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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-24
THE SOCIALISTS CATCH UP

TT ISN'T easy to be enthusiastic over the
l. plans of Socialists for an international
council at which the policies Of President
Wilson will be formally approved
1t has always been the boast of the So
cialists that they were more enlightened
than others. And yet they were three years
late in recognizing the justice of the war.
They are falling into line behind President
wilson-but they are at the tail of the
procession. All the rest of the country
preceded them.
The ordinary rank and file in the United
States supported the President and the
war while the Socialist leaders in this
country were railing against both in a ma
tional platform which they are now trying
to live down and forget.
1t begins to appear indeed, that the
Socialists often are slower minded than
their less pretentious rivals in politics.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-24
WISE WORDS WITH BUT A SINGLE
SID

T'HE editor of the Cologne Gazette s
l. wise when he protests against the sug-
gested demolition of the Potsdam statue
of gallant, liberty-loving Baron Won Steu.
ben who fought for freedom with Wash
ington. He writes with discernment, too
as may be learned from the following ex-
tract from his newspaper, which we quote
verbatim, save for the change of a single
word
Moreover, do not need to copy every
asinnity of crazy government or a rabid
pOpuace. When the day comes when rea-
son shall have returned to the Germans,
nothing will be more calculated to make
them blush with shame than the sight of
their own memorial.
We have ventured to substitute the
word Germans" for the word Yankees"
originally written by the Rhenish editor
But for that little slip of an otherwise
acute pen, it's wielder would be eligible for
the ranks of patriotic American jour.
nalism.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-24
BASEBALL AND RUSSIA

PROFESSIONAL baseball, oddly enough
= has been lonely companion to Russia
IN the valleys of tribulation. A sensitive
world has doubted both on the same
grounds. There has been a suspicion that
the ball players, like the Russians, had
somehow failed in relation to the war
Meanwhile the big leagues and their play.
ers, like the folk at Petrograd Moscow
and points east, have been searching for
their souls in darkness. They have ira
vailed amidst difficulties not thoroughly
understood by their critics. And it ap-
pears that ball and the Russians may yet
emerge in high triumph.
Ty Cobb and Iris Speaker are to go
sky-fighting with the naval aviation serv.
ice. Eddie Collins has gone forth glorious
In the habiliments of a Devil Hound. In
numerable other players are serving splen.
didly in the service and, since the War
department. has made its wishes known
Others are preparing to join them In
France the gladdest news is heard The
French army is considering the formal
Recommendation of one of its generals
that baseball be taught formally and de-
veloped in all divisions of the land forces
General Vidal, one of the distinguished
divisional commanders under Foch has
summoned Johnny Evers of blessed mem.
ory to begin the process of tuition.
The national game instead of losing
prestige, may be internationalized and ac.
: corded new glory in the land
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-24
NEW FASHIONS IN POLITICS

COyERNOR EDGE, of New Jersey, has
~ formally announced an intention to
shun the stump in his campaign for the
United States Senate. Even the guerrilla
warfare being waged upon him by the
: Inevitable George L. Record, of Jersey
City. viii not tempt him to fight back with
wofds. Mr. Edge observes, with a good
deaA of wisdom, that the people are we'll
enough informed about dominant issues
to b4 depended on to use their own good
Judgment in every political contest of the
near future.
Henry Ford has left his campaign for
the Senate in Michigan to take care of
itself. He will not make a speech. He
will not spend a cent. The people know
me and they know what I'm for" says
Henry. "and they can make their own
choice"
Obviously this style of politics will be-
come more popular. The day of tri-
umphant metaphor, when men were
oiected to high Office because they could
npeak dramatically of the everlasting hills,
- rassed People know their world and
their country better than they used to
II decided" said Colonel House in his
focent autobiographical narrative of Pres
Mont Wilson's second campaign, that we
11dn't need TO make many speeches. Colo
0<1 Roosevelt was talking a great deal. I
1ofided to let Colonel Roosevelt elect u.s."
( 1he law of reaction here suggested is
- that astute politicians are beginning
1narn. Most aolifiGa1 sfaiiecA are SUI
nons and VI "a Md this
oor Hhen Z >crably
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-24
Member of the Associated Press
BUDAPEST BABY BUNDLES

