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THE PROBE BEGINS
SBNATOU SALU8, in discussing the Civil
Service Commission's inquiry Into the
".personnel nnd methods of the police depart -jnent,
which is to open today, has suddenly
become reticent, mysterious. lie, too, has
caught the habit of talking of "certain men"
'and "certain officials" and "certain lead
ers." He appears to know far lesa today
'than he pretended to know a week ago.
The Senator should be the first witness sum
moned in the probe. He ought to be made to
talk plain and explicit English. If he cannot
do thnt he ought to give the city a rear.
. If the Mayor and the police officials are
wise they will push the inquiry to the limit
and spare no one. If there is anything par
ticularly rotten in the police department
Director Cortelyou ought to know about it.
He has been talking recently of his secret
police. What these secret police are doing
we do not know. Hut it is easy ro Toalixe
that a few good detectives, properly di
rected, could do more to keep the police
force clear of politics and political entangle
ments than any Civil Service Commission
ever organized.
WHATS LEFT OF KNOX PLAN
LITTLE of the labyrinthine grandeur of
the original Knox peace resolution is to
be found in the House substitute, the draft ot
which has just been completod by Chairman
Porter, of the Ways and Means Committee.
No appeal ii mnde for the negotiation of
a separate treaty with Germany, nor is the
congressional declaration of war of April,
1917, revoked. Mr. Porter contends thnt
such a formal repeal might imply regret
for our period of active belligerency.
The House resolution, which seems due
I for an early passage, while asserting that
certain American rights gained in conse
quence of the war will not be forfeited, is
intended chiefly to recognize the fact that
fighting between this country nnd Germany
has ceased. This is a truth which no per
ao.n, whatever his partisanship, can deny.
Neither in Its present modest form is it
easy to see in what way the resolution will
affect the definite peace settlement that mutt
some day be made. The President Is left
without instruction, something Mr. Knox
revealed no hesitancy in offering about one
year ago.
GIVE HIM A MEDAL
11THO would not cheerfullv second the
VV proposal of Uie tax office officials who
have asked City Council to add $200 year
to the annual stipend of Joe Ramona, the
tax department messenger? From the cages
Into which tax payments arc handed this
Bamona carries satchels of money to the
vaults in the Treasurer's office. He has
carried as much as $8,000,000 on one day
He has been known to tote as much as
$50,000,000 in one year. These things he
has done in the corridors of City Hall, under
the hungering eyes of the friends of poli
ticians. Never has he flinched. He has not
been afraid. He hns not lost any of the
money, and his pay has been $1200 a year.
We dou't know joe. But clearly he is no
slouch He Is no coward, ne Is not only
an efficient person, ne is a hero.
A TRIBUTE TO AMERICAN RULE
XlELCOME Wood Forbes, give u In-
VV dependence!"
There is in this slogan of welcome to
President Harding's mission to the Philip
pines a significant tribute to American colo
nial administration.
General Wood is hailed not as the repre
sentative of a domineering Power, but as
an interested friend of the Malaysian realm
competent to appraise its needs and fie to
develop a program In its best interests If
independence, complete or partial, Is ever
accorded to the islands, it will be attained
as a consequence of fair investigation and
sincere co-operptive action.
At the outset, America, as the heir of
Spanish misrule, was placed in the embar
rassing role of suppressing a rebellion for
whose original causes it was in no wot re
sponsible. That twenty-three years of our
control have sown seeds of confidence and
generous trust is a fact bright with promise
of eventual adjustment ot the islanders' best
interests to those of the governing Power.
Conditions in tbn Philippines can hardly
fall to Inspire thoughts of what might have
happened in Ireland had both sides so wisely
and tactfully kept their beads.
HOME THOUGHTS ABROAD
AMERICANS have frequently been ac
cused of giving a domestic twist to the
ball of international politics. The after
math of the Silesluu flare-up somewhat per
tinently proves thnt our statesmen hold no
monopoly over this phase of the game.
Both Lloyd George and Aristlde Briand
aro unquestionably stronger ut home than
they were a week ago. Each leader, the
British and the French, lias declared in vi
brant, not to say heated, phraseology that
the nation which he represents will do what
it pleases regarding the muddle in the pleb
iscite area,
It Is noticeable that Lloyd George's threat
to sanction the employment of German
troops to restore order hus not boen carried
out. Nor have the French turned over
Upper Siletia to the Potes whom they are
professedly so eajer to befriend.
The two verbally bellicose Premiers will
participate In the Supreme Council when it
considers tho Sllcsl.tn problem. Their task
will bo made easier thon formerly by the
sudden" tractabllity of the Insurrectionist
Korfanty. who ceems to have awnkened to
the fart that machinery for dealing with the
tangle ts peclflcally provided by the Ver
sallies treaty.
