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RIGHT OF A STATE TO TAX 'A NKW YOflK Congressman is trjlng to invnlitifltc the Pennsylvania tax on anthracite on the ground that it is nil export tar. lie has introduced n bill in the House of Representatives which forbids the trans portation in interstate common e of coal on which a State tax has been levied, and he has offered a resolution requesting an opin ion from the Attorney (ieneral on the con ftitutionality of such a tax. The Attorney (Jencral will doubtless Ml him that there is nothliic in th Constitu tion whh:h prctcnt n Stnle ftom leryinc ny tar it pleases on any commodities pto duced within it holders. The only consti tutional restriction on the taring powers of the States is that which forbids them to levy a tax on exports. It would be stretching thlx prohibition to the breaking point to make it compel n Stat with a tax on any commodity to exempt from that tax all of that commodity shipped outside of the State. The constitutional provision giving Con gress power to regulate interstate commerce has been applied in unyjt which would have surprised the men who drafted il. but it 1b doubtful whether the members of Con gress will vole in lars" numb for anv I measuro which will interfere with the rights of the citizens of their States to ship anv of 1 their products lo other State whether those products are taxed locally or not. If the anthtaclte tax is upset it will ptobably be by the courts of Pennsylvania and not by an act of Congre's or an opinion from the Federal Attorney General. OUR ELUSIVE SENATE IN TI1E basement rooms under the two great wings of the National Capitol were two restaurants. One was for the House, the other was for the Senate. They were in some ways old fashioned and suggestive of the eighties. The prices on the House side were always lower than the prices on the Senate side, though the fare and the service under one In; were not noticeably different from thfjiiaie and scrvieo under the other. Corned Wcf and cabbage, flapjacks, corn pone, apple , Pic. boiled beef and other dishes similarly national in character were available in each place. The members of the House liked to nee strangers eating in their restaurant. The meinbe s of the Senate did not. They had a wav of seeming hurt at the sight of an unfamiliar face. The Home ntill cats in the lmscment res taurant. The Henale has withdrawn for the summer to a brightly and luxuriously ap pointed eating place on one of the Capitol porticoes. It has established a barred r.onc. "At last, thank heaven." the Senate seems to say, "we can be aloun'." There could be no rational objection to a Senator's desire to sit down to meals in the open air. in an atmosphere of appointments suggestive of Palm Beach or the Hiviera. But th Senate isn't merely gratifying its esthetic serse. It appears to be desirous of getting as far away from the country as it can without taking ship for foreign lands. And it has succeeded at last. AN EXPERIMENT WORTH MAKING NO BETTEIt thing could happen than for the members of the building trades unions of New Jersey to carry out their threat, made et their convention in Atlantic City, to begin the erection of dwellings by a co-operathe pljn unless the building ton tractors resume operations on a larger scale. The delegates iay that the contractors must cease demanding a lower wage scale, a "the time is not yet ripe for wage parings." Building operation", not only in New Jersey, but in every other State, arc stagnant because there is uo demand for bouses at the prices which they will cost. Both labor and material are high. The prices of material arc slowly coming down. The price of labor has not tome down. If the New Jersey unions begin building operations on their own account tbey will conic up against the same ronditinns which are keeping the contractors idle. When they are forced to find a market for the house's which tbev erect they will have a better understanding than they now seem to have of the relation between the cost of a house of a certain type and the price which the man who wishes such n houe can afford to pay for it. They mav succeed in bringing about great economies in building osts while tlicj continue to draw the wartime wage. If they can do so no one will be more delighted than the peop'e who nrc looking for homes. A PIONEER FOR STAGE TRUTH SO FAB as the American stage is concerned Lady Bancroft, who died In England this week at the age of eighty-one, was mtitb more of an influence than a personality. The gifted actress and her husband. Squire Bancroft, later knighted, jellred from tho British theatre in I8S., At thnt date American hlstrlonism was nourishing enough indeed it is customarj to refer (o the period as "the palmy days' but the native drama can hardlj be ?ald to have brm born. Theatrical vehicles of real validity were mostly Importations. Among them wus a group of popular dramas which were neither rerkjng with fnlte nenllinent nor rampant with sensationalism. In "Caste," "School" and "Society" the attempt was made by Tom Jloberlson, their author, and the Ban crofts, thfir interpreters abroad, to trail hcribe to the stage the actualities of exist ence. Scoffers, startled by this invasion into the Yerltics, affixed the label "cup-and-saucer" drama and bewailed the vanishing days of pomposity and fustian, Bu( interest in the alleged littleness, (ho minor uuancca, of life persisted before the footlights, In time American draniatMa became un afraid to depict the rlvb and n1ricd phases . wiuii! io rrnwit una 'JLrauwws ! ?W,'f..BerJMlr''LCti" i,int. fcOW J. Otfllaa.Jaiiii.lt. Wlnaaia. &fca?. NHMM. mw Gelaamltb, Datia . BBnTar. Ty M ' M in PATD .. qMTUKT,.,. ..BSltaf r . ef'chtractW immediately surroum The revolution. Is not endtd, tmUobi still hold away and itamo'cd formulae obtrude In every theatri cal season and crudities Inevitably abound. But it is undeniable that Bronion How ard, Fitch and Cohan, Augustus Thomas and Eugene O'Neill, however disparate their dramatic procadure, are heirs of the revolution to which Robertson, gentlest of radicals, and the Bancrofts, aristocrats among Interpreters, gave the stamp of au thenticity. Marie Wilton (Lady Bancroft) did not hesitate to hold the mirror up to contem porary existence at the cost of renouncing ecentryshallng rhetoric and lines to make the welkin falsely ring. With her late hus band this charming and cultured player en-joj-ed the privilege, in their retirement of witnessing the general confirmation of their artistic ideals. . The fruits of their pibneerlng bloom on many a stage where the English tongue is spoken. DE-AMERICANIZATION WOUNDS NOW CALL FOR RED CROSS AID Studies by Foreign Language Service Show How Great Was the Devasta tion Wrought by Ignorant Hate and Stupid Officialdom V7EItr quictlj, according to current nd- vices from Washington, as a man settles down to n hard and exacting tusk, the foreign-language service of the American Red Cross is preparing to undo some of the harm done through reckless propaganda and the consequent general hysteria of the war period to the collective mtnd aud the spirit of the United States. Briefly, it may be said that the Red Cross seeks to do reconstruction in areas devas tated by the storm of Ill-will, of sus picion and hatred and blind passion that culminated in the wild work of Attorney General Palmer and his espionage agents. The war is orr now. and it will be a wholesome experience for the people of this countrv to look bsckwaul lalmly ut some of the violent and illiberal things that wctc done in the name of liberty Statistics aud general information ob tained by the American Red Cross show that theie arc in this country about 10,000, 000 people of foreign birth moic or loss; isolated from the life about them by the barriers of an unfamiliar language. It is estimated by men who have taken the tvoublc to look calmly into the whole matter that in this great multitude you might find about -100.000 who might be classed ns political free thinkets or radicals, though the deep-dyed Reds nmoug them nrc said to be very few. The other millions, it appears, often re veal a devotion to America more ardnt than the devotion of the native born. Because manj of them have suffered and found refuge here, they can experience a scuse of grati tude and a sort of faith and allegiance that is found too infrequently among p?oplc who never have been able to judge America and things American by the law of contrast-. In calling attention to this characteristic of the average alien, officials of the Red Cross have been moved retentiy to remind the country of recent events that did mu h lo bewilder and disillusion these strangers within the gates. Russians who assembled to celebrate the overthtow of the CV-ur were ridden down by the mounted police in New York. ct the leaders of these same people were then advising them to learu all about two subjects which to Russian Vyes remain the most important in the United States Abraham Lincoln and modern machinery. One arm of tha United States Govern ment the bureau of propaganda organized during the war brought the foreign born together (o hear leeluies on Lincoln's work and life and ideals and to study rudimentary English. Another arm of the Government the espionage section of (he Department of Justice often raided these meetings before the addresses began. There is record of a tollege piofessor who arrived at a hall in New York to talk to an audience of eager aliens in the name of the Government only to find the place sur rounded by police. Between the police and the foreign bom there was alwavs the almost insurmountable barrier and the Instincts of mutual suspicion that rise inetltably between two men who, .finding themselves in a critical position, know no common language. Of what really went on in the alien mind during the war period the couutry even now knows rela tively little. But it is a fact that more than one meeting of "foreigners." called to bid a proud good-by to an