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THE NON-PARTISANSHIP ERROR
CITIZENS who arc in the Imbit of. icgis
tcrlng us "non-partisans" nrc usually
o( the tjpe which rejoices ill freedom from
elfish political affiliations. In theory this
practice niny seem praiseworthy. In reality,
however, it it a repudiation of obligations
which alt believers In the democratic system
of government should consistently usumc.
Non-partisan enrollment means ordinarily
the forfeiture of the important right to par
ticipate In primary elections, nnd this jenr
It implies also a lack of interest in the argu
ments for or against the holding of a Con
stitutional Convention in Pennsylvania. The
question will be decided in the primaries of
September 1!0, which by a recent legislative
enactment take the character on this date of
State referendum.
Electors who have expressed their party
leanings in registering will be privileged to
Tote jes or no upon the subject of revising
the fundamental body of law In this Com
monwealth. At the same time they will be
entitled, according to their partisan predi
lections, to take part in the nomination of
delegates to the convention, to be voted for
In the November election.
Realizing the necessities of the ense, the
Women's Itepubllcnu Committee, the Demo
cratic Women's Committee and the Penn
sylvania League of Women Voters, as rep
resented by their chairmen, have combined
in nn appeal for support of the revision
project.
Their injunctions apply with equal force
to both sexes. It is confessed party mem
bers alone, of whatever political complexion,
who can promote the convention plan.
To register non-partisan today is to estab
lish political impotence at the foundation
of government.
WHO RULES WEST VIRGINIA?
ttTT IS a bad system," observes Governor
X Morgan, of West Virginia, referring to
the existence of a small army of deputy
sheriffs maintained by the soft-coal opera
tors, "and It ought to be abolished. But
it keeps down taxes."
Governors of States do not nlwoys say so
much Li a few words. When a State begin'
to accept Informal financial nid from private
sources, when it Is willing to swap some
thing of Its own prestige and authority for
money, it is In a bad way and clearly In
need of what tho revivalists call a new
baptism of the spirit.
We shall be fortunate If we have heard
the worst from West Virginia. More and
more the trouble In the soft-coal region
trows to resemble the shameful confusion
that grew out of the great Colorado Fuei
and Iron Company strike before young Mr.
Bockefeller went West, saw for himself,
fired n lot of his representatives and re
stored order In an Industry that had ben
rent with disorder for jenrs before it whs
drenched with the blood of men, women and
childrm. The miners nnd their leaders. like
the forces opposed to them in West Virginia.
have long since forgotten what the original
strike was about. They are tramping around
and toting guns with a view to the settlement
of black feuds that developed after tho
strike had been half a jear old.
There can be no excuse, no justification
for men who arm themselves and march like
an army against the civil authorities. Sim
ilarly there can be no excuse and no justifi
cation for civil authorities who endow n
small army of Imported strike-breakers with
the badges and the authority of deputy
sheriffs and then permit these men to take
orders from mlno bosses and operators who
pay their salaries.
It is significant thnt United States Armv
s, officers had no trouble with the miners. The
men turned back from their march when
they were told tactfully to do so. It was
State policemen, accompanied by the inevi
table "deputies," who followed and drifted
. into a sun fight with the retreating men.
CURBSTONE LIZARDS
CkN' ALMOST any line evening jou will
find Chestnut street and Market street
disfigured by groups of oung men of nn
obviously subnormal type, who lounging nt
the curbs in motorcars thnt must be either
begged, borrowed or stolen, mutter or bawl
invitations to joyrldes at almost ever)
woman and girl who passes.
The curb lizard isn't new. But Ills
species Is multiplying. He Is undernour
ished, as a rule, and overdressed. And he
is becoming nn intolerable nuisance In some
parts of the city. What happens when
some bnre-brnined girl nccepts his Invitation
is revealed now and then lit the police courts
or lu the hospitals.
The Director of Public Safety could do
worse than order n motorcycle squad out one
of these evenings to sweep every curbstone
lizard out of sight. Life would tiien be more
comfortable for self-respecting women who
happen to be nut without escorts.
MADNESS IN GERMANY
IF THICHK U any jiistihiation for the
charges made bv the newspapers in Her
lln that the HHsnssiuntiou of Kizherger was
procured by the monarchists nnd Pan-ficr-mans
the German Government will have to
deal with n new kind of opposition.
It Is charged that the Pan-Germans and
the monarchists have set up sci'iet cnuitN
which condemn to death the leading sup
Jortcrs of the existing regime and thnt more
tl.an flAA m-M I ).w... Mil... I I... tl. .
