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BRIDGE PROSPECTS
RECOGNITION of the city's interest in
the Delaware bridge undertaking is ap
propriately made by Governor Sprout in hi
appointment of the President of Council,
Richard Weglein, to the commission.
Thomas J. Jeffries and Samuel M. Vau
daln, tho other two new additional mem
bers. ,are high-type men, although in the
easo of the latter he approaches the ques
tion of the bridge's location with .irccon
celred and fixed opinions.
Coming at this time, however, the nomi
nations are likely to exert little effect upon
recommendations of tho bridge engineers
concerning cither the character of tho
tructurc or the sito to be favored. SpcciSc
raggestions on these points are said to have
beenaalrcady decided upon and will be for
mally made to the commission one week
from today. Public hearings on the program
proposed will follow.
This is the right way to approach this
Important project. Special pleaders aro
often narrow in their vision, but in a matter
of such general interest tliey have a full
right to explain and to justify as much as
possible their particular outlooks.
Speed in the bridge work is desirable, but
'equally needed is a careful balancing of
values to the end that the mutual interests
of two States and two cities will be moat
equitably and proportionately served.
PUBLIC SPIRIT AT ITS BEST
CIVIC consciousness can hardly fail to be
stimulated by the recognition of service
which is the admirable prlnclplo underlying
Edward Bok's generous gift to Philadelphia.
The broad basis on which the 10,000 prize
award Is to bo made annually altogether
eliminates any suggestion of materialistic
competition. The Nobel Prize rules have
been similarly elastic, with the consequence
that civilization has inspiringly been en
abled to take stock of those human factors
which do it the moU honor.
Mr. Bok makes the discreet stipulation
that in case no signal service during the
year has been noted, no award will be made
and the money will be devoted toward free
scholarships In ten educational institutions
la the metropolitan or suburban area.
The Philadelphia Award, as it is called,
is an exhibition of the kind of public spirit
which no community can have in excess.
Tho need now is for Phlladelphians to
measure up to the high standard set by one
of the city's most tireless benefactors.
GETTING NERVOUS
TtHE remarks of Frank C. Hccse, n coal
JL expert of Pottsville, indicate that tho
mine owners are beginning to feel the effects
of the widespread dissatisfaction with coal
prices.
Representatives of the owners have been
In Pottsville looking over the situation.
Just what they concluded after their in
quiries has not been announced, but it is
admitted that they arc disturbed by the
outlook.
They have reason to be nervous. The
people aro in no mood to continue to pay
$15 a ton for coal. If that price is not
reduced they will demand drastic measures
of same kind. The situation is becoming
almost as grave as that which existed when
President Roosevelt interfered through his
commission. The trouble now is not a
strike and the cessation of mining. It is
prohibitive prices.
- x IN PRISON AT LAST
PERSONS impatient with the law's delay
will read with aatisfaction that William
8. Lelb, former political boss of Schuylkill
County, has at last been put inside the
walls of the Eastern Penitentiary after
conviction of the charge of forging State
tax receipts.
The attempt to keep I.cib out of prison
has been going on successfully since Decern -
f-v-ber, 1010. After his conviction an appeal
was taken, but it was denied by an the
courts in the State. I.cib's lawyers then
sought to get the United States Supreme
Court to intervene. The prosecuting attor
ney objected vigorously to any further delay
in tho execution of the sentence, and Judge
Smtb, of the Quarter Sessions Court, prop
erly refused a stay, with the result noted
above.
A Jury of bis peers found I.eib guilty.
Tho higher courts have refused- to set aside
the verdict. Under the circumstances prison
is the proper place for him.
TO KISS IS BLISTER
F'WSIX days before boot-legging reached
Hi resent high efficiency revenue offl
cAllM that bruclne sulphate or dimeth
yltUjfJhilne bo placed in toilet water to
make tSssa unfit for drinking.
The bead of the United States Pure Food
Bid Drag Laboratory in Cincinnati says
rsa are in the habit of scenting their lips
frith tetlet waters.
TA young man who kisses a girl whoe
9ps hire a coating of bruc. sulph. or di-
tethylete, is liable to get a strychnine
kick."
This may not discourage kissing: but.
i then again, it may.
iu wronrlv blamed or triren credit tnr th
R?"Jfep prohibition sentiment that has made tills
iMlKMPand aa oasis-spotted Sahara, may have dc-
Jwived herself of that unhygienic but thor
oughly satisfying oscillatory service that is
her due and a tribute, to her charms.
f Vr!1r. vlrtiiA Is ltd own rnwnrrt nnA
tif wickedness bringeth about its own punish-
sent.
