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FAIR PLAY FOR CAMDEN BUSES
pIIANCELLOR BACKKS. who has re-
ftiswl to grant n prclimlnnry injunction
restraining the Camden busmen from un
loading their passengers at tho ferry, scciiih
to be disposed to give the bus owners thy
benefit of the doubt.
Tho Chancellor says they have built up
a prosperous business and -that if they were
enjoined from operating their buses until
tho issues could bo tried their business would
be ruined, while the ferry company would
neither gain nor suffer. Consequently he
permits the bilbos to continuo to unload their
passengers until the legal poluts at issuo
can bo settled by the courts, and he docs this
under tho rule that no injunction is to be
granted for the benefit of a complainant un
tless tho complainant will suffer irreparablo
damago through tho contlnuanco of the thing
against which ho complains.
Tho ferry company insists on its right to
order the buses away on the contention that
It owns the open space at tho ferry en
trance which they are using. Tho bus
owners Insist that as the open space has
been used by tho public for more than twenty
years tho ferry company cannot control it.
This contention should bring the city of
Camden into tho dispute to assert such right
aa it may havo acquired In the land at tho
ferry entrance.
MORE HOUSES
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1HE housing shortage In New York is
becoming less arute, according to the
president of tho Borough of Manhattan,
through the operation of the law permitting
the city to exempt new dwellings from tax
ation for a limited period.
Bince February 25, when the tax ex
emption period began, permits have been is
sued for tho erection of houses and apart
ments enough to accommodate 13,270
families in tho five boroughs of tho city. In
the same period last year permits were
issued for housing accommodations for only
B171 families. The new houses for which
permits have been issued this year will cost
503,000,000, or about 5000 for each family.
It may be that other influences besides the
tax -exemption law havo been at work in
New York. The prices of building material
havo come down. The Untermyer Investiga-
tion has broken up the conspiracy among
contractors by which the cost of building was
boosted. Labor is showing an increasing
willingness to work for a lower scale of
wages than prevailed during the war.
As a result a house can be put up for a
smaller sum than was needed last year. But
the man who is looking for n house docs
not care what causes bring nbout a resump
tion of building activities so long as they
are resumed.
NEW TREES FOR OLD
SOMETHING more than graceful and ap
propriate sentiment Is contained in
Violet Oakley's plea for a tree planted for
every ono cut down. Speaking at the an
nual tree consecration exercises at the
National Farm School near Doylestown on
Sunday, Miss Oakley touched upon the
familiar yet remediable American waste of
forestry riches.
For a considerable period consciousness of
our extravagance was comparatively Fcant.
The reaction Is now under way, and yet
there is much to be done.
Mr. Plnchot. custodian of tree treasures
in Pennsylvania, has instituted numerous re
forms and established many necessary safe
guards. In less settled Commonwealths,
however, heedlessness is not yet checked, and
there is often a disposition to regard tree
felling in the light of clear material gain,
regardless of the sacrifice involved.
Treeless lands are cruelly handicapped,
the disabilities even extending to climate.
"WitncBs Chlnu, Mesopotamia and Spain.
The carefully conserved forests of France
and Germany tell the contrasting story.
America can Illustrate the some tale by a
consistent policy of substituting new trees
for old. Miss Oakley did not merely ad
Tance a poetic thought, but one of vital and
mandatory practical values.
HAILING M OPTIMIST
SCIENTISTS are not quite sure where the
J world is going, but some moralists know.
The world is going to the demnitlon bow
wows. The world always starts for the demnitlon
bow-wows nt tho approach of the dog-days.
Every dog has his day, and the dav of the
pessimist is the day when his liver la slug
!h. The man who views with alarm notes
gloomy signs of the times: Olrls who paint
and vamp und are free with their conversa
tion; girlB who wear short skirts and low
gowns; girls who danco unseemly dances
with light-minded young men; girls who
wear as scant a costume ns possible while
bathing.
But signs arc sometimes misleading. It
may be that the road marked "Bow-wow
Lone" should be marked "Health Avenue."
Wo learn from Pnrls that dressmakers
(fool men for the most part) have designed
bulging draperies festooned to flop around
tho ankles as the fashion for next winter.
And they indorse, moreover, the hour-glass
waistline, the concealed throat, tho nooso
, neckband and leg-of-mutton sleeves.
Think our girls will stand for it? Wo
don't.
Following the uniforms and simple clothes
of war times, a sartorial reaction was in
evitable, Pbyi'ho'nglsts expected womankind
to swing to fpathery frlnnerles and pretty
furbelows. That the precise naturo of the
swing should he just what It was only proved
that no mere man may hope to gauge the
feminine mind.
And the swing, oy what vou will, was,
for the most part, n healthful one.
