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WHERE WERE THE WOMEN?
RECHSTHATION returns show that
nbotit .'100,000 women eligible to vote
failed to register for tin- cumins cb-ctlons
in tills t'ily. The woman who staved ,il
home might lime been tin- balance of power,
bad she so willed it.
About 10().(K)0 feminine voters registered.
while flip moil voters listed totnl apprnx
Imately 3S.",000. Census returns inilivatc
that If women desired to take advantage of
the franchise privilege they would have an
actual majority of about 7().(KK) in the city.
Suffrage leaders will have various ex
planations for the seemin? lack of political
Interest anions women. Many women hesi
tated because of their naturaP diffidence
to undertake the unfamiliar task of registra
tion. Others were out of town and others
were "too busy at home."
The fact remains that from now on
women must share the blame for bad gov
ernment and the credit for good govern
ment with the men of their families. They
have ns much at stake in every election as
their husbands and brothers.
Taxes, schools, labor conditions and party
policies nrc affected definitely by the drift
of sentiment recorded nt the polls and in
no other way. And women cannot say
that they nrc without Interest in the forces
that regulate the social, economic and edu
cational life of the country utid culminate
finally in the policies of national govern
ment. A MURDEROUS SYSTEM
THE hidcouancss of n tragedy like that of
the Third street bridge in Chester is
not in the least alleviated by the vigor of
investigations after the catastrophe.
It is right, of course, that these In
quiries should be numerous and searching.
Hut the most rhid examination after the
rent must inevltubly savor of irony.
It is already asserted that the rickety
structure over the Chester Creek, although
pronounced safe nt the last Inspection, was
t condemned ten a ears us loiiowing an on-
j slaught by n refractory canal boat. In the
. course nf makeshift repairs one of the
I Vitally iuiliortnnt plates wus cracked and
was put back in place, bolted.
Xobmlv seems to know why a uliolc new
j (I gpidt wus not tied.
James Hamilton, one of the Commis
sioners of Delaware County, in charge of
public works, declares that the dangerous
, conditi'tn of the briilje of recent .ears was
a subject repeatedly considered, hut thut
every time funds were about to be appro-
printed something would interfere.
It is needless to ask why the proposed
1 appropriations to end a menace were halted.
T. W. Woodward Trainer. Director of rub
lie Safety, in Chester, frankly utters the
ehurge "rotten politics,"
Ills community is not uniipie. The game
of skimping public safeguards is quite as
widespread as It is desperate. It is only
on the da; of reckoning that "rotten poli
tics" is converted into constructive imiriW.
The disclosure of scapegoats is no remedy.
The svteni. rather than a sjicjle individual.
Is probably at fault. And for the existence
of the former the general public as well as
groups of b'isscs or corrupt tingsters is
blameworthy.
, Death Is the vnlstcr ns"tic interrupting
the reckless circle of indifference. Death
supervenes when the element of luck is
! madly strain"'' to th" iit--no.st.
WHERE THE WOMEN FIT
IT 15 safe to pruphcHj. that unless the
woHifii' registrars eniplo;. ed on the three
recent enrollment davs desire otherwise,
they will be retii'neil in ofiicc.
The departure has full; iust'.fh'd itef.
As might have been foreseen, the feminine
adaptability for clerlc.il work has been ef
fectively reveal. d. Thnt the women olnchiW
have set new standards in keeping the en
rollment books is an apparent fact,
Tills is not to say that all the males en
gaged wee heretofore incompetent, but
nicrel'. that eN.tctltudc in deta'l and sim
plicltx In execution are rectejni.ed feminine
charaeierist'cs.
The distribution of the offices of registrnr
among bo'h sexes was ti happy thought.
There has b'"n tin unquestioned increase
in courtcs in the division enrollment plac-s
this year, and prcsumnbl) n diminution of
the errors and careless cutties which some
times perplex the Registration Commis
sioners. I'olnts to he emphasized are the novelty
of the situation to the women ri'iflxtrurs
and the long hours from 7 to 10 in the
morning and from 1 In the afternoon
until 10 nt nii'hf. The duties are noi so
much difficult as grueling In their numotnnv
and often ninttrnctivc in environment.
The new ehiss of registrars not onh de
serves credit for its excellent service, but
for Its display of public spirit on what may
be called the ground floor of the structure of
democratic govnitnen
THE PRESIDENT'S GOOD TIME
SO MANY Presidents have left the White
House witli impaired health In recent
years that it Is cheering to observe that
Mr. Hardin; Isn't In a mood to let the
piled responsibilities nnd cares of his office
get on his nerves.
