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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-05-12
THE DAWN OF A NEW DAY

TWO classes of persons are criticizing
the work of the Peace Conference.
The first class is composed of those
who object to the sunrise because they
prefer to live in the darkness of the night
that is ending. They are the reaction
aries who would oppose anything new.
The second class is made up of those
who are complaining because sunrise is
not high noon.
This class is subdivided into two
groups, one composed of men who are so
shallow-pated that they think the proc
esses of human thought as they relate to
international relations can be changed
overnight, and the other made up of men
who would object to anything which they
or their friends did not originate
Mr.. Wilson, in an admirable after
dinner speech in Paris, stated the case
for the conference with beautiful lucid
ity when he said that you have to go
through twilight into the broadening day
before noon comes and the full sun is on
the landscape" To those who are dis
appointed, he said, the processes of slow
disentanglement from the hampering
things of the past must be shown
In brief, the Peace Conference has
started something and headed it in the
right direction. 1t has laid the founda
tions for a new system of international
law based upon the relations Of nations
to one another rather. than upon the
selfish development of the nations them
selves.
When it faces the responsibility Of
s action we are inclined to think that ever
the American Senate will hesitate a Ions
time before it tries to turn back the
march of progress.
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BUDGET SYSTEM IN SIGHT

WHEN so practical a man as Senator
sV Penrose says that Congress should
arrange for the preparation by the eX-
ecutiye departments of an annual budget
of the expenses of the government the
adoption of a sound and businesslike sys-
tenn of adjusting appropriations to pros
pective expenditures is nearer than it
ever was before.
All the arguments are in favor of a
budget system not only for the national
government, but for the state and city
governments. The chief obstacle in the
way of its adoption in Washington con-
sists in the misconception of some of its
advocates of what a budget system
really is.
A statement has recently been given
out in which it is assumed that the sole
financial function of Congress is to make
appropriations to meet the expenses as
estimated by the executive departments,
Now. as matter of fact, it is the busi-
ness Of Congress to tell the executive
|departments what to do. budget is
merely an estimate Of the money needed
ne~ ~ cost Of doing those things
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-05-12
GERMANY'S BLUSTER

IN 1871 the cry rang through PROSTATE
France that not one inch of her soil
must be surrendered to the victorious
enemy. Yet in due course the treaty of
Frankfort authorized the cession of
hlsace- Lorraine to Germany. Theirs,
Ganbetta and Favre were in those DAYS
just as fearful as BrockdOrff -Rantzau,
Scheidcmann and Matthias Erzberger are
now.
Moreover, the patriotic founders of the
third and the only stable French republic
were in a much better position to make
protest effective than are the unconvnc-
ngy theatrical Teutons who resent the
second Treaty of Versailles. France was
by no means friendless after the fall of
Paris. Throughout the Franco Prussian
War she was the recipient of much sin
ccre English sympathy. and it is quite
conceivable that had Won Moltke COM
mittcd the colossal error of invading
Belgium Great Britain would have taken
the field against his armies and the Hun
madness might have been crushed at
birth.
But Germany today is an outlaw ma
ton and she knows it. Caterwauling
about the terms Of the treaty will, of
course, be kept up until the time limit
expires That is the Tcuton method
bluster and melodramatics before newt
able submission. 1t is waste of emo
tiona, reserves to be excited over the
torrents of protests" now pouring out of
Germany. In the end she will do pre-
cisely what Marshal Foch and the COM
bined armies of civilization have made a
necessity.
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Answers to Saturdays Quiz

