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The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1916-09-30

SIMPLY, EFFICIENCY PAYS
Looking over his $50, 900 profits
for the year, Mr.. Henry Ford says of
his workmen:
Every man, being interested in
the success of the concern works
with all his heart and soul and re-
suits are wonderful The men make
the machines and sell them"
Largely the results of making
Rorkmen's jobs worth while But we
want the reader to fully grasp what's
behind the statement that the work
men make the machines and sell
them" Being personally concerned
in the SALE of those machines, the
factory hands make the parts there
of as nearly perfect as they possibly
can, and Mr.. Ford is generous
enough to state that the superior
workmanship on his machines does
sell them.
In how many>other great factories
does the positive interest of the man
who actually makes the product fol-
low the product to its final market?
Tell us and wen tell you something
about the movement of and for
greater efficiency" that you can't
learn by theorizing until you're black
in the. face.
-o-O- ...,
NAMING NO NAMES
The green and white striBed avn
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-05-01
The Versatile Mr.. Robinson

(cuIed from an article in a local evening con-
temporary
Manager Wilburt Robinson said this after.
noon "coombs is one of the biggest finds in
years for He is himself; the last season
proved that. He is more; he helps every way
he can, and that sort of a player is past all
mere monetary value. l expect to work him
tomorrow, though reserve the option to change
my mind at the last moment.
qSey changes to minor
Pat" Moran and Robinson strobe out to the
diamond this afternoon. went ankle deep into
the mire and yelled back, "Game onP
The pair left the Phllies' bench. Suddenly
Robinson spoke: We'll I'll be slammed. / only
bought these kicks yesterday, Pat"
ITS sort Of soft, Ill admit" replied Manager
Moran.
Sort Of soft. Where do you get that? It's
quieksand l amt goin to kill players in
this stun, Say, Jake Daubert would
sink at first base, I would have to pull MIN out
with derrick Maybe you would like to have
him 20 down in the mud and stay there an
winter. Next spring you'd dig him up ana have
a real first baseman"
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-05-01
Comparison of Sieges

Editor OF "What Do You Knoto"-Can yoal
tell me how the siege of Kut-el.Amara compared
in point of time with the sieges of Port Arthur
Richmond, Vicksburg. Plevna, Metz Ladysmih
Lucknow. Adrianople and other modern siegesil
H. T. U,
General Townshend's force in Kut-el,AmaFa
withstood the onslaughts of the Turks and saf|
vation for 143 days. The Russians shut n
Port Arthur In 1905 hold the record in reeealI
warfare in this regard, having fought on tha|
Japanese 241 days before surrendering. HOY
ever, Sebastopol held out 334 days and eYaI
then the defenders did not surrender, but wih|
drew from the city after destroying the shipal
in the harbor Again at Pevna the RussianI
beseged the city III days, losing 1s,50O ma
during the first day of fighting, while the Tufk.l
lost 30,000 during the entire siege The toAI
Russian loss was 10000. Richmond held oHI
$40 days. Vicksburg fell after being besegsal
by the Union force 21S days. During the Franc
Prussan War Paris was besieged 131 days aaa
starvation caused its fall Metz withstood us
onslaught of the enemy for 1874 days, and tf
commander. Marshal BaZaine. was. courtmaf
tailed for surrendering Przemysl surrendefs
after 200 days of fighting. Antwerp held o.
only nine days. In the Boer War LadysmiH
was besieged 11S days and Kimberly 126 days
Sir Robert Baden-Powell was besieged at MAI
king by General Cronje from October II, laH
to May is, 1900. In Lucknow during the Sepef
revolt, 100 men held off a force of 10000 IN
dams for II weeks. and then held the city Asl
two months after reinforcements arrived befof.
peace was restored. Adrianople was defends
by the Turks for 11S days before the attaeN
of the Bulgars who advanced on the city n
October, 1919.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-05-01
THE COUNTRY NEWSPAPER
"The Sweet, Intimate Story of Life" Makes
Its Columns Glorious

But the beauty and the joy of our papers and
their little Jorlds is that who live in the
country towns know our own heroes. Who knows
Murphy in New York? Only few. Yet in Em-
poria we all know Tom O'COnnor-and love him.
Who knows Morgan in New York? One in
a hundred thousand. Yet in Emporla who does
not know George Newman, our banker and mer-
chant prince, Boston people pick up their morn
ing papers and read with shuddering horrors of
the crimes Of their daily villain. yet read with
out that fine thrill that we have when hear
that Al Ludorph is in Jail again in Emporia
For we all know Al we've ridden in his hack
a score of times, And take up our paper
with the story of his frailties readers who
begin the narrative of an old friends adven-
lures.
drab and miserably provincial to strangers yet
we who read them find in their lines the sweet
intimate story of life. And all these touches of
nature makes wondrous kind. 1t is the coun-
try newspaper, bringing together daily the
threads of the towns life. weaving them into
something rich and strange, and setting the nat.
tern 1t weaves directing the loom, and giving
the cloth its color by mixing the lives OF all the
people in its coloT-pot-it is this country news.
paper that reveals us to ourselves that keeps
our country hearts quick. and our country minds
open and and our country faith strong.
When the girl at the gloye-counter marries
the boy in the wholesale house. the news of their
wedding is good for forty-line wedding notiee
and the forty lines in the country paper give
them self-Tespeet. When in due course we know
that their baby is a tweve-pounder, named
Grover or Theodore or Woodrow we have thai
neghborly feeling that breeds the real democ-
racy. When we read OF death in that home We
can mourn with them that mourn. When we see
them moving upward IN the world into Arm
and out toward the country club neighborhood
we rejoice with them that rejoice. Therefore men
and brethren, when you are riding through this
vale Of tears upon the California Limited and
by chance pick up the little country newspaper
with its meagre telegraph service of three or
four thousand words-or at best fifteen or
twenty thousand; when you see its array Of
countryside items its intermnabls local stories.
its tiresolne editorials on the waterworks the
schools, the street railroad the crops and die
city printing, don't throw down the eonternptfbIa
little ras With the verdict that there Is nothinz
N T. But know this, ana know It veil: II yo1
could laka the clay from yonH eyes ana read
tie Af1le uansF za Z e written. zon would and All
e aqaz beautiful aarroNIus. struggling aspir-
#Hs HeFza g II ena what 4aa saH would nate
zsa zazAsH zHH Hzzsz nanzH WITH feseEanI hzaszEs-
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-05-01
Answers to Saturdays Quiz

1. Lord WimbOrne is Lord Lieutenant Of Ire
land.
2. The British have not reached Bagdad aud
their surrender at Kut-el-Amara mark
the abandonment of their efforts,
3. Victor Herbert Is an American orchestra
conductor and musical composer.
4. oliver Wendell Holmes wrote "The One.
Hoss Shay"
5. Elias Howe invented the sewing machn
in 1845.
6. Shakespeare acted old mems parts.
I. Sitka IL south of Petrograd.
3. The next Congressional election Is on Ne.
vember Z.
o. The King of Spain king soon u
he was born. ~
10. The Government of the United States own
cable line to Alaska.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-05-01

faction, each keenly alive to the chance Of
,strangling transit. Mr.. Lane mobilized his
voters against the small loan last year and
II was only in his stamping ground that any
opposition of Importance developed He will
be more active this year
But we are going TO have rapid transit no
matter how the Lilliputans rave and conspire.
They cannot block the growth of this great
metropolis and deprive the masses of a splen.
did self-supportng public facility. They cannot
do it, because they wilt in daylight and are
strong only in the dark. This time daylight
bathes the whole transit question, and that
means popular approval
We say, therefore, to the people Of Frank
ford and to the people of South Philadelphia
and to those who live in Darby and West
Philadelphia, and to those along North Broad
street, in Germantown and Chestnut HILL in
Roxborough, Manayunk and the Northwest,
to the people in the great central sections,
and to all other citizens who have the wei.
fare of themselves and Philadelphia at heart:
Transit is not n political question. Leaders
who advise you to vote against transit seek
to betray you for selfish purposes. They
might better rifle your pockets. Avoid and
ignore them. Organize yourselves without
political or factional division for this one
fight, for this one vote, for this one project.
1t Is yours and yours only. Let no men
use you as tools to cheat yourselves. Or
ganize, pledge one another, in public meetings
send your messages of support, each section
to the other. Trumpet your purpose. BE
enthusiastic, and the little fellows who are
in secret of schemes to defeat the
loan will run to cover so fast that you will
imagine an epidemic of jack rabbits has ar
rived in town. Stand together and you will
win.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-05-01
The Canny Fisherman

I met an ancient fisherman
All in the misty twilight gray
He had two wee ones, in a can.
Twas without hope, or conscious plan
I hastened as, upon the way,
met an ancient fisherman.
And Fortune CHANGED to cast a wan
Pale smile on me that chilly day
He had two wee ones, in a can.
What Iuck?" 1 chartered. as I ran
When, fortunately, as I say
I met an ancient fisherman.
He poured for me, with rare philan-
Thropy a wee nip, without pay.
met an ancient fisherman.
He had two wee ones, in a can. A. A.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-05-01
QUIZ

1. What is the correct pronunciation Of "sIu,
Fein"?
2. DO members Of the British Parliament re
ceive salaries?
3. who Is Patrick Henry PcnrseP
4. What was the pigtai1 emblem Of h,
China?
8. why has the coming of May beer !,
source of anxiety to the authorities i,
various countries in recent years?
@. OF what liz silk made?
I. What distinction should be made In ths
use of the words further" and "fartief~'
8. what French statesman assassInatsa
at the opening of the present warf
o. From what source Is rubber obtained
10. who wrote the dramn Faust?
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-05-01

AN ESTEEMED fellow citizen, who has just
"A returned from a Western trip, reports
various siEus of the times:
In St Louis wight yclept Grubbs conducts
a restaurant which, certes, is known as
"Grubb's Grubbery" In Chicago he became
aware of "Baer, Gowns"
Arriving here, with all this upon his mind,
he noticed that one Manger conducts a res
taurant on Market near 18th street, and re-
called that manager" in French, means ito
eat"
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-05-01

Not the pressure Of other news. but the lack
Of action at yerdun, has kept that name from
the first page OF American newspapers The
suspicion is growing that Verdun may soon
be spoken of in the past tense Germany has
shot her thunderbolt and missed the mark as
surely she missed It az the AIaFne. 1t is
likely that another wild attempt may be made
on the impregnable heights which stand as
faithful as Frenehmen in the wide circle
around the city But after the first assault
nothing but the utmost confidence in victory
could justify further slaughter. II the Crown
Princes precious prestige could stin be won,
Germany might spare another hundred thou
sand men. Merely to take another chance
would be criminal. It Is TO be noted that the
offensive at yerdun is no longer exclusively
German and an offensive from beleaguered
post. when not the result Of desperation. Is 4
nptom Of strength which no invading army
can despiss. Il remains g Be seen whether
either France Or Germany has been IS dlz
propnEllonatslF .sakensd = Vezaan Is :
azks 1hs sezzaz nsees decisive
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-05-01

1t is all right for the Joint Committee of the
Bourse to urge the city to cooperate with it
in attracting attention to the advantages of
this port. but while the business men are
waiting for the city to act they can do great
deal themselves by demanding that all water
borne freight for them be shipped direct to
Philadelphia and by doing all their water ship
ping themselves from the piers on the Della
ware. They will have TO do it anyway If the
port is to grow
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-05-01

When the battleship Idaho is launched in
Camden in June the ways will be clear for
another big ship. Congress has not authorized
the construction of any vessels to take its
place in the shipyard. If the customary prac-
tice is followed. it will take months to draw
the plans for the new ships which it is hoped
this Congress will authorize and more months
to get bids and award the contracts The
navy will be stronger when the Idaho is An
ished; but this will not be until the middle of
next year, The Mississippi and the California,
vessels Of the same type as the Idaho, are still
on the ways. and there is no prospect of their
completion till late in 1917.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-05-01
EXIT THE QUILL PEN

A curious result of the 'jacking up" which
all departments of the British Government have
experienced result of the war has been
the final abolition of the quill pen in Government
service. An English correspondent of Office
Appliances says that these relics of medevalism
had hung on in certain eisurely places, but at
last they have had TO go, to make place for the
more businesslike metal pen.-Outlook.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-05-01
Tom Daly's Column
RrRRY II. or p.

on, hear our 'rah-'rah-rdh, Berryi
We do not care a strawberry,
As long as zoe hare Dou, Berry,
To tcedr the Red and BlueberrV
Our skies toiH not be blackberry
with voW upon the track, Berry,
Because zoe cannot lose, Berry.
Old Penn toould be gooseberrV
II you should cease to be
The jon that makes her chuckle:
"He'S ny little h-u-huckle
Hucbleberry, U. of Pr
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-05-01

Harmony reigns again. Sweet concord
purrs its blessing over Brumbaugh and Pen
rose. Both now morally certain that
one, at least, is not a candidate for the Presi-
dency. And yet, strange paradox, several
Pennsylvanians rather suspected as much be-
fore either gentlemen spoke.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-05-01
BONELESs PEANUTS.

THEATRICAL managers with the loud
i pedal on the musical comedy promoters)
are notoriousy bunch of sheep. If play or
a song gets by big, there'll be a dozen more
like it on the market right off the bat-but we
never believed this of the book publishers until
we noticed a local firms ad. of "Our Miss
York" patterned upon Edna Ferber's Our
Miss McChesney."
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-05-01

That Germany be humble when it suits
her purpose, and when several hundred thou
sand men are under arms to compel her, can
be learned from the official statement that
Switzerland has received abject apology
for the flight of German aviator over her
soil. AS yet it has not been discovered
whether the aviator who has been dismissed
killed 115 Swiss men, women and children.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-05-01

Senator Lodge and John Bassett Moore have
been elected vice presidents of the American
Society of International Law. succeeding Mr..
Bryan and James B. Angell Mr.. Angel is
dead and Mr.. Bryan-well, when he went to
Washington to tell Congress what to do in the
German crisis he discovered that he was not
so live as he thought he was
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-05-01
New Jersey Corporation

Editor of "What Do You Knoto"-In forming
a corporation under the New Jersey law Is M
formed under general statute special chartef
how many incorporators are required and hon
ch stock must be subscribed? t. H
If you wish to form corporation you win
have to employ a lawyer. anyway. 1t will bsl
wiser. therefore to put your question to him
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-05-01

Profit sharing is enjoyed by the employees
of 200 American enterprises, but what does the
National Civic Federation call it when the
employees of 100000 American enterprises get
their weekly wages whether there is any profit
in the business or not?
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-05-01

Those German submarine commanders who
had such difficulty in communicating with
headquarters several months ago when mis-.
takes were occurring seem to have developed
a new system of wigwagging their chiefs.
Since the ultimatum was sent by President
Wilson not one doubtful ship has been sunk.
Or perhaps the British have cleared the seas
again, just as they did last year?
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-05-01
Grave Diggers Strike

The zrayadissns force in the Holy Cross csHastsrv
At Yeadon struck loday Tor pay. FUNERAL cor
tsEes drove thrensh miles q rain. the action q
TIE strikers Feaata IN paes the bodies Ia the Fall
Basfonr-AaaaIuh Geady-
= T. H. uho discovered the above h TIE
seoraezra. remarks that ona strike lsnt much
70 azaz ahant feT Raaslph
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-05-01
REMAINING BERLIN

New names suggested for the town of Berlin,
Ont, reported in Canadian papers. \
sends in Vermion, Elyria, Dorain
Somebody else suggests Woodrow Then there
are lot of names, like Cave Verdun.
Allies, Marine and Belgium. New names arrive
daily. and there is faint possibility that the
war will end before Berlin's committee selec-
ton can make a choice.-Cleveland Plain
Dealer
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-05-01

The summer headquarters of the Austro-
Hungarian Embassy will be at Patchogue,
N. Y, this summer The German Ambassador.
however, is delaying his summer plans till he
knows whether the American climate will
agree with him
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-05-01
Bean Boundaries
JUDGE SULZBERGER

JUDGE SULzBERGER
They put helmet on your head,
A dainty thing as light as lead
Which hugs your domes circumference.
They press lever tnot too hard)
And pins record upon card
This curious sort OF dotted fence. y.
In this, that holds these rhymes, you see
bralny legal boundary; =
For here the highest thoughts intrench. =
within these little dots we find
The measure Of mighty mind.
For lons glory TO the Bench. ~
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-05-01
Notice

To the ladies of Allentown and my old Gus.
toners the rag.man that drove the two black
horses from Bethlehem now drives two gray
ones and instead of blowing a whistle will toot
an automobile horn and will drive over his route
before Tuesdays and Fridays. 24-l2t
Allentown Pa) Call.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-05-01
What Do You Know

Queries Of general interest toill be ans,psrs
IN this column. Ten questions, the anscs,
to tchich eUery aoeH-informed person shouu
knotU, are asked daily.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-05-01
Little Act of Kindness"

Editor of "Vhat Do You Rnoo"-Here is q
poem requested by Elizabeth in the EyENls
LEDGER for April 81;
LITTLE ACTS OF KINDNESS
1t isn't the thing you do. dear.
It's the thing you leave undone
That gives you bit of heartaehe
At setting of the sun.
The tender word forgotten;
The letter you did not write;
The flower you did not send. dear
Are your haunting hosts tonight
The stone you might have lifted
out of brothers. way;
The bit of heartsome counsel
You were hurried too much to say
The loving touch of the hand. dear,
The gentle winning tone
Which you had no time or thought for
With trouble enough OF your own
Those little acts OF kindness.
So easily out of mind
Those chances to be angels
Which We poor mortals ind
They come IN night and silence,
Each sad. reproachful wrath.
When hope is faint and tagging
Ana chill has fallen on faith.
For life Is All too short dear.
And sorrow Is all too great
To suffer our slow compassion
That tarries until too late:
It isn't the thing you do dear.
It's the thing You leave undone
Which gives you : bit OF heartaehs
Al the setting OF the sun.
+ Is b Margaret Z. sangster
The poem has also been seat u b AIss
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-05-01

Whoever planned the caves that are to be
built on the municipal Fairgrounds was boy
once himself and has not forgotten it.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-05-01
Looking Ahead

"IJAVEN'T you decided yet where you're
4 to spend the summer"
"Oh, yes mother insists upon Newport but
she and father are hopelessly divided about
where we1l spend the fall"
"1ndeed?"
"Yes, mother says the Catskls and father
says the almshouse."
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-05-01

If Congress were determined to prevent the
adoption of any preparedness plans it could
not be going about 1t in better way.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-05-01

The circus at Hunting Park avenue and
10th street will interest people who have been
Indifferent to the one that has been exhibiting
in Penn Square since the first Wednesday in
January
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-05-01

Sir-Here are an ad. and a sport note
clipped from the same paper:
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-05-01

Eat so? An whatll ireland be talkin' in
them days?
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-05-01

The Dubuque College quintet which is com.
posed of two former West Philadelphia High
School runners, arrived in town and took few
spins up and down the track yesterday.
Morning Contemporary.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-05-01

Some quintet" comments B. V. r., "and
haven't friends Barnum & Bailey missed a
bet here?"
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-05-01
H. NJ. Wiener.

TNHIS, from our own dear paper, would lead
L one to suppose that the Frankford Theatre
which is being described is the home of COM
edy solely:
The approach to the foyer is down a gently Inclined
SLOPE hanked either side by ornate which
extend up to overhangng gallery from which you
balcony,