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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-06-19

TNHE Philadelphia Of five years ago was
vast, but how little compared with the
Philadelphia of today! We began, for in
stance, the fight for rapid transit in 1914
and the wild predictions Of which we
were guilty in that fight have become the
reality of today and have driven the local
traction company out Of comparative
bankruptcy into increasing opulence. The
municipal piers we were fighting for
with more or less hesitation have in this
short period become inadequate, and
every hope we had Of the ports future
has already been surpassed by the
actuality.
God help little menl Progress in an age
like this engulfs them before the echo
Of their wailings has had time to die out
God help little Philadelphians in par.
ticular. because while they plan in puny
terms an imperial community is rising
about them. Yesterday we could sur
vive Lilliputian leadership; today It is
fatal. It is an era Of giants, and giants
we must have TO take hold OF the pros.
poets Of Philadelphia and build neces.
sary facilities and make the people
spiritually ready for the stupendous
future which has already begun 10 dawn.
We want no more caviling by meager'
minded men when other men Of vision
make ready TO build. We want no more
pettifogging politics in the conduct OF
our municipal affairs. We want no more
cold feet in high places.
we DO want the sort OF leadership
uh,alg IN the early days Of this eity built
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-06-19
It has been said that, although tn


material victory Of the Franco-Prussian
War was Germany's, France drew an ar
tistic triumph from the struggle. The
tragic reverses in the conflict were i'm.
mortalized in the superb paintings Of her
modern war artists, Of whom Detaille is a
typical example. Something spiritually
akin to this method of extracting the
full measure of grim beauty from wal
is now suggested in the plan to turn the
ruined Rheims Cathedral into a kind OF
Pantheon. No restoration OF the heroic
edihce is to be made. It's battle-torn walls
are to tell their own tale of German bru
tality and barbarism. War flags OF tn,
Allies are TO adorn the interior OF tn,
church. which is to be solemnly dedicated
as a monument 10 the valorous dead
Rheims Cathedral once proclaimed tn,
perfection Of Christian art War-scarred
Il is now to speak OF a mock civilization,
undking shame
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-06-19
CONFESSIONS OF A sELF-MADE HIGH-
BROW

CONFESSIONS OF A SELF-MADE HIGH
BROW
used to be perfectly harmless drus
gist | sold So & Sos Medical Discovery,
Pastor Hoosituss Nerve Tonic, Mrs.
"OPENS Soothing Cordial, Bildad's Blood
Bitters. and India Cholagogue, But one
day when reading a medical" almanac
/ found an article called How to Tell
Whether You Have a Mind" l found by
applying the tests proposed that had
mind The almanac assured me that the
human mind was capable of anything it
desired to accomplish,
Deliberately | determined to he a high
brow. l stopped reading the sporting pages,
| threw away my volumes of Mrs. e. D. f.
by chance began in the Sh alcove
began to read Schnitzler, Shaw, Schombt-
zIlv. Schnaberagatz, Shakespeare and Pro-
fessor Samble's Anatomy of the Mcrocosm
To my surprise I found nothing difficult In
any of these authors. 1t was all the same
kind Of stuff 1 had met in the patent
medicine almanacs-better put, but not es-
sentially any wiser. l tried authors begun
ming with X Kant Keats, Keble, KempIs,
Kropotkin, Kielland, Kreosote and Karboy,
and then | emerged at the other end of the
shelf unsatisfed. l found nothing that
was impossible to understand.
In my old innocent days used to imag-
inc that learned people trafficked in deep
and recondite IDEAS theorems, syllogisms,
phenomena, noumena, paralipomena and
other intellectual truffies that were beyond
the grasp of the plain man. / find 1t was all
a bluf. The highbrows don't know any
more than you and do. In fact-I myself
am a highbrow. None OF my friends will
| speak to me any more But / brought Il
| on myself. Romanes, Reuter- Reaumer, Re
camier. Rubens, Ruhmkorff, Rousseau,
/ ROssetti
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-06-19
Senator SNYDER may now go

Senator Snyder may NOW go on
record as the man who put the age in
storage. His bill which just passed the
House at Harrisburg permits butter to
rest three months in storage and eggs
four months. Add to this the rest which
both get before they reach storage and
it will be seen that the people get them
at a pretty ripe age. Incidentally It
would be better II the whole Legislature
went in storage for its chief function
seems to be freezing out the public.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-06-19
FANNY"

Fanny" in the parlance of the British
soldier, has nothing TO do with a certain
young womans first play. 1t is the name
given to the women of the F. A. ~ Y, or
First Aid Nursing Yeomanry When a
sentry recognizes one of its members with
in the lines, his invariabe reply is Pass,
Fanny"
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-06-19
LIBERTY LOAN SUCCESS

