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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-10-13
THE IDEALIST

Jones'" said the manager OF a large manu-
featuring concern, please md out for me
when we sent that last shipment TO Boston,
In few minutes Jones returned and gave his
superior the required date.
Now, Jones'" the boss continued please
advise me what the shipment consisted Of"
And Jones tTotted away to return in a few
moments with the information.
Again the manager spoke to Jones. This
time he desired to know who receipted for
the shipment at it's destina ton. And again
Jones returned TO his records. But unex-
pectedly some one called him on the phone
AS he talked over the phone, the boss sat
and waited.
But he waited only till a spirit OF i'm
patience smots him Then he sent for Brown
Brown" he said, please md out for ma
who receipted for our last shipment 10 Bos-
ton" In moment Brown was back
1T was Teceipted for by John Doe, on the
2lst OF April and consisted Of 80 bales OF
material"
Thank you." said the boss
And yet some people wonder why Browns
salary Is double that OF Jones.
A few years ago a much needed word crspt
into the vocabulary Of business. The word
is service II means to deliver a little more
than you're paid for; TO inject the personal
element into every transaction You antic-
ipate-a personal prOcess-your customers
uneXpressed wants and strive hard 10 fulhll
them. Many gigantic hrms have trebled their
profits by this method and this spirit
Many disgruntled employs Is passing by
policy.
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America For Universal Peace

VIZ HEN men can move multitude OF their
w fsrowmen by direct appeal to eternal
principles there is warrant for the hope that
the snd they seek is possible OF realisation.
Not less phenomenal than the vast crowd at
the peace meating last night was the passion
ate logic of Secretary Bryan ana Mr.. strsus
The failure OF treaties In the past has been
due 10 their nature: they were chiefly armed
truces for economical OF political reasons, II
America can lead the way IN making treaties
a binding ethical obligation. there is no doubt
whatsoever that universal peace win ensue
Philadelphia may wsil bs proud OF the re-
markabis response given to that principle in
the Convention Hall last evening.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-10-13
HUM OF HUMAN CITIES

chicago is making plans to deal with the
problem or unemployment this winter. It
evidently does not care for a local repetition
OF the Tannenbaum incident in New York
one proposal called for the use of the police
stations as employment agencies. Another in
Vlted organized labor to recommend a cure.
A meeting of the Municipal Markets Com
MISSION mas also brought out some ideas on
Several city officials signifed readiness to
supply work for the unemployed in their de-
Partments. The president of the Board of
Education said that three school houses could
be built during the winter. The Commits
sioner of Public Works announced that he
was considering plan to keep all the men in
the street department employed soldly
through the winter,
Considerable objection arose over the sug-
gestion OF Prof. Graham Taylor that the city
should provide work for the UNEMPLOYED
much as England is now doing, by the carry
ing on or extensive public improvements. It
was argued that while tho city might be
willing TO care in this way for it's own needy
such extensive supplies of work would call
In from all over the United States the casual
laborers of other cities. Chicago could not
be expected to do every ones charitable work
Miss Amelia Sears, Director of Public We'll
fare, made the following points concerning
unemployment in a recent report:
Unemployment cannot be cured by re-
lief giving.
The necessity OF relief marks the break
down of the social order.
Disaster alone follows when an effort to
deal with the unemployed is confused
with the problem of caring for the de-
pendent group Of the city.
AS long as society permits some forms
OF industry to so organize as to create
homeless men, long must society pay
the bill by supporting them during periods
OF unemployment.
The Sine qua non" of the problem Is
that public work be provided for heads
OF families out Of employment
An editorial comment on this report runs.
These are the conclusions of a woman who
has had much experience and thought much
upon the subject of benevolence. OF course
the true way out OF the charity obligations Is
10 have none, by having such a social status
as will enable all TO earn their living. But
there is no way TO escape the msfortunes of
life, and stranded men are always found
along the shores Of human destiny. We
cannot let them starve, even II they don't
care II they do. The only ways out that
present themselves is the one suggested by
Miss Sears, in the last paragraph, and the
other is 20 choose a reliable agency like the
Associated Charities and let it do your giving
Tor
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Embattled Harvard

