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' tly mall jo holnta outsldo of Philadelphia In Wie United 8tate. Canada, or t'nlted States poi aR'll!l!' .! 'rce. fifty (30) cents per month. 'S.(I9) dollars pr ear, niyahle In advance. JW all Mrelrn rnuntrle dnp (111 dollar a month. Notjoi Subacrltera wlehlnfc address chanred luat (he old aa well aa new address. , BELL, loop WALNUT KrVSTflSJE. MAIN 1601 KTAddrett nU tommunie-olioiij to Errnlnp Publlo 'mZjt inil'tirxri'net rnnnrr. PhttniMyhla. 'i Mcrnber of the Associated i'ress 4TjD. AS?OCHTKD PKFSS is tzclualvtlu eiv fUJed e thr nr for rrj'ubllrnflon of nil news mupatches credited fo (f or not offcrruUr credited Wt paper, and also thr local news pubtlthed wntreiiu 11 tiphtt r republication of tpedat dLiratcha nertiii are alio referred. rhiladclphla, Mond.y, Aufull . 1921 7J,.-i- - rnga- CTtfff .,,,. - -, PICKLES FOR THE WOMEN IP ENCHANTS with au ey to business have been semlinc samples of pickles to the headquarters of the Kepubllenn City Committee, where the Republican Women's Club of IVnnsjlvanla is to hold a con vention tomorrow. They apparently think there is an intimate connection between pickles and women in polities. Whether they arc right will appear after the women have been experimentine with a political management a few months longer. .Senator Vare is to address the women. This is appropriate, because Mrs. Archibald 'vf" B. Harmon, the head of the club, is a follower of the senator. She Is perfectlj Willing that Mrs. Altctmis and Mrs. War burton should be present, but she objects to having these women enter intrt any con fctenccs with the Maor. fhc thinks they ought to be more loval to the City Com mittee Of which they are honorary ollicers. According to her theory, nil the members of the committee should go tn Senator Vnre for guidance. This is an interesting theory, doubtless indorsed by the Senator himself. If it were universally adopted there would be perfect political harmony in the citv and in the State. But there are some men, and some women, also, who do not nsree to It. Consequently the samples of pickles now awaiting tin Inspection of the women at Eleventh nnd Chestnut streets may have a symbolic mean ing, suggestive of the wry fuocs that some f the Vare leaders are likely to make when they have to swallow what is coming to them. IN DELAWARE COUNTY THE political light in Delaware County, where newly enfranchised women arc organizing to put up n Jlnish light against the McClure rinj. will he wntt-lied with in terest by every one who wishes to, make a true assessment of the newer factors in American public life. The McClure crowd has nihil nrroenntlr for a good many jenrs. It has applied 10 puouc aitairs in l lic-ter the codes of the old-time saloon, and it has overwhelmed very one who ever had the temerity to oppose it. l'ut the busses in Chester were Jess tactful even than the bn.es who reign in Mr. Vare's City Committee. Women oters were affronted when thev asked the leaders for a frank statement of the aims and policies that are to be expressed at the coming elections. Now the women of Delaware County are being organized in an miti-MeClure move ment. If they hold together they will have it in their power to ehane the whole political complexion of Delaware County. If ,thcjr -waver or lose heart or interest the McClure machinists will emerjo from the elections stronger and mom arrogant than they" were before. Ho the Delaware County polls 'will provide not only a test of the po'wcr of ring politicians to endure in these new times, hut a test of the temper and Wnsistency and organizing power of women TOtcrs. HUGHES AT THE PARLEY finHE announced selection of Secretary Hughes as chief of the American dele gation at the Disarmament Conference was predestined. The President's reliance upon this conspicuously dominating personality in the Cabinet has been npparent in every phase of the foreign relations of the 1'nited States Blncc the advent of the new Admin .titration. The skill with which the numerous del icacies of the parley preliminaries have been bandied is representative of those forceful and authoritative qualities to which Mr. Hughes owes his distinction in the Nation's life. The Secretary of State is on record ns a supporter of the League of Nations. duly modified. The truculent doctrine mis called "Americanism." the blind and narrow hatred of anythins suggesting co-operation with foreign tiovernments, has never mamd bis conduct. pn the other hand, his firm contentions for 'the rights of the 1'nited States in the Tap situation nnd others has denoted n mind richly equipped for sound reasoning in defense of the Nation whose foreign af fairs are intrusted to his charge. It will not be easy to match the merits of Ir. Hughes in the other members of the delegation. His leadership is inevitable. It ' is highly necessary, none the less, that his associates should not be mere figureheads, nnd if Washington rumor is cornet Mr. Harding will endeavor to maintain an ele ment of balance in the commission. No other names as yet have been dis closed. It is more than likely, however, that the Senate will not be ignored, nor will the minority party. Senator I'nder wood, whom the President is said to regard highly, would be n fitting member of the delegation Philander