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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-05-31
BRUMBAUGH TODROp
THREE MEMBERS or
REGISTRATIONBOARp
Governor Not to Reann.,..
Woodruff, Morgan and osp0 yp0lnt
nell When Their Terms
Expire
WILL NAME sUPpoRTroo
Ladner, Carr and Shoyer to O., NJ.
Pierre to Retain 's's'
Position

HARRISBURG, May atp
e,le % Governor intends to mata i"' hat
cnanges in Philadelphia's Board iIpoftant
,ratloh commissioners were oonas. ,Hesia.
II was learned at the Executive pnpal MED when
To-Day That Clinton Rogers Woodrvtpr vtprari.ansat
,. Morgan and John o'Donnell Ia ,nnlosFs
their term, June is. 'Npiraucn Of
In their places the Governor ,,.,,
Aloert II. Ladner William A appoht'
Preu j. Shoyer. George s. piaria 4 and
only member of the board whoso 49,. y Ne
pres at that time who will be roa 1.l, ss.in exs
Ihese changes, following closaIr I,''n1ea' we.
tne recognition of Reynolds as dlsbs,.su upoa a
patronage in Bedford County. arn ~ w, q
I,ohs TO political observers here tbas u
Governor intends to put his own f,a.a .as tns
power wherever possible ana 20 .vnas s,lu IN
men who oppose him whenever Tho sp'1ee aIa
tunity arises. 'he oppor.
news OF the coming shake-up os min.
delphia's Board of Registration r...nnla nia-
sioners created considerable eoss,n sy.nus- 4. MS
litical circles. III po-
Albert Fl. Ladner, mentioned as a r...
member of the board, said; "sW
We'll, this is an absolute s,,rnr,.. !.
II is the first intimatlon have had of sa,s ,ns
thing of the kind If it is true, shan n's' Z.
very glad and shall do my bestlD ''an %
William A. Carr said: III
The only comment have IA that !, :.
all news to me, and IL true 1 shall hsvs y
think 1t over before 1 announce whs, y
shall do" "nas
Fred ]. Shoyer is an attorney. with A,
noes In the Commercial Trust Building y.
Is reoognized as a Penrose man in political
circles. He refused to make anv statar,.s.
beyond saying; II have nothing to saw ,,ts un,n
1 am informed officially that / will he srl
pointed" " si-
MIR. Morgan, who proclaimed himself a.
an optimist, had nothing to say =
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-05-31
CARMEN TO POLL
STRIKE VOTE TOMORROW
NIGHT AT MEETING
Two Sessions Will Be Held at
Central Labor Union Hall,
Circular Announces
FLYNN ISSUES THE CALL

A strike vote will be taken by members
/ Of Division 477, Amalgamated Association
| Of Street and Electric Railway Employees of
America, at a mass-meeting TO be held to
morrow evening in Central Labor Union
| Hall. This was announced in circulars dis
tributed today 60 the $500 carmen OF Phil
adelphia under the direction Of Harry II.
Flynn, president of Division ATT, and Joseph
M. Ritchie organized of the American Fed
Grafton Of Labor.
The circulars caused intense excitement
among carmen at the IL barns OF the
Philadelphia Rapid Transit Company.
Hundreds of motormen and conductors took
the circulars on their cars and read them
during their leisure moments.
Union men expressed the opinion that the
Amalgamated Association would make en-
phatic answer at the meeting tomorrow
night to the refusal of Thomas e. Mitten,
president of the Philadelphia Rapid Transit
Company, to treat with the Grievance Com.
mittee of the association On the other
hand, carmen who are loyal to the Mltten
cooperative PLAN said they believed the
mass-meetlng would result in fasco. They
declared that Harry f. Flynn and other
union leaders did not have enough strength
to call q strike
TENT OF CALL
Tho roass-meetlng announcement follows:
ITO the carmen of Philadelphia:
IAN important meeting will be held on
Thursday. June 1, 1915, two sessions, vat
$3.50 p. m. and at 1 40 p m, at 232 North
9th street to hear the report of your COM
mittee that was appointed at the meeting
of May II to wait upon Mr. Mitten to
present the following demands that were
made at that meeting:
First That all motormen and conduc-
tors bepaid 40 cents per hous fiat.
Second. Time and half for all over
time
Third. That al schedules shall be COM
prised only of late straights and early
straight runs and that the time for COM
pleting be divided as equally as is possible
between said early and straight runs.
"Fourth-That all grievances arising be-
tween the company and its employees shall
be adjusted by committee elected by the
of Division AT, of the Anal
gamated Association of Street and Electric
Railway Employees of America.
"Fffth--That all members serving in any
for the organization shall be al
lowed time Off to do the work of the or
ganizaton and shall not lose his or their
rights therefor.
"All motormen and conductrs are earn
estly requested to be at this meetings, as
business of Importance to you will be acted |
upon.
Don't fail to attend this all-important
meeting. Be present and vote your sentl- |
nent. Pay no attention to the disrupters. |
as you know who is paying them for their |
foul work.
international officers P. ]. Shea, of |
Scranton, and William B. Fitzgerald, of |
Troy n. Y, will address the meeting,
Sincerely and fraternally yours,
JOSEPH NJ. RITCHIE,
Organizer. A, F. of L.
"HARRY F. FLYNN
president Division All"
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ARMoRY DRILL TONIGHT
Will Mark Beginning of Preparatory
Work for Plattsburg Camp

