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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-05-03
MAY

There Is 1lddness In the daytime Uhen
the year Is at the Maytime
And the tickle April yesterdays are
gone torerer more;
When the buds come creeping, creeping,
from the trance Of 1ofnter sleeping
On the ram bier as It makes frame OF
flame around the door.
Aprtl Cas ioanton toooer, chanoetul to
each one 1cho kne,O her,
Gtuing and withholding kisses In her
careless. hedrtless Udy
But rhen Nays ,ohtte arms are round
you, then you knoto true lope has
found you.
There Is constdncy untdiling In the
faithful heart OF May.
Even nights tDtth tconder moon Tdys
toIoufn9 the golden June days,
with the thrill OF rose and niohtin0dl
Uhere laughing fountains play.
Do not bring the thoughts so tender Of
the street things zoe remember
OF the days tohen 1oe toere ttoenty-
and the year tcds at the Mdy,
VARLEY.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-05-03

AND II the days of the old Union Trac-
ton Company were still with us the Pop
lar street car might be used If within
catching distance--and you never could
be sure of that. We say the Poplar
street car, for there was only one. Old
residents will remember that the Union
Traction Company merely operated tho
line to comply with the law and hold the
franchise. 1t shuttled back and forth
for a few blocks. The car crews never
seemed to get along very well on that
gar. Their jobs were sour to them and
they fought. An Irish driver and an Irish
conductor battled inside the car one day.
and very nearly busted" 1t. Then a
couple Of Yiddish gentlemen were put in
charge. The first week the conductor
turned in about $1.10 a day, which was
normal, but the following week the re-
ceipts rose suddenly. One night they ex-
ceeded 81. The superintendent called the
conductor into his Office. Fine" he said;
nobody else ever brought in so much
money. How do you do it?" well. We
vent after de business for dc reason be-
cause II wouldn't come TO us. Dey vas
nothink on Poplar street, % W took a
- ar>s1H4 ~ Cy1HR&14 hxono&4 = t..1 y n. \,
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-05-03
TRAINED NAVIGATORS
NEEDED

CHIPS without officers are simply idle
~ ornaments. Vessels costing a total OF
$500, 900 900 are how under construction or
about to be built in Delaware River yards
alone. General Goethals plans TO produce
a thousand wooden merchant carriers
All these ships will have to be manned
The navy. happily being fast recruited to
full war strength, will take care OF the
war vessel personnel. 1t is the manning
OF the merchantmen which is the real
problem.
Immediate re-establishment of Pennsyl.
vania's nautical school therefore becomes
Of pressing Importance. A bill to re-create
this vital aid TO sea power has been pend
ing at Harrisburg for some three weeks.
Shipping interests in this city are today
to hold a conference on the subject. BY
the proposed arrangement Philadelphia
and the State will share equally the ex.
penses Of the school and training ship.
New York is already taking up the idea
Of sending relays of future mariners on
a training vessel. meanwhile instructins
large numbers of cadets in suitable quar-.
ters on shore. Alterations OF sea and
land service will thus be made.
Pennsylvania might well copy this plan.
Certainly it is urgent that this State.
whose chief river has become the Amer.
can Clyde and is actually now the worlds
greatest center of shipbuiding, should
make its personal equipment equal to its
vast mechanical and constructive accom-.
plishments
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-05-03

