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Evening star., 1922-08-02
P. O. WINDOW DOOMED.
Counters to Take Place Due to Par
sts cei Post Service.

Counters are to supplant the small
g-geon-holed grilled window, so long
Smbolical of the post office. accord
ing to an announcement from the de-
partment today. Parcel post is the
reason for this change. it was stated.
as the bulky packages do not easily
go through the narrow slots at the
bottom of the iron-barred windows.
Designs for new post offices recon-
mended by the committee on post Of
flee buildings call for long COLLAPSE
BILE windows and a counter for the
parcel post section. Scales sunk in
the counter speed up the weighing of
packages, 1t has been found.
The grill is also to be removed from
most of the other service windows in
the Hobbies of the newest post offices.
1t Is still kept, however, at the win
dows where considerable money
transactions are carried on for the
purpose of safety.
Evening star., 1922-08-02
ToDAY's AMUsEMEHTs.

GARRICK-"The Gentleman From
Mississippi."' with Tom Wise. Per
fCrmance at $3.50 pm.
BELAsCO-"Up in Mabels Room.
at $3.50 and $3.50 pm.
KEITH'S-Florence Walton, vaude.
Vile. at 2:l5 and 8:15 pm.
COLUMBIA-"Nanoo of the North,
photoplay, at 10:40 am, 1882, z:lS
4:15. 6. 7:46 and 9:45 pm.
METROPOLITAN" Hot Ro.
NANCE" at 11:43 am: and i:42, 3:4S
5:42. 7:44 and s:44 pm.
PALACE-Viola Dana, in They
Like EN- Rough" at IL am. 12:45
$3.50, 1870. $40; 1855 and 1855 pm.
CRANDALL'S-'The Crossroads o.
New York" at 1880. 2. $3.50. 6. $50
8 and $3.50 pm.
Evening star., 1922-08-02
JURY IGNORES CHARGE.
Student Accused by Police Of TAX
ing Mortgaged Auto.

The grand jury has ignored a
mobile out of the District. which had
been preferred against William X.
Bowden. eighteen years old, a stu
dent of Emerson Institute. Bowden
was recently arrested at San Diego.
Calf. and brought back in the car,
q distance of 1000 miles, by De-
tective Sergeant Hughlett on com.
plant OF the company which had
sold him the automobile on time pay
ments. The boy claimed. it is stated,
that he had told the company of his
intended trip with his father to
California in the car.
Evening star., 1922-08-02
HIGHER RATES BLOCKED.
I. c. c. Suspends Shipping Charge
on Newspaper Supplements.

An increase in freight rates on
newspaper colored supplements when
shipped from priting plants to news
papers published in various cities in
eastern trunk line territory was
blocked yesterday by the Interstate
Commerce Commission.
The new rates affecting the ship
ments would have. gone into effect
August l. and would have applied
to all points on the Pennsylvania,
Baltimore and Ohio and Delaware and
Lackawanna and western railroads.
They were ordered suspended by the
Interstate Commerce Commission to
await an investigation.
Evening star., 1922-08-02
CITY NEWS IN BRIEF

Phil Sheridan Post, Ne. 9. Depart
ment of Potomac. will meet Friday.
s pm. in G. A. +. hall
Richard j. Harden Camp. No. z,
United Spanish War Veterans. will
meet tomorrow at s pm. in Pythian
Temple. '-
Eureka Chapter. No. 5. r. A. NJ.
will hold it's annual picnic at Hams
Point. Potomac Park, Saturday after
noon. Music. athletic games and SOU
venirs are on the program. Hams
Point ferry will leave Sth street
wharf every half hour.
DIR. and Mrs. George p. Merrill will
be hosts at dinner at the Arts
Club tomorrow evening.
The Wanderlusterx' Moonlight hike =
will start from the end of the Sol
dicrs' Home car line at Sis o'clock.
Mr.. Sigh will lead.
Evening star., 1922-08-02
OFFICERS REAssIGNEp.

