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rhllid.lphli, Mondtj, Autuit 8. 1921
REMEMBER REGISTRATION DAY
IU FRANCE they nro considering a law
to make voting compulsory, with penal
ties for slackers. The French hnvo n knac!:
of unmasking hypocrisies nutl least of nil
are they likely to listen to"pretciiders of
faith iu democracy who are characterized
by laxity In practical demonstrations.
On the other hand, we have been kind
to delinquents, and especially registration
shunners, vexed nt being deprived of their
Tote at election time. The professional
politicians rejoice in such sluggishness. It
plays directly Into their hands. Champions
of better government continue to hope for
increased realization of the need of safe
guarding the right to vote, but the results
do not always justify such ingenuousness.
The Voters League is not merely dream
ing of the desired change, but is proselytiz
ing In a way which will render the nrglect
to register difficult to defend, even by the
most determined kicker.
A statement issued by the Political Ac
tion Committee of the League 13 clear in
Us Injunctions. It calls for prompt atten
tion to the first of the three fall registration
days, which this year falls on August 30.
The division places will be open ns usual
from 7 A. M. to 1 P. M. and from l P.
M. to 10 P. 51. All previous registrations
are void.
In order to participate either in the im
portant primaries, which will be held on
September 20, or in the autumn election of
State and city officials, every elector, male
and female, must sign the registration book
and answer n few identification questions.
The performance is as easv as it is vital.
Thousands of Philadelphlans arc dis
franchised annunllr through failure to com
ply with the simple provisions of the reg
istration laws. The Voters League is
thinking clearly in launching its registra
tion campaign now August 30 is only three
weeks nway. The vacationists, who may
be obliged to rely upon the two subsequent
opportunities, form a nmall minority, when
the entire body of citizens is considered.
Set aside August 30 for a visit to your
division polling place. It will reduce the
pressure to invent futile explanations later
on.
KENYON'S FOOLISH PROPOSAL
THEUE is no emergency of sufficient
gravity to justify such a breaking down
of the independence of the States as is in
volved in Senator Kenyon's proposition to
amend the Constitution so as to permit the
Federal Government to tax State and munic
ipal bonds.
The investment of money in such securi
ties in order to e-eapp the Federal income
tax Has affected the yield of that tax nnd
will affect it still more. The remedy lies
not In the destruction of the power of the
States over their own indebtedness, but in
uch a revision of the taxing laws as will
not force capital to seek to escape their
confiscatory provisions.
Under the present arrangement a Stato
.exempts Its bonds from taxation, for it
knows that if it did not exempt them it
would have to pay in extra interest all that
it collected by the tax. If the Federal
Government should be allowed to tax all
bonds issued in the future the States would
find It diili'" to borrow money, for no
Investor would know what the return on his
money might be. And even if he ilid know
he would not buy the bonds until the State
had made the interest high enough to include
any possible Federal tax. The States would
thus have to pay the tax.
It may be that such a constitutional
amendment ns Senator Kenyon proposes can
secure the approval of Congress, but it is
doubtful if the States would ever consent
to it.
USELESS, COSTLY SHIPS
SUHVEVINO the wooden ship situation,
Cholrmau Lasher refuses to compromiso
with facts however unpalatable. The war
venture of converting the forests of America
into cargo carriers lias proved a gigantic
and costly failure.
The cost of maintaining tho vast fleet of
timber ships in idleness last year amounted
to $1,000,000. Tho vessels are unfit tor
river and ihallow water coastal trade be
cause of their comparatively deep draft
fourteen feet. Thev nre twice as heavy as
steel sl(ips of similar tonnage and hence
their operation eats up fuel in a formidable,
expensive fashion.
Mr. Lasher asserts that, failing to sell
them, the Government would be better off
to sink the ships as they stand. While it
is melancholy to reflect that tho wooden
fleet experiment has cost the Nation $230,
000,000 for construction alone, nothing Is
to be gained by paltering with realities.
Had the war continued, tho wooden ships
might have served some useful purpose.
, During the conflict money considerations
were not balanced with the zeal for victory.
But things being hk they nre, the vessels, the
-majority of which ure now crowding the
James ltiver. are an uncolhrtable debt.
It Is profitless to renil Into tliem merits
which they emphatically do not possess.
