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PEACE PLANS
INDUSTRIAL pcaco is as important as
international pence. It has been threat
ened, however, by a controversy on the
Pennsylvania Railroad system. A confer
ence has been arranged (or next week be
tween representatives of tho railroad and
representatives of the employes in order to
find n way out. It is said that lfcOO repre
sentatives of the men will be present.
The matter under dispute is understood
to be the manner of choosing committees
of the men to negotiate with tho manage
ment over -wages and conditions of work;
There is disagreement on this and the
union men aro insisting on a modification
of the plan proposed. Outsiders have no
particular interest in the details of the
dispute. They are interested, however, in
the maintenance of harmonious relations
between the employers nnd the employed.
If the representatives of the road enter
the conference with n determination to ninko
no concessions.lt will be unfortunate. And
it will be equally unfortunate if the repre
sentatives of tho men arc determined to
accept nothing short of the maximum de
mands. It is easy to say that if reason
and common sense should dominate in the
conference a satisfactory conclusion could
be reached, but it Is nevertheless true. Hut
IsnU that the kind of n conclusion for which
both parties arc seeking?
THE BIG LEAK
IT IS extremely doubtful whether any of
the routine investigations now being di
rected variously by the police and the Fed
eral prohibition agents will fasten final re
sponsibility on any suspected individual or
group for the continuing disappearance of
large quantities of whisky from warehouses
reported burglarized.
Some of the talcs of robbery to which
the police officials and the Federal agents
have to listen every morning arc doubtless
true enough. It is plain that a great many
of them arc not true. It is a matter of
common knowledge among revenue men that
most of the whisky that finds its way into
the open market by the underground route
is stuff that has been withdrawn from Gov
ernment warehouses under official permits.
The holder of such whisky can make only
a small profit by distributing his liquor
in the legitimate field and to authorized
customers like druggists, hospitals and
zaedlcine manufacturers. He can double his
investment over night, however, by dispos
ing of his stock to the bootlegging syndi
cates. In the latter event he has only to
say that his warehouse was plundered to be
free from the necessity of an accounting
to the Government.
The time seems to be coming when the
x Volstead act will have to be amended to
provide stiff punishment for any whisky mer
chant who permits his warehouse to bo
robbed. In no other way can the most
conspicuous and flagrant violations of the
dry laws be prevented.
IS HE WRONG AGAIN?
(AMBASSADOR HARVEY' telling the
world that the problem of the Silesian
division is a problem of Europe exclusively
nnd not a matter with which the United
States has any concern will be a puzzling
spectacle to those Americans who remember
that some members of the Foreign Rela
tions Committee of the Senate arc still con
vinced that we should keep out of Europe
and merely be ready "to spring to the aid
of France" if the need is again apparent.
If the United States is expected to take
any further part in the conflicts of Europe,
l we arc ever again to shoulder the sort of
responsibility which seemed to Senator
Knox to be inevitable, theu, certainly, we
have a .right to be consulted about issue
which tend to bring about new catastrophes
on the Continent. It is too much to sup
pose that we should sit quietly bv nnd
observe the kindling of conflagrations which
in a later time we may be called upon to
extinguish.
If Silesia is no concern of ours then the
wnrs and bickerings and disasters that may
grow out of it III the future are no con
cerns of ours either. As a matter of fact
there is no civilized nation that has not
a stake of some sort in Silesia. With the
questions now nt issue in that territory
are deeply involved tho possibilities of future
war or future peace.
COMMISSIONER WARBURTON
MANY' people, viewing Major Moore's
appointment of Mujor Barclay War
burton to the new and novel office of
Police Commissioner, will want to know
what a rich business mun can accomplish
asan unsalaried member of the directorate
of the Department of Safety.
There arc many things that such a man
could do. Even were he to be no more than
an Interpreter between well-to-do and in
fluential groups of people who ordinarily
hold aloof from municipal affairs and the
men of the police nnd tire service lie would
be worth a good salary. Policemen and
firemen are expected to perform the most
important of public services. And yet they
are left year after year to light It out alone
with the powers of political darkness, with
out the atteutijn or the sympathy of folk
whose lives and property they protect day
in and day out.
In New York City many rich and clever
men have been establishing a novel sort of
relationship with the police, and giving their
, time and talents and even their money to
help the service and its individual members.
There Is something in the routine work of
flro and police bureaus that appeals power
fully to the sympathy and imagination of
modern Americans who nro too lively
!' )nlnded and energetic to bo wholly contented
L' members of the so-called leisure class.
