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UN8ENSATI0NAL GOOD HEALTH
rpllB Chinese custom of payment to pay si -X
clans by patients only wheu the latter
are in health exemplifies a regard (or the
spirit of progress which Occidentals arc
seldom inclined to imitate. The fruits of
such reasoning applied at home would logi
cally bo vivid publicity for the fact that no
epidemic nt present grips Philadelphia and
that the community is freer of typhoid fever
than at any other time In Its history.
As it Is, however, Dr. George E. John
ston, the nsslstant diagnostician of the
Bureau of Health, simply makes the modest
announcement and gives the corroborating
figures. Ten yenrs ago the number of typhoid
cases here annually used to run up to
2000. There were only 350 last! year. For
the six months ended June 1 seventy-four
cases have been recorded, as a en Inst 188 for
a similar space of time In 1020 and 150 in
1019.
According to Western ideas, these facta
arc unsen'-ationnl. since they foster not In
the least nny morbid Interest nor the curi
ously perverse pleasure which the public
appenrs to tnke in chronicles of woe. Sensi
bly viewed, lion ever, they should be thrilling.
Were we as wise ti Chinn. we should be
unafraid of npprec iating good fortune and
of excitedly extolling the energetic clean-up
mensures responsible for health security In
a populous region.
WHAT DOES THIS MEAN?
MANY persons will think thnt Secretary
Weeks said too much or too little in
his Tufts College address on disarmament.
Here is the significant part of his remarks:
The present Administration ts most de
sirous to have, disarmament as far as it
Is safe to go But we must ask that we
be the judges of just what this degrc Is
For we have Information which we cannot
divulge obtained In a reliable and com
plete manner which makes us the only
competent judges
When we see nations preparing for
war. making greater preparations In times
of peace than during the war, wo must
alt, up and take notice.
When he says that nations are arming and
that he has information which he cannot
divulge he excites curiosity and interest,
and when on the day that the address was
made Secretary Denb) orders a large fleet
of dreadnoughts to the Pacific men will
begin to speculate about n possible menace
on that side of the continent. There may
be no relation between the two incidents',
but if there is not the public would like to
Vnow what Secretary Weeks means.
TWEEDLEDUM ANDTWEEDLEDEE
TIJE neu women voters are probablv in
telligent enough to understand what the
men in control of the political machinery
are doing.
The Republican Stnte Committee, which
has voted t admit women to membership,
has decided that no woman may be chairman,
secretary or treasurer. This means that the
Republicans intend for the present that their
organization shall be directed by experienced
political leaders. Thev do not desire that
the management of anv enrapaign shall be
directed by a woman who is an amateur in
politics
The Democrats, however, are letting it be
known that when their State Committee
meets they will admit women to full mem
bership and will place no bar upon th'
election of a woman to the chairmanship or
to any other office. Km there is not the
slightest probability that a woman will be
come either chairman or secretary or treas
urer of their State Committee.
The difference between the action of the
Republican Committee and the contemplated
action of the Democratic Committee is t In
difference between tweedledum and tweedle
dee. The Republicans say that a woman is
not eligible to the chairmanship and they
will not elect her. The Democrats hay that
a woman is eligible to j,hc chairmanship,
but they will see to it that no woman is
elected Jn operation the rules of the two
committees will produce the same results
But the Democrats think they run fool the
unthinking by their greater hospitality to
the women voters.
The Republican women are not downcast
Thev know that the rules of the State Cm
mittee are made by the members of that
committee, ami that if the women voters
develop enough political skill aud interest
themselves in party management it will
not be long before thev can have the
rules changed to suit themselves. And we
are Inclined to the belief that the Republican
women are reasonable enough to be willing
to learn to play the game before they demand
that they he allowed to direct it.
COMPERS AGAIN AT BAY
TIME and again in other eni-s tl, nti-noum-emetit
has been mude at conventions
of the American Federation of Labor that
Samuel Gompers was to be displaced, over
thrown, dynamited if nccessurv, out of his
niche Plans of campaign were i-arefullv
made bv his enemies. Assaults of terrific
force weie launched and the heavens seemed
to shake with the fori e of the drhe
Hut when the thunders and lightnings
were doni mid the dust of battle cleared.
the old leader was disclosed in his oeciis
tomed place - unshaken, unafraid, per
fectly at case.
Mr (iompers litis ways of concealing bis
defense He has won repeatedly against
powerful opponents without seeming to lift
a hand. He may be unseated in the war now
being waged at Denver bv Mr. Lewis anil
his friends. Hut those who have seen him
tn action before will not be surprised if he
holds his place.
In the past the radical elements the
clothing workers, some of the building crafts
and the smaller unions which, like the sea
men, were new and hateful of discipline -used
to lead the drives on the Federation's
ivarhdrsg.
