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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-10-03
EGGS FOR MR.. REED

ENEELING must have beeQ running
= amazingly high in Oklahoma when an
audience assembled to hear Senator
Reed denounce the President and the
league of nations triumphed over the
middle western instinct of thrift and
bombarded the gentleman with eggs
worth at least nickel each at the source
Of production. Mr.. Reed has always
played to the gallery. 1t was the, gal
lery that answered him on this occasion
in its own ancient anG effectual way.
Something Of this sort had to happen
80 the senator from Missouri. He needed
TO be shown He has been shown. Mr..
Need has been for years the least inspir-
ing man in the Senate of the United
States. Mr.. Lodge and Mr.. johnson and
Mr.. Borah and all the other opponents of
the league of nations and the treaty have
manifested at least the pretense of logic
and decency in their methods and argu-
naents. The Missouri thunderer stood
alone as panderer to bigotry, passion,
ignorance and sectional prejudice.
Trotters who crowd the Senate gal
ferries in search of excitement and diver
sion have applauded him, but in Okla
homa he appears to have faced an au-
dience that wanted truth rather than
vaudeville in the political discussions of
these crucial days.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-10-03
Lament of a Fair Aspirant for
Political HOnors

TNHE mornings are chilly, the skies over
l. cast,
And southwark the wild geese are hurryins
fast;
The grasses are withered and sere in the
park
The short afternoons soon succumb to the
dark;
The breezes no longer are fragrant and
e warm,
The barometer constantly threatens a storm;
The clouds, are like lead and the waters are
gray,
And joy like p song bird has fitted away.
A sadness profound Is enthroned In my
heart,
The tears to my eyelids at intervals start;
The shops interest me no more with their
show
OF frivols and frills as a short time ago.
These old politicians are back of it all
! wanted to run for some Office this fall,
But alas! at the primaries here in my town
They would not consider me-Annabel
Brown!
--Minna Irving, in New York Sun.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-10-03
AT THE WHITE HOUSE

TT IS not necessary to take a senti-
mental view of President WilsorGand
his work to feel that yesterdays news
from the White House ought to have a
SOLDERING effect on the thought of America
and that those of the Presidents enemies
who have been doing their utmost to
confuse opinion throughout the nation
must have an uncomfortable awakening
to a better sense of decency and more
honorable regard for the requirements
of the hour. The country finds itself now
in the shadow of an unlooked-for con-
tingency. 1t will have to sit down calmly
and wonder whether there is imme-
diately available any man able and will
ing to shoulder the stupendous burdens
under which the President collapsed.
The precise merits Of Mr.. Wilson's
later policies are now aside. What is
perfectly apparent is that he has given
all his strength and all his devotion to
what he felt was great and humane
cause and that he strove for the good of
mankind until he could strive no longer.
Upon no other statesman of this genera
tion have the winds of adverse criticism
blown so relentlessly.
The Presidents situation has been all
the more difficult because some of his
bitterest opponents of the last few
months were forme' ly among his best
friends and most ardent supporters. The
fight waged from the White House has
not been unlike the fight waged at the
Peace Conference. 1t has been one-sided
and lonely.
Mr.. Wilson found that he could not
endow European diplomacy with a new
soul. He could not, in the final emer-
gency, control all the tides of inherited
passion that inspire so many foreign
policies in the Old World. He tried, at
least And he did better than most men
could do in task that will have to be
completed if civilization is to save itself
from destruction.
Hatred and distrust of the President
have been apparent chiefly among eX-
treme radicals and extreme conservatives,
who alike seem temperamentally unable
to recognize the wisdom of an enlight-
ened middle course in the disputes be-
tween nations on the one hand and CAPT
tai and labor on the other. There are
labor leaders, capitalists and statesmen
without number who still believe that the
world is fiat. Mr. Wilson has been one
of the pioneers. And pioneers always
find the way hard.
1t is regrettable that the President
should have to be weighted to the ground
before the country could understand his
efforts or realize the need of services
such as his at this juncture in America
or perceive the wisdom Of his policy of
patience and reconciliation at home and
abroad.
Sanity and a sane voice are needed
everywhere now. And for days to come
the news from the White House is likely
to be read with anxious interest by all
those who still hope for peace in our
time.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-10-03
LAUNCHING THE LEGION

