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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-04-17
MAYOR SMITH GOES CRUsADING

NOTHING that Mayor smith may uo !"
IN the way Of police shake-ups and trans
fers under the relentless whip OF Federal
official criticism will be adequate to the
end in view or even worthy of serious at
tention while he permits the present d.
rector of Public Safety to remain in once
The Mayor made this plain yesterday when
he said that he imported detectives from
other cities before he could learn the truth
about his own police department. TINS Is
an extraordinary indictment of Director
wilson. If the Mayor didn't know what
was going on the Director Of Public Safety
did ff the Director didn't he is obviously
unfit for his office If he did know and
vet withheld the information and managed
to keep the Mayor in the foreground as
foolish apologist for his department then
he has been faithful neither to the city nor
to his superiors. The first real show OF
good faith on Mayor Smiths part came
when he summarily transferred Lieuten-
ant Bennett from the Third District. Di-
rector Wilson kept Bennett at the post
which he had discredited in the course OF
the Frog Hollow episode. Mayor Smith
may yet save his administration from dis
grace II he makes the apparent rift be-
tween himself and Director Wilson wide
and permanent.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-04-17
RIGHT MAN AT LAST

TNHE appointment Of Charles M Schwab
i as general manager of the Emergency
Fleet Corporation, with complete super
vision and direction of shipbuilding, is
the most heartening thing that has been
done in Washington for months.
Mr. Schwab is the right man for the
place He has constructive imagination
and grasp. He has demonstrated his
ability to build up a great steel corpora
ton equal to the biggest enterprises. He
is convinced of the necessity of winning
the war and he is confident of the power
OF American industry to turn out the ships
needed for the purpose.
This combination of confidence, ability
and moral purpose will give driving force
to all his efforts. Delays and bungling are
now to cease and We shall soon see re-
suits
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-04-17

As the Germans have been proved hope
lessly wrong in their estimates of the
ideals. desires and determination of the
American people, they will be proved
wrong I'm their estimate as to the speed
with which the Americans will be able to
carry out their purpose and program.
| Foreign Secretary Balfour to the Amer
lean labor delegation.
THIS speech was made while the Ger
mans were hammering the British
line in Picardy and while new soldiers
were being sent across the channel with
the greatest possible speed to re-enforce
the armies at the front.
Mr.. Balfour was talking not alone to
the labor delegates from this country.
He was talking directly to every Ameri-
can.
The Germans are wrong in their esti-
mate of the speed with which we can
prepare for war. 1t is up to us to show
how far wrong. On that depends the
issue of the war The attempt is now
making to force a decision before we can
bring our full strength to bear. British
and French soldiers are being disabled by
the tens of thousands. The men to take
their places must ultimately come from
this side of the ocean. Every week of
Celay means the disabling of more British
and French fighters and demands that
lany more Americans to fill the ranks
of the Allied armies
The moral of this speech is that there
must be haste in preparation, and then
;gain haste, and still more haste. 1t is
useless now to talk about what might
have been if we had begun to prepare
when the Lusitania was sunk. We have
begun now. The foundations have been
laid, and "a the months go by we shall
see the structure of our military organ-
zation rise in increasing height till we
can do effective work
1t is not time for complacency, how
ever, but time for redoubled applca
tion to the task in hand. The thing can
be done. The German and Austrian
propagandists have been saying that we
were Indifferent or incapable and that
we would never spend the lives of our
young men in European quarrel. Some
Americans have assisted them in their
devilish work. But the nation knows now
that this is not a European dispute. 1t
knows that the issue is whether the world
is to be ruled by brute force directed
toward selfish ends or is to be ruled by
the ideals of justice and equity under
which free peoples may live in peace and
content. 1t is a world issue. We cannot
escape it if we would.
The cry coming across the ocean is
more than an appeal for help. 1t is
demand for more rapid cooperation in
the work of saving the world for democ-
racy. The burden is upon us. 1t increases
in weight with every assault of the Ger
mans upon the Allied trenches. But how
ever heavy It may become, it must be
borne till merciful Providence takes it
from our shoulders when the task is ac-
complished. 1t will not be soon and we
must pray God that He will give strength
to the Allies to hold out till we can bring
our full force to bear. He will answer
the prayer, for righteousness has the
Eternal Power behind it.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-04-17
What Do You Know?

