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The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1918-12-14
MORE WOMEN WORKERS.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 1.-THE in
f1ux of women in wage earning capa-
cities because Of the war is indicated
by the annual report of the civil serv-
ice commission, which states that in
the last fiscal year civil service ex-
aminations were taken by 1860
women, as compared with 25,457 in
the previous year. This. the report
points out. is an increase Of AL per
cent in the number Of women appli-
cants, whereas the number OF men
increased only 122 per cent. N. /.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1918-12-14
JOHN I. White
TO VISIT DULUTH
Noted Single Tax Advocate Will
Spend Few Days Here
Next Month";.

F. H. Monroe, representing the
Henry George Lecture association,
spent a few days in Duluth and vi
cinity this week. Mr.. Monroe is
arranging for a lecture tour by John
z. White Of Chicago, the noted single
tax orator.
It is likely Mr.. White will spend a
few days in Duluth during January.
He has been here a number Of times
and his coming next month will be
awaited by many admirers of his
ability as an exponder of the Henry
George theory of taxation.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1918-12-14

BRASSIERES-Of satin or
crepe de chine, trimmed with
cluny lace, or of lace entire
and Bandeaus of satin or
jersey silk, will make a nice
friend nicer, now at $500,
Sl.2o--..--...-.-...~---....-. up
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1918-12-14
Gifts

Formal Gifts
lORSETS easily lend them
~ selves to intimate giving.
We feel that our corset serv-
ice can be the best of help
to you in this respect. Satin
models appear in forms for
young and fully developed.
Small brocade corsets for her
who is properly called "pe-
tite." All accessories are
shown.
Satin Shapes. $500 I'D
Small Brocades..........S2.50 up
Exclusive handling of "Just-
rite" "CB," "Mme. Tyre"
and "Regaliste" corsets.
Warner and Memo styles in
stock.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1918-12-14
GEORGIA CITY Votes
FOR MUNICIPAL OWNERSHIP

The city of Atlanta. Ca. voted
strongly in favor Of municipal owner
ship at the recent election and the
mayor-elect has begun at once the
preliminary work necessary to the
successful Inauguration of public
ownership of public utilities. Ar
rangements have been made with the
president of the Public Ownership
League of America, Hon. A. M. Todd,
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1918-12-14

to meet him in Washington for con-
sultation. The mayor will also max
a study of the very successful hydros
electric plants of Ontario, Canada
which are operated under the direcl
ton of Sir Adam Beck, chairman oil
the commission. who is also a memI
Der of the league.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1918-12-14

Splendid wool knit
ted scarfs appear.
Shades of rose, Alice
blue, purple, gray,
navy and o. D. $3.50
Main Aisle
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1918-12-14
JAPS OWN MANY HOTELS

SEATTLE Dec. 12.-Organized
hotel maids say that IS per cent of
the hotels and rooming houses in this
city are controlled by Japanese. In
many cases the Japs are paid large
sums to secure leases and Immediately
boosted rents and ousted the whites.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1918-12-14

HE winning the removed the ebon mantle from
and placed lieu thereof the robe
for Christmas shopping the wheels
festivities of the But how different These golden
days shopping the Glass Block the
rich with late-come!
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1918-12-14
With Candy and Toys Give
These 10 the Boys

For though all wide-awakes would rather
eat their Christmas gifts than wear 'em,
there are several reasons why they need
clothes
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-10-01

J Begin the day by drinking a glass Of
water and drinking at least six glasses dur
ing the Day = DO not go to school without
breakfast. 8. Eat regularly three times a
DAY. 4. Eat slowly and chew all food we'll.
D, Drink milk every day-four glasses are
not too much. 6. Eat some breakfast cereal
every Jay. I Eat some vegetable besides
potato every day. 8 Eat bread and butter
az every meal; dark breads are best. Q.
Eat some fruit every day. Spend the pennies
Tor apples instead of candy. 10. Do not eat
canuy between meals; eat candy and other
sweets only at the end Of a regular meal
H. DO not drink tea or coffee II does the
oodS no good but does do It harm. IL.
10 not eat or touch food without first wash
ing the hand. IL, Do not eat fruit without
first washing it. IL. Do not eat with a snoon
or FORK which has been used by any other
person without first washing II. Is. Observe
the same rule with reference to a glass or
cup 10. DO not eat from the same dish
with any other person-Massachusetts Com
monwealth.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-10-01
Statues to the animate

