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

Music is not a problem for Philadelphia;
the city has its orchestra and its operate
visitors. And music is not a problem for
Keokuk But in between lie cities like st.
Louis which appreciate and desire good
music, but which find it very difficult to
obtain. Just now st. Louis is waging a
broad, popular campaign to save its Sym
phony Orchestra.
The orchestra found itself this year facing
a deficit of about $4,000, which even the gifts
of rich supporters did not meet. The appeal
for popular subscription to cover this went
out from all quarters The weekly Mirror, of
st. Louis wrote Enthusiastically:
The Symphony Society must not be
allowed to go to the wall, after 30 years of
splendid esthetic ministration to our spirits,
for need of $4,000. Man does not live by
bread alone. Music feeds the senses and the
soul. Music makes for social harmony. The
Symphony is the cty's best card as an in
tellectua and artistic centre. Let all get
together and pitch in to keep the symphony
going. 1t is worth everybodys While. To
save the Sundays Pops alone would warrant
a sacrifice by every believer in education and
culture. And here's chance to democratize
music. to make it a venture of and by as
well as for the people. If every one whose in
stinct is to indorse this suggestion were to
subscribe from 81 to $5 the st. Louis Choral
Symphony season for 1914 would be mag
nifcentIy assured Obey that impulse now"
Letters came to the newspapers in great
numbers commencing the orchestra ana
pledging support. Nothing in months had
evoked so many mssivcs ITO the editor The
emphasis mainly on the esthetic ana
democratic sides of the natter.
The Post-Dispatch, however, found an as
pect to touch the business man; Apart from
the question Of culture, there Is great
utilitarian purpose Served by the Symphony
Orchestra-a advertisement of the city.
"A great musical organization on tour as
ours has been, is q travelling salesman ana,
as Oliver Richards has aptly pointed out it
is the only municipal institution which can
be sent out drumming St Louis cannot
send out its parks or bouleYardS or archi-
tectural beauties on the road'-and il has not
even a worlds champion ball team!
Last year the orchestra on tour did much
to counteract in the country the bad impress
sion disseminated by our unfinished free
bridge. We can't afford this year an un-
finished free orchestra abandoned, on top OF
The unfinished free bridge-for wan. of $4,000.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-10-10
Man Whom Penrose Championed

TTTILLIAAI LORIMER, stripped Of his toga
w by vote Of the Senate, is under iudict-
ment for misapplication Of bank funds, lend
ing money on unsecured notes and 10 officers
OF the bank, and for wildcat hnancler.ng.
The news is important 10 Pennsylvanians
because Lorimer is the man for whom
Penrose stood sponsor in Washington and
whose cause he championed in the face Of
the nation.
Some men arc loved for the enemies they
make and others are despised for the friends
they have. sympathy is an index to charac-
ter, and the things for which a man will fight
are a revelation Of the standards ne holds.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-10-10

but they do not give city Its character. That
arises from It's citizenship.
Psychologists have dealt with the matter from
various points Of view. seeking, In one way
and another some reason to account for the
radical differences O. observe. There is little
reason. for examr' ahy Indianapolis should
differ from Cincinnati A navigable river at
Cincinnntrs door is not sufficient to account for
the variation. II 1t Is, then Cincinnati should
not materially differ from St Louis. Yet 1t
does. Geographical situation has, to be sure, its
effect, and would reasonably expect TO
observe q difference between st. Paul and At
lanta, but what is to account for the difference
between st. Paul and Minneapolis?
on the whole, it is not at all unlikely that the
Rev. Mr.. Wareing is wrong. What he says
about cities, generally speaking. we would not
say oven about New York Light, shallow,
frivolous as 1t is in sense, big, complex,
heterogeneous, 1t has It's own individuality as
city its own communal spirit, its own civic
character. Indeed, for most of our larger cities
Il would be impossible to devise some dlstinc-
tive and interpretative symbol, each differing
from the other-to give INF this form graphic
substance to municipal spirit
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-10-10

ment and development of the American mer-
chant marine the navigation laws must be
so revised as to enable our ship owners to
compete on equal terms with the carriers of
other nations.
As to the proposal for Government-owned
ships, it's adoption would mean, among sew
eral evils, a competition which would dis
courage private capital. Congress should
recognize the political ineXpedency of
s3Oo0o,oOO appropriation for such an expert
ment on top of its unpopular levy of $780,
900 in war taxes and decide after all to
give a real impetus to the upbuilding of the
merchant marine by liberalizlng and rectify-
ing the present hampering and antiquated
navigatiou laws
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-10-10

