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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-08-25
Criminals in Canada

ITIHAT can the Canadian Pacific Railroad
wv Company be thinking about when 1t
plans to unite its steamship lines with the
Allan Line steamers and operate them in
conjunction with the railroad? We have
been taught this side of the border that
there is no crime short of murder so heinous
as TO combine the operation of railroads and
steamships, and that to combine two COM
peting steamship lines is an offense against
the moral law which can be wiped out only
by unscrambling the omelet and sending
the original scramblers to jail Canada
cannot be civilized, or such a plan as that
which the great railroad company up there
Is about the carry out could not be con-
sidered. For "frightfulness" nothing that
the Germans have done can be compared
with it; that is. unless our social and eco
nomic reformers have been misleading u.s.
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what Are Germany,s "IntentIOns"l

TTNHE statement given out by the German
Il Embassy late yesterday Afternoon is re-
markable even in the long series of unusual
diplomatic interchanges by which the Amer
lean Government has avoided open rupture
with Germany. For the first time Germany
officially apologies In advance of the facts;
for the first time Germany seems TO be
humbly and sincerely regretful for the out
rage against this country. Acting under ex-
plicit instructions from his Government, Am
bassador Won Bernstorff asks for suspension
of Judgment. II would seem that the serious
purpose OF this country, so gravely compro-
missed by Mr. Bryan, is at last beginning to
be recognized.
German regrets have come TO this coun-
try before, but they have been followed by
acts both drastic and unfriendly. But now
the German Ambassador is empowered to
say that IF any Americans should actually
have lost their lives, this would naturally
be contrary to our Intentions"
The statement foretells Germany's possible
evasons. First, it may be claimed that no
German submarine sank the Arabic; second
that the dead are not American; finally,
that II they are American, the German Gov
ernment did not mean to kill them.
The Government Of the United States
cannot be satisfied with regrets it cannot
be satisfied with German intentions. 1t has
repeatedly and Enthusiastically denied the
right Of Germany to sink any passenger
Carrying vessel without due warning. The
Secretary of State has gone further and in
sisted that even If no Americans were on
board the Arabic, the German attack
an offense and injury to this Government
unless that attack was made in accordance
with those principles of warfare to which
the Government has pledged itself.
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A Hotfoot for the Police

TEr NO man say, in mid-August, that the
Apolicemen OF Philadelphia are prone to
get cold feet. And, conversely. let no man
forget that the traffic director and the man
who marches in cold, slushy, midwinter
nights around beat. is suffering as few men
need to suffer.
From another city Philadelphia may learn
how to give its policemen a minimum of
comfort at least. By drawing the steam
pipes out of the building line, by building a
register. of a sort the street corner, 1t
is planned to provide at least one warm
spot for the under-pinning OF the elect. It is
courtesy which every city owes to its
protectors
Once they are installed the professional
humorist will abandon the lamp-post joke
and draw lugubrious pictures Of "coppers"
refusing to bulge from the grateful heat Of
the register. But the professional humorist
win probably continue to write those jokes
with his feet on radiator Of his own.
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THE WAY TO RESUMPTION
TO the Editor Of the Epenino Ledger:

To the Editor Of the Evening Ledger:
Sir-When I questioned some time ago the
accuracy of Samuel Harris, who in his article
on 1.-THE Unmitigated Vacatonist," credited to
Horace Greeley the remark, The way to re-
sumo is to resume" l hoped that l would get
from some an authoritative reply.
suggested then that the late John Sherman of
Ohio, was the author Ryerson w. Jennings
supports that view. Now, l have seen in your
ent, declaring that Greeley actually did say 1t,
and quotes Rhodes History as proof. The dis
covery that so many authorities disagreed has
led me to prosecute a search of my own Much
as dislike to demolish any ones theories. much
less my own, let me state in the interest OF
historical accuracy that L have succeeded In
running down this famous saying and l find
that it was first used by Salmon p. Chase Of
Lincons Cabinet in a letter to Horace Greeley
Not only did neither Sherman nor Greeley use
1t first, but the quotation should read, The
only way to resumption is to resume
JOHN ROGERS.
Germantown. August o.
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Foreign Born Trust Uncle Sam

