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The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1918-10-23
As~y M.1dx~n/

The Germans are still not worried
about the advance of our troops, as
Kaiser Bill has informed them that
the pro-Germans are sure to sweep
the country at the coming elections
and put stop to the war.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1918-10-23

Friends of Harry M. Clark, who is
attending officers training camp at
Fortress Monroe, have received word
from him to the effect that he has
just BEEN released from the hospital
after a Slight attack Of the ''fu." He
states that things are, running very
smoothly with him at present and he
is hitting the high spots" in his
grades. He has recently been trans
sferred to new barracks, which are
very pleasant and comfortable. He
says the Chow is good and he has
nothing whatever to complain about.
His new address is Co. F, Coast sArtil-
lery Training Camp, FIT, Monroe, Va.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-10-07

wagon and sutcmcbile trsnfc Yet such
trafic represents a factor in the situation
that grows more important every day.
Under the plans already under considera.
tion by the commissions in this State and
in New Jersey It Is aimed too, to erect
bridge that shall be monumental In char
acter and thing OF beauty as well as Of
practical use.
The lack of general interest in the Della
ware bridge project has always been
matter OF amazement 10. those who realize
that such means of communication be-
tween this city and Camden would give 10
the real estate in the vicinity OF the ter
minals a new value probably much in
excess OF the cost of the work. Mean
while countless people would be relieved
Of the discomfort Of slow and overcrowded
ferries, all OF Pennsylvania would be
nearer TO the Jersey shore and the way
would be shortened between Jersey farms
and Philadelphia markets.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-10-07

FASHIONS have changed swiftly in the
arts of war. Now there is little of the
old order left, and that. too, seems des.
tined to pass, The sword has become little
more than a figure OF speech fashionable
at Berlin. officers wear it only OCCASION
ally on parade. Cavalry in the present
war have fought now and then with
sabers. But it is admitted that in gen
eral way the sword lis hardly worth Garry
ing. Automatic pistols and hand grenades
are better at close quarters. Then, again,
tho Kaiser and other warmakers have
talked so much of.the sword that people
everywhere in the world have sckened OF
the very term. .r' 90"
Now the salute is threatened. n OfYfcers
and men alike here and in Europe com.
plain that it has come to involve labor and
annoyance. Because Of the great numbers
OF military men OF all ranks in every city
a days leave becomes little more than one
salute after another. And a salute isn't
the easy matter that 1t appears. There
are the preliminares in which tlr men in
uniform approach and appraise each
others rank, The process requires con.
Centration. At the precise instant the
man OF lesser rank lifts his hand In a
manner provided for by iron rules. The
palm must not be visible. The hand must
be snapped back to a normal position after
exactly the right interval. The rite re-
pested every two minutes during tle day
becomes a distraction. British officers
have been the first to suggest that the
salute be given only under circumstances
Of military formality.
Contrary to general opinion, the salute
given first, as it must be, by the. soldier
or officer Of inferior rank, Is not the ex.
elusive duty of subordinate. 1t is a
symbol developed from one Of the ancient
forms OF chivary when knights lifted their
right hands at the approach to show that
they were unarmed and friendly. Til.
salute therefore means, first Of ALL friend
ship and mutual allegiance.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-10-07
Var Finance
Explained by Women

