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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-09-29

expressing to Charles Sumner his sorrow
over the possibility Of war between England
and America and his intention to retire from
public life II such an event should come to
pass, was filled with a sense of brotherhood
which left no room for personal or national
narrowness. The creators of art, against
bitter calumny, have worked in the service
of mankind. Art for arts sake" does not
produce great art
our good will toward our fellowmen is
public spirit. To search out the effects of
our acts as citizens and voters is to prove
ourselves public spirited Good will is made
efficient by knowledge. ut is home-bred
right, f1resde privilege said Daniel Web
ster, "to canvass the merits of measures and
public men" But it is more than Il right.
more even than privilege. 1t is a duty.
We are all OF us responsible for the acts
Of our public men
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ON SOME HUMAN BONES
Found on Headland in the Bay of Panama.l

Vague Mystery hangs on all these desert places;
The fear which hath no name hath wrought
a spell;
Strength, courage, wrath-have been, and left
no traces;
They came, and fed; but whittier? Who can
tell?
We know but that they were-that once. in days
When ocean was a bar twiXt man and man.
Stout spirits wandered oer these capes ana
bays
And perished where these river waters ran
aIethnks they should have built some mighty
tomb
Whose granite might endure the century s
rain.
Cold winter, and the sharp night winds that
boom
Like spirits in their purgatorial pain.
The left It's said, their proud unbured bones
To whiteu on this unacknowledged shore;
Yet naughu beside the rocks and worn sea-
Now s'GlI9s answer 70 the great Paciao's roar.
mountain stands where Agamemnon died.
And Cheops hath derived eternal fame
Because he made his tomb place of pride,
And there the dead Metella earned name.
But theso-tney vanished as the lgnngs die,
Their uischiefs over in the affrighted earth;
And no me knoWeth underneath the sky
What heroes perished here, nor whence their
birth.
-BsSsa WaSsg REsctsr. IN the Springfield RsD'usslGga
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A David Ready for Goliath

CENAToR PENRoSE is a big mana very
= Goliath. There II no doubt about that,
nnd his o,Sness is not only physical He is
big with the potentially and actually OF
political snd economic evil.
There was e time when Penrsylvanias
voice rang through she nation. There was a
time when the Republican party in this state
s.anding for economic truth and political
decency, possessed at its head, In every
crisis. an honored leader who could interpret
properly and effectually the beliefs and the
teachings OF that party. That condition does
not exist today.
saddled by a master who is riding for
fall who in blind selfshness is squirting
madly and ruthlessly toward the stone wall
of disaster, the party has one obvious means
of escape
Let it take the bit in its teeth. Let it win
its head Let it kick and buck-and bolt If
need be-until the Goliath Is thrown. Then
the course will be free and open.
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.Bntton. Button

w HOLESALE grocers think that house
w wives have raised the price OF sugar.
Housewives, or those with enough ready
money to buy a barrel a a time, blame it on
the grocers. They saw the price rising ana
they laid in a supply. So nobody gets the
blame for what seems an unjustfable situa-
tion. 1t is the old story Of no responsibility.
Blame it on those venerable scapesoats.
Supply and Demand. and let somebody
pocket the profit. The ultimate consumer
must look with envy on the citizens of those
'war-ridden" countries where the food sup
ply is under responsible if official thumb.
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Every City Has a -Big So,

IN Ten years according TO a report ys the
i United States Census Bureau, the u Imber
OF municipality owned public utility plants
in this country has increased 81 per cent As
yet the movement for municipal ownership
has scarcely touched Transportation rhou-a
some cities have built aai own sub .vavs
which are operated oy private companies.
The only question is how best 20 sJUselvo
the public welfare. The weaknesses OF pr.-
Tate management o, pIolic utilities are Drfn-
cipally two: disregard OF general social needs
and an undue lnsisteHce on private rrafr
The first ~ these - apt 20 take the form Of
ar obstructioRist policy and often leads 20
municipal ownership, The establishment of
which is usually determined by local c0ndf-
tiOns. II IS probably more important to a
city 10 possess the power Of owning and
operating its transit system than To exerc .sa
st: FOR It il we'll that private aompanle-
should be reminded occasionally of the fact
that this power can be exercised by the rao-
pie whom they are driven 20 IL bv tho con-
vction that public and social interests are
not being properly respected.
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Verbal Atrocities

