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rhll.Jflphl., Wdnciil. Orlebtr 13, 1922
A SCHOOL PROGRAM
SUPEIIIXTKNDKNT BKOO.MK'S pro pre
grnm for adjusting the edu.u.lemil fncill
tlcs of the city te its needs i beul mid com
prehensive. It is estimated Hint the cost
of the new buildings required will iiineunt te
about $1.",000,000. This i :i c uiMilerable
sum, far beyond the timiueial reseun.es of
the Beard of Education or the average run
of State or municipal appropriations for
dereleplnR the phybical equipment ef the
Bchoel system.
Dr. Uroeme, however, li stifflclently
eourageeua te leek the future witiandy In
the face. Waste, cxtravnjjnnce and falc
starts enn be avoided if etnt consistent
plan of school bulldins is devised with vision
and pursued te a logical conclusion.
It is net necessary te find the full 513, -000,000
all nt once. Once pruperly
launched, the work will extend through a
period of years, achieving as It progresses
some relation te the growth of population In
this urban center.
The condition of overcrowding In schools
of all grade i new extremely serious. Twe
new high schools are imperatively needed,
one of which will serve the long-neglected
north-central section of the clt..
It has been cenvlin lngly proved that enre
lessness and haphazard natliuds in the loca
tion of school buildings has resulted In much
waste of public funds. Netwi'hstnndlng the
general shortage of accommodations, there
are actually several schools which nre lr
tually empty as a oen-itiuence of neighbor
hood changes, while in certain newly de
veloped residence regions the overcrowding
has become a critical problem.
A scientific study of possible population
drifts is needed in order te make the sug
gested construction work worth while. The
emphasis which Dr. Ilrenme lays upon this
subject is thoroughly warranted by tondl tendl tondl
tlens which can te some extent be predi
cated. The best economy in the expansion of the
city's educational system is a program pre
pared with an eye te tomorrow ns well as
today and with n consciousness of popula
tion increases, which, if maintained at the
present rate, will carry Philadelphia proper
well beyond the .,WJO,O0U mark long before
the next decennial censuu is computed.
THE GREAT INSANITY
OF ALL the theories- ever generated out
of mental squalor, that of the inevita
bility of war is the most dangerous and the
most popular. Uenernl von Ilelew, a Her
man, Army commander in the war, is new
doing his best te give this delu.slen a new
lease of life in the I'nited States. Most of
the diplomatic thought of Europe seems for
the time being te 'be founded upon it.
A'very decided nminmeiit in England alms
te bring about n frank and open alliance
between Urltaln and Geriuuny It is based
epen fear of Prance and of French im
perialism. The (iermnns themselves feel
that war must and will come again before
long in Europe. Even in the clubs nnd at
public meetings you are confronted with
people who talk glibly of "the old Adam"
In mankind and of the inability of nntlens
te live in peace. "As lone as men have
passions," bays Ven Helow, "there must b
war." The people of the United States are net
passionless, and neither are these of Canada.
But they never think of making war en one
another. The people of New Jersey never
think of making war en the people of Penn
sylvania. Yet a war between two States
of the Union would be quite as Iegiial n
preposition ns a war between any no of
the Balkan states.
The fact is that as Intelligent thought
progresses te free peoples from superstitions
and delusions, war is being eliminated a. an
Institution sanctioned by civilization. It i
going the way of smallpox and witch
burning. Doubtless there were a thousand small
wars en ."00 jears age in the ana new ov ev
ered by the United .sitjite-. Ve happen
merely te have been freed en this tide of
the world from the influence of state-men
who regnrd militarism as u proud tradition
of particular races and peoples as pawm te
be used in u sort of sporting conflict between
rival aristocracies.
Mr. Hoever is right in saying that Europe
can and should pay its debts te the United
States. It will be able te pay them without
difficulty when about n hundred banker- and
politicians at present in control of the desti
nies of the Old World can be cured of their
present insanity and convinced that tl.-re is
en certain and safe altetnntive for war.
That alternative is reason.
TRAGEDIES RE-ENACTED
TIIE annals of ancient times arc replete
with accounts of transferred popula
tions and of racial and national exoduses
constituting something of a tax upon mod
em credulity.
Despite the abundant records of the com
plete destruction of Carthage after the
Third Punic War and of the reconstruction
nnd settlement en the bite of a complete
new Heiunii city, the poignant magnitude
of the event is scarcely appreciated. Te
modern sensibilities it uppcnr.1 pieposter piepester pieposter
eus, unbelievable.
The Greek City of Colophon, In Asia
Miner, which Dr L. B. Helland, of this
city, and ether American nrchcoleglsts jmVe
lately been iineeering, is pruned te have
been deserted in response te an euicial tint
hrvlng the materialistic 'purpose of some
Near KiiHturn dynast. And yet, somehow
the tale has lacked the clement of cenvlc
tlen. Its salient fcuturcs have appeared
net merely cruel, but fantastically se.