K "H" """ "sit .Mvii Mii-w i,.v mi. oriiers
l" of these courts Hrzherser was the Inst nnd
one of the most eonsph nous to be picked off
by the iishissiiin. -jne cliurge Is made by
flermauln. the journalistic organ of the
Clerical Partv, a reputable newspaper not
inclined to sensationalism Whatever In-
iMMences are responsible for the assassinations,
V 1M morally certnin that the.v are the result
' . at an nrsnuixrd iniriiose. for It in ln,.,..,
y Hkiflvalile thnt w ninny as .'100 men would be
if ?', M ,n nT civilised country within two
years as the result of private political feuds.
The Ittisslnn nihilists used to resort to
murder in their campaign against nutocrncy.
Murder in Uussln was a gesttiro of despair.
In Gcrmnny where they have a popular gov
ernment In place of the monarchy the masse
arc not suppressed. They nrc represented
In the national legislature and their lenders
are nt the head of the Government. Thero
is no provocation for assassination In the
Interests of popular rule. If the monarch
ists think they enn advance their cause by
killing off the lenders of the opposition they
nre besotted bejond renson.
The monarchy may be restored in a more
liberal form nn one 'Can tell what tho
future holds but If it is to be firmly estab
lished it must rest on the will of the ma
jority nnd not on the skill of hired or volun
teer murderers. This might have happened
in n less enlightened ern, but It cannot hap
pen In the twentieth century.
PUBLIC INTEREST
VS. PRIVATE PROFIT
Is the City Government to Be Run fop
the Benefit of the People or for the
Enrichment of the Politicians?
SOPHISTICATM political observers will
wonder why nt the crisis of n political
campaign the friends of Senator Vnre shoull
announce thnt the Senator had decided to
abandon the leadership of n faction of his
part.v and be content to tnke his place us
one of the wnrd leaders. v
The.v will be interested, too, in the reason
assigned for the decision. It is snld that,
now that the Senator can no longer get thd
hns made largo profits, the inducement to
tnke nn active part in politics has disap
peared. On the same day thnt these things were
said in behalf of Senator Vare, that gentle
man was actively engaged In conferences
with his lieutenants to secure their united
support of candidates for office who owe all
allegiance to him. In other words, he wns
seeking to retain his hold on political power
Therefore, the sophisticated will be likely
to assume thnt the talk about Senator Vnre s
voluntnry retirement from leadership was
indulged in for the purpose of misleading
the innocent and throwing them off their
gunrd.
The question remains whether he Is at the
present time anything more than a ward
leader. He sank to that humble position
nfter the defeat of his mayoralty candidate
in lrH'.l. He could have been Kept there if
the Penrose men In Council had been loyal
to the voters who elected them. Three of
them, however, eager for spoils, mnde a
dicker with the Vnre Councilmen, nnd ns n
result the Vnre machine has controlled tt.
legislative branch of the City Government
and Senator Vare himself recovered part of
the power which he lost by the sentence of
the voters nt the 1010 election.
While the friends of Vnre were snyin;
thnt he intended to retire from leadership.
Senator Penrose was burning the roads be
tween tills city nnd Washington in order to
meet his lieutenants for conference before
the.v had made such dickers with Vnre rs
would entrench that gentleman in power
for a jear or two longer. But discerning
men were beginning to think that l'enros.;
himself had been privy to the dickers of his
lieutenants. These men may be mistaken
and it mny be thnt while piofesslng to look
after the interests of the "big fellow" the.v
have been looking out more earnestly f t r
their own interests. To put It in the lan
guage of the politlcnl workers, they have
been suspected of "double-crossing" the
senior Senator.
The leaders of neither faction, however,
have been taking account of the voters. Thev
hnve nssumed that the city Is their private
preserve nnd that they can do with it wlmt
the.v will. The only man among the lot
who has seemed to see beyond the table
around which the traders have sat is Major
Moore. Ho has demanded that the work
begun when the first battle against con
tractor government wus won should be con
tinued nntil the contractor machine Is
det roved. He hns fought partnership be
tween Gov eminent and every form of private
graft. In the interest of the taxpajcrs as
well ns In the interest of decency.
When the.v read that Senator Vnre is
losing interest in politics because the op
portunity for pr.vate profit is slipping awry
from him. the thinking voters will decide
thnt the fight against contractor govern
ment wns hi gun not a day too soon.
r is notorious thnt the leaders of the
contractor machine have for years made the
City Government an anne of their private
business. They have dictated nomi
nations in the past as they -ore trjlng to
dictate them this jear. because the.v want.' I
men in office under such obligations to them
that thev could get what they wanted In tli
way of 'contracts. The men who drafted
i. oitioflnn tho men who awarded the
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bids and the men who inspected the work
were their creatures. It was easy to sav
that the profits must be so much and so to
manipulate affairs as to insure the desired
amount.
