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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-10-22
HUM OF HUMAN CITIES

california is strangely enamored of
municipal ownership, City after city is eX-
perimenting with some form of it, while one
of the larger towns, Sacramento, pleads that
the city collect and dispose of garbage. The
Bee says:
"Tbe shameful condition of the garbage
wagons in this community again calls atten-
tion to the necessity for municipal collection
of garbage. This reform is pleaded for by
City Health Officer Norman f. Williamson,
and was one of the campaign issues of City
Commissioner +. NJ Wilder Health Officer
Williamson shows the public at present is
at the mercy of the garbage collectors, who
will not enforce the ordinary rules of sani-
tation and health, cleanliness and even
common deCenCy. The ordinance providing
for covering of garbage wagons and various
other things has never been enforced, be-
cause the garbage collectors refused TO obey
1t and went strike and the Health
Board having no other way of collecting the
garbage, simply let these arrogant employees
of the city do just they please-and they
are doing IL today"
Meanwhile the Sacramento Union reports
that another California City, Lodi, is having
success with a municipal water and light
plant: Lodi has shown an economy and
efficiency in the operation of its municipal
water and light plant which deserve atten-
tion. The grape centre has clear profit of
$4,000 for the year, in addition to $1,000 spent
In additions and improvements which could
not be charged to maintenance. This means
that the total profit for the year was in
excess of $4,000. The electric service was
furnished 10 the people at cents while a
Nat rate of $3.50 month was charged for
water.
There is no reason why public utilities
operated by the cities themselves should not
prove profitable, but it is unfortunately true
that in too many instances there is not
efficiency in the management of any branch
OF municipal affairs, municipalities are not
loaded up with excessive bond issues and
there is no watered stock which must be
made to pay dividends, is the case in many
of the private corporations.
But the money saved on this account finds
it's way out through many other leaks Busl-
ness methods applied TO city affairs should
render municipalities Independent Of private
corporations in the provision of water light
and probably transportation"
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VIEWS OF READERS
ON TIMELY TOPICS
Contributions That Reflect Public Opin.
ion on Subjects Important to City,
State and Nation.
TO tho Editor OF. the Evenino Ledger:

To tho Editor OF the Evorino Ledger:
Sir-Having lived three years in South Africa,
knowing the country and its peoples, realizing
the futilty Of attempting to merge the Boer,
the Afrikander and the Briton, l can speak
with some degree of authority on the Boer
revolt in the South African Union
Let me first go back way in history Every
Briton will tell you that Britain conquered the
Transvaal and the Orange Free state, because
foreigners were denied the rights of franchise
This is not true. What the Boer Government
did deny the Uitlander the right of fran
chse without remuneration of the mother coun-
try. In other words. the Briton wanted equal
rights with the Boer and yet retain his alle-
glance to Britain
The real cause of the Boer war was the amaz-
ing mineral resources of the Boer republics. The
Wtwatersrand (Bdse of the white Waters)
gold fields the richest in the world The
aurlferous reef extends for some 40 miles, at
either end being enormous coal deposits. In
old Griquaand West is the greatest asbestos
deposit on earth. Iron and copper abound. And
in Cape Colony are diamond mines surpassed
only by those discovered subsequently in the
Orange Free State and the Transvaal.
But leaving aside the excuse for unrght
eous war, in which $4,000 Beers kept Great
Britain at bay for three years and cost her
billion dollars there can be no fusion of races
in South Africa. Religious upright, decent
living, pastoral, sharper, shrewder, the Boer
is unused to the civilization of the Briton. He
has strong likes and disilScs and he dislikes
the rooinek, as the Briton has been dubbed for
a century, with an ardor of singular intensity.
The Afrikander, native-born white. sides
with the Boer in nine cases out of ten He, too,
seems to take an inherent dislike to the over
1ordly Britsher. 1t Is the undiplomatic quality
inherent in most Britons-the amazing faculty
OF rubbing the wrong way-which has made it
impossible to melt the various races into a
homogeneous entity.
In SO far as the revolt is concerned. the future
alone will tell But let Germany score n de-
cided success and then watch for prccptate
developments They may never come but II
they do the richest of British possessions will
pass from her and the life dream of Cecil
Rhodes United States of South Africa. will
come to pass
EN-EDTTOR OF THE JOHANNESBURG
DAILY NEWS.
Philadelphia, October 16.
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President Praises Palmer

