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A tl right ef republication of special dispatches nereHn are also reserved. 1 rhiladelphla. Tueidiy, Auguil 16, 1921 CROP GOSSIP JJIOttMEU JCDGE J AM liS GAY GOR DON, who was in Washington Hit week in conference with Senntor Penrose, denies thnt lie talked politics. Tins full planting season is approaching, lie explained, mi lie went down to Washington from tils farm to sec the Senator nbout miiiic seeds. "I think the winter wheat crop will be good," lie ventured; but when he was asked if he got the seeds he said, "Not yet, but soon." No one expected him to admit thnt he tnlkcd politics with the Senntor. They never do. They just make a sociul call, or they inquire after the man's health, or they talk nbout old times, or they renew their acquaintance with the scenes of their youth. Hut politics? Such n thing is always as far from their thoughts as well, at a venture, as far at hooch is from the thoughts of the bootleggers. When the seeds are delivered to the former Judge we may hnve some more talk nbout crops and fall planting and perhaps about fall harvesting. In the meantime there are a few politicians who are getting impatient at the slowness of seed dellver . CAMDEN TAKES A HAND CAMDEN, through its Chamber of Com merce, views with disfavor the limita tions imposed by the Rapid Transit Com pany upon the number of its subway and leyated trains to the ferries and tnkes oc casion also to Comment severely upon the increase of fares to the present six-nnd-n-qunrter-cent rate. Considering that the charges arc still higher in New Jersey nnd that the Public Service Corporation is not famed for either efficiency or generosity, this complaint might be deemed nmuslng. New .Terej , however, has a way of fin ishing some things thnt she starts. The battle over transit conditions In that State has waxed lively for some time and Is likely to be persistently waged. A novelty is an assertion of this militant spirit iu Harris burg by alleged sufferers in a sister common -Wealth. The Pennsylvania Public Service Com mission will naturally give some heed to protests originating beyond its direct prov ince. The grievances listed demonstrate the impossibility of regarding all transit prob lems as detached or confined to a narrow field. The matter of the short-run subway trains is exceedingly complex und the inconvenience has unquestionably been to some extent ex aggerated. Put the reasons given by the Rapid Transit Company for halting some of its trains at Sixty-third street are not en tirely applicable to the situation at Second treet. Adequate service in Philadelphia to and from the Delaware ferries seems to be a basic transit necessity. Philndelphians are likely to applaud the manifestation of spirit from over the river. MISS ROBERTSON'S COURAGE M' ISS ROBERTSON, the lone Congress- woman from Oklnhoma, is woefully behind the times. She is assuming that there are certain activities in which the Federal Government should not engage, as they come properly within the sphere of the State Governments. She is consequently opposing the so enlled Maternity Hill, which appropriates a considerable sum of money to be apportioned among the States to encourage the proper instruction of expectant mothers. She hns advised Senators Kenyon and Sheppard, who support the bill, to go back to their respective Slates nnd urge the passage of laws there which will make it difficult if not impossible for any prospective mother to be ignorant of the way to care for her children. Miss Robertson admits all that is said about the need of better-trained mothers and about the lack of a proper registration of births in a huge section of the country. But she insists that neither the need of better instruction nor the lack of laws re quiring birtli registration Is an argument for Federal interference. Her courage will command the admiration of nil who have been taking note of the gradual breaking down of t lie old barriers which kept Congress from assuming powers ;which the framers of the Constitution never thought It would possess. It is not necessary to go hack of the pres ent year to discover other proposals besides that of the .Maternity Bill which ignore the functions of the States. There Is. for ex 'ample, the proposition for a Federal De partment of Education, the head of which is to have a sent in the Cabinet. I'tuli-r the 'plan this department is to huvo control over lac wnoie ctiucniinnui system 01 me coun try, n control secured through the distribu tion of Federal funds to States which con form to educatioual standard set up in Washington. This proposition has many defenders, nnd the chief among them are the men engaged ii education. They nre supposed to know the theory of the Constitution and the his tory of thi' country. Hut this knowledge does not prevent them from advocating a plan which, in its present form, could not be carried out without 11 surrender by the States of their educational autonomy. It mny be that they are devoting so much 'thought to the need