ALIENS AREALIENS
irpHE decision of the Supreme Court of
X Connecticut that the constitutional
guarantees do not extend to uliens Is in
,llne with other decisions on the same ques
tion. Certain aliens were accused of en
gaging In propaganda intended to bring
bout a change In the Government of the
1,'nlted States. They Insisted that they
Vjre Immune from prosecution under the
iirovlstons of the CoiiuecHi-ut fnnxtitjitlnii
, y "&
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im
4 rt i
C cuarniitprlirj freedom of speech. The Court
BH . ). that those guarantees nre intended to
K$ UrWoteet citizens of the Cult d States nnd
. A4'f '" MW ," m n, -r.k. mi,, litifll-t;i!llK
.i-jj ttens wuo nre 1101113 uieir nest to upset
i Jt.Uovernmnit ot the I nited Slates.
MlitHT U ot(nd common sense In this point
i ,,l(7tf. ThI Is our fiovcrwacut. We
tQtjm ,w j arranges jraeriy ways
MI
by which Its processes of functioning could
he changed when we wished to change them.
We guaranteed to ourselves freedom of
tpfech that we might say what wc would
about tho Government as well as about
other things. Hut we also hold one another
responsible for any abuse of that freedom.
The foreigners who nre coming here to nlr
their revolutionary views do not seem to
understand the genius of the American
democracy, a democracy which carries Into
effect the will of the majority, as fast as
that will can be determined.
HARDING'S CONTINUING LABOR
FOR A NEW PEACE CONFERENCE
The President's Addresses Are Intended
to Halt the New Race Toward
Cataclysms In Europe
TX SOME of the foreign capitals obvious
attempts are being made to narrow the
scope of the proposed disarmament con
ference at Washington. President Hard
ing reveals iu eacli of his public addresses
a desire and n determination to broaden It.
Xot once during his stay In New Hamp
shire did the President talk merely of dis
armament. But he did talk repeatedly ot
a hope to see the world permanently at
peace. He would like, he said, to see our
Nation "committed to the task of reforming
tho world and teaching mankind that it is
not good to make war."
Mr. Harding knows, of course, that man
kind does not need to be taught that lesson,
tbnt peoples left to themselves do not wish
to go to war. He is addressing himself
with such directness as the official restraints
of his office permit to the leaders of gov
ernments ever where and the people who
have it in their power to Inflame and stam
pede peoples into mude-to-order catas
trophes. In broadly implying that the Washington
Conference should attack questions left un
solved at Versailles and even attempt to
take some of the high explosives out of the
Paris plan, bo has moved forward to a new
battle for the causes and ideals that have
guided the United States since the first days
of the Hepublic. And that is as it should be.
It was not supposed that tho President
would so soon throw himself into a conflict
that brought the preceding Administration
to an end in tragic confusion. It was prettj
generally believed thnt the new Administra
tion would be content to drift for a while
and observe the treacherous winds of polit
ical circumstance at home and abroad.
Tho President himself may have had some
such intention. It seemed for a time that
a policy of watchful waiting would be
justifiable. So we may be witnessing again
the operation of unconsidered forces that
arc never abated iu Washington the forces
of suggestion nnd tradition that crowd the
White House and often silently change the
purposes nnd the temper nnd the plans of
the men who, in successive generations, live
in the midst of them.
Tho very v nils of that place have voices
that make it impossible for anv man to be
passive or even patient when any great
issue that may affect human destiny for
good is iu the balance. There was the
Gcthsemane of Lincoln's spirit, mid there
many other men have had to sit alone and
decide between the course of practicalness
nnd expediency and ease and the course of
hard and heroic nnd often thankless effort
and sacrifice that the saints and pioneers
of all times walk for the good of the world.
And no President ever chose the easy way!
Congresses anil Cabinets sometimes would
prefer to do thnt. IJut in rooms and cor
ridors where the proudest memories of the
Nation ore concentrated, where the voice
of magnificent tradition is never still, where .
great souls always have given themselves
unquestioning!)- to pilgrimages for tho light
without n thought of the pains nnd dif
ficulties of .that quest, no man will find it
easy to do tho easy thing.
President Harding follows naturally in
the footsteps of his predecessors. He is
not the first President to revise his plans
and concepts because of the sense of obliga
tion and opportunity that is inseparable
from his office and that cau be felt nowhere
else, In no other walk of life. The great
past is speakiug through him and so It will
speak through ull the Presidents who come
after him.
All the moral advantages are on his side.
No one knows better than he the difficulties
of the task he has undertaken. Thus far
his tactics have been flawless and simple.
The race toward new cntnclysms had begun
in Europe, and the plain people whose lives
and futures Wf.e involved could only look
on in despair aud bewilderment. Suddenly
the governments which rule over nil people
have been given an opportunity to stop nnd
look and listen again. They nre permitted
to seek other wajs to desired ends ways
that need not be drenched in the blood of
the innocents.
