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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-26
T,UO Girls Solved Their Pro- Hen1
Bv WALTER PRICHARD EATON

stove stirring great kettle of fragrant
raspberries they look out from one of these
windows close by and see their garden just
below, full of hollyhocks, feathery asparagus,
current bushes, rows of chard, bird baths.
Beyond their garden Is a meadow and n
brook, then a bayfield,. and then distant
woods and the long horiZontals of the Berli-
shire Hills. 1t is pretty picture. framed by
the rafters and the window SASH They know
1t. They live 1t. They stir and look and
look and stir, and upon my word something
Of the beauty of the picture goes into their
jam.
NNHE girls are always dressed UP and they
i are never busy. Yet they are almost al
ways dressed for work and almost always
working. l suppose that faculty, like the
gift of poetry, can never be acquired. God
gave 1t to them. Call at i O of morning
when three kettles of fruit are on the stove
and their faces are not flushed, they have
time to talk to you to make you sure you
were the one person they really were Just
dying to have visit with" Yet some how,
while the conversation wakes merry and
laughter floats out over the9garden, the jam
gets stirred, the glasses filled. would some.
business men l know could take few les
sons from the girls. I'm sure the world
would be happier place"
WHEN the girls 90 to walk they carry
w fashionable canes and wear white shoes.
They return with punches of wild flowers
and weeds. Unfortunately mixed, after
having spoken to all the babies, boys, women.
men and chauffeurs on the way. These weeds
and flowers they dump into old baskets and
bean pots and other unpromising receptacles.
give the punches pat here pull there, and
suddenly their perch their parlor, their shop,
is lit up by the color, and you would not
change leaf of the bouquet nor suggest
any other possible receptacle.
YNHEY make jam because 1t is fun to make
i jam they adore their view because 1t Is
an adorable view; they hugely enjoy eXercis-
ing their bright wits in conversation because
being bright and witty Is lots more fun than
being literal and dull. In fact, their world
is SO constantly full of a number of things
that they are much more happy than any
kings nowadays. They are the happiest peo-
pie know. The result is that nobody can
be permanently unhappy in their presence.
and the village will call them "the girls till
they are ninety.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-26

American Congressman rode over Lon
don in American battleplanes a day or two
ago and were told by the British officers
that the Liberty motor is to do great work
IN the war. This is additional proof of
course. of the complete failure of the air
program
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-26

After what the Senator from Massachu-
sets said the other day Germany is un-
likely to echo Cowper's longing for "a lodge
IN some vast wilderness" Viewed from the
desert of Hun hopes the scene must be par
ticularly void of charm.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-26
Give Him His Due

We have always felt a good deal of pity
for the late Gear, who may have been
weak but certainly was not contemplate.
The passages from his diary after his fall
which are now being published are full
of the pathos Of baffied and bewildered
man. II read much in Julius Caesar" he
wrote of a two-day train ride. A German
paper processes to find in Nicholas's diary
the proof that his personality was "insig-
nifcant." But insignificant people do not
turn to Shakespeare for consolation. The
fact that the Gear pondered over the
drama of a Roman emperor overthrown
by the bolsheviki Of his day seems evil
dence of considerable humor and phi.
losophy.
Nicholass personal tastes in literature
being excellent, it is curious that he chose
for reading aloud to his children during
their captivity volume called "A Mil
lionaire Girl" 1t would be interesting to
know what the book is.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-26

Life is full of disappointments and when
ever the paper announces in conspicuous
way that the war is going to end this year
we read on and discover that at least that's
what somebody like Senator James Hamilton
Lewis says-Ohio State Journal
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-26

or the country itself were to put up q
tablet in honor of the early immigrants
who ventured, often amid difficulties, into
a new world that they enriched with their
industry, their strength and their great
devotion. They ought to be remembered
now, surely, when all the world has so
much reason to know the true value of
honor and simplicity and purity of heart.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-26
Texas Doesn't Adjourn Politics

OF this years registration in California
$4,000 registered as Republicans and 326, 900
as Democrats. 1t seems that the large
majority of the voters of California have
simply lost all sense of shame--Houston
Post.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-26
"Spreedycore"
Esprit de Corps)

"Spreedycore"
Esprit de Corps
IF KICKIN' makes fightin' man, then
I've got this to say:
That this here wars as. good won I'll
stake my next months pay!
F'r a meaner lot uh kickers never cussed
Yankee cuss
Thin us guys gittin' ready to clean up this
German muss.
TNHEY amt a single gol-darned thing in
L this here army game
That suits us half-baked soldiers, an the
way we knocks a shame.
But still we don't mean awful much-it's
just our Yankee way
Uh lettin' on we're just as good as them
what draws more pay.
WE KICK asin our officers - they're
w dumb as Paddy's SOW
Their amt a private buck of us what
couldn't tell 'em how!
An as for our dear sergeants-well, the
Lord made insects too,
An ther' amt a lot uh difference, from us
privates' point uh view.
TNHE corporals, they amt so bad, 'cept
L when they make us work,
Err drill us when we want to sleep, er spot
us when we shirk.
But any guys what likes their jobs, an
tries to git ahead,
We spend our evenin's dumping them
mitt-foppers" out uh bed.
VNTE HOLLER at our doctors with their
w pills an iodine;
We yell becuz it rains at night while
drillin' weathers fine;
We try to kill the captain if our pays a
few days late;
We howl like fiends IL we're on guard Just
when we got a date;
WE HATE the chow we get to eat, an
w swear well eat the cooks.
An cuss the commissary fer a gang uh
dirty crooks:
We think our uniforms about as good as
burlap bags,
An tear 'em up, an then we kick becuz
we're dressed in rags;
WERE tired uh being here an wish to
" heck they'd move us on,
An when we're there we hate it worse,
an wish we'd never gone;
We think our outfit alwuz gifts the worst
of every deal,
An cuss an bust off at the men behind
the steerin' wheel.
PUT, though we're great on soundin' off
- an kickin's our delight,
We won't fly out no yellow flags when
once they let us fight!
An when we git our chanct at Fritz, my
bets nineteen to one
Our orn'ryness II prove to be the smashin'
uh the Hun!
JERRY COATES,
Co. A, 109th Machine Gun Battalion, A. E. F.
.An army variant of 'hand-shaker." a fellow
who tries to make himself popular with his
periors
Lenine's Version
The fault, dear Trotsky, is not in our
Cars,
But in ourselves, that We are underlings.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-26

Not Bad in The chap who gets any
This weather real satisfaction out of
looking at the ther-
mometer to see "how high it is nowr might
be said (but not by us) to be a victim of
mercuriosity.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-26
lust About as Ponular

Perhaps calling whale-meat sea-beef will
make it as popular as dogfish has been since
1t began to be called grayfish.-Boston Globe.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-26

On the whole it is pleasant to learn that
some detachments Of German troops are
being transferred from Finland to the west
front We won't have to go so far to lick
them
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-26

Neither one nor several swallows make
a summer satisfying to the Hun. truth he
learns while the process compelling him to
dissorgs large bites OF France continues
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-26

The high rents in Philadelphia cause
one to wonder whether job on a moving
van represents an essential employment
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-26

Germany may not approve of the skip
stop system, but she's adopting 1t every day
in Picardy.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-26
Two Is Company

A play has been produced In New York
with only two actors in the cast. Is this
a profiteering dodge to release SO many
more Of the population for the audience?
soCRATEa-
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-26
But There Will Be Others

East of Chaulnes is the village of Mis-
ery, which the Huns have compelled to
live up to it's name. Foch, as a humane
man, will soon put them out of it.
A British merchant captain who was
captured by a U-boat complains that she
was terribly overcrowded The submarine
was 200 feet long and carried a crew of
seventy-seven. The gallant skipper evil
IDENTIFY has never Travelled on a Woodland
avenue trolley.
WIN Is 1t so much easier to think tohen
ones feet are elevated about forty inches
from the foors Is there anything Dar-
soinian In the mdtterf
Flashlight manufacturer arrested on top
of Mount washington.-Headline.
People who amuse themselves these days
by waving lights on tops OF mountains are
apt to find their vacation prolonged to
an uncomfortable extent.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-26
THE CHAFFINC DISH

I'VE OFTEN toonder t1hethcr the Ger.
w man soldiers acrite as much poetry
as the Ydnks do. Probably they 1orote a
good deal Of verse IN August and Septem-
ber, 1919, but not much since then.
our oton bovs seem to find pleasure In
putting their thoughts into rhyme. The
follo,cing qiueIy ballad 1cds acritten by
Sherman Gardner Coates, formerly an
architect IN this city, toho enlisted as a
pirate and 1chen last heard from tcds a
corporal IN the t09th Machine Gun Bat
talon. Presumably the poem, acds com.
posed before he got his stripes. The author
says It 1cds aoritten In q French cattle car
or pullman side-door de lure." Apparently
the real reason for the buck prtrate's hu-
morous grum bling Is not being able to get
at the enemy soon enough.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1918-12-02
BILLIONS
REQUIRED FOR
U.S.. DURING 1920
SeC'y M'AdOo Submits ESti-
mates of Government
Expenses.

international News .ervice:
WASHINGTON. Dec. At will
require a total Of S7,443,415.888.O7 10
conduct the United States govern
ment during the fiscal year of 1920.
The total estimates for the fiscal
year Of 1919, including supplement-
ais was S29,S79,S21.64S.74.
These figures were sent 10 con
gress today by Sec'y Of the Treas
McAdOO. They were made public al
most before the session Of congress
began instead Of "a hours ahead os
time as has been the case in the
past. The totals are divided among
the various branches Of the govern
ment as follows:
Legislative establishment SS.O9S.-
9O1.75; executive establishment,
s1O6.512.425.O8. judicial establish
ment. s1.41O,49O; department OF ag-
rlculture. $3O.O4S,786. foreign inter
course. s11.O42.236.66; military es-
tablishment. S1,922.e28.43486 naval
establishment. $2.595.7S4.546O5. In
dian affairs. $11.939.S12-Se. pensions.
1920, ,05O.OOO; Panama canal S12.-
216.114: public works. S676.S12.7O2. r.
95: postal service. Sass. .3O7.577. mis-
cellaneOus. 2876.76l,51O.83, perma-
nent annual appropriations. 1896
743,75s.
The total OF more than seven bill
lions is exclusive Of the sinking fund
requirement and postal revenue.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1918-12-02

attempted; their aptitude at tasks
TO which they had never before set
their hands: their utter self-sacrifice
alike in what they did and in what
they gaze Their contribution to the
great result is beyond appraisal.
They have added a new lustre to
; he annals of American womanhood.
The least tribute we can pay them
Is to make them the equals OF men
in political rights as they have
proved themselves their equals in
every field of practical work they
have entered, whether for them
selves or for their country.
These great days of completed
achievement would be sadly marred
were we to omit this act of Justice
Besides the immense practical serv-
ices they have rendered, the women
Of the country have been the moving
spirits in the systematic economies
by which our people have voluntar-
lily assisted to supply the suffering
peoples OF the world and the armies
upon every front with food and
everything else we had that might
serve the common cause. The de-
tails of such a story can never be
fully written, but we carry them at
our hearts and thank God that we
can say that we are the kinsmen Of
such
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1918-12-02

was back, back for their enemies,
always back, never again forward.
UNITY OF SPIRIT
IN THE NATION.
After that was only a scant four
months before the commanders of
the central empires knew themselves
beaten; and now their very empires
are in liquidation,
And throughout il all how fine
the spirit of the nation was, what
unity Of purpose. what untiring ZEAL
What elevation of purpose ran
through all its splendid display of
strength. its untiring accomplish
ment. l have said that those of US
who stayed at home TO do the " ork
of organization and supply will al
ways wish that we had been with
the men whom we sustained by our
labor; but we can never be ashame /.
1t has been an inspiring thing
to be here in the midst OF fine men
who had turned aside from every
private interest of their own and
devoted the whole of their trained
capacity to the tasks that supplied
the sinews OF the whole great un-
dertakingi The patriotism, the un-
selfishness. the thOrOugh-g going devo-
ton and distinguished capacity that
marked their toilsome labors. day
after day, month after month. have
made them ft mates and comrades
OF the men in the trenches and on
the sea And not the men here in
Washington only. They have but IL
rected the vast achievement.
Throughout innumerable factories,
on innumerable farms, in the depths
of coal mines and iron mines and
copper mines. wherever the stuffs
Of industry were TO be obtained and
prepared. and the ship yards, on
the railways. at the docks, on the
sea, in every labor that was needed
10 sustain the battle lines men have
Wed with each other TO do their part.
and do it well. They can look any
r1an-at-arms in the face and say:
We also strove TO win and gave the
best that was in US 10 make our
fleets and armies sure OF their tri-
umphr
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1918-12-02
PruSSianS Meet
Americans in
AWed Silence
Yankees Cross Border and
Occupy TreyeS With
COlOrS Flying.
BY BERT FORD.
International News Service:

lNAAfi ltittNliHA -f'ffa &c W.
WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY
OF OCCUPATION IN GERMANY,
Dec. 1.-(By urier)-With colors
flying and bands playing, the third
American army (the army of occu-
pation) crossed the frontier into
Prussia today. advancing Il miles
and occupying the historic city Of
Treves
As the mighty American columns
swung forward. accompanied BY
rolling trains of artillery. machine
guns. transports and hospital units,
the Prussians maintained an atti-
tude of mingled curiosity and awe
But the fears Of the pOpulace les
sened as the day advanced and in
many villages crowds came out to
hear the band concerts when the
musicians struck up the stars and
Stripes Forever" or over There"
Streets arc Crowded.
The streets Of TreVes were filled
with crowds whose admiration for
the sturdy young doughboys was
plainly in evidence. Many German
soldiers who had lost arms or legs
I'm battle stood upon the sidewalks
watching the United States soldiers
swing by.
Many OF the inhabitants Of Treves
spoke English and they openly ad-
mitted that the Americans were in
striking contrast with the beaten
German army that had passed
through the city a week ago.
The Americans crossed the Mosel-
le and Sauer rivers along with four
bridges soon after dawn and i'm
mediately the frozen roadways of
western Germany began TO ring with
the tramp of the doughboys hob
nailed shoes.
The roads were soon swarming
with olive drab and the Americans
were keenly interested in everything
they saw. II was very cold and the
landscape was buried under a heavy
frost The sun was shining but there
was little warmth in it.
Prussian Roads Deserted.
Before noon many German civil
ians on their way to church paused
10 watch the passing of the Yankees
into Prussian territory. There were
large crowds on the Luxembourg side
of the Moselle and Sauer rivers. but
the roads and villages on the Prus-
sian side were deserted.
In many of the villages no faces
could be seen at the windows OF
the houses at ALL The Germans
seemed uncertain what 10 do ard
frightened at the number of troops
that were rolling down upon the
countryside. As the Yankees passed
some of the village houses the faces
/ o. women and children could be in
distinctly seen peering out. but they
stood far back from the windows.
The population appeared 10 be
stunned and melancholy. As IL grew
later. however, the Germans became
trife more friendly. coming out
! into the roads 10 get a|ClOser view of
the columns Of infantry. cavalry,
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1918-12-02
ADMIRAL SIMS ILL,
ESCAPES PNEUMONIA

LONDON. Dec. Admiral Sims.
L. s. y. commander OF all Ameri-
can naval forces in European wa
ters, is i'll, and may not be able TO
command the feet that viii 90 out
10 welcome Prest Wilson. IL was
learned today Admiral Sims was
said 20 have had a close escape frorr
pneumonia.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1918-12-02
Latest Bulletins
of Worlds News
International - servicc

News Service
WASHINGTON, Dec. 2.-Gen.
Pcrshing today Officially report
cd To the war department that
ne has found no authenticated
instances Of brutality against
American prisoners I'm German
prison camps.
The report from the COM
mander of the American cN-
peditiOnary forces was an an
swcr TO inquiries from the war
department. prompted by un-
confirmed reports that Amer
iCau prisoners were cruelty
treated by the Germans.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1918-12-02
Holds City'S Action in Abatlng
Nuisance Has Sanction
of State Law.
RULING ENABLES POLICE
TO CLEAR OUT BARS
0VerruIeS CrOSS-COmplalnt En-
tered by Counsel For
the City.

Holding that relief cannot be OBJ
tained in court OF equity by those
seeking TO restrain police officers
from performing the duties prescrib-
ed TO them by the state statute.
Judge Walter A. Funk in the cir
cult court Monday morning denied
the petition of Albert l.. Briese for
temporary injunction. restraining
the city of south Bend from forcibly
removing the fixtures from Briese's
former saloon Al the corner OF r. la
sale av. and limerick ST.
Judge Funk also Overruled the
cross complaint of the city. asking
that BrIese be enjoined from main
tanning a public nuisance by con
t,nuing his present place OF business.
The court based its ruling on the
CiUy's cross complaint on the fact
that the petition for its granting had
been fled by chief OF Police Kline.
an individual instead of by the state
Of Indiana. holding that the chief
OF police as an individual or as an
official Of the municipal city OF south
behu coulu NOT oAo" ndih"he9 Ao4-
The operation OF the nuisance NOT
being an interested party 10 the suit.
Sustains City's Demurrer
Judge Funk's action IN denying
the petition of Briese for tenn
porary restraining order was taken
when he sustained the demurrer OF
the city TO the plaintins petition
The demurrer was filed last Mon
day at the opening OF the nearing
of the temporary restraining order
but was overruied by the court a.
that time in order 40 expedite tnt
hearing, and with the understand
ing that TINS ruling could be recaii-
ed II the evidence 10 he developed
IN the trlal or the case Wa'Iahte'
such acuoh-
ATTY D. O. leaEiel TOT biiea'
served notice oi appear from Jua-'
FUNK decision To- lne supreme
which 70 ME a bin or particulars.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1918-12-02
Passage of Revenue Bill First
Task of Short Session
Opening Today.
RETRENCHMENT Is TO
BE WATCHW0RD NOW
Little in Way of Concrete AC-
CompIiShment Expected,
Talk to Predominant.
BY r. VI. BOECKEL.

International News Service
WAsHINGTON. Dec 2-Ready
20 consider the problems of peace
after two sessions devoted to the
tasks OF war, the G5th congress met
I'm Its third and final short session
at noon today.
These are the tasks of the con-
gress this session:
Passage Of the $6.000.000,O00
revenue bill.
-Consideration of reconstruc-
tion legislation
Passage OF appropriation bills
for running the government during
the fiscal year 1890.
Neither house starts I'm with any
emblance Of q program. II Is prob
able that both houses viii recess
until Thursday after the discussion
that will follow the presidents adj
dress. on Thursday the senate a.
nance committee will report the rev
enue bin. which is expected to hold
the attention Of the senate for a..
least two months In the house one
Of the appropriation bills probably
VIII be also ready 20 report 10y THAI
day.
Criticism Expected
The 65th congress in its peace ses-
sion will follow totally different
policies from those IL pursued while
the war was i'm progress. Criticism
OF the administration which was
looked upon as being i'm bad taste
during the war will doubtless de
velop as soon as the session is fair
ly under way.
The session will see no repetition
Of the lavish approximations Of the
last two sessions. Retrenchment ts
the watchword at the capitol Sen
Cores resolution for the appoint
ment OF n joint committee on re-
treuchment and economy will come
M for early consideration in the
senate Meanwhile Chairman Sherley
OF the house appropriations commit
tee has appointed pruning com
r1ittee OF three republicans and
three democrats. which got down 20
work today It's announced purpose
is 20 get back all that portion OF the
$4,000. 100000 in appropriations OF
the last deficiency bill which reA
mains uneNpeuded. IL also viii seek
10 reco.er all uneNpended appro-
n~iatiors Of The regular appropria-
80, hius passed M the war session.
Fvn,ct Few Accomplishments
rt,tio h, the wav Of concrete per
e,-T,arco Is expected Of the third
sossior ~ this congress. There are
two reasons for this.
THE fact that the peace con-
fsro,ce viii be I'm progress during
,,,os+ ~ the session
Tbo fact that the republicans
.o,,, INTO mower i'm both houses as
,oo, as the present session comes -
ii, end March 4. 1919.
An extra session OF the 66th con-
.~a-s viii have 90 be called soon
,fts,. the nresent session adjourns.
,yrb this idea iu view .repub blicaE
members will encourage extended
'S,,'sS'o..1 .--.,.,,l,,. NJ the ~evenue
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1918-12-02
TRIBUTE To SERVICE
OF THE WOMEN

And what shall we say OF the
women-Of their instant intelligence.
quickening every task that they
touched; their capacity for organ
ization. and cooperation. which gave
their action discipline and enhanced
the effectiveness Of everything they
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1918-12-02
C0NVALESCENTS SAILING
FROM ENGLAND FOR HOME

LONDON. Dec. 2.-The Leviathan,
formerly the German liner Water
land. was expected 20 sail today
from Liverpool for New York with
a number OF American convalescents
from English hospitals. The men are
home