of higher educational standards In some of the States thut tiiey forget that the Constitution gives to Con", press no power over education sue in the territories. Another instance of disregard of I lie In dependence of the States is found in Ihe ftiggcstlnn by the Secretary of the Treas ury that it constitutional ameudiiieut be mhjptcd which will give to Congiess power to- tx Income from State anil municipal bonds, if such an amendment should he adopted Congress could destroy the luurket Ut JJinte bonds by levying so lien v. a tax W (6 make It impossible, for uny Stuto to .. -. ..;..,. sahi that, this pcwrr would if. never be exercised, but It was nlso said when the Income tax amendment was adopted that It wnB Intended only to ennblo the Government to raise needed revenue In n great national emergency. Then as soon as tho nmcndinent was adopted Congress levied nn Income tnx to provide revenues cut off by n reduction In tariff duties. We do not know whether Miss Robertson expects to check the centralizing tendency which hns been affecting legislation for a generation or more. Hut It is evident Hint she Intends to keep herself straight on tlie record. GHOSTS OF THE PAST STAND BETWEEN IRELAND AND PEACE Lloyd George and De Valera Alike Aro Undoing the Work of Wrong Minded Predecessors MILLIONS of amateur statesmen, un troubled by a knowledge of history, unmoved by any recognition 01 " " mentions part that emotional and splritu forces have come to piny In the nffn Irs of nations, will sit down now and write bllrtrr ing indictments of Lloyd George and l'.amon do Valera. They know how the business In Ireland should be settled ! They arc worlds uwav from the scene nntl from the facts hut 'they know! We have had their word for It in the past. One army will demand lo know what could be more reasonable than the claims advanced so lucidly by Mr. de Valera. An other will demand to know what could lie more reasonable than the repl of the Ilritisli Prime Minister. And both schools of criti cism the pro-Knglish nnd the pro-Irish ...111 ),nv.. i.istlil.Mtion for their partisan ship. Mr. Lloyd George and Mr. tin Valera are alike Infinitely reasonable In the state ment of their cases. That Is why t he "deadlock" of which a large part of tlio world is miking mu be no deadlock at nil, but an inevitable preliminary to new discus sions and peace. The trouble, mennwhile. is that reason alone appears to have only n limited po tentiality In the world afTairs of the mo ment. Governments nre just beginning to learn that other factors have to be reckoned with in every great human crisis. The terms and conditions suggested to tho Pail nirrann by Lloyd George assure to the people of Southern Ireland nil the practical advantages of nntionnl independence and self-government. Hut it happens that the Iri-h question is like no other political question in the world. It is too old. It has been too long neglected and mishandled. It Is complicated by passion and clouded by bitter tradition nnd n thousand terrible memories. The inhabitants of Ireland, especially those In the South, nre not lacking in im agination. Things thut might be said to be of the heart often can cotinj more heavily with them than things that can he weighed nnd measured in prnetlcal wns. They want more from the Hrlti-h and from the world thnn autonomous goernmcnt. They want recognition of their racial entity, their racial spirit anil their own national ideal ism. They wunt to realize nn ancient hope nnd to attain what in their view is un un questionable mornl right. With such aspiratlous as these it would be difficult to quarrel in nn ideal world. Hut you have only to look nrotiml a little, at people close to your elbow or in the higher seats of civilization, to understand how difficult it Is for nny nations or, indeed, any men, to achieve und enjoy all of what they mav know to bo their moral rights. The complexities of social und national relationships which make compromise uec cssary at every step in the progress of Gov r,ents nnd individuals may be lamentable. Hut they are present. They hae to bo dealt with. The Government of Mr. Llojd George didn't create them any more than Mr. de Valera and the present generation In Southern Irelnud created the feverish desire to be rid of Kngllsh control. The dead past is forever complicating the problems of the living present. Kngllsh ministers nnd administrators blundered cruelly und blindly In Ireland. The insurgence und desolation of, the present are inevitable results of their work. The cry for independence is a cry against theo ries of "rule" long buried with the Ilritish statesmen who originated them. All the songs and lejends and traditions and litera ture of Southern Ireland tend to preserve the character and the ambition and the race consciousness of a people of distinctive traits and talents und temperament and to preserve dislike, uuforglveness und prejudue as well. A people that has endured so long and survived so much may reasonably demand to " be the master of its own destiny. Yet