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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-14
SHIPS WITHOUT FRILLS

A LARGER ship than the Ouistconck
"A was launched on the Delaware this
morning. The Watonwan was eighty five
per cent completed and yet her launch.
ing was scheduled as "a quiet affair"
In this connection the very phrase is an
tnspiring index Of shpbuilding progress.
The first dip OF the Quistconck marked
Gkruction, and the tumult and the shouting
vere its due. But amid the profusion of
new ships scheduled to slide from the ways
ws can't spare either the time or the ex-
pense of frills.
The creation of a new cargo carrier is
now no more phenomenon than the pro-
duction of a new locomotive. Without
formal festivities we have for years been
loading the world in railroad equipment
Ne are now about to turn the same trick
Nth ships.
BY q very human law of proportion we
ors bound to grow less ceremonious with
onch launching as our monumental ship
&ord endeavors hit their destined stride.
It Il possible that later on not even the
Nnme Of additions to our merchant marine
VII be generally recorded in the papers.
me 2s00-ton watonwan, which recently
1>1tood to slide from her Bristol ways. is
nero lucky by virtue of specific mention.
: ~ i1ontity OF hundreds of her sisters
~ swallowed up IN the masr' = Of
- nc1ieyenaeAfs
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-14
What Do You Kno,v?
QUIZ

QUIZ
I, What is the deep-water mort Of HamburEf
2. Who wrote & "9ps ,I,. t..ch Of nature makes the
3. What Is. the royal house of the present King
= "HIh,i Which m he discarded In Political life.
4. What Is the original meaning Of boudor?
O. What rrce .ef Gsople Is numerically predomS
nant In the Hawaiian Islands:
= "fiic Jacet's
8. By what name is the battle 81 Antietam sen-
orally known In the South?
0. What Ii a ketch:
TO- wEis ths Trops s'' Zone
Answers to Yesterdays Quiz
Gs,;n .,s tGf SIo'es'ant rsf''msT H'
2. John Hay. Secretary Of state under Mckinley
% the foreign trade policy Of "ths cpss
o. Grand Duchies of Baden and wurtemburE.
4. Douglas Jerrold. an English humorist;, wrote
dates are isOs-IsS7.
S. Ole Bull. the famous yiolinist. a Nos.
wegian.
g. Vera Cruz is spanish for "True Cross"
woode" bars sradgated IN length and " X
brating when struck OF rubbed.
g. The Kaiser's immediate Predecessor on the
w%s slsa /" isss alter rule q fiSnsI sSOas thas: M
months.
0. The YildI. Kiosk Is the suitan's paIace 10
10. John QUINCY Adams was elected By the
the candiaatss. In .ths election Il issS ~
- ;::;::;i':, ~: 49, - - :;
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-14
THE wICKEDNEss OF BATTING A BALL

MO AMOUNT of argument would con.
= vince the conscientious objectors to
Sunday baseball that they are reading
into the ten commandments an injunc-
ton which they do not contain. Yet it is
interesting for the rest of us to recall that
the biblical command to remember the Sab
bath day and keep it holy was at first
regarded by the race to which ii was given
as a prohibition against work not play,
on the Sabbath. We believe that. as
matter of fact. the ancient Jews INDUCED
in dancing and other amusements on the
seventh day.
The Christian Church observes Sunday
as its holy day and not Saturday. or the
Sabbath Of the Jews. Its strict observ-
anCe, with abandonment of all secular en-
joyment, Is due to the Puritan revolt
against the license of the cavaliers. When
the Puritans came to America they set up
as near to a theocracy was possible for
hem and read into the Old Testament
laws all of the ascetiCism that a genera
ton of pous men. outraged by vicious
practices, could conceive. Our blue laws
are a survival of extreme Purtanism.
In the face of the fact that we have, a
surprising that the Mayor has declined to
give his Official sanction to Sunday base
ball at Shibe Park Personally, he favors
it, but he is unwilling to assume the re.
sponsiblity of deliberate consenting to
the disregard of a statute. We could have
admired his courage had he challenged
! the courts to an Interpretation Of the old
| law by agreeing with the plan of the army
| and navy officers to have ball games be-
| tween enlisted men in the two branches of
| the service on Sundays, to which enlisted
men and the ladies accompanying them
were to be admitted 1t is always difficult
| to forecast a court decision, but it is hard
| to believe that any Judge and jury could
| have been found in this county to hold
| that the spirit of the law had been vio-
| lated. Even yet a way may be found to
| permit the enlisted men to enjoy an aft.
| ernoon of harmless sport on the first day
! of the week.
In the meantime, we should like to know
| how much wickeder it is to bat leather,
| covered ball with club on Sunday than
! to knock rubber ball with stick on a
| golf course.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-14
PETROCRAD is NOT PARIS

