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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-02-14
lT DIDN'T GET THERE, But IT'S ON
THE WAY

! 'THE seniority rule, which has hitherto
governed the selection Of committee
chairmen in the Senate. has not been re-
poa'ed by the caucus Of Republican Sena.
tors. but the caucus made a start in that
direction.
II has voted that no Senator may he a
chairman Of more than one Of the ten
important committees. and may have a
seat on only two such committees and
may serve member Of conference
committee from only one Of the two unless
the second committee asks that he be
appointed
II has not been the custom to name the
same Senator chairman OF two impor.
tant committees. but the same Senator has
served on three or four OF the committees
which control legislation. The Democrats
who now control the Senate followed the
example Of the Republicans
When the Republicans were in control
Senator Lodge was chairman of the Com.
mittee on immigration and he. sat on the
Committee on Finance. Foreign Relations
and Naval Affairs. Senator Penrose was
chairman OF the Committee on Finance
and was a member of the Committees on
immigration Naval Affairs and Railroads.
Both Penrose and Lodge served on other
committees. but the others were OF minor
Importance.
When the Democrats got control Sena.
tor Underwood. for example was made
chairman of the Committee on Cuban Re.
lations and sat on the Committees on Ap-
propriatons. on Expenditures for the De.
nar nf N n
merce and on Rules. Senator Reed has
held the chairmanship of one important
committee and has had a place on four
others OF the first class. Smith, OF Geor.
gia; Hitchcock. Fletcher. Overman and
others have served on four big committees.
OF one a which each was chairman.
The new rule will prevent a small group
of Senators from controlling the impor-
tant committees. 1t is in the interest of
wider representation Of national senti-
ment in the action of the Senate. But it
does not provide a way for dispacng
the senior Republican from the chair
manship Of a committee in order to per.
nit the appointment Of a man qualified
by ability and popular support 10 preside
over it's deliberations.
The time will come when the seniority
rule will be disregarded as il is disre.
garded in promotions in the army when
great emergency arises. The failure OF
the Senate Republican caucus to disre-
gard II now is likely TO produce compiled
tons which will make trouble for the
party in 1920. But If the caucus had at.
tempted to disregard the old custom now
there would have been trouble right away.
We assume that it chose what it regarded
as the lesser of two evils.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-02-14
THE CHAFFING DISH

West in 1S84-then a young man about
twenty y-five-Roosevelt was struck with
the idea of becoming a publisher, and made
a connection with Major Putnams firm.
Major Putnam says writing in 191D:
! found myself at once interested in the
eXuberant vitality and wide suggestiveness
OF the young man. who even at that date
and with comparatively limited expert
ence OF the world, was full OF opinions
strongly held and emphatically uttered.
was glad on more grounds than to
secure his association with our concern.
The connection was made in the form of a
special or limited partnership. but Theo-
dore had desk placed in the office, and
as his home was in the immediate neigh
borhood OF the business he found it con-
vcnient to be on hand for large portion
of the Office hours He promptly developed
a full measure of original theories for the
running of a publishing business, theories
which were always interesting but which,
in most cases. did not appear TO be prac-
ticable or promising OF good results under
the existing conditions. However en-
phatic Theodore might be in presenting a
plan or piece of counsel, he accepted
always good.naturedly enough an adverse
judgment, and a day or two later would
have in readiness a fresh bunch Of
schemes and suggestions. ] became very
fond of the man. although there were
times when the prolific suggestions and
the exuberance of utterance came TO be
fatiguing.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-02-14
A Welded Valentine

nEAR, may l be your Valentine?
- Not just today. in weather fine;
Not just today, III lovers mood
But through life's each vicissitude.
Not just when girlish eyes still shine,
Dear. may / be your Valentine,
But through all mortal whims and fits
While Time our human fbers knits.
And though, most sweet, my peevish earth
Is hardly such promotion worth,
Dear. may be your Valentine
And learn to make your virtue mine?
Recalling by loves old refrain
Our wistful joy. our happy pain,
I write this pleading, smiling line
Dear. may be yoUr Valentine?
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-02-14
ENDING A JOKE THAT HAD CONE
TOO EAR