Now he whose talk of battle tires
Whose shop and business chatter wearles'
Before a rush of words retires
And all the talk is of the series.
And men who like to talk of clothes,
And men who like to talk of eating,
Must all make place for him who Knows
Or says he does, who'll get the beating
In car, on sidewalk and in trolley
The scalping visitors are talkinF;
See how they buldo2e, coax and jolly
To help along their ticket hawking.
Who tries to start a conversation
On other subjects finds no tenant
In head of friend or near relation,
Who're wondering who will get the pennant
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-10-10
Ianan Reawakening China

CHINA once more IS rubbing It's eyes over
y the astounding prestige and progress Of
Japan. When Nippon defeated Russia the
Chinese first realized the value n western
civilization. Under Yuan Shi Kai the new
republic has been slowly slipping back into
its age-long somnolence.
Now that Japan Is taking place os parity
with Great Britain, France and Russia in
the world wide struggle, the Chinese patriots
are wondering why their great land with four
hundred million people cannot have an equal
standing.
This jealousy viii mean more schools and
colleges, more newspapers and telephones
more railroads and trolleys more liberty and
justice for China AS a by product Of the
war It may well be by far tho most important
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-10-10

the firm is now leisurey looking over plans for
a residence, garage included.
The sudden overturn Of the sugar market IA
working other wonders as well, Those
Louisiana sugar producers who were disnnan-
Ting their great mills and talking of going into
the livestock industry will reap harvest on
their 1914 crop. The beet sugar producers of
the West will profit tremendously through the
sudden removal Of all competition with the
Austrians the French and the Russians The
tariff will still give them a measure Of protec-
ton until May l. 1916. The 1-cent a pound
tariff covers both the cane and the beet sugars
With England buying sugars in the United
States and many sugar-producing countries
gcing into American markets and Cuban and
West Indian centres for large quantities, this
would appear to be a poor time for the Amer
lean planter to dismantle his mills.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-10-10
JEALOUSY

She leaned from out her easement wide,
And watched below the human tide
Flow, as the night drew nigh.
Bitter the thoughts her fancy span.
And black the thread that through them ran
As the hurried feet swept by:
For, like a poisonous seed wide-sown,
Her base lmaginings had grown
And DER her heart had crept
Till on the one who loved her best
Who strove to hold that love hard-pressed,
Her ccaseless watch she kept.
Days gray with brooding and mistrust
Nights fraught with fears, wild and unjust
Slowly Loves courage waned;
And toward the dreary length of years to
come
The one who loved her once gazed. fearless.
dumb
Duty alone remained.
Love could not stay alone when Faith had
gone
But long his feet her threshold fingered on
Lifes solace She had lost. and nothing
gained.
Ethel II. Wolf, in New York Times.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-10-10
SUFFRAGE WINNING THE WORLD

To the Editor Of the EuennD Ledger:
Sir-Peasc let me congratulate and thank the
EVENING LEDGER for It's clear, strong editorial
woman suffrage in the October ISSUE
L congratulate you because your unequvocal
stand for great reform, which is sweeping
the entire world, shows that your evening
paper is progressive in policy and has the
courage and foresight that augur success
thank you for befriending a cause that is
working not only to secure a majority vote
the side of justice, but also to educate our
whole people to the true meaning of democracy.
CAROLINE KATZENSTEIN
Executive Secretary, Equal Franchise Society
of Philadelphia.
Philadelphia, October s.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-10-10
Hope for the Merchant Marine

