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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-07-01
A COOLING THOUGHT

TC1LY neutral, loftly null is the goal that
Roald Amundsen seeks. No subma-
rines lurk through the waters of his ad
venture. No cruisers hold UP his errant
vessel with irritating demands for "the
papers" There will he latitude in his
rovings. but none in their terminus.
Nothing will come of nothing" said
Lear. The statement is a half truth.
Nothing has indeed come of the nothing
toward which Amundsen advances If one
excerpts quarrels. Bitterly have they ragged
cevably they may be the fruits of this
latest quest.
1t were rash to expect more, for even
honors born of a void must necessarily be
empty. Even science can no longer ap-
praise such venture with its pristine sim
glcness of authority. How respectfully the
voices of learning should be heard now
depends upon in which camp one happens
to he enrolled
Under which king. Bezonian; speak or
die" cry the throats of mankind today.
"The top" Roald Amundsen may answer
and who, save possibly two of his prede
cessors, will care? Certainly Germany
will not, or long ere this she would have
claimed the realm whereto he sails. This
means that her foes don't care a button
either. 1t also means another voyage to
the North Pole has been undertaken.
That's a cooling thought for a summer
which promises to be hot, both meteoro-
logically and militarily.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-07-01

To the Editor of the Evening Public Ledger:
Sir-Gven a good digestion and a mind
at ease. / never leave home in the early
morning without feeling an intense desire
to shout aloud out of sheer exuberance of
spirit.
AS / turn to wave another good-by to my
two-year-old son, whose laughing blue eyes
peer out through the porch railing, the very
front of the house presents an interesting
and sympathetic appearance So dull and
prosaic looking the evening before. 1t seems
to have been washed in the magic air of the
night and to look out upon the morning like
the shining countenance of schoolboy.
Even the dolls and grotesque-looking toys
in the window of the corner store seem to
sense the advent of new day as they turn
their glistening painted faces to meet the big,
admiring eyes of the children on their way
to school,
And this trolley car of brilliant yellow that
comes humming cheerily along casting its
long blue shadow ahead, with the sun strik-
ing balls of fire in its windows; surely this
cannot be the same .jolting, tired conveyance
of the evening before
l find myself looking with keen interest
upon my fellow passengers and through the
windows at the passing scenes.
That burly looking individual across the
aisle with the battered suitcase to which Is
strapped a bulging gun case, is he, too. con-
scious of the mornings appeal as he bures
his nose in his newspaper?
That pretty, sik-stockinged stenographer,
with the sun flashing upon her flying knit
ting needles and making spun gold of her
hair, is her mind upon that letter that peeps
from the sewing basket in her lap?
And now we are crossing the bridge over
the Schuylkil. Who will deny that the river
has its moods and that it is happiest in the
early morning? AS 1t rpples around the
bridge foundations and laps the sides of the
sand-laden barges, its ripples seem to be
beckoning to the long freight train that is
poking its way through the haze along the
trestle high above the adjacent railroad yard.
To those who are responsive to it's fresh
charms the appeal of the morning is ire
sistible, more potent than anything that the
magination may Conjure and offering itself
equally to the banker in his limousine and
the urchin in the tenement court.
J. WARNER BOWERS.
Philadelphia June 20.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-07-01