Becnuso the painted fore Is an abomina
tion, the paint will disappear. But not so
the short skirt. "The short skirt," says Dr.
( fCooda Hutchinson, "and tho charmingly
crscciui Eirammo' wnivn nns punt useu up
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around It, Is tho healthiest, most beautiful
and the most artistic woman bnB ever
known." And becauso of tho freedom It
gives them, tho doctor adds, tho girls are
happier, better and moro wbolcsomo thon
ever before.
With so many grouches around, It Is fl
pleasure to meet n man who knows and is
still an optimist.
MENACE OF 'WHITE-COAL' DAMS
AS AGAIN SHOWN AT PUEBLO
Increasing Uae of Water Power to Create
Electric Power Requires Extraordinary
Vlgllanco to Protect River Val
ley Towns
rIE disaster at rucblo, Col., Is likely to
bring about once moro a careful Inspec
tion of nil dams in tho country.
The city was flooded when dams twenty
and thirty miles nwny proved too weak to
sustain tho sudden weight of water poured
Into the ponds back of them and failed to
withstand tho pressure.
No serious damago would have been dono
by tho normal flow of water over tho doms
becauso tho bed of the river is wldo
and deep enough to accommodate it. Tho
dams were eupposcd to bo strong enough to
hold bnck tho water used for creating power
for various purposes. But fallible human
foresight failed to prepare adequately to
meet a sudden onslaught of natural forces.
Condemnation of the engineers who built
the dams would be easy, but it would also
be futllo nt tho present time. Tho emotion
which is stirred today is one of sympathy
for the bereaved families in tho flooded dis
trict. They can accumulate more property,
but they cannot bring bnck tho drowned.
Tho best way to express sympathy just
now is to contribute to the immediate needs
of the stricken city, as people in other parts
of tho country contributed to tho relief of
Johnstown when it was wrecked by a more
disastrous flood some yearn ago.
When the wrcckago has been cleared away
expert engineers aro expected to discover
where the structural weakness iu the dnmsi
lay. They must do this not only in sup
port of tho reputation of their profession,
but in order to prevent any check in the
development of water power in other parts
of the country.
The use of electric power is increasing
rapidly. It can be produced more cheaply
by water power than in any other known
way. This was true even when coal was
selling at a moderate price. All that was
necessary was to build a dam and connect
it with a turbine wheel driving n dynamo.
Tho natural flow of water supplied all tho
force needed. There were no freight bills for
fuel, no expense for unloading and storing
the coal and none for shoveling it into tho
furnaces. Hundreds of towns aro lighted
by electricity thus generated and power is
provided both for manufacturing plauts and
for operating street cars.
Tho power developed at Niagara FoIIb is
Bold as far away as Toronto at a lower
figure than it can bo produced by coal in
that city. The great rock cliff down which
the Niagara River pours its flood will not
break away. But ono Niagara is not
enough for the demands of n country ns big
as the United States.
There is not a mountain 6trcdra within a
hundred miles of nny large center of popu
lation which has not been considered as a
source of power. The streams on the. east
ern slopo of the Appalachians in this State
have been surveyed by prospectors seeking
to discover how much power could bo de
veloped if they were dammed.
There has been frequent talk of bringing
electric current to this city from the nearby
mountains becauso it can be dono more
cheaply than it can be produced nt the
power stations here, which have to be sup
plied with coal.
It is possible to dam these streams 60
well that the people living in the valley
towns need have no fear of floods. But
they will not be dammed in this way if
speculators scekins only an immediate re
turn aro permitted to enter on the develop
ment of the water power of the Common
wealth. Such men would scamp thu work,
just as jerry builders are content if the
houses they erect will stand until they can
sell them.
No great dam impounding water which
carries with it the possibility of such de
struction and death as have overtaken
Pueblo should be erected as though it were
a private enterprise, in which no ono but
its owners had any Interest. If it' Fhall
happen that the States shall employ engi
neers to draft standard specifications for
dams with nn allowance of a large margin
for safety, such as is allowed in construct
ing bridges, it will be what those expect
who wish the lives of the people living In
the river valleys to be protected.
It can bo left to the engineers to decide
what materials are to be used. They know
that re-enforced concrete has given satis
faction in certain instances. They know
thnt in other instances stono has been used
and that such dams arc still standing. But
most of such dams rest on bed rock to which
they arc cemented or bound with steel rods,
and are re-enforced with buttresses extend
ing a long way into the shores of the stream.
If the cost of constructing safe dams is too
great In any instance, then that project
should be abandoned. But unless the price
ot coal comes down in the near future there
will be profit In water power, no matter
how much tho dam may cost. The business
of every State Is primarily to see that they
are made safe.
