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the Walnut Street Association, sug
gested not long ago that the aid of the
National Chamber Of Commerce be en-
listed in the effort to make such a
scheme Of daylight saving permanent in
all cities for the summer period. The
Philadelphia chamber was askeG to start
the movement. The wisdom Of the sug :
gestion is now apparent.
The farmers, when they argued in all
sincerity against the daylight law, either
misunderstood the fundamental issue,
as 1t appears In the cities, or preferred
to ignore il.
1t is not only an extra hour Of day
light that is in question. It Is the
health and the we'll being and the gen
eral contentment Of those who do the
nations work in mills. Offices and fac
tories. There was little general COM
plant when the daylight law was re-
pealed. That will come later, when the
warm weather arrives and the people
find themselves deprived of opportuni-
ties that meant much to them during the
last few summers.
Nobody lost anything hy t. daylight
saving system and everybody gained.
Nothing but an organized effort is
needed to restore the hour of afternoon
leisure that used to seem as if it had
been added to the twenty four by a
miracle of some sort to lengthen life and
make trying labor easier to perform.
The Legislature in New York VIII
have done the country service IL II
stimulates business and financial inter
ests to the sort of action which would
give the people all the benefits of the
daylight law and still leave the farmers
with no ground for complaint. Because
of the close relationship between the
commerce of New York and that of this
city, Philadelphia ought to be first in
the movement for a rational summer
schedule Of business hours.
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SEEKING A WAY OUT

MAYOR MOORE'S conference wit
ll trust company presidents today is
planned to interest them in providing
the capital TO finance building opera
tions.
Builders cannot put up houses with
out money. The banks and trust COM
panies are reluctant to tie up large
part of their resources in real estate
mortgages for the reason that such Sc
curities are not quick assets.
Present conditions, however, justify
a temporary modification of old finan-
cial practices. There is money enough
here to build all the houses that we
need. And there are tenants for as
many houses as can be erected for a
long time to come. Under these cir
cumstances building ceases to be specu-
lative, for there is virtually no risk in
II. As soon as the houses are ready
for occupancy they will be occupied il
the builders will rent them. And ten
ants are so eager to get a house that
they will pay any reasonable rental.
If the presidents of the financial in
stitutions can be persuaded that it i.
their patriotic duty to come TO the reliei
of the builders an early improvement in
conditions is likely.
The Autocar Company of Ardmore is
setting good example to other EN- =
ployers of labor by arranging to build
large number of houses in that sub
urb for the accommodation Of its
hands.
II private employers within the city
limits should engage in a similar under
taking they would find it profitable ant
they would not in any way interfere
with the other builders who are seeking
to supply the demand for houses.
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WOODS CHANGES

