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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
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!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
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i.c iua in nr mini i'-M lli-Ii' llllioiiui.s If)
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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.
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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!
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"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'
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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."
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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.. .. I. .- ...Ill.b 'I
v. "v;" ma una iiucr ii vvns rm """j-.ni
iiiiiicy mat ne had no idea 'what to
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