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line, which Is quite serious matter. when
come to think of 1t, as the bread-line over
which wax SO much more sentimental. 1t
doesn't guarantee him a job. With every rec
ommendation to prospective employer goes
the agency's report of the investigation made
concerning the record and habits of the appli-
cant. The employer knows the man he is get
ting. Information from several different sources
is gathered, compared and verified.
Some of the applicants are men of education,
who either have fallen on evil days or are maxi
ing of the facilities afforded by the bureau
as they would of any other legitimate means of
assistance. Three four university graduates
and several technically trained men have APP
piled for positions and have been easily placed.
The employers have written in asking for high
grade men, especially for men skilled In par
ticular branches of mechanics the handling
OF highly specialized machines. 1t Is the old
question of the subdivision of labor. carried
to the extent wonderful in the industrial
world today. One employer wants man, not
for lathe. but for Fay lathe"-an ex-
perienced man at that particular machine.
Another asks for somebody familiar with the
Cleveland automatic" And the task of
bringing the man and the job together is not
easy it looks.
That Is the trouble with the unemployment
situation in Philadelphia. The demand for
workers is enormous. but the workers must be
skilled at this particular thing or that par
ticular thing. Though the agency Is receiving
applicants of all varieties of training and
periencc and though they are being placed at
remarkable rate, considering the newness of the
enterprise, there Is a large class of casual and
day laborers, for which provision can be made
only through the cooperation of people who
have small Jobs and short jobs to be done, and
who willing to lend hand.
One forenoon the list of applicants included
the following: Four steam engineers hatmaker,
weaver, two gardeners five janitors, six inside
laborers. two outside laborers laundryman,
three bench hand machines, office clerk. three
public porters, two printers, agent bartender,
three private chauffeurs, two truck chauffeurs.
grocery clerk, three shipping clerks. four
stenographic clerks. stock clerk. dishwasher,
driver, telephone lineman two electrical
gneers, salesman and solicitor, tinsmth, two
walters and four watchmen. These designa-
tions indicate the previous employment of the
applicants The agency finds out how the men
lost their former positions, and then, If the
facts Justify it, tries to place them. If any are
willing to go out of town. the fact is
municated to the clearing house in Harrisburg.
R H
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KIDNAPPERS

1.-TWO simultaneous kidnappings in this city
i and number of dss ppea-ances not yet
accounted for may seem to the light minded
true wave of crime. 1t is, in all probable
ity, nothing of the sort. The disappearances
will be explained with time-honored and in
credible stories and the true kidnappings
will be ferreted out and the guilty punished.
The city is still safe place for children.
From the crime itself the normal human
mind shrinks as it does not from many tech
nically worse offenses, Stevenson once de-
manded to know whether we should never
commit murder but he could hardly have
suspected himself capable of kidnapping.
The peculiar atrocity lies in the innocence
of the victims Those chiefly hurt are the
parents. but the torture of mystery and OF
uncertainty is little in comparison with the
indignity inflicted on the child
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-12-01
NO SUFFRAGE ARMAGEDDoN

TN SPITE of the sharp fighting which
i preceded the election of officers, there is
to be no Armageddon for the Pennsylvania
Woman Suffrage Association. There was
talk of a secession if the "sate" was
Slammed through" and there were many
protests, which sounded strangely like the
echoes of a certain convention in Chicago.
But the Illuminating lightning of rhetoric
has given way TO good sense. and there will
be split.
The very fact that the women in the
organization fight SO bitterly for their ideals
and are able 10 unite so firmly i'm their
struggle outside their own group, indicates
IN measure how vital the ballot has be-
come to them. They care nightly about
the suffrage party and about every part of
the suffrage party only because they care
more for what suffrage win mean TO the
sIale-
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Tom Daly's Column

