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Evening journal., 1918-09-28
EVERY man in
SUITABLE TASK
This is Government Plan
Under New Work Classi-
fication Order
WOULD PREVENT
FREQUENT TURNOVER

At a conference between representa-.
lives Of practically all the important
war industries Of this city and the
local representatives Of the Depart
ment Of Labor yesterday afternoon in
the old federal building, Sixth and
King streets, plans Of the department
,or recruiting. registering and placing
Of labor in the Wilmington district
we're outlined.
These employment representatives
were met In conference by A. G.. Benk-
hart, Federal State director, United
States Employment Service; Charles
Warner, federal state director, United
States Public Service Reserve, and
David Snellenburg, chairman Of Com
munlty Labor Board No. 4, in charge
Of the Wilmington distfict.
A full outline was presented to the
conference by Messrs. Benkhart War
ner and Snellenburg, covering the de-
partment's plans for recruiting, regis
terms and placing labor in the VII
mlngton district. Plans were the exact
condition Of their common labor needs.
lt was agreed I'm the conference that
The employment representatives Of the
local war Industries should properly
classify and specify in detail the ma
lure Of these needs on each daily re
port so that the Employment Service
IN affecting placements viii have more
clearly and accurately in mind the
work to be performed. This will en-
able the examiners at the main office
70 more carefully place workers
according TO their qualifications and
physical fitness. Some trouble has re-
rently been experienced from the prac-
tice Of the Community Labor Board In
securing men through patriotic and
Volunteer effort, in that such men have
not been carefully placed according to
their fitness and qualifications.
The new plans should improve this
condition and make for more efficient
work and less turnover.
Mr.. Snellenburg reported fer the
Community Labor Board on the liberal
and loyal responses which the board
was experiencing in calls for men from
less essential Industries 10 take up
work in industries OF more vital ma
ture during the present emergency. He
pointed out that these men in meeting
this response In this spirit were entitled
to The utmost consideration apd that
every effort should be taken 10 place
them in suitable work according 10
their abilities.
The conference held an extensive
discussion on the question OF whether
or not the employers in all war indus
tries should cease hiring at the gate
and should adopt the uniform practice
Of taking on labor only through en-
rollment and registration at the Offices
Of the u. S. Employment Service. A
large majority favored the adoption OF
this practice, so as to provide the gov
ernment with a more systematic bnowl-
edge Of men who are not working regu-
larly and who are constantly turning
from one job TO another. such prac-
tees are seriously against the interests
OF the government at this time and no
man walking tlre streets looking for a
new job Is building boats or houses or
helping in the manufacture Of ammu-
niti0ns.
It was decided that this preliminary
conference OF the local representatives
and officials OF the Employment Service
Evening journal., 1918-09-28
DUPONT co. JOINS
In LIBERTY SALUTE

/. The dupont Company assisted in the
whistle blowing salute for the Fourth
Liberty bond call this morning. C. T.
Holden, superintendent Of construction
for the flftli section Of the dupont
Building, was loaned the plant whistle
OF the p. and II. r. by George Rommel.
master mechanic, and the same was
placed on the top OF the new building.
ana did its part. as it could be plaIDly
heard all over the city.
Evening journal., 1918-09-28
j. z. HoLLEY ELECTED SECRETARY

Leon II. Ryan has resigned as see
retaory Of the Voters N0n-Partisan
League because Of press OF other bus
ness. kt a meeting OF the League, on
Thursday night. Mr.. Ryans resignation
was accepted and the thanks Of the
League were extended 10 him for his
conduct Of that Ofllce
At the same time the league elected
j. r. IIolley as the new secretary. Mr..
Holley has been a member Of The
league since its organization.
Evening journal., 1918-09-28
REPLACE WEN IN STOKES.

