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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-25
THE ROAD MENACE REBUKE

THE Legislatures passage of the Eyre
l. traction engine bill serves at once as
a needed safeguard of the Pennsylvania
highway system and as a fitting rebuke
to organized arrogance. The bullying
and insidious opposition which this laud-
able measure encountered suggests
mixture of the high-handed trust methods
of two decades ago and of the new dicta-
torial tactics characterizing North Dako-
ta's ultra modern Nonpartisan League.
1t is notorious fact that for several
years the huge traction thresher engines
rented by farmers have been tearing up
state roads to such an extent that the
Highway Commission, in the interest of
the public, was forced to seek legal
remedy against the persistent and costly
damage. The new law does not ban the
vehicles which perform valuable agri-
cultural service, but it does forbid the
use of the narrow cleats which have been
running the highways.
1t will be expensive to re-equip the ma
chimes properly and so the "thresher
trust" engineered scheme of savage
intimidation which has, however, happily
failed. The prime threat employed was
strong political opposition by the farm
ers. That they have not responded in
quite the way upon which the irate trust
spokesmen counted is due to the fact that
good roads have marked appeal for
them. One-third of all the automobiles in
the state are owned by farmers, and
those agriculturists who resisted the lob
byists' specious arguments were shrewd
enough to sense how the ruthless destruc-
ton was going to affect them.
Governor Sproul and Commissioner
Sadler are strongly behind a welcome
good-roads program for Pennsylvania.
Popular Endorsement is equally keen. Re-
sentiment against the purely selfish
scheming of a commercial organization
and against such foolish farmers as were
tricked into support should be emphatic.
Of course the Governor will sign the
protective measure. Jeopardizing high
ways in this era is little less than crime.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-25
The Ace Takes the Trick

Lieutenant Henry Farre, in his "Sky
Fighters of France gives a full explanation
of the way in which the airman's most
coveted title, "Ace,'' came into general use.
He says: when pilot has brought down
his fifth plane the chief of the squadron tele-
graphs his fifth victory to headquarters, and
that gives him the right to be carried In the
next general orders to the whole army with
a citation of service rendered, for the press
to publish the following day in the official
gazette. Whenever pilots merited this dis
tinction their machinists called them aces,
which has the same signifcation among the
pilots as the ace card has in game of cards >
that is to say, the strongest card and this
is the etymology of the word ACE of which
many persons are ignorant. This title has
nothing official and it sprang from the slang
of the machinists, but that does not prevent
it from being quoted in all languages and in
every country in the world"
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-25
PEACE BY RESOLUTION

TINE peace which Senator Fall in his
= resolution proclaims has been con-
sunmated by the treaty of Versailles.
That, however, is the document which he
and his faction are ostensibly planning to
repudiate.
Unprotected by this hated pact the
world, including the United States, would
still be at war. Without the obligations
which it imposes on Germany, none of the
objects for which America took up arms
would be officially attained.
In introducing the resolution the sena-
tor from New Mexico is entirely within
his congressional rights. Had he so de-
sired he could have proposed to announce
peace between America and Germany to
be existent while we were fighting in the
Argonne. At that time the foe, as re-
CARDS US, yielded none of her claims.
Exactly so many of them does she now
surrender in this peace by resolution"
Treaties, on the other hand, are the guar
antees of valid accomplishment.
It is always well, however, for critics
Of the Fall school of diplomacy to appre-
ciate the inviolable prerogatives of the
Senate. The Capitol grounds may be
soaked in driving rain and our body of
elder statesmen may "resolve," if it likes,
that it is fine sunshiny day.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-25

