nmx ;p; 'ifw - , rrr isv ' V"' rjqiy'y '''-',. W1 js5 "-.4 s" '4 'f" i it EVENING PUBLIC4 LEDGER PHILADELPHIA, THURSDAY, JUNE 30, 1UJ1 b V I: A if & :,r M , r rcnina public Pledgee ,BTtm ir t.vnnrn rnitDAW 4f r WJUIJltS AJU1SITJU1V vVTitSl 11 A t v CYHUS Hi K. CUKTIB, FnrsiDNT 'Jcrtn C. Martin Vice. Preeldent nrt Treasurer, Ctiarlaj A. Tyler, Secretary Char'i-s It Ludlna Uft, Philip 3. Collins, John II Williams, John J. vntramn, ueorga i uoiuimiin uavia o. amuey, pTiMtorii. 'PA VIP B. 8M1LCY..7 Editor JOHN C. MAHTIN. Qneml Uuslness Manager Published dally at Pernio L teats BuUdlng ,v Independence Square, Philadelphia Atmktio Citt Presi-rnfoit HullJIng Nstt YonK r.ni Madison Ave DPraoiT 701 roH DulMing: , t,,Locu 013 Qfo be-Democrat UulMlns ClIICAOO 1302 Trilmm Hull. line NEWS DL'HEAUS WllBIXOTOM BCBWC, J N. E. Cot Pennsylvania Ave. and Uth St Mevr Yoarc lUnctt) The Sua nu'Mlne LONDON BuitJUO Trafalgar tJulMln BL BSCniiTIDN TKHMH The Eunino I'cblio Leihibu la served to sub- aerlbers In Philadelphia and surroundinc towns at the rate of twelve (121 cente per week, paable to the carrier By mall to polnta outside of Philadelphia In )i united Stat s Canada, or United mates pes lAelilont, postage free, fifty (50) cnts per month. Six (S(l) dollars per year paable In advance 'CTo alt fort Ian countries one (Ml dollar a month Notice Subscribers nlshlntr address chnnnea nust (lit old as well as new address. XL. soon umt KE-TONE MAIN 1601 TO- Address oM ?oiimuit(a foes to tiriKiis ruble Ijtaotr. iioVponden-v Square Pit I iruMvhtn .V Member of the Associated Press THB ASSOCIATED PllUSS (j rxrtunvelu en titled fo the Ks 'or renb'lrn' ; i ' n'l iru dispatches credtlrd to if or ho' 'limim ir ihtrri In tW papr, ond also the Jocnl re-ct p,bnhrrf ,ere(tt. "t All rights of retwbtiratton of if-efnl dispatches nrTeltt ar nltn rer rd S3' Fhtlsdrlphis, Thuini Jim. 30, p:i THE NEW COLLECTOR MUSIC hath charm- lilukclj l Mc Caugliu, the man who took it hand from this citj to serenade Senator Penrose on .inauguration day. has been named to suc ceed Ephraim D l.edeiei. Coiltctnr of In eternal llerenue in this diMrlot I Jir jici augnn is tne renroc icndc in the Ttveuty fourth Wa-d where he ha functioned with esri noi rllnnri lidolltv through a 1 the fat and !enn tear The internal revenue olh -e is clf-tartnig and tlrtuallt automafi- 'n op, ration I'ntll the years of special war tae its chief serve I h largely ornamrntal purpo-e Mr M' Caughn will piobablv do 'is wo l n nv other Jrst-rate political worker could do in the job. ! The ttork of the olfiio Iihs IihtprsoiI tenfold 'and Mr I.ederer has. provided nn efficient Administration The sub rdlnaes have man ifested tact nnd good sense In dialing with j,an arin of new taypajer nnd a wilderness if red tape Mr MoCanglin' i-hief tak WiM be to keep the offi " ru'iiiiug th.it wa. DEAN GRAVES' NEW JOB fpHERE is in uo otnoi Stale iu li ,in 'n JL stitution as tlio t'nlioritv of tln Snro ifa( New York to tho pnsidonrj nf ulmli Dean Frnnk P Graves, of t ho I"tnvrit o Ponnsvlvnnm. hn- boon plvt'd The jpresldenpy of thp uniTPritr N a nort of an honorary position ncrtiniwl h the Vow 'Xork CoramisMonor of Eduoation hn m i-' f he ofiio'ni 'rati of the public vhonl o.istem t the State. Tho tin rsirv has no fnrnln nnd no buildings and giro no instruction It h a i corporation governed by a board of reconts. In addition to directing the public .olnoI iaystjCtn, it crantu charters to collegc The position to which Dr. Oruves hn been elected li similar to that which i, occupied bv Dr. Flnegan, Superintendent of Public Instruc tion In this State It will be the seventh position hhlch Or Treves has occupied since ho was jrraduated 'rom Columbia Unirersitv at the ace f twenty-one He was first n toaohe- t Greek in Tufts College H remained Trim xuitR nve years when he servpd a jpreiident of the I'niversifv of Wyoming for ifwo years and as provident of the 'nIv(rsit tf Washington for iive years In 1004 he went to the T'niversitv of .Missouri Teachers' College, where he remained two rears. Then he taught the historj and philosophy 10f education in Ohio State t"niversit for four years after which he came to the iBchool of Education of th Pnlversitj of Jpennsylvania This peripheric career ha ven bim a wide experience of educntlonal iheorlea in mnnv parts of the countrv and ihU professional occupation with educational .methods ought to qualify him for the no (post to which he has been elected in the 'public School system of Vpvr York 'I i )( THE DESERT'S PERILS .ljrnOrXIJ the office of the Federal I'ro- jj, hibitinn Commissioner tlieie h.i hpon Ate long time a cloud of scandalous gossip fBd dark implication Most of the wild .tales of graft and torruption sent forth upon kJa wind from Washington probnbh were tnfounded and due to the option temptn- :Jons and opport inltie. for east money rhnt 't present confront almost evert man In the prohibition enforcement dmion I That a fen of theso same tales nere nut rtthout truth Is sngested In the ornml b- "nntlon of William V Engnn former legnl , pdvlser to Commissioner Kramer, who is jnrrused of having tnkon