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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-11-09

the common interest of the world ask
Germany to clear out of Belgium into
France or across the channel into Eng
land IL she can, back home II she can
force no other passage; but at all events
out of Belgium. A like request would,
of course, be addressed to Great Britain
and France. In England and France men
are going to the front every day.
Women and children are all within ear
shot, and no man Is hard-hearted cough
to say the worst that might be said Of
what is now going on in Belgium. We
talk to you Of Louvain and Rheims in
the hope Of enlisting you on our side Of
preiudicing you against the Germans
forgetting how sorely you must be tempt
ed to say as you look on what we are
doing:
Il am thinking OF other things-of the
honest Belgians whom 1 have seen nurs-
ing their wounds and whom 1 recognize
at glance as plain men, innocent of all
warlike Intentions. trusting to the wis
dom and honesty OF rulers and diploma
lists who have deceived them and taken
from them their farms and their busl-
nesses to destroy for no good purpose
that might not have been achieved bet
ter and sooner by neiGhborly means.
THAT is why 1 appeal to you
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-11-09
BILLY" SUNDAYS
WORK NEEDED HERE,
SAYSDR. TOMKINS
Holy Trinity Rector De-
clares Evangelist's Cam
paign Will Have New
F orce in War-Shaken
World.

Announcing his belief that the world
Is ON the eve OF great spiritual awaken
ing the Rev. DR.. Floyd Tomlkins, rector
Of Holy Trinity Protestant Episcopal
Church, enthusiastically lndorsed the
coming evanEellstic campaign OF BILLY"
Sunday, the baseball evangelist" In an
address on "The Sunday Campaign" bo-
fore the Clerical Brotherhood at the
church house today.
Doctor Tomkins said in part:
II believe we need revivals The
church so easily gets into the rut OF con-
servatism, and the Christian so quickly
loses enthusiasm. that We all need arous-
ing. In the Episcopal Church we have
Missions Chicago is just now having
missions In 20 or more churches. And
mission is simply an Episcopal re-
vlval, Mr.. Sundays methods may be
other than the ordinary, but, II they
accomplish results, we can surely well
come his coming.
"a man is justified by his work. Any
man who can do In one day what Mr..
Sunday did at the University OF Penn
sylvanla has God behind him, and In
him. The results OF his work In Scranton
and wilkss-Barre, for instance, know
to be lasting and still bearing fruit. II
we ministers do our part in praying and
gathering in the harvest, we will know
how much good ls done.
"Our church will feel II. The atrnos-
phere of the city will touch us and our
people will be more ready to respond to
our appeals. When any religious move
ment Visits a city all who are doing
any kind Of religious work receive a
blessing.
Coming at this time, when the world
is stirred as never before in history by
an awful and cruel war, the old story
as Mr.. Sunday tells us will have new
force I believe the world is on the eve
of a great religious awakening. God has
permitted Satan to shake the earth, ana
out of the horrors will come q turning
to God which will exceed all that man
has ever known. We dare not hesitate
or criticise, but stretch up our hands and
pray.
"The ministers need such a movement.
Our preaching becomes easily formal and
cold. We preach church organization or
philosophy or a kind of science falsely
so-called, which cannot save souls We
need an awakening that we may awaken
others.
I'VE may thank God for this coming
campaign, and do all we can by prayer
and interest, and by Rbstaining from
criticism, to forward It."
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-11-09
SHAW URGES FOES
TOQUIT BELGIUM
AS SCENE OF WAR
Dramatist, in Letter to Presi-
dent Wilson, Pleads for
Intervention to Save Hap
less Land From Further
Disaster.
LONDON, Nov. Q.


