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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-11-16
MR.. PENNYPACKER'S LIFE STORY

MEMOIRS are the textbooks of life.
AV1 The most valuable books. whether of
fiction or fact, are autobiographies. 1t
is from the men who have put them
selves" most faithfully into their writings
that we learn most. That Samuel w.
Pennypacker put himself into his book is
well indicated by this frank prologue:
have been brought into relations
with the Presidents from Lincoln to
Roosevelt; with tho Generals Grant
sherman, Hancock, Siclles. Howard and
Sheridan, and have corresponded with
Darwin. lie Comte de Paris. Delioop
Scheffer, Bayard Taylor and Lloyd Mif-
fin | have made addresses at Stony
Point and at Gettysburg. l have pre-
sided over the Law Academy, the HIS
torIcal Society of Pennsylvania, the Uni
versity of Pennsylvania, a court and the
Commonwealth. ] have walked l15 miles
on a stretch and have ridden down Penn
sylvania avenue from the Capitol to the
White House at the head of 10000 men,
] have carried on my back at one time
twenty pounds of putty and at another a /,
musket | have made pills in Kensing-
ton thrown load of wood into a Chest
nut street cellar, kept the books of an
oil company, moved weeds in meadow,
gathered a great library, written eighty
books and pamphlets. tried men for mur-
der and sent siXty-siN criminals to be
hanged Therefore Is this story begun.
The EVENING LEDGER considers itself
fortunate to be the medium through
which so cosmopolitan mind can teach
its lesson and leave its lasting imprint
on the thought of the Commonwealth,
The autobiography, which will appear in
daily installments, beginning tomorrow,
is an invaluable historical document and
constitutes perhaps the most important
public service which the late Governor
rendered to his State.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-11-16
DIG DEEPER FOR Y. NJ. c. A.

INFLATED incomes can escape some of
the war tax. according to a ruling made
by the United States Internal Revenue
Commissioner. Generosity toward the
Y. NJ. c. A. fund is the way. Contribu
tions to this splendid fund may be de.
Quoted from the total income in order TO
compute the sum on which the income
tax must be paid, provided the contribu.
ton does not exceed 10 per cent of the in
dividual's net income. Big incomes
therefore, get out your check books. And
little incomes, not subject to income tax
and supertaX, remember your share is
needed to help make life better and
easier for the lads in Khaki "over there"
Dig deeper into purses. Do without
something else Add another to your
war denials. Totals for four days of the
fund campaign show a countrywide sub
scription of $4,000, 900. The sum Of
S35, ,O0O,O 900 is asked aud is needed. Phila.
delphia has subscribed 100000. This
city and neighboring counties arc as
sessed sl,3000 900. Half a million more
and two days to get it. Dig deeper.
Make another sacrifice.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-11-16
PROFITS ON BAGS OF COAL
To the Editor Of the EVenth1 Ledger:

To the Editor OF the EpeHHg LeogeF
s,r-Iynder the heading. Doom Of Coal
psdd,sr pirate" etc, your valuable paper
warns the public ag iinst the grocers' exor-
h,tart nrices on bags of coal. Now let us
do little figuring. According to your
statement the (reputable) coal dealer sells
~ the grocer a bag of coal Of twenty-five
,,ornds at thirteen cents. Now 2240 divided
Nv twenty-fve comes to eighty-nine and a
half hars of coal and eighty-nines and
half times thirteen to s11.63 per ton.
The cost to the coal dealer is approxi-
r,atelv 81 for the coal. With eighty-nne
amntv hays at one cent each the total cost
/, s7'ss. leaving the coal dealer net profit
q, a74 ON each ton sold, or nearly so per
cent. On the other hand. the grocer pays
siIb7 for the coal and retails 1t for eighty
n,ne times fifteen) $l3.35. and makes a
prodt of 81 rs, or about is per cent
The coal dealer makes one delivery and
hi. nroft is S3.74. The grocer makes
.iShty.nine deliveries and his profit is $1.7s.
Ana YOUR yaluable paper undertakes to call
W. grocer a .,pirate" and the coal dealer a
Reputable coal dealer!
am a daily reader Of the EVENING
I,rpapn and consider It to be a fair paper.
WtLle do not undertake to defend the
erocer. I think that In all fairness he is
entitled to 'the same profit the coal dealer
is. I am not a grocer IL. Y.
Phiiadelphia. November 15.
fThe method of arriving at results would
he adequate II all grocers and coal dealers
had opensd their books and given the hg-
ssss = ys,' 1es S12ss = 'sl.s'saC ss =
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-11-16
OFFICERS AID Y. NJ. c. A,