AN AMERICAN ACTS IN PARIS
rriHE appearance of an American actor in
a stellar role at tho Odeon Theatre,
Pari", marks bo radical a departure from
French tradition that President Harding's
congratulatory telegram to James K. Hack
ett Is well warronted apart from its merely
gracious aspects. It Is no mean feat to
overcome certain of the zealously guarded
theatrical conventions of France, and cs
peclally those which give to the venerable
Odeon, the "Second Comodle Francaisc,"
its distinctively conservative character.
Furthermore, "Macbeth," tho vehicle
which Mr Hackctt is employing, Is so
oonsplcuouidy defiant of the cherished in
flexibility of the classic Gallic drama, thnt
thn Government management of the Odeon,
which extended the invitation, must have
given the matter deep nnd serious con
sideration. Unlike "Hamlet," which tho French have
on the whole accepted nnd which Ambrotse
Thomas even had tho temerity to turn into
an opera, "Macbeth" cannot be sentimental
ized. It abounds in brutal action, which
the French classicists have insisted should
be described, not actually presented, before
the footlights It is not even romantic
drama a la Hugo. Nearly all "Macbeth"
ventures havo heretofore been disastrous.
The brightest promise of success was at
tained at the Theatre Francais in tho early
hummer of 1014. Paul Mounct essayed t he
name part, Mine. Bartet, one of tho most
gifted of French tragediennes, portrayed
Lady Macbeth, and tho uged Mounct -Hull,
slnco deceased, was tho Duncan. The pro
ductlon had achieved a measure of public
favor, when the war temporarily ended stago
undertakings.
The telegram dispatched by Secretary
Hughes and expressing tho Presidents
pleasuro in the Odeon's Innotutlon empha
sizes the ties nnd International sympathies
which may bo formed by interchanges of
dramatic talent.
France can teach sun much respect for
the beauty of the spoken word, regard for
classic dignity and appreciation of tho lofty
aims of her profoundly earnest footllght art.
Palais Roynlc farces and Foltes Bcrgcrcs
revues aro tinsel for boulcvardlers and
tourists In the artistic metropolis that may
legitimately boost of Lugne Poe, Antolno,
the Odeon nnd the Comedlo Francalse. ,
Parisians can profitably afford to learn
that jaz and trap bands do not roprcaent
tho sum total of American theatrical
achievement nor of tho enduring funda
mentals of tho English-speaking stage. If
Mr. Hnckett's "Macbeth" pleases the Odeon
patrons it may possibly mark a milestone In
tho progress of laudably ambitious stage
art.
THE CITIZENS' CAMPS
IN URGING Governor Sproul and other
fltnfA flnMMin.a In liBim nrnolnmnttnna
concerning the citizens' military training
camps, Secretary Weeks reveals his appre
ciation of somo popular confusion existing
on this subject.
The exact status of voluntary military
training In this country cannot bo said to
bo generally well known. Indeed, the im
pression has somewhat prevailed that tho
defeat of all compulsory army education
plans about n year ago carried with It tho
wreck of new plana involving personal Ini
tiative. What remained nftcr the congresslona?
debates, amendments nnd excisions wns,
however, tho principle of optional training
npplled to nn enterprise of rather modest
proportions. The sum total of physlcally-flt
candidates to bo accepted In the Government
training camps for one mouth is only 10,800
men, exclusive of officers.
This Is surely a smnll beginning nnd it
limitations suggest thnt the applicants tiro
likely to be In great numerical excess of
nvnllnbln accommodations. The scheme is
to bo worked out ou the basis of State
quotas, proportioned to populations.
It is for this renson, among others, that
the Governors of tho various commonwealths
are under the necessity of explaining tho
also clearly and fully.
Mr, Sproul should declare just how many
citizens can bo nccepted from Pennsylvania
this summer for the brief training period ot
Camp Meade. The low and high nge limits
nro respectively eighteen and thirty-five
years.
The humble proportions of the undertak
ing constitute on the 'whole ono of Its me.ritb.
Tho experiment, authorized under the Army
Reorganization Act of 1020, will serve ns au
index of the appeal of summer training.
If tho trial wins popularity, the details
could be. broadened in subsequent years. The
absence of tho least hint of a mandatory
feature is undeniably wholesome, nnd well
i .,! ;!. n etiliernnHnl trend of nubile
sentiment regarding armaments nnd mili
taristic ventures.
AN IMPERIAL FORMULA SOUGHT
CONSIDERING that tho federation Idea
expressed in tho formation of the United
States was once regarded by Britons with
cither bewilderment or scorn, there is n
peculiar piquancy in the invitation extended
to Nicholas Murray Butler to address the
Imperlnl Conference thnt is to open in Lon
don on Juno 22.
