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Of the country. usually not citizens. who
give aid and comfort to the enemy when
ever possible. There are. too, some ire
sponsible publications. edited for the most
part by half.educated anarchists. which
are using good paper to incite the ignor.
ant to riot. They tumble truth and false.
hood together and brew therefrom a mess
Of trouble.
Liberty is a cardinal principle OF Ameri'
canism, but cities maintain police forces
just the same, and when liberty degener.
ates into license the jails are utilized The
freedom of the press Is the bulwark of our
institutions, we believe; but freedom Of
the press does not confer on any men the
right to preach treason, TO aid the enemy
and to undermine our own Government.
We suspect that certain editors are re.
sponsible for the Oklahoma incident. and
a trial by Jury on the charge OF treason
would not do them any harm.
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GERARD ON GERMANY

MO OTHER American Ambassador, we
~ believe, ever faced such difficulties as
confronted Mr. Gerard in Berlin during
the war period He held in his hands the
dignity and prestige of this great repub.
lie. the last frst-class neutral in the
world. weak man would have sue
cumbed. He, however never swerved
from the path Of duty. No Prussian had
a spine stronger than his or redder blood
In his veins, and he met insolence In the
way an American should meet it. The
glamour of militarism never blinded his
eyes. He saw through the sham and he
unraveled intrigue as he met it. The
Germans could not fool him. so they grew
to hate him.
Mr.. Gerard knows more about the Ger.
man war lords than any other living man.
His opportunities to know have been bet
ter. What he has learned he intends that
the American people shall be taught. Some
doubt the holiness of this war: they need
never doubt again after reading the ex.
posure of German purpose as Mr.. Gerard
tells it. Only in democracy would it
be possible TO have a record of this sort
published in the very midst of the events
Of which 1t treats. In the matter of pub
lie service we know of nothing which
newspaper could do of greater importance
than to give the Gerard narrative to the
world. A publication of such national
and international Importance is in keep.
ing with the purpose and prestige of the
Public Ledger.
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THERE is NO CITY OF WASH
INGTON

MTHEN President Wilson dated recent
w proclamation "Done. in the District Of
Columbia, July IA. 1917" curiosity was at
once aroused Why had he substituted Dis
trict of Columbia" for "the city of Wash
ington"?
inquiry developed the information that
Representative Johnson of Kentucky chair
man OF the House Committee on the Dis
trict Of Columbia. had called the Presidents 4
attention to the fact that Congress had
repealed the charter of the city in 1871 and
had set up territorial government for the
whole district. to take the place Of the diff.
ferent municipal governments for Washing
ton and Georgetown
washington, therefore. has no legal exist
ence as city When the District was first
created the only municipal corporation In II
was Georgetown, which was governed by 3
Mayor and Council. When the city of WASH
ington was laid out 1t was provided that II
should be governed by a commission and
the President. The District outside of Wash
ihgton and Georgetown was governed by
justices of the Levy Court. 1t was gov
erned by the commission until a city coun-
Gil was created. This form OF government
continued until June /, 1871, when the
Georgetown and Washington charters were
repealed and the Justices Of the Levy Court
were abolished and territorial form Of
government for the whole district was cre-
ated.
The law provided for a Governor. a Board
OF Public Works. secretary, a Board Of
Health a Council of eleven members all
appointed by the President The law also
provided for House of Delegates OF TWEEN
ty-two members and a delegate in the House
OF Representatives. both elected by the peo-
pie OF the District. It was under this form
OF government that modern Washington was
built. 1t was abolished on June 20, 1874.
when temporary commission Of three
appointed by the President was set up. on
July !. 1878. the present government by
commission Of three. two civilians and an
army officer. appointed by the President.
was established. The new municipality,
which is coterminous with the District. is
legally known as 'the District of Columbia"
The right Of the citizens to elect their local
officers has been withdrawn and they now
pay taxes without having any voice in the
way the money is expended.
Although Washington has no legal exist
ence' the postoffice address Of the national
Capitol and the Executive Mansion is given
In the Directory OF Congress as washing
tom and the directory also gives the
washington" addresses of members OF
Congress Numerous acts OF Congress.
passed since the repeal of the charter refer
70 Washington as though it had . isssi
status n practice the name Of the pI2<
! sc: sI's Z sse % ~ sns % Y Y rs ~ Afyss
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ONLY 100 YEARS AHEAD OF SOME
OF US