Lieut.. William p. Null. Naval Medi-
cal Corps. at the Naval Medical
School, this city. has been assigned I,
duty at the Naval Academy. Annapo-
lis, Nd, and Lieut.. Roger NJ Chois-
ser. Naval Medical Corps. at the re-
cruiting barracks, Hampton Roads.
Va. has been assigned to duty at the
Naval Medical School. this city.
Evening star., 1922-08-02
WILL ATTEND CONVENTION
Chamber Of Commerce to Send

A. E. Seymour to Detroit.
The Washington Chamber of Com
merce will be represented by A. E.
Seymour. secretary, at the annual con-
vention of the Association of CONNER
cial Secretaries to be held at Detroit in
October. The board Of directors at a
meeting last night voted to send Mr..
Seymour there
The board also elected to member
ship A. r. McChesney & Co.. Radium
Products Corporation and James A
Rumble
A resolution of sympathy was sent to
the family Of the late Joseph Stras-
burger.
Evening star., 1922-08-02
ORGANIZATION ACTIVITIES
TONIGHT

Rev. DR.. Comic of Mississippi and
Rev. DIR. Jeter of Arkansas will con-
duct the evangelistic services at Nc
Kinley Memorial Baptist Church, 4th
and L streets. at o'clock.
Evening star., 1922-08-02
DESIGNATIONS ACCEPTED.

The President has accepted the
designations OF Ensigns Mitchell p.
Crist on the receiving ship at New
York and Francis e. FAirman. on
United States steamship Eagle 50.
Evening star., 1922-08-02

Association of Oldest Inhabitants
will meet at o'clock. at Union en-
gine house, southeast corner 18th
and H streets.
Evening star., 1922-08-02
TONIGHT.

A lawn fete for the benefit of the
Holy Family Day Nursery will be
held at 519 4th street northwest.
Evening star., 1922-08-02

Particular Council. Society of ST
Vincent de Paul. monthly meeting a,
s pm, at Carroll Hall, 10th and h
streets northwest.
Evening star., 1922-08-02

M VMpIr I43J U Street
VI VA ~ VIOLA DANA. In ''sEEING's
BELIEVING" And NEAL BURNS and
HELEN DARLING. in "A RAMBLING
ROMEO
Evening star., 1922-08-02

E1ITE I4th Street md n. ]. Ave.
kss1a IL DAVID POWELL. in
THE SPANISH JADE"
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-06-19
Member of the Associated Press
A BRIDGE NECESSITY

TNHE precise sCsdui. centennial, July q,
i 1926, need not lack impressive recogni-
tion II signalized by formal dedicatory ex-
ercises at the fair grounds and If the Della
ware Bridge is on the same day opened for
traffic. The dual event would 60 far toward
offsetting the wrench to the historical pro-
prieties caused by the unavoidable postpone
ment of the exposition inaugural.
The necessity for meeting all the obiga-
tions entailed in the bridge work is par
ticularly pressing. Chief Engineer Mod
jeski announces that there are no structural
difficulties in the way. Given the required
appropriations. the commission Is convinced
that the great span can be completed and
made ready for use on time.
The qualification Is significant. Colonel
Pusey, counsel for the interstate commits
sion, is urging the need of an additional
appropriation By the Legislature 10 enable
the damages TO property owners on this side
of the river to be paid at an early date.
Delay in the use of these properties would
inevitably mean a slowing down of work
upon the bridge.
It is the plain duty of the next Assembly
ut Harrisburg to forestall any such relaxa
tfon of the tempo Of progress. The cng
neers and technical experts are admirably
performing their part. 1t would be de.
plorably shortsighted to deny them coop
Grafton by deferrng the dispensation of
vitally necessary funds.
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"A LIVING WAGE"

