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REVIVING HOG ISLAND
rlS only a matter of time when Hog
Island will be developed in accordance
with the original plans.
Before tho war n company of capitalists
examined every site on the Atlantic Coast
available for a railroad and steamship ter
minal at which cargoes could be trans
shipped from train to vessel and from vessel
to train. Hog Island was selected becauso
tt was at the door of a great city in which
v largo amount of business originates, be
cause It was within reach of three great
railroad systems tapping the whole country,
and because it was on fresh water within
easy reach of the sea.
Then when the Government was looking
for an available site for a shipbuilding plant
Its engineers selected Hog Island as the
most suitable. It built great piers and car
ried the railroad tracks to them, thus doing
In part the work which those who planned
"n terminal were copsldering. Those piers
are still there. The railroad tracks arc still
there. They are connected with the trans
continental llne. There is space for ware
bouses nnd till the equipment necessary for
such a terminal as will rival the greatest lu
the world.
The announcement by Ellis Gimbcl that a
number of business men and engineers nre
agreed that Hog Island should be acquired
for the benefit of the . city and the State
Indicates that local capitalists are seriously
considering the opportunity at their door.
It .was first perceived by capitalists from
"other States, when the island was first
bought. Nothing has been done since the
, Government completed its use of the plnut
because business conditions do not warrant
xtcnslve new undertakings. Hut as soon
as normal conditions return there is likely
to be considerable competition for the
terminal.
It will take a large amount of capital to
develop the enterprise, but it is nlmost im
possible to raise money for new enterprises
today. Men in active business find it diffi
cult to get the money needed to keep their
enterprises running. This condition cannot
continue indefinitely.
Yet if local cnpltal is to be used to finance
the Hog Islnnd project it will bo necessary
for those who control it to be ready at the
first sign of revival of business to get hold
, of the property. If they do not, some one
else will forestall them.
PROTECTING OUR POLYNESIANS
THE recent extraordinary revival of public
Interest in Polynesia, or what is more
vaguely termed the South .Seas, has made its
way even into Congress. Uoth houses by
large majorities have just passed the Ha
waiian Rehabilitation Hill, the chief provi
sion of which establishes a homes commis
sion for the protection and development of
the aboriginal population in our insulnr
territory.
The project comes none too soon. The
Polynesian race, handsome, pleasure loving,
ingratiating, plctorially in perfect accord
with their charming environment, is a puzzle
to ethnologists. There is not only mystery
la the origins of these peoples, whose fea
tures and complexions suggest in some far
remote period n parent white race, perhaps
In India, but also in their alarmingly rapid
numerical reduction. Sudden contact with a
new, strange nnd -highly developed clvilbn
tlon Is blamed for the shrinkage, but the
explanation is not wholly convincing.
In the Marquesas gVoup, u Pacific posses
sion of France, the population has dwindled
from about -10,000 in 1S40 to some -1000
today. Decimation is distinctly the correct
word in this lamentable instance. Elyslan
Tahiti once nurtured 100,000 natives, and
nearly that many were dwelling in tho
luscious, flowering isle when the notorious
mutineers of His Mnjesty's ship Bounty
succumbed to their charms.
Religious infanticide existed in the eight
eenth century, and has been ascribed to
economic causes and the dread of over
crowding a paradise. Not more than 10.000
puro-blooded Polynesians inhabit the "New
Cytherca" nt this moment.
In the Hawaiian Archipelago the natives
without foreign admixture numbered only
20,000. the part Hawallans 112,000, out of
a total population of more than n quarter
of (T million in 1017. Hawallans, like
Tnhitlans, Mnrqiiesuns, Snmonns, Cook
Islanders and Maoris, are not habltunlly an
'industrious people, but they nrc intelligent,
mentally nlcrt nnd, as has been proved In
Now Zealand, arc capable of winning suc
cess In professional pursuits, notably medi
cine and the law.
t There cun be no question tiiat they are
distinctly worth saving, and Congress Is to
be congratulated for realizing its responsi
bilities toward a remarkable rata. Even nt
jthls late day a chance exists that the tragedy
of total extinction may be averted.
IN DELAWARE
F3R weeks to come echoes of the deal by
which General T. Colcmnn du Pont is to
eo from Dclnwaro to a scat In the United
States Senate will reverberate in the press
of the country.
