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WATER PROBLEMS
CAKLCTOX i:. DAVIS, chief of the
Watt'r liiirpnu, in net in t he lenJt a prey
te lU'liisi'jn in liis conception of enn uf thi
reit cerieus of nil our iminli'ipul preMi'iui.
If Is net te li (liputPil that tin- pollution
of both (he Deluvtarn nd Schuylkill Ulvcrt
Is preccedlns nt an alnrmlii); rnte; I hat the
city rapidly 1 ouiKrewiiiR lt.x snun-ea of
water supplj and already is fur In-hind In
Its equipment for valor distribution.
Addressing tlie City Club en Saturday
Mr. Pat H speke with commendablo frank
ness upon the extraordinary situation in
the forty-fhe miles of city territory north
of I-'rankferd. without feeder or surf nee
mains and with no puinplin; station or ni
tration plant. This region la capable of
uppertiiiR an urban population of half .1
million.
The filtration plant for Wear I'lulndelphia
la. se far as eupaeil i eiiierned, ob ieiiily
out of date. The northern section between
Wyoming .street and Tiega street and from
Frent west te Fifth "virtuall) is without a
rater pipe."
Chief Dais is net exaggerating when h
tresses the imperntie need for a laige
aeale consideration of the water problem tn
relation te the inevitable gmwih of the city
within the nct I'fteen or iweuij years.
Plans for utilizing the waters of the
Xeshamlny. Tohieken and Upper lelai;.re
have from time te lime been breached, but
no action has been taken upon these im
portant proposals.
There can be no iiietien that the appro
priation of outside wnles, costly though the
erk mljlit be. would be a magnilh i-nt step
forward in the right kind of municipal de
velopment. The increase of Industrial e.
tablishments en the Schujll.ill and Lewer
Delaware renders it extremely unlike!) that
tl eap sources will ever become cleaner with
the passing years.
THE GLORY DEPARTED
THE demise of the Dauntless, firc-uept
in her home slip, may net have been
untouched by cinj. Ships are n.iisiue
creations, and who knows but that the
Teleran ferryboat may haw resented the
nation-wide dramatization of the Inst mo
ments of the City of Honolulu, an upstart
craft, anyway, of alien origin and unripe
In .1 cars'
The Dauntless never tarried a witeless,
nor, In fait, cargo excepted, anything new
fangled. Seme say she had attained the
go of fifty years. In any cent she wac
nature, net callow, a nnt't te be reieiencetl.
Classic leisureliness was hers, with a pace
e.' dignity and, of late yearn, sobriety.
Te Gloucester in Its heyday she traveled
with the came impassivity as in the sue
reeding and present period of respectability
and repose. "Once she did held the gor' ger' gor'
geeus East in fee" that is, if Jersey be
correctly "Spain" and Gloucester was ever
gorgeous.
She will he mlsed en a river en which
antietilties are treasured and remarkably
ell preserved. I'essibly the IVitIp anil
Fearless, heroic In nomenclature at least,
already ha pledged themsehes te sustain
the traditions te long upheld by their ,.i.
rable sister.
HIGH COST OF FUN
THE Federal Government i rh her by
JOO.olT.eO because of the World Si rn's
of baseball grimes played in .Vu Yerk.
This sum is the 10 per rent tut paid en the
receipts from the sale of tickets.
Nearly one-half of ihes(. who snw the
Raines paid $." each lime ihey entered the
gate. It would be easy te indulge in moral
reflections about the e.uiiuaganee of H is.
Hut nowadays there is no amuseinint of
fered In any of the large cities (lt ,,.;,
smaller price. It I, much less tui,
hns te pay for a geed seat ut the np-rn,
even in Philadelphia. There i, a vaudnille
ahew In New Yerk the tickets te whMi ust
fi. and it is playing te crowded houses.
The old days of mederale-priced iuiu-i.
incuts lias passed. The disposition et the
amusement managers is te charge all tl.e
traffic will hear. Seme day a manager will
reverse the process and offer amusement
for as low n larlie as the expense of provid
ing it will permit. As there are mere ; e..p!e
who can pay ;?1 for a ticket than are "ill
iri, or able te pay S,", he will have ,, w.rJ
la-go ptibln from winch iu iiravv his audi
ences and i an till a big loom everv day if
his show Is, worth seeing. That is, he r-ill
become the Henry I'erd anion,; managers
Henry has a bank halanre of .s.1.'0,000,ijOQ.
HOW TO GET ACQUAINTED
IT IS explained that the rough-and tur.ble
light between the members of the fresh
man and sopheiuoie ihisnes at the I'ti,vi
slty was arranged for the purpose mnjdr,;.
the freshmen attpiainted with one unu'her!
It wan the college way of liitreiJuMii
trnngers.
The best that can be said of it , ti,et jt
deeH Introduce the frechmeii te one another,
quite informally It is tine, hut none the )-ni
effectively. The same results might l,
sought tbreugli a tea party, but it is doubt
fill if they would he attained. Tea partim
de net appeal vry Btiengly te boys.
