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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-07-23
POLITICS AND THE PRESIDENT

nlAMMANY and its boss, Mr.. Murphy,
like most Of the others on both sides
Of the political No Mans Land, are ex-
perisncing what they seem to regard as
the bitter distresses of war. Like the
politicians In this and other States, Re.
publicans and Democrats alike, the
engineers of the State in New York find
that the war is in their way. 1t confuses
their plans. 1t defies old methods of
strategy.
Thus Tammany, which Is about to lift
sthe curtain on the State Democratic con-
Sention. is waiting feverishly for "a state
jn6nt from President Wilson," Mr..
6 Murphy wants only a word from the White
3 uDuse to give background to his campaign
4 ou4 "a show that the Democrats are fight
m the Presidents fight"
The White House has been silent Tam
many hasn't heard from it. Those who
0amire Mr. Wilson and who have a high
zntth in all his motives will hope that the
xGoaident will leave Tammany to go 1t
DoDe. and that the support which the
Aocsats In New York are clamoring
hin be withheld.
Hepublican more or less In office-a
nany Governor or Republican Gov
~ moro or less In New York-will not
Doet ths war. But Murphy and the men
- type In both parties are doing their
~ 0ake The public bslisvs that ths
- QDeR jpet such eHetera
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-07-23
ARE MOTORCARs ESSENTIAL?

IN A DAY when trolley systems are
= down at the heels and out of breath,
when suburban train schedules have been
cut, when mails and deliveries are slow
because of a lack Of railway equipment and
when men are buster and in a greater
hurry than they ever have been before 1t
p odd to find the Federal board in charge
Of steel allotments in a mood to regard
passenger motorcars as nonessentiais.
The automobile is an essential of life
nowadays to the farmers-who own most
Of them. 1t is impossible for men who
spend all their lives in the cities to real
ise the full usefulness of the so-called
pleasure cars. They relieve traffic on rail-
roads and electric lines. deliver goods, aid
commerce and communication. Ships and
munitions are more important than auto.
mobiles, and IL the full steel output is
needed for ships and munitions the re.
strictions suggested in Washington for the
motorcar makers will be justified. Other
Wise the restrictions are unjust and un-
wise. The rule would work an injustice
not only on the millions who own automo.
biles. but upon vast industry and upon
millions Of workers dependent upon it,
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-07-23
Until Loue Makes 1t So
Poem for the dedication of home


THESE stones are not hearth until
L they know
The red and kindly miracle Of fame:
Nor this house home until love makes
1t SO.
Houses, for good report or dubious
fame.
Take on the aspect Of their tenants
minds;
The thoughts that seemed deep
hidden in the brain
Shall shine forth from the very caves
and blinds: :
Joy, sorrow, service. sacrifice and
pain,
No portals may bar sorrow out. nor
dread:
And these expectant. empty rooms
The soul newborn. the body newly dead,
Rapture and grief and all the gifts Of
fate,
But when hundred human years have
gone.
Here, on this south and sunward-
looking slope.
God grant this homely fortress fronts
the dawn
With still unconquered kindness and
Don Marquis.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-07-23
Member Of the Associated Press
PENNsYLvANIA's QUOTA OF WHEAT

1NlHE national Department of Agriculture
= IL about to ask the Pennsylvania
farmers to plant 16s3,0OO acres to winter
wheat this year part of their contribu-
tion toward winning the war. This is an
increase of 10 per cent over the acreage of
last year.
II the State Department of Agriculture
gets busy and let's the farmers in each
county know how many acres they are
expected to plant it will be easy to meet
the requirements, or to surpass them.
The market is bound to be good and prices
are bound to be high. The only difficulty
lies In securing the necessary labor to plant
and harvest. This ought to be available
through proper cooperation.
This State is one of the ten great wheat
growing Commonwealths. Its land is we'll
adapted to the crop. We are SO near the
seaboard that what we produce can be
shipped to the nations of Europe with
little delay. Every reason of patriotism
and Of self-interest conspires to move the
farmers to raise wheat. and to raise thirty
bushels to the acre. If they can harvest
. crop like this we can produce on the
100000 acres nearly fifty million bushels,
SURPRISING the best previous record by
nearly twenty million bushels
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-07-23

