.Established Sept. 26, 1913. THE llfHHlffllT BULLETIN Official medium of the Business Men's Improvement and Taxpayers' Association of West Philadelphia. Subscription Price. One Dollar a Year. Edited and Published by IRVING DILLON 5716 Christian Street West Philadelphia Member Transportation Committee, United Business Men's Association. Secretary Allied Business Men's and Improvement Associations, of West Philadelphia. Member Business Methods and Publicity Committee, West Philadelphia Business Men's Association. The Bulletin goes to press on Thursday morning of each week. Advertising copy or other matter intended for publication must reach this office not later than Wednesday evening to catch the current issue. The advertising rates of "The Improvement Bulletin" are: Display advertising, 30 cents per inch. Want adlets, 2 cents a line set solid. Political advertising, 50 cents per inch. Reading notices, 10 cents per line, No advertisement accepted for less than six insertions. FREE SPEECH AT PENN 01 POOPEH OCCASIONS Trustees Indorse Famed Words of Huxley, But Remain Firm on Nearing. MISUNDERSTOOD TOO OFTEN Resolutions by Wharton Barker and Effingham B. Morris Both Adopted. In an effort to revere the memory of Thomas Huxley and at the same time stand their ground in dismissing Dr. Scott Nearing from the faculty of the Wharton School, the trustees of the University of Pennsylvania yesterday adopted one resolution advocating "thought free of all fetters" and another resolution limiting academic utterances to those "expressed in a proper manner, upon proper occasions and with proper respect for the dignity of the speaker's relationship to the UniverThe trustees convened at Houston Hall, Thirty-fourth and Spruce streets, and were in session four hours. It was then announced that a resolution proposed by Wharton Barker and another ■by Effingham B. Morris had been adopted as the unanimous expressions -of sentiment on the part of the trustees. The resolution of Wharton Barker, who has been one of Dr. Hearing's most ardent champions, concluded as 'follows: Follow Huxley's Lead. "Resolved, that the trustees of thf University of Pennsylvania adopt anc declare as an adequate expression ol their views and purpose the statement of Thomas H. Huxley upon his installs tion as rector of Aberdeen Universitj in 1874: 'Universities should be placet in which thought is free from all fet ters; and in which all sources of knowl edge and all aids of learning should bi accessible to all comers, without distine tion of creed or country, riches or pov Morris begins by showing that the char ter of the University invests its trus

A mass-meeting of workingmen will be held some time next week under the auspices of the Central Labor Union to protest against the dropping of Dr. Hearing by the University trustees. OUR STATE NEIGHBORS Random Paragraphs of Interest to Pennsylvanians. Bradford is planning a big carnival as a Hallowe'en celebration. Lyman Mong, of the Kell; farm, at Oidtown, Forest county, has on exhibition in Tionesta a pumpkin of tliis year's growth that weighs 103 pounds. John W. Anderson, of Clermont, was excused from jury duty by Judge Bouton. He is 74 years old, but still is able to do a good day's work in bis farm. Clearfield claims to have among her population a larger percentage of men and women over 70 years of age than "any other town between Philadelphia and Pittsburgh." O. F. Allan Connor, of Harrisburg, is entertaining his cousins, Thomas H. Ritchie, of Montesano, Washington, and F. K. Ritchie, of Portland, Oregon, who had not seen each other for 42 years. Rev. J. M. Walters, who has been reappointed pastor of the United Brethren Church, Ephrata, by the East Pennsylvania Conference at its recent session in Harrisburg, enters upon the sixth year of bis pastorate there. The affection of the foot which confines Judge O'Connor, of Cambria county, to his room has been diagnosed as diabetic gangrene. The little toe of the affected foot is gone and the disease has appeared on the top of the foot. The Judge is said to be cheerful and confident of speedy reDr. Joseph Kalbfus, secretary of the State Game Commission, has returned to Harrisburg after a trip to the PanamaPacific Exposition and inspection of game preserves and game propagation work in Western States. He has arranged for shipment of deer to the State after the weather turns cold. Although he has passed his 105th birthday anniversary, William Heylens, who makes his home with his daughter in North Versailles township, Allegheny county, is capable of doing odd Jobs around the house. He was born in Bethel, near Monroeville, in 1810. Mr. Heylens was married when 50 years of age, and his wife died 10 years ago at the age of 79 years. Mr. Heylens for 40 years has retired at 7 P. M. and risen at 6 A. M. He has never chewed or smoked tobacco and has used liquor sparingly. Mr. Heylens was considered one of the best shots in the country and won several prizes, among them a gold watch for the cham- , pionship of Western Pennsylvania. He " cast his first vote for Andrew Jackson ' in 1832. His sister, Mrs. Rebecca Adams, ' of Cedar Rapids, la., is 102 years old. ; IN AND ABOUT THE CITY — The worm will turn when trodden - upon, and sometimes before. : —Charity eovereth a multitude of sins i that don't all deserve to be covered. > —Even in the theatre, high art doesn't - always consist o£ playing to the gallery. —It takes a good liver to enable a i man to face the world with a good s —Don't tell your troubles, unless it is - the only way .to prevent the other fellow r from telling his. i — You can turn a crank down, but s you can't always turn him from his - way of thinking. —The girl who thinks no man is good s enough for her may be right, but she 3 is apt to be left, too. —Perhaps the reason women have no sense ot humor is because no woman e wants to laugh and grow fat. —"A man cannot be in two places at lf once," quoted the Wise Guy. "He can lt be in a pair of trousers," suggested the Simple Mug. y — Hubbubs — "How do you like your ,s new cook?" Subbubs— "Hew cook? We t_ haven't any new cook. The one we have 1_ has been with us nearly two weeks." e — Wigg— "Henpeckke is never quite self at home." Wagg— "If you had ever seen Henpeckke at home, you wouldn't r- blame him."

