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BRUSH CAN DO THE JOB
MATTHEW 0. BRUSH, whom Samuel
M. Vnuclaln has suggested to tho
7 Mayor as president of tho Scsqu.-centennlal
Exposition, la a splendid example of the
type of man to bo put at tho head of tho
undertaking.
The organization of an adequate exposition
a and tho carrying out of the plans can be
v effected only by a man of the highest ei
ecutlvo ability. There are such men avail
able. Unless one of them is drafted for the
service the exposition will not be the success
which every one hopes it to be.
- The selection of Mr. Brush, or a man like
him, would be a guarantee to the nation of
the purposo of this city to justlfv the co
v operation of every State in the enterprise
snd would attract the Bupport of the other
nations of the world.
Thero ought to be no avoidable delay in
completing the organization of the board of
1 executives who are to take charge of the
work.
TIDYING UP THE SQUARES
rpHB cause of municipal tidiness is nppre
X ciably advanced in the award of con
tract for Improving a number of city
squares in which the grass is sparse and the
trees are dying.
Shabby parks share the distressing quali
ties of all Unkempt decoration. How lamen
table this can be is frequently Illustrated in
Mexico and the Central American republics,
wbero pretentiousness of plan is only ex
ceeded by neglect in pleasure grounds over
grown with weeds and disfigured with
rubbish.
While evidences of such indifference have
seldom disfigured Philadelphia, thero are
numerous parks not venerable enough to
have enjoyed the original advantages of
Penn'a open spaces and yet sufficiently old
to havj been created at a time when tho
selection of site was not carefully considered.
In several instances these squares developed
In a rather haphazard fashion on dumps and
lots never properly planted.
The fine trees that shade and adorn the
four green spaces of the original town can
not, of course, at once be imitated in the
outlying sections. But that is no reason
why ordinary standards of neatness and
pictorial good order should not bo preserved.
A NAME TO CONJURE WITH
rpHE long-headed politicians will become
X thoughtful when they read that 10,000
persons. visited the grave of Theodore Roose
Ttlt at Oyster Bay on Monday.
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If they could know the number who
ought of the great American on that day.
and the things for which ho struggled, thny
would be still more thoughtful.
The kind of America for which Roosevelt
stood Is tho kind of America which millions
of citizens would like to see realized. The
man is dead, but his influence is still potent.
As tho animosities which he aroused are
softened by the lapso of time, even those
who fought him during his life will begin
to conjure in bis name, and he will cease
to be regarded as the property of a political
party and will become an asset of all Ameri
cans, as Lincoln became long ago.
WOMAN IN THE DAY'S NEWS
f A BEACH surgeon has issued the late
A afternoon three-star sporting edition of
the edict that dimpled knees shall not be
exhibited at Atlantic City.
Advertising stuff.
Few women show their knees on tho
leach. Very few knees arc dimpled.
If dimpled knees are desirable, a publicity
manager is an optimist. Who told blm there
was entertainment in a knee joint?
Press agentry also sets forth that women
attend Dempsey's practice bouts and ap
plaud him. Perfectly proper. If they bavo
cheers to shed, this Is the time to shed them.
Love for athletics, however, may prompt
a large section of American womanhood to
turn its eyes to tho bonnie Land o Caks,
where women are contending for golf honors ;
thaj: Is to say, that section of American
womanhood that has rtefiuitolv made up its
mind whether golf Is a game or a malady.
But, we are inclined to think, the favorite
sport of femininity these days is scunuing
the horizon for the stork that Is said to be
headed for the home of Douglas and Mary.
.YPoraan's placo continues to be the home.
TOO SANE TO BE TRUE
nTHAT report from Moscow by v ay of Riga
- 'J. that Lenine has offered a resolution to
the All-Russian Executive Committee de
claring that communism has come to a com
plete bankruptcy and that unlimited freedom
be allowed to capitalism must be accepted
with considerable skepticism until it Is
rerifled.
"Whatever conclusions Lenine may have
reached, it is improbable that he would be
quite so frank as to say outright that com-
( xaunlsm bad come to bankruptcy. If he
tj-- f Deueveu ne wouia De discreet enough to
, My it in anomer way.
There is no doubt that communism bas
filled. That it could not be applied sud-
denly was early manifest to Lenine himself.
,Ha utilized the capitalistic system after the
v first few weeks of his experiment because
he found It necessary. This was not because
he did not believe in his communlstl th.
orlei, but because he discovered thot they
taust be applied gradually.