~HEN who were in the A. E. F. should
lyA know the value Of free institutions
Of government. They stepped out of
fbsir familiar world and marched and
auffercd and were shot at and mauled
,.rd manned TO preserve principles that
a5ways are attacked in any sort of class
war.
H the American Legion can maintain
III. spirit of the army, its friendly re-
letionships and some measure of the
;<,ealism which was expressed by our
a "a rtic;pation in the European war it will
~, ~ unreasonable service to the coun-
- n the future. as its members did
& III they went overseas. But the txend
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-10-03
What Do You Kno,U?

QUIZ
1. What is the highest peak between the
Alleghanies and the Rocky mountains?
2. How many planets are there?
3. Who was Colley Cibber?
A. What is the official title of King Albert!
s. What is the origin Of the expression
by Jimmy?
6. What are the three principal rivers Of
India? p
z. In what century did st. Augustine live?
8. What is koa?
Q. What is chap book?
10. How did cigars get their name?
Answers to Yesterdays Quiz
1. The hoist of flag Is the division Of it
nearest the fagpole.
Q. The federal government was free from
debt in 1885.
8, The fuselase Of an airplane Is the
limousine body for passengers.
4. King Albert is forty -four years old.
8. Mauna Loa, one Of the worlds cele-
= brated volcanoes, Is now In eruption.
1t is on the island of Hawaii.
9. "Hail Columbia" is an outgrowth from
"The Presidents March," written to
honor George Washington on his way
to the Inauguration ID New York In
1880. Joseph Hopkinson, Of Phila-
delphia, set his "Hail Columbia"
words to the air IN 1898.
z. The English surname Marjoribanks is
pronounced as though it were spelled
''Marshbanks."
8. There were two celebrated Roman
Plinys. Caius Plinius SecunduS,
called "The Elder" was naturalist.
- n \ L..
Younger Pliny" (62-113 A. d.
was noted as letter. writer.
o. The words czar and kaiser are both
derived from Caesar.
10. Specific gravity is the weight OF solid
or liquid compared with an equal
bulk of water. For instance the
specific gravity of gold is 1916. sincs
IL weighs nineteen and one half <timss
its swn balh q vatsns K-.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-10-03

rewrite the law so that it means some
thing.
The police have also drastic duty to
perform. Thousands Of Philadelphians,
wearied by slow trolley service over long
routes, will be quick to rejoice if track
hugging vehicles are prevented from
dragging" the cars and if the unloading
of coal wagons directly in the path is
peremptorily forbidden.
If the city does its share Mr.. Mhten
will be on his mettle. He is hopeful that,
apart from the grandiose transit prof.
ects under way and under consideration,
high-speed lines can be operated on GER
tain Philadelphia streets. We have
lacked them so long that the prospect of
relief is rather startling.
The most stimulating features of the
new move are the implication that the
transit management appreciates that the
full resources of its system as it now
exists have not heretofore been all tapped
and that network of trolley lines in
vast urban community is a group not
merely of short-dstance tramway but of
railway routes.
In this sane point of view is an excel
lent augury of reform.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-10-03
TURNING THE TABLES ON THEM
IfsHARLES M. SCHwAB seems to ha,

(sHARLES M. SCHWAB seems to have
~ the gift of saying things.
In discussing the high cost of living he
remarked in Chicago that when, the
theory of an honest days work for an
honest days pay was adopted here prices
would come down.
We have heard so much about a fair
days pay for fair days work that it
comes with the shock of surprise when
4 man lays emphasis on the work rather
thap on the pay, turning the tables on
those who have been stressing wages.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-10-03

The Prince of Wales is going to content
himself with a brief visit to Washington
while in the United States. Can't Mayor
Smith drop him one of his justly famous
letters? The Mayor may run away later
if he wants to.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-10-03

No matter how much opposed Mayor
Moore may be to political assessments from
city employees, he cannot object to their
giving political copmittees their pay for the
first four days in the new year. Because the
old city government ends December 80 and
the new one doesn't begin until the first
Monday in January, the first four will be
"payless days"
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-10-03
Keeping the Pheasants Awake
A sehoolbov Adventure Of Rupert Brooke