one can 60 through life without the ache
of a parting and the long wait that pre-
cedes a face or a voice returned after the
years. Any good poet knows the eddying
thrill that runs in human consciousness at
the very sound of the word Farewell"
The pain of other generations stirs dimly
in most people at the meaning of that
word because it was the first word spoken
in unhappiness.
Tin Pan Alley is not so obtuse as you
have been led to believe. And Little Houses
well, most people live in them. Mother
hood needs no interpreter for it's beauty
and it's meaning All life cries Of it. The
Long Road, the Journey to the Far Place,
the Return-the poet who writes OF these
things or Of hope or promise is dealing
with wonderful stuff because 1t is with
these things that men first experienced
emotion. Far places to which other people
went in ages past long roads that have
disappeared, separations and reunions of
those whose names you do not even know
contribute still to make you sensitive to
the war songs of 1918. The ages have
passed something on to you--the shadow
of all their own basic experience a dim sort
of memory of all that the race has endured.
There is the echo of the sorrows Of old, old
times in the queer ache that comes some-
times with the unpretentious doggerel which
tells Of somebody's going away or Of road
that leads home to a little house.
Indeed, the wealth that abounds in Tin
Pan Alley may be due to the fixed sub
conscious sense in all people which tells
them that these, after all, are the only
important things in life. Mere forms and
subtleties cannot compare with them in
popular appreciation. The Tin Pan folk
have seemed to clutch that idea firmly.
They may have even a touch of that
greatest gift which some one has called
the wisdom of the heart.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-07-23
What Do You Know?
QUIZ

QUIZ
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O. Whore IL Camp OKlethorpeS
8. who 10 Vice Admiral Won Capsiie9
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4. The rnivsrsity Of Mehissn 10 at Ann Arsse.
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neareSt the enemy.
q. Yaie's eeIorsi blue.
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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-07-23
THE REAL SAVACES

APACHE INDIAN scouts are helping to
"A nght the Germans in the drive now in
progress. They have standards in warfare
which must make their blood boil with
indignation when they discover how Huns
have been violating every principle Of
honor which has hitherto been held sacred
~ Civilized and semicivilized peoples.
The presence Of these descendants Of
nvages in the battleline re-enforces the
conclusion that to fight like a German"
will for the next hundred years be the
supremest expression of contempt for an
adversary of which the language is pos
nible.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-07-23

New York is thinking of calling the plaza
in front of the Grand Central Terminal Per
shing Square" Why shouldn't Philadelphia
beat them to it and call the Parkway Marne
avenue? We could pay no handsomer tribute
10 the heroism of the men of all the Allied
nations who have fought to hold the line of
that immortal river.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-07-23

Swiss poet called Halter has written
a drama to be performed on the peak of a
Swiss mountain soon peace is de-
c!ared. He has left the name of the victors
and vanquished blank, to be inserted as soon
as he feels sure about them. 1t seems to us
that he is carrying neutrality almost to
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-07-23
Elegy in a Country Soviet
with apologies)

with apologies)
1t was a summer evening,
And Trotsky's work was done;
And he, before his soviet,
Was sitting in the sun,
And by him sported on the green
His fellow-Bolshevik. Lenine.
He saw his CHEEKY little pal
Play ball with something round
That he, beside the firing squad,
In snooping there. had found
And Trotsky ran to find out what
In Heavens name Lenine had got.
Lenine explained. with nonchalance.
So truly bolshevik,
I meant to tell you sooner, bo,
I've been and murdered Nick
You'd Alike to know just what these are?
They are the medals Of the Gear.
"You hasty chap" old Trotsky cried,
you'll get US all in bad;
Poor Nicholas was harmless. now
Such cruelty is mad!"
But Lenine laughed. 1T was" said he,
"A famous Bolshevictory."
SOCRATES.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-07-23