"VoUR value to this community, as I sense
It," writes Adze, from Pennsylvania
Limited train depends in part, upon your
ability to cleanse the Augean stables and
chase out some of the pests. Now ] have
one pet pest that is to say one that haunts
me, and I'm rather afraid I'm going to meet
him again some time in my travels. He may
even be in Philadelphia now. lie was in
New York until recently, but he suddenly
blew; probably | helped i'm the blowing. At
any rate, here's my story: Mr. Pet Pest
who was employed by quite an important
firm in New York was the man TO whom
! always had to send in my card He in
variably came out to see me, ostentatiously
tearing UP my card as he came. OF course
I never got any business. Well one day
sent in my card and the naughty gent came
out, with the stage all set as usual He
started to disintegrate my card but it
wouldn't disintegrate. He grew red in the
face and then pale-and tried again, Save
your strength, o! gentle Knight | said,
and please don't destroy that card, cause it
cost me $l.25 to have the bristolboard split
and to have that little slab of aluminium put
in there. There may not be another guy in
the world as nasty as you, but If there is
want to be prepared Well, sir, that's my
pet pest What's yours?"
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cLoTURE MEANS BOSS RULE

THE Senate must hght out the eloture
i issue without any help from the White
House. according to present indications The
President. il is announced, will keep his
hands OFT. He doubtless still retains the
views that he expressed in his book on
Congressional Government" published 30
years age IN which he wrote
II must be considered as no inoonsiderable
adllslon 70 the usefulness Of the Senate that
i enjoys much greater freedom OF discuss
zion than the House allows itself II per-
llslza Itself good deal of talk In public about
@aaz ! Is doing. and II commonly talks a
zHeat deaf q sense. II Is small enough to
make L safe 70 allow individual freedom TO
- members.
He might have gone much further and
zaszIfsd freedom OF debate in the interests
~ asnocratle government The House has
eeased - be legislative body. II has sur
rendered is functions 70 The Senate. The
zaasas raDes The House. ana The caucus Is
HsH p : Hssiezlfz q the party IN power.
4aIkH S z1eaaenfls minority of tue repre-
sz==Iz kEsAs The leaaeHn decide 70 1zm ! BIZ
zI=Haaz=A - + s psszsa anasE he gag naIe
Hhz4 uz#Ia = LII aHe III hesa she
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COMPLETE THE FUND AT ONCE

FTNHERE is no partisanship in Chicago when
L its business men set out to get political
convention for that city. Both Republicans
and Democrats have subscribed to the
100000 fund, one-half of which is to be
offered to the Republican National Commit
tee and the other half to the Democratic
Committee, to induce them to hold the con-
ventlons in the city on Lake Michigan. The
subscriptions have all been made and the
Chicago delegation will soon be on it's way
to Washington to meet the Democratic
Committee next Tuesday and the Repub-
lican Committee a week later.
The Philadelphia fund. to be offered to the
Republican Committee, is not yet completed.
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MoMENToUs DECISIONS

The momentous decisions that each man must
make for himself:
When to put on his winter underwear.
When to take il off.
Whether or not he'd look well in knicker-
bockers
Scotch rye sr?"
Just what the trouble with his game Is.
Whether or not to learn the words to 1.-THE
Star-Spangled Banner" or to let II go at "Oh.
say can you see tra-la- la -a-la-"
Whether not to introduce Boggs to his wife.
Whether not to admit he's getting bald
What percentage of the bill to tip the waiter.
Whether not to carry stick outside OF
New York
offered by his physician
Whether to give his wife one-hfth one-third
one-haf of the amount she asks for.-Life.
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Here's Walt McDougal

We Just tUcrc a-1condcring ,Ohdt had become
OF Walt McDougdl.
when all of a. Suddcn-rum- gum -ti-tunt- -tuml
He blotUs his buglei
And like tcdnderer dstronomic
He flares back. trailing brund-netD comic,
Docs Walt McDougdl
A real old, genuine. rare good tellotO
Is Walt McDougdl
OF course. he's Scotch, but his art is mello1U
And not too frugal
Why, he is the great old faithful guy, sir,
That Spouted the Drawings for old Bill Nye,
sir
This Walt McDou0ul
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IIERE, by the way, is a curious automo-
IL bile story. 1t has nothing whatever to
do with Ford. After all, the name OF the
car doesn't matter in this story; the inter
est centres in the two men who were in 1t:
One was the owner and the other was an
Irishman whom he had picked up on the
road some five or six miles out. The inten-
tion of the man in the car at the start was
excellent. We'll WELL Mike. what are you
doing away out here?" he said. Walking
home from work? Step in and I'll give you
a lift" But he hadn't gone far after that
before he began TO spoil 1t ALL He talked
of the cost of the car and how democratic
he was; and when he finally drew up with
a flourish opposite Mixes humble door he
said: well, Mike. here you are. You'd
go a long way in Ireland wouldn't you, be-
fore you'd find a gentleman who would
pick you up on the the road and take you
home in this style?" AYE" replied Mike,
"a quare place is Ireland. Ye'd go a long
way there before yed find anyone to call
ye a gentleman even"
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very SIIullBt llllllE tlldI
the poem to which we
refer should have been
the favorite recitation
of our hero whenever
he was called upon in
elocution class? Little
did George S. Webster
for it was indeed he
suppose in those days
that he was to be the
boss - the Survey De-
partment of Philadel-
phia for more years
than most of us care to
count and certainly for
more than any of us
care 10 short
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MYTHOLOGY

FANTASTIC and absurd in all of its cir
i cumstances the Ford mission has con-
cealed in 1t madness In method which has
escaped attention and which is as vicious
as the project itself is romantic. For a time
Mr.. Ford was reticent; he had plan but
would not cast 1t before swine. Now the
plan is out and 1t is nothing but that old
stalking horse the general strike,
The idea is a boomerang and Mr.. Ford
will suffer from the return. The general
strike is the property of NJ. Georges Sorel, a
French syndicalist, who, in his book, Re
fections on Violence" distinctly and re-
peatedly says that ia greve generate" is a
myth and nothing but myth. The leaders
of thought must pretend to believe in it. but
they must talk endlessly about the time
when all wOrkmen lay down their tools
(when all soldiers leap from their trenches),
but they cannot believe in the actuality OF
such an occurrence.
NJ SoreI, who is a FTenchman and there
fore combines imagination with an uninter-
rupted activity of common sense. proposed
the general strike as an end 20 long periods
OF propaganda. Mr.. Ford, an American in
rush" proposed a general strike of inf
nitely greater complexity as an end to two
weeks work. And Mr.. Ford. apparently,
differs from NJ. Sorel in believing in the
myth
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The
"For-I Was-Indeed-He" Club
XI-G. S. w

XI-G. s. w.
Dear reader, observe this young man
Who stands here before us today
Then think of that piece, If you can,
Which most of us once had to say
That poem you know that began
"I'm monarch of all 1 survey"
And then to step back to cold, hard prose.
let us ask ourselves seriously If it isn't a
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-12-01
Some Unpleasant Up Mt. Pleasant Way

From the Mt Pleasant CPal Journal
Mount Pleasant was the centre of OF the
aerSest storms @ IN oa dS M nistSTy % fhursday
Fultzs East End home torn OFF, was also
''Professor'' Frank Gesthorpe felt sure the Judg-
ment Day had come and caught him not well
ToeRsd urt the fair occupants had Symptoms o
seasickness. But besides few windows and the
weathered the storm in good shape John D.
Hinehman, president Of the First Natioral Bank.
Of the two chimneys the rear of his South
Church street residence came topping down the
Of the rear porch az Mrs Annie overhoit's home
started to call on Dog Fulton and landed on the
was bad for George Benfords auto, kept by the
in that building.
keeping the windows in the front OF his south Side
residence, Even with nails several got away from
street collapsed losing the roof
ONLY a step or two above the jews harp
" which is our idea of absolute zero in
musical instruments-we rate the either.
So it pains us to find Thomas Walsh giving
the title Either Song to this dainty lyric
from his book of poems. The Pilgrim
Kings" recently published by the Macmillan
Company
A little world. truly say.
While days are young and careless he, rted;
From cline to cline We speed today,
Earth's paths are cleared and oceans chartad;
But an how large world ne stray
When thou and are parted!
A aeetipg world as in : dream,
It's gone ere We have paused and Bonderedl
Lies soan Is but hrehy Elsam.
chance hall slspl away. half blundered:
But. "a. 10. long ths days must seem
When our tNo hearts szs HnndeTed
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-12-01

The Gallant, Agile, Hospitable Victrola
Miss Esther Shafer of 115 Lumber street. and
Leon Schmoyer. of 9TH street, were married
Wednesday night by the Rev. Darms of Salems
Reformed Church. The wedding march
played on the Victrola, which led the guests
to the table, where they partook of dainty
smnnnr.-AllentnMn Morning Call
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-12-01