This Is why the streets have been hithy
in the past and it is why the pavements
hnve been poor nnd why nil public improve
ments hnve cost two or three prices And
it is why the contractor machine is lighting
this enr. If it can retain what power it
has now. it can hope to get more power nt
the next election, and it can then plot to
bring about a return of the old sjstem This
will hnppen unless the opponents of It are
eternally vigilant and eternally active. If
they are to be sold out under their noses
by men supposed to bo committed to n better
wnj, then they will have to deal with those
men olo ns well ns with the leaders of
the contractor combine.
If the worst happens a determined min
ority will continue the fight until it becomra
a triumphant majority.
THE "NAPOLEONIC INVENTION"
Till' Papal views on disarmament, ns ex
prcssed in nn authorized statement
from the Secretariat of State, are concerned
specifically with conscription, invidiously
described ns a "Napoleonic Invention "
Histoilenlly, this ascription of the blame
Is accurate. It was Napoleon's .-nllilnr)
policy, ns embodied in the Ixiast, "I enn
afford to expend .'10,000 men a month,"
which was directly formulated by General
.Tourdain in 1701 In introducing for the iiist
time in the statute books or any nntlon tlm
principle in the modern fcenbe of compulsory
milltarv service.
While it Is true that several Governmem (
of eighteenth-century Kiirope had ndople I
the brutal pollcv of empressment, and while
it is equally indisputable thnt unwilling sol
diers dale ns far back n historj , conscrip
tion In the nccepted menning of the term i
cssentlnllv a product of Intense nationalism
As that spirit nttalned unpreci dented
vigor in the nineteenth nnd twentieth cen
turies, the i mi lltions which preserved it may
perhaps be realized as more potent than tliono
ocr conceived bv Napoleon.
Thnt nationalism, a creed cnpable of in
spiring interpretations, should have fostered
what is now in mnnv quarters regarded nn
n menace to civilization Is one of those
pnrndoxes with which the chronicle of this
dob.- Is lamentably replete.
( TvUllirciU'll'Mvi' -"tiint'-" .. iiiMiiurj serv
. exists todav In .Inpnn. Trance, Spain,
ice
orvvnv, Italy, Switzerland Hiimanin, ben-n-lr
Peru. Chile, Gicece and Brazil Tho
N
ina
,i,.n,r at least Is upheld In most of the
y ntln-American republics. Modified form
of conscription are to be found In tho Neth
erlands and Sweden. '
Tho foremost countries in which, save In
time of war, voluntnry service Is tho rule
nre tho United States, Germany nnd Grcnr
Britain. The exact status of affairs In
Bussla has not been clearly defined, though
thero seems to be no doubt thnt In nn emer
gency Trotzky did not hcsltnto to lmltnto
the Napoleon method of tho drnft.
The situation, considered as a whole, Is
therefore not one calculated to Inspire
visitor from an Ideal planet with confidence
In tho peace preparations of this particular
sphere. The practice of training and arming
citizens nnd subjects hns obtaltifid a holl
which not even the most hideous conflict of
nil times wns sufficient entirely to dislodge.'
Thnt there has been a weakening Is, tf
course, undeniable. Tho coming Disarma
ment Conference In Washington Is planned
w-lth the idea of encouraging tho processes
of dissolution. The League of Nations cove
nant wns similarly devised.
These facts nre Indications thnt national
Ism nnd limitation of enforced soldiering nre
regarded by some spokesmen of true progress
us compatible. Thej must bo made so It
the folly nnd nindiiess of armed camps are
not to endure.
The moderation, so far as armies nre con
cerned, of the United Stntes and Great
Britain is not enough.
DANGEROUS PLEASURE
DIBICUTOU COBTMA'OU and Coroner
Knight would bo far less vngue and
uncertain In their discussion of the shocking
nlrplnne accident nt the Bustliton flying field
If the.v had ever taken the trouble to ncquiru
even n superficial knowledge of the technical
side of aviation. Thero is n fundnmentn'
difference between flying In the military
service or in accordance with good profes
sional rules and Hying ns it is being done for
plcnsnre In many parts of the United Stntes
a difference that sooner or later will have
to be recognized by those who mnkc and
administer laws for the protection of the
gcnernl public.
An nirplnno is a light nnd tensely organ
ized fnbric thnt Is subjected to terrific
stresses as soon ns It leaves the ground. Be
cause of the mnnner in which It Is rigged
nnd constructed, tho fnllure of a single wire
stay or the breaking of n bolt no Inrger thnn
n collar button may instantly put fntal
strains on other units nnd lend to the finnl
collnpse of n wing or the rudder mechanism.
