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The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-01-27

Former President William H. Taft says baseball will get the benefit of an excellent judicial mind if Judge kenesaw Mountain Landis of Chi cago accepts the chairm ship of the national commission.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-01-27

St. Louis Cardinal owners are said to have succeeded in raising sufficient funds to carry them over this season. Branch Hickey denies he tried to sell the franchise.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-01-27

Lew Tender. Philadelphia HgIrt- weight, started training last week after n long lay-Off, necessitated as result of an operation for appen- dicitis.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-01-27

Coach Yost of Michigan has advised Wolverine authorities he is ready to quit, but he will not leave Michigan in the lurch for gridiron mentor next autumn.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-01-27

Manager George Gibson of the Pitts burg Pirates, will have something to say about salary boosts this season. Owner Dreyfuss has decided to permit his pilot to assist in solving this diff cuIty.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-01-27

Betting will be in vogue at the Read vile, Mass, meeting of the grand cir cult this year. Auction tickets were sold there last year for the first time and received big play, although the weeks racing was marred by three days of heavy rain.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-10-04
Tie NEXT STEP

rTNliE overwhelming majority by which the
loan ordinance was passed indicates that
it will be supported by all factions when it
Is submitted for the approval of the voters
on November ..
The ratification of the ordinance at the
polls will be an authorization to the Council
to make appropriations for the improve
ments contemplated. No bonds will be
issued until the Council makes the appro-
priations. Those appropriations will not be
effective until the Mayor has approved them.
If he chooses he may disapprovc or reduce
any item in an appropriation ordinance. and
n three ffths vote of all the members of
the Council will be necessary to override
such disapproval.
This provision Of the charter gives to the
Mayor and his supporters the whiphand in
the direction of the financial policy of the
administration If the Mayor can per-
suade the eleven administration members Of
the Council that it will be incxpcdicnt to
spend more than 100000 next year for
Judge Browns palace of Justice that is
all that will be spent in spite of the fact
that the loan ordinance provides for
81 200, 900.
Under the same circumstances he can
control the amount to be spent for the mu-
nicipal building in Germantown and for
Fairgrounds in the district between Broad
street and the Delaware river.
Whether he will be able to hold his fol-
lowers together will depend on the terms
under which the compromise was made that
resulted in an almost unanimous vote for the
loan ordinance.
Most of the objects for which money is to
be borrowed are worthy. Money is needed
for the improvement Of the water supply,
for the extension of Delaware avenue, for
the completion of the Frankford elevated
line. for the Free Library building and the
Art Museum, as well as for new fire stations
and fire apparatus. for new sewers and new
streets, and for new piers on the Delaware
river.
There is, fortunately, agreement on these
matters as well as on most of the other
improvements contemplated. No log rolling
was necessary to get the support Of all fac
tions for them. 1t is the log rolled items
that are OF doubtful wisdom at the present
time
The voters. however. can make no dscrim-
ination among the items in the ordinance
They are to be asked 10 vote for or against
the whole program Those of them who are
interested in performing their full duty as
citizens will mark a cross in the space pro-
vidcd on the ballot expressing their will on
borrowing the money
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CRANE AND The OLD GUARD

TIME late W. Murray Crane, Of MHSsa
J. chusetts. was one of the four l"adr"s
who dominated the policies Of th" R"puh-
lican party in the Senate for number Of
years The other three were Senator Pen
rose. Senator Smoot and Senator Aldrirh
Senator AldriCh died some years ago,
leaving SmoOt and PcnroHo as the only sur
vivors Of powerful group, Th" places Of
the dead men have been taken by others and
n small group of leaders still sit in the seats
of the mighty. Senator Lodge has taken the
place of Aldrich and Brand"gce has joined
the group. along with two or three others.
The new group is still denounced by the
oppostion as tho Old Guard. as though il
were q heinous Offcuse for a political or
ranization to have capable leaders.
IT has long been admitted that ildrich was
one Of the ablcst statesmen in Washington.
and the Democrats paid a tribut" TO his
sagacity when they passed the Federal Re
serve bank law substantially as he had
Arafted II years before. Men are already
having tribute to the remarkable conciia-
tory powers Of Crane. who succeeded in
Washington in smoothing out differences that
other men found impossible to overcome
The defects of both Aldrich and Crane were
the defects of their period in public office.
hnt In spite of their faults they succeeded
fin getting things done. AS that is what a
senator is for, it may be said that they
served their country well according to their
iishts
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MIlLERAND RULES