C, Knox is unques tionably experienced. lu choosing his representatives Mr. Hard- pS ing has a guide in the mistakes of the past r..'r t .,,, .,..... , .... ..,.. t, 4iuuiiili3U.itimi. .in me only iseiiainr WHO ever became President it is virtually cer tain that he will consider the sensitiveness of the upper lioun The Senate's feelings roay sometimes be foolish and unreasonable, but they are facts which can only be dis missed (at the risk of clogging progress. Domestic politics should be reduced to a mlnimum in the Disarmament Conference. ZnrfiflriYlpnllv finniKrli tlitu entt milv in, nn. Ijlc fv ,'complished h' facing p'-l'tVo! realities. THE LEAGUE TO THE RESCUE r? IS recorded that Earl Curzou smiled and Marshal Foch laughed when Premier Hrland announced that the Sileshin tangle Wuld be turned over to the Council of the -League of Nations. A. , The qllrgcd basis of the Joke was that "CrWetnmrnts which in the Supreme Conn- :jMi.B0w meeting in Paris, had been unable tafmch.u decision were represented in tho :,,HWr bod of the, League, The' change nw',f bvlously regarded as of tho i lUiM4iiitWkiii'dtedum" variety. 'wr, J? not strictly Jn. "'-''. accordance with facts. Great Britain, Trance, Italy and Japan arc, of course, represented in the League Council, but Brazil, China and Spain hare also each a voice. The direct Interests of these nations In the Slleslan dispute arc about aklu to those of the United States, which has through lack of selfish concern held aloof from the controversy. Moreover, the repre sentations of Britain, Italr, France and Japan In the League Council arc in the main unpolitical, and thus In vivid contrast to conditions in the extra-legal Supreme Council. In spite of Its critics and in spite of the reflections upon its authority cast by tho continued existence of tho powerful Supreme Council, the upper chamber' Of the League of Nations has already displayed a capacity lu handling vexed questions of sovereignty nnd frontiers. The settlement of the Aland Islands dispute is to its credit, as is the organization of what seems to be a work able Government for the free city of Danzig. The ability of the League of Nations to Inject an element of Justice nnd fair deal ings Into the Hilcslan quandary Is indeed much less In doubt than the willingness of the Supreme Council to accept n carefully reasoned judgment when it has been made. That Is the test which Is simply postponed by turning over to the League Council the question which most disturbs Continental Europe. OUR NEW QUEEN OF THE AIR RUNS TRUE TO ROYAL TYPES Ths ZR-2, 8uper-Zeppelln, Built for the United Statas, Is Beautiful, Costly and of Doubtful Utility QUEEN of the nlr, in appearances at least, the ZK-2 will be when, big ns an Atlantic liner, silverv white like a ghost of the vanished Zeppelins out of which she grew, greater In bulk than anv other air ship ever built, she drops from the sky at Lakehur.st some time next month after a Might from England under the American ling. And like all great queens of these and other times s-he is beautiful to see, iiubelicably costly to maintain, uncertain In emergencies and of doubtful utility in a world that she is supposed to ornament nnd serve. The man on the ground will be profoundly moved by a glimpse of the ZIt-2 by the dignity of her bearing, her nlr of majesty and might and the music of her volcanic engines. But fliers who know that they may have to put vessels of this type to the supreme test of battle the only test, after all. that really matters will think coolly of the Queen's vulnerability as a target, of the 00 men who hnvc to nurse and coddle her at all her goings and comings, of tho painful care and the exquisite judgment that are necessary to keep her from breaking her back or coming to some other unseemly end whenever she leaves the earth or re turns to it. Their minds will run back to the parents of the ZU-2 and to the tragedies of failure that overwh lined nil of them. The Queen's mother was a Zeppelin, a very big nnd fierce Zeppelin, that swept over England one niyht to lay London waste. She flew at an enormous height but not high enough. Out of the icy dark ness overhead a very small and lonesome airplane tumbled upon her, squirting tracer bullets. The Queen's mother blazed and exploded nnd fell to the earth like n torch, dropping dead men as she went. She car ried about twenty officers and men. All died in the air and the pilot who shot them down reverently put flowers on the decent graves that the English gave them. Such are the fortunes and the codes of ocilal warfare. The ZU-2 is the ultimate Zeppelin. Ves sels of her type are being built and will continue to be built only because airmen wish to corroborate by scientific experiment and direct experience the impression that, is general among military scientists every where that old Count Zeppelin, who hoped to win the world for (Scrmany by the use of vast, rigid airships in war, was ns foolisli. as he seemed to be in the days that pre ceded his death from ingrowing chngrin anil exploded hopes. Zeppelins were almost use less in the war. If they flew-bejond range of attack they couldn't hit anything. If they got within seeing distance of the eartli they were harassed by the 'planes nnd usu ally destroyed". As. matters stand, all the