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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-02-22
How 1t Affects Eggs

There are today in Denmark more than
1900 creameries conducted on the co.
operative plan, the managers of which
dispose Of the products, thus saving the
farmers time in going to market. Each
of these creameres has about 160 mem.
bers, owning about $50 cows. The plants
were constructed at a cost of about $500
each and the money was borrowed from
the local Farm Loan Bank. In addition,
they have cooperative slaughter houses,
with a membership of 1900 and 500
branches Before the advent of co.opera.
ton Denmark exported 100000 eggs
yearly; now the exports amount TO AGO..
100000. England is its principal mar
ket for butter, cheese and eggs, so that
the matter of transportation is just as
serious as in this country.
If the numerous commissions that have
been appointed all over the country to
inquire into the causes OF the high cost
of living find, as the New York commits.
sion has, that cooperation among farm.
ers will solve the matter, and if they ex.
pect to get anywhere further than mere
recommendations they must enlist the
aid of Federal and State governments in
the work
If our Navy Department can enlist the
unselfish services of the best scientific
brains in the country to advise in the
matter of naval preparedness, surely
here is a field where the best talent that
can be secured can do a lasting service
Each year the cost of farm produce Is
getting higher and higher for the con.
sumner, with no remedy in sight.
If'the solution Of the difficulty is scien-
tlfc cooperation among farmers, where
they can reap good profits and can afford
to sell at low figures, it is up to our
statesmen to take the matter up in a
vigorous manner. The establishment Of
the Farm Loan Banks, with their nee.
essary combinations of farming associa.
tions as clientele, should be good basis
on which to make start. f. S. r.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-02-22
THE REASON FOR MOTHERS
PENSIONS

TT COSTS $685. a month to maintain
a young child in its mothers home
1t costs at least S15 month to maintain
the same child in a public institution. If
there were no other reason than that of
economy to be urged in support of an
appropriation of $4,000 for carrying out
the provisions of the mothers pension
law, that reason should be sufficient. But
there are compelling social reasons of
greater force which should lead the Gen.
eral Assembly to grant the sum asked for.
No normal mother will permit her child
to be taken away from her and put in an
institution If she can care for it at home,
The care and affection of the mother,
even in direst poverty, react upon the
child and make better citizen of it than
can be produced in the most scientifically
and efficiently managed orphan asylum
But this is not all. The responsibility
Of bringing up a child reacts upon the
mother and saves her to society, when il
her children were taken from her she
might become an outcast.
The only objection worthy Of respect
that can be raised to the mothers pen
sion system is that there is liable to be
grave abuse in the distribution of the
funds. 1t is a system of outdoor relief
and such relief as ordinarily administered
does more harm than good. 1t is possible
however, to devise way to prevent the
misuse of the funds. A system of investi
CATION by trustworthy agents would in
sure the distribution OF the money to
those who actually needed IL. And a
broad minded, tolerant charity would give
the money to some mothers whom the
anicky might regard as unworthy" be
cause little intelligent help given to the
unworthy poor" has been known to work
wonders of uplift
An Increase In the appropriation of two
years ago is imperative IL the system Il
TO be continued. There were 1900 applica
tions for relief In this city. but there was
money enough for only 1874 cases. The
disappointment of those who had to b,
rejected was most pathetic. II the Iegis
]afors havs imagination enough TO pul
| fheueelvee - the places OF the dspsndSnl
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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-02-22
COOPERATION
CUTS DOWN PRICES
Danish Farmers Can Compete in
English Markets Because of
Their Economical
Methods