DOTH Chauncey NJ. Depew and the in.
raised a statue in his honor, are to be con-
graduated. The ex-railway president, ex-
Senator and beaming ~banqueteer is es-
pecially fortunate. Side.stepping the du-
bious joys Of ~post-mortem honors, he may
peep at his own bronze effigy with much
the same delectable feelings aroused in a
living mortal impossibly privileged TO read
all the succulent compliments in his own
obituary notice.
Peekskill itself derives almost common
surate advantages from its up-to-date me
mortal" 1t knows that bronze so elo.
quent, so dignifed, so impressive forbids
betrayal OF it's signifcance-least of all by
so notable a subject" as Mr.. Depew. The
incentive to be worthy OF ones craven
image must necessarily be strong.
Pity it is that if the elevation of the
Quay statue in Harrisburg were ~inevita-
BILE it could not rave taken place before a
politically powerful Pennsylvania Senator
had passed away. That monument per-
petuates a record to which amendment
cannot be made. II Mr.. Quay had beheld
the statue in his life who knows TO what
acts and purposes warranting the honor
it might have urged him?
Monument to the living may conceiv-
ably be solemn stimulants. On her LOT
In a French cemetery Emma Calve has
erected a marble image Of herself as
ophelia, and hat role in Thomas's opera
OF Hamlet" is acknowledged as one OF
the finest in the singers repertory. THAI
| carved figure is irresistibly a spur tc
idealism.
The statue as a stolid mentor to the
animate original is a theme with posi-
bilities. One can't help specializing, fol
| instance, on the effect on Philadelphia o.
! a Mayor Smith In marble.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-10-01
DRESSING UP FOR THE BIG SHOW?

HAVING perfected his style Of fighting
- with troops that have refused to turn
back since their entrance into the war,
Uncle Sam now turns his attention to the
fighting style. Official announcement las
been made that the quartermasters depart.
ment shall fit the uniform 10 the man in.
stead OF fruitlessly striving to At the man
TO the uniform. The creation Of a really
nifty" army is thus in prospect.
As this attention to military modes has
but scant connection with military effec-
tiveness-the dauntless poilus who beat
back Won Kluck at the First Marine com
posed the most sloppily dressed Of all
modern armies-is it not conceivable that
the American soldier is being scrupulously
tailored with soIhe new purpose in view.
The melodramatic Hun is much moved by
externals. Can the War Department he
counting on his emotions as the spectator
Of a smart full dress parade Under the
Lindens"?
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-10-01
THE READERS
Civ Mysteries

10y
To The Editor Of the Evening Public Ledger.
Sir-why do the water carts start on their
terrible voyages between ten and eleven
o'clock. just before the theatres close and
the ladies are abroad in their beautiful
garments?
Why do the bridges over the same devoted
streets continue TO rain for several days
after J. Pluvius has ceased. also dropping
their Shiny contributions upon the aforesaid
beautiful garments Of the aforesaid fair?
Go say nothing of the toppers and the
glazed front OF their escortsD In more
civilized communities. such as Timbuctoo.
where the engineers are not wise enough to
put some layers Of waterprooing over and
between the concrete, the rude and ready
carpenters or tinsmiths came and put
roofs under the bridges.
Why are all the wagons made to unload
from the rear instead of the side, espe-
cially those which do business between
the elevated railroad posts and the curb
and why is a colored driver OF a coal
cart permitted to halt us with his cart
while he sings a blithesome song?
Why do the gentlemen who macerate
tobacco expectorate out OF the car win
dcws, especially against the walls OF the
esteemed subway? 1t cannot be called
camoufaging, though IL might be called
cascading.
Why do sneeaers, especially in this srippy
tinre. prefer the already much-occupied
air 10 a handkerchief-or, even. in its
absence. a sleeve?
Why do the heather rage from one end OF
the hole under the City Hall to the other
whenever a car enters or departs? Don't
some of en- think they might be nearer II
they would stand quite still?
Why does the brave copper choose tho
occasion Of holding up traffic on both sides
to visit with a friend from the country.
why do the wood blocks on Market street
erupt 50 often like young and avid vesu-
Niuses-and remain in eruption far longer
than Nesurius possibly could?
why do the gentlemen who cut trenches
across the streets, not for defense, but
for gas pipes. try to conceal their villainy
by Ming the aforesaid trenches with
dust?
why does the headlight fend continue 20
rave up and down Broad (and other)
street Notwithstanding a carefully drawn
ordinance against him providing for fine
and Imprisonment?
why d" the locomotive engineers continue
to smoke and smoke us until But
Know "A lady who is after 'em. And
she'll get EN-, never fear
Why does the typewriter COMPLAIN of these
weird mysteries when nothing has helped
TO solve them since Herodotus began TO
bother about them?
JOHN LUTHER LONG,
Philadelphia. September 80.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-10-01