Congratulations to Ellis Parker Butler,
the well-known humorist. on his escape from
No Mans Land. Who's Who" used to list
him as Alice Parker Butler" but now the
new edition is out. and Ellis hops back among
the trousers. where he belongs.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-07-23

The Bolsheviki have
Where Money taken all the late
Doesn't Count Cars millions. And
they are destined to
learn that the money of itself can't be
eaten or drunk that you cannot live in it
or ride on it that it wouldn't keep you
warm in winter or cool in summer, and that
it is useful only for the things it can buy.
Thus, again, the Bolshevki will learn that
work really is necessary and that money is
mere incident.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-07-23

When a German gets off the ground
he sometimes begins to be decent. The avi-
ator who overcame Quentin Roosevelt re-
ported that the young American fought stub
bornly and with great valor, and that It was
his daring and his relative inexperience that
cost him his life
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-07-23

It would be useless in
We've Noticed 1t weather like this to
suggest to a girl bent
on conquest that she keep her powder dry.
Even ones nose perspres in July.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-07-23

The tailors say that knckerbockers are
to be discarded for boys wear because they
need more cloth than the straight trousers.
But how about those mysterious garments
that used to be advertised as pettibockers?
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-07-23

The experience of shore-bound motor
drivers suggests the thought that if the Ger
mans were retiring in New Jersey they
would be arrested for speeding
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-07-23

WAR SAVING
While conserving. why not leave out the "a"
in "cocosnut' Portland Oregonian.
If with the word "cocoanut" one Is speak
ing of the "Theobroma cacao," from which
the cocoa" Is extracted for making choco-
late, the "a" is an essential letter and can.
not be left out. whether in war or peace
times.
If II is meant the nut "cocos nucifera" the
"a" is completely out of place, although the
oil extracted from such nut is called
(wrongy) cocoa-nut-oil. even in most of the
technical books,
Probably for phonetic reasons the word
"cacao" was changed into cocoa" like the
name of Bilbao" Ia port in Spain) was
changed into English as "Bilboa." but in any
case 1t has caused an error which is wide-
spread today. the confusion being at times
very annoying to the chemist.
Philadslphis. July ~. 4 READuR
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-07-23
Inseparable Now

One of the fortunes Of war is that the erst-
while seif,suficient nickel is now unable to
get anywhere without the assistance Of the
humble penny.-Milwauiee Sentinel.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-07-23
Strategy

Flies haven't lest their clevernesa When
you are armed with the swattsr. they settle
nowhere but on the bouquet or the baby or
the edge Of goblet.-st. Louis Globe Demo-
crat.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-07-23

The hot wave here is nothing to that the
bcches are sweltering in between Rheims
and Scissors
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-07-23
Smelling of Cocoanut
WAR SAVING

To the Editor Of the Evenin0 Public Ledger:
Sir-I read in your valuable paper yester-
day the following:
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-07-23

sP When Germany begins to talk and think
Of the Emperor as the All Lowest, Germany
will begin to acquire wisdom
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-07-23

Routing the Enemy
The annual drive on General Potato Bug
we trust IL going well-Syracuss Herald.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-07-23
And Iihertv

Doubtless the new Avenue Wilson In Paris
will be safe road for democracy-Brooklyn
Times.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-07-23
War Pome for Today

A little Hun drive now and then
= relishsd by ths Y, 9. msA
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-07-23

Kaiser Wilhelm is oddly silent these
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-07-23

The war industries board is going to ask
the newspapers to say everything in as
few words as possible. Now will that
mean more work for us, or less?
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-07-23