II is probable that further extensions
OF the pavements may be called for in
the present and ensuing years upon the
same principles of anticipation. and we
hope that Councils will act upon lib
eral system and grant them. whenever
the loan Is for so long period as to
make II an advantageous contract FOR
the city. II would not be difficult to
show that where a loan IL for a long Pc
riod the increase of taxes upon the prop
erty paved arising from improvements
and It's increased value would produce an
extra revenue to the city more than suf-
ficlent TO clear the city the whole cost of
the pavement.
THIS is from an editorial in the Phia-
L delphia Portfolio of May, 1917. The
writer was arguing against obstruction
lists. What motive can there be-" he
thunders. for refusing so reasonable IA
request" What he urged was the daring
and subversive procedure of continuing
the paving of Chestnut, Walnut and other
well-known thoroughfares west of Elev.
enth and Twelfth streets. Concerning
such a project we today might be inclined
to say, "Of course; il had TO be; any one
could have seen that Chestnut and Wal.
nut streets were destined to go westward
and, of course be paved all the way"
Nothing of the sort. The same oppo.
sition to the growth and Improvement of
Philadelphia that existed in 1917 exists
In 1917. The same pullback lack of faith
in the future which kept Thirteenth and
Chestnut streets a region of muddy, un-
paved lanes in 1917 is maintaining in
the outlying districts of the modern city
the same regions OF rural mud and pro-
vincial inconvenience. Nothing is gained
except by effort. Progress is never easily
wooed II has to be fought for. But when
transit Is an accomplished fact, when the
government and administrative methods
of handling the new Philadelphia have
been wrenched into keeping with re-
quirements, people will say, "Of course;
1t had to be; it was inevitable"
But the only thing that is inevitable is
these same peoples inevitable indif.
ference They never make history. They
wait until It's made and then read 1t.
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WHY PEOPLE BECOME FAT

Among curious popular fallacies Ia the
idea that an individual may become obese
without eating too much and may remain
obese even when very little food is taken
IL person each day eats u butter baii
weighing only a third of an ounce in ex-
trifiing insignificant; but continued over q
year It would involve a gain In weight .,
nine pounds of fatty tissue or in ten wears
Of ninety pounds. An ounce Of bread or hal,
glass. Of milk more than the food ~
quirement for the day will bring about tha
same result. Conversely, II the quantity ~
1000 taken be only slishtly below the needs
used and the body weight falls 4 rron... :,
which may be extended over Z iahw nsr,,S
g time---pr orahAm Llsl. in ~ w'n~sS,s
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Sl'EItO.

WILLIAM MARION REEDY has a
heart as big as his chest which is saying
a lot. In his ST. Louis Mirror he delights
in holding out a helping hand to the
struggling young author. For that 'rea-
son we're sure Bill will be more sorry
than angry to hear that one of his
proteges had imposed upon him. VIII
Lou writes to us from New York:
In looking through Reedy's Mirror for
July 27 / read a short story called "The
Striker" supposedly written by Jacob
Davis, 10, In the Harvard Advocate.
found that the story coincided throughout
with French one-act thriller called
Sabotage" which was performed i'm the
Grand GAgnol of Paris six or eight years
ago. 1t was translated about four years
ago by the editor of The Dramatfsf. an
American quarterly, and published In his
magazine. The plots of play and story
are identical in all respects
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something not been fostered WITH scientific
as well as personal and intimate care the
results might not have been so large In
bulk.
Possibly some OF the thoroughness of
Doctor Jones's academic system came
from that source of much knowledge
travel. Never parochial by nature. he fur
ther augmented his natural gift of organiza-
tion, selection and cultural development by
visits to other places of learning The
wonderful English public school system,
which has virtually unmade as many dolts
as 1t has made poets. came under his
sharpest scrutiny for years. On the Con-
tinent he added to his store of facts
facts later to be applied TO Philadelphia
boys-through a thorough contact with
French and German educational methods.
He even went to Ireland where, In tutoring
work, he advanced further yet his view
point on methods of instruction. Such was
the broad-minded caliber Of the man that
there was nothing so unimportant but that
he could turn 1t to some Illustrative use
in evolving his philosophy OF training, in
spration and self-cultivation.
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Reorganized His School

The immediate merit of his methods bore
rich fruit as soon as he became head
master of Penn Charter. Those who were
in touch with the condition of the institu-
ton admit that 1t was not in the fourishing
state that should have prevailed. But with
almost incredible Quickness it began to
pick up under the informing touch of
Doctor Jones. Reorganization without any
sensational details concerned only with the
greatest good for the greatest number, was
instituted The sanity and health Of that
schooi To-Day speak silent volumes for the
blood that the master injected into it.
Some of the practical ideas of his native
state Maine, seem to have been infused
INTO many OF the doctors doings To do n
tninS properly. no matter what the cost
or the moment might be, was with him a
motive not to be argued about. The novelty
or STAFF of trained and specialized
scholars TO instruct his pupils was a costly
one. But he made 1t pay in the long run.
When he imported an Oxonian scholar to
teach French doubtless there We're
astonished gasps. Topnotch salaries were
not so often paid in the seventies But the
doctor believed In good grounding in funda-
mentals. Hence his unswerying love of
English and Latin. 1t Is significant that
President Wilson, among other notables,
recognized the twofold genius of the man
IN a letter praising his accomplishments.
Not all his time and thought were given
10 the printed page, Loving nature, he
loved sport as well, and it was largely his
design that athletics assumed so important
a role In the drama of school life. He saw
that mere "larnin'" would not avail without
clean-limbed strength and hearty lungs,
All this was part Of his democratic out
look on life. BY training the individual
to realize his potential ability on the foot
ball field as we'll as in the classroom, he
advanced that ideal that guided him above
n N m CnIf "a,
adherence to Doctor Jones's belief In that
man-power.
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This war thing is no picnic We no.
ticed couple of young officers, who were
evidently new to their white duck suits,
worrying themselves sick in Reading
Railway train. They wouldn't dare to sit
on the plush seats until they'd spread
papers there to protect their trouser.
bosoms' immaculateness. Some progress
sive newspaper advertiser may get a sug-
gestion from this.
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Citizens can afford to wait and

Citizens can afford TO wait and see
the new transit lease in written form be.
fore reaching any conclusions about It.
We are told that the company has been
saddled and bridled. but the company's
representatives heretofore have been
rather astuts representatives Of the inter-
orfp thav are employed to protect. s
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The Kaiser, so said our own dear paper.
"Gives liindy c. and s. of II. o. of II. H."
One of our bright young men translates
1t, Chief and Sachem Of the Royal Order
of Happy llooligans." But somebody else
may suggest brighter. Wen stand for
most ANYTHING.
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ELEVATION

TsTE TTUN
We hare RUcd in the rdIcyS shddOtr,
Felt It's dark security.
Which binds up all fne tcclinG
And sets base passions free.
Let as mp out Of the Galley
Let as III our heads again;
Let as gaze straight into hedpen
Through Gods blue Windoicpane.
'1'UiI make our actions noble.
our thinking straight and fine
As ,rc 90 up on the mountain
And nearer the dipine.
SPERO.
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And from Will Lou. now our observant
New York correspondent, we learn that
when the negroes paraded in that town
rec, ntly the Union League was barren of
flags when the Afro-Americans were
passing. but blossomed with the emblems
Of the Allies when fhe parade had gone
by. Make the World Safe for Democ-
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During July 42o airplanes were 10,

on the western front alone. the majority
OF them being German. This indicates
how vast a construction program we must
undertake II we are to assure permanent
and complete ascendancy in the air for
the Allies.
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Answers to Yesterdays Quiz

l. General kornilof IL the successor to General
brussiiof rs chief OF the Russian army.
Z. The larger objective Of the Allies present
drive is the recapture Of Antwerp and Of
the German submarine base at Zeebrusse.
8. Italians call the city Of Leghorn Livorno.
=. George Eliot wrote ''Daniel Deronda."
o. The Emperor Justinian said "SoIomon. I
have OutdOne even thee" upon the com.
pletion Of the Church of Saint Sophia at
COnstantinOple.
o. The Kaiser has six sons.
Z. Argentina is expected to define her stara
on the world war soon
.. Boabdii was the last Moorish ruler In Spain.
U. Count Czernin has suggested he would be
wlliing to act as mediator between Berlin
and London.
lo. Italy is reported to be building tho largest
airDlaHes In existence.
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The Germans affect to de

The Germans affect to despise the
American army. That Contemplate"
little British force, however, has kept the
Kaiser busy for months issuing proclama-
tions to reassure his people.
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MILITARY VALUE
OF WATERWAYS
Passage of the Rivers and Har-
bors Bill Will Further the De-
fense Plans of the
Government
Special Correspondence o, the Evcnin0 Ledger

Special Correspondence Of the EvcninO Ledger
WASHINGTON. Aug 3.
I EFT us refer to the rivers and harbors
- bill and the hard fight its sponsors
have had to prove II up as war measure
that should be passed by this session Of
Congress We can speak hopefully of the
bill because IL Is now virtually assured Of
becoming law. 1.-THE bill passed the House
after this was written.l II carries a total ap.
preparation OF more than $26,O0O,000 and
provides for new work and maintenance
which the President and the Secretary of
War have indicated as needful in connection
with general preparedness II has been
long and hard pull to induce members OF
the Senate and House to agree with the
War Department about this measure and
the opposition in both bodies has been keen
and alert. Nor has there been any minoing
OF words In the discussion of the measure.
The handful of Senators. finally dwn-
ding to eleven who opposed the bill pre-
sented their usual arguments one Uf
them declaring that rather than submit to
any "back-iire" from his constituents in the
interest OF any project that seemed to him
unworthy he would retire from the public
service II Is not unfair. perhaps to any
Senator making so generous a tender of
voluntary retirement TO observe that some
Senators who live In States where they have
no waterways are not so unselhshly pa
'lptl' III lne matter OF CantOnmentS ana
public buildings. the acquisition of which
Tor their own territory Ia regarded by the
folks at home as a highly Commendable
brand of American craftsmanship
Neither has II occasioned comment I'm the
great metropolitan journals which cncour-
age Senators and Representatives from arid
and semiarid territory to cry "porlt'
against rivers and harbors and ports, that
irrigation and reclamation schemes, which
heavily tax the Treasury of the United
states in times of peace as well as I'm times
OF war, are as pure and as sacred as the
drlVen SnOw-if the appropriation is euf-
hclent, To the badly Informed eastern critic
oil waterway improvements in the United
states bill for stimulation of food pro-
auction brought in from the committee
OF irrigation Of arid lands would be illumi-
mating, casual reading of the scheme
unfolded by the Secretary of the Interior
for taking men away from farms that are
irrigated by nature and putting them upon
arid soil where they must walt for water
AT the expense of the Government should
tend to make even a few Of the metropolitau
editors weep. All the Secretary of the In
terror and the Committee on Arid Lands
want, and they want II now is $4,000 600
TO create farmers on land that is now un-
productive, so that they may prepare 10
produce food if they can get water to the
land, TO support our army and our navy"
incidentally the men taken from real farms
ana put upon these arid and semiarid lands
would be freed from military service And
II requires about five years to bring trees
to fruition in irrigated soil
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Railroad valuation is now declared
to be colossal failure. There is no news
in that. Everybody who knew anything
about the subject was sure 1t would be-
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-08-04

sidering Congressmen's prodigality with
the franking privilege. Congress sends
seven tons Of mail a day, record that
our army could hardly beat
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The Mayor has said thai

Inc mayor mas SAID tnat ne means
business in the vice cleanup. He has said
1t almost every day. After a time, no
doubt, it will become apparent just what
sort of business he means.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-08-04

Replying to Archibald, who demands to
know what is the best anagram upon Will
helm, we offer Our own: "IIell w i'm"
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-08-04

Happy is the nation without a his.
tory; active is the shipping board that has
no conversations to report.
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Buy war calf" is the latest con.
servation motto. One would certainly
rather buy than be one.
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4 SONG OF RICHES
Chicken meat is berry fine.
Possum gravy's good
When Ah'm hungry All kin dine
ON mos any food;
All kin eat mos anything
Dat doan' bite me fust,
But fur tatin'
Honey an
Fit fur any king
Right hyar's whar I bust,
Watahmillion pink,
Watahmillion red,
Das nah food an drink,
Da's nah boa'd an bed.
Rob me Ob nah job,
| won't nebbah care,
Nothin' to me
Slong's All kin be
A watahmilienaire!
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Tom Days Column
THE VILLAGE POET

THE VILLAGE POET
Whenever us a Saturday, dbdJt the torrid
spell
That ldteiy came 10 pisit us from neither
lands ot--tceR.
At any rate. tohcn "Jdir an cooler
prophecies conc true
I hop around all ouer toion TO see 1hdt
netcs Is ncic.
An as make mv merrv rounds / tune
mn ukUlolc
An buiid a Httle bunch Of rhymes an sing
'cm to 70 DdilU
7 take a sinole circumstance an trick u
ont icith fdncU
To make IL sound like something interest
ing and "romdncy"
THIS exercise has benefits, Of Whtch
reckon this chief
It doesn't hurt the nci0hbors much an
kecps me oat OF mischief.
Results are poor, perhaps, bW opportu.
mites arc ample
An here for your pcrusdl present IT.
tie sample:
Inc aust lau long DeeI llEh anu ulS
Upon the sweltering street;
Save when a ntful hree2e went by
Terrific was the heat
But now the citizens take heart
And hope revives again
Down Chestnut street n sprinklng cart
Comes sprinklng, IN The rain.
Tho f,tpnr lanpuiglo1 nm tie bpnt
Beneath a copper sky,
And every neighbor one would meet
Had fever in his eye;
But now when gusts of raindrops start
And some relief is had,
Behold the frantic sprinking cart
Comes sprinklng things like mad.
Oh, patient city of my birth,
How sorrowful thy state,
For what are all these spr!nklings worth
That sprinkle thee too late?
And through thy many trades and arts
That should beget but gain,
How many other sprinkling carts
Go sprinkiing in the rain?
The lad who drorc that chariot Of plurial
rCdHHddRCC
Had nothing on his mind at oil but
rdcuOHS dbHHddHCc.
or possibly the cbOn dome lcith tChich he
did his thinking
Was occupied lrith memories Of eating
and Of driHkiH0.
At dHU rate HOtCd. as he lccndcd through
the trddic,
/ smile upVn his features that 1ods
drCdmy an SCrGphic,
an ioOkmD at his ldsy JUlb aJore his
horses SWiHginJ
tdHciCd H0t his childish heart ,cds rcry
htcly singing:
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Will America dare send a million men
across the seas In face OF our growing
submarine strength h?-Frankfurte Zei-
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Free mailing privileges should I

That is why we're sending them.
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interrupted To be continued Monday
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1917-02-09
ORCHARD HINTS.

The soil should be well prepared be-
fore trees are planted in a new or
chard. Plow it deep with a turning
plow; then harrow till there are no
clOds. Even after doing this it pays
to blast holes for the trees.
Experiments have shown that trees
In blasted holes grow much faster and
bear sooner than trees set where there
Is hard subsoil for the roots to pene-
trate.
If blasting Is not done it will be ad-
visable to throw out the plowed soil
with a shovel at the spot where tree
is to stand and dig deep with n pick,
and one should never fail to have the
ground loOscned deep for pear trees, as
their roots grow downward more than
my other kinds Of trees and often die
because Of shallow holes.
When the trees are planted their tops
should be cut off about one-third the
way down. This helps the roots to take
hold In the soil, shuts off much OF the
demand of the tree for elements from
the soil and goes far toward insuring
The life and the healthfulness of the
tree. And this topping ought to be
done each year till about the third
year.