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12 THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER, WEDNESDAY MORNING, JULY on. There is no reason why a series of traffic signals flashing three-colored lights signifying "stop," "go" and "precautionary" should not be in operation on Market and Broad streets within the next thirty days. Where there's a will there's a way. Wit IPftilafalpftia inquirer JAMES ELVERSOX. EDITOR AND PRESIDENT FROM 1BS3 TO 1911 Entered at Pustofflce of Philadelphia.

as second-class matter PLTil.ISHSD EVERT DAT IN TUB TEAR THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER Girard's Talk of the Day PrBI-ISHM E. LT PATEXOTRK -5 KLES II I IE USTI Kd AND ICS! PliESIDKNT EDITORIAL COMMENT Some call it the Coolidge luck. Walsh was cheered when the convention got the news of the Fall indictment. It seems to us that Coolidge was entitled to a hand also. Bryan has become a great-grand-father.

He may never be President, but he seems to be laying the foundations for a sort of Bryan dynasty. We were sure that it would come. Forecaster Bliss says that while we had considerable rain during May and June, the precipitation was not unusual for i. J- nWARD I. BArON AI-ST1X S.

WIXSI.OW HERBERT E. ULACKMAN Editor Manages Treasurer Secbetaet Address all money order. rheek n- drafts and business communica tions to S3 PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER Inquirer ISuiltlinsr. 1100 Market St. President Coolidge on a Strong Platform It has been a long time since we have had such an important and impressive address as that delivered in Washington on Monday by President Coolidge, in which he not only supports the budget system, but insists upon further and more rigid economy in the future.

More than two thousand employees of the government, most of them heads of divisions and executives of one kind or another, heard him, and there was not one of them who did not realize that the President meant exactly what he said when he declared that economy was imperative, that it was a test of our national character and that it was the burning issue of the hour. The Coolidge address means more to the taxpayers of the United States than all the fervid oratory in the Advertising nl 11 other departments can be reached fey Pell. Filbert 330O. and K.vtone. Race 1'401.

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Senator Copeland is out with a recipe for what to do in case of mumps. All very welL but what we would like him to tell us is what should be done in the case of a deadlock in a Democratic convention. We ve- heard of one radio fan who completely overhauled his set when he failed to get that silent prayer of the convention one day last week. rrler at twelve cents a week, Tyable to Carrier or The Sunday Inouirer will be sold by carrier. News Agents and Newsboys at ten cents per copy.

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Maybe, but even at that we are from Missouri. The Brooklyn Eagle says that the perfect political platform remains to be written. And this after reading the production of the New York convention A cynic says that when Bryan won his Klan plank fight by a majority of one it was the largest majority he ever polled. Still, now that the ice has been broken he may go on to greater triumphs. News story says that Brennan has declined to join a movement to reopen the battle.

George must be getting conservative in his old age. Democrats twitted the Republicans for their difficulty in obtaining a candidate for Vice President, but so far the delegates in New York seem to have entirely forgotten there is such an office. country. On its face it may not seem to be fascinating reading; but it is filled with facts and figures which concern every man, woman and child who has to labor for a living or whose welfare is bound up in the present and future prosperity of the Nation. The President points out what has already been accomplished in the direction of public economy.

In 1922 we saved in 1923 the reduction was in 1924 it is estimated to be $489,000,000. We have now entered upon a new fiscal year. The revenue of the government will be lessened by the reductions which have already been made effective in the income tax law. On the other hand, we shall find an increase in our fixed charges. The bonus alone will add to the obligations of the government in 1925.

But the President is no't dismayed. Under his direction and that of the Director of the Budget it has been estimated that we may still have a surplus of $25,000,000. Mr. Coolidge is not satisfied with this and has directed his subordinates to pare their estimates so that $83,000,000 more may be cut from the expenses of the government. He wants further tax reductions.

He declares that what we have already been given must be taken as only the beginning of the relief which he would offer to the people of the country. No new enterprises are to be undertaken, and every one in the government employ is expected to co-operate to the limit in bringing about what the President has mapped out as his policy. He sets it forth in characteristic Coolidge style: "I am for economy. After that I am for more economy. At this time and under present conditions that is my conception of serving all the people." Never before has an issue been presented to the people in such clear-cut fashion.

before has it been backed by such an impressive array of facts. He does not indulge in vague generalities. He presents actual accomplishments accomplishments which he truly says are well-nigh unbelievable. It was said when Mr. Coolidge was nominated that he would be his own platform.

This notable utterance addressed to those who are directly responsible for the administration of the government is a platform in itself, and deserves the most thoughtful study and consideration on the part of those-who pay taxes. President Coolidge does not want to be misunderstood in this matter. He does not advocate parsimony. He wants to be as liberal as justice will permit. He declares that public service is entitled to a suitable reward.

"We require national defense," he says, "but it must be limited. We need public improvements, but they must be gradual. We have to make some capital investments, but they must be certain to give fair returns. Every dollar expended must be in the light of all our national resources and all our national needs." "I herewith serve notice," declares the President in his official capacity, "that I propose to protect the integrity of my budget." If the American people are looking for the man to place this government on a business basis, if they are in search of a man to uphold the honor, the dignity and the power of the Nation, they have him in the White House at the present time. WEDNESDAY JULY 2, 1924 The Coolidge Way of Doing It Now that indictments against the four chief figures in the naval oil lease scandal have been returned by a Federal grand jury and the way is open to their prosecution by the two able special counsel appointed by the President, the matter should be regarded as juridical, not political, and partisan -discussion of it should be dropped.

Cases before the courts are properly exempt from prejudicial comment. The defendants are entitled to a full and fair trial, and this they will now obtain. The President's good judgment in seeking to have the question of their guilt or innocence determined by due process of law and not by uninstructed public opinion is thus again made manifest. No one disputes the value of the Senate investigation which uncovered the essential facts. Criticism of it has rested upon the attitude of the majority of the committee in going beyond the legitimate scope of such an inquiry and employing all the resources of misrepresentation and innuendo for partisan ends.

As in the case of the Daugherty investigation, testimony that would not have been admitted by any judicial tribunal was accepted as gospel truth. The report prepared by Senator Walsh brushed aside much of this testimony as irrelevant and practically disavowed the accusations on which an indictment purely for campaign purposes was being built up. The Senator is too good a lawyer not to know what legal evidence is. Mr. Roberts and Mr.

Pomerene have gathered this so successfully that the grand jury found it sufficient. Whatever verdict the court reaches will be accepted by the public as in accordance with the law and the facts. The Department of Justice is prepared to act t-i rmrnncl tt ond trio of on a arp rpnrP5PTitp(l hv nblp SEA SICK Copyright, 1324 by The Philadelphia Inquirer Co. But I'll be in time, if God gives me grace. To shake my fist in King George's face." An expert in telling how to provide a perfect dinner says the wines should be the very best.

But, unfortunately, he doesnot tell us where we are to get that kind of stimulation. In spite of the lugubrious speeches in Madison Square Garden, the government at Washington still lives. Woman delegate says that the "mention of the Klan" would have given that organization undue prominence. Unless we are greatly mistaken, it was mentioned once or twice. He is up, he Is off, and the good steed A medium for the Interchange of Useful Information on Matter of General Interest to such an extent at The Inquirer's limitations permit.

Exclude purely personal subject! and advertising matter of any kind from Queries or comments. Sign full name and address, though rot for publication. NO ANSWERS BY MAIL. Column mes On the northward road ere the "Godspeed" dies. It is gallop and spur as the leagues they clea r.

And the clustering milestones move a-rear. It is two of the clock, and the fleet hoofs fling Well, we can be thankful for one thing at least. We have been getting Republican weather for the past day or so. The Fieldbury dust with a clang and a cling; Three, and with slackened rein he gallops where The road winds down to the Delaware. EXAMINATION TO BE GIVEN AGAIN The United States Civil Service Commission invites attention to the fact that in an examination held recently in Philadelphia and other cities for apprentice fish culturist.

