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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-06-14

Pray deem me not impudent," writes
Cubby, "for l am merely curious. May
ask the reason for that degree somebody
just handed to you? What laws have
you been doctoring?'
We share your curiosity, Cubby, and
have been awaiting advices from South
Bend, Ind. Meanwhile, this Dispatch
which interested us, may not bore you:
NEW BRUNSWICK, n. j., June 13.-
Major General George w. Goethals and
Governor Walter +. Edge were given an
ovation at the commencement exercises
here at Rutgers College The
degree Of doctor of laws was also con-
ferred upon l.. f. Loree, president of the
Delaware and Hudson Railroad, who put
Rutgers College on the football map" by
securing George Foster Sanford as coach
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-06-14
DA CANDIDATE

Da Keen0 for Greece ces Skeep!
He tax balloonG treep,
Bdycduse he lUdS cen DootchG SUeeth
dG AHU
So noto dd Heeng to do
EeS dhd a Keen0 dat'S netO
BGytore deg 9eeue dG job to Tommd
DdlH
A good Keeng let us sand;
nominate my frdnd,
PdSQudlc Addlberto Cdpordle!
Eh? Don't you knoto dd "CGp"P
Why he's dG brightG chap
Dat aCrtte about da battle cen dd VdlIey
An up dG heel d0en
Weeth Austridcci men,
So like he toas Frdnkd Ward O'Idlley
oh, he's dd guy to sand;
nominate my trGnd,
PdSqudle Addlberto Cdpordle.
Hal ntebbe so you theenk
He's no look Hkd "Keenk"-
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-06-14
OF 2776 men in training at P

OF 2776 men in training at Platts-
burg Ill have asked TO be assigned to the
aviation corps. But they are told that
there are only nine vacancies for avia'
tors. There is more will than there is
chance to get into the air service. The $54,-
000,0 made available for this arm by the
passage of the war budget will do much to
increase our aerial equipment. Volunteers
for air work will certainly not be lacking.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-06-14
Tom Days Column

THE WISDOM OF THE SPARROWS >
Twas n city sparrow, wise and debonair,
Idly loshng through the country with
his mate.
Stupid country birds were building
everywhere,
For the nestins-time was growing
rather late,
But the sparrow, with his lady,
In a tree-top, cool and shady,
Cazed with soorn upon the work and
twittered; Stuff
To his mate he ehirruped shrilly.
Isn't all this labor silly,
When a roosting-plaee at night is quite
enoughp"
Twas motherly old robin, near at
hand,
Who was busy at her building with
the rest
And she turned upon the sparrows to
demand
How they meant to hatch their eggs
without a nest.
Such impertinencei" half sadly
Said the sparrow; and yet gladly
Ill impart to you the knowledge that you
beg"
Then, with naughty condescension,
He remarked: Il need but mention
inat IL possible TO ODNlate tnc eBB
Twas a congress of the birds of every
sort,
All Indignantly assembled to protest
Their displeasure, when the robin made
report
OF the threatened abolition of the
nest;
And they spoke of it as awful"
Selfish" "scandalous, unlawful"
And they prophesied the country's
speedy fall"
But the sparrows, quite disdaining
All this ignorant complaining,
Simply went their way, unmindful OF
it all.
Twas a sage old owl, a very solemn Bird
Sat and listened while his feathered
fellows fought.
Never once he oped his mouth to say
a word
But he did lot of thinking--and he
thoughts
so the sparrows think it best
To abolish eggs and nest.
Well, perhaps the wisdom isn't theirs at
ell,
But a plan of good Dame Natures
To eliminate such creatures.
Let them have their way; the loss is
mighty small
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-06-14

A few more patriots have stepped for
ward with the necessary small coin Of
the realm and are enrolled among the
builders Of the fund to purchase twelve
year-oid Philip Cotumaccio's painting for
the Red Cross. We now have on hand
ss25. For PHYS sake. let's make It $40,
anyway.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-06-14
Thomas Jefferson wrote the

Thomas Jefferson wrote the Dec
laration Of independence. A fine engrav-
ing of this noted author can be obtained
by paying 81 down before noon tomor-
rowland sac on four dates from now to
August 30. Those who prefer a good Lin
coin will have to pay $1,000. If they can
afford It and turn down the opportunity,
they will be trying to prove that Lincoln
lived and died in vain as the standard
bearer of this Union.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-06-14