The system tlees result in changing the
freshman class fiem n company of boys with
no interests in common Inte a nellijiiler
Croup deteriuliied te resist the aggressienn
of thu sophomores.
The wonder is that It has net been ap
plied elfccwhcie. Take Congress, for ex
ample. Every two years let of new men
are elected. They go te Washington with
an cxaggerat-vl Idea of their own Impor
tance. Hut they de net engage in team
tiny. Kew if1 it should come te pass that
st aneuiu de a rougn-anti-iumnie light in
'mac Park between the new Congress-
itjixfl e ou' merp would he accomplished
jj 'iwpwni hi inv "iij m Kciiiug tue
new men te appreciate the fact that tbey
must work together If they nie te get nny
eptwrtunity te mnke themselves felt In
legislation tlinii can he nceempllslied In a
month by the erdlnnry methods.
Then, tee, the sale of the niovle rights of
the scrimmage would yield a considerable
aum of money that might he used in paying
future campaign expenses. There are se
many possibilities In the plan that Us re
jection will be tlue only te the ungrounded
assumption of the Congressmen that since
they have become men tbey have put away
childish things.
OVER THE RIVER
"jlrrCII may be said In honest praise of
n world (hat still can provide a spec
tacle us bright and diverting as that of the
present political campaign in New .lei soy.
The temperature Is rising and the rhetoric
Is becoming mere and mere vivid ever the
whole length of the Slate from the Oranges
nnd Hoboken te Cape May.
It is written iu Hepublican pronounce
ments that Governer Edwards has no mere
elinuee of beating Mr. Fre'lughtiyspn for
the I'tilted States Senate sCat that the two
men are warring ever than Mohammed VI.
present Sultan of Turkey, hns of being
King of Great ltrltalu nnd Ireland. It Is
Interesting te observe, however, that Mr.
I'rellnglniy sun's party managers are labor
ing as they have seldom labored before In
any cause. They display signs ut tremulous
anxletv almost as conspicuous as these dis
cernible In the ranks of the opposition.
Yeu feel, after n survey of the State, that
If the strain becomes even a little greater
it wilt be intolerable.
Mr. Edwards, who Is In Ner .Jersey
about what Lloyd Geeige Is iu England, a
deft player upon the heart -strings of the
eiewd. has made a slogan at whiih his an
tagonist laughs with a very geed imitation
of derision. Vet it is a slogan that may
cause Mr. rrelinshuyscn n geed many
anxious hours. The Democratic candidate
knows what Is the matter with the world
and with .lersey. It I- high prices.
"Give us," t'es Mr. Edwards, "a geed
tlve-cent glass of beer, a geed nickel i Igar
and live-cent trolley fares!"
Less picturesque and less incisure is Mr.
rrellng'.itiysen, who has bten paying the
voters the compliment of erdeied and logical
speech. He would have them think of the
deep am! complicated affairs of s'ate. of the
high purposes of YeNte.idi-n. "f I lie dangers
inherent In the ptescnt muddle i.f our for
eign affairs, of difficulties whbh bect the
Public Servile Corporation. U' appeal,
briefly, i te the- reasoning powers et voters.
Mr. Edwards, en the ether hand, drives
straight tn the s(.;t of the emotional con
sciousness In the average iitiin And theie
you are. Elections have been wen by both
method". At this wilting it is net iasy te
say who will win in New .Icisii.
runner Judge SiUer (is tie lienmeratlc
aspirant for the governorship is going along
like a child in a ciewd with a firm and
trusting grip mi Mr. Edwin iN' teatsleeve.
Senater IJunyen, who aKe wants te be Gov Gov
ereor, is similarly trusting te link and the
pushing power of Senater rrelinghuysen.
Te understand the spiritual stresses in
herent in the situation It is only necessary
te serutlliui' some of the recent details of
the lampaign. See rotary Weeks, of the
War Department, volunteered te make a
speech or two ter I'relinghuy cn. but was
frantlially waved away by the liepubllcan
managers when they remembered that he is
quite as "wet" ns Mr. Edwards, while rre
linghuysen is running as an Inflexible Vol Vel
steader. Vice President Calvin Coelldge.
who Is "dry" in mere wnys than one, will
play Secretary Weeks' dates.
The Democrats are equally fearful of any
exterior Influence which might upset what
(bey consider a delicate and treacherous
balance of sentiment. Mr. Edwards is aid
te feel that bis slogan mid such discourse
c: may radiate outward from It should be
adequate te carry the State.
Se Jersey Is saying te the outside politi
cal world, and especially te Washington :
"J uat let us alone, in heaven's name! Wt
haven't time te talk te you new. Yeu
don't knew hew terribly we have te work
te keep one party from spilling ever Inte
another, te keep Kepublleam from going
Democratic and Democrats from being IJ--publlean
!"
