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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-07-31
THE IRISH CONVENTION

To the Editor of the Epenin0 Ledger:
sir-Accordlng to the news dispatches
from over the water, there Is now being
held in Dublin a convention Of Irlshmen
.'of all manner of thinking" and the ex-
pressed purpose of their being drawn to-
eether is to settle for all time the Emerald
Question by drawing up for Ireland a
constitution under which the people will
live and be governed.
England says she has washed her hands
Of the whole thing, and 1t is now up to
ireland to devise ways and means for a
satisfactory settlement. Ireland is told
that any arrangement that all Ireland
agrees to will be accepted by England and
given legislative effect. Now that makes
fne reading-until you read further
II seems that England has not entirely
waahed her hands of the Irish question
not a clean wash anyhow-because there
are lust few small stipulations. She
(Engiand) will not consent to an Irish re-
nubiic or in fact, to any impairment of
Canadian home rule or republic. then she
will not give such recommendations the nee
essary legislative effect. To the outsider
Ireland can Just have what she has now
nothing. But the nothing will be called
.shome rule" which Is something"
ADD TO this the promise to Ulster that
she will not be coerced-whatever Ulster
ya nts or doesn't want, her wishes must be
wranted Also add the fact that the con.
vention Is packed. 80 that Ulster must be
cared for or else nobody else can be cared
Tor Furthermore, unanimity is essential
no that in three months the delegates could
tsik each other speechless. silence meaning
0'TI' Ths followers Of willism o'Brien VII
not sstepa peesuse t,s eseee1bly g sot q
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-07-31
STENOGRAPHERS' RATES


Sir-Having read in Saturdays EVENING
LEDGER n letter from one of your contrib
utors inquiring as to rates charged by pub
lie stenographers beg to differ with the
replies given to her questions as to charge
for different kinds Of work
note that a rate of ten cents for dou-
BILE space and fifteen cents for single
space one-page letter was given. other kinds
Of stenographic work being in the same pro-
portion. AS I have been public stenog-
rapher for some years, allow me 10 tell you
how base my charges.
NV charges are based entirely on an
hourly rate of $1.20. An ordinary letter OF
one page, single space, takes from ten to
fifteen minutes, and this, figured at the rate
Of 20 an hour (or two cents per minutel
averages about 25 cents for any one-page
letter; IL there Is more than one letter or 1t
Is very difficult and takes a longer time
then 1t Is charged for entirely by the
amount Of time which Is actually spent IN
writing it--u,at is, a letter taking, say, TWEEN.
ty minutes is 40 cents; thirty.fve minutes,
70 cents, etc. OF course. 1t Is taken for
granted that the operator Is expert and as
speedy on the machine as her dictator cares
to dictate and that all work Is taken direct
on the machine but IL shorthand Is used 1t
is charged for at the same rate, counting
all time spent on the work.
I wish you would publish this opinion,
simply for the purpose Of keeping up the
standard Of stenography in general, for it
Is not fair to those who can command a
good price to have the standard lowered by
those who cannot, and II no cheap work is
done II will establish respect for our pro-
fession and enable 1t to rank with any
other profession that requires good brain
work to carry 1t on.
So I beg of you, stenographers, rather
than do cheap work. increase your ability
so as to be able to command frst-class
prices for first-class work.
FLORENCE II, MATCHETT
Wilmington, Del, July 2b.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-07-31
TO A CANADIAN AVIATOR WHO
DIED FOR HIS COUNTRY