The war now on 1 not being made ob-
irtouftljr In jlie Interest of radicalism. Mr.
Xtfrls hap a reputation for conservatism.
Some, of the unions flghtlnr for hltn have not.
If Gompcrs has lost influence with organ
lied labor bodies generally it is chiefly be.
cause the A. F, of h, has not been winning
victories. There is a cry for new blood nt
the top. That means more aggressive blood.
If Oompers is unseated the Federation is
likely to become more radical than it has
been hitherto.
There nro powerful unions which hold
that there should have been a closer affilia
tion of American workers with European
organizations and a more aggressive general
federation policy in relation to the railroads
and the open-shop fight. A defeat for Oom
pers will be in effect a victory for the unions
with that point of view.
IN THE SCHOOLS AT LEAST
DEMOCRACY IS A REALITY
In Graduation Days Children Often
Appear to See Farther and Clearer
Than Tholr Elders
PEOPLE with tired minds and those In
fected with the modern disease of cyni
cism, and all the ovcr-nophlsticated folk who
hare concluded that there is little good In
humanity and nothing but black devilment
in the accomplished order of human affairs,
ought to go occasionally to the graduation
ceremonials In the public schools.
An escape, from Bedlam that can be: an
Interlude to remember, a vivid experience
In tho light of fundamental truths.
Youth always Is In ways miraculous.
There are times wheu It seems to hold nil
true wisdom and to be nlone capable of
fully understanding the things that really
matter in this life. It has no fenrs, no
doubts, no hatreds.
What does youth know that the elders have
forgotten? Something of Importance,
surely. For In the printed rosters of the
school classes that arc now going singing
out Into the world of affairs are names
reminiscent of almost every habitable land,
every notional tradition and every race, and
those who hear them have achieved unity of
feeling, unity of aim.
Among themselves in a small bright world
where democracy has assumed its truest
form they have accomplished something
which Governments still find impossible.
They move together In generous nnd friendly
association.
The old countries are only a few genera
tions behind many of them. Yet in classes
like that which wss graduated Monday eve
ning from the South Philadelphia High School
for Girls you can find no lingering trnce of
the racial ami religious bigotries, of the
"natural antipathy," of the insaue dislikes
and suspicions thnt divide the larger world.
The cultivation and encouragement of such
things ore left to the kings nnd the plenipo
tentiaries, the ambassadors and ministers of
stnte of this queerly organized world men
far less wisp in essentials, seemingly, thau
the children of the public schools.
Changes that hnve been brought about in
the tone nnd color of graduation dnys show
clearly that the will to progress and a habit
of frank and rational criticism nnd inquiry
are Inherent in the schools nnd even In the
lively and curious minds of thoe who study
in them. The pose and artificiality of older
graduation days arc vanishing.
There nre few long nnd agonized and
stuttering declamations any more. Fewer
nnd fewer grow the woeful imitations of
Daniel Webster Brutus and Cassius have
gone altogether from commencement pro
grams. The schools have left Congress to be
the last great unapproachable stronghold of
the sounding nnd hollow metaphor.
lie children of today turn curious eyes
upon their contemporaries and they can
discuss significant events of the hour with
naturalness and tranquillity. They are
doing it now in all the schools. And some
sort of wisdom of the heart a qunllty that
often is trampled under and buried under the
doubts nnd surmises of progressive experi
ence nnd the high"r education leads them
to take one another for granted, to be gen
erous and believing and to make among
themselves the best uses of the traits and
talents because of which the great nntions
cannot .find peace or securitv or hope of
escape from successive conflicts.
There is something beautifully rational,
something supremely wise, in the unwritten
laws by which children live in their schools.
Faith has not been educated out of them.
They tnke things and people at their face
value and thev can be amazingly shrewd in
their instinctive assessments.
Well to the front in the graduating class
at the South Philadelphia High School was
Marian Anderson, a young Negro girl, ob
viously n heroine of sorts to her associates.
At the nppointed moment Marian walked to
the footlights, turned upon the nudience n
smile of gentle nnd perfect friendliness and
lifted her eyes nnd flung out, in a moving
little song, n voice that was glorious, a
voice of gold. It was not Marian's voice
alone thot caused every sensitive heart in
the audience to skip a beat It was the
voice of a race thnt. more than any other
in the world, has found in music comfort
nnd consolation, n mode of intimnte expres
sion, a sure relief In a wilderness of sorrows.
A wistful voice it was, for all its power and
beauty, and it was clear thnt Marion's asso
ciates loved her for it.
Irish and English. Russinn nnd Pole,
French nnd German. Armeninn nnd Greek
all contributed to that bright company of
American schoolgirls, and they all sang to
gether in a way that mnde you think of the
lights and winds of April in open field".
Alike they felt. Alike they talked. Even
accents had been ironed out.
