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based upon sound principles of hus..
bandry. It is, for instance, estimated
that per cent of every ton Of waste
sent to the dumps is composed of rags
necessary to the making of roofing felt
The check to thoughtless extravaganza
should be exceedingly beneficial to ma
tion that found its first steps in saving
much easier to take than it expected.
1t may be anticipated that the favor
with which the thrift.stamp system was
received will be accorded to this novel
and important phase of it.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-18
Darby Creek

INHE other day we had an adventure that
l. gave us great iov and like all great ad-
ventures, it was wholly unexpccted.
We went ont TO snend an evening with
certain Caliph who lives at Davlpsford-how
many Main Line commuters. bv the way.
know that il is named for Dovlesford in
Worcestershire, the home of Warren Hast
ipgs ?-and after sumner tho Calinb took rs
for a stroll round the twilight. In a green
hollow below the house, only few para
sits and writes essavs Tho ;s tbe only autbor
in Philadelphia who has never received re-
lection Slip he showed us a delicious pool.
fed by several springs and lying under great
willows. From this pool tinkled n modest
brook. splashing over dam and winding
away down an alluring valley. white road
ran beside it, through agreeable thickets and
shrubbery, starting off with twist that sug-
gested all manner of pleasant surprises for
the wayfarer 1t was just the kind of road
to see spread before one at the cool outset of
q long summer day.
This" said the Caliph, "is the head
water of Darby creek
- ruorI IT AID +ho co,;nb dorce man know
,,hat that s;n,nle statement meant to MS
T'ho beadwotors of Darbvl Darby creek,
ns 80 ,.annaor hro+bar Cohb,s crock we're
anu a ,tS so'ne es phonnor ~ our youth We
.ne 1,oana ,1n;u%nJ fnst af oil m robh,s where
WIZ nv as e.a4 ,,';,,. a,,d oounbt orr fret
49,, - W.. w., ao,,a,,otad o,,r fret search for
S.;oI ..oaSuro Iond oleo smelt our first
s,'nIs oahhoael Then in our teens. we
ehnN , s.n so,I a,,J ,oarnod +bo way to
DanSs h1. ',hoso cr,.staI waters we used to
- I and rood p T. g There will
~ ~ 49, o.bor stroams m;te ms dear to
new, o "N'
r~>r1,rr .ho o.hor oror;nc at tho CsIinh's
50 Dauh,
we haa hoI seen 'ne vac -:
creek lot ten years not sucn tt ions ''in. h,..
perhaps rs sohie fe.hon 80 .aI.
quite long enough Anu oul l'.u ~. tiin Jaus
with unrestraiheu enthusiasm " . .ne 80 .a.
when we hVeo only Two iiiiies away iron. go
deNclous stream Darp! eiseA 10 asa s:1t 49,
IN our NINA win d saw al, nnu .usi a.;n H.
used 10 s'anu-ahu rels iH.' ~ W.. 49,
where the creek CROSSES tne "es. ~
pike. To that admirable Spot IN the warm
blue haze OF an octoper a,ttInoon' ..ti' t:li
young men useu u tlanip; .anoJ m thrn,'ah
green logs, these care free innocents used to
sit round large vat where the juice OF
fresh apples came trickllng through some sort
of burlap squeezing COILS. ana "here iac anu
groggy wasps buzzed and tottered ana eH
plred IN rapture. Aheee sou'A'
not be blamed, for indeed they mad rev re-
sponsibilities and cares) would ply the nagon
with diligence, merrily toasting the trolleys
that hummed by on the way to west Chester.
We will not give away their names, for they
are now demure and respected merchants and
lawyers and members of Rotary CLUBS and
stock exchanges. But we remember one OF
these who was notably susceptible to cider
On the homeward path, as he hourlshed his
intellect broadcast and quoted Maeterlinck
and Bliss Carman, he was induced by MS
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-18
1.-THE JERSEY COAST"

THAT radio operator at the navy yard
L who sent out a message that the
steamship Scantic was aground "off the
New Jersey coast" had his little joke, as
the ship was aground in the Delaware
river off Snyder avenue.
But it was joke which offends the
literary purists. Coast" is not properly
applied to the bank of river. If he had
said the ship was aground "ofF the New
Jersey shore" his meaning would have
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-18
Is Germany a Republic?

