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MCAroni Ballads
XCVIII

DA BOY FROM GENOA
Here ces COM som'body up from da sea
An he looka like me;
Notta like now am looka to you,
But like coma here first, wen I'm
new;
Like usa to be.
Up from da sheep, joost SO soon as he
land,
Here he ees COM an he stop by dees
stand,
Maxim a bow, weeth hees hat cen hee'
hand.
81 am Giacobbe,' he tai me, your son
"Madre's cen Genoa; you know da one
She theenk you find me SOM work to be
done"
He deed no needa for say who ees he
Dat was so plain, oh, so plain as could be-
Soon as | see how he's looka like me,
Deesa Giacobbe boys madre, you know
She was my wife at home long time ago
Good nanny year, mebbe twanty or so
We was joost marry, bout coupla week,
Wen da Keeng's army boss coma to seek
Me for a soldier. / run away, queeck!
ALA time Rosa she know where ] cam;
Often write to her: "Com' where | am
But she won't COM to me; no sir, BY
DAM
So, she won't minda me, wat can dol
Please, now, | aska you, w'ata would
you?
Sure! so joost do da sama theeng, too
Steel here ees COM her Giacobbs today
An l am sure he was runnin away
Wat shall I do for heem, wat shall !
say?
Here's wat say to heem: "Leesen, my
Giac,
You're like your padre, an on da wrong
track;
You gotta fight, so you better go back
"All da worlds fightin' for som'theeng'
my son,
Don'ta be fool like your poor padre done
You for Italia! Here ees da mon"
Dere ees gon' somebody back to da sea
An he looka like me;
Notta like now l am looka to you,
But like coma here first, wen I'm
new;
Like usa to be.
TOM DAILY.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-01-17
WE CAN DELIVER THE GOODS

WE trust that influential members o. the
w Chamber Of Commerce to say nothing
Of our municipal officials, read the inter.
view with Mr. IIasskarl, Assistant Director
Of Wharves, Docks and Ferries. in the
EVENING PUBLIC LEDGER of yesterday. Mr..
Hasskarl does not wish To criticize the
Government. but he does wish that "ofi.
cials would make an investigation Of our
facilities for handling foreign shipments"
We publish i'm our pictorial section today
illustrations which tell their own story
of the congestion in New York and of the
lack of use of piers here. 1t is condi-
tion for which thcro are doubtless scores
of explanations, but facts have q way of
making explanations ridiculous The par.
tlCular fact which is of supreme i'm.
portance is that the Government can ap.
preciably facilitate shipments by utilizing
this port to capacity, and that is just what
the Government is not doing.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-01-17
THE TOILERS ARE THE PEOPLE"

TT USED 10 be said that labor had become
4 class conscious" which vas an ugly.
Prussian idea, distastcful and foreign to
EnElish.spcakinE pcoplca. What has really
happened is that nations have become
labor conscious Labor now speaks for q
whole nation with an admirable confidence
in it's identity with the nation. More mo.
mentous even than tho matter Of British
labor's message TO the Russian and the
German peoples is its style. The British
people accept the principle Of no anneAa-
tons for the British Empire. This applies
in our case to the Middle East, Africa and
india Tho nation" apparently. is here.
after to mean Everybody but the loarcrS" d"
This is to say TO the statesmen: You
cannot keep on fighting without tho sup
port Of Us millions Of men and women who
arc producing. and YOU will only keep our
support 10y having antiimpcrialistic war
aims, which put the mau above tho dollar
mark everywhere"
Tho British aud American Governments
can accept this challenge. They are living
up to,this principle
Labor could not have taken this all
inclusive position Of authority # women
had not gone to work in unprecedented
numbers to win the war. Only when the
whole community works women as well as
men, can the workers be "wc, the people"
This means that workers must give women
the vote and see TO IT that women get the
Same pay as mon for mems work or else
give up their high ambition for popular
sovereignty.
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more OF whom know all about railroad.
ing, and call on them for volunteers for
temporary service would send regiments
into the coal fields who would get tho
black diamonds and shoot them into the
industrial ccutcrs in such hurry that it
would make the heads OF old fossils swim.
There are too many conferences and too
few performances. Damn the difficulties!
Go Ahead"
We say tho. Washington cdict is hu.
initiating. Every wheel in the nation ought
to be hummng, every man doing extra
work, every function of industry be under
the Eoad. yet the machinery is to stop and
legal holidays he our confession Of
hndrancc. We make no charge Of inoni.
cheney. We do not have TO. Efficiency
might be proved and yet he an unsatisfac.
tory answer. for what wo need is super.
efficiency. and then another dose of Ell.
cheney on top Of that. IL only so results
can be got
Unclo Sam says Halt" Yet he says it
not to the Kaiser, but to the American ma.
chine. Tho nations answer is never
again" Why q Roosevelt as fuel al.
ministrator would have been mp in the
mino fields with drum corps behind him
and the coal would bavo leapcd ont Of tho
mine mouths ON the notes ur Tho star
l
| Spanglcd Banner coal administration.
nonte, is clogecd with GOODNESS. rut .omo
American onthusiasm behind tho Job. Mr..
| Garfield, aud tho headquarters Of mule
| The fate Of Democracy hangs m tho bal
once and Democracy aays to her eorvant7.
| "Go to Rcrln with ,our explanations, como
! 10 INC With results"
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FOOD f, O. B. KITCHEN DOOR
100000 War Gardens National Need
for 1918

