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NOW BUILD THE BRIDGE
WHILE the Delaware Bridge hearings
have disclosed n certain specialization
of geographical iutercsts, It cnuuot bo said
thnt any of the nltcrnntc locations proposed
have been supported by arguments trail -scendlug
those advanced for the Franklin
Square site.
Doubtless most if not nil of the claim
submitted were antioipated by the commis
iorj, whose experts examined every phas.
of tho undertaking with the utmost care be
fore reaching their decision. The foremost
point to be remembered is the general welfare
t tho public.
Within less than a week tho joint com
slon will pass upon tho findings of its
.accredited specialists. Tho Franklin Square
location for tho Pennsylvania end will prob
ably bo selected.
When the final word is given, kickers,
aentlmental or selfish, will qunllfy as nui
sances, whose senso of proportion has been
warped. Where vigilance will be legitimate
will be in sustaining the full program of
progress, and this, nm .ng oilier 'things,
hould mean short shrift for chronic obstruc
tionists, POCKET BOROUGHS HERE
RESIDENTS of the Twenty -second Ward
who attended n meeting last night to
consider the division of tho ward doubtless
heard all the arguments that can be offered
In support of the proposition.
The real reason back of the proposition,
namely, the tleslrc to creato another ward
leader who will play the political game, wns
concealed in a multitude of words by the
advocates of the plan, if it was mentioned
tt all.
If there is to be any readjustment of ward
boundaries It would bo much better to re
adjust them throughout the city than to da
the work piecemeal.
In the last mayoralty election only about
1000 votes each were cast in the Sixth and
Ninth Wards, while moro than 10,000 eac'i
were cast in the Twenty-second and Forty
alxth Wards. The vote in the Fifth Ward
was 2000 and in tho Twenty-sixth it wns
6500. There are five wards with n male
voting population of less than 2000 and
twenty-six wards with more than 3000 male
voters.
So long as the ward is the basis of rep
resentation in tho political committees it
will be impossible to have n City Committee
In which there is a fair and equitable divi
sion of power among tho representatives of
the TotcrB.
The pocket-borough system of representa
tion in the British Parliament was abolished
nearly n hundred years ago. But the poli
ticians want to preserve something very
much like it here
SALARY AND SERVICE
IF THE State road -building program Is to
be carried out successfully the men in
charge of the practical details must be. ex
perts. If they are experts, they must be paid
auch a salary as will compare favorably with
what they could get in the employ of private
corporations.
This is doubtless why tho Legislature gavo
Mr. Sadler, the Highway Comnussiouer.
power to fix the salaries of his subordinates
and why he has arranged that his first a
aistant Is to receive 512,000 a year and
why ?10,000 is to bo paid to the chief
tngineer.
These men, if they ore qualified for their
responsibilities, ran save to tho State many
times their alary every ;ienr. Whereas nn
incompetent man nt $.r000 n year would be
likely to cost the State ten times more than
his annual salary.
I'ntil evidence to the contrary is forth
coming, it must be nssumed thnt Commis
sioner Sadler is seeking to give the State
the best service possible bj paying his as
eistants enough money to induce them to
atay on their jobs.
ASLEEP AT THE PORT?
FOil the first time siik,. 1 1 legular
through passenger service is to be re
sumed between Atlantic and Pacific ports of
the Pnited States by win of the I'nmitmi
Canal. The Eastern terminal of the Pacific
Mail Steamship Compunv. which is to ills
patch passenger esseN in each diirction
very three weeks, is Baltimore
It is no secret that the problem of docking
facilities oil the Atlantic seaboard was one
of considerable difficult nor that strong
Influences uore brought to bear to pi event
the use of New York
The eventual choice fell upon P.nltimnre,
because it is said the forces of obstructionism
were less operative there than m Philadel
phia, which, from the standpoint of the
steamship line, presented equal merits ns a
terminus.
If this report H cirrcet. this citv hrn
missed a splend d nppoi (unity to expand Ms
commeicinl connections. If othnwisr the
port of Bllltillloie poesos , tiii (if nt
tractions of which we cannot legitimately
boast
In either cne, Indifference to the in
auguration of a possible new era in the de
velopment of American sea routes cannot
be romfortablv assumed b sincere friends
of the port of Philadelphia
PRINCETON'S GOOD DEFICIT
?HINCETON I XIVEUSITV closes tho
scholastic jour with a deficit of S2i:i. 1)0(1
4i it were a moiie making enterprise tlieie
would be cause f .r alarm lint colli gen are
not run to make a profit in dollars anil
t cents.
