi will Ijr wlljns to pay higher intes. Jim n,,. public .,-jt, have to be shown .SLIPS !N THE RADICAL CALENDAR fplIK I'reiicn radicals, ir would seim. X buvc been getting their dates mixed The centenni) of the death nf Napoleon JJoiinpnrte, who mil) be eusllj conceived as nn exemplar ol arch militarism, passed off in Paris in onlerh enough fashion Op. ponents of the leleliralion contented them selrcs prlnclpnll) with verbal and written protests On the other hand loan of Arc Day com. raiMnorating the raising of the siege of Oi -leans, a glorious hapter in the history of ihe. self-determination of peoples, was marked by llghtlti!; and serious disturbances. If the Maid of Orleans was not of the proletariat, who eer was? If she wait guilty of anything but the loftiest and mos unselfish Mnbltlon to crush tyrann) and free the oppressed, In what name is liberty to be jymbollzcd? Lenine, thcorticall.. opposed to the so rnlled capitalistic expedient nf war, has dis played no compunction whatever in author ising armies to drive the Invaders from his Innd Indeed the whole Uolsbevlst party line been obviously pleased to inject the nolo of patriotism Into its poller. It is chnrltable to suppose thnt the French Communists were furnished with defective cnlondnrn. Philosophically they are so su perbly armed against Napoleon, so weak and ludicrously equipped against St. Jonn. WILL THE CHEMISTS DEFEAT PLANS FOR A WORLD PEACE? Religious Organizations Seeking Disar mament Can Teach the People to Stop, Look, Listen and Learn TNTKKNATIONAL disarmament has been -L too long dclnyed. Two years ago it might have been accomplished. Now It must be regarded nt little more thnn a hope diffi cult of realization because of the new political nnd economic complexities devel oped out of the armistice nnd the terms of peare No one nation, uo matter how much of the spirit of idealism and faith may be in It. can afford to take "the independent lend," of which Mr. Hrynn is forever talking, with out some risk of the sort of experience that would fall naturally to n rich and com placent nnd bedlnmonded spectator at n but -glars" ball. Mr. Urjan may nlwa)s be credited with good Intentions. Hut lie has an irritating habit of thinking of war as it was fought nt I.eilugtou nnd Hunker Hill. To him disarmament seems a simple busi ness. You hang up jour musket, make it plow of j our sword, fold your arms and look proudly upon a world made contrite by your example War will ncci again be waged with swords. It mnv never again be fought with big guns. There arc men in the naval service who doubt whether the world will ever again see or hear of a clash between squadrons of dreadnoughts. The simple fact Is that guns nre becoming old fashioned. Itefore we are much older the 1(1-inch rifles of the newer war vessels maj be ns useless as the ball muskets of the Iterolutionnrj period. Chemical warfare is what belligerent nations are thinking of and preparing for. and it is an nwful thing to contemplate and an extremely difficult thing to guard against nnd prevent. For this reason, nnd because no scheme jet proposed provides for anything like in ternational control In the Held of military chemistry. and because poison-making plants are multiplying nt a great rate in some parts of Europe nnd Asia, the sudden nppeal of federated church organisations for an international conference for disarma ment will be welcomed by any one who has taken the trouble to observe the more recent work of military experts. When General Tnsker II. Hlis wrote the letter which caused Protestants. Catholics and Jews to join forces for nn appeal from 100,000 churches he was thinking as an expert in terms of the future nnd not as an amateur like Mr. Ilryan thinks, in terms of the past. The biggest gun made will kill nnd destroy in nn extiemelv narrow a tea. One great gas shell of the newer tjpe, dropped from the air. could sprend destruc tion over miles of territorj and leave no vestige of life an) where in the region at tacked. It ought to be understood b) everv one who assumes to talk of disarmament that there is uo known limit to the potentiality of chemicals m warfare. And it ought to be remembered, too, that even while statesmen nre talking of pence the chemical industry is being swiftly revived nnd reorganized in Kurope. nnd that it is assuming forms un known before 1!M. It ought to be com paratively eas to restrict conventional urmnment through international agreements. The restriction of a tivity and secret devel opments in the field of geneial chemistry would be difficult for the simple reuon that the modern plants are built ostensibly to do the work of peaie Hut the factory that turns out dyes or ftrtilizcrs today can turn out deadly gas and war poisons tomorrow. In other words, war of the future might easily become nt once cheaper and infinitely more horrible than nnv war ever has been in the past. There has of ,ate ben great nctivit) ,n the chetnicnl ninimfnctiinng areas of the ltuhr valley. 