COLDIEiS Of the soil can rc-cnrorco aud
~ help soldiers Of the trenches. Now IS the
time Tor them TO begin thinking about their
war gardens.
tiIe million war gardens are the nations
heed Tor 1918. That means the mobilization
OF at least that many war gardeners. BacI,
yards city lots, suburban plots should be
farmeds Home gardening conducted on sim
pie lines Is not abstruse or difficult The
home gardener should not plow uD moro than
he can plant-that is all Thousands tried
home gardening for the first time last spring
and were more or less successful The for
mcr have had the encouragement TO dupir,te
or better their performances the latter have
learned what 10 avoid and how to do through
experience and should grit their teeth for q
new trial
Production Of food "F. .. X. the Kitchen
Door" was the impulse given the nation bv
the campaign Of the National Emergency
Food Garden Commission, Of which Charles
Is head
To establish a winter supply p O. r. tho
Pantry Shelf is the supplementary aim OF
the commission.
Nationwide survey has shown that more
than 3,00Q,0 home gardens were planted
and cultivated by the American people in
1914 BY the planting of gardens where none
grew before the country's food supply in
creased TO the extent of $3.50 900, 600 or more.
Philadelphia's Vacant Lots Association re-
The patriotic duty of every American de-
mands the conservation Of this output That
the vegetables cannot be eaten as they ma
turo is obvious. Even a small garden will
produce more vegetables than the ordinary
family can consume during the growing sea
son. With heavily increased planting area
this seasons production will create a vast
surplus, and i'm the wartime food crisis this
surplus must not be allowed to go to waste
Prevention Of the waste calls for canning
| Of all food that can be canned or drying OF
| all food that can be dried BY this plan only
| is it possible for America 10 enjoy enhanced
| frultfulness Of soil. In no other way may
| the army of home gardeners reap the full
| benefit Of their labors.
The war has brought about a food stua
| tion hitherto unparalleled. The entire world
| looks TO America for solution Of the problem.
| arising from this condition. Unless our food
| supply is used wisely and well the armies and
] domestic population OF our Allies will suffer
/ famine II the war for world democracy Is
! TO be won its battles must be fought by sol
| diers abundantly nourished. We must feed
! them To this end we must provide fresh
! canned a ID dried food products for home us,
and thus release other foodstuffs for ex
port.
A gardening army Of 100000 is called tC
| the colors in 1918. Their work will be NOR,
practical than romantic But It will haster
| victory. j. b.
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SOME "oRNITHoLoGY" OF WAR
TOM DAILY.

Herr Won salzmann, the military CORR
spondent of the staid Berlin Zeltuns, faml'
iarly known as Aunt Voss," has made w.
belated discovery that the hghting in r.
estine is of decisive Importance to GermaH.
Surely this discovery is a high compliment I.
his intelligence and acumen. When ~.
ever, he says that the conquest OF the ns,.
Land is a blow aimed at one Of Gernans
wings, It is evident that he is quite mistsN1s. n.
II must be a wing OF Turkey 70 when n. ~
refers. Again he errs when he says thss u. =.
other wing" Is in Flanders. Such =
gantic bird is more than the Allied worlo r.
swallow.--Christlan Science Monitor.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-01-17
GIVE US A YEs-OR-NO GOVERNOR

CENATOR SPROUTS dictum that a can
~ didate for executive office is not REQUIRED
to state his position on national amend.
ments is not borne out by recent history.
The President had legally no more voice In
deciding on them than the next Governor
Of Pennsylvania will have, but Mr. Will
son certainly turned the scales when
suffrage was in the balance.
The Governor is elected by the whole
people The legislators are not. This is
the day Of executive responsibility, and the
tendency to make the executive. presiden-
tial or gubernatorial, the responsible
spokesman for his party, and TO make him
stand or fall with his party, has gained
irresistible momentum. If there Is any
State which needs an executive to push
measures through the Legislature by co.
operation with the people it is Pennsyl
vania.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-01-17
A Denial

This is the substance OF all the charges
against Governor Pennypacker in this
connection. | declare them false and the
ANONYMOUS correspondents Of the Press
aud Record and Mr.. Justice Brown must
establish their case by evidence or stand
convicted libelers. To use a hOmely but
apposite expression, they must put up
or shut up" When they attempt To
put up" | will have something TO say
more in detail In the meantime, as the
Record declares its correspondent high
and reputable" and the Press declares
it's correspondent high and responsible
il would be fair for their high" writers
TO take off their masks and show their
faces to the people OF the state whose
Governor they traduce.
Only an extract from the interview Of
Justice Brown has penetrated here. but
newspaper comments indicate that he
has descended from his judicial perch to
snarl at Governor pennypacker In Obe-
dience to a call upon him to interfere
for the protection OF the bench" which he
declares is menacedf He Is certainly an
swering a cal intended for some one else.
There Is no reason within my recollec-
ton why the bench SHOULD distinguish
him as its special repred dntative TO pre-
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-01-17
Answers to Yesterdays Quiz

Answers to Yesterdays Quiz
l. Major Augustus =, Gardner. who died I'm IN.
service. wNs q Massachusetts COnEressman
who resigned his seat to volunteer,
g Priority rs used In connection with war wash
means giving precedence to shipment nI
certain DESIGNATED kinds Of material "
g. COnaeriptiOn has been established In En-.
land, but not In Ireland.
4, THE reserve wOrklngmen's army; A su.
Eested eOrps Of skilled artisans who won1d
hold themseiyes ~ readiness for Govern
ment call 20 urgent war work.
g. Anagrams A form OF verbal puzzle In ,yII.h
the letters q a standard word or phraS4
are aTranged 10 make a word or ,,brasss
Of apposlte mean nR Thns "astFOnoTnersS
becomes "iOOn stnrerI'i 1.-THE eyesS ''thsv
see" "'
O. The Admirable Crichtoni Jnmes Cr,oh,o.
1560-lbs3, q scottish ingulst, schoiaS ami
soldier. reputed 70 be ma ter Of ali arts
!. FlliGree; Ornamental work formed Of In,sr
twisted gold and silver wire. ''''e'-
4. DR.. samuel johnson, iJOO-I7si, Fnnlish ,n.
Of letters leNicographer and moraIIsf '''"
tricky way. "i
10. sarierials Relatlns 70 dress.
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ADD nREsuLrs OF Wan"

in Her Majesty the King" written By tns ~. n.
James jeffrey Roche when this wer wes Z, ,.ntn
but foul dream IN the mind Of peryeIse NM
arch we read ''NAny q man who ne.5l'. ~
hath grown rich enough 10 be ASSESSED ipf ~
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-01-17
What Do You Know?
QUIZ

QUIZ ..f
!. who wrote "Ths American FlaE'9
g. What Is a peristylef
g. Where Is Ypres9
4. Who Is General Sir Julian BynE?
5. What Is a riddle?
O. Define petard.
T. Where Is SalOnlca?
g. Define reconnaissance,
o. What Is a preamble?
10 which city Is called "The Modern Atbens"o
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-01-17

From all we can gather, at one time the
advocates Of invisible ships must have been
in control,
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-01-17

The House OF Lords vote for suffrage
Is an intimation that the House Of Ladies
has been giving useful curtain lecture.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-01-17

" the Kaiser can put this kind Of
weather over on the cold man, We boil 10
think what he will be able TO do ln Julv
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Headline.
And the Teutons threaten the Russians
with peace.
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Mr.. Lansing helped 10 trip up Caillaux
and his pro-German peace scheme Patriotism
has become an International virtue among the
Allied democracies,f
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-01-17

Perhaps II would be Just as weIl.to nut
It this way; They must not be only houses /:
they must be homes.
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mics are in the field the decisive stroke Of
the war cannot be delivered until 1919 The
chief strategic necessity ir therefore this
To keep the Allied armies in the field another
eighteen months without loss of men through
defeats. with possibly local advantages cheap
ly gained Major operations with highly
limited objectiveS are unthnkable for an
army which Is awaiting endorsements
Finally, the American armies are actually
TO he force marching to the relief not Of a
beleaguered garrison, but of a nation under
siege The nation is western Europe. Naval
strategy is a part of military strategy in
this war, no doubt, and the solution of the
shipping tor submarine) question will make
a profound difference in tho civilian morale.
II may hasten but it cannot change the
character of the aid which America viii
bring.
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RIGHTO

A sian n front Of KresEe's ave and ten cent
store on Market street reads Pull coarse tur-
kew dinner. 80 cents and considering the price
perhapa that aaaliying word is correctly spelled.
after all
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this war, no doubt, and the solution of the
shipping tor submarine) question will make
a profound difference in the civilian morale.
II may hasten but it cannot change the
character of the aid which America viii
bring.
Political Phases"
Politically the change has already begun
to operate in a definite way. It was one
thing to asS people to volunteer for the
defense of the country and another to con-
script them, in the first case the objects Of
the war had to be more fully stated, though
In the first flush of war a vague statement
Of ideals was sufficient SO long the field
was active it was possible to remain in the
second stage Of repetition and enlargement.
But il is rapidly becoming clear that If the
Allied European nations are to undergo what
is really a year Of suspense, II will become
more and more necessary To state and re-
state the aims to be attained
Heretofore the Governments have allowed
the pacitists n high hand in the game, so that
every request for war aims has seemed a
request for immediate peace. The pacihsts
are losing that advantage; the ministers are
making the demands and giving the answers.
Because, in the very near future IL will he
seen that we are stating our aims not in
order TO make peace, but in order TO make
war. We are rapidly finding out that Ger
many's peace terms mean nothing; the best
of pacfsts is usually a hater of Imperialism
and of militarism, and he is slowly getting
to see that Germanys peace terms will i'm
pose both those things not only on Germany
but on the world. Therefore, every state
ment of our war aims. SO long as We avoid
. being tarred with the same brush, helps us
TO undermine Germany and TO fortify our
selves.
The discussion about war aims has al
ways had note of futility in IL. No one
avows shameless ends 1t has always been
assumed that II we stated our territorial
aims we could have Germany agreeing at
once that may be so. And the service Of
all America and Of the President In partic-
ular has been this: that they have not fas-
tened on territory or (to translate) on cash
profit and loss as the main thing in the war
but have held with a fine perseverance TO a
nobTer set of purposes. II they should for
moment drop these purposes all would be
lost If they cling to them they will event
ually drive out the baser claims and will
make it not only possible but highly profta-
BILE for the Allies to state their terms and to
insist upon them And that is an essential
of victory,
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Al
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We cannot win the war by quitting at
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ID tomorrow Governor PennypacLer tells about the
the supreme Court nomination. '''" '"o"
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rE>>,r,,KER Ar1opIoGRArHY-No. Sa

COPYRIGHT, 1913. by Public L'docr company
QUAY. broken In health was In FIorlda'
W lie was not quite satisfied with my deter
mination of tho matter and scolded over H.
believe that no knew that he would soon
die and that hc wanted what he rcSardei
as an obligation nc had undertaken in my
interest 10 he assured while there W."
time. lie wrote asking me il my mind was
fully made mn and advising that in that
event no intImation OF the purpose be given
until the meeting Of the convention. no
doubt his plans would hc helped by such
silence While Tray. Blanche and sweet
heart were yclpng upon the wrong tran
the real game was safe i'm its covert.
! wrote to him
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-09-13
MURDERED EMPRESS MADE APPEALS TO
 BE GIVEN SAFETY

The four daughters of the former emperor and empress of Russia are: Grand Duchess Olga, born in 1895; Grand Duchess Tatiana, born in 1897, Grand Duchess Marie, born in 1899, and Grand Duchess Anastasie born in 1901.
 The former empress Alexandria was born princess Alix of Hesse in 1872.
 Recent Rome advices reported that the pope had taken steps to assist out of Russia the former empress and her four daughters, who had made pressing appeals for their liberation.
 A. later despatch from London re- ported the assassination of Alexan- dria and her daughters, but this rumor was doubted in Spain where King Alfonso had taken steps to obtain their transfer to Madrid, where pre- parations were being made for their reception.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-09-13

planes over to the right making head long spirals, wing-slips and reverse ments.
 In the foreground rose city of barracks, one-story pine shacks 100 feet long, not very ornamental but very substantial. Fully thousand of these barracks had risen on this lev- el plain to house the army of flying men on the way to the fighting line
 "We went from field to field to note each stage in the development of combat aviatOrs. Generally speaking, it was explained there are three distinct branches of this avi- ation for warfare: Chase and con- bat work in which most of the fight ing occurs, bombardment of enemy forcesk camps and towns, and scouting or reconnaissance work for purposes of observation of enemy ac- tivities. It is for combat and bomb ardment that the training is done here, and of those going forward monthly about fOur-fifths are comba- lots.
 The Full ''GrasshOppers."
 These are the 'grasshoppers." SdlQ the Cdpldlu dS we CdIHS tO Alelu No. 1, where the initial ground work and stheory of flight begins. The grasshoppers were diminutive ma chimes with just enough horsepower to jump over the ground, and occa sionally rise ten feet. The men call them taxis and roulers. They were skipping about singly and in squads. Two were having a race across the plain, and one taking a dive buried its nose in the ground. This was the circus part of flying, at the start, but there was plenty of prac- tical work beside, with motor instruc- ton, gunnery, trap shooting, rifle range and machine-gun firing. Small dummy enemy airplanes dotted the field as. targets, and the bounding grasshoppers took their shots and were rated by the watching instruc- tOrs.
 On the second field the aviators had left their grasshoppers and were in a double-control machine accompani ed By an anstrudtor. They were getting the feel" of the machine in actual flight, and if the rudder was not manipulated deftly the instructor was there to make the correction. And it was necessary here to learn how to come down as we'll as to go up. and to come down at a definite point"
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-09-13
IF GERMANY COULD
 BE SURE NO OTHER
 COUNTRY WAS BETTER
Situated As Regards Bel gium Would Restore It
 Without Indemnities.
By Associated Press.

By Associated Press.
 Copenhagen, Sept. 12.-That Ger many might restore Belgium without conditions or indemnities in case no other country would be better situ- ated as regards Belgium than Ger many was the belief expressed today by Frederick Von Payer, the imper- ial vice-chancellor of Germany in a speech delivered at Stauttgart.
 Herr Von Payer was speaking or the depression felt in Germany and allied countries which he attributed not to recent military events but to the prospect of fifth war winter.
 { If we could be sure that no other country would be better situated as regards Belgium than ourselves" said Herr Won Payer, "I believe I could venture to say that Belgium could be restored without conditions and without indemnities."
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-09-13

Hot summer days upset the strong stomachs as well as weak ones.
 Your vital forces reach their lowest level when the weather is the hottest. Then the danger is the greatest.
 You can't guard your stomach and bowels too carefully through the long, hot season. Don't take any chance. Indigestion, sour stomach, that wretched, bloated feeling, belching, food repeating, pains that claw at stomach and bowels and an endless train of stomach il}r that make life mis- erable are greatly aggravated in .as tha hot weather. < s.fr KY This year of all others-it is vital that we keep our strength and full power at work. The ex- tra war work, change of diet-all must be looked after because they e't ps in the stomach And now