The business engineered by Governor
kaney and Scnntor Wolcott certnlnlv is
'IMiOcklng at first glance. Wolcott wns hnllcd
,,at tho time of his election to the Senate an
',! sort of Galahad, a sort of Lincoln. A
? Remocrat of tho Democrats, he resigned to
)' "'accept nn appointment tendered by a He-
?" 'iwbllcnn Governor, who in turn was sup-
I, jised to want nothing but n vneant Sennto
'. '-et for his friend and patron. Even in
" v Delaware Wolcott will bo remembered for
' ; tea hljsh' place.
t ''Jt Is trite to say that the maneuvers which
"Softened an ensy road to Washington for
. .Wweral du Tont involve a negation of the
fdMamcntal principles of government in the
I i United States that moy bring about un-
. i aw . -1- mIm && futioa aIaaI I n si m
.MflN
nhenvnls at future elections.
V. .t. ll.- 1.....1 tt la M.,H-M
And;
tile I'iiWwr, mu t uvicnDiirj
ad
fleeral qu I'ont Is nn ex-
raordl
of Ba. Why didn't tho
people of Delaware elect htm to the Senate T
when he sought the election? as It be
cause of political machinations quite as dark
and every bit as questionable as those which
finally gratified tho general's dominating am
bition? It was this member of the du Pont family
who first Introduced good ronds lu his own
State through the expenditure of millions of
his own money, who put life into the busi
ness of Delaware and helped to found its
greatest industries.
General du Pont will not be a spokesman
for powder and shot In Washington. He got
out of the big du Pont firms years ago and
since has been Interested In other fields.
Tho people might have done worse than
elect him. And they might hnve done far
better thnn permit his nppolntmcnt in n
manner thnt will surely cause endless criti
cism In all parts of the country.
"LET HARDING DO IT,"
SAID THE BONUS FAKERS
Politicians Who Have Been Lying to
Service Men Left It to the Presi
dent to Tell the Truth
THE Administration pronouncement rela
tive to soldier bonuses broke a silence
in Congress that lias been long, painful and
filled with piquant significance.
No one In Congress has desired to talk
plainly on the bonus. The subject Is whis
pered about in the lobbies nnd dismissed as
dynamite.
It is not the habit of tho average Con
gressman to take a national view of any
problem. He thinks usually from the view
point of his constituents or of n particular
vote machine, and leaves the rest to chance
nnd Providence.
So even the leaders in tho President's
own pnrty were content to shift the respon
sibility to the shoulders of tho Executive.
Tho President met tho situation manfully
enough..
Speaking through Secretory Mellon, he
expressed nn opinion which virtually all
other officials in Washington share nnd
which few ever would have the courago to
voice 'when he said flatly that the bonus
plan, if it were put through now, would
bring about something vc'ry much like n
Treasury crisis.
Fishers for votes In both parties rather
thuu the service men in or out of the Ameri
can Legion sturtcd the talk about a bonus.
From the stump and in newspapers they
whipped up bonus sentiment among former
soldiers who had no grent desire for a money
reword, for their service of honor.
These same politicians know now that
an additional weight of 55,000,000,000 to
the nntionnl debt Is unthinkable, that the
awards made to veterans would have to come
in turn out of the pockets of those wbov re
ceived the money or out of the pockets of
their children In the form of excess taxes.
Those who were loudest in their advocacy
of the scheme have been for lone silent.
They knew thnt they had made false prom
ises and they waited to let some one else
take tho blame for a deeming reversal of
party sentiment.
The so-called soldier vote is an unknown
quantity politically. How real it Is no one
can know yet.
There probably is no such thing ns a
soldier vote. Service men probably will fol
low the dictates of their conscience In future
elections as they always have done in the
past.
But the belief nmong politicians that there
was a soldier vote purchasable with money
brought about the agitation for the bonus,
created hopes that from the first seemed
exaggerated and finally opened a way to a
very painful situation at the White House
and at the Capitol.
Did the men who fought in France nnd
served in the United States actually want a
money reword for their service?
That is a question thnt ought -W be an
swered unmlstnknbly before the Government
assumes to establish a bonus system now or
in tho futirtc.
In the American Legion opinion seems to
bo sharply Mlvldcd. There nrc politicians In
the Legion, too, nnd there Is no doubt that
much of the pro-bonus sentiment would in
the end be traceable to them rather thnn to
the rank and file of the membership.
It would be a disaster if any governmental
policy wero to unite all service men Into a
self-interested voting bloc, as the soldier
vote wns deliberately organized after the
Civil War under a pension system that put
a constantly growing burden upon the conn
try from yenr to year until, in 11)13, fifty
years after the Battle of Gettysburg, It re
quired a larger expenditure from the Na
tional Treasury than In any previous year.