Tossed like a falcon from the hunters
wrist,
A sweeping plunge, a sudden shatter,np
noise,
And thou hast dared with a long spiral
twist
The elastic stairway to the rising r,n
Peril below thee and above peril
Within they car; but peril cannot daunt
Thy peerless heart; gathering wing and
poise,
Thy plane ,transhgured; and thy motor
chant
Subdued to murmur-then silence
And thou are but disembodied venture
In the void.
But Death, who has learned to dv
Still matchless when his work is to be
done, 'e
Met thee between the armies and the
sun:
Then thy dead engine and thy broken
Dropped through the arc and passed in
fire "
A wreath Of smoke--a breathless exbala.
tion.
But ere that came a vision sealed thine
eyes,
Lulling thy senses with oblivion:
And from its sliding station in the slies
Thy dauntless soul upward in circles
scared
To the sublime and purest radiance wbencs
It, sDrang.
In all their eyries eagles shall mourn tbv
fate, a-N "'S
And leaving on the lonely crars and
scaurs o
Their unprotected young, shall conerepat ~
High In the tenuous heaven and anger ths
With screams. and with a wild audacitv
Dare all the battle danger Of thy flight:
Till weary with combat one shall A.,
the light, Nsser'
FAN like bolt of thunder and check hi,
fall SA hii
On the high ledge. smoky with mist ant
Where his neglected eaglets shriek s,o,,.
And drawing the nlm, across his sovsro,a,
sight 80 S'e'eiki
shall .drepm " thy swift soul immort.,
1s<y2t y slrs|es, talthfni beyond sssth.
KEEL oGU q mG0<k, Z. II 81 - -(<4f-5
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-07-31
EARLY AMERICAN LATIN

To the Editor Of the Evening Ledger:
Sir-I am so much interested in the
Washington medal described by B. D. in
his article, How America Honors Heroes"
In yesterdays issue that l wish you would
publish (correcteD the inscription on that
medal My sympathies are with the writer
for the mangling of this inscription by the
compositor and with the compostor for
the task given him to decipher manu-
script SO blind that the first word of the
date on the medal presumably die) looked
like "du." FRANK w. FREEDOM
Philadelphia, July 27.
1.-THE inscription in Latin on the Wash
ington medal, as printed in the article re.
ferred to, follows the text as given by
Brevet Major General st. Clair Mulholland
In Military Order, Congress Medals of
Honor, Legion of the United States" a
treatise on national decorations The faulty
Latinity may be due either to early Amer
ican ignorance Of that tongue, or to the
carelessness of Colonial engravers.-Editor
of the EVENING LEDGER.]
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-07-31
PREPAREDNESS" IN 1914

HNHE year 1914 was one of the most ex.
l. citing periods in the history of Philadel.
phia The air was filled with rumors Of
British advances. On July II four British
barges attacked Elkton, Md, and were re-
came to Philadelphia was that the British
mad landed and were marching on the city
Preparedness in those days was very
local and informal affair. 1t was not even
'city-wide'-it was scarcely "ward-wide."
For example, certain responsible citizens
or North Mulberry Ward met at the Sam
son and the Lion Inn, corner Crown and
vine streets, on the 18th and formed a com.
pany The Federal Republican Young Men
met at Peter Evanss tavern corner Sixth
and Carpenter streets, and formed another
company. Then the shpmasters and mari.
ners met at the State House and formed
the Philadelphia Marine Artillery. Such
evidences Of decentralization are instructive
Tor those who would realize how long It
TOOK for the old provincialism and locallsm
TO be overcome by the conception of united
country In those days men said "the
United States are" and not 'the United
States is"
However, a requisition was presently
MADE by the Federal Government 'or
i4'ooo men from Pennsylvania. the country
having been invaded and the national capi-
'ai menaced. In a few weeks the news
was to come that Washington had been at.
tackled and Government buildings burned.
But In spite of what we would today con.
sider the terrors of the time, people in Phil
adeiphia took life fairly calmly. After the
hrst excitement business went on as usual
During the mobilization" a body OF citizens
assembled to collect funds "for the relief Of
the inhabitants Of war-stricken Germany"l
But In August this trivial attitude sud.
deniy vanished. Couriers came riding north
crying: Washington has fallen The Brit.
ism are marching on Philadelphia p Tho
time for Pennsylvanians to fight for their
own homes was at hand. Political partisan-
snip must cease, said the newspapers: "there
are now but two parties--the country and
its invaders" Thereafter some very swift
work OF defense was completed, mostly by
the volunteer efforts of citizens, and troops
were stationed at strategic points south of
| the city. On September II came the nevt,'
thst haitlmore was attacked N /, The elfysn,
eocuments Wefo packed Tor rcuoSal. 'hrf 4 Z
- 20 Is.f33l
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-07-31
STATUS OF THE NEGRO
To the Editor Of the Evening Ledger:

