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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-10-15
CANoPUS

When quacks with pills political would done ma.
When politics absorbs the nvelong day.
/ like 10 think about the star Canopus
So far. 90 far away.
Greatest OF visioned suns. they say who list 'em,
To weigh II science always must DESPAIR
It's shell would hold our whole dlnged solar
system
Nor ever know twas there.
When temporary chairmen utter speeches
And frenzied henchmen howl their battle
hymns,
My thoughts float out across the cosmic reaches
To where canopus swims.
When men are calling names and making facas
And all the worlds ajangle and aJar
! mediate on interstellar spaces
And smoke a miid seegar.
For after one has had about a week OF
The arguments OF friends az well as FOE.
star that has no parallaR 70 speak OF
Conduces 10 repose.
n L T., IA Chicago Tribune
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-10-15
DANGER IN THE TWILIGHT ZONE

THERE will be general regret that Judge
l. Sulzberger could not find legal warrant
for convicting two book agents who misrep-
resented the character of the work they were
selling. He said the principal was "a skill
full and dangerous liar, but not criminally
responsible"
The Judge must know the law, but the
rest Of us have been under the impression
that there is a statute forbidding misrepre-
sentation, and providing proper penalties for
its violation. 1t certainly applies to mer-
chants who print fraudulent advertisements
and thereby attempt to deceive the public.
The book agents must have escaped in that
twilight zone which encircles all statutes en-
acted to protect the innocent and unsuspect-
ing purchaser.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-10-15
THE CURSE OF INERTIA

A friend of mine who had heard of the
Florida Cracker" asked some to point
out a cracker to him. The man replied.
WELL II you see something off in the woods
that looks brown, like stump, you will
know 1t is either a stump or a cracker; II 1t
moves, II is a stump Woodrow Wilson.
TIME curse of Philadelphia at this time is
J. that there are too many voters here with
the cracker type of intellect. They are too
Indolent to think and when they do think
they are too timid to go to the polls and vote
as II they were free men with ambition to
deliver the community from the control OF
those who have exploited 1t for their own
purposes for a generation. AS william Penn
looks down from the City Hall tower he
sees men sleeping in the same old bed of
political indifference. The lamp posts are
animated in comparison.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-10-15
SADNESS OF SUCCESS

The cares Of modern business little en-
courage and satisfy the tastes OF one who
feels that his work is not done. / have
wanted 10 study; 10 think; 10 take up the
work again IN that little shop and study over
on West ID street. The world wouldn't lei
me .. There litigation
There were negotiations and more neEotia-
lions . And all the time 1 wanted TO
work.-oryille Wright.
FI1HE worlds praise and the worlds plum
Il der have gone out TO OFville Wright for
the work OF his manhood With his brother
he Was hcnored as genius and as an in
rincible, indefatigabIe pioneer Success. as
We know success. came to him after years
81 labor and defeat. He became famous
ana wealthy. Yet IN che high aood Of his
a.|bievvmenf he retired giving his reason
he ~ords quoted above
For him. for every man possessed OF a
vision the auaces most men cherish can
mean nolhlns fte deep satisfaction Of ao-
eomrllehment Is sweet, but where the practi-
lal man stops he dreamer begins atain.
IS 0rcam has become real The aeroblane
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wages war; the wireless saves lives at sea;
the motorcar belittles space and time. They
are already in the realm of practical things.
But the dreamer sees new vision. He feels
the hunger for creation. and the passion for
perfection which inspires him cannot be sat
ished
Many men who have seen, in early years,
the high roadway Of their lives lying clear
In the sunlight will be moved by Orville
Wright and by the fierce words he has
spoken. They, as he, have been dragged into
bypaths, and they will think enviously of
him, sitting in the soft light of that little
shop on West Sd street, studying and think
ing-and dreaming good dreams.
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on the non partisan
ticket in the Septem-
Der primaries, received
$4,000 and odd votes, or
more than one-fourth
OF the total cast for
the Ia candidates for
the vacant judgeships
in the Court Of Com
mon Pleas No. 2. Under
the provisions of the
more than so per
cent. clause" of the
non-partisan primary
act, Mr.. Rogers, 1t is
believed, is already as
good as elected. From
brickyard to bench is
his record for 29 years.
Lawyers and busi-
ness men who have
been associates of Mr..
Rogers in courts and
clubs for the last dozen
years probably will find
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-10-15
SUBTLE FLATTERY OF WEALTH

