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All rights of republication of special dispatcher nerein are alto reserved rhlladrlphls, Siturdir, Srptrmber 3, 1921 THE CONVENTION IN DANCER TliEUIC will bo no Constitutional Conven tion unless the lenders in the State who think it necessary get busy. The members of tin commission which drafted it revised Constitution favor the convention. Many of the leading lawyers favor Jt. The League of Women Voters nnd the Republican Women's Club nre actively cam paigning for it. It will take more influence than these people possess to induce the voters at the primaries on September L'O to declare in favor of the convention. The opposition is influential and organ ised. The State Orange does not want the Constitution revised nt this time. Neither docs the mine workers' union. Nor docs the Patriotic Order of the Sons of America. And influential politicians who have been saying for years that revision should be postponed have not announced nny change of view. The opposition rests on puerile reasons. One group objects to a convention be cause twenty-five members would be ap pointed by Governor Sproui. Another objects because it is afraid that the convention will open the door to ap propriation of public money to sectarian charities. And still another group Insists thnt it is not bate to permit a revision which would give the radicals the opportunity they hnve long been waiting to embody their doctrines in the fundamental law. There nre disinterested voters enough in the State tocarry the proposition for a con vention if they can be interested. But no one seems to be making a serious attempt to arouse their interest. GOVERNOR WOOD rriHE acceptance by General Wood of the X governorship of the Philippines is so logical a sequel to the exhaustive inspection tour which he has just completed in com pany with Cameron Forbes that even the loss suffered by the nrmy and the Univer sity of Pennsylvania need not be utterly '(deplored. Owing to the refusal of Congress to per mit military officers to accept civil posts under the Government, General Wood has announced his retirement from the service to which he has contributed thirty-five years of his life. Perhaps it Is just as well that American precedeut has not been violated. Special legislation is not usually commendable. General Wood will bring to the Philip pines an equipment which should enable him to serve the National Administration in precisely the way that it desires. Both political and financial conditions in the archipelago are complex and difficult. The results of the investigation tour have proved the existence of a substantial senti ment for semi -independence. His new role is one calling for the high est qualities of statesmanship, sympathy, tact, firmness nnd clear vision. THE NEW TAX BILL EVEBY business man will be delighted with the decision of the Scnutc Finance Committee to drop the Internal Itevenuo Bill as it came from the House nnd to draft an entirely new' bill on a different plan. The House bill was made up of amend ments to the old laws. To discover what taxes were levied It was necessary to compare the existing laws with the amendments. xr The Senate committee hns decided to draft s complete Internal Itevenuo BUI, in which (every tax levied will be included nnd in ' which the manner of its assessment will be iset forth. Complete Information about tax liabilities is to be contained in the measure. The old laws arc to be repealed. This is the way to mnke a tax law. It will simplify the task of the courts which hnve to interpret It nnd it will lenve the taxpayer In no doubt about his liability. KEEP THE LAW DEMOCRATIC WHEN the legal education section of the American Ilnr Association adopted the Boot resolution recommending thnt no one bo admitted to the bar who had not studied nt least two years in a college nnd three years In n recognized law school It did what it thought best to prevent ill qualified persons from practicing law. Every one admits thnt n lawyer should have ji fairly liberal general education in addition to his technical training. But two jenrs in college and three years in n low school will not of themselves nssure either. The way to keep unqualified men out of Hie profession is to muke such tests for admission to practice as will exclude tho Incompetent. No one cares where n man gets his educa tion no long as he Is educated. Some of the best Inwjcrs the country ever had never went to college or to law school. Abrahnm Lincoln was one of them. -Vhen he wns elected to the presidency he was tho leader of the bur of Illinois. But it Is not necessnrv to go so far back , as Lincoln nor so far nway ns