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The evening world., 1917-10-19

tistios asked for by the United States
wer Trade Board regarding consump-
ton. production, export and import
The Information desired is contained
in the mail pouches seized by British
authorities and now at the British En-
bassy here. 1t was said to-day 1t was
uncertain when the pouches would b.
released.
Efforts Of the Swedish officials here
to communicate In code by cable with
their Government have been unsuccess.
ful. the messages apparently being held
up somewhere en- route.
The Swedish Commissioners have de.
cided to use plain language for theii
messages instead Of code and expect
to receive in that way the statistic,
wanted by the United States.
The evening world., 1917-10-19
TAMMANy, TURNS
! ITSFULLEIRE ON HILLQUIT
Never Mind Mitchel-He's Fourth,
Murphy's Order as Socialist
Trend Spreads.

Under orders Of Chief Murphy. all
Tammany leaders turned their fire to-
day on the Socialists as their principal
antagonist in the political campaign
''Never mind Mitchell, he's fourth" was
the instruction. but go after Hillquit.
he is a dangerous second"
The disclosures made in The Evening
Worlds poll OF the lower east side Of
Manhattan. including Murphy's home
district. showing heavy Socialist vote,
we're reported to Tammany Hall to-day
TO be continued In the upper east side
and even on Washington Heights. In
the region between Central Park and
East River. north of Fifty-ninth Street.
the Socialist menace has become alarm
The evening world., 1917-10-19
CABLE FOR STATISTICS
IN SEIZED MAIL BAGS
Swedish Commissioners Decide to
Use Plain Language When
Code Messages Fail.

WASHINGTON. oct 19.--Axel r.
Nordvall and DR.. Hjalmar Lundbohm.
Swedish Commissioners now In Wash
ington endeavoring to arrange for ship
ment OF foodstuffs and other goods tn
sweden. have requested the Swedish
Foreign Office to send by cable the sta
The evening world., 1917-10-19
"Ma" wins over "Mc" In Hay stat.
Ballot TanEIe.

BOSTON. oct. 1.-THE name OF
Frederick w. Mansfield, Democratic
candidate for Governor. will be placed
en- the official ballot ahead OF that Of
Gov. Samuel w. Mccall. Republican
nominee. The full bench of the Su-
The evening world., 1917-10-19

Ing and threatening 10 the usual Demo-
cratic lead.
The new Tammany plan Of campaign
win be to caH on all Rood American
citizens to rally to head of the menace
Of Socialism and the possibility Of Hill
quits election. The only way It can be
done. so the Tammany argument runs.
10 to vote for Hylan. as Mitchell and
Bennett have no chance.
The evening world., 1917-10-19

preme Court to-day ruled that MA
has precedence over Me"
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makers would be greatly facilitated.
The company's directors have ruled out
all Teutonic singers. The only names OF
a Central European flavor which VIII ap'
pear on the opera programs this winter
are those of Matzenauer and Frieda
Hempel. The former was born In Hun
gary, but became an Italian subject be-
fore the war and her sympathy Is whole
heartedly with the Allies. Nine. Hempel
also renounces the Fatherland, and VIII
clinch the matter by marrying an Amer
lean and by voting when in New YORK;
against autocracy in all its forms.
The good people of Pittsburgh VINO
have just instructed the Philadelphia
Orchestra not to play Beethoven, Brahms
and the like when on tour there. would
do better IL they forgot about dead Ger
mans and looked out for live ones. Pos
sibly they will relieve themselves OF that
German "burgh." "Pittsgrad" or Mount
Pitt" would not SAVIOR even OF the Ger
many OF a century ago.
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THE SOLDIERS
LEISURE HOUR
1t Must Be an Asset, Not a Liza
y bility-Praise for
Y. M. G.. A.

