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A VEXATIOUS TRANSIT TANGLE
THE etlncs of the quarrel ngitiitiiii: t m
V, It. T. and t In- West Chester traetinu
companies are dei-ideilly rs a matter of
public concern Hum the prurtienl eone.
Quences of the nntlii-i.
I'opittnr interest is tiel npoti the -ul i.'--t
of efficient and convenient connections he.
tween the metropolitan and the nlii rliin
Hues. Despite it-(j erection of the sixtj
ninth street terminal, it cnunoi he nid 'hat
the through -niiiiniiiiiicatinii problem lia- jet
been worked mil upon a reall. eointnictite
nnd common -sense basis
The conlention of the transit corupanj
that the West Chester line has failed for
nearly two jenr. to render am service
whatever over its trackage between Sixl
ninth street and Sixty -third street is made
in answer to the suburban company's com
plaint regarding the turning back of many
of the elevated trains nt Sixtj -third stret.
Obvioub. each corporation would be pleased
to compel the other to earrx the burden of
expense in the intervening territoij
Meanwhile, however, the public i victim
Ixcd by obstructionist tactic which scrimisiy
retard the proper development of irniispo
tation facilities that are actunlh in e'si.
ence. It is in such complex questions n,.
this that the services of the Public Serviie
Commission are mor.1 web-otne.
So far as physical condition.- are eon
cerned. it would be perfectly possible to
route cars directly from West Chester. Ard
raore or Media into central Philadelphia, and
vice vera. In a s(.u,.. the Sity ninth
Ftreet terni'iial station created a problem
rather than solved one. since It gave specious
force to llip contention that a change of
cars was n necessity.
The commission, which will continue it
hearings this week, has responsibilities which
do not merely end with apportionments of
praise or blame to one or both of the con
testants. The transportation snnrl in the
western frontier of the city will not he im
tangled until some adequate system of
through routing i established.
"POLITICS" IN DELAWARE
GCn KRNOR. DKNNY has oiinoui.oHd thai
he still is determined to appoint Senator
Volcott as the next Chancellor of Delaware
It Is bis firm belief, lie savs. thnt appoint
ments to the bench 'should in no spnvo i,0
political appointments."
In view of the common impression about
the reasons for taking the Democratic Mr.
Wolcott from the Senate, thus creating a
vqcanoy which could be tilled by a Repub
lican, and putting him on the bench, many
persons will be curious to know what kind
of nn nppolntment liovernor Denny would
regard as political.
WOMEN AS PARTISANS
THK presence of women for tne first time
otiiciull.v in the Republican Stat" Com
mittee und the accession of a woman to the
vice chairmanship is a novelty that will
(oon subside into a commonplace
It is safe to assume that the energetic par
tisanship upon which the American system
of Government operates will appeal no les
ftrongly to the newly enfranchised Hn- of
voters than to thosr with an older preroga
tive. The futility of a women's party, exclu
sively constituted as such, scarcely needs to
be proved. It i as components of existing
partisan machinery that the distinctive abili
ties of women will be most serviceable.
'The extent of their influence, as with that
ot the men. is dependent chiefly upon per
sonality and ' the eapacitv for consistent
work An auspicious beginning has been
made in the elevation to the lice chairman
ship of the Republican State Committee of
ko active a party spokeswoman as Mrs.
JIarclny Warburton.
According to a resolution formally adopted,
her role in the matter of appointments tlII,
State patronage is duh lecogni.eil Met
influential position is an inle thnt male
politicians nre accepting the realities of the
niw order
The enfranchisement of women ha passed
out of the merely complimentary singe into
the domain, of practical politics h, promo
tion as tfiev are unafraid of that term, which
S Bonietltms invidim-sly used, will the
rsnncn "f Ponnshanin qmlifi as ns.et. in
the complex functioning of (tovernnunt
MELLON'S OPPORTUNITY
AUDIT .Til. .(MlU.uuii ..f tin Hinount
raised by the lioUTiimcnr through the
f-iflo of Liberty anil Victor Ponds- was lent
. to foreign ioernments. (ireat liritnln got
$4,210.KVUIoii; France. .-?:.. Toll .(Ml 1.(11 10 :
Italy. ?l.(l.-i0.lin(i.(i0O. ami llelgjum. S-Jiiti..
000,000. The i-eicnlnder went to Russia,
Jtlgo-Slavia and the other Alli"i-.
The only security which lie- Federal Tieas
l.'ry has for this money Is what amounts to
demand notes. No Inteiesf has been- paid
lieeuil'-e tin borrowers haw. not been able
tJ rnle the funds.
uSecretary Mellon, who is an experienced
financier, has been working on a plan to
I'liange the demand notes Into time bonds
bearing such a rate of iutere-t a will at
tract Investors. His purpose in doing this
Is to chunge the debt from an obligation to
te tiovcrniui-nt of the 1'nltcd Stales Into h
lebt due tn private inxestnrs. The reasons
for this arc economical and political.