YOGI, BRYAN
1lrR, BRYAN, in announcing that he has
- taken up his residence In Florida, con
fesses that for some time he has been po
litically in a state of suspended animation.
He apparently assumes that bo can come
'feack, as the Yogis of India return to life
'aftw being apparently dead for an indefinite
period, Tup Yogis, however, prepare them-
' aeivM by long ascetic practices for thoir
!' Uftftrcwn) from conscious life. They think
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they thus obtain knowledge of the past and
tho future and aro freed froirr the operation
of the ordinary physical laws.
Unless Mr. Bryan's memory has failed
him, he knows a great deal about the past,
and if he has ordinary powers of deduction
he can form some pretty definite conclusions
nbout what tho future holds for him. lie
may come out of his state of suspended ani
mation, but It his future is to be like his
past he will pursue the wlll-o'-the-wisp of
office into the morasses of defeat as often as
he appeals to the voters for support.
Yet he is going to the South, where there
is great faith in the potency of the left hind
. foot of a rabbit caught in a graveyard In the
dark of tho moon, and it may be that 'with
such a charm he can give the double-cross to
the hoodoo which has thus far pursued him.
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HOW TO MAKE A DOLLAR
GET BACK ITS OLD VAi-UE
As Soon as More Work la Done for a
Hundred Cents on the Railroads and
Elsewhere Business Will Improve
TUIEItB is more involved in the reduction
JL of tile wages of railroad men than a
saving of 1400,000,000 a year to the rail
roads. That saving is considerable, but the rail
road presidents say that it is not enough.
Wages were raised 1000,000,000 a year ago.
The roads win be required to continue to
pay 1200,000,000 of this amount under the
new award.
They will bo relieved on July 1, however,
of the burden of the so-called national agree
ments, under which unskilled labor has in
some instances been drawing 997 a week
and under which the aums pajd to me
chanics have been doubled and trebled and
even quadrupled under the operation of a.
nils which required threo men to do what
under the old rulo one man was accustomed
to do.
There will be immense savings when the
old custom is restored. These savings, com
bined with the reduction in the rate of pay,
will relieve the railroads. But whether they
will relieve them to such an extent that
there can be a reduction in freight and pas
senger rates is not yet known.
It is a reduction in rates which the public
wants and should get as soon as possible
with safoty to the stability of the roads.
The abrogation of the national agreements
and the reduction in wages are tho result of
an effort to adjust the railroads to the
changed economic condition of the country.
Money was plentiful and prices were high
during the war. It was necessary to raise
the wages of tho railroad men in order to
enable them to live according to their usual
standard, and it was necessary to increase
the freight nnd passenger rates to enable
tho roads to pay the Increased wages. But
the rotes were not raised cnongh to meet
the Increased wage bill.
Yet the high rates arc. one of the many
influences that are discouraging business at
the present time. The demand for com
modities is slack because there is widespread
unemployment. The cost of shipment is
ono factor so affecting prices that merchants
are buying only what they need to supply
tho immediate demands of their customers.
Although the freight on a suit of clothes
or bn a pair of shoes is not large, wbon it is
known that freight has to be paid on every
articlo that enters into the manufacture of
a pair of shoes and a suit of clothes, as well
as heavily increased railroad fares for the
salesman who travels about the country sell
ing the goods and for the buyer who pur
chases the raw materials, it will be seen that
the railroad bill paid by every consumer is
a considerable item in the ultimate cost.
The railroad bill is a large item in the
cost of the heavier commodities. On hard
coal, for example, the freight from the mines
in this State to Maine is more than ?G a
ton. The freight on a motorcar from De
troit to Seattle is $200. The freight on steel
from Pittsburgh to this city adds so much
to the cost of a building that men contem
plating enlarging, their planta or putting up
new structures to be rented have been post
poning their enterprises.
All this keeps men out of work and reacts
unfavorably upon every business man en
gaged in meeting the demands of the people
for food and clothing and household furnish
ings and all the many articles which people
in ordinary times are in the habit of buying.
If the railroad workers consider only
themselves they will object to the reduction
in their wages. If they take a larger view
they will accept. They will conclude that
it Is better for them to have work at any
wage than to be thrown out of employment,
which already has befallen many railroad
employes.
The owners of the railroads have accepted
reduced dividends on their holdings. They
have reduced the pay of the high officials
and they have been making such economics
as were possible in order to be able to con
tinue the operation of trains. They have
thus shown their willingness to do their
part toward tho necessary readjustment of
business conditions to the changed economic
condition of the country.