Tho president of Columbia University Is
expected to tnlk of "consolidated" govern
ment, to explain how it works in n word,
to clarify the meaning of our national motto.
The opportunities to bo patronizing on this
theme arc dangerously obvious.
Dr. Butler, however, is probably con
scious of these pitfalls nnd he should be
skillful nnd courteous enough to avoid them.
Besides, his audience, or certainly those
members of it who are "colonial," will.be
sympathetic from the outset.
They havo powerful reasons for seeking
information on federative machinery, sluce
by somo such apparatus they presumably
hope to maintnln ties with the London Gov
ernment without jeopardizing nationalistic
programs nnd ideals in Canada, New Zea
land, South Africa and Australia. Eng
land, too, much ns she ordinarily dislikes
definite political formulas, is really in
search of one nt this time.
Dr. Butler's credentials will, of course,
be non-official He will appear at tho con
ference ns a private citizen of n friendly
nation that has survived nnd waxed miglily
upon tho apparent paradox of "out of many,
one."
English interest in this doctrine of gov
ernment Is now not in the least theoreti
cal. A genuine desire exists to discover, If
possible, the best means whereby the most
diversified nnd largest empire ever formed
can preserve solidarity by the simultaneous
process of both loosening and tightening the
bonds between its Integral parts.
Palpitating Democratic
Ho Eats 'Em Allro officeholders will ex
perience additional
sinking spells when they read the sensa
tional declaration of Senator Penrose that
his appetite is good nnd that he eats every
thing that's set before him. Who knows
just when thnt man will stnrt out fornglng?
The hnsty clock has nlready become a
commonplace.
It Isn't n fair dcul. The wonder of
Edison's questionnaire hns lusted more than
nine days.
There nro those who wouldn't object to
the Jingo quite ho much if he wasn't such
a spendthrift.
Pueblo gives confirmatory evidence, of
tho insignificance of men in the cternnl
scheme of things.
Uncle Snm's objection to the Anglo
Jnpnncso alliance is thnt It gives (or puts)
the open door n jar.
Delaware County has awakened to the
startling fact thnt the life of a child Is more
Important than the life of n dog.
Mineola's aviation accident indicates
that Fato invariably grows Irritable and
nasty when fooled with too often.
A 20 per cent tax kick ought to have
force enough to knock out the belief of the
Germans that they didn't lose the war.
Fnther w so modest nn old follow that
hn let his duy pass without drawing atten
tion to it; nnd nobody else was any the
wiser.
We strongly suspect that Coxey's Army,
if it inarches again, will make no moTO of a
stir in Washington than Cox's Army did In
November.
After reading Interviews following a
recent Valley Forge, conference one Is im
pressed with how rarely politics is discussed
when stutesmen get together.
Another evidence of the now Postmaster
General's common sense is the fact that
PostmnBters have been forbidden to play
Ill-Spy. Postoffice Is n good enough game
for them.
Executive dissatisfaction with the
amount of the railroad wage cut may not
be wholly unconnected with u desire to indi
cate thnt the cut was not deep enough to
affect rates.
A Des Moines expert, addressing a
meeting of the American Institute of Actu
aries, says the young man who blushes when
his girl coos Is not suffering from love, but
from blood pressure, nnd la consequently a
poor insurance risk, tho inference being that
while figures do not He, complexions may.
A FAMOUS GOVERNOR
The Pennsylvanlan Who Dreamed of
a Railroad to the Mississippi and
Was Laughed At His Vision
Realized Before He Died
By GEORGE NOX McCAIN
BY A queer coincidence tho ancestors of
General U. S. Grant, on the maternal
side, and the ancestors of General Hornco
Porter, who died n few days ago, were
Montgomery Countinns.
Porter wns a member of Grnnt s staff
during the Civil War nnd his military sec
retary. Tho great commander's mother, Hannah
Slmnson. n-iui horn In Montgomery Comity.
where generations of her nnccstors had lived
from tho time tho region wns n wilderness.
General Horace Porter was n Penusylva
nlan born ; General Grant was not.
Horace Porter's distinguished career rs a
soldier nnd n dlplomnt, which made him, ns
I remarked In u previous nrtlcle, ono ot the
most eminent men ever born in this State,
was scarcely less notablo than that of his
father, the first Governor of Pennsylvania
tinder tho Constitution of 1838.
DAVID RITTENHOUSE PORTER was
named nftcr the famous scholnr and
publicist of Colonial days.
He was one of a remarkablo group of
brothers
Robert Porter served in the War of tho
Revolution nnd nfterward practiced law
successfully hero in Philadelphia.
Later on ho was elevated to the president
judgeship of the district composed of Berks,
Lehigh and Northampton Counties.
