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JoJy 1. 1921 BETTER TIMES COMINQ TIE bids received for $3,000,000 lu 5Vj per cent flfty-ycar city bonds yesterday Indicate that there is plenty of money Beck ing investment in securities exempt from the Federal income tax. The total of all the bids amounted to four times the umount to bo borrowed. The suc cessful bidder will pay 104.130. This will make tho amount of cash paid into the City Treasury for the bonds $5,206,030, and it will reduce the rate of interest to n shade bore Ci per cent. This is too high for a municipal bond, but when it is recalled that investors have been getting big profits out of war indus tries, the readiness of capital to tiiko up the bonds at the rate of interest offered will I be regarded as an indication that readjust ment has begun. It is a sign that the pur chasing power of the dollar is improving. A COUNCILMAN BLUNDERS COUNCILMAN HALL'S abilities as a political lender fall to shine conspicu ously hi the dispute that has artecn con cerning the naming of the city's new recre ation grounds at Tenth and Hodman streets. Representatives of nine leading Negro church congregations already have taken the Vnre henchmnn of the Seventh Word severely to task for his opposition to com memorating the famennd inspirational career f Phillis Whcntlcy, the first American poet f the colored race, by giving her name to this playground. The movement is likely to grow. Its fit ness was promptly realized by Mayor Moore, who dedicated tho center to the memory of the remarkable slaTe-poet of Colonial times on day last week. Mr. Hall asserts that the matter of nomen clature is for City Council alone to decide, and somewhat heatedly insists that "Charles Seger" shall be the designation of tho play ground. His efforts to perpetuate the mem ory of n gang ward boss has nrouted the 'force of sentiment, which is sometimes snitll ciently potent to destroy even the most strongly intrenched political traditions. The Negro -citizens of Philadelphia arc offended by Hall's tactics, and their griev ance is justified. Council will reflect public sentiment by lending its official sanction to "Phillis AVheatley Center." though tinhorn politicians may sorrow over u tribute to a vanished brother. Occasionally there is more in a name than la dreumed of in Vnre philosophy. CRIPPLED WATER SYSTEM THE bursting of important water mnins in several sections of l'lillndelplila yesterday cannot be ilimlcd as exceptional. It is needless to dl'guise the fart that only im provements on n comprehensive scale will be Miffirlrnt to reduce the frequency of such accidents. Central Philadelphia especially is af flicted with n water-distribution system antiquated in equipment and unequal to the gTeat demands upon it. Chief Davis repeat edly has pointed nut the necessity of gen erous appropriations for the betterment of the municipal water supply, which is handi capped not only by decrepit pipes, but by n reservoir system which regularly breaks down in times of prolonged drought. The proccrs of patching has been severely strained. Expenditures for wnter supplj lack ornnmental appenl. Clamor for mod ernizing the sjstcm seldom arises until the damage Is done. Of late jenrs mishaps, ac companied by specific dangers, have occurred so often that postponing a large scale reform becomes a peculiarly dnngerous sort of trilling. SAFEGUARDED AT LAST F' IS welcome news that the preservation of the old City nail and Supreme Court Building at Fifth and Chestnut streets will no longer be left to the somewhat uncertain mercies of chance. The contract for restora tion work, which has just been awarded by Director Caven, calls for an expenditure of $47,045 In safeguarding the structure, ren dering it habitable nud placing it as nearly as possible in conformity with its original appearance. It is worth noting that the previous Ad ministration paid its respects to the shrine chiefly by futile discussion. Meanwhile the building suffered increasingly rapid degen eration until its condition today constitutes a serious shadow upon the historic .self respect of the community. Fortunately, the work so long overdue will be started not only at once, but under the direction of experts competent to revive the charm of the structure and at the same time to offset the blight of anachronisms. The plans have been prepared by the Phila delphia Chapter of the American Institute of Architects, which has previously displayed Its protective hand in Independence Hall. When the repairs have been completed the most historic block of buildings in the Na tion will be worthy of its patriotic inheri tance and will, lu