IN EXAMINATION OF the order of the
"A Railway Labor Board reducing the
wages of certain classes Of railway cmployc,
. total of S21 900 600 year does not re
veal any very alarming state of facts.
As the order affects 32J. 900 employees. the
average reduction in wages will be $50. or
| about 81 GO week OF course. no one
likes to have his wages cut but the reduce
tion in this instance is 50 small that. I'm
view of the reduction in the cost Of living.
1t would seem as If the employees affected
ought to be willing to accept the new scale.
The telephone girls will get a minimum
wage of $50 month This Is more than
the telephone companies pay The clerks
Will receive an average Of 5S4 cents an
! hour, whereas in December, 1917. their
Z average pay was 34.j cents The pav of
stationary engineers and fremon WAS re-
duced only two cents an hour but the noy
, OF signamen's helpers is reduced six cont.
an hour. And so il goes through all classes
affected
! The LnhOr Board diSmiSses rs "hjrbrv
| theoretical aud Of title value rLr con,cr
! tion OF the employees that the minimum living
wage for the average family Is S9G3G %.
IT does not take any proof 70 convince, m,
average family that the board IS rich, for
/ the average family is living on les. ,hor
this minimum living wage and m,r,. of ,L'
FAMILIES are laying IN money The breach.
ers In this city who receive less ,Lan ,tts
amount are NOR" numerous than those who
receive more, The school tcarlrr, nvo an
a much smaller sum The printers " lo o.,
as much are the exception and NOT the r,,le
Inc motormen and conductors on tho tro,lc,
cars have never dreamed Of asking for .o
nigh wage. and yet they have accumulatod
saving fund of more than 81 .OUO 600 and
tout OF other funds to which they baye con-
sributed they bought 10000 shares Of RapId
transit stock few months ago.
II the men affected by the order Insist on
i'A'hg 'heF VIII nav" little public .ynpa-
THY. 1t may be that their ,olk ~ .
Is intended as a protest agains, s,i,, fnn
lther reduction in wages in rbe ,n,nodfato
future. '"'"'el'n'e
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-06-19
EMPHATICAllY OUTSIDE

CONSISTENCY is discoverable in the
~ Governments decision to maintain no
unofficial observer at The Hague. 1t is OBJ.
viousy far from easy to derive profit from
a straddling position in international affairs.
Richard Washburn Child's role at Genoa
was clearly neither grateful nor. important.
Colonel George Harvey has not made history
by his magnificent siences in European
councils
Our sister nations are not particularly ,n. .
terested In protestations Of American sym.
pathy which involve no actions. Some Of
their Ministries were, however. deluded by
the former policy of keeping the door aiar
without assuming the responsibilities of en-
trance.
lt was such misconception that prompted
tie effort to induce the United States 70 he
come party TO The Hague proceedings
The last clouds Of illusion are now dispclled
The United States, for reasons thar in
responsible circles have been adiud-ed
we!ghty, has chosen the course Of isolation
II this policy is ever reversed II would
be the part of manliness and common sense
to free it definitely of compromise or eouivo.
cation. Halfway measures are futile
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-06-19

frmity Of stamp collection. With q refine
ment Of austerity unattainable even by
John Knox or q Savonarola, this journal
inveishs against the revolving practices OF
philately, instancing the hideous fact that
in Paris--ah, those wicked. French !-at
auction somebody paid "a 900 francs for
Hawaiian two-cent stamp" LET the men"
comedies the otherwise minatory Mr.. Bris-
bane, waste time and money collecting
stamps if they will. Don't encourage your
children to do it,
The Mortified editor suggests as a substi.
tute the purchase by boys and girls Of Gov
ernment thrift stamps. This is, indeed, to
be commended. But must every act In life.
innocent in itself. be weighed against an
alternative?
Must the youth that buys a Bible give
way to passionate remorse at the thought OF
some leggar in Bagdad who needs its treas
ures more and should he straightway make
use Of the parcel post to Mesopotamia?
There is due cause for amazement over
the deficiency Of ccnsure for stamp collect
ing. Parents, recognizing the enormity Of
the ofense, have thus far neglected to make
IT the subject Of constitutional denunciation.
This is inconsiderate Must one forgo the
delights of philatelic bootlegging?
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-06-19
RELIGIOUS TOLERANCE