The present war. says Robert C. Holiday
in the July Bookman, is not in anything
more unlike any other war than in its rela-
ton to art, both the art of literature and
that of painting Most of the authors of the
world are now soldiers, and most of the SOL
diers who were not authors before the war
are authors now. And the art artists (as
they have been so apty described) are not
only at the war today but in 1.-THE real
artists, that is, of England and Europe
Only the artist can show the visible scene
in the light of the spirit in which 1t Is lived.
He does not merely draw ruined churches
and houses, great guns being aimed, guards
and lorries, doctors and wounded men. aA1is
is the mission of making visible by his art
10 those remote from the scene and TO dis
tant ages the stanchness and patience, the
faithful absorption in the next duty, the
extraordinary humor. the standards of COM
radeship and good nature-all the strains of
character and emotion that go to make up
the temper of great army in the field. He
does not merely draw armed figures in the
act of proceeding across a plain; he paints
moments of TRANSPORTATION. when all the
glow of courage that has been banked down
and husbanded through months OF waiting
and guarding bursts, at word of command,
into flame.
At the request of General Pershing for
eight artists for the American expeditionary
forces. the War Department few months
ago ordered a committee on selection to be
formed, c. ID. Gibson chairman, and this
committee chose the men who are to make
drawings and paintings of the scenes where
the American army Is fighting, and whose
work from now until peace comes is to be
preserved by the Government part of the
historical documents of the war. These eight
men, commissioned with the rank of captain
in the engineers, and who recently sailed for
France, are Ernest Peixotto, Wallace Nor
gan, j. Andre Smith, Walter Jack Duncan,
Harry Townsend, George Harding, Harvey
Dunn and William J. Aylward
What they will do with the war remains,
of course. TO be seen. At any rate, there is
no record in the annals of art of any other
group of young men having hao so great an
opportunity.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-07-01

ANNOUNCEMENT

The Public Ledger Company has
purchased The Evening Telegraph,
which has had long and honorable
career of fifty-fve years in this city,
and beginning today that newspaper Is
merged with the EVENING PUBLIC
LEDGER.
II gives the Ledger management
much qualification to make the an
nouncement, and it means that by this
combination the EVENING PUBLIC
LEDGER acquires the most complete
news service of any afternoon paper
in this country. To the several news
association services-the United Press,
the Central News and the Interna-
tional News-ahd the exclusive special
cable service already enjoyed by the
EVENING PUBLIC LEDGER, is added
membership in the Associated Press,
making its facilities unequaled.
The EVENING PUBLIC LEDGER is thus
enabled to offer its readers better
service than has ever before been at
tempted in the afternoon newspaper
feld Of this city. Such improvement
will continue to be our constant aim
% a part of our policy to give the best
cbtainable service to the people of
Philadelphia.
CYRUS H. X. CURTIS,
President.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-07-01
THE FIGHTING SWINC

ONCE again the regiments marching
" down the street,
Shoulders, legs and rife barrels swinging
Let the slack civilian plod; ours the gayer
feet,
Dancing to the music of the oldest
earthly rhyme.
Left, right, trim and tight! Hear the
cadence fall.
So the legion Caesar loved shook the
plains of Gaul.
Fighting bloods Of all the earth in our
pulses ring.
Step! lads. true to the dads. Back to
the fighting swing!
We have kissed good-by to doubt, left the
fret and stew;
Now the crows may steal the corn. now
the milk may spill.
All the problems in the world simmer down
to two:
One is how to dodge the shells, one 10
how to kill.
Left, right. glints of light! Down the
RANKS tHey run. +
So the january spears caught the desert
sun. 30
Once again the ancient steel has its
lordly fling.
Flash, sway, battle array! Back to the,
fighting swing!
Set and silent every mouth, steady every
. eye
Cropping. wrangling days are done; let
the leaders lead.
Regulations how to live, orders when to
die
Life and death in primer print any man
can read.
Left. right, eat and fight! Dreams are
blown to bits. -
Here's the Old Guard back to life, bound
for AusterlitZ
Shake the soft and quit the sweet; loose
the arms that cling.
Blood dust, grapple and thrust! Back
to the fighting swing!
Badger Clarke. in Scribner's Magazine
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-07-01
WOMEN ARE DOING THEIR HALF

kfVHE readiness of women TO respond to
- the appeal to work or fight does them
credit. The order that men engaged in
certain nonessential occupations should
sfther enlist in the army or find something
TO Go that will help to win the war, which
goes into effect today, has found the
women ready to take the places of men
y Women are running elevators and serv.
Ing in place Of foormen in some of the
clubs. and they are willing to do any other
work for which they are fitted in order
that the men may fight
All honor to them!
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-07-01
MONEY IN TIN CANS

