ISA- i ,' ,'? 'I. EVMiNtt PUBLIC LJWDUJiir-VMjLLADiDLPHlAi fcVUKiJAl', JOi-tf J, 10-L V.1 (I r n r -rr !' '' tt,i Mr hi.4- V ' Queuing public He&ger PUBLIC LEDGER COMPANY i.iiiui !! ivi ua?i & nbmvbti Wtlltt It t ff ft) 11(1 ttaatnr lif John C, Jlnrtln, Vies President and Treasurer; c'W Charles A. Tyler. Secretary! Cliar'es H. Ludln. r ten. PhlllD H. Collins. John 11. Williams. John J. pvirirron. ueorffe r . uoiasmiw, uaviu r... omiw !ircinrs. tiAvm r. PMii.r.v ....editor JOHN C. MAKT1N .General Hunlnpua Manager I'ubllnhfil dally at Punt.to LtDani Building independence, square. rnuauoipnia. , Atlantic Cirr Press-Union Building i Niw Yonic .104 Madlaou Ave. DETROIT......... 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MAIN 1601 C7lMrrsa all communication to Evening Publlo LXdacr Ind'rendence Square, Philadelphia Member of the Associated Press TUB A8SOrtATKD VRKSS is excluMmly en titled fo the; u-ie or rcpubllcntlon of all nttei dispatches credited to It or not othericise credited j this paper, and also the local news published therein. All rights p rrpuoHcntlon ol special dispatches Herein am also reserved ITilUilflpliii, Slmi. July 23, 1921 PARTNERS IN THE FAIR milOUSANDS of Philadelphia households JL long have taken priilc in tlio possession of their framed certificates of membership in the Centcunlnl Exposition. In ninny In stances tlie now somewhat ttnlut steel en gravings nikiiuvvlcdslug tin- co-operation have been handed down m heirloom The sentiment attaching t" them Is well worth considering in connection with t lie present appeal of the scsqul-ceutennlal management now being circularized. An nual dues of $10 will entitle the contributor to membership In tho new lncnl association. Up to date, it is announced, letters In viting this participation linvo been sent to "a chosen number of prominent Phlladel phians." It was not merely the big-wigs nd well-advertised celebrities of the town who carried the World's Fair of 1S70 to success. The sooner the membership rnmpnlgning is vastly extended in scope the better. The Federal lio eminent will doubtless assist nd in some degree sponsor the commemora tion, but the baii,'rt""ponlbillty will be upon Philadelphia itself. Mcmber"hip certlfirtncs eventually des tined to be cherished b iltlzens et un born should be numbeied by hundreds of thousands A SLIGHT TO OUR "CLYDE" rIE Shipping Hoard's ten -reel motion -picture explotting its activities falls, it is isaid. to lay sufficient stress upon the American Clyde, n designation applicable to thf Delaware Hirer as to none other in this country. The reasons for this alleged discrimination, however intcrcstinz. are immaterial compared with the immediate necessity of counteracting a false impres sion, and Mayor Moore and Director Sproulc are to be complimented upon their energy in attacking the situation. Mr, Moore has authorized the expenditure of funds made available bv Council for le gitimately disseminating knowledge of the distinction of this port. A tilm of local manufacture has been Migucted. Should this be made it message would be well worth delivering It is doubtful if l'hllailelphiaus In con siderable numbers, to :iv nothing of out alders, habitually grasp the fact that this city is the seeond seaport ()f the Nation nr that the extent of shipmiiking m the Dela ware Mirpasscs anything on this continent. Chairman T.nsker Is a Chicngoan. He is new to maritime affairs, imt he is an adver tising man by profession. Deserving of his prompt attention is Director Sproule's letter of protest on what soems to hare been cither sin oversight orn deliberate slight. Phllade'phlans are not boasters by na ture. Coii'jenital conservatism sometimes works to their detriment. Hut there are times. Ktn-li as the present, when vigorous shout In; is In order GOOD INTENTIONS AND HALL THE regaid enieitaiiKil In Ciiuiicilninn Hall for tlie race to which I'hilll Wheath'V belonged lias inspired him In dwell upon the prnpnetv of tunning I he new munleipn1 plavgrmiiiil at Tenth and Hodman streets after l"ann Jackson Coiipin, ( ii -taviur. A ('ntto or llrnrv V Itnss. The Seieiiih Ward politician inighl he tvers. have urged the dedication of the square to tlie meinorv of am one of these persons, lie might, since he is so laudatory of their achievements, have respected Iheir fame bv pleading with Council to refrain from naming the lecre.iilon liclil after the late Clinrles Segei . once Hie holder of n gang liciitenniicv in the Seventh Wnrd Indeed. n nn exponent of good deeds imagined but unperformed Mr Hall ranks high. I. ike several other individuals of more note in history, he just can't make his will behave The Couii'll Is siniilarlv afflicted. Mem hers of the rare which t'nllo, Mass, Mrs. .Tackson and I'hillis Wheat ley honored can not fnll to appreciate the everilv of tlie moral struggle from vvhiilj the name of a ward boss cnieiges victorious. How determined Mr. Hull and his fellow legislators nre to preserve tlie Inconsistency between their pretensions ami their acts will be disi Insed when all the protest, are in and the Mavor passes upon the