The Dish. always first with the news that
really matters, calls attention to the fol-
lowing item concerning the ceremony of
signing the peace at Versailles. As far as
we have seen, it did not get into the cable
dispatches.
NJ. Clemenceaus speech was notable for
curious interruption from the German
table When NJ. Clemenceau spoke of the
Delegation of the German Republic a cry
that was almost shout was hurled at
him across the room of Reich :" Reich :"
and NJ Clemenceau corrected himself and
repeated the words Reich Allemand" The
signature of the treaty began after
three.-Manchester Guardian.
Now of course the German word Reich"
really means realm" but long usage has
given it the significance of empire" We
ask, merely for information, does Germany
consider herself republic or doesn't she?
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-18

There is nothing mod
They Want Share est about the demands
of the striking Boston
street car men. who ask an eight hour day
at seventy three and one half cents an hour.
But the street car fare is ten cents, which
suggests that the railroad companies set the
example in immodest demands.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-18

Common laborers get better pay than
some of the postofhce clerks, but Congress is
SO busy on less important matters that it has
not time TO consider the just demands of these
men. Perhaps it would be truer to say that
the postmaster general is SO anxious to run
his department at profit that he objects to
fair days pay for fair days work.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-18
THE CHATTING DISH

enemy, though Miff1in once came throbbing
PACK empty handed and pale faced, report
Ing that charge of lead had sung past his
ears. Above small dam the creek backed
up to decent depth, FIVE feet or so of cool
green water, and here bathing was conducted
in the ancient Greek manner. There were
sun warmed fence rails nearby for basking,
and then fire would be built and vittles
mobllized. Tobacco pouches were emptied
out into one common store. and by the time
TINS was smoked out white moonlight would
De spllllng over the autumn fields.
WE GREW so fond of this section of our
ALBANIA that We never explored the full
length or the stream. 1t would be a lovely
daNs Jaunt, we imagine. to set out from
Darby (where Cobb's creek Joins Darby
Creek and walk up the little river to its
source at Da5lesford. 1t would be about
twenty miles, which is just distance for a
walker who likes to study the scenery as he
goes. Through the greater part of the trail
the stream trots through open farming coun-
Try with old mills here and there-paper
mills, flour mills and our famous shrine of
sawdust and cider. The lower waters. from
Darby down to Tinicum Island and the mouth
at Essington. would probably be less walk
able. We suspect them of being marshy,
lhoush we speak only by the map. Mr..
Browning, we remember, wrote poem about
a bishop who ordered his tomb at Saint
Praxeds. We, if we had a chance to lay
out any blue prints of our final roltop.
would like to be the Colyumist who ordered
his tomb by Darby creek, and not too far
away from that cider mill. And let no one
think that 1t is stream of merely senti-
mental interest. Hog Island, as all will
grant, is place of national Importance.
And what is Hog Island, after all? Only the
delta of Darby creek.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-18

Hardening our hearts would be accom-
panied by a marked softening process were
Germany to send us her irrepressibe Max
Harden. But the whole suggestion of send
ing him here as ambassador Is too sensible
for the rumor to have much foundation in
Teyton fact
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-18

Letters can now be sent to Germany by
the regular routes. But they got to Germany
all the time, if we may believe the boasts of
the people over there.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-18

Only the first three letters of Marne will
mean anything to Eric Ludendorff If he is
bold enough to think of that river today.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-18

'New' National Guard is a msnomer.
Veteran is the correct epithet for the con-
trolling factors in the reorganization of the
state troops.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-18

Fifteen hundred pos
They Did-in Vain tai clerks have petit
toned Congress for an
increase in salary. They would be wiser to
begin by petitioning the President for new
nostmaster general.
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Does Any One
Remember Ward?

There are 400 applica-
Does Any One tions for membership
Remember Ward? on the Committee of
One Hundred, but if
the committee were made big enough to take
them all in some one would begin to talk of
the Four Hundred which Ward McAllister
made famous in New York, and the chance
of getting votes in South Philadelphia would
go glimmering-unless Ward McAllister has
been forgotten.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-18

Governor Sproul found that the reserve
militia in camp at Mt. Gretna was soldierly
lot of men.
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Heroism on Trial

Escadrille. daredevil Hun hunter, winner of
the Croix de Guerre for heroism in sky
fighting over the battle lines in France, who
fed back trembling to the clouds after one day
in Ardmorc politics. knows now, after find
ing politics too much for his nerves, that
vaor is sometimes found in strange places.
Courage is needed in politics. Only brave
man can sit around from years end to years
end and draw a large salary for doing
nothing.
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Those Were the DAYS!

