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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-04-06

TNHE local option hearing at Harrisburg To-
l. day is of far greater Importance than Is
generally supposed.
on the one side is the Governor, supported
by an overwhelming public opinion and the
Endorsement of thousands of business men,
many of them directors of great commercial
enterprises which have put the bar sinister
on drinking men and adopted as definite
industrial policy the employment only OF
workmen who are habitually sober. Big bust
ness has combined with little business to out
law alcohol and both together call on the
state Government to confer upon the several
counties the right, in their turn, to Danish
lipuor If in their wisdom they see fit to do so.
on the other side are the organized liquor
interests with millions invested which have
set out to obstruct the will Of the people and
to deny them their inherent right to self
governments which seek to perpetuate the
liquor business, whether the people OF the
several counties wish ii or not, and endeaVor
by vicious, and probably corrupt, political al
lance to retain n general franchise through
out all the state, without regard to the evo-
luton in sentiment which has taken place
and without consideration of the new ideals
and purposes which animate a people about
to engage in a great industrial campaign, the
success of which depends wholly on the Ell
ficicncy of our producers.
The history of anti-liquor agitation in this
country indicates that where the liquor In
terests have thrown the issue into politics
and by one means or another sought to pre-
vent temperate and sober legislation, they
have finally succeeded in whipping public
sentiment into fury and have made Prohibi-
tionists of men ordinarily opposed to such
drastic procedure. To prevent local option is
to leave but one way i'm which counties op-
posed to liquor can protect themselves against
its sale and this is by State prohibition. To
prevent local option is to line the dry dis
trtcts UP against the wet districts to oppose
the overwhelming sentiment OF one commun-
itv to the contrary sentiment Of another and
eventually to have a general law which is
as repugnant to some sections of the State
as II is agreeable to others. That means
Commonwealths, brother against brother fa-
ther against son, and period of unreasoning
civic hate.
1t is therefore, to the interest of all, and
particularly of the liquor people, that a local
option law be enacted. 1t is safety valve.
It is the only guarantee the liquor people can
have against eventual contiscation of their
property, and the only guarantee the people
have against a deplorable period of whisky
politics.
The fight at Harrisburg, therefore, Is of far
more Importance than is generally supposed.
Indeed, the situation resolves itself into a
dilemma: Local option now or prohibition
later
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-04-06
SEEING THE DRAMA OF OTHER DAYS
The Revival of "Revvals in the American TheareAlStar
Managemens for "Al-Star" Casts-How the Continental
Paygoer Used to Commune With the Past
By KENNETH MACGOWAN

One or moro of the repertory theatres OF his
town-virtually the only theatres in all but
France-would be giving some classic or
some standard play every week. Shake
speare Moere, Ibsen, Strindberg-the play
goer of Berlin would find their plays shar-
ing the bill with the newest farce or
tragedy. The earlier plays of Hervieu did
not seem to a Partisan as the plays OF
Augustus Thomas might to an American
departed pieces, fit subject of revival. He
would be used to seeing them in the regular
repertory of the Comedie. Faust" has
never become, In our sense, a Classic; Max
Reinhardt and all the other artist-managers
of Germany are turning their attention to it
each season as piece that draws modestly
but steadily. and that rewards the less
monetary side of the theatre with endless
opportunities for new creative effort.
Old Plays VS.. Long Runs
There Is always a public for old plays
But it is not "long run" public. 1t can't
be expected to keep a Broadway theatre
open four or five months or to concentrate
its theatregoing tendencies into the two
weeks that the standard may be seen in
city like Philadelphia The many excellent
revivals of the Little Theatre this season
Strife" '"rhe Crisis" arms and the Man."
THE Piper" "The Servant In the House.
have done as we'll as they shot ID, because
the public was expected to throw itself of
sudden into the mood for "reminiscences and
to stay in that mental state for fortnight
more and no less.
This is not the way to take the theatre,
and it is not the way in which it is taken.
The desire for look at Shakespeare, Shaw
or Sardou may come upon us any week, any
day. A sanely organized theatre makes its
living as Continental theatres have done, by
recognizing that fact and taking advantage
of it. A general flexible repertory system
means popular new play, let us say three
nights week, less popular one two, q
couple of revivals for single performances
each week. Such an arrangement not only
gives the public choice and the players prac-
tice; 1t gives the management financial Sc
curity. The better paying pieces can be
given the larger number of performances,
while the less popular plays-revivals for in
stance, with small but reasonably depend
able PUBLICAN be given just as many
times. or as few. as there is patronage for
them.
That sort of an arrangement means a good
healthy distribution of ones amusement
When you realize that 1t was a fact over the
Continent before the great war; and will be
again when the war Is over, 1t makes you
little dissatisfied with even the promise Of
more revivals in America. Comprising your
Shakespeare and your Gilbert and Sullivan
into fortnight each, seeing seven or eight
then and none at all the rest of the season,
is a pretty poor excuse for an unmixed
blessing
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-04-06
The Fight at Havana