THEY are carrying the war into Harvard
/ instead OF Africa. Professor AIuenster-
burg long ago left psychology for the verbal
battlehelds OF the Fatherland President
EIiot's Five Foot" howitzer answered him.
while the splitting fire nr Professor Wiener's
Russian gatling gun spattered all over the
place. And now another Wiener, one Clar-
ence. has bequeathed $4,000 to the university
n only it will "cast out the Hun" in other
words fire Muensterburg. Harvsrl Is hold
Nng itself neutral all right, II only by the
mass OF divergent opinion it Is manutactur-
ing.
But perhaps it is an a mere russ of the
disgruntied professors 10 squeeze themselves
back into the baseball-ridden dispatches from
Boston.
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Heavens Germicide. Fresh Air

DIGIT living rather than medicine; fresh
IN air as the best Of gerrnicides. That Is
the new therapy Every day II becomes more
generally recognized in the medical profess
sion and more widely spread by the official
agents Of health,
Director Harte. Of the Department ot Pub
lie Health, contributes Philadelphia's mite 70
the propaganda with a weekly bulletin urging
fresh air as a preventive n all the ''colds" Of
winter. Not only tuberculosis falls before
that cheapest Of medicines. Grip, bronchitis
and pneumonia can all he STAYED or through
the winter months II only people viii sleep
and work with the windows open They can
have the health Of summertime II only they
win defy Jack Frost.
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Reserve Board Makes Good Start

ALL Of the Government directors Of the
"A twelve regional reserve banks have been
appointed and the organization of these in
stitutions should undoubtedly proceed rapid
ly Subscriptions to the capital OF tho new
banks scattered throughout the country will
be put through In the money market with
mniru OF friction. It looks as II the new
system would be in operation about the mid
die OF November and. with this accomplished,
the ability OF tho national banks to care for
future monetary developments will be ma
terially strengthened. The banks are al
ready feeling the benefit Of having the Fed
eral Reserve Board in existence, for while
it still can act only in an advisory capacity.
it's influence will be exercised toward pro-
ducing hearty cooperation among the null
titudinous institutions composing the
tional banking system When the new
scheme OF bank control has become a reality,
there will develop a nexibility IN our cur
renoy system which will make altogether un-
likely the creation OF stringent situation
similar TO that which has overwhelmed tho
country since Europes war began.
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THE BABBLINC FOOL

III man is unhappy, this must be his
own Iaulti for God made all men TO be
happy" While do not believe a word or
what Eptctetus says, it gives me the onnor-
tunity OF remarking that more sentimental
nonsense is written by men. and read bv
women, on happiness than any. other Subject
except love. Su''eSs
Happiness is incidental to life, and not an
eHu' service is more than Joy, and il Is better
20 Do usetul than happy. What business has
any man TO De happy in a world swept with
tne neil nres or misery and suffering? The
nappy man ought 10 be ashamed of himself
happiness Is IN inverse ratio to success The
suISsssLul are not happy. Discomfort is the
Price OF power. The head covered with a
crown Is nest Of worries The selfish are
more more OF less happy but a man who believes
~ ~ tns brotherhood OF man cannot be content
no negroes are the happiest people in Amer
va ne Negro minister who said If the
e'Snles OF the Lord should nail him nm In
a paIIel ne would shout halleluiah through
lhe Duhgho!e, is typical of that race
~ would be distinct shock 10 soma pso-
re should they have happiness thrust upon
ttleii hey announce their missries as a
he Zen TaSHles the fact that a new egg has
asSii osei iSlu. ihey carry their pains and aches
3'SaIu SI5 as lhlhgs 10 be proud Of
~ - may not expect every man TO be happy,
- ne uoes expect every man 10 be the
is ii,1@,sIsI OF ms own feelings. Laughter a not
sir,on With sorrow. The nightingale
st men a man sings in the storm he is
si,,o setter cling TO the paddles than
s'fs up strength Il more than happiuess.
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Old Home Week in Wilmington