There are insuperable difficulties in the
way of trade between a communistic nation
And nations organized on a different economic
basis. The present rulers of Russia have
learned this through their inability to re.
storo international trade. They have or
iiVd enormous quantities uf goods from
other countries, but little has been delivered
bfeause the sellers have not been able to
Mtlaiy thensclrea that their goods would be
ktmui! fer'jltt has been1 Impossible for the
'JtMsWaan to. iet' er41t abroad, because no
ku )tttmm WfeekwlUuiness, noUo Bay
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in their ability, to meet their financial obli
gations. Tho return of Russia to what Lenine calls
tho "capitalistic" system is likely to bo dis
guised from tho extreme and visionary com
munists by some form of words which will
enablo them to Insist that It is a mere tem
porary brldgo across the chasm which sepa
rates the country from tho rest of tho world.
EUROPE'S WEAKEST NATION
RAISES FORMIDABLE PROBLEMS
All Schools of Current Political Thought
Are Involved In the Long-Needed
Plan for Rescuing Austria
rpHE plight of Austria, too weak to punish
JL and too dangerous in her prostration to
be neglected, affords at tho present moment
a strikingly interesting opportunity for ob
serving the workings of tho various schools
of political thought which have clashed so
violently during this reconstruction period.
The complex and critical case of the most
helpless nation in Europe is listed for early
presentation before the Supremo Council.
Critics of this body who have objected to
its existence beyond tho particular emer
gency the wai which gave it llfo, have
repeatedly denounced Us resemblanco to tho
machinery of an active alliance between the
victor nations of Europe.
The reinstatement of tho United States
into the couucll considerably deflects the
force of this condemnation. Colonel Har
voy is tho accredited representative of a
Nation which has rejected tho very treaty
which the council has been preserved to
enforce.
But tho piquancy of the situation does not
end with this single feature. Friends of the
League of Nations have wondered sorrow
fully why such an extra-legal agency as the
council was maintained after the society of
governments was officially organized.
Articlo IV of tho emenant definitely states
that "the council (of the League) may deal
at its meetings with any matter within tho
sphere of action of the League or affecting
the peace of the world." Thero can bo no
doubt that the distress, bankruptcy and eco
nomic stagnation of Austria menace the
recovery of nil civilization.
Until tho illnesses of this little Inland
republic are in fcomc degreo repaired the
general European recovery must wait. Nor
mal processes of progress in the United
States must also be delayed until assurances
of 'continental rehabilitation are at hand.
If the League has not suffered the inter
ment so persistently proclaimed by its
benefactors, hero is chance for it to fulfill
one of Its essential purposes. It was nt
this chance which Austria snatched last fall,
when In a mood of utter despair she applied
for admission.
Although membership was promptly
granted, specific remedies failed to follow.
The patient degenerated from bad to worse.
Surrounded by unfriendly nations, cut off
from the sen, stripped of fuel resourco to
feed her industries, crippled by worthless
currency, Austria has been rapidly sinking
into a condition unparalleled In the annals
of civilized nations.
Pan-Germans, mcnmvhile, have been tilt
ing with impossibilities in their efforts to
achieve the union with Gcrraanv expressly
forbidden by Article LXXX of the Ver
sailles Treaty. Within the last few days
oishty-flvo towns in the province of Salzburg
have voted almost unanimously for this
banned amalgamation. This movement,
while partly political, is in the main eco
nomic and Is instructive ns revealing the
pitch of desperation reached.
But the League, though perhaps dilatory,
has not been idle. A plan has nt last been
formulated by the Finance Committee which,
If executed, promises a large measure of
practical relief. Its chief feature is the
granting of temporary loans bv the allied
Governments, nud the erection uudcr the
auspices of the League of a strong bank to
retire all existing paper money and to issue
a new scries under proper control.
Austria in exchange is urged to balance
her budget, reduce her huge civil service
nnd seek sincerely to remove the customs
barriers which have grown up between her
nnd neighboring States. Along this last
line some progress has nlreadv been mada
by the trade agreement signed with pros
perous Czccho- Slovakia.
Theoretically, these recommendations
which are to be submitted to the League
council appear to be those upon which the
League as a working concern might act with
full authority. But nothing can be accom
plished without some rectification of the
Treaty of St. Germain, to which the AUIos
and Austria are parties.
It is proposed that Governments entitled
to reparations under this pact and to tho
repayment of loans granted for relief pur
poses shall defer their claims for twenty
years. Tho problem ot treaty rovision is,
therefore, vitally Involved, and It Is at this
point that the functioning of tho Supreme
Council becomes Indispensable
Diplomatists and statesmen of this era
arc by no means unfamiliar with paradoxes.