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POUND STEHUNG DROPS | TOM BOTTOM flGflIN j Despite the Huge Credit Loan, £ Exchange Sells Down to i Low Level of $4.67 1-4. J BANKERS MEET ON PROBLEM j t Further Loan or Substitution a of Dollar Standard Among ( Possibilities. 1 \ t Hew York. Oct. 11.— Foreign exchange < rales went down again today — in the t face of the successful flotation of the f S500.000.000 credit loan, to Great Brit- 1 < aiu aud France— to their lowest point ; since September 15. So disquieting t was the situation deemed that a three- t hour meetiug, attended by Wall street s bankers and Sir Edward Holden, a , member of the Anglo-French' Financial Commission, was held late in the day at the Hatioual City Bank to devise some new method to bolster the value of the English pound sterling. Since the arrival of the Commission j here, September 10, the trend of ster- • ling values has been- steadily, though slowly, upward. For the past week, sterling has been selling, at' about S4.72. ; One; day- recently it went as high as a fraction above 84.73. Today it sold down to 4.67%. altogether too far below ■ . par to make continued buying- of , j American exports desirable from the j ■ British point of view, in the opinion of j some Hew York financiers. The meeting held today, it was re- | ported, was primarily to reach an tin- j derstnnding as to the best available j method of using the .foOO.OOC.COO to j stabilize exchange and also with' a viewto arranging a private agreement he- ' tv. ren New York bankers, on one hand, j and the London bankers, on the other, i for credits which would tend to send i the value of sterling up in this foreign I exchange market. A supplemental I credit of $250,000,000, it is said, was discussed. Bank Credit Agreement Possible. | It was thought possible that certain ' large American financial institutionsmight extend credits to the London banking connections on collateral which could, be readily realized on in Great Britain, but for which the market here is restricted. With these credits avail1 able here to pay for purchases made by British importers the pressure of bills would be relieved and rates would be ; To what extent American banks would be prepared to advance credit to 1 London bankers, if at all, was a mat- | ter of pure surmise. Many millions, it was thought, would be needed to re- ' store the rate on sterling to nearly normal. The arrangement would involve private financing on a scale secondary only to the flotation of the mammoth Anglo-French loan, and probably would be a purely private arrangement between groups of large banks. Sir Edward Holden, as head of the London City and Midland Bank, represents the joint stock banks of Great Britain on the Anglo-French CommisWhether he acted as spokesman for 1 these great financial institutions in today's conference could not be learned. Through his secretary tonight he issued the following statement: "Sir Edward Holden states that his meeting today was of a private nature. He does not care to discuss it." Present at today's meeting, besides Sir Edward, were Benjamin Strong, Jr., governor of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York; Frank A. Vanderlip and James H. Perkins, president and vice president, respectively, of the National City Bank; Charles H. Sabin, president of the Guaranty Trust Company; W. H. Porter, of J. P. Morgan & Company; James Brown, of Brown Brothers & Company; J. S. Alexander, president of the Bank of Commerce, and other bankers whose identity could not be ascertained. Dollar the Coming Standard. Foreign exchange experts of several financial institutions also were present. These experts were reported to be