The Power thnt refuses to make the best
of the opportunity soon to be presented in
Washington will be indicted and convicted
in the eyes of the whole world. The chief
value of the President's invitation to the
foreign governments was thnt each hud to
accept or refuse. None has had the courage
or the recklessness to refuse, and each must
now submit to general scrutiny its reasons
for desiring to go armed to the teeth. We
need not teach mankind that it is not good
to mnke war. Hut if we can teach man
kind why wurs ure made ami let mankind
know just who the war-makers are, we
shall have done much for civilisation nnd
we shall have gone far to get incurable
paranoincs out of the seats of the might)
The President has achieved one victory.
The need for another and a more difficult
one is great. The disarmament conference
should be public. Its nims and all the
subjects of debate should be kept in the
open light of day. For that Mr. Harding
should fight to the last ditch.
"BACK IN EUROPE
THE Supreme Council, which reconvenes
in Paris today, has been defined us an
extra-legal body deriving its sole authority
from the force with which, through the
various governments concerned, it is enabled
to support its fiats. Nevertheless this or
ganization, which with the re-entrance of
the United States is truly representative of
the principal Allied and Associated Powers,
is grounded in realities thnt nre sometimes
ubsent from the most logical manifestations
of what is termed international law
Without the United Suites the ability
of tho League of Nations to enforce its
decrees is undoubtedly seriously embar
rassed. ' This is demons'rated just now iu
the plight of Austrin, for which tho League
some months ugo devised a remedy.
The cure, however, was inapplicable
chiefly because of the delay in obtaining
America's consent to the proposed suspen
sion of the general lien on Austria's assets.
The loan, which was the major feature of
the financial reconstruction plan, was con
sequently held up, Austrian exchange has
grown steadily worse iinil the toplienvy littlu
republic has now determined to appeal di
rectly to the Supreme Council.
The petition will be made to a bndv
that, whatever Its origin, is at lust rqu.il
to treating practical questions in n prue
tlcnl way Colour Harvej, who Nits iu the
Council for the first time tod.n , is a
plenipotentiary. Ills voting privileges are
equal to those of the Premiers. This time
It Is highly probable that some definite aud
workable machinery for rehabilitating Aus
tria will be imt In motion, for the quea-
EVENING PUBLIC LEDGEkHILADELPHIA, MONDAY, AUGUST 8,
tlon, though complex, Is one which it Is to
the Interest of nil the Powers to settle.
Itegardlng the Sllcslnn tangle, conditions
nre otherwise. Tho programs of Great
Britain and France nre violently conflicting
on the Issue, nnd this division renders tho
participation of tho United States of tho
utmost Importance.
Tho full report of the Interallied Com
mission, which supervised the plebiscite held
ninny months ago, should now bo uvallable.
Further delay In determining thi boundaries
of Upper Silesia and In basing these as
nearly as possible upon the results of the
voting will simply prolong the unrest that
unquestionably menaces the fragile peace of
Europe. The voice of the United States
acquires a special authority from the fact
that our only Interest' In Silesia Is founded
upon tho desire to see the status of that
rich Industrial and mining region removed
from the sphere of trouble-making.
It Is fantastic to imagine that all the
complicated ethnological and historical fac
tors of the case can be ideally adjusted
The most that can be profitably sought ii
a judgment guided by sincerity nnd honelty.
Colonel Hnrvcy has been entrusted with
high responsibilities. The alleged prayer
of Colonel House, "Give us this .day our
dally compromise," recommends itself as n.
serviceable motto for the whole Council.
In attaining such devouMy wished con
summations with regard to Sllesln, it Is for
tunate that the concern of the United States
Is selfish only If purposes directed toward
world harmony can be so classified. Tlic
arbitral position which wc have attained In
the Silcslan dispute Is one of the prime
justifications of our return to the counncls
of Europe.
PENROSE DISCUSSES HOOCH
SENATOR PENUOSE anil the new Pro
hibition Director for Pennsylvania, ,Mr.
McConiicil, have broken their Ions siwnce.
The result does not thrill ns. When Mr.
Penrose and the Prohibition Dlrcctdr for
Pennsylvania say that "they have ecason
to believe that the dry lws nre violated, "
and thnt they "understand that prohibited
liquor is being sold in mnny places," and
that they have "heard rumors of whisky
sold freely in some cities," they nsvime on
air of arch-innoeence that Is tolcraHe only
on the stage with an nccompanUient of
light and frivolous music.
Mr. McConnell is back from Washington
after a conference with his pntron, nnd he
announced thnt there will bo a gnxU purifi
cation of the State after he has enrolled a
great many now assistants. Mr. Penrose
is the financier of Congress. He knows thnt
prohibition enforcement money hnp not been
available, nnd thnt, even though (the job of
dry enforcement agents seems to offer peculiar
attractions to nil sorts of peopU, It is dif
ficult to find men willing to work without
even the pretense of a. salary.