Yet the embarrassment of contradictions op
pressing the Austrian situation may be called
unprecedented. Tho League is operating;
the Supreme Council, bnne of some idealists,
is girding itself for important work. A
treaty negotiated less than two years ago
is up for revision. America, no partner to
this pact, is privileged if she chooses to puss
upon alterations. Colonel Harvey Is faced
with the possibility of considering a pro
posal from a body over which ho has
preached several funeral orutions
Obviously, this is no time for pedants.
Tho case of Austria is apparently remediable
if a cargo of fictitious or academic inhibi
tions is thrown overboard and space thereby
furnished for practical compromises upon
pressing issues.
Such breadth of treatment is necessary,
not only to a solution of Austria's difficul
ties, but to a settlement of most of the
larger questions arising from tho wnr.
FOLLIES OF GOVERNMENT
DO YOU wish to mako friends and parti
sans for a very bad man? Then subject
him to unusual punishments. Do you wish
to give to any particular thing a priceless
sort of advertising? Then go about the
country whispering about it. Warn the
people against it. Suppress it Cry its
name and demand that it be kept forever
out of sight as something not tolerable to
human eyes. Automatically vou will crcato
the Will to See and the Will to Experience
in all the multitudes.
Curiosity is a human characteristic that
becomes more definite wherever popular
education is progressive. The campaigners
for righteousness never seem to realize this.
They constantly incite innumerable people
to do things by ordering them to do other
wise. Mr. Eastman, poet and parlor revolution
ary, bad an audience limited to Greenwich
Villago before Postmaster General Burleson
shut his publication from the malls. Then
everybody became eager to hear what Mr.
Eastman had to say. Victor Bergcr's Mil
waukee paper was without prestige or
reputation, the only Socialist dally in New
York was a thin voice of protest, until Bur
leson Introduced each to the world by the
foolish and tyrannical edict that barred them
from mall service to which they were en
titled. The Will to See was established.
If the radicals wish to give honor whore
honor is due, if they have in tbcm a desire
to recognize exalted service done in their
cause, tbey ought to put up a statue of Mr.
Burleon and a statue of Mr. Palmer. For
Postmaster General Haya very properly re-
Bo.ed tho ban o tha . nuhlUMtw? wbiab
I3VENING PUBLIC 'iLEDGKBKr
Burleson attempted to suppress by tho
methods of the Prussians. And tho names
of these journals are being printed on front
pages all over the country.
The makers of whisky have some reasons
to regard, Mr. Volstead not as an enemy,
but as a valiant friend. At no time In the
history of tho world were strong drinks so
widely advertised as they were in the dry
laws and tho debate that preceded their
enactment. One cannot but marvel at tho
ignorance of human psychology revealed
dally by men who mako the laws. Did Vol
stead and his friends know that there were
vast areas of tho United States in which,
whisky was hardly known, that half of tb6
rising generation in some sections of the
West had never seen a saloon and never ex.
perlcnced a desire to taste alcoholic liquor
of any sort? Did they know that Americans
themselves were gradually and voluntarily
putting whisky out of fashion and that all
alcoholic beverages were drifting to the
limbo of vanished things?
Apparently they didn't care. They
pushed strong drink into tho foreground.
They made people think and wonder about
it who had never wondered about it before.
They put whisky on tho map, Into tho news,
into tho thoughts of young men and women
who, without them, would havo though of
whisky as a peculiar substance consumed
by undesirable persons of doubtful character.
They advertised whisky, and by putting a
ban upon it they aroused perverse desires
where no dcslro existed before. Moonshin
ing, home-brewing, tho Illicit liquor traffic
In places like Kansas and tho obvious eager-'
ness of the youth of tho times to see for
themselves what all the hubbub Is about,
Indicate merely ono of tho psychological con
sequences of effective advertising.
Ultimately tho dry Inws may operate.
Wo may havo legal prohibition as a realistic
fact throughout tho United States. But the
good work will bo accomplished in spito of
Mr. Volstead rather than because of his aid.
People will be interested In anything that
is widely talked about, no matter what it
may be. A good rule for statesmen might
bo this : Don't try to suppress anything,
but tell the people tho truth about It and
they will suppress It In their own good time.
