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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-01-25
THE NEW FRANCE

Here indeed is new France, new even
to those of us who did not know the old,
Some idea of France We had, an idea gen.
eralized from a little knowledge and much
ignorance, and it is against this GeneraliZed
background. familiar and ill-seen, that we
see these newer Frenchmen, perhaps no
more justly.
They are not more serious than the older
generations but their seriousness is nearer
the surface, they spend themselves less in
mockery, they are less afraid of being bored,
they see less merit in living so rs TO escape
boredom, they are not afraid or being duped,
except by life through failure to understand
it Their malice is less, or less often
weapon, a gift that they are too busy to
cultivate Let our touch be heavier on the
KEYS of life, they seem to say, if life will not
sound its most authentic tones in answer to
any lighter touch. For the sake of truth, OF
sincerity, they are willing to make more and
more sacrihces--of pleasure TO themselves
from life. of pleasure from their art to
others. Tired of mere cleverness of mere
dexterity, they seek new and significant
forms in art and in life. and appear at first
too tolerant Of lack of form. They are less
ruses specifically, than the older genera
tion. but even more resolved to see things
as they are. Esteeming science no less, they
know it's place in life more accurately, do
not expect from It more than it can give
A deep religious current runs through them
all. believers and unbelievers alike. Their
desire to be strong has not killed in them
their fathers desire to let live.-The New
Republic
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NEW EMPIRE OF TRADE

ACCORDING to statements compiled by
a the National City Bank our imports
from South America during 1917 were
valued at S3770OOOOO more than in 1913
and our exports amounted to 5000 900
more than in 1914 We are doing about
two and one.half times as much business
with South America as we did before the
war;
While the greater part OF the increase
may be attributed TO war conditions, some
part al least is due to the opening Of the
Panama Canal and the resulting case Of
communication with the West Coast. The
Chilian ports arc now nearer to Philadcl-
phia than the Brazilian ports. Tho intense
hostility to Germany which is found gen.
orally in South America, the increasing ap-
probation oe the value of American prod.
ucts as compared with those OF Germany
and the extension Of our banking facilities
are factors which aid in promoting feel.
ing of optimism so far as "A continuance
Of South American trade is concerned.
We have enjoyed wonderful oppor-
tunity to tic our fellow republics to us
with commercial ties oC tho strongest
kind. It is an opportunity which VIC must
continue TO cultivate with enthusiasm
ana courage
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whose proposals arc seldom debat ed and only
pertunctorily judged by the sovereign legis-
latiNe body. II is impossible TO mistake the
position and privileges of the British Cabi-
net, so great and conspicuous and much dis
cussed are they. They simplify the whole
British system for mems comprehension by
merely standing at the center Of it. But our
own system is simple only i'm appearance. It
IS easy to sec that Ger legislature and eXccu-
i've are separate, and that the legislature
natures its own measures by means of COM
mltteeS of its own members But it may
readily escape superficial observation that
our legislature, instead of being served Is
ruled by It's committees that those commit
tees prepare their measures In private; that
their number renders their privacy a secure
secrecy, by making them too many TO he
watched and individually too insignificant
to be worth watching that their division of
prerogative results in a loss, through dffu-
sion, of all actual responsibility; and that
their coordination leads TO such "A compete
tion among them for the attention of their
respective houses that legislation Is rushed,
when 1t is not paralyzed.
TT is thus that, whilst all real power is in
the hands of Congress- that power is often
thrown out of gear and its exercise brought
the committees is the clog. Their reports
stand in the way of each other, and so the
complaint is warranted that Congress can
get nothing done
There being no Premier in Congress Mr.
Wilson appeared on its floor in person to
accept a Premer's responsibility.
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lure the lad and the lass in the cutter. That
sort Of thing isn't destined 90 pass utterly
It is as old and older than the town.
John r, Farls, in his charming book "Old
Roads Out Of Philadelphia" quotes from
William Priest, visitor 10 these parts at
the close of the eighteenth century. this lively
paragraph:
THE chief amusement OF the country girls
in winter is sleighing, of which they are
passionately fond, so indeed are the whole
sex in this country. I never heard a woman
speak Of this diversion but with rapture
The snow seldom lies on the ground
more than seven or eight days together. The
consequence IL that every moment that will
admit of seighng is seized on with avidty
The tavern and innkeepers are up all night
and the whole country is in motion. When
the snow begins to fall our planters daugh-
ters provide hot sand, which at night they
place in bags at the bottom of the sleigh.
Their sweethearts attend with couple of
horses and away they glide with astonishing
velocity, visiting their friends for many miles
around the country. But in large towns IN
order to have a sleighing frolic in style it is
necessary to provide fiddler who is placed
al the head of the sleighs and plays all the
way. At every inn they meet with on the
road the company alight and have a dance"
And long before that another visitor Alex
ander Mackraby, writing to Sir Philip Fran
els in 1868, prattled enthusiastically OF a
sleighride he had had:
Seven sleighs with two ladies' and two
men in each, preceded by hddlers on horse
back, set out together upon a snow ahout
a foot deep on the roads to a public house
a few miles from town, where we danced
sang and romped and eat and drank and
finished our frolic in two or three side boxes
at the play. You can have no idea OF the
pulse, seated with pretty women, mlddeep in
snow, your body covered with fur and fan-
mel, clear air, bright sunshine and spotless
Sky, horses galloping, every feeling tuned TO
JOY and jolity"
Sunlight" says he. All but moonlight
is the stuff that dreams are made Of; and
II the snow holds and if the clouds will hut
take themselves off, the moon now waxing TO
the full win make paradise for many, even
for those who merely sit by the fire and
remember
For on winter nights ghost-musc plays
Along the Wissahickon. y
And many a silyer-headed wight
who drove that pleasant road by night
Sighs for his old appetite
For wafhes hot and chicken.
And grandmas now, who then were bellies!
How many a placid bosom sweils
At thought Of loves old charms and smells
Along the Wissahickon.
T. A, d.
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ACORNS
Being the Little Beginnings of Some
Worthy Timber