No CANDIDATE for office could ask for a
IN more cordial and explicit Endorsement
than that given 10 A Mitchell Palmer by
President Wilson.
Mr.. Wilson indorses Palmer as man. as "a
constructive legislator and as AN instrument
for the political redemption of PENNSYLVANIA.
So far from being a vague and blanket
commendation, the words Of the President
show that he has taken particular pains to
study the situation that exists i'm this Com
monwealth. "Pennsylvaua," says tho Chief
Magistrate, ought 70 accept and trust him
and through him play her proper part I'M the
constructive policies nf a new generation"
1t is evident that President Wilson regards
Penrose as a relic of that barbaric political
past i'm which the spoils Of victory We're the
only motives that animated politicians And
indeed he is the last of the pirattcal ana
Pilatical band left I'm office. Palmer belongs
10 the new order He looks forward rather
than backward; he considers that the mark
of statesman is what he can DO for mis-
country rather than what he can get for him
self
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THE IDEALIST

An employer, who was plainly and sadly
wanting in the element of tact, wildly berateu
i'm itself, may have had full justification
The mere fact of the scolding is not I'M
portant
But that which was important and de-
plorable was the condition under which no
carried on his TRADE. lie was doing 1t pun
licly-before numerous other employees. the
sting was deep; the young lady stood thefS
In abject horror and shame,
one condition of the situation, however.
served as a sort of consolation This was
that the excited gentleman who was ndus-
ing in venting his spleen upon defenselesS
undering was himself a very special sort OF
small fry'-the sort that believes kngship
To be an excuse for tyranny. This man IS
not what we term successful.
II you want to take the loyalty out OF
your employees the quickest way to accom-
plish It Is to criticise them publicly. TINS
makes the gap between you and them stand
on personal basis rather than business
basis.
Almost any employe will respect the gap
that separates the employers business stanu-
ing from his or her own business standing
But when this difference is twisted into one
OF personalities, then the spirit OF demoe-
racy asserts itself
| know man who patterns his acts after
those Of a very dOmineering gentleman tof
whom he formerly worked, When MS
methods are questioned by observing ae-
quaintances he offers the policies and haplls
OF his former employer as Justification,
The sorry fact about his argument is ina.
ms former employer is not a success anu
probably never will be.
a big man worries about big things. DIS
clphnlus an employe publicly and engendeI-
ing shame and degradation is too small an
act for him 10 commit lie Is big enough 70
see that an unloyal employe Is a weak hhh
in his business chain. Unloyal employees
work for" you. Loyal employees work "witR
you Between the two there Is yast pr
ference
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PRZEN1YsL OR psHEMIsHYL

To the Editor OF the Evening Ledger:
Sir-Now that 1t has fallen or been relieved
or something, isn't it in order to suggest that
Inc American newspapers print its name prop
erly | refer to the notorious fortress whose
name Is Pshcmishyl but which all the papers
nave persisted in calling an unpronounceable
set OF letters, Przemysl. If going to be
neutral, why in tho name of the MUSES. can't
we have neutral American spelling? The fact
that tho letter ''r'' occurs in Polish and in
English cana has n totally different sound In
each) shouldn't force us to break our tongues
or afford the humorists much amusement
Ihe RUSSIAN, French, Yiddish and. for all
know, the Turkish and Hindustan press. spell
the name as it is pronounced Why not civil
lied America?
And by the way, what a howl we put up
about the simplest names. My daughter n
child of four. can pronounce Ekaternoslav or
Pcbedonostscf without tremor That is
when occasion arises. which, fortunately for
the peace of the family isn't often.
SEBASTIAN GROVE.
West philndenhia. Octoher lG.
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THE Wares saved the Organization in 1910.
i Rcrry came to their stronEholds with a
majority. They seated Tener gave him the
Govcrnorshp turned defeat into victory. Mr..
Pcurosc cannot win without them this year.
II is not likely that he can win with them,
but let the Wares merely wavcr in their sin
core support and the Pcnrose candidacy will
crumple up. There will be nothing left but
humiliatng defeat
Yet these same Wares are the ones whom
Penrosc, in secret conference. is accused of
hetrayIng. These arc the men on whom. II is
charged, he "squoaled' These are his asso-
cates whom he ready. so the story goes,
to hand over to the criminal prosecutors and
he himself the accusation runs, was ready
with the evidence to convict
Tho Wares are merely politicians. They ex-
poet TO he betrayed and insultcd now and
then. That is part of their business. They
must give and take But what sort of guar
antees are they now going to get from the
big Ross? \ promise or contract? There
ought u he some unbreakable agreement by
which Mr.. Penrose will he bound not to tell
u.Nt time.
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PENNSYLVANIA the Football Capital