'I he Japnn"c, according to some reports are as busj as the Germans in this Held It would be foolish to suppose that of hi r Governments are not aware of all this and thnt thev are not providing means for a upplj of th" newest nnd most terrible sort of ammunition. The most tragic tning about this new complication is that the people who want to live peacefully under tlie (ioverninents known as Powers know litt'e or nothing about tho new perilri that crowd me immediate future. General Illiss knows, of coursf, that nt the present risis in international affair a call for a disarmament conference would be untimeh Leaders of the great movoment that he has started are doubtless awrtre of this. So tne mil from the pulpits of the countrv will not be issued until .Tune 7 Kven then it mnv not be possible tor the Government of the United States to re,-og-nize it in a practical way. Thnt will not greatl.' matter The question can lie raised again and again For. even if a disarma ment conference of notions could not find a wav to red. ne armaments immedlntelv. it could nnd woild do something quite as im portant It would reveal to people ever where the e,uring peril of "scientific" war fare and it would nt least be able to prove to the world nt large that wars of annihila tion wid still lie possible, even after the Just battleship is docked forever und the In-t big gun rusted away. Nothing but u general open disi iissmn of th' whole question can prnpi.lj and fullv inform the plain people everywhere of two things thnt the) ought to know That something like international . onlro' of base chemicals and their manufacture m ist of necessity be one of the first steps toward disarmament. Tuat such control ma? be made possible und fair only through n conr.ert of all tin t.ons established for the common good of the w orld CONSCRIPTED WORKERS Bl" Ml A MA u jenr ago adopted n h) stein of conscription wb'n h ought to sntisfv the most enthusiastic opponent of mili tarism A law was passed requiring ull men twenty jenrs o'd to work for the stale twekf months und nil women sixteen jears old and over to work six months, l'nder ihe military conscription system the oung men hud been tompclled to give n )iar to the state, during which they were drilled In the arts of wur. l'nder the lnbot -conscription system they ure compelled to give a year to the state, during which thev are oci upled with the works of peace. A report of the lirst jeur s operation of Ihe new law has just been isuei) by tne international 'abor office It shows that out of 7O0,(iO( persons affected by the law linn. (100 have been ot work. The) hnve been building toads, digging canals, paving Btreets and building school-houses. In one district the workers lu several vllluges united in draining a pond. In another dis trlct thev built two bridges across a strejin and In still another they built four bridges. No word bus yet reached this side of the oteun illsiut the way the people regard the experiment Its success In the long run will depend largely on Us pnpulur't. p tho people do not like it, little wilt be ac complishedabout as little permanent good as was accomplished under the old plan In the rural districts of America of compelling farmers to work out their road tax. The farmers did ns little work ns possible and tho roads which they repaired were in worse shape in many Instances after they got through with them thnn before they began. It used to be a commonplace in the country districts for illngcrs to warn travelers against n certain route with the remark, "They have just been working thnt rond" ; nnd the travelers would go by way of n road that had not received the attention of the conscripted farmers. It has been found to be better and cheaper to compel the farmers to pay their road tax in money and then to hire expert road build era. Hut they may know better in Hulgartn how to make the conscripted workers do something worth while. Yet in n country with little ready money it may be the best possible way to get public improvements, LIBERIA'S RECORD pnnsiDKNT KING, of I.iberin. who was - officially received in this city yesterday, is touring the United States with the avowed intention of securing helpful aids to prog ress in his nntlve land. This is a laudable ambition, but it does not cover the full sig nificance of his mission. Yheu they think of Liberia nt all. most Americans arc quick to associate the word failure with their opinion of thnt Innd. It Is recnlled thot the original colonization