GOLF FOR THE PUBLIC
THE wisdom of laying out a golf course
in Cobbs Creek Park is no longer in
doubt. The coursq is so popular that thus
early in the season it is crowded beyond Its
capacity. Not more than 260 persons can
bo accommodated with comfort, but on Sun
days between COO and COO men and women
appear with their bulls and clubs prepared
to play.
A man interested In the matter timed his
wnits at the various holes last Sunday, and
found that he spent thrco and a half hours
doing nothing whilo tho players ahead of
him were getting out of his way.
Such a trial of the patience mav be ben
eficial to the philosophically inclined, but
it is an irritation to tho average man. Ho
begins to wonder why ho ever took up golf
for recreation, when he does not wonder
why, if the city thinks it worth while to
provide accommodations for golfers, it does
not do so adequately.
Players on the public courso In Van
Cortlandt Park in New York have begun to
mako the same kind of complaint that is
heard from the peoplo who use Cobbs Creek
Park, Various suggestions are made to re
lieve the congestion. But thero can be no
relief until more courses arc laid out.
It has been suggested that League Island
Park be utilized in this way for the benefit
of those who live in South Philadelphia.
' No site has been proposed for the people
living in the northern part of the cltv nor
to give the West Philadclphlans a place to
which they can go when Cobbs Creek Park
Is too crowded for comfort.
Thero arc probably at least 15,000 golfers
who belong to tho various private clubs.
No one knows how many players belong to
no clubs. They are men who have come to
the city from other communities nnd have
not yet made any club connection. They
are also men who play but find tho club
which they would like to join already so
full that it will accept no more golfing mem
bers. Three or four public courses are not
too many for n city of this size.
They do things differently In Scotland,
for Carnoustie, a town of 4000 population
across the bay from St. Andrews, has four
public courses which are patronized gener
ously by the citizens. Mnny of the profes
sional golfers employed by tho clubs In and
around this city learned the game at Car
noustie, where the boys play almost from
the cradle and develop a style which is tho
despair of the men on this side of the ocean
who havo not taken up the sport till they
have reached ycarB of indiscretion.
Camille Flammarion
We Had says he is going to
Missed Him startle tho world with
his recent experiences
In the domain of spirits. So that's where he
has been I We bavo missed his dissertations
on tho unusual. But we question his ability
to startle the world in the way he promises.
Boot-legging has taken all romance out of
the subject.
The marine situation is no longer ultra
marine. When a man wants to view with alarm
any old scene will do.
Personal freedom nowadays is all tan
gled up in thou-shalt-knots.
Tho only man who loves a depreciated
dollar Is one who Is head oer heels in debt.
The general opinion In Marlboro, N. Y.,
appears to be that Bouck is a yellowish
White.
If Grover Bergdoll writes a book, moy
he not bo Included among German war
criminals?
Bouck White is of the opinion that posse
humor should end at slapstick and not go on
to tar and feathers.
Every transportation fatality, while
demonstrating the fallibility of human en
deavor, still spurs it on.
President Harding's Memorial Day ad
dress might bo read with profit by a certain
loquacious gentleman in London.
A man. in spite of himself, may die a
violent death or die of disease or old age, but
It is entirely bis own fault of he dies of
ennui.
Things have become so everlastingly
prosaic these days that when wild Western
Indians take the warpath It invariably leads
them to a calaboose.
From what wc have read of them, it
seems to us that It would be very bard for
the average man to live up to the IdealB of
prison newspapers.
A number of New York physicians have
been fined for dllutorlness in reporting com
municable diseases. Some of them havo
evidently paraphrased an old query, "What's
a quarantine nmong friends?"
Chauncey M. Depow is alleged to have
said to President Harding that he is not
yet old enough to start playing golf; which
shows that he is not yet too old to have
more or lens good ntorles taeked on to bim.
Lord Emmott cays that Lenine and
Trotzky have been doing their utmost to
establish a system of individual control in
industry in place of the collective system,
which has proved a failure. History re
cords other attemota of those who hava tuwan
4 t wM&6-i6 twhitlwd.
J
- - PHlUADEfcPHIA, WBDISDAY JTiOT) 1,
AS ONE WOMAN SEES IT
Master of Revels Is Needed City
Official So That Our Guests of
Honor May Not Be Done
to Death'
By SARAH D. LOWRIE
I HEARD ot an nmusing joke that would
make a delightful one-act farce, if it
was acted as well as it was' told to me
tho other day by a woman who was just up
from Washington.
