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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-06-17
The Day

noes God ever see the clock?-
- We hurry, hurry, hurry,
AS though life were not
Mcasurelcss itself.
Threescore and ten
So that older men
Count their years
Like plunder;
So that younger men. who die,
Having lived a whole lifetime,
Feel cheated.
Day comes here,
AS though there were not time enough
for another dawn.
We seize it.
1t is broken up into hours
As a city is broken up into streets,
And we travel wearily to the end Of
them
AS between narrow house walls.
II starts with IN alarm clock.
How can there be greatness in a day
That is led in by a bellwether,
4 meek. Gods beast, to the charnel
house?
1t is weighed on the clocks and apnor-
toned:
Light, the tender white meat OF the
day, to the masters:
The black meat. the gall and the
entrais to us
So is the day slaughtered.
SO there shall be a time when the dav
shall be like q meadow.
Open and free, with time like n hound
less sky,
And the pleasures growing like wild
flowers
When life e-spans shall be forgotten.
Where death shall be Il ford across a
river :"
When ! shall not be crowded in between
two hours,
When my sitting down shall not have
hanging over me the shadow NJ
my getting up.
For TINS it IS worth laying waste cities
And forgetting a civilization.
-lSidor Schneider, in Reedy's Mirror
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-06-17
COLLEGES HAVE GROWN
FASTER THAN POPULATION
And They Are Finding II lncreas
lntIy Difficult to Get Big
Men as Presidents

TT WOULD be a gricyous mistake for
L thp friends of the University of
PENNSYLVANIA to regard with compla-
cent satisfaction the growth OF the IN
stitution in the forty four years that
have uasScd since Provost Smith hrst
entered il as student.
Doctor smith reminded those who
heard him Mt the commencement eXer-
ciscs Yesterday that in 1876 there were
only 09O students, faculty of fifty five
members aud three buildings. And he
called their attention TO the attendance
of more than 10000 students this year.
instructed by faculty of more than
500 members on n "ampus of 10 acres
containing eighty buildings. lie did not
sav that hundreds of students were
turned away last fall because there was
no room for them. Neither did he say
that the expansion Of the University
had been no larger than the average
exnansion Of all the universities of the
country in the same period.
Only those whose business it is to
inform themselves on the subject are
aware of what has leen happening in
the fields Of higher education during the
last fifty years. The man in the street
knows something about the increase in
population and national wealth. but he
has not interested himself in the col.
lcges But he ought to be interested
in the subject. and he will have to be
interested If the colleges are to meet
the demands upon them.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-06-17
HARD TO PLEASE

NEITHER New York Lor Boston is
~ satisfied with the population figures
given out by the Bureau of the Census.
The Boston Chamber Of Commerce
has called a meeting TO protest, and
Mayor Hylan. of New York. has asked
for the figures for a district in each
borough that he may test them by a
police canvass.
Each city thinks that 1t is bigger
than the official figures indicate. New
York, which grew from 3.43' 900 in
1900 to 4.T6G 600 in 1910, now CON
tains population of 5.G21 900. The
increase in the last ten years is only
SI5 900. whereas in the previous ten
wears the gain had been ,329. 600. The
New Workers do not seem to be able to
understand why there has been check
in the rate of growth. The people in
the rest of the country can find n rca-
on. Immigration at the rate OF l.OuO,-
OG0 year was going on before the war.
4 majority of the immigrants landed in
New York and n large percentage OF
them stayed in that city. Immigration
virtually ceased when the war began
and emigration carried away as many
as immigration brought in. So the
growth Of New York, so far aS it is
affected by immigration, Is really its
growth for the five years from 1910 to
1913.
Roston's gain has been 77.00O in ten
years and the city now has population
Of AZ 900 But according to the state
census of 1919 the population was
T45, 400. The BostOnians are con-
vinccd that more than $500 has been
added to the population of the city since
1918. But it is notorious that in states
where there is local census the popu-
lation figure are always greater than
those shown by the federal census. The
annual percentage of increase in pOpu-
lation shown by the state census is
rarely justified by the figures of the de-
ccnnial census conducted from Wash
ington.
There is little doubt that when the
figures are given out for Philadelphia
it will be found that they are lower
than the optimists have been expecting.
1t has frequently been said that we have
reached the 1000, 900 mark, but the
estimated population IuSt year WIS oulS
|. .T35 600. while the actual population
in 1910 was ,540, 900. The unofficial
estimate for New York last year was
5.S9G 600 but the actual count this
year shows only 5,G21 900. And Bos
ton last year thought it had 772,0O0,
but III" official figures this year are
"a 800.
When most of us look on the aCtivi =
ties Of the city we are impressed by the
multjtudes moving about very much as
he small boy was impressed when hC
told his mother that million cats were
fighting in the back yard. But when
the boy was asked for details he had to
say that there was his cat and Bill
Jones ) cat and that that was all he
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-06-17
A MIRACLE OF PROVIDENCE