' -Among the pollen aud firemen in every
, eitV) and, particularly In this city and in
' Ktwj-jYerkt aro a en-it many men oT the
tth-t&ttadwuiturlnii type
t Is creditable
thfkrrfcaB'babltof
nd that rich
':"; w, .
men of a similar tendency are proud to
be associated with' them.
Half n dozen men like Major Warburton,
acting officially In the Interest of the Phil
adelphia police, could do n vast lot to offset
the influence of the politicians who always
have regarded the members of the service
as groups to be bossed, exploited, degraded
nnd abused ns the exigencies of factionalism
dictate.
STEP BY STEP, THE SCOPE OF
THE CONFERENCE GROWS
The Disarmament Parley Program Is
Fashioned Upon the Hopeful, Induc
tive Plan, Approaching the Gen
eral From tho Particular
THE scope of the Disarmament Confer
ence, as defined In the formal invitations
extended by President Harding, is so much
broader than that of the parley originally
proposed by Senator Borah that there is
hopeful warrant for believing that the meet
ing, to n noteworthy degree, will assumo
the complexion of a second peace conclave.
If this prospect should be deemed alormlng
by the numerous critics of tho Qual D'Orsay
assemblage there are changes in the world
situation and novelties by the manipulation
of the new program which should be reas
suring. International affairs, although still com
plex and unsettled, arc far from being in
the feverish state which rendered cnlm
judgments so elusive in the winter and
spring of 1010. The nations, despite re
pugnance to self-analysis, have been forced
by the drive of events to take stock of
blunders conceived in haste or passion,
Tho foremost error, as well ns paradox,
has obviously been the pretension of dis
armament sympathies unaccompanied by
practical steps to reduce military or naval
equipment. The contradiction may be
ascribed in part to the remarkable ascend
ency some two years and a half ago to
what Is correctly, If perhaps pedantically,
termed deductive reasoning. The philosophy
o? which Mr. Wilson was a prime and
persistent exponent was characterized by the
formulation of general principles from which
It was expected by Its followers that con
crete applications and results would be
reached.
Much was heard of "self-dotermlnatlon,"
"open diplomacy," "equality of opportu
nity" and similar doctrines, which if prnc
tlcally and fully observed wpuld have glori
ously cased the path of reconstruction. It
was when specific applications were proposed
that difficulties nnd disappointments ensued.
These results are Improperly construed
If they arc taken to mean that lofty general
conceptions merit distrust. The Declara
tion of Independence, notwithstanding cer
tain skeptics, is proof to the contrary.
Nevertheless it is trying, especially amid
labyrinthine international affairs, to reason
down to earth from tho high spire of abstract
justice. Plato tried it cycles ago and he
has been called a visionary.
To declare that there is world conscious
ness of n swing toward the methods of his
great rival is to presume n widespread
classicisnf which does not exist. M. Jour
daln. tho "Bourgeois Gentleman," was sur
prised to find that he was speaking prose.
Nevertheless he was. The State Department
of the United States has of late omitted
all reference to Aristotle nnd Bacon In its
forceful nnd ndmlrably constructive negotia
tions, but it is Bnconian philosophy to
which It has been giving an extraordinary
impetus.
Hopeful, if unwitting, Baconians abound
today. These are the persons who look
with favor upon the policy of reason
ing from the part to the whole, from the
particular to the generul, from the individ
ual to the universal exponents, in short, of
the inductive method.
Mr. Borah's proposition, ns first made,
affected but three naval Powers, the United
States, Great Britain and Japan. After a
season of gigautic undertakings, unfruitful
of complete realization, the comparatively
modest new start was appealing.
The Harding Administration has skillfully
developed its program from that prelude.
Consideration of Pacific and Far Eastern
problems was injected into the project.
Thut move set going diplomatic machinery
calculated to denote some of the provinces
of the conferences by leaving these, in tho
words of the President's invitations, "to
be the subject of suggestions to be ex
changed before the meeting of the confer
ence In the expectation that tho spirit of
friendship nnd a cordial appreciation of the
importance of the elimination of the sources
of controversy will govern the final deci
sion." The advantages of favoring such n policy
are already visible in the harmonious fashion
in which tho enterprise has been forworded.