council, manic ordinance SENATE WILL DO THE WORK THE House of Heprccntntives has passed the Tariff bill ufter u few da.vs of de bate. Some of the provisions originally in serted have been removed I aue the House objected to them. It is not hljelv that they Will be put buck in the bll! hv the Senate. Yet the re.il work of drafting a Tariff bill will now begin in the Scant' I'linim e Committee. The Iloil-e expect. It Other wise it would 1 1 t have lushed the lull through in urdur to get rid of It as ipiicklv as possible. The House lilll admittedly hag mnny defects, but u j, nt worth wlu for any one to waste nervous euirg in their denunciation. When the Scnale committee reports a bill there will be .something to iliscu,s, for the Senate will assume the respon,iliilitv for tariff legislation, a resnonsihllitv which the HoilfC lilts r-llll kl'l THOSE FOREIGN I. 0. U.'S A MONO the things Europe owe. Allien-n XX is a little matter of Sin Dihi.ihui.ihi. England's share of this iiiiiouut is I.'JT", 000.(KK). Secretary Mellon savs the Wilson Admin istratlon made arrnngi inents with the Krltish Oovcrnment providing that payment of that debt be extended over a period of twenty -Ivo years. The members of the Senate Finance Com mittee were astonished to hear of the ar rangement, llefore the country penults itself to be fthockfd rare should be taken to remember that the net that Secretary Mellon considers lie may feel morally obligated by it is con fession of bis belief in the legality of the pact. Tho one thing debatable in its wisdom or unwisdom, nnd Its consummation has made even that discussion merely academic. Its bearing on current events lies In its use as an argument for tho passage, of the bill now pending giving tho Secrctnry of tho Treasury broad authority to prcparo for anr contin gency thnt may arise. Not tho least interesting feature of the case is that it may also be used as an argu ment aplnst any such broad authority being given. EVERY ONE LOAFS, BUT FEW INVITE THEIR SOULS The Leisure of the Vacation Season Might Profitably Be Given to Getting Acquainted With Them MANY years ago, before he came to Cam. den to live, Walt Whitman wrote, "I loaf nnd invite my soul," nnd proceeded to describe whnt happened when his soul ac cepted the invitation. In these hot summer weeks hundreds of thousands of Americans nre loafing. Per haps that is loo strong a word to describe what some of them aro doing, especially thoso who are burning up tho roads In their automobiles or arc jazzing about tho sum mer resorts. Yet nearly every one stops work for a longer or shorter period In the vacation season nnd loafs for a while. Hut the number of Invitations sent out to I heir souls In this period is not so large ns m bring about n friendly Intimacy. Hush ing over tlie landscape. In a high-powered enr is not conducive to communion with the soul. And sofar ns tho available records go, toddlo dancing and shimmying have never increased a man's knowledge of his real self, or a woman's knowledge cither. The loafing season, however, might be profitably devoted to a little leisurely think ing which would lead men and women to the conclusion that they have something be sides n stumnch and animnl appetites. "What is man," asked one of tho greatest Englishmen of tho sixteenth century, "if his chief good and market of his time be but to sleep and feed?" And many centuries earlier another great man living on the eastern shores of the Mediterranean cut it In another way when he inquired, "What is man that thou art mindful of htm?" We need to remind ourselves occasionally of the wonders of the universe of which man Is part. He Is more than nn animal, for no brute beast can profit by the thinking of past generations of brute beasts nor plan for the benefit of future generations. There is more than poetry in the state ment that man is the heir of all the ages. We stand today upon a pinnacle built up of the achievements of nil who have gone before, and we nre raising it higher for those who shall come after. There is noth ing so difficult or so hazardous as to daunt the courage of the human intellect. The nudacity of Columbus, who sailed In a frail boat Into the unknown Western oceans where, according to tradition, terrible monsters breathed death from their nostrils and wrought destruction with their tails, was not unique. Hut lie did not fritter away his energies by cultivating the jazz of his time. We have discovered about all that is to be known of the shape of the earth because of the insatiable curiosity of man about the home in which he bus found himself. And this is because he has been anxious to find out why he is and to adjust himself to his surroundings, lie has Invited his soul to some purpose. Hut when man looks into tlie heavens their Illimitable spaces fill him with awe and whet his desire to know more. Within a few months he has brought his measuring instruments to bear upon one of the bright stars in the shoulder of the constellation of Orion, nnd he has found that that star Is IMMIO.OOO miles in diameter, or nearly ll'O times us great as the distance from the