Perhaps money will be fouaii to pay the
new nsslstnnts to Mr. McComaell. Hut If
the Prohibition Ditector la ns conservative
and ns innocent as he pretends to be, one
may safely predict not n purification of the
State, but a sort of grand opening for the
hoochers.
We should like for the moment to direct
the attention of Seuator IVnrose nnd Di
rector McConnell to the text of n letter
written to this newspaper n day or two
ngo by nu indignant and thirsty render, who
demanded governmental action to stop
heartless proiltecring in t"he saloons. This
eloquent correspondent ddmnuded that tho
price of whisky instnutly bey brought some
where near the earth nwl within reach of
the plain person. The prevailing rate iu
all saloons, he said, is fifjty cents n drink
obviously an outrage! in Keuaington the
price luis sagged to thirty-five cents, but
one gets too much water in one's poison.
The writer had no words with which
to express his hatred of druggist-boot-loggers.
Even they have overstepped tho
bounds of decency, it seems. For the
flavoring extract and the horse liniment and
the roof paint ond the leather polish which
once offered some comfort to the bereft no
longer contain the customary amount of
honest n'cohol. What they contain our
correspondent did not know. Hut he did
know thnt after drinking any one of these
stuffs one does not have time to sing n
song or hit a policeman. One falls un
conscious to the ground.
All this the writer accepted as proof of
enduring heartlessncss nnd selfishness in the
retail whisky dealers. Hut he doesn't kuow
his people. The' bootlegging druggists and
the retail dealers in underground hooch
would be shocked nnd genuinely pained if
they were to be thus assailed to their faces.
Of course, they do not sell real whisky!
Hut they kill only n few people a week.
They make only an occasional patron stone
blind for life. If thnt i-n't proof of honesty
nnd kindliness of heart, what is?
SOUTH AMERICA'S SILESIA
TIIF Chileuu indignation aroused by the
alleged remarks of Alfied Douglas, head
of the special United States mission sent
to Lima to participate iu the celebration of
100 years of Peruvian independence, will
probably subside. Already the sympathy
which Mr. Douglas is said to have ex
pressed for Peru "in her relations with
Chile" is now thought in Santiago to hnve
been misconstrued nnd the American legate
himself declared that he was misquoted.
Hut the theme which lias been reopened
will not down.' The dispute concerning the
possession of the valuable nitrate provinces
of Tncnn and Arica has rendered our rela
tions with the two neighboring Pacific re
publics excessively delicate.
Peru claims tho territories by virtue of
the Treaty of Aneon of 13, which stipu
lated that u plebiscite should be held ten
enrs later. The balloting never took place,
for reasons which both Peru nnd Chilo. ex
plain differently.
In consequence it has been difficult for the
United States to manifest friendship for
either of these nations without some show
of displeasure in one of them. It is not in
conceivable that tin' perfecily justified at
tention which Washington lins manifested
toward the Peruvian ceutennry is ut the root
of Chile's vexation.
The cohesion of the New World has been
greatly regarded by what might be described
ns the Silesia of South America. The
United Stntes has no deslro to take sides,
but is naturally keenly Interested In any
hopes of settlement. Mr. Douglas, It np
pears, merely expressed a long-standing
wish, and in so doing lie violated none of tho
ethics of friendly diplomacy.
Munlerers, it seems to
Declining ns. nre not whut they
Criminal Artistry used to be. Tho gentle
nrt of knocking 'em off
is losing some of its romantic interest and
operators ln--lc the artistry that provided tho
groundwork for worth -while publicity. Tho
LUlsburg murder Is a case in point. lie is
n mean murderer who slanders Ids wife to
snvo his neck. Murderers of finer Instincts
don't get that way. Criminals with an ap
preciation of the nuances of effective adver
tising would instinctively sense the immi
nence of a blur note nnd automatically
avoid it It Is a degenerate age. Crime Is
hemming as prosnlc anil almost as respec
table as purograph writing, and wins no
inure bouquet-'
The drelnintion if a prison keeper that
Sdiiick nnil .faui"s "do not look like men
of the inurilpritr tvpc" might cause one to
wonder what tho type was Ilka If one were
not convinced that no such typo exists. Hut
if it did and wo had to make a guess at It
we'd suggest minion with extra black caps.
AS ONE WOMAN SEES IT
Two Instances Cited Where Woman's
Intuition Playa a Poor Second to
Knowledge and Experience
Dy SARAH D. L0WKIE
THE first board meeting I ever sat through
was a woman's committee In charge of
a sectarian orphanage. I was on a sub
committee of thnt board, not officially a
board member, but one of the junior officials
of an auxiliary known ns "The Young
Ladles' Aid."