plan was decidedly larger than the praetlcnl exe cution. From 1821 until the present day the Negro migration from America to Liberia has been smnll. Theie nre now in the re public only about 15,000 Amurlco-Siberians. Hut if the experiment did not realize the philanthropic hopes of its designers, Liberia nn none the less point to nn achievement all the more crcditnble because of the enor mous difficulties Involved. Independent since 1.S47. Liberia hns pre served its sovereignty until today it sharps with Abyssinia alone the distinction of being nn African state exempt from foreign con trol All the grant remainder of African soil is in the hunds of the Kuropenn Powers --France Great Hrltain. Helgium, Italy, Spain and Portugal. The semi-Wardship, n sentimental rather than a legal tie, maintained by the United States is, of course, in patt responsible for this exceptional condition. And yet with out evidences of n praiseworthy struggle ngninst barbarous peoples and obstacles of nature which arc so formidable in the ttiipli. Liberia conceivably might have for feited this prospective interest. The facts arc that whatever assistance has been rendered by the United Stntes has been nmplv warranted, nnd is indeed incom mensurate with the needs of the case A handful of educated Negroes have pre served n structure of republican government In Liberia for nearly three-quarters of n century Education has been extended, pub lic hcalih improved, of late years commerce nnd trndc have been organized, roads have been built and progress, though slow, hns been stead) . .1. .1 Roberts and Arthur Hnrclny were LiberiRt) presidents whose ndmlnistrations were grounded in the essentials of sound constructive statesmanship. The authority of the republic bus been extended inland to the mote healthful upland regions peopled b) the primitive natives, who form the bulk of the population. The natural resources of this portion of the territory are exceeding!) rich Liberia has the possibilities of nn interesting future The state which is about as large as Pennsylvania, deserves sympathy and en couragement. It is no mean task for a coastal community of some ."0.000 persons to sow the seeds of progress among the 2.0(10.000 inhabitants nominally under the Librrian ting. President King need have no hrsitntion in emphasizing a record of facts tedounding to the credit of his race. The Negro republic which has survived so many dangers, es pecially the lollapse on any large scale of the original migration program, is unquestion ably strong enough to go forward upon the foundations already laid Americans who-view c ivilu.uion broadly caDnut nlTord to ignore little Libcriu CONDITION AND THEORY MAXIM GOHKY'S appeal to the world in behalf of about SO0O svholnrs who have been left to die of hunger b) the gunmen and soapboxers now in control of Russian nffnirs ought to sound very unlike music in the enrs of the pnrlor radicals who. tailing them selves "the young intelligentsia" write nml talk in this country in behalf of the Soviets. In Lenine's cabinet and ruling the more powerful Soviet commissions are porfer.s and looks, nnd the outcasts of organl7e labor from various countries. They ride in motors and live on what is left of the fat of the, Innd. The men tor whom Gorky appeals were described fully by H. G. Wells when he re turned from his pilgrimage to Mos, w. They nre the great composers of Itussiu the men of science, the astronomers, the engi neeis. the writers, the philosophers and the men who gnlned world-wide fame for their i ontributlons to the sum of human knowl edge It was the pleasure of the porters and the ex-cooks to decide thnt the) were nu incumbrance to the proletariat So they nre perishing of hunger in the attics There are editors lu the I'nited Stutes who would be the better for a tour of these same attics Mr. Wells, "who wrote in a rather kindly way of Lenine, was fortunnte He is un Englishman. Wen- he a Russian lie jirohnbl) would have been drafted to lean the streets. WHAT STUDENTS LIKE SOI.TH CAROLINA was "all lot i,,,' a few )ears ago over ihe alleged unqui. ties of college fraternities, and the Legisla ture forbade the existence of such fraterni ties nt the state univcrsltv Hut the fraternities or some of tiiem at least continued to exist. It seems, for the president of the university has jmt an nounced his Intention to expel any students found to belong to them He mild not very well do nmthing i-Ikc If the law Is violated he nnist do ln best to enforce it. Hut he is likely to have his hands full. Nothing delights tin' pervcrsit) of youth more than to put something over op the elders. When frntcrnitiis are banned the students nt once set about beating the rule. This has happened in colleges in nil