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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-03

MAYOR SMITH never more satisfac
A'A torily represented the people of this
city than when he said that Philadelphia
stands ready and willing to welcome the
men of the Seventy ninth Division.
All of us must regret that they have
decided not to permit US to show our
admiration for them in body. They are
more anxious to get home than to listen
to an applauding multitude.
The division was made up of drafted
men, those who had had no previous eX-
perience in military life. 1t would have
been gratifying to have seen what drill
and discipline had done for them in a
physical way And it would have been
thrilling to look upon the men of the
same kind as those who work next to US
in the office and in the shop after they
had passed through the fires of war and
had their temper tested.
But their modesty is peculiarly Ameri-
can. They have done their work and
come home. They want to get back into
civilian harness as quickly as possible
without any fuss. So, although we can't
see them march, we can bid them all
heartily welcome home and gratefully
see that they get jobs.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-03
PoGRoMS AND PADEREWSKI

sGRAVELY impressive were the spec
~ tacles of protest and mourning staged
by the Jewish citizens of this and other
,cities in this country yesterday and last
night concerning the reported killing of
their brethren in Poland. No onlooker
could withhold sympathy for demon
stration directed and inspired by such
evident depths of feeling.
If the facts are as reported, the new
Poland already has a heavy charge to
answer to the rest of the world. For
tunately, the way to ascertanment of
the facts seems opened wide by the letter
of Premier Paderewski to Herbert Hoo
yer suggesting that President Wilson
undertake the appointment and direc-
tlon of commission to investigate, and
promising full and condign punishment
for the guilty.
AS the premier points out, there is
opportunity for misrepresentation of the
truth, since it has been a work of great
dimculty to get dispatches out of Poland
without garbling or distortion.
If the execution of depraved Boil
shevists who happened to be Jews has
been reported unjustly as a slaughter of
innocent Jewish people, which Mr. Pader-
ewski implies, the facts should bear proof
and be easy of access to an American
commission. On the other hand, if there
have been horrible orgies of blood in
the old Russian way, as the Jewish peo-
pie in this country believe. the same
method of proof applies. But the great
: jury of world opinion must be given the
facts without hindrance. The issue is
too important to be smothered for
policy's sake, and nothing less than the
( exact truth and the whole truth will
satisfy.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-03
A SOVIET IN CANADA

A WORKERS right to strike for shorter
hours, fatter pay envelope or removal
OF grievance is ordinarily as unoues
TONED as the right of an individual To
probe for a splinter back of his finger
nail. But in both cases care should he
taken to avoid infection.
Even as the tetanus germ waits for
an open wound, so bolshevism waits for
Industrial unrest.
Bolshevism, emboldened by the chaos
In Russia, has big plans afoot Thev
came near bearing fruit in Seattle. Thev
have been nearer success in Winnipep
Canada.
Winnipeg's strike is now in its fourth
week. Originally strike of metal and
building trades, it spread until it affected
al trades and all public service bodies
The strike committee is virtually q
Soviet. A Methodist preacher. editor of
the Labor News censors every bit of
news that leaves the town. His is the
only newspaper permitted to be nnb-
lished. He denies the existence of n
Soviet, but his first assistant is am
avowed Bolshevist.
That the strike is more or less frankly
revolutionary is evidenced by the pleas
for sympathetic strikes throughout
canada from the Atlantic to the Pacific
pleas that have met with varying sue
eess.~ But the true inwardness of the
Zone Big Union movement is seen in
The wire sent by Canadian labor leaders
70 Samuel Gompers, president of the
American Federation of Labor, demand.
Ink that trade unions in this country be
called out to help the strikers.
OF course, the Canadian labor leaders
hsd no expectation that Gompers would
~ foolish enough to call such strike, or,
n speb call were issued, that the three
Ven union men in this country would
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-03
Answers to Yesterday's Quiz

1. Anna Shaw is honorary president of the
National American Woman Suffrage
Association.
.. yerjuice is sour liquor from crabapples,
sour grapes, etc., used in cooking.
8. Ferrol is port and naval station IN
the province OF Gallicia in the extreme
northwestern corner of Spain.
A. The seventeenth amendment to the con-
stitution provides for the election Of
United States senators by direct popu-
lar vote.
8. The United States, during the world
conflict, was at war with two powers
Germany and Austria Hungary.
@. Pilgarlic is an old d-fashioned word de-
scriptive of a bald headed man. 1t Is
a corruption of ''peeled garlic"
Z. Walt Whitman was born in Westhills,
Long Island, n. T.,
8. The Commodore was the nickname of
the elder Cornelius Vanderbilt
o. Bangkok is the capital Of Clam.
10, Patchouli is an odoriferous Indian plant
from which perfume is derived.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-03
What Do You KnotU?
QUIZ

1. In what year did the Saar Valley region
cease to be French territory?
Q. Who is the head of the allied food relief
commission?
8. Who is the national hero of Spain?
4. When was the weather bureau estab-
lished?
5. How long is lunar month?
G. What is a marline?
7. Who was Fra Diavolo"?
8. What kind of an animal is a marsupiali
0, What is the meaning of the French
phrase Marriage de convenance''!
10. What is the capital of Oregon?
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-03
THE CHAFFZNC DISH

parative helplessness. Moreover, the bay
rum, however unsavory, evaporates rapidly
and the next mornings tub purifes the VIC
tim. But the white vest piping, once at
tached to the garment, is too likely to prove
permanent Disagreement, until (as it did
once on the person of III. Il. c. it becomes
a thing of horror to all concerned.
The pique vestee is the Sam Brown belt
Of civilian life, and we permit none of our
contributors to wear it. All contributions
submitted must be accompanied by an aft
davit to the effect that you have never sinned
in this manner.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-03
CENSORING TERPSICHORE

TT is mighty tough on a stout gentle
l. man of easy disposition to be sternly
and suddenly made dance censor.
What weird concentration of fortuitous
circumstances forced Mayor Smith to run
blue pencil through the lifting rhythmic
line, "On with the dance! Let joy be
unconfned"?
What more joyous occupation for a
stout gentleman than to sit in a shady
nook and watch the graceful dancers fit
to and fro?
Instead of which he is forced not only
to curb the joyous abandon of youth but
to abolish the shady nook, since sitting
out dance becomes kind of crime.
The legislators who passed this law
surely had no sense of humor.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-03

rise to the bait, but there was method in
their madness. The American Fedora
tion of Labor holds its annual convention
in Atlantic City next week. 1t would
nightly rejoice the 1. W. W. IL they could
cause a split in the organization and put
a radical in the saddle. A split of any
kind would be helpful to them!
These be parlous times and it behooves
all men who work, and that means most
of us, to be careful and to keep cool.
Bolshevism isn't overlooking any bets.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-03
DALSY.LAND
o Daisy Land


II A child, wandered there;
Nor is it yet a hazy land,
To memory ever fair.
1t is SO blue, so blue above
l see no more such skies.
Its blossoms seem to breathe of love,
And dew from paradise.
Daisy land, dear Daisy land,
! loved you passing well.
Sometimes, alack, a lazy land,
You wove o'er me a spell;
The murmur of your brooks I1ow,
Your soft winds from the west,
'Ah. how they soothed Would might know
Today that perfect rest
Daisy land, fair Daisy land
With beauty yet you gleam;
Your wales are still a may land
stray them as I dream:
And, oh, the faces that meet,
Loved in the long ago!
Alas, their smiles cannot greet
The teardrops blind me SO.
Samuel Mjnturn Peck, in the Boston
Transcript.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-03
Darn Them There
Skeeters!