A NEGLECTED CLASSIC
WHEN a man described by Senator Un
derwood as "one of the most distin
guished lawyers in this country, n man of
great learning nnd ability," credits one of
the best-known sayings of Paul to Dr.
Charles Zucblln there Is no occasion for
surprise that Mr. Edison could make n list
of questions which young men just out of
college could not answer,
Senator Underwood was referring to L. E.
Jeffries, of Washington, whose address be
fore the Alabama State Bar Association he
wus asking to have printed in the Congres
sional Record. The address Is a learned dis
cussion of the philosophy of the law, with
quotations from many authorities, Mr.
Jeffries Identifies each citation by putting
its source in pnrentheses in ills printed ad
dress. He quotes "the eloquent words of a
recent author," and after the word "au
thor" appears In parentheses Hnmnton L.
Cnrson, In the American Bar Association
Journal for March, 1021. A little further
on he remarks: "It has been said, 'The
letter killeth, but the spirit glvcth life.' (Dr.
Chnrlcs Ziieblin.)"
Dr. Zueblin doubtless said this. But he
did not originate It. Tho saying has been
used so many times since Paul put it In
these words In his second letter to the Co
rinthians that not one writer in n hundred
thinks It necessary to put quotation mnrkH
about it. Neither is sounding brass and
tinkling cymbals set off in quotntion mnrks,
nor do wo put quotntion marks on where
there is no vision the people perish. And
wo even sny strnlght is the gate and narrow
Hie way which leadeth unto life, ns though
the words were our own.
There wns a tlmo when every lawyer who
wished to give the source flf these and other
sayings that hnve become a part of the lan
guage would have known where they came
from, although he hod read them in hooks,
addresses or sermons by Dr. JCueblin, Dr.
Cpnwell, Theodore Roosevelt or whoever clso
might have used them without quotation
marks. But It seems that there Is less
familiarity with the Bible than there used
to be, else how does it come about that n
distinguished lnwrcr is Ignorant of the
source of one of tl most famous sayinos in
the whole New Wtament?
If tho truth1 witys, known,. It would prob-
EVENING PUBLIC LEDGER--PHILAI)ELPHIA,
ably show that Paul himself was quoting n
saying common In the philosophies of his
time, for the thought in it Is much more,
than 2000 years old. Yet we glvo,Paul tho
credit for It just as we glvo to other widely
known men the credit for snylngs becauso
they lift thetn into prominence nnd glvo
them the weight of their reputations.
It would bo easy to make a list of hun
dreds of sayings from the lllble in common
use nnd never set ofE by quotation marks,
few of which could be identified by any
member of Congress or by any of the
younger professors In the colleges or by any
of the members of the bar. Yet the Rlble
Is one of the greatest pieces of literature,
to give it no other classification, that is
nccexslble to the English-speaking race.
SPEAKING OF PIRATES
EXECUTION DOCK hits been powerless
against tho pirate of romance. His
swny lias triumphed over disclosures of the
most sordid details of tho careers of Cuptaln
William Kidd, of Edward Teach, called
Blackboard; of Bartholomew Roberts or
Captain Avery.
"It Is, It Is a glorious thing to be a pirate
king," carols the lusty desperado of tho
Gllbertlan "Penzance." "We're only off
playing pirates," writes Tom Sawyer In one
of the proudest moments of his spectacular
career. The satisfaction which R. L. Ste
venson derived from bis creation of Long
John Silver, that genial nnd resourceful
nautical rascal, never staled.
"The plrntc," doclares David Hannay,
one of the comparatively few dispassionate
commentators on this themo, "when he Is
seen in nuthentlo evidence is found for the
most part to have been n pitiful rogue."
No matter. The public will not have him
ns such. It Is useless, for example, to deny
that thousands of pulses through the laud
have throbbed a bit more quickly with each
enrichment of the current extraordinary
mystery of the sea.
Tho adventure of the-Munson liner Mil
nulbro off Cape May on the morning of
June 80 gives point to the conjecture, nt
first deemed preposterously wild, that the
former customs of the Spanish Main have
been revived in more northerly latitudes.
"A peculiar weird wlilstle" (precise tone not
specified) was heard. "A peculiar looking
craft" (abnormal features unexplained)
emerged suddenly from the fog, "turned tall"
and vanished.
Another Munson vessel, the errant Cal
lao, has been sighted, but storms, fog, Ice
bergs, sea, perils of the conventional type
fall to explain the mystery of more than a
Fc.ore of missing ships, whose fate has defied
investigation for several months, Bol
shevism has been blamed. But n Red navy
operating broadcast somehow lacks imagina
tive conviction.