parts of the nnintry. Sixty j ears or more ago a rule whs made against fraternities in a northern college The members of one of the societies openly nnd foimall.v obeved the rule Hut secretly the) held tlielr meetings. At eni h meeting the chapter n reconstituted Then the members devoted themselves to business and pleasure and formally disbanded and sent their charier to the chapter of the mme fraternity in n neighboring college They kept this up unrtl different i ounsels prevailed In the faculty and then the chapter resumed its open exiMenie Hut In the meantime ench member could truthfully say that the (hnpter had been disbanded, even though he had attended a meeting 'of It the night before. A ttgul against fraternities n colleges where l.liei lime a foothold will keep the faeu'l'rj- hi sT LEE W0NQ GOES BACK Oldest Chef of Chinatown Returns to His Native Land A Unique Little Magazine Harry Walton and His Friends The Capitol Orchestra Ily OEOIIGE NOX MrCAIN LEE WONG has returned to China. For thirty-five years he was the pre siding genius, chef nnd proprietor of a res taurant on Race street near Ninth. He was the oldest resident of the colony. The vulgar, whom Lee Wong served through tho yenrs, called it n chop-suey joint. To this class of customers Wong woh tho Impassive, Indifferent, monosyllabic China man we all know. lie served them, they pnld on delivery and disappeared into the night. I There was another class of pntrons, how ever, that came and went nt infrequent intervals. To them Leo Wong was a jovial and genial host. To them the chop-suey and yock-n-mln of the hoi pollol was barred. He served speciat dishes nnd choice Chinese concoctions of which the riff-raff had never heard, much less tnstcd. These pntrons were artists, illustrators and writers, To them Lee Wong was "Charley " Twenty years ago there was scurccly a night thnt did not witness a groun of nows- pnpermeti or Illustrators at one of the round" tables In the smaller room reserved for spe cial guests, In the passing jcurs Lcc Wong's part ners died or went back to China until be alone was left. Last month the lure of the narrow streets of his native town, of the wife, whom he married in Hnltimorc, and three children drew him homeward. He could not resist. Now he Is gone. MEMHERS of the late Legislature who packed the House on several evenings during the session to listen to the delightful concert given by the Capitol Hill Orchestra were unaware that this itdmlrablo organiza tion hns never performed In public for an admission fee. In that respect It is unique in the his tory of large musical organizations. At various times II has given concerts in the auditoriums of Harrlsbttrg, which were, followed by n dance In every instance they wcro invitation affairs and ndmittnncc was secured onlv bv card. The fifty members supply their own in struments, and their music is furnished through subscriptions from friends. All tho musicians nre employes In some department of the Ntnte government. Howard W. Fry, the conductor, is secre tary of the Department of Highways. Tho honorary president of the organization is Public Service Commissioner John S. Hilling. (J, MAX F. IHMSEN. publisher of the Los Angeles Examiner, who died last week, was a Pennsylvnninn and Widely known among the older newspaper men. He began his newspaper career in Pitts burgh in 1SSS. .lust seven years later he was an active political lender in New York city. Ihrnscii belonged to that generation of Pittsburgh newspaper men ot whom Colonel Charles A. Rook, publisher of tho Dispatch; Alexander P. Moore, of the Evening Leader, nnd Oliver Hirshmnn, of the Evening Press, are surviving representatives. The Ihmsens were an old Pittsburgh family of glass manufacturers, Max belong ing to n collateral branch. Hcfore he had graduated from the ranks of a district re porter on the Pittsburgh Dispatch he had struck out for himself in New York. lie was n natural born politician with n fertile imagination nnd tremendous vitality. He managed W. R. Hearst's campaign for Major of New York flOOo) and his cam paign for Governor (1000). He went west in 1008. following iti the footsteps of other Pennsylvnnians like Sam trnzcr and Erastus Iirainnrd to become newspaper manngcr.s on the Pacific coast. TTENRY F WALTON had what I once J-J- heard described as "n genius for friend ship." Few men In public life ever had ns many friends of the real sort ns the late pro" thonotarv. His was a jovial personality, nnd he de lighted to bo in the company of others like unto himself in nn atmosphere that radiated sunshine nnd good cheer. I have before me ns I write n monograph of twenty-four pages entitled "Clubs. Cof fee Houses und Taverns of Ye Olden Time" by Henry F. Walton. The further