superb vitality of the Clemenceau in
spiration.
He has been called a reactionary.
Alexander Hamilton who now stands as
an American exemplar of constructive
accomplishment, was, it may be recalled,
similarly derided Time justified the lat
ter after his death. Time brings to
Georges Cemenceau its laurels in his
honorable old age.
AS a world figure of the era he is
unique. AS an inspiration to France in
dark days and bright he ranks among the
greatest of her extremely individualistic
patriots. He was a solvent for error in
his radical phases when France needed
his seasoning. He was a fiery rebuke to
defeatism and faint-heartedness when he
waged war with untiring energy and un-
fa.tering singleness of purpose. He
gave no quarter to German chcanery
after the armistice.
That Clemenceau's triumphant exit
from political life is devoid of the irony
he was ever anticipating is fact fortify-
ing faith in human loyalty.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-25
cLEMENCEAU AT THE CLIMAX

DoUBTLEss Georges Clementeau, the
realist, exulted in fidelity to his creed
when on armistice day he coolly sug-
gested that the very voices then raised in
his acclaim might in the near future be
turned bitterly against him.
For once, however, he was spinning
fancies. His imminent resignation of
the premiership, which he has just an
nounced, will come at the climax of his
picturesque career. The respect in which
his country and civilization hold him is
undiminished.
That it temporarily ebbed in some cir
cles, offended at the intense nationalism OF
his patriotism is true. But the inextin-
xuishable sincerity of the man, his ardent
mentality and keen vision took prece-
denee over all other qualities which he
contributed to critical sessions of the
Peace Conference.
History will reckon him as one of the
commanding figures of that momentous
assembly. The mastery cogency and
6ir>ctness Of the Entente's replies to the
German delegates often bespoke the
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-25
THE STATE FOR SUFFRAGE

OUTRAGE wins in Pennsylvania for
~ the same reason that it is fast
triumphing elsewhere in the country.
The spirit of the times and the COR
sistent application of the principles Of
modern democracy are responsible for
( the swiftness and decisiveness of the vic
tory.
Even with southern opposition in view,
It is now hardly questionable that the
nineteenth amendment to the federal con-
stitution will be ratified. The speed of
the enfranchisement current is now
largely dependent upon the period set for
the sessions of the various state Legisla-
lures.
A significant aspect of the movement
is that sensational and hysterical suf-
frage tactics have had very little to do
with it save as handicaps. The favor to-
ward political rights for women arises
from national conviction.
The effect which the suffrage will exert
upon Pennsylvania politics when three
fourths of the states sanction the amend
ment cannot be predicted. There is no
other state in the Union where the op-
portunities provided in the doubling Of
the electorate are so potent. machine"
pretensions would be helpless in the face
of intelligent feminine opposition. The
action of the Senate in Harrisburg yester
day foreshadows a host of interesting
developments of all compilations.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-25
JUSTICE TO THE TEACHERS

DENNSYLVANIA'S school teachers
= thoroughly deserve the pay increases
granted them by the bill passed finally in
the Senate at Harrisburg yesterday.
compared with other great states and
me also of lesser wealth and distinction
the Union, Pennsylvania has long been
laggard in rewarding its educators.
he new schedule effects the greatest
hanges in the small salary list. This is
a measure of justice and reflects con-
sideration for current economic condi-
tions.
In many employments wages have been
in some degree adjusted to the raised
cost of living. Proportionate remunera-
ton for vastly important educational
work necessarily had to wait for legisla-
tive enactment.
A square deal to the teachers was due.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-25
Literary Notes

Lacking over the interesting catalogue Of
literary curiosities to be sold by Mr.. Stan
Uenkels tomorrow, we are grieved to find
Artemus Ward listed as "A popular English
humorist.
LETS manuscript of Anthony Trollope's,
which many Of the authors readers con-
sider 70 be his masterpiece, even surprising
his famous Woman in Waite
We would concede, and probably the heirs
of Wilkie Collins would agree with us, that
Mr. Trollope's famous Woman in White is
,,robabIy one of the rarest books not in ex-
istence, Our friend A. Edward Newton, a
TroIlope collector, ought to have hunt
for it.
In the New York Times we find the fol-
lowing 700
1nST-Iu taxi, booklet typewriting Spanish
translation elesy of Thomas Gray.
The New York, taxi driver who found it
must have thought that he had stumbled upon
one of the much. condemned Wall street
copies of the peace treaty. We cannot think
that the light hearted Spaniards will find
much consolation in the masterpiece of
Anslo- Saxon melancholy.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-25
AMONG MY BOOKS

A MONG my books-what rest is there
\ From wasting woes. What balm for
care.
If ills appall or clouds hang low,
And dropping. dim the -feeting show,
| revel still in visions rare.
At will breathe the classic air
The wanderings of Ulysses share;
Or see the plume of Bayard flow
Among my books.
Whatever face the world may wear
If Lillian has no smile to spare,
For others let her beauty blow.
Such favors I can well forgo
Perchance forget the frowning fair
Among my books.
SAMUEL MINTURN PECK.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-25
CONGRESSMAN MoORE'S
LETTER
Howard 3. Lewis Thinks Congress
Has d-PhiIsdeIphlans
Seeking Passports-War Rec
ord of J. q. Andersons Sons
Washington, u. C., June %.

WllAT a stir the prohibition bills are
w making! Protests from Philadelphia
range all the way from individuals and bust
ness concerns to such organizations as the
Arion Gesang Nerein and the Philadelphia
Drug Exchange. No matter how we may
view the moral side of the liquor question
the practical side is mighty serious at this
time. The loss of revenue to the govern
ment will be terrific. The business interests
from those who print the literature of the
liquor dealers all along the line to those who
do their banking and make their investments
are much concerned about what they term
"confsCaton. The revenue officials are
also very much interested in the matter of
enforcement. They have no small job on
their hands. seeing that many individuals in
the various states of this great country of
ours are determined to have liquor whether
the law sanctions it or not Washington
knows a good deal about this now. since its
officials have been up against the bootlegger,
since prohibition laws went into effect in the
District of Columbia.
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Farley Woo

Dis lingo I KANT understand.
It's jes' as plain as Sousa's Band,
It's toot sweet, alley, part tea and
Kiss ker say.
Dat las de one dat gets ma goat,
Some Frenchie II give 20 lots O dope,
Den add, wild face chuck full O. hope,
Kiss ker say
Some O de stuff I learn, jes' so.
loot sweet, hurry; alley, 60.
But what's de meaning O. dis bo,
Kiss ker say?
WAYNE f. HOMAN, A. E. F.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-25
THE CHAFFNG DISH
A Chanty Of Departed Spirits

CAS- it might have been sung bv Al S,otn
NHE earth is grown puny and pallid,
l. The earth is grown equity and gray,
For whisky no longer is valid
And wine has been voted away
AS for beer. we no longer will swill it
In riotous rollicking spree:
The little hot dogs in the skillet
Will have to be sluiced down with tea.
n ALES that were creamy like lather
" o beers that were foamy like suds
o fzz that l loved like father
o fie on the drinks that are duds!
I sat by the doors that were Slated
And the stuff had a surf like the sea
No vintage was anywhere waited
Too strong for ventripotent me!
T WALLOWED in waves that were uoat'
L But vet Twas never unmoored;
And after the twentieth seidel
My sylables still were assured:
7 never was forced to cut cable
And drift upon perilous shores
To get home I was perfectly able,
Erect, or at least on all fours
N
n l never was fuddled or blowsed:
NV hand was still firm on the tiller
No matter how deep I caroused;
But now they have put an embargo
On jazz juice that tingles the spine,
We cant even cozen cargo
OF harmless old gooseberry vine.
DUT no legislation can daunt US:
ID The drinks that we knew never die:
Their spirits will come back to haunt us
And whimpcr and hover near by.
The spookists insist that communion
Exists with the souls that we lose
And so we may count on reunion
With all that's immortal of Booze.
rTHOSE spirits we loved have departed
l. To some psychcal twentieth plane;
Rut still we will not be down hearted,
Wen soon greet our dear ones again
To tighten our drouth and our tedium
Whenever our moments would sag,
We'll call in a spiritist medium
And go on psychical jag
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-25