DEMOCRATIC editors, great and
bsmall. are benefting in a peculiar
way by the nomination of Mr.. Harding.
They have been compelled. to a new
reading of sCriptural texts and new
acquaintance with sort of literature
of which not n few of them seem to be
in grievOus need.
Gamalel? Who was Gamaliel? That
question roarcd in the minds of all
Democratic journalists who listened at
the Office end of the Chicago wires, ach E
ing for bits Of news that could be sharp
cnpd and used as ammunition. A name
from the Bible? Bible? Oh, yes; n book
with limp covers, much used in church
It is clear that there was commotion
and fevprish interest in the sanctums Of
the opposition. Office boys fit and
fy in the imagined scene and dash to
friendly parsons and book shops with
notes from the boss begging for copy
of the strange work.
By diigcnt study the Democratic
editors learned who the Gamaliels were
and what they did. Who can say that
they may not learn more?
Providence works in odd ways. For
all any one knows the accident of a
Republican candidates middle name
may serve to turn many wandering. un
guided feet into the ways of righteous
ness and light.
Meanwhile Mr.. Harding is enduring
the sort Of experience which causes
mere lockers on to wonder, once every
four years. why any man dares to seek
the presidency. Within few hours OF
his nomination the world knew all about
his golf scores. the color of his favoritG
necktie. what he eats for breakfast. the
routine of his household. his church
record. the names of all his antecedents
what he reads aud why he reads it and
the nature of his family ties. The fierce
white light that beats upon presidential
candidates disclosed every important
and unimportant incident of his past
and present life And the camapign il
only beginning
The Gamalicls of old had no easy time
of it. Today II man must be truly great
and very far advanced in a state OF
human perfection if he is to escape an
inhalation on the road to eminence.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-06-17
Answers to Yesterdays ouj,

l. Alaska gets its name from "Al-ay-
es-k9," n native Eskimo or innEit
word meaning great country
. The first postmaster general or Tho
United states was Samuel Osgood
Of Massachusetts, appointed ~;
President Washington in i7Sa OS
2. Shakespeare was born April % Yis,
I, The diameter of the earth a. -
equator Ia 1925 miles ''e
3. Jean IngelOw Is2O-ls9) was =,
English poet and novelist "''
6, "A man who has ancestry is Iil,,
representative OF the past" ncc,,ss
In The Lady OF Lyons" by nrI'
wer-LyttOn,
7, Joseph Conrad's full name is Josenb
Conrad KorZeniowski.
S. Shale oil Is mineral oil obtained
from petroliferous shale.
3, The document that precipitated the
world war was an ultlmatun to
King Peter of Serbia demandIno
tho prompt punishment Naf the a..
sassins OF the Archduke Ferdi,
nand. II was sent by the I'm.
peror Francis Joseph of Austria
on July 23, 1914. ~
10. Tho story Of George Washington and
his little hatchet first appeared ~
Life Of Washington. written
by the 4evsr M IL Weem6.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-06-17
WOOD AND BUTLER