But restoration of business activity will
lag if 'labor in the mass insists on the con
tinuance in any form of the conditions which
were brought about by the national agree
ments on the railroads. Those agreements
ncre made without proper consideration for
economy. Such a policy reacts upou the
men who follow it.
Only by a concerted effort to make a
dollar buy more than it is now buying can
normal conditions return. A dollar will buy
more as soon as men do more work for a
hundred cents, whether they be executives
of the railroads or engine drivers or shop
workers.
TULSA, THE MAD
NONE of the most abhorrent features of
rnce-rioting seems to have been absent
uhen the town of Tulsa, Okla , slipped
back into barbarism.
The original causes of tho hysteria, re
sulting in the slaughter of 100 persons,
appear to have been slmilnr to those which
have before divorced reason from the minds
of Americans, Bat no crime, however foul,
can Justify such shocking defiance of the
sane principles of law and order.
Tulsa is stained, American civilization
Is stained, by a display of passions that are
close indeed to those of primitive savagery.
The pandemonium, the mobs, the madness,
the shootings, the burnings, the panics, the
bestialities involved in the tragedy reveal
the tenuity of the line of restraint distin
guishing organized modern communities from
those of the darkest ages.
Eulogies of our progress and superiority
halt in tho throat when such hideousness is
remembered.
WHAT WE DID FOR BULGARIA
CURIOSITY is piqued by the announce
ment that King Boris npd Premier
Stambullwaki, of Bulgaria, are to visit the
United States in the autumn to thank us
for what we have done for their country.
We know what Bulgaria did In the war
and where her sympathies were. The
United States did not declare war against
her any more than it declared war against
the Turks. We were at war only with
Austria and Germany. ,
Now what have wo done for Bulgaria?
We helped to defeat her, ve know, along
with Germany and Austria. Gratitude for
that service would be unusual, though It
was a genuine benefit to the Bulgarians.
They remain an independent nation. If
Germany bad won It would not have been
long before their conBtry would have become
a German province goyerned from Berlin.
When one looks at it in this way the Bul
garians have real cause for gratitude.
It is likely, however, that their thanks
are to be given for the relief work done
since tho war has ended. We have been
splendidly Impartial in our generosity, for
we hare been feeding the hungry in Europe
regardless of the aide on which their na
tions fought.
THE IRREPRESSIBLE IDEA
e-roVEN if this edifice which so many
JL States have helped to build were des
tined to collapse an Impossible hypothesis
which I must apologize for advancing the
foundations would still remain and the very
ruins would cry aloud and summon new
workmen to the task of rebuilding."
It was the vitality of an idea rather than
the enduring qualities of a particular ma
chine which former President Motta, of
Switzerland, extolled in the above language
at the opening session of the Assembly of
the League of Nations last autumn in
Geneva.
The gesture of shrinking from the hy
pothesis of failure for the League that Is
linked with the Versailles Treaty may 6e
regarded as courteous. The fate of the
Peace Conference League is uncertain.
If it is less easy to kill than the Senate
undertakers would care to believe, its per
sistence thus far is not a guarantee of im
mortality for its provisions in their present
form. A league by any other namo may
function better or function differently.
Mr. Borah has raged at the pact which
Woodrow Wilson brought home with him,
and yet the Senator from Idaho is a fervid
exponent of tho principles of international
partnership, as illustrated in his resolution
on behalf of a disarmament conference.
President Harding, judging by his words,
goes further. Peaceful co-operation of Gov
ernments Is Implied in his "association of
nations" vaguely yet earnestly outlined
during tho late campaign. Tb'at he may bo
one of the "new workmen" pictured by Mr.
Motta is suggested bv the reports from
Washington that the President is consider
ing feeling his way toward a policy of mu
tual service and amity based on the Supreme
Council of the Entente and United States
and linked with the operation of an inter
national court of justice.
The plan involves labors no lighter than
those indispensable to the development of
any machinery for international peace.
Every such program ever suggested Nicho
las the Second's, Mr. Wilson's, General
Smuts's. Senator Borah's has necessarily
sought to achieve the delicate balance of the
materialistic and the ideal.
There Is new hope, however, today in
the intense practical reality of the need for
some working scheme of international rela
tions. A variety of methods is championed
and denounced, but the fundamental idea is
Irrepressible.
HOW TO RUN A CAR
THERE is in circulation what purports
to be an English translation of the Japa
nese rules of the road for motoroars posted
in the contral police station of Tokio for
the benefit of English -speaking visitors to
the city. It deserves the widest possible
publicity, for it is couched in such language
as will impress it on -the memory of all
motorcar drivers. Here it is:
First. At the rise of tlio hand police
man stop rapidly
Second Do not pass him by or other
wise) disrespect him
Third. Wnen a passenger of the foot hove
In slRht. tootle the horn ; trumpet at him
melodiously at first, but if ho still ob
stacles your passage tootlo him with
vltror and express by word of the mouth
the warning- "HI! III."
Fourth. Bewnre the wandering horse
that he shall not take fright ns you pass
him by. Do not explode an exhaust box
at him Go soothingly by,
Fifth. Give big space to the festive
dofr that shall sport in the roadway
Sixth. Avoid entanglement of dog with
your wheel spokes.
Seventh. Go soothingly on the grease
mud, as there lurks the Bkld demon.
Eighth. Press the brake of the foot as
you roll around tho corner to save col
lapso and tie-up.
We suggest that drivers inclined to be
careletrs cut this out and paste it on the
windshield where they can see it all the
time.
Says Alderman Scott
M. Hogan, of Chicago,
As Ilogan Ses
nevcr had a bathtub, and some of our best
citizens were equally fortunate." It gives
us pleasure to meet a gentleman of whom wo
heard much in the discourses of Mr. Dooley
with Mr. Hcnnessy. And in this particular
instance he will receive the sincere, nnd
hearty felicitations of every small boy In the
country.
Life is but a span to a bridge commis-
"Well, I'll bo switched!" said the
railroad man.
Russia may find cnpital then it gets
down to labor.
What the sales tax appears to need is
an active minority.
Tho new reading is, "The Old Guard
plays possum wheu It Beems to Mirreuder."
The Boy Orator of the Platte now be
comes the Grapejulce Orator of the Ever
glades. The fiends of tho air are gut to show,
apparently, how many different nvs they
can kill.
We have not ns yet beard anbody ex
press surprise that Bcrgdoll cheated in his
income tax.
Still, nevertheless nnd notwithstanding,
what we would do to the bally Britishers on
the diamond Is good anil plenty.
Amboshodor Harvey drhes a flivver in
London. This may be Jeffersonlan sim
plicity Or It may bo appreciation of the
fitness of thlnns.
Dr. Shapley says the universe is bigger
than we hove thought it. Perhaps. But It
has never been so big as on the day wc first
wore long pants.
Commercial travelers from the T'nited
States in South American countries might
well take a tip from American theatrical
managers and "give 'em what they want."
The size of thu mortgage to be placed
on German wealth by tile German Govern
ment helps us to the knowledge that Germnns
are now 20 per cent norry they started the
war.
What the average citizen would favor,
if it were brought to his attention often
enough, is a bonus for dlnnMed boldicrs sub
stantial enough to give them proper care and
free tbem from the danger of nnt.
The inhabitants of Oppcln, Silesia, arc
said to have been transported with joy when"
they heard the skirl of the bagpipes ploveil
by members of the Rlnck Wntcli. This
shows us what a terrible thine war may be.
The complex qualities of tho new immi
gration law, remarked the Solemn Sneezer
(whose orotund discourse is occasionally
redeemed by an accidental gleam of common
sense), Is Illustrated by its quantitative
complexities.
Forty of the nation's sixty-seven multi.
millionaires live In New York, we learn from
Federal Income statistics. Which goes to
show that there are at least forty men in
New York who have more trooMe with their
Income tax schedules than most of us.
A CHANCE FOR BOYS
V ; .
The State Waiting to Educate Free
of Cost Ten Drlght Chaps Old
Estates Being Cut Up A
Court Without Appeal
By GEORGE NOX McCAlN
EA. 55IEGLER, of Mont Alto, should be
a very popular citizen about this time.
Ho is disseminating information to young
men telling them how to get something for
nothing from tho State of Pennsylvania, .
There have been hundreds of men in the
past who havo got something for nothing
from the State.
It was graft. This Is n legitimate scheme.
Mr. Zieglcr confines his attention to young
men only.ihnpn between the ages of eight
een and twenty -five years.
Moreover, they must have completed a
high school courso and have experience in
farming, lumbering, surveying or other forms
of outdoor work.
Other bright young men are not barred,
but tho above-named requisites are de
sirable. Here's tho schemol
MR. ZIEGLER is director of the Penn
sylvania State Forest Academy at Mont
Alto.
There are hundreds of thousands of peoplo
in Pennsylvania who never heard of tho
place. Olfford Pinchot put the academy in
the list of educational institutions.
There arc ten scholarships to be awarded
to ten young men,
West Point and Annapolis have nothing
on this proposition, as tho scholarships are
free, and they provide tuition, board, room
and laundry.
