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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-06
EXIT REDFiELp

MIR. REDFIELD was one of the MEM
~ bers of the Wilson cabinet who did
not shine. He did not even glimmer.
There were two reasons why the De-
partment of Commerce contributed
nothing of importance to the general
philosophy of industry in time when it
should have functioned as the most inn
portant division of the government aside
from those directly con>erned with the
prosecution of the war. One was the
president, who doesn't encourage initia-
tive in cabinet members. The other was
the secretary Of commerce himself.
MIR. Redfield had old-fashioncd notions,
which were not, however, nearly SO old
fashioned as Mr.. Burleson's. His think
ing didn't keep pace with the times. He
found himself in conflict with quick
acting emergency boards that had the
BOWER cf the President behind them and
Sv4lzhsdowed by abler men appointed %
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nations right to settle It's own internal
and political questions for itself.
It is likely that the covenant trainers
considered that such rights should be
taken for granted by every country. The
pact is not always categorically enlight-
ening on his theme. No harm and
perhaps a great deal of good can come
from American development Of it.
Reservation four is an expansion OF
Article XXI of the pact removing the
operation of the Monroe Doctrine from
"the jurisdiction of the league of ma
lions" If this repetition has no other
merit than that of consoling the doubters
who feared that the cardinal principle of
American diplomacy was insufficiently
safeguarded, it performs an immensely
valuable service. The Monroe Doctrine
bogie is laid.
1t is useless to argue whether the
qualms of certain league antagonists on
this ground we're valid or not. The most
direct act is to satisfy them. This is
unquestionably what the fourth reserva-
tion will do if adopted.
Trailing along with these reassuring
interpretations, as the treaty leaves the
committee rooms en- route for the Senate
floor, is a welter of utilities. OF the
forty-odd amendments recommended the
great majority are unworthy of serious
regard. Restrictions, such as the Grip
per" urged by Senator Fall, which would
bar participation by the United States
in most of the transcendently important
international commissions, are in not the
least danger of approval. The silly
season is over. Congress is getting down
to business. Of course, it will not tol-
crate such absurdties.
The Shantung amendment is of another
complexion. 1t is clean and sound in
spirit, rude, crude, truculent and perilous
in form and manner. Coldly to substi-
tute the word China for Japan in Article
CLVI is stupid course to take in deal
ing with the dark blot on the treaty
and with a delicate and disturbing situa-
tion.
Those of us who have not forgotten
the principles upon which we waged the
war are sincere in the belief that justice
must be done to China. The President
has virtually admitted his dissatisfaction
with the Shantung clauses. But the
refusal to sign the treaty unless this
Objectionable provision is effaced can be
courteously put.
By dignifed impressive methods the
various signatories can be convinced of
the eanestness Of the American view
point. The pressure which it is possible
to exert upon Japan can be telling with
out being bellcose or arrogantly ILL
natured.
The President cannot afford to be other
than sympathetic with such action, just
as he cannot consistently afford to be
contemptuous of reservations which do
not mar the treaty and appreciably ad-
vance the day of its passage.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-06
MOORE AND THE HOUSING ISSUE

CONGRESSMAN MOORE'S speech on
" sanitation ought to have been made
in South Philadelphia instead of west
of the Schuylkill.
Many alleys in that part of the city
are filled with squalid buildings, out of
repair, with no sanitary conveniences.
So long as people can be induced to live
in them their owners will apparently
allow it, disregarding all the sanitary reg
ulations. The poor, who occupy the houses
because they can find no better ones with
in their means, are helpless. They are
dependent entirely upon the authorities
in the City Hall. But those authorities
not only ignore their feeble protests, but
they disregard the protests made by the
associations of public-spirited women
who have interested themselves in the
matter. Promises are made, but they are
not fulfilled.
Families are living in alleys that are a
disgrace to a modern civilized city.
There are scores Of buildings that ought
to be condemned as unfit for human hab-
itation, but no one condemns them and
they are centers where disease breeds
and spreads to better quarters.
Mf. Moore's pledge to take up this
question with the Council and to call into
consultation men and women out Of
Office who have shown an interest in the
subject is one of the most encouraging
developments of the campaign. 1t indi-
Gates that Mr. Moore, who lives down.
town and is, familiar with the conditions,
is convinced of the duty of the city to deal
humanely with its humblest citizens.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-06
Dickens EIectIoneers

