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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-09-25
IN MEMORIAM

Notre Dame de Rheims September. 1914.
Men raised thee with loving hands;
Thy stones, more precious than gems,
They wrought for Light to the Lands;
Now the Light of all Lands condemns
Hun and Vandal and Goth
Who serve the Lords OF the Night,
Who have turned the coat OF their troth
And darkened Our Lady of Light
Men made thee beautiful, yea
Their hearts flowed out as they wrought;
Thou vast builded not for day,
For an age thou vast builded not:
And they carved thy portals and towers
For peer and brugher and clown,
That the Book OF Our Lsdys Hours
Might endure tho the sun burned down.
BY the grace of thy ruined Rose
By the sullled strength of thy Towers,
Thou shalt triumph, Lady! Thy foes
Shall cover as the hunted covers.
Thou hast not fallen In vain
Fallen? Thou canst not fall:
They shall crave thy pity in pain.
Who flung thee hate for a pail
Lee Wilson Dodd. In New York Tribune.
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Conservation of Living Resources

CAFETY first last and all the time is the
~ slogan that civilization in America has
adopted after series of accidents and TRACE
dies which attracted public attention to the
value of prevention. Medical practice for
many years has concerned itself less with
the cure than with avoiding the necessity
of cure In government the voters are be-
ginning to realize that radical experimental
ton must stand the test of safety before it
is indorsed. The complexity of our indus
trial life the multitudinous endeavors of
humanity in this modern age, the daily in
PRODUCTION of new machinery, of new modes
of conveyance, etc, render it imperative
that extraordinary care be exercised in the
conservation of the greatest of our resources,
namely the population. In safety first"
there Is social uplift and social progress. AS
a mere matter of economies the campaign
justifies itself
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-09-25
Feed America First.
From Life,

from Lie.
Almost any little boy or girl can understand
why we might have 10 pay more for some
things which are imported into this country
from war districts. That is a matter which
We have no control We have to pay what is
asked or go without.
But can any little boy girl tell why
should pay more for things which are exported?
Alas and alack! the old-fashiOned excuse that
they who own the stuff are anxious to be richer
no longer sufices. We are trying to get away
from the idea that we nation of cannibas
feeding on each other. And there Is such
simple way to fix it. possibly a number OF
simple ways. National governments are granted
the control over their exports and imports How
easy it would be to pass law saying that no
goods should be exported so long as the price
here at home is higher than before the war
rumors began. How would that be?
We have always rather liked the slogan, See
America First" Isn't Feed America First
quite as euphonious and much more mportant9
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-09-25

the fundamentals OF the mob spirit from i.
to day is quite imperceptible. Ssy
We can take a lesson from these leads.
even If we do not aspire to wealth. Ma
of us harbor an indescribable aversion "
meeting new people, mixing with folks u,to 70
are likely to be quite strange and fore,nvv
in their ideas and activities. Sometir.ssaa
we think they know so much less than ons
selves that they are quite apt to prove IN
Interestingly dull u'-
The minute you begin to mix with ~.
mob, high, medium and low, then you beeiee s4e
TO know human nature. Continue to Keen
your acquaintanceships within limiteS
circle on the strength of their social sfanS
ing, education or possessions and you WIN
never know it. "iu
Doubtless, the merchant with the autoroo
bile wheel had mixed with the mob him
self, for certainly he knew it's habits. Az
knowing its habits is knowing human naturo
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WHERE DOES THE FUNGUS GROW?

To the Editor Of the EUenin0 Ledger:
Sir-Nay / congratulate you upon the engross.
ing news conveyed through the columns OF
your paper, both in the news and editorial
columns? Very interesting was recent edi-
torial telling of the discovery of an Intoxicating
mushroom and it's description by Doctor Verrall,
of Yale. An Intoxicating mushroom must surely
prove popular delicacy, especially it, as the
dscoverers assert, it has no bad after-efects
l have been interested-purely from scen-
tific standpoint, | assure you-in the use Of
alcoholic stmulants from ancient to our times
"The Banquet" of Plato is chiefly fascinating
in that it gives vivid picture of the bibuous
habits of philosophers. Socrates is described
passing his cup until morning Jack London
and viii Lexington Comfort are the most recent
confesors along this line. 1t indeed seems all
the struggles against the redoubtable John have
Bacchus may be over. But you tell me
where the delectable inebriating fungus Ue
secured? r. D.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-09-25
VIEWS OF READERS
ON TIMELY TOPICS
Contributions That Reflect Public Onin.
ion on Subjects Important to Citv.
State and Nation.
Jenind LcdOer.

