Hi . -Yk ", ' Li :ffiT v , 'Vw"ji7 www U i MV "tv, 'i -" V T J V.' J'' i" . Mi ,"u yi v TO ,rt ;.. . 8 EVENING PUBLIC LEDGERPHILADELPHIA, SATURDAY, AUGUST 2&, 1921 ft. I a t ! J f Rl It I i L4I a-ii ii U A M JU ft Me i m Ii ' if ' P';;it. I , jEuenmg "Jlubltc ledger TtTJT tr T ttrntsTi rviMMiAW ' . ' ftvnitH If. K. CIMl'MM. l'urlnrs- 1 c ' John C, Murttn, Vice Trraldrnt and Trtaauwrs ton, Philip fl. Colllna, John It. William., .Tohn J. Spuraton, Oforts F. Qoldatnliti, I),vld E. fimlley, , mrnitora. .pXvid r.. SMtLnr.. .Editor JOHN C. MAP-TIN... .Pant-rsl Htmlneaa Mnnnger , Publlnhetl dally "nt PtRt.to" I.icram "bulldlns Independence Square, rhllmleUphla. Atlixtio Citt rruft'nlon UulUInc sj'sw Yonic 304 Ma. limn Aw rDmwt. T01 Font niilMlnit RT. I.ncu 013 alobr-ttemncrat tliilMiiiR ClltCiOO 1302 Tribune Ulllldlnc SKWS IlLllKAfS. WianmoTON ncnric, N'. E. Cor. 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I nl.n (lie loeal tieu vuhUthtd ih'trtn All rlphti r republication of special dlipatche Acrdn .irr rtNo ritTted Fhiladrlphla. Stlutdiy, Aujuit 20, 1021 ZONE FARES TT IS a fact that short riders ou trolley X cars alvn.)s have hnd to pay u lame part of the cost of street car service extended to thinly populated section of the rit :md to the stilnirlii. The shurt t-idt-r pn-. ti maxiiniim rate fur it ni'iiiiuuiu of Mriei lie is dear to the heart of eer jo'l transit executive. But the people who control the lltiancial destinies of the 1. H. T. didn't kuow how to oppreciato him when he was turning a flood of easy money into their treasury very day. They imposed upon him a rate Of fare that caused him to realize suddenly the benefits of walking as u form of physical oxerclse. Mr. Mitten fotic-t desperately to keep the short riders. In the ideal world as he con ceived it every one would rido and every one would pay a nickel and there would he little uae for pavemeuts. Mr. Mitten's I'tnplovers felt differently. They wanted higher fares, and they pot higher fures, hut thej didn't get largely increased revenue because hun dreds of thousand of nickels that normally would hnve been spent for short rides re mdincd in the pockets of folk who found that they could get about without the street cars. Xow the I'. K. T. is eagerly trying to get the short riders back into its cars. A zone system of fares may he pro posed to restore the nickel fare withiu lim ited areas. s In a zone sjstetn of trolley fares every thing Is dependent upon the character and extent of the zones. I "ntll the transit en gineer exhibit tentative plan if will be impossible to tell whether I U. T.'s latest scheme deserves praise or opposition, l'.ut It is plain that while the 1'. It. T. collects too much from the short rider, the long rider to suburban points gets too much from the p. n. t. A liberally planned zone system might not v only help in the development of transit facilities and settle the ever-painful ques tion of fores. It might result in a final adjustment of an old feud between the folk who pay six and n quarter cent to ride six blocks and those who pay a like faie to ride six miles. THE WORLD COURT IN SIGHT THE nomination of Klinu lioot b l!ni.tl. Venezuela and Rolivia a a member of the new World Court of International Jus tice is entirely in accord with the proprie ties. Mr. Hoot was one ot,the chief frnmers of the arbitration tribunal plan, and it would seem unfortunate should the rejection of the League of Nations bv the Tuited State he regarded ns a bar to hi assumption of duties. Dr. Roscoe Pound, dean of the Harvard Law School bus been nnmid by Statu. The formal elec'lou of these distinguished inter national jurists and other siniilarlv qualified experts will take place when the Assembly of the League of Nations meet in (ieneva next month. Two more thnn the needed total of twenty-two Powers have now signilied their ap proval of the arbitral machinery for settling t international disputes. I'.efore the fivst of the year it i expected that the court will be in operation. As soon as It Is established its existence becomes independent of that of the League of Nations. This fact I assumdlv worth eome attention by those who view the part nership of governments with disfavor. Fur thermore, ns the object of the court is to promote justice in the world, it i not ex clusive in it range ami it is open to States not members of the League. Mr. Harding has on eeral occasion e. pressed his sincere interest in the World Court idea. No inconsistency uin be charged against any opponents of the League if tbev welcome a reality which seems to substitute consideration of the merits of a question for the crude decisions of the sword. WAR AS A LESSER EVIL TDE'UWKKN war anil continued uncmplov U ment there are, it appears. Knglishmen unafraid to select the former SpunUh ,n sulates in Britain hnve hitch been crowded with jobless subjects eager to enlist under King Alfonso' banner in the current Moroccan campaign that the legality of the -s proceeding lias been called in question. In addition it i pointed out that the l:,f tribesmen with whom Spam is nt war are traditionally good' friends of Kngiand Patriotism does not, therefore, inspire these new reciults, nor doe it vf,.m ia-elv that their intei est in