0CTOBER, the month of gold and russell
LEAKAGE, Of sparkling sunshine and
crystal air. enters upon her career with
happier gesture than any of the fifty sis
tiers that have preceded her since August,
1914. With the very trees coming their
foliage into gold, as more than one rhyme
ster has pointed out, the Victory Loan will
take the hint and roll up a tide of loyal
mlntage. With six or eight weeks Of fine
fighting weather ahead, Brunnhilde and
Kriemhilde and Alberich and the other
grandiloquently christened defensive sys-
TENS Of the enemy may go the way Of
the Hindenburg granite block"
Foch is putting the doubt in redoubt. as
the paragraphers will say; and the Allied
plans on the western front are not likely
TO fade into that "crepuscular remoteness,"
which is General Won Ardenne's latest con,
tribution to the embossed phraseology Of
the war. The swift dramatic capitulation
OF the Bulgar Carbon sets the scene for
further shifting and surprise in the Bal
kan proscenium. And the Kaiser's pundlts
can i'll afford to spend much time and
energy in repairing rotten fabric in the
southeast.
All hail. then, to October! Month OF
scrapple and cider and oversubscribed
loans, month OF yellow and crimson leaves.
month when the wisest men take their
vacations. forsoi9F the blaze and mos
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-10-01
The Turkish Trench Dog

MIGHT held me as | crswled and scram-
~ bled near
The Turkish lines. Above, the hooking
stars
Silvered the curving parapet, and clear
Cloudlatticed beams o'erlecked the land
with bars.
7, crouching, lay between
the night.
Twin giants bound by tentacles unseen.
Here in the dim-shadowed light
| saw him, as a sudden movement turned
His eyes toward me, glowing eyes that
burned
A moment ere his %snufHing muzzle found
My trail; and then as serpents mesmerizs
lie chained me with those unrelenting eyes.
That muscle-sliding rhythm, knit and
bound
In spare-limbed symmetry, those perfect
jaws
And soft.approaching pitter-patter paws.
Nearer and nearer like a wolf he crept-
mat moment had my swift revolver
leapt-
But terror seized me, terror born of shame
Brought flooding revelation. For he
came
AS one who offers comradeship deserved.
An open ally of the human race.
And smiling at my PROSTATE form I'm.
nerved.
lie licked my face!
-Geoffrey Dearmer. in Poems"
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-10-01
AS TO Huns AND SHOTGuNS

THE protest of Germany against the use
OF shotguns because they cause "un.
necessary suffering" is an example Of the
most %stupendous hypocrisy of which there
IL any record.
Germany has violated every agreement
made among the nations to prevent UNI
necessary suffering in ',ar. suffering in
nicted on civilians as we'll as on soldiers.
She has massacred NONCOMPLIANCE She
has w%illfully destroyed wholo towns. She
Invented and first used poison gas. She
has used the submarine against passenger
6hips. She has bombed unfortihed towns
from airships. She has tortured her pris-
oners an mutilated her civilian captives.
And now she threatens reprisals upon
our soldiers taken as prisoners unless We
stop using shotguns!
Can It be that she is preparing for the
tine when she is to be haied before the
OF the world charged with her crimes
oH6 IL seeking for evidence that her
AoDles have been using abhorrent
<1pnrGers also?
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-10-01
Revised Timetable on the Berlin.Bagdad
Railway
Information for Commuters