ContendIng that thousands OF nom
combatants in Belgium are facing
slaughter Bernard Shaw publishes an
open letter to President Wilson. pleeding
that he request Great Britain, France
and Germany to withdraw from the soil
of Belgium. Other neutral countries are
asked to urge the withdrawal of all bel
lgerents.
The petition reads in part as follows:
''I think, for example, that, II Russia
made descent on your continent under
circumstances which made 1t essential to
the maintenance of your national free
dom, that you should move an army
through Canada, you would ask our
leave to do so and take 1t by force II
we didn't grant it. You may reasonably
suspect. even II all our statesmen raise
a Shrek of denial that we should take
a similar liberty under similar circum-
stances in the teeth of all the scraps OF
paper In our Foreign Office. But a right
of way is not a right of conquest.
you can leave every question between
the belllgerents fully open, and yet in
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-11-09
HEADS OF HUNDRED
CITIES TO DISCUSS
PUBLIC UTILITIES
Many Municipalities Will
Be Represented at First
Annual Symposium of
Executives This Week.

Mayors and other oficials Of more than
week for the first Conference of Amer
lean Mayors on Public Policies as to Mu-
nicipal Utllities" The representation Of
municipal officials will be the largest and
most notable ever gathered in one city.
Mayor Blankenburg conceived the idea
OF the conference when he, with the
Mayors of New York, Chicago, Cleve-
land and Dayton, organized the Utilities
Bureau" for the exchange between cities
Of ideas on the interrelation between the
people and the public utilities which fur
nish lights, telephones, transportation and
other necessities.
Delegates will arrive Wednesday and
Thursday Among the visiting Mayors
will be Carter II. Harrison, Of Chicago;
John p Mitchell, Of New York; James
NJ Curley of Boston; Joseph G. ARM
strong, OF Pittsburgh James II. Pres
ton, OF Baltimore and Newton d. Baker,
OF Cleveland. The Mayor of Saskatche-
wan, in northwestern Canada, has prom
ised to attend.
Commissioner George W. Shroyer, of
Dayton; Commissioner T. C. Thompson,
and President Commissioner oliver P.
Newman, Of Washington, will be among
the representatives of cities having the
commission form of government.
Commissioners of public works and of
public service, men representing civic as
sociations, universities and large indus
tries, federal officials and distinguished
economists will give the gathering a
representative character, which will make
the outlining of its policies worthy of
consideration throughout the country.
A reception at the Bellevue-Stratford
Thursday evening will open the confer
ence Addresses of welcome will be made
by Governor Tener and Mayor Blanken-
burg and responses will be made by
Mayor Commissioner Shroyer of Dayton,
and others.
Business sessions will be held Friday
and Saturday At the morning session
Friday tho Mayors devote their attention
to public utility problems and in the
afternoon to the regulation of utilities.
Local and State regulation of munici-
pal utilities will be discussed at Central
High School Friday evening. Municipal
ownership and operation and the elements
in constructive program will be con-
sidered in all their phases Saturday morn
ing and afternoon at the Bellevue-Strat-
ford. Saturday night a conference will
be held in Witherspoon Hall. where hold
ing companies relation to the public well
fare will be discussed.
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JAPAN MUST HOLD
TSING- TAO, DECLARE
POLITICAL LEADERS
Fruits of Victory Won From
Kaiser Incite Ambition for
Territorial Aggrandize-
ment-2300 German Pris-
oneTS.
TOXIC. Nov. ..

TOXIC, Nov. 3.
The final meeting between Japanese and
German military representatives to arm,
range the details for the surrender OF.
Kiao Chau to the Allies was held this
morning. The commander Of the British
forces which assisted in the reduction OF
the fortress Of Tsing-Tao agreed to any
conditions which suited the Japanese.
The Japanese will take possession Of
Kiao-Chau tomorrow and will probably
repair the forts which the Germans were
compelled to surrender.
The heavy shells from the Japanese
howitzers completely demolished some OF
these German works.
The terms of surrender provide that
Governor General Meyer Waldeck and all
the surviving German soldiers shall bo
made prisoners of war and that all the
property of the Germans in Klao-Chau
be handed over to the Japanese In its
present condition.
1t Is now said that the Japanese cas-
ualtes in the final assault were 426. The
Germans surrendered 2300 with the fort
ress.
The Admiralty has ordered the work
of clearing up the Kiao-Chau harbor to
navigation.
The victory is still being celebrated
throughout the empire. Flags are float
ing everywhere, and the Japanese press
Is filled with laudatory articles,
The Mikado has Issued proclamations
praising the vaIor of his troops and the
brilliant deeds Of the British Allies.
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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-07-14
HINT TO ROY SCOUTS

