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A BLUFF AND ITS SEQUEL
XTOT!IIN(t. unlv.sH it were liis caftoniPfH
IN to Imve tho SI. 000.000 Municipal Vtirt
payroll jammifl tlirouli In tlir ((Minillinani''
budget. rul(l lmr cmtimIciI tin candor "f
Judge Ilrown in wolcoiniiiK invrtisatiou of
the sphere of his activities a few months
ago.
In tho very heartiest and most compliant
spirit of "Why certainly, my dear sirs, trot
out your nr.croscopcs, stethoscopes and dic
tagraphs, we have absolutely nothing to
conceal," the President Judge solicited
earthing inquiry, appealing most affcctingly
to the City Club to hear tho splendid truth
that the greater glories of the Municipal
Court administration might be realized at
last by a somewhat unsympathetic public.
Anxious to oblige to the best of its sincere
and dlsint"rstcd abilities, the Bureau of
Municipal Research, delejated by the City
Club to conduct an exhaustive survey, dili
gently set to work and wn on the verge of
recommending technical changes in the ac
counting methods and of beginning a study
of personnel, when Judge Ilrown signifi
cantly proposed to Mr. (Jruenberg postpon
ing the consideration of the survey until the
fall. Naturallv, the director of the Bureau
of Municipal Kesearch was forced to aban
don operations, since the door of the court
was slammed In his face.
Judge Brown has weakly disclaimed in
tention of blocking the proceedings and has
attempted to advance flimsy arguments in
support of his position, but the facts are
against hlra. As it served his purposes to
assume n virtue when the fate of a major
political deal hung In the balance, the call
to cease play-acting is now equally per
suasive. Even at the risk of exposing the empti
ness of his bluff, the President Judge is now
constrained to maintain and safeguard the
ecrets of his organization.
The spectacle is only a hade less ludi
crous than disgusting.
WHERE WOMEN CAN HELP
rDOES not appear whether Mrs. Barclay
Warburton, vice chairman of" the State
Republican Committee, consulted the chair
man before she prepared her address to the
women voters urging them to indorse the
proposition for a convention to revise the
Constitution.
Some of the members of the committee
are satisfied with the Constitution as it
stands. Senator Penrose has been quoted
as objecting to any changes at the present
time.
Tho objectors have raised the point that
there is danger of too radical a revision if
anything is done at. this time. But as tliey
have raised the same objection for a great
many years and as the radicals are likely
to continue their activities indefinitely, the
objection is one which would force us to
live under the Constitution of 1S7-1 forever.
Mrs. Warburton's appeal to the women
TOters cites the well-kuown arguments for
revision. They seem to appeal to her judg
ment. They certainly appeal to the judg
ment of every citizen who H not bound up
in some way with interests which will be
disturbed by any changes.
If she and the other women active in
politics will o-operate with the men who
are seeking to brins the Constitution up to
date, tho voters who go to the September
primaries will both order the holding of a
Constitutional Convention and nominate
delegates to sit in it.
THE BUNGLED BELT LINE
TF THOMAS A. EDISON had en tit to
devise a local quiz and had bought like
vriso to "floor" his classes, "What is the
Belt Line?" might have been appropriately
displayed upon his examination list. It is
hardly an exaggeration to declare that many
Philadelphians know little of this railwaj
and that those more intimately acquainted
with its purposes are sunk in depressing
silence.
The truth Is that a transportation svs
tern dasigncd to simplify nnd cheapen freight
shipment within this city Is put to the
clumsiest use nnd Is operated jn the most
cumbersomo and convention -ridden fashion.
The fact was latelv revealed that produce
on the co-operative railroad at Delaware
avenue and Noble street and intended for
distribution at Thirtieth nnd Market streets
must be shipped to its destination by wa
of Wilmington, Dei. To reach the Vine
street terminal on the Sditijlkill from Dela
ware avenue and Noble street goods are
carted out to the Belmont station and then
by cany stages to the end of their circuitous
Journey.
These and other evidences of superan
nuated administration are brought out by
Director Sproule In a significant report upon
the condition of the Belt Line. The Di
rector of Wharves, Docks and Ferries does
Inject a gleam of hope into the situation in
forecasting a conference of a committee of
the licit Line directors with Vice President
JLee, of the Pennsylvania Ilnilroad.
It would be proper to rejoice fervently in
this prospect were not the whnlp history of
the Belt Line darkened by futile meetings,
gorgeous promUea and precious little per
formances. There is this to be said for its present
status : the functioning of the lino has
reached the depths of old fogyism nnd
costly bungling. All revision mnst inevi
tably bo upward.
WILL HAYS, HUMANIZER
"IITHKN Will Hays took charge of the
VV Postoflice Department be said that one
of hlh' first tasks would be tn put it man
agement on n human basts. There are sev
eral hmdred thousand men and women
Under him. They can be treated as ma
chines or ns human beings. His predecessor
haned toward tho machine theory nnd
fought to get ns much work as possible out
of the emidoves for the least possible
moneys This policy created considerable
OlwntlffarUon.
ol(n!uHlii(i now appointed Dr. Tc- K,
, JVmitel. a Krmliiate ofthe Unlrerflty of
Pennsylvania, to tnke charge of a Welfare
Bureau in the department. Tho business of
Dr. Frnnkel will bo to study the conditions
under which the employes work nnd to ar
rango for making them as comfortable as
may be. In brief, he will attempt to Intro
duce into the conduct of public business the
intelligent nnd humane treatment of the
workers, which has been found profitable in
many great private enterprises.
Out of the greater satisfaction with their
employment which is expected to come from
the work of tho Welfare Bureau, Mr. Hays
anticipates better service for the (Jovern
ment. He is not likely to be disappointed,
QUIBBLE AFTER QUIBBLE
JOB COMBINE'S ONLY HOPE
Facts and Logic Unite to Expose the
Bold Attempt to Play Into the Hands
of the Street-Cleaning Contractors
rpHE courso of tho Job combine members
of City Council on the street-cleaning
issuo has been marked by retreat from one
impossible position to another.
It was first argued thnt the existing con-"
tracts for cleaning streets and removing
rubbish and pnrbaje could not be termi
nated on October 1 on the ground that such
termination would be illegal. They de
manded an opinion from the City Solicitor.
City Solicitor Smyth straightway gave
his opinion that the contracts could legally
be terminated on October 1, for there was a
provision to this effect in the conditions of
the contracts themselves. Here is tho exact
wording of that provision :
The bidders agree, that any contract
awarded to them may he terminated on
i 'cioher 1, 1 ! J t . . i they arc ptven three
'.iiiif.- uoficc hi the nirenor that the city
desires to exorcise such option, and that
they will ncccpt as full payment for nil
claims against tho clt nine-twelfths of tho
price bid In this proposal.
Then when Councilman Itopcr offered a
formal resolution in Council that the con
tracts be terminated on October 1 it wus
objected that as tho contracts had been
awarded by ordinance they could not bo
terminated by resolution.
But no action of Council is necessary to
terminate the contracts. They may bo
brought to an end by notice from the Di
rector of Public Works. Councilmanic ac
tion is needed to get appropriations for
equipment. This is why the Mayor has
called a special meeting of Council for
tomorrow night.
Now Councilman Wcglein, the presi
dent of Council, is arguing that the
city cannot get ready to do the work
on October 1 and that the contracts
must be allowed to continue until January
1. He 13 asking for more information about
the plans of Director Cavcn to guide him in
reaching a conclusion, as though his con
duct from the beginning did not indicate that
it was not information which he was seek
ing but obstruction.
Director Caven says he is ready to take
over the work on October 1. He has been
making his plans for it for months. His
success in cleaning the streets in the two
central districts at a saving of $200,000
under the lowest bid of the contractors ought
to convince the most skeptical that if he
says he can do the work in the whole city on
October 1 he can be trusted to keep his word.
But it is not fear of Director Caven's
inability to make good on October 1 thnt is
at the back of the obstructive tactics.
It is evidently a determination to force
the Administration to take over the whole
work in the middle of the winter when no
one knows what the weather conditions will
be, in the hope thnt the cold and the snow
will interfere so seriously with the work as
to create dissatisfaction and make it easy
for the contractors to incite their friends to
demand that the contract svstem be re
established. The fight is for a prniit of $1,000,000 a
year for the political contractors, and for
the delivery of the city once more into the
hands of the men who have grown fat by
exploiting the public business.
POLITICS WITH BAYONETS
ACrOItDINO to the note formally re-
jecting the Allies' offer of mediation in
the remnant war between Turkey and
(ireece, the Government of the latter coun
try "will be ready to hear proposuls from
the Entente during every phase of the
operations."
It is needless to look further to demon
strate the dynastic character of this pestif
erous conflict. King Constantino, infatu
ated with dreams of Byzantine dominion, is
playing the ancient and dangerous game of
politics with bayonets.
His campaign in the Near East has been
costly, and substantial victory has not yet
perched upon the Hellenic banners. Could
he point to military success, his political
prestige, now none too secure, might be ma
terially enhanced.
Were the conflict to end today Oreeec
would hnve little but new debts to justify
its restoration of the ex -Kaiser's nephew.
The Constantinists are palpably in search of
bargaining assets to confute the discontent
at home as well as to impress the Allies in
order to wring from them pro-Greek con
cessions in the Levant.
The entire situation would he shabby
enough were it merely exhibited in diplo
matic maneuverings. But human lives are
ruthlessly staked in this tragically discredit
able busincs
Tf would be interesting to learn of Veni
zelos' reactions to such a policy of selfish
and cruel cynicism, the antithesis of the
glory of Greece nw he envisaged it.
A SUMMER JOURNEY
BI'T for the intervention of Governor
Sproul with n last-minute reprieve
yesterday there would hnve been at the
State Penitentiary near Bellefonto a demon
stration of the method of capital punish
ment by electrocution more gruesome than
nn ever recorded since the gallows was
legislated out of existence in this State.
In the execution building at the peni
tentiary a beautiful white building remi
niscent of a modern bank or a modern hos
pital, set upon n green hill among rolling
green fields a rnnn afflicted with paralysis
nnd without anv life in the lower part of his
body, a man already dving. would have been
carried to tho electric chnir, bound and
killed.
This man, Sidney Hhyne. was actually
carried from the Media jail to an automo
bile on Saturday. He was carried to a
train and carried ngaln up the winding
steel staircase that leads to the cells built
for the condemned in the new State prison.
At Bollofouto he was carried from the train
anil transferred to the "locnl" which runs
to Hock View, the penitentinry station.
Previously the Governor and the State
Pardon Board had good reasons for refusjig
clemency to Hhyne, who wns stricken by
paralysis while in jail. The murder of
which the man was convicted was particu
larly cold blooded and cruel But the pecu
liarly agonizing oircumstnneos of his long
journey through open country to the place
uf execution were the same that serve to
.make capital punishment peculiarly terrible
for every one who must endure it In Penn
sylvania. Condemned prisoners are removed at reg
ular Intervals from jails in nil parts o.( the
State and transported informally to Hock
View. Other passengers on the trains are
soon made aware of the tragedy being en
acted tinder their eyes. They display sym
pathy or curiosity. They tender cigars and
money to the tnnn who goes to his death.
The prisoner looking at the free world for
the last time, seeing its full beauty in the
flying fields, can feel under the pitying scru
tiny of the day coach a sense of isolation
more complete thnn the isolation of the
'"death house."
Ordinarily, there Is only one answer to
the usual question of the penitentiary offi
cials put to the guards, "How did your man
take the trip?'' "Oh, well enough. He
cried all the way up." The law provides
that all executions ordained in Pennsylvania
must take place at Rock View. That Is one
of the reasons why n preliminary torment,
not provided for In the etntntcs, Is visited
by necessity upon every man sentenced to
death In the Pennsylvania courts.
A SENATE GAS ATTACK
TNCUEDIBLY and blcnkly stupid is the
JL campaign of opposition started bv the
amalgamated coal combines in opposition to
Senator Erellnghuyson nnd his "Coal Sta
bilization" Bill. "We do not have to in
quire about the effects of bolslievlsm," rum
bles tho propaganda machine of the exploit
ers' bund. "We havo only to look at Rus
sia." Mr. Frellnghuyscn Is neither a Russian
nor a Bolshevist. He Is not deluded by nny
random desire to bo idealistic. He is a very
practical man who pleads In the Interest
nnd at the suggestion of other practical
men. There is no tinge of radicalism or of
even the mildest socialism in his makeup.
In this instance the Senator Is express
ing, witlt a great deal of courage nnd
ability, the disgust and resentment of busi
ness men in the grent industrial area of
Northern Jersey who are tired of being
robbed by the agencies upon which they
must depend for fuel.
If the coal barons want to convict Mr.
Frellnghuyscn of bolshevism they will have
to Include the business men of Newark,
Trenton, Jersey City, Hoboken, Elizabeth,
Bayonne and like communities in the in
dictment. Having done that they will have
to put President Harding nnd Secretnry
Hoover in the Red company, for It is very
evident that both the President and the
Secretnry of Commerce nrc giving their sup
port t the Senator from New Jersey.
It ought to be remembered that the Frc
linghuysen bill is not n step toward nation
alization. It is, if anything, a step away
from it. The bill, if it were passed, would
not put anybody in Jail. It would not tnke
nway any operators' rights or profits.
It is intended merely to let the peoplo
know why the price of coal continues to
ward the moon.
The people of New Jersey hnve demanded
that Mr. Freliiighuyscn solve the mystery
for them.
And if business men. large nnd small, in
other parts of the country were not so will
ing to be exploited, if they were less ready
to pay whatever is asked for coal and to pass
the losses on to the people who buy their
goods, a return to normal Industrial condi
tions would be quickened nnd Mr. Frellng
huyscn would receive far greater support
from his colleagues in the Senate.
OUR NATIONAL SONGS
ONCE in every little while, as regularly as
the movements of a clock or the visita
tions of comets, this broad laud is swept by
a newspaper debate expressive of general
dissatisfaction with .the national anthem.
The phenomenon is being repeated ngaln.
Poets are being implored to write a new
song to voice the spirit of tho Republic.
Composers secludo themselves nnd grope
mndly for a grent tune. Critics of the
"Star Spangled Banner" nrc again remind
ing the country thnt the words of that
anthem are neither impressive nor really sig
nificant and that the musical air to which
they are set is of foreign origin, and of
debatable quality.
Meanwhile, rendy at hand, there Is an
other song of majestic beauty, marvclously
eloquent of the rarer and nobler moods of
the American people, created out of our own
experience, which surely would have been
formully designated ns the national anthem
long before this if there had been in Con
gress n better understanding of musical
vulucs und anything like adequate apprecia
tion of tho poetry of language. That is
"The Battle Hymn of the Republic."
The Russians have or hail before the day
of the Soviet Government the stateliest and
most beautiful of nntioual anthems a slow,
infinitely moving chant suggestive of
strength and pride and profound spiritunl
feeling. The Marseillaise is a song of fire,
n song of defiance, written originally to ex
press the spirit of civil revolution. The
Briton's "God Save the King" is well
enough in its way.
None of these great songs, not even the
stupendous hymn of the Russians, is so
thrilling In sound and color, so charged with
emotion or so worthy to be a sort of na
tional litany, as the pong of prophecy and
resolution which Mrs. Howe wrote to an air
created somewhere in obscurity to fit tho
thundering rhythm of the march of Union
armies.
It is doubtful whether such another song
ever could be written again in the United
States. You heed more than talent to do
that sort of thing. It is out of crisis, out of
passion nnd faith and danger that such
work comes; out of times in which the
hearts and spirits of a people rule over their
collective mind. In these intervals there I
usually bome one about with an almost
divine interpretative tnlent to render forth
the whole meaning and significance of the
mood or the event in matchless words or
matchless music.
Who. henring the Battle Hymn of the
Republic chnnted by multitudes in the yean
of the recent war, could be unconscious of
the note of authentic prophecy thnt genius
had put into it or doubt its Immortality
among songsV It was the product of the
noblest and most trying yean- of our history.
It gave voice to the best that is in us,
Musicians profess to believe that the
quality by which music lives is indefinable.
But it l ahvnvs noticeable that songs that
strike beyond the mind to the emotions of a
nntion or a race do not die young. Tin
Civil War period left to us the best souks;
we have, songs written in the heat of valor,
in moods of sorrow or timed to tho beat of
innumerable drums. These songs are sim
ple in their terms, but universal in their
appeal and their implications. They aro of
elemental things.
Some of the Negro songs, bo calleif, heard
nowndnyh and destined to live as long as a
singing voice is left In America, reflect more
than love of country. They reflect love of
the actual soil, the pain of absence from
familiar places, the terrible lonesomeness of
age. You have to be very old or very wise
to know thai a path once loved, or a treo
or even a familiar field or an empty door
way can be a source of living comfort after
nil 'else is gone. "The place, where I was
bom" i" a blessed place always to old peo
ple. About it some of the loveliest .songn
have been written, as well as some of the.
greatest poetry.
Add Report of the Philadelphia Hous
ing Association1 And the inhabitants of the
blind ailcyB are the bliud allku uf municipal
mismanagement.
C
SHIPS OF MYSTERY
Is apfrato Responsible for the Miss
ing Craft? Some Stories of. Phila
delphia's Mysteriously Missing
Vessels Warships Never
Heard Of
By OEOHGH NOX McCAIN
PHILADELPHIA Marino Underwriters
nre grcntly interested In the present dis
cussion over the mysterious disappearance
of a number of 'ships in the last six months.
Particularly so as British marine insur
nnco companies nre talking of raising their
premium rates on this class of risks.
Our home marine Insurnnco companies on
several occasions also seriously have con
sidered nn increase in premiums solely be
cause of serious losses nt sea.
Very many of thrso, as In the present
Instance were so-called mystery ships.
Vessels that tailed away and were never
heard of again among the haunts of sea
faring men.
PHILADELPHIA underwriters were hnrd
hit in the year 1S0!. That wns the ban
ner year for bad luck In the last quarter
of the last century.
In that year it was estimated that Phila
delphia companies nlone lost from ship
wrecks nnd vessels that disappeared, leaving
no trnco behind, over $2,000,000.
It wns n terrible toll of the sea.
V1hcn the year 1000 opened tho marine
underwriters seriously considered the nd
vlsablllty of increasing their premium rates.
The supposed kidnapping last January of
the crew of the American schooner Carroll
A. Deerlng off the coast of South Carolina
has started all the talk of a pirate undersea
boat working off these coasta.
But tho disappearance of other vessels Is
by no means conclusive evidence, or cumu
lative proof, of piracy.
Philadelphia port alone has furnished
more mystery ships thnn hnve been un
earthed in the last six months to sustain
the piracy theory.
I MENTIONED particularly the fateful
year of 1800 as being especially prolific
of mystery ships.
Four steamships left this port during tho
twelve months of that year that were never
afterward heard of.
Two of them cleared for porta In tho
United Kingdom nnd two were for'the'nenrcr
destination of Cuba.
Over 100 live and cargo nnd property
approximating llhlf n million dollars were
lost.
Two Philadelphia sailing vessels in thnt
year .were never sighted or heard of after
they passed the Delaware Capes.
One was the bark Anita Bcrwind and the
other was the schooner Charles' M. Pat
terson. Captain Fowler, of the latter vessel, car
ried with him his wife and two little chil
dren. EVEN were the supposed, or renl, pirates
to operate against our own nnvhl ves
sels, there would be ample precedent to
prove that other naval vessels were part of
the great mvstery fleet.
Strange disappearances of our warships
characterized the early history of our navy.
In spite of all the efforts of the Nnvy
Department to clenr up the causes of these
tllsnsters, they arc as absolute mysteries to
dav as when they happened.
The recent strange disappearances of
ocean crnft have reawakened the ever-fnsel-nnting
story of the shit) thnt never returns.
It wns n Philadolpnia-mannod warship
that has for over a century now headed
the list of missing ships in the Seven Seas.
It is the prototype of all the others that
followed ; just ns Robinson Crusoe is the
daddy of all fiction of shipwrecked sailors
nnd uninhabited isles.
OUR first nnval sea mystery Is that of
tho man-of-war Saratoga.
She was the vessel nfter whom one of
our training ships was named a century nnd
more Inter;' the Pennsylvania tchool ship
Saratoga.
"Never heard from" is the legend written
opposite her nnme. No shred of sail, no
battered boat, no splinter of wreck wns ever
found.
She snllcd from Philadelphia in October,
1780. under the command of Captain James
Young.
She wns an eighteen -gun frigate, nnd
nfoer cruising around u while she captured
three British vessels in quick succession.
Convoying her prizes she started for
Philadelphia. Then n seventy-four-cun
British ship of the line hove into view. Her
eighteen guns were ns nothing to the battery
power of her enemy.
The Saratoga considered it safer to run
nway.
Her enemy did not pursue her, but was
content to reenpture her prizes.
So the Saratoga sailed down tho horizon
and was never heard of again.
THE American warship Constellation,
Captain Truxlun, captured the thlrty-slx-gun
frigate Insurgent off the Island of
Nevis.
She wns retained as part of our navy and
in July, 1600, bailed out between the dies
apeako Capes.
That was tho last, so far as known, that
was ever heard of her.
Whether she foundered in n storm or was
destroyed by her magazines exploding has
never been known. No wreckage was ever
discovered to prove the fact of her loss.
FIVE years after the mysterious disap
pearance of the Insurgent, Gunbont No,
7. ns ehe was known, joined the phantom
fleet of tho strangely missing.
At that time this Government was waging
a little slx-by-ten war with Tripoli, A
nest of real pirates had to be cleaned out
over there, nnd we .started out to act ns
official scavenger of North Africa.
We began building ships somewhat after
the Hog Island fashion.
Only we didn't wait to nnme them. As
fast as they were completed they were given
a number, manned and put Into commission.
Number 7 sailed from New York on June
20. 1905, under command of Lieutenant
Ogllvie.
She signaled and cleared Sandy Hook
and then nn eternal silence settled over her
fate.
JOSIAII TATNALL, who for a time com
manded the famous Confederate ram
Merrlmnc In the Civil ,Wnr, was snatched
from the very drclt of one of these strangely
disappearing ships.
It was tlie Epervier. a brig of war which
carried important papers to the President.
When Commodore Decatur, in lRlfi, dic
tated to the Bey of Algiers the terms of a
treaty with the United States, Lieutenant
John Subrlck was dispatched to Washington
for its npproval.
Tatnall wns a watch officer on the Eper
vier, which was one of Decatur's war ves
sels designated to carry Subrlck back home.
He Induced nn officer on another ship to
take his place, ns he wanted to hang around
Algiers, where there were prospects of some
fighting.
When the I.pervlcr passed Gibraltar,
homeward bound, she signaled "All well on
bonrd,"
She sailed out through the Pillars of
Hercules to a fate that has never been dis
covered to this n .
There Is one angle to
Keeping the Faith the proposed reduction
in tin size of tht
army, a reduction which will mean adding
TiO.OOO men to the army of the unemployed.
which has not been sufficiently stressed. A
man who enlists makes a definite ntract
with the Government, a contract he is bound
to keep. Can the Government afford to
break faith h. discharging him before It has
provided hini with the things promised?
These things, avoiding In recruiting posters,
include a certain rate of pay anil a chance to
receive an cducallcn, learn a trade nnd sec
the world. Would it not be wiser and inon.
honorable to reduce (he size of the army
gradunllyJjy stopping recruiting and ullowlufc
,thc men to go as their terms expire?
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Daily Talks With Thinking Philadelphians on Subjects They
Know Best
JOHN PRICE JACKSON
On Overcoming High Rents
THE only wny to head off the tendency for
a greater rise of rents and to start them
on the downward course is to actually start
building, according to John Price Jackson,
vlco chairman of tho Industrial Rciatious
Committee of the Chamber of Commerce.
Mr. Jackson wns formerly Commissioner of
Labor nnd Industry in Pennsylvania, and
during the war served the Government
abroad, making special studies of people and
conditions.
"There is a reasonably uniform consensus
of opinion that the dominant influence upon
rents is tho law of supply and demand, the'
nctual intrinsic cost of building construc
tion, high taxes and the like being con
tributing factors," Mr. Jackson snld.
"It is quite certain, therefore, that rents
will not return to their pre-war relation
shlptfwith other costs of living until tho
pre-war ratio of buildings and people has
been reached by the construction of new
buildings,
210,000 Renters in Philadelphia
"High rents mean n chnrge not onl upon
the employers or workers in building con
struction, but upon the renters, and, in it
reflected wny, upon all people of the city.
Recent statistics show n total of about 3Sr,
000 buildings In Philadelphia, of which
about 210,000 are occupied by renters. These
renters nre from all industries, vocations
and businesses, from the common laborer
to the professional man, and all join in pay
ing tho burden of high rents.
"The building-materials man, the con
tractor, the building-trndcs mechanic nnd
others who have a hand in building con
struction thus owe n heavy responsibility
to all of these renters nnd to the public to
use their best efforts to overcome the present
building stagnation and to at once get under
way as big a program of buildlug as is
losslble during tho remainder of this sensou.
"Investigations indicate that rents nre tho
one important clement of living costs which
have hot materially receded In Philadelphia,
and that the tendency under present con
ditions is upward rather than dowuward
The results of this inquiry are supported by
governmental information. Though rents
did not influtc during tho last year to such
high points as did most materials and labor,
thev should gradually recede with the
marked drop in general commodity prices.
"Rentals are estimated by various au
thorities to be In the neighborhood of 20
per cent of the average wage-earner's in
come, under normal conditions, 1-ood,
which is materially deflated, is much the
largest element of living costs; nevertheless,
rentals take an important portion of monthly
incomes.
"It is asserted by those having experi
ence with real estate in the city that there
can be no expectation of any reduction in
rentals until the acute housing shortage is
ended bv the supply of thousands of new
dwelling's. These high rents, ns Indicated,
not only form a tax upon the building trades
workers, but upon nil people, including
workers in other industries of tho city who
rent Therefore It is distinctly a public
interest that construction be begun at once.
Building Has Fallen Off
The public is affected by the effect nn
business of the idli ness of labor caused by
the building stagnation and strike.
"Previous, to the war new dwelling houses
constructed in Philadelphia each year are
e-timnteil to have numbered over, 7000. This
annual addition in houses was sufficient to
care for the growth of the city. As is well
known, from the time this country entered
the war to this year, thero has been a de
ficit of from 2000 to 3000 In the new houses
erected in this city annually, while this
year building is largely at a standstill,
"During tnis period the glowing popula
tion has been cared for largely by dividing
of buildings already erected, and many peo
pie have been greatly crowded.
"Prominent builders, architects ami en
gineers of the city agree that had there been
reasonably deflated and stabilized costs of
materials,' labor, money nnd other elements
entering Into construction at the beginning
of the construction season this spring, much
work would hnve been started. It has been
otlmnted by those whose opinions carr.
weight that more than fiOOO dwelling houses
and comparative amounts of other structures
would have been erected during tho bcasou.
1 Though many more than double this' number
I
SOME JOB AHEAD
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of houses nre seriously needed, such a pio
grnm would have been of material help.
"Not only has ilils activity failed to ma
terialize, but on May 1 the instability of the
building situation was magnified by a Ion,;
drawn out disagreement between builder.i
nnd their labor, which took tho form of
union labor in the building trades gol-.ig on
strike. So long as this strike remain In
progress the construction of buildings will be
held up. This situation will dominate so
long ns it continues, irrespective of thu
other elements entering into the construction
business.
Strike Adds to Difficulty
"If the strike is not ended very shortly,
tho result will be the killing of any con
siderable amount of construction for the en
tire season, resulting in lack of work for
labor in tho building trades and Inch of
business for contractors und builders.
"If, on the other hand, thu strike is ended
.within the next couple of weeks, and at the
snmc time bankers, contractors and ma
terials men will join in the absolutely es
sential co-ordinate move to revive ilu. build
ing Industry upon a reasonably deflated basis
along all lines, experienced builders ay that
part of the season's program can be saved
nnd n material amount of construction will
have been completed before tho winter.
"Recent construction bids and a tendency
for more money to become mailable fur
real estate purposes largely by reasou of
the safety of the investments and the ad
vantage gained by promoting locnl activltj
gives some reason to believe that the o
operation of the latter elements will bo
forthcoming."
What Do You Know?
QUIZ
1. Name two athletic games of American
origin.
2. Who was Lazare Hocho?
3. What river 1b sometimes called "tho Dar-
dnnellcs of tho New World"?
4. Who was Patrnclus In Greek legend?
6. Who succeeded tlartln Van Iruren ns
President of the United States?
6. What nre Odonata?
7. Distinguish between an apiary and an
aviary.
5. What Is worsted?
0. What is the literal meaning of the ex
clamation "bravo"?
10. What la humidity In tho atmosphere?
Answers to Yesterday's Quiz
1. Goethe coined tho word superman In
"Faust "
2. The Aland Islands are situnted In the
Gulf of Dothnla, an arm of the Baltic
Sea They have been nwarded to Fin
land by the Ingue of Nations.
3. GuRllelmq Ferrcio la a noted Italian his
torian especially cclehmtcd for Ills
works upon the Iloman Kmplro.
4. Georgia was the Inst of tho thirteen colo-
nks to be settled permanently by Eu
ropeans. Georgia was founded by a
chartered company of English colonists
In 1733.
B. The famous Dreyfus case In Frnnce may
n paid to havn begun when Captain
Dreyfus wns degraded on December
23. 1891, and ended when ho was
lestored to rank as an army officer on
July 12, 100(1.
C. 1oulslann, Texas, Wyoming nnd Nevada
nro tho chief sulphur-producing; Htntcs
of tho United States.
7. Charles needier Warren Iuih been named
Ambassador to Japan by President
Harding
8. The ' I." roads havo been In operntlon In
New York City Blnco 1878
9. Charles W. Paddock, of tho University of
Southern California, la rated as tho
world's faatest runner. Ho holds four
world's records.
10. Father Damlen (Joseph do Veuster Dam
','iV iwn!! a lhslonary Priest who do
voted his llfo to tho welfare of tho
M,eM "'."'e Island of Moloknl In
the Hawaiian Kroup. He fell a victim
fsiXyrrAV'"-,,e w"h h ""
., , Mudame Curie is Forrv
Excuse I s He didn't hee morn V
While We Swank Philadelphia 'Z n"i
,, ., . we. It is like an old-
world city, she says, nnd she felt at l,n i c
lu it. 'IMk may excite the thougl "s
amusement of jazz artists in other m it c
ipnl ties, but It is really high , . X
MiiilaniP Curie s progressive enough f ,r ,,U
civ. Hero in Philadelphia we ,V .,"?.
thing worth while posseted by ,,, , ..
city in the country; and we hive "me ling
more which peoplo of culture are, soi e mes
Quicker to appreciate th.nto define
SHOIiT CUTS
Quebec should read up on Bostoa. .
Like Tony Wcllcr, Volstead sni
Wheeler spell it with a "We."
Pittsburgh appears to be getting tit
water allowance of the whole State.
If Senator Frelinghuysen is right tit
coal operators have already achieved the one '
big union.
It is presumably coal dust that Ftt
linghuyscn declares tho operators arc thaw
ing into the vyes of the public.
Jupiter Pluvius nrrlved but to Uut.
What's the good of bringing n watering pet
when it is only n quarter full? ,
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Perhaps It wouldn't be n bad Idea if tit
State .Constitution called for a Constitu
tional Convention, say, every twentj-lrt
years.
The ashcart men are hoping that fit
Weather Man will help them if rnonlriril
street cleaning can be held over until u
uary 1.
At a Fourth of July celebration don
town the losers in a tug-of-.war are to t
ducked under n fireplug. If the pttsraj
warm weather continues the ducklif
be a luxury rather than a punishment.
Congresswoman Robertson fy Con
gress could save money for the rount'j W
talking less nnd thus reducing the r-lte
the Congressional Record. More thin ettt
Cousin Alice Justifies the presence of women
in politics.
Some hope Cnrpentier will win : toat ,
have their money on Dempscy; nnd tne i
ternntional Reform Bureau, not to be Be
hindhand when conjectures are rife, '
presses the hope that Chancellor Walkerwu
put both contestants to sleep with one wi
directed blow.
n..u,i-i. . 1, .vknf the CCll
operators fear most. But without wf 'I
licity no nusincsa enn live. ""' : .
same token, without wise publicity cut
present competitive system, as ,i'ir; v
public ownership, cniinot five, lor the'"
of present gnin the operators arc worwi
against their own best interests. ,
. -. . .t,n tU
Congressman Paul donnsou, ,,
to prevent women from smoking la
places in tho District of Columbia. wW Mg
nterested to learn that the Pas eur Initmg
of Paris has issued a bu letla declar
tobacco smoke is antiseptic and kills in
minutes the primary bacteria o ehger.
diphtheria nnd ccrcbro-splnal ineningiu'-
After President Harding had Jf
the hands of 1U00 persons at ending (
ception to delegates to thf conirotwn Ji
American Institute of Homeopatl
resolution iiiui. '"" ,, : .i o dovn.
relieved of the custom, and tur aeil H j,
It was decided that the Pldrt fhu'
permitted to attend to his owti
Which, declares Demosthenes 'W
n revolutionary declaration. J0"001
that nowndnys. It isn't allowed.
There has been some exciten nt
Socialist National Convention I' ,h(
Resolutions asserting the ntM
were turned down. Victor nergtnui.
his respects to the men wlio ofTcr cci w '
inns: "Engdnhl and Ivruse. tne K,
nents of cotmnunlstn, ""U7 fr '
proletariat. They are In V" t" Sod
off the money received fror tar
Party." Or. as tlw poet wouk I ;','
"llie poor nn"; " ,;.i '
Was roped by the snlnrlflt.
gern pwnu nm; ,- ..... mo i"l.i
tr, . 1 1 seems to be n Rood 1 . mA
what about the tons "f ''i' .rMyW
i.J ii ..i.o.i. linen caused " r'J.,!.
tr.doon With the, l-rtceof M
rL'irtrndtaKiD.
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