a bribe to "put through" a Hi'ior permit The Volstead act hies been a great increment to bribe-giver J Ilfl bribe-taker the create. t. perhan. ever known in thl cnun'rt ' .Vow, under 'he ne pnn fnr prohibition enforcement nn officinl with n salary of 50000 a tear H to hnre jurisdiction over all ipf I'enn-tltnnin II will have nstanu Mvho are to be paid SSfinn a vear Thes.. nien Vll' be -onfronted rfculni'i with op,.,.r hin'tles to make n much in n dT as the piivernment , them In l month It Is not dita raging to huint'i nnrure to My that few men can eterna'h resist great 'rereptntlon There is somelhlog wrong with (i law and methods of en' rcrment which de mand that aim' luted officials work for a pittance and diplat a sort of "ther-worldh Irnnrenipt r,,, rn.r rl ,oc i;rpnt enoueh to Gar.zle a Wa'lmgfnrd WHERE ARE WE NOW? 1 JTN RUnSTASCh if n.,t pieciseh i for m. the COTICre Onnl lirle nnnlnt,n ntl nn Vised bv the Senate and IIoue conferees 'Inarks an unmistakable u tort for Ropre lentative Pnrtei Surl. .ndit a- mm he (deemed due the orij.nntoi of termliiiiting 0 war by a one-sided die'nrntmn of n stale bf peaeo cannot be withheld from Senator ICnox. but in ".( of the other fentures of hi jiroram hate been relegated to thp du't pile of rejected tiilnit In 'he liis'imiiis thp Spuator from I'eiin Bjlvanla openly and aggressively diain 'ploned t.ie negotiation of a separate treatv jbf peace with Gorman and the firHt tett ftf bis renlntio, specificiillt directed the ,1'rcMdent to initiate proceedlnc No mii-h Jnstriictions nre .ontained in the amended jirnplamunon Upon the trained legal mind of Mr Knox the method of pronoiiurlnc peace by repeal ing the declaratipn of -war natiirallt e.y. brted n strong appeal In the bnt'tle of ntlmrnt versus logic, however, the former fins oeen necisivciy tne winner. Hie sugges tion pf regret discernible in repeal of the resolution calling the entire nation to arms (n 1017 has been regnrded by persons unable f Brasp ii" iMiumi's di .iir. imiiji h ratio- Hnatien as an affront to patriotic sensi bilities. No notes of lament are sounded in Hist mvamneil nrndilet. nf What remains Is an announcement that so Air; a the United States is concerned Hh war "v'ith the late Imperial Governments of (Tirrmaoy and Austria Hungary Is over, that Mi shall eliDp to ll the seized property in WttJDtrfvjlnn 'tiNl vc huve obtained n final ?)" t .V 'iwurr to ourselves B'td thitt : ''?tMtf tialtu' to Blny.beaaflte lneutlaneil u, -,., . "&,aiw-H,. in our behalf in (he armistice and the treaties of Versailles. Trianon and Salnt-(lermaln-en-Iaye. A supplementary sec tion seek, to deprive war slackers from any refuge they might strive to take In the pence pronouncement. When the resolution is passed, as It in evitably will be and approved b the Presl dent, it will be possible for this Government to "engage under the existing treaty" or to call upon the German republic and two fragment of the former dual monarchy to negotiate sepnrate pacts with u. As either of these courses could hate been taken without the precedent forinnllt.t of u congressional decree of peace, it is per missible to wonder Jut what ha been thus far accompllMicd. Mr. Knot ha wltneed the perforation 'of considerable ectlon of his program. Mr Porter ha ucceeded in afegnarding the main outline of hi for mula. The personal aspect of the cn'e and the triumph of the House over the Senate fur illi Interesting contributions to dome'Me political bistort. International prob'em have scarcely boon grnretl THE JOB COMBINE IS STILL IN WORKING ORDER It Has Once More Proved That It Is More tareful of the Interests of the Contractors Than of the Taxpayers THE Job Combine in Council, when the issue wa siiunrelt presented to it last night, supported the inteict of the con tractor against th int"rets of the city. And it rode rutlilel over all opposition in order to accomplish it purpose. The Mutor aked them to pa ttto ordi nance one appropriating Sl.-0.00li fnr the purchase and election of plant nnd ' riiiipmi'iit for ileinlng the trct and col ic 'ting the arhage ahos and rublh for the onti'p citt. and the other nuthorUing the Director of Public Work- to advertise fo- p-oponls and entei Into cotitrnc ts for 1 the plant iiinl cunpnioMt The tlr-1 i rdiiinncc un ident.illt dire, ted Hint the cot'r. tlon and di'p"-"! of n-lio nnd tin like and the cleaning of the sticet in ' the whole citt should begin on October I. This mere t meant that the citt wn to 1 rotnso its option embodied in the existing contracts to terminate them on October 1. i an option the nature of which tta under- ' stood when bid were solicited and tta agreed to bv evert ucccful bidder. This coine was indorsed by communica tions fiom the Clinmbei of Commerce, the Voter-1 League and the League Island Ini- I provement Association. It ttn opposed bv a letter from nn individual tnxpater who did not understand the implet fact of the situation nnd a protest from the contractors ( The Mayor and ropresentntlte associations of oituons were on one ide. The contrac tor were nn the otiicr. The contraetoi won Yet, President Weglein. with