' Colonel Ilonsevelt's experiences, like Mr.
Wilson's, showed what the burdens of the
presidency can do to men who have not the
knack of distributing the weight on
shoulders appointed to receive part of it.
For a long time Colonel Roosevelt tried
to think for millions of citizens who
wouldn't think for themselves. Ho tried to
share his nervous force with the- country
and ho tried to make up fullv for the short
comings of the nrernge politicians and the
average mail. Mr. AYUsou undertook a
similar task, lioth suffered terribly in the
end.
Mr., ardlng promised to accomplish as
Hjucb m either one of his immediate prcd-
cccssors without breaking his heart or
wrecking his nervous system nt tho task.
When he went out to golf in Atlantic
City yesterday he wore, according to the
dispatches, "a natty brown mohair golf
suit with cap to mntch" and ho breezily
smoked n cigarette. lie enjoyed the Hoard
walk ns thoroughly ns n one-day excursion
ist and playrd his golf without sldo or
formality.
There Is n suspicion in Washington thnt
the lresldent likes to speed in his motor.
He certainly munnges to make fast time
or. frcnuent trips. And he appears to
be getting tons of fun out of the old May
flower. A good nervous system and n sense of
humor and faith in subordinates nrc helpful
to any man. And they nrc qualities likely
to be of good use to nny President of the
t'nlted States nnd of vnlue. In turn, to the
whole countn
VOTERS SHOULD BEWARE OF
THE GANG SMOKE SCREEN
An Attempt Is Making to Nominate
Hadley on the Theory That the Con
troller Is Merely an Accountant,
Instead of the Watchdog
of the Treasury
mHE control of the offices of District At-
toruey nnd Controller Is essential to
any gang of grafters nnd political crooks
which eeks to run this city.
The function of the District Attorney is
to prosecute the criminals. District Attorney
Itotan fulfilled that function when he prose
cuted the men guilty of the Fifth Ward
murder.
These men were convicted nnd sent to
prison. Neither they nor their friend
found it possible to induce the prosecuting
officers to open nny loophole for their
csenpe.
The function of the Controller Is
to keep it check on the use of the public
money. lie can let the heads of various
departments put over their financial jobs
by being mildly Indifferent In the examina
tion of their vouchers. Or lie can perform
his legal duties as chief nudlting officer
for the city nnd county and bring up with
a round turn every official who is spending
money without legal authority.
The Controller enn do ns much ns nny
public official to break up gang politics.
In one respect he is even more powerful
than the Mayor becaii.se he has his finger
on every dollar of public money that is
paid out whether for city or county offices.
What Robert K. I'attlson did in the of
fice has not been forgotten. He did not
regard himself ns merely the city's chief
accountant to see that its books balanced.
He was the watchdog set at the door of
the treasury to see that it was not looted,
and he stood on guard to such purpose that
he won the confidence of the whole Stnte
and wns twice elected to the governorship.
There is a law which prevents the Mayor
from serving two terms in succession. Iltit
the Controller may serve for life. He may
by complaisant treatment of the financial
interests of the politicians insure his re
nomination for term after term.
And the politicians will justify keeping
a complaisant Controller in office by say
ing with their tifnguca in their cheeks that
r.the office is "not political," and should be
kept out of the conflicts of partisan con
tention. The supporters of Willi!. Hadlev are
saying this now. Mr. Hadley was for sev
eral years chief accountant and deputy
under the lntc Controller Walton. The
men who were pleased with the Walton
rcg'me of a quarter of n century are the
men who are now demanding thut it be
continued under Hadley.
It has been said thut the office "will be
run creditably whether Mr. Hadley is chosen
to succeed himself or whether Mr. Wolf
is elected in his place."
No more pernicious nnd misleading state
ment than this has been made thus far in
the campaign. The office of Controller lias
not been run creditably under Mr. Hadley.
He has aligned himself with forces opposed
to the Mayor and his attitude hns given
(till anil comfort to the Contractor Combine.
Tile record of Mr. Wolf is such as to
justify the conclusion thnt he would rim
the office, not in the interests of nnv group
of politicians, but in the interest of the
people ns n whole. If elected lie will he
Controller in fuct. and he will not sur
render himself to any self-seckins political
or financial interests however powerful.
No banker can enter his office and brow
beat him into subservience, and no group
of politicians can successfully threaten to
destroy his future unless he plays the game
with them.
Mr. Wolf owus himself. The city lias
for years needed a man of tills type in
the Controller's office. It lias needed to
be awakened to a realization thnt the ollice
is political in the highest meaning of that
term.