STOP once for all, TO this system OF semi
legalized assassination. If this and other
notorious abuses of official power are not
soon corrected, who among Philadelphians
OF thoughtful habit will have the hardi-
hood TO deny the charge Of famous litter
ateur Of loca! origin, that this is a city
made up largely of fools and ruled mainly
by rogues."
The unbridled license which character
ICES police revolver shooting on the public
streets. and which has been the direct
cause of the death of, literally, dozens of
inoffensive citizens in the last few years.
has rarely been exercised in more mex
cusable manner than in this last utterly
wanton shooting Of n four-year-old girl by
an alleged police detective, said to be one
George Henneke by name.
Was this shooting done In laudable
attempt to capture a murderer who was
about to escape the clutches of the out
ragged law Of the land or perhaps an in
cendiary who had fired tenement filled
with helpless women and children; or
maybe the instigator of a hideous plot
to blow up munition plant and It's hun
dreds OF workers? Not at all; for no
pastime is safer In the City Of Brotherly
Love than murder and its allied diversions,
and the gentry who practice these gentle
arts or thuggery are rarely by any mis-
chance interfered with by our police pro-
tectors No, the dangerous criminal who
was about to outrun this guardian Of the
peace save the mark and at whom was
aimed the infant-klling bullet had stolen
ten cents worth of sausages from a street
peddler; and this was the capital offense
against the majesty OF the law which in
the inscrutable mental processes of Mr..
Henneke. official gunman. warranted him
in running amuck and firing a heavy cali
ber revolver at random in n crowded city
street, where by good luck rather than
good management one innocent baby only
was manned or killed rather than more,
as might easily have been
Are the attempts of Henneke and his
like to introduce "kutur" into the dull
and uncultured civic existence of Phila
delphia to 60 on indefinitely unchecked by
legal authority. as heretofore, until some
outraged citizen deprived OF a loved mem
ber OF his family by such police ruthless
ness, takes the law OF vengeance into his
own hands and exacts Mosaic Justice. or
perchance, is this corpulent but f,abby
community happily possessed Of one jury
with backbone, which, upheld by one
fearless and upright Judge will railroad
the next one of these official guntoters who
appears before II to the penitentiary. as a
wholesome and much-needed lesson TO his
professional brethren in manslaughter? Let
us not, in our righteous Indignation at the
scourging OF the helpless in Belgium.
France and Serbia lose entire sight of the
activities of the Huns in our midst.
JOHN ORTAN.
Philadelphia. April 80.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-05-03
NONRESISTANCE

Perhaps too far In these considerate days
Has patience carried her submissive ways;
Wisdom has taught us to be calm and meek
To take one blow, and turn the other cheek
1t is not written what a man shall do,
If the rude caitiff smite the other, too
Land Of our fathers, in thine hour of need
God help thee. guarded by the passive
As the lone pilgrim trusts to beads and cowI
While in the forest rings the gray VOLTS
howl;
As the deep galleon trusts her gilded PROV
When the black corsair slants athwart her
bow;
And the poor pheasant. with his peaceful
mien,
Trusts to his feathers, shining golden green
When the dark plumage with the crimson
beak
Has rustled shadowy from its splintered
SO trust thy friends, whose babbling tongues
would charm
The lifted saber from thy foeman's arm.
Thy torches ready for the answering peal
yyQm helleying fQEt ana thurdfy.fF Fsightee
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-05-03
TWO MOTHERS

MARY ROBERTS RINEHART, after a
AV1 long and successful literary career
and after all her experiences in Europe
close to the battle-line. has no more and
no less to tell about the anguish in a
patriotic mothers heart over her sons
answer to the call to the colors than the
mother who has written the first letter in
our "voice of the People" today.
The same thoughts. expressed In about
the same language. appear in the letter
of the mother unframed in the literary
art AZ the skilled author has put into her
touching little book. THE Altar of Free
dom" These thoughts are very much
needed just now. because all mothers are
not equally ready p face the cruel necss-
Iilfv thas WI compel many men 70 risk
17o1 ~ 11rlul( 4 1tgn No nal<e
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-05-03
u. S. Navy

d. w. S.-(a) Quoting a Navy Depart
ment pamphlet, Recruits who show special
aptitude for signaling or for wireless teleg-
raphy are assigned to classes for advanced
instruction in either of these branches. APP
prentice seamen who show sufficient expert
ness as radio operators and can qualify in
their test may be sent to the electrical
school at New York for a more complete
course of instruction in radio before being
assigned to general duty" (b) Naval cleo
trical schools are located at Brooklyn and
Mare Island Cal. There are two classes
general electricity and radio. Eight months
Is the period of instruction. (c) The class
for instruction in gasoline engines at
Charleston. S. c., is limited and is not open
to recruits
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-05-03