Professor William H. Lloyd, of the Uni
yersity of Pennsylvania Law School, has
called our attention to some rather enter
tanning legal proceedings in which Rupert
Brooke took part as schooiooy laged
eighteen). The incident SOUNDS amusingly
like "Stalky and Co." and we have copied
out a portion of the report of the case given
in Times Law Reports, vol xii, p. All.
This bulky volume Professor Lloyd was kind
enough to bring in all the way from West
Philadelphia so that we might pass it on
to our clients.
The case was that of FIELDEN v. cox,
March 80, 1905, an action brought by Mr..
John Ashton Fielden Of Holme, Hunting
donshire, v. Mr.. G. l.. Cox. Mr.. Rupert
Brooke, Mr.. Neville Brooke. and Mr.. Justin
Brooke, ''fcr an injunction and damages In
rszpeet Of alleged trespasses by the pursuit
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-10-03

An aged New Ken
One Of Fate's sington man died the
Little Ironies other day Immediately
after ne had received
word that he had fallen heir to two million
dollars. Think of the joyous folles he
would have had a chance to commit if the
money had come earlier
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-10-03

Insurance men meeting in this city re-
port bigger business SO far this year than
in any previous calendar. year. Another
evidence that war times encouraged the
habit of thrift.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-10-03
T. L. HICKS, sTATlsTIcIAN
Ex.Postmaster Can Give Election Dope
for Years Past-Men Who clss.
slfy Newspaper Clippings and
Find Them Useful
BY GEORGE NOX MCCAIN
EX. POSTMASTER THOMAS L. H1o

LNX.POSTMASTER THOMAS /. HICKS
- - unofficial computer of election figures
for Philadelphia. Like Bosco che cats 'em
alive"
He has election statistics at his finger
ends. With remarkable facility he can
recall approximately figures of election re-
suits in Philadelphia for generation.
There is one side to the ex -postmastcrs s
political experiences of which very few peo-
pie are aware. lie is a consistent collector
of literature and documents dealing with
political uphcavals. contests, criminal pro
ceedings and councilmanic and legislative
action. 1t has as much fascination for him
as the collection of rals manuscripts, coins
or autographs has for an antiquarian.
lie has pursued it methodically for years.
There is not political event of any i'm
portance that has occurred in Philadelphia,
or in the state for that matter. concerning
which Tom Hicks has not gathered mate
rial. 1t embraces everything from news
paper clippings, interviews and official doc
unents to testimony and copies of court
records.
He is a political wade mecum.
Once collected, II is as carefully pre-
served. 1t does not lie around loosely in
his Office nor is it piled up in n corner of
the attic at home. 1t is locked in safe
deposit vault, where mice and goats, mldew
aud dampness cannot destroy or corrupt.
FOR Tom Hicks is n methodical genius with
Il passion for detail
Safety first is a prime requisite in caring
for such collection. Some time, | fancy,
he, will make use of this material for pub
lication.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-10-03

Reed egged on by irreconclables, was
egged off by talk weary auditors. With
eggs at present prices this is strong evil
dence of prosperity.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-10-03

The Young Lady Across the Way says
she supposes the reason they knocked Cicotte
out of the box was because they didn't know
how to pronounce his name.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-10-03
Where 10 He Tonight?

Sign seen on SAMSON street: Errant Boy
Wanted. SOCRATES.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-10-03

The President, like other hard work.
ing men, has discovered that Nature will
not be denied the toll she demands.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-10-03

Tree cooties have made their appear
ance in Farmount ParH Perhaps they are
looking for delousing plants.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-10-03

Perhaps it is unfair to expect that the
league of nations should arouse as much
popular enthusiasm as the world Serious"
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-10-03

What the Senate committee mas to de-
termine Is whether Mr.. Gary Is firm or
mersly obstinate.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-10-03

If New York is normal there ought to
be enough torn-up streets to remind King
Albert of Flanders trenches.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-10-03

Fall has put in another piece of eyi :
dence--the hot chestnut man is doing bust
ness.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-10-03

Yes, Angelina, you have guessed cor
rectly. A shuttle service is to gather up
the loose ends Of traffic thxsAds-
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-10-03
STERN REVERSAL OF
LITERARY JUDGMENTS
McFee Brands Daisy Ashford as Hoax;
Barrie "Stune"?
LAUDS HERGESHElMER
Especial to The Chatting DISH
NutIey. N, j.. Sept.