It is admittedly unwise to permit the debt
to remain nn obligation of foreign (Joiern.
litcnts to the I'niteil Slates any longer than
in absolutely nccessarv. So long as this
s-ondltlnn prevails the debt is liable io be a
- roiiree of irritation. It js of the highest
political expediency to clmngr it ns soon as
libsslhle.
Economically, the change would relieve
tn? Federal Treasury. The bonds of the
fdrelgn Oovernnienls would, of course come
f rst. Into the hands of the Washington dm -rrnment.
Hut the.v would be negotiable
ceeilrlttes. As fast as (he inniket war
luiitcil IPI'V coulil uo lllllonileii on prlviltc
s ,. llu'ilers of large blorhs) uf I iw
lie induced to exchange tho4c bonds for the
foreign nccurlt.es bearing a higher rate of
Interest. This would nt onee reduce the
Interest obligations of the Treasury. Such
nn exchange cntinot be made, however, until
the solvency of the foreign Governments Is
restored.
As soon ns the Washington Government
can unload this foreign debt lu such n xvoy
thnt the Interest will have to be curried by
the debtors the 'Federal budget citn be re
duced by nbout half it billion dollars n year.
If Secretary Mellon can bring this about
lie will achieve u triumph of financial states
innnliip which will lift him Into n secure
place in American history as one of the most
iiccesful Secretaries of the Treasury we
have ever had.
PLANES VS. DREADNOUGHTS;
THE GREAT TEST THIS WEEK
If Aircraft Proves Superior to Battle-
ships It Will Displace Them. Whether
Naval Officers Like It or Not
THK further development o uiroinft as
an Implement .of wnr cannot be pre
wined by the opposition of the olliceis of
the army and the navy.
There has been no radical revolution in
methods of w arfiii e which has nut been
criticized by the tni-ii who were brought up
under the old tradition".
Hut the dub gave way to the spear and
the speur io the bow and arrow and the
how nnd nrrow to the gun. The boat pro
pelled with oars was superseded by the ship
with sails and sails have given wny to steam.
If it shall prove that aircraft Is superior
to the battleship It will tiltlmutely vindicate
itself. .,i,d ecn the pullbucks will have to
accept the situation.
For some .reaon the development of the
air wing of the national defense has lagged
in the I'nited Sl-ite.s since the wnr. Other
nations which learned what could be done
with it have been enlarging their air force
and pulling it on a permanent basis. They
haw been experimenting with wirlnus forms
of flying machines for use over land and
mer the seu. and they are accumulating a
'ast mass of inlunble information.
Vet. in spite of the lack of enthusiasm
for aiicr.-ift In the attitude of the naval and
military authorities m Washington, a series
of experiments begin today which may prove
much or little.
The first test is to discover the relative
efficiency of aircraft ami gunfire in destroy
ing submarines. One former liermnn under
sea boat bus been assigned t0 the airmen
ami two to the crews of torpedoboat de
stroyers. This may be because the aircraft
demonstrated its efficiency during the xvnr
in this Mirt of work. It could detect a sub
merged hont which would be invisible to n
boat on the surface.
A week troui today the aircraft is to make
an attempt to find the old battleship Iowa
and to bomb it. The ship will be somewhere
within a hundred miles of the const between
Cape Untteras and Cape Jlenlopen.
Two xvecks later the aircraft xvlll be sent
out to sink an old Herman destroyer, and
gunfire from ships xvill be used to destroy
two other d'ermnn boats, and the week after
this test an attack xvill be made on an old
Jerinnn battleship from the niv nnd from
battleships.
The aircraft will be required to remain
1000 feet above the surface of the water in
order to meet the conditions which prudence
would require they should observe in actual
combat. Vet tu the war dnring aviators
approached much nearer the surface than
this and dropped their bombs and esenped
in safety.
The conditions of the tests, however,
are such as to put the airmen on their mettle.
If they can hit the targets under the cir
cumstances the .Titles of (he nir forces xvlll
lose one of their arguments against the ex
patislon of the new- branch of the service.
The public is not deeplv interested In the
Invnlty of the officers of the army and the
navy to the old methods. What the people
xvlsh is the most efficient machinery for nil
lionnl defense that can be devised.
The submarine has not driven the battle
hlp from the sor, nnd no naval officer lodny
thinks that it can do this. The.v nearly ail
insist thnt the great floating fort xvlll still
he serviceable. Whnt most of us xvould like
I- the development of aircraft as a supple
tnent to the floating se forces and as an
auxiliary of the land forces. It seems to
have qualified itself for such service. If It
shall prove to be useful in a more extended
range, even the conservatives xvlll accept it
just a they have accepted the turbine engine
nnd the use of oil in place of coal for making
steam.