VT
The management of the ~Berlin-Bagdad
Railway announces the following changes
Of schedule, effective Immediately, or
sooner:
Those holding Communication tickets be-
tween the Serbian suburbs and Constanti-
nople are recommended to inform their
stenographers that they may be anywhere
from a week TO a month late in reaching
the office. This is due to the suspension of
direct train service between Nish and Con-
stantinople.
Train No. % will stop at Nish, whence
passengers will proceei on foot to the Iron
Gate on the Danube. 1t is hoped that no
complaints will he made in respect to this
routing, for the scenery on the Danube is
DrachtroIl, and forays by hostile Rumanian
natives will prevent any monotony. From
the Iron Gate passengers will be ferried
down the river by RATS. A few Pullman
and club RATS will be furnished, if pc 5sible,
for those accustomed to luxurious travel.
Unless dispersed in the neighborhood of
Bucharest, the party will transfer at the
rivers mouth to Turkish dhows, even.
tually Gt is hoped arriving at Constants.
nople. However, those expecting to spend
christmas III lldl city Will w wei 70 start
Immediately.
Passengers are offered an alternative
| route. 4 caravan Of smoking %palanquins
will leave Belgrade every morning at s
a. m. bound for Montenegrin seaports,
where travellers may embark upon an Aus.
trian submarine. AS space on submarines
is necessarily limited, and there is much
oily machinery, commuters will wear tar.
paulin o~yeralls, and limit their luggage to
a toothbrush and a cork belt. In case of
capture by enemy vessels, fares cannot be
refunded. No return tickets sold.
Commuters who find themselves even
tually in an Allied prison camp must not
write complaints TO the management of
the railway, which cannot hold itself re-
sponsible for any failure of Colt and Allah
TO make the proper connections. These ar
engagements are liable to change without
notice.
The management feels that the wisest
plan would be for TO break
themselves of the habit of going to Con.
stantinople as soon as possible.
NoW that the C.echo-Slordks keep on
advancing in Siberia. the 3olsheriki had
better 1rotch their steppes.
As far as H~indenburg is concerned the
Argonne is gone.
The cricket uhO has made himself q
loud nuisance all ummer pipes a Ittie
pldintiUelV just before the frost. Aud the
Hun tChO com plains OF shot0nnS because
they cause unnecessary suffering" re.
minds as just a little Of that cricket.
We said some time ago that We could
see Mr.. McAdoo's handwriting on the wal,
let. and IL occurs to US to add that hii
autograph will never be a rare curiosity
because almost everybody has an engraved
facsimile Of II. SOCRATES.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-10-01
The Delaware TO PHILADELPHIA Prophecy

The Delaware to Philadelphia Prophecy
To the Editor Of the Ereuing Public Ledger:
Sir
| am coming to YOU, Philadelphia. with the
sunrise of your sky;
| am rolling from the ocean with new stars
of silver dye:
l am rolling onward to you with my waves
of great unrest
| am rolling on to clasp you in my arms,
there to the west.
Philadelphia, ! love you with a heart that's
all my own;
! VIII make you g~reater-greater than your
past has ever known,
In the later wars of history I still roll on
my way
To greet Your suns at morning and your
stars at set of day.
The oaks along my shores chant in the roar
of winter blast
OF your heroes. Philadelphia, who shine
brightly from the past!
Your sword shall slay the German and his
blood shall spout astream;
And his treaties of deception shall become
an idle dream"
HENRY L WALTERS.
President Plant Research Institute,
Langhorne, Pa, September 80.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-10-01
Answers TO Yesterdays Ouiz

l. General Mangin, Is commanding the French
srmies IN their Champagne drive with the
u knight without fear and without reoro.ehs
mps the Characterization Of the CLevalt.r
fierre Terrail Bayard. an iIIustrious Fren~b
captain noted for his eoursge and ehjvsirv
In the wars OF Charles Viii, TOuis Xn
and Francis !. His dates are IlsS-Ibs1.
y. A shibboleth il a test word or opinion dls-
from the Hebrew.
=. The Land. of. GockaiEne is an Imaginary
region 81 idieness. and luxury. IL ia met
ph0r'ealy and whimstcally applied Ia ~.
part 81 London, within the sound oT Rnw
bells" which .dlstrlct has, By extensi"s
come 70 bc called the COckney section OF
D. There are four kipEdoms In the German En-
temburg. "sr~
o. A holosraph will :. one, wholly. written BIZ
inc person who signs II. the ~testator.
y. The DISTINGUISHING characteristic Of Corfn.
THAN architecture IL the huted column WIZ
capitals carved to represent aeanfhus
8. A ruminant animal Is one that chews its end.
0. Zachary Taylor and u. 8. Grant were tn
TIE Amer!ssn Presidents who fousht IN u
70. l's|. s.. sIg :, sxytj55,.. . , I. .::i, sat .:ss: .l.sss-
iisher about The Sssr lb66.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-10-01
Sunday Amusement for the Men in Uniform

Sunday Amusement for the Men in Uniform
To the Editor Of the Erening Public Ledoer:
Sir-As a member of the United States
navy stationed in the city of New York. I
desire to tell OF the treatment of enlisted
men in that city and to suggest that n
similar movement by the people of Phila-
delphia would be greatly appreciated by the
soldiers and sailors stationed in this vicinity.
During the week there are various dances
and entertainments held in New York for
the enjoyment of the enlisted men, but on
Saturday and Sunday these amusements in
crease greatly to supply the needs of thou
sands of soldiers. sailors and marines who
come TO the metropolis to spend their short
weekend liberty.
The greatest pleasure. however, that the
enlisted men enjoy IL the entertainment given
every Sunday afternoon at the Casino The
atre, where talented vaudeville actors volun-
teer their services for the pleasure of the
service men. Actors and actresses from the
Keith circuit, as well as soldiers and sailors
with experience on the stage, have contrib
uted TO the success of these shows, which
have been in existence for approximately a
year.
To follow this plan in Philadelphia would
be giving the service men an opportunity of
seeing refreshing entertainment during their
weekend liberty. and would send them back
to camp in a far better frame OF mind than
if they would have spent their time wander
ing aimlessly about the streets complaining
about nothing to do in this place on sun
day"
C.. w. d, L. S. y.
Philadelphia, September 30.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-10-01
Member of the Associated Press
THE SUFFRAGE SPEECH

THE President, in his appeal to the Sem
ate to pass the resolution submitting to
the States a suffrage amendent to the Con-
stitution, asked the Senators to substitute
his Judgment for their own. when he
spoke, more than a third Of the Senators
were opposed to the resolution.
Mr.. Wilson announced that he appeared
as the commander-in-chief of the army
and navy and he declared that the adop.
ton Of the resolution was necessary as
a war measure. In the same way he asked
for the passage of the draft laws, for the
authorization of great loans. for the taking
over by the Government of the railroads
and the telegraph and telephone lines, and
for all the regulations of industry and com,
merce to which we are submitting.
The judgment of the President has been
accepted by Congress in the past. 1t has
Loyalty followed the lead of the commander
in-chief of the military forces of the ma.
ton. 1t may follow him in this.
1t must not be forgotten that the adop.
ton Of the resolution by the Senate will
not give the privilege of voting to women
in the States in which they do not now
enjoy it. The amendment must he ratified
by the Legislatures of at least thirty.six
States before it becomes effective over the
whole nation.
But the adoption Of the resolution will
serve notice on the world that the ma.
tfonal Goyernment is willing 70 do u,ba+
N can to secure for the women here the
privilege for which their leaders have been
lighting for many years.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-10-01

quito bite of July and August. The only
drawback in the minds OF some of us is
that. after having boarded our vacations all
summer, events are now moving with such
electric swiftness that the easeful mood
has vanished. All hail to october, anyway!
In the fortunes of a perplexed world she
unrolls thirty.one days Of supreme i'm.
portanCn
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-10-01
WHY THERE Is SO LITTLE CHEERING

An ENGLIsHMAN, writing to London
"A from Kansas City, Mo-, processes to
be surprised at the calmness with which
the Americans are receiving the news Of
the splendid exploits of th2ir armies in
Europe. He expected manifestations of en-.
thusiasm and boastful language. but he is
impressed by what he calls ouc modesty.
The Englishmai. is dilating with the
wrong emotion. We take the achieve
ments of our men quietly, not because
we are modest, but because we knew what
they would do before they went. We take
the brilliance of their attack and their
determination to win as a matter Of course.
We sent our men to Europe to win the
war. They are winning it. We knew they
would. And we are all saying II told you
So an expression which has never been
regarded as the utterance of modesty.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-10-01
CONFETTI
We Pull Some Jazz

w ss AN''' s'
CKindly accompany with drum and cymbals)
IT'S the End of the Beginning,
L For we've learnt the trick of winning,
And the boChe's underpinning
Starts to buckle and to bend
It's our lucky seventh inning,
When the bleachers' cheers are Dining,
For the End Of the Beginning
s the Beginning of the End!
me Beginning of the End,
when the Hun has not a friend,
He hasn't CrCH got a GOtt
ON lchom he can depend.
And hen get a lNstU thinning
As a penalty for shining,
For the End OF the Beginning
IS the Beginning of the End!
The man most eager to claim exemption
from this new draft will be William Hohen.
zollern.
General %PershiH1'S slogan is said 10 be
"Hcaren. Hell or Hoboken on Christmas"
and thoughtful citi@ens of HobOken may
be rendering inst What is implied.