Illinois to 'Ind other distinguished examples, Tho late John G. Johnson, of this city, distinguished on both sides of the ocean as one of the greatest lawyers America hns produced, wns only a high school graduate. ,IIe got his legal training in the office of Benjamin Hush. He Htudled to such purpose thnt soon after his admission to the bar lie was re garded as one of the most proinhilng young practItlonern in the city. v If the law is to be democratic, the prac tice of it must he open to every man of 'Eood character who can qualify for it. xllp is a fatal mistake to attempt to say limaa wuo quniiuca in one way may ft.. practice and a man who qualifies in another way may not. There arc thousands of capable and am bitious young men who cannot afford to give up five years to formal study in college and a law school, 'Ilicy have to earn a living. Men in the past have qualified themselves for tho law while earning a living. Other men enn do it in the future. When the qualifications of character and knowledge of the theory nnd practice of tho law have been fixed, then the examining boards can decide whether the candidates for ndmlsslon to the bar meet these quali fications. It does not matter how or when or whero they prepared themselves, If they nre pro pared. And if sufficient stress Is put on character no unworthy men will get by the examining boards. It would be a fatal mistake to close the door of opportunity to any young man who can fit himself to be n lawyer. A GLANCE TO THE REAR OF WEST VIRGINIA'S TWO MOBS Military Intervention Made Necessary by the Negligence and Ineptitude of the State Legislature NOW that the worst has come to the worst in West Virginia, the panic shout of "Bolshevism!" will be raised ngaln on one side of the Invisible lino that divides the State. On the other there will be tho old cry of "Capitalistic Czarism." Hasn't Mr. Gompcrs leaped Into print with an Indictment of what he calls industrial nu tocracy, and hnsn't Sheriff Hon Chafin begun to talk of the miners ns a Bed Army? So all the verbal dust-heaps left In the wake of war hysteria will be combed again for epithets thnt menu nothing nnd serve only to hide the truth that underlies this tragedy. The mechanism of civil government wns left to rust in West Virginia. The gangs nnd the politicians had their way too long, The problems that miners nnd Deputy Sheriffs nro trying to solve by blind rioting should have been solved long ago by the West Virginia Legislature, which shifted and shrank and did nothing while Irrespon sible nnd powerful groups of miners nnd coal operators warred for autocratic power within the State. The situation that has resulted cannot be dismissed with a curse or nn epigram. It is n dreadful nnd sobering spectacle. The disaster it is nothing less is all-inclusive. Who can imagine the feeling of n Presi dent of the United Stntcs who must sum mon one group of Americans to thredten nn other with machine guns? The sight of Federal soldiers unshipping artillery to meet an oncoming misguided mob; of military airplanes loaded with bombs, flontlng over hordes of bewildered, angry, child-hearted mountaineers, is one thnt ought to move every rational mind to pity nnd to rnge ngainst the people who made such a eulminntlon inevitable. The mob that has created tumult in West Virginia is not composed of foreigners or nllcns or anarchists. It is made up of Americans, of men descended from thoe who were the first to fling their lives nnd their property Into the war for the Union in Lincoln's day. Love of country is a ruling passion with the West Virginia moun taineer. What advontngc there can be in misrep resenting nnd misinterpreting the general situation in the soft-coal region of West Virginia Is for the people who attempt that foolish and dangerous business to explain. The simple fact Is that the State is not witnessing n conflict between nn undisci plined mob on one hand nnd the forces of Jaw nnd order nnd justice on the oilier. It Is In the grip of two unruly mobs fight ing for supremacy nnd determined to settle by gunfire n problem of civil administration and administrative ethics which the State authorities wouldn't or couldn't solve. Viewed in one light, military intervention promises more thnn tho cill law has prom ised In the State since mob law, established with equal fervor by miners and the private nrmy of the conl operators, became generul in the bituminous Held a year ago. Army rule, hard as It Is, is still far more democratic thnn the rule established in the Guynn Vnlley by Sheriff Chafin and special agency detectives wearing the bndges of Deputy Sheriffs. It is far more democratic nnd far more safe than tho mob