WHEN this State committed Itself to the
w nonpartlsan system Of nominating
judges Il evidently was in the mood o.
the man who said he was always wiling
10 try anything once.
But the nonpartisan judiciary &C, has
not worried out as its advocates expected.
There has been no Improvement in the
character OF the men nominated and
elected and it happened two or three years
ago that an obscure lawyer with no quail.
fications for the post received a nomination
for a high judicial office. He would not
have received serious consideration b.
any party under the partisan system Of
making nominations
Last fall when two Judges were elected
and when. under the constitutional pro.
vision intended TO secure the representa-.
tion Of the minority party on the bench,
one of the successful candidates should
have been O Democrat. the nonpartisan
plan was so worked as TO secure the elec.
ton OF two Republicans. Nothing could
have been more farcical.
Word now comes from Harrisburg that
the farce is to be ended and that the law
is to be repealed this winter so that can
didates for the bench may once more be
frankly nominated by the different parties,
without any pretense that they are not
This is fortunate, for nothing is more per.
nicious than to make q farce comedy OF a
judicial election.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-02-14
THE LAST HOHENZOLLERN RULER
IN Peril

THE present plight OF the Rumaniau
4 monarchy virtually completes the repiI.
diation OF the DEGREES OF the cynical Con.
gress Of Berlin with respect TO the rest
less southeastern Europe The Bulgarian
dynasty is gone Black Peter ascended the
Serbian throne in 1908 as a result of vio.
.ent revolutionary methods. Nicholas has
lost recognition by the Montenegrin Par
liament. Turkey as an Ottoman empire Is
nonexlstent. Bosnia and Herzegovina. sew
cred from Austria. crave incorporation into
the new state OF Jugo-Slavia.
Bismarcllian diplomacy was sustained
longer in Ruman!a than anywhere else.
since through all the upheavals of the
world war the crown of that country was
in the possession OF branch of the House
OF Hohenzollern. Carol who died IN 1914
and the now hapless Ferdinand, who sue
cseded him. had not, indeed the slightest
racial claim to rule over the Slavo-Lat!n
Kingdom. composed OF the old principal
<ies Of wallachia and Moldavls. Whether
Tho revolt which has broken out in Bucha-
1est IL inspired by mad Bolshevism, which
vim dangerously complicate the situation.
on 10 dominantly the result OF n more nor
msl popular movement, 1t has at least the
virtue Of rebuking the Hohenzolern
1.>oclery,
\ Aftsr her nrst nashy invasion OF rransyi.
= ~. Rpmanla presented a pltsous spec
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-02-14
there has rarely been such a disposition in

there has rarely been such a disposition in
this city.
II the real estate brokers will make de.
mand for retrenchment and reform a part
OF their own.Your.IIome campaign they
will do more TO insure its success than they
can accomplish in any other way. The
prospective purchaser would like to be
assured that there will be no increase in
the tax rate. II he could be told that the
twelve hundred brokers would combine to
demand economies in the City Hall now
and the election Of new city government
on a program OF business efficiency he
would be in a better mood than he is now
TO consider buying a home. Many men
will buy and take their chances. but we
could have no better propa gandists for
good government than the real estate
brokers II they would pledge each pur.
chaser to consider the business capacity
Of every candidate for office and vote
against the men who are known to be
moro interested in the distribution OF the
plums than In the conservation OF the re.
sources OF the city.
An Own.Your.Home campaign running
along with an Own.Your.City.F First propa.
ganda can accomplish wonders for this
great community II it is conducted with
imagination and insight.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-02-14
The Wise Dog

One day there passed by company Of
cats wise dog,
And as he came near and saw that they
were very intent and needed him not, he
stopped.
Then there arose in the midst OF the com
pany large grave cat and looked upon
them and said. Brethren, pray ye; and
when ye have prayed again and yet again,
nothing doubling, verify then II shall rain
mice"
And when the dog heard this he laughed
in his heart and turned from them saying
20 blind and foolish cats, has'it not been
written. and have not known and my father
before me. that that w..ea raiaeth fog prayer
and faith and supplication Is not mice. but
bones - Kahlil Glbran. in the Madman.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-02-14
4 MIDDLE.ACED T4LENTINE