advantages of nerial warfare are with the "planes. A 'plane is the rough-and-tumble hound dog of the air. It comes and goes without cere mony or fuss. It needs nnd desires no codilllnj. It is a hundred times harder to hit than a big dirigible, and it is swifter in the attack and. at the getaway. One may crash atijl no one is particularly concerned. And nowadays the pilots are actually learn ing how to crash without being killed. Lacking a landing field thev can slide deftly into galleys or let themselves down on the roof of a forest if their engines die. They carry armament ns deadlv as the urmnment of the dirigibles. They can dodgo ond flit in wujs that make a big dirigible seem as difficult to maneuver as an oflico building. And the big 'planes now doiiy passenger service between London and Paris carry thirty piyiple comfortablv nnd the newer ones doubtless will carry more. When the British shot dmvn their finst Zeppelin they knew that thej had obtniird prizes of an unusual sort. Aviation eji gineers imtinred upon the wrecks of the dirigibles to bring to light nil .the technical secrets which Count Zeppelin and 1ift as sistants had been guarding for to bet part of a generation. The British agreed to share their knowledge with the Allies nud tire associated Powers. That is! why the ZR-2 was built in British factories for de livery to the United States. Tlw big ship embodies every device and everj principle which scientific study evolved from the earlier work of the Germans. Later on nt Lakehurst the United States will build its own dirigibles from the patterns o) the ZH-2, and the devices and principles j.f the rigid airship will be improved. But 3t is notice able that in Britain and nlmosfc everywhere else enthusiasm for great dirigibles is lan guishing. The factories established in .'England for the construction of vessels of (his type are engaged in other work. Italy i.sj experiment ing with smaller vessels wlthnt'it conspicu ous success. But In Italy ami France nnd England the work of improvijig and elab orating and enlarging alrplaiii and their engines is continuous and brill) intly success ful Fliers generally believe that the only thing proved by the war w, s the Imprac ticability of lighter-tban-air Hying machines and the superiorltv of the '; ijanc. HOW RICH IS ROCKEFELLER? AWIMTEK in the New York Times es timated the fortune of John I). Rocke feller nt .?2.-100.000.000 u few days ago. The mnn was an expert accountant who used all the available information in mak ing his guess. The sum wns so vnst and so far from the truth that John D. Rockefeller, Jr., has written tn the Timea to make the first nuthoritntlvo statement about his father's wealth that has yet itppeared. He does not say how rich his ff ther Is, but he does daw "My father's osteite has never rendu d ?l',0nn.000,000, and lius been materially re duced by the large gifts from principal which he has made In recent years." It will be noted that the son does not s thnt his father.'Js a poorlmnn, or that ntends to die iwor. But rao statement t to put an eld to the wId guesses ) -vU V' I 1. EVENING PUBLIC LEDGEEr-PEILADELPHIA, thnt have been made about the size of his fortune. When he dies ho hopes to live to be 100 It Is likely that the appraljal of his estate will show that he was worth much less than even the most modest esti mates that have been made. This is usu ually the case with the very rich nnd con spicuous. It is only the inconspicuous who leave fortunes much larger than they were credited with. POLFTICS AND TAXES PRESIDENT HARDING has decided not to let the opposition in Congress get away with its charges that the proposed revision in "the internal revenue laws will benefit only the' rich. He has made a statement in which he says that tho charge is unfounded, but he does not stop with generalizations. Ho calls attention to the fact that of the $3,000,000,000 to bo rained by the laws $1,S00,000,000 will come :from the taxes on the rich, and that the remainder of $1,200, 000,000 will conic from the taxes on the rest of us. He explains' that the repeal oi the excess -profits tax wMl encourage busi ness nnd that the rcdueBion of tho surtaxes on Incomes above .ri0,0(i0 a year will pro duce more revenue fromi large incomes than the Government is now collecting with the taxes ruNnlng as high as 7,1 per cent. Ho has the tfjtthority of tax experts for this statement. Tho President might have called atten tion to the modifications in the tax on smaller incomes which the Wnys and Means Committee has ngreed upon. These will relieve every .one with nn Income of ?,"000 n year and under, for they raise the amount of the exempt Income for married men from the present figure of .'S2000 to $2,"i00, nnd they Increase the additional exemption for each child from-, $200 to $40a Under this arrangement a man with three children will be exempt from taxation on nn income of $3700. There are 27.304.000 families In the country. Only ,;IS0,000 of tlem have an income In excess Yif $3,"00. TSio remaining 20.015,000 will bel exempt frotminx on their incomes. Under the elrcuuistnnccs thv charge that the Administration is relieving; the rich and doing nothing for the people, of moderate means cannot be sustained. Yet the op position is likely to continue to make it in "one form .or