BUDAPEST complains because the short
age of textiles compels her babies to
be wrapped in paper clothing Her lamen-
tations seem unreasonable. There is
enough incendiary language in the jour
mails of the Central Empires to keep any
sunker youngster warm. Moreover, should
subsequent issues of these sheets cool Off
as Foch forges ahead America might be
glad to contribute back numbers of Ger
tain periodicals formerly issued in this
country. Acting under the espionage act
the Postoffice Department has just an
nounced that the Milwaukee Leader for
merly fuming with Hun heat and such
red" papers as the Novy Mir. of New
York, and the .Cronaca Sovversiva. of
Lynn. have been barred from the mails.
Even so, couldn't well.armed airplane
ship them in order to allow the super
babies to derive what warmth they could
from their words? Mr.. .iereck's incan
descent language might be tried as a sub
stitute for coal during the coming Austro-
Hungarian winter. A Budapest baby
swathed in the Fatherland should be
stimulating sight to a land that has spent
its cotton in four years attempt to
shoot up Paris.
Yet, all things considered, the home
supply should suffice. There are scraps
and scraps of paper lying about the realms
of the two Kaisers.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-24
An Emergency Fleet Chanly

And there'll be no banquets at these
monthly conferences of shipbuilders either
for these meetings are serous--dead seri
ous-Drector of Shipping Charles NJ. Schwab
Oh. sing a dirge for champagne and the
wine both red and white, and millionaires
comforting from the break of dawn to
night without a wind-up banquet and
single pause for sips, for Schwab has
canned the menus while he's speeding up
the ships.
Take the cocktails from the table and
the oysters and the veal, you are here to
tend to business not to dream about a
meal and we'll get sufficient tankers by
not tanking here in state, and lot more
other tonnage than we could get if we ate.
so pull your betting tighter, stow away
the thought of dinner if i fatten up the
tonnage should care if you grow thin
ner; and the wines you used to tippe
when you got your good old buns, l shall
sprinkle at the launchings of million
deadweight tons.
so when l call a meeting, just remem-
ber this, my boys: there is apt to be plain
speaking, but no after-dinner noise; and
you'll feed on rolls of data and reports
and printed slips, and We'll all grow lean
together, but by heav'n well turn out
ships" FERDINAND REYHER.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-24
What Do You KnO,U?
QUIZ

OUlZ
charge of Charles Il. Hughes?
2. What is the origin Of the word mausoleume
8. Who Is the American Ambassador to Russia?
4. What Ams5ican President was called "0ld
s. What is the meaning of 81 PaxiiaccI," the
title Of Ieoncavallos popular opera?
9. What Is the capital Of New Hampshire?
:. What character in shakespeare declared
"Unessyy lies the head that wears
8. What Is the meaning Of the word "sourle"
and how should II be pronounced?
o. When was the Spanish Armada defeateds
TO- What were the ''lOcusts" In John tho Bap-
lists fare Of "ioeus's and wild hfneS'"
Answers to Yesterdays Quiz
1. Hubert Dent ,,:I l. Shairman of the House Com.
9. Mardi Gras is French for fat Tuesday" Il
Of 4 carnival. shroys tuesday. which I'M
8. Clement l.. yaiIandiagham was a ConEress-
SurPE %,s s"tt q bJ A%Ini fsr
Government and sentenced to imprison-
Ssa h% ssssrss ssnrss a;s &. The Cen.
federate lines.
4. A marlinspike is a pointed iron tool. used on
ships for splicing ropes.
s. A Manx cat Is tailless.
o. me Of the Nile Tor irrisation purposes. is az
Gs s fSs fsss The Toe O.
!. New Hampshir. 10 called the Granite State
on account OF ITS large commercial pro-
correctly. an Oriental song thrush. :.
0. Mslpensns was the classical Muse Of Trsss
y, =: ,-c.'a !: = :. -. s:s's 'A..'' "'s's
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-24
THE RETURNING