The latest injection of a particular theme
Into an undertaking which promises, at
least from this point of time, to be splendidly
broad in its eventual scope, Is that of the
control "in the interest of humanity" of
the use of new agencies of warfare. Many
of these "agencies" nrc so revolting aud
frightful that mankind is incapable of
dwelling upon the monsters of its own crea
tion, the poisons, the gas bombs, tho
projectiles, the lethal chemicals, without
shuddering in horror. But the issue must
be faced, if nations, convinced us thev al
ways are of the justice of their particular
causes, arc not to be exterminated them
selves or to exterminate their sister States
by the most hideous of "civilization's"
fruits.
Piece by piece there is nov in construc
tion, with Secretary Hughes as muster
builder, an edifice, capable of housing the
world with some approximation of harmony
if the uresent .spirit of the conference prep
arations abides. The particular!, ulrcady
listed, pregnant with possibilities of pro
ducing brood results, are military and naval
disarmament, the elimination of revolting
war tools, clarification of settlement of Far
Eastern problems nnd a sipinre deal for
China. Numerous other subjects will bo
difficult to exclude.
That the world lias needed a second peace
conference, especially one strengthened by
the inductive method of gradual construc
tion, hns for some time been apparent.
Without delusion it can be believed that
something of the sort is in sight, scheduled
for the ever-memorable anniversary of the
eleventh duv of November.
IT MIGHT HAPPEN TO YOU
HOW many women go to bed at night
with the vague hope in their njjnds
that they will get n letter in the morning
announcing that thev hove fallen heir to
a small fortune? Although there are no
statistics available it is probable that the
number Is so large that it would be aston
ishing. Families are separated. One member
goes to another part of the world to enter
business nnd is not heard of for years and
sometimes not ut all. Rut it frequently
happens that the wanderer mokes a for
tune and dies and leaves it to his kinsfolk
who have all but forgotten his existence.
They are not reminded of it until they get
a letter from a lawyer announcing that
they have fallen heir to $r0,000 or $500,000.
There Is hardly a family to which such a
surprise might not come.
In the latest Instance to come to light
the fortune is here in Philadelphia and the
missing heir is in East Birmingham, Alu.
The story Is not that of a man who went
away and mado a fortune, but of a baby
girl who was left with her aunt In Missouri
while her father came East. The aunt died
ttrnd all trap oi me gin was jost. Her
Jndfatber llled thirty years ago, leaving her
EVENING PUBLIC LEDGER
one-fifth of his fortune. The father has
been hunting for her ever since and it was
not until this week- that he found her.
She Is married and has five children. Sho
woke up one morning to discover that there
was not only n father waiting for her In
Philadelphia, but a fortune of $40,000 or
more. And yet there are pessimists who
say there Is no romance in real life.
WHAT IT'S ALL ABOUT.
THE Mayor's statement about tho Issues
for which ho Is fighting ought to dis
abuse the minds of those who may have
been thinking that ho is engaged in a mere
factionnl squabble.
He was elected on tho strength of his
pledges to take the control of the city Gov
ernment from contractor bosses. Ills op
position was not to Individuals, but to a
system. Under this system public business
was conducted In the interest of tho con
tractors who controlled the public officials.
In the matter of street cleaning the polit
ical bosses got the contracts. The men who
drafted the specifications, the officials who
awarded tho contracts and the Inspectors
who were supposed to enforce the terms of
the contracts were the creatures of the men
who made profjts out of the work. These
profits have amounted, nccordlng to esti
mates, to nt least $1,000,000 a year.
Tho city hns been cleaning the streets
In the central section without the Interven
tion of contractors since the beginning of
the year. It will do the work for $'J00,000
less thnn the lowest bid submitted. It will
save enough next year, when It will do the
work in the whole city, to pav for the
equipment needed, nnd the jear after thcro
will be a net saving to the taxpayers.
But the contractor combine Is doing its
utmost to block these plans for economy.
Although tho Mayor had n majority In tho
Council nt the beginning of his term a
combination was made between the con
tractor group and the three Councilmeu
from tho district controlled by the presiding
Judge of the Municipal Court under tho
terms of which the contractor Councllmcn
would consent to filling the payrolls of the
court "with political workers and the three
Councllmcn would vote with the contractor
group when Its interests were threatened.
Now attempts are making to carry this
deal farther by dividing the nominations for
office this year between the two groups under
a fifty-fifty plnn. It is this plan to which
tho Mayor objects. If it Is carried out
it will bo difficult to bring nbout the econ
omies for which, he is planning.