another. If the Democrats are not careful, howevery they will find them selves in nn indofitisiblc poaion. The country is demanding: a rcdutltfon in taxes. The Republicans arc preparjrc to reduce them ami the Democrat's nre ret tacking their plans. The Democrats can be .lackeyed Into voting against the tax bills unfess they nro careful, and then the .Republicans can go before the country next" year Mith a record of successful economy ntnd can. .arraign the Democrats for their opposition to the tax reduction measures. The Republican lenders ,.arejjlrcndv lay ing the foundation for a sutceFsOjil campaign next yenr nnd the opposltltVi is: playing into their hnnds. The President's explanation of the way the new taxes avII relieve the people of moderate means -while keeping heavy taxes on tho rich mnrlcitort the cours-e for the leaders in the congrteslonal debates to follow. MEXICO'S HOPE CEWENARY ALTHOUGH 111 j cars havcsVlap'cd since the heroic Miguel Hidalgo, yiurlsh priest at Dolores, launched his cry, "Long live America nnd denth to bad government!" Mexican independence formally' dates from the declaration Issued In the politically tem pestuous autumn of 1S2I. The possible future force of that pro nouncement seemed nt thnt till to dubious enough. It wns the immediate, prelude to the fantastic a'nl short -1'ved eni.ilre of the ambitious Augustln de Iturbidi nnd. In n moie comprehensive sense, to Lt. series of civil convulsions which have slniv lent Irony to tho memorable "cry" or "Giito do Do lores." j But the centennry of Inde, end) nce which Mexico proooses to celebrate this fall need not be slindowed by dark retrospect. "The new Republic of Mexico." dj clnrcs the management of the International 1 'ommerclal Exposition, which is to be heldj In tho an cient capital from September 12J to October 12. "Is horn without n memory. T Latin rnmnntlcNm under trilng condi tions is no doubt partly responsible for this tribute to oblivion. And et thq spirit dls plajed is both practical and suniiarged with n kind of stirring gnllantrv. Tli re Is much In the history of Mexico that hdr own citi zen" ns well ns those of siter nnj'innsi would bo hnppy to foiget were a new' era, a new start after much travnil. clearlirilctiircd. The promoters of the ecntrniilnl exposi tion do well to dwell upon tho present and the future. "Mexico today," Ieelares one of the Inspiriting prospectuses, '"is fighting for commercial nnd industrlnl iVvelopmcnt. No longer nre their paths of progress drenched with sobs or blood dr t'ppcll from broken henrts. The present generrtion, from tho republic's President to the Vulustrious peon, nre so busy with todav's nclUovcmcnts nnd tomorrow's projects they have no time to remember the closed book of yeserdny." Above tlv Rio Grande, America us whose faith persists In the ultimate triumph of democracy enn afford to be sympathetic to the earnestness of this survey and fjo pardon its floridlty. The success of the atjidcrtak ing. and especially with participation by business firms from the United Stated, would undoubtedly serve to improve relations be tween the two countries nnd to fouler that friendship which comes of first-hand ac qunlntnnee. The fair has been launched in tht right spirit, which lends n new authority to the hopes, heretofore so often dashed, f the redemption of n venerable nation Intrinsi cally cnpnble of high achievement. THE WOES OF THE THEATRES THE theatrical managers nnd producers of the country, including a delegation from Phlladrlphln, meet in New York to day to ill iciiss conditions which have brought confusion and a long array of embarrassmunts into the field of popular cntertninmeiot. Labor troubles, difficulties with unions, both of mu Melons nnd nctors, nro declared to be primnry onuses of manngerial un easiness. Hut important ns these factors may be, th py fnll fully to cover tho case.. Popular bellief that theatre prices nre too high is widespread. Tills is countered by the undeniable fact! thnt costs i if production nre still mounting, nnd thnt d rmonstrntlon opens the question of the pretentiousness of plays and spec tacles. Tlje public hns perhaps come tn accept gor reousness nnd splendor in stage offerings and, in some Instances, expensive casts ns ercnnionplnoos of the theatre. It may legitimately bo asked, however, whether a return to simplicity and con sequently Ituvor ndmisslon charges would ho regarded wtith entiro disfavor. The public Ik naturally less interested in the magnitude of theatrlf jl company's bills than In the qunlitles of inspiration and Intelligence that mnke for attractive entertainment. Mere money exptnditure Is futile without some lepresentnt'pn of brains. The enrr int meeting in New York Is the first comprehensive one of the kind ever held The, managers unquestionably nro contending with certain adverse conditions which they are entitled to seek to remedy. Errors on their own part nre, however, worthy of some constderWion. A frnnk survey of the whole subjcr might be to 'the advantage ofjtho American stage, AS ONE WOMAN SEES IT The 8tory of Sylvester Rlmlnl Un folded by Time In Fragmenta Like Patches for a Quilt IJy SARAH D. LOWRIE THE difference lictwccn movies and real life is in the editing, not in the story. The affairs of n group pf persons come to ypu in real