Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-05-15

standing in the com.
munity for more than
decade or so. So, d-NB=u
while 1t may not have ]. q ,ou,....
been the great lawyer who had ~. !,
BOOKS in camp, It is a pretty .a,.
that many other students OF tbn.. ~
mad two ideas of preparedness cons..F
ana carried to the battle front ,o... 4
cellent preparedness for the ba,p.
their future incomes along ,,,,,,, ~
poor preparedness for the battle tor 4.
Union. W u@
Today 1t is the thing to saw ~, .
Is equivalent to sending young msr e.
to be murdered to send them ou, -. -
six or eight months in training c.,.-
And 1t is true; but in the Civil War u-'.
was not one soldier in ten that baa -
training worth speaking of. Thev ~,
sent to the front like lambs 10 be h,,,.v
cred, and IL they were not butchsr.a !, 9
was because the other side was an euusl
ly raw set of lambs.
The Home Guard
Philadelphia was a mighty scared M.
the summer day that It Learned N,
rebels had crossed the MARYLAND NJ.
There was gold In the banks which n.
men in gray could use very well. shoO.
were boarded up, families sat tremb,i,.
In their parlors, awaiting doom. Wort
Of all, the industrial life Of the city soa
section, which had gone on Npeacefupv
In spite of the war; would be suddsn,v
wiped out for heaven knew how rarv
years. Promissory notes, contraef,
careers seemed to have dropped into n.
abyss of worthlessness over night n
seemed perfectly absurd that youth Nh,
Mr.. Johnson should drop their studies
as absurd as 1t seemed to the Londou
clerk who went to work as usual on,
day to find that Zeppelin bomb had
eradicated his office and the PLACID rur
tine of existence.
The youth of the city were not alto
gether unprepared. There were emst
gency regiments that used to paIad,
about the streets now and then; but wsla
rather innocent of target practice IN
one of these were the late Chief Justict
Mitchell, the late David W. Sellers
Frank H. Rosengarten and Mr.. johnson
These Home Guard men were ordered %
the front, which had Unexpectedly ben
brought SO near home. They thouga
they were going to be massacred.
For we read history backward. n
are taught that the Union army won q
Gettysburg before we are taught thA
1t looked as If the Union army was going
to be beaten at Gettysburg. We ought
to be taught history the other way round
in the sequence in which 1t happened
1t Is so easy to talk about the mistake,
of leaders in the past, seeing that w
have the advantage of knowing what was
going to happen. But we wouldn't have
known what was going to happen II wed
been in their shoes.
The Home Guard wasn't slaughtefsd
The Union line held at Gettysbufs
Fate said that others, who would has'
been famous men. should do certain
things which saved Philadelphia; ana
then get buried. The young Philadel'
phians saw hardly any action; II seems
that they did little more than exchangs
few hazy shots with the foe. WINS
in the field they received their daily mal
from this city regularly, and one of tnel'
so the story goes, got letter, from aus
mother every day. One day his comraae-
heard q bull believing. They iooAea
around for the bull. There was no pull
1t was their comrade believing, VIVA.
was the matter with him? He naah.
gotten letter from his mother tna'
day.
A DEPRESSION on Penmanship
They returned to the city ana wen.
back to work. In the case OF the srss'
lawyer, who. as 80 few persons seem 7
know, has had military career, tne ~
cident must have been a rather weieosnY
diversion. For he had some dismal tAsa'
to perform in his apprenticeship ~
johnson was a typewriter" before ~
days of typewriters. Nowadays iavss.
tells the young lady at the machihp =
make five copies of a brief--one iof 90
side and three for the Judges ehe -
SO. with ease-and with carbon pAPs'.
She has to write 1t only once bu. =
the SOS (and '7Os and sos, tool II az e
to be written in long hand-Yery "
hand, at that. The lawyer would 80
In and strike the young amanuensls e4..
by tossing down a SO-page brief anu !.
dering Ave copies by 8 o'clock tol'9.'s' :.
morning. That would mean sit'ins
all night long, writing with pen anu - -
and in Spencerian handwriting 'n7 -
thing over and over again.
sickening task; no wonder Mr, ~.
son lost his interest in penmansnip - :
wrote a beautiful hand. II Is sAaa :
have been a perfect hand by thoss w. w.
good memories. He still writes a psAs.. =.
ful hand. but it is not perfect manu- s
beauty is the beauty Of the wiia - &.
OF barred boughs and twigs asains' -
winter sky. 1t has the stamp o. -
misunderstanding. -
Mr.. Johnson is the most moos1'
In the United States. He knows
good a lawyer he is; but II is not li'', w..
est TO know ones eapabilities-si'a -
tations. And. by the BY, his pts.'.'.
nence is OF long standing, for az ions -
as 1878. as a Judge recently Feills q. E
there was no lawyer better than - - {.
philadelphia. But ne is really ine1ss
s - ,htch raad his aul9r''