The voters need to understand that when
the politicians in the past have urged the
re-election of tho same man time after time
on the ground thnt the man whoso duty
it is to keep a cheek on public expenditures
is not a political otficer. the politicians have
been drtisging the public mind in order that
they might get away with their game with
out any inconvenience.
The Republican voters nre to be called
on next Tuesday to decide whether their
candidate for Controllei shall be a reul
man. who will be the actual head of the
ollice. or whether lie shall be a dummy for
Influences which should be driven out of
the City Hall.
They should beware of the smoke screen
which is he'll? created to obscure from tlieni
the real i-i'"
THE LEAGUE FINDS A WAY
TIJK recent embarrassments of the League
of Nations resulting from the Chile
ISolUla dispute have been allayed at least
ti'inpornril: by a plan which appears to
have mil with approval both in Santiago
and I. a I'll'.
Three jurists to he appointed by the As
sembly will undertake to decide whether this
latter body is competent to consider the
status of the Trent v of 100). whereby
ltolivia formally, and in echaii';e for i:er
la'n benefits, relinquished her claims upon
a narrow littoral on tin- I'acitic formerly
I liolhiiin territory and for forty eurs oc-
cup'ul by Chile
Th's latter nation hns already consented
to refer the case to the proposed com
mission, while the Bolivian delegate in
(ieneva. sanctioning the arrangement him
self, merely awaits the expected oillelal word
from home before formally acquiescing.
Should the pact in dispute be held de
serving of revision the ease will come up
in detail before the new International Court
of Justice. Should the assembly rule that
the provisions of the treaty nre not open to
question at the present time the matter
will drop.
This Is evidently what the Chilean dele
gate, who arc enthusiastic in support of
the Initial procedure, ure convinced will
huppen.
In any event the prestige of the League,
which was undoubtedly shadowed last week
by the threats of Chilenn secession, has been
to some extent restored by a proposition
which is in accordance with the provision
of the covenant regarding the delicate sub
ject of trcatv revision.
Article XrN of the League guarantees
to the assembly the riiht to consider mem
ber nation pacts "which have become In
applicable," A wide latitude of Judgment
is thus permitted, for obviously the Inap
EVENING PUBLIC LEDGER-
plicability of a treaty is the rery subject
upon which controversy is bound to occur.
In the present instance n single treaty
and n particular group of circumstances arc
to bo reviewed only in so far as they may
seem to justify or to forbid complete in1
qtilry by tho internntlonol association.
It is likely that tho plan as devised will
stifle the somewhat inflated secessionist talk
nt the current sessions In (lencva.
GENESIS OF THE KLUX
WHEN the war ended n lot of professional
boosters, who had figured largely in
a period of highly organized propaganda,
were out of jobs. A new nnd disturbing
force was apparent In the country when
they got to work ngnln.
They were resourceful nnd shrewd folk
who knew all about the power of enrd
Index systems linked with emotionalism,
nnd they had smoothly functioning bureaus
created for the deliberate manufacture of
public sentiment. They were the makers of
drives. They were always ready to organize
a drive for anything or anybody, and to
commercialize the spirit of patriotism or
charity for a percentage of the gate receipts.
Drives became a bore. The people would
have no more of them. The boosters were
again in on nlr pocket. They looked nround
for new worlds to conquer, nnd evidence
turned up in the present Inquiry into the
Ku Klux Klan shows thnt one of them
decided to make a grnnd play for the whole
United States.
Edward Young Clarke was n professional
booster, of towns. He was tyillcd in to
boost Atlanta, Ga. There he met Mrs.
Elizabeth Tyler, who was herself n propa
gandist In the modest cause of better babies.
They still talk in Atlanta of the success
of the Hnrvest Festival, which Mr. Clarke
organized nnd promoted. It brought vat
multitudes to the city. Rut Harvest Fes
tivals have to end sooner or -later and Mr.
Clarke had to find something to keep him
busy.
He found Colonel Simmons, who nt that
time, according to the frauk admission of
Mrs. Tyler, "wasn't able to pay his rent or
meet his own modest personal expenses."
In the Colonel's mind was the iden for n
revival of the Ku Klux. It wns an Idea
that clearly appealed to Mr. Clarke's com
mercial sense. He and Mrs. Tyler talked
long with Colonel Simmons nnd decided Hint
a way was open for a new sort of drive.
Now Simmons is Imperial Wizard of the
Invisible Empire. Mr. Clarke Is Imperial
Klengle thnt Is. treasurer-in -chief and
Mrs. Tyler has just been named In an im
perial edict ns chief of staff to Wizard
Simmons nnd head of the newly proposed
women wing of the Klux.