life In the fragmentary, way old bits of silk come to the country grand mother who is known by her neighbors to be collecting patches for a quilt. It may be n year or two before she puts them to gether. It took me ten years to piece together the story of Sylvester Rimini. I had It In such fragments that it was only this sum mer I realized that It was a story or had a sequence that was In any way leading up to a climax. THIS is the order In which the thing enme to me: The little villages In these parts cele brated the Fourth of July by a combination picnic nnd dance in some agreed-upon vil lage greeu or picnic grounds. The moun tain folks, the trappers nnd the lumber men, guides, villagers nnd farmers for n radius of twenty -five miles, perhnps, bring their families or their "girls," nnd, start ing at daybreak, make a day and often a night of it. There Is n curious bit of folklore from n forgotten source Guy Fowkes Day in England possibly that is part of the day's celebration. There is a procession through the village street and on to the green of a string of wild young fellows wcorlng masks and dressed in rngs and tags, lt is called "The Horribles" I I was watching this onslaught of shout ing roughs years ago, and the reflection of terror, amusement and gawky wonder re flected on the scattering ranks of picnickers, when n drunken laugh and n rasped-out curse with "Come on there, Berthlc, what's you 'frold of!" made me turn nnd look nt the reveler behind me. HE WAS a drunken old mnn, ns crooked ns a dried stick, with a red facs and n watery eye. He had by tho hnnd a young girl a mere child of sixteen who might have been pretty if she hod not been so scared nnd white, Her eyes had a per manently frightened look out of them. She held in her nrms a wizened, month-old baby. Thnt was my first sight of Sylvester Rim ini nnd of Bertha May Rimini, his lately acquired wife, the third that had found him willing to legalize the relation ship, but one of the many whom he hnd purchased for a season. His purchase of Bertha Jlay had been a scandal even in his scandalous life. His second wife hnd died nnd Ills housekeeper for n season had broken down from pre mature old age and wns nbout to be taken to the Town Form. He hnd agreed to let her stny bed-rid in the nttlc if she hnd n mind to, if Bertha May wns allowed to stay, too, nnd tnke care of him downstairs in tho wny of cooking nud whatever else he required. Bertha May hnd just turned fifteen nnd hnd suddenly budded out into being n young girl. Her mother, sick, frightened for her and for herself, ngreed to the pro posal nnd what it implied, but she fore stalled pnrt of the trouble by having Syl vester get a minister and mnrry iier daughter, nnd then went suddenly childish and utterly silent for the rest of her sick life. IN THE course of foiiic five years Sylvester Rimini died, very much to the relief of the vlllnso onlookers and to his kith nnd kin. Though he died ns a result of n drunken orgy, the mnrvel to the onlookers wns thnt he hnd not harmed his wife In any of his brawling states as he had been known to do with his former companions. He left her nnd the two children that she hnd borne him n farm and a new houso he lately had built in the village and only a few debts. Before his funeral the of ficiating clergyman appealed in vain to one member of bis fain fly. nfttr mother for some circumstance in his character or life that would ndorn n f'nernl oration. Xo one could think of any good thing to snv of him. So the minister wns confined to 'giv ing his dntes: "Here he wns born In IS, hera he went to school in IS , etc." What struck me then ns memorable was the curious reiteration of the minister. He gave, the facts, hare as thev were, over and over ai'nln. This Inter was explained ns caused by a delay in completing tho coffin -box. It wns full a foot too short and -had to he rectified nt the Inst 'moment. The custom wns for the minister to preach Until signaled to stop by the undertaker. SOME years after Sylvester Rimini's sordid death and after Bertha May hnd married again and gone to live in the new house in the village, I was dining with n friend who had rented the farm house, which had been done over into a quaint and charming summer cottage. The original kitchen had been turned Into a dining room, the great old stone fireplace, smoked rafters nnd deep-set cnseinents mak ing it the most Interesting room in tho otherwise quite remodeled house. As we sat dining I heard n sound of enrringe. wheels nnd horses nt the stoop bovond nnd remnrked to my hostess that sho wns having callers at a late hour. She waited until the mnld had left the room nnd then she said with hurried cau tion "That isn't a wagon, there is no one there. Its just a sound. It Is whv the place is supposed hv the ' village to be haunted! You know old Svlvcstcr Rim ini was said to have half killed his second wife up here and that was the wagon or something that came to tnke her nwav You've surely heard that tale? No? Weil' of course, it Is some echo from the mnln road down the hill, but we don't speak of it before the servants." And thnt was t he third fragment of the story of Sylvester Rlmlnl. THE other day I wns driving with some frleuds nnd, the enrringe being rather full, I was given the front scat. Now It so hnnnened