German sneers at Wilson's note to
Russia give new pertinence to the Shake
epearean observation that wisdom and
goodness to the vile seem vile"
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-06-14

The ss,OOOOOO,oOO war budget now
in the Presidents hands for signature
happens TO be the largest single appro-
priation ever passed in the worlds his.
tory; but this should not blind us TO the
fact that it is only a beginning. This
budget would finance England for only
eighty days, for her daily expenditure is
S37,000,O00. We are not yet in the war
90 deep as England, which is daily called
upon TO feed and munition 100000 SOL
diers. More bills will be piling up on
Uncle Sans desk, aRd we must learn the
habit Of meeting them cheerfully as part
of the days work. However. we can be
pardoned for some satisfaction in noting
that one-fourth OF the $4,000, 900 900 is
10 be put into something meant to be a
permanent asset-ships. The U-boats
will not sink the majority Of this $3.50.
100000 investment, and in this respect a
great part Of our first war budget will
yield material profits in the future.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-06-14

TOO BAD, Guinea, but the Jobs filed
Another Alexander has arisen in Greece,
with a map Of the world in his hand,
perhaps, but a none-too-hopeful look upon
his young face.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-06-14
War is a swift re,

War is a swift recruiter of hus-
bands. Forty Vassar girls will receive the
degree of Mrs" following the bestowal
of academic honors this month, an ex-
record for q graduating class
of 239,
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-06-14
EHm AvERAoH NET PAID DAILY CIR
cULATIoN OF THE EVENING LEDGER
FOR MAY WAS IO1.1
Philadelphia, Thur.d.y, June Il, 1917

As the Liberty Bell peals Off its
notes today let there be another peeling
of notes from the pockets Of hesitating
citizens for the Liberty Loan.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-06-14
If the German Socialists are read

II INC GeTulHH SOCIdIsIS dIe ItaUyI
as reported, to issue a peace plan at
Stockholm that will astound the world
by its leniency," why can they not get the
Kaiser to issue It for them through the
regular channels at Berlin?
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-06-14

ANYWAY, Signor Caporale only re-
Gently became the equal of keengs. The
official at City Hall spoke somewhat as
follows: "Puty'rhan'ontheBible - brum-
mummum-mum- m-mum -mum-$4." "Am I
a citizen" "Yeh! yer a citizen. Nex'!"
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-06-14

SOME one has said, possibly we said
it ourself, that tomorrow's history is in
today's paper. Therefore we vote Eyes"
in reply to Civilian when he asks II It
wouldn't be wise to call the attention of
our historians to this small advertise
ment in morning contemporary:
ANTIQUE PICTURE OF Washington signing the
Declaration Of Independence; steel engraving
100 years Old
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-06-14

That Germany will attempt to
whitewash her dastardly invasion OF Bel.
gium by pointing TO the Entente's in
terference In the AFFAIRS OF Greece, lead.
ing 10 the overthrow of King Constantine,
may be fully expected. A brief glance at
history. however, Immediately exposes
any such nophistry. The eases Of Greece
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-06-14

oh, he's dd guy to sand;
nominate mn trdnd,
PaSqudIe Addlberto Caporalei
GUINEA.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-06-14
"GOTO" ON THE LIBERTY LOAN a
Shall Patriots Help America by Buying Liberty Bonds Help
the Kaiser by Not Doing So?-Junkers Must Not Make
Junk of the United States
By JAMES NJ. BLAKE

with apologies to nobody not even Wallace Irwin)
bv snecinl
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-06-14

Lew" has moved He had occupied
his old stand ever since they took up the
wooden sidewalks around City Hall; ever
since Colonel Forney was in his teens and
before Charles Emory Smith, Ben Gordon,
Ed Gudehus and Charlie Heyer began
writing pieces for the paper. So Ed
Muschamp wants us to start this
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-06-14

The faulty of the once over
advertised German scholarship has never
been more glaringly exposed than in
the denunciation of the President as
Don Quixote because Mr.. Wilson spon.
sors democracy. If throughout the realm
of literature there is one supreme cham.
pion of the very feudalism on which
Teuton political tyranny is based, the
knight of the Rueful Countenance" is
that apostle of titled authority. Upon his
antics Cervantes poured the full force
of irony. Certainly it takes the modern
German mind to misconceive the mas
terly satire transparent to all the rest Of
the world for more than three centuries.
AT least two Venezuelans were
JUSTIFY world famous. One was Simon
Bolivar, the illustrious liberator of South
America. The other was his niece,
Teresa Carreno. the superb pianist, whose
death the whole world OF art now mourns.
Among mistresses of the keyboard, Car
reno, called often the "Lioness OF the
Pianoforte," was indeed Incompatible
Her art was overpowering in its splen-
doris, majestic and soulstirring in much
the same way as Liszt's. Philadelphians
have often been thrilled by her perform
ances, and the emotions which she evoked
here will abide in our memories with
those called forth by the titan Rubin
stein. There is nothing quite like such
art with us today. Paderewski's exquisite
genius, great as it is, is altogether of a
different complexion.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-06-14