TNHE chairman of the special comi:ils
L sion appointed by Governor Whitman,
of New York, to investigate the high cost
of living, in an address before the Amer.
lean Association for the Advancement OF
Science, said that so far the results OF
their work had shown that competitive
methods among farmers must give way
to cooperative methods, and he sug.
gested that the much.despised middleman
Is the one to cooperate with the farmers.
II this is to be the burden of the com.
missions report to Governor Whitman,
1t offers little comfort to those who have
been expecting a way out from the pres.
ent conditions.
There is no question that cooperation
among farmers, If properly conducted,
would solve the question, not only so far
as the farmers themselves are concerned,
but also for the consumers. But scientific
co'operation to be supremely successful
must be preceded by scientific farming,
and when the nation becomes as wide.
awake to the necessity for the highest
development of science in this form of
preparedness as it has in the matter OF
military preparedness, then and not until
then can we expect to place the cost
of living on a proper basis. In no other
country in the world has cooperation
among farmers been brought to such
perfection as in Denmark This has been
accomplished in very recent years, and
In the evolution the middleman, who pre-.
viously obtained as high as 100 per cent
profit, has disappeared entirely.
What has been accomplished in Den.
mark is possible to a degree in each OF
our separate States. The Danish farm.
ers do not only cooperate in the manu-.
facture of butter and cheese through
cooperative creameries. but they also
cooperate in the marketing of their prod.
ucts and in the purchasing OF farm i'm.
plements and supplies of every kind.
They get the profits both coming and
going and are therefore able to sell at
a low figure.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-02-22
WHO is CORRECT?

To the Editor OF the Evening Ledger;
Sr-ln Sundays Public Ledger your
correspondent Raymond c. Carroll, says
that the following is inscribed on the statue
Of Christ of the. Andes;
Sooner shall these mountains crumble
into dust than Argentines and Chilians
break the peace to which they have pledged
themselves at the feet of Christ the Re-
deemer."
In the EVENING LEDGER of Monday, con-
tradicting Mr.. Carrolls assertion that such
a pledge is inscribed on the statue, Bishop
Neely is reported as saying
THAT personal viewing of the famous
piece during his labors in South America
enabled him to say authorltatively that no
inscription of any sort existed
Philadelphia, February 20. VERITAS
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-02-22
CANNED OPENERS
Predigested Preludes Prepared for
Postprandial Prattlers

Let us-after locking the door-assume
that one Of our pupils is to speak, some
Friday evening in Lent, at the annual
banquet of the Mems Sodality of st. Co.
lumkilles Church. He will arise, when
called, and at once begin to win the favor
of his audience, speaking as follows:
MY friends; l must at the outset
congratulate you upon your sobriety.
have in my house several pictures of
jolly monks in wine cellar and /
rather expected-by the way, speaking
of wine cellars, there was a priest in
Ireland who called in a man from the
village to clean house for him. But be-
fore I tell that. did you hear about
Chief Murphy, of the Fire Department?
One of your people remarked to an
other with great admiration: "Chief
Murphys a fine-loolin little man, amt
he?" "Well." said the other, "You
might say that. but you know he digs
with his left foot he's a Protestant
"Ah ye don't tell me-" said the other.
We'll, come to think Of II. ye can see II
stickin' out all over his jib, can't ye?"
But to go on with the other story.
The priest was amazed at the number
of wine and whisky bottles the man had
spread out on the lawn. well,
Michael" said his reverence. there
are a lot of dead soldiers there" AYE"
said Michael, but let we not bother yer
head about them sure ivry wan o
them had the priest before he died"
This should carry the speaker pretty
close to his finish, and there we leave
him.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-02-22
WAsHINGTON's TWO BIRTHDAYS