CTUDENTS Of religious opinion in the
- United States will find the consolida
ton Of Andover Theological Seminary and
the Harvard Divinity School most sug
gestive.
The Andover Seminary was founded in
1907 by the Trinitarian branch Of the Con-
gregational Church because the Harvard
Divinity School had accepted the Unitarian
theories. With the advent Of the so-called
higher criticism which is but form of
literary criticism. the Andover Seminary
was rent by heresy charges a generation
ago, and the storm ragged with such fury
as almost 70 wreck the institution. After
struggling along for a while the school was
moved from Andover to Cambridge in 1908
where an attempt was made to revtvifv IT,
1t has apparently been discovered that II
was not possible 10 compete successfully
with the Harvard Divinity School and that
It would be better for the cause of tbeo
logical education to combine the two
schools.
DIR. Lowell. In explaining why the con-
soltdation had taken place, says that lone
hundred years ago men thought the two
streams were separated by an impassable
barrier, but that barrier has proved IN he
an island and the waters OF the two streams
without losing the force Of either. will we
believe, flow together in larger and deeper
channel"
While tolerance seems to be increasi IN
certain quarters, intolerance of opinion is
growing fercer in other quarters.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-06-19
RECOGNIZING THE RIVER

OUNCE the grandiosc steamer Republic. Of
~ jovia memories. was placed upon the
retired list the possibilities Of pleasure
tr5"el on the Lower Delaware and the bay
within the capes have been but imperfectly
cultivated Save for Boston and Southern
ships and the trans Atlantic liners. whose
first call is Queenstown and hence are un
suitable for purposes OF week end recrea-
ton, the river south Of Philadelphia has
been almost devoid of passenger traffic below
Delaware City.
Exclusively cargo lines have made profit
able and increasing use Of one Of the finest
stretches Of navigable waters indenting the
Eastern seaboard. The average resident Of
this community has. however. been re-
stricted by conditions unrepresentatve Of
the geographical advantages of the place as
they appear on the map. The popularity Of
the comparatively short river trips now
available attest the appeal of fresh breezes
and pleasant scenery along n splendid
waterway.
An instance Of a reaction toward a proper
appreciation of the Delaware as a field of
tourist travel is now provided in the an
nouncement of an ocean, bay and river serv-
ice between this city, Cape May and New
York.
The fog which habitually settles upon port
affairs here and fosters the impression that
this is primarily an inland town still en-
shrouds project that should be productive
of interest. Scant information has been
disclosed concerning the character of the
ships to be operated, sailing schedules or
accommodat atoms.
The first steamer, however. was to have
left New York yesterday, and It is re-
ported that should the service find favor a
fleet of three vessels will be running by
July The opportunity unquestionably is
at hand for an efficient modern and com
Portable combined river and coastal passen-
ger traffic to and from this port.
The Cape May New York experiment
represents a laudable effort to exploit ex-
istent opportunities and should, il it sue
ceeds, furnish inspiration for other ven
lures.
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CAN MR.. BRYAN LEARN7

