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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-06-10
OUR RAILRoADERs IN FRANCE

HXyHEN the history # this wal is written
IA a Kipling will be needed to celebrate
the little known achievements of the
American railroad men, who, under Alter
bury. Of Philadelphia. have done as much
10 nuilify German strategy, TO fool linden
burg and to discourage all Huns as any
army division ID. the field. The news that
Gosernment is rapidly forming a new
,gfment In the American rail unit compels
: fhought Of the service these men are
NM.
The great German drives have been
lined TO destroy lines of communication,
~ hit at important functions and thus to
paraiyzs AMI endanger such Allied lines as
must depeni on the railroads for food AID
ahells. 1t has been evident in more than
; great action that important functions
<Sors seized without having the desired
81. New lines had been laid in the
communication went Non as If by
and the Germans found that they
{eir ~ ma their bAood ~
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-06-10
COMMON SENSE FROM Mr.. EDISON

ssNJo LEGITIMATE industry is nom
essential" said Thomas A.. Edison
recently, unless it interferes with the con.
duct Of the war, and then only to the extent
which it interferes."
M. Edison is close to the Government
He knows what the Government requires
~ make war successfully because he has
helped and is helping at the general task.
Interference with industry, hectic pro-
posals that are apt to discourage general
business and amateur neddling are un.
necessary and u1wise. The Government
will take all that it requires in the way
Of commodities, factories and raw materials
Of every sort. Thus all so-called nonessen.
tial Industries will be automatically defined
and regulated. Any other course, any
poking and meddling by Congress and self.
appointed patriots could only react to lessen
the virility Of the country at large. to
lessen the prosperity and to hobble the
national spirit in a time when it needs all
energy. force and resources it can
oommand.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-06-10
Pianos and Mules

We are paying Spain for thousands of
army mules by sending its people American
made pianos. Somehow this seems a revolt
of national industries. Are the Spanish sere-
naders finding the mandolin no longer ade-
quate to their needs? Or is Spain in its
war prosperity charging it's home luxuries
and its musical activities? 1t is certified
to in trade reports that Spanish business
has profted enormously by the war. There
Is more ready money in northern Spain, than
has been there since Hidalgo days. And there
seems to be a supply of American pianos
capable of absorbing as much of this wealth
as our mule needs make necessary.-Roches-
ter Post Express.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-06-10
GERMANY AND CERMAN.AMERICANs

TT WAS natural TO expect wailing in
L Germany over the refusal OF German.
Americans TO approve Kultur and its works
and because of the failure of all ANGER.
man gospels in the United States. But
few people were prepared for the clamor-
Gus grief and disappointment which the
German press has been manifesting in its
attacks on 'traitorous' millions of German
blood who refused to act for the father
land" This noisy outburst from HuHdom
under the whip is a final and amazing
proof of an isolation of mind that is at
once tragic. ludicrous and criminal.
The Berlin press has been lifting it's
hands to heaven in woe and rending its
c1cfhoa becapee q the dissolution n the
d Ar ,liipFcs, me
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-06-10
iThe scene is a couple OF hundred miles north
Of the coast of Bohemia.)

,,r,- ,-, ~. 18th
'i"e scene a Couple % % Rohemia "'e' """
N >"N II -
I~Nfa'hi-f: 'hiIoreh' our literature ''
L today VIII concern itself yet with our
nau NATHAN, no.,. and indeed him whom
~ ... r,i,h+.
WIN our goou s'roHs s"o'" y" e INV
lily acquired and self-determined, as by clause
%. section II. paragraph d of the peace
..oo .p,u uo.ou,,,, and poetrv,, entitled.
'eaS' &c" y ""N ~ u ..u
The proper atmosphere 10 create ! VIII NV"
ask Hans Schulz to declaim the selection
which, by instructions. he has to memory an
~ .,o ,,o, I1,,s,
heNeu' i'e'''e 'N'
Hans reciting): The to-be or the not-to'pe'
nuu ia. that asks itself. Whether 1t nobler
10 l., tho corn,.n mind tho sliugs and ar.
" f,r,uros IN
rows OF Outrageous hohIen"nan ana'nst
surfer, or 10 take UP sh'nIns ~ a.IIr
a by the srl,lsh ,'rahu ,ee u,hiaSs,w on.
ruled sea Oh uouo'es ana ny ~
pos'hs- prooood tbere-
leacncr' Acm, h."me'S'"oe"
fcre' now, 'hou ndhs' -, .h.u,
Rams Proreeu,hs Ean,, and hv a
The to-die? Inc 'o-sieep. hup... a"u Tho
steep 10 say W. ~ aoha .nd Thousand
nesh apperla'hihs ,s . do.
natural SHOCKS: Do""erNe'Ier. IT.. to.
voutly to be wlSh'a cohsurhma'io"'
die! Inc to's'eep-
Teacher twiping his eyes,: Also ehousn'
thou Hans therefore. Ach, children, the tears
VIII come as tney piedSe Wheh ""
already of this ancient German poet, SO
shamefully wrested from us by the l-ltish
sea -robbers when from the mouth OF the hloe
they emigrated about the year 400 A. ~ TN
the notebooks to set down, all of you there
fore ,, carrying with them a good-sized chuhK
of the ancient German speech ana ohiy now
to us restored. So tell us nIw, thou frtt%
Meyer. who was this our national poet!
Fritz (reading): Wilhelm Schalksbard was
born in Strafehart-am-Ofen, in the cray
thum of warwickschir, famous as the prin.
cipal stopping-off place between Kansas ana
the former London. He married Anna Hasem-
pffefer and ran away to London. now Will
helmshaven. On his German side he was a
genius and on his English side something or
a yagabond. For a while he made a living
nv holding horses in front of the theatres.
Freud, the poets pathetic revelation OF m "h
own experiences IN ms old ase' eisms,
horse a horse my kihsoon ior d ,ho,
Teacher 'wlping ms eyes,; fd"oS' "oN
Fritz thou, fdmos' Proceed aIso' ,ts
Fritz proceeding also,; ne spent ns
leisure time In the Magdepurg iavei" ~
company with other poets OF the sane ia a
tionality, Won Jansen. Mehrlach' u.uh u
Weber. and wrote "Hamiet anu ~
thirty-nine other plays, but died a respect.
able citizen at Strafehart' lie was 'ons
neglected in England, out was taken up y
for picking UP other peoples things, He
stands in the rront rank OF cur srea, bU 'sr
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-06-10
THE POET

THE barren music of a word or phrase,
= The futile arts of syllable and stress,
He sought. The poetry Of common days
He did not guess. "
THE simplest, sweetest rhythms life
Affords
Unselish love, true effort truly done,
The tender themes that underlie all
words
He knew not one.
THE human cadence and the subtle
chime
Of little daughters, home and child and
wife,
He knew not. Artist merely in his
rhyme,
Not in his life.
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-06-10
GET AFTER THE ALIEN sLACKERs

TT is said that the registration of military
= eligibles last week did not reach the
anticipated number because the aliens re-
fused to put their names on the list.
We can force them to register if we can
find them. but we cannot force them to
tight.
Last August Congress passed resolutions
calling or the President to negotiate
treaties which would permit us to draft
citizens of foreign countries living here.
In September the Senate passed the Cham
berlain bill providing for the draft of all
aliens except enemy aliens, but at the per-
sonal request of the Secretary of State the
House killed the bill. In February the
House passed the Burnett bill providing
for the deportation Of aliens who did not
submit to the draft. but the Senate has
taken no action "a it. on February 81 the
Secretary of State submitted TO the Senate
treaties with Great Britain and Canada
permitting the mutual drafting of citizens
of each country; but on March % he with
drew them, and they have not been resub-
mitted.
At present the aliens are immune from
military service. If they will not fight in
the armies of their own countries we can
not make them fight for their own coun.
tries in our armies.
The State Department is presumably
trying to find some way to get the alien
slackers into the armies of one country or
another. If it does not succeed pretty soon
the people will want to know the reason,
for this nation is determined not TO be an
asylum for slackers of any race.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-06-10
Nanquished!
Sonnet in Distress

I write. and when the thing is writ I read
The thing that | have written and it
seems
Paltry and gaunt and futile as the dreams
Which paint the weakling in heroic deed.
My Pegasus, a lame and spawned steed,
Champs at his bit anon, and but bias
phemes
The art of those whose ghosts in solemn
streams
Return to Chide my miserable screed.
This very thought, shaped to the ]eloGuence
OF Tasso's mellow pen: of Angeles
Clean.chiseled phrase: Petrarca's som.
Der wit;
Camoens' plant; or anything less dense
Thar this, the writer's wall, might-ah,
who knows?
Have made a decent sonnet-so let's
quit! PERCY FLAGE.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-06-10
A Cinch

To start a rhyme, begin with A,
Proceed to B without delay,
And then to C. or even d;
These falling, + or + or G.
II II is hopeless, / and j.
Our second stanza asks for X
Or L; and NJ brings us halfway.
No luck? Then try with n, o, p,
To start a rhyme,
If Q. r, S will not obey.
T. useful L, or V essay:
w, Y and Y, grim three;
And end triumphantly with z
That, says Jul author, is the way
To start a rhyme.
DOVE DULCET
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-06-10

of that precious organization betrayed
their old homeland They lacked Kul-
tur." Germany is now Weakened from her
tiers of the globe. So cries the newspaper
that speaks insistently for Wilhelm. Once
again the German Is wrong. Germany
hasn't Weakened from her dream. Ger.
many is still full of a narcotic philosophy.
She is as crazy as a cocaine fiend under a
full charge. Otherwise such mad tommy
rot as the Berlin papers are printing
would never be possible.
German-Americans have seen the PEG.
pies of their own blood and traditions fed
to the runs in successive tides to satisfy
the vanity of a mad man and his mad son.
They have seen the just hatred of all man.
kind gather in a destroying tempest to
sweep these idiots out of power. They
have seen their nation marched helplessly
to the block. Even the most
Germar-American, even the dullest and
most rabid fa~therlander, must have. been
forced to contrast the attitudes of the Ber-
lin Government with the attitudes of the
United States, which, even in these crucial
hours, hasn't forgotten how to be humane
and forbearing even with its worst enemies.
America has never feared German-Ameri-
cans. 1t is too strong to fear any enemy
within or without. II never shared any of
the delusions that now are Haunted once
more at Berlin to insult decent Americans
of German descent. And this is final proof
that the Hun never could and never will
understand the United States.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-06-10
We'll Sneed the Trim

Last time the Germans got to the Marine
they had a Rundreise Billet, a round-trip
ticket, and didn't know II. Sometimes his
tory repeats self-Louisville Herald.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-06-10
A Fast Color

Aviation tan" is a new shade for sweaters,
KAISER tam will be popular after ~he
sweaters have done their work. The I'M
genuity of American dyemakers, we imagine,
is already very busy.-Brooklyn Eagle.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-06-10

TEACHER: Defective therefore tn ee
l. hours after . school and forty examp es
in arithmetic for this beginning with Won
Capelle's multiplication tables. Unerhort !
Gerhardt Schmidt. | say. this unfortunate
impression to wipe out now. recite US al.
ready those stirring lines by the Herzog
Johann CAM from Richard II'-This royal
throne
Gerhardt recitingC
This royal throne Of kings. THIS sceptred isle.
This earth Of majesty, this seat Of Mars,
This other Eden. demi-pdrddise,
his fortress built by nature for herself
Against infection and the hand OF tCdr,
IRIS happy breed Of men. this little oorld,
This precious stone set in the siiver sea
Which series il in the Office Of a tcull,
Or as a moat deJensire to a house.
Against the enry Of less happier lands.
This blessed plot. this earth. this realm, this
NEU BRANDENBURG!
Teacher: Himmeischoen, And now. Helm
rich Klaus. point out to me yet one or two
instances uf text corruption in our national
poet.
Heinrich: Please. sir. in the Merchant Of
Venedig," thus:
NerisSd: Hop like you the young German,
the Duke Of sanony's nephewi
POrtid: Very Uiieiy IN the morning, tchen
he is sober. and most rileIy IN the
afternoon. tchen he is drunk.
1t has been shown by Professor Gansen-
schmalZ that Nerissa Is wrong that it in.
deed should be the young Englishman, the
Duke of SusseX's nephew"
Teacher: Fortre Mich! And now a CA Sc of
bad proof-reading, my Heinrich.
Heinrich: Please. sir, where there il a
capital letter needed In Hamlet: THE
phrase would be more german to the mat.
ter # we could carry cannon by our SIDES
Teacher: Gut And now some final argu-
ments already of the true German spirit Of
Wilhelm Schalksbard?
Heinrich: He knew everything.
Teacher: And again once more?
Heinrich Please, sir. he stole all his plots.
tCopyrlght.)
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-06-10
Kings Of Persia

What things there are to write if one
could only write them. My mind is full
of cleaning thoughts; gay moods and
dreams and mysterious, mothlike medita-
tions hover and fan their painted wings
in the garden of my Imagination. If I
could only catch them they would make
me famous; but / can hardly ever catch
them-always the fairest, those freaked
with the most amazing blues and Grim
sons, hutter beyond my reach and eter-
nally clude me.
The childish and everbafied chase of
these airy nothings sometimes seems, for
one of sober years in a sad world. rather
a trifing occupation; yet have I not read
of the great Kings of Persia, who used to
ride out TO hunt butterflies with hawks,
nor deemed this pretty pastime beneath
their royal dignity?
LOGAN PEARSALL SMITH.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-06-10

The charge that Germany's U-boat drive
over here is only a feint can hardly be
proved without further evidence of prostra-
ton.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-06-10
THEY'LL Be Good Later

There's a shortage Of June bridegrooms. :"
walls a matrimonial statistician. All be-
cause there's a bumper crop of heroes headed
toward F~rance.-Reading Telegram. :
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-06-10

The greatly increased value of tin has
taken all the sting out Of a ubiquitous brand
of automobile jokes.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-06-10

A patriotic way to be reconciled to the
new cost Of miles which goes into effect at
home today under the new railroad rate
oooeR = = yemenher tn stu higher price
- {len e - ~,
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-06-10

Paradoxical as it may seem, the weather
man who forecasts a marked coolness' can
make a host of summer friends.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-06-10

Mach Paris cry the Teuton hordes.
But they can't do 1t. The gates of the heroic
city refuse to be beaten in.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-06-10

How can the Germans incensed at tn,
damaging revelations of DR.. Wilhelm Much
lon, The ex-munitions maker. feel otherwis,
than "Krupp-ted"?
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-06-10

That cleaning first syllable of Secretary
FAAnsings surname cuts sharper than ever
when he speaks to Germany of reprisals.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-06-10

The proposed limitation of incomes to
s 10000 a year makes many of us wish to
share the pains of the comparatively few.
The agony would be truly exquisite. D.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-06-10

When is a consola-
Music, Mr.. Leaderi ton In Paris a desola-
ton in Philadelphia %
Well, when, Mr.. Bones? When it's a boule-
ward"
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-06-10

That spy Fritz Flage discovered at At
lantic City. is HE any relation to Camou. of
the same family?
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-06-10
Seriously, Now

What will the farmers wife think of the
farmerette Boston Globe.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-06-10

A day in June may be rare, but an
April day in June is rarer, and more delight
full.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-06-10
CEHEIMRAT SHAKESPEARE
By Simeon Strunsky

to be spoken. Colt strdje Itdlien! And too?
Otto: A lord who sings very prettily. |
think they call him Amiens.
Teacher: lmbecile yet! DO not mention
that name.
Otto; Please, sir. / didn't know. I thought
1t was something about Herr Won Jagow.
Teacher: But then how in heavens name
once more?
Otto: Where he sings:
Under the greenwood tree
Who loves to lie tuith me,
/ thought
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-06-10
why Rub 1t In?

The order that we
Why Rub 1t In: start an offensive
against the fly Is diff
feult to execute. He's too inclined to get the
jump on us.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-06-10
S1LTED PEANUTS
The House

lHC IIVuet
WITH such strong arms I shut my Love
about.
She rested there: which was to me a
token.
This was a house she could not walk with
out.
Securely bricked, and never to be broken.
Alas the tight imprisonment was vain.
Twas much too wide and physical for
hearts:
When we had come most near. and scarce
were twain,
We had not met; some soul and secret
parts
lips
change
Must lie. and love be BACKED with this
eclipse.
That she and I would live and still be
strange.
And as for Death. whose stroke discovers
men,
What fool would make a firm possession
then?
JOHN GROVE RANSOM.
First Lieutenant Artillery, \. E. F.
Nanquished!
Dear Socrates-I'm sorry you have trou-
BILE in finding rhymes for stars" don't
seem to nave any. difficulty. Look here:
knowing he could not be among the stars,
The actor Ryan donned the guise of Mars.
He talked too much, poor boob, and
cassed himself:
And now he rests behind the prison bars.
SALTED PEANUTS.
This seems to be poets day in this de-
partment. Our general theory is that poets
are better seen than heard. but these fell
lows. if we encourage them, may learn to
write good prose.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-06-10

II King George, who IL to attend q
Fourth OF July baseball match, wants any
ttuetrpottpn IN the Gane there ore certain
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-06-10
Speaking Of
Destroyers

no ''sub-marines" on
have fully qualified.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-06-10

Emil Ripper. an al
And = Herring: legged German spy, Is
to be given a hearing
in New York.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-06-10
Overripe

Tine Berlin Kreuz Zei-
Overripe lungs declaration that
the times are not ripe
for peace Is an understatement As a matter
of fact, they're rotten.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-06-10
Eclipse Of the Hun

II seems so simple, and yet no one said
Il: the Kaiser thinks Germany is the
empire where the Hun never sets.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-06-10

The superb authority
of our fighters at
Chateau-Thierry indi-
Gates that there are
the Marine. Our boys
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-06-10

And now we find that after all this we
have not yet written our letter to the
Russian people. Well, that must come an
other day. Bnt every timo we see the
picture of a Russian peasant and see those
grave. worried eyes speaking a great hun.
ger and a great sadness at the hardnes Of
life we want to take his toil-worn hand.
We want to tell him that we. too, on this
side of the world, are meeting some of the
thorns Of earth and making valiant efforts
to soften them. C.. d.. NJ.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-06-10

The Kaiser laments that the German
Americans are inspticiently equipped
.,sh ks,snE; R|A e - 3ss.xs::'Ps
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-06-16
FACTORY Sue" scenes this though

the custom was in A measure respon-
sihle for this. For in some busy city
centcrs certain car manufacturers had
an enclosure adjacent to their service
stations with sign:
Naturally, with this introduction, we
expected much of the Grand Canyons
camping grounds. But the actual camp
grounds arc many yards from the rim
OF the canyon and on the side OF a
hill. Here the prospective camper
must go to the adjacent garage and
register his name, state. and car.
Likewise. he must 60 to the garage
tor all water needed. paying for it at
the rate OF IS cents per night This is
necessitated by the immense cost in
VOWED in carrying all water in tank
cars TO the Grand Canyon from Del
Rio Springs, 125 miles south
But to camp on the rim of this Titan
OF Chasm one must tour thirteen miles
along the rim to Grandview. Just as
one plans to glimpse the Coliseum
hrst by moonlight, 50 does one here
creep out in the small hours of day-
oreak to see the canyon. For there
Is nothing which cmblazons ALL its
'nagnlhccnce quite so much as camping
out on the near brink OF its rim to
catch the first CLINT of gold, which
turns IL INTO the rose-Elow and the
transparent shadows of daybreak.
Truly, gipsying in motordom reaches
It's cresccndo from the canvas glory of
camping on the rim
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-06-16

price increase has been announced
by tho Briscoe factory.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-06-16

by reason of the high cost ofSmining.
tho high wages that are cxacted and
for other reasons. American gold pro-
duction will fall OF. as In fact 1t has
fallen or since the record production
OF little over $l00.000.000. We need
all the new gold that can be obtained
from our mines. The liabilities are
that for year or more we shall re-
ceiVe no great amount of gold from
other countries. The great nnanciers
OF the United States, England and
france. as well as the governments
are providing other ways than by send
Ing gold to the United States for meet
ing obligations. principally through
tho utilization OF constantly expanding
credit.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-06-16
MORE NEW GOLD NEEDED
nut Labor Situation and High Cost OF
Mining May Cut Down the
Output.

The Holland" letter in the Wall
street Journal indirectly indicates the
possibility Of something Of gold
famine. 1t reads:
Experts believe that not for a good
many years should there be a falling
OF In the output of new gold from
american mines and from Alaska, pro-
Vided tho cost of mining Is not so
greatly increased as to make It neces-
sary Tor some OF the operators to cur
tail production, or. for q time, to close
down the mines. 1t was the opinion
or the late Maurice L. Muehlman. and
also the opinion OF the late Senator
John +. Jones. both of them excellent
authorities upon gold production in
,he united States and Alaska that
american mines should yearly produce
approximately 100000. 900 Of new gold.
mo apprehension now prevails that.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-06-16

could not hope to accomplish this II the
manufactures was unable to make de-
liveries.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-06-16

T. r. Toomes is now member o
the sales force of the Richmond Smitl
Form A-Truck Company.