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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-01-31
GOVERNMENT CONTROL OF CREDIT

one difficulty in the way of IA free colln-
~ try when it goes to war IS that the old
habit of individual liberty has made each
business enterprise separate entity. Had
our industries been one unified machine
with each firm dovetailing into another. our
organizing effort would have been as easy
as was socialized Prussia's. As it is, with
the great majority of war.material plants
under private financial management. the
drawing off of vast amounts of capital in
loans and welfare crusades has threatened
to dampen the dashing ardor with which
industry should plan to widen in every
direction. Thus Mr.. McAdoo's plan for
s500,ooo,O00 Government corporation to
make loans to enterprises essential to the
war is an important emergency measure
As it is our expressed war policy to
maintain. while fighting, our democratic in.
stitutions as much as possible, even to the
extent of forbearing to take over railroads
or mines until private initiative and CO.
operation have had full trial. it was obvi-
ously impossible to draw sharp line he.
tween more essential and less essential
enterprise, A system of preferential credit
is made necessary. The more essential
enterprises must have first call upon CAPT
tai They must not be made to take their
chances of getting funds in the open mar.
ket. Government pool of corporate
financing will obviate this. Through the
rediscounting system of the Federal Reserve
banks the fund of half a billion is eX-
pected to expand to about 81 900 O00, 900
credit. And the Government is the most
interested party, because it is only by the
steady extension Of enterprises that money
for taxes and Liberty Loans can. become
available
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-01-31
BREAKING LOOSE FROM THE
CENSOR

THRlLLGNG as the news of the safe
l. passage of thousands of American
troops to France on board the greatest
liners of Germany's merchant fleet is the
news that the long fight against stupid
censorship apparently has been won. These
princely vessels left our ports ten days
ago and have been eastward bound while
many Americans still believed the damage
wrought to them by their interned German
crews would take months to repair; but
promptly upon their arrival in "A French
Port" the announcement is cabled straight
from that port to our newspaper offices
without intervention of American censor
ship. At last America can read the news
about itself as soon as Berlin reads it.
1t has been the absurd, panicky practice
TO submit dispatches of this kind to a
double and even triple censorship before
they were put into the hands Of American
readers. Paris could read them and shout
for JOY. every spy in Switzerland could
read them and wire them posthaste to Ger
many. German generals have openly
sneered over their foreknowledge of our
operations. Lloyd George has told mem
bers of Parliament To speak freely, as Ger
many knew more about American news
than the Americans When the sizzling
pot Of our impatience at last boiled over
and irritation went the length of endan.
gering with partisanship the most united
nation on the globe it was indeed high
time to let in the fresh air of sanity.
Half million tons Of Central European
shipping is now used by America and her
Allies. The. people can well be proud of
their engineers and worlimen who have so
quickly restored more tonnage to activity
than the Germans at their present rate of
sinkings can destroy in half a year. Some
of the ships are the largest one of them
the old Naterland now the Leviathan--thc
very largest in the world. We can rewrte
Peiry's message: I'VE have met the
enemys efficiency and it is ours"
All the German peoples woe is traceable
to their years of dun submission to cen.
sorship. 1t seemed that we were trying to
initiate that dulness. But we remembered
at last that we We're Americans and. thank
heaven broke free,
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-01-31
. PENNYPACKER's STANDARDS

To the Editor Of the EUenitg Public Lcdger:
Sr-Having gone through the Autobiog-
raphy of Governor Pennypacker before publi-
cation, may | suggest for use in your ad-
vertisements thought which seems to have
escaped attention in the many comments made
upon the narrative?
This is that there runs through the auto
biography consistently standard of conduct
for daily use, not on social occasions alone,
or when no self-interest is involved, but for
everyday application In practical affairs
The basis of the standard is a correct solu-
tion of the principle involved combined with
decency and propriety of method, avoidance
of meanness and pettiness, aversion to moral
and physical cowardce. maintenance of
fidelity and a standing TO the guns To con-
form to such a standard, perhaps, calls for
more ability and character than many per-
sons possess but to set IL forth by example
and precedent, direct and indirect should
serve useful purpose.
A very large proportion of the incidents
and of the criticism of the autobiography are
merely illustrations of this standard of con-
duct often an application of it to some fall
IRE of understanding of what should be obvi-
GUS or in ethics. or to some act OF moral
cowardice or underhand behavior
The unity OF the narrative in this respect
is perhaps not apt to be seen in serial puhli-
cations, and think it would be well to call
attention to it, II takes on then not the ap-
nearance of 'impulsve abandon" but mani
tests the deliberate purpose of the writer.
PENNAMITE
Philadelphia January 80.
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roop-AFTER THE WAR