Vlitit Is happening In Thrace today may,
however, enrich the nverage comprehension
nf liupreljibjlitles. This hapless land i.s
'.'nctuully being '(lesert'ed by' thousands of per-
itens who have known no ether home. The
Ortck exodus hus commenced, and en a
rjfgiintle scnle.
According te reports of a Near East re-
llcf worker. Adrlaneple is taking en the
aspect of nn abandoned city. The reads
from the Thrnclan city, which still recalls
the name of itenmn Hadrian, arc thronged
with pitiable "fugitives. Even in the tragic
history of Southeastern Europe, the scenes
being enacted there today have few paral
lels In wretchedness and wee.
The problem of the refugees Is indeed a
formidable ene In Impoverished and sorely
stricken Greece. Cure for the hordes of
homeless Imposes n task upon the Bed Cress
nnd the Near Eastern relief workers which
deserves the generous support of nil Ameri
cans touched by authentic ncceunts of mis
ery se acute nnd se profound.
POLICE MUST PROTECT
, MEN WILLING TO WORK
Then New Yerk Attempts te Divert the
Business Frem This Pert Will
, Come te Naught
jyrAYOIt MOOIJE'S vigorous pretest
' ngninst the circular sent out by the
United American Steamship Lines of New
Yerk warning shippers ngalnst this city
has called out n lame defense from the
steamship company.
The original circular announced that
there was danger of n strike of deck workers
en the Delaware waterfront nnd ndvlsed all
shippers te send their goods te New Yerk or
Baltimore. Such nn attempt te divert ocean
freight from this pert could net be allowed
te go en without n vigorous pretest.
The steamship company hns disclaimed
any intention te attack this pert. It In
sists, however, thnt It "would have been
derelict In Its duty If It had net Issued the
warning te shippers."
The warning was hosed en the unwar
ranted assumption that In case of a strike
or a lockout the police of this city would
net be able te preserve order en the water
front. Under the circumstances, the police can
de no less than protect every man who Is
willing te work at leading or unloading
ships.
The wagce offered are generous. Tbey
are sixty-five cents Hn hour, with $1 an
fieur for overtime. The regular workers
w-ant $1 nn hour for the time between 7 and
S o'clock In the morning, and their em
ployers refuse te pay It. It Is unskilled
labor. All that is required is hardened
muscles capable of acting all day. There
are capable men out of work willing te
accept it nt the pay offered. Mere than 100
of them were brought te the city yesterday
nnd put en the jobs. They were glad te
come. Other hundreds will seen be here
If there Is need for them nnd If they can
be assured thnt the men who have thrown
up their jobs will net be nllewsd te molest
them.
It Is the primary duty of the pollce In
this emergency te keep order. Every man
hns the right te work under such conditions
as satisfy him, just ns every man has the
right te refuse te work if the conditions are
unsatisfactory. But men who refuse te
work are tee often given te preventing
ether men from working nt the jobs they
have thrown up.
Out of this disposition riots come te pass,
especially when the police neglect te net
with decision nt the first manifestation of a
disposition te make trouble !
In the present case, when one steamship
company with headquarters in New Yerk
Is engaged in an effort te divert traffic from
this pert, it Is of the first importance that
there shnll be no interference with the men
willing te work en the piers.
The defense of the prestige of the pert Is
Involved. We can, If we will, demonstrate
thnt a labor dispute is net allowed te Inter
fere with the leading and unloading of car
goes nnd that we can facilitate the move
ment of ships without less te their owners
or te the shippers.
All that Is required is for the police te
be en the job for twenty-four heure a day.
Neglect or Indifference nt the beginning has
always been followed by serious trouble in
the end. Sometimes the State constabulary
has been called out te restore order where
there would have been no disorder if the
parties te it had net been nllewed by the
police te have their own way for a few
days.
It Is much simpler te prevent n conflagra
tion by keeping watch of these who would
apply a lighted match te Inflammable ma
terial than it Is te put It out after It has
get under way.
We assume that the Mayer ha given his
orders and that they are se comprehensive
nnd imperative that it will be demonstrated
within a few days that there was no justi
fication whatever for the circular sent out
by the New Yerk steamship men.
FLUID GOLD?
THE fabulous prosperity of the Standard
Oil Cempuny of New Jersey, reflected
in the prodigious stock dividends recently
announced te a multitude of ecstatic In
vestors, suggests again that before we knew
it the basic measurements of national wealth
mav be made with oil rather than witb
ge'd.
