Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-02-02


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Charles Kingsley.
The German sailors seem to know some
( thing about the sea.
1t is about time we had storm to keep up
the average weather for the winter
The new steel merger may be perfected be-
fore the formal Progressive Republican con-
solidation.
~ Now that the KS isn't going to turn into
tragedy, will some one please explain why
there are always six gunner's mates on board
a submarine and no gunner?
Colonel House has been told that American
diplomacy might accomplish more If 1t were
not hampered by publicity. 1t is so hard for
,&Germany to understand democratic govern
ment.
!, Fifty per cent. increase In the cost of build
ing work authorized this January, over the
first month of 1915, is slight measure of the
prosperity in Philadelphia. The total this
year is nearly $2,OOOOOO.
Two cents more for gasoline Price now
j, the fatal figure of 23 viii the producers ex-
plain just how much is due to increase of de-
mand, how much to scarcity of supply and
aohow much to pure cussedness?
20 Commissioner Jackson of the State De-
partment of Labor and Industry has issued
-"an ultmatum to bakers Bread must be
clean 1t recalls the famous musical comedy
order of four eggs-and one of them must be
r good
The Quartermaster General reports to the
House that the Government could equip
100000 within 80 days. Pompey was
going to stamp his foot and bring invncible
armies into the field. but the more he
stamped the closer to Rome Caesar got
The first definite figures about the use of
!. cotton in the manufacture of munitions have
been given to Congress by an expert from
the Bureau of Census. who said that
American manufacturers have ured 100000
bales in the last year and that 100000 bales
have been used abroad.
When 1t is announced that 220 midshipmen
are to be asked to resign from Annapolis be-
l-cause they failed to pass certain examina-
tions, the country would like to know whether
the questions they could not answer related
10 matters which it is imperative that good
X naval officer should know.
further step in the distribution of educa-
tfonal centres was made yesterday when the
new South Philadelphia High School for Girls
and the Frankford High School for Boys and
Girls were opened. high school education
is gradually becoming customary and
necessary a thing the grammar school
education of three decades ago.
The Reading has lifted it's embargo in or
der to avoid a coal famine in New England.
Do the Pennsylvania pacifsts doubt that
somewhere, in the secret files of jealous ma
tions there lies map of the coal mines of
this State. with information accurate
that possessed by the Department of the In
terror? Do the pacihsts of the Ozarlts feel
secure?
The colors of the books" issued by the
various Governments have ranged from
white to red but none is more sinister than
the "Black Book" which details the afro
eious prosecutions of Jews in the
gions. It has not been recorded that the
Jews have been "slackers" nor that they
Z Aaye lacked In valor. But persecution and
prejudice can, apparently, continue even in
the midst of war.
Internal wranglings in an institution de-
voted TO any form OF public service invariably
damage the good name of that institution.
sometimes unreasonably The dispute at the
Frankford Hospital. which bears the marks
xsef sectionalism and should never have become
public, win certainly not enlarge the conf
denee held by men and women in the eharae-
ter OF the hospital The affair should be set
tied quietly and swiftly.
The workings of the police department are
inserutable and mysterious to the lay mind.
Undoubtedly there are reasons" for the
shifting OF policemens homes Yet the same
lay mind does understand human nature a
bit ard II knows that the order to return
10 undesirable surroundings is bound to work
hardship not only the members OF the
force. but on their wives and children. AS
~ s. Gilbert wrote Take one eonsldeFa-
ton With another. a polieeman's lot Is not a
hsppy one"
rha National Cash Register Company has
anally admitted that it has violated the Fed
eral antitrust act By combining to restrain
and attempting TO monopolize interstate
Ifaas and commerce in cash registers. The
see against it was so strong that 1t was
useless for It 10 resist the courts any further.
his ends the civil action. There were
many agefieved competitors. who thought
.aFF he