Hospitality toward progress is the proper
attitude of mind, nn nttltune characteristic
of most of the men in the nrm,v and the navy.
P.ut thev wish to he convinced that any new
device means progress before they will com
mit themselves to Its adoption
There are exceptions, for fienernl Mitchell,
of the army aircraft bureau. Is so enthusi
astic thnt he irritates the men xvho are still
xvniting to be convinced This eicess of zeal
has got him into trouble with bis superior,
and Secretary Weeks has had to rend a
fleeture to the two men in order to induce
them to work harmoniously together.
I lie hopes of the adxocates of disarma
ment thnt the series of experiments xvill
demonstrate the futility of spending more
money on battleships s not llkelv to be
realized, for It xvill take more than a single
si ess of aircraft to break down the force
of the arguments in support of armored ships
carrying heaxx guns with a long range.
Whnt such ships can do In scouring the sea
for hostile vessels was demonstrated by the
Rritih Navy so convincingly that so long a
nntlnn. find it necessnrx to have a navy they
wilt be likely to insist on hnvlng vessels that
mil do hnt the Uritlsh ships did to tin
driiinn lessels off the Falkland Islands, y
thing thnt aircraft lonld not very well haxi
Hone
STEERING THE SHIPPING BOARD
TIII-J reconstituted Shipping Hoard, nl
though heir to past blunders and facing
obstacle which probably not even a super
human genius could have diverted, has noxv
the advantage of functioning under clearly
defined general principles.
fioverninent ownership of transportation
resources on sea or land Is held in distinct
disfavor hv n large majoritv of Americans.
Relief that the experiment in shipping could
owntunllv siiiceed to a considerable extent
has i vnporated. President Harding has
echoed ihi-. sentiment in bN instructions to
Mr l.asker. the new chief of the board
According tn this incumbent of one of the
most responsible of public offices, -the Presi
dent stronglv believes that the ships should
he turned over'to private ownership as soon
as possible at, fair prices, but thai it should
be done only In communities prepared not
only to operate the vessels, but to help de
velop markets for the goods carried by
them
The accompanying presidential admoni
tion xxas to the effect that the prestige and
scope of the American merchant marine
should be re-established under the present
Administration.
Il Is, of course, one thing to demand a
comprehensive reform nnd another to achieve
it. Nevertheless, the policy outlined in gen
eral terms by Mr. Harding has the virtue of
heme intelligible
ie change from the Mud
innde It difficult for the
liethcr the Government
going i remain tin n potent factor in
the merchant marufio busjnesn or was seek
ing t" llouidpfc ft. .venture.
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EVUN'IXG PUBLIC LEDGER PIJILADKLPHIA,
lUlied, and thlsMissuredly must be helpful in
the power thnt have been nsked to gl-c it
renlity.
CLEAR VISION IN THE LEAGUE
rnlllv position which Secretary Hughes hns
-- taken regarding the disposition of man
dates is perceptibly strengthened by the
valedictory of Dr. Du Ounlin. retiring presi
dent of the Council of the League of Na
tions. At the thirteenth meeting of this body,
held In (ictieva last xveek. Dr. Da Citnlin
declared that he had urged the principal
allied Powers to come to some agreement
xvitb the Government of the I'nited States In
order thnt the Council might act with un
questioned authority. Here is significant
intimation that the former German terri
tories xverc somewhat hastily apportioned
among the Allies.
Mr. Hughes has asserted that, ns a co
partner in the xvnr. the t'tilted Stntes retains
a proportion of rights in this matter, und
t lint these have not been forfeited by our
refusals to send representatives to the League
to discuss the terms of the mandate. Op
portunity for this Government to explain
and justify its position is furnished bv our
present participation in the Supreme Council
and the Council of Ambassadors.
The parleys already opened with Japan
auspiciously forecast a clearing up of the
mists enx-eloping the tntus of the little
Island of Ynp. The Mesopotnmian trndc
rlghts problem is n subject for adjustment
between the Dnlted Stntes and Grent Rrlt
ain. These are the two mandate questlohs
in which America is primarily interested.
If answers can be found for them this
summer, the League will he extricated from
a qunndary which it noxv fenrs. The As
sembly, the fully representative body of the
association, xvill reconvene next September.
Naturally, the Council is desirous of dealing
in realities when the entire organization is
in session.
Herbert A. I.. Fisher. Rrilish reprcsenta
tixe in the Council, observed the oilier day
that the Assembly "may not understand why
(he mandated territories are not yet enjoy
ing stable civic iidministralioii." If the
international difficulties involving the major
League poxvers nnd the greatest power out
side The League are smoothed axx-av. the
formal decisions of the nssoeintlon xxill ac
quire a validity heretofore lacking.
