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MONEY AS AN INToxIcANT

TNXIE FIFE is an Indian maid of the
T. sort that used to be celebrated in the
legends and songs of broadway in the days
before costume Censors appeared on the
bathing beach at Waikiki. They were con-
vinced in Tin Pan alley that the beach OF
Waikiki was somewhere in Oklahoma, ana
when it was reported that skirts we're made
compulsory for small brown maidens the
Indian motif interpreted In song, lost Its
appeal for the roof garden and theatre
crowds on The Way.
Exie is Creek Indian. Her ever watch.
fu guardian is your Uncle Samuel. Oil
was discovered on her plot of land and
now her income is moro than $1,000
day. The home life of the Fifcs has been
adorned with a fast motorcar and ward
robe trunk These things represent the
groundwork Of n new and revolutionary
state of existence in one menage on the
Creek reservation.
Naturally. seeing what one must see
wherever one looks nowadays. one trembles
for Exile. For. If she follows the course of
action vivdly marked out by the new rich
among the white brethren, silver cocktail
shakers Of enormous size. beauty parlors'
bucket shops and a private wire to the pest
boOtlegger in town are directly IN her pain.
Exie is Of O stole ancestry. She may bear
UP more nlmDlN uHuer lHe pui"'h "a ''''.'
and UNEXPECTED wealth than white folks
usually do. We shall wait and we shall
see, and we shall hope for the best. Exie
began with desire for many acres of farm
land and many cows. and some good horses
but she wants first to see "a little OF lie.
That is what they all say. If Exie goes
back TO her green acres after a glimpse OF
high life she will have done more than the
most conspicuous representatives of the con-
ouerinc race have ever been able TO do. AS
a pinneer and an inventor and rlsker OF
his life the white man is the marvel OF al
the ages. 1t is money that goes TO MS
head He has been able 70 stand up under
the effects of the whisky which demorallzed
and weakened the Indian tribes But almost
nil his troubles have been due to the IN
toXirat!ny and demoral!zing power or money
One need 60 no further than the tahll!ar
nrotteers of the war period to perceive the
truth of this assertion. \ vast number or
neople who were quite tolerable before the
wor acquired wealth almost overnight. Ana
the money didn't improve either their char-
artcr or their chances for happiness. m
stcad it made them violent, disorderly' ldie'
noisy and n general nuisance.
Take out of the hands OF all men the
mower to use money unwisely or TO unSociai
ends and you will solve two.thirds OF the
nroh,cms that have arisen in the last twenty
or thirty years 10 hinder the progressive
muvpmcn, Of civilization.
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Answers to Yesterdays Quiz

I, Cadorra was the first commander.in
Chier OF the Italian armies during tho
World War, After the Caporetto dis.
aster he was succeeded by Diaz
2. The asteroids are small planets slso
called planetoids, in the solar system
between Mars and Jupiter
3, Croesus, King of Lydia was reputed 10
be the richest man Of the ancient
world ~'"t
4. Margaret Fuller was noted American
critic and essay yst She took an actiye
part In the Italian struggle for in
dependence and unification in the mid
die or the nineteenth century She was
drowned off Fire Island in 1850
B Franz a. Mesmer was a physician and
founder of the doctrine Of animal mag
hetism or mesmerism. He was born
at lznang, on Lake Constance In
-, 1888. He died In 1915.
o. the southernmost city of the American
continent Is Punta Arenas in South
ern Chile. on the Straits Of Magellan
7. Draconian severity is legislative seSeritv
IN allusion to Draco, the reputed
author e the frst Athenian code ~
laws whch were exceedingly strict
Draco lived In the seventh century
b. G, ''''
s, The expression. THE eternal fitness y,
things can be traced to Fielding'a
novel. Tom Jones" where this mas
sage occurs can a man have a
higher notion OF the rule Of right and
the eternal fitness OF things"
9. Fox fire has nothing to do With fox.s
The name Is derived from the French
fauSse, or false fire It is n nhns.
rhoric light, without heat which nlavs
about decaying matter. '''
TO- Nathan L. Miller 10 Governor of Nev
York. Ne"
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turn from trip of inspection about the
country. And all the things he said we're
well deserved. The fire department has
sort of morale which, seemingly inspired by
the very nature of its duties. always has
been proof against the dirtiest sort of politi-
cal meddlng. But it is like all other fire
departments in the United States. 1t is or
ganlzed to fight fires rather than to prevent
them. 1t is animated by a theory as old
fashioned as that which animates the doc
tors.
In the future, unless civilization moves
backward. there will be fewer and fewer
great fires. Fewer men will lose their lives
in unequal battles with runaway flames.
Fire departments will be so organized that
they may show the way to fire prevention
and break up the growing systems OF de-
liberate incendiarism. They will be edu-
catlonal influences In each community. And
they will help to compel the passage OF
laws under which n man who has had fire
on his premises will have to answer in
court IL not for criminal intent, then for
criminal negligence.
That is the purpose OF codes which
always have operated in European coun-
tries, where the annual fire losses are not
hundredth part SO great as they are in this
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THE PENALTY OF POPULARITY