But here I max a
eeoture deeS
PdSQudle.
Not0, tohere you oona
0dt
More handsome ReenO
dan dat
An one so sure for
nIedSinI oil dn Allnp
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-06-14

We, the undersigned, patrons of the
daily, weekly and mtthly journals of
public opinion, being lost to all sense of
shame at seeing our names in print well
come our friend Lew 20 his new home,
at the southeast corner Of Seventh and
Cdeleted by the advertising
censor streets, which is directly across
the street from his old home at the south.
west corner of ---- (deleted by the
advertising censor) and Chestnut streets.
Eds notion was that we'd clutter up
this column with the names No such
thing. Just buy a postcard and mail
It to Lew.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1917-01-03
OTHER CITIES
join EFFORT
TO BROADEN
COMPENSATION
Councils Pass Resolution
Drafted on Richmond to
Include Patrolmen Under
Terms of Law.
SUPPORT IS PLEDGED

City officials at Terre Haute
Lafayette. Elkhart, Fort Wayne and
Marion have notified City Clerk
Bescher Of Richmond that the admin.
istrations of those cities are in com
pete accord with the movement
launched by the Richmond city coun'
Gil to secure an amendment to the
state workmen's compensation law
which will classify police officers as
beneficiaries of the act
Clerk Bescher sent copies of a reso-
luton passed recently by the Rich
mond city council to the city clerks Of
the larger cities of the state request
ing that the councils of these cities
join in the movement to secure fair
play for police officers through an
amendment to the compensation act
Passes Similar Demand.
E. ]. Vaughan, clerk at Lafayette,
writes that the Lafayette council has
passed here and has appointed COM
mittee to assist in the movement. I'VE
wish you success in your efforts to
have the compensation law so amend.
ed as to compensate the families of
your two murdered policemen
Vaughan concludes his letter.
"Terre Haute will lend all the assist
ance it can in this cause" writes Clerk
George A. Moorhead of Terre Haute.
'Ie there is anything special can do
please advice"
Acts at Tonight's Session.
The Elkhart city council will act on
the matter at it's session tonight,
Clerk Ben L. Bixler of that city writes
G. w. Boerger, clerk of Fort Wayne
writes that prompt action will be
taken by the council of that city.
Frank R. Hick, clerk of Marion,
writes that the mayor of that city in
formed him he would be glad to do
anything in his power to secure the
desired amendment to the compensa-
tion law. s...-s.- .,..,,,
u Communications from the clerks of
several other cities are expected with
in the next few days. ..-....-
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1917-01-03
MANY CASES SETTLED
WHEN JUDGE CALLS
DOCKET FOR TERM

Following is a record of the actions
taken in circuit court today as a re-
suit of the calling-Of the docket by
Judge Fox:
Joseph NJ. Thurston ct. al. VS.. Owen
Swain. on account, demand $86.56-
default granted to plaintiff.
Enos Veal ct. al. petition for drain.
age referred back to drainage COM
missioners.
City of Connersville vs. Connersvilie
Hydraulic company and Cleveland,
Cincinnati, Chicago and ST. Louis R.
R., on account $37.41-rule to answer
Motion to make second paragraph
of complaint more specific in suit Of
Alfred Gray ct. al. VS.. Clayton Hunt
for fraud and recession of contract, de-
mand $5,000-over ruled.
State ex. rel. Mary Gilbert VS.. Gil
bert Epps-dismissed
Micajah c. Henley VS.. Laurence G.
Whitesell, complaint for possession of
real estate and damages $400-dis.
missed at plaintiffs cost.
Frank Johnson VS.. Smiley E. John
son, divorce, dismissed at plaintiffs
cost
Ethel G. Johnson VS.. John L. John
son, divorce-Strayer withdraws ap-
pearance.
John E. Eye VS.. Myrtle Eye, divorce
-Strayer withdraws appearance.
John F. Maher VS.. Alonzo Daven-
port for dissolution of partnership, for
account and appointment of receiver
dismissed at plaintiffs cost.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1917-01-03
CONGRESS WILL BUY
AUTO FOR LANSING
UPON HIS REQUEST

