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SADLER'S MISTAKE
rCON'TKACTOIl domination 01 the State
Government Is te be avoided, It l evi
dent that Lewis S. Sadler, Highway
Commissioner, is net the proper man te
nominate for Governer se long as he holds
fte his present views In this vital matter.
t . let various contractors are believed te
Tt 'favorable te the nomination of Mr.
wdler. They have contracts for building
Wds which they have obtained from him.
'"ema pf them are Senators who voted for
read appropriations.
Senater McNlebel, of this city, is one of
6em He Is interested In a contracting
ra that bears his name. Senater Max
TvHe, of Pittsburgh, is another who Is
generally believed te be a member of the
, Donald McNeil Company, which also has
highway contracts. And Senater A'are, nUe
of this city, vouched te Commissioner
Sadler for Philip C. Klscle when Glide's
''1 for work was received. Kisclc whs a
j?- empleye of Senater Varc. and his
,rfdclphla office Is that of the Senater.
, 'vir., Sadler, however, kccs nothing Im
enper In Senators being Interested In con cen
jits for which they vote the money. If
,-klr bids are low and they de the -work
jWtU they should have the work, in his
oftnlen. He lays that he considers "only
f tfcVbuslness and engineering point of view."
( But thls Is net the only thing te be
f considered. It requires little imagination
p conceive what would happen with a
OflYerner nominated by a group of contract
lMkllna: Senators with hunger for mere con cen
tnrt8. We knew what happened in this
lOMyjwhen the executive officials were con cen
.Mftd by the contractors and when the
t Hfjectera were appointed by the creatures
' ifhe men interested In perfunctory Inspcc
w. Werk was scamped, specifications
w liberally Interpreted or ignored and
ijrmeus profits were made at the expense
nf the taxpayers.
' 'l'h HATt nrwi.nnn liA,,1.1 Uj. h v.n .mUh
mU. set his face against the introduction
'f this system into the eenduct of highway
Improvements. He should be a man who
es something fundamentally wrong in the
rttem.
rf mi: eaaicr nas eeen an excellent Higli
liV W,T Commissioner. He has refused te per
mit bad work te be done. Hut he has been
S MCKed by n Uovcrner wlie Inilnted that the
It Pept should get their money's worth in
ly-9ed reads. If he were put In the Gov
' erner's etBcc by contractor lntiuunce he
would find himself surrounded by forces
that would be most difficult te resist
THE ACE OF CONFERENCES
rTTHK possibility exists that the Admlnis
JL tratlen of Mr. Harding may be -hur-acterlred
In history ns the age of confer
ences. Certainly that title hns been earned
for the first part of bin Administration.
The call for n national conclave te con cen
pfder the agricultural problems of the coun ceun
Af ' the third in the significant series which
IT. tan with the unemployment conference
nnd was balanced In the middle by the
Wnrdjaele disarmament sessions.
SJfie latest parley, scheduled for Friday of
bj'week Jn the national capital, will prob preb
TADly be conducted en lines similar te theie
' "laid down in the discussion of unenuilev-
ly Temporary conditions will he considered
Vjby1 experts of many clashes. The endeavor
4YI m mnrtn trt rintnrmtnr. npnnrnl nnllni.u
! and finally te deal with conditions eC a
'permanent nature.
,i The situation, however, differs emewhnt
t'frem Us predecessors in its recognition of
ineMtlcal ns well ns economic tendencies.
Jfeareedles for the severe agricultural depres
jn, notably in the West, are imperatively
jnteded. In" addition te this there Is the
' nuinlfestatlen of farmers' blocs in Congress
i'which have greatly complicated tlie course
of legislation.
' lt la net se much censorship of these
'movements which Is sought as analysis of
"their meaning and adjustment of conditions
iich, In the clash between Kat and West,
x.1 , produced n kind of legislative stultifi
SKj'n.. .mferences are by no means unqualified
1 ' overseas for human ills, but at least thev
t' the ndmirablc merit of bringing vexed
iw-f' facts Is'a habit worth cultivating by any
'mt "FOLK JAZZ"
,,i?iTAZZr" declares the president of the
i''Trvf Music Teachers' rational Assoeialien
INttiew rneVting in Detroit, "Is the uttemiit at
iViuslcal expression of the melting-pet of
. lyrlci. ' Given time It will develop into
, Stfenn of natlenq.1 composition that will
Jle, with the great French and German
M Vjn rlew of the highly commercialized
JttBBt-ef tin-pan nlley, this indersement is
iWJjtta'iably hopeful. Granted the iwes-
)iji .of beneficial change, there Is scarcely
. MkjrtMng In life or letters, In music, rirchi-
: f&tare or painting that cannot, however
, ii3'tb0 construed as potentially geed.
t S VM jannaism In art Is an interesting and
i- i America a recurrent manifestation.
.Tjruu ui iifgunn, ceiiccinuy in tne
', are prone td court an evanescent pub
with defences of slang and bud rnun-
. .. . T1.M1I.U . t.ll .
(' , Instances of racy, spontaneous, un
I expression. Admirers of "sunsets
d Tflth a squirt" are similarly lib-
SnVfai;ttsts ar "feeling their way
"ipse i JTiitujri versifiers are net se
"ItrtCrff?. tbSTe done
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conservatives with an Instinctive feeling for
rational values and standards of beauty
obvious without the application of subtle
philosophy arc naturally embarrassed.
It may be cold of jazz, however, that it
might preve the basis of a national struc
ture of music were any foundations dis
cernible. The bang and clatter of trap or
chestras is jelly enough and harmless
enough, but if it Is actually the genesis of
folk music it would be pertinent te Identify
by title a single "rag" which has survived
the charivari of, nay, the last five years.
"Music when soft voices die vibrates in
the memory." If any recollection survives
of the name of one jazz piece of the vintage
of 11)1(5 or before, champions of the new
scnoei et unless .vmcriL-uii uiuj-is-.u mi'iv'-.
slnn will hnve nreved their point. Can a
render tell?
PENROSE
WHKN great figures In the weild of politics
pass finally from the stage, it Is fitting
that there should be a stir, much ceremonial
homage and the public expression of tribute
te their virtues. Their faults are momen
tarily forgotten, nnd all the outward show
Is of sorrow and mourning. Se It Is with
Senater Penrose.
His sudden, and In a way pathetic, death
away from home and surrounded only by
Btrangci's gives a dramatic touch te his
passing which will de much te soften the
asperities of political enmities which other
wise might have found tongue even in the
hour of death. Indeed, If he had died sud
denly In the full power of his sway two
years age, before the tragic collapse which
left him a broken, weakened Invalid, It Is
hardly possible that the note of bitterness
could have been suppressed. Hut as It Is,
one who had no previous knowledge of his
career and personality might be led te be
lieve from the words which are new spoken
about him that he had never been one of
the most cordially hated and vigorously
denounced leaders in Amcilcan politics.
Penrose was a great figure and as such
cenld hardly have failed te win many
enemies. He often merited them, but net
always. Yet, whether deserved or net,
he regarded them all the same with a
grim, unyielding, dogged determination
never te admit mistake or defeat He was
a lighter for the things he wanted. He
was ruthless, as every tighter must be who
puts the desire te win nbeve the love of
exact principle And these are qualities
which are widely esteemed by practitioners
In the nffulrs of government nnd politics.
Perhaps this phase of his character was
the secret of his success as the leader of
the Pennsylvania State machine in succes
sion te Senater Quay a place he held
nearly eighteen years. Penrose awed little
men. They were afr.tld of him. Ills anger
was as big as. his body and bard te out
face. He had the force of bulk In the
presence of leser bodies, and this was as
true of his brains ns of his physique. He
was tremendously able intellectually. At
his prime no wit was mere dreaded than
his in the Senate. And his armor of cyni
cism made him proof against return barbs
that would have utterly pierced mere sensi
tive fouls.
It hns been the habit te say that Penrose
was unsocial, both In his opinions and in
his personal contacts. It Is true that he bad
few personal friends and that he was a
solitary. But he was net always se. When
the mood possessed him he could be as
entertaining a companion as any club
habitue. The amenities of life did net in
terest him, though. And ns for his social
opinions, they were of that coldly remote
philosophy which regards the public as a
multiple of units, a total In the vote col
umns, a mass, a table of statistics, anything
except se many human lives striving te
work out their destiny.
If Penrose was the antithesis of his
college mate, Roosevelt, In this respect, he
was never cold in his zeal te protect the
welfare of the business interests of the
country ns he conceived that wclfare. In
Congress nnd out he was the stalwart cham
pion of all legislation intended te promote
the prosperity of commerce and trade
Perhaps, in justice. It should he said
that this te him represented the highest type
of consideration for the public, because he
held that whatever enhanced the prosperity
of business was enough te enhance the
welfare of the people. lu this belief he had
the support of man.v self-consciously re
spectable citizens who would have spurned
disdainfully the thought of soiling their
hands In the muck of machine politics as
be did.
Sprung of an aristocratic family, cnjevlng
all the opportunities of education which
wealth and n quick brain could trasp, and
with n presence which, In his youth at least,
gave him an Immense advantage In his
dealings with men, Penrose might have gene
even into the White Heuve If he had pur
sued a course less scornful of the humble
voter and less dependent upon the crushing
power of the steam roller. Hut he never
complained, even when being hit hardest, and
that showed what his admirers called cour
age or what his opponents called tough
hide.
Penrose Is gene, after Penrose, what?
That Is the question which, however sound
ing may be the phrases of eulogy they utter,
Is solely .agitating the men of the Republi
can machine In Pennsylvania who arc eager
te seize the power death has made him
yield. There will be a jealous scramble.
Already It is en. Who knows hew much
the fate of Pennsylvania during the next
few years depends uponthe answer?
INSPIRATION FOR THE LEAGUE
CONSIDERATIONS of cxpediincy upon
which it Is needless te expntiatc have
excluded the League of Nations as a topic
falling within the scope of the Disarmament
and Pacific Conference. The silence pre
served en this point has been non-committal
rather than ill-tempered 'e dam
age whatever has been done by restricting
the labors of the parley te the particular
ebiei is lir wlili h It was called.
When the next sessions of the 1. inane are
helil. however, it is highly unlikely that
reticence concerning the achievements of
(he Washington conclave will prevail.
Kvery thing ociemplished in the arms meet
ing has an Important hearing upon the
position and field of the League and, in
some instances, the connection is extremely
Intimate.
Article XVIII of the Covenant exprcssi,
requires that every treaty or International
engagement entered Inte by any member na
tion shall be registered with the secretariat
and that no such compact "shall be bind
ing until se registered."
On this seer? no difficulties need be an
ticipated. Assuming ratifications, copies of
the Ainerlenn-.Iepanese Treaty cencernlm;
Yap, the Four-Power Pacific Treaty and
the Five-Power Limitation of Armaments
Treaty V.JH all be duly deposited in the
rgiie archive. L
VUt submarine war
EVENING PUBLIC LEDGER
fare proposed by Bllhu Reet which suggests T
a possible course of constructive action Dy
the society of some fifty nations.
Harmony regarding the reaffirmation of
existing rules of naval warfare and the pro
hibition, in the reiterated cede, of subma
rine attacks en merchant ships has already
been reached in Washington. Even the
French, who have blocked the apportionment
of reduced ratios for U-beats, have In
dorsed the Indictment of sheer barbarity
after tfie German model.
Unt Mr. Reet rightly heres for ndditlenal
pledges. The concurrence of the five prin
cipal Powers represented In Washington is
net enough. The program will, it Is said,
include an invitation urging the co-operation
of all nations.
A magnificent opportunity for the League
te de its part Is thus In prospect. Save for
Russia, Turkey, Mexico, Germany and the
I'nlted States, the Geneva organization in
cludes nil the leading Governments of the
world.
It Is well known that the disarmament
prescriptions of the Covenant have been
untouched pending decisions in Washing
ton. Responsibility Is new shifted te the
League, the prestige of which would be Im
mensely enhanced by supporting with all the
force of Its lnrge membership Mr. Reet's
codification of International Marine Law
respecting under-sea craft.
The machinery of the League Is precisely
fitted for securing the assent of the many
Governments as yet unpledged.
If the League is true te its ideals, and
especially these relating te disarmament, It
should derive new Inspiration from the mo
mentous conference held in the capital city
of a non-member nation.
THE NEW YEAR
CIVILIZATION, said n recent essayist,
restating nn old truth, is n growth nnd
net a trick. Consequently " the man who
expects the year 102- te lieceni" by some
sleight of hand radically different from the
year 1021 is deemed te disappointment.
But If he will tnkc thought for n moment
or two of his own attlfude toward llfe he
will see what little ground there. Is for sur
prise that the things that have been prove
te be substantially the things that will be.
If nothing else enlightened him the Jeke
that New Year's resolutions arc should he
sufficient. We de net keep the resolutions
which would change our way of living.
This is because they are resolutions te
change our habits, and habit is the mo
mentum of n man's whole past life. It
takes a greater force than resides In the
human will te change at once the direction
in which that momentum is driving a man
forward.
As the momentum of society Is the sum
of the menicntums of the individuals which
compose It. the general direction In which It
moves remains pretty constant Attempts
have been made te force it ut right angles
from its old course, but they have never
succeeded. They have been accompanied by
wrecks like thei-e which overtake an auto
mobile trying te turn a sharp corner nt
sixty miles an hour. Inertia, that tendency
te continue moving in the direction in which
one has started, mekes it difficult te bring
about any change. It lakes a powerful
external force te accomplish anything and
that force Is usually powerful enough te
produce only a curve from the old direc
tion a curve of se long a radius that for
years its variation from the old direction
is bnrcly apparent.
An external force was applied by a Car
penter In Palestine m'nrly 2000 years age.
If we leek back ever the centuries we can
see some evidence of a change in the direc
tion in which society is moving. Hut if we
leek back te the beginning of 1021 tei icty
will seem te 'have made no pi egress toward
better things. And at the end of 1922 the
same thing will be substantially true.
But the world does move en toward bet
ter things. And it is because of the con
scious resolutions te avoid the old errors
and the old injustices that men are making
every year and also because of the immor
tal Idealism of youth, keeping alive a belief
in progress.
As men grew old they le?e their ideals,
but a residuum of the early beliefs remains,
se that each generation Is a little further
advanced than the last. It has been Raid
that the dreams of one generation become
the realities of the next, but this is only
partly true. If it were wholly true we
should have a new world in thirtj or forty
years. Hut it Is undoubted that such prog preg
rcss ns we de make is due te these few
youthful dreams which survive the sophisti
cation and cynicism of maturity.
We shall all have te continue te earn our
daily bread this jear as last, and we shall
all hope that It may be a little easier te
de It. And it begins te leek ns if this hope
might be realized.
Material prosperity, however, does net
make the world better. It takes something
else, and that is spiritual discernment and
a devotion te thee things which it dis
closes. The Carpenter of Nazareth never
talked through a telephone or rode In a
steamship, an automobile or an airplane.
The world has made greater material prog
ress in the.last century than in all previous
recorded time. If Its soul linil expanded in
the sani" proportion it would be u better
place te live in.
A PEST IN COLLAPSE
TOI1N RANDOLPH, of Roaneako, was
O described by one of his most discerning
contemporaries ns "a nuisance and a curs'."
It was mental rather than moral obliquity
with which that Berah-like statesman was
tainted. Hcnce the analogy with Horatio
Bottomley, the lrulent anti-American.
pe?t nnd marplot of I'ngli'-h politics nnd
journalism, Is incomplete.
Bottomley is unique. In public life he
has defiled whatever he has touched. His
superficial brilliancy has intensified his
appeal te the lineblest forces of demagogy
and the most detestable nnd Ignorant Btrata
of public opinion In England.
New it is announced that, although Par
liament will continue te be shamed bv his
presence, his flatulent weeklv, Jehn Bull,
will no longer be contaminated by his
tirades. Bottomley Is In the toils at Inst.
He has quit Jehn Hull, wuich, with the
wind removed, will prebablv collapse; his
finances are in chaos, he is enmeshed in
bankruptcy prei eedings and there ere grave
hints of criminal charges m impending
Inw-uits. aiising from his flimuv stock pre.
motion and flamboyant bend ic!iciiicn.
l'ngland Is te be congratulated If Bottom Bottem Bettem
ley Is relegated te dishonorable obscurity.
The. iima.lii!.' feature of his cateer is that his
downfall was se long drlajed and thut his
ctip.icitv for wreaking Imrni was se favored.
Samuel Lewis Shank,
Samuel's Sarah Republican Muyer-
elect of Indianapolis,
has appointed Sarah, his wife and a Deme,
ci-at. a member of the Henrd of Park Com
missioners. Te walk the straight and
narrow path, sas the revised Heek of
Samuel, one needs Shank's mare. And wiie
shall say the Majer Is or Is net the better
horse? "I can depend en Sarah," he says
It Is te he regretted that Mexico get
ahead of the I'liitcd States In doing honor
te Dr. Heward II, Cress, American martyr
(0 ycuew rever investigations in tne Keuth
ern republic.
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PHILADELPHIA, MONDAY, JANUARY 2
3
AS ONE WOMAN SEES IT
Appointment of Majer Warburton as
Head of the Publle Welfare De
partment Has Much te Commend
It, and Success Will Probably
Crown His Efferts
ny SAKAn D. LOWIUIS
I VENTURE te say the person who was
the most surprised nt the Mnyer's ap
pointment of Director of Public Welfare,
postlnade vncnnt by the death of Mr. Ernest
Tustln, was the new nppelntce himself,
Mnjer Barclay llardlng Warburton.
I have reason te knew that he nnd ether
mer, nnd women in the city were exerting
themselves te bring the merits of quite
nr.ethcr citizen befere the Mayer In the hope
that he would regard their suggestions fa
vorably. But In this case the Mayer made
his own choice, firmly pnsslng ever all sug
gestions, Mr. Wnrburten's nmeng them, and
as he has had nn opportunity new for six
months te observe his new Director In n
new and very difficult piece of work In the
Department of Public Snfcty ns Commis
sioner of Police, and ns the office of the
Commissioner was ndjaccnt te thnt of the
Mayer and the two efficlnls were often in
consultation, It Is te be presumed thnt the
new appointment was net decided upon by
the Chief Executive of the city without
plenty of knowledge of the mnn and of his
power te make geed.
MAJOR WARBURTON'S career has been
a varied and picturesque one, and he
hns known life from n grout many points
of view. Seme of his judgments have been
rash nnd some of his nets have been precipi
tant, but he ha kept throughout his en
thusiasm and his generous impulses, and his
successes have always been nleng the line of
ptiblic-splrlled and democratic enterprises.
He has never pursued personal ends or
counted the cost of his work enough te con cen con
cciitrnte his successes en himself, se that he
Is net a rich man, although from the fact
that most of his life has been spent with
rich men and with exceedingly successful
men he has the air te n casual observer of
one of n cln68 net the most popular class
cither In this country of republican Ideals:
But any man or woman coming In contact
with Mr. Warburton Is aware after the
briefest intercourse that his jauntf air of
well-set -unites? is military in its exact
niceness nnd the levcrse of foppish, and that
a simpler, mere uunlTcctcd, klndlliT man
could net be met with up and down the
weild.
Ilis newspaper experience In his father's
day and for the jears he continued as pio pie pio
prleler of the Evening Telegraph after his
luther's death gave lilin very early an inti
mate point of view of politics nnd of affulrs
nnd of men and their motives, private and
public. His energetic organization of Bat
tery A during the Spunlsh War and his
Intimate participation lu the diplomatic
centers of Londen and Paris as military at
tache during the last war, and his business
connections, net te speak of the athletic and
sporting experience of his very energetic
young manhood, have given him a much
wider range than most Philadelphia or,
indeed, most American men possess both
of sjmpnthy uud of Interests. He has n very
acquisitive mind and is exceedingly quick en
the fellow-up, nnd years nnd experience have
curbed his tendency for evcr-sungulueness
without stalling his interest and enthu
siasm. I
SHOULD think he would make a very
geed nnd exceedingly wideawake Direc
ter of Public Welfare.
The office is still, s0 te speak. In the
making, nnd the foundation made by the
work of the late Director should be easy te
build upon, for Mr. Tustln's conservatism
and liking for amicable adjustments must
have left whatever was started easy te pick
up and te continue.
As It happens, I tune been a Director en
beards with both Tustin nnd Warburton,
nnd though their methods' were quite dis
similar, they had In common u ccrtnln
suavity and surface ndjustlblcness that mnde
their contacts with radicals and with con
servatives easy and Informal. Mr. Tustin
was ubrupt where Mr. Warburton would
doubtless be vehement, nnd Mr Tubtin
would define what Mr. Warburton would
explain. And while Mu. Tustin would cross cress
examine a witness with nn nlr of giving
away nothing that he himself knew, Mr.
Warburton would disarm a witness by ap
parently telling him all that he knew. 'Reth
men get the tacts und nctually gave away
nothing that counted. I fancy that the pres
cut personnel of the Welfare Department will
seen adjust itself te a change which js mere
superficial than would seem at first contact
se tarns actual line of approach gees. Pos
sibly .Majer Watbtirten's new ventures may
be mere radical and progressive thnn his
successor would have uudci taken.
TT IS no small asset that the new Dlrce-1-
ter will have behind him a verv up. and
doing body of citizens of the newer nnd
jeunger type of political thinkers, less re
formers of the old than ergnnizers of the
new, enthusiasts for development rather than
for reorganization.
This is the note of the new woman poli
tician ns well as the new man politician,
and it hns grown out of the experience of
war work nnd is what made it next te im
possible te amalgamate the regular suffrage
workers with the political parlv women
leaders.
I DO net think the political Mrt leaders
among women like the machine tactics
prevailing in the regular parlies any better
than the former suffrage worker-. i'jd but
thev are working with the machine ns one
works with n semculmt nutiquntecl tool for
lack of e better ready te hand. The former
suffrage leaders, with one or two exceptions
cannot work with the tools at hand and tire
eagerly fashioning new ones whiih, if clumsy
nnd experimental, have the grace of bein
nevv and clean. As yet they !,ftVe net -nt
them te lenlly work, partly because thev
spend much time trying te de-irev the old
ones. It is a different fundamental point
of view, that of the reformer, the Iconoclast,
and the lie npter and developer, and it runs
nil through life from religion te architec
ture I have sympathy with both, but I like
te live with adapters rather than lefermers
T HEARD a bishop sav tedm
apiopes of
J- the illscnurngement of some 0f ,
with their flecks:
clergy
"They (the clergy) pound awny and
pound awny nnd pound nway until their
arms ere weak without making a dent in the
hearts or changing a single mind In the
pews."
Well, pounding hns a hardening result en
mere things thnn Mnrjland biscuits, and
maybe a heavy and monotonous reiteration
of a duty is deadening Pnssibh n geed bore
enn de mere burin limn u bad bere ; that
is te "pound" nn a geed uhect hns a 'worse
moral effect than te "peutid" en n bad
hiihieet
The in season nml out of season of ti,0
real reformer mav be luaverv. but it i
sometimes mere Impatience und egotism
W',',
HEN you are out te
de something In
is worm ic is an nwrui clime te
te take the time te undo something. Se I
am ienlly much mere iritcrcteil ns well ns
mint- comfortable in the enmpnnr "f the
ceiiFtructurs nnd even ndnnters of the yotin yetin yotin
Theedore Roosevelt cype ,nd If Sfnler
Wnrburten can keep politic out of the re
pnrtiQfnt of Public Wclfme nnd yet KVe
the politicians an eqnn) rhanre te be heard
with) the radicals. If lie c-a i get all the facts
of the case from the 'efermers and the
standpatters nnd decide op the merits of the
facts rather than en the intentions of the
people- concerned, n.id if having decided lie
cun stick te Ills policy and back his subordl suberdl
nates while they carry It out -and I think
he can de these tilings nnd Iiiih It in him
te make geed nearly 2,000,000 men and
women nnd children -will profit-by his np np
peiutment, 1
NOW MY IDEA IS THIS!
Daily Talks With Thinking Philadclphians en Subjects They
Knew Best
DR. ELLIS OBERHOLTZER
On Pageantry
THAT Philadelphia Is missing a wonder
ful opportunity of gaining n world-wide
reputation through a proper ubc of Us nat
ural assets for pageantry is the opinion or
Dr. Ellis Paxson Oberheltzer, past presi
dent of the American Tngeant Association,
secrctnrv of the Historical Pageant Asso
ciation of Philadelphia nnd director of the
grent pageant of 100S and the well-iemem-bered
historical play at Belmont In 1012
"New Year's Dav again brings us ihe
'shooters, " said Dr. Oberheltzer. "nnd
once mere It is in order for us te express
the hope thnt this characteristic Philadel
phia Institution will some day be given under
mere unified conditions. We once had It in
our minds te tender the New, Year's clubs
our geed offices, but we seen gnve it up.
"Control would rebrtt of Its flavor. When
the clubs were brought together in one pro pre
cession n geed thing was done, and it would
be Impossible te expect much mere.
"Te put what Is spontaneous Inte a
straltjackct would be n pity. I should net
wish the task of pouring tlils multitude
which springs Inte being each New Year's
Day Inte the meld of form. I nm certnln
that nny effort, te eluinge Its shape and
course would be unwelcome te every unit
concerned, nnd we should hnve, as a result,
neither art nor nntme.
Like the MnrdI Oras
"I doubt If the shooters' paiad- has
brought the city as much notice ns It leally
deserves. It is as characteristic as the
Mnrdi Gras of New Orleans, which men go
fnr te see. A few years age the railroad
companies did mnke nn effort te advertise
It ns one of the city's attractions and offered
excursion rntes, though, I suspect, with only
disappointing results.
"The parade is tee informal and tee pooh
ever te reward the onlooker for coming n
long distance. Mere thnn this, it Is set for
u time of year unfavorable te out-ef-d-iors
spectacles Though we occasionally have fine
New Year's dav in this latitude, we mav
nnd de have them which nre bitterly cold
and which find our Bread street iint-qiinled
for such displays deep in slush nnd snow.
"Either condition is net conducive te
pleasing performances en the part of the
clubs. The discomfort of looking nt the
inasqueinders lu nenr-to-zere weather is
great and prevents many persons from re
pairing te the Mrcetsldc te see them All
(he conditions, therefore, seem te forbid our
giving the celebration any ether diameter
than that which It Has, w e shall de well
then, as it seems te me, te tnke It as it is
and be glad that there are se nTany jelly
men in our midst, in spite of high rents,
high taxes, slack times and the ether ills
that nflllct us nt this day In nddltlen te the
usual cues of life.
In May or October
"Hut what might net be iiinde of such a
recurring precession in Philadelphia In the
geed months of May or October If there were
thousands of persons ready te come together
for such n festival, each taking his proper
place In some general scheme te be evolved
iiiid put into execution bv what 1 innv i,,ll.
following England, n 'piifcept master' ' Ap Ap
preprlatelj nnd correct!) cestumcil m i ln,..n
colors te Illustrate some literary and ai Untie
idea, we would have an institution thnt
would carry the name of Philadelphia
around the world.
"It is net commonly realized wlirft nn Im
pression wiin, left bv the hl-toileal pngeuuts
In Philadelphia of 100S and 1012. It was
all new then blessedly new. Every sum
mer tourist, each English magazine, brought
us neeeuntK of the triumphs of Leuis Parker,
Bensen, Lascelles, Hnwtrej or some ether
English pageant master In one or another of
the little English towns.
"Tlie opportunity was ours and we em
braced it. Many n one called It a 'pnv-gent'
(hard 'g'l. I u-inember. Men had' te be'
ceciced Inte appearing in the street ns Brit
ish soldiers. Girls, new jeung matrons,
boasted te me afterward that they had
thrown lemons nt and hissed the mcinberi of
our old Second Regiment when they stepped
down Bread street In beautiful line's In (help
red coats te the strains of the Hiltlsh
Grenadiers' March.
Women Would Net Mnrrh
"Women would net walk in u public pre.
cession in thnt far day bcfeie their training
in our Inst gient wnr. Meti begged te be
allowed te ride en horseback ; tatterdemalion
parts it was Impossible te assign nil would
wear broadcloth and velvet.
"Education came te us in great strides.
New there are pagennts at every cross cress cross
read, any place where there nre three or
fmittgatlicrcd .together en n stage or a, Hun-
.Inf r lAlllksl IklllttJIIili A .-..t 1l
"'B iiuiumiii, n koeu eiu word, IU II
1922
' '.COME ON OUT OF IT!"
i jZtf.
' ' -n. .vi-J--5!3KirKri
jr 0 -. - asjp -".. - r .!fn ." T. jj1.'' -jfn". jw
of stately raeanlnj, Is net worth enough, I
fear, at this day, te bring n boy from a
game of marbles te leek nt n spectacle te
which it might be applied if mere were net
snld en the point. I knew he could net be
enticed te it as nn onlooker without & brass
band.
"But the pngeants of 1008 and 1012 nre
te he remembered. I de net believe that nny
of us will ever live long enough net te hear
(he echoes of these tramping thousands,
these clattering horses, these bands of music
(one inndu up of the genuinely old instru
ments of the time of the Revolution), these
dashing buttii'lens of 'Redcoats and Conti
nentals' In the Battle of Germantown, and,
best of all, that kaleidoscopic multitude,
rank upon rank, in the mass flnnle, stretch
ing all the way from the feet of Belmont
Illll te the banks of the Schuylkill. If I
could call that host beck before me as I see
It, it would be worth oil the rest of llfe.
Philadelphia's Natural Assets
"And se it Is, I believe, with mnny n one
who had a part in that great dramatic rep
resentation of Philadelphia's glorious pnst
and te many another who, like myself,
watched the s-cene unfold. But It Is all gene
It dissolved in the hnze of an October
afternoon, uud only the picture of It nil
remains.
"Thnt field was made readv for the
pageant by the Fnlrmnunt Park Commis
sion. Like the pageant ground In Ferest
I nrk In St. Leuis, it is nn asset of the city.
It Is n standing invitation te us te de mere
of the Mime thing In the same place.
Whatever else they bhnll plan, authorize
and bring te pass, the Sesqul-Centennlal
management ought net te neglect the op-
rMUi"iti? Ti'i1 1"Scn""-y nlerds. In this
fie d Philadelphia has n reputation net easily
gained, nnd we should net lightly put te
one side such n medium for the expression of
civic feeling and .the commemoration of n
great historical event."
Giving 'Em a Sample
Frem (he Detroit Fre frets.
"Ladles and gentlemen," said the chair
man of the evening, "in n few minutes I
shall Introduce the gentleman who is te
address jeu It is net my function te de
liver a speech nt this time, it I shall just
use up live or ten minutes se that you may
knew hew geed n speech yen would have
lte..'? C'C l 1,,e PCa,'tr "K
What De Yeu Knew?
QUIZ
Who said "democracy is the form of rm-
SffiSffiW"!!! " " -ci
mSt!a1.BCatr,inkSeh'unr.rt,Ca,,anBU'
Hew many Secretnrle nre there In thn
Cabinet of the President of thS United
Willi t txt'rt U'n T-.1I ...
.. ,i-:.u"rj'! ' ""' repuDiics nre new
reWa!,ratlv Protect
vviitu is tlin origin of the phrnse
"speak
What wbn "the nppln of discord"'
111 what book of the lllble Is ti Hlerv
cf Ananias nnd Kapphlr.a rela ed?
What In nn niinprst? '
Wheie is Lake Albeit IMwaid Nyanza
"-hh-'ii'i uu. ue none t
Answers te Saturday's Quiz
Is the ureatcbt n.,,..,
country In the weild ' ""4UV-"'i,
I-:ies Is tha Greek mono of rimiV
A rhumb is a line uuttlnu all meridians
at tlie snrne anBle; n line followed by
ft ship sailing cm ene course; thu iincii
lar distance, between two suevtssw
points of the cemplins, eleven di-Ki-oe-l
Ilttecn minutes. uihreea.
"CJoed
Americans when
thev illn .... ...
l'ails"
1H
a reinui-k :iit,.i,,,t..n ,
cillvei- Wendell lleli,,..u ,. . m..'"' "f
Applrten. The observation Is ' ueted
Table"'0 AUlecrat of t,"! IheiikfnVt
8 Klluueu In the Island of Hawaii Is 11,0
must nctlve volt-niie In (he Insular pos-
bi-salons of the United Utatua
0. Valliullu was the Haul i eating nlacu of
iilustreus heroes In Nersa mythuleirv
10. Splrket In nautical lunguuce R t,a , an(
for the space ferwuid en nft hi.
tween lloer timbers
rhe ciiublmc net nf Hn.' nuti.,.. ..... '
iV.,iV,,r -n'u ,..", ,V.": '" Inte the Y",." "" ""' u ulll'r- ""'it inei-Uery
in III unci.. .f itr... ,. .-:" '"'"h aliO 1 Sat Ik I'Iw.iel ......... 1......