Bertha May Rimini's sec ond husband. George Spring, wns the driver, nnd T asked him about the ghost on the old Rimini farm. He said that he had been hired man there and had heard of the "haunt" and one night he was sleeping in the nttlc over the kitchen when he got nwako to find some one with a lighted candle moving nbout his room, only the candle was vcrv faint and he could not mnke out the person. He spoke to it nnd it did not nnswer, then he threw his boot at it. but it went rlri.t L through the arm and the candlestick nnd me iikiii oniy wnvereil, nut Kill not go out. By that time he was scared and dived out of bed for the door. "But It was just n lightening bug I figured out ufterwnrd!" ho snld with a laugh. "I was just a boy of seventeen nnd believed in haunts then," he ended. I ASKED him how ho enmo to bo hired man for old Sylvester Rlmlnl nt thnt nge. "Oh. well." snid he quietly, "I though I could protect Bertha May by stavlni; there. hen he wns up to his devilments he might have killed her. We'd plnjed to gether and went to school together and I couldn't benr to think of her being fright ened. So I hired myself out to Sylvester. He took me be-ause he could get me ehoivpor than anv one else. There weren't many thnt would stand him for ntiv money." "Well." I snld. "It's good he died ns soon as lie did. And you've made Bertha May happy so long now she must almost forget!" "Thnt's what I cnlcnlate to do. It's what I wnnted to do from tho first," wns his grave rejoinder. "But I was only n boy, not much older than she wns when it hnppeneil. nnd all I could do was to stnnd by her there till lie died! I mnrrieil her ns soon after that ns .sho would have me." And so the fourth fragment of the inr reached me. Wltl) it I rrlfew! the picture was complete. i , i -dsaaaKaaaaaw . i. .'.daiBavaaBmaK.' ., t .BaaaTBamaaaK. L .. M , MONDAY, ATIGUST 15, MAY THE -AND ? 4 - ' i jkMrtaVaaVr" , r na i c NO W MY IDEA IS THIS Daily Talks With Thinking Philadelphia on Subjects Tliey Know Best DR. L. A. SALTZMAN On Illegal Practice of Medicine rpilKItn are enough illegal practitioners - of medicine in Philadelphia to keep the authorities busy for months, according to Dr. L. A. Saltzman, investigator for the State Medical and Dental Boards. Dr. Saltzman has held this post for years and his work has resulted in many "quacks" being sent to jail. "For many years I have been making investigations along these lines," he said. "I find thnt In the city and State there nro so ninny of these violations that it would take a regiment of officials to clean them out. During the epidemic of influenza I received information that several so-called neuropathy practitioners were advertising that they could cure this malady. "I undertook an extensive investigation ond wns convinced thnt these men were very much in the dark and knew relatively nothing nbout the dlsense, especially the pathology phase. One of these men told me I was suffering from infantile paralysis ever since I was a child. Of course, he wns talking nonsense. I sent him otic of my women operators and she, too, was told by him that she had infantile paralysis. "When he was reminded thnt the disense only affected children ho replied that, on the contrary, any one Could get It. especially those weak and infirm nnd elderly. "I made an Investigation of another so called neuropath. This fellow had a large practice and during' the epidemic was reap ing a fortune. "His wife assisted him in talking to the patients while wriitlng their turn to sec the 'medical wizard.' She claimed for him that many were permanently cured In a short while after suffering for years. Arrests nnd Convictions "These people were arrested for practicing medicine without a license and were con victed. "The chiropractor is another typo of violator that gives us trouble. In this State he Is licensed under the Drugless Therapy Act. However, a great majority of the chiro practors here me not licensed nnd defy the law. The courts have repeatedly said thnt this Is practicing medicine, for which a license Is necessary. "The herb doctor Is another type that comes under our observation. During the epidemic they were mnUing heaps of money witli their weird claims. One fellow in file northern section of the city examined my ejes and snid they were too full of blood and thnt !$(!) worth of treatment would bo necessary to nllevlnte the trouble. 1 sturted out to be cured of this feigned disorder and paid Mm the Initial payment of .511, receiv ing n pneknge of herbs. "The next day I brought nlong n strap ping big fellow and ho was told that lie had consumption. And what is more, ho undertook to cure him with his herbs. "Another interesting case f this variety wns n Negro on South street who had been in business for more than thirty years. lie grew rich lu this Illicit practice. At first tie declined to treat me and bragged that the State Board would never get him for practicing medicine without a license. Later lie did examine mc urn! said I was siiffetlug from a tape-worm. He gave me n package of pills which he was positive would cuie me. "lie diagnosed the diseases' of several of my friends. Finally we landed him and he was given n jail sentence. "The (Jieeks and others of the foreign clement have in many cuses u choice doctor who Is one of