TIME postal savings banks were not created
Il to compete with the existing banks They
are to provide way for the investment of
the small savings of the person of little
means who is unfamiliar with the methods
of banking, or distrustful of the private in
stitutions This is why no one may deposit
more than 800 a month in the postal banks
and may not have a total deposit in excess
of $500. The fact that more than 100000
has been deposited in the postofiice in Phila-
delphia under these conditions proves that
the new system was needed. And the fact
that s431. 900 of the deposits have been made
by persons of foreign birth shows that the
foreigners have faith in the Government
even IL they do not trust the fy-by- might
private bankers. who seek to do business in
the foreign quarters
Italians lead the list of foregn-born with
$127 900 to their credit in the postoffice. They
must have many times this sum in the pri-
vate savings banks. The British come next
and the Russians are third.
II is surprising that American born de-
postors should have put $272,0O0 of their
savings in the postoffice, where they draw
only 2 per cent interest. The private saw
ings banks in this city, which pay from 8
to clio per cent. are considered as safe as
the Government. No one who understands
this will be content with 2 per cent. in
terest from the Government, when ne can
get so much larger return from regular
banks. And as the foreign-born population
grows more familiar with American institu-
tions 1t will withdraw it's money from the
postofice and deposit it where it will earn
more
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Organize This Scattered Military Force

TT WAS at the time of the Civil War. when
i the need of military training was i'm
pressed on every thoughtful mind, that the
Morrill, act. providing for the land grant col
leges, provided that every college receiving
Government help by gifts from the public
domain should arrange for instructing the
students In the art OF the soldier.
There are now about 80 colleges which
benefited by the Morrill, act. and they have
graduated $4,000 men, 10000 who are now Of
military age. Pennsylvania State College is
one Of them. 1t has a body of 1900 grad
nates and this number is increasing by $50
every year
The state College Is typical OF all the rest.
The conclusion forced upon one is that there
y larger body OF men in the country with
military training than has been commonly
supposed. Not only have we the 10000 men
Of military age who have been trained In
the Land grant colleges. but we have the
graduates OF the preparatory military
schools. some OF which give training almost
- rigid as that offered at West Point. In
addition. there is the vast number OF
Veterans who have aeen service In the organ
ized militia
The first thing that ought 10 be done by
lhe Goyernment. therefore seems to be 10
obtain lists Of these men who understand
Tie rudiments OF the art OF war and 20 or
fanIze them into some sort Of formal re-
t<ffe force. Many of Them have worn the
s4paldff elfale Of an oiicer and are capable
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-08-25
WHAT, AGAIN?

villa is crushed" the headlines shout,
But haven't we heard before
That he had been beaten and kicked about,
Smashed and walloped and counted out
Only to hear him arise and hout
The whole wide world once more?
Again, they say it is plain TO see
He's done with the game of war,
That his fighting days are a memory
And shattered his dreams of victory,
bnt wait-and stife that surge of glee
For that's what they said before
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-08-25

the afternoon of that memorable June is the
1st and 20 Battalons of the Sd Chasseurs were
foremost ir the attack on Mont-Saint-Jean.
British troops were lying behind the waysids
banks, according to orders. to remain prone
when under fire but not actually engaged.
Then, at the proper moment Welngtons voice
was heard, clear above the Storm Stand
up, Guards" 1t was Maitland's Brigade Of
Guards that thus stood up" and, with a vic
torious rush, swept the Chasseurs out of the
combat.-ManCheste Guardian.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-08-25