rule with which the miners have opposed tho long continued semi-military dictatorship nt the mines. The march of the miners began with the determination of the union members to cor rect by violence nn abuse of law which the State itself should have corrected long ngo by rigidly limiting the number of armed mercenaries which the mine owners nre accustomed to import into the region to enforce their will nnd to mnlntnln n system of acknowledged feudalism. The mfners will probably disperse in deference to the Federal troops and their commanders rather than In fear. Mr. Hnrding, with obvious reluctance, did the only thing possible when he ordered tho soldiers Into the State. Wisely commnnded, the troops can save life lnstend of destroying it. Rule of some sort Is necessary to nvert slaughter. But what will the West Virginia Legis lature do when the trouble Is ended? WILL LANDIS TAKE HEED? WHEN Judge Lnndls accepted n large snlary as national arbiter of baseball without resigning from the Federal bench he discovered what the newspapers thought of his conduct. lie was denounced from one end of the country to the other. Then n Resolution was introduced in Congress calling for his Impeachment. Now the American Bar Association has adopted a resolution declaring thnt his con duct is "unworthy of the office of Judge, derogatory tu the dignity of the bench nnd undermining public confidence in the Inde pendence of the judiciary." Yet Judge Lnndis remains on tho bench ! Every revelation he hns made of himself in recent years leads one to the conclusion thnt he will stay there until he is forcibly removed. Perhaps Congress will now get up the nerve to summon him for trial in impeach ment proceedings. INDISPENSABLE TO THE FAIR THE Philadelphia Hoard of Trade enter tains the notion that one of the first things to be done to excite grcnter interest in the World'n Fair project in this, city is to select a site. Judging by the history of other interna tional expositions, there seems to be some thing in the idea. , The spokesman for the Board of Trade W. It. Tucker, Its secretary- suggests in a letter to Mnvou Moore that it might be well to let .the Fair Committee know what Is needed. More speed in starting the un dertaking is also politely advised. Whllei It is true that ''biliHeJphlana would bo inclined to deplore an exhibition hastily planned nnd hurriedly constructed, it is equally certain that tho danger of traveling too fast. In the current undertaking has not yet bceli manifested. Without overstepping any ot tho due bounds of prudence and discretion, it may be said that It decision now upon the sccno of the fair need not necessarily be stamped as a rash performance. There are times in all communities, even in Philadelphia, when tho way to begin a thing is to start it. HARDING ON ARMS THUTII alwnys is distasteful to many people. Habitual critics of Mr. Hard ing lost no time In raising n complaint about tho speech to the Army Wnr College, in which tho President reminded his hearers and the country that the tlmo for eompleto disarmament Is not yet in sight. It will be said that the address was un timely In view of the approaching Dis armament Conference. Yet the President said nothing that the most ardent antl militarist cannot easily reconcile with his highest hopes. No one believes that tho statesmen who nre soon to meet In Washington can nt once abolish all military organizations and alt .military forms. What they can do, If they arc successful, Is to put a check on the development of now armaments of an appalling sort based on the science of chemistry and aviation. They mny bo nble to put naval rhalrles out of fashion. If these things arc accomplished, anything is possible in tho wnv of diminishing tax burdens nnd lessened possibilities of wnr. If the Disarmnmcnt Conference enn even make a beginning townrd such ends It will have done what no other group of statesmen' ever did. With limited nnvles, International war would be uullkely or even impossible. Mcnu whlle, every nation will have to maintain an nrmy and n navy of some sort. Visible signs of governmental authority and power will be required In every civilized Stntc until tiic dnys of the millennium. This does not mean thnt the world must support military organizations so powerful as to make wnr seem Inevitable or even desirable. Mr. Harding said nothing that every sen sible man did not already know to be truo and his address, instead of being Ill-timedT had n note suggestive of trie realistic sort of purpose nnd the clear understanding necessary to even the partial success of,n conference such ns he has called in tho interest of world peace. MR. ROOT DECLINES WELL-WISHEBS