Aviation motors, too, nre put to extraor
dinary stresses. They arc normally subject
to the damage that would occur in nn nuto
mobile engine operated constantly nt its
mnximum speed. For these reasons the most
highly developed division of the military
nvlntinn service is organized for inspection
and repair.
A military airplane is inspected over its
entire length nfter each flight nnd before
each ascent. This work is performed by
experts. Uven n short flight mny develop
unlooked-for flaws In nn aviation motor or
Its supporting structure. And, though u
plane may hnve been in the air but n few
moments, it is ns carefully looked over on
military and professional fields ns though It
hud crossed the Continent. Such work Is
costly. It is too costly to be done in plnco
where airplanes nrc used for so-called pleas
ure flights. Promoters of such amusement
cannot nfford to maintain lnrgc squads of
highly trained mechanicians to watch inn
chines that land nnd rise nnd land and rise
again with thrill -limiting passengers. Avia
tors trust too largelj to luck under such
circumstances or to n casual thumbing n'
stay wires by n hurried mechanic. More
over, the machines used for pleasure flying
nre In too many cases old-fashioned and in
poor gcneial repair.
Men who really know the risks of fljing
through long experience would be the last to
take clfnnces fn some of the planes which
pleasure-seekers ride In without dreaming of
any danger. Thej know that the work done
bj mechnnlcs on the ground is even more
important ns a factor of safety than ths
work of the pilot in the nir.
WHARVES FOR SHIPS ONLY
TIILItn nre few commendable rulings
upon any subject which do not renct
against some special interests, perhaps
worthy enough in themselves for the benefit
of the public good. Of such n natuie, ap
parently, is Director Sproule's decision deny
ing the use of riverfront wharves for other
than shipping purposes.
Should the courts sustnln this opinion the
construction of piers for storage purposes
exclusively will be even more categorically
forbidden than is now suggested by the exist
ing law. This distinctly stntes that wharves
are not the private property of him who
erects them and persons who go upon them
and fasten vessels to them nre not tres
passers. Unquestionably the primary interest of
the city and State in the Deluwnre Itlvcr
front In Philadelphia lies in its shipping de
velopment. Anchorage space has become n
very serious problem In New York, nnd this
poit, though its present facilities nrc
strained nlso, has profited by the jam In the
Hudson nnd the Unst Bivcrs.
Docks for ships are the foremost consider
ntion. Docks for private storage purposes
or other uses could be authorized did ample
accommodation exist for the growing com
merce here. Mr. Sproule has raised a point
which denotes constructive thinking.
THE GREEK REVERSE
TIIH serious Gieek lepulse in Asia Minor
justifies, with rather startling swiftness,
the wisdom of tho Supreme Council in ab
staining for the moment from meddling In
the piesent conflict with the Turks. It
wns, mm cover, exceedingly difficult for
Prance nnd Great llrltnin to follow their
inclinations on this subject nnd uttnin any
degi.e of harmony.
The former nntlon Is openly averse to
King Constantlne's expansionist program
and deplores the recent restoration ns u vic
tory of German Interests in Greece, which
proved so troublesome during the first hnlf
of the World War. Bnglnnd, it would np
pear, is plajing n deep and cautious game
in the Near Kast with whiih Constantlnlst
aspirations toward Constantinople ill ac
cord. It is likely that the policy looking toward
a revived Mvznntine empire with Cousin n
tine Installed on the Bosporus will receive
ii slgnifiiunt setback in Athens when the
propoitions of the Hellenic reverse are fully
appreciated. The Ottomans throughout their
checkered history have displayed marked re
cupeiative powers.
While it is doubtful if the dream of an
ndvance upon Constantinople can be real
ized, their temporary recovery mny presage
soberer counsels in Greece and a disincli
nation to pursue to extremes a campaign
which wns ominously outstripping the
measurements of n petty war.
This remnant of Armageddon hns been
the despair of nil clear-thinking exponents
of sane reconstruction nnd hns given ft
specious encouragement to those statesmen
who have pretended that tho Near-Bust
problem could be handled by a policy of
poxtponirnents.
A truce or n relnxntlnn of the intensity
of the frny would estnbllsh the necessity for
unking new treaties or validating the puct
of Sev res.
The average plate of
Culture nnd Ileans beans nld in Boston fop
fifteen cents contains
20." beans, which, with bread nnd butter,
costs two and a half cents, piijh the Mnssa
cliusetts Stnto Commission of Nccessnrles of
Life This shows a charge of one bit for
pulture.
