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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-03-13
A SAD WAC

James Harper, one Of the original men,
bers of the firm Of Harper & Brothers had
the Mark Twain gift for humorous narra-
tive. His favorite method was to foist his
joke upon the person TO whom he was
speaking. Apropos of whatever the two
men might be discussing, James would saw
THAT puts me in mind Of what you told
me once" Then would follow some story
very likely one invented on the spot. .eWby
Mr.. Harper !" the other man would resnond
Il never told you that; in fact, never
heard Of y before. Then Mr. Harper would
Y, m SVyj IN Sa,nst 81 ~ y = ,s- We :;
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-03-13
"MOOnshine" Whisky

KENTUCKIAN The probabilities are
that "moonshine" whisky is so called he
cause It's production and sale are con-
Quoted largely at night. although IL wonld
be difficult to prove it, Equally difficult
would II be to prove your contention that
II Is so called because il is colorless and
GEAR as moonshine," Either of these
explanations is logical and gives present~
day satisfaction; but it seems more 4oyica,
to presume that originally "moonsbine'' do.
rived its name from ''moonshining. or II.
nclt nocturnal trading In general. than to
presume that Illicit trading in general owe.
ITS nickname to "a particular article such as
colorless whisky. Smugglers of all kinds
IN England are known as ''moonshiners
Wepsters New International Dictionary
says that "moonshiner" is n "nersa',
engaged IN Illicit trading at night. as
smugger." Websters Revised UnabridSoS
dictionary dslS) says a ''moonshiner' is q
called because the work is largely done a,
night" e at
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-03-13
MAKING NEW YORK A WAY
STATION

THE dedication of the new railroad
l. bridge across the East River connect
ing Long Island with the mainland
marks the completion of the railroad
link between Philadelphia and New Eng.
land that makes New York but a way
station In the line of through traffic. To
get over the obstacle offered by that
island city II has been necessary to tun.
mel both the Hudson and East Rivers, so
that Pennsylvania Railroad trains might
be carried on bridges from Long Island
over the narrower parts OF the East
River on 10 the tracks OF the New York
and New Haven system. When traffic
Is opened on the bridges the trains
which now go between Boston and Phil.
adelphia by the roundabout route of the
Poughkeepsie bridge will pass under and
around New York, thus saving several
hours Trains used TO be ferried around
the city, but that practice had TO be
abandoned several years ago on account
OF the danger. The new way. which will
be used first next Thursday Is both safer
and quicker. II should develop more In
innate business relations between this
city and that part Of New England
zsExs bx thc Nsv Haven vstsn. y The
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-03-13
CLEANLINESS OR DEATH?

DEATH last summer stalked through
this section of the country. No man
could stop its rsvages. for no man knew
its cause, II fastened itself on the young
leaving limping wrecks OF those II spared
from the grave Parents did not know
how 10 night the unknown terror They
could merely pray that their Beloved
should be saved
No man, we say, could stop the rsvages
Of this disease, but all men knew and
know that It's sources lie in dust and
dirt. Strong men cannot breathe into
their lungs and blood flthladen atrnos.
phere without undermining their
strength for babes and those who are
weak It means death sure and certain
In the face Of the horrible experiences
Of last summer with the threat OF their
repetition this summer ever present men
talk and think Of the dirty streets Of
Philadelphia merely as a nuisance; some.
thing undesirable. They even tolerantly
pass sweepers who are filling the air with
the dirt that cannot lawfully lie on the
ground. II would be safer In many cases
TO run the gauntlet OF knife.bcaring
Apaches after dark than to carry home
the germs which arc loosed by this
process. Yet day by day and month by
month contractors persist In their failure
properly to clean the streets, and from
long miles Of sidewalks are swept into the
air literally tons OF deathcarrying dirt.
The community accepts the condition as
readily as the South used to accept the
mosquito and its yellow fever.
Let the mothers whose offspring live
under this sword of Damocles demand
relief. Let the fathers who lived last
summer in a reign of terror insist that
something be done. We may not be able
to stamp the disease out entirely; but
we can administer mighty blows against
its progress and hamper its advance by
simply being clean. We can see TO it that
the sidewalks are watered before they are
swept; we can see to 1t that the street
cleaning contractors do properly what
they are paid to do. we can compel the |
administration to concentrate its efforts f,
on municipal cleanliness. Germs, we say
soberly, are more to be feared just now
than Germans It is more important that |
tho dust evil be abated than that any I
other public Improvement now contem.
plated be carried TO completion.
Citizens may blame themselves for ex- /
listing conditions. The administration |
and Councils can give us clean streets. |
They will give us clean streets if mothers |
and fathers bring to bear the pressure of |
their Indignation. The situation is so
serious that a public mass.meetng TO
il would not be amss. We are
publishing in our pictorial section at in.
tervals pictures which illustrate, so far
as pictures can, the peril which lack of
cleanliness has aroused against us. Citi.
zens can see for themselves in their daily
walks Just how necessary improve.
ment is.
To fight successfully against infantile
paralysis this summer we must begin
to fight now.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-03-13
Answers to Yesterdays Quiz