Spanish prestc;.. beiond the Straits of Cihraltar prompts their action The two obvious Incentives are adventure nd pay. It wa'Bernnrd Shaw who. long ago in his day of moderate. length preface, scout,., I the convention of the rarity of physical courage in its dramatic manifestations Heroism, he maintained, and by no means in a vein of praise, abofid. Possibly it can be proved that the fight at home is Cnrder than on the front. But war, according to the spirit of the times, Is the most detested and loathsome of nil the activities in which mankind wa ever engaged. The piesent paradox Is hardly a Confirmation of human consistency, or eKn 'enforced idleness is not preclselj' a minor evil. WORE WOES FOR OUR SHIPS THE adventures of American passenger liuers abroad continue to be complicated and deplorable. The latest victim is the itjuvenatcd Ceorge Washington, whose first regular trip in service under the notional flag is marred bv the prospect of libel pro feedings in Southampton. The action Is said to bo based on a collision between u British ship and the American vessel when the Utter was carrying troops across the At jkntlc during the wnr. Litigation fins exiled the Pocahontas, of , the, name line, in Naples for an indcte mil ' Vnte period. The operators of this ship nud ",'rV Vfrorje Wushlugfon, the I'nitccl Hlntcs SfaU, BtMmsblp Company, are bankrupt and .fc rg4i1u.tlon lo in ths receivers Land, Tho situation Is sufllclent to depress the most fervent friends of the American mer chant innrlne. A few rays of hope, however, am visible In the announcement that the Mall Com pany's receivers propose to run whatever vessels can be kept out of court, nud In Chairman Looker's declaration that the ex tremely complex system, known ns the man aging operators' agreement, under which the Shipping Board nllocatcs many units of Its (leet, will probably be abandoned. The bare-charti'r agreement, simpler In ninny respects, will, If possible, be substituted. The plight of Lewis Carroll') hntter, who could not "stand down" because "he was on the floor ns it was," is suggested by the tribulations of the American merchant ma rine. Any new move undertaken must of necessity be upward. DOES SENATOR VARE SPEAK . FOR THE HONORABLE BOIES? Fifty-Fifty Leaders Seem to Know More Than tho Mayor About Mr. Pen ' rose's State of Mind SILHNCK can be as eloquent In politics 08 it is in the high moment of other sorts of giddy drotna. The profound still ness maiiilalned In Senator Penrose's otliee flu i. us all the troubled months of Mayor Moore's light to keep hungry hot ties of p litical derelict from battering a way lo the city lieastiry and to control of the police department with their Kift -Pifly ticket means as much to the initiated as n two hour speech could mean. Mr. Penrose never ha been a pussy footer In matters that really concerned him. Ilo has been quiet too long. What he may say now will not matter In the least. lie may nimble now ami he mux roar. 'Iliose who u iv e,.i half wis,, in the was of municipal politic will know that lie left the Maor to go it alone. And thei will sqspei t a great deal more. They will suspect, for example, Ihat Sen ator Vare spoke for Mr. Penrose an ex traordinary and picturesque, circumstance, certainly when he emerged from the gloom yesterday and named Mr. Hotan to hood tho Fifty-Fifty ticket. Doubtless Mr. Itotan would have preferred to do without that sort of recognition. But no one in politics looks a gift horse in t tic mouth. If there was any danger of Itotan's defeat- and. of course, there was none- it would have vanished completely with this new turn of affair. The proffer from .Mr. Vare seems to be merely a tribute of grace. It is a flourish, u good-will offering, a seal and testimonial of friendship. It may by even a little more than that. Senator Vare. after all. may possess if sense. of ironic humor, lie may desire to share with the people a glim and half bumorous secret. The least you can do is to let n man laugh at a joke utter it is perpetroted on him. "There, there!" cries Mr. Vare in effect. "Penrose doesn't light hi friend. I don't do favor for my enemies. Let u be serious!" 1'or the voters who hate dirt and smut and thieery and vice in polities and we believe that they are numerous enough ill tbi city to enrrv any election--there i a piquant significance in all tin. Behind the political scenes all the plan of the cam paign are virtually complete. Orders ore issued. The work will be done by Tuesday. The plan and alignments and agreements now completed cannot be icvised. There is no time for that. What exerv one must admit i that Mr. Penrose withheld his support from the Mayor in crisis after crisis when his wmd and influence would have carried weight. In the ease of .lodge Brown there i a suggestion of mysterious word spoken by the Senator to his aide. Put what you do in a political light i of far more importance than what you say. Men like Mr. Cun ningham and Magistrate Campbell, pundit and little white father of Kensington, mar know what the Big Chief at Washington has in the deep of his mind, and they smile and are assured. So the ordinary voter who curries no union cord of u gong can onlv expect the worst, if for no oilier reason than that