The contractor combine has not only been
doing Its best to obstruct the street-cleaning
plans. It has also been obstructing
tho settlement of the gas question. One of
its lenders went so far ns to propose
an increase in the price of gas to $1.-0 a
thousand cubic feet. Tho Mayor announces
that ho Is working to prevent nn increase In
the price of gas as well ns to abolish the
contractor-boss system. Whatever may be
the feelings of n part of the community on
tho contractor issue, the wholo community
will be with him on the price of gas
thoso who have voted with tho contractor
bosses in tho past as well as those who
have opposed them.
If thero is to be a fight in the primaries
tho issue will bo sharply drawn between
those who wish the program of tho Mayor
carried out nnd those who are content to
nllow the city to slump back into the slough
of political graft in which it has been
floundering for years.
SAFE
EVER since the White Sox conspiracy
trial in Chicago folk of all sorts have
been wondering aloud whether, after all and
despite the whitewash, the national game
of ball didn't receive deadly hurts at the
hands of the accused players.
To find nn answer to this question It Is
necessary to look along the bottoms of the
newspaper pages devoted to (.ports.
Within the past week in this citv tho
Bankers played the Brokers. Tho Coal
Men and the Icemen's all-star tenm met in
a slashing conflict. The Bread Bakers'
nino plajcd the Cake Bakers. There was
not a back lot anvwhero in this general
region that didn't sec hard-fought ball
games in which no one was too young or
too old to participate.
Wo aro disposed to believe, therefore,
that the great game of ball is safe no matter
what occasional professionals of easy virtue
have done or may do for the wives and tho
kiddies.
THE FALSTAFFIAN MIND
FEW will agree with Maurice Cascnavc,
the French High Commissioner, who
sold in a speech before the Institute of
Politics, nt Williams College, that Sir John
Fnlstnff is .the greatest figure of the English-speaking
world. It cannot be that the
Frenchman referred to Sir John Oldcastle,
the supposed original of the charoctcr in
Shakespeare's Henry V. The historic Old
castle was n very different sort of man from
Falstnff. Ho was hanged for heresy after
plotting ngniust the King.
Shnkespeare's Falstaff, with all his vices,
had a wholesome outlook on life. He had
good digestion, ns Mr. Casenavc reminds us,
and, what is more, he had the gift of
laughter.
The relation of good digestion to human
happiness and to human progress has not
been properly appreciated. Most of the
pestiferous legislation proposed and enacted
has come from dyspeptics. Their outlook
on life is distorted by the disorder In their
stomachs. They cannot sec innocent en
joyment without begrudging it and setting
about making rules to compel everv one to
behave ns though his dinuer distressed him.
They wish to make all suffer because of
their grouch.
There is no better proof of the long
suffering patience of the great mass of hu
manity than lt. tolerance of the dyspeptics
and of the causes of dyspepsia. Although
It has been said on good medical authority
that pie and hot bread have caused more
suffering in the world than all other causes
combined, the cupcptlcs have not yet waged
n campaign against hot bread, and they have
allowed the making of pte to continue with
out any attempt to check It. This is because
of their sanity of outlook. They can look
on the fussers and the fretters with a genial
hmilo when they do not laugh aloud at
them in genuine Falstaffian style. The
world la on tho whole a pretty good place
to live in, becnuse good digestion, as a rule,
has waited on appetite, nnd henlth on both.
Tho possibility of nn-
Runshlno other war is conceded in
nnd Shadow the Hughes note which
cnlls for tho control of
"new agencies of warfare." This un
doubtedly refers to the use of gas and dis
ease germs over the enemv lines. The
trouble is that when hostilities eventuate
control is shaken off in fovor of the oldest
of international laws; "All is fair in war."
Frank Ktees, of Dugans Dam, Pa.,
goes fishing in n curious wiv. He says
that every minnow has a predilection strong
for jazz; so mnkes them dance (you needn't
laugh) to music of the phonograph while
they are on tho hook for halt, Such antics
serve to Irrltnto the bass, which thereupon
will bite nnd get the hook. Y'ea, bo, that's
right. Frank Stees is happv ns a clam.
For truth, who cares ot Dugans Dam?
In the matter of thrills it is hard to
beat the experience of the three passengers
In the Lakehurst, N, J runaway balloon.
Without motive power of any kind they
drifted toward tho open sea at a height of
8000 feet; but at the mouth of Toma River
the wind nhlftcd and drove them back to
safety.
PHILADELPHIA; SATURDAY, AUGUST 13,
STORIES FROM WASHINGTON
Barring a Short Arm and a Lung
That Does Not Function, One Vet
eran of Spanish-American War
Is as Good as New How
Nowell Washed the
Potatoes
By WILLIAM ATHERTON DU PUY
NORMAN L. ORME Is the Collector of
Customs for the United States at
Puerto Plata, San Domingo, performing one
of those bits of unusual public service to
which occasional individuals give themselves.