bald hypoc rlst , pretended that he was opposed to the continuance of the contract system Hi quibbled nbout the ordinance paved last year permitting the awnid of contracts for part of the work, and pretended thnt an ordinanci which snid thnt the contract might be awarded meant that Council had decided that thet should bo awarded. If he had not made that quibble he would have made another, for he and Montgomery anil Limeburner are tied up with the contractor combine in violntion of the pledges on which thej were elected. His resolution, which was finally passed, ordered the Director of Public Works to pre sent to Council his plans for municipal street cleaning, "o that no time will be lot in preparing for the work" on January 1 Those plans hate been on the desks of the members of Council for several day This .protision in the resolution was merely nu mber subterfuge, the emptiness of which l apparent to every one who hn been fol lowing the case. At the present moment the citt is at the mercy of the (ontnutor combine to which it hns been betrayed by Weglein. Mont gomery and Limeburner. HOPE FOR IRELAND TT BEGINS to look ah if the problem of 1 the government of Ireland was in a fair wat of being solted King George when he opened the t'Kter Parliament, made a conciliatory speech, in the course of which he expressed the hope that a way might be found for a peaceable union in Iie'and within the empire This speech was doubtless delivered to prepare the wnv for the conference in Lon don between the British Prime Ministei and the representntites of the North and South of Ireland, to attend which invitations have been sen' out Sir .Tnines Craig, the CNter Premier, al- toady li6 no opted the invitation Earaon de Vnlira the president of tie Irish re public, announced thnt he was consulting with the principal representatives of fhe Irih nation befoie dei iding whether to at tend th' coiifereiie and Inter said he could not ni ci-pt the conditions laid down But he wrote "We most earnestly desire to 1 elj) to bring about a lasting pence between these two islands but ee no avenue by which it enn lw reached If vou deny Ireland essen tial tinltt ' Yet in spite of all De Valet a seem properly to be in a concilintort a mood as the King Condition), have come to uoh n pass flint they can no longer lie endured Thet are disturbing not oult to the relations betwien England and Ireland but to the relation between England and the rest of the world The tlini ha come for conciliation Tins is ndmft'ed in Englnnd, where the indigna tlon nt ihe puliet of the Government ha been expr ivitig itself in more vigorous term a the months bate passed It n admitted in Ireland where high nfticinl of the domi nanf Church have been denouncing the course of Irih leaders The lenders on both sides "f tin Irish Sea have evidently discotered thnt they must change their tactics. .lust what De Valern means by "the essential unit of Ireland ' i not clearly otident at the moment But it i suggested bv the outline of a program which has been made public -n this eountrt It is aid that if I'lster inif on the preservation of its I Parliament rt presenting six counties, th i Sinn Tetners will suggest that four more Parliaments be et tip each representing u counties, nnd that these five Parliaments be federated in sueh a way that n national Parliament representing the whole of Ire IhikI can be erentod A NEGLECTED MODEL WHEN Viscount Bryce said n the oeoa sion of the Inauguration in London of the Sir George Watson chair in American history that the United States Constitution is 'the greatest single contribution made to government as an applied science." he might also have said thnt the American States have not profited so much as they ought from its studt The Federal Constitution ha been vir tuallv ignored b.'jLthe mn nuo n0Tv DfPn preparing data tlB.hr used Jn the revision of ihe .Cnnstlhltlntrrrf 'hi. Stat" "- ' I - . . .Tlir.sreaUvlrtuc M the J-eUcrnl Consti tution lies in its simplicity. It lavs down certain principles and it delegates certain powers to the legislative, judicial and ex ecutive officers. Those powers are broad enough to serte all the proper functions of government. Legislation, properlv so called, found no place in the Constitution until the prohibi tory amendment wn ndopted. There was uo doubt of the right of the people to put into the Contitution a provision forbidding the manufacture nnd sale of Intoxicating beterage No State ContltutIon Is so simple a the I'edoral ConMitutlon. nnd every one of them ha been subject to frequent revision. . The men who have framed them have felt that they must legislate instead of permitting the Legislature to make laws from time to time fitted (o the tnrylng conditions of business and social life Our own Constitution is tilled with a inns of lpglslntlve provision of such tomporart character that hnrdly a ses sion of the Legislature passes without the submission to the people of nmendments chnnging some rule laid down In the past This lias come about because special in terests of one kind or another have wished to prevent th' blennlallv elected