GENERAL WOODS popularity in the
" Philippines is attested by a remarkable
petition, signed hy every adult American
resident in Manila, besoechtns him to re-
main in the island.
Go not to Wittenberg' was no more
poignantly voiced by Queen Gertrude than IS
the plea that the Governor General should
not forsake the islands before the full fruits
of his rule have been garnered
Such evidence Of esteem cannot fail 10 oe
hatterns to its recipient, and If General
Wood were not pledged to exercise his ad-
ninstrative abilities elsewhere his position
would be fortunate indeed.
But the agreement with the University
Of Pennsylvania claims attention. Every
testimony to the Governor Generals : success
in the island empire Is disturbing to those
interests which seek 10 launch him upon an
academic career.
The latest adviccs from Manila were re-
assuring containing the almost explicit
word that General Wood would be here to
take UP his duties as head of the University
by next year
News of the round robin BODIES perhaps
further uncertainty. There are good friends
Of the University who cannot hclp dcrlor-
ing possible prospects of pOstQoning an am
bilious and highly urgent program for re-
organizing that institution, Financing It 70
better advantage and definitely establishing
its status in the community.
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CONDITIONS have come TO pretty pass
- when the Mayor has to suggest that
money for the payment of secret police
agents be provided by private subscription
from citizens.
II the Investigations are TO be successful
the identity Of the agents must be known
only to those directing their work. But
Controller Hadley has persistently refused
to pay the bills for such agents employed by
Director Cortelyou unless the names of the
men are made known to him.
Director Cortelyou does not trust Con-
troller Hadley. and Controller Hadley does
not trust Director Cortelyou.
This is one of the results Of facttonal poll
tics in city government.
Under the circumstances the only way
out, il the purvcyors of vice are to be
curbed, seems to he that proposed by the
Mayor. But it is a way which would not
be necessary II government had not broken
down in one of its branches.
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MOVIES AND LIFE

no THE films influence the behavior OF
the millions who turn to them lot
amusement and diversion: That question ~
sin being debated hotly in and out or the
s,mJ;ns II !, still unanswered. Yet 1t Is
interesting to observe that domestic dis
.,rbonrcs in what you might call our lead.
tnr movie families have queer way OF
following the pattern of scenarios aFu. W..
nartlv viewed as wild exagSeratlons OF the
';j;I,, TLu<, when the film director who has
succeeded Mr.. Arburkle in the headlines
found ,ha, one Of his friends had betrayed
the honor Of his household he uluh A'eA
s,,bt nv have him arrested. He invited him
trs"' :" IA q duel in dark room" So, at least,
=, has toId ,he police. Perhaps II is the
Iabi, which movie folk have of publicly
Iromatizing their most intimate emotions
,IY, makes it hard for the crowd to sHhpa
,Ti,o with them in their all-too frequent
.rnublpS
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IAN ASSOCIATION" AT LAST