CWEET SIXTEEN is shy and cold,
~ Calls me Sir" and thinks me old ;
Hears in an embarrassed way
All the compliments pay;
Finds my homage quite bore,
Will not smile on me, and more
To her taste she firds the noise
And the chat Of callow boys. 5''
Not the lines around my eye,
Deepening as the years go by
Not white hairs that strew my head.
Nor my less elastic tread;
Cares I find. nor joys | miss,
Make me feel my years like this
Sweet sixteen is SHY and cold,
Calls me, Sir" and thinks me old.
Walter Learned us47-19l5L
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-02-14
"Manning' the PUMPS

A San Francisco paper, quoted by the
Bookman, reports the last adventure OF
the Casco, the famous yacht chartered
thirty years ago by Robert Louis Steven
son TO cruise the South Seas Says the
Frisco sheet
The vessel came into San Francisco
recently with all hands manning the pumps
to keep the flush hull from sinking The
adventure ship came from Suva. and for
the last forty-four days of the voyage
Captain Troup and his crew OF Ave, in.
cluding the cook and the bride of the
skipper, had never left the pumps a mo-
ment his bride says she has had
quite enough OF the Stevenson ship"
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-02-14
What DO You KnO,u?
QUIZ

T. Who is the new Chancellor of Germany?
2. Name six Russian factions which have
accepted the Entente's invitation to the
Prinkpo conference. ~
g. From what language is the word ham
mock derived? ......
4 What State, according TO the last United
States census is the most densely
populated?
s. What plant eats insects"
6. What is an amalgam?
Z. Who was Jonathan Trumbull?
8. What South American republic is some
times called the Banda oriental?
Q What son of Columbus accompanied him
OH his last voyage to the New, World?
10. Who wrote the pl-:' 1.-THE Jew OF Malta?
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-02-14
Answers 10 Yesterdays Quiz

/, Friedrich Ebert has been elected
Provisional President of Germany.
2. Nickel does not tarnlsh because the
oxydizaton resulting from exposure
10 the air takes the same hue as the
metal.
3. The aphis, or plant-louse, Yields So
called honey dew for ants when
stroked by those insects. Hence the
name ants cow"
4. A quinton is an antique five-stringed in
strument. the predecessor OF the modera
cello.
8. The first issue OF Liberty Bonds Is TAX
free,
8. Guadeloupe and its small dependent
islands and Martinique are French
possessions in the West Indies.
Z. The United States paid Spain 5000, 900
for Florida In 1919.
s. The first President OF the United States
10 die in Office was William Henry
Harrison, in ls4l.
o Ole Ball. the Norwegian ylolinlst. was
known as The Passnint Of the Norih .
10, Fiat lux means LET there be light"
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-02-14
Fair Warning

We wish 10 give notice that at the first
available opportunity we intend to write
an essay in this department on Cynics and
Sentmentalists.
The basis of this essay will he the
thought that when you need help need it
badly and need 1t right away, The man to
go to is the cynie.
We mention this only IN the hope that
perhaps some one else will write this bet
ter than we can. We will give one good
cigar TO the author Of the best essay sub
mitted on this topic.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-02-14

tacle in the universal conflict. Her posi-
bic redemption under a kinsman OF the
Kaiser has been proying no small embar-
rassment TO civilization. II she can now
put her house in order without falling a
prey 10 Bolshevist anarchy her recovery
may be in sight.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-02-14
OWN YOUR HOME. But
OWN YOUR CITY FIRST
How the Real Estate Brokers Can Boom
Their Business and Improve
the Local Government

THERE are more people in Philadelphia
than can be accommodated with suit
able homes. The number has been in
creasing rapidly during the last two years,
because the population has been CROWNS
and building has almost ceased. Yet in
spite OF this condition several hundred
real estate brokers gathered at the Belle
vueStratford Hotel last night TO make
plans for campaign in April to induce
people TO own their own homes.
We said in spite Of this condition" l;
would be more correct t, say because of
this condition Within the next twelve
months several thousand new houses are
to be built II the builders can get the
material and the labor. They must do this
IN order TO supply the demand They
hope 10 sell the homes instead Of renting
them The Own.Your.Home drive OF the
real estate brokers is TO be undertaken to
assist the builders in finding purchasers.
II is an effort toward intelligent co-opera.
iion between the middlemcn and the pro-
ducer and Il deserves TO he crowned with
the success which all worthy endeavor
merits.
Such a campaign is likely 10 be more
successful here than in any other large
American city. for this is community OF
home owners. II has more individual
homes in proportion TO the population
than any other considerable city in the
Here are the latest available fig
ures showing the number Of dwellings and
the number OF persons occupying each
dwelling in ten cities with population
in excess OF 400 600.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-02-14
Well Print 1t, Henry; but You
S,yim Against the Current

