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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-05-20
Thoughts on Food Saving

To hooverize is not griet
To me-Im not glutton;
7 like the cheaper cuts of beef
The grown-up legs of mutton.
For fads and luxuries. in brief,
do not care a button.
A rooster as we'll as some
More rare and gamy biped
No pullets to my table come,
No pheasants, ringed and striped
I couldn't tell a partridge from
A parallelopiped!
No fancy frlls my palate begs,
No luxuriss II wishes
Like potted snais and frogs hind legs
And other dainty dishes
I'll get along on ham and eggs
And homegrown loaves and fishes.
But here's the point-ay, there's the rub -
My wishes / must smother;
i must not be a selfish dub
And rob my fighting brother
HAVE TO live on fancy grub,
The soldiers need the other
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
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FIRE-MUSIC

AS the only wet, so to speak, candidate
- for the Governorship in Pennsylvania
Judge Bonniwell, revered president of the
volunteer fremens association, may claim
an actual and real affinity of purpose with
ire-fighJers. He assumes at least t. see
that the heat of thirst shall never go un-
assuaged. And no volunteer fireman is
more Jealous on parade than Judge Bonni-
well. He may even have put some fires
out. Or he may cherish his exclusive emf
nence among volunteer firemen with
mystic sense of the flame that he tends
tirelessly upon hopes altar.
Let that, as the man said, be as it will.
The whole matter rises above personal
motives now when Senator Sproul is dis
covered striving to filch away for himself
the distinction which Judge Bonniwell has
so ardently and patiently acquired; writing
and posturing in words to make the world
suppose that he too, is a volunteer fire.
man no less gifted than his rival from the
Democratic hinterland What every one
should wish 10 know is the nature of the
enchantment that radiates upon politicians
from volunteer fremen. Are volunteer
iremen habitusl voters? Or are they the
iost tribes Of righteousness with whom
aspiring men yearp for fellowship a.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-05-20
THE ABHORRED SHEARS

fTH1ERE was a peculiarly tragic irony in
- the fatal accident that killed Captain
Antonio Resnati, the Italian aviator A
brilliant pilot, hero of many sensational
Nights, it was side-slp at the height of
only fifty feet that cost his life at Mineola
This gesture of fate is sadly common in
human affairs. How often the man who
has outfaced destiny in exploits of deli.
cate risk and peril subsequently perishes
BY some trifling slip or mischance some
accident or illness that aliases him again
to the lot of common men. Do the gods
feel spite for those who mount too near
the stars. who brush too audaciously toward
their own Olympic submits? Only the
other day it was Captain Knyvett of the
Australians, who died in a hospital bed in
New York after surviving years of flame
and gas and steel at Gallipoi and in
Flanders.
The tragic death of Captain Resnati re-
minds one of that of the Ace of Aces.
Frances unforgotten knight of the air,
GsorEes Guynemer. After more than fifty
& victories after bringing down as many as
four boche planes in a day, Guynemer van
ished in the misty air of Flanders. He was
last seen dueling with some unknown
enemy. His body and plane were never
found; he simply disappeared and became
legend. Did the envious gods nterpose
and peevishly snatch him away from the
skies he had sown with glory?
Man has always contradicted the i'm
possibilities, denied natures forbiddings,
tanned and bitted her TO his gallant will.
But ever and anon destiny intervenes to
humble us and takes from us our shining
riders whose plumes are so forward in the
press. Then there is grieving for brave
men vanished and for hearts left sore.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-05-20
THE READERS VIEWPOINT


To the Editor Of the EreninG Public Ledger:
Sir-Pennsyvania is the greatest mining
and manufacturing State in the Union
taking both industries tOgether-and II is
absolutely necessary under wOrld-wide
changing conditions that mining and
manufacturing capacity should be doubled
within the next five wears and what is the
State Administration doing toward solving
problem so vastly important to the public
welfare? The only answer is: 1t il at work.
most energetiCally eliminating Penrose from
politics.
charge that no one connected with the
State Administration Governor Brum-
baugh to the lowest of his oftiCers-knows
to what capacity our coal and iron mining
industries are being operated, whether it is
%. so or rs per cent of their full 100 per
cent capacity. and / deliberately charge that
the same is true as to the carrying Capa7
bility of the railroads of the State.
At one time Pennsylvania had the largest
and best canal system of any State in the
Union Very recently l endeavored to asCer-
tain the condition and the existing mileage
Of those disused canals my object being 10
ascertain IT, without any great cost they
could be used by motive power in relieving
existing and future greatly increased rail-
road congestion. but no offiCeholder from the
al-hlghest to the all-lowest could, give me
any information upon the question.
JOHN W. FRAZIER.
Philadelphia. May IS.
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The History OF. a Minute

I saw 4 lady on the stair
And she was, oh. so STRANGELY fair
With n knot Of butter -colored hair,
And waiting, listening, wondering air.
She WAS taH as a lady ought to be,
And Gown she looked and smiled a me.
Her eyes were queerly brightly blue
As the bit of sky that last shines through
The gathering clouds, oppressive, gray,
On Il chilly windy autumn day.
There she paused on the stairs and smiled
Like a child who sees another child
With whom 1t would dearly like to play
IT it only could get its nurse away.
And / know not what divine surmise
Leapt up like fire in my eyes,
But I know her smiling suddenly stopped,
And a curtain between us blankly dropped,
And she passed me by as if l were
A man invisible to her.
Alice Duer Miller, in Wings in the
Night"
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-05-20

The Prussian Chamber of Deputies has
voted down a plan for electoral reform which
would abolish what is known as circle voting
There is manhood suffrage. but the value
of vote is reckoned according to the
amount of taxes d man pays. The voters in
every constituency are divided into three
classes made up from the tax rolls. The
first class contains the names of the men
who pay the first third of the taxes the
second class is composed of those who pay
the second third, and the last class contains
the remainder.
In practice this plan gives to two or three
men in some communities .one-third of the
votes, to fifteen or twenty another third,
while the remainder of the electors, number
ing thousands, polls the other third. Prussia
is therefore politically a putocracy in
which the rich rule and the men of moderate
means and the poor enjoy the inestimable
privilege of obeying
Promise of reform has been made for years.
but has never been kept, The junkers. who
are the moneyed class, have consistently
fought every measure that tended TO de-
prive them of their power. They have de-
feated the most recent proposals.
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relief from the confusion of a dificult
world?
Il don't believe he ever put out a fire
in his life!" cried a volunteer fireman
whom Senator Sproul had just addressed in
a circular letter as MY Dear Fellow Fire
man" The criticism. is doubtless just IL
the Senator's bedside candle he excepted
imagine Mr.. Sproul leaping down ladder
through smoke and blaze with crowd of
unconscious children in his arms. 1t is
almost as difficult indeed to imagine Mr..
Sproul thus occupied as It is to imagine
Judge Bonnwel on a cleaning engine
utterins hoarse but snappy abiurations
to the lunging horses in moment of
crisis.
Fut in the purely atmospheric side of
firemanning Judge Bonnwel has worked
hard. He is matChless at a fremens pic
mic. On such an occasion he could not
seem more Of fireman if it were his or
dained habit to play a hose upon the fires
of dawn to quiet the wild radiance of
morning for the common uses Of unimag-
native day or to attack the western skies
with a patent extinguisher each evening in
order that the eyes of the world might he
relieved for sleep. The field is his by right
Of conquest Senator SprOul may justly
he accused Of subtle friEhtfulness in ad-
venturinE into a realm which Judge Bonni-
we'll long ago discovered and reHgiOuslY
dcdiCatcd to himself
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THE WAR CHEST

DHILADELPHIA has had intensive ex.
- perience in the art and mystery of rails
ing money for war aims and there is
every reason to believe that the War Chest
canpaign, which begins today, will even
exceed previous efforts in enthusiasm and
public response The community will
hsggle at no sacrifice which may he needed
to hasten the winning of the war.
The first plea that has been put forward
for the war-Chest plan is that it is a
sober and practical business measure. All
funds for war relief, of every kind, are to
be pooled in the War Chest The commit.
tee In charge will allocate the moneys to
the various relief organizations according
to their needs. Each citizen is asked to
pledge one days pay every month to carry
on war relief through the whole year This
will do away with the overlapping effort
Of repeated separate campaigns.
But there is a deeper and gravcr plea
that strikes the heart of each one. Our
men abroad are instantly in need of the help
the War Chest will bring them. Every dol
lar pledged to the War Chest means for
some soldier recreation, laughter, the touch
Of home. 1t means the greatest of all
sstimulations, the knowledge that the people
in America are behind him.
BY the grace and courtesy Of the French
government Philadelphia HIS this week
the most remarkable exhibit of war trophies
ever collected. We will all give our utmost
to the War Chest as a matter OF course.
but after looking on Guynemers plane and
the other moving relics gathered in the OLD
Earle store on Market street We will take
second thought and give even more
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-05-20
LANGUAGE OF AMERICAN DOLLARS

3 TsERMANY has foated seven loans since
~ August, 1914, totaling about SIS 900 =.
100000 There were 1,267 900 subscribers
to the first loan and 6,76SoOO to the sixth.
There was a falling off of 100000 in the
number of subscribers to the last loan.
The total number of subscribers to all the
laans Is 20 600, 900.
The United States has fioated three loans
since April of last year, totaling 81, 1,soo-
100000. There were 4.50O, 900 subscribers
6to the first. S600, 900 to the second and
: 17,oe0.o0o TO the third. making 31,1O0OO0
.1n au, or 100000 in one year in excess of
~ the subscribers TO the German loans in
nesrlS four years.
~ any one thinks that the German people
o<e giving their money to their Government
kf7{ the prosecution of the war these COM
Iaratjve dgures ought to disabuse his mind.
They show, that the great mass OF the
4<eFie think that when they give their
ecfs and their comfort to the fatherland
oud when they so hungry they are doing
aII that can be expected of them. They
oxefcisc SOME control over their small
rp<fdings and they are not investing them
IN bonds TO continue a losing war.
E ~ the United States. on the other hand,
We have the spectacle of one out of every
~ persons subscribing for the third loan.
r<aord never before equaled in the his
{tS< pf governmental finance. unless il
10 when the French peasantry subscribed
the loan ioated TO pay the German in
tI1Irt j: 1sT1.
14s< salks and nc interpreter Is needed
l< q nste the people there know
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-05-20
DLSORDERLLNESS AS A COMFORT
By WALTER PRICH4RD EATON

file things in. his den, that sacred spot
where he comes to forget the daily grind
not to remember il?
Peace flies out at the window when
efficiency" comes in at the door.
This is true of me, who have no sense
for efficiency at any time, alas and it
was true Of the husband of my wife's caller.
the rich man who was Ions the president
of a street railway system and dwclt amid
filing cabinets, but who came home at night
with a great sigh Of relief to the litter and
dust and chaos Of his library desk.
THE posthumous poems of Swinburne
l. have just been issued. The reason, it
seems, why there were so many of them
was because Swinhurne also, refused to
allow anybody to house-Cean his desk
When the litter got so high he could no
longer find hole to work in he got a news
paper, piled everything in the desk into it,
rolled it up into a bundle, tied it with a
cord and stood it upon a heap of similar
bundles. When he died these bundles
were opened and in them we're scores and
scores of manuscripts. De Quincy, of
course, had an even better way of cleaning
up. When the room where he lived. worked
and took opium got so full he could no
longer move around in it, he simply rented
another room and departed
T HAVE just moved-for not quite the
l. same reason. 1t was necessary in my
case to clean up before I departed. Ny
old desk was piled high with Ito mel pre-
cious things, and l could lay hands on any
one of them if given a reasonable time.
My new desk is again piled high but, alas!
l can no longer lay hands on what was on
the old. l set out in my new quarters to
file away in an old cabinet l bought a lot
Of the precious accumulation. l did rea!
neat, orderly job, too. The only trouble is
that I haven't the faintest idea now where
anything is. For a while | spent hours a
day searching for some lost letter or es.
sential clipping. Now l have even given
up attempting to find them. They repo8e
secure and undisturbed in their orderli.
ness l shall never clean my desk. gain.
When it gets piled too high I shall simply
move to another desk. l have a big room,
and / reckon that each desk of the Eve
it will hold will last me at least two years.
After decade can simply make a bonfire
of what is in desk No. and begin The
circuit over again.
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THE BURNING GLASS
SnoOks

SpoOks
EUSAPIA PALLADINo, the great spoo%
IL mobllzer is reported dead in Rome.
We hope that those Columbia University
professors who "eXposed' her trickeries
some years ago have locked up their
spoons. If any ghost can set them, En-
sapia will She always had an affinity for
bullion and its equivalents.
Some people honestly believe in Spooks;
other people don't quite fall for the spooks
themselves, hut they believe in the people
who believe in the spooLs and 50 it goes.
Eusdpia called herself a medium by
which We understand a fee-takinE spook
broker who, in consideration of the right
amount Of darkness expectancy and shlh-
holeth, will draw aside the curtains of the
spirit world and tell YOU what you know
already.
What has always made us leery of these
mediums is their intense preoccupation
with the things of this world 1t doesn't
seem far that one whose spirit has access
to the vasty halls of the beyond should
continue to exhibit such a mundane eager
ness in regard 10 food, fees and the box
office.
Yet there will always be people who will
be spoofed by spoolts now and then There's
a whole coterie OF spooks out in St. Louis,
apparently. One of them, who calls herself
Patience Worth, has had the bad taste to
write some novels on the ouiia board and
punish publishers with them. Perhaps
there's a ouija board factory in St. Louis?
Anyway, We are not going to lose any
sleep over the thought that Palladino may
have died with part of her message un-
said and that she may he eager 10 impart
it to the world through US. When We sit
to do than listen for spook rappinss. Well
wager, also that Palladno didn't die in.
testate Faklng and cozening the boobs
is always profitable, AS some one said
YOU can't fool all the boohs all the time
there are so many of them.
The only kind of medium that we bite on
is roast beef medium. The Palladino kind
can be brigaded with Doctor Cook and
Garabed and the new kings of Livonia
Courland and Esthonia. Now you see
them, and now you don't.
Thinner and Thinner
Before the rcar those good old days ,
Ham sandwiches were broad and big;
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-05-20
What Do You Know?
QUIZ

I. Who was the first Secretary of the TreAsrr,
i' of the United states?
. Name the author of Ben Bolt"
q Give the origin Of the name Of California.
4 Is hybrid perpetual rose perpetual
blOomer?
=. Identify the Sage of Monticello.
q. What is u metroDolitan zone"
4 What Is q Elophone?
g. What is ordnance:
a. What Is an heir presnmptiyc?
IN Ebo Urute ''So accidents arc SO unluekY
i'' hut that the prudent may draw some ad.
vantage from Them
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-05-20

The Brooklyn shipyard worker who drove
7464 rivets in one day stands alone as a war
maker, if you except those at Berlin. There
are German statesmen who can tell more
than 1864 lies in any one working DAY.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-05-20
Ham
white tcdS the bread, ,ctth butter spread J;
4 M tdShip tcdS slab OF pig.
But now they're small
dainty h avt tnS
How tired we are ~H% nam
OF sandwich saving.

Now that the Office electric fan is buzz.
ing we don't see how we are going to get
our pipe lit. We cannot light up in a
draft. The only plan we have devised
yet to beat that fan is to pull the roll
top of our desk almost all the way
down and light the match under that
shelter. But then we have a hard time
sticking our mouth and pipe in through
the slit Can any one offer any sugges-
tions?
Edwin Markham says that his poem
"The Man With the Hoe" produced nine
barrels of newspaper clippings. We our.
self. in that role. intend to produce whole
barrel Of beans this summer. far more
nutritious than press cuttings
SOCRATES.
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Answers to Saturdays Quiz

1. There haye been two Democratic PTestdsnt.
two termsj and Woodrow Wilson ttwo
terms).
Q ..Natonin,'' an opera American Indian
- plot music by Victor Herbert and BOOK By
Joseph ID. Redding.
a The Thirteen ORIGINAL States: NIassa husetts,
'' fConnecticut, New Hampshire, Rhode Is
land. New York, New Jersey, Pennsy-
vania. Delaware, Maryland. Virginia,
Georgia.
l. Bayou State; Mississippi.
S, The heur-de-lys is the national flower Of
Franco,
g. Columbus is the capital of Ola.
4 serseant major; the highest noneommfssiasa
officer In the United States army.
a s'K cf c.: the familiar Ip,eIlation Of the
knights Of Col,IIhbu3.
0. Rentuety; derived ffon Indian words mean-
ing '-Darx and Eloods Ground'
10. Iuf enaI. f8seqas neuan sas1ssAt noxah;s
for his sftrsss.g eeea~s'nslson o. ps>liifeei
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-05-20

There, is at least one thing for which
the hungry Germans may thank President
Wilson. The New York speech gives them
unlimited food for thought
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-05-20
DO ACTORS LABOR?

TOILERS in the field Of vaudeville doubt.
l. less will welcome the arrival Of the
Federal Trade Commission which has just
galloped to their hardpressed flank with
verbal aid and succor in a crisis brought on,
the commission alleges. by the oppression
Of the vaudeville trust. Bluecher was not
more timely A ring of theatre owners is
charged with hamperng performers OF the
continuous school, taking rake-offs, limiting
opportunities and restraining trade"
The findings of the long investigation,
now promulgated with the full force Of
Federal authority offer to the people in
vaudeville a tremendous moral reserve for
any campaign of liberation. And yet, for
those who do not dance or sing or tell
bearded jokes for a living, the newest YER
dict of the Federal Trade Commission in
wolves a GTisquieting fear.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-05-20

COONER or later the poets will be deliv.
~ cred officially from the travail which is
their inspiration. And sooner or later the
Federal Trade Commission will go crusad
ing to the relief Of the stage a whole. to
unionize musical comedies and Card-index
the last remaining Joys of life Afhdavits
will he sworn and subscribed to on the only
hin Of illusion that remains to us. Unions
and model villages, the bathtub and build
ing lots will he established upon holy
ground. Ard. will IT ever do to say tha:
actors work? Do the birds work when they
sing? Is tho Federal Trade Commission to
60 about pounding on the doors some day
or other, to indict every possible lady with
a bird cage for activities in restraint Of
trade?
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-05-20

Washington is dry" but committee of
the House of Representatives has voted down
a proposition TO forbid the shipment OF wet
stun into the; District of Columbia The
committee Is willing To have the city dry. but
not bone dry ~
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-05-20

Surely Governor Brumhaugh VIII not let
tho primaries pass without Designating
J. Denny O'\on as the better. sweeter and
holier candidate
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-05-20

senator Lenroot. in h, Philadelphia
speech, SAID again that Wisconsin i" loyal.
BY a nose?
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-05-20

TTNO THUS view the conventional stage is
4 TO he really sophisticated. Those who
maintain the older preIudCes in relation
to the world behind the scenes are hut
sophomores in life. And one who is very
wise may occasionally. in almost any thea.
tire, perceive a flash of revelation too full
of meaning to have been premeditated by
any stage manager. 1t may be merely
beautiful head revealed in light thrown at
an odd angle or a young face tired and
smiling in an instant's relaxation to nat
uralness in mingled light and darkness
Michael Angelo spent his life questing for
the glimI,ses of beauty that the average
man passes without notice.
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Now, All Together

rhe sooner the War Chest is ilisd to over
ne,xiAg the sooner we can bras about IT,
Toleeo Bi4ds
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-05-20

0F COURSE, we shall never live in such
~ world as this. But the mystic race
that ahides on the other side of the foot
lights, hlissfuly alien to all our Commoner
concerns. does its utmost to keep mankind
aware of the bright potentiaties of eXis-
tcnce by persistent suggestion. And So YOU
may find very wise men who never leave
n theatre without a sense Of gratitude t.
the people on the stage for their grace and
their good humor, their come liness and the
elhn responsibility that they manage to
make infectious; for their pretty clothes
and their pretty voices and their abilities
in the arts of song and the more difficult
arts Of beautiful motion.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-05-20

T'HE other world--the world of this ones
L imaEnings---is occasionally approx
mated in poetry. But II is oftenest mir
rOred on the staEe-not in Shakespeare,
either, but in the shows called musical It
is a bright place in which agreeable sound
and color are continuous, where all girls
sing, whether they are qualified by nature
or not; where every one celebrates even his
EriefS with musical accompaniment,
where rich and poor alike have beautiful
clothes where the right people marry
each other inevitably, where the lights are
of various coOrS and where the upright
eous always suffer instead Of being crowned
with the high hat of popular approval.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-05-20

TT WILL he interesting some day or other
to observe how the Federal Trade Com.
mission appraises these subtler gifts of
even the conventional stage.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-05-20

Somebody ought TO search Carranza for
an iron cross.