Governer Edwards says little about the
qtestiens that should naturally engage the
attention of a Senater of the I'n.ted States.
He doesn't explain why, if live-, em fares
are possible, some of tic s-ib-idlary car
lines of the Public Service C.n oration are
in actual danger of Kelng hepebssly broke.
Sin h 1 life in election time-. The Demo
crats are "wet." The Republicans are
(jrj"in theory, at lea-t. That is what
the tight really 1 about. Jersey v. ill be worth
close 'wntchlnB in November. It will show
whether emotional raciiem rather than
reason actually dtrmine all Important elec
tions in this country. D v-!ll show, tee,
hew a State with a representative popula
tion and few fixed pe!itnal prejudices
actually feels about the dr; la-, in Its pres
ent form.
CHEFS DISCOVER AMERICA
THIS is an ag" of i..iracles
that A'ii'-r.i M'" may ye
Se the rumor
be made te
feel at heir.e ' tb'lr own restaurants neeil
net lie regard-l 'vi:a lie red.ility or ills-iri-si.i
s the rillnt. n i a dream as wild
a" or.- of ti-e" 'i.et Mi. Liln-en used te have
In h.s ve:'!.. IU-sta ;ram owners have
n2r.p,i se.,. ,i !v in their national conven
tion tl.v n.' 'arJs e ight te be printed In
a lursiiis" f'i!. -liar te thd- patrons and
that folk ma , .u!ntel with the Trench inn
"unge ''-it ' '" b relieved from the handl
'ap that ulw .; bus stlll'ted thtm when they
in ferti fer: .n.!y te dir..j in the shade of
U. urt.n .si paia.s.
Who id ,!'i,r " I.' ague of Nations Is Im-pes..ib.e-'
A:.y'..irig i- pessib'e In this period
of progress ar.d revolutionary change. Peo
ple new alive i, aj yet -ip ihe day when
taey may a"r a lirit tlas ie-taur:int and
or er a c.r.iii-r that will net astound them
wan it .a served by the waitir.
Tl.i KreM h language bei'iiiiiii the language
of m' ii'. 'ar-i- wj. n Pnr.s cooking Ilrst
ii.ad .' 'J vent in the I ii.ted Slates. It
was ei.e of tir few fashions that became
piTiiii'iei.' AmI It has always tended te
keep tLf t' it-h of natlvi American cookery
1j x..p U. if or e-.s i eln)dete.
A f i viiil- e ure still unconsciously
t-x-ttw ! ii." ptenenie of foreign things.
'JV!I - 'ii". t pbiiire or a musical compo
,:of, .ii.jsu'eii nnd we will believe nt
oil. e that .t mu-t he In seiiii! subtle way Ml
ptr.'ir te the native product. He ft has
uluujh Ix-tri with the arts of cookery. There
Is no teuntry en eaith that does mere mug
tiifieent things with the devices of the
kitchen than we de. And there Is none hoi
se rich and various a Held of resources.
Chicken In the inenner of the Maryland
ers, Virginia spoon bread, corn in all in
rleus and magnlUcciit forms from the
cd enr te thu pone or the muffin, ter-
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rnpln, turkey with chestnuts, the sntisniea
of Lancaster Count), testers ami clams nre
virtually exclusive te the I'liltcd States. Thu
Freiichinnu liitreduced for the Hist time te
biickwhent cakes nnd maple plrtip probably
would go mad with ecstasy. Yet jeu never
hear American cookery extolled abroad.
Yeu seldom hear it extolled nt home.
The art of the French chef consists In his
remarkable ability te dlsgulse deficiencies
of raw materials with bewildering sauce.
Thus In the kitchens, of Frniice the sublle
wcrk of the continental diplomatist are
often btllllaiitly Imitated,
If the restaurant men of the United States
carry out their newest plnn and call fried
fish fried llsli and beef stew beef stew they
may yet profit by the example of Columbus
nnd discover America. They tuny stumble
en the wonders of American rookery nnd
give It tlie place If deserves among the great
things of lln earth.
We iu the rutted Stntcs drink the lies!
coffee in the world. Yet the American
nbrnad feels that he isn't truly cultured
unless he can consume large quantities of
cafe an lait-tiie mixture of Inferior coffee
and warm milk which, accepted as the uni
versal breakfast beverage of ihe Continent,
is such as te make the stranger with a
pnlnte net sophisticated te the point of ruin
choke and shudder and mourn for the clear,
-i-iilk. wine-like brew that is te be hud
only en this si,),. f the world.