Bureau of Fisheries, Department of Commerce, applicants wcro not secured in the number desired, and that this examination will be held again on July 23. Persons interested in this or other examinations should apply to the secretary of the United States Civil Service Board, Tost Office Building, for detailed information and application blanks. EDWIN S. TXT ART (X. S.

G. Edwin Sydney Stuart was born in Philadelphia, December 28, 18o3; was educated in the public schools, entered a book store as an office boy. and has. remained ever since with the same house, of which he is now the proprietor. While a member of Select Council he was elected Mayor in 1891, and served four years.

He was Governor of Pennsylvania from 1907 till 1911. He is president the Board of City Trusts and a former president of the Union League. He is a director of the Federal Reserve Bank and the Western Savings Fund. Mr. Stuart is a bachelor.

He lives at C841 Drexel road, Overbrook. counsel. The prompt action of the President has had a most satisfactory result. Unmoved by clamor, he took the one way to further the ends of justice. Is it surprising that bitter partisan attack cannot shake the confidence of the people in Calvin Coolidge? Financial statement says that millions were paid in dividends yesterday.

But all that we received in our mail was the customary first-of-the-month bills. It is four as he spurs into New Castle town, From his panting steed gets Quickly down, "Ho, a fresh one haste, not a moment to wait," And on rides Rodney, the delegate. It is fivel and the beams of the western sun Democratic Tribute to President Harding It was a graceful act on the part of William Jennings Bryan to offer a tribute to the memory of President Harding, and it is to the credit of the delegates to the Democratic National Conyention that it was I unanimously adopted by a rising vote. The sponsor of the resolution said very correctly that the Ameri Tinge the spires of Wilmington, gold SHENANDOAH TO ERIE (X. J.

Shenandoah to Pottsvllle, Millers-burg, Liverpool, Lewistown, Huntingdon, Water street, Tyrone; Philipsburg, Clearfield, Dubois, Clarion, Franklin, Meadeville to Erie. To return by way of Buffalo: Erlo to Buffalo (lower route), Batavia, Canandaigua, Geneva, Waterloo, Ithacn, Owego, Binghamton, Lackawanna Trail to Scranton, thence to Wilkes-Barre, Hazleton, Hometown, Mahanoy City to Shenandoah. Shenandoah to Amsterdam, N. Follow route to Binghamton in preceding paragraph. Binghamton to Oneonta, Cobbleskill, Schenectady to ana aun; Six, and the dust of the Chester street Flies back in a cloud from his horse's feet.

It Is seven; the horse-boat, broad of beam. At the Schuylkill ferry, crawls over the stream THIS is the day Delaware presents at Dover its map of silver and gold to Coleman du Pont. Something else happened 148 years ago today at Dover. Caesar Rodney prepared for his gallop of eighty miles to Philadelphia to vote for the Declaration of Independence. Rodney died at Dover 140 years ago last Sunday.

As the Fourth of July approaches interest in Rodney's ride always develops. I once expressed regret that no poet had done for the Delaware patriot what poets had accomplished for Sheridan, Paul Revere and the Battle of Bala-klava. Now it seems I overlooked something. There was, after all, a Caesar Rodney poet, but his poem never got into my school readers, so I missed it. Rodney's ride was more than four times as long as Sheridan's at Winchester.

The poet. Read in that case, took a poetic license of several miles. So at least Major Weidersheim, of this city, informed me, and he was the officer who started "Little Phil" on his gallop when: "Up from the South at break of day Bringing to Winchester fresh dismay. The affrighted air with a shudder bore, Like a herald in haste to the chieftain's door. The terrible grumble and rumble and roar Telling the battle was on once more." His enemies, including some of General Meade's friends, always insisted Sheridan had no business to be sleeping so far from the front that night before the battle.

He had been to Washington. Anyhow, Sheridan was in great luck to, have his absence become the cause of the most stirring incident in his career as a soldier thanks to a good poet press agent. PAUL REVERE owed even more to Longfellow. His latest biographer says Tennyson wrote his "Charge of the Light Brigade" in a few minutes more likely a few hours. But for seventy years nobody knows what any historian ever said about Balaklava.