Equally alien to the probabilities is a
revival of German sea depredations. The
Nation is at peaco. Congress has spoken to
that effect.
"But ships arc but boards, sailors but
men; there be land rats and water rats,
water thieves and land thieves, I mean
pirates."
Thus Shylock, whose fictitious life began
before the supreme heyday of frccbootlnc In
the Caribbean. Nevertheless, he ranked
piracy among the sen plagues. That reckless
practice long antedated Venice.
Privateering has been n convenient verbal
cloak for it in not a few Instances. Note
Drnke nnd Morgnn. Tho English themselves
prior to their present mood of cooins doves
would hnve included John Paul Jones.
It is of record thnt a Puritan company
organized in the reign of Charles I exploited
the coast of Honduras. The colonists took
to unadulterated piracy and were suppressed
by the Spaniards, who pnld to their former
oppressors the sincere compliment of imita
tion on n major scale.
Kidd himself opened operations aB a
scourge of piracy. He held a King's couv
mlssion authorizing him to chnstlse the
French. His subsequent backsliding brought
him treasure, eventually death nnd stirred
up n speculative stock scandal on the Royal
Exchange. Obviously there nrc laud thieves.
Tho sea enjoys no monopoly.
For a full century, however, save In Malay
waters, the sen's morals In peace times hove
been relatively good. Sentiment nud ro
mance gild the old deeds of brutal derring-do.
Strikingly enough, the last formidable
outbreak of piracy occurred Immediately fol
lowing the world war of the Napoleonic ern.
Anarchic conditions due to the revolt of
the Latin-American colonies produced the
Inst authentic display of piracy in the New
World. The valedictory was appropriately
staged off the north coast of South America,
more poetically the Spanish Main.
Historic parallels nre seductive and dan
gerous. A recrudescence of piracy succeed
ing a second world shambles Is, however,
barely conceivable. Where the "luggers"
would land, how the loot would be dis
tributed, whenco the crews would be re
cruited these nre all problems. The ro
mnnccrs from Homer down have made light
of thoe. In the nbsence of other Informa
tion, reference to the ynrn-splnucrs Is per
missible. They have helped to disguise the
ugliness of piracy In the past. That their
spell is still exerted Is manifested by the
eagerness with which each new contribution
to the present enigma Is received.
"Let us hope," adjured the candid audi
tor, on learning thnt his dearest foe was 111,
"that It's nothing trivlnl." That somewhat
mythic entity the public would doubtless
disclaim such heortlcssness. Yet love of
romance, on the whole an admirable trait,
from Its birth in Mr. Wells' geologic ages
has paralyzed the judgment. .
Renders of the contemporary pirate tnlo,
dramatically verified, sensatlonnlly con
firmed, could be numbered bv millions.
ROOT AND THE LEAGUE COURT
THE selection of Ellhu Riot as one of the
candidates nomlnntcd by Brazil for mem
bership In tho Permanent Court of Interna
tional Justice is a deserved tribute to a
great lawyer.
The nomination is made by the Brazilian
members of the Permanent Court of Arbi
tration nt The Hague In accordance with the
provisions of tho constitution of the new
court.
Along with Mr. Root tho Brazilian mem
bers of The Hague c m hnve nominated
Roy Borbosa, of Brazil; Joaquin Gonzalez,
of Argentina, nnd Alejandro Alvnrcz, of
Chile. Thesg gentlemen nrc all members of
The Hague court. They nre lawyers of
distinction, with n broad knowledge of In
ternational affairs.
The action of the Brazilian representatives
In nominating a man from three other great
American States will make many wonder
whether there has been an agreement among
the representatives of these four States to
make Identical nominations, In thp hope
that they may all be elected by the Assem
bly of the Lenguc of Notions when it comes
to make up the court.
If this be the case, then we have an in
stance of American solidarity in Interna
tional nffalrs for which American statesmen
long have been hoping.
Tho chief of the Washington Detective
Bureau says nutonioblles nrc responsible for
the plight of 80 per cent of tho girls who go
wrong. Mny wo now expect a bunch of
reformers to organize to nbolish tho auto
mobile? A dispatch from St. John, N. B., says
that sea dogs are ploying havoc with the
fishing business, nnd the Young Lndv Next
Door But One wonders way the authorities
don't hnve tnem muzzieg
Disabled soldiers krifw that red tape
OUR GREAT ENTERPRISES
The Parkway Improvements A Lit
tle Talk About Old Swedes' Church.
Tho P. R. T. and Its Parsimony
In the Matter of Benches
By GEORGE NOX McOAIN
JAMES M. BECK, Solicitor General of the
United States, in his recent address at
tho site of the new library, faclnjf tho Park
way, made a statement that i create
surprise.
The rather meager accounts- of the exer
cises and of Mr. Beck's admlrnble address
mado no reference to one declaration.
It was that In the work thus far done on
the foundations for the new library group
there has been as much cement used as was
utilized in the construction of the famous
Gatun locks on the Panama Canal.
The statement measures the magnitude of
the vast work that has been lindcrtaken by
the Park Commission nnd the city.
It emphasizes further the statement thnt
once the Museum of Art, the library and
the other buildings contemplated In the.
commission's plan nrc completed) Philadel
phia will unquestionably be the art center
of this country.
IN THE course of his tak Mr. Beck
likened the vast project undertaken and
In prospect as comparing with those which
havo associated "with the city of Paris and
its embellishment the name of Baron Hauss
mnnn. He is most frequently referred to by fervid
Parisians as the builder of modern Paris.
Ho planned the Bols de Boulogne and the
Park of Viriccnnes. They are the most
familiar monuments to his artistic ability
and constructive genius.
Georges Eugene Hnussmann was edu
cated for the bar, turned from It to tho
civil scrvico ond wound un by becoming
Y Prefect of the Seine.
He practically devoted the whole of his
life to the beniitifyitig of Paris and the per
fection of Its sewer system nnd water
supply.
I wonder If the Park Commission in futuro
years will receive all the credit that is due
it, and from lips as eloquent as those of
Mr. Beck?
FROM the superbly modern and beautiful
to the ancient and revered, even If un
adorned, is, after all, but a step here in
Philadelphia.
I have particular refcrenco to the span
of time and the mutation of events that will
stretch from the Philadelphia of tomorrow,
with Its Parkway architecture, its Delaware
bridge and the other great things planned, to
Gloria Dei or Old Swedes' Church and
similar edifices.
The very location of this revered nnd ven
erable edifice makes it an Isolated landmark,
ns a tabernacle, in this city.
Its congregation, coming from distant pnrts
of the city, is a very loyal little body of
people.
Many of them arc the children and grand
children und even great-grandchildren of
former members.
In many instances those who live outside
the city make an all-day Sunday visit of it
when they come to worship.
Indeed, I nm not so sure that even the
above expresses the character of its member
ship, for many of the present congregation
are descendants of the earlier settlers.
THE Rev. Percy Robblns Stockman, the
rector, -has had a notable line of prede
cessors. Of these, three men nre conspicuous by
the length of their service ns pastors.
They served the three of them for a
total of 124 years, viz. : the Rev. Nicholas
Collin, the Rev. Jehu Curtis Clay nnd the
Rev. Snyder B. Simon.
I think this record is unequnlcd by any
other church in this city.
With the thinning ranks of Civil Wnr vet
erans, there nre dying out the memories of
one activity that nearly sixty years ago mado
old Gloria Del to stand out like a star In
the darkness'of the Rebellion because of Its
patriotic activities.
Its members were particularly active in
the work of the old Cooper Shop Refresh-'
ment Station, where thousands of Union
soldiers on the way to the front were fed
within its walls.
There nre no survivors today In the
church of those patriots, but many of their
children nnd grandchildren still commune at
Its altar.
It Is the memories of prc-Revolutlonnry
and Revolutionary days nnd nil the haitle
years thnt have Intervened that make
churches like Gloria Del and the ancient
church nt Troppc, this side of Pottstown.
shrines in our local history that will never
be deserted or forgotten.
WHILE Thomas E. Mitten nnd the opera
tive officinls of the P. It. T. nre herald
ing the achievements of thnt system in the
wide fields of finance, it is to bo regretted
that the almost lntinitesimal things that go
to minister to the comfort of Its patrons
should 'be overlooked.
The expenditure of .fliOO by the company
would not only go far toward ministering to
the convenience of Its elderly patrons, but
would unquestionably add to the length of
their days.
It is in tho smny matter of benches on the
stntlon platforms of the elevated.
It is one of tho idiosyncrasies of the man
agement that It plnces benches on the under
ground platform at Fifteenth street, but
leaves the nged. Infirm or crippled patrons to
climb to the heights of its West Philadel
phia stations, with no convenient place to rest
once the summit Is renehed,
PERHAPS the operative executives may
be ready, ns they rend this, to tune up
with the declnrntlon : "But wo do provide
a resting place. There is n rest room lead
ing off from every platform,"
The truth of this is granted. But who
ever uses the rest rooms, so called?
There is a seating capacity In each of them
of perhaps from four to six" persons. Be
sides, once In one of these rooms, there is no
outlook to know when n train is approach
ing except the rush of passengers to pile
through the sliding car-doors.
Women nnd old persons hove practically
n. opportunity whatever to secure a seat,
for they must trail In on the heels of the
crowd uftcr they hnve made their way out to
the platform from the room.
The New York elevated had these con
veniences of platform benches for their pn
trons thirty-five yenrs ago. They have them
to this dnv.
The Philadelphia Rapid Transit Company
is, to that extent, just thirty-five years bo
hind New York.
I once asked nn attendnnt why it wns
tho conipnnv did not put two or three of
these slntted benches on the platform. His
answer was :
"If wo had 'em here people would loaf
on 'cm."
It wns nn nnswer not nt nil creditable to
the brains nnd intelligence of the individual
who mnde tho reply.
Just as If people past fifty, or even young
persons, would climb laboriously a fllzht of
sixty stairs and spend seven cents for the
pleasure of occupying n bencli where the
scenic outlook Is confined to the roofs or
upper stories of houses, the stntlon opposite
ond the passing trains.
Passengers wnlk down stnirs at Fifteenth
street to find n bench, but they climb long
flights In West Philadelphia and then stand
panting by the rail and with nowhere to sit
while waiting for n train.
Not everybody" hns the heart and lungs
nnd legs of traction ofllclnls or nerve,
either !
And all to snvc n wretched $300 or bo.
Very Different
From the Doston Globe,
Congrcssmnn Alice Rnbertsop, of Okln
homn, presiding with dignity nnd firmness
over the House of Representatives, does not
nt nil suggest the poem sweet Alice, whose
hair wns so brown, who wept with delight
when you gnye ner n rmiijna ircmuieu
witu fear at, your irowi
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Daily Talks With Thinking Philadelphia on Subjects They
Know Best
WILLIAM D. CHAMPLAIN
On the Play Spirit
THE people of Philadelphia have devel
oped greatly in many ways simply
through the fostering of the play spirit em
bodied in the playgrounds movement, accord
ing to William I. Cbamplaln, executive
secretary of the Board of Recreation of this
city.
"Although the playgrounds movement
btartcd nearly twenty-live years ago," says
Mr. Champlain. "to urge safe places for the
children to play and encourage the devel
opment of the pluy spirit, it has grown to
the point where the ndults take jtibt us active
a purt ns the little ones.
"In about nlncty-ulne out of a hundred
persons the play instinct is one of the
strongest. They will utilize almost any op
portunity to play or lu some way manifest
that spirit. Consequently our playgrounds
nnd recreation centers nre toduy thronged
with adults ns well as children.
Rowdy Spirit Quelled
"But outside of the growth In personnel,
the recreation movement has developed other
values. For instance, in the beginning many
fellows of the KO-colled rowdy class were
among those in attendance. They came to
ruu tho plnygrounds nnd centers In any way
they sow fit. They soon learned that they
could not do things their way, und rather
than stay away they came to join in with
the others and becume the most vnlunble
factors in it.
"Also, they learned one of the fundamen
tal rules of life, which Is 'play the gome,'
"Today you con see borne who came to
the various grounds years ago, now grown
up nnd married men, playing here with their
children. They have learned to 'piny the
gamo,' and do so as If It were second
nature. They have really learned thut lesson
in the bosom of their own families.
"The social instinct is unother that has
been developed, with the net result of grcntcr
happiness nud a more wholesome and con
structive and forward-looking viewpoint on
life in general. Now the boys give pnrties
for the girls and the girls return the compli
ment, nnd nil their uctlvities tend toward a
greater refinement nnd a higher quality of
mnnhood nnd womanhood, in fact, we dis
cover in a period of years an entire change
in their outlook on life, nfter meeting here
with their fellows lu social pleasures, good
sportsmanship and health -giving activities
und recreations.
General Interest Widened
"Not only hus this spirit grown in quality,
but it lias developed tremendously In general
Interest. Where only the small children took
nn Interest nt one time-, now whole families
arc hcnrtlly in the spirit of the play. They
give nmateur plays nnd inusleales ond in
What Do You Know?
QUIZ
1 What Is mennt by the Spanish Main?
2. What Is a dibble?
3. Who Is the new United States Minister to
Italy?
4. Whcro nre tho chief sources of platinum?
5. What Is tho azimuth?
C For how long a period nrn Justices of tho
United States Supreme Court ap
pointed? 7 Where Bhould tho accent fall In the word
Imclllus?
8. Distinguish between Polynesia, Micro
nesia and Melanesia?
3. During whnt years wns General Grant
President?
10. Whnt Is the mennlnB of the legal term
"capias"?
Answers to Yesterday's Quiz
1. The Turks nro called .Ottomans from Oth-
mnn I, one of their early rulers.
2. Chrlstlann Is the middle name of General
Jan C. SmutH
3. To luff Is to bring the Mad of the shin
nearer to tho wind.
4. .lohann Kepler was n celebrated German
scientist, ono of the chlof founders of
modern astronomy. Ills dates nro 1671.
1C30.
6. FrancolH Chopin Is generally regarded as
tho foremost of composers of music
for tho piano.
6. JofTerson City Is tho capital of Missouri
7. A romunl Is a whale with a dorHal or
hack fin, a fin-back.
8. Rococo decoration Is tastefully florid
The term Is also applied to decoration
S,rth? ymo of I'0Ul8 XIV ind I'OuIn
XV of France.
0. Agcratum Is a Inrgo genus of tropical
American plants having opposite leaves
nhd small heads of blue or whltn
flowers. ""
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made about 270 n.''c. by .evenly Iran's"
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other such ways express their thoughts and
feelings.
"Although those participating in play
ground activities arc not bound to do one
thing or nnother nnd mny piny individually
in any way that suits, there is u growing
tendency to organize tho play.
"We hove also found this medium. a good
one for developing the citizenship idea, es
pecially among the foreign-born. It stands
to reason that one is likely to toko, more
interest in citizenship .in a country if thnt
country manages to show how one enn
benefit and gives a good, wholesome time.
So we mniiagc to get the civics idea across
quite effectively."
HUMANISMS
By WILLIAM ATHEUTON DU PUY
THE PECULIAR hodge-podge of tho
work of some of the Government depart
ments was bhnwn by a task which came
to the desk of Assistant Secretnry Good
win, of the Department of tho Interior, the
other day.
Mr. Goodwin hnd been laboring with tho
problem of who should be appointed Gov
ernor of Alnska, which is under ills charge ;
hod been trying to work a scheme that
would keep the good examiners from re
signing their posts at the Patent-Office;
had been considering the creation of a re
volving fund to reclaim the arid lands of
the West.
Then this question wns brought to hln at
tention : Who, he was asked, stole the pa
jamas thnt a certain individual had left
when he wos relcused from the Government
insane asylum?
That Individual had been raising Coin
nbout it nnd this Secretary, having certain
eleemosynary institutions under his care,
was the final individual to whom the mat
ter could be appealed.
W. W. Husband, now Commissioner Gen
eral of Immigration, was in Berlin two
weeks after tho signing of the urmlstice.
One dny ho went to see Dr. Solf, who was
temporarily nt tho head of tho Government.
Could Mr. Husband tell him, he wnntcd to
know, where Herbert Hoover was. The in
terest was gono in Foch, Pershing & Co.
They were interested in the man with the
food."
Mr. Husbund said he did not know. Dr.
Solf said they knew Hoover hnd left Lon
don tho night before, that he had been in
Havre nt 1) that morning, but they could not
find out whether he had cone tn PirU nr
Brussels.
It looked, though, as if the defeated Ger
mans still hnd an information staff that
was working pretty well.
Another incident of thnt time that im
pressed upon him the nnture of the Germnn,
says Mr. Husband, wos the day that the
Spartacus forces attempted to seize tho
Government. Most of tho nctlon was obllg
lngly right in front of his hotel. There
was a little pink there about as big os n
hulf square. It wos densely thronged.
But not once did those throngs forget thnt
the grass was "forbidden" and not once
did they step off the walks and paths ond
on to It.
There Ir no other people In the world, he
thinks, that Is so well disciplined and so
amenable to it,
Fred C. Kelly, the nuthor nnd humorist Is
in privnto an inordinnto practical joker
Ho chuckled for a month over a little trick
hn played not long ago nt the book tubic of
a deportment store.
Hn was idly turning over, the books,
largely for lack of anything better to do. and
a lot of other people wore fiddling rond In
a most desultory, not to say trilling, Way.
Kely observed i,ea that he figured
would wnku them up.
He took ftoin Ms pocket a dollar bill.
Then he turned the eaves of the book in the
same cure ess way thnt he had been usIijk
Presently the dollar fell out. He nr esse.1
his hand down upon it. ..Josed upon it
f",n.ill,r,,u',y ",ound nml ""WW 't into
HIP M!..
ing Wildly tlircilcll those linnltu
And Kelly stood by and chuckled.
The father of Secretary Jjpllon, of the
Treasury, was born In Ireland, but came
to this country when he war six ycurs 0f
But the o her shopiiers had seen, fhov
grasped the idea. The proprietor of r n't
store had hidden dollar I.IIIn ' in 'the bo k"
They would find some of thnn. They vent
steadily ond earnestly to work. Their .,,
tlvltv Increased. Prescntlv rii.....'.r.i..m-'
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jiocnt musicians appear to be cmlttlnr A
a few blue notes.
Anybody love n fat man?
Weather Man doesn't.
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j. lie x unties appear to Know mat mere I ,
always room at the bottom. ,
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The news thnt sunburn may be cured
with synthetic sunshine fills us with (in- '
thctlc happiness. jl
A deluge of frogs has stopped the water' 1
works nt Allentowu, Pa. But the popultc 'O
is nopping mad.
It has como to the point where all thit VJI
Business asks Is that Congress let It know ' J
the worst nr once. '
uont you ininK, ucmanoen iMjtl
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in Philadelphia than it is in summer?"
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It may be said for Vice President
Coolldgc that he can view with alarm s
efficiently as any man his size aud weight.
Itls a cinch thnt when the pnet wrote
"All quiet along the Potomnc tonight" I"
hadn't been attending a session of Congim
Cubn's Government sugar college has
invented a drink that contains a kick but
no alcohol. Another nightmare for Mr.
Volstead.
A catfish was found In tbe water meter A
nt Twenty-first nnd Market streets. It nuj tj
nave mistaken the ticking as tiie noise msot
by a mouscfish nibbling a checsefish,
A recent Incident in Pukow, Chini,
semni tn ftliniv thnt nnmo nt the Shinning
Board vessels are tied to their wharves with l
red tape that not even Mr. Laskcr can cut. 11
T 1 1 i. 1 A. tlaaa.Ara l
r.ngianu sinnus on mu uuiouit-v.-,
power principle which may account for (
Lloyd George's position first on one side an .)
then on the other on the world's political ,
TtiiRRinn nfllcem In Constantinople art ,
using American Red Cross pajamas for out
or-door wear. The llussian ouiccr in y
stautinople has something on tho rest of u'
We'd only like to.
"Well. Kittle One," said the StoM
Teller to the Big Sport, "how are you?
And the Big Sport, who bod taken a M
from the Weather Man, truthfully replWi
"Fair nnd warmer."
Much to-do Is being made over the facl
that u man was arrested while selling iu
during the present hot weather. "n"
about the poets who are now writing tnnif
ipns poems for the magazines?
A bass In Christmas Lake (so runt i i
Klnrv from Mlnnnonnlll) KWnlloWeil O ntf
crncker which exploded in its little tummr. -and
the boy who threw the crncker had a ow
dinner. Considerable to swallow? lou ay (
a mouthful.
YO-IIO, ETC.
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SING ho for our ship nnd the waters blue
Off the shores of'a wet New Jersey.
Sing hey for the chief of a pirate crew.
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We have looted the decks of a score of shipiJ (J
We have cut a lot of copers. .
If you doubt my word you may take the up I
Of the chops who write ior uie ..' (
Sing hey for the song that the south wind
sings , ,
When the fierce typhoon Is nenrlng.
King no ior tnc loot wiui a ""T, . :.li I
That wo played on the good ship p""' -1
Wo left her adrift whllo wp noarueu
The bark named The Sly Old Codger,
And divided the swug in n duffle bag
As we hoisted the Jolly Roger.
Sing hey for the 'prizes we overhauled ,
lu the days that were swift succeedinn
Sing ho for tho victims that vainly cMIM y
Whllo we took whnt we were needing. .
When the bosun said he would serve on tw
The chnp in a noose with his neck .
The captain copped the bosun's boast
By coting him up for brenkfost.
Sing hey for the fighting game we bar .
And the yards where they dance " a
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Slug ho for the cave where we nine i
Gems for Jnne from n jaunty .Tim"X 5 Jj
I'll sell you n share of tho'stolcn gold SS
tor a nunc tnougii it may w ' -
And If there's no truth In the tale I m
Why, then, I'tw a Brtt-ciass ..!
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