RULE BY FASCINATION
LLOYD GEORGE'S address nt Mnnches
ter possessed in high degree the char
acteristic glitter, the characteristic bril
liantly coated inaccuracy of statement and
the crisp fellntv of phrase with which the
llrltlsh Premier has defended himself In a
long series of crises. t Is Impossible te
withheld admiration for opportunism of this
dazzling type illumined by the personal
magnetism of a consummately adroit poli
tician. .Air. Lloyd Geerge has "explained" the
much-criticized part played by Britain in
the Near Eastern imbroglio by implying
that the historic drama between persecuted
Christianity and brutal Islamisin lias been
re-enacted and that the old Liberal policy
of protecting, even te the brink of war, the
oppressed minorities In the Near East has
been revived.
In his fluent discourse no reference can he
found in the snubbing in Londen last spring
of Kemalist envoys, eager te establish peace
upon nlinest the identical basis new reached
after a war scare of very formidable pro
portions. Ne referenie can be found te the
game of cemmerci.il umtiel In the Near
Eusl whli h bears the scantiest relationship
te ei'lier Christianity or Meslemism as con
ventional nb-trni tieus
The fact is that link has once mere
played into the Premier s hands nnd that
after an exceedingly risky i nurse of bun
gling and mismanagement in ihe Eastern
pelii ) the peak of the iiisis has, fur the
moment ut least, bun passu.
Mr. Lloyd Gemge would net be himself
did be net make ihe most effective and
spei tin tiliir use of this geed fortune. No Ne
f'Oily iu public In., in England can misstate
a iiise se ably or ' i harininglv as be.
As a political vliiuesn he is quite tin
rivaled in the vast empire ever whlih he
he'ds such vivid sway, and despite (he
rumblings of opposition it appears likely
that be will continue te perferin -his
astounding feats te the delight of the ma
jority of his country men for some time te
come.
Fer the consummation of bis downfall the
emergence of another political genius is
necessary, and that event docs net yet seem
te have taken place m England.
A NEW CRIME
WHAT is the speed limit for moterenrs in
Philadelphia V A driver brought before
Magistrate Rebert' it day or two age was
solemnly charged with driving se slowly
that he obstructed ti attic lie was duly
fined. Unfortunately, the finer details of
the case wen- net reflected In print. Hut
It would be inteiesting te knew when a
meter driver eager te be en the safe side
of the laws may expect te slip into a new
and unexpected morass fJf tieuble. It may
lie assumed, for th" sake of discussion, that
the unfortunate man In question was cnuglit
s mew here en I'reatl street between Aieh
street and Columbia avenue, for uny one
who proceeds at less than twenty-live miles
an hour between the new automatic signal
stations Is pretty sure te be in everybody's
way.
Doubtless fast driving en a rigidly policed
thoroughfare intended for high-speed traffic
Is safe enough. Put the significant thing
te ebstrvc is that If the traffic policemen en
P.rend street de what is epci tid of them
and ktep traffic moving they must actually
encourage meter drivers te violate existing
speed eidiuniKi's. That means that the
present ordinances rather than the peller or
the new signal and truth' theeiles lire
faulty. One of the first muses of meter
accidents is In laws n.ade si, indexible that
they are obviously intended te be broken.
It is the moral effei i of this implication
tint is disastrous What Is needed is n
traffic tede bread enough in be strictly en
forceable under all i iicuinstances. If you
cause people te beluve that they are ex
pected te break one law, they seen will
develop a habit of breaking ethers. The
rule applies all along Hie Inn., irem prohi
bition te meter regulations'
RIGHT WAY TO TALK
GENERAL DAWES, no longer in office,
expressed bis hein st opinion of Con
gress te the New Yorkers who gave a dinner
te congratulate him en his work as Director
of the IUidgit In Washington.
He remarked that Congress- s "n nest
of cowards" and that Cabinet officers are
Cemnnches in fighting budget control.
Few persons nwnre et what gees en In
Washington will disagree with him. The
head of every department is a glutton for
money. lie manes extruagant demands
and takes no account of the meds of ether
departments. And Congress has net the
courage te cut down expi ndltures when it
thinks that the money will make votes for
the Congressmen. In short, there Is an
almost complete lnk of a sense of finnnelal
responsibility. This is why ii costs se
much te urn the Gevt inment and why the
opposition te an extension of Government
control of business aitivitlcM is se general.
Hut the situation iu Washington Is no
different from the situation in every large
city. 'i'l( puh'i1' money is spent with i:
recklessness that would ruin any pilvate
business.
If xve had mere men like General Dawes
xvhe would icluse te minre weids in talking
about the subject there would be better
prospects of improvement than there new
are.
Stiiten Island woman,
Dry Mil years old, grieves
bei aus.. the Velstead law
bus tukcu n way fiem her the wine te which
she littH been accustomed. She perhaps fears
Uk lack will bring her te an early grave.
There Is geed citizenship, however, in her
cemphiii'l . Were she ether than law-abiding
H),e would net lack her wine. She'd knew
a bootlegger.
CIiiiib A. Spreckels has t lnsed one of
his factories because the price of sugar is
tee lilfih. We don't profess te understand
that item ; we simply pass it en as we get it.
Senater .Tim ltee-1 refuses te declare
himself en the liquor question. Willing te
t'eiiipimnlse, peiinii s, en dry iliuinpnsiie.
X-'.
AS ONE WOMAN SEES IT
Welfare Federation Achieved Succeis
Dcopite the Teries, Who In tha
Course of n Couple of Genera
tions Will He Its Best Friends
Ity SAHAII I). LOWRIE
THH Welfare Federation weathered Its
first strenuous year. After what looked
like a near failure in reaching even en ap
proximate goal, and u very exasperating
fnilurii le cetnplste its 'ists for n practical
campaign last autumn, nnd nftcr n smoth
ered cry for help te rally the workers for n
sort of lltilsli-up campaign Inter in the
winter, it suddenly ceased from troubling,
righted Itself by some Internal bnlnncing of
rearrangement, kept Its pledges te the or
ganizations and te the public, nnd, In fact,
"scrambled ever the top" after ill and
avoided mi nnticliniax I
Hew it Fiiatched victory from defeat one
does net knew, hut I suspect that the men
who were responsible for I he victory are
net the ones whose Impractical complacency
during the prelliiiinar.v prepniutlniis nearly
diMied it. These who succeeded will never
tell who were the jnuecesful ones; that
is certain. He the ciieral public and even
these of ps who worked indcr such hniidl
enps of mismanagement last year neeil net
probe. We can only be grateful te Judge
Martin and Mr. Scwall nnd Mi. Klklns and
Mr. Effingham Merris and .Mr. Wurden nnd
the ethers as well as te our friend Ludlow
of the persuasive smile, who would net step
working for success in the face of nppaient
failure.
IT IS a mystery yet why the lists were se
bad. nnd why nnv one could think that n
plan that sent the solicitors cnreciiingi from
one end of the town le another during
day's working up of subscriptions vvns n
feasible one; or why hundreds of aildres i
of persons living m Reading and Pottstown
and Lebanon and llelhlehein and Qunker Qunker
tevvn were given out te be treated as "tie
would treat these of persons living nt the
Falls of the Schuylkill; or why first, middle
and last, the addiesscs had net been verified
six cases out of ten.
But I de net henestlv think that even If
all the lists had been correct and the time
of the solicitors had been carefully saved
and the notices sent nut te the possible sub
scribers had given them the ilntn that would
best move them 1 honestly de net believe
the first drive would have gene ever thu top
with any headlong velocity.
WE ARE up against
city, for the first tin
st something in this
me of nny enterprise
that is as baffling n it is inevitable in its
power te halt ami nearlv cterniinnte nil
onward movement. And that things tle suc
ceed is due le mi even stronger, dogged
resistance of resistance which does mil I eh
victory iu the end. although it pretty nearly
extinguishes the victors. Such n victory In
the face of Mich discouragement robs the
work of most e( its elation. It is "a sob
bing process te give a new geed te this
town." some one remarked te me lately.
1 de net knew what spit it of contention
is at the bottom et it. or what curious lack
of co-epcralion. or what grudging dog-In-tlie-inangei'
surliness that makes II natural
for us te i ese m (hauge and suspect innova
tions and balk nt improve!' cuts ami carp ut
inspiration. Their is, of course, our geed
side of which these qualities are the exag
geration. We like te plav lone hands In our
philanthropy, and se we have any number el
group charities supported by one or two
families or. coteries et social or religious
sets. We nre faithful te past obligations
and almost leave our seats en charitable
beards in our wills. Wr n very prudent
about scrapping anything that 'ins ilice
served lis purpose te our satisfaction, and
we are very ailniuing of what has hem and
like te patriuii.e what is.
Se that if the Federation has outlived the
first year it will find us putting it en our
visiting lists for Mil- year, and In another
year it will be one of the family. Ten years
from new te work for it will be as geed ns
being en the Assembly lists, nnd twenty
years from new if State socialism wants te
wrest it from us. we will call cut the City
Troop te bleed and die for it.
TN SHORT, the Welfare Federation, which
was the best idea for tackling our nresent
philanthropic pieiiiem, lias get the usual
grudging reception we give our best sue.
cesses, and it will new go en its way upheld
by us as one of our best traditions. Hut
the stupid thing about us Is that we worried
and hit it se before we swallowed it down
thnt te these who had te administer It te us
it had the aspect of a terrible medicine in
stead of n geed desrrt.
And by these who ndmlnlstered it I de
net mean simply the men who acted as Its
trustee. I menu all of us who went nnd
a iked Philadelphia te give in bulk what It
had been accustomed te give in pieces. Or,
rather, we asked many Philadelphians le
give whnf they had been accustomed te see
it few Philadelphians give. It wns a per
fectly simple and reasonable idea;
"Let r,(),t)t)0 give what fienn gave!"
This year It is simpler still:
"Let ".'0,000 give what .1(1,000 were asked
te give!"
THERE is no doubt about it: the relief
of net neing dunned in every mail by
some philanthropy or ether te tide it ever
was a joy te tlie givers, once the drive was
ever. Hut that relief was nothing te the
relief felt by the philanthiepirs, who knew
for the first lime what their incomes for the
year were te be.
Tills year there will be mere philan
thropies included in the Federation, which
will mean n snving of vveik for all con
corned and no grenter expenditure of money
In the end, This yenr we have the word
for it fiem the sadder but wiser committee
that the lists arc corrected and the plan of
distributing the turds improved and the
campaign drive arrangements simplified by
better preliminary wcuk. These of us who
thought we ought te help last year have no
less reason for helping this. unlesH Wl. ftre
down nnd nut physically. These who gave
last year have every reason te be glad, and
therr who refused every reisen te lie serrv.
It is a hurt piece et vveik and it will take
very systematic giving, but It Is difficult le
see hew most of us can get out of it with
any honor. If we can call tome, enthusiasm
te our aid such as some cheerful souls
manage te put Inte their business and
pleasures we may even get a cert of tri
umph in doing n new thing well. If we could
only add te our sense of dutv a Hash of
Imagination we might almost get !t glimpse
of the future, when the men who have been
responsible for tlie Federation and these of
us who have backed them will be cited as
wise and generous and far-seeing citizens
of a then beautiful and benevolent city, well
named "llretheily Leve."
B';
L'T imagination for sun ess ;s net a vir
ile common among us or gieatlv bnnld
We tirefrr te deem our great entemrlsi.u m
failure in imagination befme we have even
begun te build them Inte successes,
Fortunately for ns, the Teries of the
town who deemed the Declaration of Inde
pendence when it was read In Ihe square
new most of them occupy patriots' graves
in the imagination at least of the "Dames
and the Daughters," who forget, If hiderd
thev ever realized, that most of their fore
fathers were inin te their type and liked
that Declaration and all it Implied better tlie
third nnd fourth time it was read than the
first.
Our tendency te "Tery Ism"--j, P., stamj.
ing pat is u inherited trait that is ns much
n part of us as our Liberty Ikdl or the
Signers' Tub e or ( arpenters' Hall. Teries
nlwnya get licked in the end, nnd Liberty
IlcllH, however cracked, tome out ahead.
Pcrhnpa if we cold-shouldered our Tery
tendency te "knock" and called our caution
by the right name selfishness we would
rhtl by recognizing a geed thine tha first
tme we caw It.
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NOW MY IDEA If THIS!
Daily Talks With Thinking Philadelphians en Subjects They
Knew Best
J. A. McCU'XOTjr.H
On Need of a Clnssic Revival
A ItEVlVAL of interest in the classics
nnd especially of a study of Shakespeare
nnd his works, would de much In counter
net the influence of the present-day ' era of
Jazz." according le J. A. McCullough. pres
ident of the Philadelphia Shakespearean
Guild and vice president of the National
Guild . , .,
"It Is mninlv through nn Inspection of the
literary works of today that future gener
ations will be able te xisualize what our
'era of jazz" means." said Dr. McCullough.
"And just as this K true, se is it true that
the rising generation is being melded mere
or less bv modem literature. Fer some time
the thinking world has been proclaiming the
need of calling a halt, and while the warn
ing seems te have been heeded in some de
gree. It is going te be hard for the pesttwnr
neurotics te get back te pre-war sanity.
Tills 'era of jazz' that we speak of has been
explained se often and m convincingly tbut
it needs but little explanation.
World Hud te "Wew Off Steam"
"It was absolutely necessary that there
be a reaction after the long, trying days of
the war. The United Stales did net feel the
strain as did .these i euntries mere deeply
Involved. Hut' the reaction was bound te
come here as elsewhere. The emancipation
of woman was one great result. And just
ns nny person or class, suddenly thrown into
n new environment, will go beyond expected
or rational lines, se there came the period
of 'ever-emancipation. '
"Hut all this Is passing gradually.
Slowly but surely the entire world is coming
te leek upon things sanely. And where can
a better aid be found in reaching a rational
viewpoint than by contemplation of the
classicsV I refer particularly te a levival
of interest in Shakespeare, because the
works of the bnrd are of interest te all and
he is net beyond the contemplation of the
laborer as well us the cloistered student.
"The burden of reviving interest In the
usual run of classics rests with our large
schools and universities. Toe u any of them,
in my opinion, have been lentent te puss by
the fundamental worth of Greek and Latin
in favor of n Heed of isms and new olegies.
All these have a place in a never-eliding
progress, nnd I um far from one who would
send back or even hamper tine progress.
Hut there is something in spending tee much
time In running up and down cross-reads
and forgetting thnt the trip forward must be
accomplished en the main read.
What Shakespeare Has Dene
"But it is diftercnt with Shakespeare.
He meets nil classes en their own gieuud,
and humanly, tee. The greatest thing te be
accomplished Is making the middle classes,
se called, .realize that Shakespeare is net
necessarily for the 'highbrow.' Where in
the world of letters can there be found a
man who understood human nature as he
did'.' He saw into the foibles of kings just
as clearly as he saw the grotesqueries of
the buffoens: And the fact that he tran
scribed tills insight into deathless words
makes him still mere human.
"One does net have te be a savant tn ap
preciate the beauties of Shakespeare. Even
the mechanic who spends a portion of his
evening going ever tome piny of the bard
will find himself bettered ut his bench by
the time spent. Ne tine who reads hi
Shakespeare and attempts te de se under
standingly run help but be Improved. His
command of English will improve gradually
by contact with that great master of the
language. Even the use of archaic expres
sions will net come In amiss. The man only
moderately educated who becomes interested
iu Shakespeare will Unci himself adding te
his store of meager knowledge until the sum
total of the result will surprise him as It
slowly but surely becomes evident In hjs
speech and In his thinking.
Provided Entertainment, Toe
"Unlike many advocates of Shakespeare,
1 nm net in favor of tee many attempts te
popularize him upon the stage. I feel It Is
much better that there be one or two real
dramatic exponents of Shakespeare, men who
knew hhn and ure sincere Interpreters.
These men nnd women usunlly hnve made
Shakespeare their life study, nnd their inter
pretation cun be looked upon with confl cenfl
dcnci . Shakespeare should net be treated
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pen were every little theatrical nc r genius
te take ii into ' i' head te 'piny Shake
speare. "There would have been no better war of
ending the wave of salacious farces that
marked the end of the win tlii.n by having
every .nanager n the country produce ere
or mere. Then the public would hnve sick
ened rapidly.
t cilut we have neon particularly fortunate
in this respect. The real masterful Inter
preters of the master drnmallst hnve been
few and far between. Edwin Beeth had his
day. and his memory lives mainly in his
Shiikesiiearean roles. Then we have had
Mantell. Sothern and Hampden. It seems
I hat fate guards the future of Shakespeare,
that when Mantell and Sothern are end
ing their days of useful virility some one
like young Hampden appears. I de net
doubt thnt years hence some one will nppeur
te take his pbue and carry en the message
that the sweet singer of Aven penned years
URO.
Can Help Kvcn Boilermaker
"I would like te see our schools give mere
impeitanee le Latin and Greek, as I have
saitl. Itut linking these things as iu fuce of
Ihe argument f ia. wn;i fellw who will
go into trade. 'Hew will Greek help me build
boilers.' I wmihl my 'Shakespeare will heln
"""'' )"nim say -MiiiKpspciiru will help
b"tt 'K'',t; '"" h""lli"e 1m'"'-'m t0 something
.lni'i'm,'!, Ti !,n" .J"".'"! x''nkespe.ire without
definite and he.ichej.,1 results. He does net
have te be lead academically at all. There
is morn geed meat in any one of his plavs
hail in a dozen desPr, .p.,!,,,, ,mvu.s, 'Am,
a ted te Ihe printed page j hotter form than
in 'Remee an, Juliet". Where is there a
better farce wit, mere real humor In th"
situations than in -A Cmedy of Errors"'
And se one could go down the entire list
n'thVeeL l !."! "W" ,,r,snB" !"ld Ch
111 tll( KCIlfTllI f-fllClllf of I M ii it v
"in,,, i i. . .i . .""
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sent film with the hum , m , " " !'.''"
Beeth, and then we ",, ""? '('"'"'K
at BUlf of misunderstn, lli L hlhiml "
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erstnndliig.'
I'ic.iRe, noxious te de
honor te the Meuntbat-''-.
arranged a ,.
Hipping Old
Companion
stockyards; and Ladv M ,,,,). I',',0 , ""I
in order te go shopping. 'jUst ' ncyT
l-referilng a store le a slaughter muse A
was enough te peeve nnv lecen mn " ,U
milter.. Meuntbatte.i, ,e ve ver h r""
honor by calling Jdge j, e' ular
sniifler after (he crowd hail given i.i," .i r
bin --seethed iheni by a ,1 , , '' ;
well-known Londen vernacular tlmf i, .
Jibloedy mess. Ull
tIh..anin",PlB a d-v "!
the doctor Wny t,',
may be a lm.,i '......"
One Cannet
Blame Eve
xvi .. f,ur l'ljlelans in Vew
I.Ut l.s teserbeil ., .. ...vcw
Jersey.
npple crop , blessing tl,,, leg'
Dees the nilleciivi. imn ,. summon.
of cider? A Mtierestnw , ' ? ,""'
Jersey this fall, he bays.
deep In
Dcmehlhcncs MeGlmils lead of ue,.
happened te the freshmen at Pen,, ... if1
ruce hasn't changed much," said he r ' i "'
lege Is attended by tl.e same b,nd of Mm,
cring idiots ns when we weie boys," '"'",
Mrs. Hall has asked Governer Ethvnr.Ia
for "n comprehensive, tntc Ilgent i nd R
ent investigation." Wants In fact ier.