TNHERE are atrocities and atrocities One
i Of them is name like IIluck 1--WE prefer
the common or barnyard spelling). Half
dozen more are the ''sweezes" such a cog
nomen draws from the professional humor-
lists. y man has a right TO any name he
likes, or any his sreat-srea grandparents
chose for him. But that privilege entails
duties. He should not thrust himself reck-
lessly into public view if the result is going
10 be such remarks as "kluck counts his
chickens before they're hatched," or allu-
sions to his blttlc-cry as Lay on," The
only alternative to changing his name or re-
firing from the army is to copyright the
word and prosecute any breach Of the peace,
such as General Klucll's right wing
smashed The horrors of war are bad
enough without verbal carnage.
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THE IDEALIST

Can you think on your feet? BY which
| do not necessarily mean, Can Won
stand up and make a speech, without
previous notification, on any given subject
Those that excel in the art of quickly think
ing out situation and putting it in a sys-
tematic order of presentation do not always
come within that class we term "extempora-
neous speakers"
A man can handle situation with marked
skill and precision, can convince those within
sight or hearing of the wisdom of his atti-
tude without saying word.
one day a high official of the police de-
partment came tearing down one of our prin-
cipal streets in a carriage AT an intersectipR
street MS horse grew unruly. Just at the
szsznspt a trolley car passed and in the con-
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License of Diplomatic Guests

COURTESY has generally been regarded
v as one of the essential qualities Of
diplomacy. Despite the strained relations Of
European governments Immediately preced-
ing the outbreak of hostilities diplomatic
communications among them We're marked
by almost excessive courtesy, which was
doubtless merely formal The American and
broader idea is that the first and highest
Junction of diplomacy is the promotion Of
genuine goodwill among nations. This con-
ception was wonderfully eXempHfed in the
work OF John Hay
II seems that Ambassador Rustem Bey
Baron Won Schoen and Sir Lionel Garden
are not diplomatic in any true sense. Sir
Lionel is not an accredited representative to
this country, but he does bear the Official
credentials Of the British Government. Il
has been suggested that President Wilson
should not press his demand on Great Britain
for an explanation Of the Garden criri-
Cism, now that the Mexican pot is boiling
over again, Sir Lionel predicted. That
prediction, however, is not what President
wilson and the American people object 10.
From Genet TO Garden, Won Schoen and
Rustem Bey, there have been too many so-
Cusable mistake of talking In the United
States as If American liberty meant license.
even for guests. The three latest oncnd-
ers should be taught that governmental and
popular tolerance does not extend IN insult
or TO the attempt 10 stir up rrajudlces.
enmities and hatreds
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fusion the motorman attempted 10 49,.
car out of the horses course IL sn bis
wrong, for instead he caused the car i,safed
the carriage a substantial Jolt 70 Give
According to precedent, the policep,oI
the corner. under the patronage of bsIh On
perior in the carriage, should have fortLs s su-
hurled strong verbal hot-shot at tbo sslWlth
man. But he did nothing of the sort nolor.
He took the horse by the bridle turnoa :,
head around i'm the right direction and disu ~. ns
ed him off. Then he waved to the rriotots.srt- Sssrt-
to proceed down the street. And he hsdS'na9 had up
spoken a word. ~ MT
You see the point. Thinking on your t,...
is really a matter of keeping your basss dset
the midst of excitement. 1t isn't sno, N
words that are essential. 1t is the tbo,'vsSSen
and actions that a calm, cool poise prSsas pror,ats
in yOIl f'PW
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Our Position is Impregnable.