SWIM Against thC tuich'
DREATHES there the man with soul so
- dead
Who never to himself hath said
Last night ! drank the fizz too deep,
Last night the fizz was fountainous!
Whose heart hath ne'er within him burned.
Whose brain ne'er waggled
As home his footsteps he hath turned
And danced or struggled
Feeling the pavement sway and leap
Last night the streets were mountainous!
IF SUCH there breathe so mark him
well.
For him no bacchic raptures swell
High though his titles, proud his name,
Aouarlan bliss let fishes claim!
DESPITE his titles or position,
The wretch the friend Of prohibition,
Living shall forfeit harmless laughter,
Diving. shall merit no hereafter,
Parched in the dust from whence lie slunk,
invent. untoasted, and undrunk.
HENRY JULEP.
Why Is writer's cramp so common and
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-02-14
Caught in the Undertow

Colin, worshiping some frail,
BY self-deprecation sways her;
Calls himself unworthy male
Hardly even fit to praise her
But this tactic insincere
In the upshot greatly grieves him
When he finds the lovely dear
Quite implicitly believes him!
ANN DANTE.
Probably the reason why. open-air ora
tory is going out Of fashion is that states
men in the open find 1t so hard TO read the
handwriting on the wall
my offense is rank" said the unfortu-
nate Russian grand duke as he was potted
by the Bolshevists.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-02-14
r. r. as q Publisher

Among the many anecdotes OF Theodore
Roosevelt that have lately been published.
we have not seen any aliusioh 10 the very
interesting passage in Major George Haven
Putnam's Memories OF q Pub.isher," in
which he describes r. X. as an Office asso-
ciate. II seems that coming back from the
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-02-14
Determination

History is so unfair" lamented the
Kaiser while he was opening his valen-
tine from Bentinck.
George Washington cut down cherry
tree and every one praised him for it. My
men cut down whole orchards Of them in
France, as a delicate compliment TO the
Americans, and now you call them Huns"
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-02-14
Our Own Desk Motto

Whether 'tis nobler in the mind TO suffer
The sllngs and arrows of outrageous talH-
ing.
or to take arms against a sea of sylables
And by opposing end them.
SOCRATES
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-02-14

John Galsworthy says that the best
novel OF the war Is yet to be written If we
can believe the publishers announcements II
has already been written several times.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-02-14

"n-Clement.' 80 is what Governor sproul
cries 10 his new Public Service Commission
appo!ntee and that is precisely descriptive
OF the weather in political camps whose
occupants squ!rm when they witness the
recognition OF men Of real meri.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-02-14

If the Senate would spend less time in
talking and more in voting it would do busi-
ness faster and reduce the bulk Of the
Congressional Record. ....
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-02-14

In asking for recognition, the new Ger
man Government should remember that by
all the rules Of etiquette she is not exempt
from certain amount Of bowing on her
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-02-14

No. Gwendolyn, the Aquitania Oh which
Lord Reading, the British ambassador. will
sail for America in a few days Is not sea-
going water wagon. ,.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-02-14

Europe declares a footgear purvcyor
is now on a wooden shoe basis" And yet
somehow the Impression prevails that rub
ber soes are being worn more than even. in
PnnLs
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-02-14

Mr.. Wilson, after attending the closing
session Of Congress. plans to sail for France
again on March IS, which will put him on the
ocean on ST. Patrick's Day.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-02-14

The small boy who dreams Of fighting
bandits no longer has to plan to run away
10 the far West.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-02-14

Vale was by far the most significant
syllable in the valentine which William Ho-
henzollern received from the German people.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-02-14

The new revenue bin now awaits the
Presidents signature, and the rest OF us
await the tax bills With undsgused appre-
hens,oT.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-02-14

The principle Of open covenants openly
arrived at accorded strangely i'll yesterday
with the aood OF anonymous Valentines in
the mails
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-02-14

The private life OF kings seems likely 10
compose the whole OF It, not merely single
phase as IN other and Shower DAYS
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-02-14

Perhaps the most hopeful sign about the
Peace Conference is the way in which dead
locks are opened with extremely live keys
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-02-14

The Americus club. OF Pittsburgh. did
not intend to knock Knox when II doomed
him for the presidency.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-02-14

sweeping indemnity is likely 70 gather
up altogether too much dirt.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-02-14

The senate is lucky. II can pass the
tax bill. whereas the public is unable 10 get
around il in any fashion,
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-02-14

The tale Of the little
And Now There Indians on the wall
Are Six. is reversed in Rus
sia, where one by one
the factions bob up with their little ac-.
ceptances for the Prinkipo meet.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-02-14

Rumania seems to be suffering y.yldl!
from Bucharestlessness.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-02-14

why is writer's cramp so common and
takers cran.p so rare
The Washington herald., 1919-03-19
HOT SPRINGS RESULTS.

FIRST RACE-Threr and one-haY furlon.s
Rainbow Division, lis johnson. ) to 2. ) to 5
TO 2; Inquiry lD tWillisl. 5 TO l. 6 TO 5
Miss Parncil. S tWhestIey even. Time O:i.
IS. Diddle Dee. Prank W., Lady Pstsud. ais
ran.
SECOND RACE-siI furIonss. Bon OTIS. In
on Garner. il to S. 6 to 5. } to 5; Sir wm
johnson. is Walker. even, 10 .: Hast!
Mabel. los &C. Z. Brown, to s. Time
lii IS. Gourmsnd, Sir DIXIE Hindoostan
Adeline L.. Donna. Grafton. also ran.
THIRD RACE-SiT furiongS PoTtlight. Il,
on. Gamer. to s, 4 to s. to 30; Gray Eagle
lis tConnelIy), TO !, to 5: Liberztor. II:
lTruxler). TO S. Time, l:lI Ophcha W
W II. Buckner. Parrish, Arch Plotter, Cari.n
Choir Master, ROckery. also ran.
FOURTH RACE - One mile and 70 yards
Drastic, los M. Gamer. to ? to 5. out
Slippery Em. liz CstSlkerlD. ! TO ), cut
Revcler. los &C. Z Brown, 70 . Time
lAS new track record. Hank O'Day also ran
FIFTH RACE-siX turiones. Legotal, 81
GE2icksonl. to 2. even. l to .: Ku KluI. 10
Burke. : to /. even; sylvano. lol CNIcIutyrei
to Time. LIS 4-5. Blue Paradise. Nominee,
Humma. Msnd Bacon. Berlin. Water War
Ring. Gallant Lad, also ran.
SIXTH RACE-ODe and one-eighth miles
Little String los CBurkel, to 2. 6 TO 5. ) 10 5
Aldebaran, lis tConneIlyl. even, 2 to 5; Thanks
giving. los Hsynesl. TO S. Time. a IS
Crankie, Brown Velvet, Opera Glass. Rive
King. Ellison. No Manager. also ran.
The Washington herald., 1919-03-19
CLARK JUMPERS OFF
FOR PIMLICO TRACK

New York, March 1S.-with the
opening OF the racing season in
Maryland only two weeks away.
horses from New York and vicinity
are beginning to journey Southwsrd.
F. Ambrose Clark. a member of the
Jockey Club and an amateur
steeplechase rider OF countrywide
prominence. today shipped eight of
his jumpers from Westbury, L. l.,
to the Pimlico track, where they
will star at the spring meeting be-
ginning on May 10. In the string
is a 4-year-old f1lly from the noted
old race mare Savannah, of whom
much is expected this season.
Among the other horses that left
in charge of Warren Freeman. their
trainer. were Pigeonsthorpe, Hibler,
Mister Ned. Surf Queen and Corps
Acorps. Norman Clark will ride for
Mr.. Clark again this year.
There Is more than a possibility
that Mr.. Clark will ride one of his
horses before the Pimlico meeting
in the twenty-fifth annual race for
the Maryland Hun Cup.