A MONG Americans who have IA knack
"A of getting in bad Professor Nicho
las Murray Butler holds high place.
His blstering attack on General Wood.
after the general had been defeated at
Chicago, was another example of an in o.
durable habit of incorporate utterance.
Colonel Proctor, who was the chief
angel and supporter of the Wood can
didacy, is well meaning man with a
wrong notion of the c0untry's needs
He is neither a gambler nor war
maker, and no one who knows anything
about his part in the campaign even
supposed that he expected any specia
reward for his services or any material
return for his money. The country haC
made up its mind about General Wood
before abe convention was organized.
IL didav want him for the simple reason
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-06-17
The Too.REApY REVOLVER

TRAGIC events of the last few days
l. in Philadelphia point strongly to
the need of curbing the promiscuouS
carrying and use of firearms. Since
Monday the news columns have recorded
the shooting of Joseph J, Stevens,
charged with descrtion from the army,
without what at this time appears to
have been real attempt to take him
into custody; gun fight between two
police officers over some trivial affair,
and the wounding of a young woman
during q water front riot.
Familiarity with firearms invariably
breeds contempt, but unfortunately the
contempt is generally for the life Of
another, whether that other be q party
to the quarrel, as in the case of the
officers, or an innocent victim, as in
the case Of the girl. Certain it is that
pistols are too easy to obtain and that
the restrictions governing their posses
sion and use are either too lax or too
leniently enforced,
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-06-17

Wet government in reply to note from
Persia declares there is no question OF
an enterprise against Persian inde-'
pendence. but says 1t was necessary. to
protect Russian shipping in the Caspian
sea.
withdraw from Enzeli, on the Caspian,
"when Persian independence is guar
anteed and she is no longer under for
eign influence"
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-06-17

sion OF the institution so that II may
be able to meet all the demands upon 1t,
the institution will be fortunate indeed.
Such a man would be Of great assist
ancc to the trustees in solving the COM
plicatcd problems which confront them.
He must be found il the University is
to continue to expand and keep pace
with the demands upon Il.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-06-17

The retirement Of DR.. Leo s. Rowe
from the faculty of the University Of
Pennsylvania deprives the institution of
the services of one of its most active
professors. a man who interested him
self in multitude of things outside of
his classroom. If more professors
would broaden their interests their
ability to arouse enthusiasm in their
students would be increased.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-06-17

Women have been urged to eat less
candy and pastry in order to bring
down the price of sugar. Old Man
Necessity has on occasion been known
to conserve sugar, but young Dan Cupid
never. He is the original candy kid.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-06-17
What Do You Know2
QUIZ

l. How old was Jack London tbo
novelist, when he died? 0'' 'he
? WI" was the first attorney General
plOred? 'ist eN-
4, What is the diameter of tbe ANAL.
between the poles? "' earth
:. Who was Hans Christian Anderso,
6. What Is the population OF Petbia'
hem, Pa? ''eth'e'
7. What Is "argot"?
8, Who was the author OF "PolIvanno"
Q. What is shale? Sa"Na Z
10, What great work for chorus and
orchestra is in b minor? anu
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-06-17

Sooner or later national conven-
tions will do away with synthetic en-
thusiasm run by the clock and will
nominate candidates without manufac-
tured hurrahs-but that the Democrats
in San Francisco should initiate the
reform is too much to expect.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-06-17

1t would appear that the Strap
Hangers League is not sufficiently well
organized to cope with the 7. r. L. in
the matter of street car tariffs. This
is surprising. In the past the members
have at least shown their ability to
stand together.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-06-17

The New York Tribune has discov-
cred that it was the Republican sena-
tors that kept Wood out of the White
House. Which calls to mind that an
other wise philosopher in "As You Like
It. once discovered that 1t was the
property of water to wet and fire to
burn.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-06-17

The shooting of nine year old girl
yesterday during riot incidental to the
strike Of longshoremen draws attention
to the regrettable fact that any fool or
knave may buy revolver as readily as
he may purchase bag Of peanuts.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-06-17
A FouR-YEAR PROGRAM FOR
PHILADELPHIA