WANTED, by an American GIRL,
SITUATION as chambermaid or general
HOUSEWORK. Please call at corner of
Stiles and Carlisle streets.-Public Ledger
Feb. 20, 1867.
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| The Senate's zeal for reservations is
clearly in inverse ratio to it's reserve
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-18

The old Max Stirner doctrine, MY right
is the right" seems likely to be the guiding
principle of the party which David Lloyd
George is reported to be planning.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-18

Mrs. Macbeth would have entertained no
further ambitions concerning the sticking
point had she known Of Philadelphia weather.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-18

DY NOON of July Is the generalissimo's
- decision had been made and the hour of
the counter offensive had been appointed
On schedule at 4 :35 July Is it began. Its
main objectves were the Scissors Chateau
Thierry road and the heights of Scissors.
The front had been imperfectly stabilized
for repetition of the old heart breaking
trench warfare. A species of open fighting
vas possible and the Franco American
troops availed themselves Of the opportunity
with magnificent enthusiasm and dash.
Chateau Thierry was recaptured on July 81.
The prelude had been something akin to
decentralization in the German ranks, com
pletely surprised by the Entente assertion
of the initiative. The greatest penetration
made by the first staggering blow was six
miles on front of about twenty eight
In two days 1900 prisoners were taken.
On the same day that Chateau -Thierry was
regsined the last of the Allied troops had re-
crossed the Marne.
Then began the rush toward the Ourca
and the development of Jaulgonne on the
north bank Of the Marne. On the eastern
leg of the quadrilateral, bounded. roughly
speaking, with lines connecting Soissons,
Rheims, Chateau Thierry and Epernay, the
Italians, English and French were within
TWO Hllto VI tHc Important flSmeS ChQtll-
lon railway. The prisoners had mounted
to more than 35 900.
When the Germans reached the yesle
their resistance stiffened, but by that time
the offensive power had passed to the
Allies, the plan of the Ludendorff campaign
was smashed to flinders, the American
army, represented by nine divisions. had
proved itself gloriously equal to its Homeric
opportunity and the swing to Conclusive
victory had been made.
Only five days elapsed between the slow
ing down of the German retreat ON the
Vesle and the mighty blow directed by Sir
Douglas Haig in Picardy. Never was there
a single setback to the triumphal progress.
ID EALIZATIoN of the event of July ls,
~ 1918. is incomplete even on it's anniyer-
sary. But history has the initiative now,
and that drive will be pursued throughout
the years. Descendants of the present gen :
Grafton will find the event and it's impiica :
tions easier to fathom than we have found
it, for all our ecstasy.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-18

Judge Dickinson reminds the brewers
that the way to get legal advice is to pay
retainer to a lawyer.
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Desk Notices

have never needed, even in my early
years, to possess things in order to enjoy
them.-ANATOLE FRANCE
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The New Hate

In New York they are
The New Hate welcoming G n
opera back with open
arms. All of the emotional stress that at
tended efforts to have German pancake re-
named as Victory Pastry has passed. And
i, is n Manhattan that n crusade has Just
started to change the name of the neighbor-
ing village of Rye.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-18

And "Br'er" Japan, he lay low. It's
a way with the contented.
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Coffee has gone up to ten cents a cup at
some restaurants. The day may come when
they'll charge a fee to let you look through
the window and watch the griddle cakes being
baked. SOCRATES.
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st. Swithin weather is making even the
most skeptical believe in saints.
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THE WARS TURNING POINT
IN THE LIGHT OF HISTORY
solemnlty Of the First Anniversary OF
July 10, 1918, Profoundly En-.
haneed az Retrospect illunines
the Stupendous Event
THE solidfying of news into history is

