Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-01-05

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PHILADELPHIA, WEDNESDAY. JANUARY 5. 1916.
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It Is easter TO gain honor and esteem than
to regain them.
Congress once more has President its
hands.
The Mayor will be popular with men seek
ing a job, until he appoints some one else.
1t will be wise to doubt all those rumors
about the Kaiser until they are confirmed.
Perhaps Secretary Daniels is right when
he decides that the business of rear admirals
is fighting, not talking.
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Did Mars, the god of war. swear off or
swear on last saturday?-New York Sun.
Neither He simply swore
The Ford peace delegates are going through
Germany to The Hague in sealed cars. What
relief it would be If the seals should remain
unbroken for the next six months!
If you cannot save enough to buy an auto
mobile you ought to be able to buy ticket
to the automobile show next week, If you
begin practicing economy today
Secretary Garrison achieved fame first in
repartee. Now he is attending to the business
OF the War Department and seems to know
rather well what his business is.
The fact that 5000 900 worth of property was
stolen this year in excess of the amount
stolen last year, IN Philadelphia, ought to
be sufficient proof that prosperity has come.
II it takes Germany eight months to admit
that the Lusitania was unarmed, how long
will it be before it begins to make repara-
tion for the death of the Americans aboard?
Representative Dewalts Democratic coll
leagues Should get after him or he will get
them into trouble by his support of a sensible
plan for rehabiltating the merchant marine.
Mackensen veers with the wind-;or rather
against it, This time the storm Is coming
Balkans, and Mackensen has been sent to
head it off.
When men can get up in Pan-Amerlca
conference and suggest the gold dollar
the standard coin of the two continents,
America has Travelled long way from the
Is to craze.
II Great Britain attended little less to
neutral shipping and little, not to put too
nne a point on the matter. a very little more
to fighting enemies what a difference in the
world it would make!
The Monroe Doctrine would lose its last
vestige OF meaning If America intervened in
the European war - Israel Zangwill, in
Everybodys.
And that at the very time when its mean
ing begins to be important
1t is hard to believe the Berlin report that
'Greek public opinion is excited" by the
Allies refusal to give up certain Germans
= captured in Salonica. II the Greeks are
human they are much more likely 10 get
excited about the treatment of Venizelos by
the King. or by parade of the local fire
department
William burst, who fought on the Monitor
and got a medal of honor from Congress
because of it, lived TO the development OF
the armored battleship from the cheese-bOX-
on-a-raft stage to the great dreadnought of
1880 tons But more wonderful things than
that have taken place within the lifetime
of men born much later than this naval
veteran who has just died
Warden Osborne of Sing Sing prison is not
TO be tried on the indictments charging
neglect of duty and immortality after all.
The District Attorney has discovered that
something is the matter with them and he
is planning to secure new indictments. Until
he discloses the evidence in his possession
most of us will be inclined to believe that the
crooks outside OF Jail are more anxious TO get
rid OF the warden than TO bring about reform
In the administration OF New York's notori-
Gus penitentiary.
II would be a not inappropriate thing IL the
opponents OF conscription in England would
consider its object. Precisely 65l 100 eligible
unmarried men are meant by the drafting
law which. in its present limits. makes no
attempt TO enroll married men. While SO per
cent. of the married men of military age en-
rolled in the Derby campaign, with the
assurance that single men would be called
frst, but So per cent OF the latter volun-
teered. In all. considerably less than 5,0O0,-
900 men are still available for service of one
kind or another.
Progressive leaders may be expected to put
out feelers every day now until their
National Committee meets in Chicago next
Tuesday. Charles Summer Birds letter TO
George w. Perkins saying that only Hughes
or Roosevelt can be elected next November
Is one Of the most interesting balIons d'essai
- Qussfe Gardner Of Massachusetts Nould