Our history of that inconsequent fight is a brief poem which made it appear an epochal event. Those Hundred" were quite as lucky as Sheridan and Revere because Lord Tennyson was no slouch when it came to stirring propaganda. And see what Shakespeare did for Mark Antony! Ninety-nine out of every hundred persons who know that Caesar was stabbed to death got all the facts, or what they regard as facts, from a play. A poet like that could make or break anybody. WHAT wouldn't a soap maker or breakfast food producer pay for a poetical press agent such as St.

Nicholas had for his jolly ride behind his prancing reindeers "The night before Christmas when all through the house not a creature was stirring Kipling's poems were long the best recruiting officers the British army had. A few weeks ago people all over the United States one day were buying and wearing in their buttonholes red poppies. What made poppy day? I saw poppies growing on the battlefield at Waterloo as they were blooming when the Old Guard made its last charge, and they have been blooming in Belgium for centuries. It took genius to put the poppy in a place where it will always remain when Colonel McRae wrote: "In Flanders fields the poppies blow Amid the crosses, row on row." The subtlety of a Chinaman has become a pet phrase since Bret Harte in a poetic burst told about the Heathen Chinee and his ways that are dark and his tricks that are vain. Too bad nobody has sung the Chinaman's virtue in a strain that would make them appear so infallible.

ONE might go on at length citing instances in which a poet had proved an invaluable press agent for some incident, not very big itself, but made to appear so, because of the poet's ability. Caesar Rodney's poet, Elbridge Streeter Brooks was not so fortunate. A Massachusetts man, he took a few poetic licenses with the pronunciation of Rodney's home State. He makes Delaware rhyme with where and spare and there. You will hunt a long time to find a Blue Hen Chick who puts the hard pedal on the "ware." And according to his poet, Rodney was a delegate, with the accent on the gate as you will notice if you read "Rodney's Ride." OF COURSE, poets are a law unto themselves, but one would hardly expect a Bay State bard to fly In the face of old John Adams himself.

"Striking one's grandmother is an understandable offense in comparison to that. Yet our poet Brooks, who hailed from Somerville, where for years past my brilliant contemporary, Leon M. Conwell, son of our distinguished Doctor, edits a newspaper, describes Rodney thus: "Burley and big and bold and bluff." Adams in a letter to his wife, just a couple of days after the ride, told her Rodney was "tall, thin and slender as a reed and pale. His face is no bigger than a large apple." Besides that, Rodney for eight years before his' ride had been suffering with a cancer, which so undermined his health he died at fifty-six. However, outside of the squared ring, where the pugilists meet, what's a few pounds more or less, and especially to a poet? RODNEY'S gallop of 80 miles was the real stuff.

It preceded the most important single vote cast in Congress for 148 years. Here's how Brooks tried to immortalize it: In that soft midland where the breezes bear The North and the South on the genial air, Through the county of Kent on affairs of State Rode Caesar Rodney, the Burly and big and bold and bluff In his three-cornered hat and suit of snuff, A foe to King George and his English State, Rode Caesar Rodney, the delegate. Into Dover village he rode apace. And his kinsmen knew, by his anxious face, Twas matters grave had brought him there. To the counties three on the Delaware.

"Money and men we must have," he said, "Or the Congress fails and the cause is dead; Give us both, and the King shall not work his will; We are men since the blood of Bunker Hill." Comes a rider swift on a panting bay, "Hello, Rodney! ho, you must save the day. For the Congress halts at a deed so great, And vour vote alone may decide its fate." Said Rodney then, "I will ride with speed, It is liberty's stress, it is freedom's need, When stands it?" "Tonight, not a moment to spare, But speed like the wind from the Delaware." "Ho. saddle the black; I've but half a day, Arid the Congress sits eighty miles away; Headline says that France has signed a "rum treaty" with the United States. Would it be in order to drink to the success of the arrangement? A pippin may be an apple, but it also describes a peach. There were 828 arrests for drunkenness in this city last week, and sixty liquor raids were made on Saturday.

Convincing proof of the success of the Prohibition amendment. Twenty carloads of cheese were destroyed in a Syracuse fire the other day. This would have been regarded as a serious loss in the days of the saloon. A WOMAN SCORNED" Editor Everybody'a Column Who was the author of the line, "Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned," and in whioh of his works does It appear 0. R.