Legislature from changing the conditions under which thev could do business. It wn the same kind of reason that led the prohibitionists to init that the prohibition of traffic In in toxicating beverages should be put In the Federal Constitution An amendment empowering Congro to regulate even to the extent of prohibiting the traffic would have been in neenrd with the theory on which the Constitution tvns framed in the firt place But such an amendment would have left the matter nt the disposal of Congre. A wet Congres could have repealed the law of n drv Con gress, nnd a uccoeding dry Congress could repeal the wet laws. The prohibitionist wished to have the matter ettlednuee for all. o that they would not t)e compelled to fight eten two years for the things in which they believe If the delegate to the Contitutionnl Con vention in this Stnto could peruade them selves to trust the widom of the LogMature thet would model the new Con'tltutlon on the Federal Constitution, and would produce n document which would servo the needs of the State without amendment for a genera tion or two But if thev cannot do this It i morally eortniti that nmondnient tvill bo proposed nt the first session of the Legisla ture succeeding the adoption of the Consti tution which they drnft "WHAT ARE WE HERE FOR?" NINETY ONE new Kepubliuui number of the House of Hepie&entatltc held a caucus lust night to tind out what thet had gone to Washington foi . They hate discovered that the business of the Hoiiac is controlled nnd dirci led by men holding their p isitions because they have been in Washington n long time They hnve lenrued thnt it is virtually impossible for a new member to do anything that he must tvnit the pleaiii( ot the oldi r men and thnt the older men seem m many instances to have forgotten ttiuit the louutry expects of Congress. These men are not planning n bolt. They are merely trying to dicoici where they are and what they can do. Tin re arc so many of them that they nre astonished by the discovery that the old-tlmern hate puid so little attention to them nnd to their sug gestions. They are finding themeltes in a position somewhat resembling that in winch n lot of enthusinstic Republican found thenielvcs when they attended a meeting of a Repub lican ward organization in Brooklyn nfter the election of President Harrison. The ward was run by two or thiee men who gate orders to their follower. When the meeting tta held to elect ward ofhoer after the Republican national victory a lot of voters attended with the expectation of taking part in whnt wn done. But they did not get the chance. In explaining what happened the ward boss told his friend 'When I went into the room there wa a lot of guys there I never seen before 1 did uot know who they was or what they was going fo do. So I cnlbd the meeting to oider nnd had one of my men mote that we adjourn The motion was enrried be cause I did not call for the noes. The strange guys looked at one another kindn surprised like but wp turned out the lights and went home We wasn't going to take any i buncos about losing contiol of our machine." It is not quite so bad ns tins m Wash ington because the new members will stay on the job. but if thet can bienk down the old rule of seniority in committee appoint ments and the like thet will do their country u great service. JACK AND GEORGES THE lug prise tight dinws turner it A",, becomes a medium for some interesting revelation of nationnl pvehologt in this high -tempered Innd Imaginative corre spondents In the nam of the toothful Mr Dempsev see In the great personage a figure of authentic drama lose t,, tiagedv .link, we nre Informed, is sore lie h.is n brood ing. bitter sense of unfriendliness and oven nn'ngoiusin among the people hi falls his own Ho ha heaid the echoes of the root ing for the ehalUnging Frenchman who had what Is said to have been n gallant pait In the wnr which Jm k himself did not sec No one ought to envy ,Ln k Ins state of mind. Retribution, sueh is u . found him of couise unprepared Dempsev got hi, training in the mines Rnr fields of the , Fnr West and In i hlef mentor has been his manager. Mr kenni1 The crowd, the great i oaring crowd, whos.. plaudits everv one seek- seems to he - nit now on the fence Reniemhering nil tl,e tenths who went eagerly to the wni vi ithout thinking of monet or managers, it would like to put its money and Its hopes on ("nrpentler. Remembering that the fight is to be a con flict for the hanipioiish'.ii of the "world lie tween a toung man bun In the T'nired Stnte nnd a vming mini born abroad. It 1 for the American .lack, meanwhile stems actua'H to feel thnt ('nrpentler somehow persomfie the thing that has l.een nlling his Inter ye-irs with confu"Ion nnd insert of mind. lie doesn't 'ai V (ouragp Had it not roon for thi iMii.oiiig if s-.t'Mi n-oe ite he might have gone to the front a readllt a the next i. inn lie s, u,ii Inn i gone Because he didn't iiii'MiPcnusp he is In n mood to lash out fuiiouslt nt the chief sources nf ins tormenting memories I'nrpentier mat not last as 'ong a Ins most inthuiaste sup porters hope It i- nn odd "ituntion It is seldom that a nvin roaches the high tuid paradise of hi dreams nt twentv-fite onlv to find that the go'don apples contain nothing but dut and ashes The wise observer at tip ringside will he disposed to studv the crowd rather than the fighter How will the sympathies of the 'rowd run n the final breathless crisis'' There is no limit to the crueltt of which a crowd i capable no limit to Its generosity when it i in the right mood The crowd prohnbiv will not know It' own mind until the fight is within a intfiute or two of a decision And then it will be well worth seeing and hearing That the drv spell has I navoldnhle, of killed this year's crop Course of New Jersey mosqui toes I illustrates the truth of the saying tlinotfmt of crii good mv come Bui l( r. a contly a way ns burning a house to jet roast pie, AFTER TWENTY YEARS I City Solicitor Smyth Recalls the One ' Electioneering Disaster In His Life. Peter J. Hughes and the Horse Trough Also Jimmy Sheehan HY GEORGE NOX McCAIN ' TT WAS In the Mayor office. X They "were dlseuslng old-time elec tioneering experiences City Solicitor David .1. Smyth told a story ihnt In ought up vivid memories of school days and a lending exeicise thnt began: "Whnt strange eenes this enrth of ours presents: noontime and midnight arc not more opposite than the scenes that are passing before our eye." In the mutations of local politics the fact has been lost sight of for years that In 1000 the preent dignified City Solicitor was a candidate for the Legislature. It wa in the Sixth District, which com prise the Thirtieth Ward. Twenty years ago party spirit ran in tidal wnves In the Thirtieth. In fact to day, in certnln division, the old spirit and the love of a light survive to n most un usual extent. As a Republican candidate Smyth wa desirous. In the interest of success, of hitching as many Democratic voters to his "chariot as possible. Particularly the lrlh element, seeing that the blood of tho ould dart flovvs blue in hi own veins. JAMES B. SHEEHAN. otherwise "Jimmy. " the Register of Will, who. when occasion demand, can felicitate or Hatter a political gathering where Uie harp and the shamrock nre fetiche in n brogue that is as rich and sonorous as the bell of Shandon. was prevailed upon to make a peoch. or several of them, on behalf of Mr. Smyth. Not that "Jimmy" Sheehan was a Demo crat, but rather that he wa nnd 1 Irish in name and tongue. And there were Irih galore then in that ward. On a certain night in the early fall an out of-dnor.s meeting in the interests of the Smyth candidacy wns nrrnnged for the ex treme northwestern corner of the district. To be more explicit it was at Twenty third and South streets, in the open spnre where Gray Ferry mad begins Theie tta a circular cement watering trough, six or eight feet in dlnmeter and three feet deep, stnnding nt thnt time, and it mny be there yet, near the center of the nforesnld open space. That circular trough wns the scene of the episode, or disaster, as one looks at it from tin vnnlngc ground of tenrs. I dtdnte for legislative honors was then not overburdened with coin of the realm, it wn decided to use the wntoring trough for the spenkirV platform. Diteis nnd sundry bonrds nnd plank were "borrowed" fiom u .neighboring lumber yard nnd stretched from curb to curb of the trough. It wn nn elevnted. commodious nnil per fectly snfe rostrum for the Cleeros of demoo nny who were to harangue the multitude. The evening arrived and with it the crowd; notnnlv a number nf the younger nnd more militant Democratic element. They hung like n dark menace on the out skirts. Candidate Smyth hnd addressed hi "friends nnd fellow citlrens" in the most approved style with a particular appeal to the Democracy to help put a good man In office, Then "Jimmy" Sheehan like a second Demosthenes: arose. PETER J. HUGHES wa then the lead ing professional Democrat of the city. Politically. Peter's right hand never knew what hi left hand was doing; whether it was for Quay. Penrose, McN'ichol, or Char lie Donnelly and Tommy Rynn. On this occasion he wns nn unterrlfied Democrat with both hands open, so thnt all might see As Sheehan rose to speak he felt a tug ging nt hi coat-tail, while the voice of Peter J. behind him murmured: "Lemmo up there, Jimmy, I want to talk to thee Democrats myself. They nil know nio.I want to speak before you do." With the gracefulness of a Grattan, Sheehan introduced the Inimitable Peter J. Hughe as "that sterling Democrat." Then Jimmy nnd hi mustache fnded into the background temporarily. Peter was at his best a n Democrat that night. He was fervid, eloquent, snr castic and humorous nn behalf of his friend Smyth, the candidate for the Legislature, "from thi lnrgc and influential district " Peter buttered the candidate and sprend lam on top. Hlsbasie argument wn the old. decrepit, nnemic one: "If wo have got to take a Republican let us elect one thnt nt least will know no party when it comes to dealing with his follow citirons." Peter Hughes always maintained that it was thi speech that e'ected David J. Smyth lo tho Legislature. THERE wn. to coin