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New Britain herald., 1920-03-17

promises of what we would do if elected The months have passed; conditions have grown steadily worse We now hear intimations that the cost of living will be still higher. It is therefore fitting that we examine conditions in order that having as- certained the facts we may consider what can be done. As teachers. ac- tual or prospective it is especially i'm portant that this. be done since we owe it to the next generation to give new or special training, if the boys and girls now in school, who will be it's citizens, are to face 8 world in which efficient and happy living will be more difficult than the one which we have heretofore known. % World Vastly Changed "As we consider the various as- poets of the world war in their re- lation to our well being, we must conclude that this is a new world. that it must be made over or else that We must study how we can adapt ourselves to meet the problems of life. We find that in the main we can dismiss from our minds the idea that high prices are due to profiteers or anybody else that can be
  edied. There may be some slight benefits that wise legislation can pro- duce but on the whole the situation is that for four years the world vast ed as it never wasted before and that the effects of this waste will be a burden upon our children's children.
 Let us look at some of the things that have happened. During four years over fifty million men were under arms and enaged in the busi- ness of destruction. They destroyed deliberately, continuously, thorough ly. In saying this we may remember that the waste of the war includes not merely the destruction of the country in which the fighting oc- cured, the houses, the trees, the mines, the land, but also the muni- tions used, the clothing and food of the soldiers, the labor of men and women diverted from productive employment, almost in short the total energy of these fifty odd million sol dierS and of the three hundred mill lion men and women who were en- gagged in furnishing them with sup plies.
 The Meaning of Thrift.
 Thrift is essential for the we'll being and happiness of. the individ- ual, for the prosperity of the state, and for the stability of organized government. It includes six elements:
 "A Efficient Production: Men ought to work. They ought to work at the occupation for which they are best fitted and under conditions that will enable them to be thorough ly efficient. By their work they should earn enough to provide ade-H quate savings and to maintain proper standards of living including recrea- ton.
 "B. Planned Expenditure. Tn or der to obtain the greatest benefit from the results of efficient produc- ton, saving and expenditure should be planned, that is, a budget should be made. Saving and spending would thus be arranged with full consideration of present and future needs and of the reasonable pleas ures essential to contentment and successful living. a5
 "C. Definite Saving Before Spend-t ing: In any event provision should be made for definite and regular sav- ing before spending, since this is the way in which saving can be made
New Britain herald., 1920-03-17

most easily and most effectively. Otherwise one will save too much, which is miserliness or spend too much which is extravagance. Saw ing before spending established the habit of saving, makes it a satisfac- ton instead of an act of self-denial, enables one to realize joy of life,' and strengthens the mental and moral character.
 ID. Judicious Buying and Careful Use. Men may choose, as rule, what they will buy and how they will use their belongings. They should get their moneys worth in both re- spects. They should know market prices and should buy the things that, meeting a standard of fitness, durability. and beauty, are most rea- sonable in price and should obtain from these things the maximum of use. Thus foresight, judgment and power will be developed in the indi- Vidual. and a surplus will be accu- mulated.
 "E. Wise Giving: No man liveth unto himself Doing things for others in proportion to ones ability is essential to complete individual happiness, to the development of
New Britain herald., 1920-03-17

well be given two messa ges home to their parents: first, sirability Of War Savings Cert as investments, and second. thu homie wisdom of not selling l. and Victory Loan bonds.
 The War Savings Certificates a face value at maturity of $10 $1.000 may be purchased in Ja for s82.40 and $824 respect They increase in value every n can be cashed after two months little delay, are available for | emergencies and yield a reasc compound interest return.
 Liberty and Victory Loan should be kept because their s bad business judgment and a. of the cooperation which we all share in meeting present homie problems. If kept the5 certainly be paid at par when mature and meanwhile they d sound investment
New Britain herald., 1920-03-17

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New Britain herald., 1920-03-17
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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-05-12
CROOKS DE LUXE