It has been said thai the college which
closes the uMr without n deficit Jims fallui
down on the job. This ih because it is the
business of a college to gne tin best possible
education, regiudless of thy cost, io nil
tudents who nppl The nttroge adminis
tration which devotes too much attention to
its financial bmlsct gives too little attention
to it" educational work
,Yct. of course, there (s n limit to w'mt
uu .-olk'ce can do with Us rccyy:s. Tho
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domand for education is so great that many
colleges have been considering the necessity
of fixing n limit on the number of students
they will receive. Tliey have been forced to
tills in order to do justice to the .students
whom they do admit. But even if they
should limit the attendance, most college.
would still have n deficit to be made up out
of contributions by Its friends.
It is estimated that the Princeton deficit
next year will be only -"51115,000, because
payments on the pledjes to the increased
endowment will be made In the meantime.
But even when nil tli endowment pledges
have been paid, it Is likely that the expen
ditures of the university will be more than
its income, for It will continue to grow.
JOB COMBINE CAN'T BUCK
AGAINST A MAN IN THE RIGHT
Every Coup of Which It Is Guilty
Strengthens tho Moral Position
of the Mayor
rpHE moral position of Mayor Moore is
stronger than it has been for months.
He Is standing firm on his platform pledges
to destroy contractor rule.
He is Insisting that the only effective way
to break down the political contractors is to
abolish political contracts.
He made a beginning when he turned
down tho bid of tho Vares for cleaning the
streets in the two central districts nnd ar
ranged to have the work done directly by city
emplo ck.
It will cost the city $200,000 less to do
the work in these districts than tho Vares
offered to do it for.
This means that tho Vares have been de
prived of a profit of at least 200,000 on a
single job. It mean9 that they arc "sore"
$200,000 worth, which is a considerable de
gree of soreness.
It means that the and their friends are
determined to stop the cleaning of the street
by city emplo.ves if they enn possibly do it.
They have been making combination with
other political leaders interested in spoils
and they have succeeded so far as to break
down tho slender majority of tho Mayor in
tho City Council and to seenro a solid block
of thirteen out at the twenty-ono votes.
That block was used this week when the
plans for taking over on October 1 the
street-cleaning contracts in the city outside
of the two centvol districts were held up.
Councilmen I.imebiirner. Montgomery and
Wegleiu, elected to support the Mayor, voted
with the ten anti-Administration Council
men nnd against the men who still believe
that they are morally bound to be loyal to
tho voters who elected them.
And tho partners In the Job Combine are
grinning today at the thought of their easy
triumph. They think they have the Mayor
tied hand and foot and that hereafter they
can do as they please.
And they can do pretty much ns- they
pleast; for a time. But the weakness of
their position lies in tho fact that they be
lieve they can disregard every consideration
of economy nnd efficiency and conspire to
fatten on the money. of the taxpayers.
The more shamelessly they go ahead with
their plans the stronger will the case against
them become, nnd the more imperative will
it bo that the Mayor shall stand out against
them as the spokesman and representative of
the people opposed to looting the treasury.
The Ma. or has weapons which he has not
yet used. He hinted at some of them in the
statement he gave out yesterday. When he
uses them he can drive his opponents into
hiding and can deprive them of their power
for evil so suddenly that they will wonder
at their stupidity in challenging him.
All they need is a littlo more rope and
they will hong themselves. TIip noose is
already made and they will get their necks
into it if they continue In their present
course.
Shrewder politicians would know that It
wns necessary to "pander to the moral Bense
of the community." ns n Tammany leader
once remarked. But these men seem to be
unaware that there Is any moral sense any
where. The Mayor Is standing squarely on his
campaign pledges. He is citing the success
which has attended the experiment with
municipal street cleaning, and is demanding
thnt the expiess command of the Charter,
Indorsed by the voters, shall bo carried out
with all possible speed.
The Usue is rapidly toking shape. Before
long it will nppenr to every one thnt n deci
sion must be made between tho Job Combine
und the Mayor.
The members of the Combine are twiddling
their fingers nt the Charter nnd chuckling
over what they regard as the discomfiture of
the Mayor. But the day of reckoning has
not jet come. When It comes, and it cannot
bo escaped, retribution will land on the
heads of the faithless public servants with
crushing force
Whom the gods would destroy in politics
they first make greedv
THE IMPROVEMENT IDEAL
THE new amusement park projected bv
the P It, T. is theoretically appealing.
The citv is not celebrated for its recreative
assets, ami in summer especinllv its chief
charms are contained in rootU steel, con
crete or macadam which lend away from itj
bouniiai io.
The new plensuie ground that is planned
could conceivably offer entertainment of n
wholesome and stimulating character, (iomj
instrumental music and the production ol
light or "babv-grnnd" operns might be num
bered among Us attiaelions.