unanimously of the opinion that there would be only one remedy left when the proceeds of the $500,060,000 loan would have been spent — the virtual elimination of the. pound- .sterling as the standard of world finance and the substitution of, the dollar instead, at least for the remainder of the war's duration, j A supplemental loan of $250,000,000. it was thought, could easily be -floated under these conditions, if confined to banks and banking institutions and not offered to the general public. Advocates of the plan were reported to have sought'to convert Sir Edward to their idea. When he sails for Europe, as lie expects to do soon, it; will be his j task to place before the bankers of Great Britain the financial situation in this country. It was thought that lie would face difficulties in convincing them that the- time had come to subordinate the pound sterling, for generations the standard of international 1 1 finance, to the dollar. His failure to t do so, it was believed: might, result : curtailment of British purchases in • American markets, through the fact ■ that the rate oil sterling would fall to : point where such purchases could be made more advantageously elsewhere. WISE AND OTHERWISE —Arthur— "About how much salary should chap get before marrying?" The Bookkeeper— "Oh, just a bit more than he ever will."— Chicago News. —What wound did- ever heal but by degrees?— " Othello. " —Mrs. Wnyupp— "So you- lost your divorce suit?" Mrs, Blase— "Yes;-, lt was a shame! They expected: me to pas9 on impossible test In -Court." Mrs. Wayupp— | "What was- it.??' Mrs. Blase— "They placed my two children, in a line witli-j ten others, and expected me to- pick, out —The finest poetry was first experience. ; — "Miss Flighty made- alt her money in ! letters." "She- doesn't look literary." - "She Isn't-. She- won- a, breach, of promise ! suit with- 'em."— Baltimore American. i -The- clatter- of arms d towns the voice of law.— Montaigne-. — "Dontt yon know that it Is a. great mistake- to flirt ?" said the kindly stranger. "Yes." replied one of the two small boys "That's- what I've been tettin' this feller for a long time, but he won't be satisfiedj till I prove It to him."— Washington Star. . —He is not always at ease- who laughs. —St. Evetmond. —"I suppose you were touched when your wife gave" you that 550 easy chair for your lien." "X was touched before she gave It."— Boston Transerfpt. —The more thou stir it the worse 16 will be.— Cervantes.