r. EONARD WOOD will apparently
- have the delegates from South Da
kota, where he led all the other candi
dates in the presidential preference
primary.
His committee is picking up delegates
wherever it can find them, and it has
been so successful that it has already
secured about 225. On the basis of the
representation in the 1916 convention il
will need 493 votes to nominate. Gen
eral Wood will have to get not quite 2T5
more delegates before he is assured of
nomination on the first ballot. The
friends Of the other candidates are con
fident that he cannot get them.
But Judge Hughes did not have a
majority on the first ballot in 1916, He
entered the convention with 253 dele
gates pledged to him, and this number
voted for him on the first ballot. The
candidate with the next highest number
of delegates was John w. Weeks, OF
Massachusetts,. Judge Hughes received
S28 votes on the second ballot, and on
the third all but thirty eight of the dele
gates voted for him and be was nomi-
mated.
1t is likely that General Wood will
enter the convention with larger num-
Der of delegates than any other candi :
date, unless there shall be a sudden de =
velopment of strength by some one else.
But 1t is by no means certain that the
candidate with the most delegates at the
start will get the nomination. Chamn
Clark had ll6 more votes than Governor
Wilson on the first ballot in the Demo
cratic convention in 1912 and led Will
son for a long time, but Wilson won.
1t looks today as if the delegates in
Chicago would decide who the candidate
isNto be after they had obeyed their in :
structions on the first ballot.
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he women who are interested in the
work Of the Neighborhood House asked
number of others to send in their
old and tattered evening frocks, which
were really too far gone to give away,
and from these old things the most gor
geous effects in coloring and material
have been obtained. and the wee fai-
ries, who are really very talented, will
be lovely to behold in the frocks fash
ioned from them.
Mrs. Harrison Gamer, Jr., Mrs. Hous-
ton Dunn. Mrs. George Dallas Dixon
and several other women have taken
boxes for the affair.
A NY Of us who have friends who were
"A born and raised il. Virginia know
just what they think about said Nir-
ginia. But let me tell you this true tale
which came to my ears of late. It's n
wonder.
There was a house party down in one
of the old Virginia houses and there
being more guests than the rooms would
ordinarily hold. it was proposed to give
the women of the party the second
floor and the men were to sleep any
where down stairs.
Well, Sunday morning the men de /.
cided to take a conveyance to one of
the clubs and one called up to his wife
., dear, won't you bring me my
suit case to the top Of the stairs, we
want to catch the bus"
Sorry, DEAR" came the answer, "but
I'm dressing for church.
Then he called to his sister in law,
That's a good girl; won't you get my
suit case and hand it to me, you know
1 can't come up" And voice an
swered Deed ! can't, I'm about to
dress for church."
Finally our hero got bit out of pa =
tience and said "Goin' to church are
you, nice" Christians you are, won't
help me to catch my bus"
Then rose up in her crib his small
daughter and the wee voice remarked
Mamma, daddy says we'se Christians,
we'se not Christians, is we Mamma,
we'se Virginians.'
NANCY wYNNE.
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Answers to Yesterdays Quiz

answers to Yesterdays quiz
1. Terpsichore was the muse of dane
ing.
:. Mecca in Arabia. Damascus and Je-
rusalem, in Syria, and Kairwan, In
Tunls. are holy cities of the Mo-
hammedan world.
3. The battle of Eutaw Springs, de-
scribed as technical British VIC
tory. was fought in the Revolution
eral Greene commanded the Amer
lean troops Eutaw Springs is
about fifty miles northwest OF
Charleston. S. G.
4. The line Richards himself again
Is from Colley Cibber's version OF
Shakespeare's play. "Richard III
Cibber was an English actor and
dramatist. He died in 1857.
5. Aurora borealis takes it's name from
Aurora, the Roman goddess OF
dawn. Borealis Is Latin for "of the
north wind"
6. The aurora australls Is the same
luminous atmospheric pheonomenoN
as the aurora borealis seen In the
southern hemisphere. Austral
means southern.
T. Washington was the thirty-ffth
state to approve the woman suf-
fraRe amendment.
s. George Whitefleld was noted Eng
lish clergyman and orator. one OF
the founders of Methodism. He
preached extensively in the Unite d
States. where he died in 1870.
g. A peplum is kind Of kerchief or
the ancient peplos or a short. fitted
skirt attached to a waist or coat
The peplos was shawl-like gar
ment worn by Greek women.
10. The Pillars of Hercules are two OPP
posite promontorics, Gibraltar. In
Eurore. and Abyla In Africa. situ-
ated at the western, extremity OF
the Mediterranean at the Strait OF
Gibraltar.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-03-25

There has been launched a national
movement to revive hand spinning TO
relieve the acute linen shortage. While
a revival of craftsmanship of any kind
is desirable and may even have momen-
tary economic. value. under no circum-
stances may the campaign be considered
epochal. But as a fad the work has
usefulness to commend II.
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A FouR.YEAR PROGRAM FOR
PHILADELPHIA

Things on which the people expect
the new administration to concentrate
its attention:
The DeldUdre river bridge.
A drudock big enough TO docomnto-
date the largest ships.
Development Of the rapid trunst sys'
tenn.
A convention hdu.
A building for the Free Library.
An Art Museum.
Enlargement Of the iDdter supply.
Homes to accommodate the populd-
ton.
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Now approacheth the season of the
year when the grumpy guy who can't
get away remembereth that some an
cient sprOozer once described angling
as a worm at one end of line and a
fool at the other.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-03-25