B. The words occur in a play, "The Mourning Bride." composed by William Congreve in 1697. The full quotation is: Heaven hath no rage like love to hatred turned. Nor hell a fury like a woman, scorned. William Congreve also wrote "The Old Bachelor" (1693), "The Old Dealer" (1693), "Love for Love" (1693), "The Way of the World" (1700), etc.

An almost total absence of fine moral feeling and the ubiquitous presence of the coarseness which was common in his day mar his works in the eyea. of modern readers. But at seven fifteen, by the Rittenhouse clock. He has flung his rein to the tavern Jock. The Congress has met, the debate be can people are divided into two opposing parties dur- iir.g political campaigns, but that after the election they are as one man in allegiance to the government and in loyalty to the Nation's Executive.

President Harding was not only esteemed as the head of the Nation, but he had the faculty of winning the friendship of men of all parties and all opinions. He had an ingratiating personality. He was considerate of his fellow-men. He never willingly hurt the feelings of those with whom he was compelled to differ. It is possible that there were some who imposed upon his natural kindness of heart, but upon the whole it may be said that these traits of his character did more good than harm in the world.

In any event, the action of the Democratic convention establishes a precedent so far as we are aware which will be welcomed by the people of the United States. We fight hard while the battle is on, but after it is over all good citizens accept the result. gun, And liberty lags for the vote of one, When, into the hall, not a moment late, Walks Caesar Rodney, the delegate. MXLLVELLZ, TH. TO MAUCH CHUNK (J.

O. Millville via Malaga, Glassboro, West-ville, "Camden, ferry to Philadelphia, west on Market street to City Hall, north on Broad street, Old York road, left on Haines street to Chestnut Hill, right on Bethlehem pike to Allentown, left to Siegersville, Slatington, Weiss-port to Mauch Chunk. GIRARD. CHILDREN J)FF TO CAMP First Group of 25 Leave for Crum Creek Outing The first group of twenty-five chil MARINE CORPS COMMANDER (F. John A.

Lejeune is the major general commandant of the United States Marine Corps, with headquarters in the Navy Building, Washington. MORGAN'S CARTOONS (B, Mr. Morgan's cartoons appear in the Sunday edition of The TWO BASEBALL "RUBES" (D. H. "Rube" Oldring and "Rube" Waddell played together on the Athletic baseball team of 1906.

dren left here yesterday to open Crum Creek Camp, Devon. Strange that Leopold, of Franks kidnapping and murder infamy, should have devoted so much time to the study of erotic literature of the sixteenth century when he had such excellent opportunity for directing his attention to twentieth century introspection. Presume the Baltimore Sun means "baggy pants conceal many a great intellect" in about the same way a derby hat hides many a pair of knock-knees. We wonder how that hive of bees that has been annoying a company of Berlin firemen expected to get any sweetness out of a German? The camp is one of the largest farms in Montgomery county and was turned Pay Increases for Police and Firemen The police, firemen and Park guards must feel today something like Mother Hubbard's fabled dog who was promised a bone. "But when she got there, the cupboard was bare, And so the poor dog had none." They were promised an increase in wages under some system to be worked out by the administration, their group representatives and the City Council.

And now it is said there are no funds available for the purpose this year. If an increase in pay for the uniformed services is justified, and it has been "held to be by every group which has investigated the question, certainly the city of Philadelphia should strain every financial resource to give them what is their due. The police, firemen and Park guards have been called the best paid group of employees in the city service. That is somewhat beside the point. The proper comparison should be the wage scale for the uniformed services in other cities where living costs and conditions approximate those here.

The present wage scale has been no drawback to applications for appointment, and some 4000 men have offered themselves to the Civil Service Commission for examination to qualify as policemen. From a business point of view this would indicate that a number of men almost equal to the present personnel of the police bureau is ready and willing to serve for the $5 a day wage now provided. But the basic wage is hardly the measure for this case. A proper method of providing increases would be a graded scale, starting, possibly, at the present basis, which would give the men an incentive to stay in the service, increase the possibilities of promotion and reward clean records and good and faithful service. It is almost certain that this method will be applied to any system of increases agreed upon, whether now or next year.