WASHINGTON, Jan. 3-Failure of
the House appropriations committee
to grant a $400 annual increase in
salary to state department bureau
chiefs led Secretary Lansing today to
make a personal appeal for the in
crease to the senate appropriations
committee which looks with favor
upon it.
While before the committee Secre-
tary Lansing was assured that the ap-
preparation to provide him with an
official automobile would be left in
the bill 1t was disclosed that when
the question came up in the House
committee Chairman Fitzgerald had
explained:
Secretary Lansing is the only cab
met official who has had nerve
enough to ask Congress for an auto
mobile, and, by George, he shall have
It,"
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1917-01-03
POOR RELIEF CALLS
FOR S806 ABOVE
ACCOUNT FOR 1915

Poor accounts Of the various town
ship trustees Of Wayne county during
1916 amounted to $11,40069. This
shows an increase Of $S06.50 over the
total last year.
The township trustees are reinburs-
ed by the county commissioners at the
end Of each quarter for money ex-
pended. Today, the commissioners
passed on the accounts for the last
quarter Of the past year. The amounts
expended in the various townships
during October, November and Decem-
ber OF this year and a year ago fol.
low: Franklin, $31.75 "a year ago it
was SAY; Center, $231.90 ($167); Alb
ington. $22.2s ($2s.S3): Boston. $77.sO
(none); jefferson, $16.25 (none);
Green, 1850 ($6.30); Clay. $3s.45
($37); Jackson. $421.45 ($5o1o7);
washington. $1s5.SO ($15225); Perry,
$49.94 ($57s7); Webster. s4S.50 ($2);
Wayne. $2,146 ($1,513.13); New Gar
den $3255 ($4s.64); Harrison. 500
$(2)
The total increase IN Wayne town
ship for 1916 over 1915 was $130.47.
The heavy increase came in the last
period During the summer Of this
year the poor relief in this township
was less than year ago.
During the last quarter Of 1916 re.
lief work in all townships amounted to
S3,S4S.7S. During the same. period a
year ago 1t amounted to $2,617.29.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1917-01-03
MAYOR METES
out BIC FINES
FOR ASSAULTS
This was flight day" in city court.

This was flight day" in city court.
Three assault and battery cases. one
an aggravated one. occupied Mayor
Robbins time most OF the forenoon.
Carl e. Phillips, formerly of Losants
vile, knitted Henry Swafford, formerly
of Liberty, after a wrestling match in
an alley which followed saloon argu
ment as to which was the most adept
at the wrestling game Phillips claim.
ed self defense and received fine OF
SIS and costs and fifteen days jail
sentence.
Prosecutor Strayer announced that
Phillips would later be tried for fail
ure to support his wife and children,
informing the court that Phillips had
been living here with another woman.
Swafford received a cut across the
stomach, over an inch deep in one
place. He said he lost some money
during the wrestling match, which
Phillips appropriated. When he de-
manded it he said Phillips knitted him.
Knocks Laborer Down.
Fred Hoffman, commissary clerk at
the camp for laborers who are employ
ed at the east end Pennsylvania yards,
knocked down one of the workmen,
Charles Mendell, after Mendell had
called him vile name, Mayor Robbins
was informed. 1t was a dispute over a
settlement of Mendells board bill.
Hoffman was fined s5 and costs for
assault and battery and Mendell drew
the same fine on charge of provoke
Glasgow White, colored, residing in
Dayton, became provoked yesterday
when his wife refused to leave Rich
mond and make her home with him
in Dayton SO he seized lamp shade
and smote her with it. Glasgow told
a long story of domestic troubles and
was rewarded for his oratorical efforts
with a fine of SIS and costs.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1917-01-03
FREIGHT CARS
TEAR THROUGH
FACTORY WALL

