Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-03-11

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PHILADELPHIA. SATURDAY, MARCH IL, 1916.
Not by years. bit by disposition, is ,cisdom
ccquired.--PluWtus
More reason than ever for a Patriotism
Fay
verdun will yet be craven on the heart Of
some nation.
Anyhow there is real preparedness along
the border.
The new Secretary of War was in it before
he knew he had begun.
/, When Villa gets through with the United
States there won't be any Villa.
Maybe the Mayor will be able to see in the
South what town without rapid transit looks
like.
Yet there will still be found in our midst a
man to say, Things are dun and there is no
news"
The Moewe does not appear to have been
properly impressed with the fact that Britan.
mia rules the
The Swedish Parliament. which has refused
to call peace conference of neutral nations
evidently knows what happens to butters-in,
How about Scent exchange tickets? Are
they any reasonable" than the cleo
tric light rates were? Are they, in fact,
legal?
After all the hubbub that's been kicked up
about it, it shouldn't be necessary to warn
any newspaper.reading American about trav-
cling on armed ships.
Senator Ashurst says that grapeshot is
better than grape Juice to in dealing with
Mexican bandits. He would better watch out
or Mr.. Bryan will get him.
There is no truth in the report that the At
Iantic fleet has been ordered to report TO Co
lumbus N. NJ, at once. The expedition is to
be military, not naval one
The Worllmen's Compensation Board has
been asked to determine what is agriculture"
1t isn't planting mushrooms in the cellar and
buying limousines with the profits.
Funston has been a banditgetter ever since
he took up that profession in the Philippines
more certain he is to get them.
My Lady Nicotine is recognized as one of
the most valuable nurses in the war hospitals.
That is why contributions are asked here for
the fund to buy tobacco for the Belgian
soldiers.
There about half a billion dollars more
in circulation in February of this year than in
the same month last year, or average in.
crease of about IS per capita. Did you dis.
cover this before the Treasury Department
gave out the figures?
Let us hope that no sockless, collaress
statesman will arise and offer a resolu.
ton warning Americans to keep out Of New
Mexico, because bandits have made living
there dangerous If we cannot protect our
citizens in foreign lands we can at least pro-
tect them IN our own,
The cities of the State spend about 80 cents
a year for preserving the health of each
citizen If they would use for wpng out
preventable diseases part of the amount
wasted each year by the politicians, the death
rate would show marked decrease.
1t is fitting that at Philadelphia, the
Cradle of Liberty, such a day should be cele-
brated-Presdent Boehm, of the Ad Mems
Club. of Atlanta
Quite so, and even more fitting that it
should be celebrated at such a period in the
worlds history.
The delegates TO the Pan-American Congress
In Washington two or three months ago
knew more about American history than the
American delegates knew of the history of
the South American countries. Harvard has
established chair of Iatin-American history
and elected a scholar from Argentina to fiji
IT, but it win take more than one professor
70 teach US what we ought to know of the
countries to the south of us.
Working ones way through college has its
disadvantages, as the secretary Of the Uni
versity Employment Bureau points out; but
there Is now and then a young man who
can start his college course handicapped by
poverty and yet get good education
that ne can Outdistance his more fortunate
competitors in the race for success in after
life. But after all, the average boy with only
$500 year is likely TO get more out of his
college course than the boy with $4,000 year.
rs It any more Of crime for a man to