To the Editor Of the Evening Ledger:
Sir--Man is the product Of his environ
ment. and the spirit and character OF our
men in Europe will depend In large measure
on what we have done for them here In
America. They must go forth as flt as we
can make them and draw their courage
and determination from what they have
learned at home. from what their land
has given them, as parents give their
children. Soldiers are made by the char
acter of their training camps. and all of
Our country is trying to make its men not
only the nearest perfect physically, but
also the most alert mentally and the most
sound morally that the world has known
Only In that way can loss be limited ana
our aim In entering the war be gained.
Therefore the soldiers hours of leisure must
be turned Into an asset not a liability; his
recreation must be made of positive help,
not positive or even possible harm.
The war camp community service ha,
called on the Y. NJ. c. A., the Knights Of
Columbus and the American Library Asso-
ciation to help In recreation inside the
camps and on the Playground and Recrea-
tion Association of America to care for
soldiers activities In the adjacent country
The cost is SO for each soldier or sailor in
the national service. and the money Is
needed urgently at this time. little help
now may go long way later. We must
see that our men are as strong In body and
mind and spirit as we can make them. They
must have the best we can give them, for
America looks to them now as the hope of
the world.
Churches have opened their doors, clubs
and societies have welcomed enlisted men
In many ways the desire TO help is as wide
as the land itself. The individual can do
SO much He can stand back of every
concerted movement to aid the soldier; he
can go out and welcome him. The chance
has come for him to think of others before
himself; that magical human chance so
often overlooked now stares him in the
face. II is not a time for discussion; II
Is the time to see that every man who
leaves for the front In Europe carries the
very best that we of the United States
can do for him. He is our man, he Is
making our history. he is carrying all our
hopes.
Think Of that fighting man: nnd soms
one who needs friend and write TO him
make him sure you are back of him.
And do what you can for him here through
the war camp community service The
spirit with which our soldiers set out and
their efficiency on the fields OF Europe are
being made here and now. This Is not a
matter Of sentiment primarily. II is a practi-
cal fact. Not numbers of men merely but
the power of men Is what counts, and our
mon must have all the power of mind and
body and spirit that our country can fur
nish More power TO them is the watch
word And now let's do what we can for
them In the training camps while they are
near and we can help them most
RUPERT s. HOLLAND,
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The Afternoon Post

rTHE village postoflce. with its clock ana
l. lctterbox, it's postmistress lost In tales
Of love-lorn dukes and coroneted woe and
the sallow faced grocer watching from his
window opposite. Is the scene OF the daily
crisis In my life when every afternoon
walk there through the country lanes ana
ask the wel-read young lady for my letters.
I always expect good news and cheques:
and then. of course, there is the naglcal
Fortune which is coming, and word OF II
may reach me any day. What II 49, this
strange Felicity. or whence 1t shall come
have no notion but ! hurry down In the
morning To find the news on the break
fast table, open kilograms In Delighted
panic and say to myself Here II is
when at night hear wheels approaching
along the road. So, happy in the nope or
Happiness, and not greatly concerned with
any other interest or ambition, i've on
In my quiet ordered house and so ] shall
live perhaps until the end. Is 1t, indeed,
merely tho last great summons and rerela-
tion for which l am waiting? / do not
know.
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TWO ALLIED SUCCESSES

DRlTISH and French tI~ops and guns
- have arrived in the theatre of Austro.
Italian operations and Cadornas retreat
has shortened the line he must defend To
scarcely more than thirty miles. While
the prospects of stopping the Teuton in
road into Italy brighten, good news
comes from Palestine, where brilliant
British victory threatens to cut off the
Turkish armies. London even entcrtains
the hope that the day is near when Tur-
key will be forced out of the war.
Should these two Allied efforts meet
with continued success they Will OFFSET
the bad news from Russia for Russia was
as little able to help her Allies before
the Petrograd revolt as now. Her failure
has been largely discounted.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-11-10

THE UPPER gallery Of the Chestnut
Street Theatre was the one we haunted
with the greatest delight. II was no
privilege, a quarter Of a century ago. to
sit in the tame purlieus of the balcony
or the first gallery. for the real seats of
exhilaration were In the second gallery:
that steep, shallow. terraced shelf which
was even then under suspicion and soon
to be condemned by the building inSpec-
tors.
Upon extraordinary occasions however,
it was quietly thrown open to accommo-
date the overflow from the lower heaven,
and it was then a real privilege to occupy
a section of the hard wooden bench In the
front row which seemed suspended al
most directly over the stage. Such occa.
sions were frequent In the long first run
of "Erminie," as We observed as often as
we had quarters to sper d. Indeed, many
OF us never saw "Erminie" except from
that angle and we ourself particularly
remember that we carried for long time
the notion that Francis Wilson was much
more stocky and squat In build than was
actually the case, because we had never
had anything but birdseye view OF him.
The only other playhouse In town that
had a second gallery was the Academy of
Music; but that was called an "amphi-
theatre" and II was just as cold, formal
and unromantic as that name sounds
Nobody'd think of eating peanuts in an
amphitheatre.
There are old theatregoers who wiz re-
member the opening night of the Chest
nut, January 26. 1868. when William
Wheatley was the star; and for them
there will probably be more and dearer
memories to make their eyes tmart when
the dust Of demolition begins to rise
about the falling walls.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-11-10