Whatever other blessings peace may VI
it will not bring instant relief to me W.
who are now distressed by food shortass.*
its natural consequence, high prices, ?.
viii be as many mouths to feed wheu
armies are demobilizod as there are now.
is true that the fare Of the soldiers y " "
European countries Is more liberal ,n.n
of the civil population, but no statesmaH \
take comfort in the prospect OF mas
disbanded soldiers reduced TO the iev'.I
civil undernourishment And hes,deh<
civil populations that are now endurine
starvation uncomplainingly. recoRnis'n
no relief can be expected while the su
OF their Governments are engrossco y n.
will be far less patient when peace
More food not less, will be required n az
The New Republic. 1.N
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-01-31
Little POlly's POme

have flower in a pot,
A small geranium,
Which when l got it first was not
Much bigger than my thumb.
But on my bedroom window sill
| tended it with care
And watched and watered it until \
1t grew quite tall and fair.
Yet was not the only one
That helped to make it grow,
.jome credit to the morning sun
| must admit l owe.
Yet it was | who placed the pot
Upon my window sill
Where lots of sunlight could be got
And it could have its fill.
And now / think the little thing
Is trying hard to tell
How full of thanks it is to me n
For treating it so well. A
For every morning when | wake
1t sweetens all the room.
You know that's how the flowers spes
By making a perfume.
TOM DAILY
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-01-31
CAMOUFLAGING THE CLOCK

MUST we, then, camouhage the clock? ~
A'A the principle of the daylight saving
scheme we give hearty assent as q VA
measure and as a peace measure. too. Wl
ourselves have often practiced It n
rising to hoe the beanpatch while on
neighbors were still seeking "a ljtj1
more sleep. little more slumber."
is illogical and wasteful to sleep in daylight \
the morning and then to work by lampliEz
In the evening. We are told by experts In "
higher mathematics that by shifting the dayH
operations forward one hour from April ~
September, there would be effected In ~
alone saving of $4,000, 900 a year. In the1t
times of conservation and economy that sun
is not to be sneezed at, or yawned at eitrer
The only question is, whether to make sacr
a saving it is necessary TO monkey with w
dial and say that it is 12 o'clock noon wnep
as matter of fact, it is only / o'clock ans,
meridiem. The advocates of chronoiogle4
camouflage seem to think that 1t is too niue,
TO expect of people that they will get up y
o'clock while it Is called 6, but that Y
we should only take 10 calling It ocmet
getting out of bed would instantly and spcp
taneously become as easy as the proverbs
rolling off a log. Maybe, though. we mus
confess that we never yet have success.
in making vinegar taste sweet by calling
molasses. Why not shift the operatlons>s}t \.
lett the names of the hours remain rutn1*
If the commuters train begins running
1880 instead of $3.50 o'clock, and the ~!
opens at instead OF . o'clock, we rooz
that the committing bank clerk VIII 81
at instead of o'clock, even though y coI'
tinues to be called six; and so, mutan wv
tandis, all round the clock. Let us saveWx,
highland oil and gas and electricity W.
not to mention our eyes---by all nieane' ~, ~
also let us consider whether the psycnoio93
of Incidence or of energy will not permn
to do SO without saying that six IS so.<
and twelve is one when we know ~
time that 1t isn't so.--North American
view War Weekly.
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SPROUL FOR PRESIDENT
Lancaster Editor Has Little Doubt About
State Senator's qualifications.
Pennypacker's Standard