In the quaint old quarto Bible, now among
the treasures at Mount Vernon, is written
the following:
George Washington, son to Augustine
and Mary, his wife, was born on 1lth
day OF February, 1872 about 10 in
the morning.
This record was made according to the
old-style calendar. and while Washington's
Birthday now is celebrated throughout the
country on February %, 1t is interesting to
note that for great number of years his
neighbors and descendants celebrated Wash
ington's natal day on February II in old
Alexandria. Paul Wilstach describes this
discrepancy in dates in his book, Mount
Vernon. washington's Home and the Ma
tion's Shrine where he says:
"In February he Washington was the
guest of the citizens Of Alexandria for their
customary celebration Of his birthday.
Many maneuvers were performed by the
Uniform Corps-and an elegant ball and
supper at night This was the entry in
his diary for the 1lth of the month. Wash
ington was born February 18th, old style.
The new calendar was in vogue shortly
after, which moved his birthday up to the
22d but the old friends clung to the old
fashion, and as long as he was with
them his neighbors in the little city up
river celebrated on the 1lth."
These Alexandrans were very dear TO
the neaTI iOl neisHDOTS ana
warm friends and the General and Mrs.
Washington drove up in 1884 from Mount
Vernon to Alexandria to attend the first of
the birth night balls. THE predecessors, -
according to Mr.. Wilstach, "of the later
holiday, washington's Birthday. and sue
ceeded to the Colonial custom of celebrating
the sovereign's birthday"
A double birthday celebration at Mount
Vernon is recorded by Mr.. Wilstach as
follows:
"washington's Birthday was celebrated
twice this year of 17s9 the second time on
the ED, within the walls of his own home
There Miss Custs was married by candle
light to Mr. Lave Lewis Washington
chronicles events in deceptively few words
The wedding was in fact a brilliant occa.
sion and was the elimination of a romance
which enlisted the Generals most interest.
ed solicitude, for Nellie Gusts was the OBJ.
iect. next to his wife, Of his tenderest af.
fection. She came into his life at tim,
when II was apparent that his union would
not be blessed with a child of his own. HI
adopted her and brought her to Mount
vernon and she never knew any othel
father or any other home than his"
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-02-22
Frederick Funston

Frederick Funston rose to high
rank in the army because he had the
natural equipment of a soldier. He was
one of the men who could take a mes.
sage TO Garcia. Yet it sometimes hap
pens that a youth will study the ex.
ternals of successful mans career and
attempt to duplicate them in his own
case in the hope that he may have simi.
lar success Edison started as a news
boy and was graduated from that work
into telegraph operators chair. But
the youth who thinks that by becoming
u telegraph operator he can become an
Edison is likely TO fail. just as the the.
illogical student who postpones his preach.
Ing career till he is thirty because Spur.
geon did not begin to preach till that
age is likely to remain a little man. The
Bard Of Twickenham, who said that honor
and shame from no condition rise had
observed the lives of great men to good
purpose.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-02-22
Mothers pensions"

r. p. M.-Yes, the State, not the Federal
Government, pays monthly allowances to
widowed mothers or mothers whose hus-
bands are permanently insane. who have
children under the legal working age The
laws governing the allowances, which are
made possible in twenty-nine States through
so-called widow mothers pension" acts
vary in the different states. In Pennsyl-
vana the widowed mother must prove her
moral and physical fitness for caring for
the child and the necessity of aid. To ac-
cepted applicants there is paid s12 a month
for one child, $50 for two. s26 for three
and So for each additional child. The al
lowances are administered by a board an
pointed by the Governor. Applications
should be made in person to the Mothers
Assistance Fund. fifth floor. 1414 South
Penn Square.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-02-22

tTorpedoes were used in the civil war.
The few ships of the Confederates oHered
little opportunity for the use OF torpedoes
bv the Federals but the great fleet of the
latter and necessity which often compelled
the vessels to operate in narrow waters
gave multitude of chances which their
enterprising antagonists were quick TO
seize Eight Federal armorclads, nine gun
boats, six transports and one cruiser were
sunk or destroyed. We are not aware OF
having quoted any one on the way TO re-
sur,e Is TO resume" You are probably
thinking of a phrase in Salmon T. Chase's
letter to Horace Greeley, THE way to re-
sumption is to resume Your account Oh
what we said Hancock said is rather
vague If you will quote the entire pas
sage as it appeared we hope to be able TO
set forth the truth about it.-Editor OF the
EVENING LEDGER
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-02-22
SAILORS CHANTY