To the Editor Of the Evenino Ledger:
Sir-The story of the death of the for,,..
Duma representative, Dszheparidze which or
peared in your paper today, prompts mo to s
dear Jews" | was in Kshineff on that fatos,i
day of April 1908, which has gone down int
history as the day of the Kishneff massacre
on that day, the holy day of Easter some n
Jews were killed, several hundred wounded ava
their homes destroyed by the gangs of boos
lums, who, with orders from above" and with
the active aid and encouragement of the nolica
and soldery, exacted a horrible revenge unon
the people whose ancestors they contended
were responsible for the crucifixion of the CO..
penter of Nazareth. 1t is not necessary for m.
to narrate the story of that massacre and tho
series of others that followed They are too
well known and still live in the Mortified imag.
ination of the civilized world. The Beiliss trial
too. is still alive in the mind of the newsnanor
reading public
| only want to emphasize the fact that th.
Cars promise is but delusion and n snaro
He can no more grant respite from the indig
mites and persecution suffered by his Jewish
subjects than the protest of an individual can
stop the slaughter on the Continent of Eurnno
The Car never has acted and never can ACT
upon his own initiative. He is surrounded and
ruled entirely by clique of bureaucrats who
the real rulers of Russia. There is but ono
hope for the Jews of Russia and the people of
Russia in general, and this is that history viii
repeat itself, that the present war like the
Russo Japanese War; will be followed by an
other revolution in Russia, which will wine off
forever from the face of the earth the most
hated and most criminal dynasty of the
Romanoffs, and that the victory OF democracy
in Europe will have its effect upon Russia in
firing that great empire with the true spirit of
culture and modernism. Then and then alone
will the Jews and the people of Russia breathe
a sigh of relief from the thraldom of ten CEN
turies JOSEPH SHAPLEN
Philadelphia, September "a, 1914
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in A SPIRIT OF HUMOR
Recnrniiinn.

Instead of the usual notice to staff" the
city editor has caused to be placarded in the
news room notice to gentlemen of the
staff"
Ye district, street and rewrite men who
yearn for the days of old,
When the saucy scribe with his diatribe was
a bit of a common scold:
Ha' done wi score for the newer game and
your fodder of pork and beans,
Hereafter ye are gentlemen who batter the
type machines
Hereafter ye are journalsts-what though
ye long in vain
For flowing tie and hunk OF pie and the
price of a dainty cane:
What though ye dream of the olden way
and the time mighty pen,
Give ear to the City Editor-he calls ye
gentlemen.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-09-25
The Sure Struggle Inward

THE history of all society is the history Of
i strife and struggle. out Of the conflicts
Of the ages has risen the modern structure
of civilization, An along the path of history,
through savagery, barIsrsm, feudasm and
our modern industrial state, humanity has
made its way toward the realization Of an
ideal which i'm its sum total can be charac-
terized as social happiness. The attainment
of this ideal may be far off as yet, but
sure as the earth revolves around the sun
does humanity march forward toward its
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-09-25