Operations at the Standard Pattern
e Machine company plant, north OF
the Pennsylvania passenger station
between Fort Wayne avenue and
North Tenth street, were almost sus
pended today as a result of an un
ceremonious visit paid to the factory
about o'clock this morning by a
Pennsylvania freight train.
While the train was being backed
in westward direction some of the
rear cars jumped the rails and pro.
ceeded across Tenth street, the end
Car driving through the east wall of
the factory's machine shop as though
it were made of paper. This car
was completely inside the machine
shop, where night force of nine
men were working, before the train
was stopped.
When the train battered down the
east wall there was deluge of splint.
ers, flying bricks and broken pieces
of machinery hurled in all directions
about the shop while the factory
workers stampeded for safety. For
tunately n64 man was injured Men
working on the second floor of the
shop were also terrorized as a Sec
tion of that floor gave way when the
car tore down the supporting posts.
A number of railroad employees
were at work today assisting in the
repairing of the damage done by the
freight train.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1917-01-03
PRESS VIEWS
ENTENTE NOTE
AS INSULTING
REJECTION
Berlin Newspapers Believe
Tone is Intended for Effect
Upon Citizenship of En-
tente.
SWORD WILL ANSWER

BERLIN, via London, Jan. 3.-The
reply of the entente to the peace pro-
posals of the Central powers is dis
cussed at great length this morning
by the newspapers which base their
remarks on the unofficial press yer.
sion Of the note, as received here
from French sources. The newspa-
pers are unanimous in saying the
answer of the entente is only what
was to be expected in view of the
utterances Of the hostile nations.
The opinion is expressed that the
note was addressed less to the cen
trail powers than to the people Of the
entente countries and to neutrals; !;
hence the strong declamatcry Ian
guage calculated, according to the
German opinion, further to infame
passions against the Teutonic allies.
In particular, it is declared the Sec
tion devoted to Belgium is intended
expressly for the American people.
Couched as Insult
In general, the answer is regarded
as the stiffest and most brusque pos
sible, and to be couched in insulting
and calumniating terms never before
seen in an international document.
All the newspapers agree the only
answer the central powers can give is
with the sword; that the war must
be continued until the allies them
selves sue for peace.
Only a few newspapers see even a
faint hope that peace still may be at
tainable within reasonable time
Curiously enough the supernationaiist
pan German Taeglische Rundschau
maintains feeble show of optimism,
saying: "The thought of peace is not
quenched by this rejection" But even
this utterance is qualified by the ex-
planation that peace can come only
through failure of the entente plans
of conquest and the crushing of Ger
many.
Peace Retains Vitality
The Tageblatt also believes the
idea of peace retains its vitality, say
ing: Even though the attempt be
made to bury it under a thousand
arguments, peace will continue to
rise up mightier than ever after every
failure to achieve expected victory"
The Socialist newspaper Vorwaerts,
which las been the leading peace or.
gan of Germany for many months,
still holds that the policy of attempt
ing to find new means of terminating
the war must continue but that the
defense of the country must go on
without tagging. It contends that
the responsibility for continuance Of
the war rests with the entente.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1917-01-03
PROHIBITION MEETIYG
may Be ARRANGED

Plans for Sunday afternoon mass
meeting to voice the demand of Rich
mond and Wayne county church peo-
pie for passage of statewide prohi-
bition measure by the coming legis-
lature will be placed before the coun-
ty executive session of the W. C. T.
U. at the Y. NJ C. A. tomorrow morn
ing, by Mrs. S. E. Nicholson, local
temperance leader.
This action follows the failure of
the newly-organized church federation
to give serious consideration to the
plan. Robert L. Kelly, president OF
the federation, said it was not estab-
lished firmly enough to wage a fight
at this time.
Mrs. Nicholson said the mass meet
ing would impress legislators from
Wayne county with the demand for
votes for prohibition. She said if the
W. c. T. U. considered that time
enough to arrange the meeting inter-
vened between now and Sunday that
the white ribboners" would expect
all Richmond church people to rally
to their support.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1917-01-03
HOWARD RECITAL
PROGRAM ISSUED
BY COMMITTEE

Program for the Wesley Howard
benefit concert at the high school
auditorium Friday night has been ar
ranged as follows:
Wesley Howard, violinist.
Miss Alice Knollenberg and Roland
Nusbaum, accompanies.
Prof Ralph Sloane, director
Concert by the high school orches-
ira Of 65 pieces from 1880 until 8:15
o'clock.
Old Time Melodies
City Church Choirs
Violin Wesley Howard
Chorus
Second Presbyterian Church Choir
Violin Mr.. Howard
Male Chorus
Y NJ C. A. Double Quartet
Old Time Melodies Church Choirs
Violin Mr.. Howard
Chorus First M. E. Church Choir
Violin Mr.. Howard
Chorus
First English Lutheran Church Choir
Old Time Melodies Church Choirs