Two other brothers of Governor Porter,
William nnd John, twlus, became success
ful and wealthy merchants; ono in Balti
more, the other in New Orleans.
Still another of these brilliant sons of
Gencrnl Andrew Porter, John 13.. rend law
and practiced. Then he turned his atten
tion to medicine, withdrew from the bar
nnd became a fomous physician in North
Cnrollnn.
When JumcH Buchniinn wns nt the head
of tho bar in Lnucirster County, long before
he dreomed of the presidency, his lending
rlvnl wns George B. Porter, the sixth of
this remnrkable family group.
President Jackson Inter appointed him
Governor of the then Territory of Michigan.
When the Stnte Constitutional Conven
tion of 1838 convened James M. Porter,
still another brother, wus a member and
presided over n part of its deliberations. Ho
was the seventh son.
Somo tlmo nftor his legal attainments led
him to the bench In the district cuniposed
of Dauphin. Lebanon nnd Schuylkill Coun
ties, of which he was President Judge.
President Tvler nnnolnted him subse
quently to be his Secretary of War. At tho'
close of his term in Washington he wns
elected Judge of the Wayne, Pike, Carbon
nnd Monroe dktrlet.
No fnmily In Pennsylvania, possibly, ever
gave to the service of tho State and Nntlou
in high position so ninny men ns were
descended from the Scotch -Irish farmer
Itobert Porter, of provincial days.
AFIRE in Norrlstown cut short the col
lege career of David Ritlenhouso Porter,
tho future twice-elected Governor.
He was attending an academy iu the town
prcpnrlng for Princeton when the building
wns destroyed by fire, nnd the proposed
collegiate course was abandoned.
When David's fnther. General Andrew
Porter, wns appointed State Surveyor Gen
eral he took with him ns his assistants his
son Dnvid nud nnother young fellow who
wns destined to play n Inrgc part In Penn
sylvania politics.
This was Francis R. Shunk. These two
boys were Governors in embryo, for Shunk
succeeded his companion Porter as Governor
In IS 15.
It Is one of the odd coincidences of State
politics thut these two youthful survejors'
nssistnnts should have followed ouch other
so closely In politicnl life.
DAVID R. PORTER nearly ended his
career nbout this time.
He hnd n large endowment of the ambition
of youth, nud in addition to his duties in his
fntlicr's office he undertook the study of law.
lie expected to settle down to practice in
Harrlsburg.
Overwork mode him pay its toll. The
labor and confinement wero bo severe that
ho had to abandon office work nud get into
the open.
Ho went up into Huntingdon County,
where the Dorsejs owned tho famous Bnrrce
furnaces, and got n job as outside clerk.
The year following he wns mnde manngcr.
He lenrncd the business thoroughly nnd in
a couple of years started in business for
himself.
His partner was Edward Patton, nnd
their furnaces, of which not even the ruins
now remain, were located along Spruce
Creek In Huntingdon County.
Willinm A. Pntton. formerly assistant to
the president of the Pennsylvania Railroad,
nnd himself the president for yenrs of the
New York, Philadelphia nnd Norfolk Rail
road, comes of this same family of Patton.
Iu 1810 Porter wus elected a member of
the Assembly from Huntingdon County.
At tho close of his term he wns nppo'lnted
by the Governor prothonotnry and clerk of
courts for that county.
Ho had to economize in the mntter of ex
penses, nnd his young wife wns his only
clerk.
In their own home she recorded the deeds
nnd wills, while her husband transacted the.
public business In bin office.
In the courthouse nt Huntingdon there
nre still shown to the curious visitor vol
umes of work done by Mrs. Porter, the wife
of n Governor
It slmuld bo nn Inspiration to those women
of the twentieth century who regard work
as a part of their heritage.
TWID RITTENHOUSE PORTER was
-' elected Governor in m8. In 1S41 he
wns re-elected by n majority almost four
times ns great as thnt given him nt his first
election.
Ho wns one of the mo.t far-sighted, clear,
visloncd men that ever sat in the guber
natorial chair.
Pennsylvania wns still in the Conestoga
wagon era of her history. Sho was gradu
ally advancing to the canal-boat period.
lw, f'rst,'('ss1aKf to the Legislature is
notable for his advancement of a great idea.
In it ho said, relative to the improvement
of tho Commonwealth's waterways, that the
public should be nrousod to the "rcmovul of
I he obstruction to steamboat navigation iu
the Alleghany (ho spelled the word with an
n instend of nn 'e'), Ohio nnd Mississippi
Rivers from Pittsburgh to the Gulf of
Mexico and from Pittsburgh up the Al
leghany ns fnr or tho snmc mav be found
practicable nnd to the construe
'"in?.!1 rn.nt'nuoui, tlrond from the city
of Pittsburgh through or near the capitals of
Ohio Indiana and Illinois to somo point on
the Mississippi River at or enr St. Lou s "
The Governor's suggestion of n rontini
ous railroad to St. Louis was received with
universal comment and ridicule
Such an Idea was preposterous. Where
would the traffic come from? It was the
dream of a vislonorv.