A rather' well-known woman, a great
favorite, was asked by some men In ono of
the legations to act as hostess for tbem dt
a very small tea they wero giving, to which
Einstein, tho scientist, had consented to
dome. The afternoon was a very lively
one, Einstein was made much of and roared
just enough to make the other guests feel
they wero meeting a lion. In fact, his
quiet modesty nnd yet approachablcncss as
to his theory and its possible consequences
encouraged most of those present, especially
the charming temporary hostess, to bo enter
taining at his expense. Not being scientific',
they proceeded to bait him a little with
artless questions. Ho seemed unaware of
the extra fun they wero having, however,
ana was very generous nnd obliging about
writing 'in their various autograph books,
etc. To bis charming hostess ho was es
pecially generous and, oblivious of her
somewhat exaggerated homage, ho gratified
her by a sentiment ho wrote down for her
alone and presented to her.
Somo days later tho men who had gotten
up the party allowed their hoax to creep
out! Tho agreeable gentleman was just n
Dutchman they had inveigled intd personat
ing Einstein and as unlike tho scientist in
appearanco and manner as possible, ns was
made apparent by the latter's photographs
in the Sunday papers.
It waB therefore a case of he who laughs
last laughs best!
THIS story was told me on my way out to
Bryn Mawr tho other afternoon to the
garden party the president of Brjn Mawr
College was giving in honor of another great
foreigner, Mmc. Curie. In this case there
must have been moments when Miss Thomas
would gladly havo resorted to some .mild
hoax in order to satisfy tho 800 or so guests
who had hastened at her bidding to sec and
meet Mmc. Curio 1 For as ill luck would
have it, tho great woman was not robust
enough to meet thoso guests or so much as
sit where they could see her. She Is evi
dently very fragile, and on this occasion,
after consenting to remain on view seated on,
the terrace with Mrs. Stevenson for a short
time, the burden of being gazed at even
admiringly by tho gathering guests grew too
much for her and sho retired. So that quite
two-thirds of thoso who came to meet her
were unnblo even to see her. If only some
pale, smallish person with a slight stoop
and a kind, sad face and withdrawn manner
could have been dressed in a wide black
sun-hat and thin, black very simple frock,
and been put between two young girls who
were palpably foreign and a little shy and
mado a tableau of for a half hour down
there in the deanery garden, every one would
havo felt satisfied and rewarded.
AS IT was, somo of us who slipped away
early without stopping to have tea or
an ice actually saw tho real grjeat woman
as she sat in tho motor that was to take
her away from tho deanery, and watched her
bend with a very tired little srnilc nnd greet
tho little procession of upper-class girls in
their caps and gowns thnt marched passed
the deanery saluting herons they went by.
Un leaving the campus wo happened to seo
that tho motor in which she had driven away
had actually stopped out of sight of the
deanery; her great bunch of red roses lay on
the scat, and she and her daughters and
their escorts had evidently gone to cover
somewhere nearby, let us hope to enjoy a
quiet cup of tea like ordinary folks in some
friend's rooms. Naturally we probed the
mystery no further, for our one gllmpso of
her very palld face was enough to mako us
feel anxious that no extra strain, even a
kind hospitable one, should tax what is
evidently n very delicate physique.
Ono wonders if even with such curtail
ments of her schedulo ns have been resorted
to since she landed sho can stand tho pace
of her wclcomo here in America much
longer. We kill even well people with our
alert and organized hospitality. And one
has but to read tho letters of any celebrity
who visits us to realize that our very lavlsh
ncss undoes the good impression wo desire
to mako and destroys the real impression we
desiro to get.
EVEN had Mme. Curio been a verv up-and-dolng
person the plan devised for
her here would have sent her on to her next
grandstand with a confused impression of
university degrees, presentations, luncheons,
dinners nnd garden parties, museums and
laboratories packed Into n day and a hall
of continuous publicity. I know ono man
who took a series of Masonic degrees in tho
course of twenty-four hours, but he never
moved out of tho building, nnd saw compara
tively few persons. But Philadelphia
planned to give Mmc. Curio three degrees in
three different Institutions the same day, a
luncheon and a dinner, all after a train trip
from Washington. It was very hospitable
of us, very Ingenuous and appreciative of
the debt we owed our great guest, but also
a little overbalancoU. Even rovnltv. hhpM
as it is to bolng stared nt and heralded and
programmed for, would havo been paled be
fore tho ordeal.
SOME ONE suggested not long ago that
there should bo connected with every
city government a master of revels who
could decide nice points about entertaining
public guests, pass upon a program of hos
pitality that would warm without unduly
heating up the heart of the stranger and
would net as a bridle to tho would-be
hosts.