super scription runs : "Rend by the author, Hrother 'Chi.' at the Hutton, whero the Bachelors dined March 11, 1010." It Is a most entertaining description of old London coffee houses nnd taverns of two nnd a half centuries ago. It Is more than that. It is a learned little brochure on the origin of these places of public entertain ment. Mr. WHlton traced their origin to the time of Justinian. There are few Harry Walton in these restless days. With him the art of hospi tality was not only a grape but a gift. REV gyt THOMAS It. HRENDLE is cler gyman, historian, botanist and miner- alogist combined. He is pastor of the old Goshcnhoppcn Reformed Church in Montgomery county. Just ten j-enrs out of tho theological seminnry, he has brought with him to his charge, one of the old historic churches of Montgomery county, the virility nnd op timism of youth. One of the evidences of this is the publi. cation under his editorship of u modest semi-monthly lenllet, "The Little Herald." It is issued from his home In Green Lnne. In its way it is a valuable contribution to the history of Montgomery county. It combines church news with the results of the research work of the clergy man In his various fields. It Is unique. The last Issue contains n hiBtory of the earlier set tlets of Falconer Swamp connected with the fhurch organized at Goshcnhoppen 100 years ago. Falconer Swamp Is now a vnst fertile valley. Another article tells the story of the Hiester House at Sumneytovvn. one of the historic mansions of that rrgion, to gether with tho genealogy of a fuinlly that gave Revolutionary officers, congressmen and n Governor to Pennsylvania. it Is the only periodical of its kind that 1 have ever seen. Visitors I iom Life Importunity knocks at the door ottwicr thnu his brother Op. THE DAWN ! i I STOOD upon a street at break of day. When first the rnyN of sunlight pierced the clouds And banished frosts and mists of night uwnv And with them all the fears that night enshrouds. I saw the city's buildings lift their heads. To stand once more four square beside the spires. And men who lust uight crawled half heartedly to bed Now hurried forth with hope's tcljindleil fires. The might) clouds that fain would linger on, The chilling winds that sought to hurt and freeze. Now faded Into nothingness at dawn. I marveled that we'd given heed to these. While through tho nir a thought of newness came, New strength and vim, with joy to breast tho fray, Thin was God's gift, to every ono the some. The greatest of all gifts a new-born day. Robin A. WulLer In the Katis City Star. sS r -yr .r.v l r ' j -' . y - ". v , " ' -:v:- - X- m TLy YJiv ffifctML !Vsr-lJi-HL 9M-s '' JF i'I ''"mi'I lITi J'Wt1TWtf . '," r rJtiwuj ,'j jl'A'ffcMTffHmPTr C: M-s X I lWni, VPP .-.--" -".,, -- S i f I I fc IEiM(V" -' 4hli.. &-. . Lr VJIi-cr- " 4,",-r.,c;. "'""""-""'v .""""- """ ' """"- sr' "as. r7"- - . a '. a m ". - - NOW MY IDEA IS THIS Daily Talks With Thinking Philadclphians on Subjects They. Know Best CLIFTON LISLE On the Work of Boy Scouts ANEW field hns been opened to Hoy Scouts this summer in the plnn of co operation launched by Glfford Plnchot and the State Forestry Service, according to Clifton Lisle, prominent in the Hoy Scout organization on the Main Line. Practical advantages resulting from other phases of scout work ate also summed up by Mr. Lisle, who haB had an opportunity during his service in the war nnd in his business career to observe tho benefits ac cruing from the training and service of Hoy Scout troops. "The Hoy Scout movement has worked up a sense of responsibility in the boys which they would not otherwise have at this particular age, twelve to seventeen years," he savs. "This asset is developed best when the boys become patrol leaders, which they can only do by Industry and proflclencv. As patrol leaders they have the responsi bility and care of seven other boys, nnd must lenrn to think, not solely for themselves, but for the good of their fellows. ! or this reason the best scout troop is one In which patrol lenders nnd not the scout mnsters have charge of ordinary phases of the troop s work. Initiative Is Stressed "Next to responsibility, the requirement of initiative is one of the most valuable for the Hoy Scouts. They do not have every problem worked out for them, but must plan nnd scheme for themselves. For ex ample, If they need equipment for the troop they must Ilglire out some wny ui rimmiK it rather than wait until some kind person puts It in their tinnds. ltotli oi tuese char acteristics are Invaluable in the business world to which the scouts must very soon be passing. "Equally Important is the teaching of obedience. This Is achieved not by exnctlng that obedience from him, but of putting him In n position