In spite of the high prices reported ese%aS'e. as "
pork is at a discount in Washington just NV
New York World.
1t is unlikely that any news derived II itVi n
German sources would change the curren, currn,s,. 4.
opinion in the United States as TO ,rias Tespo4
bility for the present war.-New 1oFh I'"
Speaking of governmental economy, t,ses r
would be a good time also TO shut OH lIe to ok.
of the frankng privileges and t. reduce tmttins
pense of the Congressional Record py Su'r MS.
out the unspoken speeches.-PlttsDuieN
patch.
The President has the emphatic suPp"oipst
the country in his vigorous protest t out
fake" peace stories which have been sTI I5 he
from the National Capital Ihey 60 tbs
nothing less than seriously mischlevouS he
cause of peace and, moreover, must positton
United States in a false and ridiculous P'
Brooklyn Standard Union.
There Is need for the prompt opehlhs need
Federal Reserve Bank system. There 70 Setates
for a system of finance in the unlted 81 AZ
that will stabilize and localize the ma EIaI in
fairs of the Union-one that VIII De hhttroI N
its character and free from ilicit t,o!laancIers
the slightest degree by the bankers i., coun-
and promoters Of Europe, or OF our '"1
try.-Cincinnati Enquirer. a.,
The President Is to be recommended ~ tVrssult
refusal TO change his Mexican policy as a and
of the reported quarrel between Car'an-s
Villa SO far as the United states lS h ths
these men represent the same idea - itsbr %
principle OF self-rule. If they must "SSsrt Is
order to settle the personal issue tHe tns The
to be regretted. but the principle felns'1
same.-NeW York World.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-09-25
UNIVERSITY OPPORTUNITIES IN U. S.

To tho Editor Of the EreninD Ledger:
Sir-In an essay on university and research
work. written by Hamilton Wright Mabie before
the slogan of Educated in America" was
created by war conditions, the author has this
paragraph:
Opportunities for advanced work in the
American universities are now so ample that
study in foreign institutions, while not without
its advantages, is no longer necessity, and the
number of Americans in German universities
has greatly fallen off,"
The whole essay is a substantiation, by means
of concrete facts, of this assertion.
f. R. G.
Trenton, N. j., September %. 1911.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-09-25
Disillusioned

In Denver they tell OF a young Brtisher
who will some day inherit title, and who
not long ago married daughter of sup
posedly wealthy man of that town. month
or so after the marriage the father-in-law
took the husband aside.
II am ruined!" he exclaimed. practically
every cent is gone."
The Briton good loser however, for
he gave vent 10 a long, low whistle, and ex-
claimed with little laugh
by George Then | did marry for love,
after all."-Harper's Magazine.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-09-25
Divorce in Kansas

From the Kansas city Times.
one divorce proctor representing society and
a raft of divorce lawyers making fees out OF
that particular branch of the administration
OF justice,
Is it any wonder that our divorce business is
in a very bad state of health and hygiene?
Two or three or half dozen proctors attached
to the divorce courts could handle all the busi-
ness AT far less cost to the clients" and TO
society The business would be much reduced
in volume-no one would be interested in pro-
noting IL; no cOllusiye suits would dare be
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-09-25
WHAT HAS PENRosE DONE?


To Tie Editor Of Tie Evening Ledger:
Sir-I am glad you are devoting the editorial
columns of the Evening Ledger to a campaign
against the election of Penrose.
You know the saying, 1T is the man behind
.hc gun that counts applied to war. 1t is a
much more pertinent saying when applied 10
peace and the development of a real prosperity
The prosperity of a country cannot be meas
ured by X great material and financial de,
Velopment. 1t can only be measured really ana
permanently by the character, development ana
opportunity of the great mass of Its people
4. II. TOMLlNSON'
SMarthmnre Pa. Septomber Is. 1917.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-09-25
A NON.pARTIsAN VIEWPOINT

To the Editor Of the Erenn0 Ledger: g.
Sir-Knowng the powerful influence @ 'ns
LEDGER wields in Pennsylvania. write TO you y.
in all sincerity and ask whether you DO no, s
think that this influence should he dlIee'eI
against the reelection of Senator Penrose' :
do not write from a partisan standpoint nav
ing only In view the welfare of my ota'''
Won't you give this your consideration!
SAMUEL KUNKEL'
HARRISBURG Pa September 10, 1914
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-09-25
Killing Off the Race

From the Christian Herald. . +t,.
From the Christian era till the present u'g Ln".
as statists and historians tell us, there "aI 80
been less than 30 warless years up 10 -. W.
middle OF the 18th century 1t was roughly cou, -,
puted that nearly 7OO0,OOO.OOO men had ., aleu -
battle since the beginning OF recorded hsaO,.t hs1t
a number equal TO almost five times the pFes'H'
estimated population of the globe.
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He Lived in Boston.