Mr. Rockefeller nnd his disciples Ecem
te hne had the gift of prophetic foresight
when they began originally te seek out nnd
control the sources of the petroleum supply.
The subsequent trend of Industrial technique
was proof of their almost uncanny wisdom.
Oil-burning locomotives followed almost
immediately after ell-burnlng ships. The
enormous expansion of machine processes,
which depend ultimately en oil of one sort
or another, added volume te the golden flood
that since has eured In upon Mr. Rocke
feller nnd his nseeciated magnates. Most
important of nil these factors, however, was
the automobile, which cannot run a mile
without a supply of the two commodities
that the Standard nnd similar corporations
furnlbh refined mineral oil and gasoline.
Gasoline was until recently nn almost
worthless by-product of the refineries. New
It is the chief source of the geed fortune
thnt has fallen te people who were fortu
nately situated en the ground fleer of the
oil Industry when devll-wngens came Inte
being. It Is Interesting te remember that
Mr. Eerd, who Is new crowding Mr, Rocke
feller for first place among rich Americans,
did mere than any one else te contribute
te the fortune of his rival.
"VELVET TO THE SEA"
GENTLEMEN with high hats, politicians,
Mayers, official delegations of all sort,
mere-thnu-tnerry, villagers from regions nd
jucent te Camden nnd clouds of pretty Indies
will gather next month for the ceremonial
opening of the last link of the new White
Herse pike, which has just been concreted
nnd widened between Berlin and the Cnradcn
linei iii.
When speeches have been mnd and the
ribbons broken by the motorcars of the
residing dignitaries, Philadelphia and all
I tlie region that ruus westward te the Pacific
Vrlll nflVA tl,A mtwAMlitwa A M .iiwwMl nAVn.
wide nnd clear highway from the Delaware
Itlvcr te the Jersey beaches. It Is believed
that the new concrete reads new being built
for meter uses will Inst, even under the
hardest stresses of modern traffic, for nt
least ten years without need of any repairs.
And it is interesting te speculate upon the
uses te which such highways will be put
during that period.
If the output of American motorcar fac
tories Is maintained nt its present volume
and the chances are that It will steadily In
crease traffic will be doubled en all Inter
city reads before live years have passed.
Mr. Ferd alone is mnklng mere than n
million cars a year. Se the new White Herse
pike, new an example of all that Is modem
and spacious in meter highways, will be little
mere thnn adequate as n public read befere
Its sin face needs attention or replacement,
unless airplanes are tamed In the meantime
te the service of the average commuter.
In ten years, after the completion of the
Delaware Bridge, much of the open country
about Camden will be built up. Residential
areas will be developed along main routes.
The seashore resorts will be enlarged greatly
and nn increasing population In Eastern
1 ennsylvenia will ndd te the volume of traffic
en the highways that run te the shore. Se
it is plain that we ure coming te a time when
tlie problems of traffic control en open high
ways will be (itiite as important as It Is new
in cities. We bhnll see traffic men and even
automatic signal systems en all Important
inter-city reeds. What will have happened
meanwhile in thickly populated cities like
rniludelphiu js net for us te imagine.
BARLEYCORN AFLOAT
rpiIE correspondence between Secretary
A Hughes and the British Government,
begun in Washington with a view te the
restriction of liquor smuggling from the
Buhamas, is for the moment closed. It was
mere colorful In ten0 than diplomatic cor
respondence usually Is. The "American
citizens of questionable reputation," of
whom our State Department talks In its
complaint about smugglers, nnd "the boys"
t jVle 8hlp reKl"tr'' ,,fflces f British West
Indian possessions who, according te the
quoted report of prohibition agents, "have
te be looked after," may rend the formal
notes without any ngltntleu of heart or
mind.
The whele question of smuggled liquor
and the smuggling system Is just where It
was before. Ills Majesty's Government, n
Government which has geed reasons for
anxiety In any emergency of nffnlrs which
tends te change existing rules upon any of
the sens, politely but firmly expresses an
unwillingness te agree by treaties of any
sort te un extension of the three-mile 2ene
te a twelve-mile zone. The suggestion was
made by Mr. Hughes In order that the pres
ent danger zone of smugglers might be
widened. The British are surrounded by
water. They live largely by shipping. It
wns hardly te be expected that tbey would
agree te any departure from traditional
practices which might nt any time react te
their peril or their disadvantage at home.
Ambassador Geddes, speaking for his
Government, observes in a tone of deep
sympathy thnt he Is sure that the condi
tion complelncd of by the Government of
the United States Is a temporary one nnd
that the abuses mentioned will "be sup
pressed by tlie United States authorities in
the net distant future." And thcre you
arc.
There will be en effort, however, te take
from adventurous rum skippers ene of the
safeguards that they new have. It has
been the custom of the British .shipping
clerks te issue two seta of clearance papers
te rum runners. One set consigned them
te Canadian or Eurepenn ports. The ether
set authorized thcrn te proceed te the
United States "In ballast." Thus a rum
ship caught with her enrge within the
three-mlle limit could show one set of
IinncrS nnd C.StnblUh her riuht tn nrneeml
If she managed te transfer or land her
enrge she could bhew the otter set and
peaceably, nnd apparently In all innocence,
enter an American pert. This detail of the
general case lrf te be brought te the attention
of the proper authorities in Londen, nnd In
the course of time something may be done
about It.
Of the stupendeus1 cargoes of bard liquor
that find n way te the British West Indies,
of the ships that go rolling down from Scot
land nnd England nnd Ireland with enough
whisky te float the Bahamas out of the
ocean, the British Government sold nothing.
Officially, it knows nothing of such ship
ments. It is still n Government disposed te
feci that the business or private affairs of
Its citizens nre none of Its business.
RAILWAY MERGERS
THE country has progressed a long way
slnce the passage of the flrt anti-trust
act under which the consolidation of rail
roads wan prevented.
The Esch-Cummlns Railroad Act ex
pressly directed the Interstate Commerce
Commission te prepare a plan for the con
solidation of the railroads into n limited
number of systems, nnd authorized the rail
roads te consolidate themselves In accord
ance with the plan. And It relieved the
railroads from the operation of the anti
trust law. But the railroads were net com
pelled te unite.
Senater Cummins Is new nt work en an
amendment te the law which will make
consolidation Imperative. He proposes te
create nineteen rnllrend systems Intended te
serve the three sections .nte which the
country Is te be divided. These sections
are the Southeastern, Including thnt part
of the country south of the Pntemnc and
Ohie Rivers end enst of the Mississippi ;
the Eastern, Including the remaining part
of the country east of the Mississippi, nnd
the Western, thnt part of the country west
of this great river.
The Senuter insists that as the railroad
rates are fixed by the Interstate Commerce
Commission, there can b no competition
among them snve in the mntter of bcrvice.
Therefore their consolidation into a small
number of groups in the Interest of economy
nnd efficiency cannot affect rates at all and
that the Idea of preserving competing lines
for the benefit of the public must be aban
doned. It hns taken a long time te reach this
conclusion, but .it wat inevitable from the
moment when the power te fix rates was
conferred en a Government beard and taken
from the freight and passenger agents.
The railroads nre net expected te favor
the compulsory plan which Senater Cum
mins hn.s In mind. Presumably they would
prefer te arrange their own consolidations
ns business conditions shall warrant. It Is
net surprising that nothing has been done
since February, 11120, when the new rnll rnll
eond law went Inte effect. The railroads
have been tee Iium1 engaged in rehabilitat
ing themselves after their exp lience with
Government control.
, The law ns It stands permits consolidation
In every feim width the InterFtnte Com
merce Commission ituij approve, and it per
mits peeling of freight nnd passenger re
ceipts under similar oemltilons, thus re
moving nil legal restrictions upon such
combinations ns used te exist. Many ob
servers will be Inclined te the opinion that
It; -would be mere expedient te permit the
rnllrends te work out their own problem
after business conditions me )rniur mere
nearly neiinnl luim te feicc .pen them any
form of consolidation against their will.
yAS ONE WOMAN SEES IT
An Evening- Deliberately Given Over
te Just Talk Was a Quest for
Adventure Which Ended in
an Oil' Field
Ily SARAH D. LOWRIE
WE WERE laughing the ether night ever
the craven fear displayed by the younger
generation of any gathering of people thnt
depends en conversation te make It a suc
cess. "Just talk" an the nftermath of feed
is a horror of anticipation tee great te be
borne. An adjournment te the piny or the
movies or bridge or a dance or nt the worst
a professional nmuser are the only thinkable
solutions of getting through un evening when
one entertains one's friends.
It Is net that the eunger generation can
not talk, nnd talk amusingly, but the mere
prospect of talking te pass the time makes
"cowards of them all."
Yet could they but realize It, talk te pass
the time hns real adventure In It. It Is a
great gamble, te be sVrc, but lucky numbers
de tifrn up with enough frequency te give
one the gambler's fever te try again.
The thing that Is continually interesting
me in "just talk" Is the curious way It has
of being apropos the questions thnt the day's
experiences have turned uppermost.
I had a case In point last evening when I
dined In company with some nine persons,
who were ns diverse In their interests, pre
sumably, as they were In their life occupa
tions. At least the men of the group about
the dinner tnble were diverse; I suppose,
however, their wives had a proprietary In
terest in their husbands' specialty and could
be counted en te talk shop intelligently at a
pinch.
Ne one was talking shop ns It happened
with any particularity, se thut what fell te
my let te niece together Inte an intelligible
whole was in its way the mere remarkable.
IT BEGAN with my own preoccupation
earlier In the day with the difference be
tween the present cost of gasoline and the
dividend which the Standard Oil Company
had lately announced.
Enter In the dny I had listened te the
grave prognostications of an Englishman en
the present Near Enst war crisis, which he
insisted was actually a tight about oil. That
Is, it Is the undeveloped oil In Asin Miner
and what used te be Turkey in Europe, ns
well ns In Russia, that mnkes the world like
n family dividing up the personal estate of a
near and net dear relative.
One motion en the part of any one that
hns the semblance of a grab will bring en a
melee of "cntch-OB-cetch-can." Well, I had
oil rather en the brain, but net te the extent
thnt I wanted te utter n monologue en the
subject, nny mere than I wnnted te hear a
discussion en the fate of Turkey, or the l'ate
of n Europe with tee much Turkey.
Se when I found myself talking te Dr. Talt
McKenzle, the physician-sculptor, I wns
glad when the tulk turned naturally and
serenely te a description en his side of his
old home town in Canada, somewhere In the
province et uttnwu. He nnd leen sum
moned there by the town fathers te make the
war memorial of the forty-five boys who had
lest their lives overseas from thnt small cen
ter of potrletism of something ever 2000
inhabitants.
He described the place as full of Interest
for him still, because of the intelligent secinl
group that maintained itself there in n sur
rounding country of farms nnd farming folk.
They were Scotch, who had emigrated during
the depression nfter the Napoleonic wars,
well-to-de and well-equipped fnrmern, who
hemestended hundreds of ncres nplece of
forest lnnd, nnd in the second generation
built substnntiiil stone houses, and in the
third hnd gardens nnd comfortable luxuries
of a beautifying sort.. His father had been
the minister and established the first church
of the town, coining directly from Edinburgh
te take ever tjie charge and establish a
manse nnd a family in It.
ALL this was far enough from oil, nnd I
found myself asking Dr. McKenzle what
he thought was the reason the substantial
families of bis boyhood hnd given place te
tenant farmers, the younger generation of
the old sort having gene west or te the
States, leaving the countryside go te waste,
or ut lrnst less carefully kept up than In
the old days as he had described it, palings
gene nnd orchards going nnd the gnrdens a
thing of the past.
He told me that the great crop of many
such places In Canada today Is net farm
stuff, but what the Irish cull peat.
And then he went en te remark thnt the
process of turning the begs of ether decades
into fuel in the shape of portable briquettes
wns solving net only Cnnada's coal problem,
but some of her oil problems us well.
He snld that the Government hnd been
forehanded enough te realize that with
neither of these commodities oil or coal in
any great abundance Camilla was tee dan
gerously dependent en ether countries te face
the future with much hope of eemnetlng suc
cessfully. He said thnt one el Canada's
scientists hnd been employed te experiment
with the fuel qualities of the waste 'beg lands
of the country, with the result that a very
practical article hud been produced, se thnt
for n small price nnd ns the result of easj
labor above ground n substitute for coal hail
resulted that was both pertable and
abundant. In fact, from the earth of her
fields Canada has evolved her fuel for yearb
te come.
NOW that the conversation should have
taken this turn from one learned In the
arts was sufficiently plqunnt. but that my
ether neighbor, Contain Jehn O'Brien, of the
new towns in the Flerida Everglades, rheuld
take up the same tale when he sauntered
ever te have a chat Inter In the evening, wns
even mere of an adventure into the unex
pected. He began by seylng casually that tomor
row he was bound for Montreal, where he
hnd an appointment te see a man named
Moere, I think he said, and then he added
racditutivcly, as though It was. n matter In
which I was unlikely te have nn Interest:
"He wns employed by. the Canadian Gov
ernment te experiment In turning muck Inte
briquettes that could be used as fuel in
stead of coal or oil," and then 6eelng that I
looked intelligent and even interested, I sup
pose, he ndded :
"We can solve the fuel problems for
Flerida by doing the same thing with the
muck that Is the top layer of land down with
us in the Everglade country."
He calculated n moment nnd then ruk
gested that something like 2,000,000.000 tens
could be get off the waste lands available
near the new town he Is starting Clew isten
near the head of Lake Okeechobee. Only
I gathered thnt they have plenty nf oil down
In Flerida; In fact, it teemed te be his idea
that they would use oil with the muck in
the manufacture of the briquettes.
The briquettes us fuel would sflVe tle ej
en a large scale for ether purposes and
hugely facilitate Henda's manufacturing
value, practically revolutionize her output
and ndd immensely te the State's productive preductive
ncss nnd capability of supporting a very
large population. ,
Fer with oil and with what is equivalent
te coal, nnd with the Hwnmps drained off
or lelng dm ned off and tremendously rich
farm lands left in the place of stagnant
wnters: with her climate and her tourist ac
commodations, net te speak of her ernnues
and ether fruits, the State hn.s a very great
future, ns well ns un important present one
would think Of ceur,e, O'Hrleii thinks se,
or he would net be there. '
T WAS amused te have the talk of the eve
1 nng end with oil. ns the ,,,. ln,
This time it was en the wonders of the
Spanish house, which M -ti,ei-, t J... j... ln
Bench nrchitect, is preduei,,,; f(1P ' '
Philadelphia", presumably out of Slnndaid
fill dividend money. 1 llrt of its winder il
ncss is a garden planted overnight ami con cen
plete even te flowering vines and huge
banyan and palm trees in Its flowery pntie
Certainly whatever turn the conversation
took, lust night en oil It was net a s up
one! I itH wuy It was ns geed as a we .
devised Play and touched ! my imagination
mero than a movie and hud as much ",,'
element of chance ns bridge, while fiem lint
te lust II had mere 1 1, de whh hf,. umu . '
of these mere youthful v n f pss ti'
time between dluiier auU sleep.
NOW MY IDEA IS THIS!
Daily Talks With Thinking Philadelphia en Subjects They
Knew Best
HENRY STARR RICHARDSON
On Censoring the Movies
THE Idea of the censorship of the moving
pictures Is te safeguard the youth of the
country, says Henry Starr Richardson, sec
retary of the Pennsylvania State Beard of
Censers, nnd thnt lden, together with the
protection of the property values of the pic
tures by changing them se ns te render It
possible te show them without impairing
the Ideals of youth, Is followed by the mem
bers of the beard.
"There is mere necessity and justification
for the censorship of moving pictures," said
Mr. Richardson, "than there is for n cen
sorship of either books or plays, because the
pictures ere se objective and se universal.
In the case of books nnd literature in gen
eral people hove te find what Is objection
able, but In the case of the pictures it Is
brought te them, and this Is an Important
difference.
Taste and Judgment Demanded
"In addition te safeguarding youth, it is
the duty of the censers, ns we see it, te
tnkc out whntcver geed taste nnd Judgment
and geed public policy indicate as undesir
able. "All ever the country, where censorship
exists, It has been the custom te attack
the Pennsylvania censers nnd declare that
our censorship Is radical and unduly severe.
Many of these nittncks have been made out
of the whole cloth, as was the case In a
widely advertised subtitle, which, it was al
leged! we (took out of the picture, 'The
Vnnr Horsemen of the Apocalypse. This
statement was entirely untrue. It Is tsuc
ttiat WC UU lllDinfc Uliuil inn cumiiiiHivii w
whatever we believe will have n deleterious
effect upon the public, but that change al
leged te hnve been ordered made In this
picture positively was net made by us.
"This protection of the public Is the real
object of the Pettnylvania Benrd of Censers,
nnd beyond this we de net go. What we
de insist shall be taken out in every case
where It appears Is anything In the ac
tion or in the titles which shall glorify
crime or mnUe heroes of criminals. This
we firmly believe te be dangerous te public
welfare, and must be eliminated before the
picture can be shown In our jurisdiction.
What Is Usually Tolien Out
"Tills genernl definition Includes the use
In the pictures of weapons of all kinds, such
na revolvers, knives, held-uti scenes, acts
of violence, gagging nnd binding, tying up,
subjecting te torture and these scenes gen gen
ereily where force is used. It includes also
attacks en women nnd girls, und prolonged
struggles which arc used with no ether aim
than te create and prolong a bensatlen until
the 'here' arrives en the scene, ns he ulwuys
docs.
"These are hnndled by taking out the de
tails of such struggles nnd the close-ups
which always are given for the same purpose
of producing a sonsntieu which mere often
thnn net hns net the slightest bearing upon
the general action of the picture.
"It gees without saying, of course, thnt
anything Indecent or immoral must come
out in tete. But there Is net much nf this
sort of thing. The producers have learned
that it will net go either In Pennsylvania or
In any ether Stnte where civic pride and a
senso'ef decency exist uineng the people
ns a whole. There is such a very small per
eentnee of this in the pictures that It Is
."negligible.
Violence the Chief Thing
"It is nets of violence which principally
come under the ban today. The variations
of this are pructlcnlly Illimitable, nnd we
arc always en the watch for any glorification
of crime nnd the successful use of force for
nny illegal purpose.
"The attitude of the movie people, both
producers and exhibitors, has hem .friendly,
te us for a long time. Recently. tu .nuivle
producers' association in Western Pennsyl
vania passed n resolution of ce!iiue,iul.ntiqii
nt their leiivenliun, saying that wp had
taken out only such things ns they them
mixes would net want exhibited anywhere.
The owners, we hnve found, nsk rfrfly Intel
ligent, fair und unbiased censorship, and we
have had no trouble with the producers, .ev
change people or the exhibitors, all of whom
nre heartily co-operating with eur.htuwil.
"Seals of approval from the beard nre
nccessury before a picture can be sheivu
In Pennsylvania, and these act ns a license
te exhibit the picture. A blank Is filled out
1 (.cut us. telling all about the ni,.t,,,
I the number of icels nnd a full description
I of it. This is done by the exchuiig- p en!..
E
QUITti A CONTRAST
who get the film In readiness, se for as we
arc concerned, te pass en te the exhibitor.
Accompanying this Is a certified check made
payable te the State Treasurer; we handle
no money whatever in the beard.
"Then the film is run In the exhibiting
rooms of the benrd, nnd where passed with
out chnng the reels are sent back with
the seal of approval of the beard attached.
Every ene who has attended a moving pic pic
ture has seen this seal exhibited before the
actual picture begins. Where changes are
ordered, whatever Is directed te be changed
Is made In the form of u report te the
exchange people.
Giving Dangerous Information
"We also guard against suggestion and
information hb te methods of doing things
which are illegal or undesirable or the Incul
cation eT such thoughts through anything
which might be shown en the screen. This,
tee, generally applies te gunplay or thug
gery of ene kind or another.
"I might sny thet OU per cent of the
changes which we order made apply te shoot sheet
ing or ether scenes of violence or subtitles
producing the same effect. When I first came
te the beard we took n strong stand against
this glorification of the criminal. This ap
plies also te the super-criminal who hns
reformed. The producers und the exchange
men knew this new, nnd we don't get many
of them; In fact, net mere than one or two
a year,
"New, when it la necessary te show u
criminal, he is frankly a criminal, and takes
the position In secletv which .,.i,i,,i
normally occupies and net that of one who
J has reformed and Is new n prosperous nnd
successful man.
Suvlng the Pictures
.u"W? ,wer,! n,en very definite lines in
the whole matter, and de It se that the
property value of the picture will net be
Injured or lessened nnd se that the Interest
in it will net be destroyed. Sometimes this
necessitates n geed deal of work en our part
but In every instance we try te make the
changes se thnt they will net be noticed
by the audience, which is generalh in ignor
ance that anything has been eliminated
"It sometimes happens that te de this the
whole picture must be changed around, when
there nre Important parts of it which we
consider must be changed before the nieture
may safely be exhibfed. This can h(. ,iIIU.
mm wie iiiciure given nn entlrelv difT
nspect without injuring its interest in
way.
r tit
any
"It very rarely happens that en entire
picture is condemned. The producer, knw
about whut will be nllewed and ,hat will
net be, and they will net waste the ,"
and money required lu making an elahen e
film unless th"y nre reasonably certain i,,,t
it will be approved. We are usml
Id find some way In which ti,n .li, ,1 "."
, .wi,iM..i i... i ' " ""u"' '""
";,1, i, 's-muvuig or cluing ng
objectlennble parts." h
the
The Maryland - Del
aware P, uinsuin t his
year lias nn uiiiimm.ii,.
MeblK) Se,
Jcs' Mclibe
large
snme Is true of the npeli
"PI'I- C,.,;. T
grew In; counties
of New Yerk State. The fa
t III II lll-i sent
another tnnlilcm fur (1V..MM,
p ',, , "ii I'l.eieeine
officers. Rumer has It that certain erd,-.,-,
ltitj. liniih ,llj.Ad.BA.. ...1 1 IM(M
'teieeiiient
inir, iiuii- iiiai'iirureii u new DrillKl of
apple-
jncii. iney uirn tlie apples into ci
nilt it te grew hard, put it into
Id. per
l flcizer
mm iiniiii upvciepmcniH, What
Uliesii t
...i,.- .- il muu nun me KICK el 11 CnV
eniment mule. Who is ihe m,,,,,,!,,,,.
Mether Nature?
In a lire i Honolulu,
1. II.. 1(100 ukuleles
.weie limned. The 1
Horrible
Thought
..,,, . is estimated at Mi),m().
but thnt, of i nurse, doe.- -net l.KjM ,
pnw. it. The cruel and unihlnM,,,. ,,."
pel Imps rejoice at Ihe holecnuM 1m l
pcnnlb be en th-ii nun beam. Wln,' ,,"'
hew lihmy of these who. in the m.t '....
et tilings, wiiii
things, would have Lmiclit ukul, I,. ..in
new led wiled upon
te ioiimjIe thciiiwelvci
with saxophones;
Maine
himself
this yea
Depending
en tlie Reek
Arthur Brisbane
man considers
lucky because
r he hiiu t. ...... ,
mi iiMir-ienveii eleveis,
grieves for him because he
lit! - , ..... .".lilt!
might have run
one L'i'Oii nook- w i I,..
was finding Ihe Hil. Ceueedliu: the fniiin..
of luck tokens, why isn't (here ns ,..i.
profit In trnmnlna
a meadow as poring ever
u tome.'