If all three aren't rich they ought to be.
Since Mr. Clarke got his card indexes and
his publicity bureau at work on the Klan's
affairs approximately ?.", 000.(100 hns been
paid into the organization by new members.
There Is a Ku Klux college in Atlanta,
a Ku Klux press and a Ku Klux publicity
bureau, and it is generally understood that
the firm that makes and sells the regalia
and the masks of the order is also a closed
corporation bossed by the Rig Three.
To keep this big commercial undertaking
on an advancing wave of prosperity an in
tensive and extraordinarily efficient propa
ganda system operates to set up religious
hate, bigotry and secret violence as leading
forces in the life of the I'nited States.
To the man who "couldn't meet his own
modest personal expenses" in ordinary em
ployments .100.000 members of the clan now
swear allegiance. They call him I'mperor
nnd take his orders and do his bidding.
The Atlanta background of Ku Kluism
was deliberately built up by circus methods
to impress slack-minded, ignorant, ungen
erous and bigoted people. It appears to
have turned the heads of half a million
people.
Rooster Clarke appears to be amazed at the
spread of his scheme. Mrs. Tyler appears
lo be a bit frightened. And it is the plain
duty of the Government to see that the
dnngerous forces organized for profit by
these unthinking people are rigorously
checked and kept under con'ioi
FORBES ON THE PHILIPPINES
THE only difference of opinion that ex
ists regarding the ultimate destiny of
the Philippine Islands is about the date when
they shall huve their independence.
The report of General Leonard Wood and
W. Cameron Forbes on conditions in the
islands has not been made public, but no
one would do violence to the probabilities if
one assumed thnt the address of Mr. Forbes
to the Cniversity of the Philippines on Sun
day summarized the spirit of the rccom
Herniations made in the report.
Mr. Forbes said that the islands arc
still without sufficient resources for the
maintenance of a separate and unprotected
Government. He advised the Filipinos to
devote themselves to the dcxclopinciit of
their nnturnl resources so as to make them
selves strong enough for nationality. He
also told them that whatever permanent
relationship was established with the I'nited
States it would be one mutually agreeable
to both peoples, and he assured them that
no relationship could be permanent unless
it was so established.
This sort of talk is discouraging lo
those who have been advocating immediate
independence for the islands-. Vet it the
kind of talk with which men with a ens,
of responsibility must correct the thinking
of the enthuslnsts for some years to come.
Indeed, it was disclosed during the lour of
the islands by the two American Commis
sioners that there was a large body of native
opinion opposed to independence at the
present time. Preference for American
nil" was widely expressed by men who
dreaded what would happen if the islr.niN
were turned over to the control of the native
politicians.
The time will come w hen a group of well
qualified leaders will lie developed in Hie
islunds. leaders who under-tnnd that gov
ernment exists for the benefit of the gov
erned. When this time comes it will be
easy for the Fnl'ed Stnles i . Itlidraw.
it may lie that
twentieth century
lie noted through
the
will
Niched Waste
Un
ages not for Its discoveries nnd Inventions,
but for Its wicked wastefulness. Knoiiirh
oil pollutes our harbors and is dumped at
sea to treat all the roads in the country.
When the oil has destroyed enough fish to
embarrass our food supply we'll decide that
something ought to be done about It.
Without fuss and without worry, but
with Infinite patience and tact. President
Harding bus listened and replied to sugges
tions from women, labor and other organi
zations concerning the delegates to the DIs
arniHinCnt Conference, and by Ignoring most
of the advice given has succeeded In giving
satisfaction to the great hulk of his fellow
citizens.
That 100 immigrants, many of tliein
with ..iies In tlds country, were recently
turned back from Ellis Island for no other
reason than that they had arrived at the
wrong time is added reason why the law
should be ntnended or that examination of
immigrants should be made by an American
Vice Consul at the port of embarkation,
PHILADELPHIA, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER
RAZZING THE GOVERNORS
Few Havo Escaped In a Quarter of a
Century The Night Stone Wa In
augurated The Climax of Years
of Political Semi-Barbarism
Ily GEORGE NOX McOAIN
JOSEPH It. GltUNDY is credited with a
recent publication on the finance of the
State in which it Is made to nppcnr that the
Commonwealth faces n shortage of millions
for its appropriations; thnt, practically,
the Stntn is bankrupt.
The situation Is credited to the demands
of Governor Sppoul upon tho last Legisla
ture for Increased provision for the State's
needs.