THEi passed: the crowds dissolved, the
music died; 1..
But one old man with hair like wind
swept foam
Gazed into space with somber eyes and
cried,
God bring the dear lads, when their
work is over. home!"
God bring them home those boys?-ah,
they who bear
The dreadful shock, they shall return
some day
With newborn souls, and they shall ever
loftier men than when they went
away.
But they who fall, knights of the living
God,
Who meet the dawn upon a foreign
Shore
They shall come back from Frances pop
pied sod
To be our boys. unchanged forevermore
Louis Dodge, in Scribners Magazine.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-24
The Silver Lining

Postmaster General Burleson is having the
time of his life applying his theories of
national communication in the greatly en-
larged field that has lately been intrusted
to him.--Providence journal.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-24
BEEF, IRON AND VINE


Ballade Of an Ambrosial Evening
T KNOW pub where can chow at dusk
On lentil soup, gried kidneys and white
wine; o.,
Take coffee in the garden. with rusk,
And smoke black leaf tobacco while
dine So oh.
Can drink liqueurs until my seasoned
spine
Begins to tingle and my brain to whir:
Then bring a candle landlord, just at
nine,
And have the sheets pedumed with Law
ender!
DOuR me caret (Medoc, sweet as
muskD
Carve me a juicy cut alAng the chine,
Then watch me ply not unwilling tusk
And quaff the western sun down his
decline.
Perhaps some olives, seasoned we'll in
brine,
Or pot of shandygaff, If you prefer;
But landlord, to complete the fair de-
Pray have the sheets perfumed with law
ender!
MO HEAVY vintage: nothing strong or
brusque,-
The smooth and mellow essence of the
Perhaps some green corn, roasted in the
husk.
And omelette singed with brandy-o
benign.
Allegro ma non troppo is my line:
The graceful mean where all the arts
concur
To make one long ambrosial evening
mine,
And then--O sheets perfumed with law
ender,
Envoy
n BEST of landlords! Let your light so
~ shine
That many another thirsty wanderer
May (after dinner all his cares resign
And find your sheets perfumed with
lavender
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-24

The Largest street-Cleaning contractor
in the world ANNOUNCES that the s1.75 prop
erty tax" is to be the limit" Not few
inhabitants of plundered city thought it
was just exactly that year ago.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-24

Foch's Endorsement of the Bible as a
battle inspiration recalls the sentiments Of
Stonewall Jackson. whose military qualities
also were vigorously akin to those of the
illustrious marshal.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-24
Camping Out

One who takes the train from che Read.
ing Terminal, and sits on the left-hand
side of the smoking car, will observe (after
the Wayne Junction cinder has been mas
saged out of his eye and Just before the
Fern Rock fake OF SCOT arrives a little
encampment at the brow of a hill There
are several tents in the lee of fringe of
woods, a pole with flag flying, and
baseball diamond that has been roughly
laid out in the wide field that slopes down
toward the railway.
We don't know who the cheerful people
are who have been camping out there all
summer, but they have the right idea
We have often watched the smoke of their
evening cooking fire rising pleasantly
against that dark band Of trees and seen
the boys gathered in the cup of the hollow
field (where the sunset light gathers in a
shimmering pool of yellow brightness)
batting out flies against the glowing sky
1t used to be said that the battle of
Waterloo was won on the playing fields of
Eton and other English schools. 1t is
equally true that what the Kaiser has
most to fear on the tragic meadowlands
of France is the quickness of eye the
hardness of hand, the decisive and fearless
habit of body that have been ingrained in
American young manhood by our national
pastime of camping out. Arms that have
been muscled with ball and paddle and axe
are arms that can hurl grenade and aim
a bullet to their appointed targets.
We like to sit on the left-hand side of
the smoking car on the 6:02 train, just for
the pleasure OF, watching that little camp
near Fern Rock. AS long as Americans
keep their taste for Spending the summer
in sleeveless shirts and under canvas the
Kaiser will only conduct his little tours
through other nations on the pay,as-you.
enter principle.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-24

The Berlin Tageblatts declaration that
the Allies are beginning to show signs of
WEAKNESS suggests keen appreciation of
how exhausting job counting prisoners has
lately become - I"
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-24
What War Is Coming To

It is now planned to invade Russia with
a movie army under the command of Gen.
erals Chaplin, Fairbanks and Pickford.-
New York Evening Sun.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-24

Time was when the finest English line"
was accredited to poet or literary genius
and the selection often provoked debate. But
the identity of it's creator is open to no ques-
don now. It's Haig.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-24

1t begins to look as though General Won
Boehn, Germanys retreat specialist, had
been engaged just in time to conduct his
armies in the only movement of which they
are now capable.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-24

The disappearance of hundreds of mil
Hons in the airplane program confirms the
fact that small wastes are no longer fash
ionable
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-24
Bow? They
Flatten Out!

