Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-09-28
moi italiani ron facciamo Ia guerra
al bambini al Necchi. ale dome.
We Italians do not make war on
children. old men and women.

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children. old men and women.
Can YOU imagine how badly the poets
of Vienna must have felt at this? They
had been beaten at their own game.
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AS a contrast. let Us consider the great.
est effort of a German poet in this way.
1t was Ernst 'Lissauer's HdssgeSdno gcgcn
ERgldnd, or Song of Hate Against Eng
land. That, too, touched the enemy in
their weak spot: their sense of humor.
The British Tommies sing a translated
version Of it as their favorite marching
song!
And the greatest act of poetry that tie
American people can commit just now is
to oNersubscribe the Liberty Loan. To
o~Nersubscribe it promptly, calmly. almost
as a matter of course. An oversubscription
at home will form the grandest possible
rhyme with the great deeds of the men
overseas. 1t will he a very cimple rhyme,
with the kind of stunning Mother Goose
simplicity that even Il German general
staff can understand. .H' $50. 40
We don't think that the American people
will have 10 be harried and rounded to
take up the fourth Liberty Loan. y man
does not have to be bullied or terrori2ed
into working for his wife and family. \
man does not have to be cajoled into fight.
ing for what he holds most dear.
There is a phrase, poetic Justice which
is supposed TO mean Justice SO perfect that
the punShmeu- fits the transgression
with the completeness and harmonious
concord Of a poets rhyme That justice
is being written on the face OF the earth.
The men who have sullied and degraded
mankind have seen their red star burn out
to a cinder. In that great world-poem of
retribution each one of US can write a
| word.
No matter how humorous Il man is, he
will be sure to have at least one blind
spot. No one will think any worse of the
Kaiser for not seeing how intensely anus
ing is Bulgaria's cry for a withered arm
istice.
Some years ago Professor MetrhnikoT
discovered the bulgarian bacillus. AS far
as we can remember it lives in sour milk
and is supposed to prolonS life. The Bul.
garian monarchy may need a good stiff
dose just now.
As we were crossing Market street at 8
o'clock the other morning a pleasant-faced
gentleman accosted us in some distress of
mind. "Will you tell me-" he said, where
l can buy a paper? I've been hunting
one for an hour and a half. I'm from
Chicago; 3ust got to town yesterday. I've
always heard that Philadelphia was slow,
but l thought it was a joke. 1t isn't"
This distressed us a good deal, so we
showed the aggrieved wanderer how to
steer for the Reading Terminal news
stand. And as we went down the street
We noticed several newsstands where he
might have bought almost any OF PhiIa-
delphia's excellent morning journals.
Queer, isn't itP The worthy man wasn't
fast enough 10 catch up with a Phila,lel.
phia news counter that was standing. com
paratively motio+less, and yet he calls us
slow.
Then a horrid thought struck US. Do
you suppose he meant a Chicago paper?
For, after all, they must have them in
Chicago.
A young lady of our acquaintance said
to W., in her pleasant way, This cold goes
right through me-
Not in our CASE We cried instantly.
ut has to go around" SOCRATES.