O A SSOCIATlON of nations IS term
n Of supposedly modifying significance.
This may be one OF the r"a>"nS Why Prrt'
Alexandra Alvarez, Of Chile. has adaTt"d Il
to cover new frnternity "f ''ov"rnmentS
the framework OF which ne has presented ~
the Institute of international Law, now
meeting in Grenoble.
The new title chosen !, "Wor!d A~so-
citation of States. The new plan Is de-
vised to correct alleged defects Of the much.
discussed League. 1t i designed t" attract
critics of tn" covenant fashioned in Paris IN
1919, to avoid tn" most contentious features
Of that document and, abov" all, to be uni
versal.
Senior Alvarez is nothing # not amb!'ioGs.
He has imagined a peaceful grouping # all
the nations Of the earth, members Of the
Pan American Union, Of the League, which
he regards as peculiarly Europcan ard of
non member nations. such rs the United
States, Mexico, Russia, Germany and
Turkey.
The Chilean savant believes that tho
Court of international Jusrir" erected by
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THE WHIMS OF FAME

AMONG the deaths recorded with due
"A reverence in the papers yesterday was
that of Emile Bacord!, one OF I'll" aCknowl-
edged great of Cuba, a parsonage whose
name was known and appLaUded during Two
decades in every quarter Of the earth where
bright lights are permitted 10 shine. He
was the inventor Of n special process for
making rum from sugar cane.
Cuba will mourn for Baoardi. Yet be
devised nothing more than variation of a
familiar process. Here in the United States
there are hundreds of thousand, "f mon who
manage to make forcefuI intoX.ranr, from
a mixture of denatured alcohol and highly
colored rhetoric. But thcy VIII have 40
place in the halls of fame If this or any
other land.
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serve as against external aggression the ter
ritorial integrity and existing political In
dependence Of all members Of the League.
In case of such aggression, or in case of any
threat or danger of such aggression. the
council shall advise upon the means by
which this obligation shall be fulfilled
Opponents of the League ought to be able
to detect for themselves the differences be-
tween these two provisions. The very sub
tlety Of distinctions should prove inspira-
tional. If there is n real call for an asso-
citation of nations would it not be well to
heed Senor Alvarez, the erudite and opti-
mistic Chilean, fully aware, as he is. of the
worth of circumspection of language and OF
fine drawn, carefully modulated principles?
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CHIEF DAVIS RETURNS

~ THE millennium, il ever it arrives, doc
/ tors will labor 70 keep people well In
stcod Of waiting until after their patients
nre sick in bed to write prescriptions and
give general advice, Similarly the fire de-
parmemts Of the country Will devote most Of
,bcir energies to the prevention of fires
rathar than to the far more costly and dan
oerors business of fighting confagrations
after they begin TO roar
Chief Davis, Of the Philadelphia Fire
Bureau. had many pleasant things to say
Of the men in his department after his re-
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Judging from excite.
ment manifested by
hnn,,a Sanotora over tho


bonus Senators over NY
suggestion of Senator Simmons, of North
Carolina, one might think something was
happening in the duckpond; but nothing
is happening. The Senator's plan, providlhS
that money needed for the bonus shall 90
a first charge on interest on foreign debts
received by the United States, is old ana
discarded stuff his alternative that when
such interest is lacking the amount shal
be paid from money in the Treasury no.
otherwise appropriated is ingenious, rather
than convincing for Secretary Mellon ma
already pointed out that there Is no Suy
money. That bonus Senators should haI
the plan as IAN inspiration" and shouiH
profess to believe that its provisions WIZ
be sufficient to remove the Presidents oo.
jections to the bill appears to be ludcrous
example of whstling to keep up courage
Assuredly the plan can really deceive ~
one, not even the whistling Senators tns~'
selves. ..r Mt5
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-08-31
What Do You Kno,o?
QUIZ