Defense first is the Presidents plan, and
safety first has long been the slogan of in
dnstrialism.
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An Event

"Oh, my" said the visitor, kissing the little
daughter OF the family, you smell of soap"
"Yes'm," sped the little girl; 81 just been
washed fur compny."
Horrld thought! Is this peace drive of
Henry Fords merely a feint to divert at
tention from his main object-the opening of
the upper Wissahicllon to his machines?
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-12-01

There is some talk of extensive paving
operations during the next administration.
More strength 10 the PAYERS arms
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-12-01

The man who wants to make a movie"
play OF the Ford expedition forgets that no
successful show has ended with an anti
climax.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-12-01

That receiver OF the Atlantic City electric
railroad who Is hoping 10 lift It cut Of bank
Fapses y making i popular certainly has :
nosel Iaeas
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-12-01
STATE AID FOR
THE UNEMPLOYED
Some Early Results and Some of
the Problems of the Work in
Philadelphia-Public
Cooperation

WALKING west on Arch street one passes
w number Of employment agencies. most of
them with a rather prosperous looking exterior,
but none the worse for that. | suppose it
would be the same way walking east but 1t
happened that yesterday I was my way to
No. 1919. The date seems to have been trans
posed to mark the beginning of the system of
State employment bureaus in Pennsylvania in
this year of social legislation" 1915. Private
agencies are to be supervised never before
for indeed they are quas-pubc utilities-but
their eradication is part OF the plan of the
Department of Labor and Industry. They have
their place, but the State agency meets a need
which hardly comes within their purpose or
province. Criticism of the law on the
part of proprietors was to be expected. but
large number of the enterprisng and honest
dealing men in the business welcome regulation
which is bound to increase public confidence.
Government agencies are by no means a new
thing. They were established in Europe
than so years ago, and are now in operation,
under different systems, in more than Is for
eign countries Ohio led the way in this coun-
try. Half the States of the Union, besides
Hawaii, the Philippines and Porto Rico have
public employment bureaus. Some months ago
Commissioner John Price Jackson, in conversa-
tion, spoke earnestly of the duty of the State
of Pennsylvania In taking up its share of the
work of equalizing employment conditions as
far possible. The unemployed man repre-
tax but lost opportunity for the development
of economic resources. In this light the prob
lem of unemployment may be regarded
problem social service, but must also be con-
ship, and, therefore. within the realm of gov
ernmental tasks.
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he's jolly good fellow, which nobody
can deny.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-12-01

Why not Dave" Lane as Director of City
| Traasit2
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A CURIOSITY OF THE TIMES

The curious dependence of women upon men,
which is one of the particularly interesting
phenomena of our present legal structure, is
again illustrated by the case of Anna Held. the
actress She was born in Warsaw. spent most
OF her youth in Paris and married American,
from whom she was later divorced. 1t is off,
cially ruled that she is American because
her former husband is.-Springfeld Republican.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-12-01

Anyhow. the Presidents Cabinet is well
Garrisoned.
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IN THE BALKANS
In dealing with the near Eastern situation
the Allies seem to have followed the line OF
least assistance.-Chicago Herald.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-03-25
Germans in Northern France.
From tho Metropolitan.

rom lno aletrUpOlltdu
Don't imagine that German soldiers
are a cruel, arrogant race. They have
done many admtra BILE things. 1 am sure
that some of those little northern
French towns never were SO clean. so
intelligently organized. Everywhere
they have reopened schools and
churches; they have re-esta blished
local institutions and local charities;
they have secured whole towns. light
ed every house with electricity-placed
up-to-date hospitals, served by the
finest doctors in the world, at the free
disposal of the humblest citizen. The
French MARES, civil courts, police-all
the officers of local government-retain
their positions and seem to function as
usual But it is cruel mockery. This is
a conquered people: there is not the least
doubt of that. AS We rode about the
country, misery and hatred darkened
every face that watched our passing auto
mobiles: and those who came last caught
the curses that were hurled after US
"Cochons, Boches." Sometimes the
women shook their fists and spat at us.
The men were more cautious. for there
are terrible penalties for whoever shows
contempt or disrespect for officers and
soldiers of the German army"
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Letting Posterity Pay.
From the YOUTHS Companion.