DoxING as a science is probably better
ID regulated and the sport sport bet
ter protected in Philadelphia than in any
other place In the world. The number of
rounds is limited to six, which places a
premium on science rather than on brute
force Incidentally, it is a deterrent of bru-
fality.
The contest at Havana, whether high
minded citizens approved of it or not, GER
fainly held the attention of the nation yes
ferday. People showed scarcely less interest
in Il than is usually exhibited in presi-
Dental election. An excellent result will be
the elimination of the expression white
hope" from the vocabulary Of the street for
the ahope" has bludgeoned into an aetuality.
Yet, Judged from the standards OF the pro-
fession In which he excelled for so long a
time, the eolored man gave in the ring at
Havana yesterday an exhibition of which
nSouaee. whatever the tint of its skim would
fsftsashamed
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-04-06
rhe HonefnI business OutIook

T7sVERY resume of business conditions that
i ! has been made since the first of the year
has shown that there is a slow but sure re-
e0xery The period of uncertainty has come
fe an end. Business men are confident that
mere Is no Immediate danger of more de-
.zezsine conditions. They are ready to take
zzs.an risks and hank on the future. When
sssr their ventures have proved successful
zhzs venture q little more with a slightly in
= sasad confidence; and they nnd that the
at consuming public, Of which they are
IasE Is buying with the same increasing con
Hazaea that they are showing. This Is made
manifest b. the interviews with representa-
- nhIfaaelphia business men in the EVEN-
.zpeeH yesterday and BY dispatches from
z{hsf industrial centres of the State.
4ha demand for hardware Is better than for
z4szsa mouths The hosiery Industry Is
Iz.ne aad fhe eply condition that Is Vor-
81 Trade IS the scarcity of dyeslnffs
Isss goods mills are nnaing tie demand
#aIF azaaaels sfIsk. Nlth khs promise e
nHas because = IHe snEna
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zaz az 'IH
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-04-06
A Premature Rumor About Austria

AUSTRIA may not be ready yet to negot-
"A ate for a separate peace, but she cannot
hold out much longer as things are going
now. The Russians wrested practically all OF
Galicia from her when they took Przemysl
and launched their troops against the Car
pathian passes. Now it is admitted from
Vienna that the Russians have taken one OF
the passes and are pressing hard on the
others. But it will not be necessary for them
to hold the whole Carpathian range before
they can begin their active operations around
Cracow The Carpathans will protect their
left wing as they sweep on toward the Ger
man frontier, When they take Cracow the
way into Austria and Hungary, as we'll as
into Germany, will be open,
Francis Joseph may hold out until the Rus
sian hordes begin to pour into the plains on
the south of the mountain barrier, but he
must yield then, unless all estimates of the
combined strength of the forces that can be
used to resist the Russian advance are incor-
rect. The report that Austria is suing for
peace seems to be premature rather than un-
founded.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-04-06
AN ISLAND

My dream Is of an island place
Which distant keep lonely,
A little island on whose face
The stars are watchers only
Those bright still stafs! they need not seem
Brighter stiller In my dream.
An island full OF hills and dells,
All rumpled and uneven
With green reeesses, sudden swells,
And odorous valleys driven;
So deep and straight that always there
The wind is Graded to soft air.
Hills running up TO heaven for light
Through woods that halfway ran
As IL the wild earth mimieked right
The wilder heart OF man;
Only II shall be greener lar
And gladdeF than hearts ever are.
The place is all aWave with trees
Lines, myFtles purple beaded
Aeaeias having drunk the lees
or the night-dew, faint-headed
And wan gray oliye-woods whiab z4@m
The attest foliage for dream-
Nor think each srehsd uss with sacA
Too closely iuterlacez
70 admit Of Yizlaa out Of reach
And bread Inaon-liahtad places
Upon whose suafd the antleHed deer
lay uew their double image clear
-HAlzaesth hassst 4se9a
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-04-06
THE SLANG OF TOMMY ATKINS