lnEFoRE the war German agents were in
~ the habit of shipping to Germany from
uneland 10000 tons of timed steel-plate
tom used cans, from which the tin was
fomoved before tho steel was melted for
znoo In the arts.
America, consumes much more canned
1s1s than England. But we allow the
<mns 20 be wasted The vacant lots are
)1ored with them They roll about the
mps.
|ogne dav. after the worlC is at peace,
toffort will be made to save the steel,
11Sr and tin that are now thrown away
ouever a can Of peas, corn or FISH is
oned. Then the thrifty housewives will
~ their empty cans for the junkman
- . feeling that they are doing some
to conserve the resources Of the ma
Dut why shouldn't the cans with the
~ Of be used ovsr again? They
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-07-01

to any appreciable extent, as It did IN
England when Lloyd George appealed to
the workers to become sober. The Ameri.
can workmen as class are sober And
they are Loyalty doing their best to help
win the war
There is no crisis which would justify
precipitate action.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-07-01
Very Inconsiderate

The Navy Department rules that "yeo-
cites" must wear cotton hosiery and longer
skirts. Somebody is always taking the Joy
out of lfe-Birmingham Age Herald.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-07-01

Does the stern Government order bar
ring both drugs and women from the Cana
Zone mean to imply that they are In an!
sense synonymous?
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-07-01

The profteering packers will now find a
use for the squeal, the only part of the hog
that failed to make a cent per cent turnover
for them.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-07-01

Regarding next winters coal supply
William Potter declares that Philadelphia
will fare we'll" Let US devoutly hope that
those two significant little syllables will not
become jammed together in single word
during the coming months.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-07-01

II is the hope of all of us that the whole
Of July will be fully as stimulating to civil
llzation as the Fourth of it.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-07-01

March sounds optimistic note on West
'front.'" says a headline. July, however
sounds a much more hopeful one.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-07-01

General CoDfusion remains the com
nanding officer in Russia
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-07-01

The next time the Austrians drink to
Der Tag let them also think of Der Taglia-
mCntO.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-07-01
A New Order

Not only is the old atlas good any
| more. but the old dictionary is a back num-
| ber. even II you just bought II . year or SO
ago. CLEVELAND Pain Dealer.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-07-01

Advice to Uncle Sam: If you have prof
iteers, prepare to shed them now.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-07-01

Hindy says his offensive in August vii
be positively the last. But FoCh may hav,
a word to say about that,
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-07-01

The Bug River would seem to be the
likeliest whereabouts of Lenine and Trotsky
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-07-01

A New York paper
IL Sounds Exciting says that at a garden
party held in the sub
urbs young girls initiated goldfish and frogs
in a pool. We would like to hear further
dot
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-07-01

Did Kerensky go to ParH with the ide;
of getting a boulevard named after him?
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-07-01

Evidently Kuehmann is the wind shield
of the German military machine.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-07-01
Answers 10 SATURDAYS Quiz

Answers to Saturdays Quiz
I. London IL the largest city in the world.
2. "FederaIization'' or "nationalizatio Of In
dustries or public utilities means Esy-
operation. of the industry or utility
concerned.
8. The eoIory. Of the. University Of Michigan sss
blue and maize.
4. "Othello." a tragedy by Shakespeare.
5. Francis beaumont and John Fletcher wePe
Elixabethan playwrlghts who known
mainly for their collaboration ON pla{ss
9. Ode. a. lyris poem expressive Of noble senti-
ment and written IN exalted style; Orie'
l. Lisbon 10 the capital Of Portugal.
9. Georges Clemeneeau Is the Premier Of France.
v the Asiaro region. ftsIy, west cf Me-.
islc. and between the fiave and BFSata
Rivers,
10. The iYhthyosaurus. one Of a elaAs Of .eyr
tinct msrns reptiles 9f the m@leoGD
i;s ;'i;r2'' 's;;'':s;':: s;'':;:ssaSs y: - s;:'1'
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-07-01
Member of the Associated Press

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Is erc1u.
slUely entitled TO the use for republication
Of all netrs dispatches credited TO II or mot
cthertcise credited IN this paper, and also
the local ne,Cs published therein.
A AIlriohts Of republication Of special dis
patches herein are also reserved.
American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1918-07-19
ALL He WANTED TO KNOW
Interview With One Dealer Satisfied
Shovel Maker That He Had No
Need to Worry.

Many delightful villagers appear In
Miss Rosalind Richards "a Northern
Countryside :" there are people anus
ing and lovable. eccentric and pathetic.
Old Eliphalet Marston, hero of one
brief anecdote, stands out among them
all as the best exemplification OF the
principles on which real business sue
cess Is founded.
Eliphalet, who built and owned the
shovel factory, made it his study to
produce the best-wearing and the
soundest shovel that could be made. In
later life his son tried to induce him
to go about through the country, look
could to increase trade. The son was
very emphatic about it. It was what
every one did, the only way to keep
up-to-date and advertise the business
and Eliphalet must not become moss
grown. The old man shook his head.
but after much discussion consented
to start off, although he was not real
ly persuaded of the wisdom of the sug-
gestion.
He went to a big wholesale dealer In
Chicago, but did not mention his name
merely said he was there to tall
shOvels.
Don't mention shovels to me-" sale
the dealer. There's Just one shove
that's worth having, just one that
honest, and that's the one that Tn
handling. There it Is" he said, pro
ducing it. Look at it, That's tn,
only shovel that's made in this coun
try; made by a man named Marstor
at Marston Plains, state Of -"
Eliphalet chuckled and went home
Youths Companion.
American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1918-07-19
Saws for CUTTING Metal.

Not so very long ago the discovery
was made in Germany that metals
could be sawed easier and quicker
with rapidly revolving smooth disks
of steel, than with toOthed circular
saws. It was found that the cutting
vas done by the heat generated by
the friction Of the edge of the disk
against the ,netal. The metal is melt
ed ut the point of contact, while the
steel of the disk, being cooled by the
air, does not reach the melting point
The disks need no sharpening and do
not wear out so quickly as the toOthed
saws heretofore used for cutting met
al. The faster the disk revolves, the
greater the amount of heat generated
and the quicker the job.-Popular Sci.
ence Monthly.
American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1918-07-19
VIM. FARNUM At AUDITORIUM.


Back to the blue shirt
william Farnum, in all the manly
bravery of the parts the public love
so well, is coming to town. In The
Heart of a Lion" the stalwart Will
liam Fox star makes his reappear-
ance. bringing with him a story of alb
sorbing interest and excitement.
At the Auditorium theater on Sat
urday and Sunday, The Heart of a
Lion" will be shown. It is undoubted
that all lovers of William Farnum will
be unable TO see the phOtOplay in that
length of time; but the print of the
picture allotted to this territory is in
ment can be played.
The Heart Of a Lion" is taken from
a novel by Ralph Conner called The
Doctor" Mr.. COnnOr, whose real
name is Charles W. Gordon, is now a
major in the Canadian Highlanders.
The Doctor" is one of his best known
and most popular works, as are also
Black Rock" and The Man from
/ Glengarry."
The story of this magnificent pic
ture revOlves about two brothers
Barney Kemper (Mr. Farnum) and
Dick william Courtleight. Jr). Dick
is a worthless sort of youth who does
not awaken to a realization of his
own shiftlessness until Barney catches
him making love 10 the woman en-
gagged to marry himself. Then Dick
reforms, studies for the ministry, is
ordained and sent to a lumber camp.
Barney, who has withdrawn COM
pletely from civilization after the loss
Of his faith in Dick, has become ply
stefan in this same camp. When the
rough backwoodsmen of the com
munity attack Dick and wound him
Barney reveals his identity and does
his best to nurse his brother back to
health and life.
Two women play important roles in
this production. Mary Martin and
Wanda Petit. It is easy TO see how
Mr.. Farnum could love them both.
American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1918-07-19
ADDS TO HARDNESS OF BRICK
Seientis. Explains Why Straw Is a
Necessary Ingredient in the
Process of Manufacture.

Everyone is familiar with the story
Of how Pharaoh commanded his task
makers to increase the burdens laid
on the Israelites by Withholding from
them the straw wherewith to make
bricks, says the Popular Science
Monthly, and doubtless many have
wondered wherein the hardship lay.
By most people, probably, the view has
been held that the straw was added as
a binding material, much as hair is
used in the mortar; but such an ex-
PLANTATION is scarcely satisfying when
it is remembered that the straw fiber
is a very weak one. Alexander Find
lay says in his Chemistry in the Serv-
ice of Nam:
"About fourteen years ago it was
found by DR.. E. G. Acheson, to whom
we owe the discovery of carborundlm
and the process of making artificial
graphite, that when clay is mixed with
a dilute solution of tannin it becomes
much more plastic, and the strength
of the dried brick is, moreover, great
ly increased. Although straw does
not contain tannin it was found thai
when straw is treated with water, the
extract obtained has the same actor
on clay as tannin has. the Elasticity OF
the clay and the hardness of the bricA
being greatly increased"
American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1918-07-19
To Paraffin Floors.

Make your own materials for keep
ing your floors polished. Start with
an old broom. Cut the stray off just
below the wires which hold it to the
handle. Cover this with an old stock
ing and sew onto this covering the
legs of other old stockings cut about
- inches long and slit into one-inch
strips up to two inches of one end.
Sew these around and around the sur
face in rows about one inch apart until
the mop is of tne desired thickness.
Then dip the mop into a solution of
One-half cup of melted Darafin and one
cup of kerosene, and allow the liquid
TO dry on the strips.
The mop may be kept moist by roll
ing it tightly when not in use and Gov
ering it with a paper bag.
American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1918-07-19
Where Man Is Not Supreme.

Psychologists tell US that the human
nose is a degenerate organ clumsy in
comparison with the noses of dogs and
other lower animals If a man has run
across a meadow it would be folly for
you or me to try to find his tracks by
smelling the grass, even half a minute
after he had passed. But days after
ward, when perhaps the tracks of that
man have been crossed by those of
many other men. a bloodhOund's nose
will pick them up and follow them in
fallibly. The noses of the lower ami
mails are far keener than those Of men.
But those of men are keener than
their fingers, their tongues, their ears
or their eyes,.
American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1918-07-19
CUSTOM FOR CUSTOMS SAKE
English Church Authorities Continue
to Distribute Coins, Though Rea-
son for Doing So Is Forgotten.

In accordance with ancient custom,
six-penny pieces were distributed on
Good Friday in the churchyard of st.
BarthOlomew-the-Great West Smith
field, to q widows resident in the par
ish Of st. Bartholomew. The coins
were dropped upon one of the fiat
tombstones by Corporal W. H. Irons,
r. e. (under church warden), and the
widows, whose ages ranged from
eighty-ive to sixty, were required to
pick them up. Concerning the origin
Of the custom, nothing is definitely
known. Until Mr.. Butterworth, some
thirty years ago, invested a sum of
money sufficient to sur what was
needed to continue the custom on
Good Fridays, the distribution was in
danger Of being discontinued, mas
much as there was no fund from
which the money "a supplied. Unit
then the expense was borne by the
church wardens. The nave of the
church once stood upon the spot where
the money is now distributed, but was
destroyed at the time of the dissOlu.
ton of the mOnasteries. Mr.. Deputy
Turner, who died last year, had con
Quoted the ceremony for 30 years.
Eondon Morning Post.
American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1918-07-19
HISTORICAL PICTURES AT MODEL

A number of historical pictures are
being shown in the windows of The
Model. They are duplicates of pic
lures which are now hanging on the
walls of practically every recreation
center Of the Y. NJ. c. A. or Knights
of Columbus wherever any Of our boys
are located in camps or cantonments.
The pictures are small reproduce
tons in color of originals which were
painted for Hart Schaffner & Marx,
and a new issue Of them has been
printed by that company chiefly as a
contribution to make more attractive
the canteens and recreation centers
for our boys.
The pictures shows Francis Scott
Key as a prisoner on board ship when
he wrote The Star ~Spangled Banner %
troops passing ST. Gauden's Statue Of
Lincoln: Betsy Ross offering the first
American flag i'm its present form.
Needless to say. the pictures are Of
unusual interest at a time like this
and The Model is TO be congratulated
on having them.