There is price of war that is more
important, more dreadful, more unjust.
and that takes far longer to pay than
any other. and it is a price also that
has to be paid in the only wealth,
which is life. The mere question who
wins the war has nothing to do with
it. The questions who was right or
wrong. who began it, who gained or
lost territory. who paid tribute to
whom when peace was declared, how
the taxes rose or fell. which industries
prospered or which decayed-all these
questions are negligible when com
pared with the longest price of war,
which all fighting nations have paid
and must pay.
All the prices of war fall most
heavily upon the future. In Great
Britain we still pay heavy taxes every
year for the Boer war and other wars
OF the past. right and wrong. glorious
and inglorious. But the longest price
Of war is wholly paid by future gem
erations. and hurts the future only.
The people who will live in the years
to come get none of the glory for
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Starch.

From the Lon1on Chronicle.
Starch is scarce in the German laun-
dries. and they have to economic on
that. Happy Germans. I take them to
my bosom if they will only follow the
fashion (Which We are starting) OF
abolishing the starched collar. enilt
front. cuffs. What do We want with
starch for our shirts when rice Is more
necessary for the front? Do you know
anything about starch except as mys-
FERROUS article of food. and something
to clean your shirts with
Starch is good enough as food, when
carefully disguised. But l think the
Germans are wise in stopping the DIS
guise in dress The starched shirt front
here and in Germany must go. am
sure that starch has many missions, but
one of them is certainly not the de-
sign of making my dress habit a
whited sepulcher plastered with the
food that should feed better men.
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FRAMES PAYMENT PLAN.
Controller Downey Drafts Scheme in
Settling War Claims.

In view of the terms Of the omnibus"
war claims bill, passed March 4. pro-
viding that no more than 90 per cent
snail De paid to any attorney or agent
OF claimant for damages accruing
from SEIZURE of personal property by
FEDERAL authority during the civil war.
warrants to pay such claims will be
made, so per cent payable to claimant
ana ~ per cent to attorney or agent.
This Is the procedure proposed by
the controller of the Treasury. George
f. Downey. to enable the Secretary of
the Treasury to comply with the terms
of the law.
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A strong plea in the interests of the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-03-25
Rev. Thomas Nichols and daughter % tire
late Rsysrd and Msncttc Lansing Boyd.

Rev. Thomas Nichols and daughter % tire
late Rsysrd and Msnette Lansing Boyd.
PERKINS. ON Wednesday morning March -.
isiS; at an. Mrs MARTHA 4; PER
Funeral services al her Iate rrsid.acc lis eth
Sra SIT" snnthesst. on FRIDAY, March ee se
lntermeat private. 2Ss
after short illness. wINFoRD PrRNELl.
aged tweuty-four
Funeral from his late residence. 81 G street
southwest. on Friday. March c6.
northwest CAROLINE TRETIER RHODES,
beloved wife Of psniei Rhodes.
Notice Of funeral hereafter.
SAUNDERS nerartcd this NE On Wednesday.
March -. 1915. DAISY +. SAUNDERS BE-
loved daughter Of Daisy r. and William
l.. saunders Of c.lo street northwest.
Funeral iron, Esan Winslow's chapel nth and
I streets northwest Friday March ~. at 5
pm. Friends and relatives invited.
SHIRLEY. On Tuesday. March - 1915. at a.aS
Em at the ,a rssidsnss Of her ~cn-tn,law Dan
MARTHA IRsTIi itH2 s nhspin street nerihwesS'
widow of the late Joan n Shirley.
Funeral :. ,. .ssv cn,n Fdsy March ga a. eeoes
privats Manassas and wsrrentcu Va. pa
STORY. on THURSDAY March y. 1919. a, 1880
PAfFEN, L. :. A., husband OF Caroline =
Notice OF funeral heseafter. %.
WARD, On Thursday. MsrJh -. 1910. a, AS
an. br. SAMUEL 4, WARD OF CO.. r
Notice Of funeral later
WILSON. On Tuesday. March % ,oib. At fo.so
pm, PHILIP r WILSON. 'N'"'
street. FG id s' S Sss e. soe Ts;.4
Inent private.
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which rulers wage war: they. at least.
are innocent; they are at the mercy
Of the past. which did not consult
them, but which makes them pay