To the Editor Of the Erenin9 Public Ledger:
Sir II noticed in editorial in the
EVENING PUBLIC LEDGER that you touch
upon a matter which l discussed in an edi-
torial in the Lancaster News journal of
November 3, 1917. I believe with you that
this situation affords an opportunity to elect
a Pennsylvania to the presidency by way
of the gubernatoral chair
associated this line of succession with the
candidacy of Senator William c. Sproul,
which l think, to some extent at least an
swers the final question in your very perti-
ncnt editorial. NJ. J. OTOOLE
Managing Editor News journal.
Lancaster, Pa, January 30.
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should not succeed. What is the rem
edy? Sooner or later one must be pro.
Nided. Recently, in one Of the States
an offended citizen shot and killed an
editor, was tried for murder and acGuit.
ted. Lawlessness is the inevitable re.
suit of failure of the law to correct
existing evils. How can the right of a
newspaper TO publish the facts concern
ing the government and its officials and
to comment on them even mistakenly
be preserved, and the continuance of in
territorial fabrication in the guise of news
he prevented? The Constitution in the
same section provides for freedom of
speech, as well as freedom of the press
Under the English common law, when a
woman habitually made outcries of sean.
dals upon the public highways TO the an.
noyance of the neighborhood, she was
held to be common scold and a public
nuisance Anybody may abate a public
nuisance, and she was punished by being
ducked in a neighboring pond. Notwith-
standing our constitutional provision con-
corning freedom of speech, in the case of
Commonwealth vs. Mohn T.. +. Smith
page 243, it was held that the law of com
mon scods is retained i'm Pennsylvania,
though the punishment is by fine and
Imprisonment. To punish an old woman
whose scandalous outcries are confined
to the precincts of one alley, and to over
look the ululations which are daily
dinned into the ears of an unwilling but
helpless public by such journals as have
been described is unjust to both her and
them. / suggest the application OF this
legal principle to the habitual publica-
tion of scandalous untruths. Let the per-
sons harmed or annoyed present a petit
ton TO the Attorney General setting forth
the facts and il, in his judgment, they
show case of habitual falsehood def
amation and scandal so as to consti.
tute public nuisance let him file a bill
in the Court of Common Pleas having
jurisdiction asking for an abatement OF
the nuisance and let the court have
authority, upon sufficient proof. to make
such abatement by suppression OF the
journal so offending, in whole or in
part as may be necessary. Since this
adaptation OF existing law Is only to be
applied to the elimination of habituaI
falsehood in public expression, II will
probably meet with no objection from
reputable newspapers. Since both the
Attorney General and the courts would
have 10 concur. the rights OF legitimate
journalism are sufficiently protected ana
il Is only In an extreme case that the law
could be invoked. For that ease, il pro-
yides remedy ! submit herewith.
marked A, q draft Of an act upon these
lines. -- s. > q.
Tsasrvew wllI - pslsts1 NJ acss( q ne sel
= UkIcn 0oHor0cT TN D1c&W ttkc31 tG1oy, r
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-01-31
THE BIRTH OF A
SINGING ARMY
One Outgrowth of This War That
the Soldiers of Old Never
Knew

ONE perdurabe thing to come out OF this
" war. IL plans now under way reach
fruition, will be the practice among its vet
Grams, when they gather in whatever may
he the equivalent of the campnrcs of the
q. A. r. posts, of rcvivlng the songs beloved
by the regiments while they were in train
ing to be sent over there"
During the Civil war. veterans Of that
conflict tell us, there no concerted effort
TO perfect singing army such rs Is now
in process az Camp Dix. What singing the
men did was sporadic and the result of indi-
vidual impulse. Few regimental or corps
songs born of tho Rebellion have come down
to us, and very iyely few Of them wcro
dcaerving of perpetuatlon beyond the period
Of their creation, although some would have
Il special interest to the youngsters who
are being nducted into the routine Of camp
life.
j. l.. Smith, the map publisher OF this
city, whose memories OF camp life are per-
hans as vivid those of any of his COM
rades. offers as the most popular of his
recollection this ditty which was favorte
Of the Fifth corps on the march:
The Union boys arc moyins on the lcft and right:
strike:
Joe Hooker is leader he takes his whisky
So knarsacss we will sling and go marching
along
Marching along. marching along
with eight days ratons ven 20 marching along.
our ovcrcoats and dress coats strcwn along
They crowded them upon us--wo couldn't tote the
Contractors put the job up. and We must foot
p, the bii, , -, ,, - ,o,. i,.s ma,
''' vour vim '"' WV '' ~
Marching along, etc.
There are eight OR ten such verses, and
the last ran:
Tho war won't last forcvcr some day we will
- be done
WI" I%,in % nT ,uH ma march ana oat'Ie' an" '''oso
Wen tramp up North from Richmond to drum
and hfe; aud then.
On won our foIks b" uckled 10 soc ns nonnc
But the crop OF marching songs 10 como
OUT OF the sowing now heginnins IN tne
camps throughout the country snou'n DE- DIG
ana varied
a splendid start has already been made by
W. STANLEY HAWKINS director oil mass sing
ing NJ camp DIX, ana at neeting Oh lne
oin'erS III charge OF SUEihs nelu yesterday
afternoon unuer the chairn'anship OF captain
e N, Morgahroth plans We're maze ior Inc me
summarizing OF Singing III the camp Inc
ann as set forth IN the order from mead
quarters Is 10 tfaln an UNITS OF the 'qN'Slpn
10 SING hunnner OF mutually NnoWh HohsS'
10 arrange singing contests 10 encourage
the composition ana adoption OF regimehtaI
songs TO promote ana cultivate the Singing
spirit throughout the division"
FROM tne ilTSt Dig SINGING contest, heiu ny
MI HAWKINS III November last' there mas
come much resultant good-and the as
coNerE OF some small MISTAKES as Newt
BAKER might say. Whlch VIII not DE re-
peated'
Zen UNITS OF loo men each from the sew
eraI regiments We're dfllied III the singing OF
over Ihere ana Nheh the Great Red
paWh Is Shlhlilg' ana lor third hunoer
e"ch was pGrh'i'teu 10 present an o'isiha
SONG OF n"lllhiN character OF an "'l@iha
parody OF military character or song OF
military character unique 10 lhat orsallHa-
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our conduct of the war has been en-
tirely too cold-blooded. Senator Chamber
lain may have been little extravagant i'm
his utterances, but we suspect that friction
still produces heat and heat is another
name for enthusiasm
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-01-31

II II Is true that Scheidemann has
Joined the radical Socialists the German
political situation Is nearer revolution than
IL has ever been. Schedemann was sup
posed 10 he the tool Of the Kaiser authorized
10 talk peace TO keep the German workers
uuiet.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-01-31

That man Francis IL a dangerous fellow
for anarchists TO trife with. He knows how
TO handle something that is a law from
which no appeal lies.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-01-31
What Do You Know?
QUIZ

QUIZ
1. what is heliOtropism?
Q which is the Queen CitS Of the West?
a. who wrote "Ten Nights In n Bar-Room"?
A. What Is q constitution?
s. Define autonomy.
property?
!. When was the English Commonwealth
g. What Is snow?
o, Who IL Archduke Eugene?
IN xybat Il mniTe?
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-01-31

When Czernin said america and Ans
tria are virtually in agreement he probably
had an inkling of what the Italian drive was
likely TO accomplish.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-01-31

This fellow Mars is after all nothing
more than servant of the snow man. who
can tuck him into his bed of white and
put him to sleep at any time
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-01-31

The IDEA that State ana municipal EN-.
ployes are protected by the Constitution
against payment Of the Federal income tax
il not based on FIRM ground There was a
decision OF that sort from the supreme Court
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-01-31
p..ogEp

IL Mas the u o'clock rush hour. but ",
never before had AIRY subway .sr cs.n ' 's,sc "
sixth street station y erHu Volts
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-01-31

Revolutions are verboten in Germany.
but maybe some of the people there do not
know IL.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-01-31

0>rnufacturers are ,ot to blame
n ~ klHA eost p shoes. They admit
~ fo>k al9nS 81 where dv
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-01-31
An Example

These few simple facts, at most of I'M
certain significance, this newspaper. by
the addition of falsehoods. innuendoes
and eXtraVagancieS, elaborated into nine
columns and illustrated with seventeen
pictures The publication, saved up untn
August 49, was adroitly timed so as to
have il do what could be done by scat
tering il over the country to soil the
celebration and thwart the object of the
state. 1t talked of unparalleled fraud"
and graft although such "A suggestion
in connection with the sum of S22 so was
a manifest absurdity. 1t gave what pur.
ported to be an interview with member
of the commission. The written denla- by
the interview Is on file among the papers
of the commission. He was made to saw
about tobacco that 81 understand that
not a leaf of this most important part of
Pennsylvania agricultural product is
on exhibition" The tobacco then on dis
play subsequently received in competi-
ton with the whole world the very high
est prize 1t said the sum expended upon
the exhibit was $4,000. The sum actu-
ally expended was $S99926. IL told the
people over the country that this exhibit
was "a fraud. n hypocritical sham, an in.
suit to the farming interests and dis
grace" As a matter OF fact, the exhibit
was so creditable that the officials OF the
exposition awarded TO II three grand
prizes the highest possible award, twenty
gold medals twenty-one silver medals and
thirty-two medals In bronze.
All OF the people. proprietor and peas
ant. ehurchman and heather, are con-
fal.e report 70 secure th-goften Gain
i ~ |. = MA
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-01-31

These are Indeed dark hours for The world but
lst Us not forgst our most familiar proverb -
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-01-31
EpIroRIAL ErIGRAAIs

rhe Kaiser is now reported to have set tb.
one Of the longer months -ssprinshed Republican
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-01-31

somebody ought 10 remind MIR, Trotsky thai
the early French reyoutonists pcttod the guil,o.
tine very fcndiy when u was young. but 1t grew
The Robesonian., 1918-05-16
NO ADVANCE IN PRICE
25c-50c-S1.OO.

to France if they did not dc their
duty to do them good. He said he
was preaching Jesus. He said Mr..
Lennon would come back and tell
them about the Red Cross and that
the pastor would lead them into the
light Of the Red Cross. He said he
spoke of bombs, but not to hurt the
Red Cross, that he was member HIM
self, that he had a son in France and
one in training camp. He referred
to something he had read in a paper
about 1t being dangerous to hang out
Red Cross signs and about the women
dancing. He said he told the people
the Red Cross was all right. He sal
he had been in Lumberton 81 years
and had never been taken up for any
thing before.
Attorney w. Lennon, who appeared
for the Government, advised the court
that he thought there was sufficient
evidence to bind the defendant over
| to court. McLaurin asked the mercy
Of the court and said that if he left
the impression that he was speaking
against the Red Cross he certainly
did not intend it. 1t was made c.ea7
to him, however, that it was the dut!
of the court to bind him over and le
the higher court decide as to hi
guilt.
i A crowd which just about filled tn
commissioners room at the cou1
house attended the trial, quite
sprinklirg Of colored people being i
the crowd.
The Robesonian., 1918-05-16
Mothers Friend
~ in Every Home
Comfort and Safety Assured Before
the Arrival Of the Stork.

IN thousands Of American homes there Is
q bottle of the splendid and timehonored
remedy, Mothers Friend, that has eided many
a woman through the trying ordeal, saved
her from suffering and pain. kept her IN
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tension is reduced and the pain and danger
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Mothers Friend is an external remedy,
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It not only allays distress in advance but
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This splendid preparation may be had at
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blessings ever discovered for expectant moth
| ers. Write to the Bradfeld Regulator Co.
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| to get a bottle Of Mothers FRIEND at I'M
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pain and discomfort.