The episode is one which is recurrent in
the experience of nearly all those who hold
high place.
Nearly every Governor iu the last twenty
five years has been compelled to face similar
charges. If not that, tlicn some other con
dition affecting his direction or control of
the State's fiscal affairs.
Governor Daniel II. Hastings was con
demned nnd ridiculed for whnt wns termed
his cheesepnrlng methods in connection with
the work on the new Capitol.
Governor Samuel W. I'cnnypncker was
roundly censured for fnlluro to halt the ex
travagances that crept Into the construction
of that snme monumental edifice.
For twenty years the fact has been lost
sight of that Governor William A. Stone's
Impeachment wns demanded for slicing
$1,000,000 from the school fund.
THE charge against Governor Stone in
volved other questions than those con
cerning appropriations.
Like nlniost everything else In political
life, though. It was a nine days' wot.dcr.
The demand wns blazoned in display heads
in every Democratic newspaper In the State.
The movement originated In Governor
Hastings' nntlvc county. Stone succeeded
Hastings In the gubernatorial chair.
The allegations found expression In a set
of resolutions. They were buried In the
same box.
No end of Republican "Insurgents." as
they were called, would have been delighted
to see the resolutions culminnte in n court
of impeachment.
Alexander P. Moore, then a Pittsburgh
newspaper correspondent, coined the title
"Insurgent" as applied to Senator Quay's
opponents in the party prior to 1000.
THE Democratic Committee of Center
County started the incipient conflagra
tion during its session nt Uellefontc on June
:i. 1000.
Senator 1'. Grey Meek, militant Demo
crat and editor of the Rcllefnnte Watchman,
was credited with loading the gun.
I'tidei-sizcd. soft spoken, with iron gray
hair and rather iinemic features, Senator
Meek earned the sobriquet bestowed on him
by the brilliant George II. Wclshous of
"Pale Grey" Meek.
Iu demanding Governor Stone's Impeach
ment the convention elaborated Its charges
against him In detail. There were three
specific charges :
"Willful and flagrant violation of the
fundamental law by his veto of the resolu
tion for an amendment to the Constitution
providing for honest registration and n fair
count of the vote.
"Appointing M, S. Quny to a seat In the
i'nited States Somite by certificate In viola
tion of the Constitution as repeatedly de
clared by the I'liited States Senate.
"Guilty of the violation of the Constitu
tion in thnt he has by veto cut down the
appropriation to the school fund $1,000,
000." And then this followed:
"Resolved. That we demand the impeach
ment of Governor William A. Stone by the
next Legislature its provided for in Act VI,
Section It of the Constitution of this Com
monwealth." Though nothing ever came of it but talk,
it Is n spotlight on the fact that the ways
of those eminent in official life nre neither
primrose paths nor highways celebrated for
the character of their cakes and ale.
MS. Ql'AY. William A. Stone. John P.
. Elkln. Israel W. Durham. William II.
"Hull" Andrews, Frank Iteeder and David
Martin are only a handful of the many
lea'ders who have passed away since the
mischievous times of a score of years ago.
They were participants in the mighty
struggle that ended, for the time being, in
Stone's appointment of (Juny to the Senate.
William Fliiin. John Wnnnmaker. Walter
Lyon. Colonel James A. Guffey. James Gay
Gordon nnd E. A. Van Valkenburg nre
among the rapidly thinning ranks of the
survivors.
It Is indisputably n fact Hint the decade
closing the last century witnessed n period
of factional battles iiucqunlcil before or since
iu the history of Pennsylvania politics.
THK day and night preceding Governor
Stone's inauguration is one of the high
spots thnt will be illuminated by the future
political historian of Pennsylvania.
With one exception it was the greatest
night, politically, that Ilarrhburg ever saw.
A drizzling rain fell which added to the
discomfort, but which did not dampen the
enthusiasm ttf the howling cohorts of the
(Jiuiy faction."
It wns nt once a sloppy, serious, intense,
discordant, hilarious, hopeful, sacrilegious,
blaring occasion.
It embraced every tiling conceivable in the
scope of gang politics.
Hold bars never did such a business.
There were more red neckties mid red
liquor in evidence than on any similar oc
casion before or since.
David Martin's inarching club displayed
the red neckties. Everybody but the cen
tral nnd controlling figures nnd newspaper
correspondents disphiycd the red liquor or
its enects,
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Rands were ready and waiting to uncork
their bott'ed bin res the instant llie train
bearing "Our Peerless Leader" poked the
nose of its locomotive cowcatcher into the
llarrlsbiirg trnln shed.