GINCE the new registry law went into
- effect SO foreign vessels have been added
70 the American merchant marine. This is
hopeful sign for the future Of shipping inter-
ssts 10 this country, and what is now ur-
gently needed Is a definite governmental
policy BY which the advantage already
gained can be kept and increased.
So Tar 50 good. but Tor the Te-estabIIsh-
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-10-10
Our Mexican Prisoners

From the New York World.
An incident Of the Mexican war almost for
gotten Is tho Internment at Fort Wingate n
NJ, Of a Federal army Of several thousand men
and women which nearly year ago sought
refuge on our soil when closely pursued by the
Constituencies. We have held the whole
crowd prisoners, charging their board bin
10 the new Government which Is soon 10 be
inaugurate. AS showing how both sexes
participate in Mexican wars, II Is noteworthy
that since this refugee camp was established
IN New Mexico 3i7 children have been born Is
there . future President among themt
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-10-10
NEW MEN IN NEW TIMES

To the Editor Of the EUeninO Ledger:
Sir-AIay I congratulate you upon the stand
taken recently in your columns the subject
Of suffrage for women? It looks as though
this new daily would be up to date, and a
leader of thought in these times which
demand new manners and men,"
MARY e. MUMFORD.
Philadelphia, October g.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-10-10
Germs


Germs in your foods and the air you breathe,
Germs in your mouth and your nose:
Germs on your lips, i'm your whiskers, too,
In families classes and rows;
Germs in the candy you give to your girl
Germs on the stamps that you lick,
Eat work sleep without killing them off,
And you are bound to he sick,
So do the doctors, in perfect accord,
Make all humanity squirm,
Till everyone wonders but dares not to ask
If there are germs in a germ.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-10-10
HELPS TAXPAYERS TO DISCOVER

To the Editor of the Evening Ledger:
Sr--Your articles the Hands OF Esau"
are well written and very interesting. More
than that, they reveal to the taxpayer the true
nature of the Organization, so that he learns
more about it's methods. some of which he
hardly thought about before. I hope you will
print the articles in pamphlet form when the
series is completed. j. D. TURNBUII.
Philadelphia, October s.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-10-10
CONINIENDs STAND ON SUFFRAGE

To the Editor Of the Euoning Ledger:
Str-May | express to you the qualification
that we feel in learning that your paper has
taken a stand for the enfranchisement OF
women, With best wishes,
EMILY SARGENT LEWIS,
President Equal Franchise Society Of Phila-
delpha.
Philadelphia, October s.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-10-10
American Atrocities

From the New York Times.
TLe mutilating, manning and killing OF chill
dren, while not put in the category of atrocities
continues in the streets of this city. The Ma
uonal Highways Protective Society reports that
in the month just closed 35 children were slain
by automobiles, against eight by wagons and
by surface cars-45 In all-bringing up the
total for the year i'm Greater New York to 123
children killed by motor cars out of 2I5 that met
death in the streets from all causes.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-10-10

Indications that the upper Classmen at the
Johns Hopkins University have resolved 10 do
away with hazing at Homewood suggest a
definite improvement in the tone of the student
body and promise to place the dignity of the
Institution upon plane commensurate with its
Importance The community will heartily in
dorse the movement understood TO have orig
mated among the students and will hope that
there will be no recessions from its laudabe
puruose.-Baltimore Star.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-10-10
Why Railroads PAY Dividend.

4 Kansas railway, in a burst of undue
generosity which is expected to lead il into
Insolvency, announces that owing to a grain
dealers convention in Kansas city, the road
will sell round trip tickets for double the
ppe-uav fare"
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-10-10
Imaginary PoIyandrY

I'm awfully worried since you told me t,
put piece Of wedding cake under my pillow
to dream of my future husband"
"Why?"
II dreamt Of the State FencibIes"
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-10-10

Based upon figures furnished by the inter-
national press agents, Lie Laill Baizes, the
noted Chinese calculator, estimates that the
German army. consisting originally of 3,20O
600 men. has lost 4,367992 men, and that the
Allies having 4OO7137 originally have lost
6,O29 $751; ,654 in dead. wounded and non
existent.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-10-10
Continue TO PRAY

opI,r,1E,N.-, 10 T7res{dart yT-iIsor,,s roc,,rst
[ u. 80 r.r-...,.. ,,..,., ,,,,r,7 80 .t..
Alm'Ih'E ana N"-r "'''eI '"7' SUNDAY on
Den"l '' Fe"'e'
IFayef' IN us oeePsS' ana F''7l sense 'S
not i"rIls'' "1'' pTFI"r i't'''' '"'S j" Spe.'"'
places ana "I teI"''''" """IS' iF"''F is "
II IS the soul of man seeking harmony with
the will of God
Therefore, if prayer were proper last week
It IS appropriate this week and always.
Where the object sought is so d.snterested
viii. every one. everywhere and at all times
may pray in pure sincerity.
"NIora things are wrought by prayer than
this world dreams Of"
"
What could you expect on a Friday
vy-rar fz 9. enacuIator nat sna.rra,ora
ASK T.Br. ,rar-lr
The spcruarors have nothing on tho
Braves as scalpers.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-10-10
FOR WOMAN SUFFRAGE

To the Editor Of the Euenfn1 Ledger:
Sir-Good for the EVENING LEDGER and its
definite stand in favor of woman suffrage
Philadelphia, October 8. FIR
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-10-10

Great Britain has taken reasonable atti-
tude on the matter Of American shipping des-
tined for neutral ports, and has given assur-
aucc that there will be no Interference with
vessels flying our flag that carry conditional
contrabaud TO Holland or other countries not
al wur.-ChicagO Evening Post
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-10-10
An Eve 10 the Future

In olden days they had a sign reading:
I'VE who are about TO die salute YOU"
Nowadays the sgn-in Lowville, ~ "
reads: Asbestos Burial Casket Company"
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-10-10
NATIONAL POINT OF VIEW

There is n pronounced difference between
total military debility and Il top-heavy mill
tarlsm which crashes over into a war with its
own weight, and this is just the time for the
American people TO tincture ideals with common
gensc.-New York Evening sun.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-10-10
Caught

81 was looking at some $50 hats today, salu
his wife. "and brought this one home to see
what you think of it."
"Frightful" said her husband -
That's what [ thought. This is cheap
S5 hat let me have S15"
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-10-10
The Lay Of the Glurmand

There are some who believe that table
manners were invented by one who never
felt the panEs of hunger.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-10-10
Fixing the Blame

What are you crying about, Jennie"
"My-my-teeth stepped on my tongue,
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-10-10
Descriptive

How did you feel when the Whirlwind
caught YOU up and carried you away"
Like a fly in glass of soda water
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-10-10
On Her Feet

Mabel-"Harold says he doesn't like the
new dance floor"
Cirayce-"No, guess he found it leathery."
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-10-10
1t Is Quite Likely

There is little doubt that these bullets fired
across the frontier by reckless Mexican sol
diers were made in America"
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-10-10
CURIOSITY SHOP

Both England and Prussia have been desig-
mated as "Aaron's Serpent" ok viii 1O-12),
the former because she absorbed India and
the latter because she did likewise with the
small German States
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-10-10
Convincing Proof

German culture has restrained itself after
all. Teutonic war poets haven't committed
one war poem that we know Of, at least not
in English,
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-10-10
Slow in Emigrating

The safety First" movement has not yet
lines in Europe.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-10-10
Revised Version

Know thyself was all very well in days
gone by; today you've got 10 know theirs
better than yourself to make good.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-10-10

He's rather old fashioned; positively won't
trust a bank with his money
mo. he never has enough to start an ac-
count"
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-10-10