Things on which the people expect
the new administration to concen-
trate its attention:
The DelalCdre iiUer bridge.
A drUdock big enough to dccommo-
date the largest ships.
Development Of the rapid transit sys-
tenn.
A conrention han.
A building for the Free Library.
An Art MuSCUm.
Enlargement Of the trdter supply.
Homes to accommodate the popuId-
tion.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-06-17
LIMIT CATALONIAN POWER
Spanish Council Of Ministers Act
on Autonomy Demands

on AUTONOMY Demands
Madrid, June 16.-(By A. PD-Cat.
alonia's demands for autonomy wert
considered by the council of minister
today and approval was given a deere
establishing the limits Of power to b
conferred upon the Catalonian Regiona
Diet.
Decision was reached by the couuci
to issue treasury obligations amountn!
to 400 ZOO, 900 pesetas to meet the pres
ent deficit. Deputy Mendez, Of Vigo
was named food commissioner by thl
council.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-06-17

When the Delaware Legislature
failed to ratify the suffrage amendment
the Democrats blamed the Republicans.
Now that the Louisiana Legislature has
also failed to ratify, will they blame
themselves?
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-06-17

The city authorities are apparently
Of the opinion that charities and auto
mobiles are in the same class in one
respect aud that all drivers should be
licensed
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-06-17

Porch parties are going to be pop
ular In Ohio this season.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-06-17

Mr.. Mitten is willing to do his
little bit to make July 1 unpopular.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-06-17

Provost Smith has graduated into
the leisure he has justly earned.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-06-17

There's no blamed moderation about
June. It is either bake or blow.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-06-17

Senator Harding's speech Of ac-
ceptance will perhaps make clear GER
tain diplomatic obscurities in the plat
form.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-06-17

Edgar Fahs Smith Is distinct
acquisition to the leisure class.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-06-17
SHORT CUTS

General Humidity got the nomina- :
tion yesterday.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-06-17

Legitimate charities will approve
Sr,ts. Of the proposed ordinance to regulate
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-06-17

saw is 50 tritc now aS 'the devil take
the hindmost. Our eagerncss is as to
which shall reach him first. But let us
return to the farmer.
hTOW the Gownsman is a bit of a
~ farmer himself. lie has harnessed
horse in the dim historic past OF
horses and driven as many as two OF
him. not tandem, but with no very
serious damage to the horse, the road or
himself. He has never MIXED COW
nor even a goat. though he has ridden
one. Tie has never plOwcd anything
eSccpt the sea-and that is metaphor
ical nor has he narrowed anything cx-
cent n yellow dog in his-not the dog
youth, when he-not the dog-was
learning to play the violin. This har-
rowing was very well done. The Gowns
man has sown seeds and waited for
them to come UP. He is still waiting
for some Of them. He has met too
many hogs in his day to have ever
fallen under the slightest temptation to
keep any; besides he has an abiding
aversion to the Baconian theory. lie
has moved lawn with a dull mower
and without profanity. lie has swung
a scythe without hurting the grass very
much and "swathcd" with n cycle-or
is it sickle? In submission to the
truth he confrsscS that he has never
l. tar in0 a =
otherwise shnrkcd his ucighbors. And If
not wheat. he has SOwn early in his
springtime certain well known variety
Of oats, and he is still lamenting rye.
TINE GOwnSman as a farmer has not
i been too busy to observe somewhat
the arduous labOrs Of his fellow coun-
| trymen. He has sat beside him and
beside her, and the cider was some
, times hard. lie has whitfield stick,
balanced on n fence rail. lOtered in the
| barn and Chinned in the store: and he
| has had under observation 1.-THE chaw-
| ing Of tobaccy." He knows that the
overworkcd country horse always stops
| for rest when he meets another team.
Even the Fords have caught the trick.
| He knows that no true farmer ever
! ing shower that no man properly bred
/ in the country ever works IL it rains or
! looks like rain or is likely to rain to-
morrow or next day. The GOwnsman
| knows the country confusion over rail
road time and sun time and daylight
squnndcring time and how the time
! which gets a man up latest in the morn .
! ing and drops him off his job earliest
/ in the afternoon is the true country
! time. Your obNeryant Gownsman mas
/ learned that he who Is skilled IN the
swiIling of swine values his services
and the services Of his man and his
/ maid, his OK and his ass and OF every
( thing that is his, even above the price
| Of ruhirs; that his charge is for ten
hour day and that he works intermit =
tcnty during six that he sedulously as
cortans the highest prices current in
Boston or Philadelphia.-which, inno-
cent consumer, is a matter far worse
for that day. AMI adding transporta :
ton, handling and overhead expens =
doubtless the cost of rpening in
the sun or in cold Btorage-adds up the
total Il, the actual price Of his truck
furnished to next door nei~hhor. who
la. 1, send for thc stuff himself at that
IT, get If. The Gownsman has observed
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-06-17

