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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-04-03
Lo! THE OSTRICH!

HERE and there in Philadelphia are
II types of the ivied mind which, at any
crisis demanding frank and constructive
criticism of municipal affairs leave their
ancient bower to sentimentalize over the
city and its traditions and to declaim that
all is we'll that everything s about as il
should be. that nobody is doing what hasn't
always been done. that it is unwise to make
a hubbub. This is the easiest sort Of pro-
vincialism and the most deadly
L isn't possible to persuade an ostrich
The fact remains that the Navy Depart
nent Investigations were systematic, in
telligent and thorough and THAT politicians
and the police department were openly in
dicted in the report. II the eminent pussy
footers prefer TO have the city dirty rather
than clean they should at least say so
frankly.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-04-03
WHERE WE FAIL

AGAIN yesterday. .hon 600 men leit
n this city for Camp Meade, observers
had occasion TO regret the confused and
even mean background provided for
scene that has lost nothing of its moving
significance as it has grown familiar.
The crowds at the station were large
as usual Arrangements made by the war
organizations for the comfort OF the men
we're disorgauized in the jam. There was
no sign Of the significant formality that
properly might attend the departure of so
many men upon so great an adventure.
The new soldier without friends found his
own way lonesomely through the crush.
The police arrangements were inadequate.
Departure from his home city is the
most difficult interlude for the selected
man and for those he leaves behind him.
He has gone away invariably under cir
cumstances that could not be more de-
pressing if the arrangements had been
thought out with that end in view. The
occasion isn't frightened by any touch of
dignity or any suggestion of the stateliness
Of the enterprise to which the millions are
being summoned.
The soldiers themselves have described
the crush and confusion of their first dc.
parture as the most disheartening expert.
ence o. their new life, and one which
requires week at least Of the bright and
stimulating csntonment life to eliminate
as bad memory. We seem to have failed
utterly to recognize the departure of
drafted men as an incident among the
most significant in all our history and one
that should be observed at least with
order and trace of dignity.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-04-03
Humanity

Human beings are moving clots of self
importance and auto-sggrandizement
Subject to matrimony, climate,
And alcohol,
But impervious to argument and eruditlon
Human beings are suspicious of anything
They do not understand; that is to say,
everything.
Human beings are divided into three
classes: women, men and husbands.
Human beings are nourished by exaggera-
tion, self-esteem and food.
We have a new cook. Her name is Dinah
Might, A very unusual
Name, and it seems to be symbolic of
Her sex. DOVE DIT GET
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-04-03
Love for Ireland

Miss May Sinclair, in her. magnificent
novel. ''The Tree Of Heaven (adv) sums up
very wittily the love OF Ireland that makes
so much pickering in the world Lawrence
Stephen" she says, was one Of those Ma
tionalist Irishmen who love ireland with a
passion that satisfies neither the lover nor
the beloved, IL was a pure and holy pas
sion a passion so entirely Of the spirit as
TO be compatible with permanent bodily
absence from its object Stephens body had
lived al ease In England "a country that he
declared his spirit hated) ever since he had
been old enough to choose a habitation for
himssif.f
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-04-03

Socrates begs to inform you that he
mas glanced at yoHr manuscript, but nc
does not IKE its looks. Bad as Il seems,
1t is not bad enough for The Cha6lno
Dish. Rejection must not necessarily
be attributed TO The merit Of the contrt.
button. Socrates mag hare lost it in the
shH6Ie Ia his desk.
10 Is useless TO try to bring Influence
to beer upon Socrates TO print your CON
tribUtioas
~ 's 'dle' Jrudtiess and VGia 10 at
te'npt to oribe Socrates loith parcels and
plethora Of Gifts. as unless they are De.
nverea s, personally fhe elevator boz gets
Hosiery size l0ai tobacco, mild,
books. medium.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-04-03

Today we saw u man
Bright Eyes in khaki met at the
and Khaki Reading Terminal by
a girl who threw her
arms around his neck and kissed him. She
did it as though she meant it. too. Indeed.
If there is anything that brightens brown
or blue or gray eyes better than khaki, we'd
like to know OF IL.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-04-03
Rejection Sins

We have had a rejection slip printed for
The Chatting Dish, and We have the honor
OF sending the first copies Of it to Messrs.
Roscoe Peacock and Hugh Merr. 1t runs
thus:
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-04-03

ENRED says that certain vegetables
l. kohl-rsbi and colanders, we think-ex.
tract nitrogen from the air and give il
back TO the soil. 1t may be so. but what
has that to do with us? II our soil can't
keep itself supplied with nitrogen, that's
its lookout. We don't need the nitrogen
in the air The baby isn't old enough to
have warts yet.
Hank says it's no use watering the gar.
den from above. He says that watering
from above lures the roots toward the
surfece and next day the hot sun kills
them. The answer TO that is that the rain
comes from above, doesn't il? Roots have
learned certain habits in the past million
years and we haven't time TO teach then,
10 duck when It rains, Hank has som,
irrigation plan which involves sinking 10.
mato cans in the ground and filling them
with water.
Bin says its dangerous 70 put arsenic on
the plants, because it may xiii ths cook.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-04-03

the affairs OF this and neishboring uni
verses They will be happier that way
providing always, Of course, that viii is
content TO do only one-fourth OF the
talking.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-04-03
Song of the Vice Squad

Ware, oh Ware. is my little wee dog
Ware. oh Ware. is he,
With his jobs cut big and his dough"
cut long,
Ware, oh Ware for me,
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-04-03

81. We hope Miss Carolyn Wells won't stop
writing detective stories just because she has
married a publisher.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-04-03

Appearances indicate
No: that it is necessary TO
You've Got to Esl dig pretty far down in
connection with the
vice investigation here to locate the men
higher up
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-04-03

Ideal war gardening
aud would be that in
Boiled Potatoes! VIII hich the ancient
bone might send up a
nice new ham 10 blossom by the side OF the
happy cabbage.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-04-03

II is understood that
S-s-s-h-h-h: conscientious objectors
do not knit for the
var because they are not for it.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-04-03
A TRAGIC SMELL IN MARATHON
By 4lNDREW' HcCHL

He says nicotine or tobacco dust is far
better The answer TO that is that we
never put fertilizers on our garden any
way If we want to kill the cook there is
a more direct method and we reserve the
tobacco for ourself. No cutworm shall get
blghty one from our cherished baccy
pouch.
ENRED says we ought to have a wheel
harrow Hank swears by a mulching
iron; Bill is all for cold frames. All three
say that .helebore is the best thing for
sucking insects, We echo the eXpletive,
with a different application
VOU see, we have no instinct for gar
l. dening, Some fellows, like Bill Sites,
have a divinely implanted zest for the
propagation of chard and rhubarb and self
blanchng celery and kohl-rabi; they are
kohlrabid, we might say. They know lust
what to do when they see a weed: they
can assassinate weevil by just looking
at it, But weevils and cabbage worms are
unterrihed by us. We can't tell a weed
from a young onion. We never mulched
anything in our life; we wouldn't know
how to begin.
But the deuce of it is. public onjnion
says that we must raise garden. II is
no use TO hire man TO do it for U.S. How
ever badly we may do it. patriotism de-
mands that we monkey around with
garden of our own. We may get bitten
by swapping bean or routed by a ruta.
basa or Infected by a parsnlp. But with
Bill ana those fellows at our heels N,a
have just got to face it. HeIebore.
WHAT We want to know is, How do Won
" ever find out all these things about
vegetables! We bought an ounce of 10.
mato seeds in desperation, and now Fred
says "ore ounce of tomato seeds will pro.
duce 5000 plants. You should have bought
two dozen plants instead Of the seed -.
How does he know those things? Ham,
says beans are very delicate and must not
be handled while they are wet or thew NAV
get rusty. Again we ask, how does ba
know? Where do they learn these mat
ters? Bill says that stones draw out tho
moisture from the soil and every stone in
the garden should be removed bv hand he
fore we plant. We offered him tyant,,
cents an hour to do it.
IhiE most tragic odor in the world ha,os
over Marathon these days: the smo,I 90
freshly spaded earth. 1t is extolled b,, .h,
poets and all those happy sons of Tho
pavement who know nothing about n ~
here are we, who hardly know a loan, fro,,,
lentil breaking our back over seed cata.
logues. Public opinion may compel ms 70
raise vegetables but we are going 10 40
about 1t our own way. II the stones are
going TO act like werewolves and sncl, t,,o
moisture from my soil, let them do so W.
don't believe in thwarting nature Nfa,,ho
1t will be very wet summer ana ny
shall have the laugh on Bill who ,.s
carted away all his stones
AND we should just like to see Bill stitss
Awrite a poem. We bet il wouldnt lool-
as much like poem as our beans loo1,
like beans. And as for Hank and rred
the wouldn't even know how 70 begin ~
plant a poem
The man-A,oort....
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-04-03