TO nc EdUOr OF Tie EUenin0 Ledger:
Sir-I read with pleasure your splendid
editorial. Status Of the Negro" 1t is very
instructive to those on both sides of this
great question. I feel that the well-think-
ing people owe you thanks for so timely
an article. About a year or more ago
read the editorials on the negro question in
the EVENING LEDGER, and one sentence
which was too true was, ''They were
being driven out of all avenues of employ.
ment, Foreign walters being employed in
their place in hotels, forcing them into
idleness; they become criminals, etc"
SAMUEL FERRER.
Mount Holly. N. j., July 80.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-07-31
A CANDID POLITICIAN

SNYDER is always so re-
~ freshingly candid about politics that
1t Is a wonder he ever rose to so high
an Office as the Auditor Generalship. His
latest tribute to Penrose craftsmanship
is hardly calculated to perpetuate that
Senator's regime:
There isn't any chance in Pennsylvania
for any man who hasn't got a barrel of
money and the support Of the leaders.
When the time comes Penrose will name
the man. Senator Sproul can have the
nomination for Governor II he wants 1t.
He has money and personality and the
good will of Penrose. I'm not in the race.
Snyder is right in being frank about
these conditions, but he is wrong in being
so cynically hopeless Of improving them,
knowing. as he apparently does, that
they are wrong. If one is to belong to
the Organization. 1t is infinitely better to
take his light view of things than that of
the solemn. dismal hypocrites who pose
as public benefactors. But one cannot
run with the hares and hunt with the
hounds, however good.humored he may
be. 1t Is necessary to take Sides. And
the line of cleavage between Organization
and reform in Pennsylvania is as clean
cut as a frontier on map.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-07-31
WHERE GERMANY COULD GET A
VERDICT

ME SUGGEST that the Kaiser quit
w fighting and agree to try Germany's
case in a Philadelphia Magistrate IS
court. His country would doubtless come
out of it clothed in garments of shining
white. together with an edict ordering
Belgium to pay billion or two to Berlin
as indemnity for her inexcusable crime in
offering resistance to the organized cadet
squad which began it's work at Liege
and has not quit yet. But there will be
no Philadelphia Magistrates at the peace
conference.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-07-31

Lancaster County farmer. one of the few
who have not yet purchased car" COM
ing into Lancaster from his broad acres and
gazing upon this sign in large letters out
side of a garage opposite one of the towns
numerous markets:
FREE AIR
And just around the corner in a store
window:
HIEMENZ
WILL SELL YOU
FOR LESS
Still further down the street this rather
puzzling announcement for a city In the
heart of Pennsylvania:
NICELY FURNISHED ROOMS
FOR
LIGHTHOUSE KEEPING
SALAD.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-07-31

apparent hope for any real freedom coming
from a collection of avowed Imperlalists.
And England at any rate would turn it
down If such recommendation was made.
So there you are. There Is no honesty in
John Bull where Ireland Is concerned.
ALEXANDER CHARLES THOMPSON.
Philadelphia, July 81
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-07-31
with some German.language new

With some German-language news
papers stating the terms on which they
would be willing to indorse action likely
70 lead to German defeat and daily re-
railing their readers with jubilation over
me uishaps Of certain Of our Allies, good
cltissns bsgin to wonder II IT is not time
"a snaks Afnerica safe for Americans and
s & e ~ ~ 'seossa = ! g shst '''''
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-07-31
THE VOICE OF
THE PEOPLE
Stenographers' Rates-The Irish
Convention at
Dublin

THIS Department Is free to all readers tpho
pish to erprcss their opinions on subjects Of
current interest. 1t Is dn open forum and the
Evening Ledger assumes no responsibility for
the vietrs OF its correspondents. Letters must
be signed bv the name and address OF the
'1rter, not necessarily for publication, but as
guarantee OF good faith.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-07-31