President Thomas in sparing her chief
guest and disappointing all the others did
a heroic and lair thing and actually ex
emnllfied the real spirit of hospitality of the
town, but it takes a brave woman to steer
an entertainment onto the rocks of an anti
climax for the sake of the ery guest it was
Inaugurated to honor.
I HAVE often wondered if the Boraejyhat
stony manner of many foreigners that wc
"delight to honor" may not bo accounted for
by the state of dazed fatigue under which
they labor. Sometimes they are Just slow
in the uptake, however! I remember Wayne
MacVeagh's once telling us of a drive he
took Matthew Arnold out beyond his country
place near Bryn Mawr. As they descended
the hill nt Berwyn he pointed to tho op
posite elopes which hido the ScbuyBall
River :
"It's beautiful country, Mr. Arnold,"
said he. "as beautiful as England!"
Matthew Arnold viewed the landscapo
with a critical calm.
"Ah, yes," he said, "very charming no
doubt, but not England! You have uo his
torical interest, nothing happened here,
you see, MaoVeagh 1 Pretty, yes, and pros
perous, but it lacks interest, lacking the
human story."
"And yet it is Valley Forge!" said
Wayne MacVeagh.
COULD it bavo been this episode, I won
der, that opened Arnold's eyes to the
real charm of this country part of Phila
delphia? The woman who had been his
hostess here during most of his visit was
surprised to have htm say to her that if
he had to live anywhere out of England his
choice would fall on Philadelphia, because
nt its English quality. She did not believe
blm and put it down ns a kindly good-by
speech. Years afterward, when his letters
camo out, ono to his wife written from
Philadelphia repeated the same phrase.
What charmed Matthew Arnold was the
sane quietness ot our life.
Poor Mme. Curie and the generality of
foreign guests are never permitted to guess
that pleasant side of us! We exhaust our
selves and them in showing them how glad
we are to welcome them,
Nevertheless our share of the gift of
radium was oversubscribed, co part of our
zeal even tired Mme. Curie can annrilni
I wha he ifl ? fcoffi In ITranca,
He (Harvey) pointed out that Washington's ability as a statesman was .especially great In choosing subordinates, which gift It
shared by the present President of the United States. News Hem.
rIE President has in the past
Been criticized a little bit;
But when he hit on Harvc at laBt
He exercised a pretty wit;
Which Colonel Harvey will admit.
No sweet bouquets may pass blm by.
No patriot throws a better fit
And isn't ho the modest guy?
The company Is big and fast
At old St. James's. 'Tis a sit
j NOW MY IDEA IS THIS
Daily Tallcs With Thinking Philadelphia on Subjects They
Know Best
CAPTAIN HUGH L. WILLOUGHBY
On Government Control of Aviation
ORGANIZATION of aviation uudcr Gov
ernment control, with a department
similar in scope and power to the nrmv and
the navy, would insuro ngainst n repetition
of such disasters ns tho fall of the Luglc
last Saturday, when five nrmv officers and
two civilians met death, according to Captain
Hugh L. Willoughby. aeronautic engineer.
"A concrete illustration of the value of
Government control," said Captain Wil
loughby. "is shown in the change that has
taken place In England in tho last few
years. , . ,
"At that time conditions thero wero just
as chaotic as they are here toduy. Young
men were losing their lives with terrible reg
ularity, just as they arc here now. But
with this single department in control,
Great Britain doveloped tho marvclously effi
cient Royal Flying Corps. She elected a
Minister of the Air, who had supreme charge
and the solo responsibility, just the same as
our Secretary of the Army or Navy would
be held responsible here for the development
of these branches of the bcrvice.
Wireless System
"With Government control we could have
a sstem of wireless all over the country
and all planes wpuld be required to carry
wireless apparatus, just as they do now at
sea. If we had such a system the disaster of
lnbt Saturday would never havo happened.
Instead of blundering into the fatal btorm,
the men in tho machine would have received
wireless notice and could have avoided it
by traveling iu another direction.
"The heavy, low-powered muchiuo that
they ubed would never have been permitted
under Government control. Contrary to
conditions on tho ground, in tho nir tho
greatest safety is insured by having tremen
dous power and tho highest possible speed
With these elements tho plane would have
been able to keep going and perform the
acrobatic maneuvers necessary to hufcty.
"Army and navy plaucs ure all cqunl to
these conditions. With such plunes, flying
Is just as safe as automobillng. During the
war the aviators dally performed feats that
involved just as much strain on the ma
chines and just as much dungcr as the recent
storm, let men killed in action did not meet
their deaths from failure of the machines,
but wrero invariably shot down.