I was fdxtcen and full of notions how
orphans should be token care of, and scorn
ful of the way they were being treated by
the matron nnd her underlings. My ap
pearance at the board meeting was to testify
what I had observed as to the way the'
children Wore punished. Some of the boys
were much too old for the matron to tackle
unaided. Whipping was her most success
ful form erf punishment, nnd she found It
easier on the whole to "get" the bigger
children while they were, in the bathtub.
I had not seen this performance, but the
tales of it hod reached inc. nnd I w-at askert
to produce "hearsay" ns well as first-hand
Information. Tho children had apparently
been freer in their talk with me than .-.with
the "lady managers."
The point about the episode was that
never from the first wns the matron allowed
to have a part In the proceedings ns bear
ing hor testimony or giving her viewpoint.
It was mnny years ago I do not know
If the institution still survives and no one
thought In those days that a paid official
tafely could be admitted to the councils
of a board meeting. Any Information she
had to give on the orphanage alwnys came
through one of the board, generally tho
same one of the board, who was cither her
sworn enemy or her prejudiced friend.
IT WAS not until considerably later In
' my varied career as a committee member
that I was made aware that to intrust an
official with the -responsibility of an organ
ization and then banish him from the
councils of the directorate cave him an
anomalous position with his subordinates
and mado his position with the board more
often defensive than co-operative.
It took an actual experience of seeing
the thing worked to convince mc that the
old-fashioned way of regarding a paid of
ficial as some- one to be trented as different
in trustworthiness from a volunteer official
was unfair and clumsy.
The organization where I sow it tried
out against my vote nt first nnd finally
with my relieved approval was the Public
Paths Association, and the official In ques
tion wns H. F. Ross, the superintendent.
He was a young man' who had been. I
think, n clerk or accountant In a grocery
business and who had become "on the side"
very nctlvc ns u follower of Henry George
in the Single Tax propaganda.
I have the impression thnt he was Fomo
wlint radical at that period, certainly very
enthusiastic In questions pertaining to labor,
and that when he mine Into the employ
of the Public Baths Association ns the boss
of Its first bathhouse he was perhaps at
ii crisis in his career.
He promised to become an ndmirablc
superintendent nnd a very fair and sensible
employer of men. There also seemed n
possibility thnt with those gifts latent, but
not encouraged, he might persuade himself
thnt his duty in life wns to become nn ugl
tator along socialistic lines. I do not say
this was actually the probability, but
viewed from the outside It seemed nt least
a possibility. '
It wns nt this point that tho subject of
his being included in the dlrcctorntc ns a
menus of giving him gicnter scope and n
more personal interest In the cntcrprl-e was
discussed by the Executive Committee, and
because wf my ignorance It was peremptorily
opposed by mo.
To my nstonlshment I wns serenely over
ruled, and li. F. Boss became a member of
the bonrd that was emplojlng him ns super
intendent. He is still n member of thnt bonrd and
Is still superintendent, nnd it is probably
due more to him than to nnv other factor
iu the organization that It Is the most suc
cessful institution of its kind in the coun
try, probably, in the world.
T RECEIVED a report from Mr. George
X Hnrrlson, Jr., only today, giving me the
data as to how the plan had matured thnt
wns set going moje than twenty years ago,
with kindly but indulgent skepticism on the
pnrt of some of tho then authorities In pub
lic enterprises ns to its ultimate success.
Our theory thnt tho thing could ever be
self-supporting, for instance, was scouted.
It is more than self-supporting now, the
money needed being today simply for more
bathing centers. Kvery cent of money given
to the enterprise now goes for new buildings ;
the old buildings pay for themselves nnd a
little more. Consequently every one who
pntronizes those bathhouses makes it pos
sible for some ope else to have n hntli in
a new center, and every subscriber who has
sent in his j early gift is increasing the
possibilities for more buthers.
Tho first bathhouse had about fiftv
showers, nearly 200 baths hu"e been nihleil
since then, nnd there nre three centers.
The patrons of the.p centers paid S.'S,.
13'J.iri for baths in 1010. This year there will
hnvo been half u million baths taken, nnd
mnny hundreds turned nway from lack of
room In tho three centers. A new center
must shortly bo built, which will yield a
larger percentage of profits, perhaps n fourth
of a cent a bath, and thus make yet still
another center eventually possible. If it
wns u business, the Interest paid on the
capita' Invested would not yet hnve rcoohod
n money-making bnsls, but iu the course of
another twenty jours nt this rnte of In
cieose it should bo. able to build new routers
on the surplus Income of the old ones, and
ns a business philanthropy rijlit now it
has prmed Its practicability up to the hilt.