it i the worst that usually happen to him. He has good giound for the belief that Penrose in hi secret conscience doesn't care who runs Philadelphia so long a his own peculiar interests are protected. He ha good ground to feel that Ii', with the Moore Administra tion, will be told out secietly if Vare. Cun ningham and Brown nnd Campbell are strong enough to have their way against the Mtnor. Penrose doesn't like reformer though he began hi career a one. But lie hm , face to save. And if he can sine it without breaking the rule or disturbing the statu quo ante helium in these part- if he can save it anil ct see all the political eggs normally happy and well fed, he will lime accomplish, ,1 ,1 characteristic feat of subtlety . Mr. Moore will be wise to go on from this point as if Mr. Penrose did not eist. The adantnges of ihe situation are wholly with the Muyoi . Vlief i alwa s a mass of otei who can be driven and ordered around In the touts and the heeler. But these Miters are not l any means a iniiinritt. I'pon the Mayor's idc is - ,,r ought to be ever citi.en who has not forgotten how to think and everv Miter who is unwilling to be a dupe anil a partner of gamblers, dope peddlers, pro-t itut ionist s. grafter and political second- story men There arc enough voters of that sort in Philadelphia to make the Vare-Penrose organisation look like a bit of devastated Belgium if ihey will but hold together. The are the taxpayer, the noriimll'- decent folk who oidinarih cannot he class.,! as iifoimers, the folk wb patience is pot without a limit of sollle soit. HOOVER PUTS IT OVER TIII2 Itlls&iail SoMet CoM-riiiin nt seems to htiM' agteid to the loiiditmns laid down bv Mr. Hoover a piecedetit to American efforts to flieve fannim conditions. The food is to be admitful to I!usla ami i to be in charge of Aitcriiau agents until it i distributed to the need;. The Ameri can agents are to be allo-wd to travel freely without interference in distributing th,. food These arrangements were regarded ns neces. sary under the peculiar conditions pi mail ing in the country. Yet they are similar to the arrangements ifor the distribution ,.f food in other parts of Burope where the various American relief committees have been (let lie. Of course, It Is asreed that the American agents will engage in no political propa ganda against the existing (iovcrnment. 'IV Hussions are not unreasonable In nktng this. No lioverument. whatever its form or wherever it was in power, would consent to the admission to the territory in its con trol of a large body of men utid women in tending to tnke advantage of the suffering of the people to 'stir them up against the powers that be. The efforts of the American relief organi zations will be devoted chiefly to saving the lives of the children. No new organization is to be formed and no special appeal 1 to be made for funds. But those who feel In clined to give may send their contributions to nn'v of the organizations represented In the European Belief Council. These Jr. Hoover says nre the American Belief Ad ministration, tlie American Friends' Service Committee, the American It i Cross the Federal Council of Churches of Christ in AiverJca, the Jewish Joint Distribution CojBjmlttee, the Kulghta of Columbus, the s Young Men's Christian Association nnd the Catholic Welfare Committee. 'These organizations have their own way of securing funds. The supporters of them will doubtless sec to it that money enough is provided to send to the hungry children of llussla food enough to keep them alive until there can e another crop or until telief enn be secured in some other way. Mr. Hoover's record for achievement In relief work iitul for discretion in refraining from meddling with anything outside of relief has left the Soviet (Iovcrnment no excuse for denying the admission of the American agents. However, the Husslnns who come in contact with the agents cannot help learn ing something of the conditions which pre vail in the rest of the world where the Soviet theories nre rejected and where there Is safety for life and property and some degree of comfort for oil dosses. ADJUSTMENT, NOT ALLIANCE "KJO LITTLE of the political success of ' David Lloyd (Jeorgc is attributed and rightly so to his facility in reducing tangled problems to their simplest terms. This gift is characteristically displayed In his an nounced conviction that a "greater under standing" among the Cultcd States, Great Britain and Japan "on all the problems of the Pacific would he a greiit event, which would be a guarantee of the pence of the world." Thus expressed, the situation appears seductively simple. Grunted an amicable and, fair adjustment of those PocitlcttfTalrs in which tho three nations arc concerned, there could be no question of its stabilizing value. But to admit this is somewhat like saying that a good deed conceived In the Imagination Is identical with a good deed performed in fact. It is the menus rather than the ideal of harniouv which will he m debute in the Disarmament Conference I pun the former point the lucidity of the British Prime .Min ister is confusing like the clearness of crystalline deep waters. "I'ndcrstanding" is an clastic word, op pllcoble to any settlement of any sort