earth to the moon. Tlie earth bears about the same relation to this star that a pin point bears to n baseball Mnn on the snme scale would be so small that he could not be detected by the most powerful microscope ever made. Hut there is in him a quality so different from that which characterizes the brute beasts that he does not hesitate to search out the hidden secrets of creation. He traces back by labored steps all the processes, and when he cannot learn the fncts he makes auda cious guesses. The littleness, of created things is as mar velous as the magnitude of the stars that we assume are going through the processes of creation. Insects so small that thev are scarcely visible to the naked eve live among the grasses of the field They are mar veloiislj constructed nnd colored as gor genuslj ;is the peacock Thev live their little round of life and die just ns the tree lopping mammoth" did before man was evolved out of protoplasm and endowed with thnt wonderful nnd mysterious thing which, for lack of u belter name, we call a soul. If the people who flock to the seashore would divert their nttetition from bathing suits for n little while nnd think on these things thej might come imnie a little more serious-minded. If a man should stop bis automobile under a tree beside the road on a summer afternoon, and from the wonder of the motorcar which enables him to on nihilate space transfer his attention to the wonders of mnn. whose mind can annihilate both time and space, and can picture to him self whnt was happening when Alexnndcr was marching into India and Caesar was conquering (ianl, and how the process of world-building is going on In the great star millions of miles in diameter and so far away thnt it takes Its light nearly 200 years to i each his eje, he might have a better understanding of what man is; he might wonder why n creature gifted with such faculties cannot solve his own problems more satisfactory ; why be has to Indulge In periodical killings under the name of war, and vvhv he cannot join in a peaceable adjustment of relations with those who, like him. are struggling for existence. Hut he cannot do this unless he Invites Ills soul and recognizes it when it. knocks nt the door HUSTLING BRIDGE BUILDERS IT IS not often that performance catches up with commemorative dates fixed in advance Hut the spirit of enterprise which fortunutclv seems to posses the Delaware bridge undertaking Is no respecter of ham pering precedents. Ill the authorization by the joint commission for inviting bids for Contract No. 1 for test borings for the anchorages nnd towers is contained tlie jirospecl that actual work will start about September ls This Is nearly two months ahead of Armi stlrc Da.v. which had been deemed fitting for the formal commencement of operations. Should It hold, this date will be bv no means void of historic proprieties. The day very nearly coincides with the I.'Ulh tiniil versarj of another great work done In this community, nothing less, in fact, than the completion of the Constitution of the I'tilted States. The bridge makers. It appears, nre favored with happy circumstances. Thnt thev are not unnpprecintlvc of u refreshing minimum of Irritating obstructionism Is exemplified in the levislon 'of the original plans so ns to preserve both Old St. (leorge's nnd St. Augustine's churches. It was a com inendab'e Idea, that of accommodating sen timent to progress. Claims of the former nre only to bo fenred when they nre of the deliberate pull 'back varjoty. The comrals- slon is to bo complimented both on its sense, of values nnd upon the busluesa-llko energy' which has characterized its work thus far. WINGLESS AMERICA IN MOHE- ways than one tho successful bombing of tho German dreadnought Ostfrlesland by fliers from the army base nt Langley Field was an impressive and mem orable spectacle. No one in tho array or the navy knew what airplanes could do to a lighting ship of the first class. It was pretty generally supposed thnt aviators would be unable to drop lienvy bombs from a snfe altitude on a snip's deck ; thnt even if they could do this, the enormous walls of steel in bulwarks and protective decks would continue to protect the ship's vitals nnd its crew. Hut the Ostfrlcslnud, one of the most powerfully constructed ships ever built, was sunk by bombs dropped de liberately in the water at close quarters. Its hull was ripped nnd torn. Never beforo was n wnr game played out to so dramatic an end. The view of naval men was reflected In tho presence of the great battleship Pennsyl vania, which loafed In the background to give the army fliers a chance to show what they couldn't do beforo she opened her big guns to send tho vast steel hulk of tho target to the bottom. News from tho fleet revealed Brigadier General William S. Mitchell, who directed the attack, riding a scout plnne through tho clearing smoke, gesticulating wildly nnd In triumph n hnlf mile In the air as the big ship went down nnd shouting to the niiral officers below some cry of exultation that couldn't be heard before he and his men vanished on tlie wings that