American flags. which are being
tlisp aged at thousands Of homes through.
out the city. are becoming soiled from
the dust blown from dirty streets. For
the sake of pure patriotism the con.
tractors should live up to their agree
ments and clean the highways.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-05-03
MY SHIPS

The swing of the sea I would bring back
with me,
In the ring OF my verse, where the wild
waves rehearse,
would music embalm of the wind-tossed
palm, .s
Bright night-water pour by name-colored
shore.
one slips,
Full sail on the way to the Port of Good
They must saif on and on. with their car
goes of dawn.
To the Kingdom Of Rest in the purple eyed
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-05-03

The spirits of the Allied nations
rro no longer buoyed up by a battering
~ the Hindenburg line which seemed for
= time to promise peace before autumn.
&ince the great offensive was halted
1lAsre has been nothing but one tale of
@Ieaster after another for the peoples
4<rayed against Germany. How many
noats Germany has is a mystery. She
~ have learned to turn them out as
1rly ~ Fords. I'VE may as well wake
- the fact and make up our minds
the situation is serious" says Sec.
NY Lansing. What we must wake
- II the possibility that the one great
IWark of civilization upon which the
- struggle hinges. the British navy,
~ have to plunge headlong into mine.
wn German waters to strike straight
y source Of the submarine In one last
nrate attempt to save the island It de.
y from starvation. England cannot
11nrved out" we hear every day. The
De who say that most confidently
sr studied shipping statistics. Grant
"a the supreme Crisis may not come
year. II at the end Of that time
nhall fsht sinsls-handed against q
~ may have humblsd the western
- sball have 70 turn ~ the
~ -.,- ~. 49,. f,l-z1s, ~
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-05-03
Tom Daly's Column
TO TIM

~ TIN"
IAN IRISH TERRIBRj
o, jetcel OF my heart, sting Dour praise,
Though pou Dho are alas, Of middle age
Hare noper been TO school and cannot
read
The weary printed page.
1 sing pour cves. too pools IN shadoued
streams
Where vour soul shines IN depths Of
SUNNY brotcn,
Alertlv raised TO read my eucry mood
or thouDhttuNy cast do,on.
sing the little nose, so glossy ,cet,
The tocll-trdined sentry TO your eager
mind,
So stcift TO catch the delicate glad scent
OF rabbits on the tcind.
All! fair TO me Dour ,cheufen- -colored coat,
And far the darker reiret Of pour car,
Ragged and SCARED 1cith old hostitues
That neuer taught pou fear.
But OH your heart. chere my nn-
,corthiness
Is made perfection bp loves alchemy,
Hoo often does pour doohood's tdith
CRY shame
To my Inconsistency
At last knoto the hunter Death ,CiU come
And tchistle loo the coll pou must obey.
So you ,TH leave me, comrddc Of my
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-05-03
Brave Women and Fair Men

(Culled from who's who In America.")
LORD. Isabel Ely. household science; born Say
brook, Conn. Feb. :, 1871 etc.
LEWIS. Irving Jefferson. editor; born Ceve-
HARRISON. Ida Withers; born Grand Gulf
Miss MAY o. 1851: etc.
HOWES. Ethel Dench PuTer. educator: born
Framingham. Mass. Oct 10, 1872: etc.
FANON William Bailey. artist; born Hartford.
PECK, Theodore Agnes. author; born at Bur
lngton, Vt, Oct. %. 1882; etc.
PRESTON, Frances Folsom cleveland; born
Buffalo. July II. 1894.
Bless your heart. One Of the most In
teresting books in the world is that same
who's Who" If you have time TO read
1t inteligently. For instance, you come
upon the name Riddle" and you imme-
diately start guessing for the gentleman
in full is Hon. Fins f. Riddle, Judge Of
the Oklahoma Supreme Court. Was that
a hope his parents Inferred upon him In
lieu Of a Christian me? And, in either
case. why isn't the n.iddle f spelled out?
We'd like to hear from the Judge about
it and it should be no hardship for him to
answer, for we read further on that he
wrote so opinions in s months"
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-05-03
SeIectiye Draft

B. R.-The minimum age limit for army
service under the selective draft plan is
twenty-one years, so that a young man
under that age will not be chosen. 1t
has not been announced what will be the
policy. In regard to a family in which there
is only one son. However. 1t is unlikely
that such young man will be chosen
II he is the support of the family. All
these matters will be decided by local ex-
empton boards which will act under the
guidance of the Administration.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-05-03
The only consoling thing about tt

, The only consoling thing about the
three latest Teuton attacks on our ship
ping is that the pirates missed the great.
est catch of the lot. the big l3,00o-ton
Mongolia whose keen.eyed gunner
winged" a periscope. The Vacuum was
bf only 1900 tons burden and the Rocking.
ham of 4409.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-05-03
There is a certain species Of pessl

There is a certain species Of pessi.
aist who believes that all amusements
and sports should be abolished because
We are at war. Should such foolish
blan be adopted it would turn loose tens
of thousands of persons on the streets
day and night who otherwise would be en-.
Toying themselves. Whittier they would
wander is a matter of conjecture. 1t is
highly probable that they would soon de-
Velop into professions Of gloom.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-05-03
Without a merchantmen on Il

Without merchantmen on the
6igh seas. Germany grandioquently
proposes merging the Hamburg. .Ameri-
can and North German Lloyd Com.
panies into a shipping trust. The word
Il we'll chosen. Trust is certainly es-
oential to any Teutonlc rejoicing over
g helpless an organization.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-05-03

a billion will never sound ike very
much money again. Britain is planning
20 spend eleven of them in a year. Some
years ago Germany put few millions in
gold away as a defense fund in case Of
war That much Is now spent every
day by England, and Germany's daily bill
10 not much less.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-05-03

There Is enough wheat at the bot
4em of the Atlantic to keep Philadelphia
alive for many weeks. II cannot be re-
covered. 1t cannot even be replaced.
Somebody must do with less bread. Let
Il not be only the already undernour-
ashed children Of the poor. Let it rather
be everybody except them.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-05-03

The wotan line. where Hindenburg
now fights. has ferocious sound until we
remember that the position is named after
n one-eyed demigod, ultimately over
thrown by the forces OF Christianity and
eivilization in Germany's own legends.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-05-03

The eagerness with which many Of
our citizens are enlisting for farm work
ss commendable; but when the actual
task of whipping the Germans confronts
us we'll have to raise a gun as well as
an onion.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-05-03

We may expect to hear Germany
defend her sinking Of the Crug-ayan
steamship Gorilla by saying that the
little South American republic was
threatening the integrity of the Teutonic
empire
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-05-03

AND his full name was Tim ODaly so
we were told several years ago when we
first came to know his mistress-and her
fun name is Winlfred Mabel Let's, O
fact unknown even to her American pub
fishers, Il. =. Dutton g. Co, who have
just sent us her new book, "Hallow e'en
and Poems of the War" and upon the
paper Jacket of which we read:
The author, by his very fneness and
simplicity, can call up very vividly in
few words scene or an emotion over
which another writer might spend as
many pages.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-05-03
Congressional Directory

NJ. B.-The Public Printer. Washington,
D. c., has charge of printing the Congress
sional Directory, which is sold at cost in a
limited number of copies.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-05-03

When we were a callow youth we wrote
jest, which has since grinned out at
us from odd newspaper corners at inter
walls. 1t was to the effect that woman
puts in most of her time denying her
weight or her age" We took a half hour
off yesterday afternoon to investigate
this alleged age-shyness, and the result
Ia this roster of.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-05-03
UNCERTAIN HUMANS

II Rising Sun lane were not so far
away we might suggest that DR.. Harmer
Good pay a purely professional visit to
L. Yasno, Of 7o4 North Eighth street
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-05-03
Marine Corps

d. 1.-The minimum age for enlistment
in the United States marine corps Is eight
cen years the maximum. thirty-five years
The pay begins at SIS a month for a
private. The marine corps Is the only
branch of the service in which negroes are
not enlisted.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-05-03

the savior Of civilization in this war. 1t
must in future stand as the guarantee
Of the permanent prevention OF another
U.boat war in the future.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-05-03
Grace Before Meat