Curiously enough, by a keen appreciation
of conditions outside the League. Dr. Da
Cunha has taken steps which may materially
enhance its prestige. Moreover, in realizing
the trend of Mr. Hughes" diplomacy the
League, through the retiring president of its
highest body, hns evinced n measure of
sympathetic understanding which may serve
to xvin it additional friends in this country.
Afranl.lx hostile attitude could scarcely
fail to augment existing prejudices.
PERSHING'S HOPE
GKNKRAI. FLUSHING hopes Hint nexer
again will the Nation liuxe to pa-
through such an experience with untrained
bodies ami minds as it did in the nist xvnr.
It xvon't if xvnr can be avoided : if may
not even if xvnr cnme.
Unquestionably unrestricted immigration
had something to do xvlth the physical nnd
mental unfitness of many of the conscript". '
There Is disposition tn mend this matter.
Habits formed in nriny camps have un
questionably improved the ph. 'Ique of young
men of the present generation. The civilian
.summer training camps xvill do much to keep
them fit. Such organizations a the Roy
Scouts are also important factors for physi
cal, mental and moral betterment.
There is abundant reason for believing
thnt the hope of General Pershing will be
justified.
Governor Sprout char
acterizes the nomina
tion of eight xxotneb to
More Room
for Stride
the Rcnublienn State
Committee as "n significant step forward
in the political progrc. of women." Which
gives added Interest to the declaration of
the thirteen yenr-ohl girl pupil of the Rhiine
School that women of today are more pro
gressive than fhelr grandmothers because
their skirts are shorter.
Mayor Moore xvants II distlmtly nn
derstoori that he has just begun to fight.
The moment Keonomy passes your
doorslll he becomes n Cheese-Paring Policy.
The one thing developed at the bridge
hearings Is that it is impossible to please
everybody .
Will it be considered amis- to ask if
the bloc heads are responsible for the sug
gested tariff on lumber?
Happily the One Rig I'nlon which the
American Federation of Labor favors is the
one fought for in the sixties.
The Rartenders' League has become th
Beverugi Dispensers' League. The new term
seems to luck the kick of the old.
There is reason to suspect that the kitu1
of Anglo -.Inpanc.se treaty the Rritlsh xvill
favor will make little appeal to the .Inpa-
?iese
The tax on lumber is perhaps designed
to divert some of the gains of the building
trust into Uncle Sam's coffers. Rut that
provides no remedy for the building short
age Those xvho nre forexer piedietiug the
overthrow of Lloyd George may console
themselves xvlth the fact that some of these
days Old Age xvill creep In on him and do the
trick.
Ambassador Harvey's refusal t0 speak
at the dedication nt the Washington Manor
House suggests the pou.-Cbilit that the Ad
ministration hns equipped bun with n
silencer.
Arc we right in surmising thnt the
eleven rnttles In the tail of the rattlesnake
killed at Waynesboro. Pn.. are to he used
to entertain tin; bnln octopus raptured at
Cnpe May'
There is no likelihood that Uncle Sam
xxill seek to drive out the bootleggers bx the
method being adopted in Vancouver. It. C.
There the Government is selling Scotch
whisky nt Si a quart. (
Perhaps the populace has been clamor
ing for increased armaments; hut it Is u
safe bet Hint I he clamor has been heard by
nobody bill the politicians. The populace
must have holleied in its sleep
Members of the Massachusetts Chirop
ody Association were told In Boston last
week that if women insisted on riding In
stead of walking and persisted in wearing
high-heeled, narrow -vamped shoes their feet
xvould eventually become hoofs. We take it,
therefore, that It behooves them sensibly to
hoof It.
We lenrn from the report of the meet
ing of the Republican Stole (.Vuumlttec that
the two men xvho escorted the vice presi
dent' to the i-halr had plenty of sartorial
dash. One of them, the story goes, wore a
vivid purple cravat and the other a white
carnation. Well, it wasn't much, just a
sartorial dash, as it xverc. but. so far as it
went, we hnxc nn doubt It was effective.
We see in the papers that the vice
chairman of the Republican State Commit
tee at the opening session of that body xvore
a black channelise gown relieved by n string
of pearls and u jaunty black toque. Gra
cious sevens' Flow times have changed I
V have seen the day when the vice chair
man wore a tiiacK ni'isminc ami a jaunty
fi
bVl i li ttndlstii'bcd byjj string of oalbs,
AS ONE WOMAN SEES IT
Primer of Politics Containing Infor
mation That Every Voter Ought to
Know, With a Hint as to Who
the Bosses Are and Why
By SAKAII I). LOWItlK
I WAS talking to ti foreigner not long ago
who was very much confused about the
difference between our State ami National
Governments, and our conversation on the
subject became so nnlinaleil thnt eventunlly
the whole group at the table stopped their
vnrlouR tcte-n-tetes and "fell to" on the
fifty-seven varieties of ofliciuls that do Gov
ernment. business here in Philadelphia.
