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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-04-12
WAR MEASURES SUGGESTED
D the Editor Of the Evening Ledger:

To the Editor Of the EVening Ledger:
sir-I would suggest that the following
laws be forthwith enacted by Congress-:
A law Furnishing by ten years imprison-
ment any individual guilty of interfering
with citizens rights of peaceable assembly
and freedom of speech and Of the press. We
must not set out to battle against Kaiser
ism and despotism by resorting to Prussian
methods at home
An act authorizing the national Govern
ment to seize all foodstuffs and to regulate
the minimum and maximum prices thereof.
The $1,000, 100000 about to be raised by
Congress for war purposes should be
financed by the Government, without Wall
streets participation therein, by taxation of
incomes, as follows: Five per cent on all
incomes above $3008; 10 per cent over $10,-
900; Is per cent, $4,000; 20 per cent, $780,
900; 25 per cent, $4,000 80 per cent. $780,
900; 40 per cent, $60.000 SO per cent, $780,
900, confiscating all income above 100000.
Since the workers, farmers and trades peo-
pie furnish the producers and fighters. the
rich folks ought to pay the bill
A billion dollars to be appropriated for
the payment of bonuses of, say, $500 to
each of the 100000 families which, ac-
cording to Robert Hunter live on the verge
of poverty, IL such families furnish volun-
teers for the army.
An act providing for a national refer
endum vote on conscription, with each bal
lot containing o clause binding all those
voting in favor Of compulsory service to
be ready to answer the first call to arms,
and exempting all those voting against the
proposition, and who are conscientiously
opposed to war, provided, however, that the
opponents pledge themselves, too, to night
in case of actual or Imminent invasion upon
our shores.
A law providing for universal physical
training mot necessarily of military char
actQrN Of all hoyo M Oir1u hoth ~
and at the factories and for hygienic home
surroundings conducive to perfect health as
well as better morals, JN.L
Philadelphia, April 10.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-04-12

He prsfsrs to bsiittis British victory
For this reason the only enthusiastic ut
terancs no has ever allowed to escape
him IL taken an solid fact At the end
Of the four months battle Of the somme
he observed that there was remarkable
deterioration Of German morale and that
the Germans were no match for the Brit
ish troops. The battle which he halted in
November he has resumed after five
months, and the amazing number of pris-
oners captured bears out the truth Of
his statement that the German soldier
is no longer putting his heart into his
work.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-04-12
Answers to Yesterdays Quiz

Answers to Yesterdays Quiz
1. The "a p G" Powers are Argentine. Brazil
and Chill.
2. The ..Gentlemen's agreement which IA
said the United States will make with
the Allies IL q plan for cooperation with.
cut actual alliance.
8. "Dachshund', IL pronounced "dahks, ,hoont..,
the .k" being the German "ch" sound
and the 100" being short, as In "foot."
4. John M. Parker. Of Louisiana. was Pro-
Eressiye vice presidential candidate In
tho 1919 election.
s. "Iycursan methods" are stern. COMMIT
from Lycurkus, the 1awgiver OF Sparta,
noted for the severity of his code OF
laws.
Q. william @. McAdoo. Secretary Of the Treas.
ury, IL President Wilson's sOn-in-law.
7. Tho population Of Germany IL about TO-.
Qo9.000,, OF the United States. about
8. The lyre bird, which. gets It's name. from It's
lyre-shaped tail. IL . native Of Austria.
liz.
0. Topeka 10 the capital Of Kansas.
10. Lund means grayish- grange. wan. shastIy.
pale or slesmys lucid means clear. easily
understood. shiny or TRANSPARENT
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-04-12

Schaeffer and Houck are engineers in
the employ Of the Bell Telephone Com
pany. They were sent up to Bridgeport,
Conn.,. recently on company job. While
they were there they thought to have a
look at the railroad bridge and signal
system near the station. A soldier with
a gun appeared in the near distance"
Let's change our minds, since we can't
change our names," said Schaeffer.
This is no place for lads with labels
like ours"
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-04-12
What Do You Know?
QUIZ