The wrnth. the madness, the bigotries, the
manufactured delusions thnt torment man
kind had no place in the scheme of their
relationships Going away, you instinc
tively felt like lifting your lint nt the
thought of them nnd of their teachers and
of youth at large. And you hnd to feel
ngnin that the public achools of the I'nlted
States are, with nil their defects, one of the
great wonders of the world.
AN APPEAL TO AN UPSTART
THERE is something almost ludicrous,
were it not so lamentable, in the appeal
of the allied Powers to King Constantine tn
accept mediation to settle the complex sit
uation in the Near East.
Britain, France and Daly, which have
dispatched the supplicating note, are tho
onticallj quite competent of ending the dis
turbing remnant of the World War which
has prevailed in Asia Minor ami of com
pelling the restored King of (ircece to pocket
his florid ambitions. But the Western
Powers, which were n unit ngaitist Germany,
are weakened b violently conflicting aspira
tions in the Levant.
Brituin is unquestionably the controlling
Power in Constantinople at this moment.
Itnlv fixes n covetous eye on islands of the
(ireek archipelago. France is sympathetic
to the Kemalist Turks in Annt-ilin in so far
as they are foes of the pro-(icrman Con
stantine The reason whv the Near Eastern question
remnlns nlarming is thnt no policy ever yet
hns been formulated to which the strongest
nations in Europe have been sincerely willing
to subscribe. Constantine hna made the
most of this disagreement, mid it is no secret
that he visualizes himself us "Emperor of
Constantinople." vested heir of the Byzan
tine glory nnd traditions.
The obstncles in his path are tho distrust
of manv of his compatriots, weariness of the
(ireeks'for further fighting and the strength
nt the Kcmalists. exhibiting that eleventh-
hour reserve powr tjhnt ever has been char
acteristlc of Ttirkey
n the race nt possmie
military dl!atrr. th(1
flrccK monarch may
EVENING PUBLIC LEDGERr
agree to discuss a pence ncttlcmcnt. But
then the really vital questions Involved will
be still the burden of tho Western Govern
ments. Three options of proccduro will remain
enforcement of the Treaty of Sevres, revision
of that unsatisfactory pact or negotiation
of n comprehensive new agreement covering
all phases of the Near Eastern problem.
Tho last-named program will be difficult to
work out in detail, but unless a courageous
attempt to deal with its realities is made the
equivocal status of the Turk In Europe or
Western Asia will continue to be one of the
raoet troublous Inheritances left by the nine
teenth to the twentieth conturr.
SUNDAY SPORTS
THE pollco hnvc acted with Intelligent
discretion in denllng with Sunday ball
players. But if the ball players do not act
with equal discretion they nre likely to
moke trouble for themselves.
There is little objection to nmatcur sports
on Sunday conducted In an orderly mnnner
nnd far enough away from the churches so
that the worshipers are not disturbed by
the noise. There nre some persons, it is
true, who object to the use of Sunday for
recreation of any kind. There nre not many
of them, however. The great mnjorlty look
with tolerance on golf nnd tennis. Thou
sands of persons play these games every
pleasant Sunday. There Is no reason for
raising objections ngainst baseball which
would not lie ogalust either tennis or golf.
It is more wholesome for boys nnd young
men to go out Into the open nnd play ball
or watch a game thnn to- spend the day
cooped up In a room or to hide in nlleyways
and gnmble. When ball playing first was
permitted In Fnirmount Park Inst year tho
police reported that they found it much
easier to maintain order than when no such
sport was allowed.
But there is a wide difference between
amateur sport and commercialized sport.
The sentiment of this city is undoubtedly
opposed to opening the professional ball
parks on Sunday, just ns it is opposed to
Sunday performances In the theatres. Yet
men mauaging Sunday ball games have
begun to charge admission, nnd when they
do not charge admission they have been
passing the hat among the spectators. When
the men were nrraigned before the magis
trates for violution of the law against Sun
day games they wero treated leniently. One
magistrate said he hoped he might see tho
accused before bint next Monday on a similar
charge. In one instance,, however, the men
were held for trial because It is thought best
to get n court decision on the issues in
volved. The chnnces are all ngainst the men who
wish to make money out of Sunday baseball
games. So long as the matter is In lltign
tion. however, they may be able to have their
Sunday games and get off with a nominal
fine on Monday morning. In this way they
may win enough to pny the expenses of a
test of the issue in the courts. But they
are running the risk of stirring up so much
popular sentiment ngainst commercialized
baseball on Sundnv that the police will find
it difficult to permit the boys nnd young men
who play the game for fun on the only day
that they are free to continue to enjoy the
sport.
Yet after nil, now thnt there is nn extra
hour of daylight every afternoon wheu men
do not work, it might be argued that they
have time enough for their sport during six
dnys without encroaching on the seventh.