addition, be memorable ns im exhibit of Colonial architectural beau ties in their finest flower. PORT FOR THE STATE SHIP TO THE war, not ordinarily a recipient of much public gratitude, probably is to be ascribed the rev'val of the schoniship pro gram by the Commonwealth of Pcnnsylvn nia, The lapse of the undertaking, which lasted for n fexr years, was repaired ad mirably by the acquisition of tho Annapolis. It nlready has proved Its worth to a State which, though grograohk-ully inland, is maritime In some of lis most vital Interests. Coincident with the sailing nwoy of the schoolshlp yesterday upon her summer cruise romrn the announcement that Penn Treaty Park, near which she has been moored, may k-e provided with modern lauding facilities yiiil f'ruMtrd vrjtlt a slillnhlc whnrf li'lto JLdvrt deserves development fur both practical and sentimental reasons. The present condition of the waterfront at this point Is not such as to Inspire the cadets with respect for the harbor' of Philadelphia. Poetlcnlly the home of the Annapolis is on the high seas, where the youth of the State are schooled in nautical craftsmanship. Hut the ship should have a suitable anchor age In winter. No berth could be more fitting than one by the very shore on which Pennsylvania was born. ORGANIZED MOB GOVERNMENT A NEW PROBLEM IN AMERICA Art. the States Powerless to Deal With Masked Hordes That Laugh at Gov ernors, Courts and 8herlffs7 BID the devil In to tea and, before you know it, his business shingle will be nailed to your gate-poet and he will be having his mail sent regularly to your ad dress. Attorney General Palmer made debris ot many of the constitutional guarantees that are supposed to protect citizen and Govern ment alike in peace and In war. Burleson, in his days of exaltation, set himself up ns n dictator and sneered at a basic law intended to kuep the press forever free. Similarly, during the rush and confusion of the war, lesser officials encournged and pructlccd lawlessness. Peaceful meetings of working men were raided. Mobs were taught to strike out at any one whose blunders had an appearance of deliberate disloyalty. Ex service men were incited to break up meet ings called for economic discussions. You cannot do such violence to principles without inviting trouble of an unexpected sort. For many months mob-law had high sanction in many quarters and its equivalent animated individuals in too ninny places of authority. These examples were bad for undisciplined minds. How bad they were you may know by reading tho news of almost any day from tho South, where the mob n mimlless and monstrous thing moved by a savage passion for bestial cruelty is making a mockery of courts, of the principles of justice nnd of the authority of Government. Far more ominous thau the increase of mob violence lu Stntes like Georgia, Texas. Louisiana and Arizona is the manner lu which the authorities and the people in these areas accept the phenomenon of re vived "klans" nnd defiant nightriders. Sheriffs cringe or join the order. Governors change the subject. District Attorneys take vacations. And the mob leaders boast that the "best elements" In their communities are bound to them by oath. A mob is always vile. It is always cowardly. Thirty Texans, masked and hooded, turned out on Sunday to brat ami tar and feather one woman. In Georgia, where great public Initia tions have been held by the Ku Klux Klan, a minister of the Protestant Episcopal Church, whose life was conaccrntcd to work among the unfriended nnd exploited Negroes of the State, was whipped by a crowd of maFkcl men. In Atlanta the Ku Klux Klan has im posing headquarters wherein sits a man wlt.i cnlls himself the Grand Wizard of the In visible Empire and cnlmly talks of the wor that is being done to establish his organ ization in the. Northern States in the name of 100 per cent Americanism ', The Ku Klux Klan Ip frankly organized to terrorix-i Negroes. What its example lead to was shown recently In Tulsa, Ariz. There, according to the report issued after an officinl investigation, a Negro youth en ferine the elevator of an office building, stumbled and stepped accidentally on the foot of the girl operator. The girl screamed. The frightened Negro fled with a mob nt his heels. The result was it race riot In which thirty persons were killed and n fire that drove 10,000 Negroes from their home-' to the hills. The Grand Wizard of the Invisible Em pire may be talking more thnn nonsense when he boasts of the spread of his or ganization. Only tho other dny all the Italian residents of Beaverdale, here in Pennsylvania a town not far from Pitts burgh were driven from their homes by a mob dcecribed as being composed of Amer icans seeking vengeance for bomb outrage.) attributed to the Black Hand. Those who at that time expressed a curiosity to know why the State police, which so efficient''' suppresed meetings of steel strikers In that area, were unable to prevent or explain the outbreak of mob violence at Beaverdale, have thus far received no word of enlighten ment from Hnrrlsburg. Governors nnd sheriffs in some parts of the United States have hern manifeting nn Increasing fondness for machine guns. They hae been known to practice sedulously on insurgent laborers in West Virginia. A time -is coming when, if the country Is not to be utterly shamed In the ejes of th? world, they may have to put their' aaccntly acquired knowledge to better uses. The mobs that nrc swiftly taking over the power of Government In Fome of the Southern States are not composed of shubb ruffinus. They ride in good motorcars. Theie is in most of the reports of organized out rages from Georgia and elsewhere n sug gestion of something darker thnn mere law lessness. There is n suggestion of tiie revival of the prehensile brute in eminently respectable citizens, who, seemingly rational in daylight, go out after dork to satisfy nn ubnormnl lust for blood in maniacal orgies of cruelty. The original Ku Klux Klan was organize,! to keep the freed sIsvch in a state of doclll'v inspired by bliud fear. It led to unspeak able wrong, to banditry nnd to all sort- of tiansgrcHsionx against all sorts of people. Yet it wa a fugitive organization. It didn't flaunt its power lu the open. Cnlmlj. in the midst of tons of atrocious junk intended to be awfully symbollial, tin Grand Wizard of the invisible Empire, wi'o the American flag draped above his head, announced the other day that the .lapnne. question Jn California, "like the Negro question in the South, would be settled by klan methods." The Government nt Washington is not to be consulted if the Grand Wizard has his wav. The Legislature of California is to play the part of a spectator while the mob resorts to tho diplomacy of the burning stake. And this is In a country that will not deal with Russia because of what It calls the lawlessness of the Soviets. Yet neither Soviet Itussla nor the medieval hordes of dark and vanished centuries ever were credited with burning people for fun. Before we talk of sending the army to scttU labor disputes in West Virginia we should send it to re-establish the waning prestige of the courts in the South. GOLDEN RULE IN POLITICS WHEN Mrs. Barclay Warburton told the members of the Women's Republican Club, the organization of which was per fected jesterday, that there could bo nothing better than the golden rule In politics, nbc was, perhaps, a little wiser than sonic of the women who heard her. Tho purpose of the club of Republican women Is to Interest the newl enfranchised voters in politics and to tench them how to mako their wishes effective. It is to In, elude iih many women In nil p.iits of tho State ns can be induced to take purt in its work. If the women toke Mrs, Warburton's ad vice and do unto others in politics what they would have 'others do unto them the men EVENING PUBLIC LEDGER-PHIIiADELPHIA, will discover in the course of a year or two that there Is a powerful new force at work with whlqh Uiey will have to reckon i Although it in-..- not have occurred to' them, every successful political leader who has retained his power has followed tho rule to which Mrs. Warburton has called at tention. Every boss takes care ot bis fol lowers because ho knows that if he docs' not they will not take care of him. And' the followers fight for the boss becanee they know that If they do not he will not fight for 'hem. In this way political organiza tions are built up. The theoretical reformers may say -that tho organization is held together by tho cohcslre power of a common appetite and that the golden rule has nothing to do with It. If they refer to the high spiritual quali ties of that famous formula they are prob ably right, but the practical virtues' of it, as used by the politicians, are what make the task of the reformers difficult. The mutual determination of the membent of any group of persons to stand by one another for a common purpose Is what makes organization effective. It concentrates at tention on the objective nnd thus reduces friction to .a minimum. IT IS UP TO THE MAYOR COUNCILMAN HALL hits perceived the weakness of his gas ordinance increas ing the price ten cents a thousand feet to the consumer, for he has announced that if it should be vetoed by Mayor Moore no effort would be mado to pass It over the veto. This puts the responsibility for construc tive action straight Up to the Mayor. One strategically wise course for him to pursue now will be to ask Council to recall the ordlnnncc. This will save the face ot the men who voted for it. Then he could renew his request that Council appoint a committee to join with the City Solicitor nnd the Gas Commission in conferring with the V. G. I. over n new lease which shall make n pcrmnncnt settlement of the ques tions nt issue. As a preliminary to the negotiations It would be expedient for Council to authorize the postponement of the July payment due from the gas company pending revision of tiie lease. This would relieve the immedlutc financial necessities of the company. It wouM exhibit to the managers of the U. G. I. a disposition on the part of the city officials to deal fairly with them nnd it would pave tho way for an understanding thut would bo fair to every one. If the lease should contnin the provision for n periodic readjustment of the price of gas, as recommended by the commission, the way would be smoothed for gas at seventy -five cents a thousand cubic feet or less eventually as the cost of raw materials falls and as methods of manufacture arc improved. The matter is now in the hands of the Mayor nnd it looks as if he could do with it what he wills. HARDING WINS ON OIL THE President's letter to Chairman Ford ney, of the Ways and Means Committee, was li suggestion that Congress take n broad rather than a narrow view of the ol! situation. Certain independent domestic producers of oil have been complaining that they cannot compete with the Mexican producers so long as Mexican oil is allowed to come In free of duty. It wns in response to these com plaint" that the Ways and Means Commit tee put an oil duty in its draft of tne Tariff Bill. The President reminded Mr. Fordney tha'. the Administration is seeking to protect American rights to oil in the undeveloped oil legions of the world. He asked that the oil provision of the Tariff Law be so drafted as to permit him to bargain with other Powers on tho oil question. Mr. Harding's reasons were o potent that the Hou-e of Representatives sitting a a committee of tho whole nt once remoc.l the oil duty paragraphs from the bill yes terday. This leaves the waj open to re draft the paragraphs in the way indicated by the President. Then the negotiations of Secretary Hughes over Mesopottimian oil can proceed as conditions justify. In the mean time the domestic producers will be pro tected to n certain degree by the export tn on oil levied by Mcj.ico. VACATION BY CANALBOAT EDWARD M. MULHEARN, a Carbon County lawyer, who Is planning n vaca tion trip on the Lehigh anil Delaware cannls from Mauch Chunk to Bristol, will utilize one of the unappreciated resources of the country. The cnnnlR once were used for passenger trnvcl. but since the railroads were built they hac carried little but freight. Yet they run through picturesque country, pass ing towns and cutting through mindows nnd pnstute land. A generation ngo n company of young nrtlsts hired a grain boot, fitted the hold with cots and curtains nnd the deck witli awnings nnd spent two or three weeks on the Delnwnre nnd Rarltsn and the Morris nnd Essex canals, and one of them wrote about it later in one of the magnxiiicn. But their example has not been generally fol lowed. The eauals of the eastern part of the Stnlo nnd of New Jersey are still filled with wnter, nnd the Erie ennui, connecting the Hudson River with Lnke Erie, is wide nnd deep enough for boats which would run aground lu the cannls lu this vlclnit. These water ways nre awaiting the vacation parties, and they can give to them a glimpse of a kind of life with which few are familiar. LEGISLATIVE FOOLS WniLE a vast and beneficent gulf sep arates lcgislnthc measures propose I from legislative measures enacted the former nre often worth attention as Indices of tint autocratic temperament. An extreme manifestation of this kind is now tecorded in the French Chamber of Deputies in a bill aiming nt the suppression of what is described as "niiti-mllitarist. propaganda " Presumably the Junkers ami Chauvinists and Jingoes will be privileged to jiroselytize and campaign lis much ns the7 please. It Is their critics for whom the gag is planned. While it is hardly conceivable thut such n measure will actually be adopted in the republic which formulated tho "Rights oi Man," the situation is serious enough to huve alarmed Anntole France, the ironist, nnd Henri Barbusse, the denunciator, of modern civilization. The spiritual kinship of these eminent writers is pinbably by no means deep nnd certainly their lllcrnry methods nre utterly dissimilar. They speak, however, a common tongue lu their signatures affixed to tho manifesto protesting against a barefaced attempt nt l runii.i . Judging from the character of the bill iwel viewing it from a safe distance, It seems that fools are inl'chievouslv nctlvo in France But for individuals of a like type, it is hcnll) neccsutry to look across the ocean. PHILADELPHIA'S CHARITY How It Hob 8aved Thousands of Vlo tlmo of Famtno and Pestilence. , Today We Cannot Help Starv ; Ing Russia as We Did Thirty ., Years Aqo By GEORGU NOX McCAIN DIU TALCOTT WILLIAMS once re marked In my henring that one-half the population of the .world went to bed hungry every night, while one-third of the human race died from diseases thnt could be directly traceable to lack of nutrition. In other words, they were victims of tho lnck of food. Word hns been sent over the continents nnd under the seas In tho last two weeks "Chlnn is fed." , , Interpreted, this means thnt China s wailing for food hns been answered. Millions of lives' have been saved from tho grisly fingers of famine by tho charity of the world. There Is famine or food scarcity some where on the globe nil the time. Mostly they nre local affairs, like the Persian fnmlnc in 180!) or the almost an nual food misery In Labrador. Luckily, the Western hemisphere has been, in historical times, nt least, practically free front this curse of tiie race. If drought, or incessant rain, or grain disease ever bring famine to our floors it will be the record disaster In the history of the race. LENINE nnd Trotzky will soon have the blood of millions more of men nnd women on their hnnds. Word hns just bren cabled this country that "iO.OOO.OOO Russians nre near to star vation. Disheartened and discouraged, with no incentive to ngriculture and with what they do produce confiscated in the namo of the Soviet Stnte. lack of rain hns added to the calamities of the wretched peasants over a wide area. The most regrettable feature is that the world must stand idly by nnd see these millions of peasants perish. Were It possible to send relief) tione of it, judging by conditions over there, would ever reach those for whom It was intended. No one of all those who have visited Rus sia since the present malign influence set tled upon the Innd has ever reported thnt tho Soviet chiefs nnd their fellow execution ers lacked for the best the markets afforded, whatever that might be. PHILADELPHIA has saved Russian lives by the tens of thousands in the past. This city outstripped ail other cities in generous contributions to the reilef of the starving millions of Russia thirty years ngo. Phllodclphians by the thousand nre living today who helped send the steamship Iudiuna to Russia with every hold filled to its capacity with food in that famine year. Washington's birthday, 1802, is marked with a white stone in the annals of Phila delphia's splendid philanthropy. Thnt wns the day the Indiana sailed from Wnshlngton street whnrf. Francis B. Reeves, Rudolph Blnnkenburg, Alexander W. Blddle nnd Colonel A. J. Drexel were commissioners sent by tho citi zens to sec that the food reached Its desti nation. Contrast conditions then with those of the present, so fur as the question of relief is concerned? WHEN the Indinnn steamed down the Delaware 85 per cent of her cargo of food had been contributed by our own citi zens. And the European world stood ngnpe nt this spectacle of magnificent charity. The world had never known anything like it. One city sending a great steamship load of food to the fnmine-strickcn ! European newspapers made it n subject for editorials for weeks. Many of these comments were cabled back to this country. How did the Christian charity of the other cities of the country stand up in the com parison? Well, here it is: Philadelphia ?HO.O00 New York :i4,0(i(l Baltimore fi.OOO Boston 3. .'00 Des Moines 3,100 Chicago O The figures nre not mine. They were not compiled in Philadelphia in any Pharisaical spirit. The lowu Stute Register gnc them to the world. LI HAT wa- the Russian port to which the Indiana hastened. She reached there about the middle of Mnich, nud on the 17th of that month the unloading wns finished. It is interesting nt this distance of time to read the end of this great work. The Inst eight bags of the cargo were carried ashore by Count Ilrobrlnsky, the chief of the Famine Relief Committee; by the City Prefect of Lilian, Captain Sargent, of the Indiana ; Mr. Crawford, the Ameri can Consul nt St. Petersburg; Mr. Ilorn holdt, the American consul at Llb.iu ; the local director of railroads and Dr. Dulau, an American. When the first trnin started for tho