their own nationality. Mnny of these ore nothing but 'quacks' 'nud they prove the hardest type of case for us. A Chinese 'quack' will not tient nn American, nor will the (Jrcek varietj. They do not however, go about unpunished. Unfair fo Ileal Doctors "It is unfnlr to allow these 'quacks' to go about unmolested. An ambitious fellow who desires to nttaln this profession must huve graduated from n high school, then must tnke two enrs nt pre-niedlelne, nud follow this up with from four to live years more nt the real medicine. This Is not counting the period of Internship, which he must serve before he can go out into the woild nnd practice this profession which took the best part of his life to learn. "Now tnke the so-called chiropractor, nnpruvlt, sponilylo-thornpy and others, and you find that their training was obtained In about one yenr's college work. IH it fair to place n mnn who spends one yenr at u profession nnd the one who spends twelve jenrs nt It on n par? I don't think It Is "Mnny times the patients of these 'quacks' will not testify acalust them. This Is protecting them too far. After thev kill a few more poisons, maybe they won't he so s-cuie nnd we will have an easier time con victing them. "These people do great harm. One chlro praetor and Ids wife in the western pnrt of the city almost killed a woman patient of theirs who had come to be cured of her deafness They twisted her spine out of noe, lhey were arrested and wcro forced to lrnvc the city, .'. 'In this Btaifhus far it Is only a. raa. ' ' 1921 PRESIDENT'S DREAM C(ME TRUE - tVov, if-we Prrnr.MHE THE -AN0THEN,lFWG nPPH THE DISARMAMENT OBRECON GOVERNMErffi CONFERENCE WITH .piiil ATTENDANCE AND ReSTA0IJSH GOOD FRIENDLY RELATIONS WITH MEXICO AND WITH ALL SINCERELY DESIROUS CUTTING ARMAMENTS - IF WP JAPANESE PROBLEMS ARtT STRAIGHTENED OUT SATISFACTORILY So THAT WE BOTH CAW seTue "pown fo along- AND CEfZTAIN ERA OF PEACEFUL PROGRESS Without suspicion of Tricky :wpumacy II WVftkl ' THEN WE CAN ALL CUT NATIONAL EXPENSES IN HAU AN0 REOUCe TAXES SO MWC4I THAT THE" WHO IE WORLD WIIL 0WTATHE- A TRENENO0US SlCH OF RaiEF ANO UT1ER PCWER5 of thankfulness, and the Sullen unrest of the People WILL CHANGE TO HAPPINESS ONCLOUDEP BYJTHEEATS OF WAP t NAY NOT REALIZE This great dream But ITS WORTH Shooting- Pol and TRYING FOR, ANP IF V0U OOMT TRY, tOU PONT GET ANTWHERE IN THIS WORLD demeanor to practice medicine without n licensj and the fine cannot exceed ?!500 nnd six months in jail for the first offense. The punishment for the second offense is rootc severe. "I hope to see this State rid of some of these 'nuacks' soon nnd that their boast that Pennsylvania is the dumping grounds lor tnc illegal practitioner will be outlived. HUMANISMS By WILLIAM ATHERTON DU PUY I -vlltt. 11T.-AI1 . ..!.- mi. 1..t.ll., f I II J HU.1K, lllllliUl III -LUt IIUIIIU, II II 'The Carpetbagger" and many other romances vh!ch, two decades ago, delighted tho rending public, having now reached the ago Jif O'J, is living quietly in Chicago, re volving mostly nround tho Press Club of that city. Not long ngo he and n group of friends were discussing the fine art of fnring well when one is seated with ills feet under the table. They hnd all heard of meals that cost $2.";, but none of them had personally exper ienced one of them. Some held that there was no such thing that no mnn could order sufficiently delicnte nnd costly morsels and mnke a fair pretense nt cnting them to run the bill up to such a figure. Oplc Head thought it could be done. Whereupon some profligate offered to lend the novelist to the most expensive restaur ant In the city and pay for such n meal. They went out. Read studied the bill of fnre ,Jr a while, figured with the waiter's pencil. Then he dashed off'nn order. "Ham apd eggs," it read. The price was seventy cents. The order came nnd wns consumed. The menu wns ngnln presented. Rend studied it for a while nnd asked for ntiother order of the same. He ate tho bccond plate and went out satisfied. "The humor of the South." says' Scnntor John Sharp Illinois, of Mississippi. "Is of n variety quite qunlnt nnd distinctive. Its best cxemplitier wns Abraham Lincoln. All the stories that he ever told were of the Southern school. "During nil my yenrs in Congress I have known but two men wiio were true humor- ifr.'rf Sc Ii1 l,r,,n8 for"' without effort or artifice. These men were Zcb nene'nffS""V' Ka,r,oU,na," nml Private John . .R; f T"Pelo. Mississippi, lhey were not of those who store in the r memories the anecdotes thnt thev hear nresc,!,"." n tuTth "ll" " " presents. 'il1PH. ,. ovoIv0(, , situations as they went along nnd brought stories forth pristine nnd virgin " UBMt Senator Joseph S Frellnghuvi S?SSK'.wsra S.i. fn'Mft,?."5 '? GT.ftSrafc-AttH-H'.'fffi nn... TI .... ."", 0,u' 'll en a young What Do You Knoio? QUIZ J' v!l'H ls ,1,e. highest B- Nn.m. tW0 K"t"corfcCliro.l.,nlnW -..- tries. " LU"ee.pro(luclng coun. "oe'eur1;1 ,h "ctlon of Pompeii lfl. . 7. 8. 9. 10. Wimt i, Vne?o,m?;iVJ,OT,.mB" word... iesem"t0 '' Senator Shields rep- Nam " tZSti K""" " Answers to Saturdays Qui 1. Thnildeus Kosciusko n. n i, . when tho cin,- .VerSri p,0,,,' . Patriot. sword after o i, ft m ... retllrn 1,ls his !tu., foes, eo ar .i.'T.V1'11 '' nofasword.''Jj.no and short I to mfi, " '.. ".". States Loiintiy Is Zrt 2 yngo to this slto of the. i.ilsoi near which ".V ecut oiik timlt .,..,'. "u,r "Ulch tho r. rri, r...vr '-.''