!. What Is the origin Of the expression
Like patience on a monument?
?. What are isothcrmal lines?
g. Who invented the opera hat?
4 Who was Empedocles?
5. distinguish between Guiana and Guinea
D. who painted the familiar picture, The
Broken Pitcher?
7. What Is Gresham's law Of finance,
8. What is a tantivy7
o. What are tho biblical books of the PEN
tatcuCht "
10 Where did the tango originate?
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Facts are being pulled from Kephart
by a force that's largely Main. There are
downy birds. It's hinted, filled their crops
with golden grain. Pass the buck and DO
mot Worry Ever be by sSucn en Crow
that's dead.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-08-31

The operation Of whisky stills in Frost.
burg. Nd. is seriously interfering with the
water supply. What Frostburg appears to
need is new water system, or, perhaps,
a new prohibition enforcement agenr.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-08-31

New planet discovered by Viennese has
been named Hooveria, in honor Of our Sec.
retary OF Commerce. Interesting as show.
ing that abroad Hoover Is still the best.
known and best loved American.
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Montreal girls have formed a short.
skirt league. They won't wear long skirts,
they say. But style creators amend this
to read They won't wear short skirts
long"
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-08-31

BY the sinking of the battleship France,
a dispatch from Paris says. France lose;
the naval superiority over Italy permitted
by the Washington agreement And prob
ably isn't a penny the worse for It.
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Consideration Of industrial troubles In
this country and political troubles in Europe
convinees one that with compromise the goal
the snail and the tortoise are bent upon
breaking the speed record.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-08-31

Woman who says she owns Texas has
offered to give It to the United States.
Uncle Sam will know how to brand this
Texas steer.
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Pottsville weather prophet says there
Will be no killing frost until September q.
Hay feverites will return him no vote Of
thanks.
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Old King Goals still playing poker,
holds his cards close to his vest sees tho
Pepper peace proposal; raises issues new
stanter, for the public needs a rest.
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The nothing beneath evening gown
has appeared in Deauville. Probably would
also be true Of the hats il hats We're worn.
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Ontario's peach crop Is smashing rec.
ords. We reserve comment until we have
seen Atlantic City's display.
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DR.. Charles p. Steinmetz SAYS no man
really. becomes a fool until he stops asking
questions. And vet we have it on equally
high authority that any fool can ask EN-.
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Though conl be scant. there'll be work
Tor the smoke consumer. Virginia $ tobacco
crop this year is larger than ever.
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Unsophisticated citizens wonder what
Judge Bonniwell hopes to get out of q
third party movement
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SHORT CUTS

In the cabarets three hips no lonse,
precede hurraL.
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Manila doesn't care how long the Uni.
versty of Pennsylvania has to worry along
without its provost
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,, The Reparations Commission counts
that day lost on which it fails to forge
q new deadlock.
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The way old King Coal Is behaving, he
is no friend of forest conservation.
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Can EN-

neoch crops they have ever known. Lack of
rcfrigprating ears, said to be due 10 the
railroad strike, is hampering distribution
and motorists are being appealed to. Some
of these days the farmers will organize,
maintain their own motortruck force and
shin TO their own distributing agency. This
will be tough on nobody but the mddleman.
And who cares for the middemanl lie
hasn't any friends. ..
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Chestnut street is, as it were, torn
by conflicting emotions.
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MAKING 1T EASY FOR HARDING
TO VETO THE BONUS BILL
He Cannot Very We'll Approve the
Senate Plan to Make Payments Out
Of the Interest Due on Foreign