TyHE most startling thing about some
i of the crimes of violence that have
recently been perpetrated in and about
this city Is the evidence of unusual in
teIligence and studied finesse that the
modern crook brings to his daily work.
The yegg is no longer a shambling
brute in rags. He fits about in a
costly automobile. The thief who
trapped a diamond salesman at the
Bellevue Sratford and got off with
$4,000 worth of precious stones re-
vealed something very much like an
artistic sense in his methods and his
disguise. The prototype of that par
ticular criminal, a man who found that
crutches will fool almost anybody who
wouldn't be taken in by other dis
guises, actually limps and hobbies
through one of G. X. Chesterton' S
weirdest tales. 1t stands to reason
that II the newer type of bad man is
developing an improved and highly
subtle technique, the police will have
TO follow his example.
Outlawry was a profession in some
parts of Europe centuries ago, and il
tbe Paris criminal is unusually re-
sourceful he has to deal with police
auite as clever. The police do highly
necessary work. But they are not
specially trained. In this country there
are schools in which you may take q
course in anything from memory train
ing and needlework to high finance ant
the business of empire. If yeggmer
continue their easy way to riches, W,
may yet do the rational thing and es.
tablish a school for police.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-05-12
THE NEW FINE ARTS SCHOOL

y A SIGNIFICANT step was taken by
A the board of trustees of the Uni
versity of Pennsylvania in the creation
of school of the fine arts as an ad
junct of the institution. For the present
the new branch will be confined to the
school of architecture. now included
in the Towne Scientific School, the
department of music and the various
studies in the arts now being given in
The college and the graduate schools.
& The Significance of this move lies not
in the fact that a new and important
branch OF instruction will be added to
the curriculum of the University, but
because II is a sign that the great in
rtitutions Of learning in our country are
beginning to realize the place which the
arts must play in our scheme OF civ
ilization
II is. of course, necessary that every
country develop its material resources
first. not only because creative art has
never been and probably never will be
self supporting, and therefore TO exist
must have help from more remunerative
lines. but <siso because a nation not
highly dej pped commercially aud sci-
cullfeaIl> not prepared for artistic
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-05-12
Americans Too Much in a Hurry to
Make Eating Fine Art, Says
French Woman
-BY KELLAMY

vealed as a most self -deprecatory peo-
pie. We are like country folk unex.
pectedly invited into fashionable urbap
society which tries to make us feel at
home.
g q q
pOETRY? An Irishman now patri-
L ated in America writes that we have
four poets whose name sounds chal.
lenge."
1t appears that Whitman let us loose
in poetry.
1t is as good as the red banana which
the French duchess found here and
which isn't American or U. s. Ameri-
can at all.
Literature generally?
An American critic quotes with ap-
proval the remark that its typical quail
ity is that Of "a refined essay in the
Atlantic Monthly, by Emerson, SO to
speak, out of Charles Lamb, the sort
of thing one might look to be done by
an advanced English curate."
"The American writer" says an =
other" is the victim, i'll or GONZALES
cent, Of what Mr.. Santayana has called
the 'genteel tradition.
Into this tradition go Puritanism and
Colonialism. '"The literature of the
country is in state" writes another,
bordering on paralysis"
Admitted into the family of nations,
we have the terrible self consciousness
of rather poor relation.
We ought to 60 into Mr.. Wilson's
league to get over our international
bashfulness.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-05-12
MlIIEN ON BUS LINES

VT is not strange to find Mr.. Mitten
Il declaring in one moment the IN
ability of the p. r. T. to finance serv-
ice improvements and in the next
actively opposing the scheme for motor
bus lines on Broad street. The trolley
company moved automatically to pro-
tect its own interests and the business
on which it must depend Cor essential
revenues.
But the Mayor and Council cannot
properly consider the feelings of the
p. II. T. in this instance. Relief for
the multitudes who have to ride in
overerowded trolleys is imperative. The
trolley company is in dilemma. So
ara thepeople. The public's case is the
more important. And a solution for
some of the difficulties of trolley riders
may be found in independent capital
invested in an efficient system of motor
bus lines to carry the north and south
bound overflow on Broad street. 1t is
for Mayor Moore and City Council to
6ertde
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-05-12
HOW DOES 1T
STRIKE YOU?

A FRENCH duchess Of Clermont-
n Tonnerre is scolding us for not
taking eating seriously enough.
The necessity for eating seems to
have become for Americans she says,
"a sort of monotonous and obligatory
ANNOYANCE, and they are bending all
endeavors toward simplifying the per-
formance."
The result Of lack of attention to
eating is, she says, that our food Is not
An American takes less time for his
whole luncheon, she declares, than a
Frenchman would merely to scan the
wine list. :.
Perhaps it is the lack Of the wine list
that 10 the matter.
1t is hard to make a ceremonial OF a
meal that is washed down with cold
water.
Perhaps it is our Puritanism.
That Is the scapegoat for most OF
our sins against the art Of living.
If we haven't much of literature 1t s
because of our Puritanism, the critics
tell.
If our chickens are scrawny, as the
duchess says, we are sure there Is
Freudian explanation for it.
Some Puritanic repression in us is
observed by fowls in the barnyard and
initiated from us.
Vous ne savez pas profiter de la vie.
the French say of us-you don't know
how to profit by life.
Neither do our chickens. scrawny
things, emerging always from cold
storage.
q q q
DERHAPS it is our colonialism, an
L other of our faults.
Go to London and experience the
ancestor of our cooking and be prop
erly abashed.
Descended from such stock, you
can only wonder how our food is as
good as it is.
Probably some seventeenth century
determination to mortify the flesh is
probably back of it all.
When an American bolts club
sandwich in six bites it is probably be-
cause his ancestors sang psalms, wore
queer hats and resolved never to make
gods of their stomachs.
q q q
lNUR literature is like our chickens,
~ a little scrawny in the neck.
You realize this when you read about
It in the American Literary Supple
mcnt'' of the London Nation.
This supplement is not inspired by
"a certain condescension in foreigners, ~
once observed.
The foreigners try to take us quite
seriously.
They throw open their pages to ouI
own writer's and critics to tell about ouI
books and authors.
And the result is that we look very
much like a man boiling a club sand
wich and calling 1t meal.
Once a boastful people, We are re,
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-05-12
THE GREAT FLING

CyTATTSTICS read at an Engineers
- Club luncheon yesterday by Joseph
Fl. Steinmetz, the president, indicated
that in the first two months of the
present year New York city spent
SIC, 900, 900 on the necessities of life
and S14, ,OOo, 900 on the movies. This
means nothing, of course, if you happen
to be one of the millions who put the
movies as high in the list of necessi-
ties as bread and butter.
Engineers have found that the major
mart of the country's steel output is
going not into works of permanent i'm
provement, but into motorcars. The
answer to this is easy. The day when
people walked to the movies is past.
They prefer to go in motored state
nowadays. as they used to 60 to the
oUpra
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-05-12
Answers to Yesterdays Quiz

l. A periodic sentence is one so con-
structed that the suspense Is held
until the end.
.. The motto OF Belgium is "Dfeu fait
la force" (God gives the strength)
g. The word sybarite is derived from
Sybaris. an ancient Greek city In
southern Italy noted for its luxury.
A sybarite is a luxurious and ef.
Terminate person,
L. A sea elephant Is a very large seal
with large proboscis.
5. The Septuagint is the Greek version
of the Old Testament.
G. The Greek Church calendar Is thir-
teen days behind the Gregorian, in
use in the United States and most
civilized Christian countries.
7. The word signor should be pro-
nounced as though 1t were spelled
''seenyor," with the accent on the
last syllable.
& Sericulture is silk-worm breeding,
the production of raw silk.
0. The three principal or Capitoiine
gods OF Rome wRre Jupiter. Juno
10. smalt Is glass pred blue with
b,f a. a riement I ~, ,l "A
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-05-12

demanding good work than in the days
when the New England school domi-
mated the country. Half dozen novels
that will live are produced every year,
besides the half dozen best sellers"
that flourish like mushrooms for few
months and then disappear. And when
a high priced serious book like "The
Education is Henry Adams" is demand
ed by 10000 buyers one is forced to re-
spect the present taste of the public.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-05-12
AN ECHO OF TRUMPETS

| THE words and tone of the confiden-
| L tial address delivered by President
| Wilson to the officers of the Atlantic
feet in August, 1917, and made public
yesterday, will carry the minds Of many
Americans back to the great and al
most unbelievable days when a man,
/ fired by a desire for human bctterment
and expressing with the clarity of genius
purposes as noble as any ever attempted
in the modern world, seemed to be
actually speaking what was in the heart
Of every plain man.
The civilized peoples of the world
were actually united then. We in the
United States, confronted by new dan
gers, faced by the need for sacrifice and
the certainty of loss and sorrow, ad
vancing to new and strange RESPONSE
bilities, were of one mind. There was
nothing mean or calculating in our
thoughts. The eyes of the nation were
cleared and certainly we went far
toward the heights. Obsessions that
hold mems minds in the dust were cast
aside. They were brave days. Mr..
Wilson's address to the naval men was
brave address.
Looking backward with a sudden
vivid memory of the vanished mood, it
is almost necessary to wonder whether
we are the same people that we were
then. Mr.. Bryan was safe in oblivion.
The presidential campaign was almost
three years away. The chronicle Of
Europe's martyrdom and the spectacle
of divine courage revealed daily in a
thousand places had reminded America
Of the higher duties of civilization and
the challenging meanings of its own
ancient tradition. We were free peo-
ple-vfree of demagogues and politicians,
free of doubts, free of prejudices and
fear. The appalling game Of party
maneuvering had not begun. When the
President said that he was willing to
sacrifice half the navy to bring the war
to a quick and merciful end he spoke
to men who were ready to sacrifice
themselves without question. The war
was ended. And where are we now?
The victory cost a great deal and
people who once regarded 1t as the
most important thing in the world, as
something more important than life, are
content to throw 1t away. Much of
what is fine and rare in the American
character seems suddenly to have been
obscured at the instant when the strain
ended. A force that held the people
together was dissipated. The President
himself lost contact with the multi
tudes whose strength had been his.
And life here and abroad was resumed
as series Of antagonisms.
As the most dramatic reminder of the
beliefs and hopes of 1917 there is the
solitary man in the White House.
Somehow he lost control of the
stupendous forces that he tried to tame
and direct. There are times when the
President talks like one who has looked
too long and too eagerly at a dazzling
light to see his way clearly. Whatever
bitterness and pain for him are involved
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-05-12
What Do You Kno,v?


