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The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-05-07
PUBLIC UTILITIES

The Northern Ohio Traction and Light
Company reports for March gross earnings
of t2SO,I79, an increase Of St,bSl, EN-
penses and taxes increased Sl0.l3s, 30 that
net for the month reflected u decrease of
y3.3jS. 1ne balance after interest charges
Was $40. $40, decrease OF $3.50, com
pared with March, 1914,
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DIVIDEND DECLARATIONS.
FINANCIAL NOTES.

Company and Term. Stock Amt. Payabl'
Butterick, quarterly. - ~ June
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DAILY TREASURY STATEMENT.

WASHINGTON, May s-The Statement. OF
the receipts and pay warrant. of the Treas
ury elbows:
May e. This me. Fiscal "
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Pay warrants. 1871 go s.s9.so e07.7le ie5
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Receipts from customs May 3. ts20.e5 in
ternal revenue. ordinary, S.7.i25: corporation
tar. 81 5-5. miscellaneous, sis@ 9ii
National bank notes received for reiemp.
tion. g. 5li.js3
The each statement OF the United States
Treasurer for May shows
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Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-02-21
[Are Problem Plays More Moral Than French Farces1

the modern Purtans may do now by applying
their peculiar morality to institution which
they have never understood, and never, when
they we're logical, tolerated
The Nation. OF London. recently created
Censorship Symposium Of leading minister.
who either hold or at least have been
trained to hold. all theatricas in horror. Thi,
seems to me what is called in the serious
drama ''irrational,' and, in our lighter drama
"a bit thick" l Will respect mans opinion
when he comes forward as teetotaller, but
not when he also comes forward as wine.
taster.
The influence Of group which until quite
lately at least hated the theatre the theatre
s an influence not difficult to predict. 1t must
tend, not to making the theatre less immoral,
but simply to making 1t less theatrical. And
like theatres theatrical. as like poems poetical
But a much queerer thing has happened.
which every one must have noticed Just lately
Not only have the Puritans taken sides in the
dramatic world, but they have taken the side
of playwrights whose plays would have horri-
fed their consistent theological forefathers. II
the old Puritans scourged and branded men for
acting frivolous plays they would have pretty
we'll burned them alive for acting problem
plays. But the Purians. coming out of
problem playwrigllts with all the earnest
young aesthetics and atheists who devote Ave
nets to trying to find out IL there is such
thing as morality. Nearly all the eminent min.
listers summoned to the council say good
word In passing for the modern drama of ear.
nest nquirythat is, for Ibsen, Granville
Barker Hauptmann or Shaw.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-02-21

mockcry and tomfoolery included. But it is
too much that you should ask us to fast and
mourn in front of morality that Is not there
II is too much that you should ask us to re.
sDect the shrine while your conoclasts are
destroying the god. 1t is absurd that black
ring OF Puritans in tall, black hats should be
drawn up round the place, telling us all to he
silent and solemn. while we hear within the
DISK ana cheerful pckaXcs OF Mr.. Shaw or Mr.
Barker breaking mp every moral ideal which
any sane man was ever silent or solemn about
! do not myself think it is wrong TO laugh even
al morality in which do believe. | most Ger.
iainly think it right TO laugh at a morality in
which don't believe. And ] shall certainly
laugh my longest and loudest about a morality
that nobody has yet discovered
AS 10 the censorship, doubt whether any Ona
particular sort OF man, taken by himself can be
trusted To Judge fairly OF such an incessant and
various stream OF work that OF all the pub.
nsheu ana unpublished plays | think the cen.
sorship OF some elected body would be better I
think the censorship OF a common Jury would
cats and rotten eggs. delivered instantly after
the onense, would be best OF ALL
i'ut upon none OF these principles can find
any uelehSe FOR the paoplo who persecute i'm.
morality while they still pursue morality:
thlng that etcrnaiiy escapes them. see no OK.
enSe Tor those who have no serious princple
nut wish 10 retain serious topic There ia no
'such thing as serious topic: assertions alone
are serious. The words that make them I'm arc
neither serious nor frivolous in themselves Our
modern Puritans must decide either to defend
marriage and make war on the problem NAV or
else to repudiate marriage and permit Tho
French farce ~
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-02-21