The fact that a German dirig.ble
bound for Moscow and captured by
Rumanians contained 10000 rubles
and Il press for the printing of money
seems to indicate that German capacity
for making trouble in the world is far
from being exhausted.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-03-25

The thieves who
So Pants the Hart. stole from an FDo
Lego. Harbor CITY fac
tory 1900 pairs of
trousers belonging to four Philadelphia
clothing firms were probably hard
boiled ones looking for free seats.
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JUST GOSSIP ABOUT PEOPLE
Nancy Wynne Tells OF Several Parties for Miss Brooke.
Various Comings and Goings in Social World

MARY BROOKE. whose wedding in
A'A vitatons are just out, is being much
entertained these days. Harriet Chain
gave her luncheon at the Bellevue
Stratford yesterday and theatre party
after the luncheon. Tonight the Ber-
tram Lippincotts will give dinner in
her honor. and on Sunday Lucille Car
ter, another bridesmaid, will give din
ner out at THAN. the home OF the
George Brookes. Lucille is daughter
of Mrs. George Brooke, you know.
Harriet Chain is the daughter OF the
B. Percy Chains. of Norristown. She
and Emley Cook, Dickie Newbold, Mar
garet Shober, debutante of this year !;
Katharine Bogcrt and Nancy Cook Put-
nam will form the bridal party.
Mary is to marry Lowber Stokes on
Wednesday, the fourteenth of April, in
st. Marks Church That will be a
pretty wedding, am sure, for Mary Is
really beautiful and she has very
good looking set Of girls as attendants.
Lowber Stokes is one OF the nVe
Stokes men, brother OF Standley
Stokes, who married Ruth Coke and
of Tom, who is a major IN the army,
and OF W HlJtT anu N'''
very attractive sister, Frances Stokes,
married Mr.. Clarke, Of New York,
about four years ago.
MRS. TOM NEWHALL has been
lNl having her mother, Mrs. Josiah
Low Blackwell. of New York, staying
with her for some time at the Ncwhall
home. "Old Place" THAN. Mrs. Black
we'll is such a charming person, every
one will be sorry to see her go nome:
but she is going, and on Saturday OF
tbis week. However, Mrs. Rowland
milford and her son John. sister and
nephew of Mrs. Newhall, are coming on
from Richfeld. Conn. next week to
stay over Easter, and Campbell New
hall. one of their sons, will come down
from the Taft School. in Connecticut,
for over Easter, so 1t will be full
house after all.
Mrs. Newhall is so good looking. !
always like to look at her. She has such
noise and style, that most persons turn
to see her as she passes. She has fair
hair and holds herself wonderfully. Be
sides this she dresses with exquisite
taste.
THE small kiddies of the Southwark
l. Neighborhood House will appear in
a Persian play on Tuesday afternoon,
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-03-25

Governor LOwdrn has declared
himself in favor of limiting chief OK
eCutives of nation and state to one term.
The suggestion has been made before,
usually by asprants for office.
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ERANK A. VANDERBILT is not a

INRANh n, NANbEhLlf is not
J. BolshCvik.
He belongs to the most conservative
class and the most conservative political
party in the world.
He is a banker and Republican.
He said the other day in New York
that the makers Of the treaty of Yer
saillps had cut up Europe into an
economic picture puzzle whose
parts no one could fit together.
Germany has 10000, 900 or more oi
the most highly trained industrial popu
lation In the world cut off from the
natural resources which furnished work
for their hands to do.
Russia has the largest supply OF
natural resources in Europe, without
the skill TO develop them.
Both were left by the peace with
out benefit Of clergy
Russia has successfully defed the
Allies for a year.
Germany is preparing to profit by
her example.
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If the nterviewers persist in an
noying the lady we may regretfully
be forced TO the conclusion that Lady
Astor isn't so terribly clever after ali.
don't you know.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-03-25

Eggs have taken another drop in
price. The Great American Hen is
showing what can be accomplished by
Increased production.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-03-25

Secretary Colby's demand for pub.
Lefty is pardonable, but we are willing
TO take II for granted that everything
is all right,
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-03-25

The robbers who took $500 worth
of silk shirts from downtown show
window may simply have been getting
ready for Easter.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-03-25

Wolfgang Kapp has been arrested
and jailed in Berlin. His humiliation
VII be complete when he is sent up for
thirty days for disorderly conduct.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-03-25

If Sims had been an oyster he
might have been panned, but he never
would have been grilled.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-03-25

Newspaper readers cannot fail TO
observe that pugilists begin to spar for
wind long before they enter the ring.
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What Do You Kno,U?
QUIZ

QUIZ
I. Who is the new United States am
bassador to Mexico?
2. What is the largest triumphal arch
in the world?
g. What was the Barbizon school Of
painting?
4. What color is cramoisy?
5. Who Is the "Old Man" of a ship.
no matter what Is his age?
g. What is the capital of Java?
7. What is a penumbra?
8. Who commanded the French fleet at
the siege Of Yorktown In the Rev.
olutionarv War?
0. What famous English novelist was
Parliamentary reporter In early
life?
10. In what part of Russia is the i'm
portant city of odessa?
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-03-25

Hoover is admittedly no orator
hut isn't that an assetT
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-03-25

One may have o shade too much OF
women rs any Delaware legislator
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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-03-25

THE small kiddies of the Southwark
i Neighborhood House will appear in
Persian play on Tuesday afternoon,
April G, at the Broad Street Theatre,
and it sounds as II it would be good,
from all hear. One OF the features
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ONE democratic movement in England
" which has met with a. severe check
is that for giving Parliament authority
over foreign relations.
During the war there ', g strong
sentiment for this as a means of pre-
venting secret treaties and the European
entanglements which led to the war.
But what has happened to the treaty
in our Senate gives England pause.
A country whose foreign relations are
important cannot conduct its business
that way.
English comment on our failure is,
democratic control of treaty making is
desirable, but it must be practicable.
The American constitutions require
ment Of two thirds majority is not
practicable.
What has happen - the Senate
looks like a party quarrel topping pub
lie business.
1t is the absurd necessity of obtaining
two thirds majority of the Senate to
approve treaty that stopped public
business.
THE same thing has happened when
i the President and the Senate have
been of one and the same party, even Of
the highly efficient Republican party.
Read The Education Of Henry
Adams" and you will find what John
Hay thought of the two thirds rule in
the constitution.
Hay was a Republican, one Of the
greatest secretaries of state the country
has ever had, enjoying enormous pres
tige, on intimate relations with Henry
Cabot Lodge and other Republican mem =
bers of the Senate. yet he could not get
his treaties through, and in the end the
Senate broke his heart.
q q q
THE provision requiring a two thirds
l. majority in order to ratify is not a
democratic provision.
Ii places control of foreign relations
in the hands of a minority.
The fathers of the constitution put it
in for the same reason that Washington
uttered his warning against entangling
alliances.
We were weak, young country, and
might become the tail to some European
kite.
Moreover. the fathers of the consti-
tuition were only experimenting with
They did not know whether it would
work or not.
Many of them felt sure it would not
work.
So they adopted an elaborate system
Of checks to prevent the country from
losing its head and acting on sudden
impulses.
The most drastic check Of all was the
two thirds majority requirement regard
ing foreign relations.
The result of it has been n break
down in our government.
On the one side has been the Presi
dent and on the other handful Of sena .
. tors preventing action.
; The constitution ought to be amended
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PHILADELPHIA'S LEADING THEATRES
Direction LEE q J. ]. SHUBERT
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HOW DOES 1T
\ STRIKE YOU?
Types of Democracy Vary With
the Years and Lloyd George
Has Chosen His
OIpn Brand