The Coroner's Office has again censurcd
the wild taxi chaufeurs who speed in the
streets. The chauffeurs seem 10 have "A des-
perate time Of it trying TO keep up TO the
ia Ximeter.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-04-03

We have received thirty-two protests al
ready concerning the conduct Of this de-
partmsnt The two letters that pleased us
most were signed schmidt and Hapsourg. ,
SOCRATES,
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-04-03

wisconsin's vote was heavy So should
Wisconsins heart be-
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-04-03

OUR method is to go out at twilight the
" first Sunday in April, about the time
the cutworms go to roost, and take a
sharppointed stick. We draw lines in the
ground with this stick, preferably in
pleasant geometrical pattern that will con-
fuse the birds and other observers. 1t is
important not to do this until twilight,
so that no robins or insects can watch you.
Then we go back in the house and put on
our old trousers the pair that has holes in
each pocket. We fill the pockets with the
seed we want to plant and loiter slowly
along the grooves we have made in the
earth The seed sifts down the trousers
legs and spreads itself in the furrow far
better than any mechanical drill could
do it. The secret Of gardening is to stick
to natures old appointed ways Then we
read a chapter of Bernard Shaw aloud,
by candle light or lantern light AS soon
as they hear the voice of Shaw all the
vegetables dig themselves in. This saves
going all along the rows with shingle
to pat down the topsoil or the humus or
the magnesia bottles or whatever else is
uppermost.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-04-03

Some Of those fellows who are being
made TO kiss the flag might be compelled TO
see stars and feel stripes.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-04-03

. Ihe German-American
euisAiimef Alliance is TO be dis
solved but its compo-
nent parts will remain unless sornefhi,s,
stronger than writing auid Is used IN ne
process. - 'h'
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-04-03

France for Germany is becoming one
large Verdun.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-04-03

who'll write the battle hymn of th
swivel chairs?
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-04-03

THIS is very embarrassing time of
l. year for us. Every morning when we
get on the S:1S train at Marathon Tor is it
the 7:130 Bill Sites or Fred Myers or
Hank Harris or some other groundsel
philosopher on the Cinder and Bloodshot
begins TO chivvy us about our garden.
Have you planted anything yet?" they
say. Have you put litmus paper in the
soil to test it for lime, potash and phos-
phorus? Have you got a harrow
That sort of thing bothers us, because
our ideas OF cultivation are very primitive.
We did so to the newsstand at the Read
ing Terminal and try 10 buy a Litmus
paper, but the agent didn't have any. lie
says he doesn't carry the Jersey papers.
SO we buried some old copies Of the Philis.
tine in the garden, thinking that would
strengthen up the soil a bit. This busi-
ness of nourishing the soil seems gro
tesque. It's hard enough to feed the
family, let alone throwing away good
money on feeding the land. Our idea about
soil is that it ought to feed itself.
Our garden ought to be lusty enough
to raise the few beans and beets and
blisters we aspire to. We have been out
looking at the soil. 1t looks fairly potent
and certainly it goes q long way down.
bottles and old shinbones scattered through
it, and they ought TO help along. The top
soil and the humus may be little mixed,
but We are not going to sort them out by
hand.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-04-03
QUIZ

1. What is salient:
?. Identify MAX AdeIer,"
.. What ere some characteristics Of "Quesn
Anne" architecturef
4. Who MIote the OratOrlO, "The DamnatleH 4
5. What Is a sObriquet:
0. What Is meant by Arabesauee
!. What Is mortarg
g. which st AmerieaS,. city is called "the Hub 8
0. Who Is General Won Below
10. What is a "sOu marauee"y
Answers to Yesterdays Quiz
1. Amlens 4 city Of 100 1000. eiEhty-six mIils
!. Channel, at which the Germans are driVlsa
wrote 'Ths Bllthedale Ronance."
3. Phlladelplda IA called ''the City Of Brotherr
Love-" in allpsion to the meaning Of o.
Greek words In the name.
d. HImus y .1;,ed q1;s,eayed veSetahle natter 80
5. The following Presidents Of the United stslsi
were born In the state Of New York; Hal
TN Van bnren. Miliard Fillmore aud Ihe'
y. The Old Msn Eloauent," "a name applied e
John Quincy Adams during his coHEresalgnli
.sreer, which succeeded his incumbenes q
:. bullion Is Seld OF silver considered siulpy Z,
METAL, without consideration Of chaufp
value Impaired By e0InaEe or shapiHg.
3. MuseO,y Il the ancient name Of n large n1H
OF what is now Russia.
y. Amelita Gallicnrcl IL a prima donna sopfN1
o. the chlfaEe 9Dera Cempsny. whose 81
has eaptVated muslc Isssrs easf and V1'.
10, karI 0oldmark. Gesman composer, u.4.
We ss,, ,ptRsfaen9 as9, ssnnhons known 90 f't
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-04-03

DEBCSSY is not OF this dilettante kind
~ lie mastered the accepted laws of his
art before he attempted to make new ones
lie did not so much transgress the acknowl-
edged conventions as he essayed TO stretch
their possibilities into the discovery of new
harmonic combinations and progressious
And he informed all that he did with rare
creative impulse which, however delicate and
difficult at times, is far from the vaguencss
uncertainty and indecsion of the seekers
after novelty, whether in music, poetry or art
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-04-03

Nothing new, says Berlin. Patience
Fritz
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-04-03

quebec seems to be putting the rio, in
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-04-03

WTE ARE becoming Injured rather than
w accustomed to the German claim of
everything in sight These shameless claims
extend even to the invisible empire OF the arts.
When an author, painter, a sculptor or poet
rises to eminence in his art, he becomes, by
reason of his excellence world-poet a
world-painter, world-author, and therefore
German. Germany long since appropriated
Shakespeare, Moliere and Dante. She had
the impertinence last year to condole with
France in the death of the eminent sculptor
Rodn and she will doubtless perpetrate
like impertinence now that Debussy is gone
German submarine blew up the channel
steamer Sussex. laden with harmless civilians
in travel to and fro and among their vic
Tins was Enrique Granados the famous
Spanish composer. returning to Spain from
America, whore he had attended the sue
cessful presentation in New York of an opera
Of his. After lying about this crime like n
schoolboy in scrape and being caught In
the lie 70 add to the crime. the Imperial Gov
ernment Of the German Empire condescended
10 express reEret for this accident" and II
has now offered to pay the family of Senior
Granados $4,000 pesetas that the world NAV
know how Kultur esteems music even though
II be only Spanish music.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-04-03

DUT though art must rise above politics
ID and controversy to he art, and though
IN tho highest sense TO be artist Is to
be a citizen OF the world yet even the arts
must yield TO supreme necessity OF the mo.
ment and we pay our tribute of admiration
to the bandmaster who. is sacrificing big
pay TO train musicians for our army, TO tho
painters OF landscapes and portraits who are
oamouhaging by sea and on land. 10 artists
like Paderewsld and Ernest Schellng who
have sunk the pianist in the patriot and are
now, each in his own way, serving against
that monster Kultur which would lead even
the arts, so many shackled slaves. behind
It's hideous chariot Of war.
THE GoWNS1iAN.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-04-03

THE Gownsman remembers 10 have sat n
l. table once, some time before America
entered this war. with the worlds great
pianist Paderewski, and the eminent violin
ist kreisler The latter, an Austrian. had
served his country against Russia it will he
rememoered' and had written a little book
about his experiences in which there is No
word of rancor and unkindness. NJ. Paderew-
ski is Pole and. like every true Pole, a
patriot. These great artists, on either side
OF a charming American hostess, discussed
the war with candor. with courtesy and with
out heat. though one had been mained nv
1t, and the other, NJ. Paderewski. told of the
beautiful estate which he had loved. tended
and planted, "its very trees reduced to match-
sticks" These men lived in a higher atmos-
phere tnah that OF controversy and politics
And yet it is right that Herr Rreiser keen
his violin in its case until time more ht-
ting in which to forget that he has been an
alien enemy.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-04-03

ENRED says we ought to have a wheel
= harrow; Hank swears by mulching
iron; Bill is all for cold frames. All three
say that .hellebore is the best thing for
sucking insects, We echo the eXpletive,
with different application
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-04-03

AND we should just like to see Bill sutas
Awrite a poem. We bet it wouldn't lool,
as much like poem as our beans lool,
Ike beans And as for Hank and Fred
the wouldn't even know how 70 begin 81
plant a poeml
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-04-03

He says nicotine or tobacco dust is far
better. The answer to that is that we
never put fertilizers on our garden, any
way. If we want to kill the cook there is
a more direct method and We reserve the
tobacco for ourself. No cutworm shall get
blighty one from our cherished baccy
pouch.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-04-03

Bright Eyes
and Khaki
America. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1905-current, 1918-03-23

;ilvania' din Farrell, Pa. pot Fl
mindrii ca au hala lor proprie
care valoreaza la 10000 dolari 81
81 ,2O7.41 in bani gaia, adeca So
cietatea ,,Transilvania" are as
taxi o avere de 21,207 dorari 81
81 cent?, la care d-nul p. Miclea
aduce lauda fllnctionarilor vechi
eentru silinta care si-au dat-o
oentr,s inaintarea Societatii
,Transilvania' 81 in rindul al
loi'ea sc adreseaza membrilor
,societatii 81 le' multumeste de
sprijinul 81 dragostca care Sian
aratat-o intotdeauna fata de So
cietatea ,,Transilvania' 81 lie a.
duce lauda tnturor membrilor
de purtarea frumoasa, si-i roaga
"a 81 pc viitor tot asemenea sa
sprijineasca Societatea noastra.
Dupa toate acestea sedinta s;i
inchide la orele 6 p. NJ.
In numclc Socictatii Transit
vania" din Farrell, Pa:
Pe1ru Miclea. presedinte
Nicolae Hidu, secretar
America. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1905-current, 1918-03-23
K' MfCA' -
RUBLlCITATEMk
SzR@SSsIsl
UN MARE FoL0S PENTRU
ROMfNII DIN CLEVELAND.


La libraria ,,Edgewater'' din
Detroit Avenue colt Gu w 10Th
Str, s'a format in seara de II
Martie o clasa de limba engleza
pentru straini. Pima acum sunt
II elevi 81 vim regulat la orele
7.3O seara. Printre Ell sunt mutt
Romini.
Ori care alt Romin doreste 81
invete gratis limba engleza, poa
te veni la acest isvor de cultura
unde este PRINT .cu placere $
tratat Gu o deosebita atentie.
(No. 62-67.
America. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1905-current, 1918-03-23
CAUTAM LUCRAToR1 LA SEE
Gle DE ZAHAR.

Lucratori de toate nationali-
tatile pot ca sa capete de lu>
cru la steele de zahar in statul
Michigan.
Moi platim $4,000, $4,000 81
$24.0O pc un acru. Casa gratuita
81 drumul pima acolo. Vorbeste
Gu representantul nostru care va
Fl in urmatoarele locuri:
In Detroit, Mich: Dumineca,
"a martie, la d-nul Peter Lilaff
din 456 Farnsworth Ave., la 8
ceasuri dimineata, la John Fe.
rancy's Office 2194, w. Jeffer.
son Ave; la ora 2 p. m. la Peter
Bologa's Barber Shop, 722 Fran
kiln str, la ora 5, seara.
MICHIGAN SUGAR COMPANY
SIGIa1AW, MICH.
(60-64).
America. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1905-current, 1918-03-23

proprietate, constatatoare din
Stor, Restaurant, Hotel 81 Saloon
in conectie & Pool Room, toate
sunt sub un coperis 81 apartin
proprietarului George Forsea
din, Newark, Ohio. De prezent
toate aceste afaceri (busines)
functioneaza 81 afacerile merg
foarte bine. Stunt situate in fats
fabricei The American Bottle
Co." Pozitia cea mai buna, (firs'
change). Sc vinde din cauza mu
t6rei in statul Florida.
Mary G. Forsea 13S Re Rey Str
NewaFak, Chic.
(,No. l 3 SIS Ap.).
America. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1905-current, 1918-03-23

Societatea romina de ajutor 81
cultara ,,Transilvania" din Far
rell, Pa, in ziua de 3 Martie a. G.
a avut adunarea generala, la ca
re a fost 81 schimbarea functio-
narilor pc un period de s luni,
|Sedinta s''a deschis prin d-nil
presedinte r., Miclea, la orele 2
B. m. Dinsul prin o'svorbire fru.
moasa arata membrilor Societati
mersul bun al Societatii Transit
vania' 81 progresarea 81 81 mnltu
meste fratilor lnembrii de Apriji
lnnl dat fata de Societatca noas