At the completion of a course In forestry
a degree will be awarded.
Next September is the time set for the
lucky ten to begin their Htudles. They will
be selected after n competitive examination
on June 10 and 17.
A test will be given each man for six
weeks to decide If he is fit for the work
andnf he, In turn, likes it.
It means that these joung men will be
the special wards of tho State.
It'll be a pick-up for Borne bright boy.
TWO lines of on old, old poem.
"Death and change arc busy, ever
Man decays and ages move,
come to me every time I stroll along beside
the decaying walls and fences that inclose
the beautiful Clarke estate.
In its perfection It occupied the entire
square bounded by Forty-second, Spruce,
Forty -third nnd Locust streets.
It was the beatify spot of that part of
West Philadelphia, and the fine old mansion
heightened the effect.
Today nothing remains but the crumbling
foundations of tho residence, while the once
beautiful park that surrounded it is a
wilderness.
It has gone the way of nearly all old city
estates,
WILLIAM UHLER 'HENSEL, former
State Attorney General, had, twenty
years ago, a beautiful country place just cast
of Lancaster, but it has passed Into other
hands and only lc;cnds of its former owner
remain.
The beautiful demesne of Cbauncey For
ward Black, also a Lieutenant Governor,
near York, has been cut up Into small forms.
The Governor Pennypacker estate at Pen
nypacker's Mills Is for sain and will soon
become, with all its historic memories, a
thing of the past.
Tho old home of Justus M. Temple, former
Auditor General, out In Washington County,
passed into the hands of strangers years ago.
The Governor Daniel H. Hastings farms
have been subdivided, and now, I under
stand, tho beautiful estate at Huntingdon of
President Judge George B. Orlndy, of tho
Superior Court, is offered for sale.
One might carry on the list Indefinitely.
THE Supreme Court of the Commonwealth
of Pennsylvania Is a court of last resort.
Once it has rendered a decision, there can
be no appeal from its finding.
Unless, of course, the rlglits of the Indi
vidual have, in somo way, been infringed in
manner contrary to Federal law.
In such case there is recourse to the Su
preme Court of the United States.
If Governor Sproul had Mgucd a certain
bill that was passed by the last Legislature
the above would have been a misstatement.
There would have been one court from
whose decisions there would have been no
appeal, even to the Supreme Court of tho
United States.
If $1,000,000 had been involved In n case
In which the Commonwealth was the de
fendant, and the Attorney General knew that
the State bad adequate grounds for appeal,
he would have had no recourse and could
have made no appeal.
The verdicts and decisions of this par
ticular court would have been ns the decrees
of the Medcs and the Persians.
IT WAS to bo known as the Board of
Claims.
Its proper title would hne been "A Court
of Claims Without Appeal "
It was to pass upon certain completed and
uncompleted contracts In which State con
tractors had lost money owing to the rise
in prices of labor ami material.
They were railed "moral and equitable
claims," and $50,000 was appropriated for
the salaries and expenses of this court, other
wise known as tho "Board."
Tho duty of this court would have been to
pass upon claims which Stntc contractors
had, rightly or wrongly, against the Com
monwealth. The bill was prepared, I am Informed, by
nn ex-Attorney General of Pennsylvania.
Any contractor whose contract remained
uncompleted, or who claimed to have lost
money on any contract during 1010 or 1020,
could have presented his claim to this board
and had it decided
No matter what the finding of the board,
whether just or unjust, adequate or in
adequate, for large amount or small, this
remarkable law provided :
"The amount so fixed shall be final and
conclusive ngnlnst the contractor and the
Commonwealth without right of appeal."
But it was vetoed
West Africans and tho Dictionary
Trim tho Manchenter Ounrdlan.
The "educated" West African Negro rivals
the Bnbu in the artless art of misusing Eng
llsb polysyllables. As he uppeurs nlfo to
nourish get-rich-quick ideas, he bombards
firms whose names ho finds in the directory
with proposals to do big busiuess. A Man
chester man who collects these epistles has
just received one which winds up with
"trusting you are in tho same homogeneous
cattagorry, yolrs equitably, T. E. Atkins."