WE SPENT eight hours in London sew
eral years ago. and wasted a good deal
too much Of that in listening to the ro-
mancing of n talkative gentleman In the
tap.room of the Cheshire Cheese" who
knew all about the Yorkshire puddings
and Welsh rabbits that DR.. Sam John
son was in tho habit Of consuming and
spiiiing upon his waistcoat there. The
man said he could build the things Just
the way the old doctor liked 'em. and
offered 10 prove 1t, but We didn't believe
him or greatly care.
But yesterday we were permitted to
sniff at :. large splash o. that very food
which had dropped from the fork Of the
great man. 1t was unqu -stionably au-
thentic. for the big blotch of It was
snneared across a page in book Of Mark
Akenside's Poems. published In l777,
which was once the property Of the
famous old Anarchist Of the Breakfast
Table, and which 10 now owned BY Judge
Patterson, Of this town.
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WHY QUIBBLE IF AN HONEST
COUNT is DESIRED?

CENATOR WARES answer to the
~ charge that Organization men threw
out ballots to which the Town Meeting
party is lawfully entitled was:
The Republican Organization VIII Join
hands in opening any and all ballot
boxes there is any question about,
suggest that they open the boxes from
the seven divisions in the eastern emo
of Penrose's own Eighth Ward, including
his own division, where Mr.. kendrick
received but SO Votes and Mr.. ARM
strong 1886 This has always been Il
section that stuffed ballot-boNes.
If the Wares really want an examination
of all ballots there is any question
about" why did their lawyers wrangle all
day Yesterday in a auibble over which
Judge should look at the ballots and just
which ballots he should study? The least
question raised by the least worthy qucs,
toner should he warrant enough for the
scrutiny of the ballots in any close cleo
tion. This scrutiny becomes imperative
when it is known that thousands of Town
Meeting voters placed marks in their
party square and also after Mr. Rotan's
name, and that at least some and perhaps
all of the Organization election officers
threw out ballots thus marked.
The Eighth Ward ballot-boXes should
also be opened. Is it possible that Mr..
Ware believes the discovery Of crime In
renrosc wards would condone crime In
Ware wards, if any were committed there?
Is Mr.. Wares claim to respect based
entirely on what Mr.. Pcnrose does or
docs mot dp3
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The Voice of the World

6 A Nd what are you doing now?'
n The question OF these school con.
temporaries of mine and their greeting
the other day in Piccadilly II remember how
shabby felt as stood talking to them3
for a day or two that question haunted me.
And behind their well.bred voices seemed
to hear the voice of schoolmasters and
tutors, of the professional classes. and,
indeed OF all the world.
What, as plain matter Of fact. was
doing. how did l spend my days? The
life-days which ] knew were numbered,
and which were described In sermons and
on tombstones as irrevocabe, so
melancholy brief.
| decided 10 change my life. ], too, would
be somebody in my time and age my con-
temporaries should treat me as an Inn
portant person. ] began thinking Of my
endeavors, my studies by the midnight
lamp, my risings at dawn for stolen hours
of self-improvement.
But aiis. the day the little day. was
enough just then. 1t somehow seemed
enough. just to be alive In the spring. with
the young green of the trees. the smell OF
smoke in the sunshine ] loved the old
shops and books, the uproar darkening and
Frightening in the shabby daylight. Just
a run Of good-looking faces--and ! was
always looking for faces-would keep me
amused. And London was but dim
III stage on which / could play in fancy
any part / liked. / woke up In the morn
ing like Byron TO find myself famous; !
was drawn like Chatham to Saint Pauls,
amid the cheers of the nation, and sternly
exclaimed with Cromwell Take away that
bauble :" as l sauntered past the houses of
Parliament.
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Z. II. SOTHERN, POET