Mr. Llojd George would be a traitor if. as Prime Minister in Kngland, lie were not cautions nnd tireless to safeguard the empire at its ery foundations. It may be true, it p-obably is true, thnt an independent Ireland would never aid In a war against Lnginud. The fact n mains that it would have 'the power to aid sue h a wr if it willed to do so und that the seat of the Ilritish Government might, at the whim of an Irish President yet unborn, be compelled to face enemies In the rear us well as enemies in front. Such 11 pus,i bility, no matter how remote it may seem, is what Irishmen und lingliahmen alike must recognize now. The temper and the terms suggested in the Prime Minister's letter to Mr. d V.ileru ure suggestive of nreolutloiiury ehuuge of front In Downing Street. In comparison with the Home Rub programs of the past, Mr. Llojd George's program repi cents a long advance in generous and progre.-m, thinking. It does not pioposc an nle.il pence or a perfect settlement of tin age-old colilllct of desire and feeling uetwee'i the Irish and Hiiglund. it does propose a peace which is us near perfect us it inn be in the imperfect world with which we ure imme diately concerned. Moreover, on its face it is obviously not an exclusively Lnglisli peace. It is clearly evident thnt the new policy here revealed was inspired by the rei ent conference of Premiers and that it rellects the feeling of Canadu, Australia, New Xea- innu nun tne 1 nion 01 ,outii Africa grent nnd free Commonwealths that are pioneering magnificently in the democratic philosophy. It is a peine that is as broad us it may Hifcly lie iniiile In a world of lepresseil tumult ami crowding uncertainties. Time might, and probably will, tiring it nearer to the ideal penie in which the It Mi people could stand absolutely alone. Irish men who profess to sie In it only an Invi tation to n new surrender may be dinging to a erj nigh and brave hope. Tliej might couceivnbl tear loose from the Ilritish Um pire, but wouldn't they then be drifting dnngeiously toward a sort of isolntiou which most nations shun in times thnt are teaihing all democratic peoples thnt thej must cling together or risk disaster'' THE SMUGGLERS TT STANDS to reason that if whisky JL smugglers can operate with fair chain es of immunity in tho region of Atlantic Cliv they ure able to work with almost complete assurances of safety In tho Delaware liny and the Delaware River. Similarly it is to he presumed that the Federal authorities are under no delusion about the larger scope of the smuggling business suggested by tills general view. If they have been concentrating nil their at tciitlnn on the outer const lines they are woefiillv lacking it. imagination. There Is EVENING PUBLIC LEDGER good ground for the belief thnt for every bottle of contraband hooch landed at a coast resort n thousand huvo been slipped Into Inland harbors. There is u more serious side to the ques tion of smugglers thun thut which confronts the prohibition enforcement agents. A vcs-. scl which arrives from deep wntcrs at nn American harbor with n cargo of illicit whisky nnturiilly must nvoltl the quarantine stations. She is not subjected to the exami nation which the law requires iu the Inter est of general health. There Is nothing to prevent such vessels from bringing nlnng with their whisky some of the dreaded dis eases which it Is the business of quarantine doctors to shut out of the country. This Is nn ndded reason why the business of smug gling ought to he definitely stopped, even If the co-opcrntloti of nnvnl vessels Is required to accomplish this end. THE MUDDLE OF THE LINERS TIIIC pralbe earned by the George Wash ington on the comphtlon of her first trip ns 11 passenger liner under the American Hag stands in painful contrast to the plight of its operator, the Cuited States Mail Steamship Company, which Chalrninn Las ker, of the Shipping Hoard, has declared insolvent. While Hremen in h mood of rather admir able generosity turns out to greet the ves sel, once the pride of that port: while the passengers Indite testimonials compliment ing the American Gocrnment upon the splendid new appointments of the ship nnd commend Cnptnlii Cunningham as an nblo navigator, legal complications becloud its destinies, the .Mail Company hns gone Into the hands' of receivers ami the status of tho majority of our passenger trans-Atlantic liners is imperiled. Tho courts will perhaps eventually clear up a situation unparalleled even in the in Milved history of the Shipping Hoard. It is expected that the George Washington will bo seized because of defaulted paj ments im mediately upon her return to the United States. The Pocahontas, nlso allocated to the .Mail Company, lias been libeled in Naples nnd detained in thnt port. Severul of the finest former German vessels, notably tho Mount Vernon, Agamemnon and Presi dent Grunt, have not turned a wheel for more than a jear. ' If the fate of the revived merchant marine were uunffcrtcd by the time consumed In legnl adjustments and the court battles to determine whether