. i'.".. . ,c i, .. 6, Tho scenes n ... ..U Hof"''T.1,laf 'mninrtiil'ty i r-V10 rotnely of Rrrors'" ln,.P'' '.MU". In Asia Mini?" iw mm ii 1..1 nesiiu In . . .."" 8, Hygeln was the clnNsicni . health. nassicnt goddess or 9. A bolero la a. niuni.i, ...Vl 10. qawb.. I. tho scotch: n for . for aLha'If. L 1 sen. of New ..., iii-iMJiwi iriem of President Hnn!. mm 3- HM.'irsmf.tz.r wi"n 'thr hv nilne or siMim.'ir0 WBH H""lt i. Jack Ketch w as , 08m' ,mar',jc '" 1916. hangman of I oiulon "ri ve" to ,ho said to have l Jh.,11' nnmo Is ard J.iquett lejwn1"'1, J0'" 'lch of Tiburn. .ii..i. ."?'"( "'o manor the ex- A' PARTIES -AND AtL"WG AG NATIONS CArV5AFELY lURN. THEIR EKERGIES to PRODUCTlte; INO0STR', WITHOUT SPEWING ALL . -rucio MONEY Of WAR PrvfPAPjWW-aK A" . ' .jT SHORT CUTS , Lloyd George nnd Bciand, tired of lock ingyhorns, simply passed the buck. The Voters League differentiates bo tween n band wagon and nn ashcart. Major Wnrburton for n start may poll the Viask from the face1 of the whisky robber. pyide takes curious forms. A lucky fan boasts ithnt lie wins more passes than Bab Ruth. Ilnvrng done his .dny's work, Mr. Kill 'fon ficels privileged to-sit around and talk a riJtLe. Jrishuicace negotiations go to prove that dclajvi rcreionly dangerous when people grow impntHenV ys ih 'fvr vfji i v "HnVXftM, or- ii. i'-" mm i WJ m a v ) i xH ' 8k A NevxvTcrscy Is prepnred to stage another big 8how,this time at Lakehurst. This one, too, is bo,lid to bo a knockout. . Wouldmlt there be n howl if Uncle Sam's tarlfA came within measurable ap proach of tlmy of the bootlegger? The little lX'own leaves arc beginning to fnll : the pollen of the ragweed ls chasing itself; and sneozevs nre iieard In the land. RcprosentntivcA , Lons worth probably eonsjdera the extenKon of the embargo on dyes ,ns protection fob a colored infant in dustry. Ore-eon wants to rosscks tlio ship named for her, hut she will ditqdny a rtropcrcr prld if she s!ows n wllllrpncss tolpay for the honor she socks. l Representative Olhter, of Alabama, calli I.askcr a drcuVner of ild dreams. Well, that's all right.- The cbvtrmnu of. the Ship- ping Board inlicrjted a Xntightmare. It may be thnt ,the .MkrClure henchmtn in Dolnwnre County- arc itjo case-hardened that they care no .more fifcl women in nrmi than they would for bablcMjln nrms. The yacht races dn Coves only served to clinch the opinion ,of 104'' nvcrage man. thnt there is less real sporty in the racing machines than m honest-toBoodness sea worthy vessels. . i The story brought here bA the Cunhrd liner Virginia of a twenty-onti-font PHtlion nt large on tho ship for two AeeJts tooths ternor of the crew would hnvpyoecn ipvra less credence if the vessel hud bit-n trading with the Bahamas. 1 F.xpert executives are said to! be leaving j the railroads for more remuncra ive busi nesses. Which suggests n paraphrase of an ancient conundrum: When Is nn cxccutlve not nn executive? When he is n railroad mnn subject to Covcrumcnt regulation. - The Mayor of York wishes to link Philadelphia's scsqul-centcnninl of 1U2U with celebrations in York and Lancaster in 1HU7 and has mapped out nn unusual nnd entertninlng program. Something may coint of it. He lias the enthusiasm and the op timism of n citizen of Roxborough. There nre unquestionnhly very Interest ing stories connected with the nine ships of the Shipping Board operated by the I'nlted States Mull Steamship Company, but after reading the testimony of Del.nncey Nlcnl' , llullitt. Kerlin and the rest, the aver , man is left In doubt ns to which of their, Is ttuc. When Reginald Berkley, scorer lry of the British League of Nations 1'nif , says the League lias accomplished nuic already without the participation of t tf United States, what ho means Is "with, ,10 pnsclve ' acquiescence of the United Sin V' or "the active correction of the 1'nlted ',,tut5." l'or' willy nllly, the Culled Stntej' MH,.in actual practice, been a moie or ley' unofficial l'nr" tlclpant in every session wb rc World policies were proclaimed or dcclsj' , nmde. Hats off to Cant rrin; rnptnin of I French coastwise vcy ,,.i (lie Mediter ranean. He sighted ,, fionllng mine ns the Italian liner, the .'reslonte Wilson, ! pronched. He wu' , UUnble to signal so he niiineiiveied his r nmj Prft that the lliiei" had to change hf' ,. ,.(lre. The officers were wrathy. for tl y tfil m,t know a disaster had been aveted, Thev shook their flsH nt him. Hay: thry known, they would lm wnnted to iss, hlin. The world is full ol conipciiHntlriifyi .. ll kV',"lfi' !'' thnt the visit to Iliiennj Aires iffwilllnm B. Rjan. vice president of the lilted American Lines, and Richard I'eltzer. director of the Hiiinburg-Anierlrnij Stcairship Lines. Is not wholly iiiicimnectrii with, recent reports thnt Merman inorrbnnl ar corralling South American trade M the hurt of traders lu the Culled States. ; and It Ik equally safe to diclarc that I I'ir J efforts will not be vnln unless Ameil'"' L f, manufacturers follow foreign methods "ME'til Kivo tiui Monti Americans, what Hfj """ and noit simply ,try tQ aril them thr thWIa i W "'ft convinced they ought to. hate. JS ' 1 n m if H i 7 l VI .v .
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