And the very time that it would have
been perfectly proper for hectic Paris cor
RESPONDENTS to wire Peace Conference
Quits" was precisely hen none of them
Jid
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-25

Motor thieves in Washington may take
heart. A representative of the Phladelnbis
automobile squad of detectives has gone
to the capital to teach it our protective
InIn
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-25
Answers to Yesterdays Quiz

Answers to Yesterdays Quiz
1. Otto Bauer is the new premier of Ger
many.
Q Scapa Flow is in the Orkney Islands.
3. John Keats wrote "Endymion."
A. The British pronunciation of Northanger
Abbey is "Norranger Abbey" with
the ''g'' soft as in gin.
4. There are nine justices in the United
States Supreme Court. including the
chief justice.
6. Caesar Rodney, of Delaware, made q
famous ride from Dover to Philadel
phia in order to be in time to vote for
the Declaration of Independence.
I. A davit of ship is a vertical pillar, of
which the upper. md is bent to
curve, used to support the end Of a
boat when lowering or hosting.
8. The highest denomination for which
United States silver certificate paper
money is issued is 500.
o. Sultan Ahmad Shah is the present ruler
of Persia. 2
10. The astronomical sign for the sun is 6
circle with . dot in -ths-centers
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-25
What Do You Kr,o,u?
QUIZ

1. Premier Cemenceau has described Ger
many as retire What does this
word mean?
.. In how many states of the country is
the capital also the largest city?
3. What is the function of Sparks on
ship?
4. When was the Archduke of Austria as
sassinated at Sarajevo?
5. Who was Gay Lussac?
G. What American minister is to be raised
to an ambassador?
7. What kind of an animal is leveret?
s. What is parabola?
8. who was Mother Goose? .
10. Why are the Dog Days so called?
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-25
Ballade Of Life Unendinq

Out of the icy skies they came,
~ Snowhakes blossoming chilling. sere,-
Gone, like the shivering breath of fame;
Where are the SHOWS of yesteryear?
Melted, their turbulent cold career
Seeped into loan and granite and clay.
Lo--in the grass they reappear!
They are the sap of life today!
BABYLON faunted her scarlet shame;
- Bethlehem fowered, humble and dear;
Rome was an iron and deadly name,-
Where are the SHOWS Of yesteryear?
After the seed the blade, the ear
Long in the fallow dust they lay:
Circlng the restless. crowded sphere,
They are the sap of life today.
MIAR comes, breathing its whitening fame;
q, w Greed, with crafty and covetous sneer;
Hate. with talons to clutch and maim-
. Where are the SHOWS of yesteryear?
These will perish. and blindness, and fear
Slaughter itself man will dare to slay.
Evils are blooming to things of good
cheer
They are the sap of life today!
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-25

1t is strongly intimated that "a thor
oughIy serious reflection will be cast upop tbs
German sgnatories by the Hall of Mirrors.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-25

loan" declares William Shakespeare
"oft loses both itself and friend Thai
sounds also like the city of Philadelphis' 3
oninion
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-25

Would it not be pertinent to ask Sena
tor Fall, of New Mexico, whether a resolu-
ton proclaiming peace on the restless south
ern border would be tantamount 70 the real
thing2
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-25
Dove Returns

Haniel Won Haimhausen has resigned
rather than autograph the peace treaty.
Daniel entered the ions den
But Haniel refuses the Tigers pen,
DOVE DULCET.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-25

Richelieu would rejoice to see how
mighty the pen is when all the swords are
Sheothed
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TOWARD b. LEWIS. r