Standing on the banks
Darn Them There of the Yet Re tho
Skeeters tribe of Prince
Standing water is
ready for an attack on the Philadephia
stronghold. General Krusen is prepared TO
annihilate the enemy, but he cannot hone to
succeed unless he receives re endorsements
from General Public. 1t is fact proved
by previous engagements that preliminary
raids on the old Oaken bucket, the tin din
per, the flower pot saucer and the discarded
tomato can may do away with the necessity
for a mass engagement. Let the raiders get
busy at once.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-03
Hitherto Undiscovered Poem
BY Walt Whitman

No matter what your problems
Or how meagerly you sup,
There's always, always sugar
In the bottom of the cup.
Your trousers may need patching,
Prickly heat may burn you up,
But there's always, always sugar
In the bottom of the cup.
If you let your troubles settle
And refuse to stir them up,
You will always find some sugar
In the bottom of the cup.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-03

England still has some advocates Of q
soft peace, but there is question at this time
whether such softness is born OF the heart
or the head.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-03
Little Studies In Human Nature

1t is easy to spot the experienced cafeteria
veteran. The first thing he does after
nesting into his fiat armed chair is to drop
half q spoonful of coffee on the platform.
In this he pastes his pay check to prevent
it being blown away by the roaring simeon
of the electric fans. -.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-03
WROTE THE TERMS
OF THE AUSTRIAN TREATY
Breakup OF the Old Empire Renders
st. GermaIn Document Largely
Recognition Of Epoehal and
AecompIIshed Facts

Accomplished Facts
JUDGMENT on the terms of the treaty
- delivered to the Austrian commission
ers is significantly dependent on the
extent with which medievalsm or frank
acknowledgment of existent facts colors
political thought
The Viennese delegate who the other
day accused the Entente powers of dig
ging his nations grave at st. German
en-Laye expressed himself in antique
formulas. However sincere his depres-
sion may have been, it was patiently un-
responsive to the real causes of the fall
of what was once the second largest coun-
try in Europe.
For it is not the treaty or the "harsh-
ness" of Allied diplomacy which is re-
sponsible for the shrinkage of the Aus
trian domain. Sentence first, verdict
afterward" is the remarkable order of
events, and the document, which passes
upon the Austrian chapter of the war, is
to potent degree an official recognition
of status quo. In this respect it pre-
sents an exact contrast to the voluminous
book of surrender now in German hands.
The validity of the latter document will
be convincing when the signatures are
formally affixed to the dotted lines.
The German treaty is in the nature of a
monumental plan for the future. The
severest portions of this latest diplomatic
paper record series of heroic happen
ings to which definite dates may be
already assigned.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-03

Martha Washington, the independence
Hall cat, is considerably disturbed by the
recent criticism of the grand stand in front
of the Hall. She says that on these warm
evenings it makes delightful airy dorm-
tory, and she has been planning some house
parties Of the Colonial Felines of America
there. SOCRATES.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-03
Desk Notices

feel respect for the man-and he is one
in hundred-who, when he is waiting or
sitting unoccupied, refrains from rattling or
beating time with anything that happens to
be handy-his stick, or knife and fork. or
whatever else it may be. The probability is
that he is thinking of something.
SCHOPENHAUER
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-03
Oh. to Be a coMI

To disturb in the morning before her
rest is completed means loss of milk and 10
disturb her again in the afternoon means a
greater loss. Cows Craze through the cool OF
the torenoons is and go and lie down n the shade
or half past in the afternoon. thus being abie
to masticate their food OF the morning and to
rest in the coolest possible places. after which
they OF their own accord get up and feed again
From Letter to Our Favorite Morning
Paper.
Numerous statesmen are now lamenting
that they did not heed athe WET PAINT
signs that Lenine and Trotsky erected when
they gave Russia her coat of red lead
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-03

One reason why Philadelphia should be
permitted to rule herself is that it would give
the Legislature time to attend to other
things.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-03

At least it may be said of Brockdorff-
Rantzau that his work is cleverly done.
Bungling by other German diplomats makes
the fact worthy of note.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-03
Suckers and
Suckers

Advices from Cincin-
Suckers and natl, where retail con-
Suckers fectioners are in con-
ference, tell of the
growing popularity of the all day sucker.
The Bibulous One says this evidently refers
to the man who, with alcohol banned turns
to its substitute, candy, only to find it sail
ing skyward in price.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-03
From Letter to Our Favorite Morning
Pun Money