Of course, there arc not Hint many vnric
ties, but there are enough who nre function
ing to make the matter of keeplrg trnck of
them no light tnsk for n nexv and conscien
tious voter. .Ar a matter of fact, unless the
limelight of publicity I" thrown on one or
another by some misdeed or signal virtue
the ordinary citizens cannot keep track of
mnny of them. They arc not nil elected at
once or appointed at once, so one can be
nxvnre of them gradually. Like the Carpen
ter In Alice:
"We need not do xvlth more than four
To give n hand to each."
I doubt If any xvell -ripened voter feels
much confused about the poxvers und func
tions of the nntlnnn! and State officials, hut
it Is a wise man xx ho knoxvs the. difference
between the State and the county govern
ments, or the State and township or the
State nnd municipal. And yet for the every
day affairs of life it is the loenl government
of one's county or township or municipality
thnt counts.
TF PIIILADKLPHIA is regarded ns n
L county. Its form of government w-oiild be
that of n first -class county. The State of
Pennsylvania hns sixty -seven counties, gov
erned according to the amount of population
ench county contains, dm- county of Phlln
dolphin comprises more than 1 .."00,000 per
sons nnd belongs to a clnss by itself. There
are eight other classes lu the State.
Rut the generni form of county govern
ment, our own among the rest, isby a
county board consisting of three County
Commissioners; two of these represent the
majority party In the State nnd one the
minority party. The other county officers
nre n Sheriff. District Attorney. Coroner.
Register of Wills. Recorder of Deeds. Treas
urer nnd Controller nnd the county Judges.
These officers nre elected by the vote of the
people nnd are pnid either bv fee for each
service or by salary according to the class
of the county.
Knch county hns four courts of Inxv pre
sided over by county .ludges. These courts
are: The Court of Common Plens, for civil
cases: the Court of Quarter Sessions nnd the
Court of Oyer nnd Terminer, for criminal
cases: the Orphans' Court, for decedents'
estates.
AS IT happens, this year the spotlight
falls somewhat conspicuously on the
county, for nt the November election xvr are
to elect in this city a District Attorney.
Register of Wills, three Judges of the Court
of Common Pleas and one .fudge of the
Orphans' Court.
And in September of this year each party
in the State xvlll put up various candidates
for these offices, which the party members
xxill x-ote upon, in order to decide xvhnt can
didate xvill be the party candidate nt the
November election.
That Is. since the various factions of the
Republican Pnrty niny not lie nble. without
help from the voters at large in the party,
to decide which is the most popular candi
date to head their ticket in November for.
let us say. District Attorney, n number of
names xxill be submitted to the Republicans
thnt vote at the September nominating elec
tions calied the primaries. The name re
ceiving the majority of votes will be the
Republican Party candidate for District
Attorney in the November elect ions.
TF PHILADELPHIA COUNTY were like
1 Delnxvore or Montgomery Counties, I.e.
iiirnl counties comprising a number of towns
and villages, it would be divided into bor
ongiis and townships.
A borough is nn incorporated part of a
township. Thus n toxvnshlp may contain one
or more villages or hamlets or clusters of
houses; the largest of these villages may
wish to control Its own tnxes and police its
own streets nnd run Its own xvnter nnd
lighting xvorks. and niaintnin its own local
officials xvithout interference from the loxvn
ship at large or the other villages or hamlets
or groups of dwellers of the township. It
then becomes n corporation knoxvn ns nn in
corporated borough by an net of Legislature.
Toxvnships having a population of more
than 1100 persons to a square mile huvc the
I'oiloxving local government :
Township Commission, consisting of five
commissioners: Township Trensurer, As
sessor, txvo Assistant Assessors nnd three
Auditors.
These officials are elected for from two
to four years.
Toxvnships having a population of less
than .'100 persons to a square mile have the
folioxving officials : Three Supervisors, three
Auditors, one Asaex-or and one Tax Col
lector, These nre elected for from txxo to
six years.
THK toxvnshlp is further divided into elec
tion districts for purposes of Stnto and
Federnl representation
This year the spotlight i on the election
districts, ns owing to a regrouping of the
population nnd lo a giowtli of the popula
tion there is to be an additional number of
election districts added to the State and a
consequent addition io the number of officials
that will preside at the polls. In the
counties outside Philadelphia and in the
second nnd third class i-ks of the Stnte.
besides the county officers to lie elected, there
will be sonic township officers to lie noml
nnted and elected.
