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PUBLIC LEDGER COMPANY
' CYHU3 II. k. CUHT1H, President
Jehn C. Martin, Vice !rtild-ni and Jrtuunri
Charles A. Tyler. Secretary: Charee II I'H?"1?
ten. l'hlllp B. Celllna. Jehn 11. William;, Jehn J.
Bpurteen, deerie P. Qeldsmlih, David K. Smllty,
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PhlltdrlphU. Frld.r. October 21. 1921
FRANKFORD 'L' PROSPECTS
THE Mayer's request for the passage f nn
ordinance authorizing the construction
of an elevated railroad line en Frent street
from the terminus of the Frankford line nt
Arch street te Marked street will give the
City Council nn opportunity te show hew
great Interest It has In getting the Frank -ford
line in operation.
The present purpose of the Mayer and the
Director of City Transit is te operate the
Trankferd derated as nn independent line
as seen as It can he equipped. It has net
been possible te make u suti-'facter.v lease
with the Rapid Transit Company and tin
prospect for such a lease in the Immediate
future is net brilliant. Hut the city has
fifteen million dollars invested in a high
speed line which will reduce the running
time from Frankford te Market street te
twenty minutes, or less than one-half of the
time new required by the surface lines, and
It ought te be giving the people the benefit
of that investment.
The elevated line will touch Market street
within walking distance of the business cen
ter of the city. It will undoubtedly be
patronized by tens of thousand of riders
every day as seen as the trains begin te run.
The riders will net only be residents of
Frankford coming te business, but they will
be residents of ether parts of the city as
well as residents of New Jersey whose busi
ness takes them te th district penetrated
by the new line. Many business men are
new waiting with such patience as they can
muster for the opening of the line se that
they may use it morning and night.
Its operation as an Independent line .Is
net ideal. It ought te be connected with the
Market street subway, se that there can be
through travel from Sixty-ninth street te
the terminal in Frankford and back again.
The surest way te hasten its operation In
this manner is for the city te begin te
operate it en its own account.
City Council eugnt te pass the Mayer's
ordinance without delay, se that the Una
may be extended te Market street by the
time the powerheuso new building is com
pleted. THIS CITY'S GOOD HEALTH
FGURES compiled by the Bureau of
Health show that the death rate here for
the nine months ended September 30 was
the lowest in the city'6 history 12.62 per
3000 of population.
At no time between the years 1000 and
1918 did the death rate for the entire Na Na
teon descend te this happy minimum. Com
parisons for this year are net available, but
it is hardly likely that the Philadelphia
record will be equaled in the country at large.
The local decrease is attributed te mild
weather, Improved social agencies and mere
intelligent care of babies.
A BELATED BOON FOR CAMDEN
SO FAR as its obligations te the City of
Camden are concerned, the Reading
Hallway system seems te have given itself
a long overdue slop en the back. Announce
ment is made that the mockery of a ferry
Louse and railroad terminal nt Kalghn.s Point
is at last te give way te a handsome modern
structure worthy of traffic requirements.
Since the fire which destroyed the then
decrepit station five years age, a still mere
ramshackle makeshift has astonishingly
survived. Neither architecturally nor from
the standpoint of service was the "structure"
worthy of a town in the Klendike.
Camden is te be congratulated en the ulti
mate success of Its persistent campaign for
this Improvement. The new building is te
cost mere than S2.000.000, and is expected
te meet the full requirements of the inter
state and terminal business.
Philadelphia will Share in the gain, for
the Delaware Bridge is unlikely te afflict the
Kaighns Point traffic with destructive com
petition, There must be some supplemental
ferrying across the river until at least two
or three additional bridges are built.
The first great span between the two cities
is inevitably only u beginning. The story of
Brooklyn Is in point and worth remem
bering. WHICH IS PREFERABLE?
rpHE alternatives te new municipal in
J. cineratlng plants are unsightly, disease
breeding and fire-breeding back-let dumps.
This perfectly obvious truth is reiterated by
the Bureau of Municipal Research In Its
bulletin vigorously Indorsing the city Ad
ministration's effort te furnish this com
munity with a modern street -cleaning
service.
The opposition te the proposed municipal
reduction plant at Seventeenth and Cambria
(streets was largely political redflre. Cttl
tens who were gulled by specious and de
liberately obstructive arguments expressed
horror at the prospect.
While a structure devoted te the burning
of garbage and rubbish Ib necessarily a less
desirable addition te metropolitan scenery
than n public library or opera house, such
comparisons nveld the real issue. The choice
Is between the scientific trentment of refuse
or the antiquated and unsanitary methods of
.uperseded private contractors
A DAY FOR CONTRITION
ARBOIl DAY, which falls this autumn en
Frida) of next week, Is- agreeably an
ticipated in public schools throughout the
State. Trees will be planted and special
exercises will be held stressing the necessity
of preserving forest and bird life
ihe children Mill, as usual, enjoy the oc
casion, and with clear enscleiwes, The
fault is net theirs that Pennsylvania, once
the most rlchlv feicsted State In the I'nlen,
fell within lift -eight ears te twentieth
place.
It is, indeed, from the el-'er generation
that the shocking truths set forth in Gov Gov
ereor Sproul's Arber and Bird Day procla
mation deBcrve attention.
The damage is net wholly irreparable, for
1ft U reasonable te assume that the educa
tional meUwds pursued In the schools will
eventually bear some fruit, but It is bad J
eneugn,
"Ne ether pnrt of the world." declares
Mr. Sproul, "can supply us with the kinds
of timber we need. lVnnlvanin cannot
trust the Natien. The Natien cannot trust
the world. We must produce It ourselves
or go without."
Under the careful regime of Ferester
Pinchot there arc today in this Common
wealth something mere thnn a million acres
of State woodland. It is estimated that
there are five million acres of unproductive
mountain land, capable of producing an un
interrupted Hew of timber products. Such
resources could be developed without the
least encroachment upon the agricultural or
Industrial areas.
In addition te the materialistic advantages
of increased timber wealth, afforestatien en
a large scale premises climatic benefits, par
ticularly the limitation of sharp extremes of
temperature and a much-needed protection
of bird and wild Jlfc.
Arber Day intrinsically furnishes mere
than a theme for pretty festivities In the
school grounds. In a seuse It should be
regarded as a day of contrition throughout
a wasteful Commonwealth.
TWO UNUSUAL PHILADELPHIANS
DRAFTED FOR THE 1926 FAIR
Wanamaker and Bek Are Peculiarly
Fitted te Give National Scope te Plans
New Drifting and Indefinite
WHEN Mayer Moere expanded the plnns
for the Philadelphia Sesqul-Centennlal
(we have sold before and we shall say It again
that It ought te hare u better name) and
suggested a nationally representative working
committee te gut every important city be
hind the movement he put the beginnings of
n solid foundation under what has been until
new a seried of misty en sties In the nlr
When he asked Redman Wanamaker and
Edward Bek te serve en this committee as
representatives of New Yerk and Philadel
phia respectively the Mayer manifested
mere than u shrewd appreciation of the d
namlcs n," unpurchasable enthusiasm 1I
revealed an understanding of the great par'
that sheer creative instinct must piny In the
present and future schemes of the fmr it' tlie
project Is te be a success.
Mr. Bek 'ind Mr. Wanamaker are unusual
men. As much as any ether two Americans
whose names we can bring te mind they have
it in them te make the fair shine. There is
something heartening even In the thought of
what they could de. as orgenirers of a work
of splendor, te change current topics of gen
eral conversation. Strikes, lockouts, war.
hunger and violence are dismal obsessions
of the pepulur mind.
The Mayer will have done something worth
while if he can bring Inte the foreground
representatives of the large group of Ameri
cans who believe that material prosperity
means relatively little unless It assumes, in
the end. some form llkvly te brighten the
common life of the land nnd satisfy the per
sistent craving of the hifman spirit for mere
gracious ways of thought nnd existence.
It Is about time that something of that
sort of philosophy were heard above the
grinding racket of the pursuit of money for
money's sake.
Mr. Wanamaker ha1- devoted half of a
lifetime te persistent and unostentatious f-
forts te demonstrate that the neglected qual
ities of beauty and grace and geed manners
can play an important and immeasurably
useful part In the scheme of everyday com
merce. Like Edward Bek, he has never
been content te believe that the clash nnd
rear of factories and railwav trains and
mills are the only sounds indicative of the
final establishment of the kingdom of heaven
en earth.
Each has been sensitive te the needs and
demands of the Inner minds of everyday
people. Like all wise and generous men,
they knew that te hare a progressive or even
tolerable scheme of society you hare te
recognize nn preserve the essential dignity
of human chnrnctcr nnd satisfy the unspoken
need which all sorts of people feel fur the
comfort that is te be hail in the presence
of any beautiful thing.
Mr. Wanamaker has devoted much of his
time and his means unsparingly te the en
couragement of the younger generation of
painter. He has befriended innumerable
American art students abroad nnd he has
been nn appreciative bujer of their pictures.
He was decorated by the French Govern
ment for his work in making America ac
quainted with the products of French handi
craft. His love of music has helped te make
the pipe-organ n really popular instrument
in the United States, just us Mr Bek's
valiant work for the Philadelphia Orchestra
hns done mere than anything else te insure
for that magnificent oiganlzatien a perma
nent and untroubled existence.
While Mr. Bek's filendly and sensitive
mind wns letting light nnd color into th
forgotten ami forsaken plnces of the country,
Mr. Wnnnniakerwas organizing and financ
ing expeditions which pctually preserved for
its historical and cultural value in the United
States something of the fading magnificence
of the Indian's life and character nnd re
storing te the fund of our folklore much of
the beauty of Indian tradition and legend.
Such work is mero than practical It is
proof of a very definite sort of genli,, and
its geed effects are endless.
A World's Talr must be above all things
inegnlficent. Normally it will suggest merely
what men will de when they are permitted
te work and aspirp under great and gen
erous leadership. Humanity Is always try
ing te give visible form te its'hebler aspira
tions. Given an opportunity, it would make
all Its environments spacious Hnd beautiful.
It will never de that se long as its energies
are wasted in wars of one sort or another or
se long as It cannot find leaders able te see
n little way beyond a hard und immediate
fact.
Bek and Wanamaker are practical Ttiey
are cultured men. But they aren't blinded
by practicalness nnd their culture im't of
the sort that dehumanizes manv people.
That is whv their service te the city as
members of the fair committee will be price
less If it can be obtained.
WE'VE HAD WAR ENOUGH
A STRIKE Is an attempt te gf t bv force
whut cannot be secured by peai eful
means
What justification it has mu-t .if the
justification for the use of force.
There may be no violence, but under -uch
circumstances n strike It similar te a block
ade intended te starve out an cnemj .
However it may be looked at, a stnke is
war In one form or another.
And a lockout is uKe war. It is an effort
te starve an opponent Inte submission.
It seems te most of us that vve have hnd
enough of war In recent years, and that
there ought te be fair uundedm-sH unci intel
ligence enough te settl'; industrial disputes
at leaht by processes of arbitration.
The Ralliead Labiir Beard, created ly
Congress, Is the Industrial Hague tribunal
for this country. It has authority te secure
all the evidence necessary te forming a just
conclusion and te making n fair award.
Its award en the question of wages was
made Inst .Iul . The men affected by the
award have announced that at the end of
this month they will begin a fight for the
rate of wages which prevailed before the
nward.
Whether the rate of wages lijij by the
Laber Beard is fair or net we de net knew
EVENING PUBLIC LEDGER PHILADELPHIA, EMD&X OCTOBER ' 21,
But we de knew that this country ought te
be civilized enough te be nble te settle such
n dispute by peaceful negotiations without
resort te war. And we nre Inclined te the
opinion that public sentiment Is rapidly
teaching that state in which it will Insist
that no key Industry shall be interrupted
by disputes among these engaged in It,
whether the dispute is precipitated by the
employers or the empleyes.
We have had about enough of war.
A STANDARDIZED WORLD
NONE of the delegates attending the Con
ference en the Limitation of Armaments
in Washington next month, unless it be the
delegate from India, will be conspicuously
different In dress or manner from the per
manent inhabitants of the Nntlenal Capital.
The costume nnd customs of modern Europe
nnd America have become se standardized
that the variations nre slight.
Yet Frederic Harrison, n distinguished
British philosopher, has lntely been bewail
ing In the Londen Times the disappearances
of these differences nmeng the 'communities
of Continental Europe which gnve te travel
in IS 15 n delightful variety. He says that
at that time each Belgian town wns different
from every ether Belgian town; that Bou
logne was an eighteenth century city unlike
Havre, which was old Nerman j that part of
the IUvlcra was wholly French and part
wns wholly Italian, with different customs,
and that Germany offered still another vari
ety of town structure nnd native cestume.
Going about Europe then gave the traveler
unexpected and interesting experiences nnd
stirred emotions which the modern traveler
cannot experience. Mr. Harrison rcgreta
the change.
Is the change really regrettable? It may
be from the point of view of these who re
gard the world as merely a spectacle for the
entertainment of the curious. But the con
ditions of life in Europe at present are se
much mere comfortable for these who live
in it than they were in 18-15 that few would
like the old conditions te be reviTcd.
This has come about thieugh the develop
ment of the railroad, the steamboat, the
electric telegraph and the automobile. It is
easy for men and women te go from England
te France and from France te Germany and
te Italy. The mingling of the people of
different towns and different nationalities
with ene another has tended te destroy the
external differences. Ne one likes te be con
spicuous. Eren the educated natlre Chinese,
who comes te America usually adepts the
American costume when he Is en the street,
even If he wears the costume of China when
he is indoors. v.
It has come about that the costume of the
men and women of the towns of Europe nnd
America is modeled en the same general pat
tern. Seme variations survive in the rural
districts of the Netherlands and of Spain
and of Italy, But these are disappearing
slowly, nnd in two or three generations they
may have been lest entirely. They will mir
rire only se long as comparative isolation
survires.
When the country districts nnd the small
towns that have heen out of touch with the
main currents of the century are brought
into the great stream of modern life they
will gain much mere from the contact than
they will lese They will have nn intellec
tual and political awakening that will be
reflected in the industrial and political de
velopment of l heir respective countries.
The wheie tendency of the present is
tewaid this end. The European populations
are net likelj te become quite e homo
geneous as the population of the United
States, imt the difference will graduall.v grew
less. What has happened here Is unique in
the history of the world. We have a popu
lation of 110,000,1100 extending ever an enor
mous area with a varied climate and a
varied industry, yet as Dr. Vinsen, president
of the University of Texas. Mild ut the State
College the ether day. the most impressive
fact that attracts the attention of the- man
who travels about the country is that the
same ideals nnd the same motives prevail
from Maine te California. Men are attack
ing the same problems in nil parts of the
Natien, and they are seeking the same re
sults by similar mean-. As the contacts
with the rest of the world become mere fre
quent this homogeneousness will develop
until Western civilization has become se
standardized that it will he difficult te find
anj vital differences among the ideals of the
nations.
Then these who wish te seek the pic
turesque uUl have te go te Asia or Africa.
But even there the adoption of Western
ideas is progressing along with the adoption
of Western costume. The uniform of the
modern Japanese and Chinese Armies Is
modeled en the Western pattern. The West
ern railroads are ending the isolation of the
separate communities, and no one can tell
bow seen it will be before even Asia loses its
peculiar characteristics and enters en the
pursuit of the ideul - which have brought
about the gradual standardization of the
greati r part of the Western world.
JERSEY JUSTICE
NEW JERSEY is net likely te miss ita
opportunity te show hew the orderly
processes of justice can deal with a particu
larly offensive murdere .
Leuis Lively, n Negro, guilty of murder
ing a six -year-old white girl and mutilating
her body, has been arrested after being a
fugitive for many weeks. He bus been safely
ledged in prison, where he is guarded against
any mob thut may injudiciously seek te take
the law into Its own hands.
The County Prosecutor has nnneunced
that Lively will be tried nt the earliest pos
sible date and that the evidence against him
will be submitted te court ee that he may be
formally found guilty end sentenced by due
process of law.
It is likely that the man will pay the
pennlty for his crime befeie the end of the
year. There are precedents across the Dela
ware for similar expedition. They have made
Jersey Justice proverbial
OLD HOUSES
IF THERE were te be in this city a move
ment llke thnt which Mis Anne Morgan
started in New Yerk when she led u migra
tion of the very rich away from Fifth avenue
te Eest Side regions from which the wealthy
departed half a century age, leaving beau
tiful old houses behind them, innumerable
examples of the best American architecture
would be saved.
In the crowded areas south of Market
street hundreds of fine old residential build
ings may still be found. Under the dust and
grime of misuse nnd overcrowding they still
retain much of fine workmanship and even
the nlr of spaciousness that belonged te mere
leisurely times.
There aie old houses in the downtown sec
tion that, with their red brick, their white
marble nnd their olel-fnshieneel fanlights,
arc as reminiscent et old Philadelphia as elcl
licieks might be. And they have nn Inherent
charm which even the best builders of today
can only imitate.
The tide of business activity and the flood
of immigration passed ever them and no one
has tried te push these tides back or even te
divert them.
The one patent fact te be constantly
strcsseil is that the rights anil wrongs of
lailreiid nun. executives and clay workers)
aie sc iichiiv te the rights unci wrongs of
the gi'iieral piibln ; and the general public
will be tin puiieipal sufferer from a strike.
A in i- ledged In the enr of a Dutchess
(Vuntv. N Y . man, and he had te call u
doctor te remove It If It had been in his.
bonnet no weuiu nave cuucu un me eicC'
titrate
).
AS ONE WOMAN SEES IT
Superiority of Teas Over Luncheons
for Campaign Purposes Illustrated
by the Success of the Launching
of the Welfare League's Move
ment for Meney
By SARAH I), LOWIUE
THE State Committee of the League of
Women Voters held n Ittnche&n In the
middle of this week nt the Bellcvuc-Htrat-ferd.
At least I judge It was a State affair,
for I could recognize none of my old com
patriots who are active in the city League of
Women Voters et the teble f honor, airs.
Charles Wurts, who is a Phlladelphlan and
in-talked of ns the next Philadelphia chair
man, presided, however, nnd doubtless' her
being there was meant by the State Commit
tee te be a recognition of the importance of
Philadelphia in the general scheme of things,
even though for the moment she has no con
nection with the City Committee of ' the
Lengue of Women Voters. Thcre are very
able women en both the city und State
beards, and the time has come for them te
work In mere complete harmony. The very
large attendance of the city members at the
luncheon was a geed prtsage of their feeling
of responsibility for the League's geed name
among the city political Institutions in the
coming year. It almost equaled the great
showing they made last spring out nt the
West Philadelphia mass-meeting. That was
even mere telling because of the numbers et
their men folk they interested te accompany
them.
I AM net at all sure that a midday politi
cal luncheon get up by women for. propa
ganda is net rather "dated." The whole
point about voting new is that it Is a family
affair. And because in the old days, when
women were encouraged only te listen te men
upceking in public and te watch men rote
from nfa therc wcre wemen'a prayer
meetings called female pray-mcetlngs and
women s suffrage meetings, there seems no
very urgent reason v.l.y, under changed
conditions, this one-sided interest should
continue.
IF APPLE-SAUCE is geed for the geese j
it's geed for the gander. The only part
men had te play in this mcetlnc beyond two !
speakers, who spoke, I thought, a little shyly
owing te the preponderance of their sibtcrt
and their N cousins and their aunts present,
net te mention ether ladles, was net notably
well dene nor praiseworthy. I mean the
men who served. If the standing and waiting
In this case could In any seuse be called
serving.
It was nn outrageously peer management
en some one's part thnt allowed the salad
course te be dumped down en the soiled
plates of the first course and the Ice crenm
plates en top of these, with knives and
coffee spoons as the only Implements of con
veying two of the heterogeneous assortments
of feed te the mouth. I de net think at $2
a plate such economy of service was justified,
and I de net think nn equally Important
men's political luncheon would hnve been se
amazingly hustled. It get se wild toward
the end that u general clearing of all three
courses at once resulted In an avalanche of
broken viands cascading down en our per
sons from toppling plates.
Mrs. Slade, of New Yerk, had even mere
than she quite realized te counteract by her
amusing and timely speech en "The Lady
or the Tiger?" bv which she briefly sketched
the present political situation In New Yerk
City.
I THINK in the future it might be well for
eiigatiizatieus such ns the League te con
sider the feasibility of having nn afternoon
ten meeting with the slighter refreshments
thnt such an hour would imply, and the
consequent slighter cost for refreshments nnd
the greater room therefore for the audience.
It would be at an hour when there was the
chance for men te tome as well as their
wives nnel sisters.
THE Welfare League bad an audience this
same week at 5 o'clock in the afternoon
in the same ballroom which was both larger
and mere attentive and mere representative,
since there wire nearly as many men ns
women, and as It involved .even greater sac
rifice piespective, ut least than the League
of Women voters lias yet asked of Its mem
bers. I think it was a fair test of the greater
practicality of an afternoon meeting ever a
luncheon. Of , eurse. the Welfare League,
which called together the afternoon meeting,
has worked It up with great skill and a
gradual crescendo of cumulative interest.
I HAVE had mere experience than I care
te reminisce about in drives and rally
meetings for drives, but at least it has left
me very knowing nbeut the mechanism of
such movements, nnd all the steps lending up
te this one and Its program and the manner
in which the program is being put through
are technically perfect. It Is going with -n
Bpirlt nnd a rush, and It deserves te. Fer
each move has been timed with an exact
finish that leaves these of us who knew
what's what applnudlng in the wings.
rTlHERE are bound te be mistakes during
X the days of the Welfare drive; though
one is net te c nil It a drive, I believe be
cause the captains and the teams. In spite of
every kind of clear instruction, written,
printed, spoken and mevled, are bound, some
of them, te think they knew better, nnd en
the Q. T. disobey orders. And. of course,
one person disobeying will snarl things for
a whole line of ebeeliinl persons nnd net
better himself in the end ; and there will be
fakers who pretend fe work nnd leek ns
though thty worked nnel talk big who will
cnube a sUg new and then In the taut line
of the tug-of-war. But that was net the
spirit of must of the men nnd women gath
ered nt the AVelfare League meeting te see
the. movies and te listen te the data and te
tirepure for going ever the top from Novem Nevem
ler 14 te 17. They meant business. They
see the sense of the whole scheme. They
believe it can be done, and they want te
de it.
AS MOS1 of them are among the ."000
who have hitherto supported the public
organizations for the general geed of the
city, they hnve fire in their eyes, new thev
knew the figurcM and the names, te go te ft
and get some 200,000 mere well-to-de citi
zens te come across with the almighty
dollar. Fer it is an almighty dollar If the
spirit behind It is the Christian spirit of
brotherly love and our forefathers' spirit of
citizenship. And It can work miracles, that
nlmlghty dollar--miracles of healing and
comforting and e-ducatlng nnd recreating.
They nre gjeat souls who have thought
out the nlan of the thing nnd who are put
ting it through for the rest of us te lend a
band te give it the final Impetus straight te
the hearts of 'he men and women and chil
dren who have the dollar ready for this hour
npd the hour s in ed
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Today's Anniversaries
1805 British under Ierd Nelsen defeated
the combined fleets of France und Spuin In
grcnt battle off Cape Trafalgar.
1830 Caldwell's Theatre, in Cincinnati,
was destroyed by fire
1872 German Emperor n warded San
Juan Islanil te the United States.
1870 The first incandescent light was
produced by Themas A Edisen.
1880 "Plan of Campaign" in connection
with the "no-rent" agitation in Ireland
started.
1800 A centennial celebration of Meth
odism in New Englami began in Rcsten.
181)0 United States cruiser Raleigh cap
tured two filibustering steamers iff the Flor Fler
ida Coast.
1010 United States Heuse of Represent
atives voted for a national budget system.
Today's Birthdays
Dexter S. Kimball, president of the Amer
ican Society of .Mi'chanlcal Engineers, horn
ut New'River, N B., Ilft.v -six jcars age,
Jehn Burns, long noted English labor
leader ami statesman, born In Londen sixty
three years age.
Dr. Heward II. Russell, founder of the
Antl-Snloen League eif America, born at
Stillwater, Minn., sixty-six years age.
Dr. James Lukens McCenaughy, president
of Knox College, beru in New Yerk City
thirty-four years age
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By WILLIAM ATHEKTON Du I'UY
HAD always thought that chemistry was
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was this chief of the Chemical Vv arfare
Service, this Brigadier General Ames A.
Fries, showing us through the great plant
at Edgewood Arsenal and making it almost
romantic. . , . T
The catalyst, he was saying and it 1
make technical mistakes in the reporting
thev are mine nnd net his Is the Cupid of
chcinistrv. It is the matchmaker. It brings
about unions that would net otherwise
occur, vet docs net enter into these uniqns.
is unaffected by them. It is just like Cupid.
Take chlorine, for instance, nnd enrben
monoxide, two gases. Put them together
and they will net unite. Put them in the
sun and thev will. The sun is the catalyst.
Charcoal will get the same result. It does
net enter into the combination, but It gets
action. , , , , .
The substance resulting is called phosgene,
and If you take that word apart you will
find that it means "born In the sun. It
was one of the strafers during the war. And
yet I didn't knew there was remunce In
chemistry. ,
And this terrible mustard gas I De you
knew what it is made of?
Table salt and alcohol with a little sul
phur stirreel in.
Yeu break table salt up into its two
parts, chlorine, a gas, and sodium, which
is Ire, nnd threw the lye away. Then yen
change alcohol into a gas. And you put the
two gases together and run them through
het sulphur. There you have It mustard
gas. the great man-killer.
But they nut a let of detail in just te
make it hard.
The atmosphere of secrecy which sur
rounded the deliberations of President
Wilsen's Cabinet during the war was se
thick that it might hnve been chopped up nnd
stored for diplomatic use.
Mr. Wilsen wus, at times, a bit depressed
by it, but likewise Inclined te see the humor
of the situation nnd te philosophize about It.
t tcnrni lu (i hit of vexatious thlnif te
hnve about," he remarked te his official
family one day. "It you Keep it, you lese
your interest, and If you tell it, you lese
your principle."
Dr Alexander Graham Bell, inventor of
the telephone, carries en many interesting
experiments in his home. People have a
way of gathering there nnd discussing sub
jects iiml comparing novel Ideas.
One night Dr. Bell filled a glass of water
as full as it could be filled without running
ever. Then lie and his guests began ehrnp
ping pins into i. They dropped dozens of
them and still It didn't run ever. They sent
for mere pins and pul them in and nt Ul it
didn't spill. All the pins In the house were
dropped in one nt a time until ever 700
of them hail entered the water.
They had te quit because the pins ran nut.
Maybe it would have held all the pins In
the world. I don't knew. Yeu can try It
if jeu want te.
Dr. Lewis E. van Nerman, trade com
missioner from this country in Rumania
and Bulgaria, went te Paris jears age te
report the Dreyfus trial and wrote a piece
about It in which he set down the facts as
they were revealed yeara later when they
resulted In the pardon of that officer.
Calvin B. Brown, of the Chamber of
Commerce-of the United States, is a man
with a unique profession. He Is styled a
doctor of slclt towns. lie gees about
from place te place inquiring Inte the con
ditions of towns unci prescribing for them
when they nre niling.
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"I nole Jee" Cannen, inextricably asso
ciated In the public mind with n long, black,
rakislily tilted cigar, has sworn off from the
weed at the age of eighty-six, thus demon
strating the pessihilltj of reform even though
the span of jears Is long.
Fermer Senater Albert Jeremiah Bover Bever
idge, of Indiana, who Is training for a come
back te that pest, used, In his jeuth, te
work by the day a a mule skinner.
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Themas Mellaril, an American one-time
war correspondent, who was unofficial ml-
vlser te the Chinese at Paris and will oc
cupy a slmilnr imsltlen at the forthcoming
conference nn Pacific problems, is reputed te
have been the first man In the United States
te wear canvas shoes, He wns n Beau
Brummell out St. 1mls way, and thts ar
ticle of apparel was his specialty,
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Heward Chandler Christy, the artist, went
down te Atlantic City net long age te act
uh jinlge In n beauty contest staged at that
resort.
"It has lieen my fate," he salcL "te live
constantly In nn atmosphere of 'bountiful
women. Mrs. Christy, of course, occupies
nn admitted place In that classification, se
I have the atmosphere at home. In my stu
dio I have constantly before me the most
1921
"VOT A RELIEFS
f"recr Lights en Lives and Whims
, Personages in the Public Eye
beautiful women I am nble te find, and I
work regularly in transferring that beauty
te canvas. I am always going nbeut and
acting as judge in some beauty contest, and
in this capacity the atmosphere is still fur
ther maintained. In fact, I live a life that
is quite filled up with beautiful women."
"Such being the circumstances," inter
jected Themas Endlcett, director general of
the Atlantic City pageant, "I would say
that there is little coming te you In the fu
ture; life, as you nre getting your heaven
right here en earth."
A sharp-faced, wide-awake, blue-eyed,
bowstring sort. of man is Edward O. Fin
ney. First Assistant Secretary of the In
terior. Fer thirty years he has hnd te de
with the execution of the regulations of the
Government as thev apply te the adminis
tration of the nntlenal domain and the pros
ecution of violators of the law appertaining
te that same.
If you drop In upon Mr. Finney casually
in the big Interior office in Washington, you
will likely find him figuring busily at his
desk.
"Deping out our income from anticlines,"
Mr. Finney will tell you. "What are anti
clines? Why, anticlines nre nature's res
ervoirs in which it has kept stored through
the ages the gasoline which operates twen
tieth century motorcars. An anticline Is a
sort of Inverted dtshpan Inte which this
oil Is crowded by subterranean pressure and
where It is held until n drill pierces the bot
tom of the pan, producing n leak upward
in the form of nn oil well. Prospectors for
oil search diligently for these hidden anti
clines. Wherever they find one en the Gov
ernment domain, we require that they pay
the Government a certain proportion of the
oil they get. These royalties te the Govern
ment nlready amount te five or six million
dollars a year, and these will grew astime
passes.'
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'Die. canal that the French would have
built nt Punnmu, seventy feet wide nnd
twenty-nine feet deep, would have been a
toy canal, u cannlbeat "canal, by this time,
says Representative Martin B. Madden, the
engineer in Congress who has come te be the
chalrmnn of the new Budget Committee. It
might have held back the growth of ships,
the development of the shipping of the world.
Fortunately we made the canal bigger than
was nt first planned.
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Geneinl Pershing. Brigadier General
Charles G. Dawes. Director of the Budget;
Colonel Theodere Roosevelt and Lieutenant
Edwin Denby, Secretary of the Navy, nre
all members of the Nntlenal Press Cluli Pest
of the American Legien, in Washington.
What De Yeu Knew?
' - QUIZ
1 What Is mandrageraV
2. Hew should the name be pronounced?
3. Fer what was Lady Mary Wertley Men
tagu noted?
4. What Is the capital of Madagascar?
5. What is a mantissa?
C. What Is a mammee?
7. What is meant by' an action done In
"main fide"?
S. What Is the geographical adjective ap
plied te natives of the Isle of Man?
0. Who Is the President of the Far Eastern
Republic?
19. What is a colporteur?
Answers te Yesterday's Quiz
1 Idaho, Delaware, Wjemtng, Nevada.
Arizona. New Mexico and Vermont
are each smaller In population .thcin tha
Dlbtrlct of Columbia. lM
2 The new treaty with Germany was rati-
"! l,y the mited States Senate by a
vote of 60 te 20.
3 Thei first name of General Diaz. Kcnerul-
ssline of the Italian nrmles durtmr the
latter pnrt of the World Wn? s
Armande. '
4 I'eperlne is a llpht. porous, usually brown
volcanic red: composed of sand cln
ders, etc. ' '"
1. General Cernvvallls surrendered his array
te tieneral Washington nt Vorktewn
en October 11), 1781. '"""
6. The Isle el I Wight is an island n the
Hngllsh Channel, belonging te llinn
shire Kngland. and separated If", X
a'mlWheaS. Channf'a f "'
7. The colors of the modern flag of China
. ar,? U ye,,ew' b,U8' antl Muck
8. The Haribcatlc League has been culled the
first trade union It was established In
the tvelfth century by certa n e lea
of Nenhern Germany for their 'mutual
prosperity and protection ThS ,1 et
which used te be held Wry t
years, wa called the "Hans." an,! hS
' "Plntrln.leaTlyn' by or '" "" "
10. A tike Is a cur or low fellow
I SHORT CUTS j
General Diss is at least convinced that
we are net a phlegmatic Natien.
The bigger the scope of the Washington
genferpnee the mere evil the effects If It
falls.
There Is already evidence thnt old Seber
Second Thought is getting in his licks te pre
vent the railroad strike.
One thing advantages Babe Ruth. .Twigs
Landls can't consistently kick against a man
holding mere than one job.
Dr. Jehn Reach Stnlten says dancing
is fundamentally wreiu becuuse It necessi
tates hugging. It's a bear, s
Experts agree that the unemployment
peak has been passed, but. of course, that
means "barring a. railroad strike."
Ninety-two out of 12.". nil te llceiibfs
revoked In Hnrrlsburg resulted from boeie.
Jehn Barleycorn is a punk chauffeur.
' If Lloyd Geerge can bring assurance of
Irish pence when he comes te the Washing
ton conference he'll disarm much criticism.
Spiritualists arc holding a convention
in Detroit. Lecal bootleggers may be able
te give them some pelntsln materialization.
Uncle Sam's attitude toward the Ger
man Treaty Is that while he cannot take It
te his besom as a friend, lie can at Jenst
treat It civilly.
A family of skunks hns taken possession
of the basement of a West Chester church.
There Is evidently here n deep -laid scheme te
put religion In bad odor. '
The codfish is returning te waters south
of Cape Ced after Its summer vncntlen fur
ther north ; nnd the ilshball will proceed te
shai'e honors with football.
The approach of winter Is signalized by
the return of English bloaters te the rce
tnurnnt menu and the return of the cough
drop te the drugstore counter.
And nfter everything else hns been said,
the railroad men may decide net te strike
because of the realization thnt a strike is
foredoomed te failure.
That Great Britain feels It necessary te
deny that she is contemplating new naval
bases at the Bermudas, Singapore and else
where is evidence of dangerous propaganda
ubread.
While I'm net n free-trader, says the
Yeung Lady Next Doer But One, It seems
te me thut 'most any one would be willing
te swap u dump for n scientifically operated
Incinerating plant.
The violence of Italinn Communists in
protesting against the verdict of a Massa
chusetts court is likely te cause mere inno
cent embarrassment te General Diaz than
perturbation en the part of Uncle Sam.
A New Yerk hospital superintendent
thinks there should be n law compelling every
girl In the land te put in two years sfudylnS
nursing. If the Stute provided sufficiently
natty uniforms and suilicientlv Interesting
patients few young women would object.
A New Yerk woman hns wen a divorce
because her husband told her before war
rlnge that he was tifty-twe, when as a mat
ter of fact he was sixty-aeren. The law
thus decides that woman's right te hide her
age Is net shared by man. Where Is this
sex equality?
President Harding at Y'orktewn said
that a breach of friendly relations between
America nnd Great Britain is unthinkable.
It Is heartening te these who long for world
peace that the celebration of British sur
render te American forces should awaken
only kindly thoughts.
Using duck feathers as bait, a Phila
delphia man In Crlsficld. Mil., caught forty
two fine rock, while hit partner, a Bettcrteii
captain, using crabmeat as bait, caught but
two fish. This teaches iis, dear children,
that fine feathers sometimes make mere than
fine birds and that Fate will sometimes crau
the act of even the most experienced angler.
A Chicago woman has
Every Weman refused te marry a
Te Her Taste Sacramento million
aire. because he is tee
handsome. She wants a matrimonial cur
without trailers. He is a dear, but tee
much of a Belvedere, she says. But he neeu
net worry. Let him buck up. He already
has the dough. The lady wants a husband
hSincly enough te be a bafc bet. This sug
gests the remark of the countryman wnen
he first saw a giraffe. "There ain't no sue
animal." Fer (te handle the propesltwg
from Its safe side) a wemnn Is liable te tninfc
the homeliest dub alive handsome when ones
she Is married te him,
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