of the new Court erf International Justice will regard with regret, but nlso sympathy, the refusal of Elihu Hoot to accept the membership nomi nations by which six nations have honored him. Mr. Boot wns the choice of France, Brazil, Bolivia, Venezuela, Italy nnd Uru guay for one of the judgeships. These Gov ernments, appreciative of Mr. Hoot's vigor ous efforts in helping to draw up the plan of the court about a year ago, seem (to have overlooked the consideration of ngo which their nominee now emphasizes in his refusal. Mr. Hoot will he seventy-eight next Feb ruary, but his present step is the first thnt hns denoted u voluntary abridgment of Ills aethities. Since it is one of the privileges of age to limit what might otherwise be deemed obligations, Mr. Hoot readily can justify himself for withdrawing from n monumental enterprise which lie did much to launch. He remnins n member of The Hague Court, with Oscar S. Straus, George GrayCnnd John Bassett Moore as his American asso ciates. The last-named has just been proposed in Mr. Hoot's place by the Italian nominators, on act which duly recognizes tho high qualifications of another American au thority on world jurisprudence. ' THE GENTLEMAN FROM HAWAII JKL'HIO KALANIANOLE mny not pre- clsely he a name to conjure with in some quarters, but bock in the Hawaiian Islands it is synonymous with consistent, wise, untiring nnd patriotic service. For more than twenty years a longer poriod than thnt for which the average Con gressman is permitted to serve Ills constituents- Prince ICnlnnianole has represented the interests of our most contented insular possession nt tho National Capital. During his official tenure as a terri torial delegate Hawaii lias thrived until its population now exceeds that of two of the States of the Union Nevada and Wyoming respectively and has prospered industrially and commercially to a m.ukcd degree. This growth hns been accompanied by virtually no serious friction with the Fed eral Government. In preserving these happy relations Prince Kalaninnole has undoubt edly played a part. His announced resignation calls nttention to problems ot home which the islanders themselves nre best qualified to attack. The letiring delegate is immediately to begin work ns n member of the Hnwaiian He linbilitation Act Commission, which will seek to adjust some tangled racial ditliculties nnd land questions which have grown increas ingly formidable. Not tho least important of its purposes is the preservation of the nntive Polynesians, who nre now far outnumbered by Japanese settlers. Tiio ingratiating, soft-voiced, musical, almost amphibious, capable, though as jet far from energetic aboriginals are worth safeguarding. Prince Kalaninnole furnishes n striking instnnce of their capacity once enthuslnsm Is aroused. ELIMINATING YAP REPORTS of the beginning of nn Ameri-cnn-.Tnpnnese agreement on Ynp arc easily reconcilable with the disinclination of Tokio to hove the question placed before the Disarmament Conference. "With thnt issue out of tho way, it is not unlikely that Japan may be Induced to spenk frankly upon Pacific affairs at the coming parley. If the accounts, of preliminary concord nre correct, the United States will nequire tho cable rights on which it lias insisted, while the Japanese mandate for Yap anil neighboring Islands, formerly German pos sessions, will be acknowledged. Such nn arrangement, although It would not alter the present jurisdiction over the islands, would realistically justify the American position regarding this nsslgn meat. Mr. Hughes has maintained, and Mr. Colby before him, thnt the Leaguo of Nations hud no authority to dispose of lands to which tho United Stntcs claimed a joint title iin ono of tho fruits of victory over Germany. This principle will be validated if Japa nese possession of Yap is gained, not only by agreement with the European Powers as lepresented In the League, but ulso with the United States. Tle American contention Involves a point upon which, it would appear, tho piesent Secretary of State Is just the attorney to argue with skill and force. Efforts being made to Healthy Competition show that New Yoik has n Inrger popula tion thnn London maj be elusscd among Chronicles of the Unimportant. Whiih.city hns tho larger number of linppy nnd con tented citizens? If a census could deter mine that and promote healthy rivalry It ivould be something worth while. OPTIMISM IN BUSINESS A Fine Sample From the Ocean Side. Running an American Fleet Tho Sesqul-Centennlal Our Record Road Building By GEORGE NOX SlcCAIN AD. STEBBINS, president of tho Mer- chants nnd Miners' Transportation Compnny, is an optimist of tho kind rated by