feet; Rory otMors." door" and RASPBERRY"
is slang for "heart."
When these people go out in the rain they
have an 'Isabeller' tumbrella) to protect them
in the field of wheat (streeD, and the man
will light his cherry ripe" (pipe) to warm his
"I suppose" (nose) He will devour a Joe
Savage" (cabbage) for his glorious sinner
(dlnner). and his favOrIte dish is "bonnets so
blue" Qrish stew, washed down with TEMP"
(back slang for pint OF "never fear" (beer)
Tommy Atkins is an inexhaustible nickname
maker. The Royal Artillery Band. for instance.
long ago received the appellatIon The Forty
Thieves" During the reign of William ~ the
band-eomPosed of 40 players-was in great de-
mand at the Royal Palace. 1t was usual for the
royal household to provide wax candles OF
superior kind as the illuminant, and after each
performance the partly used candles were ap-
propriatsd by the bandsmen to light up their
messrooms In barracks. The constant supply
OF new candles for the band performances
caused an order to be issued from the royal
household requesting the musicians not to re-
move the partly used candles The news OF this
interdiet spread, and the band was called The
Forty Thieves"
The Royal Scots Is the oldest regiment In the
British army, and It is from this circumstance
that It gained the name OF ''Pontius Pilates
Bedyguard" It seems that dispute arose be-
tween the Royal Scots and the Pleardy Regi-
ment 30 far back as 1857 concerning the antia-
ulty OF the two corps The Pleardy Regiment
claimed TO have been on duty on the night after
the cruelaxlon. 1hs Royal scots. ia reply, are
fsnsFasa fe have aala. sIIaa ws been On aals
es should noE haTe slept sf our paals7
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-04-06
PnILADELPHIA, TUESDAY, APRIL Q, 1918.
If you are prepared to receiUe him aChcn
Opportunity knocks at the door
he i0iH not pass yQu b.
The Greater Chamber of Commerce

MAYOR BLANKENBURG did not over
WI state the case when he said at the
Chamber of Commerce dinner last night
that the get-together movement was one of
the most significant things which had hap
pened in the 80 years of his residence here.
1t means that the business men have de-
cided to pull together The decision has not
been sudden or unprecedented. The
cessity for some great organization that
could adequately represent the business of
the city has been impressing itself upon the
minds of the people for several years This
campaign for enlarging the Chamber of
Commerce until it becomes such an organi-
zation is the result. No one man has done
It, although there have been individual
leaders who have distinguished themselves
by their unselfish devotion to the cause No
one man could do it. The time was ripe
and we are now reaping the harvest.
The campaign for membership, which be-
gins today. is already won, because the city
is ready for a forward move. And no one
should be surprised If, at the end of the
week. the new chamber has 10000 members
Instead of 5000, the goal fixed last week.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-04-06
APRIL 1, 1915.

Statement of the ownership, management, clrcu-
iation, etc. of the EVENING LEDGER, as of
April l. 1915
Published daily except Sunday at Philadelphia,
Pa, required by the act of August "a, 1912.
Executive Editor-P. II. Whaley. Philadelphia
Managing Edttor-H. NJ. Eaton, Philadelphia
General Business Mdnd0er-John c. Martin,
Philadelphia.
Pubusher-PUBLIC LEDGER COMPANY, Phil
adelpha.
otoner--PUBLIC LEDGER COMPANY.
Stockholders holding l per cent. more of
total amount of stock-Cyrus H. X. Curtis,
Philadelphia John Grbbel, Philadelphia.
Known bondholders mortgages and other Sc
curity holders holding / per cent. more of
total amount of bonds, mortgages or other
securties-Pennsyvania Company for Insur
ances on Lives and Granting Annuties. Trus-
tees for Estate of Anthony J. DreXcl de-
ceased Adolph S. Ochs, George w. Ochs.
Average number of copies of each issue of this
publication sold or distributed, through the
mails otherwise to paid subscribers during
the six months preceding the date of this
statement-Daily, 55,792.
Average net paid circulation March, 1916
70,947.
The circulation figures in this report are dbSo-
lutsIy net, and represent the actual number of
papers sold by the PUBLIC LEDGER COM
PANY for cash. All damaged, unsold. free
and returned copies have been deducted from
the totals given in this statement.
JOHN C. MARTIN,
General Business Manager.
sworn to and subscribed before me this 5th
day of April, 1915.
Lincoln Cartledge,
[sealI Notary Public.
(My commission expires January 25, 1879
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-04-06