DURING the fearful heat of July It wns
a mitigating circumstance to many a
child and older boy that the city bathing
pools were open and there -wns always np
pnrently room enough for one more. Itnt
thousands of persons, to whom bnthlng after
work made all the difference between the
bearnbleness of life nnd unbearableness in
those trying duys, could not use the city
pools, even though there had born room for
them. Tin city pools are meant for recrea
tion, not for cleansing; they are impossible
plates for most adults. Hut the public baths
of tho Baths Association provide n clean
nnd private nnd comfortable lmth nt all
hours of the day and Into the evening hours
nt a price that Is within the means of very
poor patrons, and under conditions that nre
perfectly feasible for any self-respecting
citizen.
It Is a groat enterprise, public spirited,
practical and far-reaching. It is worth in
vesting money lu ; any one of the bath
houses Is worth a visit that ot Fourth
ond Gaskill streets, or nt 1103 Gprmantoivn
avenue, or nt 718 Wood street. I do noi
know where tho not one Is to be, but I
fiiucv tho management Is open to suggest
tions. A HARBOR DAY
A FREIGHTER listing toward the Brook
lyn's shore,
Fresh from tho hot Levant with spicy
baled ;
Past Heilloc's Island, with n siren roar,
A liner swings with Triins-Atlniitic mails
Off in the Kill von Kull, with dropping
sails,
A barkcntlne dings on a towlino short;
While with her topmasts lost lu screaming
gales
A clipper from the China roast makes port.
And there are stretching tows that soon will
1 1 nil
The inland waterways from Hudson's
flows ;
On far canals across the Mohuwk vale,
With skylines burning In the suiifcet's rose,
All these In vistas, to our sight are swirled
it- thin u-et rnteu-nv of the western world.
Thomas J, Murphy, iu the N, Y. Herald.
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Aw
NOW MY IDEA IS THIS
Daily Talks With Thinking Philadelphians on Subjects They
Know Best
GEORGE W. COLES
On Preventing Bootlegging
WAR on shady liquor dealers ond boot
leggers was declared today by George
W. Coles, new T'nited States Attorney for
tho Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
Tho purpose of Mr. Coles' administration
is to instill in the hearts and minds of the
people n respect for Federal luw. Mr.
Coles took office Monday.
"All violators of the liquor laws will be
prosecuted to the limit," Mr. Coles said.
"Time wns when the people nil over tho
country had a healthy regard for the Fed
eral laws.
"It is plain to sec that the enforcement
of the prohibition amendment bus thrown
some of this high regnrd to the winds. It
must come bnck and everything wo enn do
to bring it bnck will be done. There is
great danger in this disregard for tho Fed
eral law. It leads to disregard for all
laws and It must stop.
"Bootleggers, big and little, will feel the
forceful arm of this office. They will bo
prosecuted to the limit, and there will bo
no let-up. These people must be inude to
see thnt the Federal law Is supreme to their
own mnliclous designs.
Law Must He Enforced
"No mntter whnt our personal views on
the prohibition question arc. one thing re
mains, and that Is that the courts have said
tho nmendment Is constitutional and all right
thinking citizens will help suppovt It.
"Not all the bootleggers are supposedly
disreputable citizens. Many men of high
standing iu their communities nre engaging
In this .illicit traffic on u wholesale scule
and it must stop.
"People must respect the law, because it
Is the law. Leniency granted to offenders
has. n bad effect. It makes them think that
the risk is small, and when caught they
will bo handled lightly. Mnke the punish
ment seeie nnd the risk is Inerensed nnd
mnny will be deterred from engaging In
this illii It and nefarious business.
"Bootleggers nre no different thnn mail
robbers or bandits. If thos,- people arc
prosecuted to the limit, whv not the boot
loggers V They arc committing us much a
crime ns nny other violator, and I rnnnot
make it too strong that they will bo hniitllcil
with u mailed fist.
"Repoits are rampant that several former
prohibition iigents nre engaging In boot
logging on n largo scale. These ngonts are
being Investigated and wheie the charges
What Do You Know?
QUIZ
WVn Is the official head of the United
States Department of .Tuntlco?
What West Indian volcano destroyed
4o,.n0ft people?
Who was WUIInm lleckford, and for
WU.lt U lit' IIUl' II
How did the Scotch hninn of Stuart hap-';
iirji iu u---uiiiu ti luj.u iiouse o i-.ng-land?
What Is another name for tho star
Polaris?
Whnt Is the meanlnc of Zlon
How mnnj States compose the Ameri
can Union?