1. The pope is elected by scrutiny" each
cardinal depositing his sealed vote in q
chalicc from which the tickets are
drawn by ''scrutators.'' The cardinal
receiving two thirds of the votes be-
comes pope.
.. Three German cities which, although
subject to the imperial crown, were
republics prior to the fall of the Ger
man empire last autumn, were Ham
burg, Lubbock and Bremen. VIZ
3. The longest leg of the American avia-
tion route across the Atlantic is from
Trepassey, n. F., to Horta, Azores, a
distance of about 1850 miles.
A. The word ragout which describes kind
of stew, literally means 'taste re-
viver."
3. Algernors Charles Swinburne wrote
'.Songs Before Sunrise"
q The treaty of Frankfort in 1871
officially ended the Franco Prussiap
war.
7 Hellebore is the ancient name of vari.
Gus plants supposed to cure madness.
g. BENJAMIN Franklin in letter to Josiah
Quincy, dated September IL, 1773,
wrote. "There never was good war
or a bad peace"
q The word ovation essentially means a
lesser triumph, and although it is come
monty used in the sense of an ex~,
tremely enthusiastic reception, that
Significance is not etymologically cor y
rect.
10. The American Union Jack has hlue
field with white star Tor every stats
In the IniQn- s y ~ tf
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of army men, but to the 100000
women voters who had sons or brothers
in the Service and the brothers and
fathers of these men. The men who
formed the legion may be depended Upon
to unearth an issue likely to interest its
members.
The other factor is President Wilson.
We do not believe Mr.. Wilson will try
tor third term. But he will return
from Europe with clear consciousness
of the tremendous and eXacting duties
that his successor and the nation at
large will have to inherit from the war
period.
There are signs already to indicate that
the President may make a deliberate at
tempt to rally the progressive and en-
lightened elements of both old parties
into a new bloc or into a new party for
the support of a presidential candidate
qualified in other ways than by political
association or the claims of sentiment.
in such d crisis as the next election will
present Mr. Wilson is not likely to re-
spect party lines or party associations.
1t is doubtful whether he would hesitate
to wreck his own party completely if he
believed that by such a method he could
serve the country best in a time of great
need. In his own party there is no one
fitted to succeed him. The Republicans
are somewhat better off than the Demo-
Gratis in this respect.
Mr.. Taft remains the one logical can
didate for the Republicans. The West is
still somewhat prcjudiced against him.
1t is said that the old ring that fought
Roosevelt and Wilson might not support
Taft. That contention might be debated.
The old ring has been learning. 1t is
chastened. The West might easily be
converted. 1t might be converted by
man in whom it believes infinitely.
Not long ago in this column it was sug-
gested that the country might yet see
President Wilson on the stump for Mr..
Taft That prediction may be safely re-
peated now. Mr.. Taft is wise and gen
crous hearted and practiced in the liberal
beliefs which have been gaining ground
since the war began. He has come mag
niicently through great test. BY his
experience on the war labor board he has
been enabled to know how the ."other
half" lives. That is more than may be
said of any other candidate so far named.
And it is one of the chief reasons why
Mr.. Taft should he elected.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-05-12
What DO You KnOw?


QUIZ
/. Who is American ambassador to Japanf
.. What is the meaning of the verb Ito
burke as used, for instance, in the
sentence THE Senate may burke the
treaty.?
3. What is the name of the Greek parlia-
ment?
4. NC-4 is the name Of one of the trans
atlantic airplanes. What do the
initials stand for?
3. What other city besides Rome was ever
the seat of the Papacy?
6. What is mezzanine floor?
Z. In what year was Julius Caesar assas-
sinated?
8. Who wrote "The Sentimental Journey"i
o. What is simony? s
10. How many Presidents of the United
States came from Tennessee and who
were they?
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which Congress has already ordered so
that it may know the amount of money
to be raised for fixed charges.
If any one thinks that Congress will
consent to an arrangement which limits
its power to cut off appropriations for
work which it disapproves or to make ap-
preparations for new work which 1t
chooses to authorize he has a wrong con
ception of the duties and functions of the
national legislature.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-05-12
Welcome to Our Soldiers

ON SUNNY days, in lilac time, o.
OWhcn earth is green and skies are blue,
When church bells ring their sweetest chime,
And blood runs high and hearts beat true,
Brave soldiers ALL we welcome you!
Back home again! What magic words!
Dear mothers love and sweetheart true,
And little hands. and songs of birds,
And apple blossoms peeping through
Brave soldiers ALL we welcome you!
o God of Fate. Those left behind, f
In Flanders Fields and Argonne Wood,
And Chateau Thierry, too the blind
The lame (thosc stepped in richest blood),
Io let us not forget this day.
Let's bare our heads and kneel and pray
Henry Polk Lowenstein in the Kansas
City Times.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-05-12

A British dirgible,
When Lateness Is built on a huge scale
Desirable after the Zeppelin
models, is said to be
due at Atlantic City in June. In June,
therefore, we in America will have one more
good reason TO understand why an end had
TO be nut to PotsdamnatiOn.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-05-12