CENATE supporters of the bonus are
- playing into the hands of the President.
Mr.. Harding is reluctant to approve
measure which will increase the burden of
taxation. Yet he indicated several months
ago that he would not approve the Bonus
Bill unless adequate provision were made
for raising the money.
Now the Senate has adopted an amend
ment to the bill providing that the cash pay
ments shall be made out of the proceeds Of
the interest on the war loans to foreign
Governments
This should make it easy for the Presi-
dent 10 justify a veto of the measure. lie
can. If he chooses. still insist that he favors
the payment Of n bonus If n way can be
found to raise tho money, while he disap-
proves the way proposed by the Senate.
1t IS difficult TO see how he can approve
that way. In the first place. 1t is likely 10
cause international complications. England
has promised to begin the payment of in
terest In the near future, but she has not
yet paid dollar France is in no financial
condition to begin payments and is not
likely to be for long time to come. Sccre-
tary Hughes cannot very well make a
peremptory demand on either France or
England for the money due. But II the
tn.erest ia nor maid rho me-, who would no
evnor-i,p q bonus would begin 10 demand
tha, nrassura hs exer.ed If nressure were
wood {. would cousa International friction
at time when the efforts of every states
mn, shorId bo devoted 20 reducing friction
and brinctrc obo,t . state of international
romi,v
rrrone = IN messing need Of financial
,ss,s,o1ca from, America IN ordcr 70 escope
b,,krnn,cr I, wnuId ha tho height ~ nm.
v.i.do,, for America n smhorross tbe Euro.
moan s,o,o. hr INV sort of nm inporo,ive
dn,rard thar tLey nav their debts To us.
Tris o,o,e vo,,rd ha su4sc;c,, reason for
q veto hv rho President of .ny bill, the ex-
ecu.ton Of which would be Impossible with
-
Rr, .here Is sill another reason for dis.
o,,-or,,, of ,pa r,on 70 max. honus nav.
,ro,,s an, of ,hs jn.ere., ON ,.,e war loans
70 rrrone The money len, to Europe was
borrowed from the American people and
tho American Government issued bonds to
so,,ro ,.s rov,nen+ ~ tLa American neopIe.
Tho Treasury Dcnur,ment + now having
,be t,,arcs. on those bonds ond it will have
., c,,.t,ua n nav i until they are re-
door,od rrcry dolIar Of interest paid hv
.ro rrroneon Governments ouyht 20 be
.ed ,, .bo Interest account due 10 the
,,,,no,, Lordhordars
=, .,i. .b,. f,,,, ,-o,,.r IVAN COW
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To Speak Easy
As II W ere


noisten the eyes Of the hardest boiled Con-
cressman, providing that one touch of nature
which, if one may venture so to express II,
makes the whole world kin Such mo-
ment wos that when Representative Stafford,
of milwaukee,. confessed that in the old
days he enjoyed a glass of beer, but nova
i"ys he dare not look blind tiger in the
face for fear of being poisoned, Natheless
there were those among them, report has It,
who do not despair Of their ability TO lift
themselves up by their bootlegs.
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POLITICS AND VICE

Philadelphia. Thur.d,y. August 81. lo2.
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TNIIERE'S s a world of romance associated
L with this fine, picturesque harbor of
Plymouth
Plymouth really consists Of three towns,
Plymouth, Stonehouse and Devonport like
Camden, Philadelphia and West Phiadel-
ph,a.
Sir Frances Drake was bowling on the
high promenade when news came TO him that
the Spanish Armada was In sight.
Sir Walter Raleigh that prince of ad-
venturers, sailed out to the West from Ply
mouth Sound on an adventure that reads
ike fairy tale
1t was his quest for the tabled FL Dorado,
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PLYMOUTH PILGRIMS
Americans Are Fair Meat for Rail.
road Publicity Men, But the
"Tourlst Literature" 10 Sadly
In Need Of Revision
BY GEORGE NOX Mccain
PLYMOUTH, ENGLAND.
THIS is Plymouth Of the Pilrrime

THIS is Plymouth of the Pilgrims.
l. Enterprising tourist agents call It the
'Mayhower Country"
It's travel shrine In the Hamboyant
verbiage of the railway publicity man over
here.
All this, you should understand. is for the
benefit of the Americans; Yankees, us they
are familiarity known to our English
cousins.
The railways and tourist folk make a lot
out of this pilgrim business.
In that pre- emnently British wade
mecum. the Encyclopedia Britannica. how
ever. just one inch and half of space Is
devoted to Pilgrim fathers"
American Pilgrims is what the ''pil..
grimagers' from all parts Of Yankee land
are called in the advertising literature.
1t catches the newcomer to England every
time.
He tilts his hat a trlf1e more and throws
out his chest.