nNHE many thousands who fit from place
i to place (and with a degree of comfort) In
the motor cars produced by Mr.. Henry Ford
Of Detroit, will be somewhat puzzled by the
persistence of Mr.. Fords anti-preparedness
mania They will wonder that a mind SO
capable OF motor making should be so in
capable Of straight thinking. Let them take
comfort. Their engines will not stall. Mr.
Ford Is only exhibiting the usual symptoms
OF the great American vice, which is opin-
ionitis.
The accepted American theory seems to be
that so soon as a man makes a million he
becomes a prophet of the millennium When
he makes. Mr.. Ford's company has DONE
the astounding total OF $27.OOO.OOO in 10
months, he has more honor than enough in
his own country, and the American reporter
has marked him for his own. Because he
has established a chain OF "nothing-over-11-
cents"-stores his opinion is sought on the
validity of the Scriptures. The subtle fat
terry OF being asked is Irresistible, and al
most unconsciously the answer is given. The
little devils OF irony dance a merry dance as
each new great man falls. Mr.. Carnegie, an
authority on steel, is quoted as a critic of
style. Mr.. Rockefeller. who is interested in
oil. is likely 10 be interviewed on oil paint
ings.
II is all. of course. another example OF
money worship in America. Lacking a ira
dition OF culture or OF authority, we still
struggle along with only a tradition of sue
cess to guide Al that we are Ameri-
cans. We ask our money kings 10 tell us
about philosophy and our fnanciers 10 tell
us about military strategy. But, as Mr.. Ford
has discovered, we don't always believe what
they tell us.
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months. Strength
was not the charac-
teristic which stood
out in the public esti-
mate of the eloquent
Premier when he
formed his Cabinet
in August of last
year. But there is
one fact that has dis
tinguished him in all
his career, and that
is the growth of his
personality. A won
derful personality 1t
had been shown to be
a year ago, and when
we picture his ap-
pearance before the
deputies to explain
and refuse to explain
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-10-15
MINISTER'S AS BUSINESS MEN

THERE is high authority for the state
i ment that the minister is worthy of his
salary; but there is nothing In Holy Writ
about his duty TO organize the financial af-
fairs of his church so as to keep 1t from
bankruptcy or himself from want through an
unpaid salary.
The secretary of the Laymen's Missionary
Movement has announced that the men en-
gagged in IT are planning to show the min
listers how to put their churches on a sue
cessful financial basis"
But why put 1t up to the ministers? Have
not the laymen some obligations in the
premises?
The minister is supposed to be a spiritual
leader and teacher and not business man.
He becomes pastor OF a church composed of
men and women who are supposed TO believe
in the importance OF organized religious
work, but they too often neglect to attend
20 the temporal AFFAIRS OF the organization
and unload everything on the minister
The Laymen's Missionary Movement would
bring about a reform worth while If It could
impress on all laymen the importance Of re-
lieving the spiritual leaders of the churches
Of financial worry so that they might use
all their strength In spiritual leadership.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-10-15
OUR SCHOOLING INExpENer,v,

twenty-five million persons wers lsr-.,,.
educational institutions In The IInitna soneo In
last year And they required 100000 fsaet..s
or whom b6e0oo were In public schools tsnsIs. .'s
them In the paths OF learning " suioe
About tsi apiece was what Il coat 20 -. .
year OF schooling Compared win ~ 49, mem
our other expenses as nation public ss se,, eL
seem % be decidedly Inexpensive hobby sr,
ture for alcoholic liquors ana fhr1- eNpenol-
lsoooooeo less than that Of running the re- rs,s
0oyeInment, Even Tor admission 10 ~ saet-i Ger.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-10-15

does its duty and-O-a law rso,,,,,.. A..
mission to obey the law e-and so or az d ooin- NJ
:, - "here new start may be made with In, 70
and eomnnss.,n snat al previous laws be obeyed
me possibilities are limitless-thst
possbilities OF laws and commissions rh s the
spnues OF efncient government on tha otsos- ~
Post. '"'"roay Evening
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-10-15
MCKINLEY AND THE TARRF

