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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-06
What Do You Kno,O?

QuIZ
1. What English king died in the chateau
at st. Germain- en- -Laye?
2. What is the minimum number of states
capable of defeating, the suffrage
amendment to the constitution?
8. What is the meaning of the word
nihilist?
4. Who was Baron Won Steuben?
: 5. What is Dream?
\ 6. Who wrote ''The Dunciad"?
~ After what geographical features are
most of the French departments
named?
IS. What is the meaning of the nautical
word abaft?
; 8. Who commanded the American troops
at the overwhelming victory Of New
Orleans, in 1915?
10. Who wrote the words Of Hail Column
.~bia"?
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-06
Telegram Just Received

CoNSIpERABI.Y PERTURBED BY REPORTS
OF PRIZE CATTLE SHOW IN YOUR CITY
TRUST THIS WILL NOT TAKE EDGE OFF
RECEPTION TO BE GIVEN AMERICAN PRESS
HUMORISTS AT THEIR COMING CONVENTION
WE ARE CONSIGNING TO THIS CONVENTION
AS SPECIAL EXHIBIT DOVE DULCET WHO
TON HIS VERSE TAKES FORM oE SMALL
YIELDS SIXTY PER CENT SACCHARINE
BEST POSSIBLE SUBSTITUTE FOR THE REAL
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-06

The trial in Switzer-
Argument for land of pro- German
Hard Peace agents is demonstrst-
ing that Germany still
has plenty of money for the purpose of stir
ring up discord in the world. Some of it
should be diverted to the paying of her Just
debts.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-06
Another Military Wedding

Another item that our orbs have just
bazed upon in our favorite evening sheet,
the EVENING PUBLIC LEDGER, deals with a
lody who made an assent in balloon over
the fighting lines"
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-06
We AphorIze

Many a promising young man has later
proved TO be breach of promise.
The Urchin is an unpredictable infant
We took him down to the seashore the
other day and went through enormous con-
tortions in a hot and crowded car to find
seat in which we could sit together And
then he insisted on sitting all the way on the
little sort OF footstool near the floor of the
car, the exact purpose of which we don't
know, not being the director general of rail-
roads We believe, however, it has some-
thing to do with the heating system in the
cars. If the Urchin goes travelling next
winter he will reach his destination fried to
a turn.
For a month we had been drilling the
Urchin that he was going to the seashore to
see the ocean. sight which 1--WE fondly
thought) would arouse shouts of delight. 10
our dismay he took the "bigoshun" las he
calls it, quite soberly, and would not even
look at it while we were watching him, all
eager TO make note of his impressions.
Sometimes we have . suspicion that the
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-06

Our glance happening, by extreme hazard,
to glitter upon corset ad, we learn that
they are now made "topless and with elastic
all round the top"
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-06

These are piping times Of peace, but
news from the various fronts seems to indi-
cate that the pipes need liking.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-06

There will be strict observance of the
law in all mines following the Wilkes Barre
disaster--until familiarity with danger again
breeds contempt.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-06

There is evidence that the bombs used
by anarchists on Monday night were inclosed
in wooden boxes. The ideas that gave them
birth were inclosed in wooden heads.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-06

Recognition Of the rights Of minorities
by the league of nations may prove burr
under the wing of the dove of peace.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-06
IhE LlohT

N 4iSPATCHES from Berlin under the
~ sienassre Of the Associated Press
1&vc the force Of novelty Any one who
rSks sven little Of the elaborately or
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-06

1t is the more delightful to entertain these
thoughts, as an eminent thinker has said,
since they give us an opportunity TO say that
Joe Hergesheimer's tale, The Meeker
Ritual in the June Century, is one Of The
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-06

Paris is for the moment more directly
interested in its prospective industrial peace
treaty.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-06

Apropos of the lively little mill in the
United States Senate, it may be said that
Woman's right landed with awful effect,
while poor old States rights never got in
a lick.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-06