If the park could oul.v be located nt some
convenient point within the metropolis, on
a site devoid of adjoining properties, faf
from landmarks, far from habitations, far
from overcrowded transit routes, fnr' from
an thing in which nnybiil lias auv interest,
artistic, historical, mineicial, industrial
resid' ntinl, how ln.ntlly we should all
i njoy it !
UNBURIED BUT DEAD
rpllE Congress of the ulted States has
JL ividemlv no monopoly of childish minds.
M. D'iplantier rose In the French Senate
the other dav to provoke debate on the
worn out nnd superfluous subject of trying
William Ilohenyiilleii) The sane nnd hal
iniied intluence of Premier Briand was
lecognizable in the vote to postpone discus
sion In a way that gives scant hope of iti
icopcnlng.
As a matter of fact, the e Kaiser hn s
nlrcndv been tried by world opinion nnd th
veidict of histoiy has been uiK quivocalh
p.-ouoiini ed The sentence is oblivion, mid
cousldiring the culprit, no punishment could
be more exquisite! fitting.
How faithfully it lins been executed it
demonstiated by the insignificance of the
flurrv caused by the thoughtless French
parlinmen'ni mi fjj the Senate there were
the extern T a Sensation which soon
evaporated Tho outsVde world rema ned
IIPIIIIVHI
n. Duplantler's query s without contcm
:
EVENING PUBLIC LEDGER PHILADELPHIA, SATURI)AY $fB '11921
pornry Interest, and it is with an effort in
the minds of n considerable number of per
sons that the subject of his remarks assumes
the nature of an existing reality.
OUR OWN LOOKING-GLASS LAND
LITTLE ALICE didn't precisely under
stand why the White King required
tnoro than one messenger to execute n single
commission. "I must," explained thnt me
ticulous monarch, "hove two, you know
one to come nnd one to go." "One to fetch
nnd one to carry," lie added.
Under such conditions It Is easy to realize
that the march of ofiiclat business In Looking-Glass
Land was deliberate and occupied
a considerable time in passing a given point.
As an appanage of that realm which, by
the way, is hardly so Imaginary ns some
persons mny suppose the territory occupied
by the deed recorders in the City Hall has
nn excellent chance to qualify. The "ono
finger" typists, plodding tho nlraost noise
less tenor of their way through the verblago
which deluges this ofiice, arc quite as frugal,
when It comes to efficiency, ns the king's
one -direction emissaries.
Labor saving their methods maybe called,
nnd yet hero Is nn Instance when this
popular phrase is of dubious solace. Econ
omy of this type, however, is gladdening
to the job-applicant's heart.
From the professional political standpoint,
conditions in tho Recorder of Deeds' office
are ideal. There is plentv of work for the
one-fingered copyists and not the slightest
chance that it will ever be completed within
a reasonable time. Purchasers of property
ore lucky If papers presented bj them to tills
office are returned within n ear
If the State should ever enact laws pro
viding for n svstcm of land registration and
Insurance of titles by tho Commonwealth or
counties It is conceivable that some of the
burdens now oppressing the multitude of
clerks and tvpists in the domain of the Re
corder of Deeds would be lifted
An otlidnl stamp upon the legal documents
would enable the patrons to enrrv off their
papers within a few moments of their .sub
mission. But as such simplicity of admin
istration would seriously reduce tho number
of noff snaps for deserving division workers,
It may ho dismissed ns nlmost hopelessly
Impractical.
YOUTH AND AGE
YOUTH Is a lovely, n beautiful thing;
but lot not tho youngsters grow too
cocky.
Tho fact of Colonel Washington A.
Borbling, eighty-four years old, being elected
to the presldcney of n big bridge company bos
prompted B. C. Forbes, the financial writer,
to investigate the truth of the sating Mint
America is a young man's countrv. It isn't
so, he says. Big men. he declares, do their
best work after they ore lift.
E. H. Gary was past fifty when he took
hold of the big job with the United States
Steel Corporation thnt he has held moro
than twenty years.
Not one Important railroad president in
tho country is less thnn forty: hnrdlv any
less than fifty. Samuel Rea was fifty-eight
when he took hold of his present job with
the Pennsylvania. True.sdale, of the Lacka-.
wnnna, Is sevent : Elliott, of the Northern
Pacific, sixty-one: Lovett of the Harri
man lines, sixty-one; Smith, of the New
York Central, fifty-eight : Willard, of the
Baltimore and Ohio, sixty.
One of the most powerful bankers in tho
country. George F. Baker, is in his eighty
second year; another, A. Barton Hepburn,
is seventy-eight.
Though Charles M. Sehwnb, Henry P.