DRITISH officers complain that the talk OF
d Tommy Atkins is sometimes incomprehena-
BILE. II Tommy happens to come from the White
chapel district in London, no wonder. his
language TO the unsophlstieated officer who
oyerhears 1t. is pure gibbersh. Much OF It Is
'rhymng slang" originally the special property
OF thieves and loafers
Some of the invented terms had an allegorical
intention, such as I'm ahoat," to represent the
word boat" and "sorrowful tale" to mean
'three months in jail" "Artful dodger' often
stood for 'lodger." But on the other hand.
elephants trunk" signihed drunk and 'bul-
locks horn" was the way the slangy one an
nounced his resolve ITO pawn" When this
language became popular 80 or 40 years ago in
the sluma 1t was further developed, paradoxi-
cally speaking, by curtailment. For instance.
any gentleman who drank not wisely but too
wen would be said to be elephants" and his
clothing, should ne have pawned 1t, would be
described as 'bullocked"
The bewllderment OF any British ofhcer over
hearing the conversation OF his men-thousands
of whom come from the poorest sections OF the
great eltles-can easily be understood. Battle
OF the Nile" stands for tile" which is Tom
mys word for hat" and 'hag unfurled" has
nothing whatever 70 DO with banners. but con-
veys the notion OF "a man of the world" There
used to be popular song among the ladies' and
gentlemen OF Whiteehapel and the New Cut,
Lambeth-a tough district IN South London
years ago-whleh started with the following;
As sat IN front os the Anna Maria
Warming ny plates of meat.
There came q knoek at the Rory OAore
That nade me saspheHFs beat
aaaz Maria S me- psatez e meat.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-04-06

with which people dispense in hard times,
nnd conditions better than for many months.
The value of the publication of such views
as these business men express lies In its
psychological effect When It is known that
big men are thinking and talking prosperity
little men take courage and follow the exam
pie of the leaders in their lines, When the
transportation men are reporting improve
ments Of the same kind as discovered by the
producers and distributors, there is no reason
for any one to be dlsheartened
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-04-06
TEMPTATION

Temptation is a fearful word. It indicates
the beginning of a possible series OF infinite
evils 1t Is the ringing of an alarm bell whose
melancholy sounds may reyeTberate through
eternity. Like the sudden sharp cry OF "FiTer
under our windows by night, 1t should rouse US
to instantaneous action and brace every muscle
to it's highest tenslon-Horace Mann.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-04-06

Probably the 10s Representatives who
voted 70 oveFrule the Governors veto OF the
Habsood newspaper advertising bin were not
- anzieas % see the money paid As they
xezs Is keep Il fhe coed sfaeea ef the home
7aIzz IS Ihs privilege s eshlef Ezscuz
SIS political zaaI
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-04-06
MOUNTED NEWsBOYs

From the American Boy
In Montevideo. the capital of Uruguay, many
of the newsboys who deliver the afternoon
papers are mounted on horseback This city
mas a population of 100000 and has extensive
suburbs, 1t is through these suburbs that the
newsboys ride.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-04-06