But ho hns another accomplishment to
recommend him, this collector, for, when
the wounds of the war with Spain were
healed, it was set down that he of nil the
participants In that conflict wns the man
taost grievously hurt nnd who yet survived.
Ormo had been carrying messages between
Roosevelt nnd Wood on the first day of tho
fighting nnd had picked up a dead mnn's
rifle for n crack nt the enemy while
Wood rend nn order. As his nrm crooked
for the shot n bullet enmc along, brenking
It above tho wrist, and ngaln nbovc the
elbow, plowing Its way on through his lungs,
passing through the position ordinarily oc
cupied by the heart, but at the moment thnt
organ wns on its forward beat. But It tore
tho pericardium from around the hceirt and
passed on.
The surgeons did not dress Orme's
wounds. What wns the use? He could not
be saved.
But ho was still alive when the hospital
ship arrived In Brooklyn nnd there surgeons
cut him open in the back, took his pulsing
heart In their fingers, put the perlcnrdlura
back nnd sowed it on.
So, with the exception of one short arm
nnd a lung which does not function ho is as
good ns new.
Frederick II. Newell wns for so long head
of the Government reclamation service thnt
he is sometimes held to be Its daddy.
Certainly ho wns a pioneer in the collec
tion' of thnt material which mnda Its tasks
possible, for, way back In 1SS1, as nn
engineer just out of school, the Government
sent him down to Embudo, N. M., where
he measured the flow of the Rio Grande
nnd saw the vision of storing Its flood waters,
a task that Is now accomplished.
But when this engineer first made camp
in Manana land he wanted to do his full
share, so ho asked for chores to perforin
In getting supper. Some one gave him a
bucketful of potatoes and told him to go
down to the stremn nnd wash them.
He stayed ovcrlong, so the horse wrangler
went to find him. There he wns nt the
streamsido with the potatoes all peeled and
with n nice panful of lathering soap suds In
which he was conscientiously washing them.
E. J. Hennlng, who is Asslstnnt Secretary
of Lnbor tinder Mr. Dovis, the handsomest
Cabinet officer of his generation, was,
twenty-five years ago, secretary to n Con
gressman from Wisconsin, who .bore the.
unique name of Snuer Herring.
.
Miss Mnry Anderson, Chief of the Wom
nn's Bureau, Is the only woman who has
been appointed by the Harding Administra
tion to a post of sufficient importance to
require confirmation by the Senntc. Miss
Anderson operated a machine in stitching
shoo tops for. eighteen years in a factory
In Chicago.
The Assistant 'Secretary of Labor, E. J.
Hennlng, wns sccretnry of the College
League way back in the McKInley campaign
of 1800.
.Nobody pnld much attention to him unless
there wns nn opportunity to unload some
unpleasant responsibility upon'his irrespon
sible head.
Such an ocension occurred when Curtis
Guild, afterward Governor nnd Ambassador
to Russia, insisted nt Chicago that one
Theodore Roosevelt, then Police Commis
sioner of New York, be given a untloual
debut. '
The older politicians were afraid of the
Roosevelt idea, for he had been cuuslng n
lot of trouble in the New York Legislature
about the Raines law and other radical leg
islation. So Hennlng hired the Auditorium, got
his youngsters to beating the tom-tom and
filled it to the rnftcrs.
Roosevelt tore into the leading Demo
cratic political figure In Illinois of thnt
day who showed tendencies which in this
time would bo styled Red. His rending of
him was of the order that was later shown
to be characteristic of him. The speech was
n wonderful success, made a stupendous Im
pression. It mode Roosevelt a nntional fig
ure. The old leaders tool; him unto their
bosoms. It was his debut.
Down In Oklahoma, n few years ago,
three men, of whom John William Harreld,
now United States Senator, was one, took
a lease on 100 acres of Indian land for which
they paid ?L'5. Thus It worked out that
each mnn invested $S..'tn.
This was nil the money thnt any one of the
thtce men ever put into this enterprise. B
incorporating their lease and selling u part
of the stock, they got together enough money
to sink eighteen wells upon tho property.
Then they sold it for $.'150,000. After the
books had been balanced and tho money
distributed, it wns found thnt each of the
three received in return for his $S.!W in
vested, $SC,500. Senator Harreld believes
this Is the largest return for the least in
vestment in all the oil operations of the
Southwest.