THE OYSTERS WE EAT
In the Dawn of Thursday Next tho
Oyster Fleet Will Sail Greatest
Shipping Point In the U. 8.
at Our Doors
By GEORGti NOX McCAIN
TWO hundred nnd odd sailboats will slip
their hawsers or raise their anchors In
the gray dnwn of next Thursday morning
to hurry out Into the hook-shnped bight on
the South Jersey Const known, the world
over ns Maurice River Cove.
The oyster fleet will then start on Its
senson's work.
They will sail from Bivalve and Maurlco
River with captains thnt hall from Port
Norrls, Hclslcrvlllc, Newport nnd Fortes
cue. With few exceptions, every boat, In addi
tion to Its sprend of canvas-, will carry
auxiliary power gasoline engines to nsslst
the sea breeze.
A great oil monopoly maintains a gaso
line station nt Bivalve solely to supply tho
ojstcr fleet.
Each bont will bo n dream of white -white
pnlnt nnd white canvas. It will be "dolled
up" till It shines like a baby's face.
TIIH Jersey oyster gets a respite during
July and August. So docs the oyster
man. It hns been practically Impossible to get
"hnlf dozen on the shcH"auywhere of lato
jcars in midsummer.
A wise New Jersey lnw has decreed this
In the Interest of what the country editor
calls "ye luscious bivalve."
There Is n loophole, though. Ojstcrmen
who cater to unseasonable nppctitlcs can
supply oysters in August, but only nt a
trouble that does not pay the cost.
Prior to July 1 he can dump oysters on
the Cape shotc nt a point between Mnurlco
Cove nnd Cnpe May Point. Then during
the proscribed months he can rcdredge and
ship them to market.
Maurice River nnd Bivnlvc, nt the mouth
nnd on opposite sides of the Maurice Blver.
nre practically one. Their 1400 feet of,
continuous oyster wharves nro separated
only by 200 jards of water.
You can "holler" across the strcntn.
It is the greatest ojster-shlpping center
In the United States
0VHR 400 boats are licensed, or regis
tered, from these twin villages.
They arc unkempt little fishing linmlcts of
two story, and, mostly, unpnlntcd frame
houses.
At Bivalve there Is one main street, two
stores, n quaint little Methodist church nnd
n street-car line thnt ends in n band pile
nt the bottom of n telephone pole.
The trolley tracks run In waves like n
Malay creese.
Between Port Norrls and Bivalve tho car
does everything but loop-the-loop.
It is called the Mosquito Express. It runs
nt intervals of seventy-five minutes.
The oyster wharves on either side the
river nre 700 feet long. They rest on piles
driven into the sloping tide -swept banks of
Maurice River.
MOST of the sailors who man the oj-stcr
fleet nre Negroes. They como from
Baltimore, mostly. A few nre from Phila
delphia. There are six to ten men to n boat.
They are paid $100 a month nnd their
board. The board is of the best, for the
work Is hard. It includes four meals n day.
All the fleet officers are white men. They
nre usually owners or partners in the busi
ness. A visitor is perfectly safe in addressing
any white man in Port Norris ns "Cap
tain." unless he is driving n team or man
handling n wheelbarrow.
Every nble-bodied man in this fine little
town is, has been, or hopes to be captain of
nn ojster bout. Hence the snfety of the
application.
Tlie average oysterbont is fifty-five feet
over all. There is one nmbltlous soul who
tnlks of building one eighty-eight feet over
nil.
The United Stntes Custom House is a
little brown 10 by 12 shnck thnt stands by
itself on the straggly Main street.
Bivalve, with its population of 12." souls,
lias a really nnd truly United Stntes Cus
tom House. It needs n coat of pnlnt. Its
minimi window washing is scheduled to take
place tomorrow.
A tjpewritten legend tacked to the door
rends :
W. B. Stltes, nt Port Norrls.
This office opens nt 0 A. M.
Slapping mosquitoes is the principal oc
cupation of the icsidents of Itivalvo and
Maurice River during the off season.
There me some Maurice River mosnuitnes
as lnrgc as Philadelphia house flics.
They sing like catbirds.
MAURICE RIVER COVE is n wonderful
sen farm of 30.000 watery acres.
It is surveyed and laid out Into plots.
The State Is the landlord. Formerly it
charged fifty cents nn ncre rent to its "ten -nuts,
the ojster planters. This year It is
seventy-five cents per annum per ncre.
It is on these marvelously fertile acres
that the oysters nre planted. The crop is
sowed nnd reaped nt a deptli of from ten to
twenty feet. Some acres nre more fertile
than others. They grow crops more rapidly.
It lequiies anywhere from two to six
years, according to location, for oysters to
reach maturity.
Seed ojstcrs nre obtained up tho bay.
The seed beds are protected by the Com
monwealth. The tinj seed oysters nre gathered, car
ried down mid spread by thousands of bush
els over the watery acres of the cove.