Appreciative letters from employers
Of women placed by the United States
Employment Service indicate that there
is not a man OF military age employed
as a sale clerk or floor walker in mer-
camille establishments who could not
De satisfactorily replaced by woman.
This statement is based on the ex-
pressed opinions Of managers Of de-
Evening journal., 1918-09-28

partment stores, speciality stores shoe
stores. mems furnishing stores lor-
lists shops, jewelry stores, drug Stores
soda water fountains, etc.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-09-15

In the annual report of Cato Sells. Con-
missioner of Indian Affairs this is said:
evidences of material and Humanitarian
advancement are everywhere apparent. In
dustrially and socially the Indians ire
making unparalleled strides toward self-slp-
port and civilization. | have discovered that
with sympathetic corporation and intali-
gent encouragement their response is almost
universal"
Within the last few years .42,1l0 Indan
families have forsallen the tepee to live in
houses. The tribal Indian rapidly Is beclm-
ing "individualized." His red past is enly
a few years behind him, but it is IN the IRst.
The Government no longer believes that wars
with the Indians are possible. The aues.ion
of peace with them is an answered one, and
all that remains il to make of the Indian
self-supporting, self-respectng member OF
American society.
II has been said that the red past of the
Indian is only few wears behind him. How
strkingly this Is shown by the fact that
today many officers of the United States
army, below the rank of brigadier general
wear the ribbon which shows that theg have
seen active service in warfare against the
Apache, the Sioux, the Cheyenne or other
will be hard today to find any irreconciables
among the Indians of the West, unless the
search be extended into the tepees Of the
ancients who grow to- old age in a condition
of roamers and warriors, and in whom ma
ture forbids "A change 10 take pace,--Eoches-
ter Post-EXpress
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-09-15
THE I\CIRABlES

ENIGHT more men in Philadelphia who
- have been able to observe the Kaiser
in his successive transitions from mur-
derer to thief. from thief to liar and from
liar to babbling coward without expert
encing any mitigation of their rabd pro-
Germanism have been sent South to an
fnternment camp.
What are we to do, any way, with these
spurious American citizens" after the
war? Thousands of them are now resting
easily behind stockades as guests of the
Il American Government. Should they be
TUNED over to specialists in lunac .
Should they be preserved in safety and
relative comfoA until the war is over?
What blessed spectacle the world
would enjoy If all pro-Germans in America
We're TO be loaded into ships and started
back to Germany nom in order that they
might starve in the munitions factories or
he chained TO machine guns in the front
trenches.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-09-15
SPANISH INFLUENZA

SPANISH influenza, which has at last
~ penetrated to the United States, has
mystified European scientists. 1t is pre-.
sumed to have originated on the French
battlefelds. Some physicians believe it to
be nothing more or less than the Black
Plague OF earlier wars, rendered relatively
harmless because Of the eneryation which
time has brought to the persistent baciln
and by modern processes OF sanitation
Others are still convinced that the appear
ance of the disease represents one of the
fantastic methods of the German war
makers, who are supposed to have devel-
oped the menace with weird dreams Of
prostrated armies laid low and surrounded
after the disease had been spread by shells
charged with it.
Isolation camps are already establish he'd
at Boston. Spanish influenza is not
usually fatal mslady. It's chief danger
= ip<ths ,evsrs1 sttai(tS that follow q
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-09-15
" AR NAMES

IT is already plain that the war will
= serve to brighten and refresh the stock
OF American first names. If you live long
enough you will be presented some day
or other to Pershins Jones or McAdoo
Brown. There is likely to he a Josephus
Daniels Perkins in almost any community
where the Perkinses still persist There
will be Newton Baker Epstens and eNen
perhaps, a Burleson Silverbers or two in
every city of any Importance.
Despite all this, it will not be possible
to grasp the full meaning and scope of
the war of wars until you are permitted
to shake hands with the Woodrow Wilson
Schultzes and the Woodrow Wilson
Schmidts and the Woodrow Wilson Vein
traubs that are likely to be thick in every
part of this wonderful land twenty Years
4 from now. In such names you will find
at last the real answer of America to the
Kaiser.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-09-15
MOSES

MTHEN God beheld how Moses turned
w to see. t..
a voice called from the bush. So runs
the tale.
A truth is here-a truth that will pre-
vail
Now as Of old: Who would a prophet be-
Must find light in the little wayside trse:
JOY in the desert; he must never fail
Earth with her store of singing hail,
Dew on the grass, night and her galaxy.
Lift up your eyes unto the hills of mort!
Truth is not truth that does not glorif
The desolate and barren bush of thorn;
Fills not with stars the tempest-cloudea
sky;
Brings not the murmur of a choric strah
Of triumph from the threnody of pain.
Robert w. Norwood, in The Modem.
lists" I
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-09-15

attack and, according to the Surgeon Gen.
eral of the United States army, leaves the
conralescent easy prey for more dangerous
diseases. Thus physicians suggest quick
and thorough care of those who may be
afflicted. Sudden prostration and all the
symptoms OF an aggravated cold are the
usual signs of Spanish influenza. An at.
tack usually lasts but a few days. 1t is
i'll the period of recovery that the patient
needs most careful attention. Complete
rest, fresh air and good food are the chief
methods of cure
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-09-15
OPERA ENTRENCHED

TN THE maintenance of its musical
= activities at time when their tonic
effect is particularly potent. Philadelphia
is one Of The fortunate American cities
Mr.. Stokowskis plans for the orchestra
season are well under way and practical as.
surance that more grandiose musical spec
itacle will not be denied us is now at hand
in the sale of subscription tickets opening
today for the regular opera season.
p II has been the wartime experience of
eyery European capital that opera could i'll
10 spared. Even Paris, under the range
tof the Big Berthss kept the Academic de
Ausique and the Opera Comque open. and
~ the Governments expense. Our own
season, which exists through private sub.
sidy and popular support, westhered alb
normal conditions last year The coming
cycle will. it is hoped he equally sue
cessful
q Mr.. GattiCasazza, the director OF the
New York Metropolitan, on which house
She Philadelphia musical temple of the
same name is dependent for it's operatic
importations, has exercised considerable
inDsnuity in the arrangement of his roper
1oFy. Wagner works are still banned
French and Italian operas however, are
Hhundnntly available. American COM
,no6ors will be represented with several
&lnDitious novelties. "0beron," by the
<7oFmen Weber, is listed, but his product
= only half Hun. The original libretto
~ an English text Sixteen perform
- will as usual, be accorded to PhiIs
HHDn. The series should help sustain the
- M,Hic during the days when art
on> = HSGniia ,anlritaal valua
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-09-15
IT DOESN'T PAY TO MONKEY WITH A
BIT// SAW

A MERICA is engaged in such serious
A business just now that whoever tries
to interfere with what she is doing is
certain to get into trouble. When the
Bridgeport strikers read the Presidents
letter they discovered that they had at
tempted to buck up against the power OF
the United States. When this was written
they were planning to go back TO work
and confess that they had attempted the
impossible.
The incident will be worth all the an.
noyance that it has caused if it impresses
upon any others who may be disposed to
hold up war work of the futity of such
efforts
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-09-15

Maxim Gorky, as the Bolsheviki press
agent, is ssddled with job of some magni-
tude. Advance men" usually plan for what
is coming Off week or two ahead, but there
is little evidence that Lenine or Trotsky's
actions can be doped out more than a few
hours before performance time.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-09-15

That German major who dressed himself
in a new uniform and had his boots polished
while waiting to surrender to the French
on the st. Mihiel salient believed in doing
things decently and in order. Now IL he had
only fought as decently as he had sur
rendered Germany might not have So big a
reckoning to make with the world.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-09-15

Constant association with big figures
during the war has naturally dulled our sense
Of realization. Comparisons. however, are
still helpful, and General Marchs report that
49, 900 American troops recently landed in
France on a single day means something
when one considers that that sum u but
stats ee NeNaAA 1900 .r.ass.-. y
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-09-15
Kaiser Bills Last Word

Arthur Train, the novelist. put down a
German newspaper at the Century Club, in
New York, with an impatient grunt
"It says here" he explained, that IL is
Germany who will speak the last word in the
war
Then the novelist laughed angrily and
added
Yes, Germany Will, speak the last word
IN the war, and that last word viii ~
axamdt d1:r--W WashlGGtep otkr, I. & X : n
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-09-15

Debs gets off with ten-year sentence
This will give him time consider whether
man who sets his own views up against
the conscience of the world is really MARTYR
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-09-15
His IndepcndenCe

"Who is really boss in your home?" in
auired the abrupt person.
Well" replied Meekton, ''of course, lien
rietta assumes command of the pug dog and
the canary. But can say pretty much wlat
/ like to the goldfish. w ashington Star.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-09-15
Career
OF
EilsIlen,ius

relieves US Of our anxiety as to his being
draftedJ His ancestors, all Holanders.
were distinguished bishops and pastors
One of them. in 1854. suggested several
important motions to the Synod at Dor
dreCht, which were adopted.
In his earliest Years Eilshemius showed
his inborn talent for art He tells us that
his moonlight sunlight. water scenes and
nudes bear comparison with those Of any
of the celebrated European artists In the
portrayal Of infinite effects in nature he is
unsurpassed. cThe black-face type is his
OWN
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-09-15

'Germany's civiliza-
Machine Made tion, with its reliance
on big guns and artil-
ery. is largely mechanical, is it not Mr..
Tsmbo?" "Assuredy, Mr.. Bones What is
your drift" "Why, l was detecting therein
a certain resemblance to certain conditions in
Philadelphia" You sppall me, Mr. Bones,
How do YOU deduce that" We'll it occurred
10 me that both are machine made"
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-09-15
II L. on
the Cards

II German really
II Is on thinks it can annoy us
the Cards by conducting "volun-
tary retirements" she
should try out her theory on a larger scale
Why wouldn't self-determined retreat to
Berlin be in order?
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-09-15

German efficiency viii not have reached
America until some one organizes a Corpora
tion, Limited. for the Utilization of old
Straw Hats
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-09-15

The Germans are
The tninventable making airshp wings
Substitute Of wood are using
paper bandages. are
feeding the peoDl" at home on hot air and are
doing their best to invent a substitute for
an Allied peace.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-09-15
Time for Something to Be Quiet

Cotton Goods Quiet" We think that this
is much more becoming than to be rampag-
ing around as usual.-New York Evening
Post = .....
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-09-15
Penalties Attached to Being
a Human Being
Other Human Beings
SOCRATES.

Half million skilled women workers are
needed in American industries within the
next ninety days. Here is a chance for
those women who have not yet found their
place in the big task of victory.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-09-15

1t was a courageous man who wore
straw hat on the street today-or else a man
without the price of new lid
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-09-15

81 The headline "Petrograd again" changes
hands is scarcely Illuminating. since its right
is almost Invariably obivious of the actions
of its left.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-09-15

The Kaiser, lamenting his country's de-
sire for peace, doesn't seem TO understand
that the Allies are determined to provide il.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-09-15

hadn't compelled us to do so by moving that
way themselves. We left church unshat-
tered in the effort to shorten the war. Who
was it who prolonged the war by keeping on
fighting when they were hopelessly beaten?
unsportsmanlke. l tell you, l will put it
to you in your native metaphor. What would
YOU think of baseball team that insisted
on continuing the game when the score was
to against it at the end of the ninth
inning"
For the first time | began to realize how
unjust the world had been to this great man.
His eyes glistened with pathos as he went on
HTNHEf talk about spies Look at this
l. book--it sets my teeth on edge to read
it! Here. ten years before the war, the
Americans had sent dentist to spy upon
me. opened my mouth to that man more
freely than to any one else. And how shame
fully he has abused my confidence. Even my
red fla mel undershrt which ] wear as a
compliment to 'rrotsky. is mentioned think
it is barbarous. As the great German poet
says, here all my secrets
Set in a notebook, learned. and conned by
rote
To cast into my teeth
l tell you | never appreciated the horrors Of
| war until Doctor Davis left, and | had to
resort to German dentist.
NDO NOT imagine, however" said the
II Kaiser, that we are discouraged. Far
| from it. The Kel Canal remains. as ever,
| absolutely impregnable AS soon as / have
| talked matters over with Hindenburg / am
| planning to take little vacation. Rosner
will go with me. and am going to dictate a
| book to him called Doctor Davis as | Know
| Him DO YOU know of any nice, quiet places
where | gould take holiday undisturbed?'
| ''St. Helena is said to be very pleasant"
| | ventured.
Come to think of it," he said, "the whole
| German nation needs vacation. Also Gott
I have sometimes thought Gott showed symp-
toms of oVerstram."
1t takes two to make a vacation" I sug,
| gested, What will Pershing say about it?'
| "Pershing? You mean that fellow whose
family came from Alsace? Well, what has
| he got to do with it? Trpitz told me he had
been sunk by U-boat. In fact, poor deal
| old Tirpy is worried at the number Of sink.
| ngs. He says that very shortly he will not
be able to sink any more transports properly
because the ocean is getting filled up.
| understand that is what the Americans mean
by bridge of ships, when many ships
have been sunk that they form a causewa,
| across the Atlantic; of course, they will be
able to walk across dry-shod. Still, it's q
long walk I think perhaps Tirpy is worried
| unnecessarily.
"WELL',. he concluded you will excuse
w me, ! must just deliver this Yes tt
Hindy, and then going into rest billets
| Don't he worried If you don't hear from m,
for bit I've been rather OVERRIDING things
and need a change Most of my people
tell me they feel the same Don't FORGE
what told the Krupps-the war began will
great negation and will end with a yrea
| negotiation" p"
| And with rather tremulous smile he wa,
gone, carrying Doctor Davis's book unde
his arm ..f.,..
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-09-15

Stock Of Zeppelin TirpitH d Company
Is no longer quoted on the Hun stock cx-
change
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-09-15

A 80 per cent increase in WAGES has
been granted 10 worknen in Japan Let's
see. they are said TO get three cents a day.
and the raiss would sivs them four and
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-09-15

to decide which Of these gentlemen is best
entitled to the rank of Supreme Spirit Of
the Spheres. 1t seems just that the pres
ent titleholder should have the first say,
and though we with difficulty restrain Mr..
Dulcet. we have asked him to stand back
while his rival describes himself to our
readers.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-09-15
Louis
BesErS
Comparison

voted part Of his precious time TO writ
ing.
THE poet in him looms up above the prose-
writer; although he has written equally as
much in that modicum Of expression--includ-
ing noNelettes, short stories and essays. As a
poet he has no superior in our country; as
regards his produCtiveuess in literary works
he beggarS comparison with any writer, past
or present. in the world. To really know
what this implies. it is necessary to read his
works interestedly-with care-and over and
over again. As 10 beauty of his descriptions,
rare musical feeling in his poetry and the in
finite range Of his subject-matter and deep
Thoughts, Eilshemius is UNIQUE-towering
with all the giants OF the past ages. above
the workaday world :"
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-09-15

Mr.. Eilshemius tells us
that he was born at
Laurel Hill, y. j., on
February 4, 1864. (T'his
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-09-15

+ rom his nineteenth
Near I'VE quote the cir
"ular the Supreme Spirit
has sent usl he has de.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-09-15
Communication
from the
Supreme Spirit

aware that Philadelphia is opening her
eyes to notice that actually exist. Thanks
to your dissertation on my humble self |
can rest assured that soon many of your
city will be aroused to the fact that Amer.
lea owns a parsonage apart from any in
our blessed country
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-09-15

The Americans appear to have intro
duced the skp-stop in France.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-09-15

in their papers it was not my fault. How.
ever, no editor in foreign lands ever re-
fused my casual poems Apia. Samoa
and Auckland, New Zealand favored me
with space for poem twice week. Also
in Honolulu the editor did the same
HENCE in that section of the globe the
public know me. This will at the same
time inform YOU why, although | have
tried hard, the home public never can read
my effusions, good or Indifferent