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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-04-26

I hope they won't do anything to break
up the Jitney business. 1t is n fine thing
for people 10 get out in the fresh air on
Sunday afternoon.-Remark of n gray
haired d-clerlH in Broad street cigar store
last night.
DY THEY" this man meant those powers
ID which are in the habit of interfering with
all activities which in any way affect the
profit from their business, You cannot put
your hand on this man or that man and say
that he is one OF them" but that does not
remove the impression that there is an in
indefinitely, as they" as the Greeks, TO
escape the resentment of their demons. called
the Furles, the "well wishers" And the
cigar store clerk was putting in words the
thought that was in the back of the head of
many man who took his family jitneying
yesterday afternoon. The people went out
while they could, for they did not know how
long the privilege of a cheap ride would
continue.
It is too fine a thing to be stranged by any
insldious power. And It will not be driven
out OF business II the responsible men en-
gagged IN It use their influence to protect IL.
Half b dozen vicious jitney drivers can do
more harm TO the new enterprise than can be
counteraeted by the efforts of all the decent
spectacle amusement It has been welcomed
in this city where there are few ways in
which 20 get pleasure on the first day of the
week. and II must be allowed to develop as
the demand for 1t grows.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-04-26
Shifting Back to Prosperity

FTlHE clouds of business depression nave
i begun to lift The cause obviously is
heavy European buying. The steel trade
which is a basic American industry. has
been vitalized by orders. So, too, prac-
tcally all crops. except cotton, have brought
a good price Moreover, there is feeling
of confidence that following a declaration
OF peace there will be even larger demands
on, this country from Europe, enough to
keep our factories on full time for many
months
Depression has ottvanished entirely. But
Il has receded far and optimism Is the key
note 1t always paysfto be n bull on Amer
lea, for the nations business Is funda-
mentally sound. 1t is a period of adjust
ment, as the whole fabric of business has
been influenced by the war; but 1t is an
adjustment that carries prosperity with 1t.
The effects of a low tariff have been
minimized for many months and the coun-
try has responded. Even the calamity
howlers have to give up the shouting and
get to work. That in itself is very
auspicious sign.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-04-26
Put the "Get.there" in Philadelphia

Put the "Get.there" in Philadelphia
THERE IS but one way in which to get
l. rapid transit and that is to vote for It,
It means much to the average citizen to be
put many minutes closer to his business and
many minutes closer to his dinner. 1t means
much to him too, to be relieved of burden
some exchange tickets and ot double charges.
From any part Of the city to any other
part Of tho city for cents is what rapid
transit means, for the kind of transit it is
proposed TO have Is not only rapid, but is
economical also
Rapid transit, however, means more to the
city as a whole than 1t does TO any individual.
ouic, lines Of communication made great
cities possible The growth OF cities has
paralleed their railway facilities. The
greatest era Of urban development followed
the introduction of electric cars, They made
the intricate city life OF today possible. 1t
may be stated as a general proposition that
superior transit facilities are prerequisite
to metropolitan achievement.
More important than any other improve
ment planned or contemplated in Philadel-
phia is rapid transit. 1t promises now
arteries, new system Of circulation. 1t
means n close union between centre and cir
cumference, q vast increase Of home ter
ritory, a new impulse to the city's growth
and development, an asset on which poster1ty
can rely in expanding the city and intensity
ing its prosperity.
Don't be a pullback Don't be non-voting
mollycodde, too busy to give few minutes
Of YOUR time to Philadelphia Not to vote
for the loan is to be against 1t,
Be a booster who supplements his lip serv-
Zee with active work.
Vote for the rapid transit loan.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-04-26