they believe will yet dominate the world. What did he say? Was ho telling the navy that its day was over, that ships would never again decide a great war? Mitchell is nn enthusiast. He Is the man who told Secretary Daniels that he "would stop any fleet that the navv could send out." Mr. Daniels answered that he would be glad to stand nnd fold his nrms on a battleship's deck and permit the army planes to blaze away from tho air If they could live long enough in tho storm of anti aircraft fire to drop a bomb. The Ostfrlesland didn't fight back. It was an abandoned and lonesome-looking hulk. But, even had it been fully armed and on the defensive. It would have had little chance for life against a few airmen who. in nn emergency, didn't care whether they lived or died. Battleships stilt will be built. Their anti aircraft batteries will be Improved mightily as n result of the tests just completed. Hut the enormous army and marine planes, with their ability to carry and drop bombs weigh ing a ton or more, must have amazed a great many naval men. It is to be hoped that the Congressmen who saw the end of the Ostfricsland had good glnsses. For the development of mili tary flying has been definitely halted in the United State:) because of congressional nig gardliness. The air-mail system provides the onl means we have for the consistent develop ment of nvlation. In Europe routes of air travel are becoming as numerous as rail ways, and passengers nre carried on regular schedules. There is daily airplane passenger service across the English Channel from London to Paris, and the French nre .suc cessfully operating air expresses between Paris and Warsaw. These passenger lines and tlie Intensive commercial use of the airplane stimulate the development of avia tion in every foreign cnuntrv, and what is more, they keep a hinall army of aviators in constant training. Here we have not jet completed a primary svstem of mail routes. After reading of tlie news from off the Virginia Capes, it is Interesting to remem ber that appropiiations asked for the de ' velopment of military nvlation were cut to the bone and thnt airmen of both branches of the service now work on the thinnest sort of shoestilng. ADO ABOUT NOTHING NEWS of the final heating of n sene de voted to the case of four Camden High School boys who rebelled against the efforts of their teachers and the Hoard of Educa tion to limit the undesirable work of fra ternities in the upper grades suggests again that we are. indeed, an easy-going people, with plenty of time to waste on trifles nnd .1 persistent habit of making rumpuses about the wrong things. Lawyers argued the ense in question, parents met in successive conferences, law yers argued some more, testimony wns taken for and against the fraternities, opinion was divided anil feverish and the school com munity divided into opposed camps. No one outside of a public school frater nity knows whnt such fraternities nre for. Every one supposes, just tj enough, thnt they are outgrowths of petty vanity that reveal the first stirrings of the spirit of snobbery In jouthful minds. Teachers arc unanimous in characterizing them ns silly nnd 11 nuis ance. Yet the result of many weeks of work nnd discussion nnd agitation In Camden U "n triumph" for the four ho.vs who weie Insurgent against the nuthoi-itv of a high school teacher who sought to discourage fra ternity sentiment in her classrooms and lo prove to pupils nnd their parents that the public schools nre educational institution, and not places of amusement. New wars loom in view of the world, economic complications are thick about us, there is need everywhere for study and clear thinking in relation to the stupendous social nnd politienl problems that have to lie set tled according to the will and wisdom of voters. Hut few communities hold meetings of experts to argue nnd consider such mat ters. They haven't time, it seems, (Jive them something unimportant or trivial to consider and somehow thev will find It easy to bo concerned, lo be aroused and to agitate until they find n solution thnt, when it is found, Is of no eartlilv i,e to any one. We venture the opinion that the latest developments in the Silcian muddle may hamper but will not stop the proposed Dis armament Conferenie There always will be difference of opinion. The conference is a step toward a de ision that difference, may be adjusted without coming lo blows. There is common sense In the suggestion of the chairman of the Immigration Com inittee of the House of Iletiresentiitlves that Immigrants he examined ami weeded out by consular officers before they sail for this country. The next slep will be to make the duties of the examiner, intelligently flexible. When Hroux, New York, women started n drive for a five cent loaf the bakers re torted that they paid foremen .lli n dn.v, nssisttint linkers $111 and clean up men SKI. "Bring down the wages and we'll bring down the price," they snid. And the point appears to lie well taken The fact that public opinion has caused the removnl of a monument to Wilkes Booth from the law 11 of H home in Troy, Aln., Is important only because it lepresentcd South ern public opinion. We aic now one country. The Senate Finance Committee has voted to make a fiirnhle report on the Sweet Hill, dcsignecr to cut tlie icd tape from the relief of disabled soldiers. "Sweet," quotes the soldier, "are the uses of adver sltv." And, realizing that "ted tape, though adhesive, never bound a wound, he adds, "Hevengc also Is Sweet " Now Beget. watch the fir of the nntl WEEK-END JAUNTS Mayor Mooro Emulatea'tho Presldont While Sticking to His Job. Roper and tho "Rotten Boroughs" Von Tagen's Idea of Relaxation By OKOHGE NOX McCAIN MAYOH J. HAMPTON MOOIII3 Is emu lating the example of President Warren Onmnllcl Harding. Ho has expressed the determination to stick to his olilelal muttons during dog days nnd enso the btraln by taking week-end trips. It affords him the opportunity to lay nsldn official dignity nnd sleep out on deck. Likewise, to eat pie without the Inter vention of n fork or the flourish of n napkin that Is, if ho so desires. Ono Friday recently tho Commissioner of Whnrvcs, Docks and Ferries, George V. Sproulc, had some Inspection work due on the DclKwuto. The Mayor. City Solicitor Smyth nnd Councilman Von Tngen were Invited to go on tho trip. The old M. S. Quay,' formerly the harbor master's tug, wns called into fccrvlco. That night tho boat was anchored nbovo Turkey Point. Everybody went In swimming "over tho side." Tlie stars later on looked down on n boat deck that wns strewn with tired officials wrapped in sheets mid sonorous slumber. NEXT day the Delaware and Chcsapeako Canal wns negotiated. There was n run up the Severn Hlver to Annapolis. Here an aido of Admiral Wil son mot the party with n, enr nnd, nftcr nn official visit to the commandant's bend quarters, toured them around the academy grounds. Heverence wns paid (he grave of John Paul Junes. The academy buildings were Inspected. Points of interest near by were visited and then back to the tug. Admiral Wilson called to return the visit of courtesy nnd the day was done. The party reached tho Philadelphia dock Sunday afternoon. They had another swim on the way up. COUNCILMAN W. W. BOPEH will never contain his political soul in penco until ho has seen the city rcdlstrlcted In snch n way ns will assure a more equal represen tation in the Republican City Committee. He is i-elentlessly on the trail of what he calls "the rotten borough wnrds." Incidentally, with a wider vision, T think he has permanently laid aside his ambition to see his ward, the Twenty-second, divided. He will attack the larger problem the city . This means a two-way fight one in the Legislature to secuie the necessary law. the other to put the redisricting through once he gets the authority. "Wliut does tlie Indorsement of n candi date by the Cltv Committee amount to, anyhow?" he said yestoxday. "It doesn't represent the sentiment of the people. Not when the representative of a ward containing 700 voters has an equal voice with a committeeman from a wnrd having -i-1,000 voters." Mr. Roper, of course, referred to his own ward, the Twenty-second. The ''other one wns the Sixth, which registers about 700 on the assessor's list. There is no question as to tlie correctness of the Roper view. The city should be rcdlstrlcted. It will be 11 Sisyphus task, though, for the 1111111 who undertakes it. FOR weeks past half a dozen or moie workmen have been clambering and swinging on ladders ulong the sides of the Mutual Life Building at Tenth and Chest nut streets. The slrintiiie. which has one of the finest granite facades in the country, is having Us face washed. Contrasted with the uuelenned part, the lennvatcd stielch looks like a new building. It will cost thousands of dollars befoic the join is finished. Dilute acid , used in the process. Applied with a brush, it is then flushed slightly with water. This protects the vvoikeis' hands when they icmove the liquid with a sponge. Lest the acid find Its way Into the Inter stices between the stones, these nre cemented nnd nil cracks closed before the wash Is applied. The structure will soon be almost as handsome ns it wns when first erected years ago. Another si-rubbing will not be necessary for ten years at least. piIARI.ES II. VON TAG EN has devcl J oped a new recreation. He Is chair man of Couii.-il's Committee on City Prop erly and Set-vice. Ilis epi rienee is classed as Al. Descriptive phraseology ranks It as de lightful, lie says. Sonic months ago he picked up a copv of John T. Funs' "Old Ronih Out of Phila delphia In itself the book is n charming work upon wliiib ilie author bestowed discrimi nating nn- Willi tin- advent of torrid weather, and particularly on Saturdays and Sundays, Mr. Von Tageu bee auie a devotee of old roads. lie describes hi, experiences thus far In following tin- footsteps of Mr. Fa lis in his car as nil- n sHn-;, instructive and thor oughly entertaining, apart from the joy of aiilomoliilln Alien ni l.iiulmuiks. mansion,, bridges, mills, neck., ami dams, unknown nnd un sought, ami possibly liuanprecialcd even if visited hv the average llillo tourist, hnve afforded ihe I'ouncllmnu and his friends an infinite dc-giee of plciisinc His 1 m.i-i H-Mi-c- uiiuhl furnish a tin lo other enthusiasts ,,f 1 1 1 o-ien road. Swapping One Pen for Another 'I . V ,!,. U "ll! IS I'll 11 nui l.ee (iiii ,. of Hot Water Springs, Is a newcotnei ninoiig us He has been dabbling in liti nil for some time past, but since coming in Snngiowii 1ms laid aside bis pen and will devote his tune to raising n pig, wlihh I, imghlicr than the- swoid. What Do Ynti Knmv?' QUIZ Vli was ilii.r of stuff of the American 11t1v nt tin- World Wat "' UH,, w i.s I'.syilie iii classical mythology? Wirt 1 is tin- in, .mllisr of the Latin -'- I'nssion, liltii- lllno liichryinae"' What im a hIz ir" 1 W'bii State ilois Senator s. nt - Moses repro- r. How in. my zeros are In a trillion? 7 Win 11 did Ii .1 " Aiinrlgo ViHpuci-l visit Amer- S What air- the i-olms of Hie Mug of c'irepcc', '.' W Ii, ii- 1I11I the ganii of football originate? 10. What 1, lie- oiiKin of tin wonl mtvvv, tlSi d III Ilie Hell.se of Know? Answers to Yesterday's Quiz I I oriiii-i Vice I'nsiiletit MhisIihII declare i Hint the iciil need of the United Slatea i' ais Hut of 11 good llve-ient cigar ; M.iriiii-trv is Inlaid work. tsK-i:lally In Illinium .1 I'.il'iu. Il is Inlaid wotU especially In (lours ( Tin full imine of cjeneial ('iiitet Killed in (In- llatib of I, lull- Hlg Mm 11 n IXT'i. was i.Vorse Armstrong I'usier Ii The scenes of Sim KiHIii-ii I t-'s lomedv, "Tin TrnipiNt.' ar hud on Hlilplio.ini anil upon an Island of unidentified location fi The iiHiin- halibut Is derived from 'luilv ' holy, ' because of (lie llsii being un,.( ,1H food on bov dnyn " 7. A 1 ijneo is u pin n of rnlSMl cat vine In a (.em slonn Willi tbu color lav ers utilized to give bachgiound. An IntUKllo Is the, opposite, tho nem having an engraved or Incised detlgn R. Tlie present King of Spain belongs t .1,,. House of Jiouilion 9 The f'Ul Ih tho national hero of Sua In noted for his exploits In the worn with the Moors In the eleventh century Iiu leal name was Buy. or Hodrlgu mass tie lilvar ('Id means lord or mueter 10 Four farthings make a penny In English currency. ""humi 1 c . -1 r . - 'vfJILv.: r " iswi-, .a . h ir-i -'"v . sTTNTia a ' ' '"" 'fH?iP?iSE5Ta-J'ff-; J.t- --ljEl ---' I l ' 1 lii... . O iffijJv .. ' p '-sjjl MD Mff ? ,1 Q't"i-""s-ir-7,l,,,, jj,-M-iivrjvi3y . RKsBI 11 s VWIsWWWtM rti A v.,i.-i,Ji..Jl.WH-B'''a-fa rsfPh T 5 iwif y? NOW MY IDEA IS THIS Daily Talks With Thinking Philadelphians on Subjects They Know Best DR. JOHN H. EGAN On Intoxicated Motorists IN THK opinion of Dr. John II, L'gan, police surgeon nt City Hall, a drunken man behind the wheel of an automobile has the same possibilities for harm as n baby playing with n loaded revolver. He also strongly recommends that the automobile clubs of the city expel or at least suspend every member found guilty of driving his automobile while under the influence of liquor. "We receive all manner of alcoholic cases here in the course of n week," said Dr. I'gan, "but the most dangerous to the lives and safety of the citizens of Philadelphia ate undoubtedly those men who drive auto mobiles while under the Influence of liquor, or whatever they drink In place of liquor. The Three Stages "The dtuuken automobile driver Is a peculiar composition. Like every one else who is nrrestcd on tlie charge of Intoxica tion, they come in in one of the four stages of drunkenness absolutely drunk and un able to tell his name or where he lives, quiet, boisterous or stuporous. They come from all stages of society, from the driver of n luxurious limousine to the driver of a truck. The clubman aud the worklngman arc both represented on the police surgeon's records. "Philadelphia now has n very definite sys tem of examination of drivers of nutos who are arrested ou this charge, nnd this recotd Is made in writing and tlie report kept by the Superintendent of Police. We hnve a careful identification first, taking the name, address and nil other information covering this point, and then the results of the ex amination by the police surgeon are written out in detail on the same report. This examination Is. of course, purely physical, nnd includes such tilings ns the presence of alioholie odor on the breaJh of the accused, die amount nnd kind of liquor found In his possession, if any; ills condition ns to noisy, quiet or stuporous, the condition of his beusc el tdcatioii, co-ordlnntion, gait, reflexes aud station in life, nnd finally as to whether he is in a lit condition to operate a motor vehicle. "This system hns now been In operation since about tlie first of the year nnd it lias piovcd to be very efficacious. Prior to thnt tune il was almost Impossible to secure a conviction for driving a motor vehicle while under the Influence of liquor, because the police ofliceis vvcte generally unable, to define 11 state of intoxication with sufficient clnrlty lo satisfy the court. They were able to say that the licensed was staggering or that there was an odor of liquor on his breath or that his actions had led the officers to conclude that he was drunk, but thev were not nble to define the case scientifically, and as a rcult their testimony was usually shot full of holes by tlie defendant's counsel. "But under the new plan it is not so easy for the lawyers, because a physician can clearly define a case of drunkenness In such a manner as to leave no doubt in the minds of the jury as to the man's renl condition. "In most automobile cases, unless the testimony of the police officer Is backed up by the testimony of a physician, there is small chance of conviction. "Our examinations reveal one of two things: Hither the man is drunk or he isn't ; cither he Is fit to drive a car or he Is not lit to do so. I remember one such ense wh an officer would not definitely commit himself by saying that the man wns drunk, but said that he was 'In the twilight zune.' But under our ptesenl system there is no such thing as 11 'twilight zone' ; a man under this plan Is fit to drive or he Is unfit. All Are Not (iullty "But bv no means nil the men who arc brought up on this charge of driving a car while nitoxlciiteil nr guilty, and theio aro many cases in which the officer feels justified in making an arrest In which the charge is nut bornu out by the examination of the police surgeon. "In this connect ion I remember the case f a man, a truck driver, who had been cu gaged to move the goods of n 'family from Brooklyn, N. Y., to Brookllue, Pa. To do the job in tlie icqiilreil time the mnn hail to work twenty -four hours without rest. "After he had delivered the goods in Hrooklinc the owner of the goods usked the truck driver to have 11 drink, and, upon his net opting, poured out a large glass of liquor of some kind and gave It to the- driver, who took only a small putlou of It, but sjlll quite enough to leave 11 perceptible, odor of liquor ou Ills breath. "On his ictiirii trip lo New York the driver was aiictcd at the Broad street en train o to the Roosevelt boulevard and tho olliicr making the arrest charged Intoxica tion, misled by tho odor, which, as I say, was perceptible. He was brought before tne and I made the examination, "The mnn wns not Intoxicated In any sense of the wonl nnd his faculties were perfectly clear, outside of the fact that he was utterly exhausted from having worked JOYOUS ANTICIPATION hard without rest for more than twenty-four hours. I exonerated htm immediately from tho charge of drunkenness, but refused to allow him to continue to run his car until he was rested. Here was a case of a man who was clearly unfit to drive a ear, but not from alcoholism, but from the utter weari ness of over-work. "Thus, you see. that our plan works out well for the autolsl as well as for the,safety of the public. On the Increase "Before the Inauguration of the piesent plan of keeping a detailed record of each case which comes beforo us there were no tegular permanent records kept, and there fore it is hard to say xvhethcr the cases of drunkenness among automobile drivers is on the increase or not. I ntu inclined to believe that it is, but the fact of the Hummer weather aud that there Is now more driving than In the days when our plan was begun may have something to do with this. There nre certainly more cases now brought to our attention thnu there were some mouths ago. "Even when drivers are held for court they arc very often acquitted. I lemembcr one case xvhero the officer, after making the nrrest, allowed the man to drfVe the enr for eight blocks. As he did it without any accident, he was promptly acquitted by the jury, who could not be convinced if the man could drive safely for thltj distance nftcr arrest that he was not in condition to operate his car before arrest. "When an nutolst is arrested on a charge of driving while in a state of intoxication the officer under no circumstances should allow him to drive the car. The officer may himself drive the car to the station house if he is capable, but In this case the officer nssumes all the responsibility for xvhatcver may happen while he Is In charge of it. Thn ustiul way is for the officer to ring for n patrol to tow the car to the station nr to send for snme one capable of running it, but. not to allow the accused to touch It after the arrest. "Some of the happenings in court which grow out of the automobile cases are very funny. I remember one case, not long ugo, when the Court asked the jury for their verdict, and nn Irish foreman arose and said, 'Not guilty.' A poll of the members of tho jury, however, showed that of tho twelve members four considered the de fendant guilty. When asked for an ex planation the foreman replied : " 'Sure the man is not guilty. We took n vote on it and It was eight to four that he was innocent.' "There is still another reason why our written and permanent reports arc of value. On New Year's Eve a woman was knocked down and Injured by n young man driving n big limousine on North Broad street. The man was a chauffeur In the employ of a well-known and wealthy citizen of Phila delphia, and the chauffeur was on his way to 0110 of tlie big downtown hotels to get the family, who had been watching the New Yenr in. "Tho man did not stop to see whnt injury had been done, but went on his way. An other motorist saw the accident nnd followed the first one, getting his number and then notifying nn officer, who made the arrest, on Broad street near the City Hull. On being brought up the young mnn showed many traces of having had a number of drinks, being tnken violently sick while in Captain Snuder h office. "The employer wns rather Inclined to de fend ills chauffeur nnd to doubt the nr. curacy of my diagnosis of his condition. In the meantime the woman had been sent to a hospital by the officer on duty where the accident occurred and It was not until late at night that we were able to locate her She had suffered u fractured skull. Hut the point is thnt-tho record of what the police surgeon found nt the time of the accident is 11 permanent one. It was made imme. dlntely, It stands for Itself and cannot be changed. - Tho Remedies "But while the police can do much to reduce the number of accidents frm motor, cars driven by men who aic not in n proper condition to operate them, thn automobile clubs themselves can help. Even man is sensitive us to what his club friends think of him, and I believe thnt one of the best things Hull could he done would be for every automobile club to expel evcrv member whom the police records show to have been guilty of driving his enr while in any inaii ner under the influence of liquor. "The State takes away the license to drlvii of such men, mid there is no reason why the nutoinoblle dubs should uot take similar action. Such men nro a menace not only to the lives and the snfetj of inno cent pedestrians, but also to themselves drunken mnn behind the wheel of an auto mobile is us bad as u baby playing with a loaded revolver, a box of matches or a bottle of pojson. In every case-something disastrous, is very liable to happen," SHORT CUTS ' Hunger will fly before the WtL FJ drive. What Japan appears to favor ii dli armament with reservations. It was admittedly about time for bi ball funs to pull up their Sox. Why can't relief chickens be hatched '' 0111 01 me u. u. j. nest cggs7 It la now the part of clear-headed m. triotB to block the farmers' bloc. Public Interest still centers on the one-' piece conference attended by beach censors. But, bless you, you won't know iht Fordney bill when it, comes out of committM The Sweet bill will provide more Jobs I- ior veterans ami iewer nraicnairs lor on cinla. When the bootlegger listens to the still small voice ho pays particular attention to the still. Perhaps the tariff on raw film stouW have been placed Instead on the raw nine responsible. The Fordney bill provides for no Url! on the pork barrel. The bar'l renaini on the free list. The Harding Administration appears M j be getting back to normalcy in n normil ,J kind of way. Capital ships may be sunk, bat hit; men continue to consider airplants dis tinctly lower case. Congress should note the fact that It' country seems willing to trade a tin! -tinker for 'a tax adjuster. Tlie anguish experienced by venders it' the drop In New ,Ynrk of ice rrrarn pricn would melt the heart of a cone ' So lnter-relatrd are the affairs of on that the twirl of a.sliillelah or the set cf aa ulster may affect the peace of tlie world. The anti-sectarian appropriation pro- ' vision in the State Constitution just no has vivid Interest for the sick, the hall im the lame. It costs $1,000,000 a year to edit til speeches In the Congressional Rwril. Now let Editor Dawes be provided nlu blue pencil. 1 When Lndv Astor caustically rcrnarlfj that America had "gone drv" she had. course, no thougiit in her mind of the sun of human kindness. John D. Rockefeller will piny coif ae he Is 100 yenrs old, says his nbjjln" , Thus., illustrating how hard It U to "i oneself of a habit. Lord Curzon says the Iri-h ilul' is still chnrged with hone, and lets t P at that, evidently believing that a stum chnrged is nbovc proof. Presumably T'ncle Snm is c-pected t , look with n favorable eye on the piopw . Furmers' Hoard because lie hns met , such success with Ills-Shipping ljoara. 'in. M..uu,.i,ioiettu Commissioner Correction'snys the crime wave ii rwcdWj Perhaps it has been overcome ly " wave. may be that the exigencies of ' the " fttion Law will eventually 'PriZ It Immlcratl with n noticeably service. high-grade coow- America will feel herself cafjjMj j adequately represented at the"'",, j, conference It Secrctnry Hughes heaw delegation. ' One tTohle will, the Irish , corf is thnt every time the olive byney ' ffl. ,...i.i V....1.. 1. no n v is 0 1 of tne "" ll'lllll'll ooiiiriiinij """ " ness of ripe olives. .. r,. . ,.e-,l nllV (llP0SUl !" '': shake the tariff in favor of ' it ' n tew iirguniviiiit i-- Fnglnd seems to JJA' since the forthcoming AU MWW t be; ,.,-,. mav limit naval con rtruc tig ,h, hooves her to get busy ImlldlnS Inhibition comes. .. 1... tofrl . W Orange, N J. ffljVfi.3 down nn ordinance m "-m, V'''J killing of wandering cats ,J bj rlebt. 'Twerc a crime (0 kin vlS rats are in the ascendaut. V vu 1 ' ; JL AM
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