For this reason tin- icsnil of the election
is very vital Io each locality., ospecinlly ns
at present the bidder of ascent to political
power Is generally from the Township Com
mission to the County Commission, and o
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on to iii- oiiiu- i e u is"u in e or no- x ny
Councils. Il I really important who voui
County Commissioners are, although in a
large city like Philadi Iphia this fact is apt
to be overlooked ami much gi eater stress laid
on the municipal official and the City
Council.
THR municipal goxernmeni is yet another
form of government within government
that is confusing to the looker on. Being in
the county, as the county is in hB Stutc, il
is under the county and under the State
and yet has n government of its own. Phil
adelphia, being a first -.-lass (qtv of the State.
has a dinner irom tne htale giving It a
form of government that differs from that of
the other cities. It has a City Council and
u Mayor and n large number of appointed
officials. This year three of these municipal
officials arc to he elected in November a
City Treasurer. City Controller and Receiver
of Tax"s. also judges and inspectors of ejec
tion districts.
These Inst will hnxc the responsibility of
presiding over the elections In the next two
years, when xxe eh t n Governor and a
Mayor nnd legislative ami coiincilmanic rep
icsentntives. so that much depends on their
icllabllity and intelligence
Sixteen of the Magistrates presiding over
our police courts are also to he elided.
The ordinary voter iuKht well look Into
the police courts of his own neighborhood
and see the ty f men he ban elected for
that office in the past e will find food
for thought! If his curiosity impels him to
seek further, he might penetrate the head
quarters of his political party or pay a
social visit to his xvard boss.
TIIKFIK are ward bosses who rule the city
from llnrrisburg and others xvho rule it
from Washington ami other xvho rule II
from the nexvspiiper and lobm-co store around
the corner, lu cities, where the rank and
Hie of the citizens are not politically minded
except on nn occasional election dux, the
ward boss rules the city or his little piece
ntMt- for he is the man xvho really noml
iinieu ine cauuuini" lor me olllclnl positions
ind-he is tlm mnii who se-s io jj Hint his
candidate ur'Utove ,-n; iKros;
MONDAY, JUKE 20,
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NOW MY IDEA IS THIS
Daily Talks With Thinking Philadelphiais on Subjects They
Know Best
MISS ANNE HEYGATE-HAUL
On Re3toratlon of Bartram Gardens
AL1TTLF, public enterprise backed by
aid from the city xvould make possible
the restoration of the John Bartram bouse
and botanical garden nnd perpetuate a
shrine of International interest, in the opin
ion of Miss Anne Ileygnte-Hnll. president
of the John llnrtram Association.
"The city oxvns the garden." said Miss
Heygale Hall, "nnd should take care of its
charge. For thirty years it has been in its
possession, yet in Hint time the place has
been shamefully neglected. Many of the
most beautiful trees in the garden, some of
which arc of exceedingly rare xarleties nnd
would be hard to replace, have been alloxvcd
to die.
"The house, built by John Bartram him
self in 1731. hns fallen into a pitiable state
of decay through lack of intuition Archi
tects linvc been nt work for some time en
gaged In research In determine tin original
condition of the place, so thnt it mav nccu
rutely be restored. But If the city and the
public do not combine to put the house In
order and help restore it to its original con
dition much of tills xvork xvlll simply leave
the house in a worse condition than before.
"We luix-e succeeded in getting the Civi'
Club, i he Colonial Domes, the Butunlcnl
Society and various other horticultural so
cieties Interested, nud hope lo gel mnny of
the city's substantial citizens tn help.
Haxc Historical Vnlue
"The house and gardens have historical
and sentimental value of the first importance.
Thus, Washington and Franklin visited the
place during their heyday, and the 'society
has letters from both attesting to its value.
The remains of an old cider mill hewn by
John Bartram from the solid rock still stand
on the grounds.
"My vision would sec the banks of the
rixer put in order. As it noxv is, the river
at this point Is a dirty, unsightly stream.
This could be cleaned nnd dredged and the
old river wall Improved. I xvould like to
see a line of boats run from the center
of the city to the landing on the Schuylkill.
Such mi improvement us tills xvhole project
would be an exhibit of which the city could
well be proud at the time of the Scsqui
Centennial in 10-0. When you consider the
internatlonni fame of the gardens greater
abroad, in fact, than It is here you can sec
what it would mean to the city to have this
work completed by that time.
"A reasonably small sum, when you con
sider the importance of ijie place, would
tiring about this desired object.
"John Bartram rode on horseback from
one part of this country to another to collect
the rare plants and slips and seedlings of
trees that guvc this garden such unique im
portance. He carried them from place to
place, braving the then unknown wilds of
ninny plmes "with their attendant danger
and made this place a .xleccu ror naturalists'.
Royal Botanist to George III
"He xxas not only the pioneer botanist of
this country, bill be was well known to nil
the great botanists of Furope. He was royal
botanist to King George III during the
reign of Hint monarch nud served for u small
salary until the time of his death.