Marchers were waiting to march nnd
lluidic enthuslnsts were ready lo slop over.
Hut the bridegroom tarried. That is, the
crowd thought lie did.
THAT night nnil tlie next day witnessed
ono of the greatest gatherings of big and
little politicians, near stale. men. cx-legis-tutors,
Judges. Federal officials and tipsters
ever seen ill llarrlsbiirg.
It wan Inauguration ce. and the political
hoi pollol went the limit. They did every
thing but give three cheers for his satmilc
majesty.
They sang "Nearer. My God, to Then"
iu the barroom of the Lot-hie! and paraded
past the Coinnioiiwealtli Hotel, the head
quarters of the insurgent Republicans, with
hands raised In the attitude of prayer.
That night witnessed tire climax of a
political scuii-barbni-lsui thai had held sway
for many preceding years and has never been
witnessed since.
The lien that lays a daily egg on it
rocking chair mi the porch of a home near
State College piobubly cackles "Rock-ii-by,
bnby." when the diiiiiial duly is accom
plished. Dr. Dciciiin says of cor tain paintings
that they suggest insanity, uud Dr. llarnes
bu) they do not. Who nhnll decide when
doctors disagree?
SENATOR Oi A Unit night executed one
of his characteristic nnd drniuntle moves.
He was the centrnl llgiiie of tho occnslon,
the vortex nround which, in concentric cir
cles, the maelstrom of events whirled.
Notwithstanding the dripping streets,
everything hud been arranged for his tei.
Vji iu a tlilrd-Uoor room in the Loclilel
Hotel there was a little group thnt talked
in low tones and awaited developments.
I'nniinouiiced. (Juay opened the door and
walked in. lie had dodged the crowds, the
hands unci the blatherskites.
It was an hour before the proletariat,
soaked inside and out, discovered how they
lii.il Iwn.ti footeil.
Instniitly (juny wns acelhlmed a strategist.
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Daily Talks With Thinking Philadelphians on Subjects They
Know Best
HORACE MATHER LIPPINCOTT
On Services of Alumni to Their Alma
Mater
THE services which a devoted body of
nliiinnl can render to its nlmn mater
are almost Incalculable, if the energies of
this body be directed Into the proper chan
nels. Is the opinion of Horace Mather Lip
pincott, secretary of the nlumui of the Uni
versity of Pennsylvania.
"The ideal alumni association," said Mr.
Llpplncott, "is the one in which the greatest
number of alumni participate. It must re
ceive the support, respect and recognition
of the university authorities. It must be
enthused primarily by the spirit of the uni
versity, secondarily by the bend of the uni
versity, nnd, third, by its officers.
"Such an organization must be founded
on the simplest and broadest Hues, with
ample flexibility and discretion to meet
changing conditions, requirements nnd per
sonalities, its management must nt all
times preserve n healthy responsiveness to
the needs and the desires of Its members
as consciously reflected by them anil as re
vealed to Its secretary by the wide intimacy
be should cultivate.
"It must have courage, force aiid vigor,
and Its methods must be calculated to keep
its members happy. It must have an inde
pendent medium of Information 'and leader
ship in the shape of a dignified magazine
befitting an institution of learning.
"The work of nn alumni secretary Is n
peculiarly unique and complex one. It coin
bines all the requirements of the selling nnd
tho advertising professions and nowndays
these are recognized as 'professions' even by
universities.
"One of the objects of the selling nnd
advertising man is to attract alike the eye
and mind of n prospective customer.
"Selling" the University
"The salesman does it by the intimate
contact of a personality, convincing talk and
perhaps the display of sample; the adver
tising man does it by clever pictures and
printed mutter of his own and In well
selected periodicals. In each case the 'pros
pect' is iu the market or is iu need of the
articles offered. The salesman or the ad
vertiser, therefore, starts with an advantage
and has only. to convince the mind of the
'prospect' to achieve success. What lie has
lo offer is a tangible tiling needed by the
customer.
"The alumni secretary hns to do nil the
things thnt the sulesmnn and the advertiser
do, ami he has none of their advantages.
He has uotlilng tangible for i-ale; be is
selling enthusiasm : his 'prospect' does not
need him or it and is generally too busy to
think of the mutter until persuaded, urged
or forced to do so. The nluimii secretary,
therefore, hns first to gain his attention and
then to sell him something he is not looking
for and does not actually need. He not only
must reach his 'prospect's' head, but he
must ceitainly reach and stir his heart.