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FAMILY EXistl TO ?lLL JAILS AND PDDRHDUSES Remarkable Brood of Defectives Traced Out by Ohio Penal Authorities. HAVE MINDS OF CHILDREN Delinquencies Range All the Way From Bestial Crimes to Pauperism. Coliimbus, O:,. Oct. 71.— Fifty-eight relatives confined in penitentiaries, jails, infirmaries, institutions for feeble-minded or- ihcfustrial schools is the record of an extensive family, of degenerates traced; out during the past by the Ohio Juvenile Researeh Bureau. In. announcing the results, today Dr. Thomas H. Haines, director;- of the bureau,, declared1 the family history already discovered' was the basis S{a a record comparable to that of the notorious Jukes family, which has been familiar to sociologists for 40 years. The "Mengold" family— the fictitious name which, lias been chosen for the newly-traced- oBm of degenerate- men, women and ohildren— lives mainly in Southeastern-. Ohio and the lower Ohio River counties of West "Virginia^ Five generations of the family- have j been charted;, including 474 individuais. Definite data on 2(S1 - of these shows the- fallowing condition, of degenSixty members of the family have Court records; 15 have been- iff. jail; 14 ! iff the penitentiary; nine iia, the infiriaany,, nine- in, children's homes, six in | the workhouse, two in the girls' indyis- | trial' home, two in the institution - for feeble-minded and one in the boys':" ifii dustriat home. Seventy-seven are immoral, 74 e-ri-m-instf in. varying degrees* 55" feeble-mind-ed, 23 alcoholic, 12 public women,.. seven tubercular, six children adopted into other homes, four subject to spileptic ffts. three? insane and- three traiaps. Have Mentality of Children. Crimes of which tfiey have heen con? vie tedi include burglary, larceny, forgery, destruction of property, bootlegging- operating or.- being inmates of immoral" houses, intoxication, riot, gerjury, various degenerate forms of' assault, homicide, shooting to kill and: attempting to poison husband. The mentality of mast- degenerate members of the family, as determined by the Binefc test, is that of children between 8 and 11 years. Most members are living at large marrying and producing large families One man, whom the juvenile resea-rel investigators call Jasper, is in the Ohic penitentiary for a crime against hi; daughters, one of whom is in the girts industrial school at Delaware. It was an accidental noting of thi fact that several persons bearing thi same name, and later found to he rela tives, were charges of the State tha led to the investigation, which startec less than a year ago. Starr Cadwalla der, recently resigned as a member o: the Board of Administration which ha: charge of all State penal and eorreetivi institutions, made the discovery an; urged the family survey. Mrs, Mary Storer Kostir. of Colum bus, a young psychological investigator was assigned to the task, and she ha spent most of her time for the past yea: Originally From Pennsylvania. Her individual record of each membe of the so-called Mengold family re counts bestial crimes and vices un dreamed of by most normal citizens The survey will be continued unti traits of additional Mengolds are ac eurately recorded, and an estimate cai be made of the cost to the States o maintaining such an abnormal family. of c«s came originally from Western Pennsy] vania. The others were ignorant moun taineers. The notorious Jukes family, to whicl Dr. Haines compares his newly-mappe, family, contains a total of 1200 mem bers. of whom 540 are related by blood Since 1874, when its tracing was start ed, record has been made of 280 pan pers. 140 criminals, with nearlv all <> both classes feeble-minded or insane The cost of prosecuting or caring fo them is declared to amount to man; millions of dollars, mainly ciu.rgeal.l to Hew York State, where the fam : h

FROM OTHER VIEWPOINTS j 5 SnlZer says Roesevelt Is a political- j. corpse. And one corpse, ought: to know, « another when it sees it.— Ghasleston News j- f mid Courier. Many of the ■ newspaper editorials on , being dead. Most .of the writers of news- j paper editorials, on literary topics don't I ' know; the dead ones from the live, «ny-| way.— Baltimore Sup. Why, oh, why. do all; our sham naval ', and military battles on the eve of. the'meeting of Congress end., In: the imminent , capture . of. New York or.. Washington? Is !. it a real war. game. or politics, with the: capture of. big appropriations, that our,, big strategists play?— New York. World, i It can at least be said- that the. canal is', not blocked- any more.-effec t jally than the ; Springfield .Republican'. President. Wilson Issa-man of great dls-,-v-eenment; in the matter of appropriate, uictlon. There is no- chance that he will. Inadvertently permit this year's Thanks^ giving proclamation.., to read like, a valen.tine— Washington Star. Prosperity is surely getting, on . the job, ; Reports about that. B. & ,0. affair show: that even the train-robbing business was never better.— Indianapolis -NewsThree times a New York., man. tried: to. register and . was told he was dead.- Again- - we. see a bitter-; struggle for existence,.— Baltimore Star, Tfce quickest : ami surest: way. for,. Yilto to. stagger humanity is by. show.ing.aense enough to quit; Carranza. and Unci®.- Sam Constitute a majesity.— Washington. EosL. General Gcetfcals finds, that tile big canal needs hta a while, longer— and, ts©, ' he. may haue- heard about that, plaffi of the Progressives to. nominate him for

