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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-06-08
4 BROAD ST. SUNSET

WHAT do you sec, friend, as you go, your
w rounds of, the city? What besides peo-
Pile and buildings, soldiers and army trucks.
straw hats and trolley cars? What else do
you see? 49, so. .tssa...
0UR city-any big city-is alive with the
~ most wonderful sights. They may be seen
at daybreak, at high, noon. at sunset. at dark
est midnight. Look about you as you 60
your way and behold these wonders that are
all around you. Be your own Whistler as you
ride or walk over the SchuylkiH at night and
look down through the grim network OF cir
der and trestle to the river below. Be your
own MaXfield Parrish as you look up from
your Office window to the great banks OF
feecy white clouds; piled high against the
brilliant blue OF the sky. Be your own
Joseph Pencil as your Willow Grove train
whisks you along past the glare of the great
Midyale furnaces. . 1Ir
These marvellous pictures are all to be had
for the looking and more real, more vivid
than ever the pen or brush of a Whistler, =
Parrish or a Pennell could portray them
For instance . ga, -.
MAYBE you saw that motheT-of-pear
1N1 sunset the other evening from the wait
ing platform of the trainshed at Broad
Street Station. 1t came at that period which
might best be designated as the lull between.
the supper rush anu III oashf nv
movies. -.- .--...- 10y 49,.
There have been few hours OF quiet in
and around Broad Street Station of late. but
there was such a time this evening. The few
people who were about seemed to come and
20 with the highest, softest step. Not even
the usual noise from, the street; not a sound
from a putting engine or a moving train.
T STOPPED before the Official clock" set
L my watch and turned casually around.
There. in the west. at the far end Of the
great. black trainshed. / beheld a canvas
a picture far more wonderful, far loveher
than anything l have ever seen in art gallery
studio or book. TO-
A little while before the great arched out
look must have been flooded with the golden
glare of the setting sun. But that was gone
now. and In its place i saw a veritable moth
er-of-pearl sky-broad, soft stretches OF the
most delicate shades and tints OF pink, blue
and cream. blending into and out OF one
| another with almost inconceivable variation.
And against this picture of infinite beauty
and purest coloring. as though to break IL
into a score of pictures and frame each one
in ebony. criss-crossed the black iron girdero
that support the roof of the train shed,
Tut even as i looked the picture faded.
n And as | turned to go the noises of the
night came up to me from the street oetoW.
and I knew that the crowd was gathering on
Market street and that the soldier and his
girl had about decided that, judging from
the pictures "out front" 1t was a pretty. good
film and they guessed they'd go in
Il. A, NJ.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-06-08

THE facts are the same in all profess
l. sions that require solitude and contem-
plation. In a city that is mentally asleep
there is not enough noise of thinking to
disturb the original genius. Consequently
it was here that Frederick w. Taylor, un-
known to his fellow townsmen, worked out
his system Of scientific management which
brought experts from all parts of the world
to visit him. It was here that John G.
Johnson argued cases and collected pic.
lures until the New York leaders of bust
ness who were looking for the greatest
lawyer in the United States came over and
engaged him to plead before the Supreme
Court. Philadelphia seems Indifferent about
keeping his art treasures in the city, but
European connoisseurs declare it to be the
finest private collection of paintings in the
world.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-06-08

OUR home public has not, perhaps, con.
sidered this matter, for reasons which
is not an artistic center it is assumed that
there are no Philadelphia artists. This
brings US to our apparent paradox, viz,
that the very reason this city is an ideal
place for artists in that the city as a whole
knows little about artists and cares less.
That is just what the good artist needs
to be let alone.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-06-08
What Do You KnoW?

QUIZ
I. What WAS the origin Of the tanks a. . wns
weapon"
. Who WINS Nine. de Stael? "
q, What was the first capital Of the Uaitsa
states: asassf
4. Name the author Of kidnapped"
o. What is the capital Of Maine:
@. Vito Is General Peyton &. March?
I. What Is convelyulus: -
8. Who IL Postmaster General Of the Cnitee
States? W
o. What were the Wars Of the Rosess
10. When was the Norman Conquest:
Answers to Yesterdays Quiz
4, Chatesu-T hIerry IL an important French
railroad town on the Marine.
9. Duke Albrerht Of Wurtemburg. German gen-
erai ENGAGED In the Marine bstehH
3. Hartford Is the capital Of Connectscut,
4. Hamlet" n tragedy BY shakespeare,
s. Captain william Kidd. y scotch prNts.
hanRed in 1901. 49,
America IL the Appalachian.
I. 10 ,ephus DauleIs II Secretary Of the Nasy.
y. "a penny saved IL a penay earned. tsy
gained),. n usually aseribed - ffa4kfe.
An earlier ,sssiSn y: f'sns Y rss9;s
.. ps .'ss $3.50. = :es.sf s'cs::,'. rsstsx -:
= I'M; ;',sdH5
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-06-08
KEEP 1T Up

TIME Communicating of the steel industry
= by the Government is as necessary as
me communicating Of the railroads, II
shiDs are to be built with all possible speed
~ Il imperative that steel for them be
ready IS fast as II can be used. The
Gurest way to get it is for the Government
10 take charge of the business and dis
tribute tn product of the steel mills ac-
eording to the needs of industry as AT
Coeted by the war.
II the mohilizins Of all forms Of industry
- war purposes becomes necessary the
r1rn1Ken VIII not hesitate to act and
3aff>nril support Il. We have set GU,
~ neterisl as we'll
1Af secred honor sre 81
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-06-08

Judge Eonniwell Is finding it more din.
cult T." get q campaign committee chairman
friendly TO him Than 20 win the nomination.
The state Democracy does not appear to he
anxious to be known as the party of the vets.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-06-08
PHILADELPHIA AN
ARTISTS PARADISE
b. Charles Wharton Sfork

quently he never changes and never de-
velops. This is what has caused an Eng
lish dramatic critic to say, every year |
meet with a new crop of promising writer's
and find hat last years men have dropped
out .,. -.s,&
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-06-08
SINCE YOU INSIST
Business of Pcpderjng

WHO bade the planets veer and spin,
w And loop their vast festoons?
Who tipped the earth and let her roll
tn"rrinE grooves of air?
Who ruled the awful passa yes
OF suns and eaIths and moons,
And taught them how to pass and turn
With a billion miles TO spare"
WHO balanced all these flying weights
w With polse and couuterpoise?
Who tossed these whimsic tricks in space
Like marbles and tin cars?
And will he. weary of his play.
FatiEued by many toys,
Discard his complex trinket box
And shut its lid Of stars?
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-06-08

The death of Charles W. Fairbanks
leaves only two former Vice Presidents alive.
They are Theodore Roosevelt and Levi r.
Morton. The latter served with Benjamin
Harrison from 1889 to 1898 and Is now
ninety-four years old. Hobart and sherman
died several years ago.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-06-08

Lave adopted the following little verse
for my desk motto. Can any one tell mo
who it's author is"
IF the day looks kinder gloomy
And your chances kinder slim,
II the situations puzzin'
An the prospects awful grim,
An perplexities keep pressin'
Till all hope Is mel ay gone.
Just bristlc up arr grit your teeth
An keep on keepin' on
SALTED PEANUTS.
Any whale that does a tail spin of the
Delaware Breakuater these days is likely
to find itself spermlos versenkt. or at least
suspected as a mother ship for shrew
boats.
How often, cries the Young Lady Across
the Way. has that town Croix de Guerre
been won?
That strange illness that seems TO have
spread from Spain to Denmark is very
common in neutral countries. 1t is simply
an aggravated case OF intense WEAKNESS.
Of the Kaiser and his antics.
T.-R. cries that there are SeNen@hNphens
in his blood. Well, there are seven colors
in the rainbow.
Doctor Dernburg says Germany must DO
able TO supply the world with raw ma
terials after the war. But We have had
quite enough Of Prussianism, which is the
rawest product she has to offer.
Porto Rico wreaks her wrath.
The unhappy Chinese. Carrying on a
civil war of their own and not even a
motion. picture operator over there TO
record it.
Two Noble kinsmen
Two men nave been found in London
who spent two years in a hall bedroom TO
avoid military service, Sounds to us like
Percy and Ferdie.
Even If the Kaiser's press bureau won't
tell the Germans that American troops are
In France. 1t seems that the marines will
force the information upon them.
What the marines have won il not only
a net gain, but a bayonet gain.
In . word, the marines and the Marine
consonial. 6ockATES.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-06-08

Possibly those American wounded shipped
to the fair Riviera to recuperste may find
It only natural that their considerate Uncle
Sam has such a nice Nice.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-06-08

PHILADELPHIA will never be an ar
tistic center. Granted, but why worry?
For that very reason it is an ideal home
for the painter and the writer.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-06-08

Here's hoping that Uncle Sans mos
quito heet viii completely triumph over any
submarine Citronella.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-06-08

Greeting to the Eclipse
Welcome to our humidst!
Have you noticed the diagonal track OF
the eclipse across the brawny chest of this
continent" Evidently the heavenly bodies
have Endorsed the Sam Browne belt.
AS far as the total eclipse is concerned,
however. Philadelphia falls in an area OF
low visibility.
Like some humOrists, though we say it
as don't like to. who often exhibit very low
visibility.
The Congressional Record OF June 4 de-
votes twenty pages to a debate in the
House on the protection Of migratory birds.
But how about the protection OF migra-
tory hospital ships?
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-06-08

T. II. says. his name should be spelled
with seven hyphens. Full of dash, as usual
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-06-08

The "Yanks' arc prov
Tell the World: ing that the value of
opon warfare is fully
equal TO that or open diplomacy.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-06-08

They used to say Tell it to the
marines.'' but now we must say, Tell 1t of
ne marines"
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-06-08

DUT, it may be argued, if solitude is
- good. why not isolation? To this we
answer that moderation Is the best rule in
all things. The Middle West produces
many good men, but they are a bit too far
away from the center of things. They are
lacking in necessary training; they are too
far from New York and from Europe to
get the culture anC vitali2ation which every
one needs from time to time. Provincialism
is their strength and their limitation. The
same thing is true in another way of
Boston. Boston binders her geniuses by
coddling and conventionalizing them. Chi,
cago has all the drawbacks and few of the
advantages Of a metropolis.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-06-08

wit thou" steamed
written Al General Humidity.
y. ". However strongly
built
The collar shorn OF its rigidity
Sup,nely moaned II wilt -
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-06-08

So the Kaiser picked
but We riolcts on the battle
Won't Get Them! field? Well. well ,
Now We know what
klnd or flowers he would like on his grave.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-06-08
4 Confession
Greeting to the Eclipse

one Of the things that bother minor
poets is the scarcity OF rhymes for stars"
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-06-08

We suppose the next
thing the Kaiser will
do, in his efforts to
convince the world
Of . Teutonic turn Of
him The Bard q
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-06-08

WITH scholars it is the same. The late
w Doctor Furness here found the seclu.
sion he needed for his monumental edition
of Shakespeare. Henry c. Lea made him.
self such an authority on Spanish history
that Lord Acton told him there was vir-
tually no second in his field. 1t is true
that in their later years these two men
became fairly well known in their native
place, but this was after they had become
sufficiently set in their ways to be above
any consideration OF temporary fame. Pro
fessor McMaster, at the completion of his
invaluable History of the American Peo-
Pile" is in a similar position. Prof. +. b.
Gummere, Of Haverford College, still con-
| tinues to receive from abroad most of his
recognition as a leading authority on pop
ular poetry. ,
TXAMPLES such as these have been
II often noted before. The point to be
made here is that PhiIsdelphia's indiffer-
ence, instead of being a drawback, is a ire
mendous advantage to a really good man.
| It is only the never-will-be tyl that wants
to be patted on the hack all the time.
Think of the number of weaklings whom
our cold shoulder cure has eliminated and
turned into respectable druggists or school
teachers. Meanwhile the strong man has
had few temptations to cheaper his work
during the formative period of his career.
CONTRAST conditions in New York. The
promising youngster is promptly
snapped up by a newspaper, magazine,
publishing firm, art dealer or theatrical
company. Whatever his gift, he Is In
duced to play 1t down to Fifth avenue
and Broadway. Thus his artistic con
science is vitiated. Cheap humor. hashy
color. bizarre design. estchy 0paic and
fseced plot A. ~ rsuulfs 11coee1
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-06-08

TNO RETURN to our premises then, Phila-
- delphia is the ideal city Of America for
artistic. scientific and scholarly develop
ment. And the proof is the number Of men
we have at the top in any given pursuit.
There is "A much larger percentage Of Phil
adelphians in who's Who" than there is
Of New Workers., Oh even of the inhabitants
Of Boston and Cambridge combined. Fur
thermore, many eminent Philadelphians
who made themselves here have moved
away to enjoy their success.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-06-08

Nor Can the This news that the
Americans Americans are fighting
cannot be kept from
tho Germans much longer.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-06-08

the palate. lie carries no passenger. once
far out he anchors and becomes a king Of
the world.
To approach such a fisherman, even po-
litely, or to venture within the charmed
circle of his horizon is to be received with
frank agitation and outspokcn resentment
Why fishermen are thus no one knows.
They like stiffness and solitude. They
never eat the Ash they catch. 1t is the
grating noise and the harsh contacts OF the
land that they dislike. And surely they
had reason to feel safe enough and insured
against intrusion.
IT is impossible to imagine the tumult in
the minds of any hardened fisherman who
has seen German submarines come along
to explode bombs and scare away all the
bass and the sea turtles-frst essentials of
his odd routine. The fshermsn's boat rep.
rcsents an almost holy privacy. Now it
has been violated.
The moral is plain for the larger world
on land.
No mans rights arc safe, no privilege
secure in these days. Even a tisherniau's
philosophy-the remotest and most alb
stract OF all-has been touched by war and
jolted back to earth at last.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-06-08

WHAT do you sec, friend, as YOU go, your
w rounds of, the city? What besides, peo-
Pile and buildings, soldiers and army trucks.
straw hats and trolley cars? What else do
you see? g.. .,. .l.sa... -
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-06-08

WE CERTAINLY ought to do something,
w or else give up this ridiculous blum about
our wonderful public libraries. The first
thing to do, ungallant as it sounds to say so,
is to fire out the spinsters and administer
the libraries by volunteers, II necessary. but
by people with a vision. The second thing
we have got to do is TO get over the idea
that a public library. especially a small one,
Is a collection of books for the restricted
dissemination OF culture" Il. e., hction). 1t
is a collection of Information for the educa-
ton and assistance of all classes.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-06-08

TOOK at a few Of the fields we have not
IL noted. In the novel we have owen
Wister, whose "Virginian' has not been
approached by any living American. OF
the younger men, there. is Joseph Her.
gesheimer, regarded by many critics as the
coming master in artistic fiction, In the
drama we have John Luther Long and
Edward Carpenter. Among painters we
have Joseph Pennell, Maxfield Parrish, Nio-
let Oakley, Daniel CARRIER and Joseph Pear
son, all strongly distinctive. In illustration
there are Walter Taylor. George Harding,
Thornton Oakley. Jessie Wilcox Smith and
Anna Whelan Belts. Among the younger
poets are NJ. Struthers Burt, William Laird,
Phoebe Hoffman and Dorothy Anderson;
of these, perhaps only the first-named is
widely known as yet, but the others are
being watched by those whose opinion
counts Even among free-verse writers we
may count H. d." Ezra Pound and Donald
Evans as Philadelphians in their early
training. In music there are Celeste Heck
scher and Camille. Zeckwer, composers;
David Bispham, Allan Hinckley, Nicholas
Douty and Horstio Connell, singers, and
Frank Gittelson and Sascha Jacobinoff,
violinists. This does not count Mr., Sto-
kowski and the many talented members OF
the Philadelphia Orchestra, which is now
so valued "a part Of our civic-artistic life,
let the Philadelphia, then, be Of good
IL courage. The longest way around will
be the shortest way home to fame in his
native city. When New York and London
discover him he can afford to wait for local
appreciation, He lives in a city with all
the opportunities that culture can offer
and he is within easy reach of the great
market, New York. He has lovely nature
all about him, friends as many as he can
do justice TO and a community that will
leave him alone. With these adv ,ntages II
he does not make Sud he has onIy himsslf
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-06-08

SCVIIELL, what are you going to do about
w It? What can YOU do, with only s20(
a year, is the common answer to any
criticism.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-06-08
What's the Matter With
Public Libraries

T AN about to attack one Of the most cher
L ished of all our American institutions,
ono upon which, scarcely less than upon our
public schools, orators have frequently in
formed me the greatness OF the nation rests.
tf this be true, all I can say is. it's remark.
able what an imposing edifce you can erect
upon n feeble foundation. our public school
system is bad enough. being based, as We
know, on a Prussian system designed to
keep 90 per cent Of the population In sub
lection, and We have achieved democratic
greatness rather in spite Of II. But our pub
lie libraries
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-06-08

ITO ME there has been something pro-
l. foundly disheartening during these past
three trying years in the almost complete
ignoring OF the small-town public library
cat least. In my part OF the world) by all
the forces seeking to get essential informa-
ton to the public. There has been a perfect
food of newspaper publicity (Which goes
TO make the next days fire) there have
been posters and pamphlets and bulletins.
But nowhere are they collected. sifted, kept
available for reference. They are lost in the
shufne, while the spinster librarian goes
sereneiy on each Saturday afternoon putting
her little rubber stamp on the slip inside the
back cover Of "Pollyanna" and similar stuff.
| don't believe one of our active farmers
has entered our library in a decade, unless
it was to get a STORY book" for his wife.
I don't believe it has given any assistance
to a teacher. a dramatic club, a boy trying
to educate himself for college, to a single
person really seeking a public library for the
purposes to which a library ought to be
dedicated. And ] don't believe this needs to
be the case, even IL we have but 5000 a year
TO spend (Which, by the way, would be made
$500 II the voters once found that the Ii
brary could be a necessity instead of an
idle luxury. A proper spirit and vision in
the librarian, a proper cooperation by the
State and Federal bureaus and a more OK
tensive cooperation by the city libraries
could easily work a revolution. And | have
an idea that the United States Departments
of Agriculture and Education are the places
where the movement ought TO start. Perhaps
&c has started--but il hasn't got to my neck
NJ the woods vet. w. y, r.