Davison nnd Frank A. Vnnderlip won fnme
early (that is, before forty), their greatest
work bos been done when they could not
possibly be classed ns chickens.
All of which seems to show thnt fame,
after all, W no crndle-snotcher or chicken
stealer. Let the cockerels crow as thev may. the
wise old roosters still appear to dominate
the heap.
A year ago Chicago's
The Chicago police superintendent
Consclenco decreed that so far ns
bathing costumes were
concerned a woman's conscience should be
her guide. Tills yenr he has come to the
conclusion that if bathing costumes nre anv
tijlng to go by, some women haven't nny
conscience worth mentioning. He hns Issued
n set of rules, therefore, limiting the area
thnt may be left uncovered This, pre
sumabl.v , is evidence that his own con
sclenco Is grown up and working.
Now thnt the tables have been cleared,
let's play bridge.
The ashcart continues to throw dust in
the e.xes of the public.
When the witth is thirsty rain suits her
right down to the ground
What the disabled soldier is pining for
is not so much n bonus as adequate com
pensation. We trust Ambassador Hnivey rend
Secretary Hughes' speech witli understand
ing. With Dr. Wellington Koo presiding at
the League of Nations meeting, the Dove of
Peace can do no less.
When everything (Ke falls, it may ha
that the League of Nations will be light on
hand nnd ready to function
Bisiiop Berry wants it distinctly under
stood that the Methodist Church does not
stand in the vvnv of progress
The presumption Is that the one finger
typist of the Recorder of Deeds otliec has
the rest of his fingeis m the political pie.
Raw onions will keep the teeth in good
condition, says Dr Alice Notion, (ierms
probably object to the odor of the vvlilto
violets.
Perhaps the lenuon oflielul Washington
is sticking to its job this summer is because
It does nut wish to be numbered with the
unemploed.
A iccent New York case suggests the
possibility that the courts may eventually
be turned into hospitals for the cure of
glandular diseases
Whether the United States Senate likes
it or not. the budget system Is going to
make short work of its haphazard, criss
cross appropriation committees
(irutuitous nud uncalled-for advice to
Reformers- Tho way to win out In politics
is to first get in. Tho cosiest way in is
through ward organizations.
If Congress decides beyond perndventure
to dam the il jvv of funds, It will be following
the bud of the country nt Inrge; or, as oua
might sa, one good dam follows auotber.
Laxity in prohibition enforcement might
nnoiinl for Wilmington's latest snake story
It ii were not for the fad t hut it was n
water snake that caused the excitement.
Bemuse even the iinhvphcuntcd have
'their favorite national connecting links, u is
sometimes wise to stless the tact Ihut n
iiphen is ii h.vphen whatever Its complexion.
After a Cuban girl had been sentenced
to fifteen j ears' Imprisonment for killing a
man she was, fined ,$,ri because tho gun she
used wns not licensed Now if nnther will
mat!; her fir not b'-ing pollu the sequence
will be complete.
V
GROUP'MEDICINE
Advantages of a System Which Gives
a Patient the Services of Special
ists From the Moment He
Takes to His Bed ,
CONCERNING the recent defeat of n
lienlth Insurance bill In the New York
Legislature, Governor Miller, of that State,
declares that such a bill will be introduced
ngaln nnd passed. Once such n bill is enacted
other States, bv a sliceplike tendency to fol
low n lender, will ultimately moke it a law.
Tho Introduction of this bill is n rcmnrk
nble sign of (ho times. It results from a
reorganization of the medical profession now
under wny, nnd Is the natural outcome of
much public benlth policy, endrnvor nnd
achievement. The time is ripe for closer
co-opcrntlon between the medical profession
nnd thu public in the fuller use of medical
science, not only for the treatment and pre
vention of dlseoe, but also for the education
of the public in the right wn8 of living,
working nnd playing.
Tho stupendous advances made in npplled
science during the World War nnd since the
nrmlstlcc hnve brought a revolutionary crisis
to tho practice of medicine. The spcclnllstlc
exnetions caused bv the manifold Inventions
and discoveries In medicine nre mnklng the
position of the general practitioner un
tenable. As the revered family doctor, with
his concomitant, services ns guide, philoso
pher nnd friend, he mny soon become n lost
tradition. In his profession, ns in business
nnd other professions, individualism has
given wo to tho necessity of organization
Into co-operative units; for now It takes n
multitude of counselors to produce the pro
fessional wisdom needed for n case of any
complexity.
P
OR the general practitioner to keep send
ing His patients to specialists, saying, ns
did the English doctor of Lady Macbeth,
"this dlsense Is beyond my practice," is
simply to destroy his professional function.