TTNHtS is the season when the Keystone
L state comes into her own as purveyor of
public sport. There is but one god, Football,
and Pennsylvania is his prophet.
Pennsylvania, tn state. it must be re-
peatcd; for though the University that also
bears the name has a team of much, if inter-
mittent prowcss, it is the smaller colleges
that hav" spread the name and fame broad
cast since the open game triumphed over
the Rules Committee.
Carlisle was not without it's reputation
even in the days when the sport was only a
pushing match. But it is Washington and
jefferson Lafayette. Lehigh Penn State
Buclncn. Swarthmore. Pittsburgh. Franklin
and Marshall that have jumped into pretty
steady prominence with the opening up of the
game. Hardly another state has such list
not to mention the prep" schools.
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Unemployment in Prison

TACK of employment for the prisoners in
IL the county jails Of this state results in
an annual economic loss Of 100000 says a
report of the Pennsylvania Prison Society.
The attitude of free laborcrs and free manu-
facturers toward convict competition has not
changed in recent years; but Ohio, with its
"State-use system" in which tho state plays
the part of consumer and Kentucky. with its
broom making, which does no harm to "out-
side industries, afford suggestions of pos
sible ways out Of the difficulty though COM
petition can never be entirely eliminated from
the problem Unemployment i'm penal insti-
tutions is more than n question OF economic
waste The issue is humanitarian, Prisoners
need work.
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Advice From an ArLfnI Dodger

CtWEET are the rewards Of fame, Cigars
- are named after statesmen, perfumes
after actresses, but the biggest NJ German
shells are called Jack JohnsQus."
A veteran British soldier says he can dodge
"Jack Johnsons' The smaller shells are
harder to escape But he has figured out the
German system Of firing. one shell is
dropped. the second falls 10 the right, the
third TO the left and the fourth To the rear
Very simple TO keep out Of the way by means
OF careful and constant mental bookkeeping.
The British soldier who has discovered this
safety first method is at present in Lon
don gal recovering from wounds.
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not want this war but they are quite frank
in admitting that they have been making
preparations for it these many years.
with precisely the expedition and efficiency
with which the German army was mobliSed,
German commerce and industry were mo-
bili2ed. So important a matter as the COM
missary could not have been neglected in all
these carefully made plans and preparations.
Germany has within her own boundaries
food resources which are ample both for the
army in the field and for the population at
homo. \ superlative kind Of war strategy
has made the nation commercially. indus
trialy and aericulturally autonomous, sufi-
cicnt unto its own domestic needs.
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Theory and War

From tho New York Evening Post,
Events do not jibe with Bernhardi's require
ments. BY this time II IS plain that the war
will not be decided by a succession of lightning
strokes BY this time # Is safe 10 say that one
third OF the standing forces at the outbreak OF
the war are out of commission. and no decision
Is In sight, The great advantage which Bern
hard claimed against Germanys enemies has
lar gely vanished. The war will be decided not
by the first line, but by the reserve strength Of
the nations. But IL that Is the case. II Germany
like her opponents, n ust draw upon her second
and third lines. there Is obviously granted to
England the necessary respite for giving her
new armies adequatg preparation
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CHRISTMAS OF A CHRISTIAN WAR

