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PJNCHOT DEMANDS SUPPORT
"iTTMIE Governer." declared Clifferd Pin---
rhet In Iii" AUciitewn speech, ' rnn rnn
net succeed without help ' Mr Pinrhet
himself is vpe llii' enough about tlu princi
ples for which h" stands, mid lie enunciated
them again quite clearly before the Lehigh
County Republicans, but then- i one warn
ing he pounded which it will be well te bear
in mind.
''My election, " he "aid. "will he the
mandate of the people nor only te the Gov -erner.
but te the whole State C.ewrnment
and te the Legislature te help the C.ovcrner
te put these purpose Inte effect."
This Is a plnin demand for n Legislature
that will be xemethlng mere than th- uMinl
boss-driven machine There Is nothing mere
'tragic In our shtem than a (Joverner striv
ing te accomplish measure for the geed of
the people, but hampered by a Legislature
that, indifferent te the general welfare,
think only of the sharp bargains it can
drive te gain political advantage.
Mr. PInehet's election will mean the pee
pie's mandate for the acceiuplMimcnt of the
things he has pledged hnaxlf te de. It will
mean a mandate directly and Individually
iglven te every Republican member of the
Legislature te .support him. and any mem-
'bers forgetting this should be held strictly
accountable by the voters who send them te
Hnrrlsburg,
REED AND THE BONUS
FEW new L'nitcd States Senators have
found tliem.clves iu the important posi
tion that the peculiar complexities of the
bonus aJtuntien have given te Senater Heed.
His maiden speech may even go se far as
te spell the fate of the bill. It was a quiet,
well-considered and unimpasslened utter
ance, seeming te voice the deep convictions
of the major the veteran of the war and
one of these immediately concerned rather
than the Senater, taking into consideration
the possible political consequences of his
stand.
Heed believes that the majority of the
World War veterans are convinced that jus
tice entitles them te a bemiN. He also be
lieves that the overwhelming sentiment
among that majority is that, in spite of the
justice of the cause, such a bill would im
pose a disastrous burden upon an already
overburdened country.
His view Is the view of the practical busi
ness man who was once himself a soldier,
but who has returned te Lis pnetieal busi
ness life and sees him.-elf beet en all sides
By the usual obstacles, te success, multiplied
by the after-war struggle te get buck te
ter in al conditions. And he knows that all
f his fellow soldiers are new also business
men engaged in the tame struggle te repair
the losses of war and return te normal lite.
They have debts enough. The bonus would
be te them only another burden disguised
temporarily as a measure of relief.
DOWN TO EARTH
TIIER remains enl another week of
what we have come te regard as "the
Tociaden period,'' The city man's gorgeous
fling is almost ever. Heme he must come
new te empty coal bins, bills and the ac
cumulating worries of a period of stress
and dark realism. The farmers will have
the sunsets and the open reads and the free
dom from time clocks of which the returned
vacatienist will dream often as he leeks up
from his desk or his whirring machines te
gaze out t a smoky sky and thundering
treets.
Ceuntrj people who looked with nwe at
his store clothes and hurried te de his bid
ding and envied him his transient nflluenre
will still play tennis and bathe in lakes and
oceans and stretch themsehe.s easily in the
sun. Such is life. The farmers in a final
analysis and the people who live outside the
cities seem te haw the best of it Thej have
the best of the things that really matter.
Jazz bandb may be relatively unknown te
them and their flivvers may net have the
high polish necessary in the social com
plexes that nuln t the cities, but the fact
remains that they live all the year round in
the regions where nerve. wearing multitudes
go te store up in two weeks enough ner
vous energy te keep them going for a year.
THE POLLING-PLACE PROBLEM
rpjIE Initiative and energy of the women's
- mpvement en behalf of neater and better-appointed
polling and registration places
ere distinctly commendable.
The problem which hur-h representatives
yt the distaff side of politics as Mrs. Chris Chris
tepber O'Connell, Mrs. Geerge A. Dun
ning, Mrs. Premley Watt, Mr. Geerge II.
Lerimcr, Mrs. Frank Miles Day mid Miss
Clare Mlddleten have attacked Is one of
long standing. Until the tex line was
effaced from the franchise, ejectors as a
whole accepted the situation without pro pre
test. Mere than a quarter of a century age an
experiment with portable but uncomfort uncemfort uncomfert
nble and unsightly etlng structures wa
made with questionable results. The old
practice of utilizing parlors, living rooms
or offices of division residents was restored.
The i-ystem has worked only indifferently
well nnti there Is no question that in many
Instances the registration and balloting
places have been Inconveniently located.
The rentnl paid for the use of rooms
ta decidedly modest. The repugnance of
7;. Nfeareful housekeepers or proprietors te u
rawer wneietaie invasion or their jiaultn-
r, tlens several times yearly Is natural.
in
consequence the quartern furnished for exer-
jiff cislng the lights of citizenship hare by no
,fi mruns been ideal.
ftt , , TUft present Registration Commissioners
(S V 'kAt firmnlhpil tlm U'fimnn'a ilnlnrrfif Inti tr.
i.t$A ''-ln t,e)r Pwr te brlghten-jthe corner
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intent appears en the whole te be a trifle
unfair.
In most cases the choice of available
quarters in the various divisions is 'net ex
tensive. Insistence en cleanliness and a
general tidying up Is another matter. Port
able, "fnbrlcnted" polling places may be
deemed Impractical, It seems also te be
Impossible te take ever portions of the
best residences for voting,
Put there is unquestionable room for Im
provement In such quarters as nrc new In
use. The women are quite rlsbt te Insist
that clean politics is a matter of physical
surroundings ns well as of intelligent sin
cerity of Ideals.
THE SENATE GETS ACQUAINTED
WITH THE REALITIES OF LIFE
Washington Is Discovering an America
That Is Seldom Mentioned In the
Political Speeches
GOVLKNMKNT control of railways and
mini's, which the President 1 nld te
cetilemp'ale ns a means of ending the coal
nml transportation deadlock, would net
bring nnj sudden upheaval of fuel fiein the
earth It could net guainntce continuing
justice and peace en the railroads. Fer the
Government is net the custodian of a magic
wand.
It is a group of men elected temporarily
te direct public affairs of the sort that
ordinarily are self-directing. Very few of
the members of the Government at "Wash
ington knew anything nbeut the processes
of railroad operation or coal mining. Sen Sen
aeor Wlsen, of Minnesota, talking n day
or se age about the coal tie-up, presented
what might be called a sensational example
of the prevailing 1ml, of detnlled economic
knewjedge in Congress. Fuel would be
plentiful. Mr. Nelsen declared, when the
operators and the Government had the
courage te open nil the mines with non
union men. Here Is n Senater of long
expet ience who doesn't knew that large
scale mining cannot be carried en without
skilled labor and that virtually all the
skilled miners are stand-pat members of
the striking unions.
If the Government decides te "seize"
mine and rail llnca it will really de nothing
mere than adept emergency legislation
through which It will have temporary power
te dictate terms of wages and operating
policies te owners and empleyes In the two
industries. And the Government's policy
would almost Inevitably be one of further
concessions te organized labor, for cor
porations may always be coerced by threats
of a seizure of property. The unions, having
no sizable prepert , cannot be se easily
reached.
Competent rnilreaders and miners who
will net work cannot be made te work under
any law that Congress can pass. And
if the Government were guided by prece
dents established when the raihvujs were
"taken ever" by the Government during the
war the Federal directing beard would de
little but take mere money out of the pockets
of the public and the treasuries of the own
ing corporations te get the strikers back te
their jobs and keep them in a peaceful state
of mind.
This Is the most superficial and inexpert
sort of economic, practice. Hut it is about
the only method that the Government can
fellow because, ns we observed before, there
are few men in the Government service
who knew anything about the technique of
industrial organization, the laws of eco
nomic conflict or the new issues created
between large gieups of employers and em em
plews by the wide fluctuations of wages
and living costs that followed after the
war.
The Senate itself, if one may presume
te base judgments upon the recent speeches
of its members, knows far tee little about
the basic realities of contemporary life in
the L'nlted States. It lives, as most poli
ticians live, In the past. It permits Itself
te be guided by ei hoes out of earlier gener
ation rather than by the harsh, explicitly
spoken challenge of the present and the
future.
Naturally the Senate was shocked te the
heart te perceive that at the present moment
the coal operateis and the rail executives
en tlie one band and the unions en the
ether have vastly mere power directly te
nlfei t tiie lemtnun life of the country for
geed or ill than the Senate and the Heuse
of Representatives, icspectlvely.
'J he two groups new at war ute organ
ized te deal with the facts of community
life and te control the matcriul resources
of the lend. Unlike Congress, they nre net
content te play ureuud with shadows or
te be consoled and diverted by loud and
automatic repetition of the political beati
tudes. The unions and the lcndirs of the
big employers' groups are realists. The
uverage Senater la net a realist.
Uiie must mix a great deal of genuine
sympathy with the tencern which naturally
utteuds it lev of men like Mr. Nelsen, of
Minnesota. The Senate is going te the
primary toheul of American life at lust.
It is learning much that it should have
learned long age. It is finding out thut
the two term-, "capital and "labor, ' stand
for active and tremendously potent and
lively things.
It will knew at lust that It is sweat and
iron and money and human egoism rellected
in workers' and emplejers' groups and the
stirrings of spiritual ambition in unsus
pected pluces and growing wealth created
out of the eartli that complicate our na
tional problems. And It will learn, tee,
that aphorisms made by the founders of the
Republic for the guidance of a purely agri
cultural and simple-hearted people will net
always be edequnte te the demands of a
country transformed by success, wealth,
machinery and enormous population.
There is only one sort of Government
control ever industry that ever would be
wholly satisfactory te the United States.
That is the indliect control eftccted through
a piegresstve economic philosophy sanc
tioned and encouraged In Washington te
preserve justice between muii iimii limn and
te make sure that no new shift of enmemle
viewpoint und no new devices of industrial
organization may ever rob any individual
of his right te life, liberty und the p.Vsult
of happiness, or deny him the equal oppor
tunity with his fellows, which Is the only
real test of social freedom.
Temporary dliect control of seme mine
and rnilwny organizations may prove nec
essary te relieve the present intolerable
deadlock. Rut when Congress is mere will
ing te fare the facts of a changing age,
when if knows mere about fU?Yeuntry nnd
.of the vaysjbxxjjvhlch 1U country actually
lives and thrives, such seizures wltl net be
necessary. Then It will find a way te in
sire economic ns well ns political justice
te nil men. And when that 'is done strikes
will be needless nnd unthinkable.
THE MONTICELLO SHRINE
NOW it Is the State of Virginia which
Is urged te purchnse Montlcclle, The
request, naturally enough, comes from the
Charlottesville American Legien Pest, nnd
It may be said with some truth that strong
local Interests are operative.
Rut the fact should net be permitted te
obscure the mil lire of it situation by no,
means creditable le American public spirit
aud American patriotism.
Motiticclle has the potentialities of n
nation. il shrine of the lirst order. Mera
splendid nnd picturesque than Mount Ver Ver
eon, there nre Inspirational values connected
with the home of Themas Jeffersen which
deserve the fullest recognition.
Nothing can match the reverence rightly
paid te the serene and authentic tncmerlnl
te AVnhingtnn en the banks of the
Potomac. Mount Vernen is In many ways
unique. Put se with quite contrasting nc
cents of history and personality is Monti Menti
cello. Jeffersen's almost princely cstnt( n
queer paradox for a Democrat Is intensely
intimate In its appeal. The Levy family,
members of which have long been its owners,
have nfTectlenntely preserved Its mnny
treasures. The buildings themselves dis dis dis
close the architectural gifts of the many
sided author of the Declaration of Inda
pendence. Fer ninny years the Federal Government
has been en the verge of buying the plnce:
but negotiations have invariably been halted
in bickering ever prlcps deemed excessive.
It Is of record that the Government lest
its opportunity te possess Mount Vernen In
the middle of the last century. The Wash
ington "plantation" Is maintained and
owned by a society of ladies.
The State of Virginia could afford te
acquire Montlrelle. Should It new mnke
the attempt. It is, moreover, conceivable
that the Federal Government might become
a somewhat interested bidder.
FAIRS AND A WARNING
ORSTACLPS in the way of scrupulously
observing nn exposition timctnble nre
plgnlficnntly suggested In the announcement
that the Industrial Exhibits Building of the
l'nlted States at the fair In Rie de Janeiro
will net be opened until December 7.
This Government, it must be conceded,
was wmmendably prompt In indorsing nnd
supporting the international undertaking In
Rie. Meney was generously appropriated
by Congress. American chambers of com
merce in llrazil displayed n marked capacity
for efficient organization.
Mr. Harding was prompt In appointing
a Federal commission, nnd yet t he we'.k
1ng. The fair, with all the Urnsllian build
ings completed, will be formally opened en
September 7.
The United States, however, is net the
sole delinquent. Several of the European
nntieus have been slew, and it is possible
that some of their exhibits will net be ready
until after the lirst of the year.
The tardiness of world fair enterprises
is proverbial. Even the Centennial of J7(1,
although it was inaugurated en time, pre
sented u scene of carpenters, builders nnd
ether workmen busily engaged In the effort
te make up for lest months.
Promoters of the Sesqul-Ccntennial nre
well supplied with warnings. With foresight
and organized energy tradition can, of
course, be broken. Months nre slipping by,
but thus far the opportunity te smash a dis
mal precedent lias net passed.
RECOMPENSE
GOOD does sometimes come out of evil.
In perhaps a thousand American labo
ratories scientific men are working mere
than eight hours a daj te locate new
sources nnd methods of industrial power.
Their labors and energies will certainly be
quickened by the crisis In the fuel markets
of the country and the troubles of a nation
whose industries are threatened again with
partial paralysis through a lack of coal.
The atomic engine is the dream of most
of the searchers who aie trjlng te bring te
humanity the benefits of nnturnl energies
net new utilized that Is, a device through
which the stupendous forces new rellected
only In the inertness of matter may be
liberated and applied for the needs of civil!
zllntinn. In New Yerk an Inventor less ambitious
thun the students of abstract science Is said
te have actually perfected a new fuel by
disintegrating water and crude oil at high
temperature and se creating a highly vola
tile gas of a sort that may be applied te
the uses new served by gasoline and even
coal. In ether quarters efforts nre being
pushed te perfect further the appliances by
which crude oil is censmntd in ships' fur
naces in order that oil may be made te sup
plant coal in places where anthracite is r. ivv
considered a necessity, and it is probable
that the new domestic trend toward bitu
minous will go en, even nftcr the strike in
the anthracite fields is adjusted.
Talk of atomic engines and water-gas
meters may 6rem strange even te modern
ears. Rut It is net se btrange as the first
news of the steamboat nnd the telephone
nnil wireless wj-re te the people who first
heard ft. Humanity is never really at a
less. U hai u habit of rising te every
emergency.
The people of the United States nre clearly
disgusted with the manner In which the
basic industry of (enl mining lias been ad
ministered and substitutes for anthracite
nnd bituminous ure regarded as the great
needs of the hour. The substitutes may be
electric energy generated from natural
water power or oil or some new sort of gas,
nut they will come the mere quickly because
of the strike new in pregiess. It may be
that the coal industry will never wholly re
cover from the effects of the present disor
derly internal war carried en, ns It has
been, without u moment's regard for the
rights of nou-cembutnntH.
The high cost of coal and labor led te the
intredui tien of fuel oil in ships. The high
cost of gasoline hns stimulated a restless
search for n substitute. If u gasoline sub
stitute has been found by the inventor who
reports such a discovery in New Yerk, the
oil operator may vvisit that they line been
content with smaller profits.
People will laugh nt the suggestion of
motorcars propelled by gases created by the
disintegration of water and oil. Tlivy will
net step te remember that railway trains
and the biggest engines in the world are
operated new by the force of e.panded water
alone.
While discussing lunch
And There eon and German rep-
Yeu Are! nratiens the ether day.
Premier Peincare nnd
Cabinet took a certain important step
which may have a bearing en the next
pieMilentin! election in the United States,
though the fact was net mentioned. What
they did wes te sample the new bread, made
of n combination lleur, which is te sup
plant the white piire-whent leaf en Sep.
temper 1. France aims te reduce wheat
Imports American farms have crops of
iinprci edenlcd size Perhaps they will be
consumed largely by our own people. Per
haps net. If net, and foreign markets, for
one reason and another, nre closed, it U
conceivable that the fanner will blame the
tfirlrf and .
AS ONE WOMAN SEES IT
Have Yeu, a Little Garden at
Your
Heme? 'Take Its Picture and
Enter' It In the Beauty Contest
Py SARAH D. LOWRIB
I RECEIVED In today's mill J the notice
of another contest Inaugurated by the
Society of Little Gardens j this time It is
te be n photographic contest, with a chance
te exhibit plans of gardens In connection
with houses te a modified degree.
Particulars mny be hud from the presi
dent of the society Mrs. Charles Davis
Clark, Hinti Spruce street, Philadelphia.
LAST year's competition was for plans for
n city back ynnl, Including everything'
irein a garage te n garbage pall with a
garden embowered iu the midst. The ex
hibition after drawing n very Interested pub
He te the galleries of the Emergency Aid
Heuse went the rounds of the country,
apparently proving n very notable success
everywhere.
I' or In this country, wherever there nre
English or German or Dutch or Itnllnn
citizens, with space enough te mnke n deer
yard or window ledge or bnckvard garden,
there flowers nnd fri.it1- am' vegetables
abound. The Scotch nrc less sure te make
gardens, nnd the Irish, that Is from the
Seuth, nre almost sure net te: the Scandi
navians have a nent touch with their yards,
and the Slavs nnd Russians n blighting
touch, If nnythlng.
It depends upon what part of the Sonth
the colored family comes from whether lt
vnrd Is a mennce or an addition te the
Inndsenpe, but If a Negro gives extra at
tention te nnythlng nbeut bis house, It Is
npt te be chickens, v jlch nre, In themselves,
rather demolishing. These of us about
Philadelphia nnd Chester nnd Lancaster
Counties net le speak of Pucks nnd Mont
gomery have enough English nnd Penn
sylvania Dutch In our make-up te take le
gardens naturally. The neatness flint has
fled from eiu- city deer steps nnd back
buildings, In the impossible fight with the
dirt thnt descends dnilv upon us, Is net a
lest nrt with us. rather have we trans
ferred It tr our suburbs nnd country place".
Even new, when the grass Is beginning
te turn brown and seedy nnd the garden Is
growing beyond our careful pruning, nnd
the trees hnve lest their perfection. n"d
plants .straggle rather than grew in the
flower beds nnd borders even new, we keep
things "picked up" nbeut our little or big
places in the suburbs with greater zeal than
in nny ether reskn of tlm ce'Mitrv Se
even If the phntegrnphs for the Little
Gardens' competition nre taken new, rather
than earlier when filings were In their prime,
we ought te tuake n geed showing ns n
community.
I HAVE found that pictures et gardens
taken ncnlii"t the sun with the enmern
lens shaded se lis net te make n white spot
en tiie film de mere just'ee te flowers and
plants nod groupings than when the tin
tine s innde in the usual vvnv with one
back te the sun.
My garden faces east and wet. In the
morning I leek at it against the sun from
my summer house, nnd In the late nftcrnoen
from the window in the gnrden house, where
I typewrite. At mid-day I excuse it te
nil visitors nnd sny that it Is taking n nnp.
Because when the sun Is directly overhead
nil shadows are wiped out, end when there
nre no shadows, a nrden hns lest half its
charm.
I think shall exhibit in that competition
the plnn of my garden thnt was made for
me some jeara age In cardboard, v.ith col
ored detachable sections, by a clever artist,
Dorethy 'Stewart. It fits en n kitchen table
nnd has the houses, rocks, terraces, trees,
walls nnd flower borders, each separately
censtiucteii. ""hey might be arranged In
quite n different grouping from the wny they
nre in my gnrden but I doubt if nny one
could easily convince me thnt their present
position could be Improved upon.
Heenue my gnrden, like Topsy, "Just
grewed '."
I realize that I cannot enter the photo
graphic competition with this little ground
plnn. but with the committee's permission.
I will take it out of its box and set It up.
It will be a solace for me te go round and
see It late next nutumn when tills real enreep
thnt I am looking nt as I write la tucked
nvvay under the first snow if the coming
winter. And. perhaps, te ethers It will be
nn amusement te discuss ' w given the
site and the chance ill d the materials It
could be arranged Inte a different compo
sition. SHORT CUTS
The Ferester is again swinging his a.x.
It is apparently Mella's aim
counter te what Helen Wills.
te run
Stage melodrama pnbs ttH ineffectual
fires before the dope-ring revelations.
One has te go te the hack lets te break
the run record of the Cubs and Phils for
one game.
As the Department of Justice sees it,
the Reds nre trying te coal-scuttle the Ship
of State.
Jehn A. Stewart, 100-year-old finan
cier, remembers Ureadway as u dirt read.
Pa dirt.
Ex-Knlser Wilhelm Is te marry n
widow. The elder Wcllcr must have been
devising punishments for him.
De Vnlera is snid te lie ready te make
another big drive. He 1h going te' overwork
that mule team if lie isn't cnieful.
Democratic booths in count; fairs are
te be placed In charge of prettj girls. We
can feiesce delightful possibilities in future
political campaigns.
Stockton, Calif., man has found $1!)
worth of small geld nuggets in the crop of
a ben killed for dlnntr, according te a dis
pute h. It must be the climate.
When Llejil Geerge gets his little
Ml II UIIHI for his book he will hnve te hand
half of it te Jehn Hull ns income (ax. And
he i ant complain. He did it with his
little hatchet.
New Yerk designer returning from
Driuiville, France, says of the bathing Mlit
there, that there Is net enough of It te
justify n design. The lady should study
the wing of a butterfly.
When prohibition enforcement officers
insinuate thnt Philadelphia is steeped in
liquor, can It be that they refer te the
steamship of thnt nume which is said te
be sinking in the pert of Nnples?
Tnn PRINTER'S OARDE.V
In mu garden roses bloom
Just a hush thnt blossoms eayly;
Likf our own composing room.
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NOW MY IDEA IS THIS!
Daily Tallts With Thinking Philadelphians en Subjects They
Knew Best
CHIEF J. H. NEESON
On the People's Part In Keeping the
City Clean
THE peeple of the city can piny nn im im
pertnnt part In helping the nutherif
keep the city clean, fays J. II. Ncesen,
Deputy Chief of the Pureau of Highways,
who has charge of the street cleaning nnd
the collection of rubbish, ashes and garbnge.
"Keeping the city clean and the collection
of waste of nil kit ," said Chief Nvesen,
"is really an engineering problem, nnd the
modern development of It has come within
the lust ten or fifteen vears. Fer fifty jears
the cleaning had been done by contractors,
although theie wns one short period in that
lime during which the city essayed te de the
work as we nre new doing It. Put. for some
reason, after this period It reverted again te
the contractor system. Th". wns much used
as hn nrgument by the opponents of munic
ipal cleaning.
"The public can de n let In helping the
officials keep the city clean If it only will
de it. With the Intelligent co-operation f
the people we could hnve a city alnest 100
per cent clean: without thnt co-operation
the task becomes almost hopeless.
A Gigantic Taslt
"The business of keeping the streets clean,
collecting the ashes, waste and h rlmge costs
meie than JjIi.OOO.OOO a year. Cleaning nnd
collecting in the built-up areas alone means
keeping clenn about one hundred square
miles of territory. We collect ashes nnd
rubbish once i week and garbage four times
a week; but In certain of the mere densely
populated ectlens there Is n daily collection
of garbage.
"This Is mere than the average American
city gets, for outside of Philadelphia and
New Yerk there nre us-ally garbage collec
tions net mere than three times a week.
Tills would also be sufficient In Philadelphia
If people would take mere rare In the man
ner In which the garbage Is made ready for
the collectors.
"First of nil, we need mere and better
co-operation between the public nnd the
officials. We realize fully that a icrtnin
amount of dirt and litter Is unavoidable,
but what we nre striving te de Is te reduce
tliis amount te a minimum, but we cannot
make much progress with this unless the
public helps.
Hew te Handle Ashes
"The manner in which the public can
de the most Is te be mere careful of the
way in which the nehes and waste ere put
out". There is only one way te handle
ashes, and thnt Is te use a metal container;
and this should net be filled nil the way
te the top. A lerge number of persons put
out their aslics lu any manner, some net
even using a container of any sort, but
wrapping them in papers or nutting them
In wooden boxes, cardboard boxes, peach
baskets and similar receptacles, none of
which is suitable. Occasionally we will
find the ashes simply dumped en the pave
ment, from which they have te be shoveled
up.
"The men hnve net tlss time te de this
work nnd then clean up after they have
done it. Weeden boxes nre especially bad,
ns they often break nnd are usually filled
as full ns they will go. At least three
Inches should be left nt the top, in order
that the nuisance from dust be minimized.
"We nlse Insist thnt nshes nnd rubbish
be kept separate, because they nre disposed
of In different manners. Up te the present
time we have been putting the waste matc
riul, that Is rubbish, en the open city
dumps, but the time has come when we are
going te Incinerate this rubbish. We arc
beginning in the northeast section of the
city nnd the bids for the incinerating plant
Vlil be opened next month.
Rubbish nnd Waste Paper
"Put we have much mere trouble with
the tnnnner in which rubbish und waste
paper uie put out than with anything else.
It Is n simpler matter for uh te hnndle nshes
thun te hnndle waste. The proper wny te
handle rubblBh.er waste paper Is te bundle
It nnd tin the bundles,
"We have had n let of trouble with the
scavengers, or the persons who go around
before the rubbish collectors get te the
beuses and open the bundles or go through
everything te see what they can find. Wc
linve been nftcr these people hard and have
succeeded In .reducing their activities by
almost 100 per cent. During the war tbey
were especially rampant and there -were
literally hundreds of them' at work lride-
A REAL JOfc A
WUUiXU I
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pendently. brought out lnrgely by the high
price which waste paper commanded.
"In 1021, during the period of depres
sion, wU.en the price of waste pnper went
clown, we had comparatively little trouble,
nut its rise In the last eight months hns
brought them out ngnin. bin this time thev
'are operating ns organizations, and it is n4
uncommon tiling for one man te hnve fif
teen or twenty wngens. Of course they
never undo the disorder they create.
"Put the trouble Is principally with the
people themselves. It Is net because the
mere Intelligent of them de net knew, but
because they will net take the trouble le
put the waste in the best condition for col
lection. Of course. In n large city there
nre many persons, especially in the for
eign section, who de net knew nnd will et
earn unless we threaten them with the
law, which we are reluctant te de.
Trying Out nn Area
"We decided te try out nn Isolated nren
of the city which Is surrounded with neigh
borhoods which observe the law regnrdln
waste paper reasonably well. We sent
placards in English. Hebrew, Italian and
Polish te every house In this section, having
our Inspectors talk le the people in each
house se thnt they all knew what they were
expected te de. One week later we made
nn observation nnd feimd nn Improvement,
net very great, but noticeable.
"They were then given two weeks te
clean up and the third week we had nrrests
made of these people who were the worst
violators and who had been warned twice
e found paper plied lu the street, store
sweepings swept Inte the gutters and the
refuse of several small sluughtcr houses also
placed in the gutters We did net want
te make wholesale arrests, but we did nr
rest the most flagrant violator in each block
nnd hurt them fined 10 and cost,s, making
"The activity of the Inspectors nnd the
resu nut penalties have effected n clean -up
In this particular neighborhood that Is
startling. Before the campaign the cleaning
wagons, which followed the collectors, uni
formly picked up six leads of rubbish and
street dirt a day. After the nrtests had
been made there was difficulty in gett i"
three leads. """B
The Meaning in Meney
"If any one thinks this does net mean
anything in money he Is mistaken. no
team can mnU' two trips a dnv le the
dumps, nnd estimating n team nt $0 n der
te if J. This section, cleaned ns ft was
released three teams for work elsewhere a
saving of $27 n week for each of fif v-t'wS
weeks of the year. Thus he clean ng p
of this one small section Tnenns u saving
te the city of about 5 MOO a year.
"The garbage situation Is troublesome
from the mlddre of June te October Lad
Is auieularly heavy from the mid 1 e of
wf.' W''fn V10 ?ern n,,d '" seasons
begin, until the close of the canning sen.
son a the end of September. Last mm
and this, we had a let of trouble with te"
mutees, whirl, were n glut en the market
The garbnge is nil reduced te grease nn,
tankage (the base for fertilizer) La"
month each Individual In this city prod iced
nearly a pound of garbage per day. We
collected (Hiring July 2-1,1)88 tens of Kat.
bage, using L'Oe wagons nnd 400 men.
Guarding Against Epldemie
''This is the one factor of the work nbeut
which wc are the most careful, as it might
cause an epidemic in the city unless nren.
erlv taken Vare of. It Ib liable te VmiKe
a health menace In many ways and Is e
real fly -breed Ing waste. Fer these ren?
sons we are always careful te keep the
gnrbage collectlenu strictly en schedule
"Nothing hut metal receptacles should be
used for garbage and they should be covered
tightly. Every garbage pall should also ii"
washed lifter it has been emptied an.! if
possible disinfected wit), rbler de" e" mef
The public can also help by nutttiiir eiTr
the garbage regularly and iu the same p r
every time. 1 hone for the day when hese
precautions will be taught In the sehe I
This will be the real solution. b,-"oel',
"Fifty per cent of street cleaning ns dem,
today U preventive; that In, if prep"" 'Z,
were taken by the public, 'mere .tlentin
paid te the laws of order and clew &"
the problem would be that much easier
Proper hnbltH. however, can only ,,. j.
culcated In the jeung Unfortunately,
where no regard for habit exists, and there
is no desire te lenrn, we must use mero
drastic measuree arrest anil imposition of
penalties The campaign as started, will
U Vresecuted vigorously," ' '
What De Yeu Knew?
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QUIZ
t, Wlie was Levi P. Morten?
2. Where wan the first llgHtheuse In th
world erected end what was its name!
5. What Is nntimeny?
4, Who wrote the humoreui poem, "Darius
Qreen and His Flying Machine"?
6. What were the names of the thrw
daughters of Klnst Lelir?
(?. Why Is a cat's cradle se called?
7. What Is brummagem?
8. Whnt Is meant by a cousin german?
9. What Is the chief country In which te
Portuguese language Is spoken?
10, What Is the game et knucklebones? '
Answers te Saturday's Quiz ,,
1. General Mulcnhy has succeeded Michael
Cellins an head et the army of th
Irish Free State.
2. The Alame was originally a mission
building rounded in 1744 at San An An An
toneo. Tex. In February. 1836, it was
occupied by Colonel W. It. Travis and,
about IfiO men In revolt against th
Government 'of Mexico. After with- ;
standing h terrible siege It wns takea
by assnult en March 6, nnd the garri
son. Including, D.vy Crockett and ,
Colonel JJirwIe. Killed. One man had
previously mnde hla escape.
3. A trapezium Is a four-sided plane ftgur
of which no two sides (or only two
sides) nre pnrnllel.
4. A protean actor Ir cub who plays a great
variety of markedly differentiate!
parts. Protean Is nn allusion te Tre-
teus, the ren of Neptune, who could
change ills shape at will,
ti. Snakespcnre'a Ironical comedy, "TrellUl
nnd Crcssldn," hns ancient Trey for
Its scene,
fi. The chnrscter of Mrs. Grundy, who ha
since beeome symbolic rf propriety,
wen created by Tem Morten, the Kng-
llsh dramatlM, In his comedy, "Spetd
the Plough."
7. Ilaussmannlzntlen is a term for the Im
prevement of cities bv pulling down
old buildings, erecting new ones snd
widening and stralKhtenlng streets
nnd laying out new avenues and boule
vards. The term mfer.i le Baren
Uaussmann, en wncse plans Paris wat
remodeled nnd adorned In the reign '"
of Napeleon lit. '
8. The Mldns touch used te describe the
faculty of niaklnc menev. Is In alluilaa
te King Mld.ie. ut Uries. mythology. k . 1
who turned te geld everything he I
iuucecu.
9. A Jarvey1 In n cab driver.
10. Nemesis was the ancient goddess of '
chastisement and yengennce.
Today's Anniversaries
178-1 Father Junlpere, the missionary
founder of Snn Finnelsce, died nt Mente-
rey, Hern lu the Island of Minorca Ne-
vember 24, 1713.
181(1 Treaty signed between England
nnd Algiers, by which Christian slavery
wns te he abolished and nil slaves, of what
ever nation, te be delivered up.
18-3 Jnmcs II. Oliver, famous as an in
ventor nnd mqnufnc urer of ngrlrultuiil
Implements, born in Scotland. Died at
Seuth Pend, Ind., March fl. 1008.
1828 Count Lee Tolstoy, the greatest of
Pumle's philosophers, horn in Pellnn. ,
Died November 120, 1010.
1811(5 President Jehnsen, accompanied by
Genernl Grnnt nnd Admiral Fnringut, left
Washington for Chicago te attend the un
veiling of the Douglas monument.
1010 Director General Hlnes ordered
railroad btrlkers in California, Arizona an!
Nevada te resume work under penalty or ,
dismissal nnd prosecution.
Today's Birthdays
Dr. Elmer K. lirewn. chancellor of N
Yerk University, bem In Chautauqui
County, New Yerk, sixtyone years age.
Jnmcs T. Lloyd, former Missouri Cen-;
gressman, new a member of the Suprenw ,
Court of the District of Columbia, born at , ,
Canten, Me., Mxty-five years ege. ,
The IU. Rev. Henrv Althoff, Catholic,
Rishep of Pcllcvllle, III., born nt Aviston, .
III., ferty-nine years age. ..
James W. Overstreet, Representative ,
Congress of the First Georgia-District, berna
In Sereven County, Geerglu, fifty-six ye ,
age.
"You're net bad P
Kindness only think you ",
May Win said Judge Wnlsh, e M
put n "boy burglar e
probation. All the chances are in favor ej
this being a geed guess, end It may veil
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when there wes danger of n bad one dcid
foisted upon It.
Senater Reed, In hj
Reed Runs 'Em maiden speech, In jviuea
he assailed the benui
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nnu rciiiseu ie ihi mc uut ; " ",n.v
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tlclnns, jarred the bonus-Beckers, broke tw,
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