yTNIIE national womans Liberty Loan COM
i mittee has sent out an admirably con-
densed statement of the needs of the Govern
ment for money and of what has been done
with the sums that have been raised as well
as OF the financial condition of the other
fighting nations. Following are some ex-
tracts from IL: t.r...
"In normal tirnes-in peace times--it costs
about 81, 900, ,o00, 900 year TO run the Govern
ment For the fiscal year ended June 30
1918, Congress appropriated IN round num-
bers. including deficiencies s1s.ss2. .0OO, 900
For 1919 Congress has appropriated In round
numbers at the present session, including de-
fciencies and appropriation bills pending,
s2l33O. .0oo, 900.
The mind is often confused over appro-
priations and 'expenditures.' Congressional
appropriations fix the limit Of what may be
used Then the governmental departments
and bureaus spend what is necessary, and at
the end of the year the appropriation lapses.
oficiaI figures show that for the fiscal year
1918 the Government spent $12,6s6, TO-, ,471.14,
and, in addition. during the war months of
1917 disbursed sssS. 100000 for loans to
allies.
up to the very day we entered the war
Germany believed that victory for the Cen
trail Powers lay just ahead. strong factor
In this calculation was their belief that the
Entente Powers were financially exhausted
Germany had spent fifty years preparing
for a war OF conquest. She knew that from
its very start she must wage II from within
the circle composed of herself and her allies
that she must produce from within this
circle her raw stuffs and manufactured ma.
terlal, and by doing this, though the war has
continued far beyond the eighteen months
that Germany set for its winning-if there
was to be a winning-she has kept her
money at home. used 1t over and over again
as the same water often turns the wheels of
many mills.
"Our allies. on the other hand owing
chiefly to their lack Of preparation. had to
come into the markets Of the United States
for most of their war necessaries. and In
the years of our neutrality their account
with us totaled approximately Ss,453,524,547
I'VE advanced them money and credit
and we called the transaction loan. In
the fiscal years 1917 and 1918 We loaned
governmental undertakings to repay lie In
the vaults Of the treasury Of the United
States.
what our allies did with that credit or
money is OF vast importance to US. They
looked to US TO supply them with wheat and
corn and cotton from our heids, coal and
ore from our mines, and finished product
from our factories and foundries otherwise
they could not remain at war; SO they
brought this credit that we had lent then
into our markets and spent It over our
counters.
"DurInr the fiscal year 1918 our e.uor,,
amounted to $4,000. 10000 Most of 'hess
vent 10 our allies and was turned immo.
diately and eagerly into fighting stun 70,
winning their war--our war.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-10-07
wICKEDNEss OF THE COUNTRY

WHENEVER country boy or girl goes
w to town he is warned against the
wickedness which will surround him and
do its best to drag him down. He is told
that God made the country, man made the
town and the real estate promoter made
the suburbs. and that the only simon.pure
part Of the earth is where there are few
people.
a writer In the current Unpopular Re-
siew has set out to refute this falIacy.
Wise man TO choose periodical so appro-
Driately named in which to combat a pop.
uiar heresy! Ne reminds us that the cities
furnish far more than their proportion Of
the taxes, soldiers and churchgoers, while
the rural districts lead in homicides, sui
oldes, divorces and Congressmen.
Id II Is he and not We who includes Con.
krcaamen among the misdeeds OF the coun-
1ry. But many mother VINO has gone
from the city to the country TO find a
Dpre moral atmosphere In which 20 bring
10 her children has discovered that for
tnndulterated nastiness the country urchin
= unrivaled. and has fed back to town
<ere she can keep closer watch on
~ her children learn.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-10-07
BRIDGE OR TUNNEL ACROSS THE
DELAWARE?

THE war and the increased demand for
industrial efficiency were required to
demonstrate the utter folly of further
quibbling with the transport problems pre-
sented to Pennsylvania and New Jersey
by the Delaware River and it's archaic
ferry system. The Delaware is in this
aspect power in restraint OF trade. 1t is
nuisance. II is barrier that persists to
prevent the proper cooperation of two
great communities in industry and in other
ways.
SO ii is cheerful to hear through Samuel
T. French. chairman of the New Jersey
Bridge Commission, that the Federal Cow
ernment is being urged, apparently with
some success, 10 lend its influence to help
the plans for a bridge.
simultaneously those who have urged a
tunnel project have again become busy In
the foreground.
There are a thousand valid reasons why
all OF the influence that can be mobilized
in New Jersey and Pennsylvania should be
concentrated behind the bridge plans. OBJ
yiorsly a tunnel would not accommodate
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-10-07
!, MONDAY, OCTOBER 1913
THE SITUATYON

ANXIOUS Austrian attitudes,
A Berlin's bogus beatitudes,
Crimea's cryptic crises,
Durazzos dead devices,
Entente's eternal ebullition,
Frances fast, furious fruition,
Gouraud's gigantic, gleeful gobbles,
Huns hyper-hopeless hamstrung hobbies
1taly's incisive interpretations,
Junker's jejunc, jsngling Qualifications, ~
kaiser's kindergartenish kicking,
Liberty Loan Landwehr licking,
Murmansk massing might,
Neutrality's night,
Obstinate obstacles overseas overcome.
Proud Paris perpctually preserved
"plum,'
Queant quagmire's quick quelling,
Ranting Russia's rebelling,
SPANS sinister sneezing,
Trounced Turkeys truce teasing,
Unwise, unregencrate Ukraine,
Venal, vanquished Valhalla, vain, '..'
Wilson's wrong -wrecking warning. ...
Extraordinarily. X-tra- scoring i.
Yankee youth yonder yelling "Yip!n
Zeal, usefulness, "Zowie! Zip.'',
- .. H. T. CRAVEN. z
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-10-07
NO PEACE PALAVERS

A SURVEY of the important newspaper
veals no opinion dissenting from the uni
versal demand for short, sharp and plain
refusal of the German Kaisers latest at.
tempt to evade the coming judgment Of
the world by opening palavers for peace.
President Wilson may he expected
promptly and Enthusiastically to voice this
sentiment with tinality which shall leave
no hope for even the most fatuous or most
cynical follower Of Kaiserdom,
Neither the German Government nor
the German people have had n change Of
heart. The specious phrases of the new
Chancellor Prince Macmillan, deceive no.
body in Germany or out. The Imperial
decree rcconstituting the Eeichstas and
the Ministers, like all German Imperial
DEGREES OF the recent past, is mere mum.
merry. Another Just as readily written
and pronounced can sweep 1t aside in a
moment once the peril Of defeat, Of mill
ldlS utoNI u'tioli' VI dslOh, 10 puSh' NV
Princes own slips of the tongue betray
him. Does he expect to dupe US while he
still prates of his great and true people
and their glorious armed power after
what the world has witnessed in the devas-
tated lands wherever the Hun tribes have
set their bloody feet?
This is the Judas peace" against which
We have been forewarned. Fortunately
the people of America and the other
Allied nations are forearmed against it.
No peace made while the Allied armies
are still outside of Germany can be lasting
or result in anything but a virtual triumph
for the Potsdam malignapts proving their
lying boasts that from the beginning they
have been fighting a defensive war to keep
assailants out Of the Fatherland. No peace
made without first crushing this GLORIOUS
armed power" which has been laying waste
the world can assure against another
rruption Of tn, horches Of barbarism n the
future.
The Day is at last at hand, but it is not
the day Of which the ovtrlords Of war
dreamed. 1t is rather tho Day Of Doom
for the Mad Hohenzollern and his cut.
throat brood. They have delayed too long
seeking Justice without repentance They
must answer to the Allies, their judges
for their hideous crimes. Speak, Mr.
President
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Member Of the Associa,ed Press
FILLING A sUPERFLUoUs OFFICE


JAMES II. GAY who has been appointed
to vacancy in the City Commission,
will doubtless make an efficient Commits.
sioner
But what is the use Of having any City
Commissioners?
The office which these men hold was
created as part of the government Of the
counties of the State. The Commissioners
have certain functions to perform affect
ing the whole county. There is justifca-
fion for them everywhere in the state ex-
cept in Philadelphia County. where the
territory over which the Mayor and Coun-
ellis have jurisdiction is the same as that
over which the Commissioners exercise
their authority. The Commissioners here
are survival of the old county govern
ment, which ought to have been abolished
completely when the whole of the county
was taken into the city limits, just as the
functions of the county government in
New York have been taken over by the
city government. They have even abo'
ished coroners in New York.
But the City Commissioners are en-
balmed in the Constitution and cannot be
got rid of until that document is thor
oughly revised and modernized. The Office
OF magistrate, one of the pe-nicious super
nuities. is also protected by the Constitu-
tion. Some day there will be constitu-
tional convention which will taken up these
questions and we hope wipe our from the
Constitution all its outgrown and unncc-
essary restrictions upon the freedom OF
this city to govern itself as well as abolish
all the traces of the dual systems OF gov
ernment within its territory.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-10-07
CLEARING THE GROUND FOR THE
a. LIBRARY

y GO FAR as appears now, all the legal OBJ
- stacles in the way of building the new
free library on the Parkway have been re.
moved.
Three and a quarter million dollars are
available for the building and it's equip.
ment The contract for part at least OF
the work has been let. Wa conditions,
however, will doubtless delay the work
still longer. There is a scarcity OF labor
and material at present. But the instant
peace is declared it is likely that all ar.
rangements will be in such shape that
the structure can be pushed to rapid com.
pletion.
The library is one of those public works
on which places can be found for men
thrown out of the war industries when
they shut down. II it were not desirable
to find work for these men, the need of an
! adequate building for the great free II.
brary which is building up kere is so great
that an alert city administration will not
delay its completion beyond the earliest
date within the capabilities of an efficient
contractor.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-10-07
KEEP YOUR EYE ON ALSACF

EERMAN activity IN Alsace suggests
that they think something is to hap.
pen on that part Of the front in the near
future. They have ordered the inhabi-
tants of forty villages to leave their homes,
and 1t is reported in Switzerland that the
inhabitants of Altkirch and Muelhausen
have been ordered to prepare to leave i'm.
mediately. These two towns are almost
due east Of the great French fertilization
at Belfort.
When he begins to do II we shall know
what General Foch is planning for this
part of the line. That he will strike when
II will do the most good can be assumed
with perfect confidence.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-10-07
THE DRAUCHT
ssTHE day" dawns.


l. To your knees, Hun,
You and your pawns!
Drain that toast to its dregs
So blithely begun
on insolent legs:
You and your spawns
Precious place in the sun!
No heel.taps. oar.
oh, then there were none
While perfidious traps
You were setting with smiles,
With salvos of fun
Behind blood.guilty wiles:
You with your scraps
OF paper at one!
Bottoms up!
Has the taste run
TO gall in the cup?
Do your lips shrink?
Dare your soul shun?
Come, take your drink,
Unless you're all pup.
Till the dead lees are done.
Prosit So
Ay, salute, Hun.
Stem not the flow
OF youI earned dregs,
OF sediment hard won.
Then on last legs,
Still thirsty, so
To your spot in the sur!
STANLEY KIDDER WILSON.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-10-07
The Miraculous Jap

Japanese chef. excellent, practical and
fancy cook Thoroughly competent cook !;
one for all; always running kitchen un-
IimitedIy perfect condition; conducts himself
10 YOUR entire satisfaction, possessing every
essential trait necessary TO do what others
fail 10 do. Wages. $50 up. Reasonable free
trial is invited. Cheerfully and cordially un-
mindful OF miles. Single fare win be appre-
ciated at any cost. Address Box 743, this
Washington Star.
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Answers TO Saturdays Quiz

1. There are four registrations q year for PhlIn-
aeiphia yoiers-three In the fan and one
2. Lille should be pronounced ms tbourh sueIIes
"Leel."
8. arkin is small eask for liquids. butter.
FISH. etc.
q. Lieutenant Peary discovered the North
Pole, Captain Amundsen the south Psls.
8. Thomas Hood wrote "The Song OF tho Shirt"
9. "A position IL one who rides the near horve
Of the leaders or the near horse wlsn ens
the box Of the coach.
7. "Ibm IL mn abbreyiaticn Of the Latin
'tbidem," meaning "in the same place.
q. Cordoyan leather is called after the Spanish
for Its tanneries. -
0. The panhandle" Of West virginia eepsresss
the southern rart Of tne western beun1sfv
Of Pennsylvania from Ohio. =
10. AttlIs, the Has sesauss.r. svss,srllx A.
sss;sS sssss. y CO... '''i Il "a !. W. 4 Z =
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-10-07

Rioting in the Austrian Chamber of
Deputies? But that is nothing new. Did not
Mark Twain years ago, desSibe one of the
prettiest knock-down fights on record when
he sat in the gallery as a reporter for one
of the magazines? Charlemagne Tower was
then In Vienna as the American minister
and he could tell all about the pugilistic
proclvties of the Austrian legislators II he
would.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-10-07
The Quiet Life
with Fay

James II. Gay seems
The Quiet Life TO misunderstand the
with Fay duties of a City Com
missioner. He says
he does not know whether he will accept The
office or not, as he has retired from business
and Is leading quiet life. Does he not know
that about the only duty OF the Office which
will take him from his home is that Of going
out TO collect his salary?
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-10-07

Two German kings
Kings show the were under fire when
Way the Wind Blows the British bombarded
Dadizeele, In Flanders,
and they took to their heels and hustled to a
place of safety as undisnifedly as any COM
moner-thereby setting, precedent for the
other German kings and, Tegning dukes!
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-10-07

The Eddystone rifle plant has turned out
a million rifles, but 1t would have made
million more 1T could have got the men,
and it could have got the men If there had
been any place for them 10 live. Speed
all along the line seems to be necessary
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-10-07

The Serbians are chasing the Austro-
German army toward the old Turkish FROM
tIer-and chucklinE as they do It, Serbia is
one OF the nations the restoration Of which
Germany must pay for.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-10-07
What Do You Kno,v?
QUIZ

I. Where are the VosEes mountains:
g Who Il the new chief of ordnance OF the
American army?
3. Who wrote "The Yarn Of the Nancy BeiIs"
4. What does INT stand for:
.. Where Is the domain OF the sultan Of sulus
8. What is the difference In time between
London and New York.
7. What In a barkentlne?
g. What French king was married. 10 Catherine
de- Medicl:
0. What is iconoclast:
10. What was the leading reDubIic Of Europe "A
Independence? W
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-10-07

The mortality rate from grip is only
one-half OF one per cent. The moral is:
Don't get frightened II you are taken sick.
The chances are one hundred and ninety
nine to one that you will recover,
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what the
n.saa.A-s. So

Delmonicos. once the
what the most pretentious res
Restaurants show taurant in New York,
has failed, and the
little restaurants are making more easy
money than they ever dreamed of. The coin
cidence involves a good lesson In economics.
II shows that the man with a modest income
is spending his money far more recklessly
than the rich.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-10-07

Great Britain wants no Miles standish-
John Alden business about Turkeys peace
proposals. She says to Consts ntinople:
why don't you speak for yourself. Mo-
hammed?"
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-10-07

And nobody could 20
which Did You Do: to church yesterday.
1t was great day for
a man 10 get acquainted with his family
or to read the Sunday paper through from
beginning to end.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-10-07

Austria seething. says headline. which
merely means that the kettle has begun to
boil. What the outside world wants to know
is whether II will boil over
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-10-07

Members of the old Third Regiment are
now called fighting devils and share with the
marines the distinction OF giving the Ger
mans a smell OF birthstone
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-10-07

Grip-ridden Chicago is arresting all
sneezers. Philadelphians should 20 her one
better and arrest the sneeze.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-10-07

You've got to put your
Thought for To-day money up before we
can put Germany down
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II is about time to begin an argumen,
to decide whether Santa Claus is a Hun
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Impossible!

Every one who has to
impos.ibie!N take his lunch DOWN
town 10 wondering
such an eating place as he has surprised
Washington with. He sells two boiled eggs
for fifteen cents
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-10-07
And Getting Hotter

Austria went feeling around for peace"
but everything She. touched In that line was
too hot to handIe.-Atlanta Constitution.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-10-07

Do your Christmas shopping early if you
are to shop for a soldier.
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Miss Pinky, We'd Say, Is Some C.n,s,r;e,

Miss Pinky Simmer sung n duet in tht
.Newlight choir last SundSy.-Churubusc
Und) Truth.
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Science Bones Up on Casless Sundays
Now We Know What the Speed Maniocs Suffer Their
Days off
Days of

thorough knowledge Of all the somberer pas
sages and Implications of the Scriptures in
his conceptions of the punishment which he
deems necessary for the Emperor of the
Germans
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-10-07

Wilhelm apparently depended on Max t,
mix It up