Greatest Struln on Machine
"The greatest strain that a machine can
undergo is that involved In dropping a
UioUHiiml feet or so in a tall spin or nose
dive and righting itself again. And yet
during the war theso feats were common
occurrences.
"AH airplanes should have a large safety
factor, which Government control would
insure. Men are allowed to ily today who
are not skillful pilots. Many of these carry
pafescngers at great risk to both. The army
and nuvy have a license system for pilots,
but in civil flying it is not compulsory.
"Thero is no proper system of aviation
The Spirit
THOUGH I have sought her as one seeks a
song
At nightfall when the lilacs are in bloom.
Some tenuous melody that, like perfume
Evasive, drifts the purple air along ;
Though I have followed her where blossoms
throng
Upon the hillsides like a lovely loom
Though I have looked for her in glow 'and
gloom,
Ever she seems to do her lover wrong,
Since she evades me. Some have known her
grace
The apple bough that decks the orchard
way,
The petals of the early eglantine;
Being a worshiper afc Beauty's shrine.
Why may I not in some sequestered place.
Meet face to faco tho Spirit of the MV
J--CaiaB, -tooJlaxd, hJ X.EmVU
1921
THE SHRINKING VIOLET
uation where a man is cast
For stellar roles by spotlight lit.
Which Colonel Harvey will admit.
Ho knows his worth, and that's no lie!
There's wit and humor in his kit
And isn't he tho modest guy?
Thero are some boobs who'd never dast
Hold self-culled flowers In ample mitt.
Harve nails his colors to the mast;
inspection. Today we nave not only in
competent pilots in many cases, but many
dangerous types of mnchine that have no
right to ascend in tho air.
"One great cause of loss of life lately has
been the disposition to perform stunts. In
order that such exhibitions may be dis
tinctly seen by the public that is watching
it, aviators often perform too close to the
ground. As a result, acrobatic flying be
comes highly hazardous.
, "At a height of 3000 or more feet acro
batic flying is perfectly safe. With a skill
ful pilot and a powerful machino almost any
stunt can be performed successfully nnd
safely.
"It is high time that somo definite action
be" taken for this necessary regulation, so
as to put a stop to this terrible and unnces
sary loss of life among our young men."
HUMANISMS
By WILLIAM ATHERTON DU PUY
JOSEPH P. TUMULTY tells an unusual
" and tragic story of the circumstances
which led up to the presence of Elbert Hub
bard, the sage of East Aurora, on tho Lust
tanla when bhc was sunk off the Irish Coast.
Mr. Hubbard came to see the Secretary
to the President at the White House. He
just must go abroad. To go he must have a
pas&port.
Mr. Tumulty admonished him of the dan
gers of the trip, but he brushed them aside
indifferently.
"All right," said Mr. Tumulty, "1 will
get you a passport."
"You can't," bald Mr. Hubbard.
"Why not?" asked Mr. Tumulty.
"I have a criminal record," said the sage.
"I hae done time."
It developed that this was a fact, but
that it was merely un incident to the pub
lication of a journal which slashed right
and left and sometimes got its responsible
head Into trouble
So Mr. Tumulty consulted with the At
torney General, who prepared a pardon
Kh ?hj w.?s. s,gn!l by ",e President bf the
United btntes. Thus did men In high places
play unsuspecting parts in sending Mr.
Hubbard to his death.
e e
,.H,erS.,lB th.e native-born resident of New
York City, that individual often sought and
ISJInVrT.'1 'wth.e sr.e metropolis, Jona
than Mahcw Wainwright. recently colonel
in the Twenty-seventh Division overseas,
and now First Assistant Secretary of War.
11 West Ihlrty-third street, New York
City, just off of Fifth avenue, on the ground
S?W ","p ld.byKtbc w"Worf:Aatorla HotdT
..wv w,j iui, uui ma iamer was born in
?lir Ynpl anA t.la nnt....l .. ..
;;- --" ""! ij"u:iiu granuiather was
Episcopal b shon nf tho .!.. -.i i.i. .
..g!t. .ne other than
mUv, wiuiuiii oiuyvesant, who came all
i.,u uj uuwu irom uic curly Dutch settlers
So does a red, many-gencrntlon Now
Fn0rwnsh?nngtoun.t0 " de"-tal P-t
When he enlisted In the marines 5n h
late war, Secretary Edwin Denby'says he
went down to Paris Island, where the
leathernecks were trained, and carried with
him only the clothes In which he stood. He
thought the Government had fighting toll
ready, man's size. " 'ogB
But as ho waa Mx feet two and weighed
?w po,"?18' be couldn,t nd any clothes
that would go on him. The non-coms who
administered the training told htm
mind, that they would fix bat a U rl,ht
Bo he nut on the biggest clothS ha'Suld
find, and, where they failed h wlfT
tied strln'gs from b'ttonholes 'to button.'
The non-coms worked him fourteen hour,
a day and gradually the gaps where hU
garments yawned decreased until fliaJlv h.
W worked dou to fit thn n
AM
...t ..'!.. lit to t 9
Himself against the world will pit
Which Colonel Harvey will admit
Is some big stunt, and tell you why.
His mental limousine's no lit
And isn't he the modest guy?
Yea, Colonel Harvey will admit .
Diplomacy to him is pie. '
True worth in him is largely writ
And isn't he the modest guy?
What Do You Know?
QUIZ
1. Name two religions that are less thia IN J
years old.
2. Who was "The Little Gentleman ta TsVl
vet"?
3. What Is tne name of the Japuial
urown prince 7
4. Who wrote the sons "Jlassa's in de boll, I
.oia urounu i
6. What wns the original name ot taw
lennisT
6. Name the two chief seaports of Jap t
7. Who was John Purrov Mltehalf
8. What Is the meaning of the word nuM-ll
9. What was the Gadsden Purchase? I
10. How many Secretaries of State ssrwil
under George Washington?
Answers to Yesterday's Quit
1. Theodore Ollora wan an American 9Mtj
and soldier, noted especially for Ml
poem, -rne mvouao or Uie Dtu. I
written in commemoration of tbs
tie of Buena, Vista In the Mexican Wit I
His dates are 1820-1(67.
2. Moa. Is the general name for a elaM a?
extinct New Zealand birds which ai
of gigantic proportions. :
3. The huge American naval collier CyefeK
disappeared during the World Wir
without leaving: a trace. The Ion N
one of the most mysterious In marltlai
annuls.
4. A. mobcap waa a woman's Indoor cap 09
erlng the whole head, worn la tt
eighteenth and early nineteenth en
turles. The word mob in this InituH
Is from the Dutch "mop," meaatsj
woman's coif.
5. Pride's Purge was the forcible exelustn
from the English House of Common
on December 6, 1648, of all the JM
bers favorable to a compromise H"
the royal party of King Charles I
6. The Moabltes were an ancient Semltt
trlhA raIITaH nf Ih. niilt.MRlam afil
of the Dead Sea. During the period pi
but were defeated by Ehud. Saul Wl
David also subiugated them.
7. "The New Pilgrims' Progress" Is tho ! 1
title of Mark Twain's "The InnoetnUl
Abroad "
8. Preventative is an Irregularly formed isl J
unnecessary double of the word pre-1
venuve.
3 Nestor in Greek legend was famonii
me oiaest or tne areeK councilors .i
tne siege of Troy.
10 God's acre Is a churchyard, a buryWj
grouna.
Congressman WlnH
of Arkansas, '
Rises to the blue
May Wlngo Never
Moult a Feather
pyrean
To demand why in thunder
Congress should appropriate J
Fifteen thousand dollars '
For a chicken joy ride 1
For three American delegates
lo tho world's poultry congress
At The Hague uext September.
Why, Indeed ! ;
Unless the big red rooster
And the little red hen, t
Valeted by the American eagle,
Arc to interview the dovo of peace
And find out what gave her the pip.
This might bavo academic interest
Equal to one-half of one per cent
On the fifteen thousand Invested. , v;
But, falling direct information on this
t , Ject'
It pleases us to note
Thnt ill TTiiisa VIIIaJ !. on-mnrlnHen
On s point of order made by Mr. WIb0!
lilngol'
After reading ;fj'
Connecticut '"!.
who has willed
New England
Shrewdness
farm to the 8oci
nnd has invited them to get busy at oncAjJJ
are lu doubt as to whether he nai f"2
them the property or is .merely getting
ju
H
to wor- it tor mm.
Queen Mary ft 4
Bometinnf Lively, janu lias omciaiu ",
Please , proved of the fox t
nothing Is said of the shimmy or w
which would indicate that when Au
embraces rh InnvttahlA It isn't nee
uuu me "!:
tax tlthtx; to ;sLte tha jJujaMtt. iv
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