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The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1918-11-09
"orIon" Typo Of stars-

The youngest stars of which We
have knowledge are the "Orion" type
of stars. The constellation Of Orion
is composed mainly Of them. as well
as parts of Taurus. the Pieiades. and
parts Of Perseus. In color. they are
much like the Sirius type. blush white.
and brilliant, but a ~spectroscope at
once detects the difference between
them Stars like Sirius and Vega
are surrounded by hydrogen gas, but
the Orion stars have nc hydrogen. and
ere made of helium and nebuia. They
often hsve great volumes NJ ine nehu-
la dust about them. showing that they
are still in the process Of condensing
out Of the primitive star matter.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1918-11-09
DYING, LAST THOUGHT
IS OF HIS FAMILY
Michigan Man, Wounded to
Death, Writes Letter to
His Mother.

A slender Michigan lad Of not more
than twenty emerged from an ambu-
lance which drew up at a dressing sta
ton. 1t had just brought him back
from the field dressing station at Ju-
vigny.
What you got2" asked n Of the
crowd of orderlies and stretcher-
bearers, standing there.
Machine gun-in the chest" replied
the youth.
He was led inside and placed on a
stretcher on the earth floor. A sur
geon came along and looked at him.
He shook his head. The Michigan
boy was becoming weak very rapid
ly, and his face was turning the gray
leaden color which always precedes
death.
81 want to write a letter." he told
the doctor. SCOT any paper and an
envelope?"
The stationery and a pencil were
given to him. He scrawled off a short
note to his mother, his movements In
writing becoming weaker and weak
err. When 1t came to addressing the
envelope his strength failed. DE
could not do it.
An orderly was standing near by.
He volunteered to address the en-
velope according to the mortaily
wounded lads directions. The letter
was addressed and sealed, and the
wounded man tried to grope for his
wallet to find a stamp.
That's all right, Buddy; I'll stamp
II for you" said the orderly.
"And, say; have 1t censored for me
and mailed, will your" asked the
Michigan boy. Then he keeled over.
They buried him in the little grave
yard which grows beside every dress
ins station and hospital in the war
zone. The officer who read and CEN
sored the letter said that there was
not a word In 1t about war; that 1t
was all about the health of the boys
mother, his father, his brothers and
his sisters-and his sweetheart.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1918-11-09
An Awful Disease.

A friend of mine in one of the camps
is a corporal. The occupants of the
barracks across the road had been in
quarantine for measles. Occasionally
one of the men was moved to the hos
pital. My friend was stricken with a
severe case of tonsilitis and one morn
ing the ambulance stopped to take him
to the base hospital.
AS he entered the ambulance one
soldier said, HAS he got the
measles?"
A second one, mo, he's a corporal"
The first one answered with a groan.
"Good Lord. that just as bad CHI
cago Tribune.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1918-11-09
Drop IN irish BIrthrats.

The Irish registrar generals return
for the first quarter of this year shows
a drop In the Irish birth rate of 80 be-
low the average for the previous ten
years. The marriage rate IL practical
iy stationary. The death rate Is 8S
below the average.
The general prosperity of Ireland Is
reflected by the fact that the returns
on Irish pauperism show a decrease OF
3,122 in the average number Of work.
house inmates.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1918-11-09
Ask the Thief.

The lawyer was trying hard for his
client and was setting the points out
In a logical manner. There was one
thing he was not quite clear about and
he accordingly said:
"Now. sir. you state my client
knocked you down and then disap-
peared In the darkness. What time OF
night was thisf"
II can't say exactly" the complain.
ant answered dryly. ~Your client hae
my watch"
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1918-11-09
Verbal.
ut was a quiet Fourth"

ut was a quiet Fourth"
Decidedly"
II don't think I heard a single explo-
sion all day"
az heard one"
Cannon cracker7"
mo. l passed a motorist who had
just had a breakdown. He was ad-
dressing a few remarks to his car
birmingham Age.Herald.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1918-11-09
Have Church.

A community church has been estab-
lished by the citizens of Milford Cen
ter, o., by combining the Presbyterian.
Methodist Episcopal, Christian and
Baptist churches into ons.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1918-11-09
EnIlsts After Eleven Attempts

Eleven times rejected because Of an
old injury 60 his foot, Montague Lyon,
Jrp of st. Louis, In his twelfth at
tempt to enlist was accepted for the Ma
val Aviation corps and Is now In train
ing ut Lake Minnetonka, MINI.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1918-11-09
"T0 LICK THE HUNS"
Boys Summary Of Reasons Why We
Are at War.