which the United States has ever made with any foreign nation. The elucidation of the com plex, criss-cross issues of the Far East Is ono of the basic objects of the meeting in Washington. "Alliance," however, Implies in American opinion obligations in future circumstances to which the Nation has consistently refused to bind itself. When Mr. Lloyd George, In his familiar, frankly engaging style, passes fluently from n defense of the ex ceedingly explicit tic linking hi country with Japan to a fancied conversion of that alliance into a tripartite agreement between those two nntion and the t'nited States it is time to call for definitions. An "understanding," in the broad sense of that term, is what America unquestion ably desire A preliminary arrangement with attributes of an alliance is the very reverse of what the American Government wishes to bring into the parley. it Is needle to repeat why American opinion on I hi subject is so formed and why the repugnancy to foreign entangle ment persists. Mr. Wilson tasted the fruits originating in a mere suggestion of them, anil if Mr. IJoyd George I still in doubt concerning this attitude he is likely to be illuminated personally should he come to Washington ns a delegate. It is, of course, easily imaginable that in his address to the Common the Prune Minister was endeavoring to put the best possible face upon the resumption of the Anglo-Japanese Alliance, while nt the some time responding to the bulk of English lib erol opinion and the findings of the recent Imperial Conference In hi plea for Ameri can co-operation prior to the opening of the Washington session. Such a lourse may proe temporarily expedient in England, but favorable cfTicr in America cannot be o leadily forecast. British avowal of friendship for the I'nited States ore unquestionably welcome. The desire that exist here for an ndiut ment grounded in high principle of the questions distiiibing American-Japanese iclatioiis i also ery leal. The projectors of the conference nre anxious to sulijci t nil the issues- imolved to a frank and fresh treatment, unclouded by arrangement or treaties in embryo. The hop" of the meeting lies in the desired can dor tififssary to a manly consideration ol great problem. American aie unlikely to be seriously irritated by Lloyd George's lather hazy pro posal. Its very iinibiguiu i peiliop omong its saving graces. But they will wonder that "understanding" was n,,t first applied to an appreciation of a cardinal national policy unaffected by the purposes for which the riinfercnie is summoned. A CALL FOR HELP THE debate at the New Century Guild in Locust street on how to get a husband ami how to keep him-after he has been secured would not have taken place if so ciety weie organic ,1 on the plan suggested by Alfred Korzybshi, a Polish count. Women hove bei n getting husband since Eve took possession of the only man in sight. But 'hev do not seem to have standardized the process out of the cxperi- eni f hundreds of generations. The Polish fount tells us that If each generation could profit fully by nil that ha been done by the preceding generations society would advance upward at a speed increasing at a geomet rical ratio and that soon the world would be perfect. Now if I've had told her daughters how she won Adam, ami if the daughter had told their daughteis how Ihey won their husbands, nnd if each woman remembered what she hail been told and passed it on with her own expeneuce to her daughters, theie would now be a mass of authentic and classified information which would make it possible, if applied intelligently, for every unmarried woman to get the right kind of n husband. And there would be no marital difficulties, and domestic peace would brood like a lienisiin over every household. The majority of the young women who participated in the New (Viiturv Guild dis cussion confessed that they did not know how to win a husband, nnd that If they knew they would go to it. One of thein, however, laid down some theoretical rules on how to get a husband and on how to keep him. She did not sav that she had made any attempt to use her formulas. Perhaps she has not yel seen the man she would core to marry. But she announced that if she got a husband she would guar antee to keep him. All this seems tfi indicate that there is need of a scientific study of the whole sub ject for the benefit of society. We are making surveys of the school and of various industries preparatory to puttlug them on o sounder basis. But mnrrving seems to be neglected. It is fine of the most important social activities, but it is allowed to go on us chance may direct without any serious attempt to apply to it the accumulated wis dom of centuries of experience. Theie are n few faddists, it is true, who profess to be able to decide what sort of a woman n man ought to marry, but there is no one, so far as Is known, who has yet set out to tell the young women how to select the right sort of a man and then bring the man to the point of proposing. Now that the women have the vote per haps they will cure pll this Pin the bunk medal "For Piffle" o ii Hcnrcsentatlvc Cnckran.ci He whuIh th President indicted for invasion of Con-grits. BIRTH OF A NAME Anagram Provides Colorful