THIS Is commencement week in the city OF
i Wilmington AS alumni returning to
alma mater TO renew old acquaintance and
early inspiration and bringing a tribute OF
praise and praiseworthy deeds. the sons OF
Delaware have come back home to renem-
bered thresholds TO pledge again their faith
tulness 70 friendship and their loyalty %
hesrthstone, city and State, Delaware has
good reason 10 be proud on this occasion,
proud OF the people she has kept with her
and proud OF those she has sent out to do
their work in other places. WIlmin toms
Old Home Weak is rightly time OF Joyous
reciprocity, and It's more serious meanings
extend not only into tho past but also into
tba future.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-10-13
VIEWS OF READERS
ON TIMELY TOPICS
Contributions That Reflect Public Opin-
ion on Subjects Important to City,
State and Nation.

TO hs Editor Of the Evening Ledger:
Sir-Single takers and Christian ministers are
engaged In the same work, with this difference
The single takers aim to destroy false economies
Mt the root while churches have accepted the
tree represented by our laws, including the
root and growth of false economics Their
theology having been long since conformed to
the evil at the root, and the education OF minis
ters based II, they can only hght the
unlearned the false economies that their edu.
cation has been based on. This is not a small
task. In the EVENING LEDGER OF october 10
Professor walter Rauchenbusch of the Roches-
ter Theological Seminary says What the
church needs is a sincere and scientific compre-
henslon of the social causes of sin and misery:
wish the Professor and the ministers would
read Henry Georges great masterpiece FROG
ress and Poverty" for the Christian minister
holds a very unenviable position as the llght
advances. They must either advocate Chris
tian economies or be held responsible by the
sufferers for tacitly sanctloning a robbery In
violation OF their religion by their silence
Again, as teachers of morals they labor ~
fearful disadvantage by even tacitly sane
toning the false economics In our laws py
which the rich can appropriate the earnings OF
labor 10 as great an extent as IL they owned
the laborers slaves, Christian economics are
simple Justice" applied to the production ana
distribution of wealth, and any violation of
them for private gain is much a violation
of the moral law as stealing. and In the last
analysis degrades those who practice and adVo-
cate II to the moral level of robbers. This Is
not pleasant truth, but the less true
for being unpleasant, or for the class II de-
grades being what is called the highest class
when measured by wealth, intelligence ana re-
fined manners. It is true many Of them are un-
conscious OF wrong, mistaking what is legal
for right, while legal rights assumed where
no primary right is possible, and becomes
system OF robbery which, however disguised.
will have the moral effect OF robbery both In
practice and example II is this robbery that
corrupts our politicians and drives organized
labor to strikes and violence because they lose
hope of legal justice, and makes the preaching
of Christianity to the sufferers appear a mock
cry because the suffering is the result of deny
ing Christian economics in our laws
T. w. KNAPP.
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Civilized Warfare at Antwerp

ANTWERP retreYes RheimS Whatever
"A the truth about the destruction Of the
7rench cathedral the latest bombardment is
rnest enough OF Germany's determination
wage a civilized war. According TO a dis
Iatch from Berlin, the attackers asked ana
received map showing the principal archi-
teetural features Of the city to enable artil-
lsry hre to be directed against spots less
sanotihed by centuries OF human art. Ger
many will not suffer by such enlightened
Inethods OF war.
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Unmasking Penroseism

FT1HE bulk of the voters of Pennsylvania are
L clean and straightforward men. Further
more, they are much more intelligent than
the Republican Organization is willing to
concede. The ballot is the precious symbol
and badge of free citizenship, and there are
few men willing to be cheated or robbed
OF their inalienable American rights.
Therefore, A Mitchell Palmer has rendered
a great service to the citizen body in unmask-
ing the plot of the Penrose conspirators. II
the thug and bandit methods, once so sue
cessful in certain wards of Philadelphia, are
Penrose will find that he is up against a
ts5oitttual IAege.
No more independent and sturdy race of
men exist In any country than the rural
voters Of this Commonwealth. They read,
they think, they support the public schools
and reverence their churches; they rear chill
dren OF virtle character; they earn COM
petent livelihood from farms that have been
brought to a pitch of productivity not sur
passed by the new and rich lands of the
West. and. above everything, these men re-
sent the domination of big or little bosses
as an impertinence
Every effort Of the Organiza ton to de-
moralize the election or 10 dehauch the cleo
torate will he met this year by fierce
resentment Pennsylvanians are thinking
clearly and feeling deeply on the liquor usur-
patton Of government. upon the laundering
building Of highways. upon the source and
distribution Of slush funds upon the moral
standards and records Of the men who are
seeking public office Pennsylvania cannot
be bought buncoed or hmdgeoned this year.
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Senator Owens Good Courage.