/. How far from Philadelphia IL Eddystone,
the scene Of the disastrous munition
plant explosion and fire?
2. Hsy do. shrapnel shells differ from other
shells?
8. Who was Nathaniel Greene?
I. VINO IL A. j.. .Balfour. who IL reported as
Dsrtant mission:
8. What happened February 10, 156S. q date
Important In the history Of North Amer.
dent Lincoln slot?
7. Name the cnpital Of Maine.
3. What noted American was called "the Mill.
boy Of the Slnshes"?
.. Name the eikht teams Of the Nations,
Baseball League.
10. where arc the Aleutian Islandss
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-04-12
sELECTIvE CONSCRIPTION

WD HAVE Veeh ~ war hiHost weeh
The army and navy are being re-
cruited under the volunteer system In a
more or less haphazard way. Yesterday
we read Of some skilled mechanic who had
offered for service and had been accepted.
With incredible stupidity we are rushing
into a repetition of the mistakes which
cost. Great Britain thousands Of lives.
paralyzed her efficiency for a period and
delayed for months the perfection Of the
grand army which is now driving through
Flanders.
The Executive Department Of the Gov.
ernment is In no doubt. Government
experts know the lessons which the war
has taught. They are prepared to profit
from the blunders Of our allies. But in
Congress there has reared its head that
identical stubbornness and imbecility
which gave the nation the Hay bill-a
measure so iniquitous and destructive of
real preparedness that Secretary Garri.
son. rather than acquiesce in it, resigned
from the Cabinet.
We are going to fight this war on eff
cient lines or we are going to suffer more
terribly than any citizen has dreamed.
The sclective draft means the creation
of real armies-military armies, industrial
armies and food-producing armies. There
is no other method Of raising such armies
which will not be failure. That is the
lesson of experience: that is the fact
which the war has taught, whether We
like it or not.
Selective conscription will put each man
where he can do the most good for his
country.
selective conscrption will get the
slackers.
Selective conscription will nationalize
the war as no voluntary system could
ever do.
selective conscription will equalize the
burden.
selective conscription will save thou
sands in lives and millions in dollars by
eliminating waste and preventing the
squandering Of our resources.
Why, then, should Congress hesitate?
Why should it debate, delaying the cre-
alton of an army that. ought already to be
in process of formation? The answer is
that there are men in Congress who can
not vet realize that we are actually at,
war. They deceive themselves by believ-
ing that We have embarked on a molly
coddie enterprise, that Germany is al
ready whipped, that we can buy the
worlds right to freedom and drown
Kaserism in a sea Of gold.
They are wrong, fatally wrong, for
passion of patriotic devotion, stopping at
no sacrifice, inspires the Germany which
the Kaiser dominates, and terrific strug-
gle is inevitable before the end comes. We
have accepted the challenge and we must
fight, not with vocabularies, but with
guns, and to win we must put every re-
source that we have, in it's most efiicient
form, into the balance.
Let Congressman quit quibbling. Let
them act Nationalist tho war! Raise
our armies-all of them-by selective
conscription! i
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-04-12

policy holders OF more than 100000 per
year for general State purposes, tax which
I have never believed to be just. Now I
am to be further taxed for the purpose Of
building subways for our city.
/ wish you would look into this matter
and let me have reply from you, as I
feel sure that you are interested, in this
as in other matters, that justice is given
to every citizen. LEOPOLD HAUF.
Philadelphia, April 10.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-04-12
Tom Daly's Column
INVOCATION

INVOCATION
Oh, shade Of the past. silhouette on the
1cdlf--
Gredt-Drdndtdther's father. ,Uho dns,cered
the coll
In 'sepcnty-sir. there's stm ,cork to be
done.
Oh, may do mn share to punish the
Huni
God grant the same spirit that Iiued In
your day
inspire us again as zee enter the trdy.
Nay ctctory. tollo,otng tyrdnnys fall,
Bring peace to pour rest, oh, grim face
on the 1odlIi MACKIE.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-04-12

dope" doctors, those who use their
1kofessional standing as an excuse for
)ling habit forming drugs to their great
kEcaAl advantage. are among the vipers
Haankind. Upon conviction they should
prevented forever from again prac-
lng medicine.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-04-12
NUDDLED.
Evolution Of a Man Of Letter.