fam ine dlstrhts with lis load of fooil it was cheered by thousands. Half the cll watched its departure. Bands phi.wd and the Russian and Amer ican standards were draped on the loco motive. It wns a proud day for Philadelphia, even if it was celebrated thousands of miles from Independence Hall. TODAY, not only Philadelphia, but the entire country must stand with folded hands while the Russian millions await their doom. This Is the contribution of communism gone mud to the sum of the world s suffer ing. We hel'd China; we cannot help Russia. The iron burs of picjudlce, ignorance, cruelty nnd ambition arc lowered in Russia's sent of so-called government against the charity of the world. It would be n brave American famine commissioner who would trust the fnlth of a Trotzky. FAMINE, war and pestilence have been Itnmnnit ' frrrnt ileelmntnr Here Is the dread record of the worst of these visitations : In Britain In t!72 the inhabitants were forced to cat the bark of trees to allay their hunger Thirtv-e'ght years later, in -110. 40,000 died in the same country. In Italy in 4."0 it is said thnt there were cnes where parents Hte their children ; and In England in 1.115 people devoured horses, dogs, eats and vermin. At Cape Verde In 177." there were 10,000 people perished for want of food. Famines In India nnd China have been so ficquciit and so terrible that they would rrnuire a sprcial tnlile for their recounting. The years 180," -(if! saw 1.000.000 perish in Biiignl and Orissn, India, alone. Two venrs later in Rajputuna, India, the deaths wi-ie 1 ..".00.000. The fateful -ears of 1877-7S saw 500,000 go down to death In Bombay, .Madras ami Mjsore nlone, while in Northern China the famine was so devastating that 0,500,0(1(1 are said to have perished. This latter wan the greatest .famine dis aster in the history of the race. Wholesale Kansas Hospitality Krmn th flmllli Couniy I'lonur Dr. Funk stopped nt the Randall Snnsc homo north of Onylord one evening last week and wns urged to stay for supper. He de murred when he saw there were tweutv-slx others there to eat. "Oh, this Is nothing," said Mrs. SasHc. "Sometime-, we have fifty," A Thing of the Past from the Chlraro lully News, What has become of the old fashioned dance in which the dimm1 moved their, tuX TUESDAY, JULY 19, .XJfiO, XllJliJtiJCi SJHLUUJL.U SUUiN BU AiX .AYVAJttJttlNl JNlx i I. eV.y JAFUJT.T1 JU-JT '-"a . IBdasMaaaaaBaaaaar -r. "-J' V A JT .. ."sW OK. -- saWl . ll . II I J X &&"& .or . N--.'. vj " .&1siAAW'f NOW MY IDEA IS THIS Daily Talks With Thinking Philadelphitins on Subjects They Knoiv Best J. B. HOLLOWAY On Rehabilitating the Soldier T)UT back for the soldier all that he lost -t jn Unclo Sam's service. And, if pos eible. give him a little bit more." This is the aim of the Rehabilitation Division of the Federal Board of Vocational Education, ac cording to .7. B. Holiowny, assistant district vocntlonnl officer of this section, comprising Pennsylvania and Delaware. "Since tho armistice the bureau." said Mr. Holiowny, "has put about 90.000 men in the country in ouu way or nnothcr dis abled in the service, in the way to earn their own living, nnd a decent one nt that. About 40,000 have registered in this section, of which about one-fourth nre either earning their way in some vocation or in training under our guidance. "Mnnv of the men arc not actually dis abled now, but nrc looking to the future, so as to be on record if any disablement grow ing nut of war service shall develop a very sensible idea at tnat. Justice, Not Charity "The purpose of the Government is not to run a huge chnritable organization, but siinplv to help thoso who helped It to help themselves if through physical or mental disability in its service they arc not now nble to help themselves. It is merely a de velopment of the humanitarian idea that runs through nil business today and is com mon justtce nothing more, nothing less. "In order that full justice may be done, we try to take account of the intnngiblc ns well os the tangible potentialities ns well as actualities. Thus, if a young man was in a fair way to become a successful physician or lawyer, business mnn or the like bofore entering the service, we will try to develop him for thut purposo just ns he would have developed himself before ho made his sac rifice. "First of all, after the man Is registered, we must make a survey. We must tlud out whether his case is worthy, whether he falls under the class of men we nrc trying to help, whether lie actually needs It, and If so just what is his education, his talents, his resources, his capabilities, his experi enco, his training nnd his potentialities. Is Aided Physically "Having ascertained these things we then proceed to prepare him. If he is physically in bad shape we first try to get him wejl, to mend him ns far as possible. We then trj to keep him buoyed up spiritually and mentally. If he wns studying in nn Insti tution of learning before the war we trj to duplicate the course ho wus pursuing now. Where this is not possible we send him tutors and in whatever wav is possible bring him up to the point of development that he prooaDiy woum nave uecn ume to achieve if he had pursued his own course bo fore entering the service. "Having established the fact that a man Is eligible for our help, we put him on a small salary, one that will enable the citv fellow to just about live or tnkc care of his family during the process of rehabilitation and the country resident to do u little better. He Is cared for In this way until it is as certained thnt he Is capable of earning his own living In ids own field, hns n job and appears to be mnking good. "Wo hnve n special corps of men who keep on the lookout for suitable employment for our men. ' Employers genernlly are working linnd-in-hnnd with us. They keep us informed of openings that they have or nnv new type of help thnt they may want anil also their requirements. Realizing the difficulties of the rehabilitated men. they exercise the rarest kind of patience. In his nervous, upset condition It would ho easy to throw n service mnn off his balance with u few sharp words. So tact nnd dlplo- i, being assiduously cultivated lu mnking shr. gestlons to the service employe who U trj ing to coino back. Listen to Man's Own Ideas "As fur as possible, we try to let the rehabilitated soldier work out bis own ideas. Hero nnd there a little guidance or encour agement is necessary. "One of the hurdest things we have to face Is to keep up the courage and optlinlniie spirit of the fellow who was affected vitally. Particularly is this so of the nervous case. f ho is inclined to be introspective and get to the mental state of 'w hut's the use of It nil, nnywa ?' it Is our Job to get busy and show him, gently hut none the less effec tively, that it Is. "When n man who has been trained by us nnd obtained n position shows that he la nhlf to bold Ills own flnit nmrprikttu ,.., SnA1 ,. ...... -- .,, ..-- ...... .....i ..,...i-r. .- rv, that our work hedouvt. We watch him ior 192i a time to bee thnt there is no relapse, but otherwise we have finished with the case. If he does slip again wc tnkc him back and try to bolster up his weakness, if it is one within our province. If he does not develop n he should we still keep trying. "Many men get light employment of some sort that does not call heavily on their waning energy or get Into bome smnll busi ness. With some vocational tulent that they may have developed wc often find that they are able to add considerably to their in como while taking enre of their business or employment and thus enru u respectable living. "At the present time we.arc getting addi tional applications In this district nt tho rate of nbout 2000 n ycor, but we feel thnt In n few years there will be a consid erable, falling off. A great percentage of the boys who sacrificed nil they had for tlvelr country will feel that they hnve not been let off with n meager pension. They will also realizo thnt Uncle Sam has not forgotten them nnd has in return given nil that he could to make up to them their losses in ulding him in tho time of his extremity." Today.'s Anniversaries 1821 Chailrs Green, who introduced coal gas in ballooning, made his first ascent, 1820 Cornelius S. Dustiness, who in duced tho United Stntes Government to nc cept Ericsson's plans for the Monitor, born nt Madison, Conn. Died in New York, May 0, 1800. 1841 The Great Britain, the lnrge&t iron steamship built up to that time, was launched at Bristol, England. 1007 The Emperor of Korea abdicated in favor of the Crown Prince. 1910 General Pershing led a contingent in the great Victory parade of allied troops in London. 1020 Er win Bergdoll, Philadelphia slacker, surrendered to the authorities. Today's Birthdays Ex-Duke Charles Edward, who lost the throne of Snxe-Coburg nnd Gothn as a re sult of the war, born In England thirty seven years ngo. Julian W. Mack, of Chicago, president of the Zionist organization of America, born in San Francisco fifty-five years ago. Dr. Chnrlcs 11. Majo, one of the heads of the celebrnted Majo surgical clinic, born nt Rochester, Minn., fifty-six years ago. What Do You Know? QUIZ 1. Who Is tho present Chancellor of Ger- manj ? 2. Name four biographical works by Wash- Ington Irving? 3. 'What Is the meaning of the word autoch thonous? 4. How large Is the wooden fleet of tho United States Shipping lionrd? 6. Who Invented tho limelight? 8. Which word Is preferable, drought or drouth? 7. What King of England had the loncest reign? 8. What Is an Iguana? 0. Who wcro the official American delegates 119 Conference) In Paris in 10. What Is tho meaning of tho name Isn- Answer8 to Yesterday's Quiz Ji Th?-i,nn.L 'm "If. .f. To"1 Thumb wns ( nniles H ftratton. 2. PelliiRin Is an affection of the skin, prob- al.l duo to the bite of an Insect, and especially common u northern italy. 3. James K I'olU succeeded John Tyler as 1'rtnldent of tho United .States 4' T1,nWirAl caer' "rlRlnnllj meant n hood or capo and uiuno In France to ho applied In n llmirutlve sense o adult women In charge of xouni irlrls n socletv l this seiiso the woitlwns Impoited In the Ungllsh Innguiige B. Pedro rnldei'oi, , v Tlnrcu wns oiio of he greatest of Spanish plnywrlrhtH 1 cihnm. 1,H most famous , JnV Is -T, Vd.i hi Queno" (l.lf,, Ih'A nrenin Ills dales urn HiOO-Hlsi ""nini. 8eDHHota.MCC"""",r IS from ' 7. A charge d'affalies Is a dtputv nmliasa- ildnomloltlsT0'"'''"""1 9. Asuncion s tho capital of l'aiuguuy 10 A rerlnh Is a fine lino i etu,r ' dally at Uie top or bottom of i EnJiCSC 4wr SHORT CUTS We notice that the cllpped-bair contro versy continues to bob up. Judging from the news columns, hooch on the hip is becoming epidemic. Not nil the hot air in City Hall Square comes from the subway ventilators. The woman wiio has next to uothlnj to wear is occasionally seen on the beach. Texas has now tarred and feathered t woman. A child will probably be the nut victim. England docs not have to be tnughttis virtue of n League of Nations. The emjln has one already. When old City Hall is renovated Inde pendence Squnre will be more of a bcaat-1 spot than ever. New signs of war nre noted In Russli. The old signs, famine and pestilence, iri evidently not enough for her. The more one. considers the Lansing Isliii agreement, the more one becomes con vinced that Ishll put one over on Lanslnr. Because it is not often he gives cinie for praise, there Is pleasure in noting that for clnrity and honesty Borah on the bonus may be recommended. . - There is nothing so sweet as the smell of newly cut grass, hut it is not as a rule sufficient rompensatiou for the man wM runs the lawn mower. if r- ..,... ..ia tnfnt fti tnriff loci enough to do something worth while wilt the present tnx system it might cam tie thnnlts of the country. Perhaps the average banker is anxious to follow the ndvicc of Mr. Hoover ana tie financial writers and "looseu up" but jw doesn't want to be first. Though the President has token up horseback riding, Senators hopefully an nounce thnt his love for a smooth gait win not permit him to ride rough-shod. Not the least among those to whom tM Nation owes n solemn duty Is tho man lias become morally defective because w being gassed or shell -shocked during tbevrar. One ndvantngc Secretary Mellon i ba over opponents to his suggestion given power to arrange n settlement oi wr ejgn loans is thnt he appears to nar-. program. In arriving nt definitions of "WJ"'; ence." "autonomy" and "sel -de tern g Hon" the Irish conference will douWiei show n proper regard for the theory relativity. i The 'organization of the nPJgj! Women's Club of Pennsylvania Wn$. cnte that it is going to be ""fuS. cult for the plain machine-mode polc" to get by. . If Great Britain should call her Ojj nlal Premiers to "Uend he drmam conference, there is little "k'"'1"? United Stntes. Franco, Italy or '"! J B(t enter objection to the preponderance voting strength. There may I good reason for lJ course, but the average man """'' f0r Uncle Snm paid England tf-i-jK'W , -hlpj cnrr.vlng American uu.n " - wM, instead of deducting tho amount from w England owes America. It is reasonable to M'PP"8, hesitation of Japan in ,',",,rl" ' ctai" mnmnnt conference is based mi a distrust of other world '""'otW dissimilar from that entertained b) ' world Powers concerning Japan. It wn7'n7only the Hh"t tMt 7J fired thnt won the war, but the mm m reserve left untouched. Tim f ' "' b,ji fort the Shipping Hoard, or 'c"nnl ' good with ships. Ship fc Jn"e claH. wastage nre pretty much In the snim When tj.e steamer Rapids KlM ., be,- i udder and wns brnrh'rt ..'-,(- passengers made an ' V f (lie S' I"1' through the raglm: ""',, ,fl ,. raft mice In n tlnv bon t alt " eil I,,,,,!!, The coplnin. one m '"",,,, 51 I'll river. HsMa m "' ' , it , dorr the rwciia. were being effc I'd- lfl iW , Hon to duty us here MP"n.mUtr, H men proud oi tueir cuuiu.v- - tf A' A P w1, si ,. H
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