EXPECTATIONS that Alexander Mile
- rand would prove to be most assertivc
Of French presidents are borne out in his
Introduction of new methods snvoring. much
more Of Washingtonian than Parisinn poll
tics. Among the radical changes at the
EIysec Palace arc the summOning of cabinet
ministers daily. executive examination of
diplomatic and financial problems and the
Offering of pertinent suggestions upon them.
weekly hearings with reporters and init
mate contact with legislative transactions
through the agency Of special secretaries
lt would seem that most of these novel
ties involve fracture Of French preccdents
rather than of the French constitution and
French statutes Customs in dissolution are.
however. always startling, and the CONVEX
sion Of the French presidency from a figure
head Office into one in which the legal maxi
mum of initiative is eXcrted is certain to
stir the Parliament when it meets.
On the whole it is likely that the depart
IRE will not be displCasing to the French
public Dissatisfaction with the sham i'm
portance of the presidency has been growing
in the republic for several years and reached
climax during the regime of Deschanel
officially a cipher. The Gallc popular taste
on the question Of the presidents powers Is
evidently precisely contrary to what prevails
at present in America.
All of which goes to show how alluring
are the ostensiblc charms of the other fel- :
lows $ government.
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Answers to Saturdays Quiz

! Prague is the capital of Czecho- Slovakia
Q Monte Crsto from which Edmond
DRntes. in Dumass celebrated novel
took his title, Is an island in the Med
iterranean sea, twenty-siX miles south
OF Eba
g. Fifty-twO per cent OF the population of
the United States Is urban; that is
concentrated. in towns or cities of $500
inhabitants or more.
4. Rhodcsia, Il province of Africa north OF
the Transvaal, Is named in honor of
Cecil Rhodes. famed for his work in
the development of British dominion In
South Africa.
3 The character OF the sprite Ariel appears
In Shakespeare's romantic comedy,
The Tempest"
G. CORVALLIS surrendered at Yorktown on
October 10, 1881.
:. John Quincy Adams was the first Ameri-
can President with n middle name
g. The great German offensive on the
western front started on March 2l.
1918
O. surely in vain the net is spread in the
sight of any bird" is from tho first
chapter of the Proverbs of Solomon.
10 Franz Lehar wrote the music OF "The
Merry Widow"
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NOW MY IDEA IS THIS!
Daily Talks With Thinking Phadelpians Subjects They
Kno,U Best
llization of S26, ,OoO, 900 OoO have joined

talization of $4,000, 900, ,OoO have Joined
the movement.
What is to be accomplished? The coun-
ell proposes to spend 100000 year to
assist undergraduates and the colleges. This
money is being contributed by industry.
Briefly, all industries want to take a
number of college men into their organza
tions and, through the council, will open
their doors in the summer months. If an
undergraduate desires to enter any specific
industry he will have the opportunity. He
may apply to the council and be sent to
that industry during the summer months,
enabling him to see whether he has made
wise choice, assisting him to pay for his
tuition in college and also permitting the
industry to see whether he has the proper
qualifications and character to be employed
when he completes his college course.
Handling Men the Problem
Moreover it throws him in another at
mosphcre and gives him an opportunity of
handling mon and of learning human nature.
n man who has technical education alone
Is OF little value in industry. Such men
may be hired at low figure. The council
Is working on these problems and endcavor-
ing to lead the undergraduate to the rcali-
zation that i'll dealing with his associates
ana IN the proper method of handling men
lies most of his success.
Another great function of the council
lies IN introducing courses of management
N"u'o'iui III u LTRc NUMBER oil colleges
across the country. These reach the men in
industry who have been denied a college
education, The courses have been passed
upon by tho greatest educators in America
and Canada and have been indorsed by the
American Council on Education They are
in the form of extension studies and for the
most part are given in the evening. The
courses arc given for the purpose of prom
erly training management men actually at
work in industry.
'Thc council has received requests from
n number Of cities and chambers of COM
munity. Work of this character, however
necessarily must be slow. and not one tenth
OF the requests can be filled
1T Is gratifying to see that, at last the
great educational institutions of the land
and industry arc working hand in hand to
assist students and the man at work. II il
but manifestation of the light which is
daily coming into America and another ad-
vance in education which will reach to every
country in the world" " ''>''
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-10-04
SHABBY TREATMENT