Cogno men for Vamp Vice Presi dent's Son Turns Down Invitation By WILLIAM ATIIHUTON I)U VVX ONE often wonders nt the novelty, euphony nnd other elements of lure Hint arc wrapped" up ita the name of the actors and ncircsses who disport vfhemselves on the stage where figure move but have no life. There i Thedn Bara, for instance. Whence, would you think, came n nnmo llko that? Well. I have It direct from one who was Inat the making of that nnme. This young actress from Cincinnati, then hut sixteen, was to be given her chance ns a vampire in one of those spectacles of the desert. The name lier parent bestowed upon her did not appeal to Ihe producers, so two of their smart young men sat down to work tho matter out. "It's n desert ploy," snld one to tho other. "Xow what does the desert suggest to you?" "Death," sold the second dramatically. The first young ninn wrote it down. Then he spelled.lt backward. "Htaed." It did not seem to mean much of anything. The ll'iinvpii.it inn of tllixe letters a bit. how ever, gave n name thai sounded quite well: "Thi'dn." It was recorded. "What else does Hie deseit call to mind?" come the query. "Arab," responded the colorful one. "Spell It backward and you hnve 'Bnra.' Thedn Barn.' There's your name." M hen school let out some, weeks ago there came romping Into Washington Calvin ( oolldge. Jr.. anil John Coolldgc. the ten and twelve year old sons of Ihe Vice I'm sjdeiit. llnrdh had these youngsters, whose tastes run largely towuul baseball ami machine shops, arrived in Washington than Mrs. Coolidge's telephone bell rang nnd n wom nn s voice nsked to spenk td Calvin, Jr. The conversation had not progressed very far when Mrs. Coolldgc heard her son saying in a quite ngitated manner: "No, I thnnk you. I nm sure that mother would not allow us to do It. I nm sure she wouldn't." Mrs. Coolidge had never known her son to be so positive and so agitated about a proposal to participate In any sort of activity, so she hastened to inquire what it was that he had been asked to do. "Why. mother," said Calvin in conster nation, "she wanted John and me to conn to tea!" Iolking about carrying change around In your vest pocket! How would mw like lo start out with about S.'tO.OOO.OOIl In gold lo take it over somewhere and give it to some body? Well, I know n man who did iust that. This man's name, abundantly Initialed. Is Frank J. F. Thicl. and he is bv wnv of being n Deputy Treasurer of the i'nited State. When war btoke'otit in Europe everybody over there who hod u right to do so began to call for gold from the I'nited States and we took it right out of the Treasury nnd shipped it to them. .So' one ihu a New York bank had to have S.'iO.OOO.OOrt. which amount would weigh about fifty Ion, and Thicl wn or dered to take it over from Philadelphia. He put it all in nn express car and rode right in there with it to Jersey City. There lie wa met In seventeen cage-bodied mail wjgon and they took the gold out of the car in little sack that weighed Ihlrtv-eight pounds apiece nnd held SKI, (100. And thev put about a million and a half In each mail wagon and drove them nil on a rickety ferryboat and started right out into the Hudson. To be sure there wn n policeman sitting up by each driver and a man with a sawed off shotguji inside each cage-bodied wagon, but what would Captain Kiild bine cared if Im had known about thi golden argosy. And Thicl stood out on the fiont of the boiu a ni hit hi finger-nails something awful. Then they drove all these gold-laden wagon right down through New York ami up to the Sub-Treasury, nnd unloaded all that cash nnd nobody knew what was going on. And Thicl came hack to Washington and next day bought hi wife a pint of crab meat anil a hair net just like nmhodv else. President Hot ding ho a double and he has had the temerity to iipnoiitt that double to a big job right over In the Treasury I)e partmeiit. wheie they keep the miuiej Warren G. Harding and I). . '(Viss inger. the new Comptroller of the Currency following the notable lead of Ike and Mike bear, each to the other, n remarkable re semblance. Il is ifimiiknhlc also that the careers of these two men have lain tilling similar path for lo! these sixty years. Mr. ("rNsinger tells me that he knew Wan en Harding when the latter was six years old nud he wn a bit older, elown in Caledonia, which is m Marion Count v, Ohio, ''Wnrieii alwavs got bis lesson very easy In school ami consequently didn't have to work very haul," saiel Mr. ('risslngcr. "it was evident from the beginning that hi bent lav along literary line. It never g-ive him any tumble to analyze the most coin plliatfd sentences, "Ami lie got along so well wlih bis fed lows, J Hev,,,. i.,u-, f Warren I larding gelling into any lights with the oilier Inns I icinc inhered when he worked in the brick -yanl ami chopping eeiin In iuison was the usual tiling. Neither the President imr Brigadier Genei.-il Sawyer nor I hnd am -thing lei.