Most OF these plays not only ask the question
is Marriage a Failure?" but ask 1t (as We used
TO say in the Latin GRAMMAR expecting the
answer. Yes. The alliance OF these ideas with
those of the Puritan Is therefore, at first sight
little startling. But the two are allied OF
course, in their common hatred of French farce.
Now must confess that this position OF the
Puritan defending problem plays seems to me
intellectually ndefensible If the light and loose
French farce is immoral it must be violating
some positive morality. There is no other mean.
Ing in the word immoral. But it is the whole
point of the problem play that 1t does not admit
any positive morality at the beginning, but
seeks TO discover some original or uncxpectcd
morality at the end. II once 1t be granted that
the morality is unfixed and doubtful then
there can be no objection to nvestigat ting 1t
from any point OF view.
II the whole matter is thrown open for dis
cussion, why not for humorous discussion? I,
~e do not yet know what marriage is doubt
less it would be we'll to find out; though many
generations of men seem to have been occu.
scientific form. But IL. for the sake of nos
sbe truth. we must admit the suggestion that
marriage is failure, that marriage Is a fable
that marriage Is a bargain, that marriage is :;
crime, why not also admit the suggestion that
marriage is a joke? If you have got the truth
tell us what 1t is; in that case at least ninety.
nine out OF the hundyed problem plays will be.
come worthless and the one with the right
conclusion survive.
TX you have not got the truth allow peopSe
TO follow 1t with what methods they please.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-02-21

preceding the release the mass may be In
the most delicate balance There is popular
error in regard TO the energy of such displaoe-
mcnts. In case recently reported as quito
extraordinary, extending it did over
fast territory, the energy was estimated at
$4,000, 600 600, 900 foot tons. Assuming even
that the whole work was performed In one
minute 1t would only be equivalent to that Of
100000 horsepower during one year, which
seems much but Is little for terrestrial up
heaval The energy Of the suns rays falling
on the same area is thousand times greater
The explosions OF mines, torpedoes, mortars
and guns develop reactive forces on the ground
which are measured in hundreds or even
thousands OF tons and make themselves felt
all over the globe. Their effect, however,
may be enormously masnifed by resonance.
The earth is sphere of rgidity slightly
greater than that of steel and vbrates once
III about one hour and forty-nine minutes
If, as might we'll be possible the concus.
sions happen to be properly timed their com.
bined action could start tectonic adjustments
in any part of the earth. ami the Italian ca.
lamity may thus have been the result OF ex.
plosons i'll France. That man can produce
such terrestrial Commissions Is beyond any
doubt, and the time may be near when il will
be done for purposes good or evil
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-02-21

lily of such state being anything but the in.
evltable consequences Of cosmic disturbance.
The question naturally presents itself as
TO whether there is some intimate relation
between wars and terrestrial upheavals. The
latter are OF decided influence on Temporal.
ment and disposition, and might at times be
instrumental In acceleratng the clash, but
aside from this there seems TO be no mutual
dependence, though both may be due to the
same primary cause.
What can be asserted with perfect con.
fdence Is that the earth may be thrown into
commissions through mechanical effects such
as are produced in modern warfare. THIS
statement may be startling. but 1t admits OF
simple explanation.
Earthquakes are principally due to two
causes-subterranean explosions or sfruc.
tural adjustments. The former are called
volcanic, involve immense energy and are
hard to start The latter are named tectonic;
their energy is comparatively Insignificant
and they can be caused by the slightest shock
or tremor. The frequent slides in the Culebra
are displacements of this kind
War and the Earthquake
Theoretically, it may be said that one might
think of tectonc earthquake and cause it
to occur a result of the thought for lust
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-02-21
By q. K. CheStertOn
THE most dangerous thing in this world
l is a Puritan who is broadening his mind.

7TjE most dangerous thing in this world
is a Puritan who is broadening his mind.
He Is just like a barbarian who is
broadening his empire. More and more things
do. indeed, come under his consideration; but
this only means that more and more things
come under his depressing and depressing
power. He sheds the cities of the earth
disastrous twilight, to quote one OF the older
and stronger Puritans. who had broad cu
tire and narrow creed, instead Of having
like the Puritan popular preachers Of to-day. a
narrow culture and a broad creed.
But disastrous twilight" is the exact phrase
for this hazy but sombre modernism, this odd.
respectable combination of duness with doubt
Nowadays, the incest Puritans are the mar.
rowest-the humble, old-fashioned people one
can still find snepherded into their separate
little chapels among fishermen miners. In
side their little tin cnapels, each with its
mos attached, one can still sometimes feel that
elemental FIRE and freedom which is In all
genuine authoritative religion. II is In the great
halls and lecture-rooms that one feels stifed
One feels as IL the whole universe had been
turned into lectureroom.
The strongest case of this Is the interior
Of the modern "broad-minded" Puritans
with the drama and the matter of the censor.
ship. Their fathers stopped away from the
theatre altogether. am not 80 malignant
TO say that they improved. frightened and puri.
fed the theatre by stopping away from It; but
do say that did 1t no harm. And do say that
their ancestors, who smashed all the :Aeatres
and scourged and branded all actors and &C
tresses. did mich less harm to the theatre than
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-07-18
MANY TOURISTS T0 MAKE AUTO TRIP ID YELLOWSTONE National Park Will Be Open for Motor Cars August
 Many Inquiries
 Received

Washington, July 17.-(Special } That automobilists have only waited the opening of Yellowstone National park to make 1t an objective touring point In their plans Is amply proved by the many who have inquired at the touring department of the American Automobile association, both at the Washington and at the New York head quarters. not a few of whom are iron, the extreme east. Fully 30 per cent of the transcontinental tourists have scheduled a trip through the park and this ratio Is now rapidly increasing as the opening day approaches.
 The plan for opening the Yellow stone to automobiles on August is completed. Colonel Brett, '. s. A. su. perintendent of the Yellowstone Ma tional park, has compiled a very em- bracing set of rules to govern the pe- ouliar situation which this season Is bound to come about when it is appre- ciated that the roads are not all they should be and that the mountain horses used by the stage lines, are too wild to take chances with.
 There may be some motorists who will complain that the regulations are unhappily strenuous, but 1t is believed that general spirit of good sportsman ship will prevail on the part of those using their automobiles for touring the park and because of this the rules will be accepted as they ought to be- Win motorists showing a full apprecia ii or that they are pioneers in the opening of the park, they will demonstrate ways and means for better all round regu- lat1OnS that hn1Ind tn the experiences this year of those in charge of the park and the enforce ment of the new rules. It is an eXperi- ment not without certain risks and o5- yiously there must be no accidents to mar the opening.
 It is only natural that considera ble time must pass before the mountain horses, used for the stage coaches, will be fully accustomed to the automobiles, and before the roads through the park are in really proper condition for this new kind of traffic. However, those in charge are fully alive to the new needs of tourists and are certain to make notifications in the regulations as soon as conditions improve and as promptly as possible.
 The regulations are now in the hands of stephen T. Mather assistant to the Secretary of the Interior and in charge of national parks. As soon as he has gone over them for criticisms and cor rections they will be printed and wide. ly distributed
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-07-18
May Ranish the Mule