Senator Harding in
True Courtesy scanning congratu-
..-. latory kilograms from
defeated opponents carefully refrains
from reading between the lines.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-06-17

WHEN people are mad for luxury
w even necessities must be curtailcd.
Why grow more potatoes than you can
eat even II they do bring five times
their old value when you can turn the
old barn into a garage, furnish gaso-
line at a couple Of cents above the mar
kpt rate and. joining the profiteering
class. learn trade tinkering with other
peoples cars at handsome profit?
Why blame the farmer? There was
once classic village somewhere in
which everybody lived by taking in his
ncighbor's washing. In the New Eng
land of today. the Gownsman has re-
marked several hamlets in which l.,
would seem that everybody makes
his living by tinkering his neigh
bor's auto or at least his motorcycle.
The motor is the symbol of our civili-
zation in its present state Of decline. The
whole idea is to be going somewhere
md the Gownsman rather suspects that
he knows where that is-and at a rate
faster than somebody else. No old
saw is 50 tritc now as "thp devil take
the hindmost. Our eagerncss is as to
which shall reach him first. But let us
return to the farmer.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-06-17
When Cloth Is
Not Clothing

meaning of the Lever act. Whatever
cloth may be in law, no man who seeks
to buy n suit of clothes could be per
suaded into taking two or three yards
of woolen cloth as substitute for a
coat, vest and trousers.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-06-17
THE COWNSMAN
Help the Farmer7
OF LATE there has been some talk

OF LATE there has been some talk
" of the farmer; and some talk back.
First Of all there does not seem to be
enough Of the farmer, and what there
Is of him can't work or won't work or
don't work-it does not matter which.
The neglected acres tell the tale and
they tell the truth. for any one can see
that they lie not--at least under cul-
tivation. Shall we of the city give the
farmer help? And does he need lit
Could he use help? Does he want us or
anything that he has not got? The
farmer says that II Is the fault of cap
ital which takes the laborer from the
fields and employs him in factories. But
the laborer is not much employed. at
least in one sense. even in factories,
and when he remains in the country he
labors only half the time he used to
give. at only double wages; wherefore,
there is only half as much done as for
mprly and twice as much paid for it. In
a certain New England township there
were only limited number Of men who
could work and would work. The war
has diminished their number. Not that
many of them were killed in battle, but
that the spirit of work has been some
how killed within them. Some have
drifted to towns where more is going
on: others have become confirmed in
the habit Of going afshing; and in fish
ing the chief delight is that there is no
work-cxcept for the imagination.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-06-17

In 1879. the first year for which the
government reports give the figures,
there We're only 2@.392 students in the
universities. colleges and technical
schools of the country. In 1916, the
last year for which tho figures have
been compiled, there were 80
The increase is more than eleven fold.
The population in the same period has
increased only two and ono-half times.
Since 1905 the number Of students in
the institutions for higher education has
doubled
In the period covered by Provost
Smiths figures Harvard has increased
its students from 100 to 1900. Colum-
hia from 116 to 10000 Princeton from
PSI to 1900 Yale from 500 to $500 :
and Colgate. to mention only one of the
small colleges, has grown from 100 stu =
dents to 600. This expansion has been
going on all over the country. 1t has
come about because higher education
has vindiCated itself
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-06-17

If the trustees of the University of
Pennsylvania can find the right type of
man to succeed Provost Smith, a man
with the human sympathies and deyo-
tion Of the retiring provost, and also
with the energetic initiative of a
younger ,pan ard an appreciation of the
importYfe Of providing for the expan-