The western front is no longer a con.
auestern front-for the Germans.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-07-23

The kaiser's dentist. having come back to
this country, probably Bill is sending those
U.boats over here in the frantic hope of
kidnapping some sculptor in ivory who
can put In some new filings for him. He
dentists on St. Helena.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1918-09-25

bench and bar Of the State as having
nosuperior in legal ability; he placed
on the tax books Of Clarendon county
by legislative enactment hundreds of
acres of timber land owned by rich
corporations which had heretofore
gone untaxed; he prepared all the pro-
hlbition bills enacted by recent ses-
sions of the legislature and which bills
| the attorney general of the State an
nounced. were prepared in mastery
fashion; he was the author Of the au-
/ tomobile tax law of South Carolina,
| which was first applied to Clarendon
State, and he was the living exponent
of the idea Of putting good morals into
the laws and politics of the people of
| tse State. The question is then /, -. one:
asked: "Why in the name of common
sense was Senator DuRant defeated
by the people of Clarendon County,"
The answer is simple, io-wit: When
the county convention convened for
the purpose Of ele-. lg delegates to
the State Democratic convention in
Columbia, Senator DuRant made the
horrible mistake of voting for high
ly respected delegate who in former
years had voted for Blease. Is there
any wonder that good men decline to
chIeI PoiillcS IN OouCn carolina, and
the situation is being rapidly handed
over to the rabble? Now, MIR. Editor,
! can not rid myself OF the idea that
the privilege of voting Is plain moral
duty, and that the man who does not
vote primarily and solely for the good
of his town or county or State or ma
tion is traitor to the prize of his
high calling and that the press and
the pulpit are to very farge extent
responsible for this condition of af-
fairs.
j. j. CANTEY,
Summerton
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1918-09-25
TAKE TOO LIGHTLY
BALLOT OBLIGATION
Correspondent Calls Attention to Triv-
ial Matters Which Influence
Voters of State
columbia State)
To the Editor of The State:

To the Editor of The State:
Now that the primary election in
South Carolina is thing of the past,
most of us are inclined to let the dead
bury the dead, but somehow or other,
can not rid myself of the idea that
the people of our State have gieven
too little attention to the moral phase
of the privilege of voting, and it ap-
pears to me that the newspapers #
our State have overlooked para
mount duty along this line.
take it that at every election each
voter should ask himself two uues-
tionS. to-wit:
J.. VIII the election OF this or that
candidate. result for tnc good of the
town or the county or the State?
2. Will the enactment of this or that
bill or act rebound to the good of the
public or tho people a. large?
Measured by this standard. the
question might be asked whether the
pcoplc of South Carolina or any other
State have the capacity of voting in
tclligcntly. We know that in the city
Of New York, when political condi-
tlons nave become a stencil in the nos
trils of decent men, the patriotic Dem
ocrats and Republicans get together
and nominate and elect fusion ticket
OF patriotic candidates. with the in
cvitable result that the groundings
get together at the very next election
and defeat the fusion candidates.
Since have been a voter in South
Carolina, find that at every primary
election my fellow citizens are driven
hlther and yon by every wind Of doc
tr'nc. and l have never known of the
people being warned IF the danger of
such conduct, either bv the press or
the pulpit.
| have known men to vote for a
"%ndi!atc. who was admittedly unfit
for the office to which he aspired,
simply because the vo;er and the can
dldatc were close ncighbors. I have
known honest and capable candidates
for office to go down to defeat simply
because these candidates voted for or
voted AGAINST Blease or Tilman.
have known men to vo;c against this
nr that candidate, simply because
SoN'c ra'ntive beyond the sixth degree
of said candidate voted against this.
that or the other candidate
| have known men to vote for this
or that candidate simply because the
wife of said candihatc at one time in
the distant past purchased handsome
dress at the store of the voter. | have
known men to vote Tor this or that
candidate simply bccaunse the gra-
clous voter had the esteemed privilege
Of sleeping with the honorable candi-
date many years before.
We had recently in ClarCl... Ion Coun-
ty very curious and peculiar instance
of erratic voting VIII ~ S.nator Charl-
ton DnRpnt went "oW.. to defeat. Sen
ator DuRant enjoyed the reputation
Of bcin" the intellectual equal of any
man who ever sat in the South Caro-
lima senate. He is regarded by the
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1918-09-25
U. S. TO COOPERATE
With THE PACKERS

Chicago, Sept. 23.-Scpt. 23.-Maj.
Gen. George w. Goethals, Chief of the
division of purchase, storage and traf-
fic Of the general staff of the army,
has commissioned Arthur A. Ham-
mtrschlag, president of the Carnegie
Institute, and Lieut.. Col. j. w. McIn-
tosh. Subsistence Division, @. NJ. c.,
n. A., to cooperate with the Chicago
packers i'll experiments which may
save up to 40 per cent of the trcmen-
dous cargo space now required for
shipping fresh beef. President Ham
merschlag and Col. Mcintosh have al
experiments have begun.
The experiments contemplate not
only the conservation Of shipping
the packages small enough to be
handled by the class Of labor available
at unloading ports overseas, and the
quick and convenient issue at supply
depotS in France.
They range from the mere shaping
Of the carcass into more convenient
sizes and shapes to the entire boning
of the carcass to be packed in boxes.
1t is estimated that if the plans prove
practicable a saving Of from Is to 40
ncr cent OF the rCC"l now used in
transporting thc sar,c amount OF beef
va DE made POSSIBLE. S:rct fresh beef
nd pork pr.:iuctS now :c:,J rlanthly
constitutes a considerable part of
some 350,000,O00 pounds of beef and
pork products now sent monthly to
allied countries, the saving by the
crane if found practical. The bones
and surplus fats saivagcd bv sshc op.
Grafton will be converted into various
hy-products.
The chief difficulties encountered
so far have becn the necessity of OBJ
tanning enough labor sufficiently
skilled in this particular work and
the providing of facilities necessary
to handle the quantities required with
out interfering with production of
other meat products being prepared
for our armies and those Of our allies.
9-18-2t
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1918-09-25
ORDERED TO CHARLESTON
Maj. Thos. Davis for Judge Advocates
Office

Washington, Sept. 23.-Major
Thomas w. Davis, Of the Judge Ad.
voc2te Generals Department cf the
Army, is under orders to report in
Gen. Sharpe at Charleston for duty in
the office Of the Judge Advocate of
the Southeastern nDepartnent Major
Walker is prominent lawyer of
Wilmington, n. c., and was recently
appointed to the army commission
which ne now holds. Francis W. Law
!cr, Of Fort Moultric, and Alber NJ.
"'"nson, of Richbourg, have been ap-
pointed second licutenants in the quar-
termaster corps.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1918-09-25
HINDENBURG HEARD FROM

amsterdam, Sept. 22-Field Mar
shall Won Hindenburg replying to
greetings sent to him from a patriotic
meeting III JuterbOg, said:
"Thc first replies from the enemy
car > 20 the Austrian note reveal our
enen; IS state Of mind. In the face of
this there can be only one watchword
German people be hard"
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1918-09-25
MANY PERISH IN EXPLOSION

Amsterdam, Sept. 23.-Threc hun
died and eightytwo persons have been
killed and many others injured in an
explosion in an ammunition factory at
Woelle"sdorf, a town near the Aus
trlan capital, according to the Vienna
neWSpaIcv.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1918-09-25
HUN AIRDROMES BOMBED
British Aeronauts Drop Sixteen Tons
of Bombs

London, Sept. 23.-Machincs of the
British independent air forces dropped
l.carly sixteen tons of bombs on Ger
man airdromes and on blast furnaces
,e Metz region on Saturday night
it was officially announced today.
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