Just the same David Ritlenhouso Porter
lived long enough to travel in n rnllr..n.i
car without change from the Atlantic Sea
bonrd to the Mississippi. m"n'e Sea-
GOVERNOR PORTER was really
the
iuuicr. in innt (1 slant dav nt it,
Southern Pncifie Rnilrnnd-or the Texas?
Pacific, as it was called. H
General Sam Houston, of Texas wnq
one of his warm friends. It was at Porter's
insistence that Houston ran for nm,.,n,J
of Texas, nnd he was elected r'nw
Shortly after he invited Porter to visit
him to discuss a railroad to the Pacific ul
recognized In his friend the wide visTon of
a pioneer of great things. on "l
The plans were under way at Poi-tnr1,.
direction when the Civil War brake o t " B
Houston, a strong pro Union man, was
driven from office by Confederate w'mi"
thlzers, and the great railroad project came
to naught for tho time.
On a cold winter night in 1807. while
Governor Porter was returning from a
church meeting he was seized with a chill.
It was tho beginning of the end.
He dlfcd tho following August. s
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Daily Talks With Thinking Philadelphia on Subjects They
Know Best
DR. CYRUS ADLER
On Vision In Education
ALTHOUGH n self-styled conservative,
vision nnd n sympathy with the progres
sive and modern educational viewpoint would
seem to guide the course of Dr. Cyrus Adler.
president of Dropsle College for Hebrew nnd
Cognate Learning nnd newly elected mem
ber of the Board of Educntlon.
"Goodness," said Dr. Adler. "should be
the most desired quality In the educated
man or woninn. It is nil very well to be
t mined for efficiency, but n citizen must be
decent and honest, or, better still, honor
nblc, if he is to be nn nsset to the com
munity nnd the country in which he lives.
To these qualities, of course, must be ndded
effectiveness.
"As n member of the Bonrd of Education,
I do not want to uproot things, nor to as
sumo that those who have gone before me
knew nothing. I shall endeavor to learn
from pthers and to the best of my Individual
ability the facts. To my mind one of the
most necessary things to insure accomplish
ment of any desirable end nnd to avoid use
less conflict and friction is to have and to
cultivate understanding.
"Education at the present time is enter
ing into one of its most Important epochs.
There nro many problems to be studied,
many improvements to be made, much that
Is Intangible to be more definitely fixed.
Higher Education Is Vital
"There nro ninny who say that public
money should not be expended for public
school education beyond n common school
or lower-grade education. Tho higher
grades, they believe, may tnke care of them
selves, or ot least, that Individuals, if they
want a higher school or collegiate education,
should pay for it themselves.
"The answer to this is that the com
munit.v, the State and the Notion, are des
perately in need of lenders, of those who
can do things that require special equip
ment. In crises such ns the war or the
Influenza epidemic, it wns discovered just
how poignant wns this need.
"Wo must have doctors, lawyers, edu
cators, engineers, scientific men. If we nre
to get them from only those who are nble
to pay for biich educations we should soon
degenerate Into class rule. The Stnte must,
therefore, provide liberally for sunrthlng
moro than n common-school education, be
cause it is vital to its own welfare, and
money thus expended Is to be regarded as
nn Investment and not ns nn expense.
"It Is not only desirable but necMsnry
that education of the higher typo should bo
extended. One of the dnngers that this
country hns run In the past has been tho
great number of half-baked youug men nnd
women who hnve been turned loose before
they should have been.
"Many of this sort not only can do noth
ing more than bookkeeping, stenography,
carpenter work and the like, but they (nn
not nlwnyp do it well. Much of the dis
sension nnd discontent that often leads to
dangerous things has been the result of nn
education of this sort.
Cultural Education Important
"On the cultural side it Is important. If
we nro to havo scholars, musicians or men
who do big nnd fine things In any walk of
life, we must hnve those who appreciate.
For every scholar, it has been said, there
is necessary n iiinieriiiiiu 01 ju.uuu who can
nnnrnfitnlu unit niiilnrutii In I
"It is Impossible to havo all educntlon
uniform. Wo cunuot nil be carpenters nny
more than we enn nil be authors or sci
entists, At the same time thero nro many
things thnt all of us should know In com
mon. For thnt renson I believe that up to
a certain point education should bo more or
less uniform. After thnt, however, it mtibt
necessnrlly diverge. The question is, Where?
