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Phllidrlphli, FtlJ.r, September 10, 19:1 A REAL FEDERATION AS WITH the League of Nations, se with the Welfare Federation. Complete co operation with no outsiders is preliminary te success. Fortunately it Is fast becoming nppnrent that the amalgamation of Philadelphia chari ties nnti humnnitnrinn institutions into a single group for financing purpose" in ap proximating the original ideal. The union of the Southeastern Pennsylvania Chapter of the Red Cress with the Philadelphia Federation is directly in line with the pro gram of the project. Seme ninety organization are new part ners In the commendable enterprise designed te abolish the agonies of competitive drives. te eliminate duplication of effort and reduce administrative expenses. The idea is se clearly in accord with the popular principle of concentration of energy that its acceptance in theory has hardly been questioned. The test in practice is mi earnest of capable direction amid difficul ties by no means negligible. Phllndclphlnns will seen be enabled te eld humanitarian work here with contribu tion covering a general Held, The lied Ciess is te be complimented for its broadmindoil breadmindoil broadmindeil ness in joining the plan te extinguish de structive rivalries and te cheek a waste of energy and money. PRESIDENT LEAR? IT WOCLD be a relief te the country if the people in Oklahoma could lind a means te entice their Congressman Ilerriek home from Washington. It would have been better for every one and for the prestige of the Heuse of Representatives If Oklahoma hed never sent Ilerriek te Washington, where he continues te be an irritntlen and a vivid illustration of the persistency in American politics of the super-hick. Ilerriek en his arrival in Washington get Inte trouble through a scries of emotional experiments intended he said te establish new safeguards around all American womanhood. New he Is out with a bill by which he would make it unlawful for any one te impersonate a King or ti Queen en the stage. Has Mr. Ilerriek ever read Shakespeare? Would lie have us go te the theatre te see "President I.ear"? Would he ,se revise the greatest of plays as te make us go in the future te see "Congressman Jehn" and "Senater Richard the Third"? ROOSEVELT'S WAR DIARY COLONEL ROOSEVELT'S diary of the Spanish War. written in camp and in uba and new made public, is a bitter record of calamitous blunderlngs which 'after mere than a generation secni awful te contemplate. The diary records nothing that the ceuii' try did net already knew. The Colonel was net n man te remain silent or re-J-traincd In the presence of organized futility and incompetence, lie faced all of this during the campaign that gave him his real start toward the presidency. He talked then and afterward as he was ac customed te talk in the interval Immediately preceding the war with Germany. "We would have been helpless," he says In the diary, "if we had te contend with a first-class country." Doubtless we should have been helpless. Hut Inter, when we had te contend with a first-class Tower, wc were by no means helpless, and there were no embalmed beef te poison soldiers and no typhoid epidemics in the camps and no collapse anj confusion in the high command. Al of which shows thnt, bad ns things sometimes seem, wc are getting along nud acquiring better control of ourselves and of the affairs of the country. RECIPES FOR LEAN TIMES UNABLE, notwithstanding Ills native gifts, te Invent nny new compact formula capnble of obliterating the strin gency of the times, Themas A. Edisen pro claims his faith in the conversationally familiar virtues. He believes in practicnl demonstrations. The idea Is net precisely new, and yet it must be admitted that no substitute panacea is in sight. It Is the Edisenlan conviction, as ex pressed in a recent interview, thnt grit, faith and hard work can overcome busi ness depression, which, he Is inclined te be lieve, recurs in cycles. The war, of course, nccelernted the schedule, ami its correspond ing economic shocks have been trying even te these Individuals whose pertinacity and grip upon realities somewhat measure up te Sir. Edisen's Ideals. The obligation te improve this situntien is laid by the Inventor directly upon n Congress whose vacillations have been flagrant. The most hopeful outlook upon Imslness is powerless te restore normality te conditions that can only he remedied by imperatively needed constructive legislation. Mr. Edisen pertinently quotes the New Yerk Republican State platform. "As we must fell, as well as manufacture," admit ted the makers of this document, "no Tnriff J.aw should be enacted in the unsettled eco nomic conditions of the present that will prevent us 'rein re-establishing the profit prefit nble exchange of feedstuffs and commodi ties by burdening these te whom we must kM te such an extent ns te make It impos sible for them te sell te us, and therefore te buy from us," "We must," explains Mr, Edisen, "in crease our output. The most obvious way te de this Is by exporting mere of our products." Congress has handled this problem In such n, way thnt the prospect of enacting a Tariff Jaw that will permit us te trade with our Kurepeau anil ether foreign debtors without imperlllnqv domestic manufactures Is by this time Minentnbly vague. Prophets huve lately censed te envisage an early passage of the needed new Imposts Law, without which economic and industrial uncertainty cannot be rectified. Optimism will naturally be a psychologi cal help, and practice of the homely vir tues will be of material assistance. Itut the most exemplary private conduct must be deprived of full effect while law mnkcrs blunder nnd procrastinate. A JUDGE, A MOVIE SCANDAL AND THE MOST DREADED JURY Seme Felk In California Have Been Having First Experiences With the Force That Rules the Country rplIAT wns an interesting, if woeful, little - homily en life nnd society and the ethics of these times which Judge Lnr.nrus, of San Frnnclsce, delivered from the bench when he instructed a jury te let the most vulgar of all moving-picture comedians out of jail after a series of hearings that all California desires greatly te forget. "We nre trying ourselves," said the Judge, meaning thnt all society was somehow Im plicated in the atrocious business nnd some how responsible for It. "We nre trying our present-day morals and our present-day social conditions!" Arc we. Indeed? Frem this dlstnncc It appears that society was sitting, in this Instance, net in the deck but in the jury box, and that the people en trial and in deadly fear of the Inevitable and unchanging verdict were the judges nnd the police, the jurymen and the prosecutors, as well as the wild men nnd women from the moving-picture Celd Const and the sorry squad of peude-respectables who furtively minister te them for the sake of easy money. Why, If It were otherwise, should there have been such a sudden frantic effort te prove Arhuckle a blnek sheep nnd nil the rest of the movie world decorous and free from wild habits? Hollywood is ready te de almost anything te set itself rijht with the world. It would almost go te church en masse. A great many keepers of big hotels have become nwarc, witli a bad start, of their obligations te the decent communities In which they arc established. There are signs of n very real fear. Every one knows that the force of mass judgment can be ami often is inexorable and even savage. Society has a well-developed instinct of self-preservation. It inevitably reacts, like a living organism, te destroy the alien and self-created elements that are always np pearing te endanger Its health or its life. That is why the saloons were nttacked with a peculiar, blundering harshness, nnd thnt Is why every nntl-sncial institution l new and will continue te Iw en the defensive. Society, which. In the definition suggested by Judge Lazarus, might be said te comprise nine-tenths of the general population, knows hew te take care of itself even if it is some times at a less for methods. It doesn't always knew what it wants. Hut It knows what it doesn't want. It doesn't want smut in its entertainment or creeks In public office or feels in places of grent power and authority. It has no appointed voice. Its strength is made felt in a thousand silent ways. Because there Is no need te put society en trial and for no ether reason thieving politicians, grnftlng police, the traffickers in Indecent things, the opportunists and the exploiters who are rich because they are. dishonorable, nnd nil the ether incompatible riff-raff in the living current of the times move in uneasiness nnd fear. They de net always dread the courts. What they dread is exposure te the judg ment of thnt society which Judge Lazarus seems unable te understand. Society is at war with such people be cause it knows instinctively that they nre destructive forces within its own body. Se clean plays and clean books nnd clean movies continue te insure the biggest re turns te these who produce them. Creeks in politics may be tolerated. Rut the henrt of the crowd is witli the Roesevelts and the Llncelns. Similarly it is with the Harries and the Jee .Teffersens. Freh realization of the meaning of that trend of general feeling has been brought home te the film producers in n shocking fashion. In relation te the movies the public has been, as you might say, knowingly credulous. It has an abiding love of beauty nnd humor nnd remnnce, and it has liked te believe that the personalities se effectively presented te it by the camera are ns brightly charming ns they seem in the pictures. The general de votion te the movies Is in fact a devotion te personalities. Tile crowd, becuuse it is imaginative nnd generous, will cling te its plensant delusions te the last hecnusn they are pleasant. When it Is made finnlly te realize thnt It has been bilked again nnd bamboozled by still another series of shams; that all its best impulses have been exploited once mere in a particularly intimate way, the movies will hnvc lest their held en the country. The movie promoters knew this, if the ncters don't. And they appear te have a far better knowledge of public opinion thnn Judge Lazarus. FIRES, FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC ASA Parisian novelty, fire Is noteworthy, chiefly en the-scerc of underproduction. The burning of "Au I'rintemps," one of the Inrgest department stores of the French capital, mars n remarkable record, but hardly te the extent of destroying its sig nificance. Within a few hours of the moment in which l'nris wns both startled nnd amazed by an exceptional occurrence, President Harding wns Issuing a proclamation of fire prevention day in the I'nlted Htutes. On October 11 Americans are asked te reflect upon conditions of Insecurity at once of such magnitude and general familiarity thnt the mind is Inclined te pass ever the detailed figures. They are, however, worth heeding even by a nation as wealthy and self-sufficient ns ours. It is estimated nnd set forth by the President that l.r,0(KI lives throughout the country ere lest annually because of fires, The value of property destroyed by llames In 1020 reached a total of ,?,00,()Ou,fme. Within the five years ended in If (20 forest (ires "reduced our diminishing timber re sources by n total of ever $Kr,(l(Mi,000." investigation has proved that careless ness Is largely responsible for the savage carnival of destruction en se vast a scale The President's appeal for increased safe guards and widespread deepening of the sense of public duty recognizes u menace that has come te lie fatalistically regarded as an inevltable clnienplncc. Tarls is shockcefey the first considerable EVENING PUBLIC LEDGER fire in the crowded and busy St. Loznre Leznre Ilaussinnnn district In forty years. Hew many business communities In the United States would he similarly horrified? Te be contemptuous of fire dangers is te trndtice the name of courage. Realization of the cost of reckless Indifference nnd vigorous preventive action nre mere authentic indices of true civic bravery. ANGLO-IRISH HAIR-SPLITTING UNPRECEDENTED in diplomacy is the stage of refinement in dlnlcctlcs reached In the Interchanges between Lloyd Geerge nnd Eamon tie Vnlera. The lntest communication by the British Prime Minister touches earth In n definite proposal of a new cenfprrnec with the Irish delegates, but the word-fencing, in which both parties have proved their adroitness, is continued In the subjoined comment. The British Empire Is described ns n ' "com munity of nations," the dclcgntcs ns "spokesmen of the people whom you repre sent." This is unquestionably one way of de ferring te Dc Valera's contention thnt his envoys represent nil Irelnnd acting en its own Initiative. On the ether hand, there is net the lenst dubiety In Lloyd Oeergc's re fusal te Imply that the British Government entertains the slightest notion of regarding Ireland as nn entirely independent nation. Frem the maze of argumentative abstrac tions this extrnerdlnnry deduction may be drawn: thnt while the British Empire ennnet be divided before a new form of union with Ireland Is devised, nevertheless the Irish mny consider themselves mouthpieces of a people invited te participate in a scheme of partner ship. When hair-splitting Is carried te this ex treme the obvious way out of a deadlock Is face-te-fnee negotiations. The reported pleasure of the Sinn Fein leaders with the definite offer of n parley with British states men in Londen en October 11 suggests that the meeting will tnke place. Fer geed or 111 this conference Is likely te prove tile turning point in the long and tangled history of Angle-Irish relations. The responsibilities of both sides have been crjstnlllzed. Ench purty te the controversy Is by this time fully aware of the points of view of his opponent. A case se well nigued deserves an issue definite, constructive and permanent. The proposed conference will mark a tussle with realities after maticuverings savoring of the nature of Secrntlc dialogues. An outcome of honorable reconciliation is a legitimate hope. SEVEN MILES UP IT USED te be said in the school books that no living thing could survive at an altitude of six miles. Lieutenant Jehn A. MncRendy, of the army air force, went se I1I3I1 in a test flight at Dayton that his engine coughed and died for lack of nir. Then the pilot let his machine spiral downward in a fall of mere than seven miles te the ground. He broke all existing altitude records nud es tablished a new one that is likely te stand for a long time. Beyond the seven-mile limit the atmosphere Is seemingly tee thlu te feed n carburetor, even under pressure. Lieutenant MncReady's flight will mean little te the lay mind unless it is ncccpted 11s fresh proof thnt the will te explore con tinues te be a ruling passion witli men. Frem that point it might be reasoned that there will always be men willing te risk greatly for the sake of any grcut achieve ment. The nature of the achievpment will have te be dictated by the relatively small groups of men who direct human affairs. If they cheese te be noble-minded they can nlwnys find at their elbows men ready te under take any mighty tnsk. And they need only be wise te make the world at least half as happy as It ought te be. Because Judge Brown Political fought the Vnres at the Vicissitudes last election Combine members of Council may see te it thnt he does net get his Palace of Justice. Though we cannot admire the political turn of mind that prompts re prisals, we find no fault with the concrete result of such nctieu if It eventuates. Judge Brown's political complexion casts no hale of righteousness ever the extravagance lie contemplated. You'll have te admit, said the Hardshell Dem., the Republican legitimate Criticism rarty, root ami stem, is a disappointment te men of pnrts in the way it is handling the weather charts. Where's the consistency tried and true in the weather we get? I dunne; de you? Where nre the glorious days of fall? VVhy, we ain't get an nt all, at all. Because of the weather clerk's,blg mistake we sizzle and stew nnd simmer and bake. And I nsk you straight why such things can be. Where is that premised normalcy? New thnt we have nil had our little thrift jamboree and have salted money down that would have otherwise boosted business up, these of us wlie have money te spend may. by spending It. help te solve the prob lem of unemployment. The heiuc you build will put the bricklayer, the enrpcuter, the plumber, the plasterer and the pnperhnnger te work. The suit of clothes you buy will put a tailor te work. And the bricklayer, the carpenter, the plumber, the plasterer, the pnperhnnger nnd the tailor will proceed, by their purchases, te put ether men te work. Be wise In your thrift, but net less wise In your disbursements. A society hns been formed in New Yerk for the presentation of new plnys for the benefit of juanagcrs. This may be n been te American authors if American managers enn be induced te attend. It is notorious thnt few mnnagers read plays submitted te them. In thk they nre net se much te blame as one? Is tempted te think. The printed word must be translated for his mind's eye nnd ear; and It may be that the modest manager lacks faith net se much in the author as in his own judgment as a translator. Most men arc cautious when the pockctbeok penalizes error. A New Yerk school teacher, weight HO pounds, defending a suit for separation brought by his wife, weight 171) pounds, de clared thnt she grabbed him and shook him until his teetli rattled and that she threw rhlna at him dully; nil of which she ad mitted, alleging provocation. The Court, declaring that she was nn Impossible woman te live with v granted her a temporary sepa ration with niimeny of 20 a week. As n mere or less sincere feminist, we hereby re spectfully suggest that the circumstances of the case would seem te demand that the woman py alimony te the husband. A country's real prosperity, said the Cute Economist, must be gauged by the surplus In the pockets of Its workers after necessary expenses are paid. The gauging is made difficult because every surplus begets new desires, and the luxuries of one gener ation become the necessities of the next. Every industrial readjustment following a world cataclysm menus the passing of some "necessity" hnck into the "luxury" class where It originated. This causes ns much outcry ns does the actual need of bread end butter. rt fTpnb ds tVrcrcs It Is from the Ceu lie Opinion thnt Arhuckle will get hi crest sentence. Sir Alfred Mend's declaration thnt the unemployment pedtlcin in England was less ncute than In this country Is hardly borne out by the Londen dispatch of yesterday te the effect that 10(1,(1110 miners and their families are starving In Cemwnll. PHILADELPHIA, FKIDAY, SEPTEMBER AS ONE WOMAN SEES IT Definition of PrevlnclalUm Is Alse Largely a Question of Geography. One Should Conform te Cus tom for Courtesy's Sake- By SARAH I). LOWRIK WE WERE discussing provincialism a group of us apropos the convention alities obtaining in n city and these of n smnll town nnd these of n country village. And 0110 woman said provincialism was nn Inability te ndapt oneself te one's pres ent environment. She held that it wns quite as provincial for n New Yerker net te ndapt herself te n country town ns for n country town visitor te overstep the mark in New Yerk, or undcrstep It, rather. Anether woman of the group gnvc nn nnitislng instance of provincialism, her own, ns a matter of fact. She was in Europe traveling, and was asked by one of her near of kin, who was living in Italy, te stay for it month with him. As he lived In a very beautiful nnd Interesting Itnllan town, and In a chnrmlng house, slip accepted with great pleasure, thinking that slip could slghtsce at her ense and get a tastp of Italian life en the side from her klusmnn'H wide circle of friends. But she found te her consternation thnt she wns in for the whole English nnd Amerlcnu colony nnd their social amusements, n little of real Italian society nnd a mere snatch of sightseeing en the side. She found her kinsman took his role of cicerone very seriously, and after each so cial event In which they had participated, he took her gravely te account regarding the manner in which she lind departed from the prescribed ritual. Or, feeling uncertain ns te her nwaredncss of what wfis whnt, he carefully instructed her beforehand. A ND although she was n woman who had tx seen a geed deal of the world of America, she was net prepared for what seemed te her the antlqiinteil and small con ventions of the somewhat restricted set of rich nnd idle nnd very conservative persons In which she found herself being treated for her kinsman's sake like, a guest of honor. She detested teas, anil wn. net overwhelm ingly partial te afternoons nt henip, nnil te her horror she found thnt te come nnd go with a brief nnd breezy "Howdy-de" nt nn Italian ten or afternoon or evening recep tion wns n crime ngnlnst one's hostess. One snt indefinitely, perhnps nn hour. She wns inclined te be furious nt first, nnd then frankly bored because during these long sits she was npt net te knew a third of the persons nbeut her, in some enscs no one but her hostess ; nnd ns there were no introductions except In very special in stances, she was sometimes stranded until n mere or less familiar person hove In sight. At dinners when she was ready te go home it filled her with restless impatience te have te wait tut 1 11 the Duchess or Princess or Countess or Bareness that graced the fes tivity wns ready te depart and se gave the signal te the rest. QUE liked luncheons nnd dinners better Othnn the receptions because she was In In tieduced te every lady present. But the aftermath of having next day te remember nil their names and leek them up and send a servant around with her cards seemed like n foolish trot for the servant nnd a ridicu lous attention from herself, us whether or net they responded by leaving their cards by another servant meant nothing in her life. Finally, when she was making u duti ful dinner call en one of her hostesses she found seated in the garden witli the lady an other lady caller of 11 dull, elderly sort, te whom siie wns net Introduced, nnd who, dur ing the three-cornered conversation thnt en sued, never addressed her: but the first caller was escorted te her carriage by the lady of the house with great suavity, for she was some thing or ether te the queen dowager. On finding herself left sitting in the gar den quite nlene while the two ethers wnlked off. the American whacked a hole In the hedge with her r.nriisel and made her es cape te her waiting victeria by n short cut of her own discovery, and drove back te town and te her kinsman's reproachful nnd ns ns tenlshed chldings with a high color nnd snapping eyes. "Whoever made the rules of this society made 'tin wrong!" wns her verdict. "And after Ihis, instead of explaining it te ni". veu enn explain me te it, for 1 won't bother learning the cards of n game I de net intend te play after I leave here !" lie was awfully tried with her. and lefty. And she was tried with him and superior. But she confessed later thnt she was quite wrong. "When in Reme, de as the Remans de!" eventually hail a very telling meaning for her. In her refusal of that particular brist ling fence of etit-nnd-dried conventions she 1 nil missed the flavor of au old and historic civilization. And the expatriated Ameri cans whom she had derided for falling Inte the customs of a society net their own by any right save that of hospitality were, she knew later, right in their unquestioning assimilation. As guests they had te con form, or lack that first requisite of a guest, appreciation, THE conversation nt the close of her con fession drifted hack nnd forth and finally ended by the rectal by n mother of an In stance nenrer home. Her daughter was n Vassnr girl, nnd she said that last year there was sent te all the parents a sort of ques ques ques tionnnire nsklng for dntn as te the parents' wishes regarding their daughter's freedom of notion in going te New Yerk uncliaper 011 el. Questions such ns these : "Are you willing te huve your daughter go te New Yerk nnd lunch unchnperened in a restaurant with u man?" "Are you willing te have your daughter go down te the opera or te the play, return ing by n very late train?" etc., etc. The point was thnt there Is in America among mothers of the same gencrnl class no fixed convention about whnt is proper and whnt is improper socially. It seems te be purely a matter of environment. If it is n very smnll community there nre very few conventions. New Yerk City is actually stricter than Philadelphia se far as the outward doings of society go. Philadelphia is, en the whole, mere particular nbeut con ventions than Seranten, Wllkes-Barre or Reading, for people of the same set; and these places ar stricter than such town ns Allcntewn, Mendville, Lewlsburg, etc. And these ngaln have mere fixed rules of n pro hibitive sort, that 0110 might call conven tional, than the country towns for persons of the same general bet thnt form the local society. A COLLEGE like Vassnr would have girls from all these places with the same standards of whnt is right nnd wrong, but with very mixed stnndnrds of what Is con ventional "what is done." And se we come back te the point from which we hed started. Provinciality Is a lack of observance, en the part of n stranger, of the local conven tions. I remember ns nn infant being taught a verv terse definition of sin. '"'Whnt is sin?" snld the catechism. "Sin," sJl I, answering by the book, "Is nny want of conformity unto or transgres sion of the law of Ged." Fortunately for most of us, a lack of con formity unto or trnnsgresslen of the law of the society in which we find ourselves Is net sin. But it is rather n stupid way of rais ing the flag of independence, nnd Is gener ally mere a sign of egotism than broad bread mindedness. Arsen Unpunished Frem the Honolulu Aderllsur. A chicken set fire te n poultry house be' longing te Manuel Cerren, Knlmultl, Sun day, by carrying n lighted cigarette butt underneath the building, This wns the ex piunntinn Cerren gave the fire department after the flames had been extinguished, ac cording te Chief Thursten. Cerren snld hn threw the butt out of the window nnd the chicken picked It up nnd took It under the house. Then It dropped the het snipe. As cording te Chief Thursten the chicken wns net arrested. , im ns r te Trrsssmmwmm wwsBsm i.'i.i! IL'IM. s !H I ;J y '1;taiSdv3ij'-'S'tt,-!rtffirtJLlBO; Kfil ?S, U itf .'S' ' M Urn III Hs "TtfMMeKMM MB!w:i',i NOW MY IDEA IS THIS Daily Talks With Thinking Philadelphians en Subjects They Kneiv Best JOHN W. HEISMAN On Athletics In College THAT athletics in L'cnernl and football In particular de much te fit the college boy for the mere important struggles of life is the opinion of Jehn W. Heisman, football coach at the University of Pennsylvania. "The purely physical benefits of college athletics-, especially football." snld Mr. Ileis iiinn, "nre se apparent and have been se often and se well set forth, that it is net neccssarv for me te dwell en that phase. But the equally valuable mental and moral effects have net had the emphasis laid upon them which they deserve. "It has often struck me ns peculiar that we have nowhere a school for the training anil the strengthening of the moral qualities of the voting Amerlcnu. Colleges and ether Institutions there are in abundance for the impnrting of knowledge, both theoretical nnd practicnl, havery known branch of science nnd nrt; there nre gymnasiums for the de velopment of bodily strength and there nre churches for his spiritual needs. "But nowhere is there an institution for the development of the moral qualities of the mind. Is there n place wherein a boy s will, temper or disposition can be trained.' Has any scientific study been made of these.' If se, I de net knew where It is. "I de net believe that .the importance of this matter will be seriously questioned. It is n matter of the utmost moment thnt a young man be nble te stnrt out in life with the ability te shut his jaws tightly and say I will' or 'I will net,' and mean it. Question of Temper "If it be conceded that the development of n dependable will in every young man Is net only worth while but absolutely indispen sable, "then I can say that the athletic field Is about the best nnd. in fact, the only laboratory known where he will get the training, the discipline and the experience which will brins about this result. And foetbnll will build up the will power in nn immature mind about five times faster than anything else. "It is 11 great achievement te be able te bold the temper in thorough control. This is a tiling which is net taught In the class room. It is occasionally talked about in the Sunday schools, but the nverage boy seldom ucts a chance te try himself except through the medium of participation In athletic sports, "And of the nthletle mediums, by far the best is football. The football player is compelled te control himself through the game which, with Its man-te-mnn' contacts, Fs the one above all ethers in which his geed nature and serenity of disposition are tried hard and often. The game is worth playing if only te acquire tills self-control. Clear Thinking Under Fire "Is there any place except the athletic field where boys are ttiught te think rapidly and correctly under fire? Nene that I knew of. It. is preached te them, but net tnught. Seme might say thet examinations de tills, and it Is true they compel the boy te think and thnt there nre considerable results at tuched te his thinking correctly. "But, en the ether bnnd, he has usually plenty e'f time te think when endeavoring te pass nn examination; he docs net necessarily have te think fast. And, tee, the conditions surrounding a scholastic examination are net exciting; it Is no such case of being 'under fire' ns is presented In the lnnii-te-man shock of a football game in nu atmos phere highly charged with excitement. The cases are net parallel in the speed of thought required or in the conditions In which tills thinking must be done. "Evcrv boy Is wildly excited upon going Inte his 'first big game of football. But in time he learns te keep cool, te think calmly and quickly in the thick of the most exciting episodes, nnd then he comes te correct con clusions nnd makes faultless decisions In Iho fraction of n second, time and time again, in every live minutes of play. Matter of Sportsmanship "In no game and it might he added truthfully in no cnlllng in after life is there se much temptation for a participant te client, te take unfair advantages, te de small, mean and petty things, te lese the temper, te indulge In profanity, te show a nasty disposi tion and even te Indulge in downright light iiK, ns In football. y'llut that Is the time, the place and the wny te learn hew te guci-n, te control and 30, 1921. "TAKE YH TIME, LADY, TAKE .......... ,r . . u1,W..iIf:.'fr!.tfi-',.i 1 . tmmsmfflnmM&M .. k!& ibIIMIM kMftffl$m SJ. yf te conquer this disposition, te tiic great gain of the mental and moral strength of the con queror, "In this the boy is assisted by the coach, nnd the up-te-date coach will net for n mo ment tolerate 'dirty' football playing or what is known as 'muekei-ism' of any kind by nny of his players. On n properly regulated field there Is 110 longer nny place for pro fanity or violent language. And all tills helps in the development of the character of the players. Forming Geed Habits "College nthietlcs also help in the forma tion of geed habits, and here again football Is in the first rank, because the game is harder nnd therefore the training rules are mere severe. On a properly organized team every member must form strictly te the training rules. The players are forbidden te smoke, te chew tobacco, te drink liquor, te stay out late, te visit improper places, te gamble, te bet en their own games, te eat candy or te drink the ruinous messes which the average non-playing college boy pours almost hourly into his stemncli. He is obliged te study mid te sntisfy his tenchcrs, because failure te de se injures net only himself, but jeopardizes the chances of the team Jer victory nud thus places in peril the hopes of the whole college. ''This discipline is well worth while for any boy. And nothing except the love of the game would niiike him go through with it. The whole discipline nnd the atmosphere of the football field are advantageous. The candidate for the team learns premptlv, cheerfully, without question and te the full extent of his ability. Whether he likes it or net, he hns no option except te de us lie Is told and te de it nt once. Nowhere else in his college life does he come Inte contact with such discipline nnd learn te 'tee the mark' as he does in athletics, and this is often of the utmost value te him later in life. When Training Is Broken "I have often been asked whether it is geed form for players te inform en each ether lu wisps of infraction of the training rules. I believe that in any institution where football has reached a high state of perfection and has become one of the domi nant institutions of uudergraduntc life, it is net only the correct thins for the members of the team te report such infractions te the head coach, but It is also the duty of every man in the college te de se, "I knew that boys will net tell en one another In the playing of college pranks and jokes, and this is right and honorable. But In-caking training is no prank or joke. It is in effect the breaking of a mnn's word of honor. If a member of the team is derelict In his duty he harms ethers as well as him self. He has been trained nnd weiked with for weeks te lit him for certain work ami when he breaks training without permission lie is guilty of tiensen te his college. That Is the cede which governs a real football college, nnd It is the right one." I A Ballade of the Ripening Year SHE walked with Strephon in the spring, Yeung Clileu cold as Greenland's skies Derision In her laughter's ring, But much of wonder in her eyes. With much of wonder ami surprise Te find n swain 1.0 geutleseme, 'Twns seedtime then hew summer flics! New ull things te fruition come. He knew the time te plow and sing! Thu time te sew and improvise A hymn te Ceres; when te bring Ills hoe, that 110 tare long defies. But patient Strephon was tee wise Te force love's growth by rule of thumb (He coaxes when a filly shies!) New all things te fruition come. In fields the corn is ripening New all things te fruition ceiik A magic spell en Chloe lies, Her scornful lengiie and lips nre dumb- Hill ,.. n,i ,,i,n H,(M.1 H" J' i-Jltf r rjiirt. ''1I10, tlrS'l-'w Verk .miw nn tilings 10 mutton - I-M ward W. Barnard, In Tunc ., Ami glowing pumpkins premise pies, On thinning vines plump clusters swing- Fer scthe ami fork the meadow cries' The orchard's perl corps applies Te cheek of pippin, peach and plum The ninrvel of nnf.-iillnf ilv,.u Y'R TIME!" .3 ififtKl it WfrP 'JT J'ij"." ft SHORT CUTS Judge Lazarus appears te have wen some crumbs of near wisdom from the table of Dives. It may at least be said for the weather that it is favoring the peer and swatting the wicked coal man. "Louisiana Senate Wants Beer" Headline. Evident sympathy here with the Governors of the Carolines. One wonders hew the Les Angeles Chamber of Commerce ever let that report of a "slight earthquake" get out. Ferd is going te stnr.t n drive te clean up politics. We seem te remember that Henry once started 11 ship te bring about peace. If you doubt that we nre bound by con volition, just count en the lingers of one bund the number of straw lints you have seen during the Inst few het days. Once 011 n time, said Demosthenes McGlnnK women's huts were fixed up with birds with long bills. This year the birds nre missing, but the long bills remain. The report of the various committees te the national conference en unemployment should meke interesting reading for the members of Philadelphia City Council who, ny killing the Lenn Bill, have made it diffi cult for the city te provide work for the needy. Sir Alfred Mend. British Minister of Health, says that before the unemployment problem enn be solved there must be a re duction in the cost of production in order te stimulate buying. Te which may be added that a little courage en the part of pur chasers would also help. "The mere Germany has te work (be cause of reparations) the mere ether na tions cense working," says the German Min ister of Reconstruction. And the snd fact is daily becoming mere patent, through un employment reports, thnt he is telling the truth. Winning the war mny prove mere costly than losing It. The pessimist has a fine opportunity te indulge himself in his favorite dissipation by considering the fact thnt nt Tuesday's election in the Sixth Massachusetts Con gressional District nearly Sit, 000 voters stayed away from the polls. Mnssnchusetts is far enough away isn't It? te keep one from appearing personal. I What De Yeu Knew? QUIZ 1. Who are the .Inpnncse delegates ap pointed te the Disarmament Confer ence in Washington? 8. DlHtltiKUlsli between the words penl nnu I'01'1- . 3. Who wrote the famous "Ode te the west Wind"? 4. Wbat is the new altitude record for an nlrplnnn and who mnrte It? E. What soldiers nre sometimes known M "relneks"? fi, What Is rococo furnlture? 7. Whnt Is tellurium? ,. 8. Whnt Is the economic reason for tne Chinese practice of cooking fine chopped or shredded feeds? 1). Who composed the famous group of 1MB' llsh writers known ns the I.nke I'pets; 10. Who was Kngclhert Humperdlnek7 Answers te Yesterday's Qulr 1. nail Hlrennn should be pronounced "llwell Krln " L 2. The bedv has lipcn meeting In the Mas- slen Heuse, Dublin. 3. A postern Is n back deer, side way or entrance. . ,, 4. Thi Pniiainii-Paclfle Exposition was new In Kan Frnnclsce In 10 IB. 5. The question. "Cnu the Ethiopian change his skin or the leopard his spots? i propounded in the twenty-third vyW of the thirteenth chapter of rcniian. 0. Maiylatul Is mimed after Queen IIenrli Mnrlu. wife of Charles I of HiiKlaml 7. The Medes were un nnclent Aryan peypi' Inhabiting the northwest of the Ira nian or Persian highland between t Cnsplnu Sin and the Arnxcs Hlver 8. The salary of the Speaker of the Hen" of Representatives Is Jl'J.nnO 11 year. 9. Kiiniuel 1 lumpers Is the pn sldent of l ..i. ..t...... l.-.l.,...., I..t ,.t I .iilinl-. 10. ,,111, I IV, III I' IIIITI III ii'ii ,'i ,..--- ,,,,, lu lillilniil preirr.ipliy. (Ulead, 01 Me'" ('ll ad, win the part of Palest lie 1 " cunt of the .Ionian and extending C; ' te about loiiglliide 30 rust nnd "; between the llleremax en he "IJ and the Anion en the south. In extended stnae It Included nains - . jL.
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