TNHE proposal of Professor Spanrlcr of ,bo
= University Of West virginia. thar to o,.,
William j. Bryan 60 to the summer ,cSnaI
,of the University Of Chicago and t,Ilo -
course In evolution and modern Cbristi,,
ity suggests the query whether a man. g.
ever too old to learn. -
Mr.. Bryan has disputed rho tboorr -
evolution taught by Professor Spanpler md
has offered 800 to the man who world har
monize evolution and the Bible
We do not intend TO sit in iudgp,a,.
the merits of this disagreement. Rr, -
Mr. Bryan should accept the suggestion tLa,
he go TO college again it would be intoras,
ing to discover how much he could Iaarn
1t has been held by some PHILOSOPHERS tbn,
a man learns nothing after he is forty vears
old. BY that time he has n set of drod
ideas which he devOtes himself to proclojm'
ing FOR the rest of his life. They color nj,
his thinking. for every new idea is measured
BY them and every theory contrary 10 them
10 regarded as false, and every theory in
accordance with them is sound However
much be may profess to have an open mind
those who come in contact with him dis.
cover very soon that his mind is equipped
with an automatic shutter which acts in
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-06-19
Answers to Saturdays Quf1

1. The highest land elevation ever rsasmTSt Ms"nt
by man IS the summit OF k-2 or Noun ,,a.
Godwin:Austen,, in the the HIN Mma5ssytihs: as n:
Abruzzi In June. 1909.
2. Nectar was the drink OF the gods.
8. The Neanderthal man is the name givss
historic cave-dwellers; charact.ri,ssS e.
by very low type Of skull: An Gp.
ject resembling a skull, which giv, W
rise to this anthropological conception, y
was found in limestone cave T.
dorf district Of Prussia, in 1857.
4. Jaryey Is an English slang M mame Tr,vsr -, oi
g. In the }su"tf civil '4si War period tn. United
States Naval Academy was now
from Annapolis to Newport N
After the conflict the school was ~
opened in Its original envlronmenH
6. Victoria Nyanza, In south Centrai "a m'r iarc
Is the second largest fresh-water inEv iss
in the world. surpassed in area on"
by Lake Superior. IL
2. The frigate bird or man-0f-war ,ISN,sss' hSws =
a large sea bird with black piuHrssSn' ~
sometimes measuring ten feet from " z
to tip of its extended wings rspd
capable Of very powerful ana 'Ap'
s. An epigraph is a carved inscription a oa
tomb or superscription prehA''
! to a book or chapter. ,v.l
9. stephen Decatur the american famou mS for
his exploit in the American war wa WIZ WIZ
Tripoli. At the head of small paarsh, arm
ON February IS, 1904. he made sd dssdd
into the harbor Of Tripoli and burhsSd
the frigate~ Philadelphia, WhieTh Tr,nnl mlI
fallen into the hands Of the TrlPur TrlPoI
tans. In recognition CT this act, WHEN WHEN
was pronounced by Admiral Neison ,sss
the most daring OF the age" ne va
sword. Decatur was killed in due
at Blaiensburg, near Washington ;"
1920, calls
TO- The accent In the word Contums"
on the FIRST syllable
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-06-19
HE'LL NEED A REST AFTERWARD

LNRIENDS Of Mr.. TAFT are hoping that he
i played enough golf before sailing for
England to put him in good physica! condi-
tion, for according to the reports he is to
have strenuous life in London
He is to arrive today and is to be guest
at a dinner of the British Society Of Pill
grims tonight; Wednesday he will be pre-
sented at court; Thursday he will be en-
tertained at dinner by Sir John Simon
former Attorney General Friday the Lord
Mayor will entertain him at dinner. and
Saturday Ambassador Harvey will give a
dinner in honor of the King and Queen AZ
, which he will be guest. The following
week will be just as full of dinners and
other engagements. and the week after he
will have little leisure.
Only man with a good stomach and
sound constitution can survive such an
ordeal.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-06-19
THE CRIME OF PHILATElY