FTom The Kansas Cfty Star.
Senator owen places his greatest emphasis on
the assertion that Sullivan belongs to the group
OF bipartisan politicians who may be labeled
Democrats in place and Republicans in
another but who are special-interest men
everywhere. He fnds no difference between
Sullivan and Murphy, Democrats. and Fenross
and Sherman COT nnnois) Republicans,
Against the bipartlsanship or nonpartsanship
OF machine politicians Senator Owen would have
the people place a popular disregard OF party
labels in order TO advance tho right public prin-
eiples.
Senator owen has the moral courage and the
sense OF public duty surricient to night It
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-10-13
Women on Their Own Rights and Duties

| THE PENNSYLVANIA Federation Of Women,
i now opening its sessions in Pittsburgh, Is
face to face with vital problems In discuss
ing the enfranchisement of women and pro-
posed social legislation in Pennsylvania they
should not finch or compromise.
Moral questions can never be settled with
out the unerring application of women's
moral instincts. History is strewn thick
with the debris Of mems futile efforts Men
acknowledge that they have failed to control
or eliminate the ancient evils such as intem-
perance impurity and chronic poverty.
Probably they have failed chiefly through
applying economic methods to achieve
moral ends.
The question for the women OF the Fed
GRAFTON to settle is not whether the majority
Of women want to take a constructive part
In the government of their country, but
whether they ought to take such part.
Female suffrage in civilization as complex
as ours, involving directly the conditions of
living for multitudes of women, is n moral
imperative. To treat 1t on any other or
lower level is to palter with private con-
science and public duty.
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applicants, character is rated at 75 per cent
and security at 25. So there is none Of that
puttering over character which Miss Octavia
Hill condemned in misguided efforts to help
the poor Of London. This is no mollycod-
ding philanthropy. It will save many from
the Scylla and Charybds Of povertys
clutches on the one hand and the loan
sharks thievery on the other; and the en-
phasis will he placed where it is found in all
truly philanthropic work on personal char
acter. one is reminded Of the late Mr. Nor
gans remark that he regarded character as
ample security for the largest loans In
stead Of a nursery for weaklings, this new In
stitution is an example Of practical idealism.
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For the Good of the Community

TN THE benefits derived under the will Of
i the late Francis T. S. barley the whole
community shares. The Pennsylvania School
of Industrial Art receives substantial aid IN
its splendid work, which goes beyond help
fulness to individuals to what Is really civic
service; a number OF hospitals and other
public semi-public institutions are bene-
fcaries. Through bequests OF such spirit
and purpose and the far-reachng uses to
which they are put, the lives Of the givers
are prolonged in this world through the years
cut off by death.
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Athletics Continue Strategic Retreat

Athletics Continue Strategic Retreat
THE War Office at shibe Park gives out
L the following official account Of yester-
days engagement: The situation continues
much as heretofore General Macks forces
suocessfully maintain tho strategic retreat
inaugurated last Friday with the purpose OF
interesting the tickle fans OF Philadelphia
and stirring popular enthusiasm There Is
no change to report in the relative position
of the contending forces"
The following dispatch from the front has
been passed by the Philadelphia censor:
-, Mass, October -. The forces OF
General Mack were - (deleted by censor)
yesterday at - Park for the
time since the beginning Of hostilties Col
onel --- seemed unable to hold the enc
my's attack in check, while the Redskins
battery did --- execution. The situation
looks General Mack will never be
able to - remainder of dispatch deleted
by the censor.)"
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Patient. Tubeless Philadelphia