THE soidifying of news into history is a
l. process which only the light of retrospect
can reveal. Actual participants in the ter .
rife counter offensive which the French and
American troops inaugurated on the Marne
one year ago today were unfit to gauge the
stupendous meaning of that action. Their
vision. however alert and keen, was limited
So also was the penetration of the gen
erals who wrote the dispatches. the corre-
spondents who repeated them with annota :
tions, the newspaper editors who published
them, the victory hungry public which read
them.
Throughout the Entente world July IS,
1918. was thrilling day. After five gigan-
tic offensives the German invasion of France
had been repulscd. Obviously here was an
event of magnitude. But just what were its
proportions?
Doubtless Foch himself hesitated to &C.
knowledge the full majesty Of the design.
60 FULLY that its estimate is now a,
~ commonplace, the world knows today
that the whole course of humanity turned
on July IS. 1918 The first battle Of the
Marine in September. 1914, has been called
the Gettysburg of the conflict.
The ascription is in a sense a misnomer.
History, that master clarifier of events and
the motives and deeds Of men. is fast re-
veaing that there were really two wars in
the monster fray. First Marne' was
decisive battle 1t determined the character
of the conflict, turning the impending Ger
man triumph into a stalemate.
The first war continued until the inter-
vention Of America in 1917. Despite ad-
vances and retreats on both sides. the result
of the Franco British recovery on the
Marne governed the aspect of the main bat
tie terrain of France and Flanders for
nearly three years.
Then came the new alignment. new pur-
poses. new and epochal developments. The
first war was over-a draw. First Marne"
had saved the Allies. 1t had not won for
them. and thus Marshal Joffre's signal
achievement was not-as peace times illumne
it-a Gettysburg. marking the beginning of
tide of uninterrupted success.
1t was more nearly an Antietam. That
engagement effectively established the fact
the Confederacy could not win. The Sep
tember Marne ended for sane commentators
the prospect of decisive Teuton victory.
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STRICTLY speaking, the battle endured
~ for seventeen days. until by August 3.
when the Marne Vesle pocket had been
wholly evacuated by the Germans, the
ability of the Entente to conduct a major
offensive had been demonstrated, and Paris
was no longer menaced.
In the broad sense, however, the engage
ment was continuous until Armistice Day.
All the triumphant movements of all the
armies grew out of the stunning repulse in
flicted by Foch. and more Immediately Man
gin and Gouraud. in the midst of the fifth
and last Ludendorff drive.
That movement was no fellow Of it's cyclic
pean predecessors. In the interval that had
ensucd between March 21 and July IA the
Allies. thanks chiefly to the American cru
saders. had acquired the preponderance Of
numerical strength. The fifth German Of
fensive had, it is true, crossed the Marine
and was heading for Epernay. but it had
wretchedly 'fivvered' about Rheims, and
Furthermore, the Allied high command was
perfectly acquainted with the specific am .
bitions of the Hun strategy.
Ludendorff's plans were by that time ap-
parent, both because of sound Interpretation
Of military principles and because of special
information privately received. Foch's
purposes were a riddle to his foes, who, in
addition, hopelessly misconceived the enor
nifty of his resources.
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TT IS easy to interpret Sedan or Wa
L terloo It's finality is explicit But
Gettysburg grows and grows in import and
grandeur as history revises contemporary
appreciations, rearranges events in archi-
tectura symmetry and authorizes for man
kind the maximum of thrills long after the
particular interplay of circumstance has
ceased.
Today is when the sirens should shrill,
the bands play, the guns boom. the chimes
ring forth. Next year and the next and
the next there will be increasing warranty
for rapture.
Palmer. more overwhelmingly funda-
mental, will appear the truth of the Second
Marne," the true Gettysburg of the Second
War"
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-23
| NU!ON DELEGATE
|TAL|AN| PER PAR|GI
La Politica Riguardo la Cues
tione Adriatica non Subira'
Alcun Cambiamento

Published and Distributed Under
PERMIT NO al.
Authorized by the act of October q.
dclpha. Pa
by order Of the President.
A s BURLESON
Postmaster General
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Roma, % giugno. annunzia che
il Senatore Gugliclmo Marconi, il Sena-
tore Nittorio Scialoa ed il Senatore
Tommaso Tittoni, e- -ministro per eli
AFFAIR." EStcri. saranno nuovi Delegati
ltaIiani ALA Conferenza della Pace. vi
e ragione per crcdere che cssi scgui-
rnnno Ia politica del predecessor ri
guardo la question: dell Adriatic
| giornali antagonist al ey 1resi-
dcntr del Consglio del MinisGrI, On.
Giolitti, hanno condotto una violenta
campagna contro Ia formazionc di un
gabinctto Nitti cd hanno chiamato
ron. Nitti ''un luogotcncnte di Clio
litti.' II "Giornalc d'1talia" "1'c-
pOCa' sono spccialmcntc violenti nei
loro artiColi. sostcnondo che ncssun
uomo "hc abba conniycnza con neu
tralsti con quclli pronti fare rinun-
zic Sulla aspiration taliane potra' an
dare al potcrc nell'attuale momento
Critico.
Gabrielle d Annun2io. il grande poeta.
uno de campiOni del movimento, e.
giunto in Roma ed ha scritto un calo.
roso appcllo ALA nazonc. pubblicando.
10 sui 'Popolo d '1talia,' mel quale sol
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-23
70 BODIES ENTOMBED
IN STORM WRECKAGE
SO corpses Recovered by State
Troops in Tornado-Swept
Minnesota Town
100 PERSONS BADLY HURT