Speaker Cillett wns telling the sort of
man Uncle Joe Cannon had always been.
He said he was the kind of man whom a
certain servant girl hnd described her mas
ter to bo. Her mnster and her lamp, she
said, were just alike. Both of them insisted
on going out of nights.
Dr. Carl L. Alsberg. Chief of the Bureau
of Chemistry and administrator of the pure
food low of the Federal Government, is
said to smoke tho rankest pipe in nil the
service. Likewise he wears the most dilapi
dated soft hat, which encloses his head as
an orange is encircled by Its skill.
Representative Joseph W. Byrns, of Ten
nessee, has the bushiest eyebrows in Con
gress and Representative James F. Djnics,
of South Carolinu, has almost no eyebrows
at all.
It was about twenty years ago and
Ernest Lewis, who Is now a member uf
the Interstate Commerce Commitklou, down
In Washington, was a newspaperinun travel
ing around over the face of the earth to
find interesting things to write nbout.
He was in Melbourne, Australia, in u hotel
lobby, and had been talking for hours with
two individuals who hod been spinning fan
tastic if unreliable jnrns thnt might or
might not find a place In a beries on "Tito
Romances of Mining."
Nearby there sat a quiet young man.
who, of necessity, heard fragments of the
conversation.
When the others had gono the quiet
youngster cumo over, introduced himself iin
a fellow American, ami gave Lewis much
actual nnd no less interesting information
on the wealth that was being extracted from
Australia's forbidding wastes.
This joung man's name was Herbert
Hoover. He was then in Australia as u
mining engineer.
Mr, Lfwis occupies n corner office on the
seventh floor of the Interstate Commerce
Building in Washington and Mr. Hooor oe
cupies a similar corner offico on tho seventh
floor of the Department of Commerce Build
ing just a block away. Tho windows of the
one look into the windows of the other.
It has been said, not that there Is any
truth to speak of in tho assertion, that
the world is small,
The father of Al Jolso'n Is a Jewish rahM
nd preaches every Sunday to n cpngrrgai
on uuwu in waBaingion,
NOW MY IDEA IS THIS
Daily Talks With Thinking Philadelphia on Subjects They
Know Best s
GEORGE S. TEMPEST
On Crime
CRIME Is on tho decrease, according to
George S. Tempest, Assistant Director
of Public Safety.
"I tnke a most optimistic view of( the
future as far ns crime Is concerned," he
snld. "It is decreasing steadily from the
high point renched some time ago, and soon
wo will face a normnl situation again. And
in this connection I want to take exception
to the belief sometimes expressed that much
of the crime thnt is not perpetrated by
professionals Is the work of ex-service men.
"That is not so. There are a few ex
service men who have gone wrong, it is true,
but the vast majority are law-abiding cit
izens. Professional Crooks Busy
"The professional criminals have been
busy, it Is true, nnd they have taken ad
vantage of the automobile and every modern
device in their war ngainst orgnnlstcd society.
But they hnve not been responsible for all
the crime. Amateur criminals, if I may
call them that, have been dolug much of the
work.
"These amateur criminals arc the result
of idleness, n desire to reap great gains
without work, nnd liquor. You must re
member there are many persons who must
hnve liquor, it seems, nnd expensive as
liquor is they must hove the money with
which to buy it. Hence the large number of
robberies nnd hold-ups.
"Also tho kind of liquor sold has some
thing to do with It. It is moonshine, most
of it, made today to be consumed tomorrow,
nnd It has almost as bad an effect upon users
ns has dope. In nddition, much of it is
actually poisonous.
"Not only is much of the crime dono by
persons who have not been professional
criminals, but I might nlmost call It 'neigh
borhood crime.' Bv that 1 mean crime
committed in n neighborhood by persons
either living in thnt particular neighborhood,
or nearby. Out of work and idle, these
people seize opportunities to loot u shop,
or hold somebody up.
"As for hold-ups generally, we are not
having nearly as many nowadays. And ns
What Do You Knotv?
QUIZ
1. What famous patriot declared, "I have
no more need of n sword, ns I havo
no longer a country"?
2 What Is the name of the hugo new air
ship which has been built In Grent
Britain for tho United States and Is
soon to mal;o a oynge to this country?
3, How did Lord Kltchemr meet his denth
in tho World War? '
4 Who wns Jack Ketch?
5 What plant is symbolical of Immortality?
C. Whero nro tho scenes of Shakespearo'o
"The Comedy of Krrors" laid?
7. Who Is the present Secretory of Com
merce?