Nu1ley, N. d., sept oo'
IVES, I read the Daisy Ashford fake
Il Talked it over in England with two or
three who write, not as l write, but for
living. The consensus of opinion was that
either Barrie wrote it or had been stung.
Some one got the manuscript and dressed 1t
up. ! didn't finish reading it. My friend
Margery Allingham, to whom ALIENS is
dedicated (she's fifteen now, has written a
good deal and had paper of her own when
ten or eleven called The Wagtail," for
which I was foreign correspondent. also
knew of a German girl at grammar school
with my cousin in Cheshire who ran a
magazine of her own, wrote everything, in
Guiding advertisements, and very clever
serial called "As Good as a Boy" She
was interned and so had to give it up.
guess we'll hear of her when she is of age.
But it is pitiful to see first class passen-
gers reading 1.-The Young Visters" after
paving three and six, and wondering what
Barrie is talking about. BY the way IL
know I'm putting my number ten into 1t
pow)-but by the way, what is there in
Barrie's own stuff? OF course, I'm no
theatregoer, but honest he makes me tired.
I used to fag through his Scottish novels
and | laughed over Admirable Crchton,'
hut I CAM admit tha,h gets anywhere with
me. | don't regret this lapse of good taste.
7 rather like giving inflated regulations
iah As n dramatist l offer no opinion, but
as a literary man Barrie Is miles behind
Hersesheimer, Merrick, Gable or Walpole.
Rut of course he's baronet and the first
class messengers would read his laundry bills
now and think them masterpieces. Perhaps
they are. :,
Oh, / want to come to Philadelphia all
right. and I want to go to Boston. "a
Voice: What! Want to 90 to Boston,
Nom DieuU But how does one get books
written if one doesn't sit down at all? Some
dav I'll describe my own amusing method of
sitting at a table and dreaming of the other
side Of the world. It's great, but it doesn't
pet much done. Eth bien, l must return to
nv muttons, as the French don't say.
! N'' WILLIAM McFEE.
We have drawn up plan for our coat OF
| arms which bears the following devices:
Two lunch hooks dexter and sinister) ram
pant. above a platter of spaghetti couchant.
| On a horizontal bar, denatured, goblet of
o.75. ouiescent. In fesse, azure, fried
onion. On lower bar, parallel, brass, a
pedal, dexter, elevated.
The spread Of solshevIsn
Reds Win Too Pitched Battie'.-Sport-
| ing Headline
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-10-03
WALTER STENGER has returned

WALTER STENGER has returned to
w Philadelphia, he tells me, to make his
permanent home. He is remembered by the
older newspapermen of Harrisburg and
Philadelphia, where for years he was active
in journalism.
His is another case of the son of we'll
known professional man, prominent in poll
tics and the law, who did not follow in his
fathers footsteps. Politics and the law held
no attraction for the younger Stenger when
he reached the period when it became neces-
sary to decide upon his future course in life
William s. Stenger, the father, was
leading member of the bar of Franklin
county, and active i'll Democratic politics
when Robert e. Pattison was elected to his
first term as governor. He had been par
| ticularly active in his efforts to land Patti
| son in the gubernatorial chair. He made an
effective campaign through southern Penn
| sylvania and was rewarded by Governor
| Pattison with the appointment as secretary
| of the commonwealth
The state government from 1881 to 1886
was political potpourri. The Democrats
| ceutered their efforts on the head of the
| ticket AS a result the Republicans managed
TO elect Jerome B. Niles, of Tioga county,
| auditor general, and William Livsey, OF
Allegheny county, state treasurer.
nATTISON surrounded himself with ex
l. ceptionally able men that term, includ
ing William s. Stenger, of Chambersburg
secretary of the commonwealth Lewis c.
Cassidy, of Philadelphia attorney general
PRESLEY N Guthrie, of Allegheny, adjutani
general, and q. Montgomery Forster, head oil
the insurance department.
Chauncey F. Black, lieutenant governor
was the son of the celebrated jeremiah
Black, and himself one of the ablest ant
most courteous gentlemen that ever filed th'
second Office in the commonwealth.
shortly after the close Of his term as sec.
rotary of the commonwealth, William s
Stenger removed to Philadelphia and entered
upon the practice Of his profession. H,
rapidly attained high position. For year
he resided at the southwest corner OF Chest
mt and Thirty eighth streets, block ava,
from the residence of Governor Pattson
which was on Chestnut street near Thirty
seventh. couple of years ago the oil,
Stenger property was sold and the hous
demolished, the upsightly ruins of which still
remain.
William s. Stenger died years ago, an
his family removed TO New Jersey. Within
the last ten days Walter Stenger, with hi
mother, has returned to Philadelphia to re
side at an apartment hotel within a fe,
J blocks Of their former home.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-10-03
A Well Deserved
Tribute