It is the only sensible course to pursue. Surely Council can rake together a fund which would make possible a limited scale of wage increases within a short time. All that is needed now is a beginning an assurance of good faith. The public generally must applaud efforts at strict economy and a prospective ten or fifteen-cent reduction of the tax rate in 1925. But we doubt if it wrants or expects this reduction at the expense of such groups as the police, firemen and Park guards.

There is still a vast amount of saving at the spigot and waste at the bunghole which could very well be eliminated. The money applied to new jobs and the purchase of new automobiles this year might alone have provided the sum necessary in this case. over for the summer to children of the Reed Street Neighborhood House, Charlton Yarnall, president of the house. Here, for two weeks at a time, more than 100 children will be guests during July and August. ROUTE TO CAIRO, N.

T. (J. G. Follow Lincoln Highway from Philadelphia to New York, leaving by way of the Roosevelt boulevard, thence through Trenton, New Brunswick, Newark and Jersey City. From Columbus Circle, Broadway and Fifty-ninth street, north on Broadway, left on Seventy-second street.

Riverside drive, follow Hudson River on east bank through Yonkers, Tarrytown, Peekskill, Poughkeepsie, Rhinebeck, Livingston; at Greendale take ferry to CatskilL Cairo is ten miles west of Catskill. Distance from Philadelphia to New York, ninety-five miles; New York to Cairo 120 miles. PASSPORT REGULATIONS (P. Preferential treatment is accorded in the matter of viseing passports of alien near relatives of citizens of the United States who desire to come into this country. Blanks and other information may be obtained from the Commissioner of Immigration for this port, at his office in Gloucester City, N.

J. Veteran Detective Resigns Edwin J. Garr, veteran City Hall detective, yesterday turned in his resignation to Inspector Brinton. Garr told the Inspector that he had obtained a position with an insurance company as an investigator. Garr has been a member of the detective bureau since 1896.

He lives at 13 North Lambert street. High-IIanded Abuse of Authority There are too many shooting episodes in connection with the enforcement of the prohibition laws. Many of the bootleggers engaged in the illegal trans-' portation of liquor are little better than thugs, and the Federal agents have a perfect right to shoot when their personal safety is menaced. The unhappy case at Wil-' mington does not come within this category. The vic-t tim, returning from an excursion to the seashore, was 'held up at three o'clock in the morning by four men who demanded to see the contents of his suitcase.

He resisted, there was an exchange of shots, and he was killed. One of the men was shot through the neck. He did not know these men were Federal officers. As has happened before in similar instances, he thought they were trying to hold him up. It was a natural mistake.

He had considerable money and jewelry on his person. The contents of his suitcase were nothing i but boxes of salt water taffy. The agents insinuate that he was the head of a narcotic and liquor ring. I Apparently there is nothing to prove this. In any case, a method of arrest that suggests highway robbery is unjustifiable.

This affair should be thoroughly investigated. There lias been altogether too much violation of the rights of i citizens, of reckless assault upon their persons, by of fiT cers of the law. It requires no sympathy with offenders gainst the law to make such proceedings odious. REGISTRATION OF ALIENS URGED By COL. HORNET Off for Europe GIRL QUENCHES BLAZE UNO RESUMES READING Two Firemen Slightly Cut by Glass in Seeking Burning Embers Among the passengers sailinsr from New York today for European ports are the following Philadelphians: Military Preparedness Also Boosted by Speaker at Kiwanis Luncheon An 18-year-old girl stopped reading the tale of a fiction heroine to become one herself whenf fire broke out at the rear of her home early yesterday.

She is Marguerite Plowman, of 321 North Fortieth street. As she pored over the pages of a book in her room shortly after midnight the girl smelled burning linen. Wisps of smoke seeped into the room a moment later. She discovered flames issuing from a brisk out-house in which the family had stored winter clothing, blankets and a quanity of old linen. The girl extinguished the blaze with several buckets of Firemen arrived as she was returning to her home, to resume her reading.