"Only one in a thousand graduates rec
ognizes t tint the equipment given lilm by his
university bus produced his livelihood nnd
that he owes her something. To nearly all
of them the connection with alma muter is
one of M'litlmeut.
"Dealing iu sentiment or selling enthu
siasm is no easy matter. If salcbinnntihlp
requires resourcefulness, tact and repeated
visits or suggestion, alumni work requires
all of these and a greater skill of producing
them, because they have to be cart-fully in
troduced to the busy man who is not looking
for them. They require n dignity nnd n cul
ture befitting the object of their service nnd
u constantly enthusiastic optimism,
"If 'spend money to tnnke money' is n
sound principle in business, then it is still
uiuru sound practice In nlumui work, with
the Itu-rcuscd difficulties outlined.
Pilicy .Must He Liberal
"in campaigns to raise money for the
university, and In the constant endeavor to
retain nlumui interest in a wide measure, no
niggardly policy will produce results. Skill
uud Judgment are, of course, needed In the
administration of university matters, but
too much economy merely produces futile
effort aiul wasted energy, which tire and ills.
courage. It is fur better for a university to
stress getting more revenue than to cut down
legitimate e.pcnses.
Keeping after the graduates in an ut
Iriuttve milliner ami pretty constantly and
giving them at least something tlrot cluus
periodically us u bond of iutereit and beutl
meut are absolutely uecessury things, uud
o no uieiii wen costs, money. iour instru
jent must be first class to 'pull' j Jn otbc
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words, only by doing it well will revenue
nnd Interest be increased,
"Good, useful efforts will be readily sup
ported. Frequent appeals in themselves arc
not tiresome, but the form may be, nnd the
nlumui secretary must use skill, experience
and tact In this work. The wcll-rccognlzcd
power of continued suggestion Is his foun
dation, and his thought must be greatly
given to its expression.
"It Is often difficult for the busy alumnus
to understand the needs uud methods of uni
versity alumni service, because only inti
mate experience shows thnt commercialism
and much that Is common In business prac
tice cannot be successfully applied to It.
Ethics' nnd ideals are more favorably re
garded by scholars and by men of the pro
fessions than the brisk, concise commercial
methods of the business man.
"The university and its service nre. essen
tially htimnn, nnd the Individuals involved
are different from the ordinnry person with
whom the business mnn hns to deal. Mls
understnndings with the faculty nre gener
ally caused by the failure to appreciate this
fundamental idea.
"The officers of nn nluninl association are
serving nnd lending n voluntary, altruistic
membership organization. They strive to
achieve for a group of cultured gentlemen
who serve a sentiment but who nre nlniost
entirely engrossed in the press of their own
nffnirs. Consequently nlumui officers must
be given untitle opportunity to exercise the
judgments formed from the intimate contnet
nnd experience with the nluiniii whose sup
uort they must gain to achieve success.
Much .Must He Given
"No allium! society can pay the ideal
nlumni secretary n salary that would make
It a business proposition for hiin. The hon
orarium which they cun afford to give him
for the sacrifice of his business life nnd
future iu devotion to his university appro
priately removes any Idett of the position
being a money -making one for him or of his
motives being selfish.
"Cniversity service Is like that of the
army or navy, the ministry or teaching; its
attraction .Is not in dollars, but in loyaltv
and in accomplishment. To be successful
it must be undertaken in n spirit of unrel
hsh devotion. These things are fundamental
nnd criticism of men or methods which does
not recognize mid regard them is not helpful.
"Speaking more specifically of our own
l nivcrsity, I think there Is no doubt thnt
the seizure of the college by the State In 1770
destroyed a true college, took nwuv Its tra
ditions, tone and spirit and substituted n
sham. 1-or 100 years the I'niversitv suffered
from this blow, for until lSIll) the Cniversity
never graduated more than seven pupils n
year from its college department and somc
t nies went down as low as three. During
tins panic period Yale and Harvard were
graduating about forty students n year. The
only department which kept the University
of Pennsylvania prominent until 11)00 was
the medical school. This predominance of
our professional schools until the last dec
ade and tho late development of our under
graduate department nre different from other
universities, whose development hns been ex
actly the reverse. Their alumni organiza
tions are founded upon the college graduates
and thus aro not so complex as ours.
Most of our alumni outside of Phila
delphia are graduates of our professional
schools. Many of them owe their first nlle
ginnco to uiinther college, nnd niany came
to I ennsylvunin as n business proposition.
An compared with the standards nt Yale or
Harvard, for instance, we can count upon
to back us up loyally an nluninl body of from
seven to ten thousand men, widely scattered
over the 1 nltcd States.