Triumph! 49,
The American Press Humorists, when
they convene here on June %, will be the
first to congratulate us on so promising an
addition to the cradle roll. This is a true
copy of what we have just received:
SPECIAL NIGHT MESSAGE
Permit me to assume full authority for
saying the Rev, DR.. Mutchler will gladly
accept honorary membership in the Amer-
can Press Humorists' Association, provided,
however, the other members of said Asso-
citation are clowns equally as humorous
as the Editors of the EVENING PUBLIC
LEDGER
WILLIAM B. FORNEY,
Pastor Mt Vernon Baptist Church, Mana
yunk. -
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-06
A year ago the dough
Can't BE Driven

A year ago the dough-
Can't BE Driven boys were driving
back the Hun Today
our cake is dough because he can't drive
back the Sun. We've little cause to make
complaint when all is said aud done
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-06

Every bomb explosion is preceded by a
brain explosion.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-06

We expect to make vast fortune by en-
craving and selling some cards for the 1st
of July, with the message:
WISHING YOU A MERRY ABSTINENCE
AND A HAPPY NEW FISCAL YEAR
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-06

1t causes some people almost as much
anguish to spend their money as 1t does to
earn it,
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-06

NOTHING is so infuriating to the man
~ who has just spent a night at the sea
shore, during hot spell, as to come back to
town telling every one 81 slept under three
blankets last night and to hear them say,
''Yes, it was very much cooler in town Also"
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-06
) C o I'll a n d Yard is
wrestling with a Rus
sian Rcirhnr;n4 -
Or Plain Ass

food England with counterfeit treasury
notes. 1t is but another instance of the fact
that many Bolshevist who poses as a
political economist is simply plain criminal,
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-06
We Are ntentlous Today

We offer the following apothegm for the
use of our frisky contemporary, the Retail
Public Ledger:
Goods that just get by don't get bought.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-06

Urchin is wise to the fact we are using him
for copy He seized. shell and began to
dig in the sand Ms though his life depended
upon it, serenely, gravey, and rs though he
had at last learned the full and precious
meaning of life. He kept his back turned
upon the surf. But we spotted him ex-
amining it when he thought we weren't look
ing. Wise Urchin! He doesn't intend to
have his innocent emotions set in note
book, learned and conned by rote.
On our way back from the bigoshun we
passed, Unexpectedly, through the genial
town of Manumuskin, the name of which has
long fascinated us on the map. Has any
one ever celebrated it in rhyme?
Manumuskin, Manumuskin, -s-
Not town to be too brusque in,
Well bred hamlet, Manumuskin--
} tHamlet-that suggests the buskin)
Where the Women's Club reads Ruskin.
When the twilight comes, it's dusk in
That old town of Manumuskin,
Hungry Jerseymen, put tusk in
Evening meal of Manumuskin:
When the corn is ripe for huskin
F'lappers firt in Manumuskin--
Every human joy makes us kin
With the town of Manumuskin
SOCRATES.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-06
Cleanliness
Kills Germs

The president of the
,, SleahIness International Building
hiiis Germs Trades Federation hit
the nail on the head
when he said that the germ of bolshevism
may infect men who work in crowded
quarters, but is powerless with men who
work in the open air. Fresh, clean air makes
fresh, clean minds.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-06

TO be considered by the Legislators which
never arose in the old days before great
masses of women became wage earners.
The granting Of the vote to women is
the outcome of the changed social order
dating back for two or three generations.
II has doubtless been hastened because
of the splendid cooperation of the women
with the men in all the work of the war
save that of carrying gun. Their
patriotism has been proved beyond ques-
tion. There is no doubt of their interest
in the preservation of the liberties of the
nation. Their resentment against the
barbarous treatment of women and chill
dren by the German armies is so acute
that their insistence on being permitted
to participate in the election of those
officers of government whose duty it will
be to make the repetition of such bar
barities impossible is so strong that it
would be difficult to resist their appeals il
one were so disposed.
Congress in approving the amendment
has merely taken cognizance of a social
revolution already accomplished. How
much further it will go no man can say.
But the whole tendency is toward more
fully individualistic state than any we
have yet known, in that the political unit
will soon cease to be the family, repre-
sented by the husband and father, and
will become the individual adult of both
sexes, voting his or her individual views,
regardless of whether or not the views
of the husband and wife agree. This
kind of individualism, however, must be
distinguished from that individualsm
which is opposed to the socialistic state.
Whether the women voters will favor ex-
tension of socalistic doctrines remains to
be SEEN
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-06

We congratulate so many cows, each one
apparently holding the worlds record
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-06

GREATER care, greater precautions, bet
VI ter methods of production and new in
ventions will continue to lessen casualties
in the coal industry. But, by the very ma
ture of things. so long as anthracite is used
there must always be times when women
must sit with wrung faces at the mine en-
frances to watch the bodies brought UP in
rolls of blackened canvas. There will be
nights and days when others like them will
wait at the mines while, 500 feet down in
tbe earth, engineering miracles are attempted
and performed and hordes of men work
cheerfully until they fail to bring their hus-
hands or sons back to them alive.
Mining is made as safe as human in
genuity can make it. But 1t is like the life
Of the sea. Mine corporations have spent
fortunes in few days and engineers have
almost moved mountains to save few men
imprisoned underground. Electricity was
an innovation that removed some of the
familiar perils of the work. The Wilkes
Barre disaster proves that new dangers will
continue to replace old ones and that it will
never be possible to figure the cost of coal
in money alone.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-06

Tomorrow being Mr.. Burleson's birthday,
perhaps it toould be ,oeH to 'oish him many
happy deliveries.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-06

y Our guess is that the dynamiter who SO
successfully distributed himself over the
Washington landscape had been lured INTO
false sense of security by the use of Swedish
safety matches.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-06

Many a promising young man has later
proved TO be breach of promise.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-06
John Milton on Safety Matches

AMERICAN PRESS HUMoRIsTs.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-03-18
TRADE MAY|
USE EXPORT ACT.
Harding Makes Suggestion to
Cotton Men-May Use
Liberty Bonds.

II the suggestions Of W. 7. q. Hard
ing, governor Of the Federal Reserve
board, are accepted and carried out,
the sale OF cotton to foreign ]spinners
soon would be in the hands Of a giant
selling concern with capitalization Of
not less than $50. 00O, 900 authorized n
der the Webb act designed for the EN-
enlargement and promotion OF foreign
commerce.
At a general meeting OF the Mem
phis cotton exchange Monday after
COR the suggestion was placed before
that body by c. T. J. Mooney, who
read a letter from Mr.. Harding out
lining his ideas and how they might
be carried out. As the proposition wa
a bit of surprise to those in attend
ance and called for practical revolu-
large part Of the crop the matter was
| referred to the board Of directors for
further consideration before q reply
could be sent outlining the ideas of
| the trade at this center.
In the letter Mr.. Harding stated that
Of all the big industries Of the cOun-
try the cotton producer was about the
only one who was not prepared to
push its sale and to extend credit ia
Cilities to the foreign nsum dur
ing these days of restricted and upset
credits. Then followed an outline Of
how the corporation might he organ
Liberty bonds, which are so plentrully
held by the Southern cotton growers,
and which would be accepted as col
lateral by the Federal Reserve board,
which has a department for the pro-
motion OF financing foreign commerce.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-03-18
RAT|ONS
AND LESS COTTON
State Officials Here to Boost
Safer and Ultimately More
Productive Farming.