AFTER long and serious consideration tho
"A Interstate Commerce Commission has
decided that the Southern Pacific Railroad
Company may operate the vessels of the
Pacific Mail Steamship Company SO long as
it does not send them through the Panama
Canal
But Of what benefit is the decision? The
Pacific Mail Company has announced that 1t
will 20 out of the shipping business in No
vernber because of the burdens and restrio-
tions of the new shipping act passed nom
inally to secure greater safety for passen-
gers and greater comfort for American sea-
men It's effect, however will he to abolish
American ships and American seamen un-
less all signs fail. Robert Dollar, one of our
largest shipowners, says that he will have
to seek Chinese registry for his vessels en-
gagged in the Pacific trade because he cannot
continue to do business under American reg
istry And the Pacific Mail plans to go out
of business entirely.
This is the way the merchant marine
is being rehabiltated by the party which
has for more than a generation been blam-
ing the Republicans for destroying It by
tariff laws!
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and-death struggle renders the beliigerents
more ana more presumptuous in their treat
nent Of neutrals.
II will be a miracle II the United States
is not required before this war Is over TO
put It's foot down firmly and declare; SO
far end no farther. When that time comes,
this Government must control so great
force that no nation will tamper with our
rights. Already the war has demonstrated
that great navy is a guarantee Of security
at home and weight Of argument abroad, 1t
is madness, therefore, not to provide a navy
commensurate with the enormous interests
Of the nation, navy of such preponderant
power that our voice for peace will be de-
terminative in council
The political party that stands sduarely
for a big navy, without subterfuge or de-
ceptlon, is the party that will win in the
next national elections. The nation needs
two kinds Of protection.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-04-26
"NATIONAL DEFENSEY' IN 1872

THE present lack of adequate preparations for
i national defense is real enough, but It is no
new thing, This country seems to have a habit
Of being in such a condition. We all know how
grossly unprepared It was in 1912. for the war
OF its own declaring, toward which IL had been
expectantly looking for years; so that It was
unable to protect It's own national capital
against handful OF invaders. We can remem-
ber too, the fine blue funk IN which so many
OF the dwellers on the Atlantic coast were for
time in the late Spanish war, But those clrcum-
stances were characteristic. Back IN 1893. only
10 years after the conclusion of the Revolutions
airy War. we had let some OF our most import
ant defenses fall into almost hopeless disrepair.
There has recently been made public the text
of an old letter written TO Governor Clinton. OF
New York, 1893. by Sebastian Baumann. a colo
mel of New York artillery, upon this subject.
Apparently It was not the first time he had
written, either. for lie began 1t with a reminder
that ne had written before to the Governor
about the same matter The carriages Of the
brass field artillery" he said. are much out
OF order, and unfit for service unless they have
a thorough repair. These carriages have been
IN use throughout the late war and exposed 70
the weather. which has caused the wood to be
spongy and rotten. The horses harness wants
overhaullng such as olling and Stitching
The lack Of ammunition. which Is so serious
a feature OF the present situation. existed at
that time, also I'VE have" wrote Baumann,
mo cannon powder in the magazine. and as
the state Is frequently called upon 70 return
thaE point OF honor shieA foreign naElens pa
- epE aaE "a eatalias 'eaE past i NepiA ~
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-04-26
Kicking a Man When He is Down