William Travers. aged fifteen. after
listening to a long address In the high
school at Cove, Ore, on why the
United States was In the world war.
summed 1t up In four words on an
examination paper afterward. In re-
ply to the question: "Give a summary
OF the why the United States
ts at war" Willie wrote:
~To lick the Huns"
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1918-11-09
SHOT IN FOUR PLACES
Soldier Was Charging a German Ma
chine Gun Nest.

ooio'eF was Cnargino q German Ma
chine Gun Nest.
Albert Binggell of neal Home City,
Kan, who vas a member of the second
contingent which left last year for
training at Camp Funston. was
among those severely wounded In
action in France. as reported by the
war department. He was wounded
while assisting In cleaning out a ma.
chine gun nest and was shot four
times-through the arm, leg, across
the stomach and In the left breast.
A small Testament In his inside peck.
ct diverted the bullet from his heart
and thus saved his life. He is report.
ed recovering nicely and Is anxious to
get back into the fight.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1918-11-09
Serves His kim Thsuuh Co

London.-Although veteran Of
both the Indian and Crimean wars.
Lord Ruthven Joined MP the day war
was declared and has been serving
since as an extra kings messengc.
and assistant provost marshal In Los
aeA. ns h eighty years cid
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1918-11-09
FOREC0 LEAVE
To join FIGHT
Yank Soldiers Anxious to Be In
Thick of It..
CASUALTY LISTS DELAYED

Our Boys Are Willing to Give Up
WeII-Earned Rest and Go Into Ac-
tlon With Relief Units, Sometimes
French or British T~roops-Woundsd
Men Josh and Laugh in Spite Of the
Pain They Suffer.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1918-11-09

FOR IMMEDIATE SAts $50 q, f
U.a. patsntsd land. ~ 6 ss.ssir
ssscsd with four-stnnd wir~ fspc
lower strand rabbit prcot; rsv
fpcr-rsom house. karn. sAsAs ssa
we'll With good Aow Of watsY. ssan.
nss engine and pump: scos PAT NJ
iAal andar cuitivstsss: a ssrrsE
srsS pstatoes RAISED: sN<sr' rs~ So
Sas-haif miles from s"v
tsrns and tnfssnAsu0a 49,
40 - 49, i.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-12-09

To the Editor Of the Evenin0 Public LEDGER
Sir-Referring to the article recently con-
tributed to your paper by George F. Sproule.
entitled How to Keep Our Ships on the
Sea-" and fully indorslng the views ex-
pressed I thought it vel to send copy of
the article to the Hon. Mr. Fletcher, whose
statements he so emphat'cally corrected.
I accompanied same by the following
letter:
Your attention is respectfully called to
the inclosed copy of letter appearing in
yesterdays issue of the EVENING PUBLIC
LEDGER.
The writer of this George F, Sprcule.
secretary of the State Comm ssioners OF
Navigation, Is recognized here one Of
the best-informed men upon all matters
re'atng to our merchant marine, having
been closely associated since 1888 with
all phases OF the business
You will note that ne has contradicted
the statements credited to you. wherein
you have taken issue with the Vice presi-
dent of the American International Ship
building Corporation whose main conten-
ton IS that "No man can own and operate
a ship proftably under the American flag"
To quote from recent article appear
ing in the Business Digest:
THE act in question (the La Toilette law,
or scamen's acD is, in word a hgh-wage
law and the views of practical shipping
men are IN solid accord on the point that
owners might well stay out of compe-
ttion with fore'gn-owned vessels
your seafaring man does not mix SEN
tment with business He looks at things
from a dollar-and-cents angle. That Is
why he is in the business Of owning and
operating sea going vessels. Hamper him
with laws that palpably restrict and he'll
withdraw from that business. The same
way with capital. Men are not likely to
pace money into enterprises tnat perforce
are conducted at loss. There are too
many opportunities Offering for profitable
investment"
One Of the cases cited by Mr.. Sproule,
particr'l~rv to the experience OF the
late William D. Wnsor shipowner,
does not need any Endorsement. as 1t Is
well known in Philadelphia. The ships
mentioned were ultimately sold, leaving
little for the original investors IN the
enterprise w. X. TUCKER
Secretary Philadelphia Board of Trade
Philadelphia. December 6.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-12-09

master General, who is credited with being
a political expert in Mr.. Burleson's de-
partment, is understood to have affronted
Captain Lipsner when he heard the com.
plalnt.
Now, when a man advances to the rank
of captain in the aviation service he isn't
likely to be the sort who usually gives way
to temper anG disregards official discipline.
He isn't given to whims or petulance. II
he quits the service he is likely to have
excellent causes.
Captain Lipsner and Pilot Miller were
two of the best men called into the avia-
tion service in the emergency rush for
efficiency. Now the war is over And we
are probably safe in the assumption that
the resignation of the two avators Is an
indication of what may be expected later
in the telegraph and telephone service If
the Burleson ambitions are ever realized
to make the public service a snug harbor
for storm tossed friends and friends of
friends friends. Captain Lpsner and Pilot
Miller now that they are out of the service,
might do a service to the country by giving
out the details of their conversations with
Mr.. Praeger.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-12-09
The most artistic thing Germany could
do Is to install her "Old Masters In the
Rogues' Gallery.
WHOM IS DATEsMAN SERVING?

TN1IE second attempt to get bids for street
l. cleaning which will reduce the cost next
year below that Of this year has failed.
Lower bids were received. it is true, than
those which were first obtained. but they
total $4,000 more than the sum the city
is now paying. But Director Datesman
said that he had revised the specifications
in order to reduce the cost Of street
cleaning.
The city is divided into nine districts,
in five Of which lower bids were received
than were accepted last year The bids are
higher in four of the districts. Senator
Ware is cleaning the second district this
year for s626,000. He wants $691,0 to
clean it next year. He is paiG $725000 for
cleaning the third district, and he offers
to clean it next year for $4,000. Frank
Curran wants a little less than $4,000
more for cleaning the ninth district than
the current price, and H. A. McLeeman 6
Bros. will clean the sixth district for
s2S,000 more than is now paid. Senator
Ware adds S139 900 to his bids of last year.
He cleans the central section Of the city.
Reputable men have said that the district
for which he wants approximately 100000
some profit to the contractor.
The Director of Public Works is not
unaware Of the current gossip on this
matter Neither Is the chief of the Bureau
of Street Cleaning. They know as well as
the rest of us that the substitution Of the
automobile FOR horses in the street, has
reduced the work of the street.cleaninG con-
tractors. And they are aware also that
this built-up section of the city has not
changed materially for many years. Yet
the city is required to pay constantly in
creasng sums for keeping it clean.
Something is wrong somewhere. An
expert business man could find out what
the trouble is in week or two Many Of
them have pretty definite idea already
about what is the matter. And Director
Datesman, who has better opportunities
than any one else to learn the truth, must
have some opinions on the subject. No
one ever had a better opportunity to prove
to the people who pay him that he is serv-
ing them instead Of some other master.
Will he do it?
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-12-09
THE REVENUE BILL MIDDLE

TT THE Senate Is not to pass a revenue
law during the current session, as the
reports from Washington indicate. discus
sion of the ten billion dollar bill which Sen
ator Simmonss Finance Committee has
approved is waste Of time.
The bill provides for raising six billions
by taxation for 1919 and four billions for
1920 The Republican Senators have de.
cded that they will not consent that
Democratic Congress shall draft the tax
laws to be enforced after the Democrats
go out of power. The nation will support
them, for it repudiated the Democratic
party last November. 1t decided that it
desired the Republicans in Congress to
draft the tax laws in the future and to
take charge of the restoration of the ma
ton to a peace basis.
The attempt Of the Democrats to tie up
the nation to their policies for the next
two years is presumptuous impudence. In
order to make the attempt they are willing
to keep the present eight billion tax law
in force rather than consent to limit their
law making to q revenue bill for next year.
They are already planning to pass reso-
luton keeping the present revenue law in
force and to collect two billions more
from the taxpayers than ought to be raised
in that way at the present time. This is
almost criminal stupidity; so stupid, in
fact, that it is incredible that the leaders
will not have sense enough to abandon
their attempt and to concentrate all their
energies in pushing through Congress a
bill for the next fiscal year alone. Yet If
they persist in their folly there will be
some compensations, for the Republicans
| will draft a tax bill which will be more
Just and equitable than the best that the
| Democrats have yet been able to do.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-12-09
MR.. SPROUTS OPPORTUNITY

LNNGLAND and Wales, with $4,000 square
~ miles and 36,OOOOO0 population, have
produced food enough this summer to feed
their total population for forty of the
ifty-two weeks of the year, or food enough
to feed 2s,000,000 people for .welve months.
This achievement has been brought about
under the pressure of war.
Pennsylvans has 45,0CO square miles of
territory, some Of which is the richest agri-
cultural land in the world. 1t has a popu-
lation of about 5000. 900. If our farms We're
cultivated as intensivey as the British
have been ,cultivating their lands we could
raise enough to feed neIrly 23,Ooo,0oO
people.
Why don't we do it?
This is a question which the head of
the State Department of Agriculture ought
to answer And when the answer has
been found we ought to set about increas.
ing the productivity Of the Commonwealth.
The Goyernor-elect is known to be inter.
ested in good roads, which will make it
easier for the farmers to get their products
to market. Along with an Improvement in
the highways there should go an improve.
ment in the agricultural methods, which
will be followed by more bountiful har-
vests and lower cost food to the great
urban population.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-12-09
Little Studies in Words
CROC

A GRoG-sHOP is low saloon and grog
\ in modern usage is any kind Of strong
drink. The word originated in the British
navy in a curious way in l740 or there
abouts 1t seems that Admiral Vernon.
a bluff dscipinarian, anxious about the
health of his sailors. when he was in West
Indian waters he diluted their daily ration
Of rum with water because he thought
neat spirits were too strong for the men
in the tropics The men grumbled among
themselves, and whenever the admiral ap.
peared on deck they would say. Here
comes old Grog!" referring to a raincoat
of grogram which he wore. He became
known in the navy as "Old Grog." and the
diluted rum which he served was named
for him. His grogram coat was made of
a coarse weave of mohair and silk. stiff
fened with gum to shed the rain. The
word grogram is a corruption OF the
French gros grain, meaning coarse weave
or coarse grain.
The admiral had Lawrence Washington
a brother of George Washington, on board
one of his ships when he made his famous
expedition against Cartagena in 1741. The
expedition is described in Frederick Ran
dom" by Smolett. Washington admired
the admiral SO much that when he built
his house on the banks of the Potomac he
called 1t Mount Vernon, a name which his
brother George retained when he inherited
the property.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-12-09
"TWENTY.THREE"

TIME slang phrase, "Twenty.three for
l. you!" dates from the dramatization of
"The Tale of Two Cities" and was intro.
duced by the actors who played it, Dick
ems, it will be recalled, describes the women
sitting about Paris endlessly knitting. They
would knit twenty-five stitches, one for
each suspected person, and when they
came to the twenty-third stitch the person
for whom that stood was doomed. Sydney
Cartons stitch was the twenty third.
According to the traditions of the stage,
the actors in the play got lat, the habit
of saying to any intruder or to a man
who bungled or blundered. "Twenty-three
for you," meaning, that he must get out.
as ne was good for. nothing or that his
room was better than his company. The
words spreaL from behind the scenes into
the street and for years were a part of
the colloquia language of the people. The
expression is not used SO often as it used
to be, but one hears 1t occasionally even
now.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-12-09
SEA RIGHTS IS A WAR TOPIC

IT is typical of the confused condition
= Of international politics that one of the
foremost questions to arise in a confer
ence planning a world peace is one which
concerns only a state of war In the alb.
sence of conflict freedom of the seas" Is
no more a topic for dispute than freedom
of the air" In all the years of peace Ger.
many enjoyed freedom of the seas and
profited legitimately and energetically
thereby in the development of an astutely
organized world trade. America and every
other seaboard nation Of the globe had
similar basic rights.
1t is in war time alone that particularly
of ruling is called for. The divergent views
which will probably be expressed in Paris
are relative to the definition Of contraband
and the limitations of expansion of the
principle of blockade. The desire for the
reduction Of international legal restric-
tions naturally arises in quarters where
strong navy can enforce its own will. In
the absence of such armament the barriers
Of the law have an allurement.
The extent to which the codes of con-
traband and blockade will be regulated is,
therefore, absolutely dependent on the
character of the league of nations which
viii presumably be formed. International
guarantees making war impossible would
give to arguments over the freedom Of the
seas the flavor Of archaism
But II the world fails to believe in its
ability to police itself then sea rights in
time Of strife will be a vital issue at the
sessions.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-12-09
READERS VIEWPOINT
Orientals Should Preserve Their Art
Standards

TO the Editor Of the Euening Public Ledger:
Sir-My attention has been called to
portrait and story you published on Novem-
Der 20 of Mrs. Wang, the Chinese lady
who studied last summer at the Chester
Springs summer school of the Academy Of
the Fine Arts.
AT the time of her death Mrs. Wang
was enrolled for the winter as student
at the Philadelphia School of Design for
Women. Her husband Is attache to the
Chinese legation at Washington. d. c. He
wrote me after his wifes death that he
wished some other Chinese ladies could
study In our school, and sad he knew OF
several who would enter II 1t were possible
to arrange to criticize their work by mail.
I answered to his last suggestion that
there could be no adequate result obtained.
To substitute the Occidental viewpoint in
art for the long-established traditional ORR
entail methods would require constant instruc-
tion and supervision for a time at least.
It Is interesting to learn that the Chi
nese are following the Japanese in the
effort TO understand and practice our west
ern technique In painting, but feel that
It IS a pity for them to abandon their own
inherited perfected standards.
EMILY SARTAIN.
PRINCIPAL Philadelphia School of Design for
Women.
Philadelphia, December Q.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-12-09
Member of the Associated Press
GREATNESS

1.-TWO boys, Harry Ireland and William
- Mcbride, who used to carry and fetch
in the lobbies Of the Bellevue -Stratford-
two bellboys-are dead in France.
Their composite name was Front!
Now they are immortal. Their graves are
side by side among those at which travel
ers and men of heart will turn aside and
wonder" so long as France lasts They
went with the first and died on the line.
The great of this world whom they
served in tie old days must now know
something new of greatness and it's queer
hiding places. They will go along in the
old comfortable way These lads who an
swered their bells finally sensed the eXalta-
ton reserved for those who wing it out
into the storm in search Of the stars.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-12-09
THE WOP
lKIHEN the line is surveyed through tho

WHEN the line is surveyed through tho
w scenery $50
For tunnel and culvert and cut, g.,
When the contractor has his machinery,
The big job" is ready--all but r'i
"All but" means the shovel and pick Of It.,
The hunkies who work till they drop; .,S
And SO. in the dust and the thick of it, -.
Look out for the Wop -
The big bosses bear all the fret Of it
They are the fellows who plan; % "
But the back-breaking strain and the sweat
of 1t
Fall to the laboring man,
Dago and Russ and Hungarian,
All of the immigrant crop;
Where Is the job we could carry on
Save for the Wop?
Subject for scorn and bedeviing,
Victim of fraud and chicane,
STILL with his spade he is leveling -
Routes over mountain and plain
Progress? His soul is the breath of It
Lacking his hand, 1t would stop
Facing the danger and death Of 1t,
Here Is the Wop
He knows the best and the worst Of It,
He knows the hard d-driven toll. N n't
The ache and the heat and the thirst Of it.
Never the dream--or the spoil "r'
Caves and explosions make mud of him
Who cares damn? Let him flop!
Progress is stained with the blood Of him
Only a Wop 49,. il.
--Berton Braley in Songs Of the worisa-
day World" - h.s
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-12-09
POLITICS AND AIR MAIL

TT WILL amaze no one to see the hand
OF Mr.. Burleson fumbling disastrously
with the newest creation OF administrative
efhciency and bringing on confusion in the
air.mail service The precipitate resigna-
ton Of Captain Lipsner and Pilot Max
Miller. the two men who did most to or
ganize the aerial mail system, is disquiet-
ing 10 any one who knows anything OF
the Postmaster Generals ambitions in the
matter OF telephones and telegraphs. Cap.
tain Lipsner, who was superintendent OF
the air division OF the postal system. quit
because, in his own words, "novices were
10 be placed in charge Of important
trknches Of the service"
what are noviees doing in a branch Of
0overnment work that offers them SO many
e1re7tunitiss 10 do dsznage 10 themselves
~ tssfpz Otto Praeeer. Assistant Post