THE BACH CHOIR'S VISIT
THE appearance of the Bach Choir, of
Bethlehem, in Philadelphia next season
will not, as was feared, "take the edge off"
the spirit of the famous spring, festivals on
the batiks of the I.ehigh nor impinge upon
the associations nnd traditions of those
unique events.
In accepting the invitation extended on
behalf of the Philadelphia Orchestra by Ed
ward Bok. Dr. Wolle has agreed to bring his
singers to this city on November .. The
Philadelphia Orchestra will also participate
in the concert which is to be given in the
Academy of Music on that date.
The compromise between artistic and tra
ditional considerations hns been thus felici
tously made. There are numerous Philndel
phians who scarcely realize the wondrous
qualities of the Bach Choir. Accommoda
tions in Bethlehem nre limited. It is fitting
thnt a musical center such as this city has
come to be should enjoy the contact with
this exceptional art at home.
Both devotees of the out-of-town festivals
and persons hitherto unacquainted with
their henuties will welcome this note of
inspiration in the musical season.
SEA MYSTERIES IN PROFUSION
THE misfortunes lately nttlicting the
American merchant marine have passed
the stage in which they can be dismissed
serenely as coincidences.
Within the last few months fires of un
known origin hnve endangered seeral of the
finest new passenger liners of the Shipping
Board
Powdered emery was found in the engine
and bearings of the steamship Delisle, which
arrived in Boston from London last Sunday.
The enrgo carrier Hewitt, which sailed
several months ago from Sabine. Tex., for
New England ports, is missing without a
trace.
Two other freighters, whose names are
not disclosed, have similarly vanished.
To cap the climax, tin- large five-ninsicd
schooner Carol Deering was dis-covered aban
doned off the North Carolina coast with all
sails flying and untenanted by n single
officer or member of the crew. The ullegeil
discovery of a note in a bottle purporting to
have beeu set afloat by the mate told a vague
and brief story of capture by "nn oil -burning
tanker or submarine."
Piracy off the North Atlantic coast is a
conception repugnant to the most florid
imaginations. Even more extravagant is
the ndvaneed theory thnt Bolshevist activities
are at the root of the mystery. But the re
jection of fnntastlc Inpotheses will not solve
the riddle. That the Gm eminent is not
tnking the situation lightly is shown by the
fact that live departmentH In Washington
hac instituted investigations.
The case of the great naval collier Cyclops
was cventuallv accepted as an unfntliomidilc
mystery of wartime Moreover, the. tragedy
was Isolated The strange chain of events
involving the damage and disappearance of
so many American vessels within a compara
tively brief pfrlod con hardly be ascribed
to mischance without a severe strain upon
the sense of possibilities.
The sea is capricious, there is scarcely a
shore of romance which it has not washed,
but its fantastic energies are seldom or never
expended in wholesale fashion upon ships
of a single nationality nnd almost Iniulta-'
neouslv. Ofliclnl Investigation should not
cease until some clue to an ominous juxtapo
sition of cireumstnnces has been found
We look to Congress,
woman Robertson to
use her influence
against the npfnrimm
Alice, Where Art
Thou?
plan of Congressman Paul B. Johnson to
prohibit women in the District of Columbia
from smoking cigarettes In public places.
It Isn't that we want to see women smoking
In public places nny more Ihon Cousin Alice
does, but we see In the hill the thin end of
the wedge which will eventually tenr open
the bulwarks of society, if you get what we
mean, and eventually throw the hooks Into
the tiipes of men, If you don't mind mixed
metaphors, (let busy. Cousin Allie' The
men of America will auxiouslj. watch jour
"inoke,
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- PHILADELPHiA, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 22,
AS ONE WOMAN SEES IT
The Living Members of the City
Troop Have Dedicated a Tablet In
Memory of Those Who Died
In the War
liy
. By SARAH 1). LOtyRIK
ONE hears n good deal these dnys about
tho dull future facing most men's clubi
owing to tho unconvlvinl entertainment now
prcvnlcnt there. In two or three of tho
older nnd more conventional clubs of this
city, for Instance, the habitues have
dwindled to n mere handful In the late aft
ernoons nnd In the evenings. At best the
aro good lunching places where tho food is
well nnd quietly served, but rnthcr expensive
lunching places when one considers not only
the yearly dues, but the yearly assessments
foe deficits.
THE clubs thnt seem likeliest to survive
nro those which depend on other nsscts
beyond tho mere meeting of men with men
for the enjoyment of sedate meals, or con
servative periodicals.