Mr. Bok's Third-Person Method
To tho Editor of the Eirniny I'ublio Ledger;
Sir In your editorial, "American Let
ters 1020," appearing May 31, you refer to
thu award of the Pulitzer Prize of $1000 to
Edward Bok for his autobiography, "The
Americanization of Edward Holt," and say
that his performance "Is Imitative of Henry
Adams in the ndoption of tho Caesarian
style of speaking In the third person." The
adjective "imitative" Is unsuitable in this
instance, ns jou will discover by reference
to Mr. Bok's foreword to his book, where In
the first words he explains that he chose Its
title nnd form ns far back ns 1014. four
jenrs before tho Adams hook was brought
into general circulation. There he snvs:
"I had always felt that the most efferthe
method of writing un autobiography, for the
sake of a better perspective, was mentally
to sepnrato the writer from his subject by
this device. Moreover, this method came to
me very naturally in denllng with the Ed
ward Bok, editor and publicist, whom I havo
tiled to describe in this book, because, In
mnny respects, he has had and hns been u
personality apart from my private self,"
I call your attention to the point onlv to
keep" the record straight and because It Is
Important to note Mr, Bok's freedom from
merely "imitating" the procedure of a work
which, with what jou justly call his fasci
nating life story, has added new luster to
American letters. 8 I). 0.
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NOW MY IDEA IS THIS
Daily Talks With Thinking Philadclphians on Subjects They
Know Best
DR. DAVID D. FORSYTHE
On the Church and Human Need
ANY Church, regardless of creed or high
purpose, fails of Its mission to humanity
in bo for ns it fails to keep vltnlly in touch
with and serve the need of mankind, both
spiritual and material. This Is the belief of
Dr. David D. Forsythc, head of the Home
Missions Board of the Methodist Episcopal
Church, whose central offices aiu in the
Wesley Building.
"A Church, cither ns a social or religious
factor," he sajs, "must serve. That Is the
one law of Christianity, the obligation placed
upon the Christian man through the spark
of the divine that flickers in him. Creed
are empty without comfort that sustains in
the trlnla that come to the everyday man
and woman.
"Man cannot live by bread nlonc, nor can
he absorb the lesson In the Ten Command
ments if by some combination of circum
stances, beyond liln control, perhaps, he
must sit starving in his church pew.
"The poor we have nlwnys with us. nnd it
is remarkable how quickly faithful wor
shipers become not only poor in the things
of material comfort, but poor in spirit, if
thpr nrn not trulv shenherded. It bus been
and will nlwnys be the task of the Homo
Missions Board of the Methodist Episcopal
Church to see that what is known nn 'soflnl
service' receives the Imprint of spiritual
purpose, thnt people arc lifted up, but not
fed on pamphlets and exhortations nlonc.
Example of Social Service
"Philadelphia has, at 1)111 Ridge avenue.
a modest example of one branch of social
service in which every one ought to bo in
terested, for It is of vitnl importance during
the present industrial depression. It is tin
'Good Will Industries,' founded on the
model of nn institution suceessful in Boston
for more than thirty .ears. This is but one
expression of the idenl of Christianity, of
service, but its prnctlcnl application ought
to be worth noting.
"Within three squnres of this center
twentv-threc nationalities nrc repiesentcd,
and less than three blocks away is the locul
headquarters of our local 'Bolshevik!. v hat
can 'Good Will Industries' do for this and
other sections of Philadelphia hnrd lilt by
the accident of soclnl misfortune nnd the
Inevitable fact of its attendant want"
"Throughout tho city some 50,000 'Good
AVill Bags' will be placed during a bingle
year, nnd perhaps 300,000 articles of wearing
apparel, second hand but still usable, will
be contributed by those well nblo to give.
Many, of course, would never be otherwise
used. But there will bo shoes, baby gar
ments, women's nnd men's outer garmentH,
"These will be turned into presentable
appnrel for tho needy, things they mnv not
hesitate to wear, jet things which ordinarily
would be wasted or thrown away by others
Here the handicapped, those not normal and
those crippled, are given n chance to cam
nnd to work. A soldier with only one leg
and one arm works ns telcphono operator at
a salary of $2 u day. A disabled soldier,
with wife nnd child, who hnd lost boh legs
irhllo pnlnif nver the ton. hobbles in mill is
taught n trade while he enrns. A father of
five children, who, with their mother, fuic
starvation, gctB employment which In tho
ordinary circles of trade he could not get.
Cripples Mnde Self'-Supporting
"The relentless juggernaut of Industry
had tnken four fingers. His compensation
was long since spent. His education was
scant. Hut he bad to live. The Church
stepped In, and It was not mete clmiltj.
lie worked nnd earned
"A nipple dressed in rags asked the op
portunity of working for n pair of trousers
Ho worked six hours, and w,ns given n stilt
of clothes, nn overcoat and eighty-five cents
In insh. These Instances of actual sen let
to unfortunnto men nid women could be
multiplied Indefinitely.
