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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-12-04
What the Methods, Ministers Didn't Do

To the Editor Of the Evening Pubic Led0er.
Sir-on the second page of the EVENING
PUBLIC LEDGER today you quote the weekly
meeting Of Methodist Episcopal ministers of
Philadelphia being unable to get a mo-
ton through sending telegram of godspeed
to President Wilson on his departure for
Europe Arc the Methodist ministers of
Philadelphia getting so far away from the
doctrine taught by the wesleys that they
would show such apparent partisanship and
lack Of religion In refusing to extend god
speed to q great President who has success.
fully and apparently divinely brought to
successful termination the greatest of all
wars? The religion as taught by the found
ers Of Methodism would wish godspeed to
any ordinary citizen going on a journey
and IL Is almost unbelievable that a set Of
such intelligent men would show such disre-
gard for our noble leader in the worlds fight
for democracy. Mr.. Editor. do you think ii
would have been possible to have voted
down a similar resolution IL offered in any
meeting of ministers Of the Methodist
Episcopal Church South? Do you think a
larger percentage OF the laymen OF this
church would indorse the action of their
ministers at the meeting today? It seems TO
be a rule worth Snoting that the more a
church NEEDLES in politics the further II gets
away from religion.
Fl. S. RICHARDSON,
5007 Pine street.
Philadelphia, December 2.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-12-04
WILHELMs FRIENDS IN AMERIC A

uERR HOHENZOLLERN has just an
IL nounced through his secretary a firm
belief that "he still has many friends in
America"
There are two ways in which to explain
this high optimism OF the frst OF interra-
tional yeggmen.
The Secret Service Is amentably in.
efficient.
Or else Wilhelm has been reading some
Odd copies OF the Congressional Record
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-12-04
CONGRESSMAN MOORE,S LETTER
Financial Sacrifice accepting the Cen
of Mr.. StotesbyWhen C. Patterson Sailed
on a German Shp-C j. Piling Talks About Surgical
Instrune

TANlES NJ. BECK, who is now receiving
- marked attention in England, achieved
his first distinction as O speaker in Phila.
delphia, came to Washington under Mo
Kinley as Assistant Attorney General and
then left for New York, where he made
a big hit at the bar. Beck was benefited
immensely by his Washington experience.
but his readiness to talk on his feet" was
accentuated by his membership in the Five
O'Clock Club Of Philadelphia which he
still retains. Another old time Five
o'Clocker. Henry e. Gross, whose fortune
was made in the soap business In Phila.
delphia, is now permanently located at
Castle Close. Sangate. Kent, England An
intermarriage Of one Of the young Crosses
with one of the family of Sarah Bernhardt
effected an Anglo-French alliance which
boded no good for Germany during the
war. Beck and Gross have probably been
mixing it up little in dear old Lunnon."
CHARLES J. PILLING, who has been
~ helping the Government on the war
service committee on surgical Instruments,
tells startling story about that industry
which has recently been the subject of an
inquiry by the Tariff Commission. At the
beginning Of the European war; according
to Mr.. Pilling, at least so per cent OF the
steel surgical instruments used In this
country came from Germany. To that
extent, apparently, we had been dependent
upon Germany for our hospital, medical
and dental supplies The tariff was said
to be responsible in part but superior
workmanship and application Of labor in
Germany was also assigned as one Of the
| reasons for our dependence. With the in
| creased demand for surgical instruments,
| due to the return of our injured soldiers
! and the ordinary requirements of the
| hospitals, the problem of providing suit.
| able instruments during the war has been
| a serious one. In order to supply the army
| and the navy and to provide for the
| civilian trade it has been necessary to
| draw upon Japan and other countries and
to increase the United States production.
nAVE PHILLIPS, who was a partner of
~ Judge Monaghan before the latter went
on the bench. is wondering whether the
junior bar intends to give Congressman
John r. X. Scott the same kind Of "blow.
|
his first appearance in Washington. That
Scott dinner at the Willard Hotel, at
tended by Senator Ware. Senator Salus and
host OF the bright young lawyers Of Phil
adelphia, was one OF the events Of the pre-
war period. One OF the wag orators of the
occasion said he was glad Scott was
elected to Congress, because it would
enable the rest Of the boys to slice up
his profitable practice. John was wise
enough, however, not to make the mis-
take that many western lawyers coming
to Washington are obliged TO make. He
did not divide the practice and the boys
say it viii not embarrass him in this re
gard to so to Harrisburg.
i CAPrAIN MITCHELL MCDONALD. Y
N s. ~. who holds the naval purse string,
for the Fourth District and who was Ions
known 10 Philadelphians as Commando,
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-12-04

Senator Shermans resolution declaring
the Presidents Office vacant upon the de-
parture Of Mr. Wilson to Europe. and direct
ing tho Vice President to occupy It. Is de-
feotive in that the method suggested for filling
the vacancy would still leave the office
empty.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-12-04
The Lass That
fingered

According TO a Lon
Til. Lass That don dispatch. ex-
fingered Crown Prince Rup-
precht, dressed in ci-
william clothing, fed into the Netherlands ac-
conlpanied by a single companion. It's safe
to bet 1t wasn't the lucky little sister Of the
Grand Duchess of Luxembourg!
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-12-04

II have not renounced anything and
have not signed any document whatever"
boasts the German Crown Prince. AS the
open season for kings is on, the closed season
for such boasting rapidly approaches.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-12-04

Every time We invoke
Not So "CorkinE" the memory Of our
at That own exploit OF twenty
years ago to give
colorfuI comparison TO Britaln's bottllng- up
achievements along the Belgian coast the
cold douche OF history reminds us that
Cervera's feet came out after all.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-12-04

The BolsheviIsi are
A Chance for said 10 be issuing
slavic Gloom peace feelers" II
this means an orgy
Of notes" at least deep interest in the pros
pect is whetted by curiosity as to how Lenine
and Trotsky will explain their reputation
of Russias Just debts.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-12-04

There are some Sena-
Look This Up in tors in Washington
tho Dictionary whose efforts to keep
in line with popular
sentiments remind one of the contortionist
who boasted that he could lie prone on his
back.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-12-04

German soldiers move freely among
British" says headline. Considering what
conditions were before November II. the
cause of Hun freedom seems to have UNDER
gone a truly amazing development.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-12-04

The OriEaba, which is taking the news
paper correspondents to Europe, was named
after a volcano. Well dubbed, ship of
Fourth Estatei
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-12-04

with our troops marching toward Cob
lent3, va begin TO understand why the Gov
ernment asked ex-tourists some months ago
to disgorge their wel-thumbed copies Of
Baedeker's Rhine"
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-12-04

The departmental estimates for running
the Government in 1920 call for only s7.44S,.
900 o,ooO-some falling off from $4,000. .ooa-
900 for 1919.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-12-04

Captain Carp n e r.
Give the Girls Time who bottled up the
German U-boat base
at Zeebrugge, has not yet had his gallantry
put to the same kind of a test to which Hob
son succumbed.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-12-04

Even II choral festivity within certain
walls along the Hudson be unayoidably de-
sergbsa as a, Sing Sing sing, the emphasis
on thsee in this Instance does no, necessarily
mean 'out." * e n f
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-12-04

The quickest way to get rid of war vas
10 fight to the death, as some disillusIoned
Russian cutters are now possibly aware
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-12-04

chastened Bethmann- -Hollwes now sor-
rowfully admits that errors were committed
by his gang OF diplomatic junkers All all
are gone-the old familiar curses.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-12-04
Washington, Dec. 4.

TNHERE is satisfaction in being q judge
l. or an attorney general or in holding
some other office carrying the distinction
Of an honorary title, but in order to ac-
uuire 1t men are sometimes compelled to
make very unusual financial secrifices.
When Mayer Sulzberger accepted place
upon the bench III Philadelphia he was
said to be making $4,000 year. 1t GER
tainly would never have paid John G.
Johnson to take place on the Supreme
Court bench of the United States, no mat
ter how attractive the honor and the
title. The question now arises with re-
spect to William l. Schaffer, who has been
appointed Attorney General of Penn
sylyania. Schaffer has acquired big
practice in the shipping world and among
munition manufacturers along the Deia-
ware. He has enjoyed the work or Su.
preme Court reporter and has become
big factor in the Pennsylvania State Bar
Association. He is one OF the Governor
elects closest personal friends VIII 1t pay
Schaffer to become Attorney General and
put aside the fine professional business he
has built up?
yLTASHINGTON hears good deal about
w the Stotesburys, since Mrs. Stotes'
bury was formerly resident of this place.
but the one thing Washington does not
understand as well as we do in Philadel.
phia is the rising reputat ton of the big
Philadelphia banker as an all.round orator
People who have not come in personal
contact with the head of the Morgan con.
Germ in Philadelphia may be surprised to
know that after the days work is done
and the interest is all accurately calculated
no one more thoroughly enjoys an eve-
ning's symposium than f. 7. Stotesbury.
At the head of the table ho is as ready in
badinage as Moses p. Handy was In his
day, or as Governor Bum, of the Clover
Club, is now He can talk finance, war or
human sympathy with equal facility, and,
| II need be- he can lead the orchestra with
| a fork for a baton. and sometimes he does.
YTHEoDORE CUYLER PATTERSON. of
L De Lancey street. had an interesting
| war experience, which has been brought to
| the attention of the State Department. Mr.
Patterson was abroad before the big af
fair opened and happened to be on the
high seas in German ship, the Prinz
Adalbert, when Great Britain made heI
formal declaration. Wnen the vessel
came within range of British guns
she was seized and taken into Fal-
mouth Bay England, where Mr.. Pat
terson and the other passengers were
forcibly detained for about five days un
der very distressing circumstances. The
seizure took place August 4, 1914, about
2 o'clock in the morning. and. as the pas
sengers were unaware OF war, they natu
rally protested. When they got back t.
the United States they set up claims fol
the damage they had suffered in humilia
ton and loss OF baggage. but no repara
i ton has yet been made. Some of thes'
passengers were constituents Of Senato
salisbury. Of Delaware, and House Replb
lican Leader Mann, Of Illinois, ttrougl
| whom the state Department was mao
j aware u theh grievances. 4
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-12-04

Mr. Wilson, en- route for Europe, seems
to have decided that the freedom OF ths
seas already exists
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-12-04

Bill and billions will be Synonymous
terms IN Germany when the Paris commits
sioners finish with her.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-12-04

Its not so much the doughboys AZ the
sdo-boys' who)ars bisthely returning % our
s,srea
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-12-04
Restraint Is
Conceiy able

The temp ION to
Restraint Is say that the gallant
Conceivable Gene r Paraskevo-
poulos, now head of
the Greek army, bears name to conjure with
Is seriously weakened by difficulties OF pro-
nouncing st.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-12-04
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Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-11-19

front one million men who will int1lct great
casualties on the boches; meanwhile more yet
come to join them by the sides of the English
and French. FRANCIS LOUPIEN.ea
The one that I know is tall, we'll built. He
is very amiable and kind to children. When
ever he meets one on the road, he will stop
his horses and take him along. He is horse
! driver. When IL is raining he does not care,
he will then whistle with all his might
ERNESTINE CABANNES. -
The Americans are very courteous. They
came to save France to save right and liberty.
America rose against the despotism of Ger
many FERNAND LACOSTE.
The American soldiers are always laughing.
They are playful and funny. They remember
Lafayette and Rochambeau. They shed their
blood for France. GABRIEL NINOSQUE. -
They are clean and polite. They often give
us good examples and good lessons. They
have everything necessary, horSe-wagons, au-
tomobiles, trucks, bicycles, motorcycles, and
some kind of motor with sort of bath
tub ANDRE PEDEMONOU.
They like sweets very much. They are
clean; they wash all their body with cold
water. They are very polite. They do not
have the same religion we have, but it does
not matter, they are free to practice the one
they choose, or none. I saw them put up their
camp when they first came here; some were
pitching the tents, some cutting the fern and
others leveling the ground. They. had soon
put up a kitchen. Their tents have floors.
They were quick to place a shop and forge
for their 800 horses. CAMIE-EE DEBOS.
1t is magnificent to see this country place
herself by our side to help us to fight for lib
erty ROGER BES. e
I have observed them well. Most of them
are close-shaved. They are almost all tall and
large fellows. They have quick eyes. They
are polite, but some of them are great drink
ers. The Americans are very smart. They
do almost everything with machines and
horses. They are up to date in everything.
ANDRE. PROUSTEY. 80
The Literary Digest. -
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-11-19
When Foch Rode Into Metz.

1t was almost half century ago that the
people of Alsace-Lorraine, freshly torn from
their mother nation, declared: I'VE shall fol-
low you with our wishes, and we shall wait,
with full confidence in the future, until regen-
Grated France resumes the course of her great
destiny
They have not waited in vain, these loyal
provinces whose faith shone undimmed
through the long night of German bondage.
Today they are bacl; in the glorious household
of France; and the mother embosoms her
children again. What Sabbath it must have
been when General Foch, with President
Poineare and Premier Clemenceau, rode into
Metz-the Marsellaise and the Battle Hymn
of the Republic mingling their noble music,
the Tri-Color and the Stars and Stripes waving
together, proud columns OF American SOL
diers swelling the wonderful procession, and
the people coming forth to meet them with
shouts and tears.
The thought Of Belgium being restored and
Of Serbia possessed again by her brave exiles,
moves the worlds heart to its depths. But it
was for only four years and few months that
those lands were held by the Hun, while Lor-
raine and Alsace were in his grasp for little
less than half a century. Who that is not of
them can measure their rejoicing in these
days OF deliverance, with their faith verified,
their fidelity rewarded, their mother France
elfolding them?
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-11-19
CAVELL
By DR.. Frank Crane

Il thank God for these ten weeks of quiet
before the end. Life has always been hurried
and full of difficulty. This time of rest has
been a great mercy"
These are the words Of Edith CaveIl to the
English chaplain who called upon her Just
| before she was led out to DEATH
The hero always triumphs, even in the
hour when his enemy rejoices over his down
TALL. The spirit of the hero, high and aloof,
has escaped and looks down upon him.
We do not regard the death of Jesus upon
Calvary, nor of Socrates in the Athenian
prison, as tragic. 1t is rather point OF
majestic victory. Such scenes demonstrate
the insuperable dominance of the soul over
events.
have just witnessed moving picture of
the story of Edith Cavell, as interpreted by
Julia Arthur.
1t was on Sunday when 1 saw it, and ]
never attended a church service that stirred
me with profounder religious emotion.
Whoever selected Julia. Arthur to depict
the English nurse against whom brutality and
violence broke as hOlplessly as the waves
break upon the rocks of the seaShore, had a
sense of the fitness of things. For Miss Ar
thurs personality filled out ones conception
of Nurse Cavell as the hand fills the glove.
Her restrained art avoided disturbing the
atrics, and her type of beauty is exactly
adapted to what we imagine the English nurse
ought to have been.
This picture is good war propaganda. How
accurate it is l am not competent to say, but
of its Verisimilitude there can be no question.
1t needs to be brought home to the Ameri-
can people and to the world just now that the
German military machine was not formal
and legitimate expression of civilized state,
but was huge and most monstrous criminal
1t made an attempt to put into effect through
government precisely the same ideas that the
common burglar or thug puts into effect by
his perverted personality.
All the wrigglings and explanations of the
German rulers cannot obscure the fact that
they made the defense of the Fatherland but
a fiimsy veil to cover a gigantic and unlawful
lust.
1t is necessary that the world should prop
erly estimate its own self-respect. History
cannot afford to entertain for a moment the
absurd claims that the German government
made when it professed to be fighting merely
for defense.
Not only must the allied statesmen see this
when they settle matters with Germany, but
the public opinion of the world also ought to
feel it very clearly,
The story of Edith Cavell contains in itself
the gist of the whole matter. 1t is an epitome
of Germany's crime.
The shot which murdered Nurse Caveil
"rang round the world, and raised an army
over night" This Englishwoman has taken
her place among the enduring consultations
of civilization, and ranks as a worthy COM
panion to that other story of horror the story
of the Lusitania.
Copyright, 1918, by Frank Crane.l
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-11-19
WOrk for Returning Soldiers.

The return OF approximately four million
American soldiers and sailors 10 civil life in
wolves an employment problem which, unless
handled with due foresight and sympathy,
would prove extremely distressing. For these
men to be thrown upon the community and
left TO shift for themselves would be I'M
grateful and unwise policy as could be imaG-
ined; indeed. it would be no policy at all, but
simply a monstrous blunder. Having sum
moned them TO the colors or accepted their
voluntary service, the Government is bound
by every consideration of justice and ot public
welfare to aid the soldiers and sailors as best
it can in taking ap again the threads of their
wonted life.
Numbers of them will need no other assist
ance than that now awaiting them a. home.
where their former employers are eager to
welcome them back. Numbers TOO, will re-
turn to. the farm where their interests and
affections are conferred; and others who have
special training upon particular lines will find
it easy to secure profitable positions. Still,
there will be hundreds of thousands of cases in
which the help of the national Government,
supplemented by that of local agencies, will
be necessary. 1t is deeply gratifying to know
NNSSSAA~A
with the War Industries Board and the United
States Employment Service, are addressing
themselves most earnestly to this problem of
great human as we'll as economic concern.
It can hardly be doubted that proper plans
and organization will provide happy solu-
ton, because the need of men for jobs will be
as pronounced as the need of jobs for men.
For years to come Americas productive ener"
gies must be at full steam to supply the neces-
saries of war-wasted lands and to keep abreast
of an ever-increasing national trade. While
some industries will be closed or curtailed by
peace, many others which the war suspended
or reduced will go forward more vigorously
than ever. Thus with greatly heightened
labors to perform for the world and for her
own development, America will need in peace
as in war the services of every one of the four
million gallant soldiers and sailors who return
to her civil ranks.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-11-19
The Rise of Small Nations.

The disintegration of the Dual Monarchy
and the apparent growth of the Separatist
movement in the German Empire suggests in
teresting possibilities in the rise OF a large
number of small independent States in Europe.
In Austria-Hungary at least four such States
seem likely to emerge from the present chaos.
Bohemia probably will be the heart Of a
Czecho-Slovak nation, while the Slavs of
Southeastern Austria are expected to form n
Jugo-Slavic nation, perhaps in union with
Serbia. This arrangement will leave the
Magyars in control of only that portion OF
Hungary in which they are numerically pre-
dominant; they have already proclaimed their
independence of what was the Austro-Hun-
garian Empire. At the same time there is
rather well defined movement for the estab-
lishment of an independent State by German
speaking Austrians.
In Germany itself rumors are so rife and
conflicting that only the broadcast conjectures
may be made. 1t is quite credible, however
that the reports of Bavaria and other compo-
nent kingdoms of the Empire breaking away
from Prussian dominance are true. While it
is improbable that Germany will return to its
old patchwork of duchies, grand duchies and
petty principalities it will not be surprising il
there comes a sweeping process of de-Prus-
SANITATION.
1t has frequently been remarked that prior
to the war the most prosperous parts of Eu-
rope were the little States of Belgium, Holland
and Switzerland, while Norway, Sweden and
Denmark also enjoyed great commercial vigor.
There are indeed many advantages in a small
and homogeneous State such as these all are
and such as those now in prospect will be.
provided their security against powerful and
covetous aggressors is guaranteed. To estab-
lish such guarantees will be one CT the pri-
mary aims Of America and the Allies in the
forthcoming peace conference.