/. What Is mordant?
2. In which direction must a Moham.
medan mosque face and why?
3. What Is a monsoon?
4. What type of ship was the famous
American war vessel the Consti.
tuition?
5. Who was the last king of Poland?
6. Does It require higher or lower
temperature for water to boil at q
high altitude than at sea level?
7. Who was Delacroix?
8. When did the Holy Roman Empire
cease to exist?
0. What is osier?
10. What Is tonsure?
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-05-12
a FouR-YEAR PROGRAM FoH
PHILADELPHIA

Things on which the people expect
the new administration to concen-
trnte It's attention;
The DclutDare rtper bridge.
A drydock btg enough to dccommo'
date the largest ships.
tenn.
A convention hall
a building for the Free Library.
An Art Museum.
Enlargement of the todter supply.
Homes to accommodate the popu1d-
fion.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-05-12

A dispatch from San Juan, Porto
Rico. says the steamship Northern Pa
cific, with General Pershing aboard
is stuck in the mud. To balance this
pews item there should be another set
ting forth that the Southern Pacific
with Hi johnson aboard is similarly
circumstanced.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-05-12

When the country at large realizes
that every forest fire Is a national
calamity forest fires may grow less fire.
nuent
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-05-12

"Obregon reports the murder of
fifteen generals. ."-Headline. This is
regrettable, but the visible supply of
Mexican generals never seems to de-
crease.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-05-12

1t ought to be easy for Carranza
to disguise himself. All he has to do is
to shave. Nobody knows what is hidden
behind his whiskcrs.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-05-12

Only by gross negligence on the
part of the revolutionists was Car
rama enabled to escape the net.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-05-12

Students of political conditions
throughout the state declare that the
line up looks as though 1t were made
with a jig saw.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-05-12

The Presidents latest declaration
concerning the treaty without reserva-
tions will entirely lose its point-unless
the Republicans are careless enough to
nominate a man as irreconcilable as
himself. -
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-05-12

"He desires to destroy all If he
cannot get al" says Mr.. Taft of Mr..
Wilson. Mr.. Taft has the gift of terse
characterization.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-05-12

Every time the Presi, cat speaks
out in meeting the politicians get new
view of the third term bogey.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-05-12

If we could get sugar out of the
cain we raise we could afford to laugh at
the protiteer.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-05-12

"You never can tell" Russia, the
first country to drop out of the war, is
one of the last to quit fighting.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-05-12

Brewery workers are on strike in
Berlin. Well, that's one kind of labor
trouble we have got rid Of.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-05-12

One can't learn everything at the
circus. 1t takes politics to teach that a
mule is as fond Of peanuts as is an ele-
phant,
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-05-12

There is strong suspicion that the
retirement of Villa was less capitula-
tion than q dicker.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-05-12

Somebody should have wired him
Dear David, Don't Write"
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-05-12

Anyhow, there will be moral
victory" for all of the defeated candi-
dates. ..
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-05-12

Happy the man who has a child to
take him TO the circus.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-05-12

Open diplomacy seems to have been
held up ut the Mexican border.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-05-12
Member of the Associated Press

Philadelphia. Wednesday. May II, 1920
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-05-12

All of which indicates that American
literature at this time Is neither barren
nor unpromising. Only those with
their eyes closed to the facts will re-
xret the good old times Of American
letters. Tksfe is more expert knowl-
edge and kre brains In the writing Of
tl,e presxn lLan In any other period Of
our history nd there Is . wider public
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-05-12

PHILADELPHIA's LEADING THEATRES
DIRECTION LEE & j. J. sHUBERT