Dear Socrates-Your own f. P. l.. on
Wednesday printed letter from David
Copperfield saying that his cap is in the
ring. Another Dickens character, Patterson
of the Fellowship long ago bad his judges
gown in that ring Obviously some one must
have misquoted the author. In all fairness
to Mr.. Dickens, the Chatting Dish should
boldly step forth to remind its readers that
Oliver Twist demanded Moore. CHAT.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-06

A recent order by Marshal Foch dou-
bling the amount of territory in the Rhine
land to be policed by American troops in
dicates that two regiments which recently
left Camp Taylor, KY, and Camp Dix, N.
j., for overseas duty are destined. to pro-
vide the new works for the watch on the
Rhine.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-06
The Profteers

WAS it not ever SO? All wars that were
w Had both a grim reverse and glorious
face: ... sE
To nobler things the noble felt the spur, ~
But base and craven hearts grew yet
more base. ... mi sT.5l%
No war was ever ended but remained
The unclean foe that preyed upon the
state; ..
And, since he had no honor to be stained,
Gave rein to greed. So have we seen
but late.
What need to name them--they who are
our foes
Who hold the gifts of Ceres far aloof,
And shrink the poor mans loaf? And they
are those
Who thrust the poor man from beneath
a roof!
Seems this not war-even while we mur-
mur Peace?
Who shall it's slaves and trampled ones
release?
Edith NJ Thomas In the New York Times.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-06

Ode on IntImatlons Of Not Being Able
To Find Seat In the Smoker Going
Down to the Shore
Blank misgivings of n creature
Moving about in ruthless madding fight,
Fierce jostlings before which our mortal ma :
ture
Doth tremble like late suburbanite-
All neither listlessness nor mad endeavor
Nor the conductor, braying like a mule
Can find seat for us : the group must sever,
And perilously crowd the vestibule.
Oh, in this season of blue weather
Where we are inland far
If we could even find trunk together
In the baggage car
We'd bless the p. r. r.
And we'd have sight of that immortal sea
And wonder how old Daddy Wordsworth he
Did ''in a moment travel thither'
And see the one pieced bathing Venus daugh
ters
And cast some of the i'll bred on the waters.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-06
HazIe Strips for Action

A. H. Woods has ordered Hazel Dawn
to return to Chicago to be ready to resume
her role In up in Mables Room in that
city.-News item.
We have long noticed the popular ten
dency to spell Mabel Mable. lot of people
were just beginning to get it right, however,
when along came Dere Mablo and the rest
of those entertaining books md put back the
spelling clock whole generation. We predict
that the birth records of the next thirty years
will be full of Mables.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-06
THE CHAFFLNG DISH

and groans burst from Woodrow's heart.
l never saw him all the while give so much
as one pleasant look, till he perceived he,
had wounded the senator with his trip
through the country; then, indeed, he did
smile, and look upward but it was the
dreadfullest sight that ever l saw.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-06
The Little Yard Next Door

'"e I't'e 'aro Ne*t DooF
There were pansies in the springtime--
On the arbor roughly hewn
There We're roses in profusion
In the joyful month of June.
In July there came the larkspur-
Alyssum bloomed there too,
Bright poppies spread their glory
Ger forget me nots of blue.
Then August brought the marigold
With stately yellow head,
. And coxcombs in September
Stood tall and deeply red.
So each morning through the summer
feel my spirit soar
] receive a benediction
From the little yard next door.
ALEXANDRA.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-06

Four fishermen agree that LeiperviIle,
Delaware county, is haunted. They all
had to run for their lives. One was chased
by wild man one by huge German carp
that ran along the ground on its Ans; one
by bird not unlike an ostrich, and one by
a four legged creature somewhat resembling
a hyena Strange, isn't II, how many dif-
ferent kinds of queer fish can be caught with
one can of bait? o.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-06
Mental Runts

Add to the list Of those who don't know
when it's raining the governor of Indiana,
who tried to make long speech when
10 600 people were waiting to hear the open
ing my fellow countrymen."
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-06
Or Georqe CreeI?