DETROGRAD and Paris both begin with
1 p, but, from the military point of view,
that is the only resemblance between the
tycs cities at the present time.
!. The Germans have been headed toward
Paris for four years, but they have found
insurmountable obstacles in their way.
They are now said to be headed toward
Petrograd in the hope of saving some.
thing from the wreck of their plans to
control Russia with the aid of Lenine and
Trotsky They may be able to take the
city, but Petrograd is not Russia, and for
all practical purposes it has been domi-
mated by Germany for more than a year
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-14
SINCE YOU INSIST
The Man With the Hoe (Press)

The Man With the Hoe Press
ABOUT these roaring cylinders,
"A Where leaping words and paper
mate,
A sudden glory moves and stirs-
An inky cataract in spate!
What power for falsehood or for truth,
What hearts attentive to be stirred
How dimly understood, in sooth,
The magic of the printed word!
These flashing webs and cogs of steel
Have shaken empires, routed kings,
Yet never turn too fast to feel
The tragedies of humble things.
o words, be strict in honesty,
Be just and simple and serene;
o rhymes, sing true, or you will be
Unworthy of this great machine!
Roscoe Peacock. after studying our bul.
letin board at Sixth and Chestnut with
bated breath, copied off the following dis
patch and brought it up to us:
N5V67K291M5D2NN1 Reported Out Of
the Senate Committee.
Is it possible that the Senate has got
ratified by our remarks about its wilful
waste Of syllables?
Some one seems to hare declared a dry
zone around Karl Rosners fountain pen.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-14

TT CANNOT be said that the multiplying
= orders Of the Pennsylvania fuel admin
istration make darkness general every
where. They tend to make life brighter
for the burglars.
Thoughtful yeggmen have reason to feel
secretly grateful to Mr.. Potter and Mr..
Garfield and to hold them in a sort OF
esteem almost as great as that which they
must reserve for those who have wrecked
the police department
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-14
Where are we drifting anyhow?

Mr.. McAdoo, before he electrifies all
the railroads of the country, and Colonel
Harvey, before he buckles down to con-
vict Henry Ford of treason. might an
swer that one question We have the
impression that it will prove in the long
run to be one of the most important of
all the questions of the war.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-14

ism symbolized vividly go out to almost
any cash-and- ice station or to those
central ice warehouses where the en-
ployes of the companies sell ice to the
really poor. There the women and chill
dren wait humbly in patient lines, while
men who seem to have become lords and
barons overnight bawl at them, fling
them bits of ice or make them wait un-
necessary and cruel hours in the sun.
This is the iceman in his new aspect!
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-14

I'm puzzling some
A Fat Chance thing out. Mr.. Inter-
locutor." We'll. Mr..
Bones. I'd be glad to be of any assistance.
What's bothering your" ITS just this. Mr.
Interlocutor: How can Germany be SO short
jof fat when she can siill call upon the
lhesds Of her seneraisy'
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-14

Lenne has ordered the execution of all
who oppose the Soviet Government, thereby
establishing a precedent which he is likely
later to have cause to regret when the anti
Bolsheviki get hold of him.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-14
SOCRATES.

1t seems little too hard on Spain that,
having been the refuge Of Boss" Tweed.
Marshal Bazaine, Porfirio Diaz and lack
Johnson. she should now be selected as the
residence of NJ. Malvy, the discredited ex-
Foreign Minister of France.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-14

Not even the most gullble German will
believe that an advance on poor old Petro-
grad will do much to ease Ludendorfs
blood pressure on the western front.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-14

Miss Dante to the Rescue
Dear Socrates--Your definition Of Boil
shevik isn't bad, but like mine better 1t
is this: A Bolshevik is one who believes
a weekend begins on Friday afternoon
and lasts until Tuesday morning.
ANN DANTE.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-14

Essential service is increasingly hard
to get. Those who render it become
more ungracious all the time. Are we all
becoming Bolsheviki together? Are high
wages to make US all naughty, overinde-
pendent and unwilling to do anything
that we aren't compelled to do?
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-14

An English paper reports that girl
was saved from drowning by an under.
taker. Will the Embalmers' Union fine
him for unprofessional conduct?
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-14

If Lenine and Trotsky ever form the SUBJ
ject of a volume in the Little JOURNEYS to
the Homes of Great Men" series, the writer
will have to do lot of travelling
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-14

Although we do not know much about the
Usuri River. which British troops are said
to have reached, we somehow feel it should
be brimful of interest.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-14

The Allies have taken 1000 German
guns but the Kaiser should worry. 1t simply
means much more work for Krupps, in
which he is a shareholder.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-14

Now that dry zone has been fixed
around the Frankford Arsenal, thirsty work.
men may try to enlarge it by absorbing the
liquids to be found outside the zone limits
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-14
The Spirif Of France

We need some more aluminium for our
rings" wrote French poilu, referring to
the metal rings that the French amuse
themselves by making from German shell
cases.
We have ordered some from the boches:
they are good business men and are filling
the order Immediately"
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-14

So far as Uncle Sam is concerned, those
coastal wasps are o U-boats. and it is fer
vently hoped that he will promptly pay what
he owes them
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-14

When Wilhelm gets to Petrograd
We know what he will find:
A thousand hungry Sovets
That Trotsky left behind.
Discarded manifestoes, and
Some blank checks of Lenines-
The Russ has bolshevictuals, but
He's mighty short of beans.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-14
Oddly enough, the

Oddly enough, the Government seems to
have decided that one Of the helpful means
of promoting the defeat of Germany is not to
liquor
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-14

The lightning stopped the clock in the
c,,,, Hall tower. but the high old times ,yan,
on as usual beneath il.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-14

Nothing amuses a German prisoner so
much as the care that is taken to preuent
him from escaping.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-14
Keeping Them Cheerful

The following sign in the window. Of a
Chestnut street bookstore always amuses
US:
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-14

The Germans hdren't enough sense to
come in out of the Ukraine.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-14

The members of the draft boards seem
to be drafted themselves. They are not to
be allowed to resign.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-14

You want to be careful what temDta.
tions you fall for and what ones you re.
sist sometimes termination
doesn't come again.-Don Marquis
Think for instance, what self control
and forbearance the Kaiser and Hindv
showed in not insisting on eating that din
ner in Paris.
SOCRATES
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-14

Karl Rosner is likely to say that
the report of the Allied victory in Picardy
Is merely "frameoup.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-14

Some serial stories may be all right, but
"warm-to be continued favor with
nobody.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-14

but Philadelphia would forgo hers without
the least regret
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-14

The water bureau Is doing its best to
prevent the creation of dry zone south of
Market street.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-14

In spite Of the U-boat raid Cape Fear
doesn't seem frightened.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-14

Germany is good deal more respectful
toward scraps Of paper now that she is
wearing them.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-14
READ THE MOST TRAGICAL POEM
IN ENGLISH LITERATURE
AND SEND A COPY TO
A FRIEND (5c)

A te,o more thunderstorn,s like the re-.
cent one and tce tciH haze to put our Strd,o
hat on Ctth a spoon.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-14

If you make perfect ass of yoursel
you can get away with anything. TIL,
trouble comes when you show yourself al
imperfect ass.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-14

Germany keeps on trying to erchange
uomen deported from France for baby
killers captured by the poilus.
But one good interne deserves another.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-14

"RAck to Nature !" the prophet ar, and the the
ID pundit proclaim but neither will stay
the plodding haste of his own way thither to
reply to the idle query, What, sage sir, is
Nature which you capitalize so insstently'
and Uh 'returp
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-14

IF THERE are doubts about the scientist
| as a lover of nature, there are only cer-
tsinties about "the nature -faker," now hap
PLY rather out of vogue 1t was he who
studied zoology out of "Reynard the Fox"
and folklore out Of Mother Goose" Peace.
you faneiful poets with your pathetic and
Cleveland County herald., 1918-07-04
MONTE 81 VAL BELLA WRESTED
FROM ENEMY AND 800 PRiS-
ONERS TAKEN.
NEW POSITIONS ARE TAKEN
General Diaz Probably Has Expected
Heaviest Blow To Be Launched
Along Mountain Front, Which is
Key TIE Whole Italian Front.

New York.-Attacking the Austro-
Hungarian lines on the Asiago pla-
teau. the Italians have wrested Mon
tie di Val Bella from the enemy, CAP
tured 500 prisoners and held their
new positions against repeated coun-
ter-attacks.
This sudden turn from the defen-
sive to the offensive came as a sur
prise to the laymen of the allied
world, for it had been believed that
General Diaz, the Italian commander,
would be content to hold his lines in
the mountains against a great, new
offensive intended by the Austrlans
and Germans to take away the sting
of defeat of the Austrians along the
Piave two weeks ago.
Nor was the Italians attack limited
to the positions ON Monte di Val Bel
Ia. Further east, on the left bank
of the Brenta river, they captured
the height of Sasso Rosso, just north
of the village of Valstagna, taking
prisoner two officers and thirty-one
men.
These two actions, while local in
character, may explain the failure Of
the Italians to pursue the Austrians
across the Piave when, on June %,
the enemy fed from the west bank
with a haste that indicated some
thing Of decentralization.
General Diaz probably has expected
the heaviest enemy blow to be
launched along the mountain front,
which is the key to the whole Italian
situation. In attacking there himself
he has carried the fight to the foe.
gained strong positions at vital points
and broke up some of the prepare
tions made by enemy for an offer i've
in that quarter.
1t is hardly to be believed that Gen
eral Diaz plans to go further than To-
cal detectives, but II he should make
much progress on the Asiago plateau,
| he could be able to take under his
artillery fire the railroad paralelling
! the battle line and running along the
| Brenta river east of Lake Chaldonaz-
20. This line is the connecting link
between the Piave and Adiage fronts
and if the Italians could dominate it,
! the Austrian system of communities
lions would be seriously impaired.
Cleveland County herald., 1918-07-04
British SMASH SMASH HUN
LINES IN FLANDERS
BRITISH ADVANCE MILE IN FLAN-
OERS ON FRONT OF OVER
THREE MILES.

London.-British troops IN attacks
against the Germans have advanced
their line over front of nearly three
and half mills to an average depth
of nearly a mile east of the Nieppe
forest, which lies between Baillieaul
and Bethune, according to the British
official communication issued this
evening. West of Merris Australian
troops also captured enemy positions.
On both sectors prisoners and ma
chine guns were taken.
The operation was an unqualified
success from its inception, and the at
lacking infantry reached all their Oh
jectives in remarkably short time.
By this thrust the British not only
have greatly improved their position
in this important and much-contested
sector, which lies just north of Mer-
vile, but they inflicted heavy punish
ment on two hostile divisions that
were holding the line here-the thir-
ty-second division of Saxons and the
forty-fourth reserve division of Prus-
slang -'---s ,--- t--.y-- .i y --t''4
Large numbers of the enemy were
killed in the hurricane onslaught and
some ESQ of the more fortunate had
been collected in the prisoner cages
before noon.
The front of the attack was 5000
yards in length and lay approximate
ly between Yieux Berquin on the
north and Pont Journal, which is p
600 yards northwest of Merville, ON
the south
The first stages of the drive were
comparatively easy. In fact all the
final detectives were reached without
much difficulty.
At two strongly fortified farms near
the center of the line the enemy
fought stubbornly, but was unable to
stand out long against the furious on
slaughts of the British, who attacked
them from all directions.
The losses among the storming IN
fantry for the entire engagement
were extremely light, which was due
largely to the fact that the show was
over before the enemy was able to
organize serious resistance.
AS a special feature of the program
Australian troops on the left or the
columns carried out stimulated at
tack Of their own, which had an amaZ-
ing result, adding nearly half hun
dred prisoners to the bag.
Cleveland County herald., 1918-07-04
HUNS HUNS TRYING TO
BRIGHTEN FRANCE
PROPAGANDA TELLS OF ZEPPE-
LIN RAIDS ON LARGE OFFICE
BUILDINGS IN NEW YORK.

New Notwithstanding to passen-
gers who arrived at an American port
from France on board large French
steamship formerly in the South
American trade, the Huns are deyel-
oping a sense of humor in their at
tempts to spread frightfulness by
means of ink and paper inside the
French lines. The sole result of their
newest propaganda work has been to
fill the comic papers in Paris with re-
productions of the crude attempts on
the part of the Huns to scare Paris
ians into their cellars. The dropping
OF pamphlets inside the French lines
has been pursued persistently by the
German aviators, and the contents of
these booklets relate all that has hap
pened to New York or what is sup
posed to have happened according to
the German humorist.
Among other things, all the large
office buildings in New York have
been deserted for fortnight-since
great Zeppelins dropped bombs upon
the skyScrapers and laid many of the
huge stone piles to dust.
Parisians also are supposed to be
lieve, in the face of no such news
from us direct, that New York, Brook
Ign, Boston and Baltimore have been
bombed by the Hun U-boats, and that
the splendid bridge over the East Riv-
er and the tunnels underneath have
been destroyed, compelling residents
of Brooklyn to go home by means Of
scows or whatever water craft they
dare use under a constant lombard
ment from the air by German air.
planes.
The fantastic literature prepared by
the German frightfulness department
includes Kansas City, Chicago, and
numerous points in between, although
the pamphlets are strangely silent as
to Hoboken, Weehawken and Union
Hill.
Among the 81 passengers aboard the
French steamship were "a officers
and men of the American Steamship
Navahoe, which recently was sent to
France and turned over to the French
government Among them were Capt.
c. w. Sprague, First Officer c. H.
Kirwin, Second Officer o. Dawson and
Third Officer A. r. Rowe,
Officers of the French steamship
stated that belief is generali in France
that the American collier Cyclops has
been captured by the Germans and
will turn up one of these days as
raider. The French steamship before
the war was in the passenger service
to Buenos Aires from French ports.
Cleveland County herald., 1918-07-04
Redu-e Size of Auto Tires.

Washington. Immediate reduc-
ton in the number of types and sizes
of automobile tires from 2S7 to 81
has been determined upon by auto
mobile tire manufacturers in accord
with recommendations of the conser-
walton division of the war industries
board. Under the programme an
nounced by November l. 1921, all put
nine types and sizes will have oeen
discontinued.