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EVENING PUBLIC LEDGERPHILADELPHIA, SATURDAY, AUGUST 2&, 1921
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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,
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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 .,(
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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.
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m
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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
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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
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