-,- "-' "i'i'"" " I" res uent Lin. " "' luv verm icria llrina- nml cinv
coin en the cemlitlrn ,i,... .. . " . .'vn ..i. ,.i... V. '' """ "''.
for the ciadu , l, l! ,, ' .."r.Sv hl0 r .''", " V MllH .'"""imatlen. Why
tl.euld l.d inserted l,i the, &.," n"y - " '" " lir"m t,m" "
siliutlen. Tins was done In a ,evlHe,i h"ul",,:-
of the Instiument uilentci i i. .1", ' -
1S83. muil-h,
l-'ranee
3 A lloleKiupn will Is olio written vvliellv
by the person whose nnine It be; r-y
4 Zflnilen M IMUe wns m, A Z. LV.CILr"
V'"!, u':a . cMileici-, who discovered
I'IUe'h I'cnli, In Colerado, In Ikeb ii
wns killed in the W.i, or itji "n
assault en Yerk (Terente) i...','u"
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SHORT CUTS '
Teet, toot! Twoty-twel W
Political Jclrylls are new wei
dutiable hides.
Watch night Saturday ;
morning alarm clock.
Nowadays Humpty Dumpty rr
Inte cold storage.
Brave, Resolutions! A da;
seme of them as chipper as when
born.
With New Xcnr revelers w'
their own It was a case of
Hurrah I
The commuter who saves clgl
his dollar may blew it en five ct
of candy.
There are flve hundred spcci
specrj
of thK,.
v
in me unucu states, many
latlve halls.
The earth Is slewing down, siy astron "vS
emers. But the flappers have net been In
formed of the fnct.
Having been officially welcened by the
municipality the new year may uw proceed
te de Us darnedest.
If pleasing penitentiary fare were al
ternated with the lash it may be tint bandits
would beceme discouraged,
"Adelaide Takes Steps te Bajish Mos Mos Mes
quieo. Headline. Probably de-ided, en
second thought, te buy a screen.
Just because the farmer is tie back
bone of the Natien Is no reason (why the
blot should be forever pulling the last syl
lable. I
h.,.i TIler.e JTuF,8 ,n?, 'allures In tie liquor
business n Philadelphia last year. "probably
an corralled by the prohlbitlen-enforcement
euicers. -
vii,T.hcJe wnB ! ecity in the description
Albert Surrau of the tilt between Brit
,T
British
...hi . luiiuu uciegetcs te the
te the Washington
vuiui.-il-iii.-v. a lemily
quarrel, he called it.
The contractor bloc may have the best
of intentions but the State of Pennsylvania
'. t,nwnr? n,K tmynB contracts for high
inXred. h the 'naU'rlaI ls balJ t0 ht
Among the geed things 1022 premises
ere Improved st.ects and parks, new Se th
strce .bridge, new piers, better Water sup
Ply. the start ng of the big bridge ever tL
Delaware and Sesqui:Centunnlnl prepara-1
Ions well under way;' and in the matter of
being geed as his word, 11)22 will Be as
geed ns the.wnt of u8. "
Frnnce is nfini.l of Germany and of
jany alone; and there is se much reason
Gcrma
for her
much reason
There is evl.lene. .f"i..- ' "' U,,:H,!,P
ic-iir (iiat much
be
the deadlock she has preci Inher
wellTriui0'! .,"",,l "'tmilrlneH she
NI knows. Iind u .n.t....i n. i vl'
sincerity even In
..1..1. r n ; mini rtiruuitry in inr
le"leadfkhe"nTak,!r,U'"y 1Wcr8 le '
ii ' way volcanoes arc throwing ashes
all ever Sieuth America must be plum ills
com aging te se caicful n housekeeper as
.Mether .Nature. Ne sooner does she ..r her
face clean than It is nil ,,,u.,..i .,i..
there
sclsme-
the
dish Tit
l.vciythiug points te young Nineteen,
twenty-1 we making u financial, industrial
and commercial success of himself. Kxpcrts
in infant years are milled in this belief
1 hey point out that hciedlty Is in his favor
.Many of his ancestors hnve mnde notable
comebacks lifter bud breaks made by their
Immediate progenitors Knvlroninent, thev
also declare, leeks pminlslng. The winter of
present discontent will harden him; the
spring of hope will set the sap of cenlidcnce
flowing in his veins; and the glorieun sum
mer of work vvell done w'U prepare for him
an autumn of nflluciic-e. Therefore, keep
your eve en this veuii5-L.r. He Is going te
nnietint te something.
I.
h en ns a group of relU will mnn create
And set him strlvlrij for mine shilling goal,
Man from n 1 v-lug theuRlt evolved u State,
A bciitient thing, a cienture with a beul
rjlnce inun h no belter than his cells, why,
Ne State can
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