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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-10-17

ANOTHER star athlete has been lost
A to Penn sports, but it will not be
until the basketball season opens that
the Red and Blue will feel the effects.
Lew Martin, captain of last years
intercollegiate championship quintet,
has been turned down finally by the
students army training corps, as he is
over the twenty -one-year age limit. 1t
was first thought that Lew would be
able to gain admission to the students
corps.
When college opened few weeks ago
it looked as if the championship cage
team would be intact for play this year,
but there will be only three veterans
available Dutch Peck the all-intercol-
legiate guard, entered the University
this year. but received an appointment
to the infantry officers school at Camp
Gordon and left this city last Monday
with the other appointees.
Plenty of Material
Although Martin and Peck We're two
of the best players in collegiate ranks,
their loss does not mean that Penn
will have a poor basketball team. In
fact, the reverse is true. There is more
cage material this year than has been
in evidence in previous years at this
time.
The three veterans who remain from
the title team are Lardie Davis, captain
elect and center, and Mike Sweeney and
Andy Stannard, the star forwards Joe
Mitchell, who played an excellent gam,
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-10-17
WORLDS RECORD
BY LU PRINCETON
Skaters Mark for Trotting
Three Heats in Beating
Ceers's St. Frisco
OTHER TIMES LOWERED

Atlanta. Ga, Oct. 17.--Three records,
one of them worlds record were low
cred in the third day of the final week
OF Grand Circuit racing on the Lake.
wood track here yesterday. Lu Prince
ton Walter Cox's fleet stallion, beat
st. Frisco in three straight heats
in the free-for-all trot, and by SO doing
established a worlds record for the
three fastest heats ever trotted the
TING lowering the mark made by st.
Frisco at Belmont this year. Lu Prince
tons average time for the three heats
was 500, while the previous mark was
6:091a.
Petrox, Tommy Murphy's chestnut
mare, trotted against ner record Of
2:O8 a :. and in her first attempt estab-
lshed mark of 2:05ai. Roma Laconda
Miller's black mare. went against her
own 2:l6 pacing mark and stepped 1t off
in the first trial in 2:15h
New-York tribune., 1918-08-01
Spirit of the Battlefield

Perhaps the strangest part Of our par
ticlpation in the great world struggle is
that to the far larger part of the people
OF this country it must always seem
more like a distant dream than a tense
reality. The European war can never
mean to this generation what, for ex-
ample, the Civil War meant to that of
half century ago. Some Of the dead,
many of the wounded, will come back to
US, but not as to a people with the roar
of the cannon and the tramp of soldiery
booming in their ears. 1t is all as if it
were something which happened far
away and that we cannot adequately
feel
Therefore has Mrs. Nell P. Dawson
done a genuine war service in putting
together in little volume which Mac
mlllans have published a wholly admi-
rable anthology of war letters that
breathe the very breath Of the struggle.
They are the letters from soldiers of
many lands, naturally not so MANY of
them American. But no volume which
we have opened has had 80 much of the
imminent thrill of the conflict, such as
has been almost the daily visitant of the
people of France and Belgium and Italy
and, In a less degree, of England. The
letters have been chosen with that, deli
cate sense for fine and moving effects
which characterizes Mrs. Dawson's lit-
erary CRITICISMS; its wide circulation
cannot fail to bring a quickened sense
OF the war to our home-staying people,
and the glow of deeper feeling at the
reading of these wonderfully vivid little
gllmpses into that heroism which still
pervades the world.
New-York tribune., 1918-08-01
Mail for Soldiers