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SHORT CUTS
One begins te wonder if Hlnten'a trip
te Rie Is a fly or a tumble bug.
In the matter of search and sttcure
Jehn Bull killed three leagues wiu one beet.
,. U7.d. ?eer BWm t he enjoying him
self. Which is perhaps why he wins battles.
Mr. Hoever's argument en the Euro
pean debt Is calculated te satisfy every bust
ness man.
We have heard no word from Josephus
Daniels welcoming William 8. Sims into re
tirement. Somebody stele the schoolhouse bell at
Stackwater. near Lancaster, Pa., and the
children called him blessed.
One of Lloyd Geerge's present difficul
ties is that what appeals te his country
men hns no great drug with Kemal.
Army aviator flies 248.15 miles an hour.
Te nn outsider it appears as though he were
hurrying te keep a date with Death.
In Just a little while we may expect
the New Brunswick blnyer will have his
goeso cooked nnd served with McCran ber
ries. lie Is a great old scout, is Clemencenu,
when, old ns he Is, he can arouse the hates
directed at him from se many different
quarters.
British newspapers brand
Geerge's Manchester speech ns
But. bless 'em, they can't deny
cntertulnlng.
Lloyd
evasive,
it was
The heavy ever-subscription of the new
Treasury bend Issue Is evidence that the pub
11c takes lightly the adjuration that one may
huye tee much of a geed thing.
Tlie slayers in the IIall-5Illls caae
surely contemplated nothing mere than a
mere murder. Tlie hard nnd unkind feel
ings engendered during the investigation
must be n great grief te them.
As noteblo a revolution as the turning
of the worm Is the action of motlen-pli -ture
performers who'huve complained te the
Actors' Equity Asroclntlen of the hiiugbti-
nes of directors nnd directors'
underlings.
"The damned cowards run nnd run,"
says DnweN of Congressmen faced by organ
ized minorities.. Well, you see, General
(il we may be permitted te call veu se),
some of 'em were training for the day they
run for re-election.
What De Yeu Knew?
QUIZ
1. Why l.s a. Telferd read se called?
" i at kind of a ship Is u patamar?
:t. When did tlie Bolshevists attain control
of the Gnvernnv nt in Ilussln?
What is u llaneur?
C Whin in the s eeml largest city In ths
ri.iwall.in Islands"
. What Is the rncnnlng cf the word flssiU?
. W lint is uiiiTiliiir' '
S. What is ultrnmentanlsm?
wimt is in., nt ly s, ri d ranks"?
Who wna the founder of osteopathy?
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Answers te Yesterday's Quiz
Philip Masslnper, n netid English drama
tist of the latter part of the sixteenth
ami thu lit st part of the seventeenth
century, cteuted the character of Sir
mien 1'iwrro.ieh In lifs comedy, "A New
Way le l'.iy Old Debts."
Kirlil.i, Greece. Ilulgatla and Montenegro
feiiitht niralnst Turkey In the first
Bnllinii Win- In 1013,
VeiiKe outsell le be an Independent re
public In 17U7.
The nr et the- P.esi r In Kngland b'"
Kim .ibeut the nil. Kile of the fifteenth
( till" ii'"l !'- .1 "I'll " 1 'en' "' '
lUUuml III ut Boiwei'tli Field In H8S,
'J I nihil .ii in I, in. ihn-r as a ri'ii
ion- i. ml that f Yeik n white tes.'.
D. A
fuuli iilar inllwiiy Is se called hecnus
the cars used en It are nttaclkd le
cuiil. The Latin word for cord
"lutils"
"Dellar il'iilemncy" Is tlie unniu given te r
tb. policy of utilizing the financial ,
liiU'itsts or pewi r of a country as a
nn .iiih of Ntri'inrMicMiiK lis fere'itu re
lations. Thu term ulse describes the .
policy of subordinating all ether con cen con
sldeiatlens te the foreign trade anil
llniinelal Interests of u country
Cat.'lmil tin Itlchellmi 1 veil In the six- .
teentli nnd seventeenth centuries.
Senater rubier in fiem n'cw Yerk State.
Alexandfr Hamilton wns a native, 'f the '
Ibluud of Kevin lu tlie West Imtif ,
Tim enceinte of a city Is the prlnelpsi
line et fortifications Inclosing It.
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