n solecism, n pro groove renction among the militant Democrats on the fringe of the crowd as Peter pioceeded with hi oration. Firt there were snperlng allusion from the hunch. Then came muttered threats. Finnllv there sppmpd to be nn undirected but sitnultniiioti movement of irate young Democrats from the circumference to the centoi of the crowd and the speaker's plat form Peter had reached hi peroration He wn making whnt. in hi own rndng ternnotilar. flight have been termed "a dnshlng finish." It rnn "If ton want to honor vour district, my fellow Dimoerats. nnd send to the Legisja nire a gentleman who will ably and ade quately represent ton In a non -partisan spirit, then i est youi votes at the coming election for mi friend, nnd vour friend, Dntid .1 Smvth " With a sweeping gesture of his right arm. nn elnbornte bow, and n sonorous "I thnnk you " tho siienker ended i'l"it "I thank you' s. med to have been the mgnal the gang had been waiting for. BT EFORE "Jimmy" Sheehan with his light hnnd plunged gr-icefully in the V- shnped opening nf lu vest n la Daniel Webster, could step foiwani the catastrophe occurred The untutored nnd 'imorrifiod minority siiddenh shifted its attitude Some pushed while other" pulled on the plunk of the imico' ied n at form In an Instant It senned to the candidate nd speskris ns though t eie had come "the wreck of matter nnd the crush of worlds'1- - a second Deucalion's flood They found themsi Ives floundering In three feet of water with Pete Hughes' plug hai Hunting liki n bin" in their inldt But the gnng had not finished As Peter .1 heawd Ins 'J'J," pounds of soaking ntoirdupol over the rim of the trough two dozen eager hands reached for him Without waiting to grab his Stetson bob blng around on tho wavelets, the silver tongued orator made n whirlwind get-away that, for nlnibleness of footwork, wns never equnled bv Jack Dempset or Cnrpentler He butted his nnt through the crowd shot across the Intervening spae,. to South snoot and hooful It toward the South Street Bridge, four blocks nwav hi enemies in hot pursuit. Once bevond tho drawbridge pi tor wn snfe. though he left a dripping trail to mark his flight along the wooden pathwav The toughneck had hud tlifir revenge. t for Sheehan and the i inditlnte -soaked to jfte waistline and with wnter squirting from their hnp nt every step, thev were convoyed In sympathetic friends to n neighboring house where they were permitted to disrobe and wring out their dripping garment. ft was impossible to go home in their be draggled condition After struggling ineffectually to get Into their clinging sock and breeches some kindlv acquaintance secured sufficient mis fit garments to enable them to make a de cent exit from the scene of the disaster But David .1. Smith wa elected to the Legislature Just the same nnd true In Pete Hughes" itrcillntlon, ins subsequent nurse as A irti '.hoi uifv " ii"'o,-oi i iicuiiiiiiinw anu predictions. "NICE FOOTWORK, BUT HE NEEDS MORE'N THAT!" NOW MY IDEA IS THIS ' ' Daily Talks With Thinking Philadelphia on Subjects They Know Best DR. ROBERT H. SCHLESS On Child Nutrition I NS FRANCE . ngainst tubcrculosi nnd other serious diseases is the accomplish ment that makes the public work of caring for undernourished children one of the most Important of public health works, accord ing to Dr. Robert II. Schless. child spe cialist nnd director of clinics of the Phila delphia Health Council. "Before discussing the purpose and the workings of our nutrition classes," said Dr. Schless. "It would perhaps be better to re define tho term. Our classes are, In fnct, clinics for delicate children, and the method we use in treating these puny youngsters follows a line that emphasizes more essen tial ways of body-building thnu nutrition pri se. "Philadelphia has at the present time about tuenty-fito clinics, detoted entirely to the building up of undernourished and physically backward children. Of these, the Philadelphia Health Council and Tubercu losis Committee is operating fifteen and es tablished three more of the remaining ten, which have since been turned oter to other organizations for continuance. City Well Covered "These classes cover the city in n fnirly balanced apportionment, We hate classes ns far northeast ns upper Kensington, nnd as far southwest as Seventieth street and Woodland avenue. Schools, hospitals and community: centers nrotidc quarters for our efforts. Each establishment is a nucleus Into which are gathered the underweight children of the surrounding schools and community "Our children nre first weighed and those 10 per cent or more underweight provide the material for our work. It will, no doubt, be surprising to know that about 40 per cent of the children weighed arc found so for below their norninl nutritional stand ard as to demand constructive health and body building. "These underweight children nre given a most thorough and searching phyalcnl ex amination by phtsitian. whose training and interests are confined entyely to thi branch of medicine. In n Inrge proportion of cuses simple and enslly remedlnhle defects aio discovered whose presence alone account for the ensuing mal-(levelopment. Homes Are Visited "Trained field workers visit the parents of these children nnd an Intimate nnd in terested co-opernlioti is estnblished. Tin se children nre referred to specialists for cor rection of the t annus defects found, afttr tvhi'li the youngsters are, ns we term it, 'free to gain.' "It is here thnt the nutrition class steps in. These youngsters, with one or both of their parents, lire assembled in gioups and met nt regular short interval by a physician and nutritional expert Individual churl h nre drawn, portraying giaphliully each chi'd's weight deficit nnd noting the weekly progicSN toward normal "ill daily rest pei iod nre started for the fatigued group and In main instances the health council has provided rots and blankets for the purpose Analyses are ninde of the youngsters ' dit on neurit books kept by themseltes with startling findings "Through the co-operation of the Inter state Dairy Council, 100 quarts nf milk are supplied as nccessorv tond foi thehO children Through cTur field worker. their homo hygiene Is Improved and their social condition bettered "As n result of thise loinhined effoits, our children have hnwu remarkable lm proiemcnt, their gains averaging nbout nine- tenths pounds pei wcok per eniiii, winch i about seven times the weight gnln of the norninl vigorous child It enn thus be seen thnt It in simply n matter ot a short while before these voiingsters have been built up into sturdv, healthy young citizens. Special Cases Watched "Certainly there is a niunll percentage of stubborn cases where our routine methods have not siiflncd These children are re examined nnd spot inl services given, for exnniplc. additional vituiniiio to their food, arid In some ca-es calling for their lent ing school and being scut to the country far loinplete rest and imiukneinent. "The Phlladilphia vfeiilth Council and Tuberculosis Committee has made a for tunnte contract with the Department of Public Welfare of this citv whereby the letter's large estutes in Torresda'p hnve been provided for the erection of u summer camp where 100 children from the congested parts of ihe city will be sent for set oral months during tho summer This last is n logical coio'lary of our efforts during the school ear. fter all. in the broadest sense, this ittork Is a great deal morn than the mere ad dition of so inonj pound of muscle, blood "Froni llicse underweight children have been recruited In the pat the large annual 7 . i. .- " I f . -if-' V.f:V draft of the army of the tuberculou. With the present large number of active tuber culous cases alwnys In our midst, our ef forts to free the undernourIhed fertile field fiom infection from this disease would be n rather hopeless task. Resistance Is Strengthened "What we enn do, however, i to build up the resistance of these children so that wlien their Inevitable contact with tuber culosis takes place, they tvill be strong enough to ward off the disease nt its In ception. Dr. Cabot, of Boston, is thp au thority for snying that "practically all chlldien In large cities have had tubercu losis before reaching the age of ten." The strong overcome the disease; the weak either succumb or the bacilli smolder within them until luter In life, when some debilitating circumstance, such ns overwoik, nervous strain, or nn ordinarily trifling ncute in fection, lowers their vitality sufficiently to permit the tuberculosis germ to take the ascendancy over their body tissues "It is my firm belief that mostly nil, if not every adult case of tuberculosis, ha hnd its inception In childhood and that these cases are 100 per cent pretentable and thnt there is more wisdom In getting back to first principle of health and hygiene in childhood than In spending our annual trih ute of million of dollars for adult sanatoria and treatment. "So once more I re-define our 'nutrition classes.' Were pur sole accomplishment merely increase in weight we should he un satisfied: but giving Ihesc halting young sters more than a fighting chance against their disease enemies is to my mind tuber culosis prevention in the fullest sense of the word." Optometrist declares that Carpentlcr can see things almost before they happen; which isn't nearly as absurd as it sounds. This with a wish and a hunch may help to stimulate the betting. Every sale bv every Government de partment whatsoever only serves to empha size the necessity of a selling board of ex perts for the disposal of excess Government material, so thnt the goods may be sold when the markei I in a condition to absorb them and the b t prices may he obtained. What Do You Knoiv? QUIZ Who Is credited with the orgnnlzation of the famous tnxienh army tthich re enforced the French nt the Frattie. of 'he Mnrne In 19H' What la Tons-Wlnnecke? What Is meant by the expression "con cert pilch"' What ,ate. sent the most daleftTttea to thi I'ontentlon which framed the Con stitution of the United Rtntes In 1787? Of when was It said that he wbh a "literary man with a wooden leg and all prim I open to hlm"', Who was Tusltala"' Where is the famous tolcnno of Strom boll - fn v-hci wnr wa the population of the defeited nation reduced from 1,300 000 to 2:n noo Wlnt s the literal meaning of the word ventriloquism" Whnt is sorghum? Answers to Yesterday's Quiz The words of the 'Star Spangled Man ner were adapted bv Francis Scott Key to the air of "To Anncreon In Beaten" which Is said to have been composed hv Ralph Tomlinson. piesi dent of the Anacreontlo Society, nbout The Eiffel Tower erected for tha Tarl Exposition of ISS9. is list feet high Tlrso de Molina, ,i celebrated Spanish Pint w right of the late sixteenth and earlv s-venteenth centuries was the author of ' El Burlndor de Sevllla y Convldado de IModra" ( The Trltlir of Seville and the Stone Guest") In which he .haraeter of Hon Juan the rake InalTiVi?"1 ,he """ tlmu U'''n A e1pht,rnrnPb '" " thln Wrl,t,"n ,n 'Imprimatur" is Latin word meaning V It he primed" The term Is now urcd for an official license to ,r?nt and In n figurative sene a anno ,,., Harry M ugherty Is AUoniene?2 of t've I'nlted States 'socr.ii Tht; ",i,r,f, Ajf,'n'..ln?. "!!''- or th.eo .............. .. ., Ul IMUP nm,. . , yellow sun In the white ereuerto or sriiifo. l. i Uermun phvsicitin founder of'1.,'1 theory ..'' ni...mi JMVZ! 0'M to, - o' -" -'ii-. " I,r .s,) tr!U i .,'. 'J'."' fliBP.oinue pvmniiiM uuinj iin, i,oYtt I..-'' . 'V.o, dlrcuve-v Lit Mexico ht iSirn,.., . tna to be found in several parT, p'fMew" nine, wuri a hand The lulled States l.i,d claim to iiieC through the explorations of rnntn n tobert f rav at, n,e,c.u, n,," n I 7D: discovered th . olu.nl,,,, V, ' '" which he named nf-., i,, ..,..' " " i S.A y.yy 'tfr' I t. S.S' .. s SHORT CUTS A rainy spell W-E-T. What the ashcart needs Is a brake. These arc the days when Mercury fig. urc largely in the news. The way Council sits, we are convinced it hasn't a leg to stand on. The big fight is C. O. D the publk providing the middle Initial. Sir Ernest Shackleton is planning a trip to the Antarctic. Sounds pretty good this weather. iLis the general opinion In Washington that IIe1sAlaria is the world's moat mi culine feminist. Another strong feature of the big day nt Jersey City will be the ringside performance" of the trnlned seals. Now the question Is, Is the Weather Man a good fight fan? What the country wants is a haymaker while the sun shines. The Pacific Coast has yet to learn the ecret of Philadelphia's greatness You Cattell 'cm, doctor. You have the statistics, Senator Kenyon's proposed constitu tional amendment reminds us that miny a good horse'would have come in a winner but for a fool rider. Tombstone dealers are holding s con vention nt Asbury Park. The presumption Is that In their search for a good time they will leave no stone unturned. Vice President Coolidge is not what one would call a hasty man. Ills plea for re duced armaments, therefore, does much to discount the fears of Secretary Weeks. If It is true that the production ef alcohol bad become a menara to the big oil and fuel Interests before prohibition Bet In the chemists have more than the antl-booze people to fight. A New York firm, it Is alleged. In ordtr to nvoid the payment of a luxury tax, listed a silver cocktail shaker purchased by Con stance Talmadge for her husband as "fid dle, harness and spurs." Association of ideas. The firm perhaps confounded a cocx tail shaker with a stirrup cup. A refrigerator on a houseboat at Woodi Hole, Mass., exploded the other day, wrtrt ing the engine room, upper deck and Interior. Ethyl Chloride Is blamed for the "'": We can only suggest that henceforth Ethyl be more careful in packing the Ice ' Carelessness has wrecked more than on( interior. A Husband's Plaint J A Toledo man, whoso wife eloped with n son by a former marrlnge, Informs ttij police. they may bo able to Identity tier at street-car intersections because she wea" her stockings rolled down and she na bluebird nnd a. rosa tattooed on her knee. THE bluebird Is for happiness, The rose with love is born ; The bluebird's taken wing, I guess; ' The rose has shown a thorn By wife distressed, by son beset, My grief now all may see Observant cops, please lamp my pt And bring her back to me. I face the melancholy truth. My son hn set me wild. Ah. shnrper than a serpent s tootn Is nn ungrnteful child. To every Joy my heart is shut, Of laughter I'm afraid Ah. mel That I should so be cut Bv a Toledo blade. Once on n time, the poets note, Onp saw a lady' toes Like mice beneath her petticoat. But now her knees she nws Mv Laura's robbed me of my & ller conduct make nw blue, And on my heart her dimpled knees S,tlll beat a wild tattoo. She rolls her own Observe her when She mounts the street-cnr step. Be not too ciroumprct, ye men, And. mat be. you'll get hfP For if vour eves will do their part A picture they lll "'f' ... She never Knelt to Art. but Art She dandle on her knee Mt hnpplnesa was dearly ou. Mv woes were gift. l ""' I bad a vvife; I had n son ' Nor wife nor son '?. lilt! IIIUV'WOI u..,,; The rne with love m Xm The bluebird's k fV.1 rou has ihOWB worn. , The lilucblid I? lor Pi"Ki"'. o. h.A m
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