MO SHORTAGE Of production can ever
~ dcpress this country while appetite for
artificial crimes and Fictitious sins con.
tinues. These offenses are fresh every hour.
Sumptuary laws inform the public of its
culpablity for acts which in It's guileless
way 1t Lad deemed v!rtuous or at least in
noCenr.
The extraordinary feature Of the case js
the readiness with which moral obiquity is
discerned. There is an impressive yolley Of
applause for any 'reformer' who succeetls
in making us ashamed Of ourselves. The
taste for self -goading is apparently inex-
haustible.
The latest atrocity to which attention ia
drawn by no less a guardian of morals than
the New York American is the vile in
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-06-19
What Do You KnO,V?
QUIZ

l. What was the Sicilian Vespers7 A..
2. What legendary character popularlzed IN
famous comedy declared I'll put
girdle around the earth in forty MIN
utes'?
g. What Is a sampan?
L. Where is the Island Of Mauritius and 70
what nation does II belong?
6. Who was the predecessor of Albert -
King of Belgium?
at Gettysburg?
T. What kind Of an animal Is perm
s. What Is the meaning Of the Latin phrs~
mon est inventus'?
O. From what language Is the word mos
quito imported? =.
10 What IL tho correct pronunciation %
jaguar?
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-06-19

DolllnR inside OF them with no public outlet.
vantage. The great value lies ne in the fact n
that meetings such as these help to shape
intelligent public opinion. This is the very
basis OF any democratic state: we certainly
cannot have free government without free
discussion.
People Eagerly Respond
The people Of Cleveland and Boston have
eagerly responded to the opportunity to dis
cuss public matters in their own neighbor-
hoods and with their own neighbors and
friends. A good many of these meetings are
held on Sunday evenings. They do not in
ter1cre with church attendance, as they are
dhnrnros ph,nnned not, not to g. DO so. and many of the
churches where Sunday evening services are
not held have given the use of the church
buildings for this purpose. preferlng to have
the church used in this manner rather than
stand idle. '""
A curious feature of these meetings is
that great many persons who belong TO
the conservative element do not sneak out
as they should. Therefore some critics Of
our institutions and our society as it exists
Today sometimes get away with n lot of
things through having no opposition
by this l do not mean to Indicate that
these discussion groups are hotbeds of radi-
calism or anything like 1t. for they are nor
but too often the sentiments of safety and
sahiay hnoa are not expressed by those who really
for success and have an interplay of minds
1t Is necessary to have a full particInat ton
and free expression of all points OF view
and this Is generally obtained at the meet
ings.
An Informal Education
'"These meetings are an informal c,ten.
sion Of education. l do not know whv omr
school system could not be prevailed unnn
to allow the use of the school plants MI nver
the city for the development of these discus.
sions. What has been accomplished bv
Cooper Union in New York and in othey. hy
places along these lines shows the nowerful
element for good that these meetings ore
These groups are for adults. those ~
post school age, and present a valuable forr,
of adult education in civic things. II is nno ~
of the weaknesses Of our political systnm
that we deal in personala and triyioI;n
rather than in vital things. 1t is also ra
grettable that people frequently have to yoto it
for public officials without a real mndou I".e
standing of the issues. These meetinau hair
immensely in correcting this condjtion 20
affairs. VI
If our adult people-our yoters--cor,a
only be trained In some way 70 n,.o"sa
policies and principles and the right aAo;n
istration of the Government rather thnn
the individuals involved, we should pet ,nah n,ah
further. And one Of the best ways to i,niril iIum
about this much to be desired result u,o,IS
be to stimulate public interest in The %o"tu moto
ters which the voters will be later caIIad mIa5
upon to decide with their ballots '''''
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stantly as soon as an idea at variance with
his preconceptions Is presented to It.
We fear that IL Mr. Bryan should 90 to
college again he would not accept as truth
or even as plausible theory the statements
Of the professors. He would insist that hs
knew better than they. an attitude which Is
fatal to learning. But the experiment OF
bringing the mind of Mr.. Bryan In direct
contact with the mind of men who are ac-
customed to close reasoning would be in
teresting, whatever its results.
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That ADMISSION of newspaper CORE.
refused was a matter Of world concern was
the world, doubtless. will refuse 70 .roll nuI
excited over the tourists with credent;a,osW,, ETY.
left out in the cold. @''ias