Lloyds as AA1. Not every captain of industry today is viewing the business outlook through primrose-colored glasses. ' President Stebbins is so viewing it. He Imparts confidence and radiates hope fulness when he talks about our commercial and industrial future. Besides, ns tnc master mind of a great coastwise maritime corporation he speaks with a knowledge of the subject. He is in touch with all the great centers of popula tion east of the Mississippi. "Tho outlook for our business future is gradually brightening," he-says. "Our line is Increasing gradually Its tonnage at all the ports from Boston to Jacksonville. "The horizon Is much elenrer today than it was last spring. The percentage of In crease is a little larger every month. It Is a very hopqful sign. "If ns n Nation we fncq' the situation with confidence I have not the slightest doubt thnt the beginnins of tho new year will find us in much better shape than we arc today. "Talk bout business depression should ctnso. Let us talk nbout business revival, nnd then square our efforts to harmonize with our words." Tho business world needs a few moro gospelcrs of the new dispensation of tho Stebbins stripe, HB. VAN SCIVEB is the antithesis of t the sailing mnstcr beloved of Clark Hussoll and other famous fictlonists of the sea. lie Isn't bronzed nnd bluff. He lacks the "lolling" gait of the sad sea dog. He is minus tho piercing eyes made humid by the spray and spume nnd spindrift tossing Vntors. His easy manner. Tjulct Intonation nnd generally professlonnl nir Is that of n cor poration lawyer or chief of a manufacturing concern rather than the executive head of one of the largest of our fleets of American steamships. He Is superintendent of the Merchants nnd Miners' Transportation Company, of which Mr. Stebbins is tho head. There nio fourteen steamships sailing under Its house Hag. There nie hundreds of snllors nnd ships officers, thousands of passenzerv and hun dreds of thousands of tons of enrgo for which he is, in n wny, responsible every yenr. He can tick off, with the accuracy of a train dispatcher on the Pennsylvania Ball road, the whereabouts of any ship of the licet at niij hour of the day. That Is, of course, providing wind nnd wave and machinery are attending btrlctly to business. TO A landsman there is always more or less in) story nbout ocean travel and those who "go down to the sea in ships." In n wny, nnd to experts like Superin tendent Van Solver, tho handling of a fleet of steamships is n very prosaic affair. It's all a pait of a day's work. The vessels traverse definite lanes or routes. Tlielr speed under normal condi tions is accurately gauged. Their wireless keeps thorn in constant touch with the home office on land nnd sister ships nt sea. Express steamers run with the calculated regularity of the Twentieth Century Limited or a Pennsylvania ilier. They vary less than an hour in their nr rlval nt it given port. Bad weather some times delays the schedule. Rarely docs it wreck it save for the time being. "What is the greatest obstacle you en counter in the operation of your ships?" I asked. "Fog," was the immediate reply. "It Is the one thing that every seafaring man dreads. It cannot be guarded against nor overcome. "Bough weather is to he expected ot times. Careful seamanship, however, and the vari ous appliances for the piotcction of life and property at sea are coming so generally into use that even the menace of fog is mini mized." In spite of tho remarkable advances in aviation, the establishment of nir mall routes, aerial express service between con tinental cities and the conquest of the sky generally, Mr. Van Sciver is of the belief that it will be n long time before aerial commercial freight or express systems ore inaugurated. THE scsqui-centeuninl is Inching nlong. In spite of rather than because of offielnl conditions the people themselves are mois tening their palms nnd taking hold of the proposition. Tho Order of Independent Americans is a piesent and conspicuous example. Next Tuesday evening the order will hold a parade In honor of the sixteenth minimi session of the State Council. Incidentally, it will also celebrate the passage of the Compiilsor) Flug Display Bill in this State, I. calling men of the order like Edwnrd L. Krueger. William A. Pike and Edward Wilson, with hundreds of the fiatcrnity In local councils, have staged a spectacle that will prove an inspiration for the exposition. The councils of the order in Philadelphia are behind it. A number of floats portraying some of the gieat historic events in American history aie to form a part of the imposing demon stration. It is far-sighted planning like this that will keep the