QUIZ
1. which is the Holy city and which the Eternai
City?
2. Name the author Of 'The LIgB That Failed"
3. Identify "the Laughing Philosopher"
4. Where and what was the Mason ana D"''
Line?
5. What is the MaIthusian doctrine?
Q. what is meant by "the Land Of NOd''
!. Where is Ypres?
g. Who was Queen Mabg
0. What are the supporters" Of the briu'"
royal arms?
10. Who l. the American Ambassador to the 0"u''
Answers to Yesterdays Quiz
/. The Romanoffs were the relgnlng house ,"
Russia until the revolution. =.
2. Harwlch, a fortified mort on the eastern e9Liie.
Of England. now closed 10 cOmmerchi sA
ping and used naval base =.
3. Ring Of GyEes; In classical mythology snsaas
which made Its wearer Invisible, ~ inS ef
Of it's mower Gyges murdered the h"S
Lydia and seized the throne. o,u'
ver's Travels" -.
). BaltImore Is sometimes called 'the o'''''
o. Grown Prince Rupprecht. commander q 9i.iS w to
the throne of Bavaria. -.
Z. Bordeaux mixture. fungieide tor enlftsioi
trees and plants, composed OF Diue "
lime and water. -.
8. NeolOglsm; newly coined word or ne" "'--
Ing for - familiar word. -
o. Martin Tupper Is the author Of the aaolsssss s
"a babe In the house is "sn1p''"'
10. HonoEs Of wars aIlowing. a surEenaered sn'
70 Keep bis arms and stnnhRfas'
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-04-17
The Liberty Gifts

Tired of giving" friend you say?
Tired Of giving what?
The gold you've gathered along your way
The worldly goods you've got?
Well, am tired of giving, too
But my gifts We're not Of gold;
/ gave of my flesh and blood, but You
Gave what is lifeless and cold.
I've given my heart, my home, my all;
I've given three cherished sons.
In answer to sweet Freedoms call
They died to halt the Huns.
Tired Of giving" friend you say?
Tired Of giving what?
Your price is a little one to-pay,
Yours is happy lot.
JACK SHERMAN.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-04-17

upon tie electorate with sufficient force
to produce action. II the world war has
not awakened these citizens TO a reallza-
tion OF their moral obligations by opening
their eyes to the>consequences OF indiffer.
ence to a growing menace, then nothing
can do It.
We do not believe however, that they are
not awakened. Those who did not
vote last fall are going to the places of
registration today between the hours of
and 10 p. m. and have their names en-
rolled, and they are then going to the
primaries month from today to vote for
decent men as candidates for office If they
can find such on the tickets. and If they
cannot find them they are going to nomi
nate them by petition afterward. This
means you, Mr. Worthy Citizen.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-04-17

MOULD any man hesitate to lend
W money to his best friend?
Uncle Sam is the best friend you have
and he needs the money.
You know how that money is to he
used and you know it will come back TO
you with generous interest
T IBERTY BONDS are the best invest
IL ment you ever had chance to.
buy, They pay interest in money. in
life, self-respect and human happiness.
Contributed by the Electric Chair
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-04-17
Bum

New York magistrate difforentiates the OF
nslNeneSs Of the word bum used as verb ad
ctiNe and nuun.-News item,
WHEN your friend fills his pipe
w With some miXture superb,
And you bum some tobacco
That's bum as a verb.
He won't match you for lunch
For he fears the expense:
Then you call him bum sport
In the adjective sense.
At the verb or the adjective
No one will frown;
But never, l pray you,
Use bum as a noun.
DUNRANEN BLEAK,
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-04-17

A SMALLISH boy once in1ted himself to a
"A place in a lawyers office. II have moth
ing for you TO do, my boy" But may | sit
here by the door and open the envelopes if
Miss Typist is too busy? And you pay me
only for what you need to have me do?"
Very WE'LL And that boy, being a clever
boy and serviceable became before long
Indispensable. When he did not find work
he invented work. he anticipated work. he
introduced an indispensable" system which
could be run only by his own indispensable"
self because he was the only one who really
understood about it. He had never touched
a typewriting machine before he went into
the office, but he was soon instructing Miss
Typst in the proper way in which to write
He Systematized the law library so that
nobody could find any book in it except him
self. The files of law papers, briefs and the
like were marveouSly arranged on "A sys-
TEN of his own, which, not being possessed
of his particular east of mind nobody hut
himself really understood-though he was
always explaining it. At last he began the
Introduction of his art of how to do il" into
the legal business of the office. He had grown
by this time larger, more aggressive. lie
knew no law and did not want to know any,
but he knew how any legal case could be
Nnducted in a better manner than that i'm
Nogue--a matter Of no very profound knowl-
edge-in short, he was an expert in "how to
do it, The Gownsman does not know what
became of that boy, but he rather thinks that
he must be professor of pedagogy some-
where.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-04-17

HNHERE will come a time doubtless when
l. the young among those who are to teach
will take 20 per cent exemption from the
amount of their study learning 80 per cent
as much in the gross total as heretofore
being four times we'll or in educated as
they are now instead of five times, in order
that they may spend this 20 per cent of their
time learning how to do it," And corre-
spondingly the Gownsman does not doubt
that the excellent army practice of putting
the old fellows through their PAGES will be
extended to those hapless old schoolmasters
who had the misfortune to be born in the
dark ages wherein no one could learn anv-
thing because nobody knew anything about
the behavior of children (psycholoRicaIIv
"Observed'D, when there could have been no
educational products" because nobody had
invented the means of measuring them and
when the dead languages were the onlv
things approaching the supervisory corps"
or corpse, the GOwnsman, in his Ignorance
knows not which. Why should we ALLOW
these relics Of unenlightened times to cum
Der our schoolrooms with the continuation of
success in teaching which must have come
only by accident? The science of "how 10 do
it. knows no accidents; II deals In Certain
ties based upon observed facts" II knows
that there Is nothing which is immeasurab bIe
from the brain power of a chimpanzee TO the
precise degree and color of genius necessary
to produce an abiding work of art There IS
nothing immeasurable except the possibilities
OF how to do it,"
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-04-17
Getting By the Censor

Secretary Baker arrived at an Atlantic
port, proceeded south by an American rail-
road was interviewed by an (ahem) Phila-
deIphia afternoon paper and is now in a
District of Columbia capital.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-04-17
THE ELECTRIC CHAIR

WE WENT to school with Charley Her,
w zog, the famous baseball stormy petrol.
Charley I've used to call Dim "BucS'J has
forgotten that, but We haven't; nor how
he used to play halfbacls on the school
football team.
Lots of other boys went to that school,
ana became lawyers and insurance agents
and authors and soldiers and doctors Of
philosophy, but all the alumni put together,
plus the janitor and the headmaster, never
get into print as often as Chas. does in one
season. And all the faculty Of the school
put together don't get as much salary as
Chas. does for enjoying himself on the
smoothshaven diamoAd
We have always wondered why we didn't
80 in for baseball or evangelism, or some.
thing profitable.
Dove Dulcet says one Of Mayor Smiths
sleuths called on him to discuss the tender
loin district Of Obesity. y. J. Dove was
at loss to know why he should he so
honored until he learned that he had been
mentioned in the paper as vice electrician
Of this department. This had aroused the
suspicious of the Mayor
Henceforth communications to Mr.. Dul.
Get must be addressed to the assistant cleo
triCian.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-04-17

The President is to be elected to member
ship in the Academy of Moral and Political
Science in the Institute of France in recogni-
tion Of his distinguished services. The
Kaiser has not yet been nominated
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-04-17

An official census reports that there are
17I2 swivel-char officers of draft aga in
Washington who have received commissions
since the outbreak of the war. We await
the enumeration of weathervanes in con.
ora
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-04-17

The soldier who writes. home that the
Germans are outclassed by the Americans Is
telling nothing new The Germans have
never won battle I'm which they did not ont
number their enemy
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-04-17

TNllE censor very 10th was to let through
the following item, which, however. I
ultimately him to o. *. persuaded. The
valet of very high parsonage at the
courtmartial 'presenl was, and put i'm a
requlsition for the Botschafters trouser.
presser. 1t is rumored in exceedingly lofty
circles that those in authority were always
jealous of the creases in the ambassadorial
garments and that an Improvement in this
matter is now to be looked for in a pair of
very exalted limbs. 1t is also said that the
Empress, now that the supply of Paris
hats so exhausted is, will be seen wearing
a creation Of the BOtschafterin, but your
correspondent is not authentic on that
point.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-04-17

An Atlantic City theatre owner is
charged with stealing hot air from a neigh
boring hotel Was he too poor to hire a
press agent?
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-04-17

. Every map can be his own Jim Corbett
and, punch the Germans by subscribing for a
Liberty Bond.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-04-17

Chairman Gaffney. Of the Councils
Finance Committee, thinks the primaries are
too near to discuss an increase in the tax
rate. But why hesitate? Is he afraid of a
vote Of lack Of confidence?
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-04-17

IF there is anything
VOLTA! Change in Philadelphia that
street Contractors! needs cleaning up and
II changes will effect
cleanup says Senator Ware of the
Mayors vice crusade, then l am in favor of
them" =
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-04-17

The dispatches say
stringing Him! that Emperor Charles,
Of Austria. has again
wired the Kaiser. Wired?
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-04-17

Death to spies " cries the Board Of
Trade, but IL will have to say It several times
more before the Department OF Justice really
thinks that spies should he shot
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-04-17

With standard brands OF smoking to-
baceo cornmandeered for the soldiers the
horrors OF war are beginning 10 come home
to every owner Of I. d.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-04-17

"Old Bill" Suzer has been indicted
again, and Tammany made the charges this
time also
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-04-17

their late owner attainted? Or are they of
lesc majestic guilty? Or are they simply
to he confsCated?
The Minister-for Is eeping. l. p-the. Spirits
of-the- German Folk oy.All-Means- Fair or
Foul was called upon to lay down the law
on this point. He said in part: These
articles, belonging to the late ambassador
from that country which shall be name
less, are guilty of conspiracy against the
German empire. They of pseudo-kultur
convicted have been and of attempting to
introduce into this nation false standards of
art. 1t is reasonable agains. the instnC-
tive beauty-sense of the German people to
permit china, bed linen, Crockery and OBJ
jects of art to remain unadmired in the
fastness of a warehouse Mugs to be drunk
out Of made are sheets likewise to he slept
on are fabricated. Moreover he cried, it
is TO the best interests of Mr. Gerard him
self that tl.ese so choice articles be kept in
use, that they rust not neither mildew in
the recesses of a house for thc.safe-kecp-
Observation-Disclosures Mrs. Gerard would
far rather, said he, that her linens and
damasks were being used by some fair and
comely hausfrau than that they should the
incursions of moth and worm endure.
This argument Indignantly quashed was
as being lacking in true Germanc frank.
ness and deCisiveness. The Chamberlain
pronounced the verdict: "The goods are
TO be confscated as dangerous enemies of
the empire. They are subject to the same
criticism that against Mr. Gerard leveled
is, that they unscrupulously continue to
exist after having incurred the displeasure
of the Great General Staff"
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-04-17

Baseball has broken loose on the front
page again.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-04-17

Perhaps Mr. Baker knows better now
how to cook the Huns goose.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-04-17

We have always wondered why we didn't
go in for baseball or evangelism, or some
thing profitable.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-04-17

A LEGAL point of much subtlety arose.
"A The question at issue was, these house
hold effects. OF whas crime are they guilty?
Are they by the same stigma attaching to
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-04-17
SPEED, AND THEN MORE
SPEED!

As the Germans have been proved hope
lessly wrong in their estimates of the
ideals, desires and determination of the
American people, SO they will he proved
wrong I'm their estimate as to the speed
with which the Americans will be able to
carry out their purpose and program.
Foreign Secretary Balfour TO the Amer
lean labor delegation.
Martinsburg W Va evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1913-1920, 1918-03-21
DIRECTOR ARCHER
WILL Be IN TOWN
Saturday Night At the w. S. S.
Conference.

From Publicity Director w. Va,
War Savings Committee. Progress
of the War Savings campaign in
West Virginia up to this time had
plans for the continuation of the
work with the view to the constant
increase of sales to the end that the
states quota of S28.000,000 worth of
War Savings Stamps may be sold
during the year have been discussed
at a series of group conferences of
County Chairmen, call for which
has been issued by State Director
Robert L.. Archer of Huntington.
Beginning at Charleston on March
18th there were nine of these con
ferences, each of which was attend
ed by State Director Archer and
members of his staff as well as by
chairmen from the counties repre-
scented in the group and other War
Savings workers representative of
the various counties and communit-
Martinsburg W Va evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1913-1920, 1918-03-21
3 BURN TO DEATH
NEA RCHARLE ST0M

Goldie futile, eighteen years old,
Hazel futile, sixteen years old, and
Everett futile, eleven years old were
burned to death and Mr.. and Mrs.
Tuuttle and Samuel Reese, who room
ed at the futile home were serious
ly burned in a fire which destroyed
the futile house at Walgrove, near
Charleston, according to information
received here. Mr.. and Mrs. futile
and Reese and two younger Tuttle
children escaped from the burning
buildings in their sleeping garments
The fire also destroyed the homes of
Homer Dodd and D. Mclaughlin.
Martinsburg W Va evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1913-1920, 1918-03-21

stricken mans side, Mr. Kindle was
dead Heart trouble, superinduced
by failing health was the cause. No
arrangements have been made for
TIM fueeral, Mr.. Kindle, who was
born IA years ago at Orleans Cross
Roads, had retired a few years since
after serving some So years with the
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. He
was the youngest OF his brothers and
sister and the first to die. Mr.. Kin
die is survived by his widow, form
erly Miss Rachel Mcclure, Of this
city; five sons and one daughter,
Messrs. John and Charles, of Wash
ington; Ralph and Mrs. William
Conway. Of Baltimore; Arthur, Of
Philadelphia, and Howard, who is but
10 years Of age, with the U. S. Army
Martinsburg W Va evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1913-1920, 1918-03-21
MARTNsBURC VI va EVENING JOURNAL THURSDAY MARCH d

in France; also two brothers, Messrs,
Henry Kindle, Of Great CacaDon;
John Kindle, of Philadelphia, and
Mrs. Emma Tabler He was veter-
an Of the Union Army a member of
the 3. Of L. f., b. & 0. Veterans AS.
ISOLATION and the First United Breth
rem church Mr. Kindled was man
of high character and a gentleman
in every respect, a good citizen and
8 consistent Christian.
Mrs. Mary Nortin
Miss Theresa MacDanold of North
Raleigh street, was called TO Paw
Paw by the funeral of near relative,
the late Mrs Mary E. Norton. The
latter died Monday evening at the
home in Cumberland, aged GA. She
was formerly Miss Bevans and the
Martinsburg W Va evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1913-1920, 1918-03-21
POST MAIL EARLY
AND AVOID RUSH

If the patrons of the postoffice,
and especially the business men and
firms with large outgoing mail, would
make an effort to do all their mailing
at or about noon of each day, they
would greatly facilitate the work of
the office and at the same time make
it lighter on the distributing clerks.
Some of the local business houses
have already adopted this plan and it
has greatly helped in the office.
Martinsburg W Va evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1913-1920, 1918-03-21
FIVE CITIES AFTER
GRAND LODGE HOME

Huntington, Wheeling, Fairmont,
Parkersburg and Charleston will be
applicants for the location of the
$4,000 home planned by the West
Virginia Grand Lodge of Masons. The
committee named by the lodge to de-
eide on the location of the home will
meet in Huntington on May 16 when
the cities will present their claims, it
was said The home is intended for
the use of orphans of members of
the order and will be located in one
of the five cities named.