"Seventeen such institutions am now
maintained by the Methodist Lpiscopul
Church throughout America, in tho prni
cipnl titles. Ours here Is outgrowing its
qunrtcrs and we expect soon to movo to it
better location for manufacturing pin poses
in South Philadelphia.
"It must be remembered that nil thp ma
terinls brought In arc soon converted inio
real ammunition with which to help the nom
light the high cost of living. And vet these
urtlcles are sold, not given iivvn. Thorn
need be no loss of solf-respect ill keeping
clothed, even with these salvaged ai titles,
beenflse they are far from being a gift.
Much snlvngcd army clothing has been sold
and the demand naB oeen ween, u.i iw
clvillnn clothing, which Is so bitterly needed
jjfet
MAKING FOR SHORE?
oftentimes, and on which prices arc still
often fnr above the reach of those in the less
fortunate tenters?
Channels of Aid Many
"The proceeds fiom such schemes ns this
might go Into man chniinels. In these, nil
profits arc tinned cllicctly Into funds for
better food, better amusement, Amerlcuu
intion uud thu like, right where the) arc
Hold, t
" Another phase of such woik is the social
center, fnmillnr to nil. The Fifth Street
Temple at 5."1 North Fifth street, illus
tintcs how the Church is keeping up with
the march of things. It used to be n turn
vcrein hall. Bj September 1 it will be a
complete 'club, with gjmnasium, library,
culiuaiy instruction loom and the like. It
will bring the Chinch to the people, but it
will first enable the people to sec more thnn
a creed ami u stein commandment iu the
uilgion of the Groat Healer.
"That is huinanitj's need todaj vitul
sjinpathy and help from sources higher than
the give-nnd-tako of this woiknda.v world.
Of paternal philanthropies they mnj be sus
picious In the Church, 'feeding the multi
tude,' nnd jet not condescending in that
mission, tho multitude can only come to have
incfre fnlth."
HUMANISMS
By WILLIAM ATIIERTOX DU PUY
JOHN L CABLE ib an enthusiastic young
Republican who just came down to the
House of Representatives fiom Ohio ns a
result of the election of lust fnll.
Ho was explaining the other dav that
bad luck onions had no teiror for him. On
the 1,'lth of October last, he said, he spoke
from a platform on which were seated thir
teen y-andldatos. He was elected and i0
was ever) one of the other twelve,
"Tho bud luck," intorjetlod n Democratic
listener, "was for the tountiy."
North Dakota has up and sent a chemist
the I 'tilted States Senate.
to
Dr. Edwin I'lenmnt Ladd is his name and
he is n sloek.v, giaj -whiskered man of the
lahorator.v
Out in North Dakota lie mini) zed the
paint 'ho folks vvcie bu.vlng and said that It
was little more than mud. He got good paint
in Its stead
Then ho began examining food nnd where
it tins bad said so and made it unsafe for
iinvhod) to ship improper food Into the
Stntc
Then when the season wns dry the wheat
was somewhat shrunken In appearance; the
grain woic not as full as usual. The buvers
said that this was poor wheat Thev"set
tho price down. Dr l.udd knew that It con
tninetl more nourishment than the strut
ting Krnlns. thnt It would make better
flour The farmers of Nnrth Dakota were
short-changed to the sum of S30.000.000 in
1)1(1 on this uniust claim But the North
Dakota fhcmist fixed It so this abuse would
not bo repeated. '
So they got to feeling out Northwest that
a s.ientlst had n place in politics.
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Senator William M. Cnltler. of Now York
is n builder b, occupation and has 3000
homos in BrooIJjn to his credit.
Who,, Senator Bet M. ,v , ,
joungei man he was a traveling salesman
m If not infrenuonth happens ,1m h"
picks some experience, out of he ear h ti-mr
to illustinte a i)i,s,t-da.v situation
There Is the wnP, f()l. ,,, ,
mi nu fill In .f inm.n. mm "M
"V " .iii-,. I Clo nrn il
'ignis
tunnel. When It emerged ,V ,. K '
hai. wns somewhat ,1MM .,,, ' n" "
voting man hid tin- suspicion (,f ,,'"'
his face A little late i!m travel I, ""
heard John snv traveling in
uto a
"I mn tnlcj thai lmt tllmil, ,,osl .
lion dollars. l " ""l
"Well." sul.I Marj, "I thlnl, Ii
wmih If " .-. mink It was
o intiy it be vvlih the uar
l'i ' " iui mill) I I'll IK Uhpn ill
consider Iho Ion bllll,,,, or two,,! ' inn
or whatever it was that il cost ""'.on
But Sonulnr Female is i i..i,i...i ...
w no ii iim ni nn iinmi i.... a..
clay when he was riding on a train 3
"thor. It just lmniM-m-el I J, I ".!'"
