Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-01-13

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Wherever God crects house of prayer,
TIC Devil oi,cdys builds chapel there.
-Detoe.
Judge Gary could be elected to the presi-
dency of the Steel Trust.
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The victims in Mexico are waiting for
ever under the ground, but not watchfully.
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-Four million for the Art Museum is states
nanship. Mr.. Mayor, and we congratulate
you.
The issue of a second term, so far
Mfr. Wilson is concerned, is simply this;
Can-he get it?
The Chinese revolt Is subsiding. That Is
what a Chinese revolt generally does when
Ne,h eS'' DuSS'
The Irish members of Parliament are will
Ing to have every Engishman forced to
list in the army.
There is no doubt that the Kaiser is APP
preaching death Heiis one day nearer it
every twenty-four hours.
The explosions In the du Pont powder
mills are mild in comparison with the rue
tions in the du Pont companies.
General Joffrc says that Germany is wear
ing out; but his opinion would be more con-
vincing II he could point to the holes
Now that the pre-primary has selected
candidate for the senatorship, nothing re-
mains for the primary but ratification.
Slough plans attack on Sunday vaude-
ville-News head.
That word Sunday is ambiguous.
Camden County showed a surplus of
$2s1, 1871 for last year. Prosperity. like q
Colossus of Rhodes, straddles the river.
Doctor Mebane insists that he is eligible
for the postmastershp of wilkes-Barre be-
cause he loves the flag. He even owns one
Did the Governor think that William H.
Balls experience as custodian of city prop
erty- qualities him to take charge of a presi-
Dental boomlet?
The difference between a formal blockade
and an informal one. as England knows
would be to make legal most of the things
now being done Illegally.
The campaign of the Greater Builders Ex-
change resulted in about 600 applications for
membership yesterday. 1t will be hard to
keep such n bunch of hustlers down to a
1000 limit
A fine line of weather samples is being dis
played by the forecasters; but just as we
have selected one that suits he snatches il
from our hands and gives something en-
tireiy, different.
cessful cannot permit the liquor business
to be the predominating influence or party
plank In our acknowledgements Ware.
Yet under such conditions it was sue
cessfuI in 1914.
Seven former presidents of the American
Bar Association have asked Mr.. Wilson to
appoint Mr. Taft to the Supreme Court; but
Mr. Wilson's political advisers have been
heard from the other way.
Whether flushing the streets, as recon-
nended by the Walnut Street Business As
ISOLATION. would prevent the spread of grip
or not, there is little doubt that it would
make walking less dangerous
Villa win doubtless stage a few more as
sassinntions II he can be assured that inter-
vention will follow. OF Mexicans who have
figured IN the news in recent years there are
doubtless few who ought not 10 be hanged.
The Alabama courts have decided that the
bensneiaries OF a man hanged for murder
cannot collect his insurance policy. How
about a statute ordering the proceeds to be
paid 10 the dependent heirs of the murdered
victimg
The War Department engineers have re-
ported that an inland waterway from New
York Bay to the Gulf by the Great Lakes
can be completed for only s4,7s0OOO II this
were Germany the Government would find
that money without delay and complete the
work
William II. Andrews is following many
notable presidents in becoming candidate
for the Senate from New Mexico The new
States have been very friendly 10 the men
who assisted them in their night for state
haad. and politicians who failed to crafty
their ambitions in the East have been sue
The west. The late Senator John l.. Wilson.
Qf Washington, once confessed that be went
q khe Far. West because competition was
less eeufe there than In the East and said
tat L ne had remained In Indiana, his ma