to sec how disobedience con hurt every one concerned. A patrol leader, for exnmple, Is punished when a member of the trobp does not carry out a certain order. Nnturally the lesson sinks In. "Attention to small .details, as in the matter of equipment und uniform, is uuother accomplishment of tho movement when it is properly directed. The patrol contest, last ing throughout the year. In which scouts arc penalized for small points, Is u means to this end. "The sense of fnlr play which Is worked up is also of great value In business. The scouts may enroll with an exaggerated ap preciation of their own importance, but they soon learn thnt they cannot get away with certain things without making the rest of the patrol or troop, ns the case may be, suffer. Told of Clean Living "The value of keeping lit nnd the under standing of what clean living mentis to a man are, of course, too well known as part of the Hoy Scout's equipment to need fur ther discussion. Merit badges are awarded for u proficiency which can only be obtained by a strict care niong noin tuese lines. "Each point of the so-called scout law can, and should, be applied to some form of practical service, und thus the scouts can obtain an understanding of how they may hclri their country. When they first come to un they believe that this can best be done by losing an arm or winning n D. S. C. iir the service, but they soon come to observe the practical ways in which theso vari ous assets can be put into actual practice. A good example is the plan which Mr. Pin chot Htid others connected with the State Forestry Service ore Interested in to effect n definite co-operation between thut bervlce and the Hoy Scouts. "All scouts, especially those anywhere near the state forests, will be enrolled nnd later given Instructions as to th'eir duties, which will consist, speaking generally, of prevention, warning nnd actual flro fighting. Parts of tho forests will be turned over to their care and they will he expected to post lrc-warnlng slgnB on trees, to see to It that careless campers do not leave their Arcs smoldering, to help In the enforcement of the campaign against throwing matches or cigarettes from trains; In short, to do their part along many lines of lire preven tion, nt which thoy are Just ns capable us men. "A kindred work, which already has been Intrusted to the tcotits on severs! occasions, GOING, GOING, ... zur-'az-.t A,"' fitrf!lil.'uv1' .-'i- T is thut of setting out trees in the state forests. "In return for these valuable duties the stnto Is going to grant camping privileges to different scout troops this summei throughout the stnte. For exnmple, the Chester Valley Council will camp at Laurel Lake, South Mountain, in Cumberland county. "It is probable that this particular phase of scout work, which is new, will be ex pnnded and enlarged until it becomes one of permanent 'nature and of great valuo to both parties concerned." Humanisms Hy WILLIAM ATIIERTON DU POX TTE had always regarded persistet J--- a virtue, says Secretary Weeks, tence as of the War Department, until he enme to his pres ent task. While he was in Congress he looked with esteem upon those members who knew what they wanted nnd insisted on getting it. Hut now he is at the other end of the avenue. He is a cabinet officer und there are (100 members of Congress, nil of whom know what they want for their districts and their constituents. It seems to him now thnt nil of them have the qunlltv of per sistence. He now designates it as"a quality, not ns a virtue. Hetween seeing them, he says, he has just time to sign innumerable documents thnt are thrust In front of him. He does not know what they are. It would be entirely pos sible to get his signature to his own death warrant. He would not be surprised nt nnv timo to find thnt he had Inadvertently signed it. A enbinct officer is forced to labor sur prising hours nt the mechanical task of sign ing his own name. Andrew Carnegie, some vears ago, was talking to n woman in Washington who came of nn old family which had not shown very strong in recent generations. "I notice. Mr. Carnegie." said this ac quaintance, "that you do not talk much of your forefathers." "No. madnme," said the iron master, "there is more hopefulness in discussing as cents thnn descents." What Do You Know? QUIZ 1 What Is the literal tncanlnsr ot the cigar term "Colorado mnduro"? 2. Who wna Perez Gnldos? 3. What heroic event Is connected with the loss of the llrltlsh troopship Birken head? 4. What Is n clnssls? 5 Who nalrt "Your If Is your only peace maker; much virtue In If"? 0. In whnt novel by Dickens does the char acter of Mr. Humble nppenr? 7 Who was Merlin 7 8. Why were. Parisian idrla of the working class called nrlsettcs? 9. What state Is known as tho Sunflower State T 10. Of what two berries Is the loganberry a uienu i Answers to Yesterday's Quiz 1 Unrdltuil MnnnlnK's nnmo wns Henry Gdwnrd Manning. Hu left tlie Church of England for the Ilomnn Cnthollc Church In 18S0. He. was born In Hert ' forclshlre, I'lisiiuul. in 1808 unci died nt Westminster in 1802 2 "Truth crushed to tnrtli will rlso ngnln" Is n linn from Itrynnt'a poem, "The Hattlefleld " ' 3 The, Hoslcruclnns weio members of a society devoted to occult lore and mnglc, fnld to have been founded In 1484 by Chrlstlnn Hosciikrcu--, 4 Roquefort cheese originated In Roquefort, a village of about inoo Inhabitants In the department of Avcyron, In south ern l'raneo Tho cliccseH were put to "ripen" in nenrby grottos. C. The music of the operetta "Robin Hood" wns wrltton by llcglnuld de Kovcn. 0 Sonutor tlnrrlson is from Mississippi 7. The "ranz den vaches" Is tho Swiss lierdi men's melody, intiilo of harmonic notes of the Alpine horn. 8 Tho Jacobites were adherents of Jnmes 11 of England, after his dethronement, or of his son, the Pretender. 9, They were so ciill.d because the Latin form of Jnmes I. Jacobus, 10. Pourparler Is the diplomatic term for an Informal discussion preliminary to negotiation t." -: " " ""( in- --. "l a. m . SHORT CUTS It is rapidly becoming the Knocks reso lution. Hysteria Is n great booster of coal prices. The present German crisis is schedule! to last two days more. Tho President of Liberia enjoyed tht turnout that the circus missed. Doc Furbush wants no hours of esse For busy nnts and moths nnd fleas. The fact that it was a beautiful df for a parade only heightened the disap pointment. Old Self-Detcrminutlon is proving him self as good a mixer in Uppor Silesia m elsewhere. Hi Johnson Is probably happy in tbt thought that lie hns something else to be irreconcilable about. The man who finds his name wrongtullr in the slackers' list may console himself with the thought that he has been Injured in n good cause. The one clear thought that comes out of the Upper Silesia mlxup is that there cannot possibly be a settlement without ran. injustice to somebody. When Pat Harrison ragged the SenaU, declaring that Republicans may yet be in dorsing tho League, who will dare say that he may not be a prophet? The presence of the President's repre sentative in the Supreme Allied Council li calculated to moke Senntor Lodge pecvitm enough to bite somebody. DJamba, Sumatra nnd Mesopotamia afford object lessons Illustrating whv Incle Sam should begin to consider theadvlpaoilitj of keeping his oil at home. i .--- The Florldn Grand Jury that has id dieted former Governor Catts on a cha-e of selling pardons while In office evidently expects to make the fur fly. An Austrian archduke is doing a turn in a Herlin cabaret. Well. If he Is a good cabaret performer no fault may be found with him or his employment. Stress has been laid on tht' fact that tho fighting in Upper Silesia Is not war, but the soldiers killed In the disturbance have no Interest In the emphasis. When Mr. Penrose thinks of his rematk that It didn't much mnttcr who was Secre tary of State, us the Senate would sett foreign policy, tho words grow bitter in bu rnout li. Four New York boys have arrived m Philadelphia to sec the circus. They yaUttd nil the way. Common fairness demands tint they have n chance to see the show heforn they ore chased back homo. Krupp von HohIen"suys the 9erro,s,5 people hnvn no Idea of paying the indemnity demanded by the Allies. He probably spea" tho exact truth. What the Allies arc tryln to do Is to get that Idea Into their nru- Great aud overwhelming nre the rows nud tribulations of youth. Two Plilii delphla boys have been found hungry in Haltlmorc. They hod run away from home because they were ashamed' of the low mr they made nt school. It is a great calamity that drives a boy from home when a circus Is due. Efficiency is not always rewarded. Take tho case of the Hartford, Conn., farmer who made whisky In his pig-sty and fed Ji hogs on byproduct. Was he rewarded tor his economy? He was not. He was plnchw nnd his business Is now on the bof. " haps the pigs squealed on him. Any0?" this wns one time that officers of the law took home the bacon. When the wife of ii Third and KIU water street man eloped with a boarder a accepted her disappearance philosophically hut when hs daughter virtually ilcstrojN his whole library by walking off with a tow of Mother Goose Rhymes he notified tnc police declaring that he wanted her to acne time for it. All of which goes to prove what everybody knows, to ovlt, that trut I stranger than fiction. What uctlonlst -ouw have dared to, put forwnrd anything -bizarre? Air ,-.,-Yi- I.
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