WASHINGTON, Feb. 20.-Howard A.
Banks, of North Carolina, who has been
private secretary TO Secretary Daniels since
March 4, 1918, has resigned that office 70
accept the position of associate editor OF
the Sunday School Times. of Philadelphia.
News dispatch.
Yo-ho, my lads, yo'ho
To wider seas l go,
For youths a stuff brooks no delay
In grape juice dalliance day by day.
And so away! away! away!
I'll have my fling, lads, while I may.
To wider seas I go
And larger life I'll know,
For my young blood sings and climbs
At thought of the feel
OF trick at'the wheel
or the rollicking Sunday School Times
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-02-22
All Points of the Compass
Rubaiyat of a Commuter

went one day to call on Nelghbor Shaw.
QIis Kid is quite the worst / ever sawD
His Father said, "Come Johnny, speak
your Piece!'
He bawled and said. 'I needn't. Need l.,
Mawr'
LXXXI
/ wished he wouldn't. Why should hear,
pray,
About the Hesperus, or One-Hoss Shay?
Or why the Curfew rang. or what oc-
CURED
When Sheridan was Twenty Miles Away,
LXXXII
But when MY children stand up to recite
You should hear Jim's '.Horatio at the
Bridge"
I tell you he's an Orator, all right.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-02-22

This is the way these things usually
come about: "Mehercle," cries the
colyumist, lacing his shoes in the morn.
ing, would that 1 had a poem At to
grace the colyums apex" LES see,"
saws uxor Amica in her customary help
full way, what day is it?" "'Tis tho
ides OF February and then some-in fact
the bromides-Washingt Birthday no
less. Jove! there's that Italian thing of
mine from 'Canzoni.'" "Well, dear, why
not republish that" So the colyumst
runs it, marked reprinted by request"
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-02-22

cutting and prolonging the war has been
in harmony with the Divine will? God may
try to influence and direct men. but he will
not compel them to obey. 5ust as soon,
therefore, as those responsible for the in
stigation and continuance of this war are
willing to eliminate from their hearts and
minds the elements of serfshness, envy,
jealousy and greed and make their will
subservient to the Divine will thesstruggle
will end, and not until then. w.
Allentown, Pa, February 1S
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-02-22
DAMN THE TORPEDOES"

To the Editor Of the Evening Ledger;
Sir-Newspapers should be careful in
their quotations Yesterday you quoted
Farragut saying, Damn the torpedoes; go
ahead :" Dewey used this expression at
Manila. In Farragut's day they did not
have torpedoes. The other day you at
tributed to Grant the saying. The way
to resume is to resume" 1t was horace
greeley who made this remark in relation
TO specie payments Shortly after the last
election you told your readers now Some
of the unsuccessful candidates took thelr
defeat You told what General Hancock
said to his wife the day after the election
The fact is, General Hancock did not nave
a wife. A good newspaper ike the Eve
MING LEDGER should be sure OF IT'S tacts'
Philadelphia, February 20. H. G' d.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-02-22

The British embassy's statement
that less than one ship was sunk in the
first two weeks of February for every
hundred ships which arrived at or left
British ports in that time seems to prom.
ise that the submarine is doomed to be-.
come as Intellectual as the Zeppelin in
The way of terrorizing England.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-02-22

I. What Is the population Of Cuba?
2. What is a "Leuten suit" tof ciothe-)?
3. What great American soldier became a col
lege president?
4. What Is u hectOmeter?
D. What IL the Duma?
9. Where is President jackson buried?
:. What IL bumblefoot:
8. What part OF this country's area Is COW
cred by forests:
o. What State first ratified the Constitution"
TO- Who was Ymer?
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-02-22

A committee of one Senator and
three Assemblymen of the New York
LHslslature, appointed to investigate mar
eotlc drug evils. has come to the same
unanimous conclusions as those of the
&cmmittee Of Philadelphia citizens who,
- their initiative. prepared legislation to
@cnbat the dope" scourge. Will it be
1cnssary for the Pennsylvania Legisla-
~ to 20 over the ground a second time
ne may say third time-for the New
~ and Pennsylvania conditions are the
p~-before passing the bill prepared by
cognmittee? There are thousands of
~ rends" in this city who are as help
~ chlIdren. They are sick people who
% pe protected from themselves.
@IIcn = going to extraordinary
T>ore ars movements to abolish
- cIeonce chIldran's outer
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-02-22

Senator Chamberlain's universal
military service bill will fail of passage
At the present session of Congress, but
let us all hope that no conditions may
arise after March which will make such
compulsory military service necessary as
had to be resorted TO during the Civil
War. We must not forget that men had
to be drafted into the armies in a time
Of national peril.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-02-22

Every day that passes without action Is
fixing the "dope" habit more deeply In
those who have just learned the terrible
fascination Of drugs. The Legislature
should take up the bill at once and pass 1t.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-02-22
knOckOuts

MERION-"K o." is the abbreyiation
for knock out" in prizefghting. A boxer
is adjudged to be knocked out" il he is
unable to rise within ten counts by the
referee (about ten seconds). The nickname
"k, o." is given to or assumed by boxers
supposed to be capable of knocking out their
opponents.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-02-22
Best Book Stores

L. BIT would be difficult to name the
best" book stores in the city without know
ing the nature of the books you want. In
quiry at any library probably would give
you the information you wish. In the tele-
phone directories, under Books" are lists
of bookstores.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-02-22

one of Bert Taylors contributions asks
him why a lady discharged from her post
OF employment in the Offices of the Amerl-
can Can Company couldn't have achieved
a headline In the newspaper as, Canned
from the Can Company" b. l.. T. sug-
rests Canned as being sufiicient. Which
ieadu us up % the query. Why should The
sss:I s:ss; 3; 81 'ss's'ss's'' 'ssss' Z ~ A..
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-02-22

The average housewife is not in
, tsnsely interested in the news that cab.
bages are selling at s16O a ton. She
does not buy them that way. But she
does understand the situation better
when she finds that this time year
ago cabbages sold for S11 a ton.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-02-22

II Madame de Stael were alive to.
day she would certainly revise her ver-
dict that there are only two kinds of
people in the world-men and women.
She would surely open another class for
the paciflsts.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-02-22
LOCATING MR.. FOSS

Eugene Foss was one of Billy Sundays
Boston converts, but it Is hard 10 say
whether the conversion was from Repub-
licansm or Democracy-Gene so hard to
locate--Memphis Commercial Appeal
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-02-22
THE VOICE OF
THE PEOPLE
Who Said Damn the Torpe-
does"?-Relation of Prayer
to Americas Position
in the War

This Department Is free 10 all readers tcho
tCish TO cypress their opinions on subjects ot
general interest. n is an open forum, and the
ECeHin1 Ledger assumes responsibility Tor
the rieics Of its espondents. Letters must
be signed on the name and address OF inc
,crteT. not necessarily for publication, but as a
guarantee Of DoOd faith.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-02-22

IN Syracuse University's football coach
controversy has been ended by the sum-
mary discharge of Bill" IIollenback after
contract with him for next season had
been signed Other colleges, other GUS
toms
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-02-22

Tuneful music and lovely stage pic
lures at the Metropolitan on TUESDAY
night, but the story c'Francesca %
Rimini'O sent us into the night with
bad taste in the mouth. The notion OF
one brother egging on a second to XIII
third is too unbelievable to stir human
sympathy and-next to Shelley's "Cenci'
lis our idea of absolute impossibility a.
a warmer of opera bosoms.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-02-22
SAM LOYD'S PUZZLE

CHARLIE CHAPLIN handed the bank
" cashier United States banknote and
said:
please break this into ''small.time.
change Give me some ones, twice as
many twos. fve times as many fives as
twos. ten times as many tens as fves
and the balance in twenties."
Now. what is the smallest Unlted
states banknote that Charlie could have
furnished TO pay for that change?
Answerto observation-disclosures
EyouR cents would buy nine pears
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-02-22
Automobile Maps

b. B,-The Automobile Club of Philadel-
pha, % South Twenty-third street, pub
fishes automobile road maps of PennsyI-
vania and adjoining territory. and through
the club you may obtain automobile maps
of other States.