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Philadelphia, THitj. IVkniarj 17. 19:2
IT JUST PETERED OUT
SENATOR HITCHCOCK'S llttle plan te
play politics with the Four-Power Treaty
baa ceme te iiauglit. He offered n resolu
tion asking tlic President for the minutes of
tbe conversations that preceded tlic drafting
ot'the treaty, and lie insisted thnt as 1'rcl
dent Wilsen litid been asked for similar In
formation about tlie Versailles Treaty It
Was only fair tbat n similar .request should
be made te Mr. Harding.
'The Republlcau majority, instead of op-
Sslng Senater Hitchcock's resolution,
teed te it, while they explained that se
fir as they knew no record of the conver
sations had been made. But they were
Wiling te gratify Mr. Hitchcock.
Thus what was apparently planned n an
attempt te put the Republicans en the de
fensive passed off as a harmless exchange
if courtesies among the complacent Repub
licans and the Democrats, who te their sur
phse discovered they had counted en a dis
position that did net exist.
PUBLIC DISCUSSION
m1
iTEASONS for tagging Senater Ken-
yen's Ceal Cede as a farmers' bloc
sBcasurc," breathes a voice which Is sup
' posed te be devoted te the work of scneral
criticism in this tee uncritical community,
"are net apparent. The farmers de net
burn any mere coal than any ether class of
citizen." While this sort of thing passes
s public discussion, it Is net strange that
people find it difficult te knew whether the
country is heading te the dogs or toward
the millennium.
Reasons for tagging Senater Kenyen's
Ceal Cede as n farmers' bloc measure are
apparent te any one who doesn't happen te
have reached maturity with a kindergarten
mind. Mr. Kcnyen, who was chairman of
a 'Senate committee which recently made a
general survey of the soft-coal industry,
las recommended a series of reforms which
he; believes must be brought about through
the application of limited Government con-
" . trbl. Laber unions believe as Mr. Kcnyen
docs. And Mr. Kcnyen very shrewdly
.Vpb MAtra. ttin i.ntna.t nf 4lin tnmmnta i m r n .
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SAasIert te learn by experiment whether the
Ty' farmers arc In earnest when they express a
flamre te co-operate with labor in a cam
paign for radical economic readjustments.
"- JSIr. Kenj en will probably find that the
farmers say a great deal mere than they
mean. There arc points at which the views
of farmers' leaders diverge sharply from the
Hews of industrial labor. Farmers, for ex
ample, arc opposed te the "prospect of an
industrial labor oligarchy In the East, 'and
labor has a geed many reasons for fearing
higher costs of living which a monopoly of
crops might easily lead te.
!Mr. Kenj en's Ceal Cede was tagged as a
farmers' bloc measure In order that these
behind it might learn hew much faith the
agriculturist of the Middle West puts In the
doctrines formulated by labor leaders in the
Industrial East.
- f MJ UVY VMIM UU I I
THE President has doubtless acted en the
advice of Secretary Hoever In rejecting
the suggestion of Senater King that a na
tional housing conference be called in
Washington.
'He admits that he does net knew of any
legislative remedy for n shortage of houses,
and he says with truth that under normal
conditions, when building operations may
be safely pursued, there is seldom any lack
of houses.
The calmness with which he speaks of the
conditions that arise when it is net Mif te
engage In building Is reassuring. Such a
situation existed for many months uhen
,pric,es were at their peak., Yet there wus
2ta "u,, v-'v.tiiii. ..flu juiiwu mm iiuuui. 11-511-
4. .iAti ewiiNninnn, .nil Kiimli ..lt t.n..t Innl.i
initve juieiirrvneu 10 compel ine erection n
i-1 mero neuses, xuc troueio was iconemic
and it had te be endured until conditions
changed.
Secretary Hoever, whose statement is
gWen out along with the Presidents letter
te Senater King, thinks some geed might be
accomplished, net by a general housing eon een
ference, but by a toiiference te cent-lder
ways of mobilizing capital for home building.
Such capital is In savings banks, insuranen
companies and building mid lean as-oeia-tieus.
Seme sort of a concerted movement
te provide cheaper money fur home owners
might accomplish geed lcsults And the
mfliicy would be used in the different parts
of;' the country te meet the peculiar and
Tarylng needs of tlic different sections.
Apparently neither the President unr the
Secretary belieu's that there Is a nation
wide conspiracy among dealers In buildim;
material te jack up pi Ices and make lllu
gitimate profits, and that, ether tiling- being
i equal, competition will cheek any effort at
' monopoly.
i It Is refreshing te find the Pi evident ills-
eeuraglng a plan te liam u futile law in
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fVv-'!a doing something te relieve the housing
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'tlrTO THE long list of the uncmplejcd the
i' X name of Jack Dempsi-y must new h..
u added. Jack arrived In New Yerk jester-
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v find something te de." Snow hhevcling?
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Uiii"". pres Mr. Dcmpsey is still hoping te find
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reV'dagree of our national iiieUieicncy.
liF' .Opportunity kneckii once at everybody's
fcfi?''iaaf, U knocked loudly at the portals of
RiliiManbnttan when Dcmpsey gut off the train
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r Mauhattaucse nre f 01 ever grieving
abeur their collective mlsfertunei.
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They at badly gereratd'-fer one thing, and
they arc gouged and jobbed by' a peculiarly
ruthless let of landlords. Why, then,
shouldn't some one bare had the foresight te
arrange u bout te 'a finish between Mr.
Dcmpsey ami Mayer Hylan? And why,
uflcr that, shouldn't there have been an
other fight between Mr. Dcmpsey and the
man who writes the music that you bear
eftcnest in the Broadway restaurants?
When the cheering was o'er the heavyweight
champion of the world might be permitted
te toy with a landlord or two, and after that
he could 'start en a tour of useful work
throughout the country.
We will cheerfully name half a dozen
mere or less eminent persons who could be
matched against the Big One In Philadel
phia. Hoever Is right when he observes that
we make sorry uses of the country's re
sources. 'Obviously It Is foolish te let prize
fighters waste their time hitting each ether
when there nre innumerable people about
who would be better for n geed drubbing.
THE DIRECTOR GENERAL IS
THE VITAL PART OF THE FAIR
It la Net Premature te Enter Inte Nego Nege
' tlatlens With the Beet Man In
Sight for the Jeb
TpEW people will agree with the Mayer
when he says that consideration of the
selection of n director general for the fair
Is premature. The Mnyer wishes te have
the site selected mid the financial arrange
ments completed before the director general
Is chosen.
But if the right man can be found for the
position the city should have the benefit of
his advice at the earliest possible moment.
His judgment en the site and en the amount
of money needed would be invaluable. He
should be actively connected with the enter
prise from the earliest poslble moment,
that he may give te It hls-undlvidcd atten
tion and guids It safely through the shoals
and away from the rocks that threaten
every such undertaking In the beginning.
Herbert O. Hoever is the kind of man
who should be put In charge of the fair.
When he came te this city a few week
age te hear what plans were making, he
made a brief speech, in which he pointed
out the course te be pursued te make the
fair successful. He spoke with bread, con
structive Imagination, and when he sat down
every one who heard him bad a new vision
of what the fair might be.
Although he was net willing te take
charge of the enterprise at the time, there
new are reasons for believing that he might
be Induced te consider IU Nothing that
could be dene would advance the project
mere rapidly In public confidence than Mr.
Hoever's acceptance of the director gen
eralship. It would lift the enterprise at ence into
the consciousness of the whole world, for
he Is mere widely known than any ether
American In publie life today. The foreign
Governments nsked te participate In a fair
under his direction would knew nt once that
It deserved their respectful consideration,
and they would be inclined te make the
necessary appropriations nnd te advise their
citizens te eend the products of their shops
and factories here for exhibition.
The general committee in chnrge of ar
rangements Is properly assumed te be much
mere Interested In the success of the fair
than In the personal fortunes of any one.
And it Is assumed that the committee is
nurimnrlnrl tlint ,1m illrnAlni. pnnii.nl ul.n.,1.1
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be a man net seeking the place, but whom
the place seeks. Ne man big enough for it
will go out looking for the burden e'f It.
If he consulted his own comfort he would
refuse te have anything te de with It.
Mr. Hoever Is big enough in every way
for the task. But he will net undertake it
unless he is asked. It would be wise and
prudent for the Executive Committee te
make a formal offer of the place te him
without any unnecessary delay. Ne formal
offer of It was ever made te him, te there
has been no formal rcfusul te come here.
The city is rich enough te guarantee bira
an adequate balary. It will have no diffi
culty in finding the money without waiting
until all financial arrangements have been
perfected. Although the committee Is busily
engaged with the selection of the bite, that
task will be completed in the near future:
hut even that Is net be pressing ns te lead
te delay in entering Inte negotiations with
Mr. Hoever.
A FELLER NEEDS A FRIEND
PRESIDENT HARDING knevva by this
time and knows as the fireside novel
ists used te say all tee well hew a feller
feels when lie Is most In need of n friend.
Fer this knowledge he has Congress te
thank.
Sir. Haiding has had te intervene te keep
both the Heuse nnd the Senate in a reason
able state of mind about soldier-bonus taxa
tion. He had te take upon his shoulders all
responsibility for u seeming offense against
the pie-benus element in the American
Legien at u time when Congress was In a
wuy te succumb te the hysteria of funk.
Se the PicMdeut Is new being advertised Jy
alibi-hunting Congressmen as the Gieat
Benus Buster.
It eu-jht te be remembered that almost all
members of both houses arc secretly op
posed te the whole bonus scheme. But the
time has come when they are thinking anx anx
iensly of their political fortunes at home,
and if they cannot go back te election de
bates with the preniNc of a bonus for these
vrhe want It nil alibi involving the Presi
dent will serve almost ns well.
llurdwig's bard work is just beginning.
New he must find n way te bring t lie com
mittees in charge of navy and army budgets
down out of tlic high air. Though Senater
Hitchcock yesterday began what may be a
long campaign of deliberate obstruction te
prevent ratification of the navy limitation
treaties, a stubborn movement continues in
the Heuse te reducn the navy te u shadow
of its former self. In the rather wild effort
te make soldlir-benus funds available- bifere
the next elections many Reptesentatlves and
Senators have carried the new anti-navy
campaign te a point nt which they actually
re eniiuend the dismissal of the new class
which is about te ginduate from Annapolis,
Mr. Harding will have te intervene for
the navy, tee. He and a few members of
ills Cabinet seem te be the only men who
haven't forgotten the country at large in
nn effort te strengthen themselvei with u
limited number of electors in one or another
party. Secretary Deuby was clearly speak
ing for the Picsidcnt yesterday when lie
made it known te the stampeding politicians
nt the Capitel that he will net sanction
reckless cutting of the navy budget or the
dismissal of n whole class of naval officers
who, after four years of specialized tiain
ing, are new ready te enter the service,
Congress lias been almost tcv rlslily
erratic In i's discussion of taxation pro
grams. Ilnnllni had te bring it te its senses
jc-iterday by nn almost gruff announce anneunce
mentthe second or third of the kind Issued
from the White Heuse In the last month
that before a Benus Bill is passed a way te
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pay the benaa.wtH have te be found. On
this occasion the President was explicit,
with a recommendation which none of the
leaders of the benns movement has hed the
couruge te propose, lle Informed Congress
(hat the only way te special bonus revenues
lies through a special sales tax, and that
If the Heuse nnd the Senate have net the
ceurage te approve a .sales tax they will
have te postpeno the bonus scheme.
This puts the responsibility for the
soldier bonus where It ought te be In the
Congress that has deliberately encouraged
the bonus agitation.
What will the felka at home say te the
favorite sons who return te seek new political
favors after having put the burden of n
sales tax en their people? One may imagine
what they will say. But one may knew
what the favorlte sons will say If the thing
gees through, They will blame it en Hard
ing. Everything Is up te Harding nowadays.
That is because Congress is for the moment
a bit off its head. It will be right enough
presently, when the elections are ever. But
It is up te the President and his Cabinet te
keep it from doing damage In the meantime'.
That is something that the people ought te
keep In mind during the debates of the
present session.
THE CLOUDS' OVER ERIN
IN THE clearer light of detailed news It
appears that Ireland's new troubles will
subside as quickly as they began. The
British Cabinet, bombarded by threats from
the Seuth and appeals from the North, has
manifested admirable restraint in a new
crisis which for a few hours seemed te
threaten the stability of the Irish Free State
and the treaties upon which it is founded.
It Is announced that the withdrawal of
British troops from Ireland will be con
tinued. This Is because the source of the
trouble has proved te be in Ulster, where in
temperate pelice arrested and held nn equally
intemperate group of the Sinn Fein who
were found without credentials in the ter
ritory controlled from Belfast.
After that incident there was rioting
which spread ever a large area. But in one
night reaming gunmen killed five Sinn Fein
sympathizers in Belfast alone, though they
were people who had had no part In the
disturbances. Citizens of the North held In
the Seuth and citizens of the Seuth held In
the North will be released nnder agree
ments reached through formal discussions.
Neither Craig nor Cdlllns was In any way
responsible for the disorders, nnd it Is felly
te suppese that statesmen cither in Londen
or Belfast or Dublin would permit a few
rioters te undo all the work already accom
plished for an Irish peace.
Today a few of the die-hards ' In the
British Cabinet they arc a small minority
will endeavor te reopen the Irish question
with a demnnd for guarantees from Dublin
te insure against further outbreaks. It is ,
unlikely that they will have any measure of
success. The dancer of civil war Is averted.
And the great majority of the Cabinet will
net welcome any move te Impede the work
of peace which a majority in Ulster nnd In
Dublin alike are pushing against inevitable
but relatively unimportant obstacles.
There is virtue In the
Werth Trying bill of Senater Kcnyen,
of Iowa, designed te re
lieve unemployment by pressing public works
in slack times nnd retarding it during periods
of prosperity. It is net n new idea ; it has
been thrashed out In print; all that remains
is te prove it by practice.
SHORT CUTS
Public confidence increases with every
drop in the buckct-Bbep.
There is evidently no scarcity of paper
In Moscow. A dollar will buy 000,000
rubles.
Philadelphia makes 10,000,000 saws a
year. Seme of these Franklin made btlll
endure.
New that Sam Maleney has n Federal
job felicitations should be" forthcoming from
the Fifth.
"Hnrvard Admits Kid Wedge, Ex
Puglllst" headline. An entering wedge,
ns it were, suggests the Blue Pcncller.
New Yerk tailor just dead nt the age
of 103 attributed his long life te his sense
of humor. Probably laughed his head off
at the klud of clothes we wear.
Don't worry, cried Demosthenes Mc
Glnnls cheerfully. A long nnd happy life is
ahead of the Irish Free State. All that is
troubling it new is a pain in its little
tummy.
Mrs. Asqulth, after a White Heuse In
terview, said her views en the League of
Nations differed but little from these of the
President. This will take u weight off Mr.
Harding's mind.
The chances nre that by the time Eng
land and Frauce have arrived nt the con
clusion that a channel tunnel will be a
pretty geed thing all traffic will have nmau
It wholly unnecessary.
"Everybody loves America," says Sam
uel M. Vauclaln, just back from a business
trip in Europe. But It must be confessed
that there have been times when Europe
dissembled Us affectleu.
The Congressmen whose Judgment en
the bonus question is based en (or binsed
bvj the statement, "The soldiers are or er
ganised, the public is net," may later prove
te have been misinformed
Vassar girls nre helping the campaign
for funds for a neighboring college. This
is net altruism. The lassies want mero men
in the neighborhood te dance with. Cuse of
enlightened self-interest.
Se far as we have been able te discover,
the only persons who favor the soldiers'
bonus ur,e the membership campaigners for
certain soldier bodies and the Congressmen
they have managed te scare.
The per capita consumption of meat In
New Yerk City has dropped twenty-five
pounds in five cars, says the Health Com
missioner. Probably offset by an Increase In
the consumption of gasoline,
Chicago doctor says "fatigue Intoxica
tion" is responsible for the condition of the
"chronic grouch." We new anxiously uwnlt
infoimntleu concerning the grinning hys
teria of the chronic Pollyanna.
Vienna unemployed have made the de
mand that ull women officeholders be dropped
from the publie service and their places
til'ed ly jobless mnrrled men. There Is meat
heie for the feminist te chew nnd'cogitate
upon,
The proposed 210 per cent tax en the
undivided profits of corpeiations will net
eiieouinge business te any noticeable e.teut
but there can be no manner of doubt as te
the identity of the individual who will
He luumiij ' n" '"
vcntually pay the money
William Jennings Bryan is willing te be
United States Senater it Fleildans liibM.
Our idea Is thai they'd better or lici'll knew
the iriisen wh. Which nreiiscti cenjeciuii. ;
Though there's naught can wt a glib tougiie
luose llke a dcip, deep draught of the old
grupe juice, de jeii suppose, In the circum
stances, he will have te switch te orange
juice?
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". "AS ONE WOMAN SEES IT. . '
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Woodrew Wilten at Acquaintance,
Friend, Political Thinker, Political
Leader and Figure In History,
and a Hint of the Man
ByftAKAI! D. LOWRIB
A MAN that I knew who has subscribed
very generously te the Woodrew Wil Wil
eon Foundation Fund told mc that he had
been approached by mero than one of his
friends and a group of his mere acquaint
ances, all of whom came te entreat hltu net
te glve his nnme te the enterprise, whatever
money he might choesd te give te the fund.
I nsked him what grounds they gave for
their advice nnd he snid. "Different grounds,
yet the same grounds.'' They all felt that
politically Wilsen was "better dead," and
that the League of Nntlens was n failure,
and that te seem te pralse him or it gave
one a leek of sidestepping the real results
just because the cx-Prcsldent was an invalid
nnd could, no longer be fought en equal
grounds,
I asked him what reply he had made nnd
hi said, "The same reply te every one of
them I"
He felt that the way America came Inte
the war and the wny she used her great
propaganda te bring nbeut a cessation of the
war were distinct and epochal acts net
hitherto 'attempted by any nation, and he
felt that the expression of America's mind
nnd heart In the crisis had been voiced by
Woodrew Wilsen, und te the limit of his
strength hail been executed by Woodrew
Wilsen, and thnt being the case and ac
knowledged nt the time by alt the country
and acclaimed at the time by the Allies and
the fees alike the world owed Woodrew
Wilsen n debt of gratltude and his country
men owed him honor nnd a place among her
great patriots, and by delaying te show that
honor they were placing themselves In a
false position before that world.
"Fer," said he, "Europeans and Asiatics
arc only tee ready (e believe that our god
is Success, and thnt because Woodrew Wil Wil
eon failed In the great coup upon which he
had staked his reputation as the leader of
his country, all that he did and-all that he
had helped his country te de in the past was
obliterated and shamefacedly forgotten."
HE WENT en te cay that, though be was
a Republican, be was first of all an
American, and as an American he wished
befere all his little world te publicly express
his gratitude te the man who bad guided
the country through the most perilous days
of its history efnee Lincoln's day, and who
had steed before the world for his country
as no man has dene before Lincoln's day
or since.
I asked him if he liked Woodrew Wilsen.
He said ns an acquaintance, cs; ns a
friend, no; as a political thinker, yes; ns a
political leader, no; as a great man in a
great place, jes; ns a figure te be loved fn
history, no.
He went en te point out that te his think
ing Wilsen's Illness nlone nnd the way It
was allowed te make the rift greater be
tween him nnd the peeple Instead of bringing
them nearer illustrated the fundamental
cause of his final failure. When he began
te break in Paris and little by little lese his
prestige, it was nnturaj that- the world
should put it down te his overweening
egotism in trusting tee much te his own
single-hnnded power te get his fourteen
points Intact out of the- mazes of cress'
purposes.
But when he actually collapsed physi
cally nnd his illness was guessed for what
it was, had he been uny one of his pred
ecessors, even ,the rugged, self-contained
Cleveland, the country would have been Im
mensely drawn te him. and rightly se, and
have diagnosed what they had called blind
egoism ns the well-known symptoms of an
already ill body.
Ills failures would have sunk into' insig
nificance in the tragedy of his Illness nnd
Incapacity te held b)s great standard ever
again In the thick of the tight for great
Ideas,
Hut Instead ha. removed himself further
nnd further from the hearts of his fellow
citizens, nnd for fear pcrhnps of only get
ting their pity he had shunned their per
sonal sympathy, and by a constant and re
iterated report elliclnlly sent out that he was
better or thnt he was as well as ever drew
the silence round the White Heuse that was
never broken until an all-tee-garrulous re
pot ter was haled in nnd allowed te tell the
world that the affalis of the country were
in the hands of the private secretary and
the Lady of the White Heuse, while an
enigmatic Invalid with difficulty higncd his
name.
What could hnve been a great climax of
as rt'imirkuble n career as the world has
ever known was allowed te peter out Inte
an anticlimax that has stunned this gen
eration into a kind of stupor when his nnme
Is mentioned, n stupor of mechanical vi
tuperation or mechanical vindication.
WHEN this generation has gene" en Its
way, tlic next, who never felt the anti
climax, will neither vindicate nor vituper
ate his nnme. They will very blmply and
honestly honor bis iiniue and admire his
successes and make little of his failure. Fer
they will knew, what some of us nre wish
ful" te ignore, thnt the League of Nations
is no mero a failure than Jehn the Baptist
was a fnilure It was a fererunuer.
The Washington Conference could never
have been even organized, much less the suc
cess that it has proved, without that fore
runner. And the Washington Conference Is
only the beginning of the new era that Wil Wil
eon mere thnn nny man of his day and
generation helped te usher in.
As for Woodrew Wilsen the man, who
in tills day and generation can get a true
focus en him? He himself, even in his hey
day, sometimes ignored, sometimes charmed
his onlookers us though lie both forget or
remembered them mechanically, as oue would
open or shut a deer.
And jet, once when he paused te de a
charming tiling I for one was swept bv ad
miration nnd appreciation of what I felt
that It signified of hit real personality.
HE HAD been told by one of hl.s friends
of the eager efforts of semu JiOO coun
trymen in and nbeut a little Adirondack vil
lage te fellow out his counsel and plant
gardens as an act of patriotism. They wcie
guides, carpenters, lumberjacks, hunters,
hotel men anything butillers of the bell.
But they luid known him before he wus
President, nnd what he said went with them.
The news of their effort reached him ou the
evening of July HO, 11117, during borne talk
at dinner, let us bay. He wrote en his own
typewriter en the evening of July ,'U n note
e'f appreciation te the villagers te be read
at their town entertainment en the following
"'k'111 t i .in , i
"The news of July 29 has given me real
comfort nnd joy. Tell the geed people up
there hew I ndmlrc and am cheered by thcli
public service.
"I wish I had time for a long letter, but
you urll knew hew much Is in these few
"With best wishes.
"Cordially und slncerelv yours.
(Signed) "WOODROW WILSON."
One of the villagers In that little town
hall sent me later the newspaper clippings
covering the day that letter wus written
showing the Picsidents pieoccupntleus for
that strenuous twcnt.v -four hours.
I will only note the headings: :
Norwegian Eiivejh Call at White Heuse.
Nuiiseu Will Endeavor te Have
Embargo Lifted.
Twe Billion War Tax Provided
in New Bill.
Cnblnet Split With Redflehl.
Redfieid Fighting McAden.
Representative McLaughlin Las Resolution
Befere Congress Declaring Pulled States
Should Champien Irish Cause.
Feed Bill Snails Put Up te Wilsen.
Wilsen Warned nf Big Strike.
Big War Blew h.v British and French.
American Dcstrejcrs Tight Twe I'-Bents,
Yet en this day, big with great things, the
Piesldent tool; time te de a llttle thing quite
perfectly for a far-away little village he
had net Ecen for yeais. It was a chnrmlug
gesture, and in Its way, tee, a great one.
IpFt
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NOW MY IDEA IS THIS!
Daily Talks With Thinking Philadelphia en Subjects They
Knew Best
8. REID WARREN
On Business Educatl6n
rIOSE who are shaping the courses In
the preparatory schools 'are wholly
missing the mark regarding the preparation
necessary for a business career, in the
opinion of S. Rctd Warren, of the Keystone
Publishing Company.
"I recently heard two addresses,' sold
Mr. Warren, '"delivered within a few weeks
of each ether and ench by a man prominently
identified with commercial instruction.
Beth showed, by the curricula which they
advocated, that, in their opinions, a youth
needs llttle education te be useful and suc
cessful in n business enreer. Ibis was evi
dent from the fact that the courses outlined
by them contemplated shutting a child oft
from cultural and informational studies at
an early uge. most of the pupil s time being
allotted te the se-called commercial studies.
"This seems te mc te be n grave menace
te the economic progress of the Natien, und
It is the mere serious for the leusen that this
view of business education is stamped en
all the present-day curricula of commercial
high schools nnd business colleges. Indeed,
the idea of supposed remuncratlveness und
utility has tainted our whole educational
scheme.
1 Signs of a Turn in Sentiment
"There are signs, however, that the tide
has turned in se far as the academic courses
are concerned, and here nnd there evidence
is nppcnriug of a return te classical studies.
"But the business men of the country
should awaken te the fact that our schools
are net educating commercial students
nnd I use the word educating udvlscdly.
Tliev ere endeavoring te train them voca
tionally before giving them the essential
foundation iu cultural und mind-developing
studies.
"Thl defect in our educational system Is
due te the conception that the business world
docs net need iducuted men und women;
that a superstructure of commercial studies
en n foundation of ignorance is sufficient
'education' te piepare one for business life;
that only the professions need cultured and
well-informed fellow eis.
" 'Whv need n bev who is going te enter
business 'life waste his time lu the study of
Latin, Greek, art, music or nny of the gen
erally termed cultuiul subjects"' thej rcusen.
'Tea'ch him business arithmetic, accounting,
economies, stenography, typewriting and the
like,' they advise.
Culture Commercially Valuable
"After thirty jcars of business experi
ence, my answer te this Is that if n child
of mine aspired te a business career I would
much rather that lie spent IiIh high bchoel
jears stud lag Latin und Greek and acquir
ing some knowledge of the arts than In
learning stenegiaph.v, typewriting and book
keeping. And tills is because of the gieatcr
'value und usefulness of the former studies
from a purely commercial standpoint, en
tirely aside from the greater joy he -would
get out of life ns a social human being.
"I make this statement net from the
standpoint of u college-trained man who
feelH well educated himself, but because I
Knew what a handicap the luck of such edu
cation Is te the business man. I have been
able te ebserve and estimate the value of
cultural education In business life net from
having a full share of it, nor because of the
entire lack of it, but because I bad te ac
quire what I have after entering business
"fe. , , , ,
"I therefore learned through applying the
smattering thus ebtnincd hew great would
have been the business value of a compre.
hcnslve education In the cultural und clas
sical brunches.
"Business" Meets All Professions
"It would be the best thing In the world
if educators would only awaken te the fact
that 'business' comes Inte clese anil constant
contact with all the professions; that the
many inmificntlens of commerce bring into
active use all the education that any one
can acqniin in n lifetime; that the very life
of our Natien is er.v laigely affected by the
iuHlllgeiice with which business Is con
ducted; that our standing among the na
tions of the world, ns well as the solidity
of our economic structure at home, depends
upon the breadth nnd the depth of the
knew ledge of our business men.
"Above all, the educators should come te
.nnll.n flint niialfiflm. mn Bn nmm.H -
nu ..'. ,...-. ..... .. ..w.ecii nre i
really men and women and are net mere
f- . ...
- v . r g e
I Cv ' ' if' '' ' f
C4fe BBBBSslr
utilities like mnchlncs, designed only te pro
duce and distribute the things which are
te supply the needs of mankind.
'The edupaters should further understand
clearly that business men and women are a
part of our electorate, a majority element in
our national life, and they nre human beings
with minds and spuls just like these of the
members of the learned professions, and that
they therefore have a life te live outside of
and beyond the daily grind of performing
efficiently and thoroughly their business
duties.
Have Same Secial Rights
. ''These men nnd women who cheese, for
their own rensens, te enter business life
rather than one of the professions have in
their youth the same social rights and the
same human inheritance as these who prefer
n professional career. The community,
therefore, should assume toward the young
man or 'young woman who elects te fellow
a bus.ness career the same responsibility te
develop their faculties, te arouse dermnnt
sentiment and te awaken the souls which
t hey possess in common with their profes
sionally inclined brothers nnd sisters.
Nearly every big business house in the
country contains men and women who nre
mlng examples of the truth of this state-
aei ity te achieve and te make the most of
uli 0W1rtn''s8 by the lack of that cul
iZ , l ,,nfe"ntlve education which would
te M Jl0iP.Cti tLeir nbIIltlM te the highest
h?,i ,L?lil.ch ,tbe-T. wcre cnPnblc and en
abled them te de the best work for which
they nre fitted in the best way.
Should Get Together
.i,'TJ,ie rc.mtl,y ,s for tllc business men and
the cducnters te get teeellmr ,Ii i
school programs w hich w lTfit bSys and girl,
te meet conditions as they rcallv-nrn in ,i.
business world, as we I ? ?e devetep their
m? T"'08 and c"ab, them te wt from
life a fuller measure of happiness.
Let us constantly bear In mlnrl th.f
Carnegies, Schwabs and Fords nfJ!' tbe
as wens many of The (Jomuer. SS3T
ters, Senators and Presidents. ' K'8la'
And we must also bear in mln,i.v
cannot hope te elevate m fS 'l' V
ness world te tl .c preshlency ZtVtW',
Stales if we arc grndualiv n j i Un'td
direction of eurVm ere 8 aff.frV'EM"
ocre and te partly trained mfnds" medi"
What De Yeu Knew?
.QUIZ
officially? urman State called
Whnt Is a common?
Whorwret0 .The Vision of Slr 1aw.
s tr aMk fcrinir
Se!aT l" TlBln am. Vene Vene Vene
.loreVeod jsies; "id uruisn
Where does the coffee usimiu. ,,i , .
tcome from? U3Ualy cnlled Java
What Is meant by th w n
Who wan the XTlfXl
Answers te Yesterday's Quiz
Karl Heading la the British viceroy of
UB.?,ft,i2& " the b,s """""pa Par
Whisky Is one of the survivi., -words
In the nngllsh inn., S Ce,,'
ordinal feim naHe t"S The
"usquebaugh." 'nslitcrnted
Salem, Mass,, Is the locale of vn.u .
Huvvtlioine'H lomance "Th P'hanle
the Seven Gables i " The ; 'i'01" f
ence employed in the Pn or.. Wa
of thin eldVew Enaland iSS HeUse
The Diamond State It i the nfdtmm
popular mime of Delaware nnn,a or
The abbreviation "U. 8 a'i. , ,
the United States of AmericUsed, '"
Urrien of Seuth Africa rlca nna the
Bulge College Is in New Brunswick.
Cardinal Oaaparrl, secretarv .
under Tepa Benedict W hL 1,ate
"appointed te office by the n'iw8 e"
Litotes Ih a figure of speech in wt.i i
thine Is stated I y " dCi taiW,,,ul,,.tt
opposite. Kxample: "it was ' "?
unagreeable aensntleu." net
The Genre Is the collective name for h,
Japanese "Rider Statesmen a. ?0.he
cl of the Empire. ",CTm'n' Coun-
10.
HUMANISMS
By WILLIAM ATIIBRTON DU PUT -
SENATOR CARTER GLASS, of Vlr
glnia, was out walking one day during
one of his campaigns when he met a ventr-'
able colored man whom he bad known all
bis life, and the following Interchange of
amenities took place.
"Geed mawnln. Marse Cahtah," eald'
the old dnrky.
"Geed morning, Uncle," web the reply.
'Te' is loeklu perticklcr well dis mawn
ln', Marse Cahtah," said Uncle Henry.
"Yes, I am feeling pretty well, thank,
you. Uncle," returned the Senater. '4
"Dees ye' knew whnt ye' leeks lak te me
Marse Cahtah?" asked Uncle Henry.
"Ne. Henry, what de I leek like te you?"
' Ye' leeks te me lak a gemmnn vvld a
dellah in his pocket who was runnln' fe'
leffice," said Uncle Henry.
President Harding pronounces "wounded"
ns though it were thc-past tense of what
one does te the clock en the mantel once each
week.
One of the peculiar differences between
the peoples of the East and the peoples
of the West was revealed te me the ether'
day by a dancing school teacher in Wain-'
Ington, who bald that her classes were'
thronged by members of the Chinese and'
Japanese delegations te the Armament Con
ference who were anxious te leafn the art
of the terpslcherean from the American'
standpoint. Te teach the Chinese and the
Japanese hew te dance as de the Ameri
cans is. however, a task of infinite difficulty.
There is nothing in the Oriental music
which has in It any of the rhythm of eun.
Japanese dancing is a one-roan stunt and
Japanese music pounds away monotonously.
The Introduction of the dancing partner
nnd the swaying rhvthm is a thing quite
unnatural te the Oriental conception ,cf
tempo.
It's funny about folks and where the;
come from. There is Mrs. I. A. Me
Carthy. for .instance, the sculptress, who
came down te Washington with a commis
sion te make statuettes of the dignitaries.
Mrs. McCarthy talks freely and of first
hand knowledge of Londen. Paris. Berlin,
Korea, Buenes Aires, Shanghai. She goi gei
sips of them in most any language yen
cheese.
Then one evening we were out te a party
and among these present was one Captain
Arthur Willard. of the navy, all up-sUP
and imposing in his geld braid.
And the captain and the sculptress gat
talking and pretty seen he was saying:
"Why. Ivy, bow you have grown."
And she was saying:
"Artie, the only thing that leeks natural
is your eyes." nnd tbey were holding hand
and everything.
And it all came about because Artie
Willard lived next deer te Ivy McGuIre and
was the pal of her big brother In Klrksvllle,
Me., where Jehn J, Pershing once went te
normal before be became a school teacher.
And here they were a en in after cndleM
wanderings and both quite some pumpkin!.'
Mr. Mentale De Jesus, secretary te
the Portuguese delegation te the Arm)
Conference, offers as a panacea against war
a theory of a federation of Europe.
Mr. E. K. Mey. director of the China
Trade Bureau, of New Yerk, a gentleman
of the Seuth China persuasion, holds that
world pence Is impossible se long ns there
Is n monarchical government sitting at
Pckln.
Then there steps forth Captain B. Dmo Dme
vile, wearing the uniform of the navy of
Great Britain, and says that abolition of
submarines is Use solution,
"The submarine has no justification,'
says he, "except in war. It Is entirely use
less for nny peace purpose and should,
therefore, be abandoned."
"Te what peace purpose mav a capital
ship be nut," some oue was se Impertinent
as te ask.
"Capital ships?" said Dmavlle, "Why,
very delightful dancing parties can be given
en the decks of capital ships."
'
Representative E. Hart Fenn. of Con
necticut, Is a friend of Chnuncey Depew,
and he says that there Is one story for
originating which the veteran raconteur in
sists en getting full credit.
The btery has its foundation In the query
which wents te knew of the similarity be-,.
tween a tltvver und u bathtub. Why ere
they alike?
Te which the answer is that they at
alike because everybody insists en barlnit
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