Say that our jokes are shy Of point
And our verse is lame and halt;
Spot, if you will, and show the world
Our every slip and fault
Rant at our stuff in sheer disgust
Fen to the smallest wheeze;
Poke it as full of gaping holes
AS an ancient sweitzer cheese.
Roast, if you must, but play us fair
And herald it near and far,
From the ce-bound shores of the Arctic Sea
To the glades of Zanzibar;
That we, alone of a horde of bards,
Hold not a line in store,
Nor have we written a single line
OF verse about the war.
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Getting After the Coal Embargoes

NTEW laws and regulations have not put
IN an end to railroad rebates and dis
ordinations. Even college economist can
testify to new ways of turning old tricks.
BY pro-rating spur-lines and half a dozen
other means and methods all the essential
practices of rebating are still possible. The
Interstate Commerce Commission thinks it
has spotted a new ruse. 1t is the so-caled
embargo" placed by coal-carrying railroads
on the fuel. Informal complaint alleges
that they have been used to discriminate
against certain shippers.
Though it is evident that coal-owning
roads might be sorely tempted to such action,
the truth of the matter is not yet at issue
The commission simply considers the charge
serious enough to justify some action, and
it has summoned representatives of all the
roads affected to appear before it in Jan
uary. If it finds evidence to support the
complaints, nobody will applaud its enter
prise more loudly than the consumer who
will then be burning that steadily advanc-
ing fuel.
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FerociOus Pacificists

From the Springfield Republican.
1t is strange to find some of the iiercest ad.
vocates of fight ito the finish" among the
advocates of peace, yet the reason is simple
enough. When an English exponent of pacific.
ism is found demanding that Germany must
be crushed and its Emperor perhaps, sent 10
st. Helena, what seems like vindctiveness he
explains as really due to a desire for peace.
This must be the last war To make sure Of
it Europe must destroy militarsm. and to de-
stroy militarsm it is necessary to destroy Ger
many. 1t is simple logic, as simple as that Of
Torquemada, and those who apply 1t do not
think of themselves as inhuman, or recognize
their likeness to the feroclous Cato the censor
with his Carthaginem esse delendam.
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(Cumposed by Celesta Leona Goble, of Pepper
town. lnd.)
A year ago, on Labor Day, (Sept. Z, 1879,
there came an awful whaCk,
\ thousand fiery thunderbOlts nearly SCooted
the barn off the track;
The lightning a board off sent, part of it in
the sorghum patch
If the lightning burned the barn down, we
would have to dig and scratch.
The lightning hit the top and ran to the
ground;
l think that barn must be sound.
Mrs. Goble and her daughter were the only
ones at home
The absent one had just started in the good
old road to roam;
The absent one had gone to see her old
friend, Blanche Medd,
When she heard that loud clap of thunder
and wondered if the lightning struck my
old cat Ted.
The Lord kept the barn from burning
He kept the barn from burning because He
loves us so.
From the Harrison News.
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Democrats Tear "Scrap of Paper"

TROM Washington comes the interesting
II news that the Alexander BILL which pro-
poses Government controlled steamship
line, is not having clear sailing and that the
war tax bill is likely TO run aground IN
the Senate. Democratic opposition to the
shipping bill rises largely from recognition of
the fact that a s3O,OOo,OOO appropriation on
top of a 100000 900 emergency tax is not
likely to improve the partys chances at the
polls
Two years from now will come the real
Judging of the Wilson Administration.
Political soothsayers have declared that the
European war is a great blessing to the
Democratic party, inasmuch as it will OBJ
scure the effects of tariff, currency and
other legislation. But there is already one
very clear Issue which need not be confused
by conditions arising out of the war, and
that is the question of extravaganza and
wastefulness in appropriattng and spending
public money.
The Democratic platform called for drastic
economy. The pledges made at Baltimore
have not been kept.
Is a political platform a contract or "a
mere scrap of paper?
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-09-29

LNtRE-and rotten hose again! 1t is be-
: coming an old story. sckening mad
denins story; fire that destroys property and
rotten hose that bursts. Today, tomorrow
or some other time, it may be more than
property tina. will be destroyed; It may be
human life Attention has been called often
enough to the fact that a large part of the
hose owned by the city is unfit for use
Something must be done Immediately. not
by and by. Councils has a way of financing
land grabs with the public money. Couldn't
It finance a little public safety?
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ANY PROFIT IN "BUYINC.A.BA1En

To the Editor Of the Evonino Ledger:
, Sir-T wish some Southern reader OF IN,
EVENING LEDGER would be good enough to ey
plain how the purchaser of bale of cotton /.
going to profit, or even how he is going /,
"broak even?" l hear it said that he can kesr
the cotton in storage and sell it at an advanc,
next year But by that time, it seems to mo
another new crop is going TO drive tb1
price down instead of up. Am 1 right? And h
l am right why not call the "buy-a-bale,
movement legitimate charity and not trv I,
make people think it is a profitable philsn.
thropy' II. l.. HUSKINs
Philadelphia, September 2S, 1914
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PASSED BY THE CENSOR

EoR ways thatsare dark and tricks that
II are vain, the Pennsylvania machine poll
tician is the veriest tyro compared to his
Texan prototype, if reports from Delhi in the
Lone Star state be correct According to
advices received in a letter, Mayor Walker,
who is a candidate for reelection, addressed
a town meeting the other evening in the
Op'ry House. At the end of an eloquent and
lengthy speech, he played his trump card by
passing interstate cigars to the men. Here
be it explained that interstate cigars are
of the kind which, when smoked in Texas,
are smelled as far North as West virginia,
the wind holding right, they say at sea.
To double cap the climax, as 1t were, he
passed chocolate candy to the women in the
audience Then the trouble began.
'Deys pepper in dis candy" howled a
woman. Just then one of the gift cigars ex-
ploded with the dull, sickening thud" of
which cub reporters write so eloduently.
Then another popped, and soon there was
fusilladc akin to the battle on the Marine.
The Mayor, aghast at first, spotted an enemy
In the audience and seized him as perpetrator
Of the outrage The constable sought to ar
rest the conspirator, and soon there was as
nice and pleasant q fight as ever enlivened
a political meeting. The letter vouchsafing
all this information winds up:
There is much indignation here"
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VIEWS OF READERS
ON TIMELY TOPICS
Contributions That Reflect Public On;r
ion on Subjects Important to Citv
State and Nation.
Editor Of The Euentnp Lcdner.

To the Editor of the EUenin1 Ledger.
Sr-As newcomer to Philadelphia, v.,,
to express my satisfaction with novel featn,,
OF your city, its one-way street car lines 4,
first they may be little hard to learn. thopss
the straight streets and right angled corps,,
greatly simplify the matter. But the sinenlss
value Of your arrangement of routes seems :,
be the way way 1t facilitates traffic. The ca.
move much more swiftly and with far lsss
danger to pedestrians and vehicles than in an
American city / know of. In this respeot :,
least, Philadelphia is neither SLOW" ms
dead" L. p
Philadelphia, September %.
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DINNS, who relates the incident in his
ID recollections, declared that he never was
able to learn the identity of his mysterious
letter writer, whom he believed to have been
the same person who called upon President
Madison that evening in the winter of 1915.
In view of how the news of the peace of
Client was first given to the American pub
lie through the agency of Philadelphia
newspaper Dame Rumor may not be so
faithless a jade. While it is a good plan to
be wary of tales of a surprising character,
it does not necessarily follow that all
mors are untrue, no matter how eXtraordi-
nary they may appear Big news does not
always come first from the fountain head.
GRANVILLE
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SARCASTIC IN REGARD TO ,PENRosR

To the Editor of the ErcninO Ledger:
Sir-I am heart and soul for Beies PeHross
Senator Penrose is a gentleman sui generis H,
is a professional ofce-seeker, and a profes.
sional is always more competent than an ANA.
teur
You abuse the Senator for adhering to the
machine. But this is the day of machinery
Why, in some States they have voting ma
chimes. | understand that in this State the
machine has done the voting whenever neces-
sary, but this may not be true after all.
THEOPHRASTUS CLUTTERBUCK.
PhiladelRhia, September 25. 1911
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JUSTICE FOR VILLA

To the Editor Of the EvonnD Ledger:
Sir-I am glad to see the entire fairness with
which you treat Francisco Villa. Other paper,
label him every occasion with all possible
derivatives of thief" and "bandit." while you
inquire only into the sincerity with which h.
backs what seem excellent principles. Certainly
Mexico will never be at peace so long as an
officer of the army is in the saddle. Villa
knows that. and he is trying to eliminate all
soldiers, himself as much as CarranZa. In such
a work he should have the sympathy of every
American. G. K. H.
Camden, September 2S 1914
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A NEW COLLEGE DECREE FOR PENRosE