~ ACH year the Boy Scouts of
II Bristol, England. participate in
IL a cup competition, which is
usually designed to interest
them in some of the many social
problems with which they will come
into contact in later years. This year
the competition takes the form of re-
ports from each of the four troops,
embodying good, practical, AMI eco
nomical suggestions in the plainest and
shortest language on the best means
of beautifying and improving their
respective geographical districts AS
the scope of the competition is broad
enough to permit all reasonable ideas
being included, 1t is hoped that the
suggestions will tend to economy
rather than to expenditure
Although the competition is pri-
marily for the benefit and instruction
of the boys, and is formed to familiar
ize them with their native city and to
develop them into good thinking and
working citizens 1t should also, and
doubtless will, be an encouragement
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-07-14
IN SPITE OF DEMO-
CRATIC ERROR

[F'rom the Philadelphia Public LEDGER
Providence. after all. is kinder to us
than we are to ourselves. No other
conclusion is possible in view of the
whispers of revivinG confidence from
all parts of the country that have fol-
lowed the publication of the reports of
favorable crop prospects. The activi-
ties OF the Government have been re-
sponsible for stagnation in business No
one knew what the future held and no
farseeing business man took any risks
that he could avoid. The country has
been living from hand to mouth for
many months The railroads and the
mills have been laving off hands and
not imperative have been deferred. But
a bountiful and beneficent Providence
has blessed the nation with abundant
crops. and billions OF new wealth pro-
duced hv the fields that yield whether
the tariff he high or low and whether
business be harassed or encouraged
have been poured into the lap of the
people. The land. which is the founda-
tion of all wealth. Is making the farm
ers prosperous and their prosperity
will be distributed till 1t is felt nv every
line of business All the cars that are
idle now will he needed for the next
few months to haul the crops to market
and to- haul back to the farming re-
gions the manufactured goods that the
farmers will buy with the money thev
receive for their crops. Providence is
doing for the country. what the admin
ministration will be claiming credit
for II next October in everv Con eres-
sional district from Maine to Califor-
nj
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-07-14
EDITORIAL COMMENT

After all it is as true as preachin'
that tariff which doesn't protect the
American workingman against the di-
rect competition of the alien working
man isn't of much use to him.-Altoona
Tribune.
Brigadier General Evans probably
wonders why the newspapers should be
informed that he is to be privately re-
buked."'-St. Louis Globe Democrat.
Judging from the way Democratic
delegations are visiting oyster Bay, the
Democrats must be almost'a as much dis
tressed at the falling away of the Pro-
gressive vote as the Progressives them
selves are What's the answer I'm
dianapolis News
President Wilson scolds the Senate,
net so much for dillgent inquiry into
the record and capacities of his nomi-
nees for the Federal Reserve Board, but
because the grave and reverend Sena-
tors do not seem to take the word of
the White House. With all due respect
to the White House II must be said that
the foolish presumption that this par
tieular President can do no wrong has
operated as against the two really
strong men whom he has nam ed
Johnstown Tribune.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-07-14
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

George w. Nevil, of Philadelphia.
has adopted plan of endowing a bed
in each of a dozen or so hospitals in
Philadelphia in memory of his parents.
H. E. Gaffney. who retired as Re-
publican chairman of Mexican, had
filled that place for several years.
Major Moses Veale, of Philadel-
phia, orator at flag day exercises. is
attending the Medal of Honor Legion
convention at Atlantic City.
George II. Hardner, the Allentown
bridge builder, runs a newspaper on
the side.
William F'linnplans to spend some
time along the Jersey coast so as to be
near his New York tunnel contracts.
The Rev. Peter Mason. of Allen
town. has been honored by the title of
monsignor by Pope Plus.
-Ex-Judge w. w. Porter. of Phila-
delphia is spending a while in New
England.
Attorney General Bell is accom-
panied by his son on his European
tour
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-07-14
Big Dress Purchase
by Schleisner's Buyer
Miss NJ. Sachs Makes Another Tmpor-
tant Buy in New York This Week