City Journal., From the standpoint of. original : Americanism, it is quite , -appropriate-, that: a de seendaht. . of Po what tan. should becomevelgiiing queen. of. the- White House Ma L —"I never : hare, any luck... Everything, goes against me.I* "What'3 the matter - nom?" "The doctor says -my husband- must gir 8- up smoking." "Well, you ought, tc be -glad If he Sallows tbs, doctor's- orders," "Glad! Sast as I was within 500/">npons of bailing enough , to -get a new set. of cut-glass, tumblers."— Detroit Free — As -aiiresultoof a claes-Jray between , students of thb> Columbia-. , High School one upper .clasaamn has s.cut six inches '.sag in his right -leg- and :;wo others>have • .'n4dy wounds.-. —Declaring that the motion picture .theatres of Bkzleton a'SCet attendance at religious -services, Rsw, IV. H,. Russell . admonished his* congregation . against them-,. —Michael . Sillig is hliiid, probably fermanentiyp .and his earn piauioE,: .Frank . Burke. of Stazieton,- is-. seriously, contused from,. a:, blast vtiicii exploded in, the -Honey - Brook ColUery. — "So-ycm want to marry my- daughter, ph?"'£K»vted the jM man. "Do youeonsider ywrself financially able to doso?" "■VFaStF' replied, ithe suiter, "after a fellow as 'bought randy a 3d flowersfor a giidrtSar.a- yeats.snd hat-taken her • to. the thastee twice a week snd is still s not brokaj. I guess "<tte can a.fiwd .to . get, : married.1" Believe- Kipling's Son is- Prisoner. London;- Oct.- Ufe-Rudyard Kipling: lias-received no further nevrs. of his-son, . who. was wounded and reported missing in the north of France. He was only slightly, wounded .when lent seen and . his. ! parents- are hopfsful that, he suffered no-t-more -serious fata than being taken, prisr foner;- inside the- German, lines.

Daily Fashioa Talks BY MAY MANTON IN THE F&2HIONA3LE YOKE EFFECT.

life ! 1 111 mmMvm i m WW/i/JA \//A¥M//v//y it 8760 8774 / J \k Design by May Manton. 8760 Yoke Blouse, 34 to 42 bust. ! 8774 Three-Piece Skirt, ! 24 to 32 waist.

Yokes make a really noticeable fea- . ture of the fall fashions; they are found on skirts as well as on blouses, and they offer very attractive variety. Here is a costume that shows the- ever useful combination of a serge skirt with a separate blouse of a washable' material. The skirt is made after a very excellent model, in three pieces with a yoke arranged over its upper edge; of course . yoke can be omitted in a plain skirt is better liked, but yokes as already stated, are exceeding^ iasmonabie'ancj ,, are in every way to be desired. The : blouse is made with an oddly shaped , yoke and with a collar that can be worn . as it is here or be rolled open to form a V at the front and to give a square - sailor effect at the back. In the picture, the blouse is made of crepe de chine that is such a pronounced favorite ancl . the trimming is a little lace banding, but it can be copied in voile or in lawn, or in any one of the fashionable tub silks or indeed in any material adapted to the separate blouse. A great many .of the cotton voiles are being shown in the • autumn output, both plain and striped with self color, and white voile with a mercerized stripe giving a satip .effect would be pretty and many women- will . like the combination of a color with white. Crepe de chine and the various i tub silks are quite as washable:, as are lawn and batiste and they arg found .in a wondeful variety of colors and.-f fleets. . For the skirt, either silk or woolen materials can be used, or one of the heavier cottons or linens that many women wea? ■ within doors at all seasons. Both the. blouse and the skirt are simple and easyi to make. The skirt is finished with, t hemmed edges at the front that are. j lapped and then stitched, together and. " there are only two seams to .lfe sewed, The general shaping is circular- and it: flares most gracefully and becomingly and makes a good model for the coatsuit, and for the gown as well as for wear with the odd blouse. For the medium, size the blouse wiU. need, 3% yds. of material 27- in. wide, 3 yds. 36, 2 l/i yds. 44, with 4 yds. of banding; for tne skirt will be required, 5 yds. of n-.aterial 27 in. wide, 4 Ys yds. 36 or 44: the width at the lower edge is 3 yds. and 7 in.

0 The May Manton pattern of the blouse No. S760 is cut in sizes from 34 to j, 42 in. bust measure; of the skirt No. 8774 is cut in sizes from 24 to 32 in. waist measure. They will be mailed to any address by the Fashion Department of ' this paper, on receipt of ten cents for each.

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