"One of the prime things thnt must be
considered Is thnt, nftcr nil, educntlon Is
inennt to enable one to think. One of the
most necessary things to be developed is
the ability to think through. During the
war tho statement was made that at least
25 per cent of the men were suffering from
'general ineptitude.' General Crowder char
acterized it as" 'mental slouchlnces.' Mental
muscle is, therefore, one of the grcnt needs
of the dnj . Memory Is nn lmporlunt fnctor
which Is not lo he confused, however, with
recollection.
"This brings up the question of elective,
studies. I do not believe thnt students
should bo shnckled with n cast-iron collnr
to be worn lndlserlminntely by cverv one
but I do think thnt on tho whole the' much'
Hon of elective studies is one Hint has been
cnrrled too far. Harvard University. ror
Instance which took nn extreme position on
that matter, has lately developed n tend
ency to recede from it. The question
vl or"herUHe,fVhrat8 UOTSrS T'
I will pursues variable' one." CeVn'o'w
FLOOD
comparatively early and others take years
longer to discover It.
"In general, every one should be nble to
do ccrtnln elementary things well. For in
stance, there is no excuse for the educated
mnn being n slovenly penman or nn Indif
ferent speller. Fundamentals should be Vic
property of every one.
"I do not believe In an education such ns
Edison's questions would have required.
Tho better way would bo to teach the pupil
what he should know nnd where to go to
find it. It would be n good plan, for in
stance, to have pupils taught In school what
to look for in libraries and how to find
them.
"While I think that the cultural back
ground must bo well cared for, vocational
training has on the whole not been pur
sued ns fnr ns it should. Thero is much
to be accomplished in this field, both for
the benefit of the individuals who would
succeed In life and ns an addition to the
Nntion s resources in time of need.
"I think, on the whole, intellectual sel
fishness should.be encouraged. It Is a fine
thing to be altruistic, but we can be of
more use both to ourselves nnd to our fel
lows by doing the thing we nim for ns well
ns possible. We must also hnve leaders,
because if we were to leave everything to
bo solved by the people us a whole, our Gov
ernment would degenerate into n -Soviet
form.
"In gencrnl, then, our educntional equip
ment must be built up to the point where
vve nre able to achieve and find joy in the
doing A happy, reasonable, resourceful
set of people is one of the hnut nin,nnt.
we can have of success as a Nation nnd as
a people."
HUMANISMS
By WILLIAM ATHERTON DIJ PUY
UniEN Senator Moses, of New Hnmp-
shire, makes a speech he tells this story.
A woman leading a smnll boy by tho hand
approached the attendant nt tho railway
station nnd nsked him what tlmo the next
train enmo through. Tho attendant, stut
tering grotesquely, said :
"rm".t"t'', f-f-f-f-forty."
A little whilo iHter the woman with the
child and the attendant came face to face
1-V .ip1atf?irm nK?ln' Agnin hhc nske,i
vvhat tlmo the traiu came through nnd
again got the halting response :
T-t-t-t-t-t-two f-f-f-f-forty."
tln' Jn,th,l UL A "L third
answered. unswereu ana
"w'l!Jwi!'l!:.bu1u',',",said the attendant,
me thn n yh"whr ,1-tl-l, -vou ,tcel ""kins
mo that qu-qu-qu-qu-qucstlon?"
"llkesytsU!,v y'" ho woman "Plained,
lines to see you work your face."
be Ck StT"', nl th0 c"tor, must
be back of his receiving invitations to Lpcak.
-iSrnneatK
!, of $100'000 - - AS
u-nVr1"a.y.s tba,1 a Msnient of $1000 might
naIk,otarnffsbb;irspiiBtoufr,nn,i
ents ,o tho Unfted Sut'es'selfat'o1: CnSt,tl"
tint in another ",0 WOrl(1 fa" lulto
In TurjV(,w,1,t.Prtht In f, ",
jvhlch held all thoX arie,ntTUrS KtBml
from the crowd, fiie i; f.i .k aros0
officer and iled. I'o'nt-hlank nt an
He was pursued. overhnniit,i i
Ho was h.ough, baelrK Sfi rn?,?t.Urcd'
wn formally condemned to "li.i "ll1 8ec'
official, wasummarTly tood 'Sa"!Il.b' n"
could see and shot. He , 0 la L ',7 ,""
ns Is the way when the smiii nli,n,,,Jr
snuffed out. emn" namo is
Likewise did a ccrtnln tin,,,
from tho outside, l" was ,."PiCtntor
the official party, collapse from ' ""h" ot
of the scene. "' ,Uc horror
It was only Turkish slapstick nut nn
get a laugh. It waa eitrerni to
their standpoint. ",reraeIlr tunnjr from
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What Do You Know?