The first drill to give Philadelphsan,
preparatory training for Plattsburg will bs
held tonight in the First Regiment Armory
Broad and Callowhill streets. 1t will be
the first of series to be given weekly nm.
til the Philadelphia detachment leaves ID,
the training camp.
The preparatory work will be slmple
consisting chiefly in instruction in tbh
manual of arms and squad movements
The instruction class will be formed under
the supervision of a special COMMITTEES Of
members of the First Training Regiment
The members Of this committee are Cole
man p. Brown, Grenville D. Montgomery.
B. Franklin Pepper, George Wharton Pen
per- Michael Ritter, Sydney D. Roberts and
T. Bayley Seymour.
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conference the close this with the object of preventing
long duration
Tis the calamity the human
housandfod Napoeonic
STATESMEN
England today"The
indicate
safeguarding the interests of the Allies"
FranceThere until the
a decisive victory"
Berlin dispatchesThere
unbeatable"
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-05-31
KITCHENER HARSHLY
RAPED IN COMMONS
Winston Churchill Criticises
War Office for Grave "Misman-
agement and Inefficiency"
LONDON. May 81.

Lord Kitchener head of the British War
Office was made the target for the harshest
criticism heard in Commons since the begin
ming of the war this afternoon, when Colonel
Winston Churchill, former First Lord of
the Admiralty. arose to discuss a motion
TO reduce Kitcheners salary.
Churchill charged the War Office with
grave mismanagement, inetiiciency' and
defective organization"
For every six soldiers in the British
army, we have but one rifle leveled at the
enemy declared the former Admiralty
chief.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-05-31
Rubber COmpany's First Dividend

AKRON, o., May 31.-After declaring an
initial dividend of per cent. on the com.
mon and the regular IL per cent on the
preferred stock directors of the Portage
Rubber Company have called meeting Of
stockholders for June IL to act on the pro
posed increase of capital stock from $1.25o,.
900 to $4,000, 900; S1,5OO,O00 of the increase
is to be common stock
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-05-31
SONS OF ITALY VOTE AID
TO FAMILIES OF PATRIOTS
Assessment Laid for Benefit of Wives
and Kindred of Soldiers

HARRISBURG, May 81. - Provisions
were made today by the Sons of italy In
convention to take care of wives, families
and parents Of members OF the order who
may return to Italy to take up arms FOR
their native country.
An assessment OF 10 cents per month
VIII be levied on each member starting
June l, continuing until the war is over
The money will be placed in charge of The
grand lodge and viii be used as a home
pension fund, There are 10000 members
of the order in Pennsylvania.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-05-31
Newtown Suffragists Elect

NEWTOWN, Pa, May 31.--At the an.
nual session of the Newtown Woman Sus-
frage Association at the home of Mrs. Ien.
ME Y. Watson, these officers were elected:
Mrs. Able b. Rice, leader; Mrs Mary W.
r. Miller, vice leader; Mrs Sara N
Strathie, secretary; Mrs. Myrtle Kestst
treasurer.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-05-31

AlunkdINy III III luJeTN1eW DOOAY.
Count Tisza was referring to the
recent belligerent utterances of Sir
Edward Grey and President Poin-
care.
"The Intervention of the United
States will only be useful when both
sets of belligerents are prepared to
talk peace seriously" he added. IL
doubt if that time has arrived.
"The German Chancellor's recent
statements are proof of the Central
Powers readiness to end the war.
Peace, however, depends on whether
the leaders Of the other camps are
ready to tell the people the truth and
take the responsibilities.
"It isn't our task to talk peace.
We are fighting defensive war and
are compelled to continue for The pur-
pose of obtaining necessary guar
antees Of future security. When the
war began all the newspapers and the
less responsible persons on the side
of the Allies spoke of annihilating us
and distributing our lands. We never
talked about what we were going to
do, nor had we either the desire or
any idea of dismembering other ma
tions. Therefore, it is easy for us to
make peace at any time"
Count TisZa was asked to COM
ment on the practicability of Presi-
don't Wilson's stlpppstipO of a I7yor1d
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-05-31

Germany. I DO not IN the least object 10 II
because 4 denounces me. 1t has denounced
Mr. Wilson almost az often and almost as
severely. One Of It's favorIte forms OF de-
nuncation includes Mr.. Wilson, Mr. Root
and myself as equally opposed in the inter-
ests OF Germany"
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-05-31
Two Get City Hall Jobs

City Hall appointments today included
Thomas p. O'Dare, SIS North 10th street,
inspector Bureau of Highways. salary
$1,000, and John Troilo. 1915 South 18th
street, hydrant Inspector Bureau of Water,
salary $500.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-05-31
ALLIED STATESNEN'S HOSTILE
SPEECHES BAR PEACE, TLSZA SAYS
Bv Carl W. ACKERMAN

BUDAPEST May sso long the responsible statesmen Eng.
Count Tsza Hungarian Prime Minister and rong man Of
The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1916-09-11

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90 suu. slow Rulk 50 91ffi u.sps hight.
- ,nuIi 90. WiNoI >f.tIrl -a.
pigs. &C. 5oH . So.
t'.ttlc lc.cints. 81. 1000. vo1E
Weston steers. ys.5ueau . ~sto.hor-.
81 toV 0t COWS. 49, aUu $50 calves,
SIS -a.Il2. g..
Sheer. Receipts $1,000. .'c1'.
V,th,fs S.. 10 s.Hl lamb 'n'
IL-L.
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DUKE CITY CLEANERS

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etc 2.o vet cold phour ia.
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The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1916-07-22
Changing an Alphabet.

Agitation in Japan in favor OF the
adoption Of the Latin alphabet is in
Creaslng in strength. Those scholars
who find a little time to devote to
other subjects besides the war are fol-
lowing the controversy closely. The
Japanese, as is well known, had no
letters when Chinese culture was in
troduced in the islands in the seventh
century. The Chinese characters,
which are not letters representing
sounds, but ideagraphs representing
words, were adopted to represent the
spoken sounds Of the Japanese tongue.
The consequence is that, in or
der to be able to read Japanese one
must have a knowledge of the sounds
and meanings Of from 1900 to 5000
characters. Learning to read is a
task Of such proportions that the pu-
pill in the Japanese school has little
time for anything else.
AS long ago as 1884 an association
was formed for the purpose Of gradu-
ally introducing the Latin alphabet
called "Romaji" by the Japanese -
into the country in place of the Chin
ese ideagraphs.
The Rev. DR.. Hepburn, American
missionary, was largely interested in
the work, and produced a Japanese
English dictionary in which Japanese
words were presented in English let
tiers, the consonants being pronounced
according to our usage and the VOW
els as they are on the Continent. A
later system undertakes to improve
on this, introducing some new letters.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1916-07-22
Nntionnl Forest ReceIpts.

Receipts from national forests for
the fiscal year 1916 reached the high
water mark OF approximately 81
100000, according to figures just
compiled. This is 341,OO0 above
the 1915 total, which in turn exceed
cd any previous year. officials say
that the gain was due to increased
demand for all classes OF forest
products,
There was decided growth in the
revenue from all sources, the largest
being that of 100000 in timber
sales. Grazing fees show gain Of
$4,000. Receipts for water power
development were over $4,000 more
than for 1915. Sales Of turpentine
privileges and charges for special
uses were both considerably In. ex-
cess of the previous year.
officials say that the national for
ests are important factors in the
prosperity of the regions in which
they are located, on account Of the
large amounts of timber, range, and
other resources which they hold avail
able for use as needed. Business con-
ditions are reflected In the receipts
Of the forests. Consequently the
showing for the last year is regarded
us an index of increased business aC-
tivity throughout the sections where
the national forests are found.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1916-07-22

American Dye Industry Imperilled.
Japan will subsidize all corpora
lions and firms manufacturing dyes.
The only condition precedent is that
at least one-half the capital for such
enterprises shall be provided by Jap
anese subjects. Subsidies will in all
cases where granted run for period
Of ten years and will be on basis
to enable firms in the dye business
to pay eight per cent dividends during
the subsidy period. Firms able to
pay such dividends without govern
ment assistance will be unlikely to
share in the subsidy proposition.
This step, and somewhat similar
action being taken in England, will
strike hard If not a fatal blow to
the German dyemaking industry. Pres
emily the American markets will be
invaded by japanese and English
made synthetic dyes. When the Eu-
ropean war ends and Germany at
tempts to recover lost dye markets
there will be lively competitive
scramble for the American market
and temporary result may be an
abundance OF dyes at low prices.
But this is only one consequence.
With a food of low-price dyes COM
ing from abroad the infant American
dye Industry will be smothered to
death, leaving the industries of this
country just where they are today
and where they have been since the
outbreak of the European war, at the
mercy Of foreign nations, unable to
get needed dyes except in driblets in
the event Of wars.
Since the dye. situation became
acute In this country the Democratic
party has taken no legislative step
to foster dye-making industry in
the United States. In fact it has
taken no legislative step to help make
the United States industrially self
sufficient.
Only a political party committed to
the doctrine of protection can be
trusted to deal with such a situation
as this.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1916-07-22
The Only Remedy

Secretary Lansing declares our
nurpose to be defense from further
invasion, protection of American cit
izens and property "along the boun-
dary from outrages by bandits" and
fine prevention Of further depreda-
tions by force Of arms against ma
RAIDERS and against government
which is encouraging and aiding
them in their activities,
This paragraph would seem to i'm
ply that our purpose is to Confine our
operations to northern Mexico. The
protection of our citizens and their
property not along the boundary is
inferentially excluded. Yet the final
paragraph asserts that our purpose
is ITO end conditions which meanace
national peace and the safety OF our
citizens"
Thus we have the whole matter
thrown open again and all hints Of
Limitation wiped out in one sweeping
sentence.
What IL, as the best posted mer
declare, Intervention is necessary III
order to end conditions that menace
our national peace and the safety o.
our cItizehs?" Which declaration II
! to stand? What II even permanent
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1916-07-22

occupation, that is, conquest, is nee
essary TO this end? Which alterna-
tive is to be accepted?
The Lansing note is only another
instance of the administrations In
durable propensity for addressing the
world on the text Of its own right
eousness. 1t offers no reliable as
surance Of clearly limited policy
and 1t is as unsatisfactory to Amerl-
cans Is 1t will be to the Latin Amer
ica 1t clumsily attempts to conclliate.
The president does not yet realize
that his metlculous diplomacy, which
has pocketed insults and outrages for
four years, has won him only sus-
picIon and contempt. He Is still for
talking facts away. The situation he
has created In our Mexican relations
is probably entirely out Of his con
troll or any one else's. The logic OF
events is driving home an unescapa-
BILE conclusion. We shall not have
peace nor the safety of our citizens
until we quit fumbling the Mexican
thistle and grip 1t. The government
has refused to prepare for lnterven-
tion. 1t has drugged itself with
words. In consequence what we do
will be done inenclently and at un-
necessary cost of life and effort. But
Intervention is the only remedy for
the Mexican evil, and the quicker and
more vigorous it Is administered the
better.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1916-07-22

or village through which they happen
to be passing difficulty, by the
way, which is even greater for passen-
gers in steam cars than for those by
automobile. 1t was In compliance
with a suggestion and request from
the Hartford Courant that Postmaster
General Frank H. Hitchcock called on
the postmasters throughout the coun-
try to put the names of their offices
on their signs that up to that time
read: "Postofice." This is now al
most universally dono and thereby all
who go past the Offices are informed
A good many, however, do not pass
that way and they are left to guess.
Cash Market" Town Hail." Second
Congregational Church" Center Drug
Store" Imperial Hotel" and other
similar signs are plenty everywhere.
but there is no geography in any OF
them.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1916-07-22
Ono Year OF Coal.

The production Of bituminous coal
and anthracite in the United States in
1915 amounted to 531,619,4S7 short
IONS. valued at s6S6,691 1855, an in
crease. compared with 1914, Of 1904
O1O tons, or S.5 per cent, in quality,
and of $780, 4S, or O.S per cent in
value, according to c. E. Lesher, OF the
United States Geological Survey.
OF this total output, 442,624,426 short
tons, valued at $5O2,O37,6SS, was BIZ
luminous coal and Ignite, and $685.
O61 tons, valued at $1S4,653,49S, was
pennsylvania anthracite. Pennsylvania
with an output Of 157955,lS7 tons Of
bituninous coal and SS,995061 short
tons of anthracite, ranks first among
the coal producing states. West Yir-
ginla, with a production of 771S4,O69
ions: Illionols, with 5S,S29,576 tons;
Ohio. with 22,434,691 tons; and Ken
lucky. with 21,361,674 tons, follow in
order Of production. Thirty states and
the territory of Alaska contributed to
the total, OF which number thirteen
Mates and Alaska had increased pro-
Auction, and seventeen had decreased
reduction, compared with 1914.
n produce this coal, 734,008 men
employed for an average Of 2O9
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1916-07-22
con,e Industrlal wastes.

Some statistical nhas figured that
there are $4,000 death from indus
trial accidents each year IN inc
United States, and 100000 injuries
rom the same source which causes a
disability of more than four weeks;
obviously, peace is not SO peaceiul
q thing as some good Missionaries lnl-
agine It, observes the Chicago Jou s1
nal The coal miner and the steer
worker would find new varieties OF
oeril in the trenches. rather than
sny great increase in the net quaint
ty Of danger. I'D
War is merely the greatest and
most wanton waste of life and prop
ertv in a world where wastefulness
is the rule. BY curtailing the lesser
.nxtrayagances, Europe is able to IN
bulge in the greater-for time. It
has far fewer industrial accidents
than America, it saves Kingdoms
ransom each year by avoiding our
IRE waste. Its scale of living is
more moderate than ours, and while
that is a doubtful blessing the tru-
zality which saves millions that
America throws away is great eco
aomic advantage.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1916-07-22
LEPER COLONY
Is Completely Exterminated at
TAX Hing in China Julius A.
Kempf Advises.
lcOrrespondencc of Associoted Press

Correspondence of Associated Press
CANTON, China, July 22.-Julius
A. Kempf, member of the American
Reformed Presbyterian church mis-
sion at TAX Hing, on the West river
in Shantung province, has advised the
American consulate determination of
A leper colony near that mission by
recent revolutionary soldiers, and
sought the assistance of the consul in
preventing a recurrence of such bar
barity.
The leper colony consisted of thir-
teen unfortunates who made their
home on a houseboat on the West
river near temple in which the SOL
diers were CHARTERED. Without warn
ing the soldiers fired upon the house
boat. killing ten of the lepers. Two
members of the colony jumped into
the river and started for the opposite
shore but it is not known whether
tbey escaped death. One leper escaped
into the hills. The soldiers then
burned the houseboat.
Mr.. Kempf and his associates had
been assisting the leper colony for
some time, supplying the sufferers
With food and endeavoring to better
their condition.
II is not uncommon for leper col
onies to be exterminated in China
either by the military or civilians who
resent having the unfortunates near
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1916-07-22
SAD AND QUIET
Are Parts of London Where
There Were HuStIing, Merry
making and the Like.

fCorresnondence of Associated Press
LONDON, July Exchanged IN
many ways is London since the war
began, but nowhere is the transforma-
ton more marked than in the cosmo-
politan district called Soho, in the
West End, within stones throw OF
Piccadilly Circus. Soho is not the
hustling, merry place of pre-war days.
THE great conflict has made it quiet
almost llfeless, for French men, Bel
gians. Italians, Germans and Aus
TRANS, who had their home IN Soho
have gone.
nounced in Charlotte street inc
German chemists, German laundries'
German restaurants, German clubs
and German paper shops have gone
There was even a Christliches hell-
berbeim "a home for Christian wait
ers). 1t is closed now; there are no
German walters. German books have
been moved from the booksellers
windows; German signs have disap-
peared and certain shopkeepers are
at pains to announce that they are
French and Belgian firms.
The Belgians have lost their coun-
try for the moment, but they have
taken their revenge in Charlotte
street. There is no gainsaying their
victory there. Instead OF the cafes
and restaurants with German signs
there are establishments named af-
tnr belgian towns. And in them may
be seen Belgian soldiers on leave
drinking coffee.