-K e,f us. We fought our own battles all the way." When Oswald S-hutte, who has become a war i-orifspeiuih nt, was u mere lepeutcr up In Wisconsin, he used tei hear a gieat deal of one Chase ( )s,orn, who was reputed tee have' hei'ii the most remarkable- eitv editor the State eve-r produced. Naturally the i-i porter felt mm U ciiriost to see the veteian, hut llu-y knocked nbeiiit tin- land of tin- badger for yenis nm! never met. Osborn went up into Michigan to .,i on it paper and one day he went hunting By dint of marks uslilp or mere Inch ,p broil hi , li.it ,. ., .1..... ri'r... t , , i'lint d.v Id dying ngum did an InoMlnnto ainoimt .,( .I'.,. , i i ii'i-i . i ii i ipr it, ,i Inofri the ;ing and etiricd un the lmumil t i i,.. i , mi ,. , " -" "'-- in ---.. ,- ......- iw hii his i uarrv he foffml that it hnd scutched the top off "f nn mine, (ishoin knew enough to fj.-ine ....... ..-.,,., i, ,,iui(. ii, i.,.i t oil'iri't l.1 f L ,,.... .. . , , iciieic nun mis was iron m c tlint hnd In-i-n uiicoverf,el. So lie- located this iron mine, became a millionaire and finally Governor of Michi gan. Still Se-l.ulli- lui'l ni-ver seen him Finally the repoiter went to Euiopc to write about a war. Appalled nud worn out with the oiueal In- took a trip for a n-s in the Tyrolean Alps as fin as the trains would carrv him. Then he hir,-, wagon ami rode until ii was too steep fnr tu. horse.. Then ne walked on until hs j,.,,,, gave out. " Then lie Mopped at a little mountain lodge. He went m ami made u liulse Id,,, a paying guest. Sitting by the stove was another American. It was Chase Osborn Hen- the two Wiscniisins met for the first time. George E. Huberts, who used to bo Cotnp. troller of the Currency and Is now stnlisti clan for the National City Bank, knows more about the gold supply of th0 world than anybody else. He says that there was but ,?:100,CIIO,000 in gold i the possess!,",, of man at the beginning of the nineteenth century. We have, however, produced moie than that much a year through thu iht two decades of the twentieth century. Former I'istmnstcr Guiieinl Hiirli-boii Is In Eurojio these days tryiug to develop a scheme for selling cottou to needy nations. I i , ..i i . i i m . TD notice n Ip t a) 0n000,'0O 1 I 5h3sgJra r6055V V!i'gJWfcarfaTfiarW ifJAy Tgftoru NOW MY IDEA IS THIS. Daily Talks With Thinking Philadclphians on Subjects They Know Best LEWIS R. HARLEY On the Duty of the Community TN CONS1DEHING the duty of the X community toward the student of su perior ability we Hnd a safe guide in the sentiments of Dr. Frederick D. Mnurlic. of England." savs Lewis It. Hurley, principal of the Philadelphia High School for Gills. " 'All experience Is against the notion that the means to prodili e a supply of good ordinary men Is to attempt nothing hlghet.' Dr. Maurice says. 'Aim nt nothing noble, make your system such that a great nioii may be formed by it, nnd there will be a manhood in your little men of which you did not dream.' "I nm inclined to attach considerable weight to the opinions of Dr. Mnuilee. be cause he wo the pioneer among English re fill niers in making It possible for the work ingmon t senile anything more than the simplest rudiments of nn education. "In 151 he founded the Working Men's College in London, the foierunuer of I "ill -virsity- Extension anil tho present Workei Educational Association of England, which Is demanding n sbaic of the best culture that the schools can afford. It is likely that the humanities are to be saved for England through the activities of tills 1130 ciotion, which Is arousing among tho com mon, people n conscious feeling that then is something woefully lacking In n uieie industrial education. Influent 0 Is Widespread "The association now maintains more than oOO centers, when- niembeis tit the university faculties aie legulorly engaged 111 giving advanced lustim-tlon to those who ilaiui equal scholaslie- piivilcges with per fens more favorably sltunlcil. What wo one flay nn educational theory, a subject of ticademic discussion, beiome the next day the practice of a nation. Bv welcoming the toilers of England into the Intcllccluul aris tociacy untold fields of competition ami op lortuuity arc opened, nud even in the ranks of the lowly many a child of superior ability vill be benefited by till libeinl policy. "Why tloes not a similar ilemnnd come fioiu the workers of AmeiluiV As far as ideals an- concerned, ours Is still a Nation in the making, the development of which 1 Impeded by the lack of rai ial unity anil by tlie incessant quibbling among the schoolmen of this lountry. if the doctor of the Inw fail to agiee, confusion of thought must Inevitably prevail lu the minds of the nusscs. A controversial atmosphere sur ihuikI the whole question, and we some times forget that the real battle is against ignoronie and not against our fellow cdu lalois. "But we shall finally reach the conclusion Ihat 'the venerable Dr. Heiu pointed out years ago: 'Let the old qunriel between humanism nnd realism become a friendly livolry. We are bound to admit the fnct that one section of our people should care fully preserve the histoile-al continuity of our culture, while another section 1 steeped in modern ideas. Both enjoy the same fiee flom, Ihe some light and the same all, there fme let the various tpe of schools demon urate what strength they ait give to the Nation.' "This Is the sanest hit of pedagogical ad vice that I have read in many a day. An film ntifinal program of tbi kind ofl'ets the wlelcst range of opportunity, and il adoption cannot foil to Inspirit 11 new form of confi dence in the sincerity of our purpose. Duty to Spri Ial Cases, "What, then, Is our duty toward the stu dent of superior abllilv'.' Do we fully ginsp the idea that the spit it of democracy is hound to decline when we liiul no one 'ele vated tfileudcrshlp? The mure democratic the Slate the greater the necessity f, lend crs, due to wide competition and keen ex-elli.