scsqui-ecntenniul idea before the people. HERE is nnothcr Instance from another angle. It Is an Idea worthy of honorable mention. Whoever in the Philadelphia Real Estate Hoard conceived it, he has the s-ntisfaetion of Knowing thnt he is leading the file. There is being sent broadcast by thou sands n seven-inch device, consisting of two covers and an Inclosure, shaped to rep resent the Liberty Bell. It opens from the bottom. There Is just enough printed matter Inside and out to tell its story. Among tho catch linos there nre two that stand conspicuous on the cover of this unique souvenir: "Philadelphia, the Mother City of tho United States," and "Philadelphia, the Glad-Hand City of America." Inside are twenty folded chromotypes of Philadelphia scenes, its principal buildings, streets and the poit. It Is effective, unusual and attractive. THE fact hns already been published that Pennsylvania during the Inst yenr has completed more miles of cement highways thou any other State In the Union. Tills clnss of roads is intended to outlast the life of the bonds thnt were issued for their completion. This menus u thorough f nro thnt will he in use, practically ns it is now, thirty years hence, when most of those connected with their construction hnve pissed nway. But that is not all. Highway Commissioner Sadler tells me thnt out of the more than -100 miles of this sort of rond built during the Jjist year, only two "slabs" of it bad to be remade or re built. Cement roads are laid in sections, or rather in great slabs from forty to eighty feet in length. These two defective ones embraced nlinut l."0 fct. One was due to nn unseen spring which undermined the concrete. The other wns laid when the thermometer was below Il.'i decrees and the mixture froze. It is u remarkable record. Bring Your Own Milk From tho Mund Viilliy. Kan.. Tlnici-Jotirna!. Talk about living In the Inud of milk and honey, t suro happens In this county. Ike nines, who has a big farm north of towii, found honey was dripping through the cell ing of his farmhouse. The bees, got in through the weather boards jind under the floor of the second story. f hi ' ' ' N JQ mi Niiniiiiiiiir-"iiiiiir '; -j1SBbi InSW fl i"?v &S eA? HP MRS! iHWWiMfi '-;:,r, .v HIS iSsSSS9KJw NOW MY IDEA IS THIS Daily Talks With Thinking Philadelphia on Subjects They Knoiv Best DR. WILLIAM C. FARABEE On Co-operation of the Americas A SPIRIT of co-operation is necessary if this country Is to have cordial "and profitable relations with its neighbors of the Southern Continent, ncoordlng to Dr. Wil liam C. Farabee. curator of the University Museum. Dr. Farabee was one of tliCj com mission of six distinguished Americans sent by President Harding to represent this country on the occasion of the celebration of the 100th anniversary of the independence of Peru. "The two continents hnve some fundamen tal things in common," said Dr. Farabee. "One thing that makes the Peruvian cen tennial significant to us is the fact that this country as well ns other countries of South America were struggling for nnd ob tained their independence at almost the same time. Peru won her freedom because Spain was busily occupied in the Napoleonic cam paigns. And during recent yenrs Europe hns been well occupied with her own affairs, again leaving the Americas to their own do vices. Thus the present time Is nn nus picious one in which to urge thnt co operation for which wo nre both open. Paid Honor to Peru "President Hnrding and his Administra tion realized this when they sent tho "com mission and three bnttleslilps to do honor to the Peruvians on tills occasiou. It was an official step that showed true diplomacy and made a deep impression on our South American neighbors. "There nre many reasons why our coun try and those of Latin and South America should have close business relations. They hnve the raw materials and we have tho manufactured produetN, so between us we could trade quite advantageously. "Neither country has been hit as hard by the war as other countries, this being particularly the inso with the South Ameri cans. The cost of living has risen only 50 per cent there, their resources nre gi cat nnd consequently they hnve not far to fall to effect a readjustment approaching normal. The prices of their raw umteilals are low and they suffer by the exchange rate. But these conditions arc temporary nnd not so dilfi cult of adjustment. "There is one tiling thnt wo must learn, however. We must be friends with our neighbors if wo would do business. Culture nnd psychology piny a much more important part with them thnn plain business methods. We must understand and respect their cus toms, their needs, their institutions and their way of doing business jf We arc to be successful in dealing with them. Must Accept Old Customs "The Instincts of Old World courtesy and gentility nre firmly rooted in them. Conse quently we intist realize this ami recognize them as a subtle force in business, or we shall fail to hit the mark. "One reason why other countries succeed in getting business whero we fall Is con tributed by the fnet that, whereas other countries send their first-class men to other countries, we usuully send our second or third clnss men. This is lnrgely brought about by the fact that England France and other European countries have developed their own resources to the full nnd send their ijcsc men hi ouier countries to pcrtorm a lluo service there. We, on the other hand, are so busily engnged in developing our own and find them so much more profitable that our best men stay here, leaving men of lesser caliber to go elsewhere. "The icsult is that the inpn of culturo and education from other countries fit In more happily with a people whose very fun damentals ate based on those qualities than do the less prepared men of our own couu try. This hns Its weight even though tho promptness mid wny of getting things done that the Americans hove is appreciated by these countries nnd is slowly having its effect. "Most of our business men do not seem to realize the conditions in South America unci to understand or care for the fact that specifications ns to apparently minor points in the shipment of goods nre ically very Important to the purchaser. Transportation Big Problem "Transportation, because of the nature of the country in miiny coses, is not what It Is here. To reach some interior point often it is necessary to icsort to pack mules and to. travel oer narrow and dilficult mountain pusses. If a package of, say, 150 pounds Is ordered, a liOO-pound package will not do because two of the smaller packages icpre sciit, the average mule's carrying capacity. ' "Jf p. ccrtoln size packago Is specified, the purchaser has in mind traveling condi tions. 'JUo may have calculated to a nicety the package thnt will clear nn n mule's back a narrow mountain pas. A larger package will probably result in jostllns the mule against a mountain ledge nnd throwing him over n precipice. The loss of a few mules due to disregard of this request generally finishes the purchaser with American deal ers. And so I might multiply the instances. "We need good salesmen on the spot down there, but they must be gentlemen ns well. The price is, not so important with the South American as personal like or dislike. Wo also want mor bnnks and ngencics representative of this country. An Ameri can here and there ennnot hope to combat the subtle salesmanship methods of other nations. There must be many of them. What tho Latins Need r "There is much room for Improvement in South America. It needs first of nil im proved sanitation. It needs railroad and street railway systems, better streets, nil kinds of civic Improvements and many other physical improvements. "It would be n paying investment for American capital to lend money to these countries to make those improvements. They would got it back many fold. "It would nlso pny business men to ex tend long-time credits. Conditions arc such in these countries thnt they cannot effect the rapid turnovers thnt we can here. Con sequently they must hnve long credits. "We nre mnking progress in our educa tional re'ationsliips. In Peru, for iiibtance. nn American lias chnrge of their educational system. The Impress of our own cdticn tional institutions is to be found all over the continent. We can iucrcase this influence tremendously by offering more schotnrships In our Institutions nnd by exchanging pro fessors in our universities. "The University of San Marcos, the old est university on either continent, hns per haps the finest department of International law to be found anywhere. Teachers In other subjects could nccomplisli n great deal in enlightening our future business men on matters that they should know concerning the Southern Continent. Wo likewise could lend some of our gifted men with profit to our neighbors. "The way is open for n healthy and profit able era of co-operation thnt eannot help but bo of groat benefit to both sets of conn tries, who are, ofter all, natural neighbors, with much in common. All we need is some regard for others' desires and .sensibilities, some straight, common sense thinking nnd n willingness and effort to understand and be What Bo You Knoiv? QUIZ 1. What American stntcsman declared that wo entered tho World War merely to savo our own sklnB? merely to 2' WThrnL,iroJ.or.tlon of tno Pnlo of tho United States aro of Urltlsn descent? 