"Not only did he bring rare plants and
trees heic from all parts of the world, but
he also look abroad specimens of American
plants and insects thnt contributed much to
F.uriipeans' knowledge nud earned for him
a lasting regard from all parts of the world.
Some of the plants In Hie famous Kew
Garden in London are his gifts.
"Many sketches of plants and trees made
by Biirtioui nre boused in the British Mu
seum, and so highly regarded are they Hint
they are kept under lock and key at all
times.
"When Lord Howe came to tills country
lu command of the British army during the
Rexolutlon, King George guxe strict orders
thai the Rartram properly was not to he
disturbed. The botanist dlci shortly after
the Rattle of the Brandy wine, His son.
William Bartram. was Hie first professor of
botany at the University of Pennsylvania.
"John Bartram and his xvork are valued
far more highly abroad than nl home. Pen.
pie come here from all parts of the world to
see the garden- and the house, but for the
most pari go away disappointed. The house.
is nwnni oy uie city and Is not open to the
I'llllliC
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fiiiis.
nunc or in nny cvi
licrc is no cue about
e an iiiti-icst und show them any
H l liy foml-st Inipe (j:;it w near fu.
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ALL TRIED THAT NAVY
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turc will see the house nnd gardens restored,
the house opened to the public, the original
furniture restored and in every wny fitting
notice and tribute be paid to this one of the
shrines of the country."
HUMANISMS
By WILLIAM ATIIERTON DU PUY
Til 10 story is still told in chuckle circles
in Washington where old cronies get
together of the night when Iv. W. Pettus.
the -enernble Senator from Alabama, then
eighty-txvo, stayed out too lntc.
The day after the escapade the Senate xvas
droning nlong and Mr. MrCumber wns mnk
ing u speech that xvas xvell studded xvitli
statistics and entirely denuded of thrills.
The Senators drifted into the cloakrooms.
Only Scnatcr Pettus remained. Suddenly
his shoulders were seen to begin to shake
with mirth, and some observer xvent over to
lenrn xvhnt. in so dry n speech, could ba-c
snade him laugh.
lie sniq ue nau pinyeu poncr xvun inc ,ioe
Cannon crowd the night before and when the
hour of 12 arrived, the lime nt. xvhich Mrs,
Pettus required his presence nt home, he
hnd till the blue chips and could not grace
fully get away. So he played till 3 o clock.
When he got home he pulled off bis shoes
nt trn front door, slipped into his room,
undressed In the dnrk nnd sought to go to
bed. Mrs Pettus, unfortunately, hnd cast
anchor in the exact middle of the bed. So
he bestowed himself most uncomfortably on
I he edge and courted Morpheus in vain.
Just nt daxvn Mrs. Pettus nwokc. The
Senator pretended thnt he was sleeping. She
got up on her elbow and looked at her pnrt
ner for fifty years in the increasing light.
Instantly she detected his discomfort.
"Mr. Pettus," she said, "you xvould rest
at greater ense if you xvould take off your
hnt."
It xvns nt memory of this that the pa
triarch laughed.
Mrs. Hnvilnnd H. Lund, head of the
Forxvard-lo-tlie-Land League and student of
rurnl reconstruction for the Department of tho
Interior, says that Americans are too busy to
be grnclniis They haven't time to stop to
observe the amenities. Many of them feel
that they can't even take time for friend
ships. Two or three hours of an evening
for visiting cannot be spnred. They are
friendly, sociable people nt heart, but the
speed mildness interferes.
l-ifty xears ago. says Commissioner
Thomas F. Robeitson. of the Patent Office,
an experienced examiner of patents re
signed because he believed that nil the
patents hnd been taken out and that he
would soon he left without a calling. He
wanted to acquire a new profession before
it xvas too late.
In the decade that followed n score or
such inveiuinns ns the telephone and the
electric light were made.
So many patents nre being tnkcu out now
Rial the Commissioner has to sign more
thnn 100 of them every day.
He is n dignified gentleman, this Com
missioner of Patents, xvlth n grny goatee
nnd signs busily with n big fountain pen
while he talks to you.
John D. Rockefeller used lo leave his homo
In Fifty -fourth street, near Fifth avenue,
and walk across town Into what Is known as
the San Juan district, bordering on the
Hudson, and occupied largely bv Negroes
He liked to wander around unrecognised In
this humble section.
One day he came upon a group of small
boys, some white ami some Negro, down on
the pavement shooting crnps.
He stopped to remonstrate with them to
preach them a bit of n sermon on Hie v'ices
of gambling. He ended by making a pro
posal that, if they xvould give up Hielr
gniue, he would bestow upon each of them
a dime.
"Huh." said one of them derislvelx "we
are shootin" for four bits n throw."'