It is Just as necessary to have one
general in charge Of an army. or one food
administrator, as 1t is to have one Presi-
dent. Every argument for a food board
ia an argument for a board Of executives
In the White House.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-07-31
The war is not being fought

The war is not being fought only
on the fields Of Flanders. Every ship.
load of food that leaves our ports for
scandinavian harbors seems to be nur-
turing Busy Berthas also. The object Of
blockade and embargo is to give the
Kaiser,s followers no stomach for war.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-07-31

The Mayor is said to be dissatis-
fed with the result of vice hearings be-
fore the Magistrates. The Organization
which elected him, however. seems to be
we'll pleased, and the fall elections are
not far of.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-07-31

Michaelis's picture Of France as
rowing wolf seeking nations to devour 8
very pathetic. Doubtless the whole pur.
pose Of the United States in entering the
war is to annex the Bavarian breweries.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-07-31

Gang rule and rule by murder are
not so far apart The Chester situation
indicates that justice waits on votes.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-07-31

What's the use passing full-crew
repealers when the Governor has his ak
all ready? Better get new Governor.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-07-31
"WHY GERMANS
MUST BE KILLED"
English Opinion Holds the Peo-
pie "as Well as the Kaiser"
Are Responsible
BY GILBERT VIVIAN SELDES


Special Correspondence Of the EUenino Ledger
LONDON. July 10.
TN THE many months in which ] have
L been reporting to this paper on the way
in which Britons think and feel about the
war. and on how they live. l have not had
such a difficult problem as the one / want
to solve today. / want to set down, az
truthfully as l may, the sentiments or
good many people here concerning Ger.
many, particularly concerning the German
people.
There is no question Of black and white.
There is no possibility of saying that all
people think one thing, or even one way
There Is no authority to make them do So
and even their newspaper authorities DIFF
fer. What follows is the result Of gen.
eral experience, one which has deliberately
avoided the exceptions.
We all thought that President Wilson
had made n neat stroke when he divided
off the German Government from the Ger
man people in his war address, II was
neat. no doubt because the Tory press or
Germany so bitterly resented 1t. But what
people have seriously asked themselves
here Is this: Was the President right? Can
you divide them off?
remember the shock which I got In my
earliest days here. ! was talking to the
author of the most popular single story
produced since the war broke out. sup
pose ] had said what we were all saying
in America--that we had to fight on until
the German autocracy was broken; that
the German people were all right
That Is how we talked at the beginning
OF the war" he said rather sadly. He did
not say, but he impli-d, that they knew
better now.
Let me put the qualification first. be-
cause these people are blood Of our blood
and they fight for what we fight what Is
tIo,, l,rl,t Htyht Tho,y do pnt
hate the German people. They pity, they
despise. But they seriously feel and the
feeling grows deeper with each day that
n large part of the German people must be
rendered powerless, must be destroyed II
necessary, before the freedom of the world
10
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-07-31
TRIOLET

He took up his drum,
And he beat 1t.
When he sdto the mob come
He took up his drum,
For he played too darn bum
To repeat 1t.
He took up his drum
And he beat it!
CASA WAPPY.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-07-31
MATERIALTSM

MATERIALISM
The dreamers sang In the days of old,
When the 1Dorld aoas young and the
month acas May,
OF lords and ladies and heroes bold,
OF testing and jousting and battles
JraU
And they said, "Our dreams ,DiH Hue
for ape,
When our dust Is hid In an earthen
jar"
No,o their songs are all forgot today,
But the dust of the areamers became
star!
An artist modelled his toorks In gold,
singer sang melodtous lay,
And then for eternity fits astray,
neto told
That just for the moment holds its saoay
And then for eternity fits astray,
Or perhaps Is sold at some grand bazaar
For a breath of air or a DIT of clay
But the dust of the dreamers became
start
No1o Zeus IN hts heaven sa,o ,oorlds
unfold,
NcU ptuHctS JtcuWeu OF tHc MHEu Wan.
Noto euen the sun tcas 1rotoing cold
And 1t flashed but faint and feeble
ray.
Noto the days of men 1oere short and
gray,
And only Zeus In his golden car
Remembered the dreams that had
passed dtody;
But the dust of the dreamers become
L,ENVOI
Prince, tohen zoe fashion our little plau.
Do the gods look on and smile from
ATARI
The dreamers sang for their Httle day,
But the dust of the dreamers became
star! WILL LOU.
THE LADY WITH THE GINGHAM
APRON
Advises US that the best thing In the
four quarters o. the world for cuts an
the like o. that is Phenol fur Dick" And
she says. "There does be bush in a yard
ON Fortieth street wid flowers on Il
would each b. the fiall Of bushel q
thsx ba,lif 1I3ee ~ pe1g.i = Z i :, \,
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-07-31

IT MAY BE this bit of advertising copy
was meant for some other department,
possibly the automobile display" but
it won't hurt to give it this position, fol
lowing and alongside pure reading:
AN ADVERTISEMENT FOR THE AMER.
ICAN WOMAN
F'ull page insertion, 52 times year,
The American woman, 1917 model, we
consider the finest product we have at
tanned, in centuries of effort
In beauty and simplicity, in ease and
economy of operation, in gallant response
to calls upon her strength and endurance
and In ability to take a rough road with
out complaint she is unequaled by any
other make.
Her courage, cooperation and selfsac-
rifice will make 1t possible for us to win
the war.
AS grandmother, mother, wife, sister
or daughter she is unsurpassed,
Be sure to ask for the 1917 model.
ASK THE MAN WHO OWNS ONE.
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-07-31

Make the world unsafe for the
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-07-31

Ninety-five cents! Why pay more
for paso
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-07-31

YOU never can tell but this seems to
be the latest fordjoke:
I'm getting forty miles to the gallon
with my henry"
"Y'are?!"
yep! Twenty ahead and twenty up
and down."
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-07-31

Ne for dd Bersdgliert!
oh! to keep step
An march apceth Giusepp'
DdtS'd tC'dt I 1Could adore
Hep, hep, hep, hep, hep, hep!
Ne for dd 1cdr!
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-12-16
EAGLES ELECT OFFICERS
David =. O'Ncil Is Nndc worth,
President OF DtNic Aeric,
No. BIS.

At a largely attended meeting OF
Dixie Acric. No. SIS, Iruternal order
Of Eagles. which was held in it's home
on last Thursday night. the following
offers were elected: past worthy prcsi-
dent. Charles Il. Peoples: worthy
president. David L. O'Ncn: worthy
vice president, Linwoo =. Rowlett:
recording secretary. William T. Sulli-
van: financial secretary. =. ]. llirSch
berg: inside guard. William Kroussc:
outside guard, H. l.. Fisher: treasurer.
Felix y. Boschcn: physicians. Drs. j.
L. Roy and NJ; &. SNclc.
The past year was one OF the most
prosperous years in tn. history ct ih.
acrie. and the coming year is rxurc; C,.
to be equally as good. Mr. ONcll will
be installed with tn" other officers
early in January when he will appoint
his various committees.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-12-16
COL0RED DAY NURSERY
BADLY IN NEED OF FUNDS
Appeal for Immediate Financial As
Instance Is Mnde to Generously
Disposed Persons.

Unless funds are provided by gen.
crously disposed persons the Day
Nursery for Colored Children. H. West
Charity Street. will find itself in dire
financial straits Children cared for
by this institution come from the
poorest homes. and are in need or prac-
tically everything necessary for bare
comfort.
The small sum realized from fees
charged is used entirely for food. The
institution is sadly in need OF food.
fuel. clothing and funds to pay the
salary OF the assistant matron, An
earnest woman. who works hard 10
keep the families together. sees that
the children attend school, and that
sick children arc taken TO the dspcn-
saries and hospitals.
Recently a social worker brought Il
mother and three children TO the
nursery: all were hungry and Shivcring
from tho intense cold. The matron
secured the use OF furnished room
in tho nciEhborhood, and borrowed two
quilts with which to keep the family
warm. The baby OF this family de-
Neiopcd pneumonia, and was taken TO
"a hospital. The mother was secured
a position in tobacco factory. Tho
missing father has been located. and