L. Chapnltepec Is a fortress and government
military college, three miles southwest OF
Mexico City. 1t is the Mexican West
e Germans do not use the word ruthless" to
uescribe their unrestricted submarine q
warfare. For them 10 is "ruecksichtios"
neckiess): "verscharfend" (sharpe ned)
ana 'uneingeschraenkt" (unrestrained).
D. An adult doing light work needs $500 food
calOries day; medium work, 5000; hard
SO00 ~ ""'
L. Palestine. on the east coast Of the Mediter-
ranean sea, in southwestern Syria, Tur-
keS-ln-Asia, has an area of IL 900 square
miles. about one-twenty-third OF that of
o. The First Hundred Thousand" are tho
members OF the first British expeditionary
force In France. which was nearly wiped
g. SIMON Bolivar. (17s3-lsSO), the great South
american liberator, is known as the
washington OF South America"
y. =. a. o. steamship Is a vessel NJ tbs
Peninsular and Occidental Line.
y. Miss Alexa Stirling, OF Atlanta Ga Ia tho
American woman golf champion.
U. The HOttentOts, q South African ran~ -
sembling both the Bushmen and the Ran
tus, are OF a. yellowish-bro color and
have negroid features. WI"
TO- revolution. the cause and extent Of which
mas not been learned. has broken out in
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-03-13

President Wilson advise all Americans to
leave Mexico IL they valued their lives?
Now, IL he deems It his duty TO call them
home from Mexico, why does lie not use this
same policy in this present crisis with Ger
many, forbdding them to take passage upon
any vessel that is headed for the subma-
rine zone? We say that Mexico should be
left to work out her own salvation even at
the sacrifice of American lives, which has
been done; then | say let Germany, who is
lighting with her back to the wall, work out
her salvation in like manner.
Why should | and millions of others go
TO war unless we know what we are going
for? r. H
Philadelphia March O.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-03-13
AN ANT HOUSE FOR A GIANT

As EXCELLENT a method Of squander-
our notice is involved in the proposal to
spend $1,5OO,OOO for the erection of a con-
vention hall to seat 5000 persons.
We can imagine the laughter which
will greet Philadelphia's invitation for
either of the great political conventions in
1920 IL IL is related that we propose 10
house the gathering in a building which
will accommodate so vast a throng as
5000.
Apologies and explanations will con-
sumo most of our time If in celebrating
the 150th anniversary of the Declaration
Of Independence we invite the represent
atives Of the nations of the world to
convene in a closet.
We trust that it will dawn finally on
certain conspicuous citizens of Phia-
delphia that they live in a metropolis
which is imperial both In actualitles and
in hopes. To build in a narrow way is
to build worse than uselessly. We want
no small-town convention halls. What
the people have voted money for Is a
spacious meeting place, ranking with any
other auditoriums in America, to which
they can seriously invite conventions of
every character, no matter what their
size
If such convention hall cannot be
built with the funds available an appeal
for more funds should be made, To
erect the sort of hall we do not want
and the kind Of hall that is now proposed
would be about as sensible as TO send cat
boats TO the Pacific to catch whales
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-03-13
STREET CAR WINDOWS

To tho Editor Of the Evening Ledger:
Sir-The pastors of the pneumonia COM
mittee' on the windows of the Philadelphia
street cars are cute indeed. Efficient Doctor
Krusen had better follow these with some
by the optical committee" as the windows
Of said cars are so rain-spotted and soiled
as to almost make passengers cross-eyed.
But are the windows kept in such soiled
condition by a trick of Ware and the street.
cleaning politicians that the riders can't
see the dirty streets? New York streets are
sometimes dirty, but 1t is more or less justi-
fed, as New York is a wide-awake COM
mercial community. GOTHAMITE.
New York, March s.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-03-13
TO YOU