8. Who was the classical goddess of health?
!) What Is a bolero?
10, What Is a bawbee?
Answers to Yesterday's Quiz
1. The Cardiff Giant was a rude statue of a
man, cut In Chicago from a block of
Ohio gypBUin. The statuit was secretly
burled near tho village of Cardiff.
Onondapa County, X y, whero It wns
declared to hnve been found In Octo
ber, 1869 It was exhibited for several
months as a 'petrlfluil giant." deceiv
ing even some men of science. The
fraud was finally confessed
2. The first elements of tho American Army
nrrlod In I-ranco In June, 1917.
3. Work on the first passenger rollroad In
tho United States was begun upon tho
Ualtimoro nnd Ohio Rnlltoad on Julv
, 1828. '
. Ilunuymede Is n meadow on tho rleht
hank of the Thames m?ar nghnm In
Surrey, twenty-one miles Fouth of Urn"
don. It is celebrated In Kngllsh history
as the place where tho barons forced
MX. l.DKn he M C"rtu
6. A rlgadoon is a lively danco win, u lumn-
Ing step for one couple. The danco
Is said to havo originated in a proving
In Southern France lromce
7. Cravat takes Its name from tho Cravats
a body of Austrian troops, who wore
thlH.irtlce of dress, which was a "domed
by tho French In 1036 "'lupieu
8. The "Jeunesso dpree" Is a phase used to
describe young People n'f wealth and
fashion, espec nlly f given tnnrniii J.S
living. The French words 'literal
mean glided youth. "jerony
Thao-ray"W b" pronouneei U'MM
10. A sasln la the common antelope of India;
1921
OH, THAT THRILL!
fc'SSjS"1-:--
I hnve said much of it is work of persons
in the neighborhood.
War on Dope Kept Up
"We have tho dope situation well in
hand. Large quantities of drugs hnve been
confiscated and we have the heartv co
operation of the Federal authorities In our
work. The smaller tho amount of drugs
available the less crime we have.
"At no time have the crimes of violence
in this city been ns many ns those reported
in other great cities of the country. We
have had, for instnncc. only one bank hold
up in years. I refer to tho bank in Over
brook held up some time ago. Compare
this with the record of any largo city.
"Out of sixty murders also reported so
far this year, fifty-five have been elenred
up, nnd we know who did the other five.
Wo arc searching for the murderers now.
Why, In one Chicago ward there have been
eight or ten murders since spring, all the
result of political feuds, and no one has been
arrested.
"We have no organized gunmen here,
such as they have in New York, where they
drive up in automobiles, kill a man and
then drive off.
"The policemen here are doing police
duty. And wu uie golug to sec that they
do police duty. That is nil we do wnnt
them to do. Every man who does so will
bo taken care of."
SUMMER DAWN
THE gray mist lingers on the sleeping
laud;
And stillness reigns until the restless
breeze
Wnkes all the birds asleep in dusky trees
And bids them loudly clamor their demand
For early worm that surely has not planned
To hnve the feathered songster rudely seize
And bear him off the young bird to np
pease. And now the sun's keen glance nbrond hns
scanned
All waking nature. Now his eye has caught
The bits of fairy lacework laid ta dry
Upon the cool, clean grass; nfld fnr and
near
Tho sparkling dewdrops vanish. ' Nor Is
aught
Morojojuus thnn the Insects thnt outvie
Each one the other's sound of busy cheer.
Blnnche Elizabeth Wade, In the New York
Herald.
THE STAR IN THE DAYTIME
from the Jew York i:nlni post.
The cuilous thing, about the star wns that
onec ou found it, looked right nt It, and
kept your attention fixed upon it you could
see it clearly. If jou had the right kind
of eyes. Lots of people couldn't bee it at
all, some because they did not hnve the right
kind of eyes, but mostly because they were
blinded by the garish light of an extraordi
narily bright and sunny morning. The sky
was a bottomless sea of azure; the clouds
that swept across, melting Into shifting
wisps and flecks or vanishing altogether ns
tho huns lilne ate them up, shone like now
snow, Tho fluttering flogs on tall poles ills
trnctcd jour gaze. But if you did get Into
n shadowed place or down in the depths ot
the enjoous between tho towering buildings,
carefully worked out the exact location ami
fixed jour gnzo there, you saw the star,
glittering like a diamond In the blue.