the Shipping Itonrd was right in seeking to deprive the Mail Com pany of Its licet and whether that concern is nctualh and irretrievably bankrupt, the enormously complex affair might be regarded with comparative indifference. Hut the case warrants no such attitude of complacent'. It is chaotic to the point of pessimism. Foreign shipping organizations cannot lie displeased with the spectacle. Whoeer is to blame, the) must be nt lenst temporary winners by tin- confusion and buo.ved with hopes of permanent gain. Chairman l.a-ker. in n long statement to be filed in the Federal District Court in defense of the Shipping Hoard's contention that the temporary injunction whereby tho mail company regained possession of the ships should be dissolved, is much more ex plicit than he was at the outset of the case. At first it was the Intention of the board to hand over the vessels to a rival concern in need of ship, the Cuited American Lino, representing I luminal) interests. It is fair to the board, especially in view of the revelations of the bewildering finan ciering of the Mnil Compan), to assume that the intended transfer was conceived in good faith. Ncvirthelcss, the rapidity of the proceedings was stnrtling. Mr. Lasker speaks directly nnd grati fyingly to the point iu reiterating that the contemplated wholesale allocation of such valuable ships to the I'nitcd American Lines was entirely a temporary program; thut if the board is awarded possession of the ships it will call for bids from "responsible, effi cient, sea-operating companies," und that its paramount desire is to see the ships running. This is the sort of language which the public, overwhelmed h) the charges and counter-charges and the lab) rinthine aspects of tiie muddle, undcrstuuds and unquali fied!) approves. The rumors that tho term United Ameri can Lines "is another way of saying Hamburg-American Line" and "I'nitcd States Mail Steamship Company" a euphemism for "North German Llovd" are far from comforting. The tales may be false, but the persistency of such aspersions is marked. The Nation must confess to Incompetence in merchant marine management if it can lint utilize its fleet of splendid and, in home Instances, magnificently reconditioned ves sels to permanent advantage nnd in hon orable competition with rivals under alien Hugs. END OF THE CENSORSHIP WILL HAYS is proving himself to bo a pietty good American. For the second time since he has been Postmaster General he has formally announced that he will not allow himself to he made a censor of the press. Ho has just admitted to the privi leges of the second class mail n German -language newspaper ot New York the cir culation of which In this way had been slopped by his predecessor, Mr. Hurlcson. Tin law dei hues that written or piinted mutter advocating treason or forcible re sistance to law is tininail.ible nnd that obscene matter or matter tending to incite arson or assassination mny not bo enrried through the mails. These prohibitions .Mr. Ilnys sa.vs he must enfon e because they am specific, but he announces t hut the records In each cuse will he open to the public, bo that tlie fairness of Ids rulings may be sub ject to free inquiry with all the evidence at hand. There is evidently to be no censorship of opinion under this Administration. Men may say what the) please, subject to the penalties provided by luw for utilise of that right. That is sound traditional American upiulou and prueiii e. Great Rritnin's pro A TarltT That Isn't tective tariff wall is being constructed with breaches rendv made. No duties may be imposed until complainants prove thnt dumping is taking plate ithat is, snlc at five or mine per cent les than tlie homo selling pi ice 1, ami not even then if con stimcrs are able to prove that the impor tation is mine helpful than harmful. As It stands, it would appear that the luw will lie more fruitful of debute than productive, of revenue or restrictive of Imports. Time works curious Time's Whirligig changes. Thirty )ears ago Liihouc here's Truth, Re.v nolds' Newspaper and other radical Ilrit ish publications inveighed mightily against tlie expense of ro)alt). Toihi) tlie people of (ileal Hritain, more deiiiociatle than ever, are concerned because their sovereign is not gittilig enough uiniic) to put on tlie st.vie tn whli Ii Ihe.v have been aecustonied, and lie it is who Is protesting iiguiuM any mine money being allotted to him, pieferring rather to cut out the lluuiliieries. Department of Commeicu figures show that while South Amerhau countries uro lowering the price of commodities they sell to us we hid increasing the price of com modities we sell to them. Tills, coupled with tins fact that Germany and Great Hrltuln, our competitor in Smith America, uro lowerliitf prices', niqy explain our do ellnlp? trnile there, PHILADELPHIA, TUESDAY, AUGUST 1C, HE WAS A CORPORAL ONCE And 'Twaa Then That Louis Cukela Did Deeds of Derrlng Do That Won Him Many Decorations Hy WILLIAM ATHEKTON W I'UV DOWN at Quantlco the other day I snw Lieutenant Louis