While chopping around the structure i- a crm An a Our opinion is that a woman "seconder" Is as much out of place in a national political convention as a cherry pit in a blackberry pie. Judging from police court records and other things this more or less justly celebrated temperate zone contains an awful lot of intemperate zanies. It is said the Japanese have no cuss words, and we suspect that of late they have had reason to regret the fact, too. "General and Mrs. Dawes will visit President and wife." Those two couples had better become more acquainted; they're bound to see a lot of each other during the next four years.

We can understand why a newspaper man attends a national political convention and listens to a lot of tiresome speeches that are all alike as hash. He has to. But why a person should voluntarily immolate himself as a delegate is about as clear as Schuylkill water. "Does the flapper eat enough?" queries an editor on our favorite page. Not if she depends upon the businessman's lunch of a cup of coffee and a slab of pie.

A DREAM POEM Lost in a dream one night, Verses I wrote, Which on my sleeping ear Pleasingly smote! Like balls a juggler plays Shadow and gleam One by one shining words Rose in my dream: Choe-o-pie. Columbine, Harlequinade. Caramel, Brandywine, Silver brocade. Cinnamon, cellar-door, Marionette. -Nicotine, Kohinoor, Opals, aigrette; Eskimo, tambourine, Sable and vair.

Archangel, trieotine, Vega, Voltaire; Ending with this one, the Sweetest yet heard, Oleomargarine Lyrical word! Antoinette De Coursey Patterson in Poetry, A Gain for Justice and Humanity The Commissioner of Immigration at Ellis Island, returning from a trip to Europe, says that under the new law there will be no more rejection! of immigrants at American ports because the quota of their country has been filled. The American Consuls at the ports of debarkation will issue no more certificates when the quotas have been exhausted. The count will be made there, not here. The hardships of deportation will be ended. Although the place of birth remains the test of nationality, that of a minor child is to be determined by the nationality of the parent.

If the nationality of a wife differs from that of her may enter by 'assuming her husband's. Thu there will be no more cruel separation of families. Episodes of this sort have long been a reproach to justice and humanity. They are not essential to a proper guarding of our gates. Steamer Paris, for Plymouth and ITvrs Mr.

and Mrs. Alexander Van Rensselaer. Mr. and Mrs. Jcshua A.

Miss Elizabeth Pearson, Miss Frances Shipley. Mr. and Mrs. W. W.

Curtln. Mr. and Mrs. F. Kin- Wain-wright.

S. B. Foraker Wainwrig-ht. Mr. and Mrs.

Adolphe G. Rosengarten. Adolphe G. Rosengarten. Miss E.

P. Roeeng-arten, Mr. and Mrs. Graham Dougherty. Judge Henry C.

Thompson. William Lord Sexton. Eric H. Lord Sexton. Mr.

and Mrs. Jean Relnhart. J. A. Caldwell.

Sd. Mrs. Rose Mereto, GeoTBe J. Brennan. Misa Daisy Brennan, Mrs.

Louise Chamberlain Warren. Charles Warren. Edward Warren. Mr. and Mrs.

J. P. Wright. Mr. and Mrs.

Harry B. Wright. Mrs. Daniel J. Walsh.

Miss Mary E. Walsh. Miss Bertha G. Walsh. Miss Ruth J.

Walsh. Mr. and Mrs. Elmer W. Fnlmer.

Dr. H. R. Harris. Clarence N.

Cal-lender. Edward F. Jones. Dr. Emlle Bindschedler, C.

P. Jones. Mr. and Mra. Neil MacNeil.

Gilbert Kraus. Marc Billet. F. Baylinson. Mrs.

Margaret C. Gillen. Edward Gillen, Mr. and Mrs. Judson O.

Cooler. C. H. N. Mason.

Charles Dillemuth. Mr. and Mrs. W. Adams.

Miss Frances E. Boyer. Wilson Eyre. Miss Florence Miller. Miss Clara Miebaum.

Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Hamburg. Mrs. Colette Verbecken.

Miss Margaret Verbecken. A. Murry Fisher. William Hitzrot. Kenneth E.