Johnny MCGOWAN left Girard College in
clothes Epon his back, and that's about all
oh, yes, he knew something of shorthand
but typewriters weren't growing on every
bush in those days Still he became
stenographer, at a salary Sc small II would
be shame to men lion it. It just about paid
his board, Then his sister got sick and he
started to take her to Colorado, though be
hadn't any prospect of job when he got
there. Pretty nervy, eh? Dut wait! He
couldn't leave his best girl behind, so ne
married her and took her along
When he got to Denver he fell into a joD
as stenographer with the Colorado southern
Railway. but he didn't move up fast enough
to- suit him He went to the Chicago Great
Western people and induced them to give
him a job as district freight agent They
offered him 500 a month and commission,
but he refused the hundred and said ne
take what he could earn He developed thc
freight business OF the American Smeltihs
and Refining Company, as related TO the :.
c. W., and In a little while was earning mo.
than some of that railroads officials. They
told him they'd have to reduce his rate y
8 per cent He kicked and told Guggenhelli
about 1t. and Guggenhelm took him TO New
York as purchasing agent for the Aineiieai'
Smelling and Refining Company. Mayos
that wasn't the sprout that made him pls
timber Well, II was. We haven't space -
tell you how he got shipload OF eopl,f
away from Germany when nobody else coo'e
do it, Anyway, you've probably read OF taa,'
But now Look at him Ladies and genlenle,
MIR. John X McGowun, vco president W.
dFectH Ot the American Smelling ana ti''
ining Company, 4 A. "
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NOT THE WAY TO SMASH THE HUN

GOAL consigned to New York for ships'
~ bunkers is held up by the freight con-
gcstlon. The ships, not getting tile coal
are held up in New York. Were the ships
at Philadelphia they would have their coal.
Moreover, the railroads between here and
New York would be relieved Of the neces-
sity Of handling tons and tons Of fuel. What
is the use Of talking about efficiency, or
organization, or coordination, or smashing
the Hun while so stupid a situation is per-
mitted to continue? The sensible thing is
always the efficient thing.
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Song of the Scuttle

IAftcr Eugene Field
Oh yc who are fond Of music (and some
of you may recall
Fields "clnk of the ice in the pitcher
the boy brings up the hall'),
! challenge ye all to name me a song Of
rarer tone
Than here in my cozy kitchen know for
my very own.
/ grant you your harps or fiddles, your
symphony bands or jazz,
Or the latest vocalization that Gluck or
Mccormack has;
You may take 'em for me and welcome,
for nothing on earth compares
With the rattle of coal in the scuttle
that Nom drags up the stairs!
A helpless creature is Mother. She
bothers me quite a bit
And routs me out of the comfy chair in
the kitchen where sit
To get her the tallow candle from its
place on the cellarway shelf
For Mother is thin and little and couldn't
reach it herself
And then there's the trouble to light il.
But when that trick is done
And ! settle back by the fire the reward
of my labor'S won,
For up from the depths Of the cellar
ascends the sweetest of airs
'Tis the rattle of coal in the scuttle that
Nom drags up the stairs.
The bucket in which she gathers the
nuggets that may be found
Along the tracks Of the Reading emits
but a wooden sound
And her day-long comngs and goings
| scarcely notice at all
For her feet in wrappings Of burlap go
softly along the hall;
But when in the winter twilight arises
treble clear
1t stirs me here in my corner to cock up
drOwsy ear
To catch the delightful music so soothing
to all my cares
The rattle of coal in the scuttle that
Nom drags up the stairs.
Time was, when the carbon nuggets were
easy to get and keep,
The song of the brimful scuttle had
bass note full and deep,
But then Nom handled a shovel instead
of tablespoon,
And now there's a dwindling treble in
the half-flled scuttle's tune.
Yet here by the kitchen fire, | dare you
to name me a song
To pay on my tender emotions and get
to me half so strong
AS the one that finds me browsing
sprawled out on the kitchen chairs
The rattle of coal in the scuttle that
Nom drags up the stairs.
TOM DAILY.
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can take some hundreds OF housing liabili-
ties IN Philadelphia and transform them
into housing assets. to the greater good Of
the city as well as of the owners. Let us
show some practical patriotism and back
1t with brains and money.
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Answers to Yesterdays ouiz

1, Joseph Y. Berryi A bishop Of the Metbodis,
Episcopal Church.
2. Bohemia Is under Austrian sovereignty,
8. General Robertson IL chief Of star of Al.
British military establishment. - '"o
for President In 1904. =
5. The attacks on Lincoln eliminated in IN.
establishment Ot y ConETesslOnal Commit
tee the Conduct Of the War
@, Tractor a machine used to draw Vsht.t.
agricultural Implements. military e"nias,
ment, etc.
7. A prince l. addressed as "Your HIEhness,, .,
g. 'sDrAWfnE a red herring across tks tra.i,,,
Dverting attention from the subiset ~
hand BY sti rting Irrelevant QUESTION: :"
.. a shire; Ensllsh sonutv.
TO- Dodo' larBs eAtinet bird Of MaurIfha
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-01-25

In the last three quarterly periods the
weekly average rate of big ships sunk has
dropped from twenty-one TO fifteen. and then
TO twelve. In The last two weeks the average
was six In this there Is reason for optimism
and heaven knows VI need Il.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-01-25

Why John r. X. Scott for Lieutenant
Governor? We understand that he wanted to
be Governor without qualification.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-01-25

1t Is one Of the paradoxes of war life
that the records for coal output and coal
famine should both have been broken in the
same year.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-01-25

Bishop Berry wants an anti-Iiquor Cow
ernor. We have one now and--a great deal
Of liquor.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-01-25

There is nothing halfway about Senator
Chamberlain. He is either terribly right or
terribly wrong,
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-01-25

The Viennese revolutionaries are said to
have named a provisional Cabinet II could
not be more provisional than the official
variety produced I'm that capital.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-01-25
THE GIRL HE LEAVES BEHIND HIM

Whate'er may be said of a sweetheart
i'Too giddy," "too old" or "too new
There's one point admits OF no question:
She can't be too good to be true"
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-01-25

II the Bolsheviki can split the Central
Powers wen lend them the megaphones
with which TO do II.
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To win an election a party must not only
get the votes. but IL must have them
counted. II appears that getting them
counted is the more difficult Of the two tasks.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-01-25
EDITORIAL EPIGRAMs

wilhelm Will now devote himself 10 writing.
an Easter address.-New York Sun
Rus9is is making history like a stuttorIny
man telling a funny story.--Kansas Citv
Star.
Perhaps il was the intention to wait and
capture machine guns from the Germans
Kansas City Times
The Bolshevik will hurt their cause by
bring the Russian prisoners home from
Germany They have no idotic deluslons
about the Germans.-St. Louis Globe Demo-
crat.
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The Lad and Lass in the Cutter

Though It seems 10 us the olden glamour
OF those racing days has largely passed, Il
Is scarcely likely that the sllvery charms OF
the Wissahlekon will ever wholly cease 10
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-01-25

Tomorrow the first part Of Governor Penny
1905, will he printed.
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FLYING SQUADRON"
WILL MEET TONIGHT
DRIVE NEXT WEEK WILL BE
PERFECTED.

"Details of the plans which will be
carried out next week, if present ar
rangements are not upset by the in
fluenza epidemic, by the Flying Squad
ron i'm its intensive canvass in the
interest of the Fourth. Liberty Loan
will be decided upon and announced
at meeting of that unit tonight. The
meeting viii be held in the Public
Square instead Of at the Court House,
the change in place having been made
necessary through the ban on all in
door public meetings. All members Of
the committee are expected to be
present promptly at eight O'Clock. In
dividual notices of the meeting have
Continued on page SIX
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MINOR CASES ONLY
IN CIRCUIT COURT
JUDGE ADJoURNS UNTIL TOMOR-
ROW MORNING AFTER SHORT
SESSION THIS MORNING.

Judge ]. NJ. Woods, sitting in chan
Gerry cases only this morning in the
Circuit Court, after brief session ad-
journed the court until tomorrow
morning at ten O'Clock. Most OF the
officials and lawyers We're complain
ing of sickness this morning.
W. w. Clark and Thomas OBrlen,
watchmen at the interviewer Mills,
were granted the right to carry PTS
tolls.
In the case of the Merchants and
Farmers Bank VS.. III. E. Pearrel, a
decree was entered confirming the
sale of property and ordering the
money paid.
Judge Woods will be succeeded to.
morrow by a special judge for cases
in which Mr.. Woods is interested.
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MAY LAND A|RPLANE
NEAR THIS CITY

Mayor Tonkin on Wednesday re-
ceived telegram from an officer in
the service at Glenn City, L. l., ask
ing him to attempt to select a land
ing place for an airplane near Mar
tinsburg. AT the Mayors request
Messrs. George d. Kershner and Clyde
Smith went out and selected the |. D..
Vanmetre farm, known as Arden
near the old quarries ON the southern
edge of town, as the most suitable
place. NO information was given as
to the time or date of the expected
landing, the officer merely saying
that he would advise several hours
before he came.
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POSTPONED
IN LUTHERAN CHURCH

On account prevailing influenza
and closing of churches next Sunday
by order of the health authorities, the
Holy Communion at st. Johns Llth-
eran Church will be postponed one
week, until Sunday, October 10. This
preparatory service will be held Fri
day evening preceding.
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FLYING SQUADRON MEETS
TONIGHT.

Owing to the order of the
Board of Health forbiddlng all in
door meetings, the members of
the Flying Squadron, all Of whom
were invited to meet In the Court
House tonight. are hereby noti-
in the Public Square tonight at
o'clock. a.2g
(Signed) Igre
n. n. EMMERT,
&. c. HENSHAW,
J. T. NADENBOUSCH
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READY WITH BONDS.

TTl Did National Bank Is prepared
to deliver coupon bonds for the Fourth
Liberty Loan in denominations of
fifty and one hundred dollars to cash
subscribers. / 03 1p 3ts
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S|AMESE A|RMEN TO
FIGHT FOR France

CBy Newspaper Enterprise Assoc M
lPtAlFaIS, Oct. 2.--tAccording to a re-
port in Paris paper, several squad
rons OF perfectly trained Siamese air
men will soon be in France to take
active part in aiding the French fly
ing force. This contingent has been
voluntarily contributed by the STA
mese government.
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SUNDAY SCHOOL
CONVENTION POSTPONED

by order Of the health authorities
to close all places of worship, next
Sunday ON account of the prevailing
influenza, the Sunday School conyen-
ton announced for next Sunday at
Trinity Lutheran Church, Needmore.
is postponed until the follosing Sun
day, October 12.
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l.
ways resided in the city, and is we'll
known in a large circle of friends
and relatives.
| She is survived by her husband,
and four children as follows: Mrs
Pine Durham, Mrs. il. S. Chapman,
and Mrs Russel Evans, all of this
city,, and Huber Martin, now with the
| American Expeditionary Forces in
France. She is also survived by
three sisters, Mrs. Clara Blondell, of
this city, Mrs. F. Trear, of Balston,
Va, Mrs. John l.. Ozias of Jessups,
Iowa, and by one brother, George S.
Huber, of Milwaukee Wis.
The funeral will be held from the
home at 2.30 Sunday afternoon: Rev.
erend Charles S. Trump, pastor OF
the Lutheran Church, of which she
was member, will have charge OF
the services. Interment will be made
| in the old Norbourne cemetery.
Mr.. NoI Dead.
| MIR. Clarence G. Noll, lifelong res
| ident of the county and city, and well
known among the business men be.
| fore paralysis compelled him to with
draw from active work, died yester.
day evening at the Kings Daughters
Hospital of paralysis, where he had
been confined for treatment for the
past two months. He was aged fifty
one years.
but for some years conducted the
store at King and Raleigh Streets.
Twenty years ago he was stricken
with paralysis and was compelled to
give up work Since that time he has
been a constant sufferer from paraly-
sis.
He is, survived by two sisters, Mrs.
Ida E. Miller, widow of ]. William
Miller, of Hagerstown, and Ella M.
ers, E. Willis ANoll, with whom the
the deceased resided on East Stephen
lStreet, Henry C. Noll, of Baltimore,
4 and ALLEN B. Noll, also of this city.
j The funeral services will be held
from the home of E. Willis Noll, East
Stephen Street, tomorrow morning at
10 O'Clock, the services to be in charge
of Reverend Henry p. Hamill. Inter
ment will be made in Green Hill
cemetery. a!gAs
Popular Girl Dies.
Word received here today told of
the death in Washington of; nine-year
old Lillian Myers, daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. Harry Myers, and grand
daughter of Mrs Edward Creque,
West Burke Street Death was due TO
heart trouble, superinduced by pneu
monia. g n
The little girl was we'll known
here, having been born while her
| parents lived here on Miller Avenue,
l,continuing to live here until two years
. ago, and having been here frequently
. since as the guest of her grandmother
and great-grandfather, X. B. Creque,
| Sr.
She is survived by her parents, one
I brother, Orville, and one sister, VIC
a let.
;. The remains will be brought to this
city and buried either from the Re
formed Church, where she attended the
Z Sunday School, or from the home oil
MIR. Creque, West Burke Street. The
+ funeral will be held Sunday afternoon
o the exact time to be announced later
!. REV. Schmucker's Brother Dead.
Word has been received here by
n the Rev. Roy Echlnucker, of Wmches
II ter Avenue, that his brother, the
y Rev. DIR. M. l.. Schmucker of Akron
|. CONTINUED on page six.)
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Three victims from this community counted by the
snah influenza yesterday of them occurring local hos
r and the other being in the service who expired
their camp hospitals The local victim Charles Custer of
Virginia Avenue; the service Levi NJ Keyon, who
died at Camp Meade and Henry L. Capham of Vanclevesve
who expired the camp hospital at Camp Colt Gettysburg All
deaths due to pneumonia resulting from influenza
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Heats your kitchen and an extra
room, cooks your meals, and bakes
your bread with one fire. How?
Coles High Oven Range.
Martinsburg Furniture Company,
10 3 d nj
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Coles High Oven Range does away
with an extra heating stove. It's a
money saver for you. Investigate.
Martinsburg Furniture Company.
10 3 Ut p1
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FOR YOUR DINNER TONIGHT.

Fancy Grab Meat, Devilled Grabs,
and Steamed Hard Grabs Fancy count
oysters in pirIts and quarts, glass jars.
Fresh trout and butterflsh. Fancy Sill.
yer Side Mackerel, sailed.
Strawberries, head lettuce, celery,
peppers and carrots.
THE CITY lMAIaKEr.
North Queen ST. A. F. 'Bentz, Prop,
10 8 Its p1