Mr. Brinnd's reluctance to sitting down
immediately at the conference table with the
n.ih.li Prim Minister Is not difficult to
relate to polltlenl conditions in the Chamber
of' Deputies. Thn slmraerlur of the oppo.
.'f...n nfttilrmt there nrtsazes a meeting of
the Supreme Council dedicated to serious
business. - ( 4
If the home ground had bon in good con
dltlon a "week ago there would probably have
been no Lloyd Goorge-Brland tiff to divert
attention from the real and pressing aspects
of Slleslon controversy.
THERE CAN BE NO PEACE
WITHOUT MUTUAL TRUST
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The New "Shop Committee" Plan of tht
Pennsylvania Railroad Will Work
Only If It Is Entered On In
Good Faith
ALL large employers of labor, whether
they be railroad men or not, will watch
with deep Interest the workings ot the plan
for bringing nbout a better understanding
between the men who pny wages and the
msn who receive them which the Pennsyl
vania Railroad Company Is about to put
into effect.
The company has a joint reviewing com
mittee which deals with all grievances of
the engineers and the trainmen; that Is,
with all the men engaged In the operation
of trains. This committee is not to be dis
turbed. It is to be supplemented by com
mittees composed of representatives of the
other employes, who will confer with the
officers ot tho company with a view to the
establishment of harmonious relations. The
representatives of the employes, however,
must be employes themselves. The plan, in
brief, involves the application of the shop
rommlttcs system to the railroad. It Is
based on the right of an employe to have
n voice In determining the rules and regu
lations under which he works.
Tn the stntement given out by General
Atterbury explaining the plan it is said
that It is superior to the plan of "national
agreements" entered Into during the war,
because that plan took away from tha em
ployes of the Pennsylvania system the right
to have a voice in determining the condi
tions of their employment and because it
took away from the officers of the system
the privilege of dealing with the employes.
General Atterbury hns been at consider
able pains to make it clear that the rights
of the union men will be recognized. The
employes are to select their representatives
by secret ballot so that there may be no
mornl coercion. There can be no reasonable
objection to this. If members of unions nre
chosen they will be recognized as the choice
of the men who voted for them. If non
union men are chosen on the committees they
will have just as good standing as though
they were members of a union,
A pledge Is made, the significance of which
will be appreciated by every one familiar
with the history of grievance committees.
Members of such committees have in the
past found that it was not safe to demand
a change in the conditions of employment,
for it frequently happened that the members
of the committees were discharged on some
pretext within n few weeks after they made
their protest. But General Atterbury an
nounces that the representatives "will be
protected in their position, no matter what
may be their attitude with reference to the
provisions" of the rules and regulations.
And, in addition, be says thnt they will be
provided with necessary transportation, that
their wages will be pnld while they arc ab
stnt from work and that a reasonable allow
ance will be made for their expenses.
This plan will work only If it is entered on
in perfect good faith by both sides. There
must not only be good faith, but there must
be confidence in the sincerity of both sides.
There is an unfortunate disposition on the
part of working men to mistrust their em
ployers in all dealings affecting wages and
conditions of woTk. The employes suspect
the employers of trying to put something
over on them. And it must be admitted that
there have been employers whose conduct
has justified this suspicion. It can be al
layed only by absolute frankness and by a
manifestation of n spirit of fnir play. On
the other hand, the workers have not been
wholly guiltless, for they have done their
best to put something over on their em
ployers. Neither side has taken a broad
view of the situation, but each has fought
for what it regarded as its own interests.
It is now admitted thnt, in the railroad
business at any rate, the interest of the
public is supreme. The railroads exist to
give the people the best possible transporta
tion service at the lowest possible cost.
The wages of the men, the salaries of the
officers and the interest on the capital in
vested are vital elements in the cost.
The new Pennsylvania plan seems to be
based on a detire of the officers that they
nnd the men should get together to consider
how best they can serve the public. If this
thought can be kept in mind during all the
negotiations it ought to be easy to adjust
all differences and to preserve industrial
peace.
Whether the men who have formulated the
program are conscious of it or not we do not
know, but it mlfht have been proposed by
a psychologist familiar with human nature.
The great grievance of labor at the present
time is that it thinks it receives less con
siderate treatment than is given to a ma
chine. It feels cramped and confined. It
is seeking what has been called release of
the spirit. It wishes to be n free agent,
as free as any one can be in a world in
which ar all have to make concessions to
others. This sort of freedom has been se
cured for the employes of the P. R. T
under the Mitten plan, und as a result there
has been no strike for years. Only a few
weeks ago the men agreed to a reduction in
wagM because the reduction wan called for
according to the rule agreed upon for fixing
the wage scale. If this can become general,
the grave rconomlc waste of strikes will b
avoided and content will take the place of
discontent.