Never before could it be so authorita-
lively predicatcd that dry summer will
follow wet spring.
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THE CHAFFING DISH

as Friday the 18th, even the humbcst as
trologer may know that something is going
to happen. The fact that the date of the
full moon in June falls on Friday the 18th
seems to imply severe drouth in the later
part of the summer.
And yet we notice that the moon will be
full again on July 10. Surely that must be
an amanachronism?
Young men have Il pioneering imagina
ton: it is doubtful whether any young
Orlando ever found himself side by side with
Rosalind without dreaming himself welded
to her. If men die n thousand deaths before
this mortal coil is shutiied, even so surely
do youths contract n thousand marriages
before they go to the City Hall for a license.
Neghbors of the Capdonian Club in New
York are protesting against the use of noe
turnal bagpipcs by the members of that high
spirited institution. They say that "Bonny
Dundee as rendered on the wailing pipes is
a notable dissuadcr of slumber.
OF course we don't play the elvish pipes,
but we have found the air of 'Bonny Dun
dee an excellent lullaby for robust urchin.
You all know it, it goes like this: Tralala,
tralala, tralaLAlalala. But the discovery
of which we are proud is that this martial
ditty fits very well with the refrain of the
old nursery tale about the three little pigs
who were harricd by the wolf. The story,
you remember, tells of the three Young pigs
who set out to seek their fortune. The first
built his house of straw, and the wolf
"huffed and puffcd and blew his house in,''
and devourcd the lucklcss porker. The same
thing happened to the second pig; but the
third, a prudent animal, built his house of
hrick huffohln Dnfnhlp fNhuS ha
wolf was frustrated.
We have found that our trchin reioices
greatly in the following version of the end
of the tale. Sing it to the music of 'Bonny
Dundee" and you will find it quite satisfy
ing to the juvenile intellect; unless, of
course, you happen to be a United States
senator:
To the third Little Pig it was Lupus who
said,
"If you'll only come out | will snap off
your head:
/ will huff and I'll puff
And I'll blow your house in,
And convert you to bacon like two Of your
kin"
"IH huff and IN puff aud III blow your
house in,
III eat you for breakfast like too of your
kin
| "You can huff, you can puff all you cant"
said the peeg,
"But my home is secure, belong TO the
League"'
| Z" I"
| Irresolutions
| (Aficr reading HerFick)
| Proud man may VOWS be making still,
| Resolving nought shall shake 'em,
But let him try whate'er he will,
| At Bcauty's glance he'll break 'em.
| Sweet woman too may pledges give,
| Determined to maintain 'em,
| But while the charms of woman live
| The brave are sure to gain 'em.
/ 'What will the Republican party wage
J the 192OO fight on?" Mr.. Taft was asked
as he finished his breakfast coffee,-A
Saturday paper.
Our guess would be, the rejection of the
league of planets.
Perhaps you're wondering about these
ouotation marks between the paragraphs, IL
seems fairly obvious. They're in honor OF
Philadelphia having gone over the top-not
having stunned her quota
SOCRATES.
THE kind Of a state police we need |,
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-05-12

New enlistments ac-
Two Great Sights tually outnumber the
discharges at Camp
Dix. The lads who couldn't see action are
eager to see the next best things. They will
see the world
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-05-12

The observance of Mothers Day will be
imprcssivcly repeated on Thursday of this
week.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-05-12

No Hope

mcnt for all the people will be watched with
interest by the rest of the world. Certainly
the Hun is touching bottom. He knows the
limits of woe. And since all the subma
rines have been taken by the Allies no ad-
yenturing German can even sink passen-
ger ship to cheer his people up.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-05-12

il Il the FIRST syllable OF shaRtung which
takes the enphssis In Chipa-
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-05-12

The kind Of state police we need Is
ths kind provided for 10 the bill enlarging
the fores We already havs.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-05-12
4 Word About
Trolley Fares

why people chperfully give up two or three
cents extra for moving picture seats and
ice-crcam soda and still stand like iron
against any proposal to put an extra cent
or two on the price of a trolley ride. Here
is an old query in a new and novel form
We confess. more in anger than in sorrow, =,
that we do not know the answer. One
might suggest, however, that you don't have
to stand in the movies.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-05-12
o-AMERlCAN FRIENDSHIP
An Enelishmans Exposition of the
English View Of other Nations,
Especially America
BY WILLIAM McFEE
Engineer Lieutenant. British Navy

William WcFce. the author Of "CdsHds OF
me Sea" and other notable noCcls. has tcrt-
ten 10 his American publishers long letter,
in which he discusses the ignorance Of the
acreage Englishmun Of crCrVhing American,
dRe to his education. a SVstcm which, hEc
mat in r00Wc in America, lays stress on
the pccUIiorIv local subjects. ignoring the
worM al large. NJ. NcFce pleads for a
better understanding Of America by Eng
l0nd 1hc letter is n rdlHnblo contribution
TO hc discussion Of Anglo american friend
ship. Mr.. NcFcc's father rds an English
sea captain, his mother is a Canadian.
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Desk Notices

To our way of thinking the greatest COM
pliment we have ever had paid us was an
invitation to go to Boston today TO act as
pallbearer for poor Jim Europe. We wish
we could have gone, 10 show our respect for
ans of the wbitest nien we have ever met
~ So
Arizona republican., 1919-11-17
Moth Gives a Lecture on Home Man
aeement for Young Wives

Bob and I had been reunited almost
a week and in that time l had tried
repeatedly to talk over what had hap
pened TO me in the time of our sep
aration. But after my futile attempt
to explain what Berghoff knew about
me, 1 gave up, temporarily.
However, it wouldn't be safe" I told
myself ITO conceal such strange ex-
periences as l had had from an ordi-
nary husband. 1t would be like dane
ing on the edge of an icy precipice if
Bob were other than his dear old
trusting self.
So I adjusted myself to the respon-
sibilities of a bride, assumed the care
of our dear little home, and tried to
work out the H. c. of L. problems
which try the courage of all conscien-
tious home makers.
I intended to keep a household ex-
pense account. I knew that many
girls scorn budget-making as CLOSE"
and "stingy." And accordingly, l
pitied their poor husbands who strug-
gled to support them on small salaries.
| Mother Lorimer had a pet system
which she wanted to explain to me.
1T will keep US from crying about
Babs, for a little WHILE she said
Wneroat we DfOke down anu Wepl
| together. Afterward, we undertook the
bookkeeping problem. Mother made
her books balance to penny, every
month, or at least her secretary made
them balance. Mother admitted that
with her. it was MANIA a principle
which she had inherited, she guessed
from her New England ancestors.
Principle-nothingi" daddy re.
marked pausing in his restless prone
made about the house He seemed for.
ever seeking that golden haired baby
behind the curtains at the doors, OF
among the pillows of the divans. H,
made mother and me awfully nervous
and we were. glad to have him stant
still andl talk about anything excep
Babs.
Principle-shucks! Bookkeeping Il
all sentiment with mother. It's a kinC
Of religious observance-it remind
her once a month, that she was a.
poor as
"As only country parsons daugh
ter could be-" mother explained.
"She gave me my first start, yol
know" daddy said in a loud whispe
Arizona republican., 1919-11-17

to me. when we were married she
said we'd save so much of my wages
every week, and we'd set our table
on so much, and pay so much for
roof over US, and SO much for clothes,
and so much for fun and extras. But
somehow, whenever there was
shortage to be made up in any item,
it always came out of her snare OF
the clothes or the fun. Oh. l remem-
Der all right, old girl Daddy stopped
and kissed his wife. why, Jane, she
savd $1,000 in q couple Of years. And
that thousand let me drop my JOB,
and risk setting up for myself. IT
she'd spent then as earelessly as | see
young wives spending their husbands
wages nowadays, I'd still have my old
nose on the grindstone."
II never found it hard to save
mother dropped a stack of bills into
drawer-"for l never reckoned that 1t
was merely money l was saving.
Dollars represented the brain force
and nerve-force my man put into his
work. They stood for a certain por-
ton of his energy. When I had to
| decide whether I would put SIC In the
bank, or spend 1t, I didn't see the bill
as a piece of green paper. l remem-
|
| looked Saturday night when he handed
the money to me. I knew that he had
given part of his life, the best OF
himself in exchange for that money.
I loved my man. To waste his earn
ings carelessly was like destroying HIS
brain and muscles. Looked at so.
economy was a joy to me. 1t wasn't
hard to do without luxuries-"
Mother smiled as she caught my
glance wandering over the magnificent
furnishings Of the room.
And now we've got everything-al-
ways including sorrowl" Daddy
mopped his brow impatiently. IF
Morrison doesn't turn in some news
of that child in the morning, I'll fire
him-and go to work on the case my
self"
please be patient, daddy dear"
ventured. Bob has q clue-rather
a strange one. It's secret-rm sorry
to say"
Bob" snorted daddy who often af-
fects considerable scorn OF his eldest
sons ability. Bob as a detective
Good Lord. Now, II It were you
Jane"
= tTo Be Continued)
Arizona republican., 1919-11-17

ttrtajnment of his royal highness we're
Miss Deiph,ne Heyl, daughter of Col
onei and Mrs. Charles H. Heyl; Miss
Betty Grove. daughter Of Captain aad
Mrs. Edwin Grove; Peggy Martin,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas II.
Martin; Frances Hampson, daughter
of Mrs. J. Fl. Hampson.
Perhaps these charming debu-
tantes. about thirty in all. secretly
practiced before their mirrors these
days all sorts of courtesies-and the
gentle art of walking backwards grace
fully. as it's said that such is the
correct way of leaving the presence
of H. r. H.
And IL Prince Edward really has
any intention Of choosing an American
bride surely amid such galaxy OF
| beauty and brains, for these girls are
as brilliant as they are pretty, he will
lose his heart.
Arizona republican., 1919-11-17
BY Evelyn Drum Hunt

WASHINGTON, d. c., Nov. 10
There was an excited group Of de-
butantes in the said old capital
For the bachelor Prince of Wales
was coming-a prince whose national
flower is the rose. and there have been
whispers that his choice for the next
English variety may be an American
Beauty. So all the buds" of Wash
ington blossomed forth in the social
whlrl when his royal highness, Prince
Edward Albert, heir apparent to the
throne of Great Britain. came to town.
The girls attended their first for
NAL function when they went to shake
Edward Albert by the hand at the state
reception which was given by in honor.
Only cabinet Bud"
Perhaps the bud who was apt to see
the most Of the prince is pretty Nancy
Lane, only daughter of the Secretary
of the Interior and Mrs. Franklin K
Lane. She is the only cabinet bud"
of the season and the first girl of Mr..
Wilson's cabinet to be formally pre-
scented. Miss Lane has been her
mothers "right-hand man" in various
war relief activities. All of the debu-
tante activities of the season will CEN
ter about her.
The diplomatic buds also had an OPP
portunity to really get acquainted with
his youthful royal highness. There
were two in that group; the charming
young daughters of Sonora Domingo
de Cana, Elena and Sofia, who, with
their mother. will pass the winter at
the Chilean embassy with the am
bassador and Mime. Beltran Ma
thieu. Nine. Matthew will present her
nieces to society at reception at the
embassy.
Everybody Represented
Every set in Washington society is
represented by a debutante this win
ter; official, diplomatic, residential and
army and navy circles.
Miss Anne Gordon met the prince.
She is the second daughter of Mrs.
George Barnett, commandant of the
Marine Corps.
Miss Cornella Vanderbilt. daughter
n Mrs. George w. Vanderbilt oil
Arizona republican., 1919-11-17

Washington, New York and Biltmore,
N. c., saw much of the prince. Miss
Vanderbilt has been attending school
in Washington for several years and
VIII be presented here.
Miss AIilicent Rogers, daughter of
II. II Rogers of New York, will make
her debut in this city this winter. Her
parents have passed the last two win
tiers in Washington. Miss Celeste
Crosby, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
Oscar T. Crosby Of Washington and
Warrenton, Va, belongs to this resi-
Dental group Of buds. She is a sister
of the Countess Caracciolo di Melito
of Italy. Another debutante is Mis-
Catherine Littaeur, daughter of Mrs.
William Littaeur; also Miss Lucy
Kinsolving. daughter Of Bishop Kin
solving of Brazil.
Thirty Pretty Girls
Among other young girls who
I ensured the assurance that they
would receive invitations to the balls,
dinners and teas arranged for the en-