Certain enthusiasms for various forms of
sport hunting, fishing, polo, cricket, tennis,
yachting, rackets, squash will attract new
recruits nmong the younger men and keen nn
organization dedicated to them perennially
young nnd prosperous; certnln connoisseur
shin In palntlngsor music or other arts will
make a happy nucleus of a club for gen
eration after generation of artists nnd mu
sicians, actors and writers; even n repu
tation for culinary feats can be made to
form the rnlson d'etre for a little group of
good eaters who keep their original minibet
intact by carefully selected newcomers. And
there arc business clubs and professional
clubs nnd scientific clubs that can nlwoys
sustain n waiting list. There nre even here
and there very exclusive conversational
clubs, but I thought the other afternoon thnt
the club which In this (own hns survived
the longest nnd hns dinwn Its members the
closest and kept their memory green the
longest was curioush enough a club
chiefly devoted to the art of war the or
ganization known ns the City Troop.
rr SEEMS odd that n clubhouse, where the
mantinl for killing is taught with a matter-of-fact
directness and where those who
join its membership must face from their
initiation the possibility of sacrificing their
lives In order to uphold its traditions, should
have an atmosphere of complete good fel
lowship and loyal comradeship not, I think,
to be duplicated, nt least to the same degree,
in any other clubhouse in the city.
Even to a casual visitor the effect of the
mementoes nnd portraits the hundreds of
photographs of groups of men about camp
tires ,and on guard, or at drill, or at war
is nn effect of singular congeniality and of
well-tried friendship. The very tones of
men's voices when they speak of the
"trooj;," or refer to some past episode in
its long history hns n fond, eager loyalty
that very few other enthusiasms have tin
power to inspire.
T WONDERED last Sund.iy ns I Hnt listen
J ing to the brief ineinorini speeches of
Judge J. Willis Martin and Colonel George
Thayer nt the unveiling of the tablets to
the men who hnd died in the lole war what
there was about the whole ceremony that
made it so touching and so reverent thnt
more than nny ceremony of the wnr it
seemed to epitomize the wnr's solemnity
nnd its sincere sacrifice. Coming so soon
after tho uncouth refractoriness of Harvey's
London speech on America's reasons for
going into the wnr. it made that bit of In
temperate bnnter sound like n schoolboy's
moody exaggeration, not worthy of nny
serious refuting.
As the list of names of the men who had
died nnd were cnminemorntcl on the tnblets
was read by Colonel Thayer, stooping over
the tnblets as he read them nnd pausing
reminiscent!' at ench name, n vision of most
of them came to us who were spectators of
the troop's commemorative act. Most of
them I knew only by sight, the war record
of only one I knew succlncth, and of the
manner of most of their deaths I was onh
vaguely nware.
The members of the old troop were
Phinens P. Chrystie, captain ,112th Field
Artillery; Norton Downs. Jr.. first lieuten
ant. Air Service: Thomas Graham Hirst,
first lieutenant, l.'.lst Field Artlllerv: Ed
ward Ingersoll, captain. Air Service; Harrv
Ingersoll. captain, ,11.1th Infantrv. and
Frank F. Battles, captain. .114th Infantrv.
The volunteers were James Albert Bon
snek. William Stokes Bonsai. Richard
Stockton Bullitt, Orvlllc Samuel Kidwell,
Dallas Walker Knons. Nelson Whlteman
Perine. Frederick Borvodnile Prichett. Carl
Daniel Scholze and Taylor Everly Woltour.
THE boy whose record I knew was Tom
Illrst Thomas Graham Hirst, son of
Dr. Barton .Hirst nnd EMe DuPuv (5rn
hnin Hirst, of 1S1.M SMuce street. Wheu he
was killed he was First Lieutenant Hirst
of the lT.lst Field Artillery, Batterv E.
Rainbow Division.
tils nriei nnd active experience
well stand for that of the others
might
lie served with the First City Troop on
the Mexican border, having been a mem
ber of the troop for five years He was at
home three months hefore being commis
sioned second lieutenant. Reserve Corps
and sent to the official training camp at
Fort Mngnra May 1,1, IfllT. He was pro
moted in August to a first lieutennncv in the
Field" Artillery- ami sailed from Hoboken
September ! for Havre. He went to the
artillery training camp at Sauinur October
. and from there wns transferred to Coet
quidnm. Brittany, the first of the icar
BUS. and assigned to his battery in the
Inrt -second Division. FiKltK with (he
Rainbow Division, he arrived at the front
in Lorraine Februarv 12 mm i:
wounded in the Argo'nue October 10 Wis.
nt Cote ile Chatilloii while serving ns'llnlsoi,"
oiurci .
llO.spitll
lie W1IM nwiifiVPfl tn nn npnmi !,...
and Inter transferred . i,.
hospital nt icliv, but survived onlv unti
November J. 1!1". The following Huh
tribute of one of his constant companions
sums him up :
"1 served with Tommv Hirst ns his In
timate companion from October 1 11)17 t,
October 10. 101 .. when he , Nvoumlc!
