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Julr i. 1: j LESSON OF STEEL COACHES 'ifpiIE mlglit-hnc-bccns of railway nccl VjX dents npqulrc n cutting Irony In leading (te the hj petlicisi that, grnntcd ether clreiira distances, the dlfantcrH need net Imc occurred .at nil. While It is this pert of reflection which renders "probes'' and invctlRatlen following Inxity or mischance m painful, there are none the lc.s times when the con sideration of alternate possibilities is in structive. i The Rending wreck at Window Junction cannot be palliated en the "core that lfc jnight have been were. Tlie lives let, the (cores of persons Injured emphasire the dan gers lurking in n dislocation, front ,hat- tver cause, in the lemplcx machinery of modern transportation. ' It Is unquestionable, however, that the Steel cars of the derailed Atlantic City ex press constituted a safeguard of huin.in life. JThe possibilities of the catastrophe were el tiently mere terrible than these of the llryn yAthyn collision which culminated in a hocking funeral pre. In the Newtown Division wreck wooden coaches fed the flames, and the death list greatly surpassed that of the AVlnMew Junc tion disaster. In tragic fashion the.' lessen Of equipment necessities has been once mere presented. Steel coaches are indeed of at tested protective value. The problem of equipment en American railroads is net merely one of economics or financial Investments. It is concerned with fhc fundamental moral duty of (ommen car riers te the public which they are supposed fe serve. There cannot be the least question that wooden passenger coaches are a relic of n barbarous and primitive age of rail leading. !' GOOD POLICE WORK WE SAID the day after the parell bandits hed attempted te get posses pesses posses eon of $02,000 being carried te a manu facturing plnnt by bunk messengers that the test of the efficiency of the police would tv 4mc ,n the arrest of the bandits. . - 5 Geed work was done at the time In pre tecting the messengers and the money. Geed work hag new been done In the ar rest and Identification of one of the bandits. The man has n police record and nt the time of his arrest was out en ball en the charge of stealing an automobile. J With such knowledge ns the police have Sr can acquire of this man and his asso asse ates, it ought net te be long before the eher men implicated in the attempted held -up are in custody, j, t AN AIR RACE FOR THE POLE IF THE plans new tyider way tarry suc cessfully Amundsen 1h likely te be treated te a taste of his own medicine. It will be recalled that while Captain Scott was making his plans te discover the Seuth Tele, Captain Amundsen, who had been announcing that he was planning an expedition te the North Pele, headed Seuth as seen ns his ship wns out of sight of land and succeeded In renchlng the Seuth role ahead of the Englishman. Scott succeeded nlse, but he found that Amundsen had beaten him te the goal. He started en his return Journey a beaten and disappointed man, nnd died of exposure en the way. If he had been exhilarated by the consciousness of triumph there Is no know ing whether he might net have pulled through, se great an effect docs lit" mind have en the body in a test of phjxlcnl en durance. Amundsen is in Alaska getting ready te fly across the Telar Regions te Spitsbergen. He is new tuning up his airships. Hut Majer Tryggve Gran, a Danish flier, is about te fly across the Pele from Spits bergen. He baa been in that northern Uland since May 29 preparing for the great .adventure. He has had long experience With airships. He Is familiar with the Arctic regions nnd he is n man of great audacity. Amundsen is also familiar with the Arctic regions, but be knows little about aviation, and is dependent en his as sociates for the management of his airship. ?It Is among the possibilities that these two adventurous men may pass each ether In the air as they wend their way ever the polar spaces. Such an outremo would lift the romance of exploration te the nth power apd thrill the imagination until invention had devised some new machine for conquer ing space and belittling the perils of the unknown. WHY IS LATIN UNPOPULAR? r WOULD be interesting te knew whether the students of educational development tn the United States agree that the views . of Dr. Albert C. Fex, of Marquette Unl ' Terslty, about the hostility of Catholics te 'I, rrUulcal education explain In any way the "decline of the classics In American unlvcr- ti asnes. J,' jDr. Fex, speaking at the Interesting con- 14 ference of Catholic educators at St. Jeseph's ' College In this city, said that the Catholics S were long hampered by what he called the W-VjWCholeiy of the immigrant.' The ,CW0lic immigrants were from the classes If m VreB which bad net profited by higher LtVaJsisatlOfi; They had been brought un te r(;ste that it was for the few and net for Ptikssa have net received the sunoert which jV MPretfstant immlsrants. tee. have for th kVrt part been of the humbler sort, with no E'TJL ltullLl tmAltlnttU tt Alnu.lrtMl aj1..j.I tV They knew nothing of the advantages of 7Mi Latin and Greek, and their grandsons and i ill VsvMddauiattrs have in recent years been K'i I objecting te studying the classics and the leieaUtM and universities have been eubttl- PWtbif ether subjects. Is this due te "Im- U;stt'pajcnoiegr- or is it a result of the isuvs; paiariaiMui ei tue umcsT i Jtiimf wUf advanced is that it is w xer "vrMtl whisk ma kt ft itf mk iw2-iSL &v awi?iW?a- ; t.v' sataWaft.Ml MUas4i in dollars an! cents. Bat it eeuld b argued that this axpUMtiea does net go deeply enough. If then Is any thing in the "Imraigrsnt psychology" theory it is conceivable that a generation whose ancestors had get along .without Latin and Greek may have a subconscious hostility te these languages and that the conscious rea sons assigned for preferring ether subjects may be In reality only the result of an effort te explain a feeling the origin of which was obscure. , . It is a matter worthy of the intention of the psychologists. THE NEW PROGRESSIVISM: A LEADERLESS MOVEMENT "Backl" 8ay the Old Quardsmen Sternly te the Tide That Advance! te Engulf Them All WE IN the United States are confronted . with a brand-new phenomenon of national politics. On every side are visible signs of the rising energy of a lcaderlcss nnd voluntary pregrcsslvlsm. There have been somewhat similar movements at ether times. That which Roosevelt inspired and led was the most notable. But in such instances there had te be a dynamic per sonality nnd exhortations and battlecrlcs nnd words that waved and flamed llke flags In the sky nnd the thud of rhetorical drums te reuse the people nnd te cnusc at the polls a direct reversal from dull, deadening, cor rupt and backwnrd political routine. Se it was in New Jersey when Woodrew Wilsen made his first cnmpslgn for the governorship. Se it was In the colorful days of Roosevelt's triumphs. The moods of popular dissatisfaction existed, ltut in spiration from the outside, contributed by extraordinary leaders, was necessary te translate them into the action which we call political pregrcsslvlsm. New It Is clear that the people are pro gressive en their own account. They often ere progressive without progressive leadcr ship. They are deserting the professionals of politics. The Democratic press, misreading the meanings of McCumber's defeat In North Dakota, falls Inte nn error worthy of the Old Guard itself. In North Dakota th progressive movement assumed nn erratic form, ns it may assume erratic forms else where, because It lacks great leadership and has te go It alone. It has te go it alone because men experienced In politics and competent te lead prefer still te ignore it and te hope that it will net amount te anything. It required a situation sueh as attended McCumber's downfall te illustrate this significant truth nbeut the new progrcs pregrcs slvlsm. The farmers who swung the elec tion cherish class prejudices us rigid and cultivate class interests ns narrow as any they charge against the Old Guard's crowd In the East. They arc progressives run ning wild, filled with dissatisfactions, proving that this new revolt of conscience in the United States may have geed or bad effects; that it maj be crazily dissipated or made permanent and constructive, ac cording te the nature of the leadership that it develops in the country nt large nnd in the States. It seems nt times that the control of this tremendous force Is te be left te be snatched by radical opportunists, such ns rule the Nen-partisan League, or by bigots like Berah and La Fellcttc, or by amateurs without skill or geed sense or the universal view necessary te great political geed. Te suppose, as a great many conspicuous politicians suppose, that the progressive spirit new active in America can be checked or chilled by ignoring it or by a refusal te be aware of Its existence is about as reasonable as te believe that you can step n rainstorm with a snub. Politicians of the sort that dominate Pennsjlvanla were victims of this queer delusion. And in consequence Mr. Pinchot la new the actual leader of the Republican Party in the State. Moreover, his strength will grew. Beverldge is sure te be the leader in Indiana. The Democratic editors who sec nothing mere than mass hatred of Repub lican old guardsmen In the reversals re ported from recent primaries are ns short sighted as, let us say, Mr. Vare or Governer Sproul. The fact Is that the organized dislike of the whole American people is being directed at the sjskem under which ignorant, vicious and incompetent men are usually permitted te de the thinking for both of the great parties. The leaderless progressive movement in the United States Is the mere significant because it is slew. It Is self-generated In the conscience of the people. It Is pretty sure te be tidal in its ultimate scope. These who attempt te Btep it, these who prefer net te be aware of It, will mcrtly be sub merged. It is one of the most wholesome and re assuring things that ever happened te the country. Its effects were beginning te be apparent at a time when the high of brew were saying that democracy was a failure because the people were without political Interest or a desire te co-operate intelli gently as citizens in the business of Govern ment. The new pregressivlsm is crvlng out for a great leader. Without jueh a leader it will be te a largp extent an unregulated force, misrepresenting Itself In cults and classes seemingly dissociated from the rest of the country. Many of the seemingly conflicting Impulses apparent In various new mass movements and strikingly present at recent primaries represent nothing mere than a spirit of revolt against political junkcrdem. This spirit will continue te find expres sion in a demand for mere Intelligence and mere justice In the administrative system of government, for readjustments In the economic order te meet the humnn require ments of changed tlmeB. It asks for men with minds able te deal easily, honorably and justly, through our tried political mechanisms, with problems which, generated out of stagnant social, political and eco nomic thought, have become se large and se complicated and se painful that the aver age old guardsman refuses even te leek at them. LEVIATHAN ODDITIES PROSPECTS of completing the recondi tioning of the great liner Leviathan by spring are complicated with the announce ment of the problem of securing a berth for the vessel abroad. As the Deutschland in 1014, the epochal year of her maiden voyage, the largest steamship afloat, was originally a Ger ms product, this latest 'chapter in her picturwiM carter if emewbst MtWtafclM, t v . ' in 'i "' The etpUMttte, hewsvsr, la alatpk, since it is a caana-s or route waicn aas occasioned I the present embarrassment. j. no snip was aesigaea te piy Between New Yerk and Hamburg, in both of which perta suitable deck accommodations were prepared. By arrangement with the North German Lloyd, her new European terminal is te be Bremerhavenj where the anxiety concerning facilities has arisen. Americans are perhaps te be pardoned for discerning humor-in this situation, con sidering the original furore ever the ship as n symbol of Teutonic accomplishment. Bhe is hardly that today, although her hull lines are unchanged. ' The Leviathan's record ns a .war trans pert, the transformation fitting her for that service and the extensive and elaborate re-, construction which she is new undergoing nt Newport News comprise a work of nat urnlliatien unique In sea annals. She will fly the Stars and Stripes en her first cast ward voyage as a Shipping Beard passengers liner, with Germany ns her destination. It Is net inconceivable that for all her gterles she is only en the verge of beginning her career. THE PEOPLE WILL SAY AMEN By GEORGE NOX McCAIN PRESIDENT HARDING summoned the coal operators and the coal miners te a conference, asked them te adjust their dif ferences In the interest of the people of the country nnd then started en n well-deserved holiday trip, leaving the warring Interests te the devices of their own formation. It wns n sensible procedure. The Presi dent "has issued his warning. If an obsti nate nnd selfish attitude, which has nlways been the curse of the coal trade, is te be still further maintained en- both sides, then the Administration will act. There should be no Indecision or namby pamby measures en the part of the Admin istration when that time comes. Its action should be prompt, vigorous and decisive. The vvhole power of the Government should be marshaled behind its mandate. The people, who net only suffer but feet the bills for this destructive nnd economi cally Idiotic warfare of interests, will in dorse its stand. There Is n growing sentiment In the pub lic mind, nnd It bodes no geed te either side In these tests of obstinacy, that the time Is approaching for a final showdown, for direct action, governmental or ether wise, that will end these recurrent periods of industrial chaos, continually advancing prices, open warfare nnd bloody reprisals in the coal business. This feeling has been intensjfied during the last week by the attitude of one of labor's representatives in the railroad strike, B. M. Jewell. He net only flouted but In sulted the Government's representatives and by se doing defied public opinion. Mr. Jewell Is what is termed an ndvanced thinker, which is n descriptive cognomen dangerously