TLECTION frauds were not the only
II crimes of the rulers Of Terre Haute, now
serving sentence in the Federal prison at
Leavenworth The City Council has for
mally dismissed from office Mayor Roberts,
who went to prison few days ago, and the
offenses charged against him were drawing
warrants on the City Treasury 10 pay attor-
neys engaged in private litigation, attempting
to bribe Councilmen to vote for ordinances
which he wanted to have passed, caus-
ing the arrest of citizens on trivial charges
and refusing to allow them to be released
on bail And, finally, because Of conviction
in the election case.
The last reason was enough to Justify the
removal of the Mayor from office; but II Is a
sign of a wholesome public sentiment in the
community when it demands that additional
and obvious reasons be given which had not
been considered by the courts, Kicking
man when he is down is seldom justihable
But no one win hold It up against the
Terre Haute Council.
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seek reinsurance in its polished periods True,
NJ. Bergson is as fond believer in the 'oc-
cult as any of your savages; In accepting
the presidency of the Society for PsyChical
Research "I am led TO believe in telepathy"
Che saldD Just as L believe in the defeat of
tho Invincibe Armada" But I am Gained
when L find NJ. Bergsons dreaming ego en-
ploying words as neatly Joined, as magically
persuasive the awakened Bergson's lee
lures before the students and idlers and fair
women who crowded the benches In his Col
lego de France, in days before the war
The savage thinks that If an animal lives
and moves (writes Doctor Frazer, of Liver
pool and Cambrdgo-who was knighted just
before the war; it can only be because there
is n little animal inside which moves it. If
n man lives and moves, 1t can only be be-
cause he has n little man inside who moves
and steers him through life. That mannikln-
steersman with an inside seat is the soul.
And the Nootkas of British Columbia, go
further than this; they sure that the soul
is made in the image OF the man whom it
animates; that its seat is the crown of the
head; that long it stands upright its
owner is hale and hearty; that the moment it
loses it's balance its owner loses his wits.
Now, there is no more danger of NJ. Berg
ance than there is of NJ. Bergsons physical
little fingers tracing across the page sem
tences that make bad style 1t is a fine
mannikIn, NJ. Bergsons, and when it walks
out Of evening to enjoy itself dreaming
it walks erect and decorous, quite resolved
not to associate with the shocking mannikins
of DIR. Sigmund Freud and his unhappy
patients
NJ. Bergson's mannikin is slight and rather
dapper; it swings light cane with the most
debonair manner imaginable in the case of
a philosophers dreaming ego am no scholar
myself pretend to no deep knowledge OF
Bergson and psychology; therefore it is pos
sible that my last statement is inexact. On
reflection, l withdraw the remark about the
swagger little cane. NJ. Bergsons dreaming
ego wears the green uniform and palms of
the Academic Francase du Reve Drot: at its
side there hangs a dainty little sword. tren-
chant for its size, and wiped dry of ink
except when actually in use. NJ. Bergson's
dreaming ego is French from the peak of it's
cooked hat to the tips of its pointed little
toes; its walk is springy, and its eyes are
bright, and its profile birdlike-a highly
civilized oaElet. Yet CONTROVERSIAL, in the
extreme!
Thanks to NJ. Bergson. I can sleep now
without dreaming of the Bagabos of the Phil
ippine Islands, and ArIsteas of Proconnesus
whose soul some one saw Issuing from his
mouth in the form of a raven. Didn't you
ever read about him in Pliny's Natural
History?
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be amiss to have some powder In store for that
purpose, as we'll as for any other occasion. What
such "other occasion" might be was directly sug-
gested. 'It would not be improper" he wrote.
ito remind your Excellency here that our port is
the first in the Union. most conspicuous abroad
and most frequented by foreign nations on
count OF its safe and easy access, particularly In
the winter season. Yet the port OF New York,
with all these advantages, is the most defense
less. and cannot afford any shelter to vessel
which misfortune of war may cause to fly Either
for protection Nay, ship of war may capture
another in the very port. These ideas sus-
gasted some time ago TO the Surveyor General
OF the State. and from the present complexion
OF things in Europe they may soon be verified.
Thus situated, would It not be advisable TO ap-
ply 20 Congress for few iron ls-pounders. OF
which there a number at West Point OF no
use. and have them adYantageously placed
here TO prevent any undue encroachment?'
1t will not escape observation that the state
Of unreadness for defense which then prevailed
did not as some In these days affect 10 think II
infallibly must, prove preventive against war.
On the contrary. in spite OF our unprepaEednsss
We speedily drifted into war with France.
Colonel Sebastian Baumann. who probably waA
denounced by some ultra-paeihsts OF those days
as a lingo, a militarist and what not. was
close comrade OF Washington All through the
Revolution. He was preeeptor OF Alexander
Hamilton IN artillery practice and he was post
master al New York and Postmaster Gsnerah
lIis letter has been made public hy ~ great
grandson. George 4. Brepnan. psinzipat e fae
VA Yliaainsaa soAeal ellsase
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-04-26

National Security Requires Great Navy
TTlHIs is the richest nation in the world
i There Is none that approaches 1t in nat
ural resources and none probably in the
value OF it's human assets. 1t has been
SCARED by but few wars. It has been able
70 grow with little impediment. It has as
simulated the outpourings OF all nations and
nodded them into a new nationality, distinct
II itself Out OF dissimilar elements 1t has
created a new race OF men, who in their
turn have multiplied wealth. and built ma
terial evidences OF prosperity such as no
ether nation ever witnessed
II Is folly to assume that envy has not
bean aroused. Our increasing trade engen-
dsra new animosities. The international
4isppolnt is a novel thing IN the United
states. For more than a hundred years we
have been q corner Of the world unto our
selves Today our international relations
make us the mast important neutral factor
s. lhe n1rld our Interests are involved in
IcfeIzn 1efpsutions and wars. Hints of seri-
zas eempllsIons appear daily N the ness.
s Qz|d 81 q tension. The elndicatlon
. So zI3hss 3 3 continuous task Tor the
& state as HuzeFesu IE4r
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-04-26

rHE sIXTY-YEAR.oLD BOYs

1t once was the rule, in your youth'im9
mine, - IN de-
That the hfty-year man was far gone =
cline. ..nad as
That he wore bushy whiskers and s'o0psu
ne walked, 4slksds
And quavered a bit in his voice as ne nan man
But. OH. what a change has come o's'
kindl -. hilBa
The ffty-year younEster OF now ian nsvl
or halt or decrepit or whiskered-nay, ay,sSf
Thsre may be some snow at his temples :
truth; sray d
their youth" -.rsisht as
He laughs like a child. and he smiles pN'
god. sss-
no meet nm. 10 be in his presence, p ~
Insfead 81 December. he's Ap4A q 1ss
Ths alxfy-yeaz yoangater ia with a+
s1lEseAiaza e4.H',
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TWO NAMES OMITTED

To the Editor Of the EUsHin0 Ledger! .,, "a
Sir-Will you permit me TO call attelaoA at,Ig n.
what seems to be an instance OF glaIllIss -
accuracy or OF peculiar prejudice Ihe y ia Ian
clonedia britannica. makes no mention OF Ian
Maitland. the English churchman' VINO uu .,,r. =
much by his essays TO explode some OF lis ana
rent false statements about the cuslohhl5s are
writings of so-called ozark Ages" when ~ =.
gradually becoming lighter through the env I'm
of scholars Also, II Ignores Commodols yJ,- Nv
Barry, the doughty Irish-American' thousn Io1ss
ing column and half to Captain Fsul FatHIsH
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-04-26

% Collier's-"Bryan-Do Goat"
(2) Delineator-"Mother Jones'"
CD Metropolitan--"In the Great Cause
the Story of Pioneer"
(4) Musical America - "Mephistos Mu-
sings"
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-04-26
FOLKLORE AND
DREAM TRAVELS
A Psychic ManniSin With Dainty
Little Sword Who Keeps the Buga-
boos Away-The Antiquity Of
Nightmare.
BY WARREN BARTON BLAKE

T1HTS evening I read for an hour in a vol
i ume Of DR.. ]. G. Frazer's wonderful gar
nison OF folklore, which he calls THE Golden
BouEh" There I find accounts Of many saw
age concepts of what sleep means and
death; and Of how one may pass over from
ono state into the other only too simply. 1t
is a delightful occupation, reading 1.-THE
Golden Bough," and much prefer It to Doc
tor Hadwen's accounts Of ghost dreams and
their scientific explanation, and what the
Greeks thought of them, and the Romans
too.
1 wonder II mon of old didn't for that
matter, dream moro than we-or even the
Greeks? Today. in our locked houses, we are
still comforted or tortured by dream-travels;
refreshed or wearied according to our luck.
But how much moro powerful is Nature In
nights spent out Of doors: afeld, on sleep
ing porch under tho trees!
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-04-26
c THE SOULS PATH

There Is no short cut. patent tram road
10 wisdom. After all the centuries of invention,
the souls path lies through the thorny wilder
ness which must still be trodden i'm solitude
with bleeding feet with sobs for help. as 1t was
trodden by them OF old tlme.-George Eliot
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-04-26

Doctor Dernburg is stin paying tribute to
the mastery of the British navy by demand
ing an International guarantee of the free
dom of the seas
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-04-26

An American naval aviator has attained
a height of 10000 feet in a hydroplane
breaking all records. His craft however,
was uneneumbered with bombs
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-04-26

Rome hears that the war will soon be
over, but it appears that for Rome it has
not yet begun.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-04-26

The Riggs Bank contest indicates that
there is too much personality and too little
law IN some departments of the Government,
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-04-26

Those scientizts at odds about the nature
Of the earth's core should call IN the In
venter OF the hollow globe theory 70 prove
TO them that there amt no CORE
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-04-26

Speaking OF the Clay case, as gentleman
remarked on the subway. lucky ara they who
get a second trial
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-04-26
Narrow-minded Alarm Clocks

Nothing of just these matters is discussed
by Doctor Frazer to be sure-and his is the
book that Ive been reading. And as a
traveller l hope some day to fare to those far
off, primitive places he writes Of in his Col
den Bough," where the indigenous population
most thoughtfuly refrained from wakenng
the sleeper-"because his soul is away and
might not have time to get back; so IL the
man wakened without his SOUL he would
fall sick" The thought of never being
Weakened there, either by an uncharitable
household or the unmusical alarums Of an
insstent, narrow minded alarm clock made
of nickel and tin, fills my heart with JOY in
mere anticipation,
Yet even that joy has its terrors-for on
another page I read that the sick mans nose
and other natural apertures are secured with
fishhooks-"so that if his soul should seek to
escape it may be hooked and held fast" And
nothing can ever induce me to set foot on the
Malay Peninsula where the art of abduct-
ing souls and abusing them generally has
been carried 70 a pitch Of diabolcal clever
ness that favorably compares with anything
civilization can show. In the United States,
/ lind, my soul is fairly safe except in
waking hours I touch wood, of course, now
that have risked so rash a statement; but
you see my soul has always returned 10 me
in fairly sound condition from all it's joy
rides--up TO tonight,
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-04-26

Aldermen IN st. Louis are not like Coun-
cllmen in Philadelphia. One Of the Mis-
souri, gentlemen, for instance, has pleaded
guilty 20 forgery Ia the fTst degrees. No
Philadelphia Councilman haa ever done any
thins ne taet saEk
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The Souls of Savages

Up to tonight! l have said it, For I don't
feel like trusting myself to sleep tonight.
Probably I have read too long in Doctor
Frazers book about the souls of savages. Be
fore can dream anything but nightmares,
I shall have to reopen NJ Bergson's book, to
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-04-26

The new guns for the defense Of Manila
will shoot 10 miles, and the cost will be
$500 a shot Practice makes taxes,
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-04-26

Instead of being mistress Of the seas, the
English fleet seems to be the mystery Of th'
seas Where Is IL?
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Father Of the Ghuls and Jins

The nightmare too, is respectable in its
antiquity, and treatisos on IT, written in the
dead languages, have como down TO us from
authors born 2GOO years before the authors
of tho latest dream books. Colius Aurelanus
who laid down tho medical law to the first
century, tells us on the authority of Sill
machus, follower of Hirpocrates, who lived
600 years before Christ, that the nightmare
was once epidemic in Rome, and that great
numbers Of persons in the city died thereof
Nowadays we complain, waking, Of "a
weight on the chest, then it was succluctly
called the incubus" And II Is all the same
as tho bogcy man Of our own childhood l
suppose: and learned doctors say that the
bogey man gave birth to the ghuls and jins
of all the African peoples.
Nightmare says Doctor Itadwen, is horse
of another color from plain dreaming. 1t is
a state between waking and dreaming-a
semi consciousness. Tho grown men who
suffer from it are, in general indoor workers
often men OF letters. And we all have
blamed some Of these bad dreams on un-
wholesome or indigestible or unwisely con-
sumed dinners and suppers. Never were
Nightmares rife as in the heydey Of the
chafng dish Welsh rabbit. If n persistent
hostess obliges you to eat Welsh rabbit when
you know you shouldn't do It, insist upon
washing 1t down with teaspoonful of soda
bicarbonate in n cup Of hot water-pepper-
mint water, say some. But all dreams are
not bad dreams What Is any dream at all2
Bergson sums 1t UP very briefly in the two
ESSAYS which some one has made over into
an English book
a dream Is this. l perceive objects and
there Is nothing there. I men; l seem
to speak to them, and 7 hear what they
answer; there is no one there and l have
not spoken. 1t is all IL real things and
real persons were there, then on waking all
has disappeared, both persons and things.
How does this happen?
Here we have the question reduced to its
simplest terms, and by a master of puro
prose.