We often wonder whether the great men
are Really Human. BY which we mean,
when they happen to overhear some one
whistling a popular tune (for instance, /
Was Only Blowing Bubbles) do they auto
matically begin to hum it themselves, and
carry 1t on for few bars? Would Colonel
House do that? ~
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-06
Do You know2

One of the fine things about Kansas City
which the Chamber of Commerce has omitted
to tell the world is that there is not single
vers libre poet living there. Or, for that
matter, not a poet of any kind.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-06

General Pershing will lead the New York
parade on his war charger. And we assume
that Major General David Shanks, military
commander Of the port, will follow on his
Justly famous mare.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-06

Admiral Wilson proudly reviews a
parade of service men in Camden today and
is himself being reviewed by an even prouder
reviewing officer-his eighty seven year" old
mother.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-06

We have been conducting a patient and
stern campaign against the use of the phrase
waiting on somebody when Waiting
for is meant. But now we give up. For
Mr.. Wilson told Columbus "The world Is
waiting on America"
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-06
Have a Harte

We wonder how many of those who have
been to see "The Outcasts of Poker Flat
in the movies think it was written by William
s. Hart?
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-06
Coma On, Girls

New York, Sept. 4.
Dear socrates-I've been studying the
Besuty Corner on the back page of your
naper. Say, do you think can get an
apartment anywhere in your city? I'd like
Ia, live in a town where the danes look like
that. Tell me, confidential, can you keep
M the series for year? If so, I'll emf
ExpERT IN THESE MAT,TERS
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-06

During June last the United States ex-
ported 800, ,432 dozen pairs of stockings
The hosiery man Is very evidently shaking
. leg and putting his beat fooe forward
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-06
MedItatIons Of a Fat Man

Why is it (alas) that all those resolu-
tions not TO eat any more doughnuts are
formed only after theevent?
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-06
EXPERT IN THESE MATTERS.
John Runyan on the Treaty Flaht

In this combat no man can imagine,
unless he had seen and heard as did, what
selling and hideous roaring the senator
made all the time of the iight--he spake like
dragon and, on the other side, what ggha
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-06

Windsor, Me-, isn't going to let New
York get away with all the actors strikes.
On the midway of the county fair the fat
lady and the Wild Man of Borneo struck for
more money. "This art for arts sake stuff
don't go, Gully, unless you get the dough,
aao2iI
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-06
We Make No Comment

' J. st. G. ]. comments thus upon our
observation that the left sole wears through
before the right:
The sole reason is that It does more
work When ordered to march, soldiers
invariably start with the left foot and also
halt on It. Ninety-nine per cent Of civilians
start walking with the left foot. When
seated q man in ninety-nine cases out Of
one hundred puts his right leg over the
left and fdgets with left foot.
And Self Made Widow writes to say that
the reason a woman's left hand wears out
sooner than the right is that she carries her
wedding ring there. ..
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-06

One Of the correspondents on the Presi
dents train informs the world that owing
to the impossibility of stopping long enough
to have any washing done, they all had to
provide themselves with thirty shirts and
collars.
So perhaps the incensed C.inaman at
Columbus was disappointed laundryman.
SOCRATES.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-06

Give you good days, good knights
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-06
Where Fate Is
Remiss

ever so much better in novels. Today we
celebrate the 1921 anniversary of the birth
of Lafayette. to whom our young republic
was greatly indebted. On board the Levia-
than in mid Atlantic is one who, in the
name of his country, discharged that debt.
Fate is destined to land General Pershing
in New York in the next few days. But II
Fate had any sense of dramatic values she
would land him in Philadelphia in time to
see the Washington Lafayette flag raised
over Independence Hail. there and then to
paraphrase the famous phrase with which
he is credited, Lafayette, we were there!"
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-06
What, Never?