J. p. Matthews. of Oakland, Tenn,
chairman of the state executive COM
mittee on the increased production of
food and feed crops, and corresponding
reduction in cotton acreage, arrived In
Memphis Tuesday, accompanied by j..
Z. McAmis. a crop specialist from the
state agricultural extension department
at Knoxville. -
Mr.. Matthews is touring the West
Tennessee counties for the purpose Of
urging and assisting in the organiza-
ftton OF the various communities for
carrying out the program of increased
food crop acreage. He is comforting
with bankers, farmers, county agents,
leading merchants, newspaper men and
others for the purpos of thoroughly
~propagandtzing the program.
This program urges that crops be
planted this year which will pay better
than cheap cotton, arguing that the
farmers of the South can not any bet
ter afford to let their lands lie idle
than they can to grow cotton at a
loss. "So far as possible let us feed
these crops to live stock" it is said.
IF crops are fed on the farm and
the anu returned to the land the
soil will be kept up. Cotton never yet
increased the fertility of the land
1t is suggested that part Of the cot
ton be replaced with a legume hay crop
this year. Grow more corn and less
cotton is a slogan. Grow more
wheat, oats, barley and less cotton.
Grow more potatoes and less cotton.
Put more acres in pasture. less in cot
ton. Plant velvet beans or soy beans
with corn in place of planting cotton.
Balance the cropping system and prac-
tice safe farming"
Mr., Matthews n Mr.. McAmis are
trying to stir up the average farmer
the small farmer-to increase the food
crops grown on his farm. He is urged
to grow more live stock; to have pigs
and a good dairy COW or two. The CO.
operation of the average farmer Is re-
garded as most important to the sue
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-03-18
TEACHERS ARE OPPOSED
T OHOUSE BILL NO. 419

Opposition to the passage of bill No,
4l9, already passed by the house, has
been voiced by the Memphis Teachers
association in a resolution passed and
forwarded to the representatives and
senator's from Shelby county.
The bill provides that all teachers
shall pass medical examinations at
least once each year and that all per-
sons now engaged in teaching, who are
afflicted with tuberculosis, pellagra,
lancer or other diseases OF a like ma
ture or are addicted to the use Of LID
uors or narcotics or VINO are subject TO
epileptic fits, be dismissed from SER
vice,
The teachers in voicing their oppo-
sition, set forth that the law Is odtous
i'm its application, that there are l2,92l
state teachers, which Is too great a
number to be examined without charge
by county physicians and that where
any teacher may be found to be sub
iect to any disease uniting him for
public service, a private examination
may be requested and also that the
bill is applicable only to teachers in
public schools and does not touch those
teaching in private schools, who are
equally in touch with the public.
In conclusion. the association voices
its sentiment that this matter should
he left in the hands Of the proper school
authorities and further that nothing IN
the resolution is to be construed as
favoring the employment in schools OF
persons afflicted with q communicable
disease or addicted to the use Of liq-
lOrs or narcotics.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-03-18
ALLIES CAN GIVE
HUNS MUCH FOOD

PARIS, March 1S.-The British gov
eminent has indicated that immedi-
ately upon the transfer Of German mer-
chant shipping to the allies it VIII he
able to deliver the following quaint
ties of foodstuffs to the Germans, the
figures being in tons:
Bacon, 5000; condensed milk, No.
600: vegetable oils, 10000; margarine,
1000; drippings, 1000; rice, 10000; ran
COON beans, 50, 900; oatmeal, 10000; bar
lev or rye flour, 10000. ThS makes IA
total Of ia, 900 tons.
The French government is ready to
furnish raw materials which will pro-
duce 5000 tons Of palm oil and the
United states can deliver from stocks
in Europe 10000 tons Of cereals and
flour. OF the 1000, 900 tons Of food
shipped for the relief Of Europe since
| Dec. / through American food agencies
all but this amount is pledged for the
relief of liberated peoples and can not
be diverted.
Payment for the food will be. made
by the Germans in gold or equivalen;
securities,
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-03-18
MUST PAY
FULL INCOME TAXES

WASHINGTON, March B.-Persons
who neglected to pay the first Install
ment OF income taxes last Saturday
have lost the installment payment priv
Ilege and must now pay their entire
upon demand Of a revenue collec-
tor.
To avoid tho penalty Of % per cent
In addition to the regular tax, persons
who failed to file returns Saturday may
now submit belated returns with a
sworn statement Of the reason for de-
.linquency. without this the penalty
will be imposed.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-03-18
E%STHONIANS ONCE MORE
MASTERS IN BATTLE