Ac were together the entire time. During
the periods of training he was a conscien"
tlous student, in nolo,, hl, nN , ,
und level-headed. He never lost his nerve
and his men worshiper) him.. His fellow -officers
admired nnd repected him. At M
times he was a gentleman."
THE slow step of the troopers in nil their
glory inarchiK s.fj,Ko file with anherx
presented past the tablets, the "rc,ro,.i"
sounded by the buglets, the short nnd tensely
rontrolled speeches f n,c two older officers
the prayer for men-v and for blessing liv
. , ,iii V"t in i i " """ ""'""n who
sat with folded hands remembering their
dead and proud of their service, and the
large upper mom filled with memories of
past davs and cvcilmgs l)f tron Kt1Pr.
scl that afternoon ,,,, nnd mnde it
high and solemn o.-cn.on In which mnro
than one of thofe picsent must have dedi
cated himself anew to larger nnd m re
countRry.hr "" '"S f"llnw '"' ""d his
Tl".r'p l" something
inlghty heartening in
The C'ountrj's Safe
, , , , ,tnP slnr of the nine
year-old Imv s.-n,,l fro, drowning In the
Delaware bv n twelve vear-ohl companion.
When be took orninpM and sk everv ,0i
. ,1... 1 rnui ini.rxi nv,.... i.r... . v
" .- " ""'i nun ne w-as nn
.ni,i Hive., niter Mm He was im
ions when pull, d ashore, hut the vouug
gave hfTii nisi nid and pulled ,li
igh. v hen n crowd of I, ,i .... .1.
cons
sters
through. vv lien a crowd of kidi
m
the
river bank show such coolness, courngc mill
skill we hnve no nuse to worrv over the
fate of the country . We'll coinn throu-'h all
right.
.leanette Rankin, who
Some nifferenrc was once in Congress
Of Opinion says there ought to be
two hundred women
there. Alice Robertson, in Congress now
and making good, says her presence there is
an nceideiit and one not necessary to repent.
If Jcnnette's wish Is Justified, our bid Is for
two hupdrcd Alices.
X?&et m j-i t jt9RT aMaa4 tfaJfffBBIM! Jf nit?!irsy .. pf,Vi ''j'-"ewasJwHeiraTif !1 n- 1 mMv. j
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NOW MY IDEA IS THIS
Daily Talks With Tanking Philadclphians on Subjects They
Know Best
FORMER JUDGE SULZBERGER
On the Great War's Results
T7K)RMER Judge Mnyer Sulzberger, who to
JL day receives the felicitations of his friends
nnd admirers upon reaching his seventy
eighth birthday, does not believe thnt the
pessimists who insist thnt the Great War
will leave permanent scars upon the civil
ization of our own, nnd other countries nre
justified in the rather extreme views which
some of them hnve recently expressed.
"We must admit thnt the I'nited States
is nt present in n somewbnt disturbed con
dition, but it is also true that this dis
turbance exists in a lesser degree than in
nnv other of the Western, and by Western I
mean civilized, countries. When it is con
sidered that millions of men have for nearly
four years been trying to kill nnd malm
ench other. It is no wonder that the ideals
of peace have suffered some disturbance.
A Phase of Primitive Brutality
"In fact. If such were not the case, war
would be impossible; a consummation de
voutly to be wished, but one not to be ex
pected in n short time. This phase of prim
itive human brutality will pnss, and that the
struggles nnd achievements of thousands of
cars towards the attainment of civilization
cannot be totally lost. I firmly believe.
"While memory Is 11 very valuable func
tion of humanity, ns it is by the bye. of
some other animals, the value of forgetful
ncss is vcrv generally under-estimated. The
passions tliat excited men in time of war
tend gradually to fnde from the mind, and
gradunllv oml unconsciously a mnn relapses
Into bis'pre-war condition of mind.
"Movements f M"''' magnitude cannot
take place In a day, but nevertheless they
ate certain to come. Notwithstanding the
differences and tho bitter conflicts between
nntions, the) have all had 11 sufficicnc) of
war for n good ninny years to come, l'his,
therefore, will constitute a period during
which men will gradual' cultivate the 1(1
tltude of mind nnd the practical arts of
peace. ...
No Great Wnr Soon
"I do not apprehend an) great war in the
near future. In the last analysis, all great
.nru ,.n. oi-oiluicd bv economic causes. It
Is true that nations are apt to disguise this
fact bv using tuner wonis. mho r- ..moi.. ,
national honor,' 'our place in the vvnild
and other things of like tenor.