dant, so It is with pleasure unmlXed with
surprise that we note the comment of Bur
lington, n. j., citizens when they closed the
community rest room for soldiers and sailors
and turned the furniture and equipment over
to a post Of the American Legion. The fact,
they said that it had been possible to run
the room without the presence of an attend
ant in charge was a splendid testimonial to
the department and honor of the American
fighting men.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-10-03

TOHN \. MURRAY is the official repre-
- sentative of the employees of the Bureau
of Water who are members of the Ameri
can Federation of Labor He tells me that
9S per cent of the men employed by the
Bureau of Water are members of the fede
ration.
He says that the city has nothing to fear
from his organization in the matter of
strikes to enforce any demand. Their OBJ
ject is only to benefit their condition as far
as possible.
In this connection he asserts that the
wages paid by the city to this class of
employees is 80 per cent below that paid to
men in similar capacities outside.
Another angle on the question of his
organization activities is, Mr.. Murray
says that it is as much interested in secur-
ing better salaries for men high up in re-
sponsible positions as it is in the lower
grades of labor, and that superintendents
who are now getting $1,000 per year from
the nature of their responsibilities should
receive at least $4,000.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-10-03
DR. TALCoTT WILLIAMS, dean

DR. TALCOTT WILLIAMS, dean Of
~ Columbia University's Schoole of Jour
nalism and for nearly thirty years connected
with Philadelphia journalism, has the great
est private library of newspaper clippings
public documents, reports and bulletins in
the United States.
1t would be difficult to say how many
hundreds of thousands of clippings he has
preserved in the last thirty five years. He
began it when he was newspaper CORE
spondcnt in Washington, and it proved an
invaluable asset in his subsequent editorial
work.
One room In his residence on Pine street
was given over to this collection. For years
he employed an amanuensis to file material
1t is completely catalogued on the Melville
Dewey decimal system. Any particular set
of clippings can be produced with the same
facility that book can be found in any
well regulated library.
Walter c. llamm, for twenty years past
United States consul at Hull and New
castle, England. was another journalist
who built up a similar collection.
Mr.. Hamms speciality, however, when he
was active in newspaper work in this city,
was national politics. When he abandoned
journalism for diplomacy. his collection was
disspated, though part of it, l believe, went
10 NOiuIHDld university. Ills cllppluBS were
arranged alphabetically and not on library
system like the Williams collection.
1t has been only within the last twenty
five years with few exceptions, that metro
politan daily newspapers have undertaken
the systematic formation of what in pro
fessional slang is known as ''morgues'' or
'graveyards,' Originally, they were col
lections of biographical sketches, Now they
embrace every subject under the sun.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-10-03

The Spread Of eolshevlsm
Reds Win Too Pitched Bdfttea.-Sport-
ing Headline.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-10-03

Proof that our boys
are not only good SOL
diers but clean, up
standing men is ahun-
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-10-03

of moths and other insects on the Holme
Wood estate and a public road or highway
by which the estate is iptersected.'
Quoting from Times Law Reports: