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Alt rtahts of republication of special dispatches Herein are also reserved. rbUadtlphli, SitimUy, Spttmltr 9. 1922 UNRAVELING A MYSTERY THE adjournment of the temporary Finance Committee of tin- Sesqut-Ccn-termini Association until next week was taken In order te allow its member time te discover just what sort of a f.iir K contem plated. This Is net yet known. Ner i It known exactly where it is te lie held. Colonel D'OHer hn admitted that lie doe net knew hew much land will be needed nor exactly ivhere the site is te be. It is te be some , where in or about Fairmount Park. Betend that all is m.t story. He does- net knew whether there is te be a big fair or u little one. Ne official body bus reached unj deci sion en this point. Consequently it would be a waste of time te make financial plan for an enterprise until it is known for jut what sort of an enterprise the plnng arc te be ninde. This mystery will have te be unraveled pretty seen if the fair N te be held in 102. It Is expected that the director of the fair association will be in town net week and that they will hnve eme definite proposi preposi tions te make when they meet en Friday. Until these prepositions are made and adopted Colonel D'OHer will find it impos sible te de tnuch mere than talk about the project. MORE COAL COMPLICATIONS I X THE news from Washington which tells today of an amendment In the Senate te the Fact-Flnding Ceal Commission Kill in tended te nuthorize the Government te leek for "systems of deliberate collusion between jniners' organizations and mine owners." there is tugKested a side of the coal ques tion which may invite a great deal of sur prised nnd angry nttentien before long. , Here is Implied a sort of co-operation be tween thp two controlling groups in the coal '.fields which premiss nothing but continu ing hnrdshlp for the consumer and the un organized masses. Suppose it is demonstrated that strikes are settled nev.adays by secret agreements; thnt they are called by secret agreements; thnt labor leaders are sometimes in the habit of bctrajing net enlj their followers. but the general public, and that they are aided in this work by representnthes of the employing groups. What "ill the (iovern (ievern ment de? It will be between the devil of a powerfully entrenched coal monopoly and the deep sea of Federal e nershlp. The politician who could extricate the (Iovern (Ievern ment from that position and find a right nnd comfortable wnj of escape would be a genius indeed. THE BRIDGE IN CAMDEN J IT nt RISDU'TION" of the new Cit Flan- ilng Commission. wNeh established with the authority of the Camden City Council when work en the Delnw.irc I'ridge was ac tually begun, does net Extend beyond the city limits. Hut it is te be hoped that its moral influence nnd civic influent ' maj have wider scope than Its legal autherltj . Ter the scheme of trunk lines which It has pro posed, a scheme of great highwnjs running fanwise from the Camden end of the bridge toward nil points in the State must seem wholly admirable from the view point of any of the neighboring communities. Sonic such comprehensive plan for the ac commodation of a vastly increased flew of ever-river traffic is essential te the future orderly growth and the immediate con venience of all the suburban and fanning communities adjacent te Camden It is odd te hear that the merchants of lireadway are beginning te object because of the in tention of the commission te divert some of the bridge traffic from tlieir thoroughfare. De they want their street te be jammed and Impassable One thoroughfare through Camden ccld net accommodate .10 per tent of the meter traffic of 11)20 or 1027. A REST FOR DR. HARRISON THE resignation of Or Charles Cuitis Harrison from the chairmanship of the Beard of Trustees of the I'nherslty of Pennsylvania does net mean that lie is losing Interest In the Institution. He could net lese interest If he would. Ne man who bus sorted for forty-six ears en the Heard of Trustees of an Institution and been its. head for fifteen jeurs could lese Interest In it. Dr. Harrison Is net retiring from the beard. He Is merely giving up its chair manship because the duties of the office are tee pressing for him. He is no longer a 'young man nnd no one will be critical of 'lilm when he seeks te shift te ether shoulders the details of a responsible office. IUh name is inseparably connected with ,the University. He has been one of its generous benefactors, and se long as the University survives his influence imen it ".-will be reflected in the conduct of Its affairs. 'ff 'it In such levnlty as he has shown tlmt r,r,. . - .. - .... , , . - '' wrves the traditions net only of this unl- ' twlty, but of every ether great university I 'in the country. These institutions de net maintain themselves, but are maintained by (UCU wnu UL'iiuvi; in mem. tfrV' McAD0 WANTS IT ttfck.TEV YOltIC Democrat returning fr, i,S California report that William Olbbs ,';lcAdoe ha confessed te them that he is ftJ?l. the race for the Democratic presidential ?tV nomination in 1021. Pf f He was handicapped in lO-'O by the fact ? that he wuh the sen-ln-Iaw of the retiring Is1' President. There wn considerable nhlec. p tl6 te the setting up of what might be v.. railed a Wilsen dynasty. This' elilferinn PpMH bv.; little feres fn IflSl, I'W'il Sir. McAdoo can make political capital CXvt "of lils Hfe n three widely sepnruted 'if'V.pn ftf t,IQ country he ought te euter the "-.'WllVWIlimi Willi cuntiuirruuii; nueiijiu. Ills YMHummm eariy inanuoeu were spent in vz Tennessee. Then he moved te New Yerkt where he made n reputation for ability be cause he took n moribund enterprise, gal vanlited It Inte life nnd completed a. great seml-publlc work that cost millions of dol lar. While retaining his residence In New Yerk he served In the Cabinet of President Wilsen. Hnd after he retired from the Cabi net he took tip his residence In California. He has friendR in the East nnd the West and the Seuth. Hut he must count upon the opposition of the friends of ether candidates. There Is Senater Pemerenc, of Ohie, for example, who is a receptive candidate. And James M. Cox, who vVns defeated by Mr. Harding, is understood te be willing te make another attempt te win the presidency. If Mr. llryan should fall te put up his lightning red all precedents will be upset. And Senater Hitchcock, of Nebraskn, Is willing. This docs net exhaust the list. Hut enough nnmes have been mentioned te indicate thnt It will take mere than the willingness of Mr. Mc Mc Mc Adee te get the nomination for him. GREEK AGAINST TURK AND WHAT IT ALL MEANS The Whole Tangled and Formidable Near Eastern Problem Is Reopened by the Victorious Otteman March THE sudden and perhaps Irreparable Greek collapse In Asia Miner unmasks a situation in which posturing was car ried beyond the brink of disaster. It has been customary In some quarters te regard the war In the Near East as the residue 0f the universal conflict, as a struggle spiritlessly waged en both sides, securely localized nnd destined In the end te relieve some of the major European Powers of the embarrassment of complex problems in the Levant Hostilities were sanctioned by the se-called Allies whfn the dlflicultv of enforcing the Trentv of Sevres was realized in the continental chancelleries. Anether view has been that In which Hellenic ambitions beyond the Aegean were seen, In the light of historical compensation, as n modern revival of the epic contest be tween Occident nnd Orient, with roots In the old Persian -Creek wars, glorified by Salamis, Marathon and Plataea and, a mil lennium later, by the long death struggle of the Hyzantine Empire agnlnt the Inter loping Otteman Turks. It Is easy te be deluded by such ideologues, especially In thnt quarter of the glebe where racial nnd religious claims and the prec edents of ancient civilizations Inextricably overlap. Nothing Is mere deceptive In the Levant than philosophies of history rigidly fash ioned. Fer (entiirles every contestant here has been fortified with conceptions of mani fest destiny. The Turk has battled for what he deemed the hemelnnd. the Greek for the soil of his ancestors Western nations with a weather e,e en trade anil exp'oltatlen hne net hesi tared te speak of new crusades. These formulas may he temporarily con cen venlnt. but they nrt! beyond nil qutlen spurious. In the Near East It Is the covert motives, the policies most carefully hidden from public gaze which are dominating. Occasionally the drumming guns which have no doubts bring down the whole flimsy struc ture of fictions. At the present moment the demolition program 1 In the hands of the Kemallst Turks. Their injection of realism into the situation was probably net virtuously in tended, hut its effect could net have been mere striking if deliberately and morally planned. Four nations, two of the first rank and two submdiiiate. have been staging a tre mendous drama In the Near East and deco rating It with attitudes which In them selves bear the faintest resemblance te actual facts. Constantine, whose throne Is the most ricketj in Europe, has sought te wive his dynasty hj the perilous expedient of con quest. Urltain nnd France are competing for domination In the Near East. Ne con ference, however pretentious, has sufficed te allay this Intense rivalry. Hew bitter it is was revealed some month age when Earl Curzon thundered against tl.e negotiation bj France of a separate treaty with the Turkish Anatolian Govern Gevern ui'Mit at Angera. It is quite conceivable that the fruits of that pact are new being garnered. Cen- scieu-ly and with mnteilallst foresight, the French republn has for a number of years been cultivating a spirit of accommodation with Islam. With n stake In Moham medan Africa, with Its vast possibilities for armt supply, the French are definitely aligned in a policy of concession toward the Crescent, reading a warning In the dlffi fultles that have beset England in Eg.tpt nnd India. The situation is a curious reversal of the Disraeli siiategy, whereby Hritain for mere than a halt eeutur.t became the guardian of the Turk in Europe and Western Asm. Repudiation of this protective system Is. nnturallv. nor forgotten" by the Kemalists t ngaged m pii King up the pieces of the mr mr reded Otteman Empire. English prestige in former portions of this realm Is unques tionably at low ebb. Fer the present 1 rcneh nffillatinns and antagonisms there is another caue grounded in palepate nationalist sentiment. Con Cen stantlne has never been fergiten bj Frame f'ir Ills pronounced pre-Germanism (hiring the World War, and no step tthbh might contribute te his overthrew has been over looked In Paris. Turkish motives In this amazing Inhninth of cress purposes are as simple ns thew of their opponent en the field nf battle are tieubled and confused. The Kemallsts leek te France for fiu.iiiiiiil rehabilitation and national retlval. Political dissensions njid Irreconcilable conceptions of geternmejt have, ii the ether hand, virtually destroyed all harmony of purpose In Greece. The c.uib.il nnd pure'y selfish ambitions of Constantine aie angrily recognized by liberals, who have been growing In numbers and power since that perverse reaction which resulted in the overthrew of thnt superb statesman and pa triot te whom modern Greece Is se deeply Indebted, Eleuthories Venl.eles. It Is said that resentment against the virtual control of Greece bv the Allies during the latter .tears of the World War was responsible for the recall of Constan Constan tieo. However that may be. It Is fast being comprehended In Greece that Censtantlne'H rule Is wrecking the nation which rose te such distinction In lDl.'lj that the Venlzellst conception of a greater Greece In the van guard of intelligent piegresslve civilization hn been dragged In the dust ; that the threatened advance against Constantinople wiiK the infatuation of felly, and that the campaign In the hinterland of Asia Miner was u hideous and tragically costly blunder. The prospect of n dynastic overthrew and n return te political sanity In Greece grows hourly brighter. This, Indeed, Is seme compensation for the military debacle. The darkest side of the whole crisis Is the possibility of a revived ascendancy In the East of the Turk, whose destructive tend encles are thoroughly proved and whose rapacity for erganised savagery Is quite us Incontestable ns are the charn of his man ner iu.d the solid viitue of his strangely contradictory character. Even though Kmyrnu be test, Greece may be In n sense redeeme1 by the swift march of events In Aela Miner. i T -'laTF r EVENING' PUBLIC What France nnd Britain will mnke of the tnngle In which they are enmeshed ennncit be se hopefully conjectured, although It is possible thnt sardonic smiles are already wreathing several faces at the Qual d'Orsay; . CONQUEST BY CENSORS? ' QUIETLY, slowly and steadily docs the faith in censers nnd a belief in their usefulness spread through all the English speaking world. Even many of the people who try te keep nn Intelligent nnd Interpre tative eye en the drift of contemporary events have failed thus far te notice the con tinuing progress in victorious lands of n characteristic malady of the Germany of the Kaiser. Censers with official pewe- te establish standards of art nnd literature and te gov ern or restrict expression of individual feel ing mny be useful new nnd then. It is net of such censers as new exist that sensitive observers are moved te complain. It is rnthcr of the disposition of great and grow ing masses of people te defer te them and accept them nnd give their minds Inte their keeping thnt appears at times te Indicate rami' weakening of the spirit of self-reliance that used te be the dominant characteristic "f the Anglo-Saxen nnd his nsseclate pio neers of the New Civilization. , Sir Gilbert Parker, when he arrived in tnls country yesterday, was net off the ship before he seized an opportunity te deplore nil the philosophies created In recent years te sustain the bellcf in censers of one sort nnd another, especially the belief In theso thnt function ns watchmen and watchwemen ever the art of literature nnd the moving pictures. Sir Gilbert said it all when he observed thnt the only safe nnd tolerable and efficient censorship is the censorship of mass opinion. It mny be interesting in this connection te try for n moment te imagine what would hnve hnppened1 if administrative bureau cracies, established in nccerd with some ideas new fashionable, were functioning te Impose their stnndnrcls en writers of the past and te outlaw work which they re garded as "dangerous prepngnndn." Cer tainly the burenucrajts in Londen would have called out the guard . for Dickens. Dickens was, first of all, a propagandist ngniiist mnny Institutions of the sort which the typical bureaucrat regards as sacred. Zela In his greatest hours was a propa gandist. Harriet Hcecher Stewe wrote in "Uncle Tem's Cabin" a novel of propa ganda that would hnve been promptly sup pressed "in the interest of the public pence" if n let nf the smnll jobbers In the politics of the time hnd hnd the power te suppress it. Charles Rende was n propagandist. Se were Jehn Itunynn nnd Cervantes. They merely gave te criticism of hated or doubt ful institutions a new form. Indeed, every great writer is a prenehcr at heart, and some of the best and most obscure nnd most hated of them have been ministers of Ged laboring in alien vineyards. All great nrt Is prepaeandn of one sort or another. Te sny thnt a censorship of books nnd painted pictures Is needed or thnt n tightening censorship, even ever the movies. Is justified is te say that art at last has lest its freedom te grew and that it mny never again take forms tee noble te be understood by the sort of politician who gets the easiest job. The worst thing nbeut censorship of the movies is that it seems nt times like n preliminary te censorship of painted pictures and books nnd plays and even the Church. Religious censorship or attempts at it are visible even new in mere than one quarter. The right of ministers of the Gospel te sny what they feel te be right has been openly challenged. Whnt we are witnessing Is nn effort of theorists te bind the spirit of man and mnke It silent nnd reform It in the like ness of a bureaucrat. It is net enough te sny that mnny movies need censoring or te admit that producers grossly nbued the privileges of their free dom In the enrller days of the industry. The principle represented by the remedy of censorship Is mere te be feared than the bad pictures te which no one need go and worse than the offenses which it Is supposed te prevent. Fer our civilization is the prod uct of free opinion nnd unhindered inspira tion in the individual. It has grown strong bv criticism. Criticibin has kept It clean. The best way te be rid of feels who tnlk and write is te give them a hearing. They must have something better than what we have or they must get out of the way. Pro gressive human intelligence quietly over whelms them. It is net wickedness or disorder thnt the censer makers fear. It Is progress. And it is change. THEY LIKE TO GO TO SCHOOL SCHOOLS are net whnt they used te be when children reluctantly went te their lessens. The Interest nnd nnimatien nn the faces of the little boys nnd girls seen en the streets this week en their way te the school houses Indicated pleasure nt the reopening of the schools. The tenchers hnve learned new te mnke lenrnlng attractive. They cannot extract all the drudgery from the process, but they can and they de surround it with enticements which appeal irresistibly te the Imagination. It Is sometimes argued that the processes of education nre made tee ensy nnd thnt the mind loses somewhat in discipline as a re mit. Hut most of us will ngree that any thing which will get knowledge Inte the mind of a chlhl Is defensible. Whether etery one would go se for as some of the literature teachers in the Philadelphia schools Is open te doubt. Hut it must be ndmitted that the teacheni who suggest that the boys rend Brum Stoker's "Draeula" in order that they may discover for themselves thai a book can bp nbierbingly interesting report that the plan works. After rending 'Dniciiln" the beyn esk for something else, and in time they begin te find the best literature at tractive. Modern educational methods seem te be based en the theory that the first essential Is te arouse the interest of the pupil. Men at middle age whose Interest was net aroused In their youth nnd who were taught by main foree are glad that their children nnd grand children nre subjected te a mere Intelligent process of education. Where there's smoke (J, b. I). there must be fire. Where the press ngent vnuntcth there must he some foundation In fact. Where the newspaper photographer spot feminine pulchritude it assuredly exists. Se, judging from newspaper account's of the bentity pageant nt Atlantic City, we arrive nt the conclusion that the lteardwnlk is al most as attractive as Chestnut street nt the neon hour. Having hud a taste of whoel yesterday, just vneugh te whet their ap petites nnd mnkn -tliem Read Slowly and Earnestly long for mere, the 277,000 school children of Philadelphia nre eagerly looking forward te Monday, when they will meet their dear tenchers and can get down te work upon the studies they love. Geed business!" says Huge Stinnefl. nH he formulate plans te rebuild devastated France en n 0 per cent basis, nnd Implies that It i nlH" Bn'J Political economy and ceed policy. But a suspicions world will hesltnte just u little while before echoing, "Geed business!" As Smyrna residents sing it: "Kemai'a a-cemln'." . w IjEDGfiRT-PlARELPmA; SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER' PURITANICAL PLYMOUTH One Hat Only te Loek Around te Knew Why Pilgrim Fathers Left There Morning or After noon, One or the Other By GEORGE NOX McCAIN Torquay, Devenshire, England. I HAVE discovered the real reason why the Pilgrim fathers left Plymouth. They grew weary of its mock puritanical Sunday ways. As, for instance: The old town closes up tight as wax en Sunday f that is, te all appearances and for n part of the day. On nil the main streets net only are the stores closed, nnd (blinds drawn, but tar paulins nrc stretched around the outside of the show windows. (The tarpaulins have the concern's advertisements en them in large black letters.) M Net a t -riley car runs. They cnll them "Trams." ' The streets, principal ones, are dead and deserted. The slew, solemn tone of church bells fill the soft, salty nir during the morning. TF YOU long for a cigar or cigarette ; Or, If you nre shy of bread, or cucum bers, or postcards, or salt mackerel, or molasses ; Or you wnnt te buy a trinket or wme crochet yarn? Take n wnlk up a side street nnd the gcntlemnnly grocer, or the lisping lady in the candy nnd soft-drink emporium, or the cigar nnd postcard shop is ready te serve yeu: and "Thank you, kindly sir." Then nbeut 2 o'clock P. M. the grand transformation takes place. Plymouth becomes Caracas, or Seville, or any ether modern community of the ' Latins or Latin Americans. In Carncns and Seville you go te church enveloped in your special cloak of sanctity with somber eyes in the morning. In the nftcrnoen you go te the bullfight, nnd then you nttend the Opera nt night. It's somewhat that way in Plymouth. ALONG nbeut 2 o'clock the ancient town cornea te life. Church bells give way te tramcar gongs. Toward evening the saloons, or bnrs "pubs." ns they nre called In the vernacular start selling "mild and old," Cegnnc, "a few drops of Scotch," and any ether old thing you wnnt. Cigar stores take down their camouflage cenvnscs. Plymouth has been transformed. About 8 :80 P. M. the streets nre crowded. Pontile wnllc fntir nhrafet. Tliire'q n "great let of laughing and jellying. coming home from church Net a bit of it. Coming home from the free band concert en the Hee, ns the sen promenade is called. "XX7HY de you step all the trolleys for " half n dnv en Sundnv?" I asked a nntivc of the town. He cast a leek of Injured surprise en me ns he replied solemnly : "W'y, te permit the trelleymcn te go te church." As the city owns the trolleys, you hnve a transcendent example of corpernte godli ness by proxy. I wouldn't object te the scheme if they'd only step the motormen smoking pipes. The conductors smoke clgnrcttes. Where time does net permit him te finish it, he rubs the fire out and sticks the "fag," or butt, behind his ear till he can get nn opportunity te light it again. When the tram comes te the end of the line, does the conductor swing the trolley red en top of the car with a rope ns Mitten's men de? Well, rather net ! He grabs a twenty-feet bnmboe pole with n hook in the end and thus reverses the trolley red. Some wet, foggy, slippery day the steel hook en the end of that fishing pole Is going te slip. It will come in contact with the current. Then there'll be n new voice heard in the nngcllc chorus that evening. IT'S n pretty smnll world after all. Suggestions of home in faces or names constantly arise in the most unexpected manner. Down nt the MUbny Station of the South western Railroad, I came across the follow ing en n pester: Oirlnr; te interrupted communication in the Cerk, Ireland, service, heats will hereafter leave Cerk at 6:0 '. Jf. promptly, from the rnxnesE quay. I em net nt all familiar with the Penrose gencnlngy. Evidently tlicy came mere or less, in the remote pest, from the Seuth of England or mnvbe from Ireland. W. R. Penrose is the proprietor of n large and flourishing public-house en Union street, this city. .,..,. R. Penrose has the lnrgcst chcml6t shop (drug store) in the searfide resort of Loee. p USSYFOOT" JOHNSON, our Ameri- the English "wets" going for a certainty. The reference te Loee recalls the fact. In the Loee Hetel is a large plncnrd with the legend: WARNING! Indifference of the public resulted in AilERic.i nema dry. Use your vote and influence against Lecal Option. It is the thin end of the xctdge of Prohibition. THE American visitor who Innds nt Plym outh makes a mistake If he doesn't spend a few dnyh In the quaint city. There nre n dozen beautiful meter drives. Besides, Plymouth has the most nccom nccem nccom smedatlng nnd politest policemen In England. Its hotels are nothing te beast of. They arc te be reverenced rather for their age. There is a wealth of rum things te be Plymouth had war gardens, just us Phila delphia hnd. ii,.. They are fixtures new; and an admirable scheme they nre. Peer people nnd ethers net se peer rent plots litiecn by forty feet wherever nvnll U'ble. They pay from ten te twenty shillings a year for the ground. A !!x4 hut is built te held garden tools. Enough vegetables tire raised, with a little enre, te supply n futnlly. ONE of Bnptli the eldest If net the eldest 1st church in the world is hidden ntvny here nenimi ii uu min-i. St Geerge Street Baptist Church was organized in 10'-0. , it wns iii n building en its site (hat the Pilgrim Fathers were entertained the night before they sailed nwny in the Mayflower uml Speedwell. The church was organized thnt year. Plymouth's streets nre unsurpassed for their Miioethnes and durability. But the old town hns no ice wagons. Milk Is delivered by pony or handcart nnd It is slopped nil ever the enrt. If n contractor, curpenter, painter or tinner has n contract, his men have the material in hand or push carts te the place. Unless It is a lurge job. Every trolley Is n deuble-decker, nnd the trncks nre nbeut six inches nnrrewer thiiu theso nt home, PLYMOUTH tins us beaten n mile in some respects. Particularly in her streets nnd their con- ' In her pujille bathing fncllltlesj And her window decorntlens, en tjic busl busl ne' thoroughfares, leave nothing te be In some ether respects she is a hundred yeara behind the times. Te some Americans (his latter la her greatest attraction, , f m NOW MY IDEA IS THIS! Daily Talks With Thinking Philadelphia en Subjects They Knew Best JOHN K. SNYDER On Cultivation of Vacant Lets THE cultivation of vacant lets within the city limits ndds materially te the feed supply of Philadelphia, nceerding te Jehn K. Snvder, superintendent of the Philadel phia Vacnnt Let Cultivation Association. The work net only ndds te the nvallnble feed supply, but affords pleasant work nnd save considerable money te these who nre willing te work the gardens. "The Philadelphia Vacnnt Lets Cultiva tion Association." said Mr. Snyder, "is new 1- I... .,.. ...eItl, rem- Tile tdcil Orlgi- noted in Detroit during the administration ei 1 Mayer Filigree, who wns uuueeti nt uiui "" Petate' Pingree, because of his iden eE bringing the vacant lets under active cultiva tion. But It wns n geed idea nnd wes adopted by many ether cities. It wns in 1801 thnt the idea started In Detroit and two ycnis later it was begun here. Started te Meet Depression "Our organization wns permanently or- !. .i in 10.7 Ah wnn the ense in De treit, It wn begun te give relief from the severe business depression of the years inh te 1807. It lias increased here steadily from that time, reaching its climax, ns might be expected, during the war year. In 1SU7, the vear of our permanent organization, xve had "about 100 families who took gardens and this number grew until in 1018 we had 1100 families who were cultivating them. "Since the people hnve te work for what they get. the gardens are generally taken enlv by these who need the help which they will give. The primary iden is that they shall raise the vegetnbles for their own use : but if tltey have en ever-nbundnnce et ene thing or two, there is no objectieu te their selling this surplus nnd using the money te buy something which they need but hnyc net raised themselves. It Is Impossible te tell in advance hew the crops of n season will turn out ; sometimes one thing will grew well, nnd nnether, equnlly necessary, will net, and will have te be bought. "We have no trouble with the nspect of commercialism. Our garden nre only 50 bv 100 feet, nnd se the size of them will net nppeal te any ene from the commercial standpoint, for he will net be able te raise n great deal mere thnn hi own family will need en se smnll a plot of ground. "This season the crops hnve been unusu allv geed. We cannot tell definitely ns yet just hew they will turn out os compared with ether tears, because the returns nre net compiled' until ThnnksglviBg. The aver aver age money value of the crops ie about ?8e each sensen. Lust yeer they ran about $1(0, but then prices were unusunlly high, while new thev nre considerably lower. But the actual quantity of feed raised this season will be greater than any Benben during the last four venrs. "The ground te be cultivated is secured for the persons taking It by the associa tion, end we get it from owner free of chnrge. This is subject te a prevision that the owner mny secure the possession of the ground en ten days' notice. But there I little trouble en this score.. We hnve an understanding with the owner of each plot which we propose te put under cultivation ns te the likelihood of lit wanting the ground back before the close of the harvest, ,,,. ,i, i-!, nl.illtv nf his illsneslnz of It be fore that lime. If it beemH likely that he will want It, we de net put it under cultiva tion. "But, ns I Mild, there is little trouble with this feature. Practically none of the own ers ever wnnt the ground back before the close of the growing seumn. Ne rent 1b charged for the ground and the associa tion iinys for 'the preparation of the soil, (he seed and the fertilizer. This I supplied te the family taking it for cultivation at actual cost. ( Location of the Gardens "The greatest number of the garden are located In West Philadelphia and In Ger Ger inantetvn, although there nre also some In Frnnkferd nnd in Mount Airy. The same, person take about fid per cent of the gnrdens year after yenr and fully 10 per cent of the families hnvci taken gardens for mere thnn five yenr. The location is usually within a dlstiince of from six te eight blocks of the homes of the person working them, But there nre some exceptions le this, as we hare famllleB living In the center of Sits ciw i"u "J eixiy-nnu street and Uewoed arenue te cultivate their lets, and V iv iv. ,M" Jv'Vf 'tV 1922, 1 U- lV i SEPTEMBER GETTING UNDER ethers go from Celumbin nvcnue te Gcr Gcr mnntewn. "The nntiennlltie of the families working the gardens are interesting. In the early years of the movement, the Italians were probably in the lead se far as numbers were concerned, and this continued during the war years. But lately there has been n very large increase in the number of American fnmilies which hnve taken the gnrdens, nnd tedny they nre In the lend, there belus: nbeut70 per cent of the total number nntive . A ...An, An.. fnHilltni. !.... .l..u. ... t ! .tiiii-i 11.1111 iiiiiuuvn. Miivru inure huh ier- merly only nbeut fie per cent. The colored people hnve incrensed very largely also, and they nre excellent gardeners as n rule. "Each garden Is inspected regularly, end theso who de net take geed care of their plots hear from us about it. If the gardens are neglected tee much they nre cleclnred forfeited nnd the plot is given te some ether family if it be net tee Inte in the season te get n crop from It. "But the percentage of forfeitures Is very small and has net been mere than one for feiture te every 100 fnmilies since the move ment began. This year the percentage of theso losing tlieir gardens will be exceptionally htnall. There has been geed weather for raising vegetables nnd they hnve had very little te discournge them. Twe per cent wns the highest rate of forfeitures thnt we hnve ever had. "The families are assigned the gardens in the order in which their application are filed. The npplicntiens for gardens come in from about the first of October until the following June, but Mnrch nnd April nre the months when the greatest number is re ceived. "In case of n protracted drought, the workers of the plots take up the mntter of getting water lndlvidunlly with the Water nurenu nnd mnke application for a supplv from the fire plugs, nnd generally this can be arranged. "The garden tracts nre divided into from six te seventy-two lets, ench According te the size of ground at our disposal. The overage will contain about thirty-flve lets. There Is very llttle depredation or theft from the gnrdens. In the larger lets, where there are u goodly number of gardens, seme of the members of the various families work ing them nre generally around mere or less nil day, and their presence-pretect the gardens of nil of them from nnv ene who might be disposed te steal from them. Oc casionally there will be a complaint of theft from some of the lets en the outside edge of the lnrge lets, but even this is infre quent." What De Yeu Knew? Quiz 1. What was the period of the great Meham medan sweep etcr vast terrlterlei In Europe, Asia and Africa? 2. What Is nn Icen? 3' W1EtmndstenVmld'11 "am f Wllllnm i- wja'1 Ulni.1 of a'beat is a kayak? D. After tvhem are volts of electricity C. What great river flews through n defile known us the Iren Gates? 7. Where wiih Jehn Drewn executed' 8. low does a flying squirrel fly? 9. What Is nn acropolis? 10, ''iieniVu'T V 'centcd In cenven- , 2?.-'.'? '' f0!'m '". ,h0 cnpltula of Corinthian columns? Answers te Yesterday's Quiz 1. The .Spnnte has the sole power te try alt Impeachments. ' lry "' amMlner.h th CMft "apan or As"i 3. The split Inflnltlve is n locution In which the pieposltlen "te" Is stparn ted I by en, or mero words from the verb which ? governs, us "te quickly return" ' Insteaci of "te return quickly." mstcau 4. The expression. "Harnutn was ,K),t" S used with refctrence te the iliiee, ,7 remark of the great showman "The t. American people Ulce te be fooled 5. Ilnlnbrldge Celby wag the last Secretary of H ate of the Wilsen Aclmlnlstratle C. Conchelogy Is the study of l eiii ' "" 7. Pe I tax literally means lie,, i' tax Pell Is an old word for head " a. i no colors or the Cuban fine nre white nnrl l.li... mm.. . . H "TO rtd. has wlllte nml l,l ..,.:-' ?'"'" -..... ...... iiiiiu. i in. standard i ,, ,ii.r ...... .:.r.'""""11 ,.. V.'.'i ""."''."' " "i"' a t .ii " ' sumuminB a HjnnJe white A ehiitve In machine. rv nil ev wheel! nl,.r. ,. ,,...,.'. ?!..''v!'il block. ". anil It The four rivers of the Oardesn of Eden were the Plaen, tha Olhen, th ilidl Uekel and the Euphrates . m 10. rvvrajnj MlS u WAY SHORT CUTS AH gains nrc net nt Manheim. The Snmpale Correla 1b a perslitent bird. What the country pines for is verifica tion of rnilrend pence rumors. The injunction te love one another ii centinuully being violated. As it mny appear te GannavWalskt, Mme. Melius is contumelious. A baby son certainly makes a difference. William S. is no longer a Hart bowed down. Man died while watching the beauty pageant nt Atluntlc City. That's knocking cm dead. Trust Marie Cerelll te say the original nnd unusual. "Truth is never popular," sny she. Ain't it the truth, Mnrie? A vein of hard coal haB been found by a sewer contractor under Pettsvllle's miln street. Chance here for the municipality te lay in the winter's supply. Well, nearly 00,000 Phlladelphiam hnve registered their Intention te vote next November. Is net that encouraging? Yi, indeed, kind sir, with the accent en the net. Otvosse, Mich., girl has been Jailed fer wearing trousers. Calm yourselves, ladles! Before growing excited think of what weulJ happen te a man who applied for a job In skirts. Imperial Wizard of the Ku Klur Klan has been pinched in Indiana for having quart of whisky in his possession. A real wiznrd would hnve turned It Inte pep at the moment of confiscation. The declaration of Admiral Celby M. Chester that the Turk is a tolerant man nnd that in'busincss he never violates oil word is contrary te the general impression I save, pcrhups, In naval circles. Many men who have been stationed in Turkish pert seem te prove that contact minimizes propa ganda. CHANTEY (The officers and crew of the American and Nnplca llner Philadelphia arrived in rctv Yerk as passengers en the Ancher liner Camerenla, nnd the story they tell has been strung; Inte voree by our tame offlce poet.) Hit bu a hrcc:e and stung by a gale And obsessed by a curious notion, The ship Philadelphia blithely act tall On the briny breast of the ocean, WlUi a ricib of Peruvians, Maltese, Scetl, Portuguese, Filipinos, Russians, Chileans, Panumans, Poles, Hottentots, Germans, Greeks, Neapolitans, Pruitiani, While the wild waves yapped And the capstan capped And the stormy winds did blew, There were Reds In the roll of this pelvgltl crew. (Only physical force can' such folk heli,) There were collcge girls sweet in the caWa, 1010 knew Fifty culleye boys stripped in the ttekf held. There was booze aboard, and the thiri'V loons Forget what experience teaches. And the Reds spouted Uelshevist plfflle, peer prune, II' h He the rah,rahs spooned with tht peaches, kAni the stewards stewed, And the scu'incws mewed, And the wild tniccj yapped, And the capstan capped, And the stormy winds did blew, ll'icii ci ercie won't weik and the feed runt low, . "i'ls queer bat of tricks one must en In. 77ip sailor they hit the grog below While the stokers leafed in tha cabin, And the captain vtieiclnc; fAaf love aa boese An freight are net paying staples Just Uhimcd the trouble en geed ship erev And beached the baxga in Naples. I ml the fii'rs tie thaniud As the anchor nuked, And 14 tJ MH'iilcws mewed. And the steward stewed, And tha wild waves yapped, And the capstan capped, . And the stormy tcindi Hi blew, G.,A M '4 in 1
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