Yet in the face of growing competition with
hospitals nnd illspcns'iries nnd the wide
spread formation of ltoiiii practice, he can
not help himself F.lthei he must retire or
become associated ns a general medical man
or specialist with a group clinic sooner or
later.
Not merely for cultural and (.ocial attrac
tions hnve physicians joined the urban move
ment of the population and left many rural
communities to ndvcrtlse cxtrn inducements
to got n doctor to settle among them. Pri
marily there Is their growing necessity to
keep in contact with laboratories and hos
pitals. Again, like the business men, law
yers nnd engineers, the physicians and sur
geons nre liornc on by the urge to group
activity. Both motives lead them to larger
service.
NO LONGER is the patient everywhere
compelled to bear the expense and run
the risk of n blind quest for the right practi
tioner to diagnose nud treat his case. If be
gets impatient of the family doctor's slow
ness to call n consultation, the .sufferer Is no
longer compelled to take his chances with
oncspecialist after another.
Not so much In the largest cities, but In
mnny small cities of the country the best
prnctltlonors hnve organized themselves into
group clinics, some of them Incorporated
with n cnpltai of a few millions, to give the
patient, for n reasonable fee, the benefit of
all the diagnostic nnd thernpoutic specialists
needed for adequate attention to Ills case.
The combined resoun es of laboratories,
clinical medicine und suigery nre brought to
bear upon it.
This division of labor among medical prac
titioners, ns npplied in gioup dlugnosis nnd
group therapy, has been most noticeable
since the war. In minor details gioup medi
cine is n financial airangement both to
secure incentive rewards to practitioners anil
to i educe the lost to patients. Far nioie. it
is n scientific o-operation for the welfare
of the sick. Haid indeed do returned army
doctors find It to go back to general practice
after serving In highly specialized work dur
ing the war; but in group clinics they find
n congenial medium for the application of
their specialties.
Enviionmeut has a powerful intluence over
both doctor nud patient. The pliyslcinn does
liis best work in pleasant offices, with con
genial associates, up-to-date equipment and
good laboratory facilities. The patient, too,
is affected by his surroundings, cspeciaily
his first impressions.
HOUSING the members of the group under
the same roof is especially advantageous
for both doctor and patient, with the re
sultant saving of time and distance. Tho
expense and delay incurred by several inde
pendent consultations and treatments nie
saved in grave and puzzling cases. In the
Individual practice of medicino a consultation
is seldom held b.v u council of physicians
until'the sickness readies a crisis. In group
practice the patient icciives the benefit of
such a consultation nr the beginning of his
sickness. Caicful teamwork minimizes the
chances of incomplete nnd misleading diag
nosis and of iiiefTis live tientment.
The group clinic is so organized, however,
thnt a patient mnv consult one physiclun
nnd bo examined and tiealed b.v him only;
the majorltv of cases being simple enough 'to
be so bandied. But if his case is compli
cated and baflUiig. he ma.v have the services
of ns man) specialists as it nifty lequlie,
either for diagnosis or treatment.
One of these clinii s, nt Syiacuse. N. Y..
emphasizes the features that distinguish most
of them. It includes fifteen specializing
physicians in a huge well appointed build
ing. There is a department for the ear, nose
and throat, one for oithopedlcs and one for
general surgerv . There Is a highly equipped
room for minor opei.itlons. anil in nn Inter
esting room in the orihopedte department
plnster work is carried on for Tnaking splints
nnd models, with a s)np for making braces,
supports and nil kind of coricctive appli
ances. In the basement is a g.vinnasiuin for pie
ventive nnd collective exercises nud for
mnssago and pnssm. movements. The .
niy depaitmeiit is equipped with the lalest
devices, for bli'li tui icy, diatbeiinv or
X-ray tielilnients Theie is also a ' fine
chemical nud pathological laboiafor.v and a
complete liihtiiiiiion.il libi.irv.
WHEN" the eas, is in) dlfiioiih, the pa
tient is taken through a piocedure of
many phnscs Fust In, is questioned bv the
superintendent, h hns t hn iimimucstlnlu
gist prepare a complete. liMem- of the case
and then sends him to the ph.siclnn in whose
province liis case m , mainly to belong.
If this phHicinn finds svuiptnins Ijing largely
outside of bis piovime he sets the (jieat
clinic organism in mm inn. H(. checks oft" on
n lequisition chart the forniidahlv numec
depnitmenls in which lie desires the patient
to be; examined, also the lnboratorv tests he
wishes made. Then the patient innv pass
through tho hands of the loentgenologist
the internist, the ophthalmologist, the oto
lar.vngologisi, the n mini surK,,oni ,ll? ,,.
lologisf and so em thiouch the gioup, which
serves as a mi potato gencinl pi act It loner.