The Kaiser will recog-
Bow? They nize the new Bolshe-
FIatten Out! vk Government at
Moscow. That ar
rangement is fair enough since the Bolshe--
Wiki are almost the only ones nowadays who
maintain d bowling acquaintance with the
Kaiser.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-24
Nobody Knows

One problem which we do not expect to
solve until our pastor returns from his much
needed six weeks vacation. II then. Is how
thg Hun ever contrived to- slip Into the
Christian sra-ohio stats 9ouFp4 4
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-24

Berlin is now admitting the accuracy of
our army figures. From admission to sub
mission is only step.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-24

To clear up any German doubts ii may
be freely stated that Mr.. McAdoo's restric-
ton on travel inapplcable with respect
to certain European sailings now undergoing
daily ineseass.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-24

Rene Fonck, the
High Premiums French ace of aces,
has brought down his
sixteth boche plane. Insurance rates must
he prohibitive among the German fiiers
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-24
CHEWING GUM
By Etsu Inagaki Sugimoto

happening. 1t is not easy to choose a
suitable and welcome gift for person who
has lived for several years in America and
who is believed to be foreign in her tastes.
So my friend had gone to a store where
foreign things were sold and selected a box
which was labeled Imported .Danties. A
Foreign Delicacy Possessing the Fragrance
of Flowers. Used by Ladies and Gentle.
men in the Cultured Society of Europe and
America"
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-24

Revised for the Picardy battle 'front.'
"Ye Bumps and Brays of Hunny Doom! :"
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-24

According to a German report "Hinden-
burg's back" And that's just the part of
him the Yanks expect TO look at
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-24

The German retreat
This Is Tanton specialist" is called
General Won Boehn
Foch may do something toward spilling the
beans
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-24
Envoy

That Lincoln Hi0h,rdy sign at the corner
Of walnut and Broad streets seems 10 as
Uery misleading. 1t points 10 Lancaster
and San Francisco, but gives no hint that
there are any other tribuldtionS en- route.
Perhaps it 1cdS some similar sign that led
the Kaiser to bcliepe Parts rdS Just
around the corner.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-24

ONE day soon after my coming to
~ America I was on a street car with a
friend. Just opposite was little girl with
big bundle. She was eating something.
I especially noticed her because in Japan
children never eat on the street or in a
public place.
My friends conversation held my atten-
ton for a while, then l chanced to glance
at the child again, and was surprised to see
she was still eating. Several times after
ward l looked at her. and finally l asked
my friend
What is that child eating?"
She is not eating anything" she replied
She is chewing gum
AGAIN l looked at the child. She was
n sitting, dropped and weary, her loose
hands lying in her lap and her feet spread
around her bundle in a very awkward and
difficult position. AS | watched her tired
face suddenly | remembered something
that had happened on the train on my trip
across the continent.
rs she sici?" ] asked.
NO, | think not. Why do you ask?"
Il think l took that medicine on the
train" replied.
My friend laughed.
"Oh, no." she said. Chewing gum is
not medicine. It's a sort of wax she chews
because it tastes pleasant"
T MADE no reply, but light began to
dawn upon my experience on the train.
/ had been uncomfortably carsick and
"A
small, square block of something which she
said would always cure nausea. put it in
my mouth and with conscientious gratitude
chewed carefully for a long time, but
could not swallow it. ! explained to myself
that it must be a medicine possessing won-
derful merit, as it would not dissolve. After
a while | got tired and was troubled what
to do, for the old lady had been kind to
give it to me and didn't like to throw 1t
away. So l wrapped it up in a piece of
white paper and put it in my mirror case.
That was my introduction to chewing
gum.
T HAD another experience with chewing
l. gum, but this was in Japan One of
the universal customs in my country is to
upon friend. One afternoon l received
a very formal call from a daughter of the
new aristocracy-progressi wealthy and
| altogether what is called in Japan "high-
| kara" meaning the very essence of the
| stylish and progressive in dress and man
| ner Ny caller was elegantly dressed, in
Japanese dress, of course, for even pro-
| gressive japanese women have not reached
| the place where European dress is worn on
| elegant occasions.
After a long, ceremonious bow and the
usual complimentary inquiries regarding
| the health of family and relatives and also
| a few tactful remarks in praise of the
| flowers arranged on the tokonoma, she
| leaned forward and unwrapped a square
| of beautiful crepe cloth, eXquisitely dyed
| and embroidered. As the folds loosened
she lifted out and presented to me mod.
estly, but with evident pride, large i'm
ported paper box with English lettering on
| II. It was a wholesale package of chewing
| gum. The elaborate, ceremonious manner
of my guest, every movement being In ac-
| cordance with the strictest etiquette. made
| the sudden appearance of that plebeian
/ package a most incongruous and amusing
| thing. Yet this was = perfectly natural
~ II ~ S-i 4 ss e ~ = tt
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-24

DARE things are always precious and
to those who represent rank, elegance and
wealth, so the time came when only peo.
pie of the highest class had bete-stained
teeth. limitations must have become the
fashion then, for during the Middle Ages,
long after the nuts We're extinct in Japan,
both men and women of high rank black
ened their teeth with preparation made
from eggplant peeling. The imperial cour-
tiers kept up this custom to the time of
the Restoration but the warrior class
never accepted it, they seeming to scorn
any fashion which spoke more of rank,
elegance and ease than of strength and
power of arms. Then this emblem of vanity
drifted lower in the scale until it rested
altogether with women, becoming the en-
blem of marriage. Since then women Of
all classes have backehed their teeth on
their wedding day and kept them black
ever after. The custom is now dying out
but it is seen everywhere in the rural dis.
tricts, and even in large cities almost all
old ladies still cling to the custom.
The fashion is not an ugly one. When
blackened every morning the teeth look
like polished ebony, and the gleam of
shining black behind rouged lips brings out
the clear olive skin, and looks as beautiful
to Japanese eyes as does the dot of black
court plaster on the ivory skin Of a maiden
to the eyes of a European.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-24

The pleasures that the 1corld corcts are
sin, pie and unSophisticdted. 4 cool erc-
ming. WithOHt too mdny mOsqUitoes, spent
in rcddiuo the KdiSer's obituary, GOltld
SdtiSfu almost dny Of as.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-24

Those two hip pockets. that the Kaiser
has lost in France--the Mari pocket and
the Picardy pocket-seem to be something
more than mere pockets after all, They
begin to look like whole trouser legs.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-24

A pipe tastes fine achen a man is cork.
ing. But he ought not to let acork inter
fere 1cith his smoke.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-24

why is the theatrical orchestra always
bald from bass viol to utility man? Does
the close proximity Of the footlights scorch
off the hair?
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-24

No taxation without downward Vare-
iatlon seems to have become the motto of
certain real estate men.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-24

CIM1LAR advertisements to this may be
~ seen in many first-class cake shops OF
Toxic, SO possibly at some no distant day
the familiar sight of unwearied moving
mouths may be seen by American tourists
as they whirl in their jinrikishas through
the land Of the Rising Sun.
Although we have not heretofore been
chewing-gum nation we will have to ac-
knowledge that history accuses us of some
thing much worse. 1t is said that our an.
cestois, ages ago. were addicted to the habit
of betel-nut chewing. and that this was
the origin of the custom which survives
today in the harmlessly blackened teeth of
Japanese old-fashoned women.
1t is a fact that the first conquerors of
Japan, who no doubt came originally from
the hot shores of India, planted betel
orchards in the warm islands Of the South
where they first landed, but on. account of
difference in soil and climate it was almost
impossible to make the trees grow, even
with the greatest care and the most con-
tinuous labor.