MI ANHATTAN starts work on two new
1Fl tunnels under the Hudson, while it
numbers Is tubes beneath it's two rivers But
what about Philadelphia and the Delaware?
The tremendous traffic toward Atlantic City
and across the Market street ferry goes on
in the antquated, crowded old ways of
dozen years ago. Watching the strides Of
New York can our pattence last forever?
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-10-13

TTTOODROW WILSON, Henry watterson
w and George Harvey have been friends
for good many years. Mr.. watterson is a
family connection Of the President. There was
an Intellectual friendship among these three.
They thought alike on most subjects, and, as
they say in Virginia, they spoke the Ian
suage of the tribe" little more than two
years ago there was a misunderstanding
among them; but. happily, It has passed
away 1t Is very interesting story and 1
shall tell 1t one of these days, perhaps, but
this is not the time nor the place 1t is
enough to know just now that the status
quo ante has been restored, and all the
people rejoice.
TWO Sundays ago Colonel George Harvey
L went to the White House on the invitation
of the President 1t was Peace Sunday
Next Sunday, the same being the second
Sunday after Harvey, MIR. watterson is ex-
pected at the White House on the invitation
of the President and the three friends will
go on as If nothing had happened This is
as it ought to be-
1t was Harvey who found" Woodrow
Wilson, that is to say picked him out as the
soundest presidential timber the Democrats
could find for the great struggle of 1912, and
early and late, week in and week out in his
journal OF Civilization" and in his monthly
magazine TO the Hibernians in Savannah and
the Scots in Charleston, to college and uni
versity teachers and students, to social and
political clubs, to the poor and the rich up
and down the land he preached Woodrow
Wilson with true missionary fervor and
wherever he went he gathered recruits to his
standard. Henry Watterson and at least one
of his other friends backed him for all they
were worth, and the predestinated came to
pass. It could not have been otherwise,
manifestly, and tho work Of the Jersey
schoolmaster. as he used to be called In the
last two years has proved the wisdom Of
Harvey's choice
ITO HIS many other gifts Mr.. watterson
L adds the gift OF prophecy and is, in fact,
far older and better prophet than his disciple
from Peacham, Vermont, now residing at
Joralama on the Jersey coast Mr.. Waiter
son Samuel Tilden's voice 3s years ago.
To his brilliant and picturesque work in 1884
Democratic success was largely due. His
handwriting was on all the platforms of the
party for a quarter of century, and in the
last supreme contest he kept the old fire
burning. Not long ago found in a mass of
papers a characteristic letter from Mr. Wat
terson. It was written at the Manhattan
Club, New York. June 80, 1910. It was not
written for publication, but, in view of the
present happy issue out OF unhappy cpl
sode, he will pardon me- am sure, a quota
ton which establishes the claim that he is
indeed prophet. Here 1t is:
George Harvey and I talked Of you con-
Eumingly; wept over your tendency to cynical
mirth: swore at your tendency to unpatri-
otic levity; and mourned your absence
Woodrow Wilson was with us. They are
going to nominate and elect him Governor of
New Jersey. Would that not subject him to
suspicion, II not put him In the running for
1912? Brace up" etc, etc
Does not that put Mr.. waterson among the
prophets?
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Character Is an Asset

TTlHE Remedial Loan Company opened it's
II ofices yesterday to do a philanthropio
work Modelled after a similar institution
Of the Russell sage Foundation ana directed
By responsible and publio-spirited citizens
q philadelphia. its principal purpose Is to
aid deserving families wh9 md themselves
Il financial straits. In the examination OF
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THANKS EVENING LEDGER

To the Editor Of the BVsniHO Ledger;
sir-At a recent meeting of our Church Coun-
ell l was instructed to express to you our
thanks for the splendid manner In which YOU
gave our church publicity at the time OF our
dedication, We are grateful to you,
WILLIAM ]. MILLER, Jr
Philadelphia, October Q.