"Pennsylvania graduates are busy men.
c have very few men of wealth or leisure.
Ihoy can give only so much time to the
Uilyerslty. nnd this is usunlly given to their
local organizations. Little class solidarity
Is encouraged at the Cnlvcrsitv. and the
weakness of Huhc natural units affects the
whole. It H harder to put the germ of
enthusiast c group organization Into them
after leaving the university when thev u re
busy making their livings.
"There was little university spirit until
recently. The duplication ,lf effm nnd .
vide; zeal existed until 1011. when Provost
Sn. th brought, the scattered elements to
gel her In a union which was culled the Gen
eral Alumni Society, mi existing corporation
whose assets were valuable for the service
Loyal graduates capitalized the work, ami
Pennujlviinla's alumni body is Just l.o-lii.
ning to develop a university spirit and over-
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SHORT CUTS
Huddles bloomed yesterday.
Tho Weather Man proved a darned poor
Buddie.
The fruit of tho Ku Klux Klan Is poor
prunes per Simmons.
The Ku Klux plant will now proceed
to wither in tho sunlight.
Custard comedy appears to be coming
into Its own. (Choose your news story.)
In this Hands-Across-thc-Sea buslnew
Charlie Chaplin is getting there with both
feet.
President Harding vants It distinctly
understood that his Republican simplicity
isn't gold-plated.
The Chester bridge disaster seems to
point n moral in this city at South street
and the Schuylkill.
The presumption is that a Kirngle Is i
Knight of the Open Pnlm who doesn't object
to having it greased.
President Hnrillng hns ns much chance
of n rest In Atlantic City as Charley Chap
lin has In England.
Every time President Hnrillng gocscal
"vacation" It mny be taken for granted that
he hns another problem to study.
A Chicago professor has conic out vw itb
the declaration that 00 per cent of yvomes
nre homely. He Is n brave innn aud
foolish one.
Now Is the time when all good men
begin to hnvo It Impressed upon tliein thnt
the fact they registered won't do the m s
particle of good unless they vote nt the
primaries.
Tho West Indian Negro who prophe
sied thnt Philadelphia would be visited b;
flro nnd pestilence on Saturday nilgh. ha
hung on lo his prestige n little longer if "
hadn't been sn specific.
"The daylight-saving law." remark
the Young Lady Next Door Hut One. 'MM
not. I notice, provide us with any loo miii-fl
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iiayiignt yesterday, it wus quite uara i
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greater part of the morning
What Do You Know?
QUIZ
What Is the first unliiiul specifically men
tloncd In tho nihle?
What is the season for West India hurri
canes? Who is Ebbo Kornerup?
What Is tho origin of the phratc. "tin
delectable mountains"?
Who waa tho classical god of the nortn
wind?
Who was the author of "The devil wJ
sick tho devil a monk would lie. I
devil was well the devil a monk i
ho"?
Wl)at Is escliatdlogy?
How should the word be pronounced?
What Is monnt hy a whlskerando ana
how did tho term originate?
What Is the ancient Scotch Celtic name
of Edinburgh?
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Answers to Yesterday's Qulr
1. Kern, of Indlanu. ran for Vice, rres'dent
on tho Democratic ticket headed l
Bryan In 1008.
2. The Archduke Ferdinand of Austria w"
ussasslnatcd at Sarajevo on June
1314. .
8. It hns been estimated by Archibald I Hiiro.
of tho London Dally Telegraph, tnw
there aro now more than 33,000 ocean
Hhlpa In tho world. .
i. The anmo authority eetlmatrs the tew
tonnage of theso vessels as ncatu
02,000.000.
6. Cotton Mnther wus h noted America"
Colonial preacher. His dates are 10"
6. William O. McAdoo was the first dJfJJ
general of tho rnllroail admlnlsttaiio"
while tho railways wore under Go" rn
iiiont control. Ho was followed
Walker Hlnes. , ... ,nm.,
7. William SchwcnU Gilbert wrotoUie com
edy, -'I'ygnmllon and Onlatea. ..
8. To nmorco Is lo lino ; In n looso sen&o,
0. The'tmh'VerHO of the twenty-second clwjj
lur of Deuteronomy Is ns rot o'
Tho woman shall not wear that juw
PH-tnlneth unto n man, neither siif 'i ,
man put on u woman's Karmcm .
all that do ho lire iibomluatloa um
thu Lord thy 3od." ,,u,n do4
10, Tho two chief works of tho Hal an pwj
Danlo are "La Dlvlnn Oommedla
"La Vita Nuova,"
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