H. II. Pease. for five years past
editor OF the Beemer (Neb.) Times, has
resigned his position and taken up the
work Of mail carrier In Beemer.
Editor and Publisher.
why should the spirit Of editors be
proud. anyway? A quarter Of a century
ago we were reporting q poisoning case
at Green Creek. In South Jersey. and we
made our headquarters in the ofslcs Of
the Cape May County 0asstts at Cape
May Court House. A very pretty eIri
was in charge Of the composing room.
w wsrs anxious 70 impress hsn We
~ Nerve rspgpsente1 ~ ptI1e> >1lenia
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-04-12

The War Department order to re-
sSfuiting officers raising. the age limit to
Eerty years brings the maximum to with
n one year of that which England until
11cently had set. The raising Of the age
init lis no compliment to eagerness Of
|&nr young men.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-04-12

Austrian Foreign Minister Czernin
1tnClally sped our Charge d'Affaires Grew
Fpm Vienna with assurances of his
most perfect consideration" Evidently
1outon outrages on grammar are keep
- pace with Teuton ruthlessness in
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-04-12
There are said to be 100000 &c

K There are said to be 100000 Ger
1ans In one province of Brazil yet the
pvsEnment does not appear to be wor-
It Is quite possible that the great
njority Of the 100000 are as hostile to
1ioorisn as any Of the rest of us,
kheGgh there are always sufficient
anas to bring a whole people into
6rspute
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-04-12
ASCJJM

There are those In a frst-night audi.
ence who are inclined to be a bit guilt
BILE in the field of philosophy Any
long speech which assails the snug
virtues and ends wioh a ringing de-
nuncation of the pure in heart goes
well. By violent applause one clears
himself of the suspicion that he may
be a secret follower of virtue.-Hey.
wood Broun. in N. Y. Tribune.
We happened to sit in hotbed Of these
folks at a play the other night.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-04-12

E Nine thousand one-room rural
thools In Pennsylvania are about 5000
<1hpols too many. Doctor Phillips's sug.
pstien that communities club together
a. consolidate these classrooms in larger
bhools is a practical move toward
11onomy and more efficient teaching
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-04-12
Ito., Money

ID made 10 AUSTRIA L thus Described in III
annual bullion circular Of samuel Montasus
= Co.: The problem 81 protecting the
pieces from rust has bssn solved by super
imposlng 4 slight layer of sinc. The disks
Il are pisssd IN I vshsci ~ ahd heated n To- -
tain tijhe ct 4 tSihpsfe etirs. sonswhHt bslow
thai Y ~ hsitlhs point v sihsl whsfsvyeff
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-04-12

words OF NJ. BarreS:
I'VE have recently witnessed the un-
yelling of the American nation In the con-
certed action of a multitude numbering well
past hundred millions of widely diverse
origin that, as one unit. have spontaneously
expressed united opinion. This in Itself
is a most interesting fact that will be noted
in history.
Behind the President of the United states
stands a great cosmopolitan assembly
typical before itself and the world. of a
complete victory of opinion first held only
by its intellectuals and now standing for
not only that but for the humanity and
nobility that slumbered In the breast of
each native of the land"
"Why intellectuals frst?" was asked.
First" answered NJ. Barres. because
the United States is new country, with
its universities the sole source of IDEAS as
we understand the word in the European
sense. Among the great mass Of your peo-
pie in 1914 there was an apathy as to the
war, feeling Nhat 1t was purely a
European quarrel, to be left so, with the
sea between. But in the universities and
intellectual centers of the country there
was an immediate understanding as to
what the quarrel was about who precipi-
tated it, who tried to prevent 1t, who was
ready for war and who was not and what
victory for one side or the other meant
not only to Europe, but the United States
and the world
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-04-12

port in his idea OF
suffrage for the
dead, received me
for the second
time today, talk
ing pungently and
critically upon
what he termed
"the unveiling OF
the American ma
ton" and the
triumph Of col
lective no n o r
which shaped the
anonymously mem
tai majority to
the views of the
intellectual mi
nority."
The substance
OF the interview
appears in these
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-04-12

There is. not much difference
rfwssn blowing up Industrial establish
oz,1D by understand methods and sinking
61Do ~ submarines. Amid our weeping
he dead at Eddystone We can Wis
11ss the suffering Of those who were
1T msrCilsssly to the depths and real.
more fully than ever why this sacred
~ q q necessary war.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-04-12

CONCERNING MAUD
Come tell me " I'm atoed or maudlin,
Aud tohether I should noso be glad or sad.
She oldmors. "Mdud Is mad ,osthout you,"
I ans,oer. Should Y Ieave the maid Is
mad"
xUDDLEp.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-04-12