To the Editor Of the Epraing Ledger:
Sir-Half dozen Christian nations are at
war. Half a dozen Christian nations are pray
ing to the Man Of Peace to give them bloody
victory over their Christian enemies That Is
all that the faith of Christ the Pacific has
come to mean to them.
And it is proposed that Christmas Day be
celebrated by an armistice Is it n miserable
attempt TO save the face of Christ-profcssing
and war-malling nations with lip-service? Or
Is it ludicrous satire on the theological skele-
ton in Europe?
1t is neither. 1t is merely a reproof, a sting
ing, crushing reproof. For one of Christ's own
people, jew, a rabbi. calls for this armistlce
Philadelphla. Octohar IL
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ANDREW CARNEGIE is quoted as saying
"A that for one of his companies TO earn
more than nifty million dollars a year is evil.
Mathematical morality seems to be the bane
of the Lairds mind, No one need worry
about the ethics Of excessive profits, because
those can be easily limited by reducing the
cost Of the products to the consumer Social
ism syndicalism, anarchsm can only thrive
where the margin Of profit is excessively
1grga
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THE BABBLING FOOL

Tolerance is a modern invention. 1t is not
a virtue. 1t is a sin.
Tolerant people are towards They are toll
Grant of everything-of everything they toll
crate.
Even theoretical "tolerators" will not toll
crate intolerance. Yet one cannot tolerate
what is right, one can tolerate only what is
wrong, That is the definition of quiet sin
ming. Better to do what is wrong than to
CondOne il,
mindedness." Possibly. But even that is no
excuse for fatty degeneration of the brain
The individual who cannot reject has no
right TO accept,
ITO understand all is to forgive all" said
a French weakling. But If there is some
something To condemn replied d German
hero. To tolerate everything is TO drop the
paddle. Drifting is good enough for a sum
mer's afternoon 1t is a FOOLS paradise
So is tolerance.
Fierce hatred of what is wrong i'm the world
is the beginning of all that is right Fierce
hatred Of the ugly is the beginning of art
Fierce intolerance of barbarism is the be-
ginning of civilization.
Hatred and intolerance are the sprfngs
from which humanity takes its leap into the
future Tolerance is the qucksand of men
tai health
Love is a selfish passion 1t demands a
return. Hatred is unselfsh Properly di-
reCted, II is as pure and noble a passion as
love. 1t Is only when our hate goes out, in
stead OF turning inward upon ourselves,
that hate becomes debased
Tolerate nothing. federation is an i'm
pertinenCe
The weak man prays for tolerance. The
strong man prays: Help me If am RIGHT
Destroy me n l am wrong. But i'm tho name
OF heaven save me from your toleratiou."
A p-,rr,.t..-- II
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To the Editor Of the ErcniH0 Ledger:
Sir-As a reader of the EVENING LEDGER,
have been very much pleased to see the excel
lent editorials on the subject of woman's suf-
frage that have appeared recently in your paper
Those Of October and 10 contained especially
good arguments in which II would be hard to
find any haw. They must appeal to all intelll-
gent persons. ESTHER NJ. REINHARDT.
Philadelphia, October 90
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-10-22

incidentally, Mr.. Henry James has lust
issued a new book, Notes on Noveists,"
which contains more sense about novels and
novelists than anything published since Mr.
James wrote the introductions to his own
works few years ago And those introduce
tions, by the way, were the richest COM
mentary on the art of the novel since Mr.
James wrote THE Art of Fiction"
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-10-22

With due respect for Doctor Eliot and his
opinions the business of the United states, SO
far the European war is concerned, Is to
mind its own business now and hereafter no
matter which way the tide of battle turns. This
country is no more the ally Of England and
France than of Germany and Austria. 1t is
the friend of all and the partner of nome
Springfield Union
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Soaking information