eullsted man of their own race, was raided by Mr. Palmer's agents. In those days it was supposed by some people that the war could not be forced to a Nitre victory unless deep lines of bate and pnsxiou were cut to separate and isolate all peoples and groups of peoples who happened to be of different blood or ancestry, even those people who had long before merged their purposes, their sympathies anil their belief in a general loyalty to punclples of progressive, free and enlightened gotern ment. That work was prcttv efficiently done. Professional hate-makers worked in small armies with the most effectual of in strumentalities. How long will it take to undo nil this and to permit men again to work aud hope to gether as they once did? A generation, per haps says the fotcign-languagc service of the American Red Cross, and perhaps two generations. How long a period will be tequired to Americanize those whom I he blunders and passions of the war days de Americanized? The moral devastation done in this toun trv bv violent and ignorant propaganda is something about which we might justly tom plaln, if anv imaginable war indemnities could atone for damage of the sort that was done upon every hand. And some of tho most earnest nathc Anieritans were swept off their feet in the currents of artificially created feeling and put to the work of pro fesslonal disturbers of the world's peace. The damage was done to the roots of our national life and our national feeling. The wounds which the Red Cross is now attempting to bind up were inflicted co.e to the heart of our own countty, and none ever tended on a battlefield was more painful or more to be viewed with regret and sorrow. WHY CONGRESS STICKS rpHE peace resolution, the Army and Navy J- Appropriation Bills, the Federal Budget TSUI and the temporary tariff are ripening for conclusive congressional action. This piosprct of c-clcrit- in the national legislature would be entouraging did it Imply that the Senate and House entertained any sincere thoughts of joining the ranks of summer vacationists. Suth, unfortu natcly, Is not the case. Theie are indications that tho permanent tnx and tariff revisions measures, for 'the enactment of which the present session was called, will be discussed in leisurely fashion Maintenance of the congressional largo will enable certain groups of leaders, especially in the Senate, to pursue those habits of scrutiny over the nrtions of the eiecutive branch which were so assiduously cultivated during the previous administration. With exceedingly brief interruptions Con. gress has now been In session slnco Wit. Change in Us personnel hay been marked by fejV alterations iu Jhe spirit auimatlnr ilngthem. u conduct so far aa International affairs 1 TTTT! ' ' IT nuiW A m A ixr4 raD.Tafltf AV. fnirrTKP.TVJ WV. flAN ONfiY' filJESSAT WH'AII 'VU kr, , Certain con. tre concerned. AS ONE WOMAN SEES T JMn x mjixw, vitwvx "r;l VU. t VT rt7i . "; ' certain rubber- Who knows but that snetdy adiournmenl ' NKNAl'K KKHTAUICAINT 1UU0I MU JJilVE. . might be followed by a vigorous evolution of foreign policy betraying the master hand of Secretary Hughes and the cordial sanc tion of the President? It such things arc to be, peril would be in store for the notion that tho functions of the Executive can be overriden and be littled by Senate committees, 'The public would eventually be forced to lake the con stitutional tripartite division of the national authority seriously, Imagine, for instance, the straightening out of some of the foreign relations of tho United States unaccompanied by minatory oratory In the Capitol! Conceive, if pos sible, progress in untangling several of the difficulties now besetting civilization, with all the Senators and Representatives on home bases'! . ', The idea Is just k bit staggering. It mat ters not that business is clamoring for carlyv adjournment. Business is nil very well iu its way, and it is always proper lo promise it the utmost consideration in political cam paigns. But almost anybody who has watched the national sessions during the last five years must admit that congressional pride takes precedence, and that the privilege, whether usurped or not, of hurling monkey wrenches into the machinery of stale is not one to be lightly forgone. A mere elementary understanding of these facts will help the public to realize that high summer temperatures in Washington arc not dreaded by Congressmen and Sen ators as the worst of afflictions. Moreover, it is understood that this stern conception of duly will not be dovold of compensations. Temporary adjournments, inspired by the combined Alexandrine, Babylonian and Parisian charms of the new Senate cafe, are not entirely inconceivable. As for the public, it should rest contented. Some Senators are moro pleasing poring over their pate do foto gras than over mat ters to which their gifts aic alien. PREPARING THE GROUND? - JL'ST what President Hardiug meant by his speech at the Academy of Political Science in New York does not