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The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-10-31
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AND want you to know
THAT IN the morning.
THAT FOLLOWED the day.
THAT YOUR letter came.
! WAS lying awake.
AND FROM my window.
THAT LOOKS to the east.
] COULD see the glow
OF THE coming day
AND AS ! looked,
THE BELLS rang out,
AND l. thought Of you, '
WHEREVER YOU arc,
IN THE great stone pile,
JUST ACROSS tho street,
FROM WHERE | lay,
AND thought OF the others.
TO WHOM the bells,
SEND OUT the news.
THAT IN spite OF strife.
AND IN spite Of grief
AND IN spite OF greed.
THAT THERE still remained.
IN AN upset world.
THE PROMISE made.
THAT WHOEVER should come.
AND COMMUNE with Him.
SHOULD THERE find peace.
FOR ms weary soul,
AND SO it is.
THAT WHOEVER you are,
WHO WRITES to me.
FROM ACROSS the way.
WANT you TO know
THAT | am glad.
YOU HAVE BUNDLED me
] THANK YOU. NJ
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-10-31

Dear X. c. B.-When the night Is
over and the day Is breaking | love to
listen to the church bells ringing in
the churches nearby announcing the
birth. OF a new day or the opening of
services. And many n night at the
Pennsylvania station l have uttered a
silent prayer for the man who rings
tho bells, and ! beg you, dear X, G, D.,
not to be annoyed at the ringing OF the
bells, for there Is an old saying, "'Tis
an Ill wind that blows nobody good, "
So please listen when the bells are ring
ing and think for a moment that some
body is waiting for the message they
bring,
know, X. c. b., that u you could you
wouldn't stop the bells and shut out Of
the hearts of those who work at night
n In the early morning the thoughts
n God that come with the music Of
the bells, c, j, X
PENNSYLVANIA Station,
WHOEVER YOU are.
YOU'VE MADE me ashamed,
OF THE silly thing.
| WROTE Of the bells.
s
AND OF course I intended.
a THAT YOU should know,
THAT THE lines l wrote.
WERE JUST foolish lines.
BUT IT happens sometimes.
IN THE daily grind.
THAT WE miss the mark.
AND lust for myself.
WANT to say,
THAT WHEN l do.
1T is my prayer.
I WILL always have.
THE COURAGE 1t needs.
TO ADMIT my wrong.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-10-31

Il. l met him last spring when visit
ing, and kept company with him fol
a month. Then I was called home.
| nave been visiting at the same place
again and met the young mar again
and love him very dearly.
Would it be all right to let him CONF
10 see me? My folks don't want mt
have been corresponding with a
Tor 1--WE years, although I have
met him. A month ago he sent 7
iocket. Would you advise me A
Il? He is my fathers best fri
Is coming to see us in a month
YOU'D the locket make me
You are too young to PEI
man to call upon youJ
parents wishes. Wait i
and at the end of that A
care for him ask yor9
TO let him come to 81
You should not
Although it would i
gagement, it woul
too much and 4
think that your
ment.
Dear MRS.
friend who Y
father has
everything
give her ST
can enjoy
would you
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anything
everything
give excel
Dear ~
opinion fx<A|
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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-13
THE GOVERNORS RENT PROBE

IF HALF that the representatives of the
- Tenants Association have been telling
Governor Sproul is true, the case against
the building associations, house owners
and real estate men, who are reported in
a combination to profteer, is precisely
similar to the case against food gamblers
and larger spectators who are dragged
into court at intervals as examples Of
conspicuous evil.
The shortage of houses doesn't excuse
rent gougers. The law of supply and
demand is a pretty good one ordinarily.
But it has ceased to be acceptable in re-
lation to essentials like food, water, coal
and shelter. Without these things people
would perish. The barons of this country
are finding that they may not play reck-
lessly with the essentials Of life.
Amateurs at the game will have to learn
the same thing. That is why the Gov
ernor's investigation of the tenants COM
plants ought to be as thorough and
inclusive as it can be made.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-13

MO MAN is really great until he can
~ get along without praise. Pershjng
didn't lose his head in France. It is clear
that he isn't going to let it get away
from him at home. He took pains to
accept the acclaim of the city graciously
yesterday, only to pass it along over his
shoulder to the millions Of men who were
the cutting edge of his purpose in the
war. He took it for granted, he said,
that the demonstration wa a tribute to
"our magnificent soldiery."
The wise old IndiaS fighter knows how
greatly he is honored and esteemed. But
he knew, too, that a large part of the
cheering was, consciously or otherwise,
for the lads who didn't come back, for
the broken men who never will recover
from the war, and for the majestic army
that represented US at our very best. SO
Pershing didn't strut. He wore none of
his decorations, though his aides wore
theirs.
The commander of the American
armies is not only a great soldier; he is
a great citizen. 1t is an extraordinary
man who can be both.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-13
BOSTON AND MR.. GoMPERS

MIR. GOMPERS was lp'e in his attempt
AtA to deal with the police strike in
Boston. His suggestion that the police
men return to their posts, abandon their
claims to union privileges and await the
result of the industrial conference at
Washington can have no relation to the
Fundamental issue revealed by the walk
out and its immediate consequences. The
country wants to know whether the
president of the Federation of Labor and
his executive council actually believe that
policemen should be unionized.
So far Mr.. Gompers and his associates
have lone nothing to explain the precise
origin and purpose of the movement to
organize the police in Boston and Wash
ington. In both cities there have been
aspects of recent labor propaganda
which suggest a definite effort on the
part of somebody to put the policemen
in every large city on a trade union basis
as locals of the federation. If that aim
were ever realized new police ~organiza-
tons would be necessary or the enforce
ment of law would cease to be a priyi-
lege de constituted governments, 1t
would be, instead, the privilege Of Ahe
minorigses cOnstitutingthe Federation q
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-13
FRUITS oF OUR INDUSTRY

A LTHOUGH Philadelphians individ-
"A ually may be quite as vain as other
mortals, the city considered as a unit is
additionally averse to blowing its W
horn. There have been critics who re-
jected the word modesty in this connec-
ton. Indifference seemed to fit the case
better.
In that case the exhibition of Philadel-
phia-made goods, which closes tonight,
may serve as a wholesome antidote. The
variety of products on view in the First
Regiment Armory can be surpassed in
few, if any, manufacturing centers in the
land. Throughout the current week
10000 or $4,000 persons a day have pat
ronized the exhibit. It could not fail
to nave made them legitimately proud of
their town. The strangers in the throng
must also have learned an Illuminating
thing or two.
The plan to make such a display an
annual affair is happily conceived.
Leipsic with her great yearly fair was
not called boastful, but ]enterprising.
Lyons, her successor in this line in con-
tinental Europe, similarly fortified a good
name. Philadelphia far surpasses either
of these cities as a workshop. Some
day we may have a great industrial fair
of u own. The exhibition is an ex-
cellent start.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-13
A NATIONAL DISGRACE

As A people Americans have never
"A been disrespectful of law. And there
has always been a touch of reverence in
the popular regard for federal authority.
People of all sorts have been accustomed
to feel assured of the Brightness and
wisdom of federal laws and even a sense
Of pride in their efficiency and dignity.
Men who think nothing of squirming
narrowly through municipal or state
courts accept the higher diCtum with a
feeling that to do otherwise would be
neither safe nor quite decent. at is the
government" SO banks are robbed, but
nobody nowadays ever tries to rob the
mails. Only adventures try to violate
the customs laws. The food restrictions
ordered by the national administration
were automatically enforced by the
pressure of public opinion on violators.
And the food administration was con-
sistently aided even by people who suf-
fered great inconvenience under its rul-
ings.
A change is noticeable now in some
quarters. Disregard of the wartime
prohibition laws is widespread, open and
shameless here and everywhere through
out the country. Attorney General
Palmer wasn't giving the House appro-
priations committee any news when he
told it that New York is, in its own lingo,
wide open. The offenders in most in
stances are profiteers and prisoners who
are selling faxed liquor at eXtortionate
rates. There is only an imitation of
effort to mask the traffic.
Congress, which insisted on the con-
tinuance of the emergency dry laws,
made no provision for their enforcement,
and no provision to sustain the traditional
dignity of federal laws. The question
as it exists now is far larger thar that
of prohibition. If Congress is willing to
have the laws Of the land fouted and
derided it is setting a lamentable prece-
dent for times like these. If the dry
law was worth continuing it should be
enforced at all costs, not for the sake
of a few months Of prohibition, but for
the honor of the country. If it isn't to
be enforced it should never have been
left upon the statute books.
Law is Of little use if it isn't re-
spected, and that is why the spectacle
of widespread violations of the liquor
rulings will continue to be intolerable to
right-thinking people in America. Con-
gress should appropriate whatever funds
are needed to meet the situation and to
make rigorous prosecutions possible by
the attorney general. And meanwhile
the zealots who forced a difficult COM
plication upon the country, and the Con-
gress which was subservient to them,
may feel that they have done nothing
for prohibition or the cause of enlight-
ened government. Indeed, it may be
wondered whether the laxity and confu-
sion manifested in Washington recently
may not be in some small way partly re-
sponsible for the amazing disregard of
all law and all conventions which is
one of the odd phenomena of the hour
in Boston and elsewhere.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-13

Labor. Government as we understand it
could no longer exist.
A movement like that instituted at
Boston and Washington could gain no
momentum without the tacit approval
of the higher officers of the federation.
What does Mr.. Gompers think of the
theory involved? What is to be the
attitude of the executive council which
is in session at Washington? Has Mr..
Gompers been unscated by the radicals
in his organization? Are organized
labor and its leaders in this country
actually ready to invite for themselves
the disaster that must follow upon an
acceptance of the red gospel?
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-13
BEAUTY AND THE ROSE

The color that bathes the Ineligible
World is the beauty that blooms within
its flower ' for beauty in the In
telligible World is not a flower that
blooms only on Its surface.-Plotinos.
T READ a page of mystic laws,
l. At silent noon-a gardens shade.
A rose my nearest neighbor was,
In more than roses charm arrayed
And there (unless a dream it were)
The soul of me had speech with her.
"Say why should fends of closest touch
Within their hearts thy symbol wear,
O rose?-Their fond esteeming such
No feast of theirs but thou art there,
Above their board-a leaf Of thine
Ahoat upon each cup of wine?
"And lovers, too-why meath thy sway
Have they a covert taken, rose? .
OF all their lips or looks would say,
So sure thou nothing wilt disclose!
Why should they deem thou art so deep
Unfathomed silence thou wilt keep"
because so beautiful am I
That beauty holds me as her own,
And binds me by the closest tie,
But %beauty's self cannot be known!
And she, SO secret, makes me part
OF her unsearched eternal heart.
"Love is the beauty lovers know
All wistfully,-a troubled joy, ..
Since flaws across her image blow,
That half its perfect lines destroy;
But il her mirrored face shone clear,
Not love itself could hold them here!"
A petal fell-Oh, did I see,
Or did I only feel it fall?-
A petal,-one-and two-and three,
The rose had heard a sovran call;
It's soul was gone, to be a part
OF an unsearched eternal heart.
Edith NJ. Thomas, in New York Times.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-13
EVENING PUBLIC OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES, s.

much more alive the great Roman would
be! All the most of us know about Alex
ander is that he wept because there were
no more worlds to conquer. The Pharaohs
are nothing but names, save to the
Psychologists, and it is doubtful if even
they know much about them save that
they were so fond of cats that they had
their pets mummifed with them when
they died. But the mummied cats bring
US into closer human touch with the
Pharaohs than all that has been written
about them. That is, unless some expert
who knows more than is good for him
should tell us that the cats were mummi-
fled not because, they were pets but be-
cause they were sacred.
Shakespeare. who lived much nearer to
us than the Pharaohs, may or may not
have written the plays ascribed' to him.
If he had preserved the letters written to
Anne Hathaway we might have known
more concerning him. About the only
authentic fact bearing upon his intimate
life appears in his will, which bequeathed
to his widow his sccond-best bed.
We know Samuel johnson because
Boswell wrote his life, setting down all
the trivial things hat happened, and
we know Pepys through his diary much
better than we know much greater men
Of his period.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-13
CONGRESSMAN MooRE'S
LETTER
"reminiscences OF Andrew Carnegie.
Gossip About Commander Nelson,
II. J. GIocke, Major Scott
and Others
A NDREw CARNEGIE has passed away,

A NDREW CARNEGIE has passed away,
"A leaving a reasonable fortune for distri-
button despite his desire to die poor. The
famous ironmastcr has been written about
so much that little remains to be told, but
the newspaper boys who were at the Home
stead strike will recall Hugh ODonnell,
the strike leader, and Burgess Mcl|uckie,
who were bosses of the town up to the
time Major General George X. Snow
den, Of Philadelphia, arrived at the head
Of the National Guard of the state. AT one
stage of the uprising, Carnegie instead OF
showing ill-will toward the strikers. gave
expression in n practical way to his sym
pathy for the families Of the unfortunate.
This led the burgess, who was an explosive
sort of fellow, to blurt out: That was
damn kind of Andy" The correspondents
carried that story and Carnegie read it in
New York. He clipped it and was so fond
of it that for years it was said he in
tended it should constitute his epitaph.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-13
Answers to Yesterdays Quiz

/. General Pershing is fifty mine years old.
2. Glamour is recognized in American die
tionaries as the correct American
spelling. From honor, labor, parlor,
ETC., the English 'u'' is dropped in
this country.
8. Coxcomb: conceited, snowy person.
Originally a coxcomb was a cap worn
by a professional fool.
4. Lord Byron swan the Dardanelles.
8, Alice Masaryk, daughter of the presi-
dent of Czecho- Slovakia, has just re-
signed as a member of the parliament
. at Prague.
6. Ten cents is the trolley fare in Boston.
7. Bret Harte wrote the poem about the
"Heathen Chinee.''
s. It's correct title is 'Plain Language
From Truthful James,"
o. Taft and Roosevelt were the most
travelled Of American Presidents.
10, Tobacco Was used as money in virEiaia
n carly cclapizi dare
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-13

The president of the Firemen's Union
in Boston said he would not take the re-
sponsibility Of calling a strike unless author
lied by the American Federation of Labor.
What he said in effect was that it was up to
federation leaders to prove whether they
were patriots or boneheads.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-13

1t was fitting that Pershing should be
welcomed in the ION of independence on
the anniversary of the battle of st. Mihiel,
the day on which the American army dem
onstrated to the world that it could be
relied upon.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-13
What Do You Knotu?
QUIZ

1. How did stogies get their name?
20. How much is a moiety!
g.. In what country has the parliament just
Endorsed woman suffrage?
4. What is the difference between a Mo-
hawk and a Mohock?
s. What nation has the largest feet In
commission today?
6. What is the highest mountain in Aus
tralia?
7. What is the shrievalty?
8. What is the meaning of the Latin phrase
"Stabat mater?
o. Who is Baron Fisher Of Kilverstone?
10. From what language does the word SEN
ator come?
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-13

There is significance in Pershing's ad-
vice to the soldiers organization to keep out
of politics and in his ignoring of cries that
hailed him as a future President. His level
headedness is not the least of his good
qualities.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-13

Near Independence
Time Was Short Hall yesterday Cen
cral Pershing gave an
exhibition of magnificent restraint. He re-
viewed the Emergency Aid Aides and didn't
kiss even one of them.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-13

A Texas father, when his son was
about to seek his fortune in New York,
told him not to be afraid of the men he
would meet in the great city, "for,' he
explained, "people there are just folks
The value of this collection of letters
written by a man of great force and
energy and courage lies in the fact that
they exhibit him as after alr "just one
of the folks"
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-13

A strike of campaign
So We've Observed orators? No. The
best things possible in
life never haDpen.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-13
MTILLIAM G. BERNARD reminds us of

W1LLIAM G. BERNARD reminds us OF
w another Carnegie incident The Atlantic
Deeper Waterways Association held its
third annual convention at Norfolk and
made strenuous efforts to have President
Taft attend. Carnegie was also invited. but
he paid little attention to the invitation I'M
til it was definitely announced that the
President would go down from Washington
on the Maytlowcr. Then it was bruited
about that Carnegie would go and that he
would Join the President on his yacht.
Carnegie left New York and arrived at Fort
Monroe too late to connect with the Presi-
dent, and in time only to make the last boat
for Norfolk. A Quack doctor, who had been
advertising extensively in Norfolk, was on
the pier and greeted Carnegie, bidding him
welcome to Norfolk, and inviting him to
stay over night at his home. The official
Norfolk committee. because of this, failed to
connect with the steel king. The advertis-
ing specialist made Carnegie comfortable
for the night and delivered him over, much
to the Chagrin Of the reception committee,
in the morning. Carnegie believed him
self to have been entertained by those who
were expected to take care of him until the
arrival of the President and his yacht. The
cnterprising specialist got the advertisement
he wanted and the Official committee, al
though ready to chastise him bodily, were
afraid to do 50, fearing the ridicule that
would surely Cnsuc on the publication Of
the story.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-13

1t would have been also a great day
for Sergeant Pershing''-but Warren was
missing from the festivities.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-13

GENIAL TOM NELSON-Commandcr
Nelson, if you plcase-is still on duty at
the navy yard in charge Of the personnel
Of the Fourth Naval district. We have
succeeded splcndidly in This work in the
Fourth district and much of it is due to
the good nature of those in charge of the
naval forces, including Commander Tom.
Tom Nelson used to be in the insurance
business with his father. who is one of the
best known adjustcrs of the city. He early
acquired a love of the water and after the
Spanish American War, in which he par
ticipated, became commander Of the naval
militia. Hence his advancement. Another
naval militia sharp, who figured in the
earlier work of the organization of what
has now come to be known as the naval
reserves, was John s. Muckle, who recently
has been deyoting himself to the entertain
mPnt of distinguished foreigners. Colonel
John has a hunch for shaking hands across
the sea"
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-13

NOBODY along the Atlantic coast is
~ boasting about mosquitoes, but reports
generally indicate that the ''skeet'' is out
in full force and is showing no favors. The
situation reminds old timers of the efforts of
George c.. Boldt to establish a fine summer
resort near Lavalctte. That effort was one
of the few failures which the popular boni-
face ever endured. Herman J. Glocke, the
cork man, who has one of the p~rcttiest
places at Island Heights, doesn't stand for
cheap badinage on the mosquito question.
you ought to see WILDWOOD he says,
passing the buck. And at Wildwood they
say 'just wait until you get over to Ocean
City, and then Ocean City passes it along
to Atlantic. The truth is, the mosquito
pest has been worse this year than for many
seasons back. And the federal government,
which cleaned up Panama, leaves the ques-
ton up to the states and the states leave
it up to the commissioners and the COM
missioners say they could eradicate the pest
if they had the money. And there you are.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-13

Och hone !" said the victim of the
BARRIERS strike, 'it this thing keeps up We'll
all look like Bolsheviki."
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-13

William Penn and General PershinK
were alike honored.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-13

Is it permissible for a striking basbet
to shave o striking brieklaysx1
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-13
MAJOR WILLIAM REESE SCOTT,

AHI chaplain, U. s. n, has been made
superintendent of education of the Camp
Meade schools. An attractive booklet, com
piled by him and printed by command of
Major General Grote Hutcheson, has just
been issued, which tells of the vocational
and educational training now being done at
the military camp named for Pennsylvania
famous general. The departments of edu-
cation provided in the Camp Meade schools
indicate that common sense efforts are being
made to give the boys in khaki a chance to
equip themselves for civil life while also
undergoing military instruction. The Young
Mems Christian Association. the KNIGHTS
of Columbus and the American Library
Association are cooperating in this work.