The saiiif. meellial crisis prevails In Eng
land to such an extent that the Labor
l'nity has been for the las) two years bring
ing nil its pressuie to bear to secuie the
establishment of Slate medicine, which bus
been In foue in Sweden for iiianv .venis ln
n republic, however, this Is not considenel
so practical nor so inevitable ns that exten
sion of the servne of hospitals and cllspeii
biiries which Is group pi act ice
Forestry In the Canal Zone
Frnm t lie IVnumie. e'ani' ileum!
The c o-opeiallnn of (lie hovs of the Canal
Zone Is lcqiiested In protecting trees' and
sbrubber fi run damage.
A few (lavs ago seme chlldien used n
hatchet on ii lime lice on the Prado at Bal
boa and iiiiii'l.v killed die ticc. Some oilier
chlldien buve bio'.en limbs of tM uj,
almond tiees on Ci uees avenue. vaml vel
ntliris have' clnmngc d the mango tiees near
the cable ofiice on the B.ilbnn load.
Evei bov in the Ciilinl .one Is lequested
to use hi- ililliidice in stopiiiug such prac
tices The lues helot to die lovs ns much
ns to n.v ne. imel i, I j10U(j (, t0
protect their own lnopeitj.
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Daily Talks With Thinking Philadelphians on Subjects They
Know Best
LIBORIO DELFINO
On Getting Work for the Blind
cfervjOT only arc the blind educated, but
xN positions are found for them after
gtaduatiou: n library has been instituted for
their use, and they go about their affuirs like
normal men," according to Liborio Delfino.
field officer of the Pennsylvania Institution
for the Instruction of the Blind, ut Over
brook. "In addition to this." said Mr. Delfino,
who himself has been blind for thirty yenrs
and who wns educated in the institution, "a
salesroom Is maintained nt 204 South 'thir
teenth street where articles manufactured
by the blind nre for sale.
"We hnve here any number of nrticlcs of
worth nnd of tenl artistic value. Here arc
sold footstools, here we have most artistic
coat-imngers, rugs and rag carpets, xvleker
ware nnd basketry and manv other articles.
"Just stop and consider for a moment
what a wonderful pinno-tuncr, for instnnce,
n blind man makes; a man whose hearing has
been trained, ns the result of his affliction,
to the greatest possible degree. N by, we
have twcntv-slx piano-tuners on our stnff.
These men do all tho piano-tuning for the
public bdiools nnd for. ninny private cus
tomers. Many Openings for Blind
"We hnve many establishments on our
list who omplov blind men; nineteen of these
emplov blind men onl. We have n man
-tvpist' nt the Atlnntic Refiniug Company,
one with the J. B. Lippincott Company und
one with the du Pouts. We have n man who
chills locks nt the Miller Lock Works; we
have girls employed in textile mills, in candy
factories, in fact, wherever we can find
places for them. And they nre all splendid
workers.
"We have other blind men nud women
who nre serving as church organists, nnd
we siipplv blind musicluns and singers upon
call Others we stmt In business with news
stands. It is really astonishing what a wide
Hinge of uTupations is open for the blind.
"We bavo here, also, a library for the
blind, which is n branch of the Free Library
of Philadelphia. Mrs. Delfino is the libra
rian We have more than 7000 volumes here,
and that makes n bulkv pile. I can tell jou.
for books for the blind a,ie much larger
than ordinary books, owing to the space oc
cupied by the letters, and so on. These
books nre most of them about three Inches
i hick, about fifteen inches long und ten
inches wide.
Have Own Mngiilne
"We have also on file here an English
magazine devoted entirely to the blind, nud
it is exceedingly popular. It is, of course,
printed in the same manner ns tho books for
the blind, is issued monthly and contains
topics of the day In fact, It is the blind
person's newspaper,
"These books nie uot exclusively for blluil
pei sons in this eitj . Tliev nre for use of
uii ode in the country, and they nre mailed
b.v'the Free Library remember, I nm not
connected with the librnr they nre mailed
by the Free Library to many cities In tho
country, free of charge. Altogether, Mrs.
Delfino tells me, there nre more than 700
story rendeis on her lists.
"It is interesting to consider the choice
of books. Tho blind vary in their literary
tastes as do persons with sight. Those whose
minds ure forever developing, expanding nud
broadening turn to history, travel nnd the
classics, while) those who never think for
themselves, but who require to be dlveitcd
unci amused, stick to fiction.