yet appear. He talked about the difficulties in the way of lcnrganizing the Goternment in Wash ington and about the trouble which always comes when jobs arc abolished and the incumbents dismissed. But lie said that until the number of jobs is l educed and until there was n readjustment of the telations of the arIous departments to one another there could be little progress iu the direction of needed economies. The President announced that "the Ad ministration which devotes itself relentlessly to such work must understand that it will lose a good deal of immediate loyalty on the part of a certain class of politicians, which will not be comnensaled lo It at once in the ipensa appreciation of tbe public, for the public win not nave tne ticcp, immediate interest or the active concern which will nuimatc the person who finds himself pried loose from the pure-strlng.'" This may be regarded fls a warning to the public not to expect Too much in the way of retrenchment. Tast attempts to abolish jobs have failed because of the activities of "a certain class of politicians." Politicians nVe just as hungry now as thev have been in the past, and the Republican politicians, who for eight years have been kept out of what thev have tome to- regard as their, rights in Washington, hae a keen and un satisfied appetite. They will do their best to prevent carrying, out the plan of tc organiwttion on which President Tnft re ceived a report during his Administration. The report was never printed and it now lies in the tiles of some Federal flpai tment. We should like to belie c. hpwever, that the President is preparing the country for the howl which will go up fiom the little politicians when the reduction of the num ber of persons on the Federal payroll begins in earnest. A single speech will not do it and it will tnke more than a st.ttemenl of the need of tetrenchment. A detailed exhibit of the duplication of work, of the superflu ous emploves and of the ninount of money that can be saved to the taxpayers bv put ting more business in government will spike the guns of the spoilsmen. The ground must be carefully prepared before tiny radical re form can be brought about. If it Is ptop erly prepared the men who object to abolish ing jobs will appear in their true light as Hclfish seekers after patronage and us abso lutely indifferent to anything else. Then they may ell themselves hoarse without stirring up any sympathy. SCRAMBLED DAYLIGHT LAWS DISPATCHES fipm Harrisburg ate re minding newspaper readers that no mat ter what the cities and railroads may do, the official time of the State will be as it alwnjs has been, since it is necessnry, under a law of 1SS7, for the Slato to run its clocks ac lording to the schedule recognized and es tablished in Washington. National time is now made by the faimejs of the tountrj. and until the farmers have fewer TOtcs than they have now or until they experience a change of heart Congress will not change the time to provide an additional davlight hour in every summer day No one will wish to see the farm vote decrease. Farming means too much to the countrv for that. But it is worth remem bering that the defeat of the national daylight-saving law was due to the moie or less haphazard and unexplainable opposition of the agrii ultural areas. No commission ever sat down to look at the question scientifi cally. Until thut is done there will be grow ing confusion in nil parts of the rountry with each succeeding summer. The longer day is now an established institution ,hicli no large city will willingly dispense with. Farming is nn exacting business. "o one can succeed at it without long advance train ing. It is the basis of (he economic struc ture everywhere. And et farmeis. like other people, have some things et to learn. The work of the Department of Agriculture, which revolutionized farming methods within the last generation, is not by any means completed. It is not too much to suppose that the Department of Agriculture, if it weie permitted to do so. could show the farmers a way so to revise their methods as to make opposition to daylight saving unnei cssary, Congressman Annlrhr Frlntttan. Hail. Hail, wants cveiy session of The Gang's All Here Congress opened with I the singing of "The Stur Spangled llanner. If liis suggestion is acted upon we may some day read: "The ote on the Blank resolution resulted in a strltt party vote, tho sonrsnos and inn traltos voting solidly for the resolution, the basses baritones and tenors loting solidly against,' But before I'ougiess rises to the dignity of a songfest there must he nianv sessions of preparation. Perhaps it woulil be better for the members to try something easier, something they nil know. If the Government Mental blackness planned to arrest everj slacker there would be no need to publish a "slackers' list." If tho Government realized the impossibility of ar resting eery slacker there might be reason for publishing the list, so that the slacker might be punished by being held up to public scorn. But this last Is only possible if the list is accurate. But as the list is glaringly inaccurate, its publication only serves to give unnecessary pain to men nnd relatives of men whose names am wrongfully there. And the real slaikers cn-spe contumely because the lint itself his fallen into disrepute, Book Picked Up In Greenwich VllUge Finds Its Answer In Wllkea- Barre and Rlttenhouse Square y 8AKAH I. LOWRIK TN GREENWICH VILLA OEso called J In Now York lastinonth I dived into one of the numerous little basement shops that aic half clubrooms, half studio apartments of some temporary sojourner of that would be Bohemia, and picked up a magazine or two from the shelf by the door devoted to periodicals. I had never heard of the peri odicals, which, though varied in shape and color and design, seemed to contain nn al most parallel assortment of verse, illustra tions, comments arill critical essays, alt pitched In a high monotonous key of wild prattle like an infant that had got this wrong bottle! . ' I wanted to buy at least one of the maga jincs as a sample of "Made in Greenwich Ullago lore," but J did not know which was the magazine and which was a poor copy, and I did not like to ask the careless young person who was chatting with a visitor over n desk in the center of the little crowded place. All tho drawings on the covers were of. tho Godp family, with .very small heads, larger shoulders than the heads warranted and larger hips and calves than were needed for the shoulders. If you did not think of the Goops you thought of ante diluvian animals, and that you "would rather sec, than be one,'' and just when you were getting tip your courage to acquire the one your eyes fell bit last, .ou saw that the. price was prohibitive and that the date was November of last year, so you looked about for something jusl"ns queer but cheaper. At least that is what I illd until my band fell inadvertently on n smallish blue paper book marked "forty cents, bj' X. Lenin." It had no illustrations nnd contained no poetry, but it looked dangerous, so I paid tho forty cento and went off with it in my pocket. QUNCE then 1 have read It with amaze k" ment not so much because of its propa ganda for au overthrow of tho present Gov ernment, but because of tho curious fallacies upon which it bases its crude dogmas. The trick sccmsMo be arbitrarily to call some humans bourgeoisie aud others the proletariat and then hiss them on one another as born enemies, ns though the mere calling of one man nn exploiter and the other niau the exploited would make them so! This little blue book is one of a series printed by n society called "The Marxian Educational Society." Its title is "The Pro letarian Revolution." One wonders whom It "educates." The author, X. Lenin, seems also to bo V. 1. Ulinov in some other lan guage, perhaps Russian, and his whole being is wrapped iu u flame of hatred against one Kautskj. whom bo calls "The Renegade." This Knutsky hits, it appears, written d book ou socialism and on Marxian nhll- osophy, which allaws the bourgeoisie some flfltlllll 4i citunrl nti'nrnn I e utl a ipKa- 1m Siound to stand onrcrcn to sit on when leg T weary. Milieu is wny -. l.enin, nee Lllnor, feels impelled to vituperate. His vituperation is continuous. I gnc the fol lowing samples: Excerpts From the Communistic Primer , The sum-total is that Kautsky has dis torted iu n most unprecedented manner the Jilca of dictatorship of the proletariat by turning Marx Into a humdrum 'Liberal a Liberal who talks banalities about "pure democracy," disguises under attractive veils the class character of bourgeois democracy and above all is mortally afraid of revolutionary violence on the part of the oppressed class. Kautsky, with the learned air of n most learned arm-chair fool or else with tho most innocent air of a tcn-ycar-old girl, is asking, "Why do wc the proletariat need a dictatorship, when we have a majority?" and Marx and F.ngcls explain: "In order to break down the resistance of the bourgeoisie, in order to inspire the reactionaries with fear, in order to main tain tho authority of the armed people proletariat against . the bourgeoisie, in order thnt the proletariat may forcibly suppress its enemies !" But Kautsky does not understand these explanations. He is infatuated with "pure dcm&erowv he docs not see its uourgcois character, and "consistcnth" urges that the major ity, once It is the majority, has no need to "break down resistance" sin the ml noritj , has no need to forcibly suppress it ; it is sufficient lo suppress "cases of the infraction of democracy." Infatuated with the "purity" of democracy, Knutsky unwittingly commits the same little error which is committed by all the bourgeois democrats, namely he accepts the formal equality, which, under capitalism, is only fraud and a piece of hypocrisy. , The exploiter cannot equal tho exploited ; this is a truth which, however disgrace ful to Kautsky. is nevertheless of the essence of socialism except in rare and particular cases the exploiters cannot be destroyed nt once. It is im possible to expropriate at one blow all liuidloids and capitalists In a large coun try since it is necessary practically to replace the landlords nnd capitalists, to substitute for theirs an other, n working-class management of the factories and estates. There can be no equality between the exploiters, who for many generations have enjoyed education nnd the advantages and habits of prospcr itv, nnd tho exploited, the roajoriti of whom even in the most advanced and the most democratic bourgeois republics arc cowed, frightened, ignorant, unorganized. What forms n. necessary aspect, or a necessary condition of proletarian dictatorship is the forcible suppression of the exploiters as a class the proletariat cannot triumph without breaking the resistance of the bourgeoisie, without forcibly suppressing its enemies. And that where there is forcible suppres sion there is, of course, no freedom, no democracy, this Kautsky did not under stand. . The asterisks in the above quotation arc only to save time. N. Lenin, nee Ulinor, being somewhat given to repetition in his hatred of the unfortunate Kautsky and protie to go off on little tangents of vituperation against the class his enemy is supposed to be bootlicking, which is sometimes called the capitalistic, sometimes the exploiter and sometimes the bourgeoisie, in distinction to the proletariat, the exploited or the cowed, frightened, ignorant and unorganized. I HAVE just come down from Wilkes Barre, where coal Is delivered at the bin for ."?10, nnd where the miners go about the streets. I drove through some thirty of the mining towns nnd villages and saw big, heartv, jollv children pouring out of grout school buildings. I saw crowded town squares nnd shops with the pretty gtrls of "exploited" proletariats buying very pretty nnd good summer clothes, and at the movie I had to stand because the whole of one town had poured Into its movie hall to sco Murv Plckford rescued b.t n handsome and moral hero capitalists, bourgeoisie, pro letariats, exploited uud exploiters, jostling for seats, first come, first served. ONE need not go to Wilkes Bone. One onlv has to sit pleasantly on n bench in Rittcnliouse Square to realize that there is such a thing as democracy, not of a class, but of u whole people. The children of all colors nnd men and women-of all life callings nnss through that garden spot, each i-h his wav enjoying it, and owning it: from tho cho'rewomen and night watchmen on their way home In Jhe early morning lo the office boys and shop girls and strolling lovers going west at night. The old men from tho navaL home, the colored grandmother giving her last grandchild an outing, the gossiping governesses and nbsent-minded nurses, friends resting and chatting, school girls and school boys, babies, debutantes, errand bojs, genial loitering old gentlemen, me chanics exchanging jokes all own It. whether they ray taxes to support Ij. or hold garden fetes, or sween its walks or sit on its benches. And It In only' nn epitome a Hltle example of vrhal the whole land is ivm AtcaitJ pjjjw . . . - 1-2 I . . ! l.fi1 NOW MY IDEA IS THIS Daily Talks With Thinking Philadelphia,,! on Subjects They Know Best ' BRADLEY C. ALGEO on Philadelphia's Textile Craftsmen PHILADELPHIA has alwajs been rated - as a city of contented craftsmen aud of marvelous manufacturing resources, sa,id Bradley C. Algco, of the Philadelphia Tex tile School, but he foresees graje losses to the spirit of co-operation among weavers, djers, knitters and spinners if something is not done to lift theni above the level of being mero adjuncts to the machines they tend. "What Philadelphia boasts by way of out put in textiles can be equaled by no other city in the world," said Mr. Algco, "and by nn two other cities in America. Wc manufacture here woolen and worsted goods iu (mormons quantities, using one-fifth of all the wool America produces or imports. "The Chamber of Commerce reports show that of cotton piece goods 180,000,000 yards were produced in one year, employing more than 10,000 people in that industry alone. Iu 1018 we made more than 210,000,000 pairs of hosiery, two pairs for every person in the country. "Tlore in the museum we ate showing a special exhibit of cottons, woolens, yarns and knitted fabrics, examples of what wo are now able to do with American dyes. This is onlv a lecent phase in the great strides made by Philadelphia in textile production. There is nothing worn by man or woman, practically nothing known to the textile world, which this city cannot and docs not produce. And tho making of textiles is bound up iu its history with the growth of this community. Craftsmanship Falling "But the spirit of craftsmanship, upon which so much depends, Is failing. Many mills can no longer boast a personnel built up for generations. Tn some, grandfather, father and son work together. Theirs is the old-time heritage of patient skill, of delight In the beauty of a humble but a very neces sary calling.. "Recent changes have tended to drive this spirit out of tho laboring man's conscious ness. Ceaseless agitation has snarled the skein of his content, lie may have gained new visious of the dignity of labor and of its rights. Ou the other band, he may only havo lost his senso of proportion and of the value of application nnd of constantly striving to improve. "I wonder sometimes how much Philadel phia textile men appreciate and how much capital ns a whole can discern the value of the workman who is craft-conscious rather than class-conscious. Philadelphia pro duces more felt hats many times over than any other city in the world. It is no mean thing to place a becoming hat on a nytu, yet il takes strenuous planning, close co-operation, to cominco any considerable portion of the personnel of n factory that -hat they do, day in nnd day out, is worthy of having its own traditions; fit to confer a heritage of skill and patience and a repu tation for integrity upon generations to come. Short Cut to Efficiency "The fight for the open shop is tending to uproot the old idea that a man must con sume a decade in apprenticeship before be omlng a worthy workman at a skilled trade. Whether such an industrial movement wins, :he whole trend of industry is townrd tho -short cut to efficiency; happy indeed the worker if. while taking that shott cut, he acquires a real, tomprehensivc conception of the combination of btaius and brawn without which no manufacturing enterprise may succeed. "Sheer Juck cannot carry a craftsman to success in ills work anv more than it can keep a manufacturer off the rocks of bank tuptcy. Each must ha'c a purpose, nn intelligent plan and an enthusiasm botn of pride in the work undei taken. "The Philadelphia Textile School of the Pennsylvania Museum and School of Indus trial Art has a difficult task, but it is over comlug the obstacles. Il has to mako men believe in themsehes and in the thing thoy seek to achlo'c each day, without running counter to the new spirit of interest in the relation between the day's work nnd the nctual (not dollars nnd cents) reward of the toiler. By (hlH I mean wo muht mako good weavers nnd dyers nnd knitters of men without detracting from that enthusiasm which only a man of open mipd and of hope ful outlooks can give to his tasks." Hosiery Big Feminine Factor "Tills may seem rather a light aside, hut the fashions have made of the hosiery kuil tar one of the most lninoriuiit rrniMmi... i- 1 jlUl luUis.iautu jd uiiu the trim ankle depends on him to help her out. Shop girl, stenographer, lady of fash ion, debutante they nil look to the mer chant, and he to the jobber, and he to the mill owner, nnd he to the knitter and boarder and boxer. "Here at the textile school we plan to make men more than, mere machinery. Our opportunity Is limitless, Wc need more room nnd we need more equipment for new departments. It has been a long timo since wo were able to accommodate all our appli cants for admission. Wc need funds and we need the interest of the millions of dollars invested in textile making here, because to hold fast to the traditions of ical artistry in the textile branches we roust enlist a grow ing number of recruits from the mill centers like Kensington, Frankford, Dela ware and Chester Counties, "We've cntercdn new era of co-operation between capital and labor, although thcty arc some short-sighted men who think they can force labor into feudal relations, and fhcie arc somo short-sighted workers who fail to grasp the relation between living costs and wage reductions. Must Face New Problems "If Philadelphia textile manufacturers and the bankers they represent want to look calmly in the face the problems of the next decade, they will begin by recognizing what we hcie have taken pride in acknowledging loug since, namely, the craftsman serves his fellow men in wnjs little known nnd npptc clatcd. Ho must not be isolated from them, even the best of them, by any tradition of executive superiority over manual skill. He must be bound to a senso of worker responsibility, of citizen-pride, .through an educational courso that will make of him less tho hide-bound tjnkcr with machinery and moro the master of the mechanics whereby the world is made hourly a better place to lie In. "Wc are still looking forward stead fastly and with faith to the time when this school may accommodato thoso who seek this new consciousness of craftsmanship in the textile trades. When we do so enlarge, freo of any entangling allowances with cither union or stand-pat unlon-lmlcr. wo expect to turn out greater numbers of men nnd women worthy of the traditions of textile skill handed down in Philadelphia from gen eration unto generation." ' The Glory That Was Rome's Tho United States Senate. haB opened an exclusive open-air cafe, "giving to tho upper House Home of tho luxury-lovlne attributes ot pagan Rome." News Item. PRIDE in bis port (though somewhat lack ing punch) That he is "it" each Solon has a hunch. Because tho'pomp of circumstance has abed A balo 'round each senatorial head Betokening possession of some wit It may be that he strutsTi little bit; Whereat the common people cry, "Indeed! Upon what food do these our Caesars feed That they have grown so great? Full weli we know They creep In scrvipc where wc mav not go And they serve well who serve Ood's crea tures, but, In heaven's name, why should'they want to strut?" If men are what they cat, as Bismarck said And Sbakcspearo hinted, heated air was fed To some wo know. But that is by the way. The U. . Senate s open-air cafe With hanging garden on the.Senate wing, Where Nubian slaves tho tasty viands bring May be designed to keep tho vulgar mob Front knowing how they feed while ou the job: Since, if they knew, these voting kings and queens It might well be would give the Senate beans ! '!. ly,ra!lt P'81"-1.' Senators most giave, Will oft insist on how wc shall behave, There is no harm, we'll swar, in all tho style You're putting on. The mau who's made his pile . May splurge a bit. But he becomes a dub Who colors rumor of "A rich man's club.'" ExcluBhcncss may hurt, and scerccv May raise suspicion where content should be. And in (ho )ia,t groat Senators ImJc thrived nl Open rcjtnurniits openlj arrhed at! iii : What Do You Know? QUIZ 1. What Is alabaster? 2. Which la the Granite State: 3. WTiat Is tho meaning of "a la" in such names of foods as "chjeken a la King," "sulade n la russe"? 4. What Jowel was supposed In ancient times to prcent drunkenncsj? n. "What Is csclientV 6. Wliero is Sierra Ieono? 7. What Is the origin of the expression ''running tunuck"? 5. What woman was executed for complicity In the plot to asgasslnato Abraham Lincoln? 9. In what town did George Washington spend most ot lilirboyhood? 10. What la a roqulem? Answers to Yesterday's Quiz 1. Goncral Richard Taylor, son of General JCachary Tnylor President of the United States, 1849-1 8B0, fought through out, the Ci 11 War on the Confederate side. At tho tliqe of His surrender to the Federal army under General K. R. S, Canby, May i, 1805, 1 was in com inand of a larger body of troops than any other Southern leader. 2. Illinois was tlio first State to ratify th Thirteenth Amendment to tho Federal Constitution. 3. Georgo Meredith wrote tho noel "niioda Fleming." i A,!frca ZnJ'as Is President of Cuba B. Xhreo Kinds of palm trees arc coconut palm, dato palm and royal palm. 6. Ludy Bancroft (Mario Wilton) wasCsn Jmgllah comedienne, noted especially for her productions of Tom Hubert son's plays. In which alio wan asso ciated, with her liubund. Sir Squira Uancroft. Sho died In Kngland this week, i. County Gnlway la one of the western counties of Ireland in the prolnce of Connaught. 8. To Jettison a cargo Is lo throw it cer- - board to lighten a ship In distress. 9. A motet Is a cal compoaltion in lur , mony. to words from the Scriptures. 10. Bismarck died lu 1898. Those who fair and those who oppose dis Tall End Cut armament arc willing to ngrco that reduction in the Naval Appro prlatioua Bill at the present time is due less to conviction on the pait ot Congressmen than a desire to cut something in defercni to the prevailing sentiment for economy. The tcason Congress Or Is It wants to put a Ux Lack of Thought? on lumber is probably - that there is no hous ing shortage, uo timber uhorUtge and no paper shortage. Tho Bibulous Ono read with righteous scorn the story of u baseball umpiro belnr bombarded with pop-bottles at a game io Brooklyn. "Say what you will." he de clared with conviction, "you won't find men behaving that way with whisky bottles." Thoro ia joyous significance in the fact that tho bands in tho Knights Templar parade played no jazz. Jazz will bo dtsd when fit tdmplyjsu't dono, you know." Times arc always normal when the ab normal la most evident in 'the news. If w.e were all crookH virtuo would be tho biggest news in the world. The Harvard scientists who declare that the law of liquids is wrong huvo the indorse ment of Louis A. Shaw, n'so of Harvard. 'There is abundant evidence that the bears active in tho stock market are not the two little bears, Bear and Forbear. . Come to think of il, every duty Is an "entanglement" that necessitates the per formance of succeeding duties. ' Minutes of the Allied Council confcr; ences on Upper Silesia would make excellent material for a scrap book, Tn the resolution that bears his name Porter appears to have been reduced to tnc strength of 'alfand 'alf. It cannot bo charged that the Unltrf States note has mado President Obrcgon positlou moro secure. The trouble iu Poland Is without boun'lJ nnd thf cause of tho trouble is being wits out them. i i i i i n i i It seems to be a pleasant tec par'' Jd .a iititriruiii rrtif-a ia iifivintv in iMiKiuiiut r. Perhaps Mis. Bcrgdoll wants to PNT tl at woman can keep a seciet. jj .u i n & t: ) . - u '"'tiX.!iJi-- is ta V fttft t.y.3.f,.1JLju; ;'rHi j .iMaxi uyutl muvulitf,Kuou.,iiiibU
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