From the Richmond Times-Dispatch.
 Robert Louis Stevenson loved war. and in his intervals of illness, when he was prostrated and unable to write, played an elaborate war game with his little stepson. Tn this war game he employed lead soldiers and devices intended to rep resent wagon trains creeping along the strategic highways and exposed to cap- ture by raids of leaden horsemen.
 Second only in romantic interest to the soldiers on the firing lines were the long lines of wagons driven by humorous sen,i-noncombatants and hauled by that familiar friend of man, the mule. For these ages past the mule has been one of the chief figures in warfare. He drag ged Napoleon's supplies from the Ebro to the Moskva and made the great strate- gist's campaigns possible. He was pres- ent in the Crimea, the Franco-Prussian war and all other European struggles of the last century. He did yeoman service for both armies of our conflict of half a century ago. And in the last stages of that war, when horses were scarce and of poor quality in the Confederacy, many a gray-clad cavalryman strode mule. The most precious and poignant memo- ries of warfare have the mule somewhere in the background.
 And now the United States army plans to do away with mules. Some kind of automobile will take it's place. War is sufficiently unromantic and mechanical at present. The elimination of mules and horses will do away with the last touch of picturesquesness; the future soldier must be an expert mechanic before any, thing else. Man will be the only live and breathing thing in the great mass of iron tubes wheels, motors. gases and covered ditches.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-07-18
THE PAIGE FOR 1916| NOW ON TIE MARKET
New Big Six Has Many Characteristics of Fair
 field "Six-46"

The Paige-Detroit Motor Car company has announced it's new Big Six for 191e-an improved edition of the Fairfield 'Sx-46," first shown to the public last January. Like it's predecessor, the new Fairfield Six is a seven-passenger, 6-cylinder car. and it retains all the vital features and all the characteristics of design that first won success and distinction for the Paige company in the field of sixes. In addi- tion to these characteristics certain re- finements and improvements noted. The price of the new model, however, the Paige company has been enabled to out s100. thanks to the great demand ere ated by the first Fairfield and consequent increase in factory capacity and fac tory production. It is significant to note in this connection that the Paige fac tory. ln spite of early effort to meet the demand created by the first edition of the Fairfield, has never, since its first announcement last January, caught up with the orders.
 High cost of living has diminished the purchasing power of the dollar in many directions. This general tendency does not. however. always apply to the auto
 mobile industry. and, with earlier models and their prices in mind, it is amazing to observe how much can now be pur- chased for less than $1300-a fact W hicn H. Illustrates better than anything else the extraordinary advance made by the in- dustry in a very few years. And this ad- vance in quality and quantity per dollar is not due entirely to quantity produc- tion by any means. In a large measure 1t
 is due to experience and scientific meth ods of manufacturing and merchandising.
 The Paige Fairfield "Six-46" first won attention through its distinctive design and the capacity and fiexibility of its en-
 zine. The new model retains these feat
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-07-18
Guests Get Sung

t rom the tTlODe-DemOcrat.
 Philadelphia. Fifty members of the
 Philadelphia Bookkeepers association
 were shown how bees can be swarmed artiflcelly at the first of the summer meetings of the association, held at the home of Charles c. Wright, Aldan.
 John o. Buseman made the demonstra- tion of what is known as "a shook swarm among the bookkeepers. A two- story hive was divided, and the empty hive set aside Mir. Buseman first put six empty combs in this hive. and then placed two frames containing the queen
 bee broods and bees in 1t. In front of the hive he placed a strip of smooth paper.
 As soon the queen bees hum began
 bees began flying in the air and to walk
 into the new hive. Then, with bees flying
 about him, he shook six frames contain ing at least 20,0o0 of the insects, until they dropped onto the paper and walker into the opening of the hive. In the other
 half of the hive which he had set apart he placed a new queen. and then an-
 nounced that two colonies of bees existed where only one existed before. Several of the members were stung by the thousands of bees flying about in the air while this demonstration was go- | ing on.
 Thunder Made Brussels Hope From the London Telegraph.
 few nights ago a storm approa he'd bruSSelS, and-a strange tnlng at tn1S sea ason-distant thunder was heard. At
 that late hour the city was asleep, de- serted, dark. But no sooner did the thun-
 der sound than windows were lighted up here and there one heard the noise
 of doors being opened, people awolse, and
 ran to look and listen. Why? what has happened? I knew next morning. The sound of the thunder had caused the
 same illusion in every mind-the illusion of guns.
 They are coming! They are coming!" was the murmur of the people as they jumped from their beds. When one anx- iously expects somebody every step that approaches seems to be his. In the per-
 turbaton of the sudden awakening mo- body gave a thought to the thunder. What could that roar be except the voice of battle. the voice of victory? That
 noise gave life to a great dream. ''They
 come-our brothers from the fields of the
 Yser." It was incredible. absurd, impos-
 sible, but not for their faith. And for a long minute of that stormy night the soul of the city remained suspended in a profound emotion composed of doubt, | anxiety, intoxication of joy.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-07-18