If Kentucky will only set itself to the
task OF breeding a sea-gofng mule the
submarine problem will be settled in
less than no time.
Springfield Union.
why Kentucky? We thought the
melodious mule built it's nest in Missouri.
However, the proposed sea-gong variety
would not only have to be launched stern
first, like any other vessel, but be de-
signed to proceed that way to insure
instant action of the main batteries
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-04-12
The President received me with the

Roosevelt interview
Our friend, +. Marion Wolf, once told
us story of his father and an irascible
neighbor The latter didn't like the way
Mr.. George Wolf conducted his house.
hold, and he particularly objected to the
noisy play of the little wolves. At first
he stood in his own yard and complained
but one day he marched into Mr.. VOLTS
house to tell him what was what. Mr.
Wolf politely listened to his criticism,
and when he had finished walked to the
front door and, holding It open, said sim
ply, Good day" The neighbor's crest
fell. With both hands, palms outward
spread protectingly over his coat tails, he
sidled through the door, crying, mo vic.
lence, George, no violence!'
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-04-12

We can have peace insurance If we
Dxnt II. The price is the greatest navy
y the world.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-04-12

The Government does not know
u what kind of army it wants, but we
[ufe raising It.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-04-12
Red Cross Dogs

Ked CrOss Dogs
r. B. H.--No especial breed Of dogs 10
used for Red Cross work. Individual char
breed. Sheep dogs, retrievers, pointers,
large Airedaie terriers. crosses between bull
dog and rnastik and ordinary dogs to the
number Of 10000 now are In war Use. 40.
cording to the Red Cross Magazine.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-04-12

The British Premier is to be
zDed IN Commons as to whether he
nrss Mr.. Wilson's belief that It is the
gman Government and not the German
ople that 10 the object Of attack. Ameri.
- opinion IL bound to affect Allied
nce terms. now that we are 'in" It
01 also AFFECT the future Of the Irish
4popjs, tor whom we fight as much as
No dght for or with any other nation.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-04-12

PARIS, March "a.
MAURICE BARRES, Of the Academic
AVA Franchise and the Chamber Of Depu-
ties. who conceived the Croix de Guerre
and the steel helmet, making their use laws
OF France, and who is gaining marked sup
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-04-12

I. MANOFF. Market and Fifth, wants
women clothing makers. Does his name
explain the cause of the vacancy?
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-04-12

I. There win be moro American ships
the oceans within . year or two than
= my other time since the nation existed.
loers and sailors wih be required to
4n, them. Girard College will prepare a
ber Of ofiicers. but the necessity Of
~ reestablishment of the nautical train.
school by the State of Pennsyivania
povious that we take It for granted
~ VII bs no opposition to the meagsr
pr1ation aalred at. Harrisburg.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-04-12

I've d niece named Gilmore,
Just a baby. barely four:
And her parents, feeling pally
Took her to the Russian ballet,
Where In baby mood. ecstatic
She approved them, acrohatic,
From lie Midi dun Fuune
To that white and wondrous Stcan,
Cleopatra's eyes of jade
To that mad Schehera zade.
Then one morning my good sister
Pausing at her housework missed her;
Gilmore of yellow hair
Did not answer anywhere.
Down before the house she found her.
With admrlng babies round her.
Clad In one small shoe and stocking
on her tiny bare toes rocking,
Pirouetting sedatey,
Chubby, funny, staid and stately
Gravely tripping the fandango
or some I.illiputian tango
All her baby body given
A white daisy uEto Heaven,
when her mother stopped to fold her
In her arms. she could not scold her
Through by this time all the neighbors
Had resigned their morning labors)
For my sister knew the answer
For this naked little dancer
Who had shocked the postman slightly
Pacing up the street SO tritely,
Leaving letters at the door
or the sprighty Gilmore.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-04-12
THE UNWILLING
OF AMERICA
Maurice Barres Tells How the
Discovery of the Issues of the
War Has Revealed Us to
Ourselves
By HENRI BAZIN

Reciplent of the Croix de Guerre, member Of the
Correspondent Of the EysSiSo
LEDGER In France.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-04-12

WISELY LIMITING HOSTILITIES
BY coming out for woman suffrage David
Lloyd George has placed himself In a posi-
tion where he will have one less brick to
dodge.--Toledo Blade.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-04-12

Set in small type and buried in the
back of the magazine we find the most
"arresting and poignant" Of all the things
in Poetry: A Magazine of Verse, for April.
It's a rhymed letter to the editor by VIII.
lard Wattles. and this Is part Of II;
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-04-12

khrss sxtrsmely patriotic students
- picture Of the lone naval ship
3ng 70 Cuba which was published
~ ~ our picture section, on the
= that II constitutes an '.unwar.
nrcasn" and, reflects on "our
H elly's unseInsh action in sntsrins
~ on our side. On the contrary. the
n was pubIishsd az = tribute to
Which. navy or no navy. takes its
- asht "on the side Of tbs anssls."
n1srs Of the EVENING Lrpcrs
1lIoet the story. Monte Crispsn. y
publishsd IN this newspapsr
~ time last year. That story
N written Tor the EVENING
~ enpee6d in I naost convino.
>s ~orAanes q sptss ana thslr
~ story We intended q
neln netursrs u an apprscsation
1oqoneu ef the situatsen and
c Nnardine their plants
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-04-12
Admiration for Germany

"Coupled with tho then ma ioritv Wow
there is no doubt of the great nre-war
influence exercised upon the American mind
by Germany, Germanic methods and con-
stant propaganda. GERMANY was recognized
as a vast workshop, a completely organized
establishment where the most exemplary
lessons I'm cooperative trading and manu-
featuring. administrative and public
hygiene could be studied. And in the same
light England seemed a thing inferior, with
France a degenerate land where taste alone
survived a glorious tradition. German mo-
rality was seemingly a material thing
Al. -. -.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-04-12
Growth of a New Sentiment

but, I.,ie py I.lle: III .he iish' OF what
supseQuehtiy nappemeu' anu !" ,ne prlnclpai
msht as 10 now 'he Sneu lowers ana
tne Centrai foweIs conuuc'ea 'ne war, tne
s sIeat mass vi rne pepp'e III .he oh,.eo s
Stes oecame sympss ypa.s,,s pe.Weem ''ne
wv camps q, ho. synpAes d, all a
,.t.s, LIS r,n.ar. .ha. s'so eoie
imso s,,ai s -oarass,.,o ..,',. thn ,sa;e
s;s,. srS r,athods os th. tue srr,aS na,,an,
should become natent To the ewes of a neonIe
reneralIv lacking in the spirit of criticism
ia the marvellous thing difficult TO nut into
words and formulate in abstract expression.
One could perhaps say that the diagnosed
views of the thinking minority had, through
reneated barbarity by the Germans. shaped
and formed the anonymously mental ma
iority to a vision of unanimous view and
opinion
..r,., ,ou.o.,ro Am.r,o. sbou,a ho so
.n,tar In de- nrofo,nd snirituaI eIen,ents
.hat sro,,, ~. ,o,nt ns ,rateriai ond ia,
vidnaiiy moral persnective. that the neonia
.ho,,,a r,sa 81 ths ,de. 20 comnosito bonnr !,
.hot 80, co.., a. tho vorkshon sb',L;
h.ao,,. nai,on 4. The nsvchoIoSp os The
nointa make
"Recause I'm the United States most mems
business is trade. and but a very few that
OF morals. neither the ideal nor the mate
rial In itself was the foil that un-
veiied 10 the people the point of honor
Il was a composite Of the two, an evolution
out Of them II was suddenly seen that
a nation cannot eternaily exist upon the
foundations of Individual morality or the
The Irish standard., 1917-05-19
WHEN THE WAR is OVER,
: ladies.

When the war is over, ladies, just
take a tip from me,
There'll be no German submarines
a-divin' through the sea.
For the Fatherland of Kaiser Bill, the
guy we're goin' to lick,
Will have a brand new Kaiser, and
the same will be Mick"
Well change the song Die Wacht am
Rhein" into an Irish reel
And make the Dutchman dance it
if It's SO inclined we feel.
In Berlin the whole police force will
be Micks from County Glare,
When we put an Irish Kaiser in
the palace over there.
Shure in every German Parkway, you
will find sweet colleen,
An the fields of waving sauerkraut
we'll paint an Irish green.
No liverwurst or sausage when the
Dutchman drinks his suds,
He'll get corned beef and cabbage
and good old Irish spuds.
The Deutscher buns and gas bombs,
We'll throw them all away
And make them use shillelahs or
bricks of Irish clay.
They'll wear no iron crosses, shure
it's shamrocks they'll wear,
When we put an Irish Kaiser in the
palace over there.
Contributed.