God help the oysterman who violates
State rules relating to tlm plant.
Inspectors visit every bont. If more thnn
IB pel vent per bushel of "shell." the rock
to whiih the joung ojsters attach them
selves, h found the ojstermnn Is fined nn
unheard-of aiini and his bont confiscated and
sold.
To Jersey "lightning" nnd Jersey justice
ndd Jersey oyster laws.
EQUALLY drastic Is the punishment
It nit out to those who pollute the
wnters of tho cove.
A scavenger bont makes the rounds of the
oyster licet every day nnd collects drainage,
garbnge and refuse. Not a bit of this goes
over the side.
A State Hoard of Health chemist tests
the water to discover tho slightest indica
tions of impurity.
The ojster men howled to high heaven
when these rules were promulgated.
They double-damned Dr. Harvey Wiley,
the Washington bcienlst, who, in the Inter
est of public health, forced them upon tho
ojbtermen.
EVERY boatload of oysters dredged
thev call It "drudged" nt Bivalve Is
"flonted" in Mnurlce River. This fattens
the ovsters,
The.v are dumped Into flonts nnd nfter
ward forked into scows nnd taken to the
whnrves, where, under great shed roofs,
thev nro counted, packed in bags, togged
anil trucKeu into tne waiting fi eight cars,
ONE railroad, the Central of New Jersev,
hauls nn pnssenger trains nn Its III
vnlve branch; nothing but ojsters.
Two ovster trains a day nro run during
the season. Often tho trains are so large
that thev are mnde up as "double-headers" ;
1. e , requiring two engines
An average of 1000 cars of oysters n month
Is shipped from Mourlcc River and Itivnlve
bv the Pennsvlvnnin and the f'entrnl Rail
road of New Jersey In the season,
Seventv-fivn enrs a day, 100 bngs to a
car and 1000 ojsters to a bag, at $1 a hun
dred. Indicates thnt one day's shipment of
the Maurice River ojster crop amounts to
$".".000.
The height of the oyster season Is reached
in December. After that there is n decline
In the demnnd The public appetite becomes
pretty well sated by curly spring.
This promises to be a fine season for the
oysterman.
NOW MY IDEA IS THIS
Daily Talks With flunking Philadelphia on Subjects They
Knotv Best
CAPTAIN JAMES P. LYONS
On Officer Training
PROVISION for a sufficient number of
trained officers in ense of future eventu
alities nnd the development of Intelligent
nnd effective citizens nre the principal aims
of the Reserve Officers' Training Corps, nc
cordlng to Captain James P. Lyons, pro
fessor of mllitnry science and tactics nt
Drexel Institute. This Is one of many In
stitutions of learning in tho country thnt
hnve added this work to their courses.
"The purpose of the organization, said
Captain Lyons, "is to develop trained offi
cers nnd intelligent, patriotic and non
political citizens, men of physlcnl, mental
and moral force, who will think straight
nnd become regular American citizens.
"During the recent wnr we discovered
thnt most of the mistakes were mnde by the
comparatively untrained men on the field of
battle. In ninny Instances the.v proved
costly, nnd In order to prevent n repetition
of these in any future service that we may
be called upon to give, we nre trying to
establish a sufficient number of well-trnlned
men to lend our forces should It again be
come nccessnry.
Hopes for Disarmament
"The nations of the world huve made
moves trending townrd n general disarma
ment. It is to be hoped that their efforts
will be crowned with success. Hut even if
they are n consldernblo military force Is
necessary to preserve order nnd to tnke
care of other details hnving to ilo with the
safety of the nation. It would nlso be
well, while hoping for the millennium, to
keep our bends about us, nnd remember that
there Is 'many a slip,' nnd therefore not to
he too sure in making our calculations tor
the future.
"The first step in the making of u good
citizen Is to cultivate a sound body with u
ti nlned mind and good mornls.
"Patriotism is n big factor not the sort
that manifests itself on July 4 nnd similar
gala occasions but the cverjday variety
that will be willing to pay the tacs neces
sary to support the Government, to study
nnd fuce national problems nnd not only to
vote, but vote for the best man and tho
best principle.
"In addition, the good citizen must be a
man who oheys the laws of Ills country and
liis community. Such a man Is the man to
train t loops nnd lead them in time of neces
sity. Proper Training Needed
"It Is nccessnry thnt men should have tho
proper phjsical equipment, the set-up nnd
benrlng that Impresses Itself on one's fel
lows. The good citizen with the military
training cannot help but benefit, too, by
lenrnlng nnd practicing the three cardinal
military virtues: thnt is, to be honest, just
nnd faithful to themselves nnd their fellows.