Then it came to you afresh that after all
the btars urn there all the time, passing
stately across the sky, sending out their
steady stream of light, as much and as truly
n the glaie of the brightest day as against
tho velvet blackness of the darkest night It
Is not their fault if we do not seo them. It
Is the fault of our eyes, filled with the blaze
of things or of the earth-born clouds that
shut un In. A so, we do not trouble in tie
daytime to look at, or for, the stars. Only
those who ook, out of the depths of canyons
or at the hot om of narrow vistas, see the
stars in the daj time.
In the iluytlmc we nrc all-powerful In
the awe and loneliness ..( night we pray
each after his own fashion; ' r y'
Now I lay me down to sleep;
I prny the Tinl mv soul to keen
As If to say: "While I , wko ' m
ho job I can take care , myK(.f "w', ft"
the sun Is shining never mlrnl the stars "
Vn!niQn m"t "f "H '0"10 ""to" our
Suddenly comes a day when we ili ,er
that whether we look for it or it he
star Is overhead and shining, regnr. less of
our seeing, And we realize thei. t it Tl our
x V ? v. L I If
SHORT CUTS
What the President's father 'desired wu
a return to normalcy.
The size of the Russinn famine job will
inevitably invite big men.
Tlmo was when schooners crossed th
bar with nothing stronger than beer.
When moving pictures are introduced
into tho schools we' may expect the kids to
strike for conjedy.
Whnt Is hoped from the Disarmament
Conference is that it shnll prove n tax
reduction conference.
From the gestures of the lender one may
judge that Penrose men will put a criss
cross on their ballots.
The opinion crows general that a deci
sion In the Silesian muddle is oven more
important than the nature of the decision.
The chances arc that if the pirate ships
seen off Hatteras arc not figments of the
imagination they are nt least spirit vessels.
Incidentally it may bo noted that the
Stanley amendment is simply an indorsement
of the Fourth Amendment to the Constitu
tion. New York boasts a burglar eighty-oni
yenrs old. The reporter who tells his stor;
forgot to chronicle the virtues that con
tributed to his long life.
The Anti-Boer Bill has been spoken of
ns "the last straw held out for beer."
Never saw bper inblbcd that wuy. Must
have been thinking of mint juleps.
The probability is that Senator Lod$e
is just as peeved at President Harding s
treaty negotiation secrecy as he was nt Pres
ident Wilson's, but he doesn't dare suy so.
The despondent captain of nn alleged
hooch ship is said to have attempted suicide
by hanging. In the good old days, said
tho Bibulous One, he would simply h&v
drowned his troubles.
The trip of the ZR-2 will be mori
than n sporting event. Consider It as the
first of n mighty fleet of ocean liners which
dally will adventure tho Atlantic carrying
passengers nnd freight.
The fnct that London correspondent!
do not know what reply Do Valera has
made to the proposals of the British Govern
ment gives them nn opportunity to iudulg
In much interesting conjecture.
The tnctics of the P. R. R. manage-
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ment in caning ior a meeting m
ployes to consider notion to be taken In con- '
ncctlon with tho order of tho United States
Rnilroad Board hardly could be improved '
upon. (
Tho strike of truck drivers in New
York Is described ns nn outlaw strike, the
men having gono out in defiance of the in
structions of their delegates. Which is as
it may be. -In any case there appears to oe
an absence of teamwork.
More thuu grape juice is to bo had st
Martha's Vineyard. A hooch ship off t"
coast of the Massachusetts, island Is re
ported to bo doing business wholesale ana
retail nnd tho chief prohibition agent saji
he is powerless to touch her.
The fact that Raold Amundsen has con
tracted for the shipment of supplies to om
for a period of seven years is eloquent oi
his opinion of Stofunsson's alleged theory ,
thnt an explorer can live "off the country
while searching for the North Pole.
It may be. If tho Disarmament Confer
ence get working efficiently und armaments
are i educed to a point that w ill , naD.'!
European nations to poy their debts, i"
necessity, if such exists, for the passage
bf tie Penrose bill will hnve passed.
Perhaps It is because curgoe.s are piling
up on the wharves ami there are not en0""
ships to supply the demand that the Mim;
ping Boord Is "completing its, program
and accepted seven new ships Inst moi""
with fifteen et to come. Or, perhaps,
there is some other lcnsou.
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to make possible the ideal of the W'I'I"D JJ
Board to have 100 per cent American k
on American ships, but It Is vnlu io ''"JS
tun reniizution ot mat ltirai nm. ,- ji
IIIUITOW, J.IUIL 1IIIIU Will lumu """ . -fAW
American small hoya dream of life i TO
as bpys of the lust generation drrnnwi U
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