Whnt is meant by the Judgment of
Pails?
Who was second In command to Colum
bus on his first voyage to the New
World?
What American President lived In Mon
tlcello? Answers to Saturday's Quiz
'I'll- l-st Trans-AMantc nlMilp record
is 10S hours twelve mlnut.n. i107lm"
made by the Ilrlbh dlrlulbln N.14
In .lulv. 1019. The route wn8 trim
i:ast Fortune, Scotland, to Hnzelhurst
Field, nr-nr New York. "-"einursl
The Dnll Klrennn Is the Irish nepubll
can Parliament. uu"
A "coup d'etat" Is n violent or llleirnl
change In KOvcrn-ient It ghouni 1m
pronounced "coo-dny-tah." B"oum 1,e
Tho famous declaration. "HIchard'H him.
self again." . by Poll.y'nhw '
nppenrs In h's revision of Shako.
penr'n "Richard m annuo.
Giovanni Irenzo Bernini was a noloil
lt.ilian painter, sculptor and nrchl.
tec;, patronized by Pop Urban V
and I n-.'s v IV of Franco mi dli .
nro 1BDS.1G80 "' ,,ll,
Mmoii T Heirlck is the present Ameii.
can Amhnmulor to France "men-
liiiiMi.u lu ttm Sinn n.t it..... U...1-
7
8.
9.
10.
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A,bards.,e " " " C0"Brt8!i or Welsh
TominiiBso Tlttonl Is tho present president'
America"""" SCrmt' Ho " 'v n
"MltoM-J MM- .? bom
In 1883. """ "' ven'c
1921
WHOA!
nre substantiated they will bo prosecuted
to the full extent of this ofliro.
Wntch Former Dry Agents
"It is bad enough toxhnve bootleggers ex
ist, but when they exist with the support
and backing of former prohibition agents,
then the nftnir must be stopped ut all haz
ards. Probably a few prison sentences for
these former prohibition ugeiits will be the
cure, if there Is connlvniicc, wo will find
it out, nnd when wc do tho guilty' parties
will be haled in without delay.
"I am counting upon the support of Wil
linm C. McConnell, the new Prohibition
Director for this State. I feel that 1 have
it and with our two departments working
lu conjunction I feel wc will get good re
sults. "We cannot end bootlegging In n day
or a month. Gradually, however, we will
guin our ends.
"Offenders will be brought to justice.
This Is the cardinal purpose of tho office.
Bringing them in without delay follows. In
this way, and in this way only, can the
respect for law be upheld.
"Political affiliations of offenders will
avail them nothing. If they nre guilty we
will do all In our power to see them off
to jail just like any one else."
HUMANISMS
By WILLIAM ATIIERTON I)U PUY
A FRIEND of Mrs. Sawyer, wife of Biig-
adier Geurrnl Charles 13. Sawyer, phy
sician to tho Pu-sidcut, u short time ugo
asked her this question :
"After n lifetime spent with your bus
bnnd in his -prm-tieo of medicine you must
have become very accustomed to culling him
'Doctor.' Now thnt he hns acquired his
new title, do you still ,-nll him 'Doctor," or
do you call him Geuoial'?"
"I call hltn neither." responded Mrs.
bnwycr, "I call him 'Briggy Dear.' "
The work of the scientist (os ,,0t always
hnve to do with cliciniriil lenrtiops and the
juggling of multi-syllabic Latin names.
I'oke the npple crop, fur instance, nnd
the man who saved that part of it which
grows in the West. It was not laboratory
scleiico but llguiing 01,t how t g,.t u drop
of liquid under u leaf that saved it.
Dr. Elmer Darwin Ball, who is now As
slstant Secretin y of Agriculture, did the job
Apple- growers lu the Fast protected tlieir
appe trees pretty well by spraying them
w th an Insecticide. Bt out West the cod
til ng moths were too thick to be exter
minated iu this way.
The end of the tipple where the bloom
had been was its vulneiiibl, part. No mat
ter how often the tires wore spiuyed the
q""oh Cr"wltMl in lK'l' 1"1 HiioIIctl the
To get the Insecticide hack of the leaf-like
fiber ut the end of tm apple so the worm
wcu 1,1 get t hen ho crawled li.-thnt w"
the job. It wns a small task of u median!
cal nature. The liquid must be shot Imr Jr
had been.0 ' C' "l'l"U whcrc ll' b,00
So Dr. Hall rigged up a more vigorous
srrnylng device and shot the liquid fVoin t !o
direction fwun which the fruit got Its fight
for It ajwajs pointed its blossom end thnt
lie got tho poison where It did the work
nStJon."8 0I'l"L' cr1' of ,m ""
lo'FVnnkili'h'-VK'
to I'lUIIKIIIl, ., II whole Mm full,,,,.