CONSTANT READER - A clergyman
suggests the following as a suitable bless
ing to ask before a meal: 20 Lord, we
thank Thee for what Thou hast put before
us. May Thy blessing rest upon us. Amen"
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-05-03
u. s. Army

ID. B.. Jr.-Applicants for enlistment In
the United Staten army must be cItissns ee
" vn's:S stsfe: q %Sst eexs ts'e9 Az
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-05-03
An Impressive Salute

| witnessed the next day that which |
think was the most impressive scene that
ever passed before my eyes. I sat in the
Palais Bourbon when NJ. Ribot, Prime
Minister of France. made his eloquent
speech upon what he termed the event of
all history" and said that the joy Of the
French people and nation at seeing the
Stars and Stripes side by side with the
Tricolor in mutual resistance against bar
barty was something beyond compare.
As the words left the lips Of the aged
orator the entire membership of the cham
Der, some 800 men. rose as IL by one
thought and raised their right hands In a
gesture Of JOY, dignity and emotion toward
the diplomatic tribune where Ambassador
Sharp sat among the representatives of the
Allies and friends of France. There was
a silence of death for thirty seconds. dur
ing which every man must have felt. as ],
that indescribabe sensation along the spine
that comes to men in the stirring instant
of true patriotism and true union And
then rose a shout that could be heard In
both Montmartre and Montparnasse.
The same afternoon your correspondent
in company with all the American corre-
spondents in Paris, was invited to spend a
few moments successfully with NJ. Painleve
Minister of War; Admiral Lacaze Minister
of the Navy and NJ. Poincare, President Of
the Republic, the calls being in the order
named That which they said is already
ancient history but the stories sent over
the wire did not perhaps describe the in
tensity of their voices, the great emotion
in which their words were uttered. the
glsten in their eyes.
As in body, we writing men passed
down the red-carpeted stairway OF the
Elysee and through the courtyard to the
Faubourg st. Honore, a group of French
men and women standing upon the other
side of the street looked upon our soft hats
and Yankee clothes and, recognizing, yelled,
,'Hurrah pour lAmerique''
| And the words tell the story It's hurrah
| for America and the United States, and the
| little old Stars and Stripes, and a place
| of foremost honor for the nation in this
| hRht between civilization and barbarity.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-05-03
HOW THE NEWS
CAME TO PARIS
The French Capital Blossomed
With Flags as Soon as 1t
Learned We Had En-
tered the War
BY HENRI BAZIN

Recipient Of the Croix de Guerre, member Of the
Societe de Gems des Iettres, stan cor
respondent Of the EVENING LEDGER
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-05-03

'Ttm dicd September 5. 1916.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1917-06-20
GIVE A LIBERTY BOND.

Last week you were asked to buy
a Liberty Bond, and the people all
over the South bought the bonds,
not because they afforded a means of
investment, but from patriotic mo-
tives alone. They are a badge of
patriotism in whosoever hands they
are.
Today there is another call to us
from our country. We have pro-
vided by the purchase of these Lib
erty Bonds the equipment for our
army for actual fighting. Today we
must prepare to car for the men
who fall on the field of battle. And
the great American Red Cross has
undertaken the task for US.
The President of the United States
has asked the country for a hundred
millions of dollars to help the Red
Cross, and our county is asked for
five thousand dollars of this amount
and we know that the people of the
county will give it freely.
And there is no better way in
which we can give it than by turning
over to the Red Cross one Of more
of the bonds which have been pur-
chased. These bonds have been Sc
lected as appropriate means Of max
ing our contributions to the great
fund which is to help heal the wounds
of the boys who go to the front.
Abbeville responded nobly to the
call last week, and those who have
bought cannot do better than to give
of the bonds purchased for the work
of mercy.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1917-06-20

serious attention. People should
remember this and give any help
they can. One good woman remark
ed: 4 am embarrassed when the
meat man comes to the door,"
How the average minister with a
family manages to live on a pitifully
low salary Is one of the wonders Of
the world. One thing is certain: no
body should question: the sincerity of
the minister who sticks to his texts
when beset with poverty and dis
comfort on every side.-The Green
vile News.