-ment to individual genius. Be it mucin -lie-reel, also, thot the inoie dcinocintle the form of the State the gieater the need for Ihe icllective type of knowledge, lo serve as a check on the passions of men ami to guide the mosses in social ami political thought. The citieus of the democracy must be si hooled in that knowledge which 1, based 011 reflection nnd cperli-ine. and the syMcni of education should Im mile provisions for the careful training of those blessed with superior abilities, enabling them to assume the leadership that the State lequires, We ate by no mean establishing nn aristocratic piinclple when we make a special pica for the student of Uliusuul mental capacity. "Tlie same opportunity is ottered to nil indeed, during, a service of twenty -live years In 0 large high bcliool I have witnessed iminy 11 boy endowed with fine qualities, of mluil struggle through pow-rty rind want, finally to become n leader omong men. We should not look upon institutions like the Walnut Hills High School, Cincinnati, as existing for the rich alone. Schools of t,jN ,,,, favor no class or soiial condition; they iire ln fact, the finest expulsion of our talth i,i democracy. I bey ore u definite answer to the aristocratic pietenslou of the Old World. ' ' Investment Hepald .Many Fold "I shall always remember the sentiment expiesseil bv Dr Simon New comb in 011 article published year nS ,, -forth American He lew. Id- a-scris that illle, mid Hutes uie richly lepaiil for the uioi.eJ expended on the higher, education of the citlxcns. Ho declares , that in many in. DAMMING THE FLOOD AT ITS stonce one discovery, one scholarly achieve ment is worth more to huinnnlty than all the training of the Individual cost. "Hence the necessity for carefully nurtur ing tin- student of superior ability. Tho possibilities growing out of higher education arc without limit or calculation. 'Had one man in a million,' says Dr. Xewcoinb. 'been taken from each generation, we should reach the end of the nineteenth century with the. world in the (undltluu of the sixteenth.' "I claim flint In the various stages of educational progress the student of superior ability has not been recognized at his full worth. It Is with feelings of regret that, in surveying the achievement of the Jiast, we witness so many opportunities lost for the proper training of all classes of students. The establishment of our free school system in iS.'S-l was n'grcat victory over determined opposition, but It wa a sbort-slghled policy to ollovy the old-time ocademics to languish and die when they inislit have been con verted Into high schools. "Equally short-sighted was it that the State College, aided by 11 Federal laud giant, should continue for many years in the pro vincial capacity of the 'Farmers' High School,' while Cornell, founded on a similar grant, blossomed nt once Into a great uni versity. Equally short-sighted was it to permit tlie I'nlverslty of Pennsvlvnuln to icmnin in the cloistered intellectual atmos phere of the eighteenth centuty until after tlie Civil Wnr and the Centennial Exposi tion of 1S"1. Equnlly short-sighted was It not to gmsp the opportunity when, In IS II), the Legislature of Pennsylvania vested the Central High School with full collegiate powers. Vision of Fraiilillii Needed "Any one will appreciate the significance of these lost tippoi I unities to the xoung men and women of the Commonwealth who, in the years of delay and lack of definite pur pose failed to receive the full measure of intellectual training. Conscious of these failure, we are now looking to the future which is bilght with promise, but we are still far from realizing the Idenl. "The utilitarian, Franklin, was building for the future when he prepnred his pro posnis for the education of the voulh of lennsylviiiiiii: s was Dr. Benjamin Bush when, in 1S0S. he published a comprchen slvc scheme for a State school system, 0 document that should Iiq read todny in the. light or twentieth century conditions. Would that we had more of the vision of a Frank lin or 0 Hush! We ore in sore need of it !. 'TV""', ". B,n,,.ln.1 '"'" nf "'' H'lrit Is likely to destroy the radiant bloom of intel lectual eiilline and crush the hopes of prom- ,i'.MJ,'T ,.llP r,lfillnM,t of 0,lr '"" o"nrd he student f superior ability will depend the qiijilltv of social and political lender ship, the advancement of professional skill, the progress industrial life and the pre", creation llf I0 M,oln.,v " What Do You Know? QUIZ 1 Who or KnSlnnS?m0lI,er f Q,1,pn Vlctr 2i' who, 'iVTV "v ",h0 WP f U) R")bp8,'7 .). What hind of mi nnlinal Is a lory' 4 AVILenl,r th m'Ct l'unclaUon of r.. What Is mennt bv "vrnlsemlilanco"' C '"X "PS ,ht' ''"" of For- 7' 'nn.nlTo'rrnat.V" a"" ,V"r '" ,,,e S. What Is meant by "The Truce of Ood"? 9 bo won Volta? 