This is the hatchway," continued IN,
nautical sharp who was showing his frienf
over the vessel.
And where are the hens?" asked the land.
lubber with deep interest.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-10-22

force and charm habituaI TO his spoken and
written speech He is not only the ablest adj
vocate, but the most substantial achievement
and chief good fortune of his party. His in
f1uence, his authority, his character the uni
versal respect which he has won; that is the
Democratic campaign; that is the rock on
which good many tottering and feeble Dem
ocratic candidates for Congress will have to
lean,-New York Sun.
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DECENTLY a story was printed q think
IN it was told by Representative Bartholdt
of MssourD that the japanese were dis
tnCtly unfrendly to the United States and
that soon late this country would be in
volved in with Japan. Congressman
Ainey, of Pennsylvania, who has made a trip
around the world q delegate to the Inter
parliamentary Union, visited Japan and OBJ
tanned an inside view of conditions there and
of the true Japanese sentiment toward the
United States. ut is exceedingly unfortu
nate" he said yesterday to me, that articles
are published and statements made that the
Japanese people are persistently evidcncing
ill-will toward America and Americans. Let
me say with considerable emphasis that
there is no country in the world for which
Japan has higher regard or friendlier feel
ings than for the United States. They have
more confidence in our disintcrestedness than
in that of any other people. What | say is
not limited TO official Japan. but follows
along the entire line. It is the attitude of
the man of affairs in State; it is the eX-
preston of the business man; 1t manifests
itself in the peasantry and people. They all
are kindly disposed toward Americans. From
rickshaw man, through all gradations of So
ciety Il citizen of the United States is greeted
and treated with marked consideration and
attention which speaks undisguised friend
lness. This to my mind evidences the real
attitude of one people toward another. The
Japanese have their Jingoes-what country
has not? But that these do not represent
any appreciahle sentiment is as evident to
the traveller in Japan as the demarcations of
day and night. The Japanese like u.s. It Is
easily within our power to retain their
friendliness' RANDALL
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-10-22

The saddest days of all the year
Set my broad chest a-heaving.
For we must say last farewell
The autumn trees are leaving.
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CURIOSITY SHOP

In 1856 w. II. Ireland made public several
manuscripts, the authorship of which he as
scribed to Shakespeare One of these, play,
"Nortigern," was produced at Drury Lane,
London, on April 2 1896 In 1905 he acknowl-
edged the manuscripts to be forgeries. lie
died in 1S35
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NATIONAL POINT OF VIEW

Railroads operating out of Chicago report
that substantial increases in coal and grain
shipments have brought the volume Of traffic
for the last week up to the standard of a year
ago. Whatever happens abroad, people still
insist on being fed and warmed and the wheels
of industry continue 10 turn. Having touched
low water mark, American business has out
lived the shock Of war and is surely making
turn for the beforehand Rapids Press
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MOI to Be Starved Ont

EsIITE CANNOT be starved into submis-
w sion" says Germany's Secretary for
the Interior, and he Is probably right The
zpokesmen of the nation Cert that they did
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The James Bows

Boston is sure to feel bitter sense of dis
illusionment pretty soon when it realizes that
1t was Bill James and not Henry who won
the worlds seres.-Grand Rapid Press
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-10-22

This Henry person could not be found in
Spalding, but the literary editor came in
and explained he was q novelist and in the
big league at that.
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THE case of West Virginia, when it comes
i to the distribution of patronage" is re-
garded by many conhding souls a some
what horrible example of what can happen in
politics. 1t is said that not a single original
Wilson man has been appointed to any posi-
ton in that state, and that the only men
who have gotten anything from the Admin
istration have been those who opposed the
nomination of Mr. Wilson. They do not
quite understand It, and they are not wholly
reconciled to It,
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For all that If some one were to a,
What Maisie Knew it couldn't be e,
planned in words of one syllable.
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SCRAPPLE
The New Father

Caller-How old is your baby7
Befuddled Father-He'll be three davs o,s
next month 80 VW
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-10-22

Out Of the war has come at least one good
result in this country, the realization that the
American public does not sufficiently appreciate
one of its great agricultural productions,
which has a most important use-cotton.-Wash-
ington Star.