approaching that of radical. It Is he who, like Fester, the communistic director of the great steel strike of three years age, Is thrust forward in the present railroad crisis te represent labor. If earnest appeals for mediation, arbitra tion, mutual concessions, common sense and a spirit of fair play en both sides of the coal controversy nre no longer effective, then let the Government act, nnd act with promptness and decision te relieve the in tolerable conditions that have prevailed for the last four months. And all the people will say Amen! PURPOSEFUL PROPAGANDA A COMMUNICATION dispatched te this office by the Bureau of City Property betrays that branch of the Municipal Ad ministration ns nn instrument of propa ganda. It is for the public te judge whether the odium ordinarily attaching te that term prevnlls In the present instance. If special pleading is reprehensible then the offense is rank, since the bureau makes no secret of its intention te emphasize and exploit n single topic, which is, Indeed, nothing less significant than the history nnd associations of that collection of venerable structures known as the Independence Hall group. "Issued for free distribution" Is the bold inscription upon the latest bulletins of this, propaganda service. The most recent pro ductions, Nes. 0 nnd 7, are well written and attractively illustrated pamphlets deal ing, respectively, with the restored old City Hall and Supreme Court Heuse nnd with the framing of the Federal Constitution. Wilfred Jerdan, curnter of Independence Hall, is editor of the series, throughout which is exhibited a scrupulous regard for facts, even at the expense of romantic illu sion. In none of these booklets is there te be found any reference te n signing of the Declaration of Independence by Geerge Washington. While it mny seem heartless te dispel n popular mlsconreptlen, Mr. Jerdan's primary concern is with the veri ties. He confesses nlse that the origin of the nnme Philadelphia is conjectural, but It is supposed that "he (Penn)" selected It from that of a city in Lydia, Asia, the seat of one of the early Christian churches. Apropos of the Constitution, the names of State delegates who refused te affix their signatures are added te the names of these who saw their duty ns we new conceive it te have been. Bulletin Ne. 7 submits the record of the six patriots privileged by cir cumstances nnd their own zeal te indorse both the Declaration nnd the Constitution. Specific information is well packed in the brochures. There nre Phlladclphlans It would be Ingracleus te suggest that they are numerous who might conceivably benefit by acquaintance with this condensation of authentic history in handy form. Ner is the scope of the bulletins limited te the home field. The Imperial University of Teklo, which presumably has heard of the birthplace of American liberty, has re cently filed a request for twenty -five copies of the entire series. Foreign interest in this propaganda Is keen, Phlladelphtans who succumb te It need net fear confessing that they have ceased te regard Independence Hall as Inspira tional. That spiritually Imperishable shrine is a mine of fascinating stories, all the mere attractive because of their unfamlllarity and accredited authenticity. Mr. Jerdan and the Bureau of City Prop erty are te be congratulated for their en ergetic efforts te disseminate facts stimu lating the interest of the community in its foremost possession. Should a public desire Hew te for the old catastrophic, Ruin a Day car splitting, death dealing Fourth of July ever be revived, a constitutional amendment prohibiting firecrackers, sparklers and lethal toys In general would probably provide the quickest means of giving permanence te a tragic carnival. As it Is new, the "cracker legger" and pyrotechnic smuggler has a miserable time, with scant profits. What wouldn't he give for the kind of drastic legislation that makes law-breaking an In vpiriag and lucrative joy I " r, ,fM,( 1UV M ; " ii i " '' i 'i i'mi ilia ill i n AS ONE WOMAN till IT l 4 Seme Feints 6f Dlffereneet Between North and Seuth That Tlma Hae Net Yet Quite lreriesKOut By SARAH D. LOWMB ' MY MEMORY of Miss Mildred Ruther ford, of Athens, 3a.. the publisher of a history of the War of the Union from a Confederate point of view and by the pen of a Confederate veteran, Colonel Iluger Jehnsen, is of a vfry vivacious, net te say fiery, old-young woman with enough acrid and volatile wit accumulated back of the flash of btr very bright eyes te last hr if she lives te be a hundred. ' . , My impression when I met her aad heard her talk aad listened te the ','Oha!' and "Aha" of encouragement and appreciation en her Very biased sallies of sharp criticism en things net Southern was that the had had a geed deal te de with melding the bias of numerous