Dear Socrates = Do you pay for merry
puns? / often wake up at night with the
most entertaining quips in my mind, and as
my husband spends most of his wages for
tobacco / thought l would like to earn a
little extra pocket money.
MRS. DUNRAVEN BLEAK.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-03

Doubtless there will be melodramatic
wailing over the "insignifcance" of the
new Austria, a small country "over-
weighted" with the great city of Vienna.
In estimating their value it is we'll to
remember prosperous inland Switzerland
and Denmark, proud of its Copenhagen
and a highly civilized, progressive ma
ton. The republic of Austria has an
equal opportunity, with industrial and
agricultural development substituted for
seaborne commerce, if she realizes that
her sole salvation lies in signing the
treaty.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-03

There is strong hope that recognition
will make the Omsk Government the Russian
Government in fact as well as in name.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-03

Balkan minorities may, OF course, hatch
out an entirely new batch of troubles under
the wing Of the league of nations, but the
league may be wise old hen enough to know
what to do with them.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-03

Whether it be in Versailles or Berlin,
the Germans are bound to hit the dotted line,
says Lloyd George.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-03
A Call for Assistance

Dear Socrdtes-I write to ask if you know
the rest of that priceless verscle which
begins
l know a humble pavender,
A pavender or pub,
And there / take my gravender,
Ny gravender or grub.
OF course the fons ct origo is the headline
in Isaac Walton, "The Chavender or
Chub.' / saw the thing in paper some
where years ago and didn't notice it very
much at the time, except to smile at the
happy theft. But it has turned up many a
sleepless night since and the anxiety as to
the missing lines and whether or no il
ends up,
l get my nightly lavender,
My lavender or tub
is seriously undermining a not too robust
sanity. Help il you can!
MOREBY ACKLOM.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-03

The fruit of Sunday work against Sun
day play is yet to be gathered.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-03
SCHOPENHAUER,

II is impossible, we aver, to make pal
atable cider from apples of discord.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-03
Our CradiS Roll

Page Allinson, the Sage of Towns End
Farm. West Chester, reports the birth of
nine pound son yesterday. 1t may be a
comfort to the young man in future years
to know that he arrived in time to have his
health drunk by his fond father.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-03

launching with our friends H. T. c., t.
A. ID. and H. l.. w, We have frequently
taken occasion to sneer at the little white
vest margins, for which they have a secret
leaning. In quiet way we have for many
wears carried on a persistent campaign
against this unnecessary and purely swank-
ing bit Of Persian apparatus. But now ar
rived +. s. b. with modest defense of the
yestee Tor whatever il is called). He says,
with unneedful vehemenee. why the devil
shouldn't we wear white things in our waist
coats? The lailor puts 'em there just as
the barber sdlirts on the bay rum before
you can stop him..
We hold that this is begging the question.
The barber has one in position Of com
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-03
ErsatZ

The new Rhineiand
Ersatz republic has dealt a
severe blow to Ger
many. 1t is not, however, case of diamond
cut diamond, but one of rhinestone cut paste
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-03
MOREBY ACKLOM,

l used to wonder why bank cashiers were
so naughty until I remembered they are
members of the Federal Reserve.
DAME QUICKLY.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-03

One of the genialities of which bank
cashiers must weary is that of the man who,
cashing a check for S275, asks to have it
in fves.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-03
Query

Doctor Dernburg talks
Query much of the honor of
the German nation. Is
it the brand with which he made us familiar
during the war?
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-03