EUROPE'S NEW TINDER BOX
SILESIA is to the Europe of today what
Serbia was to the Continent before the
war broke out. It is n tinder box certain
to explode if somebody does not quickly end
the friction that is now generating dan
gerous heat between two clearly defined
allied groups. General Foch Is reported as
saying that a new war is certain to corao
out of the Silesian tangle, and events tend
to prove the truth of his prediction.
The prevailing belief in many parts of
Europe is thnt the Polish claims in Silesia
represent nothing more than the efforts of
the Frencli to go a little further toward the
establishment of a monopoly of the coal and
iron of the Continent. The French are
blamed for "a violation of the principles ot
later pence agreements." The French say
they cannot be safe until Germany is left
' helpless to repeat the onslonght of 1014
Until recently this contention has not been
taken very seriously in other parts of the
world. But disclosures just made through
the United States Patent Office show that
the Krupps arc busily engaged in seeking
not a mere monopoly of coal and iron, but
a monopoly of all the newer patents and
processes perfected for the making of wnr
appliances, poison gas, olrplnnes and guns.
A decision in Silesia is not so ea.lly arrived
at as some of the theorists seem to suppose.
LES MISERABLES
A WAR correspondent, with somethipg of
the terrible power of description which
war correspondents acquired when they had
to write of the desolation and bewilderment
and the crowding sorrows of beaten armies
and scattered non-combntants In Europe,
would be required now to tell the true story
of the refugees who, without hope or help.
.1 -croud, tht Way wbjrb, New York calls
Way wbM Ne
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White though It isn't white, whatever war
you look at it.
These wanderers belong to the army ot
fun-hunters who, driven by the dry laws
out of the caffs, are now to be driven from
their last entrenchments in the, roof gardens.
The most famous of the "midnight roofs"
is to close, perhaps forever. Its manager,
like Its patrons, could not tolerate the pres
ence 'of dry agents men who went about
and sniffed at one's table and sampled one'a
drink. We are Informed in cold and somber
tones that a dry roof garden ot the sort
familiar to New York cannot endure.
Any one might have surmised ns much.
There nre n great many modern diversions,
a great deal of modern song that must be
altogether Intolerable to a wholly rational
man. That, however, is aside.
The question now must relate to the
future fate of the great army of Broadway's
daylight savers the folk who habitually
have breakfast at 3 o'clock in the afternoon
and find life intolerable without electric"
lights.
What is left for the afflicted multitudes?
Books? Tennis? Good works? None of
these things will do. The folk who wander
in n new wilderness of virtues, who are as
lonely and desperate ns the lost tribes of
Israel, seek Broadway as they seek a prom
ised land. They nre the cluak and suit
buyers from the Far and Middle Wost, the
Friends of the House who have to be taken
nut and dined, the rich young men from
Wall Street who have mysteriously and
without any union achieved the forty-eight-minute
week, and some of the new and old
rich who go through life believing that
pleasure is happiness.
To them Manhattan was a Delectable Isle.
What shall they do now? A questionnaire
that would cause Mr. Edison to swoon with
despair might begin with thnt awful query.
THE CINDERELLA OF BRIDGES
THE Cinderella ot bridges, that truly lam
entable Structure spanning tha Schuyl
kill at South street, bas waited long for a
Prince Charming or Fairy Godmother. In
default of a magic wand, the City Adminis
tration will at last oblige.
Council's ordinance providing for reha
bilitation of th,e bridge, nmountlng almost to
rebuilding it, bas bain signed by the Mayor.
Dilapidation, it appears, has reached the
danger point. Makeshift repairs will no
longer suffice.
Of n dog walking on his hind legs Dr.
Johnson declared, "It is not done well, but
you are surprised to find it done at all."
Thus it is with the contribution of the
decaying South street structure to metro
politan communication needs. That it has
not collapsed is indication that debility may
pass the stage even of destructive action.
The engineers promise that the new bridge
will be handsome and efficient. Though
their word and the city's determination in
this instance may be trusted, the strain
thus Imposed on the popular Imagination is
severe.
It Is easier to picture the great interstate
bridge completed nnd in all its majesty than
the South street Cinderella exalted in accord
with its years of patient suffering. The
necromancy of science will warrant the
lowest obeisances when this feat is practi
cally realized.
FACING THE MUSIC AT LAST
INTERNATIONAL financiers doubtless
differ, as experts always do, concerning
the effect of Germany's prompt compliance
with the reparations ultimatum. It is au
thoritatively announced from Berlin that the
Government of the German Republic is pre
pared at once to pay the Entente $37,500,000
in gold marks or foreign credits on nccount
ot the f250,000,000 in gold marks due the
Reparations Commission on May 31.
There can be no question, however, con
cerning the moral consequences of this decla
ration. Germany is at last looking realities
squarely in the face, and nothing more
wholesome has affected the European situa
tion for many months.
The conversations between Dr. Mayer,
German Ambassador to France, and Premier
Briand are welcome evidence that Germany
is at last setting earnestly about to put
her honse in order, which means, in its
widest implications, the order nnd construc
tive gain of all civilization.
This same sincerity is revealed in the note
addressed by Berlin to the Bavarian Gov
ernment upon disarmament. Explicit orders
have been given that all self-defense organi
zations, including the Einwobnerwebr, must
be Immediately disbanded.
It will take a considerable period for
Germany to regain the outside respect which
she so recklessly cast away during the war,
but it is hopefully clear that something like
a start has been mode.
COCKNEY'S THE ONLY WEAR
THE urban spirit is indestructibly demo
cratic. Rittcnhouse Square, tricked out
for its annual Flower Market the other day,
presented the most engaging scene of varie
gated social classes in festal mood and in
juxtaposition.
White youngsters and black frolicked on
the grass and danced to the rhythm of an
excellent band. A small boy lost bis balloon,
and as he climbed a tall poplar to regain the
toy a piquantl.v composite audience watched
his efforts with breathless interest There
were toilettes and dainty sports vestments
in the crowd, and just clothes.
The niedley of ages and ranks throughout
the dav was so unaffected and spontaneous
that it might seem condescending to em
phasize it were it not for Its significant bear
ing upon metropolitan conditions
Contrary to the poets, to Tolstoy and
Rousseau, artless simplicity, is elusive ns
soon as one forsakes the busy haunts of
men.
Pictorially, the Flower Market, tempo
rarily established in what is theoretically
at least the city's most exclusive quarter,
resembled a charming garden fete, but there
was nothing at all of landed proprietorship
or insufferable paternalism in its essential
nature.
Kings, aristocracies, tones generally began
to pull wry faces as soon ns town communnl
life succeeded the bucolic formalism of the
Middle Ages. The town is your only levcler.
Cockney's the only wear.
When President
Radiant Rays Harding presented
the gift of radium to
Mme. Curie he expressed the hope that the
principle of radio-activity might be found to
dominate the relations of mankind "In the
present world crisis, so the yearnings and
the aspirations of the many may radiate a
new spirit of service In the souls of chosen
leaders." And perhaps it does. And it may
be that Colonel Harvey didn't have his sup
ply properly covered and that burns may
result. One never knows.
Thoughtful men will
Bootleggers find nothing objec-
May Object tionable in the new
regulations which will
enable physicians prescribing whisky for
medicinal purposes to write as mnny pre
scriptions ns the) consider necessary. If
the stuff may be used at all, to limit its use
Is an Insult to the profession. The Govern
ment might with as much reason limit tho
number of prescription? for calomel, cin
chona and Ipecac.
Sympathy with Vice
Youthful Fires President Coolldge's
Mutt Burn distress over the radi
calism rampant in
women's colleges is tempered by the knowl
edge that inevitable middle nge Invariably
Sicks from the "radtcollsm" of youthful
ays the stuff worth while and rejects the
Inflammatory chaff. Youth must bi radical
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AS ONE WOMAN SEES IT
Work of the Pupils at the School of
Industrial Art ft Given Impetua
by Stores of the Museum
at Memorlal'tHall
By SARAH D. LOWRIK
I HAVE always' had an amused feeling
about the School of Industrial Art, at
Broad nnd Pine streets, because' of a story
a man once told mc. ne lived in a quiet
little brick house, opposite to it and had no
more than just enough money to live frugally
there, but for a summer or two he went
reckless and lived on hia canital tn great
Btyle in a summer resort nnd was counted by -
all who met him there as a very rich nnd
important, not to say dashing, sort. So
that when one of his summer boon compan
ions happened to be here in Philadelphia
over n train, be bethought him ot his rich
summer host and resolved to look him up.
He had the address South Broad, nenr
Pine street and after a moment's survey of
-the possible houses he decided the great one
with pillars was the only one that looked
important enough, nnd forthwith mounted
tho steps and rang the bell nnd asked the
astonished janitor who came lumbering to
the door it Mr. Blank were at home.
The curious thing about Mr. Blank was
that he was pleased at the mistake, or rather
flattered that ho should hare been supposed
to live in so fine a house. Since he Ingenu
ously retailed the story to me I have always
called it to myself "Mr. Blank's House."
Well, I strolled about Its halls and exhibi
tion rooms on a recent evening looking at
the work of the students now on view there.
I HAD the advantage of seeing the things
under the guidance of the sccretarv of
the school, Mr. Hugcr Elliott, Mr. Elliott,
beside his other well-known attributes and
attainments as architect, artist, teacher and
writer, ls( incidentally, the husband of
Elizabeth Shlppcn Green, which was one
other reason why Philadelphia was glad to
have htm leave New England and come here.
Ho is not n New Englander by birth or
family connections quite the contrary ! ne
was born in Tenncsseo and brought up in
New Orleans aud went to college in the
South, though since then he has been at
Columbia nnd Harvard and our own Uni
versity. He told me this apropos of the
exhibit in the Normal Class gallery of- the
work of the students qualifying to be teach
ers. I found it somehow less interesting
than the more specialized work of the other
divisions of the school, i. c, the decorative
design exhibit, the illustration class work,
the house decoration nnd furniture work and
the fabric silk, cotton, wool, etc. weaving
and designing.
Ho explained that the men and women
who are qualifying for teachers have to take
In one courso a summary of what the whole
school teaches in bait a dozen courses, nnd
that what they turn out have to be models
of what the average boy and girl can attain
during their public school years. In fact,
there is little opportunity for original work
cither on the part of the teachers or their
future scholars a general knowledge of
many arts being all that is possible. I was
told, however, by one of the teachers down
at the Graphic Arts Club that the public
tchools turned out very good work in ele
mentary drawing. He added that boyB nnd
irls who had It in them to be artists could
hnve no better start than that accorded by
our Philadelphia public schools. I knew
that this was not true of our private schools.
The ones I went to, at least, had courses
in art that were regarded as pleasant jokes
by the pupils.
This was possibly because there was no
fixed course running through the various
grades in a well-adjusted sequence.
MR. ELLIOTT did not agree with mc
that the exhibit of the normal classes
was less Interesting than the others. It
struck me, however, that he himself had
arrived at teaching by quite another process,
having begun by specializing as on archi
tect I have an idea that for all classes the
initial steps are the tame i. e., the study
of design motives of the past and ot the pres
ent with regard to the future. Problems are
given the first-year student in design with
out regard to fabric or limitations ns to
color. That Is, the student has to learn the
meaning of lines, the effect of lines nnd
patterns and repetitions; he has to fit them
into a prescribed space and then design
them for a prescribed use. I was interested
to see that the first-year designs were very
Japanese In feeling, while the third -year
designs were very Persian.
MR. ELLIOTT ohowed me the studies
that the first nnd second year pupils had
made of Persian designs from the Persian
art that is put at their disposal for study
out at the Museum at Memorial Hall. And
it dawned on me for the first time that all
the works of nrt out at Memorial Hall, from
the wrought-lron work to the furniture nnd
from the pictures to the great architectural
replicas arc primarily for the use of the
pupils of the cchool, the Museum and the
school being under one board of trustees, of
which Mr. John Mcllhenny is the president.
The director of the museum Is Mr. Lnngdon
Warner, nnd the principal of the school is
Mr. Huger Elliott.
I UNDERSTAND that some of the finest
work of the pupils of the schools finds its
way temporarily, at least, into the museum.
I was looking at the designs of chnirs in the
house-decoration department, and I was told
that careful and exact copies of period fur
niture, Jacobean. Georgian, Italian and
French, are made at the school by the
pupils from the turned legs to the brocaded
seats nnd from lacquered cabinets to wrought
lron fire dogs. Tbey not only make this fur
niture, but they moke designs of rooms nnd
rugs nnd architectural details to correspond
with It. There wns nothing original about
the great majority of these rooms in the first-
year exhibits, 'mat is, tney urn not seem
taken from a real arrangement of an actual
room. They looked like picture-book rooms.
The competitions for the New York Beaux
Arts medals, however, began to show char
acter. The problems were real architec
tural problems Bolved In a practical way.
THE Now York Society of the Alumni of
the French School of Art iends out
monthly problems to be solved by the schol
ars of such schools as the Industrial Art
nnd gives medals for the most satisfactory
designs submitted to it.
The one that was used in this year's
exhibit was the end of a great board room,
or council chamber, containing a fireplace
and mantel and space for a painting over
the mantel, some large chairs on either Bide
of the fireplace and a wall spneed by
pilasters with a heavy cornice design above.
The spacing ot the columns or pilasters, the
type of the cornices, the base of the col
umns, the character nnd period of tho fire
pluce, the type of picture over the mantel,
the carving nnd proportions of the table nnd
the chairs, the lighting of the end of the
room nil these were great tests of the stu
dents who competed and were very interest
ing In their variety.
In the dress-designing room there were
very careful studies up to the eighteenth
century of both European and Asiatic dress
and details of costumes, but only I thought
of the court type of dress. One would get
more from peasants' dresses, I should think,
in the way of detolled design. I wns less
Interested in the work of the illustrators
than during the war period. All posters and
magazine pictures have lost their importance
for the time, somehow.
Of course, the great achievement of the
Bchool Is its weaving deportment, and as
that is, after all. Philadelphia's chief ln
dustrv, It is well that this great school
(hould tench it to perfection. The names
of most of the students were Russian, Slav,
Follnh, Slovak, Jswish. Their work should
go far to help America compete with Europe
In quality ns well ns quantity. They and
their parents were there in full force that
evening, as good Americans ns any Puritan
father )o tejppf.d off thevMayflower,
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Daily Talks With Thinking Philadclphians on Subjects They
Know Best
REV. HORACE C. STANTON
On Telepathy and Clairvoyance
THE wonders of thought transmission and
mind reading arc but the Incipient plav
of glorious faculties which reach their full
expansion in the life to come, according to
the Rev. Horace C. Stanton.
"Both science nnd Scripture ore now seen
to indicate that by them the heavenly beings
can instantaneously converse across distance
indefinitely great," Mr. Stanton said.
"These psychic marvelB hove been noted in
All ages. By thought transmission (i. e.,
telepathy) a message comprising nil the
features of a complicated scene personality,
ideas, form, color, movement Is at once
conveyed to some mind thousands of miles
awav ; or, from some spirit far remote, by
mind reading (i. e., clairvoyance) are in
stantly learned nil the elements of such a
scene progressing there.
"I will merely give a few suggestive il
lustrations, placing those from Scripture nnd
those from science side by side. Then stntu
some of the conclusions to which n compre
hensive survey of telepathy and clairvoyance
Inexorably brings us.
Transmissions
"There may be various transmissions from
one mind to another, as of n simple idea, a
command or a complex imaginary concep
tion. "In Scripture: Peter nt Joppa, In n
trance 'saw the heavens opened, nud a ter
tain vessel descending up to him
a great sheet knit at the four corners
wherein were all manner of four-footed
beasts nnd creeping things, und
fowls of the air.' Then 'came u voice to
him: Rise, Peter, kill nnd ent.' (Acts x,
11-13.)
"In science: About 1892, before airplanos
were made, Dr. Blair Thaw nud Mr. Wyntt
transmitted to the mind of Mrs. Blair Thaw
the conception of an imaginary tlylng ma
chine going over Madison Square Tower.
And she correctly described it. 'Sailors pull
ing at ropes' ; 'a balloon ; it is tue nrst man
flying.' (Proc. Soc. P6jchical Research,
Vol. vlll, 343.)
"There may be mind reading In Scrip
ture: Saul, in quest of missing nsses, goes
to the inspired Samuel for help Before he
can state hiH errand Samuel snys: 'Thine
asses that were lost ure found.
(I Sam., Ix, 20 )
" 'Two men by Rachel's sepulchre
will say unto thee the asses thou wentest to
seek are found.' (I Sam., x, 2.) Tho
prophet was reading from the consciousness
of some other person or persons who bud
located the dsses. In science: A clair
voyant's father was gone, no one know where.
But she obtained n vision of him and bis
surroundings fifty miles away. Ho was
seated at a table, writing, with people
around. This was read from his own intel
ligence. (Proc. Soc. Psyc. Res., Vol. vii,
04.)
Christ Reading All Souls
"One mind may road the contents of
various others. In Scripture Christ, rend
ing all souls, says to Ills disciples, 'There
shall meet jou n man bearing a pitcher of
water.' 'One of you shall betray me.'
(Mark xir, iu-i ) in wicnce: The Rev.
C. B. Sanders, of North Alabama, bv read
ing from other minds, 'seemed conscious of
what wob tranbplriog at any point to which
his nftentlon was directed, rcgurdless of
distance.'
"Could tell the condition of distant sick
people whom he had never seen, the effect!.
of lightning thirty-five miles nwny, the
progress of u fire In another State, etc.
(Human Personalit). Fred W. II. Myers,
Vol. il, 602-500.)
"The message ma be u vision and a
voice. The vision, like the signature to u
letter, Indicates the person from whom the
communication comes. Thus, in Scripture:
Samuel has passed from earth. Saul, in
dire distress, goes to Endor to the witch
for light from the departed seer. Samuel
appears to him in a vision and foretells his
approaching doom. (I Sam., xxvlli, 13
10.) In science: Isidore Keiilcmaus, dying
in London, manifests himself by u vision
and a voice to his father In Paris. At that
exact moment the child died in London.
('Phantasms of the Living," I, 444-445.)
"These transmissions may be repetitions
nnd reciprocal. In Scripture: When
Christ and the penitent thlof had left their
material bodlea and gone to Paradise, how
did tbey converse? It must have been by
thought transmission, So the millions of
other spirits there, having no physlcul or
gans, must commune without them i. c
by telepathy. In science: A husband and
wife in California, nearly 100 miles apart,
communicated with each other almost daily
by mentnl telegraphy. (Pacific Theosophlst,
Ban Francisco, August, 1808.)
"In Scripture: The nngel of the Lord
twice appeared and spoke to the carpenter
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Joseph in n dream. (Matt., 1 nnd il.) In
science: Stewart Paris, dying (apparently
nt Muskegon, MiclO, twice manifested hira
bclf by a vision nnd a voice to his absent
sister nt Saginaw. ('Phantasms of the
Living,' I, 445.) Mr. Clarence Godfrey
twice transmitted a vision of himself to
Mrs. W. V. Each time she Tccognized the
vision nnd reciprocally transmitted a vision
of herself to him. ('Phantasms of the
Living,' I, 81-84.) But, with the vision,
mny go any and every other form of mental
message.
"These psychic dispatches fly across space
indefinitely great. In science: Miss B.,
in England, transmits to a gentleman in
India a vision of herself, Intimating that she
requires assistance and wishes him to write.
He recognizes the vision, realizes that she
needs help nnd writes. (Journal Soc. Psyc.
Res.. Mnrch. 1801.) In Scripture: Dying
Stephen sees 'the heavens opened' (this
means that what followB is a vision) 'the
glory of God, and Jesus standing on the right
hand of God.' The risen Saviour is flashing
n vision of Himself nnd His glorious sur
roundings down to the expiring martyr.
(Acts vii. 55-50.)
"Electricians hnve long dreamed of in
venting some means by which persons trans
mitting telcgrnphlc messages may see each
other. But, almost incredible to relate,
when nil the fncts nbout telepathy nnd clalr
ovnnce are tnken together, they unmis
takably indicate that exactly this mode of
intercourse, is a working principle in the
other world. That the radiant immortals,
parted by unlimitod space, can instantly flash
one to another a vision representing himself
nnd his surroundings, with any other de
slrfxl communication of any kind. Time nnd
distance annihilated, ns with sweet un
broken communion, the celestials range among
the iridescent spheres.
Tho Tlireo Persons of the Godhead
"Apparently nny content that can exist
in an) mind, finite or infinite, may be trans
mitted ; personal visions, ideas, feelings,
motor Impulses, sensory impressions, etc.,
in every possible combinations. The Three
Persons of the Godhead, aside from the fact
that Christ hns a human body, nre pure
spirits, with no material organs. Their in
tercourse must be by telepathy Instanta
neous, incessant, ideal. Therefore, thin
must be the highest and most wonderful
mode ot communion possible or conceivable.
Court language of the universe! And the
children of God. using telepathy in its vari
ous forms, nre but employing the fame me
dium through which the Eternal Three for
evermore converse.
"Finallj, one most important fact. All
through the Bible comp those psychic events
appearances In vision, iusplrcd dreams,
mental messages nnd the like. These infi
delity hns deemed an easy mark. They wore
called the fabrications of priestcraft. But
now they nre seen to be solidly scientific nnd
nhove attack. Upon whnt ground affirm
that the Deity and the nngcls cannot appear
in vision, utter voices, send messages into
human minds, when it has been incontcsta
bly proved thnt we ourselves can do exactly
those same things? They nre not miracu
lous or occult. They follow lows which we
ourselves can npply.
"Telepathy nnd clairvoyance nre simply
transcendent means of communication. By
them the celestials can tell us of events
coming in nges yet unborn. We have no
prophetic power. Our telepathy and clolr
toyancc cannot reveal the future. But,
nside from their contents, the psychical com
munications of the Bible can in essence be
repioduced. Their principles, methods and
phenomena are not supernatural. They arc
scientific.
"What Is more infinitesimal than nn atom?
But the Christian chemist tells uh that the
ntoiDH and the crystals confirm the Scrip
tuie. Ohcmisti y, whenever and wherever it
touches the Word of God, invnrlnbly nnd
nbsolutely supports it. And what In this
world is more Important than our humnn
minds? But psjchlcal science, which dis
cusses the transcendent powers of the
human soul, also nnrescrvedly confirms the
Scripture. The latest findings of modern
psychology unmistakably substantiate the
psychical records of the Inspired Page from
Genesis to Revelation."
Illnkcy-Dink's saloon in Chicago is now
being ubed ns a restaurant nnd his huge
schooners nre now filled with tea. From
Hlnkey-Dink to Rinky-DInH, says the
Bibulous One
The New York Herald likes narveyV
speech. This must be plum discouraging to
Colonel George. What's the good of daring
to be n Daniel when some guy prevents you
from standing alone?
The French and English Premiers are
giving themselves plenty of time to cool off
before meeting.
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What Do You Know?
QUIZ
1. What is the capital of the kingdom t
the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes?
3. Who was Jose Echegaray?
3. What Is tho origin of the exprtnlta
"hand-ln-glove"?
4. What Is the Julian calendar and what
modern countries still use It?
5. Why are wealthy persons sometimes
called plutocrats?
6. Who were the original Templars?
7. What Is a diapason?
8. What were Die first names of the two
Cabots, discoverers of North America?
9. What Is the meaning ot the nam
Idaho?
10. Why Is the flower zinnia so called?
Answers to Saturday's Quiz
1. The first presidential appointment to tho
Cabinet to be rejected by the United
Htates Senate was that of Itoger B.
Taney as Secretary of the Treasury.
Latsr Andrew Jackson appointed Taney
to the Supremo Bench.
2. The battle ot Chnpultepec occurred during
the Mexican War. The American vl.
tory gave to General Scott's army the
possession of Mexico City.
3. The South Sea Bubble was a financial
schema which originated In EngiuM
about 1711 and collapsed in 1720. It
was proposed by the Earl of Oxford to
fund a floating debt of 10,000,000, tht
purchasers of which would btcomi
stockholders In a corporation, tno
South Sea Co., which would hive a
monopoly of the trade with Spinlia
America. The refusal of Spain to enttr
Into commercial relations with BngUM
made the privileges ot the company
worthless; but by a series of specula
tive operations and the Infatuation of
the people Its shares were Inflated
from 100 to 1050. The failure ot tn.
scheme caused great distress thrMta
out England.
i. Jonathan Swift In "Polite. Conversation"
wrote "I won't quarrel with my breaa
and butter."
5. The Rock of Gibraltar has been In pos
session ot Great Britain tines 1701,
when It was taken by British and Dutch
forces under nooke.
. Haakon VII Is the present Klnr of Nor
way. 7. Seven Romance languages are Kronen,
Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Provw
rat, Catalan and Rumanian.
8. AJax was one of the Greek heroos of
tho Trojan War, famed for hit physical
strength and beauty. According to
various legends he wis either slain or
died by his own hand during tht porloo
of the siege. ,
9. The Initials Q. E. D. stand for "quoj
erat demonstrandum." meaning wnlea
wns to be proved.
10. The motto on the Liberty Bell Is "Pro
claim liberty throughout the land unto
all the Inhabitants thereof."
Old King Coal puts his glass down lon
enough to pipe that his fiddlers three aro
Labor, Freight nnd Taxes, and that It is
mighty doleful tune they're playing.
So long as ho may write tho Nation's
notes, Secretory Hughes probobly does not
care who makes its after-dinner speeches.
The shade of Franklin K. Lane prob
ably smiles understanding at his wlfoi
unwillingness to nccede to hlslatt requtJt.
Greenwich Village hos been raldod by
the police. Evidently another effort to rlf
a thrill to the commonplace.
The mobbing of the Aqultanla cannot
exactly be considered an Indorsement ot
Colonel Harvey's speech.
Perhaps the Newberry case y
classed as a Ford flivver.
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Tip to the Gang
On Saturday morning a woman got or, i
car at Second nnd Pine streets with two
heavy market baskots and a bucket. A"
she passed another woman, also ouen;0,'
she leaned over and said with a whlrniljai
smile, "We don't get much out of this Jo
of ours, do we?"
miS it hard, hard job that a bousewlf
J- holds; . ..
There nre so many duties, deuce U
them, .
And all of them cast In such commonple
molds , ..
She is filled with a longing to break then.
But she sticks to her worlc, like core w
the cob,
Despite every act that annoys her;
And just what she gets from her conuaoi
plnco job
Depends on the gang that employs ber.
If children are thoughtful and father Is Mo
When worry has made her feel tearful,
Despite oil the work there's to do, do yon
You'll find she'll perk up and be cheerful.
With the wages of love and a bonus of pr'M
Her labor becomes that much HwW' -,
And the, gang that employs ber will '
happy days ,
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