OF taking command OF a company, n not Of
a regiment. n these men could be assembled
in a training camp periodically, so that the
War Department might inspect them and
keep itself Informed Of their qualifications.
the nation would be in a much better state
of preparedness than Il has ever been.
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NATIONAL POINT OF VIEW

Germany last Of all have a word TO say
against Britain's making cotton contraband.
Flax is less open to in war than cotton,
but Germany has made flax contraband-New
York World.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-08-25
WHAT THE DUKE SAM

The Duke OF Wellington OF co,,rs. -
saia, Up Guards. and at emf" al Water,oo
pet s Il generally known how near he came ~
sassnt ~ elF Herbert Maxwell. In hls bios. !.
able origin Or ths s piess,s out what e the prob
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-08-25

The immediate and perhaps the most impor-
tant result of the action on the part of the
Pacific Mail Steamship Company will be to
strengthen public feeling this coast in sup
port Of Government-owned and Government
operated merchant marine-Los Angeles Ex-
press,
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-08-25

Georgia and every Southern State should de-
clare the lynching of prisoner in custody high
treason and provide method for dealing with
such murderers that will render punishment
swift and sure.-Houston Post
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-08-25

The business shrewdness of Henry Ford, and
the emphasis he lays upon practical reasons
in announcing his crusade against the mill
taristic propaganda in America, will inspire re-
spect In circles that would be inattentive to an
Eliot or a Jordan.-New York Evening Post.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-08-25

1t may be wise to build the new subway
without noise. but II there had been no great
noise in the preliminaries there would have
been no subway.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-08-25

Who shall say that the age Of ohivalry Is
past when 10 men offer TO give their blood tc
save the life Of an unknown woman suf
fering from perniclous anemia9
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-08-25

The consul who reports 10 Washington
that Archangel is now doing as much busi-
ness as the port OF New York, does not give
figures to support his assertion.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-08-25

Twenty-Five business men have indorset
Smith for the Mayoralty, but harmony is not
yet visible in the offing
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-08-25

The next improvement in the dress OF the
policemen will be anti-skid rubber soles.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-08-25

II the French Government issues bonds In
denominations Of nye francs. the peasants
will dig down IN their stockings ana buy an
that are offered A thrifty nation can
finance war without much diflculEy.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-08-25

Perhaps a swedish company organized 10
buy the German ships tied up In American
ports might be able to get them across the
ocean--and then again perhaps IL might not.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-08-25

The members of the Commission on Indus
trial Relations agree that the relations are
not what they should be. but on nothing else
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-08-25

Thirty million dollars will not go far to
ward financing a cotton crop worth half
billion.
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Doctrlne Of "COntInuOus VOYAGE

If. legally the British Government is war
ranted in placing cotton in the list of abso-
lutte contraband. and 1t seems abundantly
clear that It is, the British navy may law
fully interfere with shipments OF II TO Ger
man ports, even apart from the blockade
It is maintaining against said ports. But
may It lawfully seize and pre-empt or con-
fiscate shipments from American ports to
neutral ports adjacent to Germany? To
the exercise of such right the United States
cannot consistently object For not only has
It insisted with all the eioquence of it's
whole navy, and to the great cost of one
Of the leading British industries, that cot
ton is eontraband. but It has with like elo-
quence reinforced by the logic OF It's highest
court. maintained the principle that In the
case Of absolute contraband the real rather
than the nominal destination determines the
rights which the belgerent may exercise
over neutral commerce.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-02-06
Why Shaw Wrote a
Blank Verse Play

Next week the Little Theatre reopens
with double bill from Bernard Shaw.
The major portion. The Admirable
Bashvllle." has a history Just as strange
as its own substance Bernard Shaw ex-
plains the writing of this burlesQue in
blank verse in the following excerpts
from tho preface to the printed volume:
THE Admirable Bashville" Is a prod
uct of the British law of copyright. AS
that law stands at present, the first per-
son who patches up a stage version of a
novel, however worthless and absurd that
version may be. and has it read by him
self and a few confederates to another
confederate who has paid for admission
in n hall licensed for theatrical perform
ances, secures the stage rights of that
novel, even as against the author him.
self, and the author must buy him out
before he can touch his own work for the
purpose of the stage.
There is only one way in which the
Continued on Page Five
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Shaw at His Best
in "Pygrnalion'