Lite Is but a fotoer that 6lotu
For a teto short days;
Stoeet and fragrant as rose
When the June ,otnd plays. .
Breathe Its perfume to the full
Pluck.-nor heed the thorn.
Just a toithered stem you'd Gull
on the morro1Us morn.
Bleeding hand or aching heart
Is no price too great
For the joy NE to!ll tntpdrt
II ICE brave our fdte.
Take the beauty toh1e you con;
II can rleper be
Halt enough for maid or man.
Such as you and me.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-03-13
Poetry in Prose

Barton Blake has made an admir-
able translation of Paul Geraldys Inv
War, Madame" land Charles scribner'
Sons have published iD from which W.
ift these few pages Of poetic prose o''
scribing a soldiers return to Paris;
The even-tempered autumn country
side passes by my car windows Ine
telegraph wires waltz 10 the ruu'
rhythm of their poles. My railway
wagon stinks of stale cigars, ana am
happy as a boy. A second-class com
partment is for a corporal ike me, .
haven indeed. can cast on my helsh'
bors a frowning look, such as stralsns
way paralyzes any notion they ihay
have had of engaging me In talk l oan
cross my legs. can read at ease anu oen
follow the plowed ground with the eye
of "a man who loves 1t we'll put keeps
his distance / am most
regularly provided with pass sigheu
by my captain, good for twenty-iou
hours liberty, and j have lelt 70
good Bossard Cwho is not Parisia,D
the lob of conveying all by himself
baggage car Px50712-which he WIZ
attend to perfectly well. He ought "
come back slowly with load OF nel
chandise, and / will catch up WIN niu'
this evening. Like blind zigzaggns
insect that the wind has been piowlhs
hither and yon for the last year,
mean to spend the whole aiterhoyn
wandering at will through oertal.
streets, passing before windows thas
are, in memory, very beautiful to me-
spots of gold that, from the pavemeh.
of wide modern avenues, one sees iro.a
under plane-trees. ! know well enous,
curtain VIII
be drawn before the windows l haw
loved. / shall find II a mourniui
Paris. But 1 am going to enter tne
city as one enters the room OF very
beautiful woman who has been Ver'
ILL.,
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-03-13
SAM LOYD'S PUZZLE

A CORRESPONDENT wishes to know
"A II there is law in any of our states
which would have prohibited his grand.
father from marrying the sister Of his
widow. At first blush II would annaas
that his grandfather must first have dis.,
to make his wife a widow, and 30 hasn
disqualified from marrying his widow's
sister. But closer inspection leads us 20
advise the young man that his granddad
was entirely within his rights in reading
you prove the correctness of our con-
clusion?
Answer to Yesterdays Puzzle
THE merchant sold the 1a and is gal.
4 lon barrels OF oil at so cents per
gallon. He also sold s, II and IN al.
Ions Of vinegar at rs cents per eailon
30 he had the 19-gallon barrel left. vbich
Weuid have brought $3.50. sincs n W.
$500 4 contained ~. (. < ''' 4
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-03-13

On the first OF January next the
q. @. I. under it's contract will charge
but seventy-five cents per thousand
cubic feet for gas. Apparently it is the
purpose of municipal flnanciers to put
the extra nickel in the city treasury
and give the public no share in the re-.
duction. If so. consumers will be paying
tax Of thirty-thsee and a third per cent
for the privilege of using gas, prohibi.
tive tax, and one which is inconceivably
large, in view of the fact that the gas
works never cost the city dollar and
yield now an annual profit OF between
two and three million dollars.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-03-13
QUIZ

l. What are believed to be tho causes Of Rus
sia's crisis?
Z. What position did Mr.. Gerard hold before
his appointment as AmbassadorS
.. Who Is Tisza?
.. What is the distinction between . hurri-
cane and q gale?
D. ABOUT what Is the value Of the farm lands in
the United States?
o. What Is q tocsin?
:. Who are Efrem Zimbalist and Alma GIuckf
o. BESIDES Royal Navy" Of what is ''R. N"
%, o' where was the Garden Of EdenP
10. What is q nageoIet?
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-03-13
"THE TRADE"-SUBMARINE
SERVICE

They bear, in place of classic names.
Letters and numbers on their skin;
They play their grisly blindfod games
In little boxes made of tin.
Sometimes they stalk the Zeppelin,
Sometimes they learn where mines are
laid
On where the Baltic ice Is thin,
That is the custom of The Trade"
-Rudyard Kipling, in Sea Warfare"
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-03-13

There are conditions under which
the new transit system could cost twice
ninety millions, but not without the repe-
tition. we suspect, of certain historical
events attendant not many years ago on
an attempt to sell out the community's
rights.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-03-13
Tom Daly's Column
McAroni Ballad,
LKXVITT
DA PUP EEN DA sNow


DA PUP ZEN DA SNOW
Deed you ezra see jon
Coma toiid oeeth delight.
Jus so htd small boz
Wen SOM briohto netp tor
Make heem crdsy erotts'r
You Dould knoto tu'ut I ,neo,
Eet pou jus' couldo seem
Not so long time ago
Hoto M leetld fat pun
Ees frst plov cen d1 snon,
OF J scream an I roo,
An so shokd ,oeeth tcuohte,
Dat my sides dev are sore
For mos three four dovs otts,
An hoio rtooch toouId trp.
no speak toeeth sooch ste.u
I could put cen your eye
Wat ees fresh cen mirs as.n.
Hoto dot leetld pup -omp
All droun dd ,Uhole place.
Ho,o he. bark. hoto he Jon,p
An fan dotUn on hees face;
Ho,o he fght, hoto he bite
An ees tumble droun'.
TeeH hees cover' t0eeth uhRe
Like leetld fat cto,on:
Wat surprise fH hees epes
Wen he see du fakes sail.
HON he bark ~ dr. el,es.
Hoto he chdsd hees tuH
OF 7 toeesh 7 could shotu
Hoto ees looka dat pup.
Hoto he puff an he bloto
Wen hees leected By dd snov
An ees gotta oeeve up.
An s'posd, no doubt,
You ,rould SAP am fbbir'
Wen I say hees tongues out
Ltk1 ydrdd peenb ribbon
OF holo mooch toould trv,
no speak toeeth sooch skeeH
I could put cen pour eye
Waits so fresh cen rtns st.su
But I toeesh you had been
Where you, too, couldd seen
wat deH0htd me So
Ho,o nty leetIu fat pup
Ees first PLAY cen dd snori
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-03-13

Scott Nearing's latest utterances,
advocating that summit of impossibility,
. peace-or-war referendum, and arguing
10 the effect that a man cannot express
. reasonable opinion about the American
people If he belongs to the Racquet Club,
are not calculated to increase the regret
that he is no longer at the University of
Pennsylvania
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-03-13
The President, though sa

The President. though said to have
recovered from his cold. remains in bed.
1t was probably not his cold that sent
him there. but fatigue and strain such
as few Executives have had to endure.
There are two reasons why he should
take care of himself, and those reasons
were named at the top of every Demo-
cratic campaign banner last fall-wilson
and Marshall.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-03-13
AMERICAN HONOR

To the Editor Of the Evening Ledger.
sip-was It worth the price for our troops
10 20 into Mexico? What have we got 10
show for III Nothing but the expenditure
of $3.50 O00, 900 and scores of American lives
lost. American honor has received Just as
bad. II not worse a blow than Germany
mas given II. and challenge any person
10 show me where It was maintained in
Mexico, 3, 4 !. 3 ... =.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-03-13
Casuals of the Days Work
XXXVI.

XXXVI.
yTNHE letter which follows is exceedingly
i interesting:
EdHT AZ PSns sohsS sA you aSS r. ssss he
80 out and get real happy before ore, you read read
i Throush'' Along in the irst couple Of
chapters you will find "rellgiosites," and
Tie latter + gsyond my poor mind g even
find in "A dictionary. ] can dope out the
first one. c. X. r.
our hand being busted. we can hold no
brief, but we would like to call the attention
OF G. x. r. to one fact-"religiosites is
as good word as a perfectly good dead cat
Is perfectly good dead cat "Relgiose"
mote TO the linotyper: "Religiose" Is the cor
rect spelling). "Religiose," and by context,
'religiosity"--the plural naturally follows
is state of being having to do with the
morbidly religious Doctor Murray, in his
celebrated and very expensive dictionary
tells the history of the word and Mr.. Wells
uses II with authority.
We admit C. X RS point Mr.. wells'is
in one or more places poseur. He de-
lights in the spectacular in writing He
has done this a good many more times than
once to our own delight for he has sent
us on little journeys to the dictionary, which
help us in the general uplft and, though
we have disagreed at first we have almost
Invariably found that Mr.. Wells was right
in his choice of the word of exact meaning
c. X. r. can find ''meticulous" in any of
the common or garden variety of dlction-
aries 1t appears that the word is derived
from not the Greek, as Charles Holden
would say, but from the Latin "metus."
meaning fear" with the natural suffix.
"Meticulous.' therefore would seem 10 i'm
ply, not a sense Of timidity, but a sense OF
ercarefulness-carried TO the nth power.
And. while We are on the subject of
meticulousness, may We suggest to c. X. r..
that II would be following the strn. .xht ana
narrow path II he quit splitting his In
fnitivesf
We oan almost feei Il IN our. heart to Oh
~ ~ M o sE4R flnd. w trust Y. vi
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-03-13

State Government reformers every.
where will be encouraged by the example
of Illinois, which has just passed a bill
consolidating more than 100 adminlstra-
ton agencies into nine departments. Gov.
ernor Lowden, in pressing for the change,
had TO overcome more inertia than oppo.
sition. officeholders and gang politicians
using obstructive tactics. This will of
course, be the chief stumbling block in
the way of the Pennsylvania efficiency
and economy commission, which will
make its report in few days A saving
Of s26o,o00 the first year was effected in
Illinois after all the charitable instit,I.
tlons were gathered into ore department
several years ago. This gives some idea
of what comprehensive system of ad.
ministrative consolidation would do.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-03-13

ONE day last week a member OF ."
staff took a trip to New York. Wnen
he came back he wrote this paragraph
Philadelphia streets are bad enough,
but one has only TO go TO New iors
to discover how much worse tne'
might be.
Now the New York Evening sun
prints the paragraph with this head
WE'RE AWAKE TO THE FACT q
And we're all wondering II the
man saw our man navigating the CO.
Sff911q eQ1 4 the ''feefv he'e ez
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-03-13
THE ROMANCE
OF BAGDAD
What the Loss of the City of the
Caliphs Means to Turks
and Germans

GO GREAT was Bagdad that TO this day
- Turkish official documents still speak
Of H. out Of habit as "the glorious city!
But what many of the old Turks may
have lost of reverence for the former
capital Of Islam, the new Turks, whose
topping empire stretched from Antwerp
nigh to the PersiansGulf until the new
crusaders found tleir strength, have
more than made rp for by the great
dream, Berlin TO Bagdad"
It was more than tyrant's dream It
must be done some time. though not by
the Germans alone as master conquerors
but by reunited family of European
nations who Will want to join India and
Persia by rail 20 the west. The shin
route by way Of Suez has held . mo-
ropoly because Of political reasons But
the Rerlin-tc- Bagdad Railroad. which has
already covered so much OF the route
from Constantinople across Asia Minor
and on toward the Persian Gulf, was
meant 10 be and will be primarily an
improvement serviceable to the arts Of
peace. And Bagdad. which has fallen so
many times and now has fallen for the
last time, will rise again, the great center
of the vast region, between the Bos-
phorus and India. to dominate which was
the most tangible reward that the Ger
man Caesar played for
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-03-13

Now that the Chinese Parliament
has approved the break with Berlin, who
will deny that the Colonel was right
when he declared we, were in danger of
being Chinafled?
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-03-13

AS country like Russia abolished
the death penalty years ago, It seems
like an anachronism that it should be
. matter for debate at this late date
in Pennsylvania.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-03-13
All Points of the Compass
Rubaiyat of a COmmuter
XCIX

The Newsboy that enthusiastic Wight,
Comes crying through the 5:1s each Night
Calls out the names or Foolish Maga-
zines;
But not one Name OF Stories that Write.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-03-13

And, being upon the subject, we can't
make up our mind whether the italicized
proposition in the sixth line below is the
judges wisdom or typos error:
In this instance Judge Christian pointed
out that section 1s of the prohibition act
forbade the keeping or storing OF liquor
anywhere than in the owners home, but
the act, in term, did not prohibit any one
from having liquor in his person. and the
act could not be made an offense OF any
thing by construction.-Lynchbu News
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-03-13
What Do You Know?

Queries Of general Interest tUtII be dnstoered
in this column. Ten Questions. the dnst1ers to
tchich every i0elI-intormed person should knoto.
are asked ddilu.