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Lord. Peter Ladderman Frank Ryan, of Truck Com Registration of all aliens and their American-born children was urged yesterday by Colonel Odus C. Horney, commandant of the Frankford Arsenal, when he spoke before members bf the Kiwanis Club lunching at the Belle-vue-Stratford. "History has 6hown many times," said Colonel Horney, "that great countries have been overthrown by the influx of aliens. In most cases this has not been due to force or violence.

They have done it by their peaceful penetration. These countries should be a lesson to the United States. "I believe this great country Is. divinely predestined to be strong and the leading nation of the world. If this is to be the case we must watch our aliens.

The recent passage of the restricted immigration bill is one of the best steps taken in a long time. However, it is not enough. Every alien should be carefully registered. Statistics show that the highest percentage of criminality comes lrm their ranks. If they are properly registered when they are found to be persistent criminals they can be deported." Colonel Horney made a plea for military preparedness, saying that many peace organizations are anarchists in the guise of pacifists.

Woman Burned In Expfoslon Police are investigating the cause of the explosion that yesterday wrecked the home of Mrs. Anna Stempt, G5, 4750 Mercer street, Bridesburg. Mrs. Stempt is in the Frankford Hospital in a critical condition as a result of burns. Lewis and Zwald, policemen, were passing the house and heard th explosion.

They summoned fire Apparatus and took the woman to the hospital. Traffic Searchlights Abandoned The decision of the Council Committee on Public Safety yesterday to limit a $35,000 appropriation for new traffic signals, so that it cannot be spent on searchlights for City Hall tower, forecasts the early elimination of the present system and makes it incumbent on Director Butler and his traffic aides to devise a different method of synchronization. Unless we are mistaken there will be few to mourn the passing of the tower light with its manifest defects. Director Butler himself admitted yesterday that the powerful searchlights would not be necessary to direct traffic on Market street east and west of the municipal building and said that the installation possibly might be dispensed with on South Broad street also. The situation now is that the director has a nearly completed and elaborate system of three-color signals on Broad street from City Hall to Columbia avenue has cost $42,000 to Instal.

He has a new appropriation of $35,000 with which to continue synchronization. This money can be expended only for signals at street intersections. The equipment installed already should be put in operation. It is too costly and elaborate for repetition over the small additional area which could be covered with $35,000. The most sensible thing to do would be to fix a cost rate of, say, $4000 or $5000 a mile as a maximum allowance, divide the money between Market street east and west of City Hall and North and South Broad street, and then, by a series of control lights spaced at intervals from a mile to a mile, apply the synchronized block signal system as it is- applied in New York, Detroit and ether cities.

Director Butler offered to throw the whole traffic matter into the hands of Council when his system was disapproved. That would accomplish no good. It is the director's job to work out this problem and submit Jiis perfected system to Council for ratification later pany JNO. 6ent iiis aie wiutiiiiij5 through a window and was cut by flying glass. Lieutenant Booksimer, also was injured slightly.

VAN RENSSELAER WILL Estate Goes to Brother and Heirs of Sister Mrs. Edith Biddle Van Rensselaer, widow of Philip Stephen Van Rensselaer, who died in Paris on June 3. left her estate, said to be valued at $51,000, to her brother and her late sister's heirs by provisions in her will probated yesterday by the Register of Wills. The document specifies that Edward Biddle, 3915 Locust street, and the heirs of his sister, Francisca T. Biddle, who died several years ago, shall equally share in the personal and real property left by Mrs.

Von Rensselaer. She was long ill in Faris and had not been in this country for several years; before her death. The burial was ia this city. A Practical Tribute to Jefferson Of the $300,000 needed to buy and preserve for future generations the historic home of Jefferson has already been raised. There should be no serious difficulty in raising the remainder.

Monti-cello is well worth preserving, apart from its associations. It has great architectural beauty of an unique character. There are enthusiastic Democrats from all over the country in New York just now. They delight to acclaim the name of Jefferson and pay at least lip service to the policies associated with it. How appropriate it would be if they subscribed the $100,000 needed to complete the fundi Connelly.

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