Miss M. Sachs buyer for the ladies'
garment department of the VIM. B.
Schleisner store, in response to invi-
tations from several high class dress
makers in New York city, attended
their wind-up sales of summer dresses
and was fortunate in securing some of
their choicest styles, not shown in
Harrisburg before, at price conces-
sions that permit of extraordinary
values at prices that in many in
stances average fourth of actual
value. For example, dresses made to
sell at $25 will be offered at $40,
$500 values will be sold as low as
$500 and $1050 values as low as
$295.
The dresses are now being marked
and made ready for the sale which
will begin on Thursday morning next,
full particulars regarding which may
be had by referring to the advertise
ment of the store which will appear
in this paper tomorrow, Wednesday,
evening. ng.-Advertisement.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-07-14
GODS ERESH AIR

UNDREDS of men in Harris
burg who were once boys on
the farm are dreaming in these
midsummer days of the old
swimming hole, "the meadows and
the deep-tangled wildwood" and the
back-to- -the-farm microbe is exceed
ingly active in all the congested CEN
ters of population. All over the United
States the trend is toward the farm
and here's a New York story apropos:
Lower Broadway is going to lose one
of its newsies. Isdore Greenberg, who
for thirteen years has sold papers at
the northeast corner of Broadway and
Fulton street, is going to enter Cornell
to study scientific agriculture!
''He told a reporter that he had been
selling newspapers since he was hVe
years old He is IS.
81 kept my wits about me- was the
way he put it. L worked hard,
studied and observed men and events,
and now l am going to be graduated
from the street corner. 1t was a good
prep school, even If 1t was hard one
But why scientific agriculture? he
was asked. Why not the law or medl-
cine?
1.-THE woods are full of them said
Izzy, and then you've got to remember
that scientific agriculture is the coming
thing. I've stood on the corner down
there many a long afternoon looking
and listening and thinking 1T all out.
" I've watched the faces of thousands
of men and women who passed me in
the crowds, and it struck me that lot
of them were playing losing game.
They were prisoners of the city, serV-
ing life sentence.
~ knew that the day would come
when I'd have to quit the game on the
corner, and l kept wondering what Id
do. The outdoor life has made me hard
as nails. l wanted to find something
that would keep me out in Gods fresh
air-something that l liked and that
would be a paying proposition.
"'And then it all came to me IN a
flash. People have forgotten that all
the wealth in the world comes out of
the ground. They've left the open
places of the earth and have crowded
into the markets in the cities, and they
are stepping on each other and mar
rowing themselves, mentally and phys
ically while they grub for pay dirt
pretty soon, some day, they are
going to go back home-back TO the
forests and the farms, and when me
man who has specialized in scientinc
agriculture is going to have his day. -
And Isidore has it right. We need
scientific farmers. Our prosperity and
happiness and comfort rest with the
soil If the present industrial depres-
sion will send back to the farm hum
dreds of boys who are crowding the
cities, it may be a blessing in dis
guise.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-07-14
FUSION TALK