Baptist minister, had I'aKrn J a ato"
'1 hey got to talking with nu old geiiil, ,?,,,;
mimed Austin F. l who lint ,
bee,, chosen United Hut".? a "Vhe'n
of tMMPro"" "' li0U WUS b01" '" tilu ''
Eight x'ars later, otter graduating from
Dait.nouth. he won offered tho r ml "
.reek in an American college Atht i hi
had to refuse it because of ,l" f, imlh , '.'
nation and take one of S!l a wee i
porter on u newspaper t Conen.d. Ho of on
tht.ught of Athens as ho cv rod his ass,' "
mrnts on hot M.in.nrr days. n, , ,'
varatlons ,, t. Mr-tlit,.., .... , ,', h
have .re,, his at this t,u. of m,' Hn"!
solve. lliat he would go to Cvoce and l
indbflSi,nf0?Urb conc'c blt!ons
SHORT CUTS
The Rainbow ticket ought to bring out
the colored vote.
Confidence is nn nssct thnt no politician
admits the lack of.
Do the Black Sox now speak of'.Tudge
Friend as Friend Judge?
SInrrled life Isn't always one grind 'I
sweet song tor the prima donnn.
Rats arc fond of music, snys Dr. Green.
mnn. Perhaps so. But their finest musi
clan Is u piece of cheese.
One comforting thing about Secretary
Mellou's tax recommendations is that tbey
might so easily have been so very much
worse.
The disarmament conference will itself
ho iu the nature of nu Informal conversation
preliminary to un honest-tn-goodiicss peace
conference.
The State treasury is tcmpornrily era
barrassed. according to Treasurer Snyder.
Its embarrassment isn't u marker on that
of the taxpayer. ,
It is fair to assume thnt the Voters
Lcnguo, which senses n return from Elba of
the Vnre oshenrt. olbo smells a rat and
will nip it in the bud.
Of course. Mr. Borah hadn't the slight
est idea who wns going to walk in when h
opened the disarmament door. He may jet
have to welcome the League he botes.
The reaction of the Bibulous One to the
campaign planned by Federal Prohibition
Director McConnell is Unit additional risk
is going to udd to the cost of bootlegger
hooch.
If wo nro reolly In earnest in cutting "
expenditures we might begin with the arrajr
nnd navy. It would nlso he u heartcnir.i
gesture with which to enter the disarmament
conferenco.
Tho Polos nro now planning nn im
movable barrier against the. irresistible force
of the oncoming hungry hordes fiom Russia.
This should give us a line on the answer to
ii classic question.
SlrThoinnsLlpton, it is said, will again
challenge for the America's Cup. But the
yachts will never arouse the nld-titno en
thusiasm until they become callable vcs-sels
nnd not merely racing machines.
Two members: of the British House of
Commons who have born Investigating pro
hibition in Now York have arrived nt the
conclusion that then is no liquor on sale
in thnt city. Haven't they any friends?
Conditions nt the Old Soldiers Home
nt Johnson City, Trim., ns disclosed by
Director Forbes, of the Wnr Risk Insurance
Burruti, suggests that Sherman's assertion
should be amended to read, "The oftriinath
of war, etc."
There arc 1201,fi."3 women farmers In
the United States, We have aforetime hePil
treated to pathetic stories of funnels' wives
who wcic overworked. The next crop may
concern farmers' husbands who ure being
trodden upon.
" v
Now thnt citizens of Canada ond Mex
ico may enter tho United States without
passports, Americans may hope thnt the
time Is not far distant when they will he
pounltted to cross the Atlantic without sub
mitting (o cross-cxauilnutioii.
If, ns Samuel Gouipers avers, the Fed
eration of Labor cannot Investigate the
Central Trades nnd Labor Council of
(renter New York, becnuse every local conn v
oil Is supreme in its own community, then
what Is the good of a federation?
Parisian dressmakers sny thnt the oval
decollete, which gives the effect of continu
ally slipping oft the shoulders, is perfi'ctly
safe to dunce In. 'Tis the necessity for ns
suniiico argues danger: hut tljo young per
son of tndn Is apparently always iwnly 'u
t.ike o onniire.
One feature favming the Penrose bill
Is that nobodv appeal's tq have a better
plan. What Dinkes one wnry of It is that
It hns all the punch of a war measure,
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wiiuu inu iii'1'i'Baii.v inr it remains uni"- -l(i
Next to tax revision no measure befor? jii
Conrrcss demands fuller discussion. Ill
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