f. H. Sothern has written the following
poem for the French Heroes Fund book
For France just published:
BY every hearth, at every door,
Behold a ghostly company
Forgathers as the shouts OF war
Rise where the mangled nations cry
Reneath the pallid moon they HE.
To face their countrys black mischance-
Knights of the ancient chivalry,
Lords of the Lily-land Of France
.Jo !" answer they. with flashing eye.
,.yva geek the sorry world once more.
To barter all for Liberty
nut YOU whose land we died to free.
why do ye now avert your glancsf'
(Ah! Debtors have no memory.
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TRIBUTE TO BEETHOVEN
Philadelphia Orchestra Concert De-
voted to Varied Manifestations
# His Art

Leopold Stokowsks plan this season of
devotng entire concerts TO- particular COM
posers bore fruit yesterday afternoon in
the Academy in a program which, after
the usual patriotic preface. was wholly
concerned with the genius of Ludwig van
Beethoven. The policy here illustrated has
both drawbacks and advantages. It Is un-
questonably interesting to note in close
association the various aspects of a dis
tinctive musicians art Comparison of
Beethoven's first really vital symphonic
work-his second in numerical order-with
the matchless g minor work yiyidIy sur-
gests the development Of their composer.
ON the other hand, contrast and balance
are decidedly worthy Of recognition in
orchestral concerts These qualities are
necessarily in rather minor evidence when
broadly speaking. the art interpreted is ali
or one general color. as It was yesterday.
Under his self-impcsed conditions. how
ever Mr.. StokCwski managed TO impart
falr degree OF variety of manner to the
all-Beethoven diet The three "EouaU"
for four trombones certainly marked n,
EFFORT to depart from convention. These
little-heard works. initiative Of the mood
or Lutheran chorals, are characterized NV
that flavor OF solemnity and dignity typical
OF the masters maturity. They are not
however. especially inspired and will not
be seriously missed IL they are retired from
the concert stage for another long neriod
'Coriolanus" was the overture numher
This familiar composition Is sincere and In.
pressive music, but at no time does IL a.
tain the splendor and dramatic mower 20
either the "Egmont" or the 'I.eonore 4" rha
orchestra played 1t admirably.
The personal equation In Mr. Sto,owsri,.
equipment was most significantly revealed
In the Fifth symphony Under. . Dcc,or
Muck's baton, last Monday the yvorl. ~
given with exquisite polish and with mar,,e,
ously unified instrumental technIoua NJ
Stokowski's reading is more dramatic roor.
temperamentaL He apparently deIights q,
developing its surges of passion TO a Eur,
and then In piquantly refining its tendsray
moods. Such an Interpretation is distInc,,,,
modern. The finale takes on the temnss,r'
ousness OF Richard Strauss. Parts - ~.
andante seem as sentiment-cramn,sa 30
Massenet. The appeal of such trestn.as as
Is largely matter OF personal taste Tha
Second symphony In ID, which foIIowea ,he
overture was somewhat more convent,o,a'
ly handled, The scherzo in particular ,,'a-
read with compelling charm. was
The conductor employed M soo
throughout the concert. Perhaps that ..,ss
one feason why the Star Spangled Rannsa,, was
was SO thrillingly rendered. The ha na,sa
Of an ineffective arrangement such as n,s
used BY Dootor Muck was thus triumnhsn,s 4,
" avoided. II - ant
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-11-10
THE SWORD OVER THE GANG

nENNSYLVANIA will be the next big
l. battle-ground of the suffragists. The
movement for enfranchisement of women
is well organized in this State, the cam
paign is waglng enthusiastically and de-
terminedy. The keystone Common
wealth is bound to companion its Empire
sister,
Tammany is quaking and the Ware
Smith combination has good cause for
sleepless political nights over the menace
of voting womanhood.
The sword of Damocles is poised over
the gangs head. May it fall soon and
cut keenly!
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-11-10
Answers to Yesterdays Quiz