Cukela, of tho ma rines, taking his examination for n cap taincy. It mny be remembered that, of nil tho American soldiers who went overseas. Mi kela got most decorations. Ho was a mad tornado that raged through every fixht in which murines participated, one of his ex ploits being the capture of a German machine-gun nest with his own bare hands. Ho was n corporal then, starting on his way up from thu ranks. In 1017 ho was a private In tho army. Ho bought his way out that ho might enlist In the marines, which organization, he figured, had best chnnce to go over. No one knew where this enlisted man cot the money that made tlie transfer possible. Undoubtedly there wns much deprivation back of it, for Cukela was but an immi grant hoy, having come over n few yearn earlier froia Serbia. , , , When thu Germans drove through that heroic little kingdom they imprisoned the father of the bov who had gone nway nnd enlisted in the annv that fights under the starry Hag. Later they led that father out und shot him. So Louis, In tho presence of the Hun, be came n demon, n raving madman, possessed of such pnsslons ns could not be stajed. "Revvenge, rewenge." lie was always wont to hiss through clenched teeth as ho went into action, and no single scratch did he re ceive to Intcrlcre with his taking it. Dr. Elmer Darwin Hall nnd Dr. Carleton Roy Hall arc both pure scientists. One styles himself nn entomologist and the other an agronomist. One studies Insects und tho other field crops. One is Assistant Secre tary of Agriculture and the other is Chief of Ccrenl Crops Investigations in that samo department. 1 lies hese scientific brothers come down for eleven generations from John Hall, of Con cord, N. II., and in that span there hns never before nppeared a man of science. Yet both these brothers babbled in scientific term before they went to school. It nil came about through Grnndmother Grimes on the mother's side, who enme to live with them nnd who called plants by their botanical names. Grnndmother Grimes wns n rare botanist and n good zoologist. Hers was a mind of a natural scientific turn and two out of her seven grandciiii'dren in herited If. Grnndmother Grimes left her mark on Iowa, for she. named tlie town of Willldn. up in tlie northwest of it, after her brother Will and her bister Ida. Eliot Wndsworth, Assistant Secretary of Treasury, is a rich young man who can nfford to take jobs that do not pay much money. Because of tills he went to Europe early in the war for the Rockefeller Foundation, which wanted to give food to the starving Poles but could never find n way to do it. Then Mr. Wndsworth worked for years with the Red Cross. He was chairman of the committee of Harvard Alumni which set out to raise $15,000,000 as nn endowment thnt tho professors might get n fiO per cent raise in salnry. They got $14,000,000. All last )ear he worked hard as chnlrninn of the Finnnce Committee of tlie Senatorial Cam paign Committee. Now lie is on the inside nt Uncle Sam's big money shop. Ho admits thnt it is a fine thing not to hnve to think of tho money end of your employment. Uncle Joe Cannon was telling of the diffi culties that the amateur politician experi ences when first he goes out and attempts to so deport himself ns to capture the votes of his fellows. Down in Danville he knew n man who printed the notice of his candidacy in the papers and went out on the street corner of n Saturday nftcrnnon to cntch up with his handshaking among the farmers, an activity that he had long neglected. This man was very conscious that his name was right there in the papers in cnpital let ters and that all the folks were looking him over, making up their minds as to whether they would kiss or kill him. One farmer stood on the edge of the group and watched. He observed the mechanical, pump-handle handshake, the stiff erectness, the formal nddress of the candidate. "Hull." he was heard to ejaculate. "Runiiin' for office nnd ain't let his check rein down yet." If one, after spending much of his life in the open in the company of mules, for instance, should learn some of tho secrets thut move those creatures to morn efficient inotipii, and If, just at thnt time, a new method of transportation should come along and displace them, would one not have a right to sigh at the futility of original re benrchV There is Arthur P. Davis, for Instance, tlie Director of thu Reclamation Service. He had been traveling nil day over tlie desert trjlng to readi the town of Phoenix, out iu Arizona, wliero he had an important en gagement. Hut the mules were tired nnd were ada mant, and all that sort of thing, and refused to respond to thu urging of tho driver. So Davis gave it up and relaxed into rcsig nation. Having u philosophical nature und a voice for song liu struck up 11 camp-meeting melody, buch as was sung In the vicinity of Decutur, III., when hu was 11 boy, .Much to Ills surpri.su the exhausted mules cume suddenly to life, sprang Into the col lars, whisked the buckbourd through the shimmering greusevvood and landed him at his