The death OF President MCKINLEY W..
loss In every way. but In no vVs, ,sss. great
nounced than In that OF tariff revision Iss pro,
ne, ne lived we should have seen the tastn lso rsl
vised. because the work would hsSsIuny hsvs hy re-
formed under the frank contention OF ths per
neenee OF protection as a national ny no,a psne-
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vies' we spend third OF what the schools y.
quire. -
Measured in terms OF products OF IN. sou
the United States spent little more for educs
ton than the value of its wheat crop. and less
than half the value of the annual harvest' 4,
corn. What the ultimate value Of the edse,.
tional harvest will be is another question
New York Independent. N
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-10-15
ELECTED" JUDGE
AT THE PRIMARIES
Double Honor Conferred on a Phila-
delphian Who in Public and
Private Is "There With
the Blarney"
BY WILLIAM A. McGARRY

TT is great to be elected to office, but it's
l. much better not to have to wait till No
vember to be sure Of t. Such seems to be the
situation of Joseph Patrick Rogers who ac-
cording TO the official count Of the votes cast
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-10-15

ENROM that dramatic scene in the Cham
l. Der of Deputies, when the Government
received rousing vote of confidence, Rene
Viviani emerges the strongest man in France
today, as he has been through many trying
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-10-15
STARTLING STATISTICs

Some efficiency expert could produce startlins
statistics 70 show an immense amount OF time
spent in Intellectual voting. Washington Star
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-10-15

II the talked-of tax becomes a fact in
England. that country viii only have to
muddle half-through
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-10-15

There was nothing cold about the welcome
the Red sox received when they returned TO
Boston.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-10-15

oryile Wright has Travelled In few short
years from bench on bicycle repsir shop
70 Easy street But he worked his passage
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-10-15

railroad director who has not been
charged with criminal conspiracy win soon
be As rare a. a blue moon.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-10-15

Turbine Engines Called Joke"7-Head-
line. Another one on your Uncle Sam
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-10-15

President Wilson is becoming quite expert
in laying cornerstones
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-10-15

There is no doubt where the sympathies
OF william Penn would be in the mayoraIty
fight.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-10-15

The lights o. London are now like the
snakes in Iceland. There aren't any.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-10-15

Sir Edward Carson wants II to be under
stood that he Is not a quitter.
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GARRICK This a Next Week Eyss. s'is -
UNDER COVER TEE EAs sIzT ETuET1al,s ET4a
y POP POP PRICE WE'D MATS. Best Seats 500 :.
MRS. WHITNEY'S FASHION SHOW
$500 TO soc. Seats Now SELLING
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-10-15

~ 1s1O MATINEE TOMORROW, IN
THE ONLY MUSICAL SHOW IN TOWN
GLANDS UP" With MAgRIcE 4AgIr .ad u. ~,
FANNIE BRIcE, BOBBY NORTH
GEORGE HAssELL, WILLARD sIAd1ds.
ARTIE MEHL1NGER and 100 GAY QihN
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-10-15

~ sos scoHld be trusted as friend you must
speob Of Others behind their back
as pleasantly as before
their face.
Evening star., 1915-07-11

Of phosphate rock and hence no ready
market for sulphuric acid. plans are on
foot to use that acid in treating tailings,
the old refuse from the smelling plant
when cruder processes were in use. in
order to extract therefrom the copper ana
other metal values remaining in them.
The process that will be applied is one Of
roasting the tailings and teaching the
roasted product with acid.
Meanwhile, not satisfied that all the
problems in this direction have been
solved. DR.. Cottrell himself. as well as
the scientists aided by the endowment he
brought about, is still deep in reasearch
and experimentation.
If, for example, 1t is practicable, as he
has demonstrated, to- dispel smoke and
fume, is it not also possible to dispel fogs
and mists, and if so, will not navigation
be materially aided thereby? That his
mind is running in this direction is indi-
Gated by the following from recent dis
cussion by DR.. Cottrell:
1T has been stated that IL powerful
Hertzian waves are sent out under proper
conditions into foggy air the alternating
fields set up in space cause an agglomera-
ton Of the particles of liquid into larger
drops, which then settle much more rap
idly.
Considerable work aimed at the appli-
cation of these phenomena to the dispell-
ing of fog on land and sea was said to
have been done some years ago in France
and England, but very little as to definite
results appears to have been published"
ASHMUN BROWN.
Evening star., 1915-07-11

sumo. together with all the bread
they can contrive to negotiate.
To Americans this may seem a
meager repast with which to commence
the day, but. be it known, no normal
Frenchman ever eats more than coffee
and rolls at breakfast time, no matter
how opulently his pocketbook may
bulge. For dinner. soup, meat, vege-
tables. bread. wine and dessert make
up the fare. The helpings are large
and succulent. Supper is the counter
part of dinner minus the meat course,
And 1t should not be forgotten that
all this comes at the rate Of 13 cents
a day, regardless of the astonishing
fact that everything edible in France
is selling at war prices. Even though
an experienced professional buyer has
been commissioned by Monsieur Lievre
to do the marketing for the village
there is a monthly deficit on the supply
books of 5000 or more which the
founder Of the "Village FIotant"
makes UP with his personal check.
Hygiene and health are courted as
siduously aboard the six brown barges
at the "Quaf de la Care" Posted con-
spicuously in each mess hall are blue
placards. on which the following
legend in big white letters voices the
universal motto of cleanliness that
safeguards the village: Cleanliness is
health. Be clean in your own person.
in your own home, and in the homes
of all of us!"
Evening star., 1915-07-11

hand at all the odd jobs aboard. In
doors, that is to say In the cabins, the
women of the community keep things
clean and tidy.
OF one irksome household duty, how
ever, the refugee mothers are relieved.
Perhaps for the first time in their
hard working lives they need no longer
bother their heads about kitchen work
and cooking. Their benefactor has
spared them this hitherto imperative
duty by providing a communal kitchen
and furnishing cooks and dishwashers
From this kitchen is fed the whole
village population, and each villager
is charged 13 cents day for his board
Since every one receives from the
French government, in common with
all other refugees in France. a daily
pension of 25 cents, the charge is far
from being a hardship. On the con-
trary, the villagers are rather glad
than otherwise to be allowed to pay
for their meals. They gain in self
respect and are proportionately better
satisfied.
But the 10 cents each they pay by
no means covers the cost of what they
consume. Their allotment of food is
ample. not to say generous For
breakfast they one and all file down
the steep companionway into the mess
hall. and. passing the kitchen door in
orderly turn. are given a steaming
mug of coffee or cocoa. which they
carry to the nearby tables and con-
Evening star., 1915-07-11
AEROPLANE PHASE OF WAR

which distinguish extraordinary SOL
diers from ordinary soldiers, were
positive that the aeroplane was useful
only for reconnaissance and that it had
ns., no. demonstrated any value for Of
Since the opening phases of the war
tnere nave been hundred raids made
with aeroplane fleets numbering be-
attacks by aeroplanes against rail-
roaos' naval and aeronautical bases,
forts and bridges have become ex-
&c teeeapsneiy eas numerous. and these at
more common and moro destructive
The Aerial Age says: Great Britain
Is employing $4,000 men to turn out
aeroplanes and motors, and has recent
ly ordered 400 machines in this coun-
try besides" dispatch from London
a few days ago said: 'Sky battles on
a scale the world has never dreamed
of will lend a new thrill to the Euro
pean war spectacle before many weeks,
and within the past. six months aero
plane factories here and in the United
States have been turning out scores
of biplanes designed to give England
supremacy in the skies"
It has been written that the British
air fleet now comprises $500 biplanes
and monoplanes and about hfty dirigi-
bles, all equipped for bomb-hurling
raids. The news also comes across the
seas that to challenge Great Britain in
the skies. German aeroplane and
dirigible factories have been working
day and night since last September.
The great Zeppelin works at Fried
are in operation twenty
four hours q day. and It has been
estimated that Germany now has in
The air 1000 Taubes.
1t IL noted that all the aeroplane
works in the United States and Cana
Ia have been remarkably extended and
hat new plants have come into being
,n orders for machines from Great
Britain and Russia.
The war seems to be approaching the
leroplane phase.
Evening star., 1915-07-11
DIR. FREDERICK G. corrRELL.

be saved and applied. Meantime. its
waste was creating havoc.
Wherever there was a smelter-and
even such large cities as New York
had smelters-there was a tribe of law
yers growing rich on smoke litigation.
Each smelter company had to buy up
great quantities Of agricultural land
in its vicinity. and to fight suits. some
OF them legitimate, some not. of per-
sons who asserted that their property
had been damaged by smelter fumes.
Several smelters were located in the
vicinity of national forests. Uncle
Sans national forest service engaged
heavily in this litigation. bringing IN
junction suits to compel the smelters
to cease killing tree life.
Several smelters had to quit in the
face Of protests of this sort. Others
had to convert large portions Of their
Evening star., 1915-07-11

Nor can his generosity be estimated
in terms of dollars and cents alone. He
spent time and thought as lavishly as
money. The result is economy and.
above ALL efficiency in the administra-
tion of the affairs of the village. He
himself is the chief administrator. I'm
der his eye passes every detail He
overlooks no slightest consideration
that might tend to the welfare of his
charges.
Though the organization and arrange
ment of the village Is rough and
ready it is as perfect as it well could
be u1.der the circumstances. Three Of
the six barges are given over to the
housing of families and two more have
been converted into dormitories, one
for single men, the other for young
women. In the sixth barge are two
mess halls with kitchen and pantry
sandwiched in between.
Each barge has its own heating plant
"a couple of charcoal drums placed
fore and aft-and its own lighting sys-
TEN. a handful of oil lanterns that
swing from the rafters and smoke up
the matches. Water comes by hand
from the Village hydrant" on the.
shore.
The street cleaning department" is
a volunteer organization composed of
the villagers themselves, who lend
Evening star., 1915-07-11

other expenses connected with the
nuisance and damage questions, but
without securing permanent relief.
After the first experiments in electrical
precipitation, and after engineering de-
tails had been worked out, a Cottrell sys-
tenn. costing, all told, about 100000, was
installed, which, as in all these systems
operates on the principle of catching the
dust on electrodes
This particular dust was made up not
of finished cement, but of raw mix, con-
tanning small percentage of potash. most
OF which is caught in soluble form in the
dust. making the latter, even in its crude
form, fertilizing agent which finds
ready market at nearly as good a price
as the finished cement.
This says Dr. Cottrell, in discus
sion of the subject, 'is another example
of plant put in at a supposed loss pure
ly to avoid trouble with the neighbors
proving not only to cover its own operat-
ing expenses, but actually to pay rather
handsome return on the very considerab BILE
investment involved"
X
Not every part Of the country in which
the Cottrell process has been applied to
smelter fumes is there a market for the
by products collected therein. But means
of applying the by-product to economic
uses are being worked out.
For example, at the great smelter at
where there is no ready supply
Evening star., 1915-07-11

Half an hours journey by boat up the
Seine from the heart of Paris the
floating village" lies at anchor. a
short two yards offshore from that por-
ton of the left bank known as the
"Quai de la Care"
Monsieur J.ievre. one of those rare in
dividuals who like to superintend per-
sonally the things they want well done.
has chosen this spot to moor the viii
lage because 1t is directly opposite his
lumber yards. where he need only look
from the window of his Office to COM
events aboard.
SURPRISING beauty. Though, in gen.
eral, the Seine is a remarkably lovely
river, 1t loses most of its accustomed
charm in the neiehborhood of the "Quaf
de la Care" and becomes for a time
fernddngly ugly, ,ta Mereab1nts eab1,as .ns its
fronted at intervals with narrow stone
docks. jutting piers and wooden land
ing stages. Grimy barges pass up and
down its bosom. Rafting cranes and
derricks fill the air with jarring
of commerce. not of romance.
Yet here. by a strange irony. huddled
three-by-three and bow to boy. almost
rubbing elbows with the cobbled beach,
lie the six brown barges of the "Float-
ing Village" veritable abodes of the
fierce romance that follows in the train
of war.
Only a year ago these snub-nosed
frumpy scows piled their stolid trade
up and down the river. sordid bearers
of a sordid burden, passive servants of
a prosaic commerce.
Now, Transformed they ship a very
different freight, and. where lately only
lifeless tons of coal and lumber. sand
and stone lay inert beneath their curv-
ing matches, breathing scores of men
and women, boys and girls, I'LL their