young ladles below the Masen and Dixen line for a score of years or se. Fer she was; I believe, the head of a well known seminary for young women. - I observe In the recent report of the His terical Committee of the United Confeder ate Veterans that she is spoken of nowadays, by the veterans at least, as "the great hearted Southern historian." That same re port advocated the use of the book en the Civil War that she has mothered Inte pub licity tn the public schools of the Seuth. It is called "The Truth About the War Con spiracy of 1801," nnd these who have read the book assert that Lincoln is at once Its here and Its villain in that it makes him the arch plotter of the war and the adamant forces of hostilities en the Seuth. AS JAY HOUSE remarked, both the vet erans who made that recommendation and the main instigators of the book are elderly persons, and their resolutions are net likely te harm themselves, nor are they liable te harm the coming generation which is net likely te read the book in school or out of it. Lincoln himself can stand the strain, no doubt. Much worse things than that were said of him, and by the Northern DcmecrntH and Copperheads some of whom were our own kith nnd kin, and net te be sniffed at or even regarded ns skeletons for closets, cither, aslde from their wrong guesses at the truth about tue war. Until the Seuth catches up with the North financially and the Negro labor question in the Seuth and the education question in the Seuth, net te speak of ,the voting question in the Black Belt, get adjusted by force or prosperity, or by plague or flood, the memory of the Civil War grievances is bound te be kept green in the part of the country where guessing wrong about the out come of the war cntised such a tragedy of havoc and denth nnd disaster. I went Seuth mere than once with Rebert Uguen and his carefully culled philanthro pists and educators and journalists when they met the Southern men and women of the same type te discuss the problems of education and rehabilitation and co-operation. Always In the public sessions the Northern orators would begin or end their speeches with: "There is no North nnd Seuth!" And nlways the Southern orators would point te the conspicuous portrait of .General Lee, somewhere en the platform nnd call the heavens te witness that, as patriot and genttcman and general and here, his like bad never trod Ged's earth. In short, Lee was the trump card en every occasion, whether it was education or politics, re ligion, or philanthropy, the need of the on coming generation or the solace of the passing veterans. Just as Dixie was plaved as the national anthem, se somewhere in n glass case the flag of the Confederacy was cherished in its faded, tern symbolism, ALWAYS, tee, our polite and somewhat reservedly cordial hosts In the old Southern houses where we were entertained always there was that inevitable talk en the past te be get through and accepted before we could quite settle down ns just fellow Americans. Se that In spite of phil anthropic and educational oratory en the part of the Northern guests nnd a dignified straggle te appe&r te acquiesce en the part of the Southern hosts, it was plain every where that there was and there is still a North and n Seuth. The children nre unlikely te feel it in the same way or with the same personal hos tility or bitterness or historical interest that the generation who lived through it or the generation that suffered most by it have, but whether they have n school-book version of it or a family version of it. the Southern feeling nbeut the Civil Wnr and the North ern opinion of it arc bound te differ; nnd where that difference is plned upon for political purposes, a force will be created one way or another, until the penalty in volved by defeat in the war is paid. I ASKED a Southern wemnn, who is a leurnallst and a very. keen nnd forth- putting one down in New Orlenns, what te her mind the chief penalty was. And she said n thing that has Ntuck In my mind ever since nnd made me wonder If she wns cor rect in her dingnesls, and, if correct, what wns the remedy? She said that educationally the Seuth was behindhand, of course, as n result of poverty In the last fifty ear and the huge preponderance of the Negro unlettered popu lation as a tax en the white tnxpajers. But she said the Southern lenders socially and civilly were net se much belated in book learning as in sentiment. She said, aston asten ishingly: "We are n whole generation back of, the North and the West in the things we discuss nt our public meetings and in our drawing rooms and In conventions. We are Mid-Vlcterlan In our culture, and our so cialism is your philanthropy, while our philanthropy is something jour grnndmether may have practiced and discarded In her teens. We are still in the gift-book style of poetry and in the decnlceraania style of art. Ve de net exactly press flowers for ornaments, or leve tokens, but we embalm memories and exaggernte sentiment in short, we ere sentimental ! And nowhere se religiously nnd fanatically as at the meet ings of the Sens and Daughters of ihe Con federacy, where we fan our feelings with words and oratory and mementoes!" NOW the woman who said this te me was net yet thirty. She had never been North, and she had only seen the world through the medium of nn old and conserva tive -society and, since the Inte wnr, through her journalism. I de net knew hew she had separated herself enough from the crowd te see It. I suspect she will go far in her journalism, slnce she is able se seen te take se unbiased a view of what is passing before her eyes. If she is correct nbeut the sentimentality of the Seuth, she and her generation may eventually drain off that poisoned source of weokness; certainly they are the ones te de it, net we of the North. I de net think, however, that sentimen tality is confined te the Seuth in this country, any mereithan it is confined te Germany en the ether hide. I hnve listened te enough political and philanthropic and religious speeches te knew that most of the reasons that nre given for doing things or for leaving them undone arc sentimental reasons, net reasonable sentiment. I learned that long age when my hostess asked me net te piny the fiddle en the ground that it wns Sunday nnd my tunes were secular. The truth of the matter was it was Sunday and time for a cozy nap and I was net playing tunes; I was reaching for them end net quite getting them ! If she had said : "I like te be quiet nnd serene Sunday afternoons nnd that terrible scratching and walling afflict my ear and outrage my musical sense and prevent my falling asleep!" her sentiment would have been a Just nnd truthful and formative one for me te ginsp; but the plea that Us beliur Ged's day, fiddling was net holy or pleaslna te Him because It was work for my arm was sentimental bunk-! It was a wise man who said that, when either for an institution or. for personal convenience the odor of sentimentality called Inte requisition, It is, high time te get n spade and a hoe and go bury the dead body, r It strikes me that the last person te find that out. however, will be net the nhirn. threplits or peeta or even the teacher and the ministers, but the pelit IUUHf H"Li I i " ' "''. 'J'' "' ' '! '"' i, f f i vT. 4 m A. 'i , . S t ',", -fWiv. tot.'- &;. '"! &vs-m V aSBBBBBBBBBBsElbV .SSSsW imf Vlfl - y " ' ,aSI-S5isssgasssstBsSs ' y ttssVr l4iaW2xOlnisssaaHaBsm ' f& y 4FXKm tftlGtssssssssssssKa ssPa W S SZ AWaaessaaVvr AWwSs1-Mbw55bV.!55. . 'S.- y 5BaS) WwWmLWrfffijivKwBM fjy'Tj &p - - .. A ' " SSBBf-aw-SSaiBBBBBBBBBBBT "M " KV M a. a) sIssswatjBaal M , NOW MY IDEA IS THIS! Daily Talks With Thinking Philadelphia en Subjects They Knew Best MYRA A. SMITH On Changes In Werk for Women THE last twenty years have seen numerous and Important changes in many things, but few that hnve been mere far-reaching than in work for women, says Miss Myra A. Smith, general secretary of the Yeung Women's Christian Association. "One of the most striking of these changes," snid Miss Smith, "lies in the new attitude of the public toward the organizations- engnged in this work and in the stand of the organizations with regard te the pub lic. Many organizations fall in their appeal te the public because of the feeling that the work which they are doing is one of 'pro fessional philanthropy.' There is also n general idea that many workers In these same organizations 'talk down' te the sup posed level of the girls or women whom they nre trying te help and thnt they are 'work ing' for them. In most lnstnnces thlj is net the case, and the great majority of the or ganizations have come fully te realize the fallacy ns well as the practical disadvantages of letting the general public get this er roneous Idea. Changes Are Widespread "The last twenty years especially have seen many decided modifications in all work of this kind and the spirit of change Is nation wide. Take, for example, the difference In the qualifications of the members of the staffs of such organisatiens all ever the country. Twenty years age the work was iergcly voluntary and the qualifications of the workers was net a matter of importance as they are today. New the great majority of the women doing this work are highly trnlned in their especial lines. "There was formerly n feeling en the part of the public that the women did the work because they couldn't held nny ether posi tions. These women are nearly all college graduates and n majority have either taken post-grnduate courses or have studied abroad and are thoroughly fitted fef their duties. "Nearly all are young, which is n decided advantage, as they can thus enter into the things which girls 'and jeung women de with less adjustment than eltjer women even these of equal education and fitness. They can piny hockey, ride horseback and are in terested in many things outside of their dally work. "The girls and the young women with whom they associate ns n result are much mere responsive, and they have a far greater respect for the worker of this tjpe. The latter must be perfectly honest and entirely sincere In her efforts or the young women of the present day will find it out instantly. "Twenty ears age It was thought per fectly natural for these members te wait en table and wash the dlsheB once a week at the heuse of whatever organization they were connected with. Then we frequently saw women with a sufficient education and with the qualifications required te earn large salaries doing work which any girl capable of earning a few dollars a week could de. "This Is all past. Men never did this sort of thing at any time and realized that their sphere of usefulness te similar organ!, zntlens with which they were connected lay In matters of advice and management and net in manual labor which could readily be paid for and done by persons who were valueless in the ether branches. Women have come te take the same attitude. Have the Community Viewpoint "Women of this type nre especially val uable because they have, even mere than the actual workers, the community viewpoint. They knew the city ns a whole and they knew its needs, and this point of view is essential for any society which wishes te meke genuine progress. That society which leeks farthest ahead and anticipates the needs of the city rather than meet them as they arise will progress the most rapidly and earn the higher measure of public confl cenfl dence. "But perhaps the biggest mistake and the one which the ergi nlzatlen Is doing the most te correct In the public mind is that ; Insti tut ens for women nre simply bearding houses and dining rooms, where certain small groups of girls and yotjeg women can lire and eat" I r wfa, which i believe ii Kg. mmm'mmmmmm SOONER OR LATER 1 1 L f ... ' . v $m Vf "r -"' 'fv. 1 " of nil similar organizations, this group is small. We can handle 200 In the house, nnd against this group there are mere than 2000 in our educational classes alone nnd 1300 mero in the girls' work department. I be lieve that about this same proportion will obtain in the ether women's organizations df the country. Secial Service Werk "Anether phase which has seen vast changes is the social service weik. All the best women's societies de much of this, such as room registry. In our case there are mere than 1600 rooms in the city which nre investigated twice a 3 ear. "One great, nnd I think legitimate, 'charge against many of the women's organizations has been that when it comes te social-service cases they have taken the easiest way nnd simply given money. .This is n mistake. All new have social service workers of rec ognized standing who handle these cases In the manner which will prove te be of the greatest ultimate geed for all concerned. "Anether change which has been brought about is the feeling of the public that the women's organizations nre for the se-called 'peer girls' and for them alone. This Is net se. The best of these societies nre net for peer girls, but for nil girls or young women. The effort is primarily for the girls with small salaries, but an organization would have n very narrow existence if it did net give such young women the opportunity of working and playing with girls of large in come nnd of high educational advantages. Few Charitable Societies "This works for geed In both directions. Each learns from the ether things which they could net lenrn by themselves, nnd the contact Is useful and valuable in many ways. They meet en terms of equality and thus much hns been done in this manner te spread the spirit of genuine democracy. "The public has learned, among the mul titudinous changes, that these organizations are net charitable In any sense of the word. The jeung women pay for all thnt they get. It is true that in many instances the gener osity of the public allow r rooms te be rented mere reasonably than would otherwise he the case, but the recipients pay for nil the rest. There should net be nnd there is net the slightest feeling of charity. All are simply co-eperatlvo establishments, where all work together for the common geed." Today's Anniversaries 1800 First dey of the Battle, of Wngram, which ended in a victory for Napeleon ever the Aiistrlans. 1847 A river nnd harbor convention met in ciucnge wun seventeen states repre sented. 184U William T. Stead, fameuB Journal ist and editor, born in England. Lest In the Tltnnlc disaster, April 15, 1012. 1852 A convention for revising the Con stitution of Louisiana met at Baten Rouge. 1872 The German Government published the law for the expulsion of the Jesuits. 1888 William II. Elder succeeded te the Reman Catholic see of Cincinnati. 11)18 Ninety-two lives were lest in the sluking of the excursion steamer Columbia, near Peerin.' ' 1020 Hungary limited te 25 per cent the Jewish students in the high schools. Today's Blrthdaya Benjamin F. Bush, long president nf , Missouri Pacific Railroad K?be Wellsboro, Pa., sixty-two years age Jan Kubellk. one of the most celebrated of living violinists, born in Bohemia, fort,, two jenrs age. ' " Judah L. Mngnes, noted New Yerk rabbi and Jewish scholar, .born in San Francisce forty-five years age. m.bce, Dwlght F. Davis, donor of the fameu. international tennis trophy bearing his name, born In St. Leuis, ferty-three yea, age, ' "" Might Have Been Beth Frem tli KInfiten lOnt.) Whig "This is a very sad moment," declared the Duke of Devenshire, the retiring Gover Gover eor General, at a farewell luncheeS at Ot Ot tavve. And new curious persons are asking .iVVS W Prtu or te he fact that he had Just signed an order In council maklhg Onterifc dry en July 18, 7 MmKMy I mmt ,W - IkI . t -im-, J- t'T yH. SHORT CUTS Baby born en airplane in Paris. Steikt' files high. i Seme holiday metcrists are apparently ' sirengiy tn xaver 01 tne sxip-stpp system. , The new hnttln nf fterrVahitrtr an Mp I Harding can testify, is mainly a matter of i urencn ngniing. Dublinlte&Jn holiday season are different In that they arc victims rather than prac-j ucern 01 tue suen game, y Hell-and-Mnrla Dawes has real satis faction in returning te private life. He H .. ram 11m juu aim no snows 11 is well done, rsew he's ready te tackle another. Liege, of Belgium, in its annual beauty contest, has crowned an old woman of eighty Queen of Queens. Right. There Is no beauty mere hallowed than that of u righteous old age. nun(5)?8l(!cri?8.thc.noterlou habts of th. Philadelphia July, it was probably In re sponse te n "Come en, fellows, let's all sign up and get out of this het room," that free dom was born. . .,In ,0,P.plnF, n fcw ciphers from the valus of the ruble, Russian Soviet financiers have given a beautiful illiiKtratinm v. in.i- nerable mathematical law that nothing from . nethlne leaves nnrhln 'I .W Jer$ we for ,P,t took tbl name e( the judge who Hnr.n,.,i v., t,.. MAM. J. II - , .. ...-"V" "Ml !"",,'u ,r".,-XrJeSena, e te f-thlnk upil another." "What's in n nnmmV mU, Shakespeare. "Four months," said ths. court. The Invasion nf th Vn.tv, u ni-i I from the Seuth continues in the news cel-J r I, . rL 'v'"' Eaa leaiure aoeut it ami wmt mere is a painful sameness In the stories. Are our writers growing weary!' Is imagination dying? Let the hooch hound uuy us answer. , ... ' . . . V . . ""b isianq emclals who declined te take a holiday en the Fourth nre te be cenV mended no less for their seal than for their fli 'V"!0'- Immigrants under sentence e, deportation, could hardly have been expected te understand the celebration of an annl-t versary of freedom, v What De Yeu Knew? QUIZ 4 1. Why nre hieroglyphics se called? !fl 2. Fer what sclentlfle work was tha lata' I'rince or Monace famous 7 V 3. What tvnA rtt entHn. .... . il. -. ----- -.-- -- v.a, who u ine ten. of 1876? Centennial Exhlbltlea-, A, Name two historic occasions en which' ' cjniruuiermry lercea rrem Africa In vaded nnd conquered large areas in' Eure dp. v 1 6. Who wrote the famous song-, "The Twe. Grenadiers"? ,,1 u. nwiii nits connection Detween tragedy.) and a goat? C 7. Name a great city of EureDe which i , runner north than Sitka, Alaska, 1 ' WliSt.v?ta,t? .?iseCartr0IftM rePi-esaetll In the United Stat R.net.7 , -I 0. Who has succeeded Charles O. Dawes sV Federal Dlmr.tnr nt h. ..,,...' td- 10. What river flews threush Dublin? 3 Answers te Monday's Quiz M 1. The Declaration of Independence waajl neucu uf iiiiy-niit persons. 1 li 2. A gree-gree Is an African charm, tels? man or fetish. 'i 3. Saint Genevieve Is the patron saint eft1. Paris. tfgl 4. A rlgadoen is a cay, quick dance for tiwh, probably originating In Provencal; France; also the musle for such ft) dance. j, 6, Sumae may be pronounced "su-mak" or "shu-mak." in both ceses with tht accent en the first avllnht.. A 6, Tarletan or tarlatan is an open, tranlV , parent muslin, often ratner cear The word Is derived from the Mllanett "tarlqtanna," linsey-woelsey, J I, n.- giaicg IB a UnilK or TOO! WTSjP water, spiced-and sugared. ThaUfi Is derived, from the Spanish 'Wa; Lt are 8,JBapphlr was tn wife of 4lM. 9. The Halle law Is u law invtl Teutonic sources In the fifth en A. D . unit nrnvl1tn that mi should Inherit lands In preference AVIIIIMVa. , 10, The path deserlbed by a- projectile called a trajectory. T f' U.i a 'wv.. 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