COPENHAGEN, March 1S.-Esthoni-
an forces are again masters of the sit
uation on the Pskov front, according
to an official statement issued by the
Esthonian army headquarters, which
says the E%sthonians have launched a
powerful counter-attack in that region.
trict, west of Pskov, Esthonian and
Finnish troops have captured a num-
Der Of villages, the statement says.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-03-18
47O,736 YANKS OUT
OF FRANCH MARCHl3

WASHINGTON. March 1S.-Figurts
made public by the war department to-
day showed that 470,736 officers and
men Of the American eXpeditionary
forces had sailed for home up to March
10. That number represented "a per
cent Of the strength of Gen. Pershlng's
forces on Nov. II and left l,47S,5SO in
France.
OF the total returned home or on
the way. 1858 were %casuals, includ-
ing sick and wounded, Out of 687, 074
infantry In France in November, ouly
S9,494 had been returned. while the
field artillery figures showed. 1908 sent
home out of 213, SAG.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-03-18
BIG STRIKE OVER.

rrFNOS AIRES, March 1S.-Trans-
Atlantic shipping agents have accepted
the governments decree In national
izing the port and announced trans
Atlantic steamers will he brought in
from the roads today for loading and
unloading. The workmen have agreed
to resume work under the governments
decree and IT Is hoped to bring about
normal conditions within a few days.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-03-18
NJ TheNEDea0U
Mute Pennington.

NEWBERN, Tenn, March IS. (Spl.)
the Oldest citizen in Dyer county, has
died at his home in the TIimble sec
ton with influenza, following an at
tack of pneumonia, Mr.. Pennington IS
survived by two Of who reside in
California. Funeral services were con
Quoted by his pastor and interment
was made in the Pierce cemetery,
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-03-18
URUGUAY FAV0RS BIG
WORLD LEAGUE PLAN

MONTEVIDEO, March 17.-Dr. Bal
tasar Brum, the president, told the As
ISOLATED Press today that the Uruguay
an government heartily favors the
league of nations plans. The Uruguay
an delegates in Paris, the president
said, have been instructed to sign the
project as approved by the peace con-
ference.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-03-18
w. J. Y BETTER.

WASHINGTON, March 1s,-Willam
Jennings Bryan, who has been III for
several weeks at the home of friends
here, had recovered sufficiently today
to join Mrs. Bryan at a Baltimore ho-
tel. where tomorrow they will celebrate
Mr.. Bryan's fifty-ninth anniversary
Mrs. BRYAN also has been III and only
today was able to leave a hospital In
Baltimore.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-03-18
JOHN |. LOWRY SINKS
IN STORM NEAR PADUCAH

PADUCtH. XIV, March 1S-The
packet John l.. lowry. since 1913 in
the Evansville. Paducah and Nashville
trade, was sunk IN the Cumberland
river at a point eight miles north Of
Paducah during a storm late yester-
dav, according to word heaching here
today. The Lowry vas valued at s75. 600
and carried a cargo estimated to be
worth $40. 600. The crew escnned.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-03-18
Better Wearing
Shoes for Boys

cess Of the program, because in the
aggregate these her will prodnce more
than the great plantation owners. The
larger farmers, as a rule, are already
committed to the policy of crop rota-
ton and divegsification and do not need
to be shown the advantage and sheer
necessity of It.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-03-18
T ACTRESS DIES.

LOS ANGELES, March IL Con
stance Crawley. noted actress. died here
Yesterday following a short illness, Born
With sir Henry Irving and Sir Herbert
Eeerbohm Tree before coming to Amer
lea a few years ago,
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-03-18
Mrs. Jennie Curtin.

UNION CITY, Tenn, March IS. tSpl.l
Mrs. Jennie Curtin, wife Of r. T,
Curtin, a prominent merchant of this
city, died last night after an illness Of
a number of years from rheumatism.
She leaves a husband, mother, Mrs.
Watson, and one sister, Mrs. Fred
Dahnke.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-03-18

"EISe, -FdTT. -,
The river in the Memphis district will
continue rising for a week or more At
Memphis the river will probably reach
a stage Of IS feet next Saturday or
Sunday.