Once again is the wretched mail SER
vice to and from our soldiers in France
up for criticism and complaint. Mr..
Otto Kahn, returning from abroad, rated
it as one of the serious failures of our
overseas venture. The wife of q colonel
whose first fifteen letters never reached
her husband at all and out of whose
total Of thirty letters six arrived may
have Jared worse than the average But
the uniform record is disgracefully bad.
The complaints are constant. There
seems to be no question that the Military
Postoffice has proved utterly inadequate
to meet it's task.
That task is gigantic one and the
difficulties both Of transport across and
of delivery in France are clearly great.
But surely American genius can cope
with the problem if sufficient brains and
energy are applied.
The complaint has been a continuing
one. From all reports results, so far
from improving, have grown worse.
Where is the trouble? Is there an un-
willingness on the part of the military
machine to concede the Importance of
overseas mail? We are loath to believe
such shortsightedness exists Surely
every one with half an eye for the
morale Of an army knows the vital i'm
portance of swift, certain communica-
tion between trench and home.
Precious as are President Wilson's
minutes, there is surely no one detail Of
his administration of the war more vital
to the will and faith of the nation and
better deserving his personal investiga-
tion and care
New-York tribune., 1918-08-01

ver-growing interest charges and ever
mounting tax bills, also continually pro-
testing taxpayers. 1t was to rid the city
of the menace of the pyramiding inter-
est charges, which threatened to impair
the city's credit, that the pay-as-you-go
policy was devised for this community,
which, even though it has been modified
to some extent, eventually will accom-
plish the purpose for which it was draft
ed. Meantime, though the taxpayers
protest, it is the public which is respon-
sible for the growing cost of government.
Controller Travis recently pointed out
that the big annual increases in the
states appropriation bills were due not
to any especial extravaganza, but to a
widened demand by the public for gov
ernmental activity. This is equally true
of the cities. Their people expect things
of the government now which twenty
years ago were neither given nor expect
ed. The conception Of the duties of gov
ernment, of it's relation to the people,
now includes so-called social welfare
work along various lines, entailing great
expense, and measurable only in the
greater health and happiness of the peo-
pie themselves. Milk stations, infant
welfare work, health examinations in
schools, recreation piers, parks and play
grounds with play directors, widows
pensions, the incomplete system of school
lunches, all cost this city much money.
But the city wants them, and will not be
denied, as was proved by the protests
aroused when Mayor Hylan's attack on
experts" in the Health Department
threatened the existence of DR.. Josephine
Bakers Child Welfare Bureau.
Moreover, in the older branches of city
governmental activity, such as health,
fire and police protection, street clean
ing, lighting, the supplying of water,
there have been improvements and ex-
tensions which represent big investments
and carrying charges. School activities
are constantly broadening. Under the
circumstances it would be strange if the
debts didn't grow. The people want
these things; they realize their value,
and, cost what they may, they will have
them. That is the real reason why, de-
spite taxpayers grumblings and the
agonized protests of some Of the real es-
tate owners associations about "fads and
fancies," no sagacious officials ever un-
dertake to curtail expenditures by lop-
ping off these expensive extensions of
the municipalities functions.
New-York tribune., 1918-08-01

feeding For months past it has had
under consideration measure for pro-
viding school lunches. 1t IS time they
should act. Public feeling in New York
ought to be so aroused that when the
schools open in September every one of
them will be provided with we'll equipped
lunch room. 1t can be done at a com
paratively small expense. The cost of the
food will be carried by the children's pen
nies if overhead expenses are borne by the
city. / urge this measure as peace duty
and war emergency. If the suffering Of
last winter among the city's children is
repeated next winter it will be a public
shame.
Sir George Newman, president of the
English Board of Education, recently said
"The war more than anything else has
brought to the public the conception Of
the child as primary national asset; no
investment no national economy can COM
pare in results with the care of the rising
generation" The question is not can we
afford to feed the children, but can we
afford any longer to let them go hungry?
DIR. L. EMMETT HOLT,
Chairman Child Health Organization.
New York, July 81, 1918.
New-York tribune., 1918-08-01
Hungry Children

To the Editor of The Tribune
- lR: In about six weeks our public
schools will reopen. More than
100000 children sin New York City
alone will be enrolled. A very large num-
ber of these children are suffering from
serious malnutriton, while still larger
number known to be under the normal
standard of nutrition. During the recen.
Conservation Food Show three thousand
school children were weighed and meas
s1red by the Child Health Organization
The results showed that one-thrd of
them, 80 per cent, were more than 10 per
cent below the normal. There is no room
for doubt that the health of the school
children of New York presents a grave
and serious problem which should at once
engage the earnest attention of the city
authorities and Of the whole public 1t
IS a matter which concerns us all The
people of New York cannot afford to re-
main Indifferent any longer to the health
of this army Of children drafted into the
schools. How have we the right to COM
pei the undernourtshed child to 90 to
school, to impose tasks upon him he is
physically unable to perform? Have we
the right to demand that teachers shall
spend their life strength in trying to
teach children who cannot learn because
of impaired vitality? If the teachers are
to make bricksN they must have straw.
School feeding must supplement the fail
ure of the home to provide proper food.
The cry of expense is raised But con-
slider the of repeaters-children who
Ea ho;r ,lc
a large public expense-a big item in the
educational budget. The repeater in most
instances is the undernourished child.
The expense, the economic waste involved,
comes out Of the pockets of the taxpayers.
Even the Real Estate Owners Association
ought to be able to see ths
The best medical and public health
thorities all agreed that system of
municipal school lunches would be the best
immediate practical step toward meeting
the situation
The Board of Health has stated that
there is no one measure of public health
it much desires now as school
lunches. 1t is difficult to see why school
feeding should be regarded as a dangerous
innovation in New York Fifty or more
cities of the United States have estab-
lished it, while in some European cities it
has been regularly practised for hundred
and twenty-five years. 1t is my belief
that school feeding will in the near future
be used means of training the people
in food knowledge and right food habits.
Food knowledge and health knowledge are
fundamental. They should be made an
integral Indispensable part of our school
curriculums. A more effective means Of
Americanization would be difficult to de
wise than school lunches used to educate
children in food and health
1t is not my purpose here to discuss
ways and means, but only to bring home
to many people as can the necessity
OF acting at once. The Board of Educa-
tion has accepted the principle Of school
New-York tribune., 1918-08-01
Flight of the Embassies From Russia

The latest news from Russia seems to
indicate that the Bolshevik government
at Moscow has practically driven the AL
lies diplomatic representatives from the
country. They are reported as safely ar
rived at Kandalaska, on the line Of the
new Murman railway, and about 100
miles distant from the terminal at Koa
Bay, which is now held apparently by the
Allied forces in combination with the
local Soviet government This local goy-
ernment is hostile to the Lenine- -Trotzkv
autocracy in the ancient capital. The
dispatches state that the alternative OF
this flight of the embassies was that
they should proceed to Moscow and there
become possible hostages of the Bolshe-
vik leaders. This construction of the
matter seems permissible in view Of the
alternative which was chosen. The onlv
possible deduction is that, in the iudp
ment Of the Allies ambassadors in Rus
STA, the Lenine-Trotzky government was
hostile and dangerous.
1t was we'll known to the Bolshevik
autocrats, first, that Allied Russian pol
ICY is In the hands of President Wilson.
and, second, that the intentions of the
United States are eminently pacific and
conciliatory. The whole attitude of orr
Administration has been that Of seeking
"aod']s with the Soviet government. In
ITS tenderness for the feelings Of the
Russian people it has waived all mes-
tons Of military advantage. It has
thought it better not to reestablish an
Eastern front at all than to do 50 in an
undemocratic manner. We have sent one
commission to R6ssia, and, as is we'll
known, are on the point Of sending an
other, to offer such assistance az it lies
IN our power to give
All Of this the Bolsheyik autocra+.
have definitely spurned. They are hos
tie. They have threatened to declare
gar on the Entente Allies. There is mn
longer any doubt that the Lenine-
Trotzky regime has been financed bv
German gold. There is evidence that
various members Of the present govern
New-York tribune., 1918-08-01

ment took German money. Fanatics or
knaves, they are now in Germany's
power, and must more or less do Ger
many's will. Under this arrangement
the German dominion over Russia is dis
guised. But if it is possible now to assist
the responsive elements of Russia to or
ganize and the Bolsheviki are over
thrown, then Germany must take mill
tary steps to protect her control. That
is what she hopes to avoid. 1t would
draw her strength from the Western
front.
Every report that has come of late
tells of the increasing hatred Of the Rus
sian people Or their German masters.
Will not the Lenine-Trotzky reign in
evitably terminate when it resorts to
the undisguised protection of German
armies, and will not then the eyes of all
the Russian people be opened to the
actual situation?
Adequately to police and control Rus
sia would probably require more soldiers
than Germany can spare. Is there any
ADLER strategy than to set a backfire in
the enemy's rear and thus draw off
troops from the Western line? If this be
good strategy, then it seems our immedi-
ate business to put an army of 25, 900 or
$4,000 men, with adequate warships and
supplies, into Kola Bay for the protec-
ton of the Murman line, now threatened
by Finnish and German troops.
1t is still contended that for the Allies
to act with force in Russia would drive
the Bolsheviki into the arms of Ger
many. The Allies wish only to save
Russia from utter economic ruin and
famine and to drive the Germans out.
If the Bolsheviki are SO obstnately per-
verse as not to understand, then we
shall have to save them in spite of them
selves. And if any of them are so pro-
German as to understand our intentions
and still resist, the sooner they are
driven into Germany's arms the better
New-York tribune., 1918-08-01
Multiplying City Debts

1t is considered bad business for an in
dlv'du4' particularly in these days, to
permit his expenditures to exceed his in
come. With municipalities the reverse
apparently is held to be true A report
by the Director of the Census, just pub
llshed, shows that of the PIG cities of the
country having population of more than
$4,000, l29 spent last year for govern
ment costs, including interest and out
lay for permanent improvements, some
$69,o00,0o0 more than their revenue. or
$3.50 per capita moro than was taken in.
The net result, of course, is a hear
up of Indebtedness, in which New York
City leads, with score Of S176.22 for
each inhabitan1.
s2From such accumulated debts come
New-York tribune., 1918-08-01
Terror Come Home

How strange! In Russia the revolution
ist resorts to the bomb and issues from
secret places to stalk the oppressive au-
tocrat, all exactly as before. The assassin
Of Field Marshal Won Eichhorn, the
German commander in the Ukraine, was
a boy of twentythree, sent by commit
tee from Ryazan, which is near Moscow,
with instructions to blow up the Kaiser's
vicar at Kiev. Only few days before
either the same committee or sympa-
thetic one pronounced a secret death
sentence upon the Kaiser's ambassador
at Moscow, and he was successfully
bombed.
Such was the technique of protest
against autocracy in Russia before the
war, before the fall of the Gear, before
the revolution. The Gar is dead. So is
the revolution. Autocracy is again in
trenched, and it's present form is worse
than any in the past, being half Russian
and half German, reminiscent Of both
betrayal ano foreign conquest.
Assassination as Russian crime is now
a German nightmare. Already the Ger
mans have imagined themselves slaugh-
tered in Russia as at "Sicilian YES
pers." This figure of speech was used
by the Imperial German Government in
a Reichstag speech. 1t is more than a
figure of speech. 1t is an expression of
what the German has in place of con-
science-namely, fear. In the dark
spaces of his Inconsistencies the Ger
man is shrieking coward
He begins to be afraid Of Russia. He
could strangle Belgium and then police
her. Belgium was a little thing He
cannot either strangle Russia or police
her in a manner to make himself safe.
He is not safe even in the Ukraine,
which he was ordained by his Gott to
raise up as state. What irony!
But the practical question is: What
will Germany do about the killing of Won
Eichhorn? She magnanimously decided
not to "exploit" the bombing of Won Mir
bach and make it pretext for occupy
ing the principal places of Russia. Her
forbearance was owing partly to the fact
that she could i'll spare the military
force and partly to the thought that to
use it, if she could spare it, might be
disastrous to the stuffed pro-German
regime Of Lenine and Trotzky. What
will she now do? How shall Colts
sacred German rulers be protected from
the bombs Of Russian revolutionists?
New-York tribune., 1918-08-01
From a Scout Patrol:
Irish Station

TOR day and night there was storm
s. on the waters.
~ And white as the snowflake the hair
of the sea;
And we knew then the anguish OF Lirs
banished daughters,
Alone in our ship in the trough of the sea.
The wind shriekcd gale with the howl Of
war-cry,
And dark in the sea-guif shadow swept
past;
The voice of the watch was the sound ofs
far cry,
And the boom Of our gun wellnigh lest in
the blast
But the submarine sank, and we glided to
harbor,
Behind the white house on the green Of
the hill,
Where the sunshine is bright on the vine
of the arbor,
And the clouds in the sunset lie huddleo
and still.
NORREYs JEPHsoN o'CoNoR
New-York tribune., 1918-08-01
The Sister Problem

1t never was problem, save in the
minds Of the War Department. But IN
that sacred spot vast intellectual powers
have been devoted to proving that the
sister of fighting soldier was utterly
unfit to be in the same country with him.
The organizations responsible for sup
plying nurses and canteen workers and
so on pleaded So did DR.. Alexander
Lambert upon his return from the front
The War Department stood it's ground,
and only little while ago General
March issued lengthy defence of the
rule excluding all women relatives from
France.
The present decision to let down the
bars sufficiently to admit sisters is as
sound as it is belated. There is no less
sentimental relationship between human
beings than that of an American brother
and sister. If the war lasts long we
shall have to permit wives and mothers
to go as we'll. But the objection to them
is distinctly stronger than the objection
to sisters. The latter are already ur-
ing men are the best age for much of the
most important work. With our rapidly
mounting forces, the difficulty of obtain
ing younger women without brothers at
the front will become harder and harder
The regulations under which sisters
will be permitted to go are obviously
proper, and there should be not the least
difficulty in enforcing them strictly
There was a time when American girls
without sense or competency were per-
mltted to go to France. That time is
past. The work now is a matter of life
and death. The control is military in
character. The army finds no difficulty
in having brothers fighting in the same
forces, and there need be no more diff
Guilty now that their sisters are added
to the American line.
New-York tribune., 1918-08-01
A Bonus to Make the Cost of Living
Hiohav-?

Of all the wild proposals to which the
war has given rise one of the most fan
tastic comes from the gold miners of
California and elsewhere Their propo-
sal is that the government shall put
bonus on gold production, as if-save the
mark!-a fair half of all the difficult
ties of this country now were not due
precisely to a redundancy of gold and
the credit that arises from it, The gold
miners who make this appeal seem liv-
ing In dream that we are back in the
period when a genuine scarcity of gold
brought on the celebrated Bryan free
silver campaign.
They, and, we regret to say, a great
many others, seem never to have heard
that eighteen months-from earlv in
l9lo-brought to this country more than
billion and quarter of new gold, or
more gold than this country could mine
IN ten years. And this gold did not 90
into the arts, but almost exclusively into
the banks. The immediate and inevitable
effect was a huge expansion of bank
loans, and, therefore, of the real busi-
ness currency of the country, and, there
fore, an Immediate and enormous rise in
all commodities, carrying the cost of liv
ing to the highest point since the Civil
War.
The result Of this huge imitation of the
currency and corresponding cost of
goods has been not merely to confuse all
economic and industrial processes. but
already it has nearly doubled the need
ful cost of the war. Would the gold
miners make this situation little
worse? We do not want more gold. If
we could have taken the billion, net d
New-York tribune., 1918-08-01

The only difference we have so far
seen in The EUening Post is this from
yesterdays editorial paragraphs:
notable chance for a rhyme to the
Ourcq was lost when our van was not led
by ORourke. Still, we imagine there
won't be much growing if the first one
across was youth named Pat Bowling,
nor will the Kaiser's mustache grow
moro curly with thoughts of McGovern
and Captain Jack Hurley. Plainly the
lads of the old Goth have been most i'm
perfectly bred and Sim Feined, all the
kind words from the Wilhelmstrasse
scorning and giving old Boehn the top Of
the Marnin'. Isn't it just like those
wild men of Erin, Rosner, their very best
friends to be queering, smashing ahead
with q devil-may-care, forgetting that
not all things in are quite Fere, but
working their guns in manner dis
pleasin' as we keep on skiddng without
Rheims or reason?
1t is to shudder.