Slcvakia, Hungary and the Serb -Croat-
Slovene state are indorsed as entities is
Austria if the Italian tangle be for the
moment disregarded.
The weak feature of the treaty is oddly
combined with a factor of strength.
Probably no international document ever
framed left the adjudication of so many
intricate boundary details to commits
sions and court processes.
1t is impossible therefore at this mo-
ment to plan for the series of frontier
posts around the new Austria. The
Italian situation, involving Fiume, is
left unsolved, subject to the verdict of
the Paris conference. Austria herself
with one delegate, the three new repub-
lies with one representative and the
Allied powers with five are to determine
with field commissions the various de-
finitive lines.
1t would have been satisfying, of
course, if these complexities could have
been fairly and finally settled in the
treaty; but, on the other hand, the life
of the Austrian republic could not, per-
haps, have brooked the delay. 1t is the
virtue of this treaty, otherwise censurable
because of its avoidance of certain finali-
ties, that it, permits an Austria-one in
which, moreover, religious, racial and
language freedom must be guaranteed
to function as a nation once the requisite
signatures are attached.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-03

Mary NJ. writes to us that we made a
serious mistake in our recent essay on the
Paoli Local in not saying something about
the NSrberth Marathon Club. Have you
ever" she asks, pulled into Narberth and
not seen some one running for the train?'
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-03
Nobody Thinks Of the Crew

Ships come and ships go,
Nobody ever thinks of the tired out crew,
As the ship the wind does blow,
But some with kind heart are few.
Think of the hardships they went through,
To bring your loved ones home, ....
Yes, they brought them home for you,
And then again they must cross the foam.
To bring home another load of heroes brave,
And in the engine room these lads fight,
The flames to bring these boys safe home
today
And also to bring you delight.
HARRY LEVENKRONE.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-03

Austria had become one of the smaller
nations of Europe before her represen-
tatives boarded the train for st. Ger
main. No fiat was necessary to empha-
size the reality of the independent states
of Hungary, Czecho- -Slovakia and the
Serb -Croat-Slovene state. Disruption of
the numbering old Hapsburg empire
had come at last of its own weight.
Naturally, disastrous war fastened the
disintegration, but in any event it was
inevitable. The artificial realm was born
of weakness.
Fifty-two years ago Francis Joseph,
staggering from the blow delivered by
Prussia in 1866, had pieced together ele
ments of wreckage and those of vigor-
Gus young life into hGdge-podge that
became notorious national sham.
From its inception the fall of the Austro-
Hungarian empire was persistently
forecast.
Postponement of the inevitable was
achieved through a systematic course of
dynastic oppression. 1t was the imperial
house which was the only tangible symbol
of an anomaly among the nations. 1t was
a dynasty-the same despicable one
which struck the spark which set the
world abaze. The Austro Hungarian
nation, maintained through the pressure
of miltarism, has always been without
inherent authenticity. 1t is fitting there
fore that no such mOckery should be con-
sidered in the present instance.
The instinct for realities, however, die
tates that peoples dwelling in the former
archduchy of Austria and in the former
crownlands of Upper and Lower Austria
be summoned to the bar of justice in set
tlement of the world shameless The
four or five million bona flde Austrians
constituted a Germany in little. Their
sympathies and policies were fervently
akin to those of their powerful ally. To-
day they, too, comprise new national
entity calling itself a republic 1t is
proper that this country should be held
accountable for it's detestable offenses
against civilization. 1t is also in accord
with the avowed principles of the peace
that the homogeneous Austria be given a
chance for existence and an opportunity
to redeem its unsavory name.
The treaty considers the case in both
these aspects. The republic of Austria is
to make just reparations in proportion
% ln 70
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-03

One of the most severely annoyed men we
have seen recently was a conductor on the
Camden trolley the other day, coming back
from Harleigh, when our guest. Mr.. III. w.
Massingham, in the innocence of a stranger,
insisted on clnging to the fare ringing strap
in the center of the car instead of to the
handles provided on the seat corners. The
car was crowded, and it was some time be-
fore the perplexed conductor could reach the
eminent British editor and tear him away
from the strap, to which he clung with ad-
mirable and unconscious persistence. As
the car lurched along Mr.. Massingham
swayed with it, and observers estimated that
he had rung up half dozen fares before he
was removed. '.'
When it is a question of tender and
appealing sincerity, we vote for Harry
Levenkrone as a candidate for poetic honors.
Harry happens to be one of the Office boys
in this building, but In the intervals of his
arduous and exacting career he dashed off
the following: