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still would welcome Mr.. Wilson's ala IN
securing a negotiated peace for Germany
And that was precisely what the Presi'
dents address to the Senate seemed TO
many to promise for Germany. IL must
be remembered that the criticism OF that
peace ewithout.victory" address was pri'
marily that 1t would offend the Allies
Peace without victory" was taken TO
mean peace without British victory,
and It was said in so many words by
some Americans and lberal.minded Ger
mans that the Wilson speech strength
ened the Kaiser's arm. But the Kaiser
did not agree with them. lie disagreed so
violently that he effected what amounts
to a coup detat, taking power out of the
hands of the Liberals. who are his nomi.
nal advisers, and thrustlng it into those
of the Won Tirpitz faction. IL there were
time, Liberal Germany might bring press
ure TO bear to gain some sembance of
parliamentary rights. But the new Ger.
man dictatorship is not giving them time,
as the immediate plunge into ruthless sea
warfare. already in effect more than two
daNs shows
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THE VOICE OF
THE PEOPLE
American Press Not Subsidized
by Allies-A Short Sermon.
Plan to Stop War
THE REPRESENTATIVE PRESS
TO the Editor Of the Erening Lcdgcr:

To the Editor Of the EUcHiHg Ledger.
Sir-The assertion made by Charles c.
Rhodes, Jr.. that the American press is
subsidized in the interests of the Allies is
so ridiculous that it does not seem to be
made i'm good faith. \ moment of refec-
tion should convince him that man does
not read newspapers that constantly go
contrary to his sense of justice. Yet the
American press is read daily by millions
who find delight and relaxation in doing
so. The reason the press is much in
favor of the Allies is that the editors and
American people have the same inclination.
The fundamental reason for that fa
voritism is the knowledge that the Germans
preach and teach that our republican form
of government is unsound and the product
of an immature and undiscplined people.
Their system is dametrically the oppo-
site. | am not saying that the Kaiser has
not the most benevolent intentions toward
his people but in that respect his benevo-
lence rises no higher than that of many
masters i'm the old slaVe-hOlding days. We
could have shut the bars against immigra-
ton long ago Instead Of that many Ger
mans. among other peoples, We're glad to
breathe a new air, good Germans making
fine. intelligenr citizens like Doctor Hexa-
mers father and Carl Schurz. But it re-
, manned for Germany to establish an agency
here the German-American Alliance, to
propagate a division in our national Ian
guage, to ask those of German ancestry
to vote. not as Americans, but in accord
ance with some pseudo German American
peculiar interests. Now, Mr.. Rhodes, if you
wish to know why Germany is held in i'll
repute by the American public, let me refer
YOU to the documents sent out by offshoots
of the alliance. which | have read. and
which. among other treacherous things, at
tackled our President in words of foul SLAM
der, derided our culture as compared with
Germany and beittled the accomplishments
of our nation. Mr.. Rhodes is entitled to
express his views this country not being
Germany, but he need not seek an explana- :
tion of the leaning of Americans against
Germany in a subsidized press.
HENRY WATSON.
| Collingswood, n j.. February l.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-02-03
OUR NEIGHBORLY
WINTER BIRDS
Robins, Blue Jays, Flickers and
Other Feathered Friends
Fit About the Bare
Trees

THUS did Tom DAILY furnish poetic cheer
Il o. spring on one OF the gloomy days OF
late. Like most poets, he Is bit OF
nature -faker. II certain Colonel OF versa
tile mind were still interested in nature
he might write a Voluble piece on The
Poets Oncluding Tom Daly) as Naturalists'
II would go as companion familiar essay
to one we have long had in mind on The
Poets as Musicians" Melody they make.
but what they don't know about harmony
Is all explained in Groves Musical Dictlon-
ary--in several volumes.
Bless the poets hearts, we suburbanites
have seen more than one robin this cola
and almost old-fashioned winter. But we
have not reduced them TO meter. because
we are not like Ovid-or was 1t Pope =
aud Tom DAILY: We do not Sing in mum
bers because the numbers come
Bird life (surpris ng though the state
meut may be II is accurate) Is not sparse IN
the winter In these parts. the catalogue
of permanent residents and winter visitants
is uncommonly large in this latitude, despite
the popular belief that the birds have an
gone over the cold spell TO the avian Palm
Beach.
The catalogue includes commonly or oc-
casionally the CROW. snow bunting. owl
junco nuthatch. blue jay, song sparrow.
robin. hluebird, hawk and woodpecker OF
course the ma iority Of the birds that make
summer tuneful have sought SUMMER
Climes. hut in Their place are winter visi-
tors which do not find the vigorous climate
Of the north too severe for their comfort
For the warbers we have the chckadee, for
the phoebe we have the junco or snow
bird-nearly all the well-loved summer
songstera have agreeable successors. cad
in somewhat rusty garb, the song sparrows.
robins and few other permanent dwellerS
nit about the bare woodlands waterbury
waiting for spring and joyng in sunshny
days despite the hibernal seventies. These
are the casuals but they are frequent
| enough to he observed and enjoyed by the
lnNnr
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-02-03

GETTING HOME again. after a trying
day, occasionally we commuters on the walk
from the station brighten the grayness
and warm the frostiness of the circum-
ambient with many a merry Jest. WELL
said we, only last evening, speaking OF
something or other, "it's like the street
car conductor who collected fare twice
from the Italian and tried to work the
Irshman next to him in the same way.
'G'wan. said the Celt, you can play that
tune on the hand-organ, but not on the
harp" ooh, yes" pipes Nicola d'Ascenzo'
II heard that story, but it was the other
way around; an Italian told 1t to me-"
COR mebbe you heard it in grand wopera''
doomed Signor Samuel Suter, who sings
bass on summer nights when the win
dows are all open. Lets be neutral sez
we, ''and twist the thing on the Germans.
You can play anything and everything on
German band. What would you sus'
gest?' "The hose" sez the DIAGONAL David
IIilsee, who never learned that in st.
Stephens NJ. +. s. s. At this point we
tripped merrily into our humble dwelling
and we were still chuckling as we kissed
| the best cook in Germantown; SO little II
takes to make us forget our troubles.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-02-03
CANNED OPENERS

Predigested Preludes Prepared for Post
prandial Prattlers
This department of first aid for speak.
ers suddenly called upon to address
strange dinners, having handled the Irish
question without gloves, is prepared to
stop at nothing. We are now supposing
that one of our pupils has been asked to
respond to toast at the annual banquet
of the BNai Sholem Yiddish Endeavor
Society. He will arise and begin at once
to ingratiate himself with his. audiences:
Gentlemen: As L arise here from
among the ashes of after.dinner cigars
] am reminded that the name of the
Jewish club in Baltimore is Phoenix.
All. i knew that would insure-get
that?-insure me laugh. To show !
am not bigoted I wish to say invited
Julius Tannen. the actor, to my house
for luncheon one day last week. He
failed to appear and left me with a
lot of meat had bought for him espe-
cially a: a shop with funny-looking let
ters on the window. 1 gave the meat
to the cat and ever since the poor
creature has been going around wav-
ing its front paws, like Julian Roses
Abe Potash. and crying 'Me-oy-oy-oy.
meoy-oy-oy.
1t is well for the speaker to be on the
lookout for Interruptions, such as the
banquet committee suddenly appearing
with a scroll. enthusiastically requesting
him to come again next year, Think al
you go along-and go along quietly.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-02-03
REAL AMERICANISM

To the Editor Of the EUeniR1 Ledger:
Sir-Thank God and give praise that
there has at last one Philadelphia popular
press editorial department come out with
some real American thoughts. 1t is a
strange reflection on our national vision
that only after some thirty months have
our papers gradually awakened to the fact
that this great war is a curse of God on
mankind for their publication and perfec-
ton. Your What Lincoln Should Teach
Europe" is complete answer to all Eng
lish writer's for American sympathy, OF
whom an increasing army are filling our
news columns with their asinine clatter, like
Lord Northcliffe in his article on Americans
in the English-French armies, G. V. Seldes
in tonights paper 4 scores Of others.
W. III. s.
Philadelphia, January 81.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-02-03
THE OTHER NEUTRALS

DOPULAR opinion in the other neutral
l. nations seems TO be awaiting the
guidance of the United States. Word
comes from Holland, Spain and Argen.
tina that this country is expected to take
the lead in the defense OF neutral rights
on the sea. This expectation has been
met.
1t was natural that the other non.
belligerents should look to us for the
United States is the only great neutral
Power. Its population is nearly twice
as great as the copbined population of
Argentina. Brazil. Denmark, Holland.
Norway, Sweden and Spain. The neutral
nations Of northern Europe are SO small
that they have. virtually nothing but
moral force with which TO back their
protests. Denmark has less than 5000.
900 population. Norway is no bigger and
Sweden has less than 100000. Holland
is about the same size.
There does not need 10 be formal al
lance among the neutrals. The same re
suits can be accomplished by coinciden,
and uniform action ~ By concerted anf
<nInk 1frn&nds. xhe purpQse of all nsu
1l1ssr r1che'
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POISON GAS OF THE SEAS

GERMANY proposes "the full employ
~ ment of all the weapons at its dis
posal," but it will do nothing of the sort
unless it now intends to engage the Brit
ish fleet in final action in the North Sea.
A splendid navy, second only to Britain's,
lies in the German ports and has lain
there for thirty months, unused except
for tentative sorties planned with no in
tent to stake all upon final decisive ac-
tion.
With that navy in the German ports
we have no quarrel. Our position is
that ruthless sea warfare is as funda-
mentally wrong as would be the ruthless
use of poison gas. il the effects of that
weapon endangered American lves-if
that poison were blown across the At.
lantic to our shores.
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inviting every nation of the earth which be-
l!eves in the liberty of peoples and the free
dom Of the seas to join in new crusade
of militant neutrality to crush the vioators
of these great principles wherever found
think that thv entrance of such a third
POWER would quickly end the saturnalia
of murder that has cursed the world for
nearly three years that it would enlist all
the neutral nations, and that many of the
belligerents would be glad to be permitted
TO cooperate so as to come out of the war
on the winning side. j. ID. CALLAN.
Philadelphia, Feb. 2.
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Tom Daly's Column
THE YILLAGE POET

THE VILLAGE POET
Whenever tfs Saturday that's fun .,
talk o. toar
I'd rather sit among the cro,cd IN ps,
kins's General Store
An ,colIo,o IN the ,oisdon, there ,,h.r an
mv ioork Is through
Than ,cdlk about on Chestnut str.., =.
see tchat netos Is neto.
I mind ,ohen ,ods young and brash. ,,,,..
back In '9s
I sneered at oil the Solons ,oho ,pe,.
tcont to congregdte
About the stoue IN Perkins's store tbo,
erery noto an then u
Would sissle toith tobacco Juice from hal,
a score o. men
Who brought to that rude forum mebb.
half a ton o. brain
To bear upon the question as to ,chat IA
do 10 Spain.
7 counted them a sorry lot, but he that
most of all
Aroused mn deep and boundIess sco,n
1cds Ebeneser Ball.
THIS Ball. alone Of all the crotod that
gathered In the store,
It seems, had had personal erperienc,
of tcdr;
An so 1ce boys 'chose blood toas stirred
to battle an to slay,
We rather looked for somethir' big tcher
he should hare hts say
Some bold youno buck stood up to talk
an snort an shake hts fist
An prdte about the glory 'icditin' them
that 1could enlist.
| An erery one dppIauded him, dppropin'
Of II all,
Ercept that Uhiskered simpleton, old
Ebeneser Ball.
Somebody then uent up to him an talked
| TO him direct
| An asked him II he 'couldn't tell tchdt
he could rccollect
OF all the grand an glorious things our
| soldiers came to kno,o
When they arose to Lincoln's call so
many years ago.
"Wal, no,o B. jin0s, theys lots o. thinos
that mebbc 1UiH suffice,
An one o. them Is 1ceuriness, but most
o. them Is lice.
These last. much regret TO sap, Is an
that recall
OF personal achievement" said old
Ebenezer Ball
All! me. upon this Saturday so tuH Of
| talk of 1Cdr
yedrn to meet those SoIons Of old Per.
kinS's General Store;
I'd rather hear the gossip there tchen an
mn 1UorE Is through
Than 1Cdlb about on Chestnut street TO
see 1chdt net1s Is netc.
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A SHORT SERMON
To the Editor Of the Evening Ledger:

To the Editor Of the Evening Ledger:
Sir-Can there be short sermon? l
am not a minister but l now submit for
the benefit Of your feaders the shortest
sermon ever prepared.
Text: IF a man die, shall he live
again?" Job. xiv, "A. II Is an elementary
principle in the physical world that moth
ing is lost Why, then. should not that
principle be an elementary truth in the
spiritual world? Nothing but an immortal
mind can conceive of Immortality. The mind
of man has conceived of Immortality; there
fore the mind Of man is immortal May
these premises and the conclusion be help
full TO many an inquiring brother. Amen
Reading, Pa, February BIB.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-02-03
What Do You Know?
QUIZ

l. What Is "nitid":
2. Who Is the new Austro-HunEarian Ambas..-
dor 70 this country. and where is he at
this time? ' Nv
g. What Is the bulkiest structure In the world?
4. What In silvlculture:
8. What three United States Ambassador are
Pennsylvanians? "'e
9. Compare the temperatures Of Hawaii and
7. What Is the Builitt bill.
8. who Is President Of Cuba?
D. What y Philadelphia's rank amonx IN.
worlds cities In population? ""' inc
10, What Is u "Baedeker"e
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-02-03
February 8 is Thrift Day. and 1t CO

February is Thrift Day. and 1t comes
along opportunely.
Possibly you think that Thrift
Isn't meant for you.
Tal your tod0es y ut
You've enough " do.
Keeping out Of debt, you say.
And Economy"
Is your slogan, day BY day.
As II ought to be.
Nothing you "cdn sape." you thtnkS
Nei0hbor, you are torono.
Here on Mdrs's red.li0hted brink.
Listen to my song:
Save your hasty, thouohtiess speech;
Put the thing dtcdy. J..
Sdpe your boasts that blackboard reach
To Manila Bay.
Sdpe the sneers you meant to 1tn0
AT all other nations;
Sdve yonr bredth7--G usefM thing,
Sare for ululdfions.
Save your strength. pour heart d. orccs,
&est for patriot Iabors, ~ .
Aayseee6 1|2s CRY 1'elr :,
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All Points of the Compass
Rubaiyat of a Commuter
XLVII

XLNII
A Man downtown once asked me If | could
Sit in a Little Game. ] said | would.
! scorned to tell my Wife a Simple Lie,
But then, / told her Something Just as Good.
XLVIII
For when she asked me If Won that night,
| said MY Darling Girl, you wrong me
quite
MY Friend was Sick and / Sat Up With
him."
q Won his stacks-and he was Sick. all
rightD
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-02-03

The Administration of the city has
got to a pretty low ebb when men in
terested in protecting public health have
to ask the Legislature to empower State
officials to force Philadelphia contractors
70 clean the streets thoroughly so as to
prevent a plague of dust diseases during
the coming summer.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-02-03
SANE AND SENSIBLE

To the Editor Of the Erening Ledger:
Sir-Your editorial, entitled NO Hair
Trigger Action is the most sane and SEN
sible of all the editorials written on the
present crisis. f.. c. JOY.
Philadelphia, February 2.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-02-03
A PLAN TO END WAR

To the Editor Of the Evening Ledger;
sir--I ask the privilege to say what
would like to see the President do in the
present crisis. not what he should do
would like to see the President OF the
United States recommend that Congress
reply to the nrrogapt note OF Germany an
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-02-03
It is understood that Penrose /,

1t is understood that Penrose is
the Won Tirpitz of the factional fight
and that his advisers are finding it diff
ficult to prevent him from warning all
neutrals from the vicinity of the hostile
forces so he can launch a campaign Of
submarine and aerial frightfulness.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-02-03

sf German, officials in Washington
have said: "If Germany can be assured
~ peace conference the submarine
Blockade will end in a day" No one has
6ouhted this. The first Interpretation put
ripon the German note was that its pur-
ncrs was to force President Wilson TO
brfnx ali pressure upon the Allies TO enter
|r<ace negotiations. Whether this purpose
~ desperate move to save Germany
- disaster which 1t foresaw or a
move for peace which would
nv th6 permanent possession
nxro uart of ~ conquests
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-02-03

The new Austrian Ambassador ar
rived Just in time to discover that we
were thinking of giving return ticket
% his German colleague, with a possible
coupon attached for his own use.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-02-03

why not make the congressional
Teak" commission permanent? There's
no other way by which Congress can keep
I'D with Wall Street.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-02-03

Attorney General Brown apparently
does not want the expense accounts or
State officials to be misaid. He has had
all of them-including his own--im'
rounded.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-02-03
THE HARBINGER

All Springs emerging from the fog
Though Robins still unseen
Here's "Burpee's New Seed Catalog
For 1917"
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-02-03
IN TWENTY-FIVE YEARS

The Grand Jury will be no part of the
judicial process
The election Of State officers will cease
and they will be appointed by the Governor
TO act as his cabinet.
The spoils system will have quite rotted
away.
The death penalty will disappear from
the horrors Of the day.
Interested people VIII be kept of leglsla.
tive committees
More cities will have the commission
form OF government.
Men and boys will give up their seats on
the trolleys to ladies.---ohio state Journal
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-02-03
SAM LOYD's PUZZLE

MY SON is hve times as old as my
lvl daughter, and my wife is Ave times
as old as the son. and I am twice as
old as my wife. while GRANDMOTHER, who
is as old as all Of us put together. is
celebrating her eighty-frst birthday.
How old is the son?
Answer to Yesterdays Puzzle
rtATAsTRoPHE catscdmb' catechism.
u catasogue, Musc3tige. aq4taIect.c.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-02-03
An explosion and fire in crowded

An explosion and fire in a crowded
tenement in the Chicago Ghetto, followed
by fearful toll of death, is simply the
repetition of the same old story of Grim.
inal municipal negligence condemned
building in which from 100 to $50 were
permitted to live and a leaking ga. main
that had often been complained obsut. All
that is necessary to complete the story
in the usual stereotyped style is a short.
lived wave of popular indignation and in,
vestigation by the authorities and a yer.
dict-"No one to blame" Then the cur.
tain can ring down on another tragedy.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-02-03

For the first time the House of
representatives has passed lteracy test
Immigration bill over the Presidents veto
In 1915 the bill lacked only four votes of
the necessary two-thirds. This year it
received twenty-five more than twothirds
0f the votes cast. It remains to be seen
whether the Senate, now that the re.
eponsibility for the fate of the measure is
put squarely up to it. will rise to the
occasion and sustain the President. II
Il does not agree with the view of the
President on the question of a literacv
test It can find reasons for supporting
him on tho second ground which he gave
for disapproving the measure, namely.
that its provisions for admitting illiterates
who nee from religious or political perse.
cution are likely TO produce international
cornplications. We are confronted by in.
ternational trouble enough now, in all
reason. without planting the seeds for
another crop.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-02-03

United States to probe Cotton Ex'
change--Ieadline.
If any one has found leak" there
why doesn't he take wad of cotton and
stop 1t up?
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-02-03
Indiana's decision for Prohibit,

Indiana's decision for Prohibition
puts "a States in the dry" column, and
when the legislatures of Utah, New Mex.
leo and Florida. pledged to Prohibition,
take action, the score in States will stand
~ "dry" to 21 wet" In those y there
are number with local option laws
which have virtually resulted in State
wide Prohibition, the big cities holding
out to the last, Of course. But in some
States, notably Minnesota, where about
IS Of the So counties are dry" it has
been found that under a county local op.
tion law liquor and no-liquor men can
"live and let live" without difficulty.
About one-ffth Of the Pennsylvania coun.
ties are dry now and IL all could ex
press their desire more freely no doubt
half of the others would close their
saloons.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-02-03
WHERE PROHIBITION IS NOT

California produced 5,600000 moro eaI-
iono of wino II 1910 than IN 1o1G. IN
|Esa e'' s!s - y Z. "a " l'yep eyes n ~
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-02-03

The Mayors bonding company is
oming. Who reaps the profits?