ly left the Bulgars impatient. They realize
that If the war ends with Macedonia wholly
in Greek and Serb hands there can then be
no thought of reConquering those regions
and they will he lost for all time. On the
other hand. there is growing desire in
Sofia to join the Allies against Turkey and
by moving south retake Adrianople and re-
occupy the province of Thrace to the Enos-
Media line, which was fixed as the Bulgaro-
Turk boundary at London in 1918 and sur
rendered to the Turk after the disasters of
the second Balkan War
The Allies now halted before the Oar
danelles, would manifesty welcome the as
sistance of tho veteran Bulgar armies before
Bulair and at the Chatalja. Could Bulgaria
and Greece come to terms the Greek army
would also be released; now it is held to
watch the Bulgar. Rumania, too freed from
the danger of Bulgar attack, If luck turned
against her in Pennsylvania, could take her
place in the allied battle line. Italy, anxious
beyond all else that the Balkan Alliance be
restored and Austro- German influence south
of the Danube destroyed, would hail with de-
light any accommodation of the existing
difficulties.
Bulgaria Runs Amuck
Bulgarian diplomacy is notoriously bad In
deeQ, II Is only one OIL Lne SeNGIdl iSSS"-
blances between the Bulgar and the Prus-
sian which have proved so disastrous to the
smaller State. Yet it is inconceivable that
the Sofia statesmen should choose the pres
ent time to join the war on the Austro-Ger-
man side after having held back at a time
when their entrance might have destroyed
stricken Servia. What Is reasonable to sup
pose is that the Bulgarian statesmen have Sc
lected this moment to warn the Allies of Ser
via the foes of the 'Austro- German alliance,
that 1t Is time to stop mere empty negotiat-
ing and make some substantial concession
to Bulgar demands
But If Bulgaria has again decided to run
amuck, as she did in 1913 then Greece will
infallibly be drawn into the war, Rumania
will have to tear up her solemn treaty obl-
cations or go to the defense of Servia and
the ports of Varna and Dedeagatch will pres
emily become targets of the allied fleets. All
this would mean a halt to the land opera
tions against Constantnople, for the Turks.
with the aid of the Bulgars, could easily dis
pose of all allied armies available, Servia
would have to face new invasion, perhaps
simultaneous attacks from the west and the
east, by Bulgars and Austrians.
All this would be a tremendous moral VIC
tory for Berlin, whose money has been busy
in Sofia for many weeks But all this is
quite unlikely. Rather 1t seems safe to con-
clude that Bulgaria has given warning not
too politely, but quite Enthusiastically.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-04-06

Firemen deserve praise in any ciTcum-
stances. but firemen who can put out great
confiagrations with rotten hose are entitled
10 extraordinary eommendation. And the
city lhat permits them TO work with rotten
nation.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-04-06
How the Governor Feels

= OCAL OPTION was to have been killed in
IL the Senate, but a poll shows that 2S of
the so Senators favor home rule on the liquor
question. Governor Brumbaugh is feeling
quite well, thank you!
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-04-06
Another Scrap of Paper

A generation later the Serbo- -Bugar treaty
which preceded the first Balkan war sepa-
rated Bulgar and Serb spheres in Macedonia
by line drawn from Egri Palanka to Och
rida. All south of this line to be Bulgar,
most of the territory north Internationally
Serb, certain districts, including Uskub, con-
ditonally, and the Car of Russia was to
settle the question. But Europe, in denying
Serva a window on the sea, destroyed this
bargain - that is, for the Serbs, who de-
manded a new division to compensate them
for their Albania surrenders to the Concert
of Europe.
This Serb demand provoked the second
Balkan War. In 1913. as now, Bulgaria in
sisted that Servia should keep to the old
bargain. But Servia, victorious in the sec
ond Balkan War, took not merely the Mace
donian districts west of the Vardar, which
she had demanded but the districts east,
including Istb, Kotchana, Radovista, leaving
Bulgaria only the little circle of Strumnltza,
from which she has just made her foray into
the Vardar Valley. Greece, for her part,
having consented that Bulgaria should have
all of Macedonia east of the Struma and
north of the Veles Mountains, pushed her
frontier east to the Mesta and beyond.
Since that time, and particularly since the
great war broke out, the Allies and Italy
nave peen endeaVoflns TO persuade greece
Rumania and Servia to recede to Bulgaria
portions of the territory taken in 1918. Ru-
mania has been promised allied support in
Bukowna and Pennsylvania, Greece in
Northern Epirus, Servia in Bosnia and Her
zegovina; but aside from Rumania no one
has made the slightest move toward con-
cession. Servia, asked to cede the region
between the Vardar, the Bregalnitza and the
Rhodopians, has been unyielding. Venezelos
has just denied that Greece ever offered to
give up the Kavala region.
All these fruitIess negotiations have plain
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-04-06

When the Austrians find 1t necessary to
eourt-martial 40 officers in bunch It Is i'm
possible 10 escape the conclusion that some
thing is the matter with the Austrian army.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-04-06

The only surprising thing about the re-
ported break between Villa and zapata is
that it was not reported earlier
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-04-06

Whatever may be thought of log-rolng in
the Capitol no one objects to egg-rolling on
the White House grounds.