V - ,.i , & - . ;7A vv ' f t ii . t :x'fv C It I IV I i 10 jEuening public STefccjcr 1'UULKJ LEDGER COMPANY pxvin tflHYO: MA HTIN OcntrAl BuinM Manager ' R ttTJoiino aany at piislio Lidoct Dulldlns , inupprnacnce square l'mimieitinta 'IErrT rreta-union Dulldinit . Toic 701 Ford HultJIne X-,.-" ntt i . tiui .tmri Him All. Br. 1,oci Cmctou.. . . 813 Olotie Democrat Tlullllnc t . . ,"'03 Tribune llulldlng r.wa in ni-;.l s WAiHiwmov Bcrmi X.OMDON Dcebad . Trafalgar Huildlnc 8UI18CR1ITIONTEIIMH C Th Bvimino Pcilio Luxiim la itnkl to aub- terlbr In Philadelphia and aurroundlng- town to tn wrlSr. ( ' "nU pr WK- WaN' ehJrcJoVJ n?l.polnJ? ouJl of Philadelphia In S;I!5.,UM frce- n,,y ( cnl fr month. "'&iV, 40""8 W f PO-ahlo In advance iK.JlL??Leln ,?m,r' "" '1 dollar a month ,,. iSfS,u.b"cr,ber? w"hn addresa changed nuat ll old ua v.t'1 as neu address TITLU 3000 V.ALM.T l.fHT.m. M UN 1S01 lETAddreta all commtiiiicai con ,o f it-inn ; I'ublie IjUdotr, Indryenrttnrr fimi rr Fhilml, Inhia Member of the Associated Press T"BA8?OriATED I'm. as ( exclusx ?IV tn ViVf2. '? '"!-?,'.' Jor rrpubllcation of all neus Ottfotchct credit! to It or not otAcrulsr credited jMj pojier, and also the local neu.$ pubHahed lJiBht & wMeation of special dispatches narrtit oii alio merved. Philadelphia, luridly, Jul; 5, 1921 ST. GEORGE'S-ON-THE-PARKWAY THE llurrj over tho thicutcued dulim tlon of Old St Gccugo's Methodist Episcopal Chuich has ended not oul; lu the interchange of gracious amenities, but mi ciitltcly new proposal of possible- inspna tlonal value Bishop Berry generously realized tlie difficulties confronting the Bridge Commis sioners. Landmarks of some consequence wcro almost certain to be sacrificed in locating the structure. This 19 usually the way with progrcon, in consideration of which sense of proportion is needful. Engineer Ralph Modjeki "onsiderntely re sponded with the suggestion that uith a few trifling alterations in the plans St. George's could be spared on its present site. Bishop Berry continues th iourteiPs by ndvnncing the Idea that St Oeorge s as a memorial edifice would bud pb tiirequeness and his toric interest to the I'arkunv As a shriue of oarh Mcthodi-m in this city Its appeal would br- unquestionably broadened. It would be aTPiible to thou sands of persons who now seldom think of visiting tbo rrnnklin Square neighborhood. There is Mich n thing, of rouri-p, a ruth less vandalism It is alo well to note that special insos desmo sp(., inl treatment The suggested change would present no precedent for dismantling Independence Hall or transferring it to another location A sjnse of tho fitness of things is often an cffcctio rure for problems which, if pedantically and nnrrowlv viewed, seem in olublc. QUICKER THAN TREATIES "ITlHEUE is no necessity" declares Sen ator Brandegee, "for a treaty of peace, because we v. ill be at peace before a treat could be negotiated." Why was the beautiful lmplirit of Trm torial statecraft not recognized long ago? With a few graceful "wherens." ' not withstanding" nnd "despites." the Allies could hnve "resolved" themselves into a Rtate of peace with Germany without the agony, the expense nnd the political tinder boxes of the 1'nrls Conference If the dunderheaded diplomatists at the Qua! d'Orsay had onh thought of It, they might have inlled up (Jcrman.v on the tele phone. Even allowing for normal interr ip tions of bervire no transactions of plenipo tentiaries assembled around the traditional green baize table could ever begin to mat'-h the speed of peace by reeener and mouth piece. Jfow that the Knox-Porter resolution has become an official American pronouncement, It might be nell to give Berlin a ring. The congressional declaration is in efteet a grand choral soliloquv. We have informed our selves that we are at peace German an read til! about it in the news dispatches if she himt - Bv appli cation to Washington detailed information enn be obtained But whatcw-r old fnshloned ideas shf may entertain i nneerning treaties 4 L. ' r uxuua li. iv. cuiitis, rnrsiutNT. !JW.,0h . M""". Vice President ixnd Treasurer) .7 Chr1 A. Tyler, Seoreuryi Charlaa It. I.udlno (--. an, Philip B. Colllna, John . XVIIllima, John J. fV ''' Oeorte F. doldamlih, David E. SmlUy, W BMtt.ET Editor rj - 41 19 llljll' II1MJ-UM- M'l 11' I" UJI I lilll IPa hLs been done It The 1'nited States has made its own peni e In Its own wax One ran fel in the very air the tang of the new order of tilings HOPE IN MORE HOMES THEItE is encour.igi ini nt f'M Iihuh- seek era in an otenrowded 1 1 in the marked t-purt in dwelling nistru tinn re corded in the permits granted b the Bureau of Building Construction during last month. While the figuies are still far from the pre war noimalin it is apparent that the season of stagnation is ending at last. The total of 141) duelling", plnns for which were oflieinlh registered in luw. l'.tlM. is higher than that readied in nmrlj eerv month of last jeai Morcoer. tin pinior tions between alterations peinnts ami those for new constru Hon have indii ullv changed ratchlng-up pioieses are giving wa t" MgorouB enterprise. Summer Is of ioursc 'the building (an and its records provide the mosi triM worth; indices of the nitual sratc of ihe Industrv, The fact that iontruetioii operations begun in June, 101S, ninouuteil in wt'ue to onlv il,141,04n as against S 1 r.s7 JIT, for last month, encournginglv leveals the ivtint of improTcment Nothing like the true nieils of tin iu are met even bv this progies. but .luh Vugust and September of this viar mm be peetid ! make still better showings It Is uulikelv tnt the depression of the ciitluil ;ear of the war will soon iccur THE COAL TAX THE State Vuel Adnuuisiintoi of Massa chusetts lias asked tin- State Attorney General to cmtest the wilidny of the l'enn fylvanla tax on anthracite IT.