TT is not so much the law as the wretch
edly contradictory Interpretation of it
which has dealt injustice to nearly 5000
women who were last week in effect in
formed by the court that they would be
entitled to register.
n Just why the muddle was permitted to
become so protractcd, why the petitioners
were encouraged TO pursue their efforts to
be assessed only to be told in the end that
their energies had been futile ig not clear.
A shabby trick has been played, to say the
least.
If the statutes nrc as rigid as the Hoard
of Registration Commissioners now main
tains, that opinion should have been cat
egorically set forth AS it was. lot OF
earnest endeavor has been wasted. En-
couraged by the court. which indicated that
the law of 1S9j provided eleventh hour re-
dress in special cases. some $500 petitions
were duly presented and the bench ruled
that the applicants were entitled to rcprcsen-
tation on the assessors lists.
The obvious assumption, based upon the
judicial ruling of last Friday, was that these
women could be registered on Saturday.
Some of them. indeed. were listed in the
election books for in several instances the
Board of Registration Commissioners failed
to give prompt notification to the registrars
IN the district polling places.
In consequence some women are in sense
Illegally registered. and yet as their names
appear on the rolls and their poll taxes have
been paid cxpunging of the record VIII IN
volye not a few snarls. The situation Is
deplorably complex and sufferers may right
fully complain that they have been abused
That the law should have been enforced
a not the vital point in dispute. That many
women were Indifferent to their duties ON the
erigina assessment days and that the as
pkssment work as whole was badly exc
cuted are not now prime factors in the
case. The real indictment concerns the
Numbering. the hints of disingcnuous pro
cedure and the unwarrantcd raising Of false
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The Solace of Beauty

EoRGET all these, the barren fool in
power,
The madman in command. the ieoIous n
The bitter world bidIng its bitter hour ~
Ihe cruel now' the happy long ago.
Forget all these, for though they truly burt
Even to the soul, they are not Iasting
Men are no gods; We tread the city dirt,
But in our souls we can be queens .ond
kings ''N' '"Hd
And ], o Beauty, o divine white wonder
Tn whom my duh eyes, blind to all else
peer; 'S'
Have You for pence, that not the wboIo
wars thunder "'''''
Nor the worlds wreck can threat or tolo
from here ''"'
40 you rcmsin' though all mans passionate
Roar their blind tides, can forget all these.
--Jqhn Masedeld-
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perfected for the uses OF modern civilization.

The laws which govern the operation of
motor vehicles in Pennsylvania were devised
when the number of machines on the roads
was relatively small and when no one could
forcsce the problems that have arisen with
the present wide and general use Of auto
mobiles.
It is conceivable that benefit might come
from regulations established to bar the unfit
and the criminal from motor license privi
legcs at the beginning. But it ought to be
understood that license restrictions Of the
sort proposed will not make the road safe
unless they are applied in cases where an
experienced drivers record or behavior proves
him to be unfit because Of habit or char
acter. Moreover. IL the highway department
took away the license of a given machine
when it saw fit to withdraw the drivers
credentials the effect on the reckless minded
would be sudden and profound.
If an owner knew that his machine might
be put out Of commission for year because
of offenscs in which it figured he would be
pretty sure to see that it was operated
safely whether he or some one else was at
the wheel. 1t is a habit of Americans to
endure a great deal and then 20 rough shod
over those who offend their code of ethics.
But in this instance the country faces a
problem that il various and complex and
one that should be approached and handled
wisely and tcmpcrately.
Traffic policemen ought to have greater
prestige In the courts. They should find a
way to permit the co operation which the
vast mass of motor owners are eager to pro-
vide with a view to enforcing existing laws.
And surely it is the part Of wisdom to real
ize that rules already established should be
made operative before new ones are put on
the statute books to create new confusion
md now difficulties for nvnryhndv
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-10-04
THE TIP

