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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.
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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,
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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
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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,
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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
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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
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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"
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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,
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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. ,
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. . ""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.
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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;
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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'
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