1. X. &. Borden Is the present Canadian
Premier.
2. The "sOldier vote" II taken on the field By
commissioners appointed by Governors o.
the states, In accordance with law that
dates back to Civil War times.
3. The Piave Is u river of northeastern itafy.
flowing south into the aurintic. II Y
believed that Cadorna will make his stand
there against the TeutOn drive. .
4. A hot bed and cold frame are structuraiH
alike-frames with glass sash. They az
fer in soil treatment. Hot beds haye :
subsOil of fermenting manure to give hes!
for artihcially speeding up plantsi eola
frames have merely very rich soil ana
depend for heat on the sun alone.
D. Colonel Il. NJ. House Is the head Of IN
United states war commission Just se"
to Europe.
o. 'Battle Hymn Of the Republic" Is sung -
the tune OF John Browns BODY Les
A-MOlderln' in the Ground"
:. The .Si,tine Madonna Is SO named beesuss
painted on u commission from rope
Slxtus. 1t IL not hung, despite an erronie. erri
Gus idea to that effect. In the sistns
Chapel. but In located In the Museum -
Dresden.
y. Beethoven wrote the Erolca symphony.
o. W. II. Kendall. who died this week. Wa
u DISTINGUISHED English actor.
10. A pourparler Is u conference. usually dlp-
lOmatic, for talking over matters ~ iss''
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-11-10
AT the Bank

DNTERING the bank In composed
IL manner I drew a cheque and handed
il to the cashier through the grating. Then
/ eyed him narrowly. Would not that
astute official see that was only posing as
a real person? No: he calmly opened a
little drawer. took out real sovereigns.
counted them carefully and handed them to
me IN a brass-tpped shovel. / went away
feeling that had perpetrated n delightful
fraud. had got some OF the gold OF the
actual world.
Yet now and then at the sight Of my
name on n visiting card, or of my face
photographed in group among other
faces, or when I see letter addressed In
my hand, or catch the sound of my own
voice, / grow shy In the presence or
mysterious person. who Is myself. Is known
by my name and who apparently does not
exist Can it be possible that am as real
as any one else and that all Of us-the
cashier and the banker Mt the bank. the
king on his throne-all feel ourselves like
ghosts and goblins In this authentic
world?
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Tom Daly's. Column
THE VILLAGE POET

THE VfbLdOb fcbf
whenever on Saturday I had the price
an time
Three hours Of the afternoon. three nick-
els an dime
7 hied me to the Chestnut Street Thcdp.
ter" $50 did youD
To take mv place among the gods an
see w'ot sho,o ,cds nc,o.
I kne,o you. Mr.. Forty-odd, Uhcn you
Uould sneak d,cdy
From chores at home or from the shop.
to sec the matinee
tceH recall your restless afr, the guilty
look you toore.
The Uhile, In Inc, you todtted for the
opening of the door;
I see you pet upon the stairs, an though
those stairs toero steep
Your eager feet dscended them q couple
at leap;
I see you stumbling through the gloom to
reach the old front roD--
when HcdUen hung on Chestnut street,
so many years ago.
"Happy Thought" to chetc--
WHY, yes, acc used tobacco Just a Httie,
didn't you?--
on, not TO make the place mess or Keep
the floor d-food,
But Just enough to furnish ore a nedttd-
tirc cud:
An uhen, along the gallery rail-, tDe idtd
our rhuthutc jdus
Apprdising all the actors ,cho tocre crdu-
ing our applause,
We must hare seemed funny lot O.
cherubs, from beloU--
when Hcapen hung on Chestnut street
so mdnv years ego.
The gods ,rho od,ed on "Ernttntc" tphcn
"Erminic" tpds neto!
Oh, think Of all the memories that brings
TO me an you.
The legs Of Francis Wilson an the gran
deur Of DuboU,
The apple blossom beauty OF the youth
tul Pauline Hall,
The fresh, piqudnt, delicious tDdys Of
Jansen, street Marie,
An many, many lesser joys that neUcr
more may be,
We're all arrdycd before us to be ad-ed
upon bclou---
When Hcdren hung on Chestnut street
so many years ago.
Though long ago the hoit-oods tCent, the
gods come not at all;
The cery Hcdrcn that they kneto Is
shortly doomed to fall!
The tculls that rang trith pldudtts once
are rery soon TO drop
Before the March Of Progress an the
pick-dJe Of the Wop.
We passed the place this morning, an
the house tce kneto so Dcll
Is nothing but ruin noD, cold and
Soulicss shell,
An round about ,Cere 9rieuing ghosts Of
JOYS ,ce used to knoD
When Hedpcn hung on Chestnut street
so mdny pears ago.