3, Who is King of Irak? 4. What is tho literal meaning of islnm7 WI'm' Is the moaning of the medical abbreviation "ft. mist"? eaicai 6. How many squaro rods cqunl a rood? 7. Whero Is tho Isthmus of Tchuontepcc? ''"nnl possession of tho United States has tho Inrgest percentoea nr Negro population? i -"-eninge of ' WmunoYaS lhC yer f th0 Parls Com 10. What Is meant by an Ishmacl? Answers to Yesterday's Quiz 1, Georges Clemencenu attains thn nr- eighty In September, 1921? E8 of 2. Tho first battle of tho Vn,. ' fought September G.10,1DH " 3' CDenmanrkX 'S U, prc8c,lt' K'"s of 4. "If you should write a 'fnblo for nm. ttjo'nnso aS ' d" ; iife0.nra.lBoaoyn Wcst Gof ' vip. an0thr namo ,or tho "Liana 7. Tbemlstocles wns a f.imo.i a. ...-.. HiniuHiiiau ami .m.,,.r.i """-"'n brought about ho rc n vV v. )v" of. tho Greek over ,"i.i.nV.,0r? si'iliint.u l.. ion l. - .wtl.tlo llr .",, 10 ,1, iow 11, yj. 8. Tippecanoe was a-battle In which Am,, leans under General Willi.,:, imer" Harrison defeated 0 , & nd,r' ffif, 'J""?."" Chief Tecun sc "n TM, ' rio1f1U.awl',,,naor's.J,td tor lta Jetton 10, 'VoVcTutlVveraUn,i a D1l SHORT. CUTS Soon will the school bell ring out tit btraw hat. What Manuel Hcrrick appears to netd is manual labor. Vilna having .moved over into Amitj,lJ there is hope for Silesia. rl Varcltes arc going to discover Graham bred all wheat and unbolted. Jupiter Pluvius was a welcome visitor in town yesterday. Come ugaiti, Jupc, The man who makes money Is slowest to admit that money does not mnke the man. I A Disgruntled Autolst Is authority for '. the htntement thnt the extra cent on III Is in bad odor. Perhaps the Bnr Assoclntlon did not know that Judge Land!; was thinking of the wife and kiddles. Tennis Note The original mixed dou bles, Demosthenes McUlniils says, were staw in "Tlie Comedy of Krrors," "When we spenk of a Disarmament Conference," says the Pnesldcnt in effect, "we do so In a Pickwickian bonsc." Philadelphia was eight degrees hotter than New York on Thursday. Who saji Philadelphia Is slow? demands Pericarp. If the extra degrees of heat the year has known could be utilized this cornini winter we could all laugh at the coal man. Tho frequency with which Butinw turns the corner nowadays suggests the possibility that there is a bootlegger there. In the matter of a 6lush fund there art faint-hearted city employes who consider themselves between the devil nnd the deep sea. Judge Lnndis may gather from the re port of the American Bar Association thai when he thought he made a hit he blnipl fanned. i There is possibility that an investigat ing committee could do more good lu ' Viiginin, even at this stage of the gum, than troops, 'Tis not only years that ago. Scventr odd years nnd half n League of Natloni pcrhaps contribute to Elihu Boot s latest declination. A' Norrlstown woman has had her son-in-law arrested just because ho is said n hove committed bigamy. This oppression DJ mothers-in-law has got to be stopped. Georges Clemencenu, it is said, plans to eighty years old and hns already a evidences of nullity, tliere is iikciihuu" . the young man will distinguish himself. Even the clearest of thinkers occasion ally gets lost in the fog. Elihu Boot, In tM name of democracy, advocates a sys ein ' preparation for legal practice that lias '" it the making of a first-class aristocracy. Tho beauty of o straight sales tax Jj that Uncle Sum wouldn't need to ,a"' no" often it was pyramided, remarked I"'? ! thenes McOlnnis; nnd left us undecided to whether he wns subtlu or merely mine- A bucket brlgnde In Carlisle, Pa.. J' reported to hnve put out n fire with i' barrels of elderberry wine ; hut the dejtnic tlon of stuff that will put out a lire w "' calculated to cause grief among those " deplore prohibition. 'Vni.." Hnv IT. It. Van Solver, of t r..,.i,n.a ,i Mini,ra "in the great"' obstacle encountered in tho running " I.... nr ships." And this iioiiis goon, i'". , running of the Ship of State, log, frlB begotten, obscures every sea path. in ' PoBtmoster Oeneral Hays propose tj dissemlnatr weather anil innrKet repui wireless telephony : and this may '" eventual Government control of the rnui Mam'sello Circumstance, this way, l""51' One permanent wave for Undo bam. Among the mitigating rlrriimtnn attendant on President Obregon s driw, tlon that the treaty shall not be signed "" Unci.. Sam gives him the glad hand " Included tho decision of the Mexican u nr.mn Pnurt Hint Artleln XXVII Of '"Jl ir..i. C'....tit..il.... u,n11 mil bo nPP"'i &., retroactively. a Jk C , A' s , i -Z th ,Wi..ij. .'..t-' t.-t ifruv;4."i'.l&! .'j p i -) V
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