To the Editor Of the EUcninJ Ledger:
Sir-The colleges give honorary degrees each
spring If few more men like Penrose HIar.
ward, 80 develop his failings, their alma mates
will have to join in administering the sort
OF dishonorary degrees that the State of Penn.
sylvania is going to bestow on Penrose and his
crowd this fall. ALBERT WELT.
Philadelphia. September %. 1914.
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Easy Money

Three minor political workers whose party
lost an election found it necessary to do
something to keep the wolf away and APP
piled to the boss. He got them work as con-
ductors on the local trolley line.
Some weeks later one of the three hap
pened into the car barn after his run and
found his two pals dancing about in high
glee.
"Whassa matter?" he asked.
"Tomorrows payday" chorused his friends
"Payday-holy smoke do we get that, too?"
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Banning a Bane

From the Augusta CGa.) Chronicle.
School is on in the big cities of the East. And
war" in school has been tabooed. In Phila'
dalphIa the acting superintendent of the schools,
Doctor Brumbaugh. being busy on the hustings,
has banned all war discussions, all geographical
studies pertaining TO the battle lines and all
narratives of thrilling experiences had BY
teachers before their flight as refugees. This
is sound procedure
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Good viii is Public Spirit

OCHILLER had tor the whole human race
~ kindly feeling, which might almost be
called intense The history Of mauship
IS not devoid Of names which stand for ut
tSTly unselhsh devotion 10 the public good
One OF them is that Of sir Robert Peel, who
hroke with his party in 1886 ana declared his
sense OF unhtness for .he task Of forming
= 'ssft eeEtrs' organisation, John Bright
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Colonel Blood, a dlsreputable and cast-off
member of Cromwelrs party, seized the Duke
of Ormond's coach on December g. 1870 and
carried the Duke to Tyburn to hang him.
The Duke escaped through the aid of friends.
On May 9 of the following year Blood tried
to steal the crown jewels from the Tower.
For neither of these offenses was he pun
ished.
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PlaYinn Both Ends

From the SprInghell Union.
The krupps have contributed tOO0O5O marks
10 tho Red Cross fund, but their contributions
I'm cannon ana the ammunition that provide
work for the Red Cross run up into the hll'
dreds of millions of marks.
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Hokus-I never knew such a wet blanket
as Flubdub.
Pokus-Thats right. If that fellow should
jump from the frying pan into the fire he
would put the fire out.-Life.
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OF Course

Barney Phelan Father Healey's servant
celebrated for his ready wit. One day.
while he serving a dinner, one of the
guests said to him: Barney, why is my
ankle placed between my calf and my foot?"
"BegOrra, | dunno replied Barney; unless
it is to keep your calf from eatin' your corn"
Boston Transcript
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The Higher Explanation

Father, what is this higher criticism 1
read much about?"
1T is a method by which man convinces
himself of the falsty of something which
he knows is not true"
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Model Malthusianism

From the New York world.
How Malthus would have delighted in tai
war, chcery Old soul!
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There is more than one "City of Palaces'-
Rome, which was converted from city of
brick huts into city of palaces" by
Agrppa; modern Paris; Calcutta, with it's
splendid European residences. Edinburgh is
sometimes given the title.
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Yes, Who?

We do not like McGraw to win,
And yet his losing makes us sigh;
Just think of what We'll miss this year
In albi?
When Comics demons get to work
And one by one the foemen die,
Who'll take the place of Mathewson
To tell us why?
And Matty's famous yearly song,
This year for Boston who shall sing,
To tell the pitchers how to foil
f. Bakers swing?
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A Natural Query

The Flrt-Oh dear. what a lot of people
will be unhappy when | get married!
The Other-Why, how many are you
MISUNDERSTANDING
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v hats in a Name

than Grant B. Peacock, the Princeton golfer
who beat Champion Ouimet up and l TO
play at Green wiCh.-New York Sun.