destination in time for his meeting. And the next time he went West the nil tomobilc hud taken the place of tho mule and his discovery was useless. "Printing ink salesmen," said .1. P. Yoder, secretary of tlie Interstate Coinmcrcu Commission, "used to bu the individuuls who Inid mure weird bets than any other class of citi.i'iis. The commission undertook to sup press their peculiar method of gambling, ns it amounted, under the law, to unfair competition, which it was their duty to hup press. "An ink snlesman would go into a print shop to sell an order. The trade of this one simp might amount to thousands of dollurs a month to his firm. The foreman was often the key man in pluclng the order. "So tho suk'smau would say to the fore man: 'You ure u funny looking bird with twelve toes. I never suvv u man with twelve toes before.' " 'What do jou mean, twelvo toes?' the foreman would respond. " 'I'll bet )ou SL'OO thut you have got twelve toes,' thu salesman would eny. "The foieman would take tlie bet, would take off his shoes and exhibit tlie customary number of little pigs that go to market. The sulesiiiun would bund over the money wa gered. Then lie would take an order for u lurge amount of ink. . He would luy Ids bets and loso his money at regular Intervals. "If the boss suggested tlie use of some other ink the foreman would discredit it. If ho insisted, tlie foreman would buy a lot, would put add in it and afterward show thu boss how it had eaten out his rollers. "Tlie wliolit ink business wus hone) combed witli this sort of thing before thu commis sion showed thu wuy to united uction which btopped it." Edward II. Shaughncssy is likewise mis pected of being Irish und likewise lias to to do with railroads. He used to be a tele graph operator out in Chicago, climbed the ladder to the job of division superintendent, went to France as a colonel und wrestled with transportation for the A. E. F was druftcd by Will Hays ns Second Assistant PoHtmnster General und has nothing to do but attend to tho problems of the railway mail service, , 1 1 NOW MY IDEA IS THIS Daily Talks With Thinking Philadelphians on Subjects They Know Best FREDERICK J. POOLEY On Aiding Prisoners "TTEEP your face to tlie sunshine and -IV tlie shndows will fall behind you." Thnt is tlie motto of Frederick J. Pooley. gencrnl agent of the Pennsylvania Prison Society, whose job, as he puts it, "is to keep people out of prison instead of trying to put them in." "Y'es," he said. "I have been forty years a member of the society, and hnve held this position for twenty-three years. Until eleven venrs ago I was stationed nt Moyaiucnsing Prison. Then I enme to tlie conclusion I could do more good right nt the beginning, so I have from then on made my head quarters In the Central Police Court in City Hall. , , T , "I am there every morning, nnd I make n dnilv visit lo the cellrnom. Mnny nre the bovs find men I hnve nlded. nnd many have I saved br preventing their being sent to prison. One youth sent for me not long ago. I asked him in surprise hnvv lie henrd of me. 'Why,' ho nnswered, 'I found written on tho wnll of mv cell. "If you ure In distress send for Pooley. He got me out and will get you out, too." ' Visits City Hall Dally "Each dav I go to the ccllroum in City Hall, and I walk down tho row, saying 'Good morning, gentlemen,' ns I pass. "Then somebody nsks who thnt ninn is who calls them gentlemen. Somebody else tells them it's Pooley, nnd iu thnt way I gain their interest. Hy tlie time I hnve gone to the end of the rows of cells I hnve their confidence, too. I question them, get their stories, nnd mnny a boy hnve I bent home to his mother. "You must undcrstnnd thnt the police nre n fine body of men, take them all in all, and thev help nil they cnn. Often a policeman will come to me and say, 'Pooley, that boy has n good mother somewhere, I nm sure; bo isn't hnd: see what you can do for him.' So I look into the case, gel the hoy in touch with his mother or father, and maybe get him out. "I recall one case where n boy was ar rested for snatching a purse. He admitted lie had done so and said lie had been forced to It by hunger, I kept at him to tell 111c who his father wns. He refusod. He said his father would come to the city in the spring to buy goods, and lie would tell me then. Finally ho let slip tlie place where liis father bought. I went there, traced the man and heard ho wns theu in town. I found him; he got in touch with the au thorities nnd the boy wus sent home, and today that young man is n pat trier with his father in a big business. If things had gone differently he would have been given a term In Jnil and would have been lost to society. What Bo Yon Know? QUIZ 1. Through what str.ilts do' vessels pass on a voyage from New York to New Orleans? 2. What kind of nn nnlmnl Is n Ravlal? 3. What Is the administrative capital of tho so-called ICastern Slherlnu Republic? 4 How old Is Sara nernharilt? 6. Who wns the third anil Inst Secretary of State of the WllBon Administration? fi. Who wns Button? 7. What Is tho first name of Mile. Inglen, tho champion woman tennis player of the world? 8. Why Is n snare drum so cnlleil? 9. Who wrote the play of "Rip Van Winkle'"' 10. Name six muterlalsjjsed In making ropo. Answers to Yesterday's Quiz 1. Lake Tltlcnca Is the highest Important lake In the world It lies In the Andes on tho confines of Peru nnd Bolivia at nn altitude above sea level of 12,545 A feet. 2. The Revolutionary War ended with the Treutv of Paris In 17S3 3. Iloliert Htcwnrt, second Mnrquts of Lon donderry, by courtesv Viscount Castle reagh, was n noted Hrltlsh statesman, born In Ulster, Ireland, In 17C!l Ho was Instrumental In carrying out tho union of Ireland with Great Hrltuln In 1R00. He was Secretary of State for War during pint of the period of the Napoleonic cotilllctn, represented lirltntn At tho roiurrrss of Vienna In 1814-15 nnd was Foreign Pecrctnry 1S12-1822. He committed sulcldo In a fit of Insanity In 1822. 4. Czardas nre Hungarian dances, generally opening with a slow movement called "LnsBU," which Is followed by tho "Krlska," or dance ptoper. 5. Two srwit coffee-producing countries nro Brazil and .Iiimi. 6. J'ompell was burled under tho ashes of Vesuvius iu the grent eruption of 70 A. D. 7. A portmanteau word Is 01m formed l,v aililtrary combination of letters of two words so as lo suggest something of the sense of each. The term Is applied ill ellv lo uonseuslenl coinages iii "slitln." from lithe und slimy. Lewis Carroll wns th Inventor, ls 8. Metonymy Is the substitution of tlm uamo of an attribute for that of tho , thing meant, as ctown for lting B, Senator Shields ls from Tennessee ' 10. Two rulers of Kngland who were not royal personages were Oliver Cmm. well ana wchuril Cromwell, 6 1921 IT'S A LONG LANE THAT HAS NO "I have been kept busy." In thu eleven j ears I have been ut Central Station I have sent out more than 22,000 letters to mothers wnd other loved ones of prisoners. 1 might add. also, that I have been presont at thirty-two executions nt Moynmenwng. "During tho Inst few years I have talked with more thnn 175,000 persons In prison cells in tills State. "Once n youth said he hadn't henrd from his mother for six years. She lives in Ken tucky. Then I nsked why, and he said ho had got Into trouble and wns nshnmed to write. I reasoned with him and finally ho consented to have me writo his mother. Letters Tell Life Stories "I wish you could see borne of those let ters. What words of joy from those mothers. Whenever I nsk whether to writo mother or father they invariably answer to write mother that love for mother is n wonderful thing. A mother will go to prison to see her boy when no one else will. "There is a greater interest being mani fested than ever before in this prison work, yet to mnny there is still the feeling thnt so long as it is some 'one else's boy or girl that occupies the cell it doesn't matter. Some years ngo I was on my way to visit n county jnil west of Harrisburg. On tho way I met n Christian friend of mine nnd told him I was on my way to visit the jail in ills count), nnd nsked him to go nlong with me. He declined, saying lie didn't feel like going, as he did not think much good could be accomplished there. "I went alone to the jnil. and some months later thnt man came to mo with something ver) important to tell. He said, 'My son has been arrested nnd, do you know, I be lieve him innocent. Hut, if by some chnnce he should be convicted. I will tnkc great comfort in tlie thought that yon. as n mem ber of the Prison Society, could visit him nt the Eastern Penitentiary.' "It makes all the difference whose boy it is, you n-e. Wo talk of sorrow, nnd of trouble, hut we do uot know whnt it is until we find it nt our own door. Then we know whnt renl sorrow Is, and I firmly believe if we were more sympathetic, more inter ested in fnlVn humanity, there would lie less .poverty. And with less poverty there would be less crime." WOMEN'S CLOTHES From an Old Ilaclidor's Tolnt ot View. IF YOU really have a passion" For tlie very latest fashion. It is easy to be iu it nowadays; Y'ou have only to remember. In the Spring or in November. The uglier, thu surer to win praise. To succeed and do your duty, Disregard the lines of benutv, For thu beautiful is wholly ou't of date; Every curve must now be rigid. Melting tones congealed nnd frigid, If you want to bo u moving fashion plate. Let )our cut -ofi" draperies dnngle, Stick jour lint on nt nn angle, And it doesn't matter how you do your hnir; Stilted heels thnt make you hobble V ith a sort of jerky wobble That suggests Inebriation or despair. It is true, tlie fashions vary, And the Paris makers wary Often change tlie whole contrivance over night ; Hut you really needn't hurry You can be quite free from' worrv So long ns jou cnn make yourself n fright Willis Bo)d Allen, in the New Tork limes. " A Paradox Trnm tho I.os AmtuloH Times. Alice Robertson. Cougresswoman from Oklahoma, rea linns her position ns an ant suffragist nnd declares that the work of Co, . gress is of hind that makes It peculiar ' v und primerly n man's job. It does see i. funny that the only lnd) we hnve inTl" Nntionnl Legislature should be one hold ng he opinion thnt women should not vim. hol.lofr.ee. Still funnier Is the fet, as he v ' p ..ii.. 1- in kih' iiir no io iic: gressioual uccident, not to lie repented Loon In Harness I'rem tho Rt. Marys M.irjlnn.1. liracun Francis und Ilaveriuau Mattiii I.V. ot iiiieii. iTf lueseiueil 11 "war h lo Mr. l.ee .Mirrls. They have this 0 i,,' t ,, r father's he pond and are tumlnc Ii 1.. ,11 mom aiioiit the pond In ,, small i.-in J.. lil'ihl), while the loon was towing tile hi duvvi. the pond soj ,. fired n Biin wui .... . ...i- ,.,.., mien v., u, lm, UH , near drown tie the bovs Aft,... .. ' ' .... .' ducklhg : they were finally rescued by Mr! jBI?f"JL 1,nl,cJ'' wlio happened Jo bco the accident. 1 nrgiiment .0.1 1 inmost ) vvoiuiin who bus invaded t capital. She seems tn be making goo I as ,, Repiesentntive and Is received 011 terms 0 compete nmnllty with the men. Ye n e ndiults and insists that she i ,,... .1.. ... "e 1 con- TURNING t - 1 - SHORT CUTS The problem of California almonds, ii nuts for tho tariff expert. We note In the news that pirate ships still float in n sea of imagination. Drought merely postponed the famim bolshcvism hnd in store for Ituhsln. Sunday laws nre no more than a deli cate shade of blue in National Park. The only secret some women can't ken is one they consider of little importance. There can be no fifty-fifty compromise between vice nnd virtue. They don't mix. The back of summer heat may not be broken, hut yesterday's chill was not un welcome. Firemen throwing water on the troubled oil nt Point Breeze had thrills enough for a lifetime. The Dnll EIrcnnn will decide today whether or not the milk th the coconut de mands n separator. They're birds all right, but ever so mnny Congressmen seem anxious to prore that they're not railbirds. The Dail EIrennn is "thinking long," ns the old phraso goes, for freedom. MflJ long thinking lead to right thinking. The necessity for keeping debtor nations solvent is destined to play hob with protec tive tariffs. One cannot sell unless one also buys. If tho big round-up of rum-runners comes off ns expected, the disconsolate boot legger will he left with nothing but n sour mash. Tnx Mil revision won't relieve the rich, soys the President. We're still demagogic enough us a Nation to want to sock it to Dives. The supposition Is, of course, that preparations for Hoover relief nre going on right nlong while negotiations arc progress ing with the Soviet. Why, we wonder, is Senntor .Tohn'on w insistent on full publicity for tho Disarma ment Conference? He'll have as much to talk about either way. Rumor has it that President Ilnrding will name no women for the delegation to the Disarmament Conference. This may M cause for hysterical shrieks. There arc doubtless conferences nt which secrecy is desirable and necessary, but at this distance the Disarmament Conference doesn't appear to be one of them. A snake killed in Hnzleton. Pa., vr.11 found to contain ten live baby rabbits. I"e snake hnd ten rnttlcs, the dispatch states. Probably one each for the ten babies. As Fairmount Park. Roxborough and Hog Islnntl have been suggested as sites ' tho sesqui -centennial, we look forward the suggestion thnt all three be used ana that they be connected by scenic ruilroacn. The one thing unquestioned in tht United States Mall Steamship Company muddle is thnt Uncle gam will he better on when he gets out of the shipping bus ness. nnd that tlie shipping business will be better off alto. One cannot help but feel that the United States lias at least as much Interest In the settling of the Upper Silesia question as Brazil. China or Japan. But. of course, we may lie right and tlie rest of the worm a little orL Colonel Harvey is alleged by the PnrW Mail to hnve Hindu "certain contortions 01 the mouth" while nttendlng meetings of tM Supreme Council. Tlie world will rise to W honor to the doughty colonel. He """' evidently biting his tongue to keep fro"" talking. The Disarmament Conference, if suc cessful, will lie an economic conference vui" u few ethical frills. Too great 11 ,rfS'"'i assurance of world peace for till time a M bring failure. Tlie most effective stri.uu runs in a channel nt leust narrow euougu give deptli nnd power. Frank A. Vunderlip, Americun fiiinn cier, Is In Berlin milking Inquir) ns to ' German) "will be able to Invade iieiitw markets mid underbid even American" porters." We suspect this question J" 1 - .u,i:....i. ...... ... imswer is HO" easy one. i 11111111111 "" i.i.i.lln. to pro cut such Invasion nnd under Uj.-p- Old .loin. Bootleg will get a harl J1 some nt these iiivs. llt'ie IS " 7 .... lirevonl ('lunula 'and Gnat Britnl'1. froui coining to un agreement with I in nut u stun to shipment of liquor, V', ugrccuieut would strip the Atlaiii". rgj bouts ot Immunity and put a crimp " ', smuggling on tba Canadian uoracr, ri w -t uii.,vr iit -v. .1 -tt I . , . -,
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