WTHE tipping habit" runs the account
l. Of conference held by Mr. Hagedorn
with hotel and restaurant men who have
been asked to cut their prices. was also
discussed" One cannot but wonder whether
the conferees discussed the tip as it ought to
be discussed, or viewed it as a thing that
definitely indicates the true origin of the
high cost of living.
Nowhere but in America is the tip na
tional problem, because no country is so
cxtravagant as the United States Here the
tip has gone wild. On railway train you tin
almost everybody but the engineer and the
fireman. In hotel you tip everybody but
the ownrr--who gets his indirectly through
the hat check boy. The tip has spoiled good
walters, good BARRIERS and good shoe polish
crs, who now work not for wages but for
what they can get on the palm. 1t has en-
couragcd hotel and restaurant keepers Ia
keep wages down. And the tip is not the
fault of those who take il. 1t has been de.
vcloped in its present appalling form by
those who distribute money vainly, reck-
lcssly or because they haven't the courage to
object when they are politely plundercd.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-10-04
WOMEN AND PENROSE

TNHE chairman of the women's Republican
l. committee of Delaware county is quoted
as saying that many Republican women will
refuse to vote for the recollection Of senator
Penrose for the reason that they object to
his attitude on the suffrage question ana TO
his rcactionary tendencies.
Ii does not apncNr ut tn" present time for
how many women the Delaware county
woman leader speaks. We shall not know
until November 3 whether the women will
act with greater political Independence than
the men. The senior senator has been at
tackled for years. but the men have voted for
him whenever he has appealed for their sup.
port.
When the election returns are in they will
be studied carefully by the politicians to
discover if possible whrthc" the extension
of the suffrage TO women has mad" it in"T-
pedicnt in the future to nominate for office
men of the type OF Senator Pcnros".
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-10-04
What Do You Knou?
QUIZ

/ What was the real name of Tad" son OF
Abraham Lincoln?
= In what city OF ancient Greece We're the
famous athletic games held every four
years?
3 Name a work of sculpture by Auguste
Rodin.
4. What Is Il haneur?
o. In which one Of the political divisions of
the continental United States, consist
ing of forty-eight states and one fed
erni district, Ia the population 100 per
cent urban? '~
G. What Is a figurante?
7. What Is "A liod in music?
s, Why Is Caribbean sea so called?
D. Who was the first American President
who, failing to secure n majority OF
electoral votes, was elected by the
House OF Representatives?
of Austria Hungary
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-10-04
a Dubious Peace

From III" Los Angeles Times
One of the Bolshevist delegates to the Riga
conference says that they want peace with
Poland but only on conditions which worid
make 1t permanent. He lies as hn snooIs
His bolshcvsm doesn't want pcace Of onv
kind. Even the complete and abicct surrcn,
der of the opposition does not mean neacs
There must still be a harrying. If the On.
position be forced to accept bolsheyism ne
Its creed it is at once modified for warIike
service in another field Bolshevsm must
I'VE as lives the tiger. There is a passion
ior Dlood letting The Reds do not want an
enduring peace any more than did Att;ia '
Under the test of peace communism foiIa
ANY peace treaty signed by Lenine or TrotzEv
would not be worth a whimper in Gebenna
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-10-04

been added to the assessment of the leading
hotels.
But in spite of the enormous sums added
to the taxable value of real estate. they are
talking of So tax rate in New York in
order to meet the current expenses of the
city for next year The total budget will be
more than half n billion dollars, sum
larger than the annual appropriations of
Congress few years ago.
The cost of government has increased
along with the cost of everything else and
all the cities of the country are struggling
with the problem.
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HIGH COST OF GOVERNMENT