"All of them, however, delight. in books of
adventure, for these give relaxation and nie
n change from the humdrum of everydny life,
Bible a Solace to Old
"Elderly people, it is Interesting to note,
seem in lurge measure to prefer the Bible'
and we have copies hern in English, Itulluni
I'lench nnd Goiinaii Other books that nre
verv popular nie 'Child's History of Eng
land.' b Dickens; 'The Tale of Two Cities '
'Loino Doone,' "David CoppcifichP and
Over the Top.' Maicy's historical tales are
vwy populnr indeed with those who prefer
blslor.
During the last ,vcar 27,000 blind persons
have used the books in the librur.v. Two
different alphabets nre used in thu 'printing
of these books. One. the Moon nlpluibet
conliiins large letters for those whose hands
nre not Miliiclcntl nsile or dclimtc to read
Ihe smaller characteis For the others nie
the books in the Braille alphabet. This
uiuiiii- him- is oiiicii smnuer,
"So, from all this, ou see that n course
e f education foi a blind mini or woman rea'lv
means uometliiug. It gives than thu ability
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culture. It nlso gives them a trade whereby
they mny earn a living, for no one can exist,
ou know, by reading alone.
"Finally, when n trade has been given,
it is my duty to find positions, that they
may work nt some gainful occupation and
take their places as useful membeis of the
tonimunlty."
HUMANISMS
By WILLIAM ATIIERTON DU PIJY
FRANCIS M. GOODWIN Is an enterpris
ing young Inwjer from Spokane, Wash.,
who hns Jtut become Assistant Secretary of
Interior.
Ho comes from the lnnd where there is
intense rivalry among the growing cities and
feeling runs high.
He tells the stor.v of the meeting of two
ooostcrs, each for his own town. One of
these men wns from Tncomn'aml the other
wns fioni Spokane.
Each worked upon the theory that dic
tionaries were pi luted thnt words might be
furnished to tell the glories of the place
which he called home.
Final! the man from Spokane wound up
n eulog by sa.ving that the Utopia which
man sought thiougli the ages would be it
reality if that city could acquire one thing
deep wntcr.
"That should be eas," said the man from
Taromn. "You hiiv but to lay a pipeline
to the Pacific Ocean. Then, if the people
of Spokane can but reverse themselves nud
suck as hard ns they can blow, they will
get deep vvuter."
When Woodrow Wilson wns first running
for President lie blew up stormily when he
found thnt somebody had made nn engage
ment for him to get up nt tl in the morning
and deliver a tear platform speech at Juliet.
Ill , where the big prison is located. He said
it bad to be fixed so the train would go right
through Joliet because be certainly would
not get up that early.
The Wilson cats were attached to the
regular passenger train, which w'as sched
uled to stop nt Joliet to deliver iniiil nud nil
thnt sort of thing, ami so there wns trouble.
The dillic ulty wns solved b.v running I lie train
in two sections to the first of wide h the
Wilson cars were attached. This section
was not to stop..
IVit one of the newspaper conespnndents
in the paily had written some copv for the
early moinlng papers and had given it to
tho emplo.ve of the telegraph company nnd
had instructed him to be sure to filu' it nt
Joliet.
So, when Hie train gave no evidence of
pausing at Hint station this enterprising
and determined .voungster i cached up nnd
pulled (lie lope The train stopped.
The assembled crowds nud manv brass
bands immediately gnthered around it and
soon sleep wns banished.
The candidate, though awake, made good
on his declaration that lie would not speak
at Joliet, nud n member of the party ap
peared in dressing suck and slippers and
made Ins excuses,
In this the second .vear of the l.enmot
era. as the languid days of summer breed
contemplation, t, m,i, nf Senator George
Moses, ,,f .New Hampshire, returns idlv to
the clays when he was Ameiiciii Minister to
Greece. A French nttnehe. who had the.
distinction of being n grandneplicw f sir
Walter Scott, once loimirkcd t ,m ,
sa.v s. that the American legation had thu
best buffet in Athens.
'lie I'm 'if the Postmaster General of
putting Ills desk I. the corner of ili(. ,,,,,
and admitting all Interviewers Io Hint roc
calls to mind the method of another Govern
ment ofiicinl who bud novel Ideas or exnedit.
ing business. ' '"
Rear Admiral Samuel McGovvan. .hlef'e.f
the Btiienu of Supplies and Accounts f i,"
Navy during the war. was wry husj ma
but lie snvv evcr.vbod.v. ' "
He hail a big office, hut Hie only .-han- in
it wns thai in which lie sal. When ,!
visitor entered he lose and icmnined stun .
in,:. He could not nsk the caller t i, t'
there was no dinir
Under the circumstances H. wsllll. htal ,
Ills business very biieil and depaited
"The presence of a chair." -iilil Vi'lnnrnl
MrGcnvnn. "vvocM have decreased Hie n. ,.
btjr of people I could sue by more than hu'f
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QUIZ
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vliat epocn-mnkUiB battle was fouiMAs
on June 18? 5
Of what Uibor organization Is SamuolBj
Gompers president?