When Mrs. Patrick Campbell comes to
the Broad Monday night in Bernard
Shaw's romance, "Pygmalion," she will
bring e. play already familiar to many
Philadelphians through its reprint in
Everybody's Magazine. Familiar or not,
the first part of 1t, at least, will sound
like rather strange Shaw In the last
scene however. Shaw is back at his old
mental gymnastics; there he. has to re-
concile the warning temperaments of
Professor Higgins and the flower girl he
has picked out OF the gutter, turned into a
fine lady by correcting her pronunciation,
and discovered to be much concerned with
him.
Liza-You want me back only to pick
up your slippers and put up with your
temper and fetch and carry for you.
Higglns-I haven't said / wanted you
back at all.
Llza-Oh. indeed. Then what are wo
talking about?
Higgins-About you, not about me. II
you come back shall treat you lust as
have always treated you L can't change
my nature, and l don't intend to change
my manners. My manners are exactly
the same as Colonel Pickerlng's.
Liza-Thats not true. He treats a flow
er girl as II she was duchess.
Higglns-And / treat duchess as If she
was flower girl.
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Continued on Page Five
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much the standard type OF play. But
within that type the playwrights put for
ward a great body of new stimulating
thought. The great foreign dramatists
of this and otner days are noted for
the originality of their thought. their
contributions of idea and suggestion, the
statement and solution of individual and
social problems, not for their ingenuity
in breaking rules. Ibsen, the greatest
of the iconoclasts of form, was an even
greater iconoclast of accepted systems of
thought and action.
The American dramatist has moved at
a snails pace. He has only kept step
with the advance in thought among the
people at large; he has never led 1t.
Faint tinges of 'progressivism," small
attacks on particularly obvious flaws In
our social system, have colored such
plays as within the Law" and its many
topical brethren. But beside the mental
excursions of the European playwrights
our efforts seem almost childish.
Daring Thought to
Match Daring Technique
One needn't expect to agree with what
some really original group of thinking
playwrights might give us. Indeed. 1t
would be impossible to accept all the
varied outlooks and ideas which really
active national drama should supply But
that does not alter the fact that man lives
and advances in culture and happiness by
the sitting. proving and accepting OF the
new. The life of the race. just as the life
of the Individual is an eternal expert
ment. Our thinkers, our guides to culture,
must make new guesses, suggestions,
hypotheses, or we stand still. And no.
where can those searchings after just
perfection touch home so sharply as in
the drama The American stage needs a
mass OF original and daring thought to
match the progress 1t has made in free
dom of technique.
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COMING.

COMING.
FEBRUARY 10.
FORREST-"Fads and FancIssn ~.
Dorothy Jardan, Lydia Lopokov, ~, ~
Frank Moulan. An elaborate pfoSa.
ton on the order OF the prevalent NJ
york "revues." The book is BY cs.
MacDonough, the music by Ravrs.sss
Hubhell. Julian Mitchell attends ~ ,'vie n
ensembles. w
LYRfC--"Danclng Around" with All Ia
son. A New York Winter Garden shS.
of the familiar and elaborate TYNE. \,
plotting principally comedians NJ
chorus.
WALNUT-"1t's a Long Way to Tipo.-.
ary." war drama along popular In,
KEITH'S-Trlxie Frlganza, the populs,
singer; Harry Beresford g. Co.; Fla
ence Tempest & Co.; Mr. and Mrs 4
McGreevy; Lucy Gillette; Adler spa
Airline; Blank Family; Martin vas
Bergen: the Behrens, and Pathe New,
Weekly.
FEBRUARY Rk. 81
ADELPHI-"Peg O. My Heart" win
Florence Martin. Reeves Smith ana-
Howard Short. Hartley Manners' po0.
ular and amusing comedy Of the in.
petuous young Irish girl and her eoA.
flict with a sedate English family.-
GARRICR-"The Misleading Lady" Tia
engaging comedy of how rough.msn.
nered gentleman, homo from Patagonlt
tames, woos and weds n society belle by
the heroic treatment of kidnapping ha
to his Adirondack camp.
WALNUT-"The Trail of the Lonesoaa
Pine" Eugene Walters etfecs,.
dramatizatiou of John Fox, Jr's, tai,
Of tho Cumberland Gap.
KEITR'S-Mrs. Leslie Carter in 'ZaEas
Wee George Wood, comedian; BicssI
and Watson, the well-known team.
okabe Japs. gymnasts; Ed Mortou,
Lyons and Yosco. Hazel Cox, Moor
and Young, Cole and Denahy and
Hearst-Selig Pictures. Sf
MARCH I.
BROAD-"Outcast," with Elsie Fersuson,
Hubert Henry Davies drama OF q nli'
tress saved from the streets and prev.
ing herself I'm the end woman Of mora
fibre than most Of fellows. Lately seen
in New York.
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ADELPHT - "The Third Party" with
Taylor Holmes and Walter Jones. A
bolsterous farce OF the familiar trlRn-
Eular variety with patent chaperone.
Violent but amusing.
FORREST-"The Girl From Utah." with
Julia Sanderson, Donald Brian and Jo-
seph Cawthorn. Paul Ruben's Eng
lish musical comedy of Mormons, old
and young, in London. Book and mu-
sic of uneven value, sometimes very
good indeed. Performance excellent.
VAUDEVILLE.
RETTH'S-Nat wills, comedian; Arthur
Prince, English ventrilodust; Mrs.
Gene Hughes &c Co., in Lady Gossip /;
Ryan and Lee, comedy and dancing;
Cecilia Wright, vocalist; Five Annap-
oils Boys; Angelo Armento Trio; Hop
kins Sisters; Mahoney and Auburn, and
the Pathe News Weekly motion pic
lures.
GRAND-Emily Smiley & Co. in zone
Woman's Way" by Hilliard Booth: IL.
Bart McHugh's "on the School Play
grounds with FL Brendel and Muriel
Morgan Joe Kennedy, on roller skates; !;
Hallan and Hunter, in "Just for Fun" ;
Maude Earle. with new songs; DAILY and
Kennedy. in comedy skit, and photo
plays.
GLOBE-Al Lewis in "The New Leader"
comedy of vaudeville, by Aaron Hoff-
man; the Bowman Brothers, negro i'm
personators; Julia Curtis. "the girl
with many voices; Collins and Seymour,
In 1.-The Battle of Bull Run; AL Ray
monds trained bulldogs playing foot
ball; the Three Adnards, and Claude
Ranf, aerial gymnast.
WILLIAM PENN--John Hart's "The Tel
ephone Girl,' with Dorothy Royal: Nc
Dewitt, Kelly and Lucey in THE Plano
Movers and the Actress; Leon Kim
berley and Halsey Hohr in "Clubland"; /;
Robins. musical imitator; the Toyo
Troupe OF Japanese acrobats and the
Bristol Ponies.
CROSS KEYS (frst half of week)-Daisy
Harcourt, English comedienne; the
Summerland Girls in THE Man in the
Dark; Clein Brothers, the two Dutch
admirals; the Whirling Erfords. gym
nasts, and Roberts and Kain, dancers.
STOCK.
Traffic" with the res
ident stock company. The familiar mel
odrama of white slavery" wherein the
victim continues on the downward path
instead of reforming a la romance.
BURLESQUE.
Hastings Amusement
Company, with Dan Coleman as the
principal comedian, in "On and Off the
Earth"