Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-04-12
Whole Hog or None Must Be Rule
in Interfering with the LaW
OF Supply and Demand

Editors paid for articles by word
rates or space rates.
The more words you took to tell a
thing the more you got for it.
The editor did not care about econ
omy OF means, that inhexible rule of
good literature
He had great white area to fill.
There must be so many columns or
pages of matter to counterbalance so
many columns or pages of advertising.
Unless some chemical genius finds the
way of synthetizing the wood acid es-
sential in print paper making we arc
going to- change all that perforce.
The readjustment will be trouble
some, but the final result will be
| gain.
with editorial brains cheaper than
white paper. there will be better writ
ing, better selection, more quality and
less quantity.
THE revolution won't be confined to
journalism and to literature.
1t will be general. Unless we tap a
new source of cheap supplies, the en-
phasis in the future generally will have
to be away from quantity and toward
quality production.
~ housts cOst twice as muCh to build
as they used to. there won't be so much
tearing down aud rebuilding as there
used to be.
Houses will be built to stay. as they
are in Europe.
SO will everything else.
q q q
nOCTOR WEIGH. of Baltimore. the
~ famous Johns Hopkins surgeon. at
seventy says he is not old that he is
going on working for many years more
Asked about the scriptural remark
about threescore and ten. he replies ::
But we have changed all that"
! Only little while ago an equally
famous Johns Hopkins doctor was saw
! ing that man had passed his prime
at forty. Doctor Wclch is more hone
ful. Both men told the truth. Men are
past their prime at forty, many men.
Men are young at seventy some men.
a very few, perhaps.
! Why, no one clearly knows.
some men ripen early and decay
quickly.
All real mental function stops before
forty.
After that they merely repeat and
repeat and repeat.
WHAT made Kipliug in his twcnties
w seem like the greatest genius that
had flashed into English literature in
many decades. and at fifty made him as
dull a scolder of bolshevism as Mitchell
Palmer himself?
Some say success.
Some say Cecil Rhodes's money.
What made Swinburnc's intellectual
life after short period one long, slow
death?
Some say constitutional weakness
and wasted energies.
But the explanations do not explain,
What makes Doctor Welch talk
chcerfully of working until he is 100?
What made ClcmenccaT at seventy.
nine the master figure of tho Peace Con
ference. after burning up his forces
turiously from his youth on?
Not anything that Doctor Welch
knows when he says playfully Of the
scriptural threcscore and ten, 1--WE have
changed all that"
Modern science may have given
greater length of days. perhaps, but moi
necessarily the mental youth without
which the greater length Of days is
little worth while.
A ND what shall we do with our
"A young men of seventy?
Doctor Wclch does not answer that
easily.
So that the young men may find their
place in the world, the Young men of
from seventy to 100 must change their
occupations.
A change is critical in those tender
years.
Doctor Wclch doesn't say that he is
going to change his.
''Oh. tell me where is fancy bred? %
gushed the sweet young thing. II
dunno" replied the prosaic guy, "but
see in the papers that nlain bread is