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PhlUdelphls. Tkunsey, July 21. 1921
IS IT ANYBODY'S BUSINESS?
rpllB police will give proper attention to
X'.thc murder of Mrs. Margaret Lucalrcthch
nt the door ofeber house In a little alley
running out of vxi Spruce street, llut who
will give proper attention to the alley?
It Is described as a narrow passage
reached through an archway from Spruce
street. There ,orc three houses on the
astern aide of the alley. The space be
tween the houses and a high fence on the
western side Is four feet. The drainage
frotn the houses runs down the center of
Ibis passageway. The houses are two stories
high, with one room on a floor. The sun
rarely penetrates there. The murdered
woman was living tn one of the houses with
her husband and five children. Seven per
sons crowded Into two rooms.
It will surprise many that people Arc
living In such conditions in tills rich nnd
clvjllxcd community, nut this If not the
only alley where families are living In un
sanitary surroundings such ns no intelligent
farmer would permit his animals to endure.
Js the Improvement of these places the
business of anybody? Has the Department
of Health any rontrol over the situation?
Or: are such conditions to continue as a
menace to the health of the whole com
munity? 1 TRANSIT PROGRESS
COUNCIL'S Committee on Transportation
3 and Public Utilities is approaching the
transit problem in the right spirit. The
appointment yesterday of a sub-committee to
confer with the Mayor, the City Solicitor,
the Director of Transit and the representa
tives of the P. It. T.. for the purpose of
perfecting the temporary lease of the Frank
ford elevated Hue, marks the beginning of
the' end of delay.
The-members of the committee have de
cided 'hat the operation of the Krankfonl
line Is of more Importance than factional
political quarrels. Nothing is to be gained
by' holding out on technicalities. There is
Just as much political capital to be made
by one faction as by the other In getting the
new line In operation.
When it Ik understood that the lease Is
tonbe temporary, pending a valuation of the
property of the P. It. T., compromises can
be'Itolcrated that would be objectionable In
a permanent lease. The Councllmen seem to
be prepared to make the necessary conces
sions to business exigencies.
J MADDEN AND ECONOMY
M"" AKTIN 11. MADDUN. Representative
in Congress from the First District of
Illinois, has been made rhnlrmnn of the
House Committee on Appropriations in dis
regard of long-established precedent.
He wbb not even a member of the coin
nlttee In the last Congress. .Tames W.
Good, of Iown, was clmlrmnii ; Charles It.
Davis, of Minnesota, stood next, and Wil
liam 8. Vare, of this city, wns third in rank.
But when the committee wns made up by
the present Congress Mr. Madden and
Daniel It. Anthony, of Kansas, were placed
between Mr. Davis and Mr. Vare. making
the. South Philadelphia Congressman tiftb
instead of third In order of prominence.
The resignation of Mr. GotiU from Con
gress made a vacancy In the 'chairmanship.
If precedent had been followed, Mr. Dais
would have been promoted. lie served on
the committee for many jears and by sur
viving others had ripen to the position of
ranking member. The Committee on Com
mittees, however, decided thnt Mr. Maddeu
was so well qualified by training nnd tem
perament for the chairmanship thnt it pro
moted him over the head of Mr. Duvls bv .t
oti of more than two to one In his favor.
The new chairman has a lively apprecia
tion of his responsibilities. lie was a
membor of the Select Committee on the
Budget In the last Congress and was active
In dpaftlng the Budget Bill and in securing
Its passage. The business of the Committee
on Appropriations is to sec that the budget
estimates are not exceeded. As it is neces
sary at the present time to keep all appro
priations down to the lowest possible amount
consistent with efficiency, the committee will
have to use the pruning knife with courage
and determination.
3Ir. Madden has long been an ndvncate of
economy. He Is now tn a place where he
can have a powerful Influence toward bring
ing it about.
A FLARE FROM LIMBO
RIOT and rebellion In the We.ni ni Peni
tentiary, with u wild ai-cuiiipnniment
of Are nnd gun -play nnd casualty teports,
will not help those who ate forever trjing
to, make exlHtence for the long-tenners more
tolerable and less destructive to mind and
morals.
(There are people who believe that no
tujm Is wholly bad and that jails are the
places In which amateur villains In .me
hopelessly professional In their oik'....!;.
That view Is not wholly jtistllied. There
are criminals who nre bad nil through, men
and women with some terrible twist of mliul
tha,t makes It Impossible for them to be
acceptable units In any clvillicd order. They
are a minority, een In penitentiaries, )1(t
tiiey nre there. Later reports pi-nimbi) will
aliow that II unt. defei-tht-s of thU Irre
claimable elans thnt led o movement Intended
to, be n whoie&nic jail delivery at IMtts
burgh. iThe Western Penitentiary is an old Insti
tutlon, witjioiij the facilities necessary for
the, work which It Is supposed to do. A
site for a great central State prison is now
being prepared near Unllefnntc. and there
prisoners now housed In this city ami at
Pittsburgh will ultimately he cniicentrnled
iic modern buildings. Meanwhile some of the
wiwet and most desperate criminals caught
taring paMTSeurratliins In Pernio 'vniiln arc
" fefltteburgh. Among them, doubtless, arc
; aSMiiiifj' of me who wou'dn t hesitate for
f MLIirstant tn kill or burp if thereby they
ertr.
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about the rioting at the Western Peniten
tiary. There will be more tajk about "pam
pered felons." But as a matter of fact no
felons ate panipcred In thU State or in any
other. Penitentiary wardens endeavor so to
organize their Institutions as to relieve
themselves nnd the State of the responsibility
for maintaining, at great expense, hotbeds
of crlmlnnl instinct. Such uplift work as
the cynics like to denounce Is merely the
effort of prison authorities to send a man
out Into the world no worse than hu was
when he wns sentenced.
THE WAR-DEVASTATED NICKEL
IS RECONSTRUCTING ITSELF
Trend Toward Normality Is Restoring
It From the Outor Darkness to Ita
Old Place In Good Society
SWIFTLY, systematically, the work of
reconstruction goes forward in France.
In Belgium almost all the visible scars of
the war have disappeared. The Germans
have found that groans will not build the
commercial empires nnd principalities of
their continuing dreams. So they have gone
to work. Everybody on the other side Is
feeling better.
Here we proceed more slowly. But ono
bright symptom Is visible In the confusion
of American affairs. The war-blasted nickel
Is becoming more like Its old self. It Is
recovering something of the energy and mag
netism that once made It the favorite coin
of this land.
No one talks of reconstruction in the
United Stntes. No one eet out to recon
struct the nickel. The nickel is reconstruct
ing itself. It Is, coming back unaided from
under the ruin of the Inst live years, limping
n little, but obviously convalescent after the
wounds of war.
A prodigal country cast It out, threw tl
to the dogs, disowned it, subjected It to de
rision. Now the same country, after the
enlightenment thnt comes to all prodigals,
is warmly nnd somewhat remorsefully wel
coming the nickel back to Its old place in
the scheme of things as any other battered
casual might be welcomed from (he land of
the lost.
Old time never can be made new again.
It is doubtful whether a five -cent piece will
oon bo the power that It was in the days
when It bought an endurable cigar, a fair
sort of sandwich, a long trolley ride In the
cool of the evening, a glass of lemonade, a
seat in n movie or any one of a hundred
other useful or pleasant things. But It is
hnvlng what the doctors call a quick re
covery. In New York, after storms of talk and
propaganda for eight or ten rent carfares,
the nickel seems to be permanently estab
lished as the standatd fare. In Boston you
can now get a five-cent shine. The price
fell yesterday. Two nickels expended In
upper New York will now buy a glas of
the Ice-cream soda for which many fearless
druggists still demand four or five. The
slump may involve nil of Harlem. BruBh
boys In barber shops reveal a willingness tt
again extend recognition to the ulckel after
a long period of severed diplomatic rela
tions. They will accept it now as n tip.
The five-cent slab of pie is said to be a
possibility of the near future.
There are mnny Eminent Persons who
still hope to sec the nickel nnd nil that it
stands for permanently banished conl gen
tlemen and trolley raagnnteg and tome res
taurant keepers and such like folk who do
not jet appear to know that the war is over.
Of (ourse. they will not prevail.
The returning nickel is a symbol of an
Irresistible Force. It spells evolution.
In the restaurants where the two-nickel
sandwich of other days Is still on sale at
fifty cents the boss will tell you that busi
ness is bad. Business will continue to be
bad for every one who doesn't realize that
the dollar sandwich nnd the forty-tent
lemonade were phenomena of war, like
hymns of hate and the twenty-dollar silk
shirt of the pioletnrinn. and thnt they can
not survive In the atmosphere of peace and
normality.
The renaissance of the nickel, oddly
enough, appears to be due very largely to
the faith and the instinctive sanity of the
country's children. In the mind of every
small boj and small girl the nickel remaini
n fixed, familiar nnd trusted quantity, n
thin,; cherished and believed in like the
family dog or the family cat.
Children arc the only ones who made any
perceptible effort to restore the integrltv of
the small coins. They paraded in New
York. They paraded In Boston. And thej
brought back the five-cent lce-crcam cone
and the two-jitney soda-water. Small
bojs who know normalcy when theysee it
invaded downtown Boston in a war on the
bootblack syndicates, and !o ! the' five-cent
shine returned to the world.
These nre good omeu3 of broad meaning.
'Ith a reconstructed nickel there will be,
of coure, n reconstructed dollar. Who
knows that men, if they paraded and demon
strated, might not get the good five-cent
cigar which Vice President Marshall used
to call the great need of the country? A
great need of the country Is the nickel trol
ley ride. Thnt, too, may come.
The people who believe that they can
continue to snub the nickel into oblivion
are to a very large extent responsible for
what Is called depression In business. It
Isn't possible to profiteer successfully now.
The country cannot stand It. The easy
money Is not available.
The revUing nickel and all the changes
that It implies will have to be accepted by
every one. When the cnnl barons and the
trolley magnates and the railroad companies
nnd the labor leaders are ready to admit
this, business will revive quickly enough
and everjbody will be happier and safer.
SHIPS AND CHAOS
TTAD the books of the Shipping Board,"
XI declares Chairman Lnsker, "been
kept with a view to cheating nnd deceiving
the country, they could not hnve been kept
in much different shape than they hnve
been."
The confusion in which the gigantic ship
ping venture of the Government has fallen
is thus akin to that of the mystified school
boy who didn't even know what he didn't
Unow.
Identification of Individual culprits Is
about Impossible. Mr. Lnsker has spe
cifically absolved Admiral Benson from
blame. None of the responsible high offi
cial' Involved enn be fairly charged with
deliberate wrongdoing. The mismanagement
seems to have been subtlv pervasive, a kind
of sprawling Incoinp'tcju-c that has ren
dered difficult the search for nn consistency
even In misdeeds and blunders.
There I, however, nothing vague about
the consequences. The defirlt of the 'hoard
for the lust fiscal jenr reached a total of
S.'IKn.OOO.OOO.
That the emergency of the war, the uni
versal desire for ships at almost nuy prii c,
and the udden ending of the conflict, leav
ing the Government with the most ejipensive
merchant marine fleet ever ('(instructed, were
prime factors in deepening the financial
morass cannot be drnled.
But "unavoidable circumstances" Is by
no menus n comprehensive defense. The
muddle has thickened since Armlstl'-f l)n.v.
The chnii" ha apparently been Mtt'e af
fected bv those '("(iccxics of rcronsti-ur tlon !
which have been nnnlfci'ed In other lines of
business, public and private,
Vhnt Is pecullarlj Iniiicntnhlc Is the be
clouding of the ejVc'itlonnI opportunity of-
fereu to the United Slates to regain Its
maritime prestige. Mortage of vessels for
,orti
.fcaisttiaW...
"rmnrTftn atfvl
merly explained something of our Inability to
take our place in tha world's sea-borne com
merce. Today our merchant fleet of 18,
GOO.OOO gross tons is approximately equal
to that of England, It la not In resources
but in administration that the board has
been deficient,
Fortunately, though ha 1 shocked by the
damage wrought, Mr. Lasker, as rorcnicd
by his acts thus far, is the typo of admin
istrator who will not be contented with mere
hnnd-wrihglng. With the fleet In being It
would be a stigma upon American enterprise
were sudden liquidation regarded as the
only means of extricating the board from its
present chaos.
Mr. Laskcr's expressed ideal is tho
eventual retirement of the Government from
the shipping business. But that gonl is still
far distant. Immediate necessities nro the
introduction of order and Intelligible system
Into the maritime affairs of the Unitea
States and the application of an enormous
equipment to economic and financial re
alities. It is not too late to capitalize advanta
geously the unprecedented spurt in ship
building occnsloncd by the wnr. In this
work public tolcrnnce nnd patience will to
some extent assist In alleviating the her
culean burden which Mr. Lnsker has shouldered.
THEY LOOK TO THE MAYOR
THOSE who objected to the approval of
the Hall gas ordinance yesterday repre
sented a very different group of interests
from that represented by those who spoke in
favor of the ordinance on the day before.
Corporation interests rallied to the sup
port of the U. G. I. Company on Tuesday.
Spokesmen for bankers and manufacturers
urged that the gas company bo allowed to
take for Itself next year $4,000,000 more
of the receipts from the snle of gas than
It has been getting. They were thinking of
the llnnnelal troubles of the corporation and
not of the financial troubles of the pcople
who pay the gas bills.
At the hearing yesterday spokesmen for
the consumers protested against any Increase
In the price, of gas and against any Increase
In the tax burdens of the people.
The Mayor was told that tens flf thou
sands of persons out of work and dependent
on gas for light and heat cannot afford to
have their gas bills increased. They did not
discuss the financial troubles of the gas com
pany because they were more deeply Inter
ested In their own financial troubles. In
deed, some of them doubted that the gas
company Is In such dire straits as It has
been represented to be.
Among the organizations represented at
the hearing were the Jewish Women's Or
ganization of Social Workers, the Logan
Improvement Association, the United Busi
ness Men's Improvement Association, the
United Association of Journeymen Plum
ers' Local 123, the Northwest Business
Men's Association nnd the North Penn
Improvement Association. These organiza
tions contain tens of thousnnds of members,
who nre not big buslncs men, but everyday
sort of folk to whom a dollar means a hun
dred cents In toll.
Thes people appealed to the MHyor to
protect them In the present crisis. They
hnve no one else to look to, for the Council
wns more deeply interested In protecting the
U. G. I. than in protectlnc the consumers
when tt passed Councilman I lull's ordinance.
It wns frankly said that the purpose of the
ordlnnnce wns to relieve the great corpora
tion which has made millions out of the
snle of gas.
As this newspaper has pointed out re
peatedly during the last few weeks, the
Interests of nil parties can be safeguarded If
the city will follow the ndvice of the ex
perts whom it employed to study the ques
tion. Those experts have condemned the
Hall ordlunnre. They favor n conference of
all parties Interested in order to agree on a
way out. The Mayor recommended such a
conference to City Council some time ago.
Council's answer to the recommendation
wns the ordlnnnce increasing the price of
gas, with no proper regard for the Interest
either of the gas users or the taxpayers who
own the plant.
The Mayor ought not to have much diffi
culty in deciding which course to follow
after whnt be has heard and seen. The
weight of the evidence is clenrly against the
11 nit oi dimmer.
IN BERGDOLL'S WAKE
EVERYBODY who became luxohcd In the
ense of Grover Bergdoll appears to have
been somehow defiled. D. Clarence Glb
boney probably had good cause before he
died to regret evAi the routine work which
he performed In the interest of the slacker.
There Is hardly tin officer nt Governors
island who bus not been libeled by implica
tion in the testimony offered by Grover's
friends before congressional committees.
Now it is mnde clear that the draft dodger
nnd his mother proffered bribes to officers
nnd there Is the latest charge thnt in one
lustnnce the money was accepted. Mean
while, Bergdoll himself bns been telling all
Germany that the men in authority over
him were "a bunch of crooks."
The ense Is n nuisance and a humiliation.
But It Is the duty of the in estimators in
Washington to go n with it to the end.
Only light and nlr can dispel the odois thnt
fill the air with each new twist of the probe.
The country will hope and believe that no
army officer of any considerable rank or
standing was contaminated by Bergdoll's
money. But after the allegations just made
In Washington It will nant to be shown.
CONGRESS MUST BE SHOWN
CONGRESS, us w- .i higher authority,
is Inclined lo he p those who help
themselves. Appreciating this fact, Senator
Penrose and Representative Darrow, whose
wishes for the succoss of the sesqul-ccn-teulal
canuot be questioned, have decided
not to press for action on the bill providing
for Fedcrnl approval of the World's Fair,
San Francisco is cited ns an instance of
a city which fully realized the Importance
of self-Improvement before soliciting con
grcslonal aid for its exposition. Applica
tion to the Government wns not made until
home subscriptions amounting to ?17.!i00,000
had already been made to the Pnnnma
Pacific enterprise.
It In really n respite, n breathing space,
thnt bus been allotted to the promoters of
the undertaking (ommemointlug a centurj
and a half of American Independence. From
now until the late nutunui, when measures
such as tho tariff and tax bill may be out
of the way, Philadelphia will be under an
obligation to display its capacity for
initiative.
Spiritually, thenretleallv, the fair project
now enjoys heartiest support of this com
munity. What Is lequl'-lte Is tangible ac
complishment and a definite, large-scale
progress In nrganl'ail- n
Gil Bnrgcs. .Minister of Portdrfn Affairs
In Venezuela, has resigned his portfolio at
the request of President-elect Gomez. The
reason is said to he that while Gil Barge
wan In this countrv In connection with the
presentation of the ISolltnr statue he studi
ously refrained from boosting the Gome
regime. Washington is snld to be much
concerned over the matter; but the Admin
istration may be depended upon to do noth
ing linslllj. Auger directed agnltiHt Gl1
Ron.'1'rf for seeming dlsloynltv to IiIm bsmi
elates Is not ne esnrJl directed aynltiht n
former host w 'u found Mm clinrming.
Defendant ball players hnve shown
nmusement nt testimony concerning gnme
fixing, bat one never knows the moment
their sense of btrroor will I jarwd.
rf VfaitfrJ-
UAMA
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A GENTLEMAN FROM AFRICA
Town Clerk Logan, of Bloemfonteln,
la Giving Philadelphia "the Ones-
Ovor" Ho Is tho Municipal Man.
agar of 40,000 People A
Wonderful City
. By GEORGE NOX McCAIN
J P. LOGAN is In Philadelphia,
e Under, the tutelage and guidance of
Clinton Rogers Woodruff, president of tho
Civil Service Commission, ho is "doing"
tho city.
That is, he Is posting himself upon cer
tain phases of our municipal management.
Public welfare Is a big card in his port
folio, of desired information. Civil service
Is another.
Largest of nil, perhaps 'and we haven't
a sample on tha shelf is municipal man
agement by commission.
But "Mr. Lewis is going" where they do
hnve this advanced form of government.
He Is here for that purpose.
Moreover, he is the official observer and
peripatetic chronicler for what is one of the
most ndvauced and interesting cities in tho
world.
And It Is located In Africa.
BSBSSMsaSB
ITS name Is Bloemfonteln.
Thirty-five years ago, when the ninth
edition of the "Encyclopaedia Britannlca"
was put out, it was so insignificant that Its
name did not appear In that plethoric pub
lication. It Is the capital of the Orange Free State.
Oranga Free Stato 1 in South Africa,
nnd Is noted for Us wool, diamonds, ostrich
feathers nnd hides.
Bloemfonteln has a population of 40,000
nnd it leads the world as an up-to-date
city.
At least Mr. Lewis says so, and he fur
nishes facts tn back up his nsscrtlons.
He Is the business manager or chief ad
ministration official of the city.
Ofilcinjly he Is known as the Town Clerk.
(They call It "dark" down there, the same?
as In England.)
He is what the councllmnnic majority in
Philadelphia aspires, helplessly, to be.
Mr. Logan has been sent forth, like the
scouts of Israel, to "spy out the land."
He expects to visit every country and cap
ital of Western Europe; afro some In Amer
ica North.
Absorbing the most advanced Ideas In
municipal management Is his Job.
Tho city of Bloemfontoln Is paying his
expenses.
"That Is, they thought they were when
they mnde a liberal appropriation for my
trip, but thoy, unfortunately, didn't know
anything about the tariffs of American
hotels," he said plaintively.
MR. LOGAN looks like William Gillette
and talks like George Arllss.
Bloemfonteln is, among the cities of the
world, the favored child and shining example
of municipal paternalism.
The city Is everything the citizen noth
ing. Thnt Is, nothing to speak of. Once the
citizen elects him a Mayor and Council, and
u City Clerk is selected, he goes his non
chalant way and leaves the Town Clerk, as
the right hand of the Council, to run things.
And maybe he doesn't run them?
The municipality owns the henting, water,
trolley and transportation systems.
It controls every public utility, clear
down to the municipal laundries.
It Is the public washerwoman ns well bb
the policeman, fireman, electrician, trolley
conductor, real estate agent, pawnbroker,
nurse to the orphan nnd caretaker of the
aged nnd infirm.
Public welfare is Its long suit.
But even with all this, the Bloemfonteln
Ites nre not contented.
They arc constantly seeking ways wherein
they may improve upon their present system.
Councilmanie sj stems nre passe already
with them.
They are casting longing eyes upon the
commission form of city government.
In the expressive slang of the rising
Philadelphia generation, "They are sure
some go-getters."
HKRE are a few sample pages from the
book of Bloemfonteln by Mr. Lewis:
In the neighborhood of the city nre
27.000 acres of Orange Free State land.
The city owns It. This laud is sold by the
city to home-builders, with certain restric
tions. These restrictions enable the municipality
to maintain a supervisory interest in the
property and see thnt its beneficent Inws
and ordinances nre icspcctcd and obeyed.
Whenever nny Innd is sold the money Is
nt once reinvested In other land.
More than .$1,000,000 worth of It has been
sold and there is still .$.'1,000,000 worth re
maining to be disposed of.
The land originally cost the municipality
.$'00.
THEY'VE solved the housing problem,
too.
Tho Orange Free Stnte "Jumped" thnt
Is, selred .$7,000,000 worth of German
money.
Get mnny gets 4 per cent on it while In the
Stnto's hands. The Stnte ond city build
homes with these fuuds, or loan it to home
builders. A mnn can borrow for building purposes
00 per cent of tho total value of his house
and lot.
Premier Jnn Chrlstlaan Smuts originated
the scheme.
THE native hlncks have no vote.
The half-castes and the whites alone
exercise the franchise. The old Boer ele
ment, the descendants of the orlglunl Dutch
settlers, are counted In with the "white
folks."
"We hnve our own troubles over the color
line in m countrv, nnd It Is growing more
acute every vear." said Mr, Logan.
Let It nlso be kno.vn that the Town
Clerk of the South Afrlenn city has wide
open eyes nnd a nimble wit.
When W. W. Roper wns introduced to
him us a member of the City Council ns
well as the football coach of Princeton, lie
remarked with a smile:
"And which, pray, Mr. Roper, do you
regard as the greatest honor?"
"This America of yours Is n wondorful
country. It hns been, even what little I
have seen of It. n splendid Inspiration to me.
"We arc English, of course, but with
that we look to the United Stntes for our
Ideals and Inspirations. Thnt is why I am
here." be said, with evident candor.
Which proves that J. A. Logan, of Bloem
fonteln. finiiKc Free State, Is a gentleman
of lare discernment mil honest expression.
For fer that Bogleinnn Law will pet
them if they don't watch out. Audubon,
N. !.. one-piece bathing suits hae run to
coer.
Perhaps It may be said by way of ex
cuse for Mrs. Bergdoll that she was not
thrown In contnet with many Americans of
high type.
Mr. Fordney wl'l plense note thnt
Messrs. MeKlnley. Dlnglev and Payne saved
their hides, ns it were, by putting 'em on
the free list.
At least It mnv bo said concerning the
matter of the U. G. I. rates that I he ocnl
part of the popularc expiesd Itself in no
uncertain tones.
if It should turn out Hint only nctual
warfare can determine the truth of General
Mitchell's nHSTtlon that the nlrplnne has
made the capital ship obsolete, mav we long
remain In Ignot-nnce.
A dispatch from Rome says that a
newspaper there recently called for ii vot.
of women on the (pujstloii. "Which of r,
women would I rather be?" I've led t,,.
vote because she had no competition with
her hnshnnl. Mcrv Mntdnleje -iime next
be jau'.e after enlojlnir nil the sins of tte
world, she linil a e'lance to tnste all the
Joys of Heaven. There is a sophistication
about ,the viewpoints tVat cnuses one to
doubt the strict authenticity of the dispatch.
It lis at It were, too "good" to be trot,,
f'ir" ii atSaasTn itiiu I all it .
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KmrnWimirinnvrr " ,
NOW MY IDEA IS THIS
Daily Talks With Thinking Philadelphia on Subjects They
Know Best
DR. WILBUR THOMAS
On European Rehabilitation
"DEHABILITATION of the stricken
' countries of Europe has become a mat
ter of International concern, according to
Dr. Wilbur Thomas, director of the Friends'
Relief Service in Europe, who recently re
turned from an extenslvo trip through
Europe.
Improvement of the exchange rate nnd nn
Increase In productivity are the two cs
scntlnls to a return to anything like nor
malcy, holds Dr. Thomas. Each, in fact,
Is moie or less dependent on the other, he
says.
"While conditions In Europe," said Dr.
Thomas, "are Improved thoro ure distressing
times abend during the years that must
elapse before anything like n return to
normal Is effected,
"As it now stands, all F.urope is uffected
to a greater or Icbb degree with malnutri
tion, some of the countries very seriously
so. As nny one can readily see the vitality
of a people cannot be allowed to run down
very far If they are to increase their pro
duction appreciably, a thing that they must
do If there is to be nny decided change In
existing conditions.
Production Wns Curtailed
"This situation Is complicated by two
conditions. The lack of production during
and following the war resulted in the re
servo supply of food, clothing and otlier
necessities being run down to the point wheiu
It was almost negligible.
"The first couifrn of almost every coun
try in Lurope then 1b to first take enre of
Its own needs. Most of them nre so far
behind, however, that they not only cnunot
gain, but will likely fall fiuther behind thnu
ever.
"England. Franco and Belgium may ba
rated. If not back to normal, nt least able
to stand on their own feet and stiuggle
nlong with some chance of taking care of
themselves nnd being able to expoit to otlier
commies. Belgium, in particular, is going
full tilt. But the other countries, such us
Germany, Austria. Poland mid Russia, not
to mention many of the smaller ones, are In
desperate straits.
"The American visitor In these countries
is gem-mlly not impressed with the gravity
of the situntion. He hears tales of peopl
naked and sturvlng d goes there expecting
to see people dropping in the streets or
crowllng about cadaverous and ragged.
"When he sees npparentl healthy looking
children romping nbout with the unconcern
of childhood, adults going about us usual
nnd himself cats regularly it the hotels on
whatever, for the most part, he fancies, nt a
less price than It would cost him at home,
lie at once comes to the conclusion thnt
repoits of condition!! have been exaggerated.
Below Hie Surface
'But u little more than a casual or super
ficial cxamluutlou will show him quite a
different condition. For instance, 1 saw a
lot of clilldien in Vienna In the blend line.
I snld to u physician, 'Why do these chil
dren (iiino here for food? They look all
right. ' lie took a child out of the line,
'llow old do you think she is?' he asked.
" 'Judging from our own experience.' 1
replied, 'about eight years old.'
' 'How old aio ou?' lie asked the girl.
Twelve,' she replied.
"Then the fact dawned upon me that the
children were stunted In their growth, f
found afterward that the Fuiopcnii child U
from two to five years behind bis American
cousin In development.
"The adults, too, show their los of vltn'lt.v
In their hul: of Interest mid general air of
lassitude. While In Gel-many, for instance,
they have lost the portliness, so ehainc'erU
tie of tliem. they look, outside of being a
little pale, ful-l normal. But the vitality
ami stmiiliui. which cannot be observed nnd
Is so necessary. Is not thuic. France lost
two Inches a muii during the Napoleonic
wars and an inch n man after the Fran
Prussian War. You can figure proportion
ately h"w i'11"''1 smaller the I'uropeau peo
ples ore going to be for years.
Necessities Aid Ladling
"Oils, fats, soap mid medicine nre figured
as , i. tin necessities of tlie.se countries. (V.
dinarlly I"' HOnn would he used for washing
purposes But most of the soap that gof.s
over o 'iiini. aiio mis iu u nru. (on vaill-
ahlft to bi
iogThe
to be wasted for surh a tiling as wash-
lurtnsr r.sit you go, tns mors this
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IF IT ONCE GETS AWAY-
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condition Is noted. Cod liver oil is hailed
as n delicacy, just as we fancy honey.
"Most of the countries are grain-raising
and so they have bread to eat. But while
one mnv keep life in the body with this kind
of food, it docs not make people normal.
Without the other necessary Ingredients tljat
reserve strength 1h gone, nnd the victims
become weaklings and easy prey to disease.
"Poland bus gotten to the point where she
enn produce 01) per cent of the grain that
she needs. But as grain is her only nsset
she is allowed to export on a 40 per cent
basis. Mr. Hoover Is mnking nn arrange
ment whereby other kinds of food are pro
vided for the children of that country, leav
ing some of the grain as a trading asset.
"Tn most of the countries the wages of
the workers nre such that with the low rate
of exchange they cannot buj enough of the
right kind of food to cnt. The American
with more money nnd more vnlunble money
can nnd does not understand. There Is
enough for him. llut as a matter of fact
If an attempt was made to supply the de
mand most of the countries would be famine
struck In a few days.
Must Not Bo Paiipc.-leil
"There is one other condition, that Is im
jiortnnt. Thero is gteat danger of pauper
ising many of the nntlmiH. So iu their own
lutcres-t within a year or so the relief scrvlc
must stop. Thnt menus that thousands will
buve to die before these countries arc nble
to adjust their own affairs to the point
where they arc uble to take care of thcin
sclvc3. "Undoubtedly this country should extend
credit to the others until they begin to get
on their feet. If she don't there will be
no trade for her, because the other countries
unable to pn cash are sending the boats
back empty. As It is this country has most
of the gold reseive of the world ami the
credit of most of the other countries will be
utterly destrojed if things keep ou ns they
have. But the American business and
financial mnn Is unwilling lo take a chnnee
and so the merrj -go-round goes on.
"There Is n feeling Hint Germany nn 1
the Central Powers thnt were should he made
to pav for the trouble tbev caused, and so
thev should. Only it should be remembered
thnt in order for Germany to pny this
staggering debt she must go into the forclgu
markets that thW country scckr, as the
Allies' maikets arc move or less barred to
lier. Potentially, she stands to become,
strange us it may seem, one of the richest
nations on eiutli on this La-is.
"The whole problem is nn enormous ope
and ono that no one or n few men run hope
to solve. There ore so many angles to it
and the difficulties accentuated by national
Jealousies and need and nmiij other factors
are such as to caun the stoutest hcarr
a feeling almost uklu lo despair.
"At best it is a long, hard problem that
will entail endless buffering and rcqulie Hie
most patient kind of work and tin. greatest
amount of wisdom to ovcicoimV
Today's Anniversaries
1813 Fort Meigs was iignhi bcsiegeil by
General Pn.etor with a force ot about 41HHI
British and Indians.
1K21 rimiiFc of lings nUPeiisacola. Gen
eral Calluvo u-pi-esentlngfHpnln and Gen
eral .locksoti tlm United Stales.
1S2I Stanley Matthews, United States
Senator from Ohio ana Justice of the Su
preme Court of the United Slates, boiu at
Cincinnati. Died in Washington, I). C,
Maich 'J'J. IKS').
IK'.II Opening of the first railway In
Camilla, from l.npuiiiie to Ht. John's.
ISIS The cities oi Dublin nnil Walerforil
were proclaimed by the I.oui Lieutenant of
Ii eland In b" Under Ihe Coen i.iu Act.
IS01- The lVilcinls were defeated at the
Buttle of Bull Kim. the II I'M Impuitnul en
gagement of tin' American Civil War.
Today's Birthdays
Dowager Quecu Maria Clirlslln.i. mother
of Urn present King of Spain, born ulxty
thiee years ago.
Edgar Preston Hill, general sccrctar 0f
education of the Presbjlcriun Chinch, bmn
nt Pontine. III., fifty years ago.
Tim Most Rev. IMward .1. ifmiim, .tcJi
blshup of Sun Francisco, bmn ni Ruche, ter
N. Y. sixty-one j enn ago. '
Anna A. t.iuil'ii nri'tiilmit of the .
tlonal W C T. V.. born in llo-ion sixty-
eight years ago. '
Major General Jyhii II, BrooU, U. S A.,
retired; born In Montgomery Cwnlj I's
eighty-Ihree year. ago. $"!f'
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SHORT CVTS
Wonder If a beach censor ctcr visits a
.musical eIiow?
Wonder what Jack Johnson thinks of
the Stlllinnn case?
South Africa Is, as It were, a
State between Dublin and Belfast.
buffer
The Bergdoll mess seems to prove that
one can't touch pitch without b, Ing defiled.
The majority of girls turn out fairly
well considering the quantity of advice they
receive.
Japan's Internal situation may do much
to keep her militarists In a friendly frami
of mind.
The One Big Union worth while Is on
that embraces employers, employes sad
consumers.
Do you suppose the bnslc content of
the new police gas bomb wns developed out
of the U. G. I. fight?
Wonder if oil on the free entry list will
lubricate the path to freedom of other
tariff-ridden products?
Tho trouble with most municipal nuM"
tlons is that where an answer Is required
It Is only money thnt talks.
We'll be choked If we understand how
a man with a stiff collnr finds room for com
plaint against the woman with a fur.
If Mr. Lasker succeeds In making tin y
Shipping Board seaworth he may prrhfip
find Congress u better deckhand than pilot.
Weather conditions halted the bombloi
of a battleship by army p'nncs off the Vir
ginia Copes. One is iule'cstcd in lejmlng
If the same weather conditions would imw
Interfered with the opcr.itious of a liostiu
fleet.
What Do You Know?
QUIZ
1. What Is tho highest ponslblo percental.
of humidity In tho atmospliere:
2. Who woh John HartramV
3. Whnt Presidents of tho United Stain
died natural deaths In ollloc '
4. When nnd between whom was the battu
of Qravolotto fought?
5. Win is Zulonga?
6. What Is tho capital of Venezuela"
7. Who Is the viitual dictator or that coua-
try?
S. What Is a char-a-banc?
. What Is the literal meaning ot "embon
point"! 10. What Is a postulant?
Answers to Yesterday's Quiz
1. Job's tears ui pebblis f l,a"s.l!?,ifng
olivine a geni-nioiii', til f",r J-"'.
nnd found especially In Moma.""' v
Mexico nnil Arlronu. They tako MW
mime In consequence of their ',e
unit curiously pflted surface.
2. Welsh belongs to the Ccltlo BY'U!. . i?!i"
suages, which Includes Irish all I
tlsluClnellc. Breton mid fornlfh "
last named Is now not spuHuii
3. To dither means to tremble, shiver, tnrlii.
4. Nupoloon, commanding tho I'rrncli arm
rallied a decisive victory over '
Prussians and Knxons uudy-r r.i"-.
Huhenloho near Jenn, a '"J
Smile, forty-ftvo miles south est w
Lelpslc. In IS06. On tlm isnw uu,, , "J
tober 14. tho French under Uaou
defeated another Piusslnn arm) &'
AuertUiuK, nearby. i
0. The expression. ''Guide, philosopher ann
friend." is from Akxuiidtr JWf
"Kssay on Man."
0, PrunUU Is tVi'wWers f?
foi-.neily used for "!rr":'I., .i,oji.
mi.i l.uor for ii.p.r- of women s swwi.
7. noxlnc the compass l onuiiiorat on ot
hul.olnt and uunMcr-potoU
prope.' older. .,,
b. Ueoigo Henry HoHor was n "'"Xiit
lean punt., dramatist a .. J'l$m"0,
boi ii in Philadelphia In 18-'f Ytltnlnl."
noted play Is "Kraiicescn da 'w'JJy
lie. was appointed Minister t". AurK'.
In 1S71 and lo llusun In '"
died 111 1890. th,t
j. U is asserted by some Invedt Bato y
billiards was u game WuUR"lv ,ne
tho Bast by. the t'rusaderH. P yj x
an artist of the Coui ;t of U w'U(ut
W& rnudV.' Uinuui'V
' U.91. . . ,..., .....v.
10. The original nani or Jonn u" , VjmBj
?' 'hTw.s "bon'Si. a5 Fffib 'if
- in vinlci at an eirlV n"i itlX '
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