take it, is a prime function of social ed ucation.
 One other obvious end of education may be named along with the imparting or information and the development of capacity to use the mind and the body. That is the forming of good physical mental and moral habits. The economic reasoning just now referred to is a con scious and sometimes a slow and painful process. But after a while, If the pro- cesses of our reasoning are sound, a par { cular judgment has been formed so clearly, or so often, or is so buttressed by authority, that 1t is accepted as a moral Judgment. It obtains ethical sanction. The conscious reasoning process IS no longer necessary. Time is saved. Effort is saved. Wear and tear of tis- sue and vital energy are saved.
 No doubt honesty was once the best policy. There may be borderlands where it is so still. But for us and our chill dren honesty has ceased to be Q policy. It Is an instinct, a habit of mind, an economic Judgment so often made, so clearly established so authoritativey at- tested. that it offends rather than helps us to allude to it's material advantages
 The farther we can go in this direction of economizing the reasoning process, the more instinctive and immediate right courses of conduct can become the more We shall be able to extend our field of operations, the more complete will be our conquest of nature. and the more produc- uNe Will be the actual expenditure of energy In satisfying the higher and more complex wants.
 This restatement of the elementary aims of education may seem to specialists in the theory of education so obvious as to be trite, so incomplete as to be ai.tastic. The school system to the social economist is an instrument like any other of social construction. Education con- ceived as the means of carrying civiliza- ton forward, as the conscious link be- tween the generations of workers and users of wealth. must do at least these things: Pass on the informa tion, make the mind and body fit instruments of sat isfying the wants of mind; encourage those habits and instincts which econo- mize power and promote the social vel fare
 Put in terms of social problems, the school must aid in preventing poverty by making men more efficient; in prevent ing disease by making men strong and
 l. 'n preventing crime by making men law-abiding in spirit and instnctivey aware of the rights of others; in prevent ing violence by inocuating against self righteousness and brutality.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-07-18
Why Brides Love June

From the Pittsburg Chronicle Telegraph. The first people to adopt the month of June as sacred to Hymen, the god of marriage, were the ancient Romans who considered June the most propitious season of the year for entering upon matrimonial relations. The Romans held June weddings were likely to be happier than alliances contracted in any other month of the year. especially if the day chosen were that of the full moon. They also held that of all months May was the most avoided, as in that month new lyweds would come under the influence of spirits adverse to happy households These ancient marriage superstitions were retained by the Christians in the middle ages and even today June is con- sidered by many to be pre-eminently the month of marriages. The word wedding Is derived from the ancient Anglo Saxon
 'wedd" custom.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-07-18
DE PALMA MAKES
 STOCK CAR RECORD

Ralph De Palma, driving a Packard Twin Six, established a new stock car record on the Chicago speedway on Sat urday, July 10. He travelled 10 miles In S:3s 1-5 seconds. with the cars top and windshield up and six passengers aboard beside himself This was an average speed of 69.5 miles per hour
 On the same day with top and wind shield folded, De Palma, carrying one pas senger beside himself covered 10 miles in S:l4 seconds, an average speed of FPS miles per hour.
 The times are official, as the trials were held under the supervision of F. E. Ed wards, chairman of the technical com mittee of the American Automobile as sociation and a committee consisting of E. A. Turner Darwin Hatch, and F. G. Westlake Fred Wagner was present to act as starter.
 J. C. Vincent, Packard vice president of engineering, conducted an economy test during which the Twin Six travelled 30 miles a 35 miles an hour averaging 133 miles to the gallon of fuel
 In an acceeration test, the car under MT. Vineents guidance picked up from five miles an hour to 30 miles in 26 1-5 seconds.
 Plans had been made for two additional tests, each calling for one hour of con tinuous running, but weather conditions interfered.