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What Do You Know?
QUIZ
1. What Is the lnrgest passenger veasol
flying tho American ting?
2 Who wns Arlosto?
3. What Is tho oldest Kuropcan settlement
In the territory' of tho Continental
United States?
4. Whnt Is a coif?
5. What two bodies compose the French Par
liament?
6. Into what eca elpcs the Danube IUvsr
Mow?
7 Where Is- nutmeg chiefly found?
8. In whoso Cabinet ellel Jo roes G. Ulalne
serve ns Secretary of State?
9. Whnt former members of the nlllanca of
Central Powers, composed during tlie
World Wnr of (Jermnny. Austria. Bul
garia and Turltey, nre now members of
the Ix-ngue of Nations?
10. What is slsil-grass?-
Answers to Yesterday's Quiz
1. Mormonlsm (the Church of Jesus Christ
of the Iatter-Dny Saints) was founded
In 18.10 by Joseph Smith, a native of
Vermont. Christlnn Science was orig
inated nbout 18KC by Mnry linker
Oleiver Kdely, a native of New Hamp
shire. 2. "The Little (Jenllemnn in Velvet" was
the nnmo under which. In the reign of
Queen Anne, toasts wero fn-quently
drunk by the Jncobltts to tho molo
which vas the primary cause of th '
death of King Wllll.em III of Hngland.
Tho King's horse stumbled against a
mole hill, throwing his rider, whoso
Injuries brouirht on tho Illness of which
he died In 1702.
3 The Crown Prince of Japan Is named
Hlrohlto.
4 The Fong, "Massa's In clo Cold, Cold
' (Jround," wns written by Stephen C.
FoBter.
6. Lawn tennis, reduced to definite formal
a game In England by Major Wing
field about 1874, waa originally called
"sphalrlstlke."
6 The two chief seaports of Japan are
Nagasaki and Yokohama. N
i. John I'urroy Mltchel was Mayor of New
York preceding Mnor Hylnn. He was
killed In an aMntlon accident In 1911.
n t wonl nubile meads marriageable.
9 By the (ladselcn Purchase, negotiated
December 30, 1863, by James Gadsden,
United States Minister to Mexico, the
United States acquired from Mexico a
tr.ict of 45.000 Heiuare miles, now In
cluded In the souUx-m part of Arizona
and New Mexico? for 110,000,000.
10. Thomas Jefferson, Edmund Bnndolph and
Timothy Pickering served under
George Washington as Secretaries of
State.
Holding a- Husband
MIfs Aubrey Eaton, dean of tho matri
monial school of he Chicago Y. W. C
A., sajs thut poor griuninnr causes moie
domestic Infelicities than poorly cooked
mc.ils, and that Intelligent "somethings"
will do more to hold a huBband than
Hvveut nothings,
STILL one by one the dogmas die;
The dear beliefs that once were chummy.
A husband's heart you need not try
lo reach by vvuy of husband's tummy.
He doesn t care whnt food he stokes:
He doesn't care how scant the ration.
Just try tho simple boob on jokes
And jolly him with conversation.
So snv s Miss Eaton in effect.
Ierhnps she's right; perhaps mistaken
borne men condone talk Incorrect
Fejr sake of well -cooked breakfast hacoa.
Ihough grammar crudo gnaws at the looti
Of nil our Intellectual bunions,
o perfect svntnx substitutes
Successfully for stenk and onions.
Wm.8 woiels are vvllh content alloyed.
Ihere really is uo doubt about It.
I,ll,,..v, " .u,f' fil1 nn ochinc void?
Well, frankly, Aubrey cleur, we doubt it.
the man that's hard to please is he
ii. ii i "n"1 K00'1 ,a,1 nn,l '011 bcwitchln'
. 1,'t,lllni wed one girl, nnd she
May hire tho other for th kitchen
G. A.
The Fireman's Fall
1'ioni Hie Wi-ilprri Mall
There are rarely an) humorous Incident!
In the Cardiff Stipendiary's Court, but
ripple of laughter went around recently when
Mr. dc-orge Goon, who for more than fori
vears fought fire in the city, nppenred to
answer u summons for allowing the chimney
of his house to he on lire. Such an Irony of
fate appealed to nil who knew- the fniiilllsr
figitie of the ex -chief of the Card Iff fir"
brigade. A fine of five shillings, or six elaji,
vvus imposed.
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