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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-11-19
REPUBLICANS ON TRIAL

ALTHOUGH the new Congress does not
4 come into being officially until March
4. the Republicans are already finding
themselves on trial
The whole country is watching to see
how they apportion the important chair
manships in the Senate and House and
will judge the party accordingly.
No party ever had a better opportunity
TO cast aside the shackles of tradition and
take long step forward than Is now pre-
sented to them If they fail to rise to
meet it. they might as we'll abandon all
hope for winning the Presidential cam
paign in 1920
The round robin which ten progressive"
Republican Senators sent to Chairman
Hays protesting among other things
against the selection of Senator Penrose
to head the Finance Committee, which
Craftsmanship Is his under the seniority
rule, is to be regarded more as a bid for
recognition Of themselves and their bal
anCe of power" than as a truly lofty desire
for progress. Curiousy they do not ask
for the abandonment of the Seniority"
rule. The Dentecrats would not support
them in that Some of the sgners have
unenNlaDIe IPCOruS lOE ulSlOSduy ana
therefore very little claim to call them.
selves epublicans-LaFollette and Norris
for example-and all of them come from
western States which lean toward radical
ism.
But whatever inspired the movement it
ought to serve as warning to all Repub
licans-a warning which they will heed if
they are wise even though they may not
grant every one of the demands made now
or to be made later.
If the withdrawal of Senator Penrose is
one thing which will prevent deplorable
| split in the Republican ranks on the
threshold of Republican opportunity, the
senior Senator from Pennsylvania ought
to be willing for the sake of the party
itself to retire gracefully and unselfishly
It would be a big and highly creditabe
| event in his career
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-11-19
THERE is MONEY ENOUGH

T1HE country has just absorbed a six
L billion dollar loan. In ordinary times
one would think that all the fluid capital
had been used up for the time being. But
when bids We're opened yesterday for a
seven million dollar loan Of this city it
was found that investors had offered to
take thirty.five million dollars worth of
Philadelphia bonds.
And they offered a premium which will
net the city about 100000.
This means that there is money enough
seeking investment to carry on all the i'm
provement plans here that have been held
up by the war. 1t means that work can be
rushed as fast as arrangements can be
made for borrowing money.
As a matter of fact the war loans of the
Government have been taken up in small
sums by people who do not ordinarily in.
vest in such securities. The bankers have
discovered that there is a market for
bonds where they had not heretofore
thought it possible to sell them. There will
no longer be hesitation over great public
improvements for fear of inability to raise
-the money because we have learned that
the resources of the country are almost
inexhaustible.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-11-19
VACATION RICHLY EARNED

GTIMULATING evidence that the war is
~ really over is obtainable at White Sui
phur Springs Virginia, where Charles M.
Scnwab is registered for an Indefinite
stay" Every American must wish for him
the keenest enjoyment of vacation earned
through the most bounteous expenditure
OF patriotic zeal, tireless administrative
energy and superb technical proficiency.
Mr. Schwab is undoubtedly one of the
Significant figures of the American admin.
istration of the waf. Great men and little
Throughout the land have worked faith.
fully and hard, but in too few of them
were combined the qualities of infectious
fnagnetism and irresistible personal appeal
with authoritative organizing insight such
as the director general of the Emergency
Fleet Corporation has displayed. He dis
missed heavy business sacrifices in his
original Industrial sphere with a laugh
and buckled down with the driving force
OF the human dynamo which he is to the
most colossal shipmaking enterprise on
which any patton ever engaged His inspi-
ration not only made for accomplishment,
but far the tonic Of national confidence.
IS A. fhis happy juncture the enviable
47a|Ehtx Of letting OF steam pressure are
11nretl1y nis
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-11-19
1T LOOKS AS IF THE PEOPLE WERE
.c AWAKE

T.HAT the Chamber of Commerce assem-
bly, room was filled yesterday afternoon
with representative men and women inter
sested in street cleaning is thus far the
most gratifying result of the agitation over
the new specifications, bids based on which
are to be opened today
The reasons which Director Datesman
and Chief Hicks gave for the changes in
the specifications failed 10 satisfy. The
feeling of resentment which these officials
felt at being called to give an account of
their stewardship in a public place forced
itself upon the consciousness of every one
present, even though the men tried to
conceal it under profession of Willingness
to tell all they knew.
AS to the reasons, Director Datesman
said that the changes were made. first, in
the interest of economy. The streets were
to be cleaned less frequently in certain
sections of the city because the people
living in those sections did not get the
streets dirty. Then, the principle on which
6the specifications were based had been
changed in the interest of efficiency. The
contractors were to be held to produce Ger
tain results instead of being required to
employ fixed number of men and a Ger
tain character of machinery. If the in
spectors reported that the streets were
clean the coStractors would be paid. If
the inspectors reported they were not clean
then the contractors would be fined in
accordance with a schedule of fixed penal
ties for fixed offenses,
Theoretically this is a good plan But,
as it was pointed out in the course Of the
discussion, its efficiency depends entirely
on the judgment of the inspectors. No one
present missed the point of this remark.
Tt is notorious that the inspectors often
owe political allegiance to the contractors, 50
that under the conditions which prevail in
this city the specifications under which the
streets are to be cleaned next year really
provide that the Contractos themselves
through their agents shall decide whether
they are keeping the streets clean or not.
The temper OF yesterday afternoons
gathering justifies the hope that a cam
paign for cleaner streets has org just
begun
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-11-19
Y. M. C. A. War Work Appreciated

To the Editor OF the Evening Public Ledger:
Sir-I want to express my thanks for the
care and kindness shown us, not only here.
but in all the Y. NJ. c. A. camps where our
regiment has been quartered. There Is moth
ing they have not done to help make Us
cheerful and comfortable.
The sports and fine entertainments the
educational classes, free library books. maga-
zines, writing materials, writing and taking
charge of telegraph messages, buying sup
plies for us when we cannot get out of camp.
etc, comforting talks entirely without propa-
ganda, has won the respect Of every man
in the regiment
But perhaps one of the finest service ex.
pressions is that of caring for the relatives
of the lmen who come a thousand miles to
see them and bid them good-by Many
arrive i'll and without money. These are
cared for in ways too numerous to detail
here.
And when we get aboard the transport for
over there I understand that the Y. NJ.
c. a. goes with us to minister to us and re-
main with US in the trench fighting. 1t is
the bright spot in our daily lives as SOL
diers. and l feel cannot say too much
for this splendid. helpful organization.
SERG EANT JOSEPH SNYDER
Company 115. A. r.
Camp Stuart, Newport News, Va, November
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-11-19

late war lord and master William
Hohenzollern is the embodiment and
symbol of all that is evil in government.
Until he has been removed forever from
possibility of harm either to the German
people or to the rest Of the world there is
danger of reactonism. of another out
burst of international highway robbery,
of repetition of the crimes which have
set the world afre for four years.
That this is true is plain from the
unrest which follows him wherever he
goes Witness the suggestions of up
heaval and revolution in the Neither
lands. The very breath of suspicion that
any Government sympathizes with and
is willing to grant shelter to this living
simile for all that is bad in government
is enough to stir resentment. And so it
will be wherever he may go on the face
of the earth. He and his kind must be
made outlaws everywhere in the world.
Otherwise it cannot be kept safe for
democracy.
Consequently the greatest deed of the
war yet remains to be achieved. Will
liam Hohenzollern must be rendered
harmless. The surest and easiest way
would be to try him by court-martial
and sentence him as his crimes deserve,
which could only mean death. Until the
German people realize this they will not
have repented and until they have re-
pented we cannot trust them again in
the fellowship of nations.
These are hard words. But we be-
lieve they are justified. President Will
son faithfully voices the thought of the
American people and thinking people
everywhere when he calls for humane
treatment for the Germans. But we do
not think he means the kind of magma
nimity that would spring from a mawk-
ish hesitation to carry out the execution
of law and logic The line of demarca-
tion is clear. 1t, would not be the
magnanimity that would permit fallen
enemy to rise again after shamming
weakness. realign itself under its old
leaders under the guise of "self-determi-
nation once secure peace treaty were
signed, and defeat the very highest aim
of the struggle on the Allied side
If the German peoples would convince
the world instantly of their sincerity let
them give William Hohenzollern his just
deserts. There must be no return from
Elba."
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-11-19
Belgium Still Needs Relief

TO the Editor OF the EueninD Public Ledger
SirZThe Belgian relief committee desires
to express its deep appreciation for the
splendid publicity the EVENING PUBLIC
LEDGER has given to the King Albert Day
fund and the cause of Belgium this week.
The editorial in Thursday nights paper was
a very unusual one and We feel it has had
a decided effect
l do not know yet the financial re-
turns, but | feel the results will be far
more than money. Just now, with the cessa-
ton of the fighting, many people have
thought there would be reason for con-
tinuing to help the war sufferers abroad. l
heard from the Belgian minister yesterday
that advces this week were that the
conditions in the part of the country now
being liberated were even far worse than
had been feared.
Mr. Hoover thinks Belgium will have to be
helped for two years at least; therefore all
the publicity Thursday is making people real
ize that they must continue to help Bel
GUM.
Realizing how valuable newspaper space
is at present, I therefore wish to express
our very deep appreciation for all that the
EVENING PUBLIC LEDGER has done this week
for the cause Of Belgium
/. l. r. HENRY,
Chairman.
PHILADELPHIA November l6.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-11-19
Where the Tree Falls

THERE are moods in which Colonel
Roosevelt always was alluripg and ire.
sstibly likable. 1t is when he speaks in
the terms Of familiar life and familiar
America that you perceive note of uni.
versal feeling which makes it easy to
praise him. 1t was the old Colonel of
blessed memory who naturally. forgot his
other concerns when he wrote to General
March to ask that the body of his son be
left in it's grave in France. -.
Colonel Roosevelt considers it more fit
ting that Quentin should rest where he
fell.
Mrs. Roosevelt and l." ran the letter to
General March, "have always believed that
Where the tree falls
There let 1t lie.
1--WE know that many good persons feel
entirely different. After the war is over
Mrs. Roosevelt and 1 intend TO visit the
grave and then to have small stone put
up saying it was put up by us, but not
disturbing what has already been erected
to his memory by his friends and his
American comrades in arms"
Colonel Roosevelt wrote as the plain
man whose son died in battle and who
accepted the blow without murmur or a
visible flicker of pain. That is not an easy
part When the peace Is settled other
mothers and fathers will go to France,
other Americans whose mission will be
precisely similar to that of Colonel and
Mrs. Roosevelt. None of them will more
truly represent the mingled strength and
kindness or the American ideal Of parent.
h0od - y ~
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-11-19
ChiIds's Wartime Prices

To the Editor Of the Euentng Public Ledger:
Sir-Recent issues of your paper have con-
tanned articles regarding the Ch'lds restau-
rants, which obliquely and by easy inference
connect the Chilas Company with profteer-
ing 1t has also been implied that we have
clashed with the food administration and
that our "baokdowf-' in complying with GER
tain recommendations made by 1t has been
forced"
We may say at the outset that We are
fully and sympathetically alive to the ur-
gency of the food administrators task in con-
serving food and in regulating Its use and
cost to the public. Moreover. by re Sson OF
the army of people of all classes whom we
daily serve we perceive clearly how impor-
tant q part II Is possible for us to play in
the protection OF the public from unreason-
able exactions, and In conserving It's healtn
by extreme care in food Inspection
For this reason, however. we feel all the
more justified In expecting both newspaper
and public recognition of the fact that we
are being governed in our action by this
responsible realization; and we must repel
any suggestion from any source that this Is
not the case. Specifically. we desire to re-
flute the suggestion conveyed by recent ref
erences to the food administrators request
that we alter one or two items on our bills
of fare that there is any disposition on our
part to go beyond the actual necessities of
the situation in fixing our wartime prices
What occurred was Simply request from
the food administrator that We modify our
prices and practice In one or two partcu-
lars Wholly without reference to the power
lodged with him to enforce his requests we
promptly compiled with them, presenting
only such arguments as made clear the
urgency of the Seasons for our action In
recognition of the fairness Of our general
position the exception taken to these items
was accompanied by the remark that we
were perhaps charging too little for others.
There was thus nothing more In the food
administrators action than difference In
judgment as TO the distribution Of The added
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-11-19
BLOOD.GUILT

s"ts s"s f.; e., sssass
septeDber. ] isit. 'If is Gnthor Is snkno,on
THE brand of Cain Is on your brow
L Emperor!
A crown of gold may hide it now,
Emperor!
But when tbe day Of reckoning comes
And flags are furled and hushed the drums
And Labor goes with bruised hand
To plow once more the blood stained Land,
A peoples wrath will rend the skies
And topple> down your dynasties,
Emperor!
In vain you'll call upon the Lord
Emperor
You boast Of honor-and the sword, q
Emperor a.
What god will bless the hideous flood
Which browns the world in human bloodf
The vengeance Of a human trust
Will grind your empire in the dust,
And Hohenzollern crowns be cast
Upon the refuse of the Past
Emperor! '#
The cries Of multitudes unfed,
Emperor!
The curses Of the millions dead,
Emperor! ....
Will these not heap on you the scorn
OF generations yet unborn?
Are there no murmurs in your ear
OF retrbution drawing near?
The fingers of a hand that write.
Inscripe your doom upon the night,
Emperor! ..-
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-11-19

1t Is fitting tribute
wagner as Prophet to somewhat neg
lected school Of music
to inaugurate the opera season tonight with
a French work. Nevertheless. performance
of "Goetterdaemmerung" could be Of striking
symbolical significance The Wotan line IL,
certainly smashed to flinders in that epic Of
annihifation.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-11-19
A Memo for
Herr Ebert

Today is the ifty-fifth
A Memo for anniversary of Abra-
Herr Ebert ham Lincoln's Gettys-
burg speech, and If
Herr Ebert, the German Premier, isn't too
busy, lie might restate the opening para
graph of that noble utterance with a due
application to Germany's problems, thus:
Fomscore and Seren hours ago the Reichsta0
brought forth neto, 0oversment, Conceived
in humility, and dedicated to the proposition
that the German nation ought to cypress to
the ,Corld some pcnitence for the sorrotos IL
has caused. We shall feel happier as to the
\ moral and mental health of the German re-
public If we hear it say something that Will
show that it understands it's position in the
eyes of outraged civilization.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-11-19

If the cheers voiced
JeerfuI Thought for Queen Wllhelmina
support her position
no more than those which the ex-Crown
Prince bowingly acknowledged secure his.
the prospects for the continuance of mon
archy in the Netherlands cannot be called
Conclusiyely substantial. -h
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-11-19
Switzerland h,

Switzerland has be-
why Not Try lit come a kind of clear
ing house for the dis
credited monarchs and grand dukes OF Eu-
rope There seem to be SO many OF them
there that II would be impossible 10 throw a
stone without hitting decrowned head,
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-11-19
What Do You Knoig?
QUIZ

QUIZ ..'
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4. What is the meaning Of Mississippis
g. whas l. sns msanins Of the Latin phrase
wfs. psu1sn. Tssash prince was known as the Great
!. What Is a ar'hInteriand"e
3. What Is 'Iemur''?
0. What w,, town n virginia is Woodrow wilsos's-
TO- Who wrote the Hans Breitmana BaIIads"e
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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-11-19

Speaking of politics, it may be recalled
that though the Old Guard never sur
renders" 1t can die.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-11-19

By their 'cOrks ye shall knoaO them!
What is the one sure sign that the Ger
man people have revolted against their
own national wickedness? 1t is the
utter and irreparable elimination of their
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-11-19
What War
Hath Wrought

Scientists associated
what War with the War Depart
Hath wrought ment have devised a
gas mask which
doesn't interfere with the wearer's' sleep.
When the reconstruction debates get under
way in Congress a good many Of the MEM
bers ought to find the invention useful. And
the unhappy men who are dragged of to
periodical sessions of the literati where
poets mobilize themselves to recite. ought to
find the sleeping mask possession worth
its weight in unalloyed gold.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-11-19

1t must be the millennium now. indeed
/. Bernard Shaw is silent
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-11-19

~, The colossal job of the Allies is to DEM
chstrate that peace hath her victories no
less than war
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-11-19

TNHE Koenigsberg came to a halt mot
l. being a naval correspondent, I am un-
certain as to the correct term) and a sailor
approached the Admiral. The latter sa-
luted punctiliously and the sailor nodded
in friendly fashion. Hey" he said
"Beatty's gig is waiting for you on the
left.hand side Of the ship"
You see,9 said Meurer to me sadly,
I'VE are not even allowed to say port and
starboard any more. lids thought to SAVIOR
Of the old regime. Well, I must go along.
Pray for me. hope Beatty will be in a
good humor."
watched him scramble down the side
of a rope ladder, and the guns of the
Queen Elizabeth began to fire an ironical
salute of fourteen guns, as prescribed for
admirals in red smocks deleting der Tag
from the calendar. But 1 must admit that
poor Meurer kept his humor to the last.
Looking up from the small boat he
shouted to me as the last gun was fired,
THE fourteen points"
"The Admiral doesn't seem Very WELL" /
said to the vice chairman of the deck
swabbing committee, who happened ito be
by my side
mo, he ain'tl" was the reply "He was
mighty seasick all night You see. it's
quite while since Te've. been outside the
| canal" SOCRATES.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-11-19

Today is the fifty-ffth
anniversary of Abra-
ham Lincoln's Gettys-
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1918-01-02
MORE LAND FOR FARMS

During 1918 there WIFI be mere farm
a0ds at work yielding up great food
rops than ever before in the history
f this country. Locally, Crisp c0un-
has been building and planning since
,arlv fell for more farms and farming
,rca and it will be safe to assume
hat at least % per cent increase will
be had over last year, We are build
ng houses, clearing up and breaking
more lands, and reclaiming much OF
hat which lay idle as wcrn out and
lseless.
Out over .he state the same pro
ram is being followed out. And
.dded t. this is the return Of the labor
the farms. Many years have pass
d since the farm was an attractive
lace for the lah0rer and he has hung
N around the towns and the cities,
living much of the time ON half pay
md unsteady work. Many family
hat has for long time taken chance
work around the city has gone to the
farm and is there preparing to help
rake the crops Of the coming season.
There will be many more farms in
s9lS and many more people to help
nm them Labor is not going TO ne
so scarce ON the farm, for the certain
of something to eat in these times
# high prices is an inducement far
greater than has ever been offered
abor before.
Hundreds of thousands Of acres of
and in the United States are gong
be made to respond to the call for
more bankruptcies in 1915 that lay
die last season.