YTyHE New York real estate aSsessOrs have
i been more merciless to property owners
than those of this city.
Assessments here have been increased by
n little more than 500, 10000 for next
yeer.
In New York the increase amounts to
A 400 600 900, or to more than ten times
The amount in Philadelphia.
The taxable value of the Woolworth
building. for example. has been raised from
$40 .OO0, 900 to $12, 250 900, The Equitable
Ruilding was assessed at 500 200, 900 this
YEAR Next year II is assessed at $50, ,O00,-
M. Nearly s., SOC, 900 is added to the taxa
M vslue OF the American Telephone Build
80. ana from $500,00o to s1,7O0.0OQ has
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-10-04

Ball players who accepted bribes may
face prosecution for failure to make returns
Of the amounts in their income tax sCheG'
ulcs, according to government ofhclSn.,
Just hint of something wrong ethicag
here. Uncle Sam, while demanding hS
own, should not be placed in the position
of sharing the swag.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-10-04

Here and there winners are returning
money bet on the 1919 series. They Prov
themselves good sports, but the logic Oh
their position II open TO debate, Pool VII.
money 10 charity This last viawnoiht. "
cidcntaly. stressed IN the plcscncc III plfn
with, tender consciepces, might help scne
worthy causes. ~
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-10-04

4 dispatch from Paris sets forth ths,
during the next twelve months the United
States will export to Italy and France
5000, 900 tons of coal; and here and there
the chances are, an American coal cellar
will reflect the fact.
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Phiisdeiphis, Monday. October :. 1920
SJtiJ'anFippi,rS l." wv"

Things on which the people expect the new
administration To concentrate Its attention:
The DcfatDure '-.rer bridge.
drvdock big enough TO accommodate the
largest ships.
Dcrcicpplsut OF ths rapid transit system.
contention hail.
4 0ui:dinp To- the Free Library.
An drt Museum.
Enlargement Of the tCu'cr supply.
Homes to accom- Cddtc the ponni1tion
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-10-04

In the success of Generals WrangcI and
Makhno in South Russia and the willingness
Of the Bolshevists to negotiate for peace Cd
the Polish front there is at least growing
ground for the hope that the rumors OF tns
Generalization of the Red army have some
foundation in fact.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-10-04

We refuse to enthusc over the likeli,,
hood that Pennsylvania will have an addsd
number of congressman as result OF tns
latest census reports. Congress is bY
enough and unwieldy enough as it ~
Quality rather than quantity is the de.
sideratum, and that is matter not tue
census but the electorate must decide.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-10-04

Congressman Longworth plans to purify
baseball by anti gambling legislation. But
we already have pounds of laws. What We
seem to need is an ounce of enforcement.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-10-04

Boys broke $4,000 worth of school
windows during the first nine months of the
yeor; which would seem to show that th.
most needed study in our schools is respect
for the law.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-10-04

The pepsin Of Americanzation orsanl'
cations will not cure Uncle Sam of his i'm.
migration stomach ache. He simply cant
Immediately digest all the foreign clemens
in his little tummy, and what he needs iss
period Of fasting at Ellis Island.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-10-04

Because there are exceptions to every
rule, Policeman Caprillo is alive today. The
rule says Every bullet finds its billet
The one that went after Caprillo found
button instead and was DETECTED.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-10-04

A Reading man has just recovered S2CoO
because his leg was shortened four inches
after he had been run down by an nutoiSt.
One of the autost's legs is doubtless that
much longer as the result of the same opera
ton.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-10-04

a Detroit man seeks his absent Wife
declaring that he wants her ''even II she
does write poetry There are no lengths
to which a loving husband will not so, no
crimes he is not willing to forgive.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-10-04

Governor Cox says Big Business h
paying men to travel the country over, pose
as discontentcd Democrats and Genounce the
party. Mr.. Cox appears to have weird
but undcniably entertaining imagination