Whnl Is a bectnro? i
What is ashlar? I
What language) was spoken In rncltnt V
CnrthnKd? j
Name a country In which vchicuUr traf- t
flc keeps lt tho right and ralluyrAt
traffic fo the left.
What Is tlm meaning of the expression l
"en bloc" "4
What Is moaM b.v billingsgate? i
What ono of iH world's Islands lias th '
largest panultlon?
What were the urule chalis?
in.
Answers to Yesterday's Quiz
Daniel Webster declared that ' Whtn thi ;
1.
spotless orml'.e or the judicial robe fell
upon John Jay It touched nothing less i
spotless than itself" ;j
2. An ohm Is n unit of electrical resistance, 1
named after ! S Ohm a German -(
physicist, who died In 1851 i
3. Owls ululate. To ululates means to hoot j
or howl.
4 Lincoln Is the capital of Nebraska.
5. The Pacific Ocean was so called by
Magellan. The term used bv Balbot.
tho first dlscoveror, was the South Sw.
S. Henry Arthur Jones is n noted British
ornmatist Among ins successiui piaji
nre "Mrs. Dane's Defense." "The)
Hypocrites," "The Llnrs" nnd "The)
Case of Rebellious Susan,"
7. The Gordlnn knot xrns made by Gordlw,
who, being nindej King of Phrygla.
dedicated his wagon to Jupiter and
fastened the yoke to a beam with
mlin of hnrk nn hirrpnlollslv that no One)
could untie It Alexander the Great cut':
tho knot with his sword '
fi. The sacred book of the Mohammedans Is.ij
Hie Koran. ,ic
!. The Rlsorglmento Is the name given wc
tne nationalist movement in hhi "
to the period. 1815-1870, which ended
with the unification of thnt country
under ono Government The nam U
also npplled to the revival of the classi
cal learning and feeling In nrt In Italy
In the fourteenth and fifteenth cen
turies as distinct from the nenalssanes
In France and Northern Kurope. .
10,
A sennight Is a period of seven days
nights a week.
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Today's Anniversaries
142!) Joan of Arc defeated the Lngl1
in u battle near Patu, .
170S United Slates Congress passed
first of the nlien lnvvs.
182!) Isaac Stephenson. I niled taW
Senator from Wisconsin, born at Fred'riv
ton, N. II. Died ut Marinette, Wis., Mta
IT). 11118.
1S73-Vis.it of the Shah of Persia to Qatn
Victoria. , ..
188,-. Arrival of the Ba.-tholdl Statue ot
Liberty in New York.
1 MX. William .MeKinl-y. of Ohio. '
nominated for President on (he first ba'S
by the Republican Nnliomil Convention t
St. Louis. ,
1020 Samuel Compels was re-elec.M
president of American Federation of Lab):.
Todav's Birthdays
Hon. G Howard Ferguson, leader t ;
Conservative Party in Ontario, born ,,
Keiuptville, Onl.. fifty-one yeais ago. ,j
William C. Rcclticld. former Sccrettry '
Commerce of the United Stntes, horn at A" .
UIII1V, .S . 1., SIXl.Y-llll C-L- ,!'(!" "h " I? g j
Rear Admiial Joseph N. Hemphill. l.-'j
N.. retiied, born nt Ripley, v., scvemj
.rs "" ,l.mnrl,t..i!
I aioiyu wens, noieci nuiuor an """";. 1 1
born nt Rnbwnv. N. J., fifty-two .veari 3JM1
The One-Finger Typists
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ALL hail
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LL hail tho Recorder! All hail to W.
Of one-linger typists so stanch and poIN'v
Who so love their work and declare It suca ,
fun ,,tf
That they nurse it forever nnd never j
done. .-ill j
Though perfection is something he never wi
reach, .,
Oli, isn't the one-finger typist a peaciw
Job-holding Jack Horners know ethics mo(j
high. , , mli-ili
Though their fingers they need for poli"
i heir consciences force the unfortunate 1 (
To snve up one finger apiece for the r jon- ,
Though you see them all slave, tilings (
not what they seem; , '
Oh, isn't the one-llnger typist n scrcaim i
It seems Just a bit like deception, but tM
Of course it's nil right to fool tslil ra
I'eiin - ... i tr
But how enn they reconcile nKiug s" ' i
For work Hint Ib scamped in an lmpug
The Angel 'of Recou! where lighti'l"" J
milieu , , nif til
1 nn cmn flni-ne l)lst W C I'C Uo1'',,.!
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