Fergus Falls, Mimi. June 23.-By
A. PD- Between sixty and seventy
persons were killed and more than n
hundred were badly injured by the tor
nado which struck Fergus Falls late
Yesterday and tore large section of
the city. including the business district
to pieces. Thirty eight bodies have
been recovered,
State troops began searching the
wrcckage shortly after daylight 1t is
believed that more than dozen bodies
arc buried in the debris, which was tho
Grand Hotel. Fifty persons were in
this building when the tornado came.
About thirty Of them are dead.
Much Of tho residence district south
Of the Red river is waste.
About 800 stores and residences were
demolished. 4 score or moro of per
sons arc missing. Tho property loss is
estimated at several million dollars.
Virtually the entire northwestern sec
tion of the city is in ruins. Public
buildings and churches were destroyed.
Uosnitals arc crowded with victims,
but city officials said this morning they
believed Fergus Falls would be able to
provide relief for its sufferers.
Citizens said they believe that three
storms struck the city in quick sue
ccssion. Several persons corroborated
statements that three funnel shaped
clouds were seen. The first apparently
struck the town from the northwest
and tore through tn" Lake Alice dis
trict. This smash wrecked the Grand
Hotel The second cloud brought driv-
ing rain and approached from tn" south =
west.
St. Paul. Mimi, June 2%.--Iby A.
Railroad officials here SAID thcE
were unable to obtain accurate lnformh :
tiou of the conditions caused by the
storm last night at Fergus Fails MINI.
Efforts to learn the number of persons
injured when Great Northern passenger
train No. /. known as the Oriental Linn
tied, was swept from the track have beer
unsatisfactory. Early reports saic
that only one girl was injured and hr1
hurts were not of serious nature
No mention has been made OF the mem =
hors of the train crew.
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NANNY GOAT HAS $3.50 MEAL
Owner Pays Price Of Flowers In
MAGISTRATES Office

Miss Nanny Goat, owned by Samuel
Capaio. 80 East Rittenhouse street,
dined yesterday on a $50 meal.
When Capalo was called upon to pay
for the dinner another goat he has
straycd all over the office of Magistrate
Pcnnock. at $500 Germantown avenue.
but Miss Nanny was at home at the
time, digesting her meal of yesterday.
At noon yesterday Miss Nanny in
vaded the green houses of Robert Jam
ison. at Cheltpn avenue and Musgravc
street. The young lady ignored weeds
and dined solely on dainty blooms.
Jamison couldn't catch Miss Nanny, so
he had Capalio arrested. The price of
the meal was fixed at Il hearing today.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-23

lecita tutti veri patriot nd unirsi
"contro Ia cospirazione. Z"
II "Giornale d'Italia" dice che ron.
Nitti ba notiicato D'Anuunzio che egli
b. amava incontrarlo in "terreno neu.
trale," desiderando di spiegargli la sua
politica. II giornale aggiunge che
D'Annunzio replico' dcclinando di iu =
contrare ron. Nitti in "terreno neu-
trale" poiche' non ne sentiva la neces
sta, cio' nonostante egli 81 diceva
scmpre pronto ricevere ron. Nitti
qualora questi 81 fosse recato al suo
Hotel. II giornale dice, inoltre, che
fno tarda ora di sabato, ron. Nitti
non aveva fatto alcuua replica 0
D'Annunzio.
II Times. nell 'edzione del pome-
riegio di ieri 'altro pubblica un arti-
colo mel quale dichiara che il .trattato
segrcto di Saint Jean de Maurienne,