"The honor of a soldier is his grcntest
nsset. On thnt the whole structure of a
milltnry orgnnizntion Is built, nnd upon thnt
foundation stone must n country depend in
time of need. He must be just nnd lenrn
to think of the other fellow ns well as him
self, and he nyist piny the game.
"Washington snld that the people should
not only be armed but disciplined. With
perhnpb greater vision than he realized, ho
said that one of the greatest national de
fects wns the lack of respect for authority.
Respect for authority breeds loyalty, nnd
the success of any country or nny community
Is dependent to n large extent upon the
practice of this virtue.
Real Leaders Needed
"We wont to train men for leadership
men who will know how to deal justly and
wisely nnd humanly with the man under
him. It is n common trait in humnn na
ture thnt a little hit of authority Is likely
to be abused by those who do not know how
to administer it wisely. So in our course
we put the responsibility on the hovs ami
let them find out from the start tluit they
have to develop these necessary qualities.
"The way to fit men for nfficershlp Is not
to grind them dally, continuously with
drills, drills, drills. It is nn American
trait to want to know whnt the work is nil
about and what Is the general plan. So in
such n course as we provide the coming
officer gets n vision of the whole field. Every
phase of the work Is studied during the four
jeors thnt he Is enrolled, the first two being
compulsory, the remainder elective. It Is n
slow comse. with the result that the tech
nique of being nn officer will hnve become
more or less second nature In that time.
Makes Better Citizens
"The boys lenrn to shoot, they lenrn
topography, planning nnd numerous other
NOW IS THE TIME
details, military history, tnctics nnd other
essentials. Later on they learn administra
tion nnd other elements demanded In a mili
tary executive.
"The result is that when ho has com
pleted the course and token his degree,
which carries with it n commission ns sec
ond lieutenant, the young man Is not only
trained for military service, but he Is in
every way u better man and a better citi
zen for tho experience.
"Ho hns tlie qualities of leadership, he
hns force of character, he has good health,
he is trained, resourceful nnd efficient. And
most "ssential, ho has poise and self-control,
absolute necessity if one hopes ut any futuro
time to control others,"
Today's Anniversaries
1(300 King William was forced to raise
the siege of Limerick after sustaining great
loss.
. 1""0 General Wnshlngtnn withdrew his
forces to tlie city of New York from Long
Ibland.
1S21 John F. Mercer, Revolutionary
? ii i ."'.") ('ov.cruor f Marjland. died In
PhUndcIphhi. Born nt Marlborough, Vn.,
18'?f,Trc"r'-?s O'Connor, lender of tho
Chnrtlst uprising in Greut Britain, died In
Loudon. Horn July IS, 17!)..
18S1 More than .'100 lives lost In the
wreck of the Cnpe mail steamer Teuton in
blmnns Jinv.
in Vhk 'o1'6 Dr Cronln rour'ier trlul began
i 1)tt-7"ri' filef Justice Russell, of Eng
land, addressed the Amerlcnn Bur Associ
ation nt Saratoga,
fast""0-SCrl0UH rioti"g cot'"ed in Bel
Today's Birthdays
n iY'V Hu,1"rrfo,r,!' ,"C Hie most cmi-
b nn "' 1,1,jMd8t8- bur in New Jen
land tiftv years ago.
The Rt. Rev. Herbert Shimnnn. Bishon
Suffragan to the Episcopal Blihop of N,"v
jcms'ngr nt I'exi,1t0. K,., ' fifty -tw-o
Unlverrs7t'I;,fAiVe,I!Ur,nni Mont of the
iiuvirsitj of .Michigan, horn at Brook wi
lu.. forty-seven jenrs ago. Ijn'
"nrronJ. Mnulton. president-elect of
Sm.?vi;ichTV0,?fl(',,1!ft ST""ir' l,0'
I'rlVJ sji ff1' "f'J-flx jears ago.
I ritz ijcheff, popular actress and vocalist
bon. at Vienna, Austria, for.y-ouo j iar'i
What Do You Know?
QUIZ
What nro bntrnchlans?