"In this last great war, there was but one
nation which risked loss without any hope
or desire of compensating advantage, apd
that was our own. If so tragic an affifir
could have its Mimic "or burlesuue side, it
lies in the fact that nil the other nations
participating in the war have always held
us up ns having but one Ideal, to wit, our
Today's Anniversaries
1SH7 P.111I Morpby. the greatest
chess
... i. u.irlrl hint known, tioru
In New
li.Limii. Died there. July 10. 1S84.
lM'.:t Confederate advance column entered
Pennsylvania. "
M',il Picsidcnl Johnsons message to
Congresn adverse tn presenting the Fifteenth
Amendment 10 the states.
jS74 ('.ingress nppiopriiitcd tnonev to
purchase and restore to the family of l.ufny
ette the vviilch presented him by Gcueiul
Washington
lsii'J Willinm L. Wilson was chosen per
manent 1 hail man of the Democratic Na
tional Convntion in session nt Chicago.
INK! Opening of the railway between
yuelici . St John and Halifax.
liiOd Coronation of King Haakon anu
Queen Maud of Norway,
lill.V Govminr Slaton, of Georgia, com.
muled the sentence of Leo Frank to life im
prisonment. lli'Jtl Two shocks of eiirthqualiu felt in
Los Angeles and vicinity.
Today's Birthdays
I'rinicsh Beatrice, eldest daughter of the
King and )uecn of Spain, born in Madrid
twelve years ago.
Sir 11. Rider Haggard, author of "King
Solomon's Mines" anil other popular winks
of fiction, born in Norfolk, Eng,, sixty -five
5 Mils ago.
. Sir Martin dlnrvey, n celebrated actor of
the Eiulish stage, born in Essex, England,
lift) -four .vents ago.
Major Satitvoord Merle Smltfl, former
Third As-iNtum Secretary of State nt Wash
ington, bom nt Senbrigbt. N. J., thlity-two
jeurs ago.
Porter Emerson Brovvue, well -known
novelist nnd piny vv right, born at Beverly,
Mn-sV. foil) -two years ago,
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IN PURSUIT OF PIRATES
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material ndvantagc, or as they would have
phrased it, 'the Yankee desire for the al
mighty dollar.'
"It mny be that our example will hove an
educative Influence on some nt least of the
European Powers, nnd to whatever extent
this tuny happen it will tend to promote the
peace of the wurld."
What Do You Know?
QUIZ
1 What Is a colleen linvvn?
-'. What was the Boxer Rebellion and when
did It occur?
3. What Is u protagonist?
I. What does the Seventccjitli Amendment
to tho United States Constitution pro
vide? 3 Wlint Stnte does Senator Frellneliuysen
represent?
What place Is called "The Eye of the
Ualtlc"?
What was the "I'nrlghtcouw Hlble?"
Hctween whom and when wtvs tho Wattle
of Marengo fought?
What was the largest city In the South
ern Confederacy?
What Is a brlndlsl?
Answers to Yesterday's Quiz
1. tieneral Sheildnn Is accredited with
having made tho observation thnt tho
onl good Indian Is n dend Indian.
2 "Ye.'' w hen used ns tho definite nrtlclo
In such expressions ns "ye shop,"
slioull be pionouncrd "the,' ns ')" In
such cakes Is n rendering of the Anglo
Saxon letter "thoru," which has tho
value of "th."
3. Che.veime Is the capital of Wyoming.
1. riu- Audi s Mountains nre snld to have
derived their name from the ancient
I'truviau word "nntl," meaning copper,
whli h hns long been mined In tho great
1 angn
G Siizami.- I.i-nglen. of France, Is the woman
tennis champion of the world.
li. The little Republic of Andorra Is situated
In the Pvretu-fs Mountains between
Km in o :mil Spain.
7. "Wilte inc as one who lqves his fellow
men k a line spoken by Abou Ren
Adhem In Ix-lgh Hunt's poem of that
mime
S 'I he Appliiu Way Is the most famous of
the ancient lloiniin lilgliwav-8 and ran
from IliundlHluin (Hiindlsl) to Rome.
Umg sii-itclieH of Its pavement remain
piifn.t and hIiovv that the width of tho
,, i",i,.lwn.v proper was only fifteen feet.
0. riu- siMeentli Amendpient to the United
States CnnHtltutlon provides that "tho
Congress "hall have power to lay and
Milini t,ien on Incomes fiom whatever
soune derived without apportionment
imoiig the several Stales and without
, , "B-ird to nny census or enumeration."
10 A liezoiiinii Is 11 now reciult Tho term
s orlglnnllv npplled In dirlslon to
0u11g Holdlers sent from Spain to Italv
(, w). landed lll-accoutered nnd in need
of everything, and Is derlvod from the
Italian "blsiigno,' need. A famous up.
pllc.ttton of the word occuik In Shake
speare n "King Henry IV." Part II,
Act .. The passage Is as follows:
t nder which King, bezonlan? Speak
or die choose your leader or tnke the
cnnsioucncfH Caesar or PompcyT
Speak or die "
ARRIVED ON SCHEDULE
T
HIE haves on the trees nre i. l,n,,,,Hf..l
green
Anil a beautiful green Is ihe grass.
I He te .-plume pen strings along with the benn
,..." ,"''.'-01"11 s salnd days bring us Miss
I he bird on the wing
Thinks it proper to sing.
While poetical pigs push a pen.
And what is the reason '
'TU simply the season
For summer Is with us again.
The spirit ne'er (lags while the flag's in the
bree.e,
.MIU I lie breeze has the coiiili.'nwi I. i.
The
dog's iritindiici.il to n fiun'ti- ..f .1
I'l.ut i..kl.i 1.1 1- . -.. ' ""'i
,. mil. lll-liri) 10 ucntli.
I he girl wears her furs;
One Infers what she wears
Is her rlBlit, though ti puzzle to men.
'Ihe world uia.v laugh at her
But what does it mutt. r.
Since summer i with us again V
G. A.
Hecause In Youngs-
town SOlllC fat women
Common Offense
III bloomci-H r(. i,,,y.
M) or has bee,, petitioned
He has declined on the
liloiiliieis Hie 110 worse II
Ing baseball tin
to take action
ground that th.
the short skirl-
J win b) some of the petl-
11 Hie Ill-litest Were ,.l.
tinners. Even
cMlietie Hither
Hum I " " . """" "II
l-oMtloi, appears tobe well lake." "'" U'8
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SHORT CUTS
Money never talks in a dividend that U
passed.
We hntc to brag about our nuvy plans
but oh, U-117!
Spite of all
lumbering along.
obstncles, Fordney i
Rose fever victims include IHni-Around-u-Rosy
nmong vicious circles.
There Is no liootlegger able to east the
thirst of Mother Earth this present dry spell.
The reason the public isn't buying coal
is because, perhaps, part of it hasn't tie
price.
Grover Bergdoll may be assured of a
very lively reception when he gets back
home.
As n publicity promoter for n big army,
Secretary Weeks appenrs to be a successful
alarmist.
The gencrnl opinion of Admiral Sims Is
thnt as n technician ho is a bird; hut that
he sings too much.
Tips hnve been nbolished in ninny hotels
in Itnly. nnd the custom is spreading. Whj
should America wait?
There mny be no truth In the uimor that
among the improvements planned by the
P. R. T. is n return of the five-cent fate.
Bureau chiefs with n desire to help the.
President reorganize the departments r
presumably working In the quietest kind ol
way.
The Itnllan Immigrant who swapped
picture of Michael Angelo for n banana wis
not the first mnn to sacrifice art for the
stomach's sake.
One thing thnt helps the I' G. I. jtut
now Is the memory of whnt dul) elected rep
resentatives of the people long yenrs nno did
with gas when they had control.
So many people talk too much that
those who talk too much nnd "get In wrong
by getting into print nppenr to have ft just
grievance against nn untrnmmeled press.
What effect, if nny, will the vvillingneii
of Great Brltnin to consider disarmament,
as voiced by Llovd George, have on Ameri
can nnval appropriations? And how come:
Those who criticize Lloyd George t;
cause he Is an opportunist may or may not
sometimes forget that Britnnnln herself M
been 1111 opportunist in the building 01 en
plrc.
The Young Lady Next Door Hut One,
discussing promised styles for next winter,
says longer skirts and higher necks will w
welcomed by scrawns necks and spinuu
shanks,
Don't the cr)ptlc utterances of ?"'
Weeks make you wonder just what the m
formation, reliable and complete. Ii
justifies elaborate preparation for "'
We'll sny it does.
The New York ship icportor ba
demonstrated that while the original ",",
Allghlerl mav hove hnd tints lu 1 wliry.
the modern Dante Alighierl undoubtedly M
rats lu her hold.
ri.n 1 ..u ru.it. nr Vbw York, with P"
'Hie l.ntos lUUO, 01 iew j-.. "' .1.
priate ceremonies, hns put away U' ,'
e motto. "Stuy me with IJS"'' . V..'
ler, it Is as you supposed. It
propri
lime
reade
causu tho flagons could not stay
That the test of nircrafjt agnlnst nava
-1 1 ...llil..l nffnels ollt 01 an
vessels may have political effects out of
proportion to the demonstration in,
strictly In accord with nil precet cnt i '
opinion. like some bombs, is liable cltner
hung lire or to explode premnturei).
New York proposes to ban the. toy j
loon because chemical tests show- that j
will explode with a flush If touched M
cigarette. The toy balloons, therefore,
better fly at once to I'luli. where M
will protect them ugoliibt the deiull) io
nails. Perhaps.
The disappearance of four S elrlfl
well thought-out deductions of two W
illiKliown to each otner, nmi i" ,r.t.rmp
been captured by pirates ; and "A "TI hl 'fl
nation of the Government to l"vV,VrT WJ
theoiles, all go to prove thut !""' J
dwells upon the waters,
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