To the Editor of the EUeniH1 Ledger,
Sir--After meeting III one of the Y
NJ c. A. buildings at National Army can
tonment one of the officers present came
UP to the Y. NJ G. A. man in charge and
said, Can we have a transaction that 10.
body will ever know about?"
a great many of the soldiers bring their
private problems to the Y. NJ c. A. secre.
taries and ask them for advice. The gray
haired man In the Red Triangle uniform
thought this was some personal matter.
They withdrew to n corner and put their
heads together.
The officer said: I've been admiring the
work you people are doing here, and
want to help any way l can. Won't you
please take this and use It as YOU think
best?" He gave the other a folded sheet
of paper.
He was a second lieutenant and the paper
was his monthly pay voucher which he had
just received. 1t was made out for $121.67,
being Uncle Sans Indebtedness to him
during one-twelfth of year.
That lieutenant Is giving all his time
to Uncle Sans job. He is prepared to give
the last full measure of devotion. And vet
he goes one further and donates a months
pay because he knows that the work the
Y. NJ. C. A. is doing is VITAL splendid and
a military necessity. Dare we at home be
less generous? JOHN CURRY.
Philadelphia, November 13.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-11-16
,odies of troops are different far from

bodies Of troops are different far from
running an excursion. 1t took Kitchener
more thin year and half to drill, equip
and move his armies to the French
trenches. But the result, apparently
slow as the initiation was, has justified
the careful premeditation and prepara-
ton. Britain and France have been send
ing an army to Greece for two years in
preparation for a. drive from Salonica, for
the redemption of Serbia and the Ru-
manian Dobrudja from the Hun. Yet
the offensive cannot come till next spring
at the earliest, owing to the difficulties
and dangers of transporting troops and
supplies in great numbers over long dis
tances.
The American war problem Is even
number of men, the vaster amount of
munitions and supplies and the more
considerable distances involved. Missteps,
mscalculations, must be avoided The
stakes are too momentous to let even de-
sirable speed override the discretion that
means efficiency and that precludes
chance of misdirected energy and loss of
force i'm the smashing blow for which
America is gathering power and momen.
tum.
Let Uncle Sam take his good time.
without carping at his Judgment; he will
show the home critics, the orld--and the
Hun.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-11-16
SUFFRAGE IN u. S.
A WAR MEASURE
at Can Be Settled Next Month
in One Hours
Time"
70 the Editor of the Epentng Ledger:

,Sir--I am sure that w. A. Stone and
many other fair.minded men are amazed
when they clearly understand the story of
the pcltets in Washington. May l make
a brief statement of the facts?
As n lawabiding citizen, carried a ban
ner with the courteous question. "Mr. Presi-
dent, What Will You Do for Woman Suf-
a. held It there for four minutes in the
presence of two policemen and of a friendly
and orderly group of men and women
was then arrested, Cheered by the crowd
and later tried and sentenced to sixty days
I'm Occoquan workhouse. And this not for
picketing. for that is legal In the District
of Columbia, nor for petitionlng for liberty
for that is constitutional right of every
American. but on purely technical charge
of obstruction of traffic" More than
hundred women have been arrested for
similar acts on the same charge, and Alice
Paul, leader of a national party organized
In every State of the Union. is In solitary
confinement on Il sentence Of seven months
for nothing but the same charge.
The two banners that offended the taste
of some who did not fully comprehend their
purpose were declared lawful by the Fed
eral authorities before they were carried,
and In no case was any one arrested Whlle
carrying them. The banners arrested by
the police bore such phrases as the above
or quotations from the Presidents own
words or from the Declaration of 1nde-
pendence.
This state of affairs Is intolerable In
nation that Is at war for the satety OF
democracy. I appeal to liberty-loving men
and women to urge upon the President 70
end It by the exercise Of his undoubted
power, by declaring the passage OF the Fed
eral suffrage amendment to be war meas
ure, and therefore to be passed Immediately,
thus following the same procedure that any
other war measure has followed and open
ing the way for the State Legislatures to
act on II in the same manner as any othei
amendment has been acted on by the demo.
cratic method adopted by the people IN the
Federal Constitution.
Sixty.six women have gone to prison In
order to hasten the time when they and
hundreds of thousands more can devote all
the time and money and thought now now-
ing into suffrage propaganda to the con-
structiye work of assisting in solving the
tremendous political problems facing this
nation. The President and Congress can
settle this question next month In one hours
time. mani u
philadelphia. November 1S.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-11-16
ARCTIC COMMUNITY CENTERs

TN EVERY Eskimo village OF any imPr
l. tance in Arctic Alaska stands laIt.
frame schoolhouse. From hagpoie neaf s.,hs'
a United States flag is flying. But 'he pun ,ov
ing, contrasting sharply with the "
mounds which are really the native is''v
is more than an ordinary schooinouse
Is I'm a very real sense a community cene..
The villagers gather In the scno'nov,-
OIL weekdays for instruction in the Ins a.
lish language, manners and customs
Sundays their simple religious services
held in this same room. On holidays W. ~,
gather there for the feasts prepareo ~. ~.
them by the teacher in charge or ny Wv
missionary. .,,
There is also In the schoolhouse rvo.s
set apart where the villagers may se',, =,
at any time of the day or evening 70 ~
around the fire and smoke while they VS..
At these informal gatherings eVerytms.
IS discussed, from the teacher, WIZ
popularity depends to an appreciapie eAs, ~,
upon the number of presents he nahas -
to hunting, the weather, the white "A"'
ships. etc. ..,.,ns
Is there illness in any igloo the meoo,aS .s,ns
chest in the big house" is the hrsl .A.is n.
thought of, and to the big mouse Az
Eskimos come for aid, be II night OF uay.
II a dog-team is sighted coming towA,u
the village. messengers" hurry to inc :"
house" to inform the teacher OF the co',,,.. Ia.
of strangers" so that he may Do p''
pared to receive them. 49,.
And so 1t goes. The center oi Al a,,.
tivity and thought and life In the s".S ~
Is the red-roofed schoolhouse ana ~
white man in charge. Besides a fary
equipped schoolroom there Is a large stu's
room in the building. where are proViso".
of all kinds and living quarters ioI ,r
teacher and his family.-Helen sinc'a" =
World outlook. ~
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-11-16
Won TIRPITZISM WEAkENS

T-BOATS in the last week have made
~ no greater inroad into transatlantic
shipping than a heavy storm might have
done In times Of peace. one British ship
of more than 1900 tons is lost, as against
the campaign.
our shipbuilding program must con-
tinue at top speed. for vessels are still
badly needed. But it is a great encour-
agement that at this time, when men ano
equipment are urgently needed by our
Allies, the seas are safer than they have
been since the days before ruthlessness
started.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-11-16
ARMY LAW OFTEN
A BRAIN-TWISTER
Some Difficult Cases the Judge
Advocate General Has
Had to Decide
BY SAMUEL MCCOY

COURTNEY VAN RENSSELAER, DE
~ PEYSTER FRELINGHUYSEN BID
DIE JONES was large, heavy youth who
had wrestled In a losing fight with the
curriculum of the fashionable preparatory
school to which his parents had sent him.
He gave up the unequal contest when he
was twenty and his mother felt that for
the next year or two he should be allowed
to rest up after his mental labors. So
he drove his car happily and learned much
about gas engines without realizing IL.
Then the United States declared war on
the Kaiser. Courtney was ''the real Amer
lean stuff" even II he was bit slow on
logarithms, and he promptly enlisted IN the
engineering corps. His older brother, VINO
had inherited the family brains ana nau
graduated from the civil engineering course
at Cornell with honors got lieutenancy
in the same corps, but the best that COURT
ney and the rest of his names could pull
down was the title of corporal Ana ne
was made corporal on the strength OF MS
good looks. there being no time TO test
him out on any other qualifications.
Courtney, etc. went across the big creek
with the first of the push. He and the
rest of his corps promptly got on the JOB
somewhere in France" Courtney ana
group of engineers. all of whom ranked as
Corporals or higher, were sent out on some
survey work back of the lines, Ihen IL
was that Courtney began TO pull boners -
'boners" of density that meant serious
danger If they hadn't been discovered in
time
The last one got the goat of the Officer
commanding the detachment. He ordered
Courtney, etc, summarily court-martlaled.
The court examined the evidence and sem
fenced Courtney to be reduced from corporal
to private.
Then Courtney burst out with a gleam of
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-11-16
Tom Daly's Column
HEREDTTY

HEREDTTY
when I ,cos quite little idd-
oh, many years ago
A curious trait mn father had
That mystifed me so.
You see he scos the greatest hand
To feed on chicken stoD
And mother oi,cays cooked u grand
The best euer kne,o
The gravy ,cds so rich, you kno,o,
The meat tcds never tough;
But zee tods poor them days aud so
We necer had enough.
Yet Father held his hosses" ,chen
yelled for right o. udy-
I nercr understood tt then,
But no,o its plain as day!
I stiH can see my fathers face
As hungry as eau be;
Yet sitttn' quiet In his place
He scrdped the dish for me.
I knc,o he loved that chicken ste,o-
For that's q family fault
And he'd haze buckled 10 It, TOO,
And never called halt.
Aud 1chtle I reached my eager hand
To grab the final sup,
7 simply couldn't understand
Ho,o he could gtre 10 up.
But here's another greedy ely
That claims the right of ,odv-
ToN see I're got a sou myself,
And noto it's plain as ddy
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-11-16
Answers TO Yesterdays Quiz

T. Raymond FosdiCk Is chairman OF the Fee
eral commission on training camp acti'I
ties.
9, JaIousies are horizontally SLATED Inner win
dow shades, made Of wood. 90
3. German moneys and property I'm this COZ,
try will be seized. but not conhscates
under the alien enemy act. They will v
In charge Of the custodian Of enemy PRIV
erty and invested in United STATS
securities and will he returned to ~
owners et the close Of the war with ssa
usufruct.
I. Incivism Is II general term embracing ~.
loyalty. treason and even disresard =
proper respon onsibiiities of citizenship
8. Joseph Rodman Drake wrote the poem "ihs
American Flag"
o. Dr. Samuel johnson was called the ''uf.s
Cham of Literature In allusion 10 !"
being the literary dictator OF his era.
:. The initial u In U-bOat gives the force
submarine. The German word Is untsfse~
boot-underseaboat.
=. The former National Guard OF Pennsyssns =.
Is now classified as the Twenty-eishsn "
vision. u. 8. A.
0. A service flag has deep red bordee s'v,.. ~.
a white field, on which Is placed ono 'S.
star for each member OF FANNY o' '
ploye of q firm In the service. :.
10. VI. Painleye: formerly French Mlniststt stt,sS
War and Premier In the CaDinet w.
fell from power this week.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-11-16
OUR "WARn WITH AUSTRIA

There Is a good deal OF common sehss, ~.
of the sort that seems to have been mainr
lacking In dealing with the Italian situaty,r :
as a whole by the anti-Kaiser countriss 20
general, In the suggestion made direcuy 20, ~
the President that we at once declare
on Austria Hungary and Turkey ana Strv aSt
has toward a country whose troops -, -
being used against our close allies, ana ~
ali we know may even now De suIps' s,sps
across No Mans Land at our own soio,..i
One can understand the academic An. I..cs
from which the leaders Of a democracy ~ ~
as America might conceive on vey
fion OF war against = country reat1x
bractically IN arms Agpinne i(---prk
:s.!nz, csr:s'2l : - !.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-11-16
BETTER SAFE THAN HAsTY

HRITICs who chafe at the apparent
~ slowness of Uncle Sam in getting his
Hammees into action 'over there" might
mediate profitably over the old proverb,
''hssten slowly" And they might still
their ungrounded. caustic comments il
thev gave some sliSht consideration to the
lsssons taught BY bitter experience in the
n1nos war and compared the record OF
Rqflqoo M go oG this country.
ft1ktpn = Req>
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-11-16
BABETTE BALLADS
Htther, thtther, little feet
Pdtter on the floor;

stu am In my retreat.
Htd behind the door.
II my hiding-place Is guessed.
Comes 0leefuI cry;
But " cain should be the quest,
There are tears to dry.
In the House of Life. my dear.
All Is not so fdtr:
Happiness Is hiding here.
Sorroto hiding there.
May the gods pour Hfe endoto
From their boundless storei
Mdy you aI,cuys find. as noto.
Lore behind the door.
! BERT LESION TAYLOR.
We quote the above lines from Ber
Taylor's column In the Chicago Tribuns
and ne venture the opinion that thsy'I
= Into nlesy : soEap.toelE
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-11-16
A Lancaster foreman while telling

A Lancaster foreman while telling
the men under him that the Government
did wrong in entering the war was sud
denly interrupted by halter slipped
around his neck and was rescued with
difficulty. The men went too far, but the
disloyal may be reminded by the incident
that when a Government halter is In
place nothing can loosen 1t.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-11-16
What Do You Know?
QUIZ

I. Distinguish between capital and capitol.
.. What are dayits?
3. who was Little EmIy?" .t
!, Have any States two capitals? What Stats
had them?
s. Who is Joseph Prnrell"
q. Define selenoeraphy. a!
:. How long Is the term Of q United Stats
Senator?
=. What are the styles Of classic architeeturef,
o. Who Is the Federal coal administrator
10. What is the meaning Of Vermont? ti
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-11-16
Lights are out on the gay whit,

Lights are out on the gay white
ways. But there shouldn't be any gloom
about it. Fuel is conserved for warmth,
not wasted in mere brightness. Lobster
palace. cabaret and roof gardens yield to
the furnace. kitchen range and factory
fire. And the glimmering landscape can
fade from sight naturally instead Of being
gIaringly prolonged by q garish and %
eoaEs3s si<ylinn Of illuminatsd signA
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-11-16
One youth with a withered arr

One youth with a withered arm
and scores who failed to pass the sim.
plest eye tests were sent to Camp Meade.
and 1900 in all have been sent home
from Little Penn. This sort of thing
wastes time and money. Much of it will
be eliminated in the second draft IL the
overworked medical officers are assisted
by physicians in each of the districts.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-11-16

German troops continue TO be as
impotent against strong forces as they
are successful against weak ones. Hin
denburg ordered the retaking of Pass
chendaele at all costs, and the Hun
attack utterly failed, with all costs paid
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-11-16
HELPING ALONG

On Sunday we no sugar eat;
On Monday we refrain from meat |:
On Tuesday all our bread is rye:
On Wednesday we cut out our pie !:
On Thursday butter has no cali;
On Friday we've no milk at all:
On Saturday we dine on meal.
And so you see we somehow feel
We Y. .:, e osF y. ~ y Y, ~ e Pssshsaes
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-11-16
AND REAL MONEY. TOO

II Germany can lend herself $40, 900.
o00. 900, America ought to be good for about
$50, 900. 900 900. .000.-Boston Transcript,
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-11-16

THE SIGN upon the window OF the
grocery at 1887 Spring Garden stree
reads:
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-11-16
Loss of Pay the Penalty

nroperly swift kick in the Jaw has
haan administered by the Judge advocate
General TO those "sackers' and time
servers now wearing Uncle Sans uniform
who would rather serve sentences IN the
guardhouse than to perform the hard work
which their comrades are obliged TO do,
SO long as their pay went on Just the same.
The Judge advocate general nouced that
in a number of cases recently the sentences
while calling for long terms OF connhemeht,
were imposed without any forfeiture or
da,sntion Of nav. Now that he has COM
n,etsd his excoriation of such offenders, II
is certain that no military court VIII send
a man 10 the guardhouse for long term
without at the same time cutting on his
pay
endless discussion among the young men,.
manv Of whom have found II no easy matter
e. nroyide themselves with an officers uni
form and at the same time send money homo
10 their families from the pay they get
az members of the officers reserve corps.
has been that of the legality OF their being
charged by the quartermaster corps for
SueI and light consumed by them while on
duty at a military post 10 the rescue OF
their pocketbooks came the judge advo-
cate general recently. He ruled that they
shou,S no more be charged for such heat
and light than should any regular army
officer of equal rank.
with a half million men now In Uncle
SANS service, puzzling questions of every
conceivable sort are constantly arising. II
a. hardly exaggeration to say that the
iudre advocate generals ofiices are called
upon To decide A. many knctty points -
are the courts of pAiladelphtA 80 NeU
Xcxku opmot0o4- y . ~. T, "A. I, ,,..t 4
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-11-16

IT'S comforting to know that there's
at least one Wise Guy in this old town;
and If you don't believe 1t, Just take up
the Bell Telephone Directory and look
among the Wises.