QUIZ
1. What was tho moBt ills.istrous fiool la
tho annals of the United States?
2. Into what river docs tho Arkansas nim
flow? '
3. Who Is tho Republican leader In the
United Stntes Senato?
4. Who was In command of the army which
wrested Palestine from the Turks la
tho World Wnr?
fi. Who Is Sacha aultry?
ti. Who ran for Vlco President on the Pro-
gresslvo Party ticket of 1512?
7. Which Is tho Nutmeg Stnte and why lilt
so called?
f. Whcro Is the greatest croup of setil-breed-
log Islands?
9. What name did the Confederates give to
tho famous Ironclad Jlcrrlmac in thl
Civil War?
10 What nro tho Kildas?
Answers to Yesterday's Quiz
1. Oscar W. Underwood In now the Demo
cratic leader In tho United States Sen
ate. 2. Pomology is the science of fruit growint.
3. Arnold von Wlnkelrled was tha Swlji
patriot, said to have decided tho Swlsi
v ctory ut Sembnch In 1380 by seizing
nil tho Austrian pikes bo could reach,
burying tht'ni In his own breast, thui
making an opening In the ranks Into
which tho Swiss rushed over his deal
nnilv
i.
Charlotte Amnlle is the capltnl of the,
Mrg-ln IslandH of the United Statei.
ly .me.ans. ,h0 b"yl"r or selling ef
?i8lasilfaI Preferment. Tho name of
oerlvcd from Simon Magus, who souibt
to purchase spiritual gifts, as described
. "' tho eighth chapter of Acts.
I he Alnfmn rMi,i.n ...n .!. . -i ..-
or English personal nnd political IIS
- ti crty ,htaled from King John In 1215.
iiio word mayonnaise may be pronounced
may-own-nays." which la Kngllah. or
ma-yown-najB," with tho first "a" u
In tho word am. Tho latter pronua
elation is French.
8. Pontifex Mnximus Is ono of tho titles of
tho Pope. Tho words literally rnesa
Oreatest Bridge Kullder. Tho title, ti
nn lnherltnnco from ancient Rome,
ino Pontifex Maxlnius was tho head of
o r- lm P'leKe of priests In Rome.
Gu,eux (Beggars) watt the name taken br
tlio Insurrectionists In tho Xctherlandi
l" tho sixteenth century In the- war
,. .a'nst Spanish rule.
10. Ullllarn of Orange Is tho national hero
of tho Netherlands.
. Don V. I'arker, pro
Boom s IMHce hlbition commissioner
."vow in the Home of Ohio, is apparent!
, ' of the opinion that
the olstcnd act is a great promoter of
home industry. Ho says thnt two years in
there were 100 stills in operation in tt
htate nnd now there aro 50,000 ; nnd where,
before prohibition, there were UOO breweriei,
there are now liOO.OOO.
IF THEY COULD SPEAK
THE pageantry has passed !
Impnhsloned, proud, wiln imnners In
the sun,
Heart-shaken, wo havo kept the holiday
v hen sweet, memorial May
Goes, weeping like a widow, at the last.
Our yearly, solemn sacrifice is dono !
Exaltlnir thnsn who fell
(Soul-sick with filth and horror, torture--
t wrung j,
o turn nway; but are they satisfied
Cut off Iu youth who died,
By choking stench, or flume, or rendlni
shell
1th valor's guerdon, old when Homer sung?
Now agonies they bore
To gain the world for I'eace ; our praise U
stale
And futile, while wo falter at our task;
For from the grave they ask
That sacrifice like theirs shall be no mote.
How will they loathe our plaudits, if we fall l
They reaped where bate hod sown
'i iicro niras in conuict nnu prepare "-i
grnunu. . ,
"No moro, no more, O nations! ' now tneK
plea
Abcends in unity ;
h rnm nil tltn omll An-onn n 1 rrrrmili
w.s ui HI VI Oil ru tlUSDll I B'-"- . m
Their blood appeals, "Let some new ay w
fonnil!'" .'I
found !
Not new, but old as Cnln, ,
Tho jealous craving for a neighbor s v.caiwi
The narrow pride, tho utiregnrdiiig eve
That looks on misery,
The spirit eager for commercial gnlu.
By violence or stealth.
If, each for human good,
In equity, all notions would piovlde.
Enrth's cup would overflow, and ilf""
descend
To share, ns friend with friend . .
But selfish counsels mock that brotlicrbooOj
"Heck ye your own I Divide! WV
Dlvldn!" ..!?!
Grace Agnes Timincrmnn, In the Hfj
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iorn iiraes,
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