New Brunswick has had evVrytMug'VlX
.nf;,rat;mue;:,;n1;'iii;att:ttrl;r0?
What served mere , stir'il e ',!' InlrR
during the war than the cei.u ,,,i . '
hien of parades thai n't t' eve1' W"
!!!" i ."'!!'. . """Mine .X, dl t
place. " lmve tl,elr Important
"Above nil, the thing 0f ,....,, T . ,
disabuse the public inlm V Th,1 f . 0?
Shakespeare be ng treated ns ,i JV .
Let the teacher in the sc en Tsh. w m"
tl.e pupil as the real , s -Jli,n t0
Let the casual reader ", '
same lichl. let tl, .. ' V''a. "'" '" the
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inrace, me eye et urecce, new wein
a pntcti.
HellldnyshurR. Pn., cat uses th tlt
pnene. leline Is busy.
.Tnck Frest has his eye en the pumpila.
He'll put his lingei en it 'nter. J
New thnt his enemies knew where LleTd !
Geerge stnnds, -tbey are net one whit
happier.
New Yerk man fined $50 for fllrMni'
wun n policewoman. Homenevv we can t M-
lleve It wns worth thb iiiene).
Wonder hew thnt whale that appwed
nr noutnnmpten, ii. l., expected nny pti
llclty new that the season is ever.
As Greece sees It. Italv will claim tha
Dedecanesus Islands for no ether reason till
that she sees a chance of getting them.
Turkish Nationalists have declined t
let Nansen visit Kemnl nt Anatolia. Chilli
us some ettier expeditions he has featured.
Lecnl cheesemnker has Invented an
odorless llmburger. It will, of course, be
served with seedless pretzels nnd klcltleM
ucer.
Queen Murie of Rumania's crown of
solid geld weighs four pounds. Heavy cneujh
iu itself te make uneasy the head that
wears it.
There's ene less "less" en (lie Gleucei-
ter line, new that the Dauntless has tone,
but happily the Peerless and the Fearlew
btlll plow the mighty deeps.
It will net give brilliance te FecYl
ramc nor weight te his criticism of Clemen'
ccnu te Knew that Peiucnre s policy as re
gards Kcraal wns dictated by the marshal.
.T. Odgcn Armour Is nt least willing tej
namit tnut whatever the nature et nm
speculations In wheat and corn, cresa-ef
aminatlen by the Federal Trade CemuiIislM
gees against the grain.
The Government is said te he plannlni
te modify the dry ship ruling. If this should
chance te split the Eighteenth Amendme
Attorney General Daugherty will he force
te admit that he did It with his little hatchet.
What De Yeu Knew?
QUIZ
1. What pretender te the -English throne
ended his days as n cook in the reyw
pal.tce'.' ,.,
2. What is the largest library In the werldl
'!. Who was the "Qrent Electer"? '
1. What Is meant by tlie Succession Statu
et i'jurope; .. .
C. Who was Fielssntt and when did he livn
f. wiint is a inachlcelateu tower.'
7. Who Invented the renplng machine:
b. What Ih n lich-gate?
!'. Where decn llcorlce grew?
10. Who was -Mauu?
Annwcrn in Sntnrduv's Oulz
1. Mount Legan, in the beuthwest corner J
Yuken Territory. Canada, close te
Alaskan boundary. Is the BecfM
highest mountain In Nertli ,A"ie"c,,
IU summit Is 19,500 feet above
:. Thu Congressional Library In Wafhlnf;
ten Is tlie largest llbrury In the Vl
.'ill ill-lllineil'Jl v. , l)lll,.aj
3. Catherine, the Great. EmpreBS of "!"!
was by birth n. pet man, n nair
Stettin. She was tlie daughter or
Prince of Anlinlt-Ze.bst and '
originally named Sephia. Augusta. .
i. The Manchester Scl.uel cl M1"
Economy was n name miiillecl e
Bieup of English economic writer
under the leadership of Richard Cc
.1.... nrwl Tnhn HHllllt. W 10 ndVpCW
the. principled of free trade, the mn'"
tlen of Kovcrnnient functions .ina Jfl.
development of unrestricted ccmP'"
tlen and what Is called tha Mais'"
fahe" policy. . , rll
r. A pamulnade la an nbiis ve or cer
. . i eisenal satire, n tvu c eus , aqulU (,
ii. MgniuerBu iiurij wer, in.. "- "waL
a celebrated American cayuhi M'.'sjg
Henry Lee. un nctc.iiut 01 lib. WW"
and dashing operntlena Iu the licve'"
7. A 7S r'i hind of Seuth AfrlC
8. Ilouget' X'Llsle wrote the words of
"Marseillaise." wlin
9. The Ullcad of tlie Bible wus n jw ,
III, 1110 llivt.ll III iiiini"" V '. i
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