don't want anybody to remember. so
far as this errand is concerned, that 1t Is
ever spelled with big D.--President VIII
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-06
What Do You Know?
QUIZ

/. What is casuist?
Q. Does the peace treaty in its present
form mention the Monroe Doctrinef
2. Where is the Welland Canal?
4. Who was William TannerT
8. Which country has the larger pcpula-
tion, Belgium or the Netherlandsf
@. How do the correct English and the
American pronunciations of the word
''been" differ? 1" 3f
7. What are goldilocks?
e 8. For what animal is "Neddy" q per-
Z. sonal name?
0. How long have the Virgin Islands been
in American possession?
10. Who composed the music Of the opera
Louise? az
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-06

There's NO room in Camden today Tor
arybody but patriots.
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Thsrs's q glad band il Mittsn.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-06

Last call for good citizenship today.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-06
Senator Oyerman in :
Round and Round
and Round!

Senator Oyerman in
Round and Round troduced an addition
and Round! to the comm ee
amendment % t h e
prohibition enforcement bill exempting
drink cure sanitariums from the rigidity
of restrictions against the administration
of liquor by doctors prescriptions. The
only hope, therefore, for the lover of hard
liquor is to break into a drink cure sani-
tarium and there absorb enough booze to
enable him to qualify for admission. Can
this be the vicious circle political econo-
mists speak about?
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-06

The undertakers say that they will shortly
have to raise the price of funerals, 1t
might be as well to suggest to the kaiser
that now is the time to take advantage of
the old rates.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-06

Remember Captain Corcoran in "Pina'-
fore? ~ never use big, big D!''
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-06

1t is perfectly true that II everybody were
to ride on the p. r. t. all the time no one
would be run over.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-06

Still, we believe in the survival of the
fattest. > i,
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-06
FOUR RESERVATIONS WHICH
TEST Mr.. WILSON'S SINCERITY
His Support Of the Treaty viii Be Finely
Convincing II He Frankly Admits
Their Clarifying Virtues Which

His Support Of the Treaty viii Be Finely
Convincing II He Frankly Admits
Their Clarifying Virtues Which
Speed the Signing
SOMEWHAT testify the President told
~ his Indianapolis audience that the
opponents of the league of nations were
facing a case of put up or shut up
Obviously this is true. Those who
profess a zeal for international peace
and at the same time an adherence Of
the present plan for preserving it are
revealed as hypocrites and spiteful par
tisans unless they come forward with
some machinery of their own.
Fortunately there is no taiat of such
moral obiquity in the four reservations
adopted by the Senate committee on
foreign relations. In their plain Ian
guage and ncisive wording they actually
fortify the league covenant by clarifying
it. Republicans will weaken their posi-
ton and shadow the good name of their
party by growing in a partisan key over
these interpretations. They will bear the
test of patriotic, sincere, unbiased analy-
sis.
Mr.. Wilson in this situation will do
we'll to continue spelling his democracy
with small 3D." No better proof of the
unselfshness of his desire to save civ
ilization could be afforded than accept
ance by him of the unmistakable spirit
of these calculations. If the stimulation
of political passions is apart from his
aim on this country wide tour, the chance
for a magnificent justification of his
announced mission is at hand.
To be touchy and sweepingly obstinate
because an unimpeachable expression of
sane sentiment has been made in this
instance mainly by Republicans is to
prolong a battle of partisan prejudices of
which all thoughtful Americans are
utterly weary.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-06