OLONEL ROOSEVELT has de-
'clared repeatedly that there can
be no fusion between the Dem
ocrats and the Progressives;
that such a move would be like
the mixing of oil and water. A. Nit
chell Palmer the boss of the Wilson
machine in Pennsylvania, has also said
on several recent occasions that fusion
between the Democrats and Progress
Bives is not to be considered.
But there are persistent rumors that
efforts are being made for the amalga-
nation of the two parties for the Fall
campaign. 1t looks like a last despe-
rate scheme to save the bacon of some
ambitious political bosses who are
nearing the peaceful twilight of their
little day.
There would be written on every
fusion ballot in large letters-"Politi-
cal Deal" Now deal" is word that
has been synonymous with conspiracy
in the dictionary of the Palmers, the
McCormicks and the Pinchots. 1t is
an amusing thought to imagine them
as fusion candidates wearing the tag
conspicuously on their coat lapels.
Finn and Palmer could not get away
with it and furthermore both Palmer
and Mccormick would hear from the
White House if they attempted it.
They are the Presidents personal Sc
1ections for the sacrifice in Pennsyl-
vania. They got his support through
the light of being sure winners. The
White House endorsement of this pair
has cost the administration and Pres
ident Wilson personally thousands of
friends and admirers in Pennsylvania,
and 1t is not likely that either one
out of the way of the avalanche that
is sure to overwhelm Democracy in
this State next Fall.
Furthermore, such a move would
be the signal unquestionably for an
uprising on the part of the "Old
Guard" who would then come to the
fore as the real Democratic party. ItI
must be remembered that Henry
Budd, Democratic aspirant for the
senatorship, received at the primaries
70,252 votes to Palmer's 1892, and
his friends are still smarting under
their defeat, accomplished, they say,
by the lavish use of money and fed
eral patronage. This would be quite
a fine little start for him as a candi-
date in November.
On the face of it the fusion plan
would appear to be stupid and i'm
practical.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-07-14
POLITICAL SIDELICHTS

Judging from Palmer's remarks
the Democratic scheme for fusion was
thrown into the waste basket and the
Democrats ares now opposed to fusion.
Wisconsin Democrats split over
the Wilson Administration at the con-
Vention yesterday.
The attack of Poindexter, the
Progressive Senator, on Warburg does
not look much like a getting together
OF Progressives and Democrats.
-Chamj Clark's old campaign man.
ager, Senator Reed. seems to be MAX
ing most of the trouble for Wilson'S
nominees.
State Chairman Morris declara-
ton that the Democratic party is unit
ed and harmonious sounds as though
he was wearing psychologist spec
tacles these days.
York county Democrats are fight
ing over vacancy in a poor direc-
torship.
-Philadelphians appear to be CIV
ing more attention to ward division
than to politics these DAYS.
State Chairman Morris will meet
prospective postmasters at State head
quarters this week
The Prohibition State organiza-
ton appears to be getting busy with
its speakers
John O'Donnell and Patrick r.
Howley, Ryan men, have been ap-
pointed real estate assessors in Phila-
delphia to take the minority places.
Now watch the reorganization ma
chine declare that they should resign.
1t looks as though the Democrats
were trying to beat the Bull Moosers
to it in denying any fusion deals.
Charles B. Lynch, Jr., one of the
men Morris is trying to throw off the
Philadelphia city committee, was yes
terday appointed to place by City
Solicitor Ryan at Philadelphia.
Palmer er-McCormick leagues ap-
pear to be smooth way of ignoring
the men chosen by the people, but
not in favor with bosses.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-07-14
A NEW SET OF HANDS

On your watch or clock, or the re-
placing of a broken spring, and the
repairing and cleaning of watches or
clocks is specially with us. Expert
watchmakers with training and expert
ence in repairing and adjusting the
finest of railroad time pieces qualities
us to solicit your repair work with
confidence of pleasing you. w r. At
kinson, 14231s North Third street.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-07-14

It's too bad that just when the ad-
ministration Senators at Washington
and the Wilson apologists among the
newspapers are doing their level best
to defend the administration policies
and becloud the facts. the daily dis
patches should tell the story of Demo-
cratic splits, as in Wisconsin and
Louisiana, and give prominence to the
increasing price of meats to the Civil
War level, when the Democratic party
had promised a reduction of the cost
of living. Nor do headlines like this
in to-day's papers aid the prosperity
boom" of the frightened Wilson man
ayers: 1910 Men Thrown Idle-Depres-
sion Closes Two Reading Stove Fac
tories"