Compressed Wheat
I'rom ihr s. lentlfli xiiir.irmi
All odd suggestion comes from Kiiglaud as
to conserving wheat, 1 1 is proposed lo crush
or rough. grind wheat, .then softe,, wlt,
IT"1 I" hard
MlPIt II --lit! .1..
rrusliin- nrocet'N would lit It im Hour m,,,.,,.
fncluvi!,
EXPERIMENT!
I
What Do You Know?
QUIZ
J. What is a burnous? .
2. What la meant by a trimmer tn polities
and who xvas the first person to bear
that nameT
8. What Is a lanyard?
4. TV-nat Is a kepi?
6. "What color-Is lake?
. Whnt position does Lord Curaon hold In
the British Cablnet7
7. Where Is tho ctry of Urgn?
5. What wns tho eventual fate of the German
submarine Deutschland, which xlslted
the United States during the war In
191G?
0. Who xvas Ktelka Grster?
10. What is n supine position?
Answers to Saturday's Quiz
1 The Battle of Waterloo xxas fought on
June IS. I81C.
2 Samuel Gompers Is president of the
American Federation of Labor.
3. In the metric system a hectare Is a supr.
flclal measure, 100 ares, equal to 3.471
acres.
4. Ashlar is hexvn stone : masonry con
structed of this ; similar masonry as s
faclntr to a rubble or brick wall.
C. Phoenician or Punic, n Semitic tongU
akin to Hebrew and Arabic, xvss
spoken in ancient Carthage.
6 In Franca vehicular traftlo on ro.xds keeps
to tlse right, while railway traffic keeps
to the left. The latter Is the case be
cause England, a pioneer In rallxxMy
construction nnd an Influence by ex
ample upon tho general development of
railways In Europe, observes the rule
of tho left.
7. "Rn bloc" means In a lump, xvholeaale.
8. Billingsgate Is abuse, violent Invectixe,
so called from the scolding of the fish
women In tho Billingsgate Market,
London.
D. Grnt Britain contains more inhabitants
than any other Island in the worts.
The population In 1911 was 40,831,398.
.tava. Is the second most populous Is-
tnrtrt -iH.1, 1C All A9K In 1 A 1
10,
The curule chairs wero ornamental can'P
stools of Ix-ory placed by the Romans
In a chariot for the chief magistrate
when he xvent to attend the council
As dictators, consuls, praetors, censors
nnd the chief aedlles occupied such a
chair they were termed curule marl-
trates or curules.
Today's Anniversaries
167 Sir John Dalrymplo. the Knglph
Ambassador to France, who foiled the plots
of the Pretender, born in Edinburgh. iil
there May 0. 1747. , ,
17011 Theobald Wolfe Tone. Irish patriot
and revolutionist, born in Dublin. ComintttM
suicide tn prison. November 10. 17uH.
IMlV Emamiel Joseph Sieyes. one of th
chief political thinkers of the period ef lie
Frcncji Iterolutlon, died In Paris. Rorn Ms
3. 174fi.
1R50 -The first Hnndel Festival "
opened in London in commemoration o. U'
centenary of the composer's dentil.
1R07 City of Mexico surrendered to t
Junrlsts after n siege of sixty-nine. days.
17.'l Shah of Persia was Invested with
the Order of the Onrter nt Windsor C nstie.
1800 Madagascar was formally declared
a colony of France.
1020 Two persons killed nnd many in
jured in n race riot In Chicago
Today's Birthdays
Lord Hurdingc. former Viceroy of lnilin
now Rritlsh Ambassador to France, bo"'
sixty-three years ago. ,
Prince Juan, third son of the King and
Queen of Spain, born in Madrid eight yea"
Mrs. Helen M. Shcpnrd 'formerly Mis'
Helen Gould), noted for her deeds of philan
thropy, born in New York City fifty-three
years ago.
Charles F. Murphv. head of the Tammany
Ilnll organlr.ntion. born in New lork ( m
sixty-three years ago.
Francis E. Warren. I'nited .Slates r-cn-ntor
from Wyoming, born nt Hinsdale.
Mass., seventy-seven years ago.
Hugh Duffy, manager of the Rostoy
American League Rnseball flub, born at
River Point. R, I., fifty-two years ago.
A Narrow Range
S'rnni Hie t.os Anueles TlniM. .
The motion -nlcture neonle are at In'!'
wits' ends for scenarios with new plM
Don
"t they know that there nre but thinJ -l
eve
,io (iniin ,01111 ntiiiiictioi'i ,,..- , . jj
llinan experience and set the limit jr i
rnnintlsl and story nnd novel xvrttrr? .-',
b
Ing by whnt we have seen op the screen. "
a do7.cn have been used,
The Real Embarrassment
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The CrtiuiiUuu xvho suys the Ami'ih'"". .1?
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