TNOR many years engineers and inventors
i puzzled their collective brains over the
question Of casting high temperature metals.
They had cast iron and lead and zinc but
bronze and steel had resisted their efforts,
try as they would. \ Belgian inventor did
succeed in evolving a furnace which would
cast bronze but the process had no COM
merctal value, being too costly
At about this time Samuel P. Wetherin.
Jra Of this city, was graduated and entered
the world of business with his father and
namosake. Then he decided to invent the
furnace TO cast bronze and steel. For months
he worked for months he failed. Asso-
ciatcd with him was a practical engineer,
one who had had vast experience. No one
had much faith in the proposition; everybody
predicted failure.
But youhg Wetherin did not know enough
to quit He kept on, night and day and week
and month. one day he announced that he
had perfected the electrical casting furnace.
And now the steel companies are forced to
pay royalty to the persistent young Philadel-
phian, who just wouldn't stop trying
TT WAS just before the war. The British
1 miItants were smashing up things in gen
cral and shop windows in London in par
tcuar. Mrs Michael Morton, wife Of the
dramatist, happened 10 live i'm London at the
time, As she was packing her belongings,
prior to her departure for this country, she
needed the services of hammer. So she
went 20 an ironmongers, which is hard
ware" in American, and asked for the imple-
mcnt The head OF the store stammcred
negative,
I'm very -sO-sorry" he said "hut-we
haven't any ha-hammers at present"
Irrr
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-10-10
No Time To Stop

From the IhlCas0 Tribune
A little wholesale grocery house In a soutbor,
llhnol5 town bought i've carloads of sugar .
lew days before the war sent prices gos Tins,
ms SUGAR was bought AZ Z cents a pound and
Is being sold At S cents a pound. The head ~
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-10-10
Defined
The Reason .

PA, what's a statesman"
"a politician Of our party, my son.
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PASSED BY THE CENSOR

| DLUTARCH. who had as many lives" as a
| i Tipperary cat says in one of them
"A prating barber asked Archelaus how
/ he would like to be trimmed. He answered:
/ In silence"
Percy Standing, the actor, had his hair cut
! in silence last Saturday in the Hotel Lincoln,
Pittsburgh barber shop. 1t cost him 1915.
Standing is ultra English, deucedly so, ye
know He is also anti-German, tremendously
so. The barber is German; also ultra anti
English.
Standing sat himself down in the chair
and suggested that the man of shears trim
his hair slightly, especially in the back, as
his part required that he wear his hair
rather long. Then he uttered some remarks
about the Kaiser, the Kaisers army and the
German nation in general. Then he began
to read paper. After a while he found that
the barber had finished his task. He looked
at himself in the glass.
Revenge, Desperate Desmond in his most
ficndish moment had never perpertrated so
scurvy trick! For that German barber had
deliberately and with malice aforethought
clipped Standings back hair with horse
clipper in the style so much in vogue among
office boys
What followed, especially the verbal por-
tion. must be omitted. But that night
policeman called at the theatre to arrest
Standing for alleged high treason, lese
maiestaet, mayhem, incendiarism and frac-
ture of King Georges English. The case was
settled out of court for S9.75.
There isn't any moral worth chronicling
to this hair raising tale.
CTATIONED within square of City Hall
~ is a policeman who has certain political
views which he does not always care to have
made public.
safety first" he said. "NTy job wouldn't
be worth much if it became known how
feel on political matters" And then he told
this tale to illustrate his viewpoint: He
dreamed that he died and had gone to war"
where Satan was in full charge. The devil
was polite and sought to make him at home.
First, he took him into room, moderately
warm, along whose sides were hung various
spirits in human form.
This is the room where progressives are
kept the devil explained Then he took
him into n still warmer room, also occupied
by spirtuous-no. spiritual shapes
This is the Democratic storohouse." The
third room sizzling hot. In it were
numerous shapes. dancing about in the heat.
what are those" asked the dreaming
policeman.
They're Republicans who are going to
vote for Penrose because of the tariff" en-
planned the devil. They're too green to
burn"
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-10-10
in A SPIRIT OF HUMOR
The Real Strain

worlds Series games are terrible strain
on the nerves of the spectators, ana also OH
their pocketbooks.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-10-10

The several boards Of the Rockefeller Foun-
dation have done and are doing such scientific,
thorough and valuable work that the announce
meut by the foundation of an inquiry into in
dustrlal conditions, relations and problems
hardly fail 10 cause interest and lively eXpec-
tation of real benefit in thoughtful circles.
That the Rockefeller inquiry will be independ-
ont and efficient may be taken for granted
Chicago Tribune.