There was young fellow named Murray,
Who knew not the meaning of hurry;
And when he chided
He laughed and derided
His friends and declared
Really, If l were addicted to the reprehen-
sble habit of using slang, I should find 1t
incumbent upon me, at this particular juno
ture of circumstances, to enunciate the
lightly ironic current expression, Il should
WORRY"
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-09-25
Great Guns!

Brander Matthews says the war will slim
uIate literature Possibly somebody will
write a book on the six best shelters DE
troit Free Press.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-09-25
Vegetable Gardens

You should by all means have an Italian
garden"
"Al right" said Mr.. Nurich And well
plant some spaghetti"-Kansas City Journal
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-09-25
ernment. they were known as the Fifth

ernment. They were known as the Fifth
Monarchists.
The phrase "gossamer days" was orig
mated in the legend that one Saturday even
ing a maiden was spinning fine thread IN
the moonlight. The moonlight drew her
up into the sky and now she may be seen
spinning in the moon. When "gossamer
days" set in, in the early autumn, the white
threads she spins may be seen floating
about in the air.
Jack Ketch, the English hangman, was
first mentioned in 1878. 1t was he who be
headed Lord william Russell and later the
Duke of Monmouth. His successors have
been popularity known by his name.
The quotation HE that runs may read Is
not from Habakkuk, who says That he
may run who readeth it, but from William
Cowper who wrote:
But truth on which depends our main con-
cern,
That 'tis our shame and misery to learn,
Shines side by side of every path we tread
With such lustre he that runs may read"
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Not a Bet Heroic

why don't you see that your daughters
learn to cook"
Why should I? They wouldn't cook for
me- Let their husbands supply the material
for them to practice on."-Louisville Courier
Journal
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SYNONYMOUS

Tommy Figgjam-Paw, doesn't reverse"
mean TO back?
Paw Figgiam-Surely.
Tommy Figgjam-Then what did Uncle
Bill mean when he said that he busted up
in business because he had too many re-
verses and not enough backing?-Chcago
Post
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The Friendly Isles Will STAY So.

King George II of the Tonga or Friendly
Islands has just heard about the war in
Europe. 1t may be ended by the time he
reads through the files of the last two
months to learn what it's all about.
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Naturally.

81 say, old man, you're looking rath
drawn"
Yes, I've just had tooth pulled
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Unlimited Opportunity.
publisher was in despair

The publisher was in despair.
Whats wrong?" asked the eminent
author.
MY best advance notice man has left me.
He's writing letters for breach of promise
plaintiffs
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-09-25

Does your wife bathe? The girls on the
beach make some pretty pictures"
MY wife has no time to join in making
pictures She and some others have formed
a board of sorship."-Pittsburgh Post.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-09-25

About 1645 a strange sect made its appear
ance in England, maintaining that the mill
lennium was at hand and that the Saviour
would descend from Heaven and erect the
fifth universal kingdom. Its followers went
so far as to elect Jesus King Of London.
Cromwell dispersed them IN 1858 but in 1861
occurred another uprising which was sup
pressed with loss OF life. They conspired to
murder the Protector and usurp the GoV-
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-09-25

The President still insists that the Govern
ment should buy a merchant mssine Of its
own. The war in Europe had nothing to do
with this scheme except to give its sup
Porters an excuse for bringing It forward
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rec?
Architecturally Speaking
Censored

Shooting at the towers of ancient cathe-
drals is something to which not to aspire.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-09-25
CURIOSITY SHOP

Written on a hackman's slate in Kennebec
Me- was the following: Joe, send hacks
and wagons in time to carry the following
TO the Bar Harbor train: One wife. two
trunks, four valises, three grips, two bun
dies. one Me"
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Not Yet Decimated

Przmysl still holds out, only three of her
consonants having been put out of commits
sion by the Russian guns.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-09-25

That New Jersey iron and steel manufac-
turer who went into bankruptcy ION account
of war" has probably not been dealing in tho
styles of those metals popular Just now
abroad
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-09-25
New Duties and Old Troubles.

DOCTOR CHALMERS sermon topic, The
- Expulsve Power OF a New Affection" !"
finds illustration in more than one instance.
Where is the trouble in Ireland? 1t has been
expelled by new passion for the British
Empire. A new duty compels us to forget
an old grievance. The greater determines the
lesser. Miss Christobel Pankhurst attracted
attention few days since fury" Today
she is training raw recruits for the firing line.
The sutfragettes have lost their political
madness for the time, and rallying
around the colors OF the empire. which, after
all they love. Such is the eXpulsve power
Of A new affection" such the influence of
new duty breaking through prejudice, ami
mostly and bitterness, as the sun breaks
through the clouds. The big perils and poss-
blities unite, the little issues divide. one
way to overcome an old trouble is to engage
in a new task. Then does a man take up his
bed and walk. This truth is amply illus
trated in the experiences of the everyday
life and especially in the European war,
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-09-25

italy can tread on Philadelphia's toes as
much as she wants to and she will find them
to be the best toes that her soldiers ever
pnre.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-09-25

Wherever there is calamity there is the
strength Of Mr., Penrose He is at his best
in the community with the most men out
Of work
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-09-25

If the poet Vilon had been a Virginian his
plant would have run, Where is the mint
Of yesteFyear?"
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U'C OI F7Co0
This war. indeed.
Is mixed up so
The more you read
The less you know.
Kansas City Journal
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-09-25

yTTtTEN Alfred G. Vanderbilt was stu
w dent at Yale he had in Vanderbilt dor
mitory suite of rooms the furnishings Of
which cost $4,000 A few doors away roomed
a student who was working his way through
the university and who poor as the
provcrbal church mouse. The latter was
no respecter of mere wealth, and had
habit of borrowing anything he needed, from
a razor to dress suit.
Hey. Vanderbilt" he shouted one evening
while dressing lend me the scissors with
which you trim your cuffs, will you, old
man2"
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Yes, Where :?

Where, where is Whitcomb Riley now?
His rhymes we seldom see.
Remember how he used to write
Step-ladder
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The "atrocity' howlers may learn some
day that human kindness is about the same
under any helmet
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Doctor Brumbaugh has been teaching
morality too long for any bosses to teach
him to forget 1t.
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"Watchful Waiting'-Grand Spectacular
Revival Of Last Seasons Tremendous Sue
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The Turk has talked himself into a return
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The Democratic party in the United States
is Woodrow Wilson.
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NATIONAL POINT OF VIEW

In spite of the high prices reported else~n9'e
pork is at discount in Washington just NV
New York World.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-09-25

1t is unlikely that any news derived HOn ~
German sources would change the cuIrenr TEND.
opinion in the United States as 70 ,rISias TTspS"
bity for the present war.-New 1oFh lt''N
The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1914-07-02
Ohio Oranges New Hall.

Wintersville grange. In Jefferson
county. o.. has dedicated its new ball.
Hon. A. p. Sandles OF the Ohio agri.
cultural commission was present and
made an address. At the close OF the
afternoon session the hat was passed
around, and collection OF an even
500 was received aud turned over TO
the hall building committee. The new
hall is one story frame building. is
thlrty-tw0 feet wide and sixty feet
long. with a large tile block basement
kitchen under the entire building, suit
able for holding large grange ban
quets. The han was built upon the
general subscription plan and cos;
when complete $500. which includes
seating with 300 chairs. nine dining
room tables. dishes aud linen II Is
lighted and heated with natural gas
This hall Is one OF The largest and
best equipped for grange work in JEFF
ferson county. WintersviIe grange
was organized In 1905 with fifty char
ter members. and by the able work OF
all It's members II has kept on steadily
until now II has over $50
members In good standing.