To the Editor Of the EUening Ledger:
Sir-I wish to convey to you the thanks
of the Liberty Loan committee for the aid
your good paper has given us in the Liberty
Loan campaign.
AS chairman of the publicity committee
l wish to thank you for the very con-
scientious way Ben Boyden has done his
work. He has given us his best and we
appreciate it. RICHARD f. NORTON.
Chairman Publicity Committee
Philadelphia, June 16,
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-06-19

Fright Is seldom a praIseWOrthy
sentiment, but II Philadelphians could
learn TO be as energetically afraid Of flies
as the British army surgeons who have
described the scourges which these
winged pests spread throughout the
army, our city might well rejoice in the
particular brand Of modern cowardice
that brings good health
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-06-19

PREPAREDNESS? It was preparedness
when Hamburg began years ago to
make ready for the mighty extensions of
commerce she foresaw. It is preparedness
that is changing Halifax into a port
with magnificent facilities for trade. It
is preparedness which is building a huge
system of subways, threading New York
in every direction, that she may be ready
for the commerce of tomorrow. 1t is
preparedness which is putting from
eighteen TO thirty millions of Govern.
ment money into League Island, which
is erecting at Lester a prodigious plant
to employ 900 workmen, for the making
Of engines TO drive the ships that from
Trenton down to Wilmington, on both
shores Of the Delaware, are having the
breath OF life breathed into them by
master mechanics; the sort Of prepared.
ness that constructed the works at Eddy.
stone, under the sort Of genius that built
up within four years in Philadelphia the
largest plant in the world for the manu-.
facture OF automobile bodies and parts or
out Of shanty used as machine shop
evolved one OF the greatest automobile
truck manufactures in the nation.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-06-19
Top-Speed Education

The serious injury alike to teachers and
students Of a schedule that compels nerv-
Gus intensity and haste cannot be ade-
auately depicted The imagination may at
tempt to follow a crowd Of high school boys
or girls driven each schoOlday Of the year
and this for years, through six periods of
work or study" at top speed, but the
biological consequences of the insanity OF
such school mismanagement are 20 be reaped
only in the home years after the primary
nervous injury has been inflicted. Ex-
pert psychiatrists everywhere In the land
are demanding the biological management
of education, particularly for the adolescent
stage of life and while this serious atti-
tude OF scientific men at first blush may
mean nothing 20 the wooden obduracy Of
certain high school teachers second
reflection may we'll be given TO the plain
fact that Philadelphia proposes no longer
10 tolerate a high school day which renders
thorough acquirement impossible and be-
sides puts upon the young student daily
nervous strain that is inexpressibly dan
gerous.
tendents will render no greater service 10
the cause Of high school education than by
standing for the city's own successful ex-
perienee under the hve~period academic
day and by Insisting that the laboratory
work shall Justly develop = time . allotment
! that beats rs own character ana purpose
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-06-19
Philadelphia. Tuesday, June 10, 1917
PHILADELPHIA IN THIS ERA
OF GIANTS
TT is an era Of giants.

L 10 an era OF giants.
Il The world has leaped forward three
decades in three years. The aerial prog
ress which we might have hoped TO attain
by 1850 we have already. The submarine
has become an ocean.going craft. Inven-
tion under the urge Of war is feverish
throughout the world Within a night
the United States has rent it's garments
Of inertia and the merchant marine
which we have prayed for during half
century is on the ways. Our factories
in months have turned out the ordinary
production of years. Finance on a
scale undreamed of is an everyday affair.
Prosperity, chained by conservatism, has
burst its bonds at the touch of radicalism
and diffused itself even over the hinter-
lands of Mars.
Never was there such an era, never
such an epoch Of progress. Our eyes
have been opened. The colossal com
merce of yesterday looms in the vista as
almost trivial. 1t seemed large it was
nothing. Tomorrow fills the horizon and
beyond it dip vast fleets. the interme-
diaries of business such as the world has
never known. This war has been Co
lumbus opening new hemspheres Of
trade to the people of the earth.
{e he oil cd
by pigmies will wither and dry up.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-06-19
THE VOICE OF
THE PEOPLE
The Cast Steel Ship Plan-Suc-
cess of the Liberty
Loan

IBIS Department Is free to all readers Who
tUish TO cypress their opinions on subjects Of
current interest. II is open forum and the
Evening Ledger assumes responsibility for
the UietCS Of its correspondents. Letters must
be signed JU the name aud address Of the
tUriter, not necessarily for publication, but as a
nun of f0{fb
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-06-19
Howard Heinz,

Howard Heinz, Pennsylvania
Hoover, has gripped the food problem in
a masterful manner. He does well TO
direct his suggestions straight TO the
women of the State, as the economy now
required is nearly as much a matter of
cooking as it is Of supplies.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-06-19
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY.

TEXAS produces pecans, climate,
horses, cotton, politics, jack rabbits and
an occasional original letterhead, like
that of the Jackson House. Of Lometa,
which carries this boast:
Every city and town claims TO be In the
center Of the State, or as Governor Rob.
erts Ohe old Alcalde Of Texas) saws, ''In
the center of the surrounding country"
Lometa is not in that class. but is on the
Santa Fe Railroad and exactly half way
between heaven and hell, where there Is
the most delightful climate and conditions
on earth hence you will not find a soul
here who will take chances and exchange
home I'm Lometa for one in the promised
land or any other country
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-06-19
Oversubscribedl

Philip cotumaeeios painting and $40.
have gone % the Red Cross.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-10-18
BATSON TO ADDRESS
 AUBURN ALUMNI
Plans to Boost Auburn Mississippi Game Will Be Made at
 Luncheon

At the regular weekly luncheon se ths Auburn alumni in the Civic association cafe at noon tomorrow. tho Orange and Blue will begin to lay plans for boost ing the Auburn Mississippi A. and M. football game to be played next week in Birmingham. At the last luncheon. the members of the Alumni association decided to boost permanent system of highways in the county as one of their objective activities and on this subject they are looking forward with interest to the discussion which wfll be led to- morrow by County Engineer S. R. Bat son, who is an Auburn man.
 Mir. Batson has asked for the oo-opera- tion of the alumni on the system of inn proved highways that is now being mapf ped out by himself and President Jere Gwin of the countw board of revl enue.
 It is estimated that there are from Uys to 500 Auburn alumni in and around Bir- mingham who are to be enrolled in A dt- rectory which is being made up.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-10-18
LOCAL CHAPTER ID
 OPEN STUDY CLASS
Bankers to Meet Tonight at the Civic Association
 Headquarters

A large enrolment is expected to- night at the opening study class of the Birmingham chapter, American In stitute of Banking, to be held in the Civic association rooms on call of President w. W. Clayton. The course prescribed by the American Bankers association, which is sponsoring the American Institute of Banking in cludes a thorough study of the fol- flowing subjects Banks and Banking Loans and Investments" Commercial Law" and Negotiable Instruments. The regular instructors, w. H. Sadler, Jr, and A.. H. Alston, Jr., prominent lawyers, and special lectures will be delivered from time to time by execu- tive officers of the different banks and men prominent in the civic life of Bir- mingham.
 The following are the officers of the local chapter of the institute:
 President. w. W. Clayton, with Bir- mingham Trust and Savings company; vice president, J. A. Holcomb, with First National bank; secretary J. D. carter, Wlln blTIllnSIidH lIuSt oii' Savings company; treasurer R. E Bently, with First National bank; ex- ecutive council, A. Daily, with American Trust and Savings bank; H. H. Brown with Birmingham Trust company; c. N Gilley, with First National bank; W w. Crawford, Jr., with American Trust and Savings bank. John L. Cox, with Traders National bank. President study class, Anthony J. Ceravolo, with Amer ican Trust and Savings bank.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-10-18
LOCAL RECRUITING
 l STATION MAKES AN EXCELLENT SHOWING
Inspecting Officers Find Offices in Good Shape and Captain Hutchin-
 son Praised for Work

The local army recruiting station, headquarters for the state of Alabama, and in charge of Capt. James B. Hutch inson, was visited yesterday by Capt. F. j. Lauber of Charleston. s. C., who IS detailed as inspector general of the southeastern division. and by Maj. c. V. Heidt of the Atlanta recruiting district.
 Captain Lauber in speaking of the lo- cal station and the work 1t was turning out over the state said: We are more than pleased with the way the work has been going on in this division. All the records are well kept, and this district has turned in great many men. Cap tain Hutchinson has systenntized the worx until the work over the entire state Is really. in fact as we'll as ip name, in his care and under his personal con trol The offices are well kept, and there is evidence there the spirit that belongs only to the army. which every true sol tiier feels and looks for
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-10-18
RED CROSS HOUSED BY YELLED ATTACKS Gulf Division Head Urges Work of DetractOrs
 Checked

Criticism of and yelled attacks upon the American Red Cross in various quarters has aroused Leigh Carroll manager of the gulf division with headquarters at New Orleans, to an appeal to the officers and members of the chapters in his territory to stamp out this sort of thing wherever it makes an appearance MT. Carroll's proclamation from New Orleans, which reached Birmingham yesterday, is in line with the utterances of Harvey D. Gibson, general manager of the society. at Washington several days ago.
 That the stories circulated emanate simultaneously from too many differ ent parts of the United States to be merely accidental, is declared by MT. Carroll, who goes on to say in his proclamation:
 "Rumors and innuendoes critical of and calculated to embarrass the Amer ican Red Cross are being industrious | ly circulated as part of certain anti patriotic propaganda.
 You are urged to tell all workers officially and advise your local press and every one with whom they come in contact, of the character of the movement which Is on foot, and ask all members and the public generally to proceed on this theory: That noth- | ing against the American Red Cross should be believed until investigated. Please understand that the reputa- tion and standing of the American Red Cross is in the hands of the officers of your chapter, the interested work CTS and your members, and according | ly, every criticism of or innuendo against the American Red Cross should be immediately challenged and fol- | lowed up.
 "The Red Cross is being run as an l open book.
 1 "It has no secrets
 "It is making a sincere effort to serve mankind, and is doing 1t as care fully and economically as it knows how
 The accounts of the American Red Cross are to be audited by the war de- partment and the utmost effort Is oe-
 ing made to give publicity to all of it's activities.
 Should you hear any rumor or crit 1 icism against the American Red Cross
 please investigate imm mediately and re-
 port in detail to this office"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-10-18
THE LIBERTY BOND CAMPAIGN STARTS WITH RUSH; NEARLY v .S2. 100000 ALREADY NV SIGHT
ReDision of Rules Is Discussed Al Meeting Qf
 Cotton WdrehOuSenlen

house receipt will be negotiable and nearly as good as legal tender at any bank in the United States.
 D. S. Murphy of Washington, D. C., warehouse expert, whose home is in Co., lumbia. s. C., presided over the meeting. The principal speaker during the morn ing session was R. L. Nixon, of Wash ington, D. C., who is also warehouse expert. Mr. Nixon's talk dealt with the needs of warehouse standardization, by the nation and by the individual, as well as with the present conditions. c. Merrill and A. H. Fast were in attendance from the United States attorneys office and furnished all the legal advice needed during the meeting.
 According to the testimony of A. H. Fast. the meetings are at ended wi great success wherever held, the ex- perienced warehouse and business men of the various sections all contributing many suggestions of value as well as giving personal support to the work
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-10-18
U. c. T. Entertainment
 for NOnmembers Saturday

Saturday night at the United Commer- cal Travellers hall, 1S091a Fourth avenue, an entertainment will be given by the members of the United Commercial Travellers to the travelling men of Blr- mingham who are not members of the organization as well as to the mem bers. Every man is invited to bring a lady with him. There will be a splendid programme as we'll as a luncheon.
 .}The principal address to be delivered will be by Dr. George R. Stuart, pastor of the First Methodist church. Dr. ;Nuaris addresses are always worth ~ going to hear, no matter the place nor the subject A decided feature of the programme will be the lecture on The .kRay of Hope" by MT Oliver. All trav- cling men in Birmingham are invited to attend the get-together meeting of these genial ambassadors of commerce, and they will be cordially welcomed by Chairman R. K. Kennedy of the enter. tainmcnt committee and the rest of the members of his committee.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-10-18

make it generally understood that the small subscriber Is Just as welcome as the large subscriber. The small sub scriber is just as necessary, too. Let no man, patriotically inclined. stand back because he cannot afford to in ,. vest more than $50. The biblical story of the widow and her mite has positive application in this situation"
 BELL COMPANY TAKES $5.000. .000
 Col. w. T. Gentry, president of the Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph company and the Cumberland Tele- phone and Telegraph company, an- onunced that the Bell system. compris- ing the American Telephone and Teie- graph company and associate compan- ies. had sub scribed $5.000,000 on be- half of themselves ana their employees.
 The subscription of the southern group. of which Colonel Gentry is prcs- ident. amounts to $350.000. Of this the Southern Bell company and its em- berland company and it's employees $1S5,000.
 It is stated that the subscriptions are to be allotted to the federal reserve districts in which the companies op ' crate, in proportion to the quotas as- signed by the treasury department to the various federal reserve districts. so that each district will get credit for its proportionate share of the sub scriptions.
 All of the Bell companies have arr ranged to advance the necessary funds on liberal terms to their employees who wish to subscribe to the second liberty lOn0. "
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-10-18

Alabama cotton warehousemen met in session at the Tutwifer yesterday to dis cuss the needed revision of the rules and regulations relative to the warehouse act, and many practical suggestions were made by the local cotton men and other business men in attendance
 The meeting was similar to many others now being held in the south to ascertain if possible the requirements of the southern warehou&enle corporation in the rules and regulations which the Secretary of Agriculture must prepare and revise from time to time as demanded by the continually changing conditions of crops and purchasers. The ultimate purpose of the meetings through laws to be made from the results of the investigation of needs. is stand ardization of the warehouse business throughout the country, so that ware