10' Wru$!c,X lh0 n"raf!e "'ho unspeakable Answers to Yesterday's Quiz White Hussla Is a lionular hot ,..,r,..ii name for a part of W.-steri H shIi, m of '","b1"''1 ' While" t,""l ,," is! i.,rt .r, '' H now indued in Pol.unl mL,, 'a'n'u fflur v,,nB" As53S 1 ensue strength applies to the Ktrni..i,f capacity or .1 given substance. i. Potpouitl literally means mite.. '.,-. 5. Tin eu Ililtlsh Kent-rals In n.,. ... 1 Hev olutlonory "ft 1 ,..$ n How-h I. ml r-lln,,... "rllWUIIIS, G. The month of Almost Im t,,im,i . '?"". tho ii.s.18.:,,!;,-'1, " 1 111 tlJ PltJlLP Prnnnl. u . ' .. 'J "'" irH iir rdU.i.i.. . A famous composition Klvlng a musical picture of an extraordinary cavern N Mendelssohn's ove.ture, yi$afo - i ii'Miiinii Iwo vegetables unknown to the civllizeel worltl liefme the dlse-ov. ry f a,! arc potatoes ami tomatoes Alm'r'c'i Tho woid .plait meanliu a flat fold ,, doubling back, u pPti lna"1 , ""' miupcert ''Plate" or- plete" When I means a braid, as of hair or straw th. pronunciation i 'plat." Btraw. the iv. ,rVNH,"rB,;.,of Arizona, ilec-lnies hat ootlrow Wilson coined he iilris,, livphf noted American" In 1 speech m ..... .,..j-.i.in me 11 race or UllillOlVIl nrlnlr, Inlial.ltli.K po.tlons ilf N- ,, nnil Southern France in iiU i'fi '."... r ''''. ".buoro. win,., Yh 1'MIII'H I'jllSKHi nn. i,f.j SOURCE v'l i w t SHORT CUTS There appears to be considerable hot) in the Beer Bill. p , Lloyd George's gesture Is Ingratiatlnj rather than promising. Sonnte debate ever nnd anon has more thnn one-hnlf of 1 per cent kick. Whether it be temperate or torrid, Mitten's zone is Mitten's own. Some views of political office-holding ethics arc snide, and some Snyder. There Is increasing evidence that what the pot contained wns not gold, but pitch. So long as Penrose understudies the clam politicians will suspect u shell game. As n cold, dispnssionntc judge, Con gressmnu Ben Johnson Is a fine emotionnl actor. If De Vnlern is not careful, the suil cloh will grow that he wants nothing but a scrap. With the advent of the new Beer Bill comes the cheering Intelligence tlint the hop crop is IIL'.OOO.OOO pounds. If you don't mind mixed metaphors, we'd make the guess, that it is-cold feet that Is tying Penrose's hands. Incidentally, AtMcIc VIII of the League of Nations provides nn excellent text for the Disarmament Conference. Perhaps If everybody Insists "upon call ing It a Dlsnrmomnnt Conference that'" what it will turn out to be. Tho simplest of disarmament plnnn Is a promise to refrnln from warship builillng and recruiting for a certain set period. Wo judgo from their support of a sub stitute to the Stanley amendment that the drys arc willing to accept their medicine. "The way to disarm Is to disarm" will likely be amended by disarmament conferees to rend, "Tho way to disarm is to dicker." The difference between Touchstone's "If" and Lodge's "but" is flint "If" is a peacemaker, but "but" butts into nothluj but trouble. Tho dlffercnro between the Government weather men and tho nmnteur prophets l that the Government men sny they don't know what kind of winter we nre going to have. London comment seems to indicate that Lloyd George hns tho voice of England : but there Is also indirntlon elsewhere that hU ear Is not exactly attuned to the voice ol America. Herman militarism kept tlie world armed until Hcrmony was defeated. Germany, shorn of militarism, may, by her commer cial development, force the world tei disarm ill order to keep poce with her. The one trouble with Lloyd Gcorpe'i covert suggestion of an alliance onions the i'nited Stntes. Greot Britain and Japan iJ that it contains in It very little of tin ilisai moment the conference seems to promise. Every ship that Germany delivers to Hrent Britain by way of reparation means increased employment in German shipynrni and decreaseil work in British shipyards. Hcporatlun is two-bluded oud works both ways. Today'o Anniversaries 17-1." Francis Asbuty. the liist Methodist bishop in America, born in England Ulca at Hlrhtnnnd. Vn.. March .'11. 1SK1. lSfii) Opening of tlie Dayton and Michi gan Itnilro-ifl In Ohio. ISM The v.nr in Texas was deelnied at an end by pioc'amation of President John son. 1.S70 The women of France issued an nihil ess lo the wnme.'i of all nations on Hit siibicit nf I in- war with Prussia, l-S'tfl -Monroe Robertson, the murderer of nine men, vns hanged at (Jiccnvllle, if. llll's! -General William Booth, founder of tb Salvation Army, died lu Loudon Horn ne.ii Noitiii'.'hnin In lfi-0. BiH The first of the Women's Patriotic Lciigui of C'iniidu wos formed 11 1 Toronto. 1!l!i--Martial law was proclaimed throughout Hungary. lDliO-Mall robbers secured SIOO.OOO from a train near Chicago. Today's Birthdays Raymond Polncore, ex -President of tho French Republic, bom at Bar-le-Due ti' ly one years ago, Julia Sanderson, popular actress anti.ny slcol ccincdv star, born nt .SprliiBhfi1- Mass,, thirty -seven years ivs.. Mollis Mi Donald, picsldent of the Mm)) Ciuiial Knllinoil, bom at New Albany! hid., I.fiy-slx years ago. .i Father Bcriinul Vuughan, eclcbratw! English Jesuit precherki nuthor nnd lMj ii "Vv - ' urer, corn Bcvcnixjour y" uu. t, -.. r, v . , iyi ir.Atrtf-;ivf.1jX.-( .vt !f 4 lr,t&t$iyij
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