When was young girl, remarks
q character In recent book, democ.
racy meant the Liberal majority, and
was chiefly mentioned In the House Of
Lords. Then the Labor party dis
covered the word and II came to mean
the poor. Now II stands for any
thing which any speaker likes and
agrees with. If we had come in, we
should have been triumphant democ-
racy as IL is we are effete aristocrats
whom the democrats of Carlton House
Terrace and Eccleston Square are
going to slay.
TT is one Of this kind of democracy
i that Mr.. Lloyd George represents
in his new National Democratic party
which is not democratic enough for Lord
Robert Cecil and his brother, the Mar
quis OF Salisbury, two members of the
Cecil family, one of the oldest and most
persistently ruling class families in
England.
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| Lo1D GEOHGE has gone c0nserva-
- tive, as all liberal leaders do in the
end; as Wilson did at Paris and since
his return from Paris as Roosevelt did
during the war as Clemenceau did after
being radical most of his life rs
BRAND, the real master of France now,
did, after starting out in life a Social
list as Lenine and Trotzky will IL the
world will only give them a chance
indeed, recent observers in Russia say
they have already begun to do so.
Lloyd George has more of the dema-
gogue's arts than any o. these, except
perhaps the Russians, about whom no
one knows enough to make comparisons.
1t will be interesting to see how he
makes out as the head of what is left
of the old Tory party in England.
He appears to have been more or less
forced to lead the dukes, by slang
whanging whom few years ago he first
became famous.
He unanswered to create a middle
party out of the more liberal Unionists,
what was left of the Liberals and the
more moderate Labor men.
But Labor held together, Lord Rob
ert Cecil would not follow lin and Mr..
Asquith came back.
So Lloyd George had 10 real choice
but to lead the Unionists and the more
conservative Liberals who were drifting
toward Unionism.
However, it remains to be seen
whether or not the anti bolshevism issue
will not prove as effectiv, fyr him as it
has for various people in this country.
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Philsdelphi.. Thursday. March IS. 1870
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CROSS KEYS Market ST. Bel. eoth
2:30, Z and
COMEDY
Gunnison news-champion., 1920-01-30
DIVORCE IN OTHER COUNTRIES

Better wise up since Leap Year is
at hand and it is predicted that there
Will be land Office business in the
knot-ticing industry.
In Australia divorce has never been
sanctioned and is scarcely known Of
in Greece.
In Hindustan either party, for q
slight cause may leave the other party
md remarry.
Divorce is scarcely allowed in Tibet,
unless with the consent of both parties
and once granted, remarriage is for
bidden.
In Cochin China the parties desir-
ing divorce break pair Of chop sticks
in the presence Of witnesses and the
thing is done.
In Siberia il q man is dissatisfied
with the most trihing act of his wife,
he tears q veil from her face and
constitutes q divorce. 7
In China divorce il allowed in all
cases Of criminality, mutual dislike,
Jealousy. incompatiblity Of tempera-
ment. or too much Ioquacity on the
part Of the wife,
In Siam the first wife may be d.
vorced but not sold as the others may
be. She may claim the first child.
but the rest Of the children belong 10
the husband.
Two kinds Of divorces may be grant
ed m Circassia- By the first, the par
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DEEP BREATHING IS NOT A
SUBSTITUTE FOR EXERCISE

The benefits Of deep breathing while
sitting still are often exaggerated, is
the statement of Miss Miriam Palmer
Of the Colombo Agricultural College.
Unless taken with exercise it does
little good and may even do harm.
Forced deep breathing does not put
more oxygen into the blood because
the blood cannot carry more than 4
certain percentage. II does not
cause the tissue to take more oxygen
because they, like the proverbial
horse, can be led to water but cannot
be made to drink and will not take
more oxygen than they want.
Cell exercise is the only thing which
will cause the cells to use more oxygen
and when this happens they will throw
on more dioxide into the blood and
this dioxide stimulates the nervous
center controlling the breathing. We
VIII thusl b compelled by reflex sc-
tisa to brea<he deeper aecofdfng to
tie negd Kofced breathfng does re-
doce t6e amount u caxbon dioxide III
t1!s beoed ard 1ithusp rsmcves tie nature
al.sstin1alit NJ ~ feGpiratCry eeu-
ter - - = suoa = ~ quit attend-
in8 - Il tkere wit ~ . tendnncy to
efgaf19 1ue9 - ovue IN 'tlIe caxbuu
dextoo aeenmi3ates = the sb1ood -
t. nnfsna1oaDnDu2 aEiiin. YoreodI
deep breathing may have : peculiar