- snvs that C lAI.V 4HM .. .11 t... .- . . ..! k ihj vu ui iiiii-sr mi- rosT oi nnmracite ij(.1 New England b; from thirty to fortv nts a ton .f TUn Inv .. l. ..t..A 1 . . V i.c iua in nr mini i'-M lli-Ii' llllioiiui.s If) MU a small fraction of this sum The difference if it is colltctul, will be rollui led by the coal profiteers - The .Massachusetts official is g .lug about the protection of the coal c onsiimcis in the .wrong wn lliev can b" piotectcd bj the Pf iiassagc of the Frelinshiiyseu nuhllcitv bill iJLwhlch the coal barons are attackins by n llargo and hlghl; organized nnd abundantly lignnnccd lobby in Washington Bf JTho barons do not want publicity. Thev (object to disclosing the costs of mining and tne amount mined ironi time to nine nun tnu amount sold and the prices obtained Thev aro charging the men who nre demanding this sort of publicity with seeking to apply bolshevistic methods in the I'nlted States As to the right of Pennst Irnniu to tnv anthraclto In the vvii; it has been taxed opinions In this State differ. But as to thn right of a State to levy such taxes as its own courts rcgord us constitutional without jntcrfcirnce from other HtntcH there inn he nq ipiestton w l"ii? ns lliose taxes ore not 'ogrt t've" 'vltliln tly meaning of the i'ulerat, v,ouituUou. The tui ou authra- cite cannot be maele an export tax bv such I cnnractcrizatlon of It by either it Congress man or a State Kucl Administrator. The anthracite tnx Is levied uniformly on nil anthracite mined In the State, whether for domestic consumption or for sale In other States. t Is an export tax no more than Is the tnx on wholesale business In this State levied by the Mercantile Appraisers. VACATIONS COME FROM ROME, BUT THEY ARE NATURALIZED And the Economists Are Saying That They Are Worth Much More Than They Cost THOUSANDS of the people who left the city last Saturday returned Inst nluht or this morning. But other thousuuds will remain away for a week or a month or until September, according ns their convenience or their necessities dictate. This Is because the annual vacation season begins with the Fourth of .luly. The schools nic closed and the diildicn can be taken to the shore or to the cotintr;. where the mothers will gei such rest iih possible away fioni the caics of the houses In town. Some day on industrious investigator will write u book about the development of tho vacation habit in modem mnn. It Is not very old in the United States savo among the town dwellers. Fifty years ago it was raro for a business man in a village of L'000 population or less to take a vacation. Ho was on the job from January 1 to December "1 of every ;ear. He shut up shop on New Yoir's Day, tho l'ouith of Jul;, Thanks, giving nnd dnMmus. but that wns about all The same i ule was observed b the little man in the cities alo at that tune. But the woid vacation Is nun Ii older than the custom which It desiubes in the I'nlted States, Indeed, it Is about as old as the l.ntln language. Cicero nnd Horace and Quiutilliai used It in the same tense that it is used today, us lcisuro or freedom from lnbor. Aud in the brilliant period of Borne In which these men lived thoso who could afford it took vacations. They went to theii villas in the mountains or to the more luxurious villas in Pompeii, which bore about the same relation to Naples and Home that Atlantic Clt; bears to Philadelphia and New York. The ancestors of the men who now speak the English language were then living n sort of .1 tilbal life in huts nnd worshiping strange gods. But Uoiniin civilization car ried its language with it and the oilgliial Anglo-Saxon was enriched from time to time by thousands of words, cither directly from the Latin or Indirectly through the Italian, French or Spnnish. And ninong thoso words was vacation. It had n limited meaning in England oiigmnlly, being re stricted nt first to a description of the In terval between the sessions of the high courts. Then It came to describe the period when the colleges were not In session, and now it is the common term In use in America to indicate the short or long period which a man takes from his work for rest and ret nation. The English use holiday also in the ame sense, and speak of taking n holidu; where we speak of taking a vacation Some et; -mologists say that liolida; tiace back to the Anglo -Saxon vvor'1 meaning a dnv of rest, nnd those who prefer vvoids of Savon origin to Latin derivatives prefer liolida; to vaca tion. But by whatever name the thing is called. It is one of the most wholesome inventions of the human race. Economists nre be ginning to think that it has a money value; that the man who has two weeks or a month free from grinding toll every jear will do better work tbnn the man who is on the job for twelve consecutive months. The campaign of the lnbor unions for nn eight -hour dnv is based on the theor; that there i a limit to the number of hours during vvhic h n man c an do pioclin tive work. Twelve and sixteen bonis n dav used to be required, but that number was reduced to ten unci the results vveie so satisfactory that in most occupations the eight-hour day is now the rule The demonstration of the economic valuo of the concorvtttion of human energy will do more than all other forms of propaganda to spread the vacation custom Into industries wheri it Is not now obseived If It can be proved that something pa;s In clollais and cents few will object to it. The man who gets the rct from work knows that it pays him In many wavs. It ii tunes n jangled nerves It smooths the wi inkle- from his blow. It enable, bun to git a new grip on his lob when he returns to It and It prolongs his life Vnvv and then one ineits a man who boasts tint he has never taken n vacation nnd has never suffered from the link of It. But it frequently happens that such n man collapses suddenly as the famous- one boss shnv and there is no lebillldlni: him It Is fiequentl; snld that the mother of .voting dnldrcii never gets n vacation This Is true for n few vears But the children grow up and leave lmme, nnd then the mother with empt.v aims ; earns for her babies back again. If -be can get them in tin form of grandchlldien she is blessed in deed and she appieemtcs her good fortune. But If some arrangement could be made h which mothers i mild cet relief dining the vr us when their ihildien are little the old age of nmnv n woman would be serener than i ."now possible for sin' . paving the penalty nf overstrain endured for too long a period COOL THOUGHTS AT '11 XTl nub THE eiuic'i end of nowhere, nnoo and 10(HI miles inuiliiast nf t'-ipe Horn, lies TiiHtnn do Cuiilid lompHsing three small voleiiuic . lands wbnh will mine under the seic nti lie mm of Su Kimst Sliac kleton in his new expedition tlimugh Atluntic, Pa c iln mid A nun i tie mii Human isulntion luiches its i limax in this 1 1 1 I l-.li i olollv ' lit i nllipui isein Bit i nn ii . Island in the South Pacific, famed as I he lust icfuge of the mutineers of the Bniinlv i. popul ins and contiguous to civ Uiiition In l'"' there was n total of ninetv -tivi' persons living on i emote Tristan da Ciiuhu 'I he islands nine occasionally visited bv Hnsl Ilidlanien. lie entliel; be ;oiid present dnv commercial routes In litOH the inhabitants of these moun tainous ridges protruding above the level of the South Atlantic were invited bv the liiltUli Government to migrate to South Africa nnd were even offered allotments of land there The; refusul Little is known of the fate of Tristan da Cuiilia during the war period Presumably those who pcisistid in Hi Ins also persisted In describing their unique habitat as home. The meager accounts of the islands con tuin however, such statements ns these: "Bain is frequent In summer the nverogo temperature Is ri!5 degrees Fahrenheit." The average throughout the xear is fJS, the (sea sons, of course, being reversed In the Southern Hemisphere Sweltei'iig Phihielelphinns will not Insist on the repetition of these facts in order to comprehend the rcluctnnce of Tristan da ('unban tr) emigrate Nor in this June, Itt'-M, will the inclination to pity Sir Ernest Sbackleton pune Irresistible Ills taste lu tiavel nnd abillti to gratify it nie, indeed, as much to be envied as nre the climatic de lights which N'nture In her compensatory mood lausbcs upon the fortunate few In the most obscure corner of Britain's diversified emn're .Whim Juu; sua plaza ana me uuuuuny EVENING PUBLIC LED(ER-rBHILADELJPHIA; climbs and the crops burn, think of Tristan (In Itinlia. it Is far away, of course- like Paradise. SECTARIANISM AND CHARITY THE condition produced by tho Supremo Court decision upsetting State appro priations to sectarian or denominational charities will have to receive "the serious attention of all the charitably disposed. The Constitution forbids appropriations to such institutions. But mnny, If not nil, that have received Stato aid aro open to persons of nil sects and denominations. Al though the; arc under sectarian control, the Legislature has appropriated monev to them ,,)n ,7'c theory that the Constitution mcreh fen bids the tiso of State funds for the benefit of various sects but does not forbid the use of Stato funds for the charitable work of the secU which is not confined to adherents of thoso sects. The validity of this theory had not been tested In this State until the suits were brought on which the decision has just been made. Although there nre slmllnr provisions in the Constitutions of other States, public money Is appropriated In those States in the same way that It has been appropriated here, and on the same theory. Until the Constitution Is changed the In stitutions which have been lccclvlng State aid will be dependent entirely on prlvnte contributions. Some of them will be com pelled to curtnil their activities, and the inmates or patients who have been cared for in them will have to bo cared for in non sectarian Institutions under private control or In State institutions supported entirely from State funds. The plnln purpose of the Constitution is to prevent the use of public monej for the sprcnel of sctarlan doctrines. It is to Insure the complete separation of Chinch and State. It is generally admitted that this is In accord with the spirit nf American institu tions nnd no one would urge that an; other policy should bo adopted. If there Is nn institution the inmates of which arc subject to tho discipline In any way of any sect, that Institution should not be helped with money from tho State fnnds. If there Is an Institution in which no one but members of n certain icct are admitted, such an Insti tution should clearly be supported by the members of that sect. But every ono knows that there are many institutions open to tho needv nnd the suffering of every sect, even though tlioy nre managed by one sect, nnd that in such institutions there Is no com pulsion to conform to any sectnrlnn tests or to submit to any sectarian tenchlng. If a way cannot be found to nsslst these institutions to do the work which hut for them the State itself would have to do. then the Smic Institutions will have to be enlarged and the purely secular Institutions privately maintained will have to receive larger appro priations. The decision nf the Court bns mnde It certain thnt when the convention is cnlled to revise the Constitution the section of that document ricillng with nppronrlatlons to charities will be discussed with n fuller understanding of its importance than would have been the cne if the appropriations had not been invalidated , SHORT CUTS Next stop Labor Da;. Still talking about the big light? The fans ma; now give a little attention to baseball There Is now a lot of good firewood for sale in Jersey City. The Lagle didn't scream ;ctcrday. chortled safely nnd sanely. It You can't convince those who guessed wrong that the best man won. The Weather .Man feinted so cleverly thot nobod; seemed to know whether or not to expect a kiuiekoHts Wisconsin has passed n law prohibiting the manufacture of home brew. It will be, however, no ban on trouble Far be It from us to swank, but we kind of like the stuff our own Bob and Bart turned in from the "roped nrenn." At the State Fair in Sv recuse, N. Y., there is to be exhibited n twelve ton cheese. We'd like to see the loaf of bread that goes with it There is something more than apt allit eration in the Ma;or's phrase, "Wiggling V (glelli lucre positcness is assonance and np- J Ogdi-n Aimour, packet nnturally wanted to know something of the men who pack n punch. Come to think of it, n pugilist is a natural born lurnt packer, an; ua; Be ports of an alligator upsetting n boat nnd uttmkiiig a man in the Ohio Hlver near (nllipolis, l, cause one to wonclet whnt the prohibition agents are doing in that section Buffalo has raised the price of marriage licenses from SI to .fL', nnd the number of licenses issued In n month bns decreased 2.'t per cent Who would have belicied Cupid w as sue h a inker'' The nnmml festival of the joint church brotherhoods in Port Vorrls, ,) , on Sniurdu; last was marked bj three boxing bouts. See what the example of Jeise; City has done alreadv A carload of fiesh fruit arriving in New York fiom California sold in packages of ten or twelve pounds for Si.' L'.i anil 52.30 n piicknge. What kind of fruit? In the name of the piotit tigs A Noi lliwestern I uliersiti piofessor bns hiiceeedicl lu piodiicing mi car of corn with red, white and blue ki rneln From this he ought to be able lo produce 100 per cent American c ornjulce Sleuths of the International Reform Bureau are nlleged to have discovered that each of the heai; contenders In tho big fight bad planned to deliver a knockout blow. W'utson got the needle all right. The Young Lad; Next Door But One says thnt now thnt London has put a statue of Washington in Trnfnlgor Square, Phila delphia can do no less thnn put a statue of Trafalgar In Washington Suimre. A Chicago man defeated fortv-fivu women in u biend-baking contest nnel wns awarded a clnint; ribboned apron. This will entitle him to put on some crust, but be prolmbl; would hnve preferred the dough. Smoking has been prohibited In the cvclnne-swept area of the Olympic Peninsula In the State of Washington, and not n patriotic smoker In the country will object. The order was issued to protect tlie district from fire. Dr. Valeria Parker says "he vamps" are responsible for gills who wear short skirts and paint ond powder. BIghto! And girls who wear short skirts nnd paint nnd powder are responsible for "he vniups." Sume old vicious circle .. Just as the .louuj artist was nhout to be cvie ted from his room In New York for non-pnvment of tent, the postmnn arrived with a letter Informing him thnt he had won the Prix do Rome, which meant that bis troubles were oier and be might study nbroad No. that Isn't the end of a miign zlue storv. It comes from thnt best collec tion of tltort Uorlcn, the uews columns. AS ONE WOMAN SEES IT Punctuality, Fees, Dress and tho Lack of It, Informality and Intuitu gencc, tho Little Red Sehoolhouse, Cabbages and Kings ly SARAn D. LOWRIE TTJARLY In June I received nn Invitation J-J to a dinner given by the public school teachers In town to celebrate the successful round-up' of vnrlous legNatlie and school board men mm o. for better school con ditions and salaries. The Invitation had tucked to it somewhere a remark that the rr,inr. i " u"'' to ke informal ns to dress, ihnt Is simple for a man; for a woman It Rives a variety of choice, nnd when thcro Is inricty of choice there Is uncertainty. I solved my uncertainty by wearing what was most becoming to me, nnd thus fortified S,Lnt ")rtn t0 mcct mr bosts, .i Tho, "'nncr was scheduled to take .place at ihc. KltX'Carlton at tho hour of 0:30. Thinking tenehers would be likely to be prompt, I was not more than a quarter of an hour Into, but when I was waved bv the elevator mnn to the dining-room lloor clonk room not n soul hud turned up, not even the languid person lu black that checks your outer garments. When she appeared and took my wrnp 1 remarked : "Well, the teachers aro Intel" "TnHEr aro that, for once!" said she, A. nnd by the lift In her voice I knew that she was Irish, so whllo I put on my gloves I settled down on a corner of tho .5 J,0, lmvo a PItnsnnt chat with her. She said life was strenuous nnd not very lucra tive just that week on account of visiting ladles, who. though on pleasure bent, had a frugal mind when It came to coatroom fees. Women coming with their husbands were not its mindful nn yon might expect; in fact, they erc plain sting;. In the matter of feeing women, nny way, weic not so dependable ns men. She could not snv why j she herself, when on n holldav at " tlSP.t.i9 Pr elsewhere, never took lunch oven at Childs' without giving her fee. Quito casually, so as not to seem to be curious or anything, 1 nsked her what her average Intake of fees was a week. I think she was about to satisfy me when our heart-to-heart talk vvus interrupted bv the nrrlvnl vi iiuouicr gocsi. feeling like" nn old comer. I welcomed the newcomer with the lemark thnt I vvus glud to see teachers could be late. SHE glanced nt ma rather coldly and seemed to nvold mo ns being too chnttv. She was n very handsome brunette and wore n sort of sheath diess of spangles, cut low even for this season; nlso cut short. It seemed to my admiring gn7e a verv expen sive dress, and I wondered how her snlarv stood it. I wondered, too, how oue could say of her: "She puts nil her money on her bnck !" One renllv could not say it. the wnv tho dress was cut. I was just about concluding that thnt well-worn phrase would have to' be scrapped for good and nil when more heavy beauties in spangled decollete ni rived. In nice, nicy inigiu tic said to -pour In. So rich and splendid was their upholstering, so solid nnd careful was their make-up, that I sat transfixed. If this is "informal dress." I thought, and if these nre teachers, henvoS help the taxpayers ! Suddenly n gleam of mis piling ns to my own right as n guest In their midst struck something like panic across mv brain. I hurried out into the corridor, now full of husbands to match the wives hus bands opulent and glossy and well-packed into well-pressed snllQvvtnils and woll braldecl trousers, creaking In portentous shirt fronts. To one who belli a list In his hand I squeaked rather than nsked: "Is this the teachers' dinner?" "Teachers nothing!" ho rapped out per emptorily, nnd then, looking riie over dropped a little of his hnughtlncss and waved me to a Itltz utteudant, who nlso had a list I put the cfuestlon differently to thnt func tionary. "Where is tho teachers' dinner?" said I. It aln t anywhere ;et," ho replied after tvpereeptlble pause, in which ho, too, looked me over. "It's next week!" WHEN I reall; got to the real party the following week it was such n relief In pra.icr-iiicctlng phrase, it wns more than I could ask or think. The teachers wcro ctlme. they did dress Informally that is, in what wns becoming to the individuals, for the women part of it. nnd for the men just ns It happened. And there was not a heavy, opulent face ninong them, but plenty of keen, mnsterful, sentle, dreamy, shy meditative, intellectual faces. There was the leadlcst laughter I have ever heard at a public dinner, nnd to judge by the round table whcie in; card directed me, verv good talk before the speeches. I had the principal of a downtown Bthool on my left nnd the sccretar; of the Child Welfare Association on my right, two voungish, pretty primary teachers opposite me nnd n profes'sor some body next to them. The dinner Itself wns ver; good nnd the speeches most spontaneous nnd well directed. 1 could hnve shouted my pleasure and relief. Dr. Finegnn made a little excursion out side the town in his speech. He made a prediction to those Mm men and women thnt, if it comes true, will be the best thing that has happened in Pcuns;hauln In mun; a ;ear! He spoke about the country sehoolhouse. the "little red sehoolhouse" 0f poetiv nnd fiction, mostl; fiction lie said it was to be scrapped. And unlike the man in the Scriptures, who pulled down his bnrns and built greater, It was to be chopped into kindling wood so far as its pattern nnd its type went, and both it nnd tho kind of niind-trnining thnt It hud sheltered were to be icplaced b; a sehoolhouse and school pro grnm that would place the country boy and girl on an educntiouul plane with their town cousins. To those of us who know whnt n farce the "little red sehoolhouse on the hill" has been for the last lift; jeats, except in raie instances and lu favored localities, this was good news indeed ! I WAS asking a country postmaster not long ago what competitors he ns a Demo crat expected to emit him from the sent of the mighty he hns occupied in his villn"-e through two Administrations. He chuckled and said : "There are onl; two men I'm afraid of, and the; don't want the job!" "Wb; are you afraid of them, then?" I asked. "Because the; could both of them pass the civil servfee examination necessary to -et the appointment, and no one else can ; thnl's why. he said. I thought he exaggerated the lack of school learning of his home i Hinge. There nic about (MIO men, women nnd children in that small farming tnmmiiuitv, On inquiry I discovered thnt ver; few of the men nnd hois have eier gone be; ond the first few grades in the lillagc school nnd bnrely know how to write. Some few can figure, nlmost all ran rend n little, and beyond that "they do not care to go." CURIOUSLY enough, plentv of their women can write lery well, and they could, some of them, pass nn exflmlnntloii for Postoftice duties because they have been sent to high school in the nearby town. Going to high school is nn expense In tho family of a farmer about equal to a profes sional man's sending n son or daughter lo college, and therefore not to be entered into llghtl;. One such fnmlli that I know took some snvlngs nnd put another mortgage on the barn nnd sent one of the girls off to a higher grade school. 1 gavv her this week, hack from her ; ear's work. She told mo she had flunked on mathematics, but got high grade on nature studies. She Hnid the; had n ellfferent method of teaching mathematics fiom the one she was used to, but the nature studies were from the same course as sho had taken In the village school Apparently they oil study nutiire out of a book. Which occnilnts for the fact that an ordinary country child does not know how to ''weed a (lower garden. That, is, ho pulls up the flowers and leaies the weeds. Which mny account hIso for the fact that when my house up in the country was entered this vc-tr the onlv thing taken was "IIov to Know, the Wild Flowers," by Mrs. Duu. TWESBAY-iTULY. '5,' iVviA- r m&Cm4rmv,v rnrmwM'mn - WISStllM WKtfl M , 111 CW'w&SkfdLQME ALL! J C ) r fLlXfm rJjt' r ijiiTMMMiiH3IJrnPin,iii I e 1 i i 7" . I r NOW MY IDEA IS THIS Daily Talks With Thinking Philadclphians on Subjects They Know Best GEORGE W. WILKINS On the Down-and-Outer THE problem of the man who is down and out Is more acute nt the present time than it has over been, in the opinion of Georgo W. Wllkins, superintendent of the Galilee Mission, "Not only," said Mr. Wilkins, "is it more acute, but we nctuall; get more men in this condition todny than at any time in m; long experience. "Man; things, hnve contributed to this. At present, 1 should sny that the thtee pilnclpal causes arc uuemplo;ment, drunk unucss and domestic troubles. A large per centage of those who come to us now nie shlp;ard and munition workers, thrown out of cmplojincnt when the war came to an end, who became stranded here. "In addition, the adjustment period bus added to this condition, nnd hiiudiiils of men slncerel; nnxious to be cmplo;cd nre unable to find places. "Diunkennubs is n large factor. In ah my experience 1 have never seen more drunkards at our doors than vie find nlmost nuy dn;. For the firbt few months nftei prohibition, when It vvus enforced, the number of drunkards was cut away down, but since the enforcement agents have been diminished alcoholism has bud things all its own wnv. Hair Tonic Favorite Beicrago "An; thing with ahohol In It seems to be welcome to those of this t.ipe that lie find. Hulr tonic Is a faionte beierage. All the gamut of spirit comfort from this form to shelluc Is to be found ninong the men who have come to m; intention. Piohlhiiitm seems to huve inci eased the number of down-uud-outcrs rnther than decreased it. "The dope fiend Is nnothcr of our cus tomers. Things got so bad thnt the; came right to the doors of the mission to use drugs. I tinnll; was compelled to shut down a drinking fountain outside the building, as the addle Is came heic and mixed their doses. It vvus not on I x a bad mm nl influence for the children in the neighborhood, but an actual source, of pli; sic at i ont.iiuinatlou. 'Domestic trouble help nuiteiiull; to swell our lists. Men who fall nuclei this cause are at once both vet; hopeful and ei; difficult cases. In most eases their prine had been badlj hurt and thev icipnru the most sympathetic and delicate ticatinent to bring them around agulti. On the other n u nil. inure in eiioiiKii iiiuaie decency In thcin to mnke them come back for good when the first difficult problem nns been over come. "This cluss has Included some splendid men, men whose sen ice to the woild was great unci whose careers nppiiimtl; were of the brightest In innnv inses, though, the shock from this cause bus meant a broken hen it and n consequent tinged; . Lny Muu Hardest Problem "The constitutional!) laz; man is one problem that it is almost iiupo.sibiu to t0u.. Mere we have our panhandlcis, our hoboes and otheiH of their ilk. The ultimate course for them Is in ull likelihood the jail, "Wo huve the great unwushecj, those who nexer wash and never Intend 'to wash at least not volunturlly, uud the kind who would embruce leliglon or hii; thing else to get something for nothing "One thing thnt is imperutiiu hero is tho requirement that the recipient of our help must pa; a nominal suin, oi, if be has no monej, must do some wink for his food and lodging. It i nut so much thnt we want either fiom them, but it Is a great way to instill that pride in themselves which is tbo tli st step in bringing back the fellow H, Is down and out. 'Something attempted something clone, bus rained n night's npose ' mid Longfellow. The piide in ou ruing vv lint .von get is one of the gieuttst little wu;n of bringing to the surface helf-rcspcct that I know ot "The hold-up man .or ciookcd biibincss men do not come to us. We have too in. nulling n disposition for them. Neither does tlie fellow who would 'put one oier ' If a man comes here we help hn, to help hliut-elf. but be must help himself. Ho must arise Ii; U o clock in tlie dunning, unless be Is too sick or crippled to do so, and must bein b) M ...'lock an light lle'basioge out b; S o clock in the inclining nnd cnniioi bung iiiouiid lure during the dui' Tim ub jeet of this is to push him to hunt work, Often Ailiaiiie Funds "If u mini is out of funds and has oh tallied n pcslTloi, we ndvnuce him enouch funds to tide him our. But Lc Uiei t! i921i? "PLACE YOUR BETS!" CHAMPION) 'put ono ovei' and has not obtained n posi tion ho Is likely to find himself out of luck, ns vi e hnve u vvoy of investigating these inntteis. "We nre caring for nhout 200 men a dn; bere now.- We bouse about 130 every night. Bier; mun is fed, given u clean bed and clean ulgbtclothes. lie is also obliged to take a shower, bath If he needs it and is chisel; luspcctcd. In fait, our mission com pares favorably In cleanliness with nny Hrst cluss hotel. "We tlon't belioic In preaching n mun back to normal. We find that n good squiiic meal ami n little humun interest and understand ing arc the most effective methods. Many of these fellows have gone for ;curs, probably, without having a single person to tukc a genuine, honest Interest In them. "Man; n man who would ordinarily bo sent to jail, bnvo n criminal record regis tered against him and turn into the paths of crime. Is saved h; being taken i ii" baud at the right time and gucn u little help uud eucourugement. "All tho men who come hero nro not bums, cither. We have hud hankers ruined b; speculation, ph.vsklans, men of wide fame, writers unci prominent men of v minus tjpes, who huie lccelied n seieic setbuck of some fcort and have lost their ambition. We neicr icveul their names, because a man cun help himself better if shielded fiom the uus;mpu thctlc e.ic8 of the multitude. "We do the best we can, but it is a heavy struggle when ;ou face conditions such ns we huie toda;, which have seemed to ion spire against the lessening of the tanks of the eluwn-and-oiiteis." Today's Birthdays Jan Kubellk, one of the world's most celebrated violinists, bom near Prague fort; -one .vears ago Dr. William J. lliitchlns, president of Bcrca College, bom in Hrookljn, N. Y,, hftv .vears ago. Rabbi Judnh L. Mognes, celehmted Jew ish scholni and social workei of New York City, horn in San Fruncisco forty-four ;ears ago. Frances Tlernnn ("Christian Held"), n prolific writer of popular novels, boiu nt Sullsbury, N. O., seient;-five jenis ago. Admiral Sir lledwoith Meux, distin guished Biltish naial olhcer, born slxt;-fivc ;cars ago. What Do You Know? QUIZ 1 What Is a dumdum bullet nnd why is it so called'' In what famous work of fiction does tho character ot Dulclne.i occui .' 3. What 1 1 KtopliHR ' 4. Who preceded Karl ns Kmperor of AU3- lilu-lluiigary' t. What Is tho particular distinction of Mount Mitchell In tho Appalachian sjstemt 6 Who was Ceien In classical in; thologv " 7 What does tho flist amendment to tho I'eclernl Constitution provide? 5. What Is a proscenium ' t). Who was tho first American euptaln to carry tbo national flni? around tho globe on a contllllioiiH vovni:o" 10 What Is a squeegee? Answers to Saturday's Qulr Hollo, on tho Island of Patin;, is the second htyest ,ij tbo Philippines, with a population In 114 of 4S,0u' Woodrow Wilson was (,-rndunted from I'llncetou and in law fiom the Unl varsity of Virginia "i'liclo nnd Prejudice" and "Northanger IAllm II li turn wi..l 1.. ,.. . O"- 4 lliu principal war between tho Uocr He- V.uV.lle,a i"f. 5?.u,h Afrlcft a'i'l Ultat llrltnln Instcd from 1S0U to luu.' 5. "Meimlero" sauco meiins "miller's wlfu" sauce;. "Meunlcie" Is the fcmlnlno of tho French "mtunler," mlllei fl Vermont was the. first State to be ad- thirteen!'' U,"" ',ftcr ,lle "rllnal ' - "" '"" liwiin U) JU1IU ,usten 7. Ttcumseii was a noted chief of the Nimwueo Indians por .... ally of the British in the War J 'Sl-' Il wnt killed In III. Hattlo e.f tho Thames, Canada, In IS I iiu nervcei as nn lm- i mi imimcii leim nliuft means behind hi tho stern bnlf of the ship. "cm"0' ., . " " iiliieiiiniv IS II IOW 10. rriTY rHAMPioNi i;im r. or even I. adimculf,', "inovlcion '.aT , 2!p? 1 1 ii r f iininu in n, ..i.i. m . --- w. mMlMMMk gr.ra" HUMANISMS By WILLIAM ATIIEKTON DU PUY WHEN the American Society of Inter national Law, of which Elihu Root is president, held its first convention for eight ;cars in Washington a few weeks ago, the consensus of opinion wns that a mean and mnlovolent atnto of mind that is world-wide had grown out of the war. Dr. Nicholas Murray B-itlcr, of Columbia University, seemed to express the feeling of the gather ing when he said: ' There Is safety only in traveling at the into with which public opinion can kep pnee, and we have been exceeding the speed limit. Frank Thomas Hittcs cnlisteel as a pri vate In the army back in 11808. Twenty years later ho was retired ail brigadier gen eral nt the nge of forty-one. He It was who hnd chnrgo of transportation for tho army during the great conflict nnd he it was uho made a record on his lob that was equaled by few in that stupendous undertaking. Iioscoe C, Mitchell, recently special agent of the Snipping Board in Europe, was a newspaperman back In 1014 and went to era Cruz to write of the American occu pation. He had nn office nnd Itlchard nardlns Dnvls, the dollnr-a-word war correspond ent, came in one day and borrowed his type writer thnt he might write an expensive article for his mngnzlne. He finished the job. mailed the article and put n carbon of It in a pigeonhole, sayinr that he would return for It Inter. About thnt time n mere reporter named Montie fnsey rushed In. He had just ar rived nnd wanted Mltchel to tell him every thing that bad happened. Mitchell was busy, so he gave him Davis' carbon to read nnd went on writing dispatches. Casey got the impression that he might use this "black sheet" in his pnper if he chose. A week later Davis got a cable which said that his maga7lne had just received Mi excellent storv but. unfortunntclv. the news pnpers had already printed it under the sig nature of ono Montie Cnsey. He wns a venerable clerk in the Depart ment of Interior, nt Washington, and lie hns sat at a certain desk and done a cer tain routine of work In a certain way for fortv .vears. Then along came a new, bree?;, vounj assistant secretary from Spokane, Wash., who hud ideas of efficiency, one Francis M. Goodwin, b; nnme, Goodwin thought that by changing the desks In the office around n bit the paper that passed through it could be rerouted and expedited. He had the janitor push them a bit from their accustomed places. He did not know that this would break Into the nceiisffmed scheme of life of the iigeo ciers; tnnt it would seem to hlni a tragedy, a usurpation, nn outrage. The assistant secretary had never worked for forty ;ears at one tnsk executed In a prescribed wnv. He hadn't the xpcrience with which to mensure tho gravity of his offense. , Sl'Kr?n funeral Hugh S. Ciimmings, r,f the Public Health Service, has traveled all oier the world during the Inst twenty-fiv. yenrs, bus lived in the Orient, in Europe, In Boston, in San Francisco. U no sooner addresses ;ou. however, than It becomes evi dent that he is u native of Tidewater, Vir ginia. The Surgeon General is a snndy person oi obviously Scotch extraction, is very tall, slender nnd irnecful, is a model of courtesy. He sees the part the United States would pin; in mi International organization from a new angle "Moro seiuce would be rendered human it;, t seems to me." he snjs, "through v.urjii.K io me notions of the world tn lessons thnt America has learned In sanl tation thou in any other way. That world admits that we of them nil hnve advanced fastest and fiuthest In sanltutiou." t He had grown up ns one of six children u the family of a Baptist minister, Senator (ceciige H. Moses, of Now Hampshire, M), and hud managed to get tluough Dartmouth College. H used to bo an unwritten re quire-incut for ciaduallon nt Dartmouth that n iirin w oik one summer as a waiter In lescnt hotel, leach -i winter school or spend a vacation as a nook ugent. He met the qiiiieiueiitH, feu he did all thice. rheii. after he was graduated, he got u job as icpoitei on u newspaper in Coucniel at ?! a week. lie niilil SU ii iiKitiii, t,ir n rnoiU' unci .fi'L.-iO ii week for bourd. This left hln,l Si II U-,1 nil I.I.. .. 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