" not necessarily a jokist although he can
.nnreciate a joke. One night the late
Senator John NJ. Thurston, who had pre-
sided over three national conventions, was
20 crate at the Union League. He put in
an appearance and captivated the crowd.
Colonel Bradley was late in arriving. An
odmirer of Tnurston approached him at the
steps of the League. How did you like
his oratory?" the colonel was asked. The
colonel hesitated because he had not heard
much of the speech, well, what did you
think Of himf' persisted the questioner,
SIS he friend of yours?" said the colonel.
'1Ie certainly is," was the reply. "Well,
7 think the senator is the best dressed man
I ever saw on the public platform"
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-06

II istory Is written
without any regard to
dramatic sequence.
Things are managed
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-01-26
Had Been Athlete


Ripley, Princeton graduate, was for
ty-one years old and former athlete
At one time he was amateur bicycle
champion of New Jersey. He formerly
was associated with his fathe~, Charles
Ripley, in the firm of David Ripley &
Sons, lumber dealers. His brother. DR.
Charles Ripley, lives at Point Pleasant
and is the stepfather of Sergeant
Petrie.
1t was said to-day Sergeant Petrie
wen to the house to spend his furlough
He had come from Paris Island, S. C.,
and had been with Ripley most of the
time since he arrived last Tuesday.
The sergeant is twenty-one years old.
81 never knew Mr.. and Mrs Ripley
to have cross word" the nurse told
Detectives Ulrich and Arnold, who came
from Police Headquarters. Miss Deeney
has been nurse to the children for FIVE
years, and she said she had known the
iamily for more than ten years. Be
side his wife, Ripley is survived by
three children. Alberta twelve years:
David, nine, and Sarah, five.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-01-26
Spartacides Unite
With Bolsheviki
TO Down Capital
Moscow Reports Communist
Congresses Manifesto De-
clares Present Is Time
to Overthrow System

ZURICH. Jan. 25.-According to re-
ports received here from Moscow the
international Communist Congress
there has decided to convoke the first
congress of "new revolutionary in
ternationale." The Communist Con-
gress, it is stated, has drafted a mani
festo setting forth a programme based
upon the programme of the German
Spartacan party and the Russian Com
munist and Bolshevik parties.
The document declares the present is
the period for the overflow of the
worlds capitalistic system and Euro
pean culture with it. The task of the
proletariat to day. it argues, is to take
be placed in the hands ia Dictator
ship constituted by the class of small
workers. peasants and agricultural
laborers. This Dictatorship, it is de-
clared, must Immediately appropriate
capitalism and suppress private prop
crty, transferring it to the state. The
first measure to that end, it is said,
must be the disarmament of the bour-
geolse and Its agents and the arming
OF the proletariat, which will have to
begin an open armed conflict against
the ruling capitalism.
The manifesto adds that in dealing
with social patriots" who everywhere
at the most critical moments oppose
the revolution with arms" there is no
alternative than to fight without mercy.
1t says 1t is necessary to rally together
those sections of the proletariat which
have given proof OF their sympathy
toward the revolution.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-01-26

sheviki is reported in an official dis
patch dated January %, the substance
of which was made public to-day by
General March. chief of staff.
The points attacked by the enemy
lay generally about 1870 miles from
Archangel. General March said the
lnterANied commander ther had ade-
quate troops to reinforce the advanced
elements and to handle the situation.
The message reported the American
losses in one Of the actions at Ust
Pedenga as 10 enlisted men killed,
~ wounded and II missing A letter
dispatch said subsequent attacks were
lepuised wnen delivered on the posi-
tions taken up by the American forces.
An inter-Allied force engaged at
Shenkurst consisted of a British de
tachment, two companies of Americans
and two companies of Russians. These
were attacked on thrae side anA com
PEELED to evacuate their positions, as
were also the Allied palro4s 44-4u4l.g
Ust Pedenga. The American troops
falling back took a position midway
between this point and Shenkurst In
one of the attacks reported, 900 enc
my troops were in action against the
small Allied forces.
General March pointed out again
that the whole military situation at
Archangel was under the control of
the inter-Allied high command in
France, He intmatcd that should re-
Inducements be deemed necessary anv
action to supply them would have to
come from the high command and aft
er recommendation from the British
commander in chief of the forces in
Siberia