Inula?" ,h0 'red0l,atinB religion of
What Is nn ousol?
wLvisGpVor,re'iat,sthe
origin of ihu word? nat '" tne
v 1 tii whnt Invention in i,
Ellaa Ilowoconnecled? ,h "nm8 of
InM ,h V"eUc mimo tor a night
What Is the regular meeting dav of th.
presidential ('ublnet' r tn8
Whnt shrub Is the cmhlrm t -
brance? tmoiem of remem-
Answers to Yesterday's Qulr
Tho expression of "ltoso nt en,,... .. ,
The parts of the mainland of Amerlen ,li.
sr,ba,rusr:!vpter-'?;
nnd tho const of 'South AinnL.ncr,t'a
tho mouth of tlm Orlt.AK nC"r
Ell I.orlng nresel, American Cornmia
,,Ja,Idteme,,,,;.SlrU,;'10,", '" Wa?lats5t
Mathlas Krherger, leader nf i. r,
trlst or Catholic i(r ty was -i rf..Cen'
statesman, who first t.ecamo imi'mi"
tlonally prominent In 9 7 "vvh'e ?,,eu:
member of the Ilelchstair 1 n.iuLi? .l
Ar? - Ktfa'3 ?
Sixteen nnd one-half feet rm.i,,. . ,
Alonso cam. was notVd I SiTn W.VTntS'r
sculptor and architect ills li Mt woruJ
are lu Oranailn, where hi wns 1.1 ... i
1C01 and where Jib died in 1067 ' '"
The Mississippi rise In Jr "tar Luke
Itasca In Northern Minnesota
AtViM. B t,,B larBest cily '" suti
10,
SHORT CUTS
Now is the accepted time to register.
Local politicians nppcnr to be suffering
rtom Penrose fever.
' At John Bull's dinner table nowadays
no India relish is served with his roast beef.
Father Penn, It Is to be hoped, will
today register civic decency in lnrge num
bers. Whnt n wonderful team Butch Mc
Dcvitt .and Congressman llerrick would
make!
This Ib the season of the year when
politicians speak eloquently of decreased
taxation.
Charley Chnplin wants to play "Beau
Brummcll." This shows his modesty. He
might huve aspired to "Hamlet."
The rosiest promise of peace In Irelnnd
lies in the fact that the people at large are
sure they arc going to have it.
Pussyfoot Johnson does not believe that
the British hnve trouble enough In India.
Ho bus gone there to make it bono dry.
Dr. Bernard Dernburg snjs the Ger-mnn-Amcrienn
pence treaty Is virtually a
repetition of the Versailles violence. Thanks,
murmurs Uncle Sam, for the boost.
The Y. W. C. A. charm school oujit
to be n success. It will bo a success every
where when the girls icnlizc that it is not I
class in painting.
Congressman Derrick is said to be thi
originator of the Copper-Faced Hereford.
As n self-made man ho may also shoulder
responsibility for the brazen-faced.
Congressman Fordney's promise of a
soldiers' bonus law by December clinches
the opinion that ns a statesman nnd econo
mist he is u successful politician and tpell
binder. Add Heroines in the Dav's News,
Mrs. Raymond D. Wethereli, of Pittsburgh,
who abandoned n vacation in order to suffer
n blood transfusion operation for 11 woman
who was n stranger to her.
If we nil belonged to n local political
organization and took ftn Interest in politic!
nt times other thnn round nbout election
time we would not now be In the position
of waiting to see which candidates the
political bosses will allow us to vote for.
Interesting little cud of thought for
advocates of foreign -language newspnpers to
chew on. There are a million and half peo
ple In the United Slates who speak Swed
ish; most of them nre omnivorous renders!
thero is not one Swedish dully newspaper
lu the country.
Paris dressmakers nre said to be work'
lug 011 tho principle nf "the scantier the DM"
terlnl the higher the cost." Here is given
point to the ancient answer to a foolish
question: "The higher tlie fewer" the
higher tlie skirt from tlie ground the fewer
the beads that nre left.
Senator Penrose says the Amerlcnn
farmer Is bettor organized than nny ether
voting group and sees in it n big asset for
the political pai ty which looks with ffl"or
upon It. Not n word jou'li note on the
desirability or fairness of its aims. Mr.
Penrose Is 11 "practical politician."
The time for muddling along in Wert
Virginia Is past. Tlie rights and wrongs 01
the Industrial sltuntion In Mlngn should I
investlgnted. a decision reached nnd the hw
enforced. Such investigation should he wel
comed by miners and operators alike, There
has been enough muddling. There has been
more than enough bloodshed.
Mrs. Preble, of Mnrblehend,
Seventy-four, shook her bend and said,
"The modern girl Is a brazen jndo
With pcck-n-hoo waists her stock in trade.
With her too-short skirts nnd her too-short
i hair
She is bound for perdition, or worse,
there."
But Mrs. Packnrd. of Brockton, Mnss.,
At eighty-four Is n sprlghtller lass.
She thinks slioit skirts an improvement flu'"
On the skirts that trailed, an awful shi"''
And tlie hair that' bobbed nnd the pt'ik-a'
boo waist ,
Are nil that they should be, n mutter 01
taste.
Who is right? -Who Is wrong? We tell J
true;
It all depends on the point of view.
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