HOWARD r. LEWIS. philosopher, who
l. gets to Washington on law business now
and then. visits the Senate gallery to hear
Lodge or Pcnrose speak and then wanders
over TO the House gallery and muses.. OBJ
serving that the senators have desks and are
very digniiicd and that the Representatives
have no desks hut sit where they please in
the House amphitheatre. in more or less
orderly fashion, the Philadelphia solon con-
CludeS. somewhat reluctantly. that the
House is losing it's impressiveness and leaves
with the mind of the visitor the thought
that the Daniel Websters and Henry Clays
have gone out and that a wilder and woollier
generation of statesmen have taken their
places. There is something in Brother
Lewiss philosophy. The House membership
is uncomfortable large and the existing hall
is too small to accommodate all of the mem
bcrs with desks. But not all the members
of the House like the present arrangement
1t was due to the increase of members sue
rcoding the last decennial census. The desks
we're taken ont partly because the scheme
was said to work we'll in the House of Com
mons. but chiofy because the limitations of
the present hall of the House of Represen-
tativoS for desk space had been exceeded
As to tho impression the visitor carries away
from tho House of Representatives let us
quote an intimate friend of Colonel George
L. Morgan. the favorite "private soldier
boy" of the Union League.
"What did YOU think of the House as you
looked down from the galleries?' the colo
nels friend was asked.
Every interfsting.' was the blunt reply,
but fused up little
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-25

have been accomplished before lot of
good Americans had risked terms in peni-
tentiaries for criticizing governmental
method.
If the bill fathered by the Governor
were national in it's scope Mr. Burleson
could proceed on his disastrous career of
tyranny without fear of dangerous criti-
cism and in any crisis the army could
run the country.
Judges, under the terms of the "anti
sedition" bill, would be exalted to the
status of mandarins in China to make the
decisions which ordinarily are made in
the consciences of men themselves. And
the ultra radicals will have the first justi-
tication for many of the things that they
have been saying in their wilder inter
walls.
The great dangers to free governments
do not come from outside. They come
from within, in the manner now being
onspicuously demonstrated at Harris
burg, when incapable hands are permit
ted to NEEDLE disastrously with the
rights of others or when isolated groups,
in seltishness or ignorance, conceive
their own interests to be superior to the
interests of the state.
The Legislature has come perilously
near to debasing the system which it as
sumes to defend in this grotesque fashion.
And why? Do they read at Harrisburg?
Do they know what is going on in the
rest of the world? Do they know that
while the mind of the rest of mankind
is moving forward they are trying to set
the mind of Pennsylvania back a hun
dred years?
We have been witnessing, in connec-
tion with the anti-sedition bill, the odd
spectacle of unpretentious labor leaders
in the American Federation talking and
acting in far greater enlightenment and
temperatures than the men appointed to
administer the affairs of the state. The
government of the United States origi-
mated and grew because of free speech
Since when have we felt the need to deny
this right to all citizens? And why?
To assume that the institutions of gov
ernment in this country need to be swad-
died in laws for protection from scrutiny
is to assume that these same institutions
have grown weak and debiltated since
the days when they scared and grew mag
nifcently and fourished the more nobly
because of the tonic winds and storms of
enlightened criticism.
No one in his senses can entertain
such a de.usion as this. And it is neces-
sary to assume that the bill now up in
the Legislature is inspired either by
ignorance, bigotry, cowardice or self
interest.
In either event the bill ought to be
vetoed and dismissed without days
delay for the honor Of the state and the
good of all its people.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-25

1t has long been the
The Latest opinion of schoobovs
Hun Famine that there was su-
perabundance of de-
clpnsions in the German language. In con
nection with signing the peace treaty. how
ever, they seem to have run out at last
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-25

Why is it that so many poets have press
agented the nightingale and have neglecte
the chipping sparrow?
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One Adva nta ge

will no longer have chance to be sot IN
their ways.
1t has suddenly occurred to us that some
roformers have a single tract mind.
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As the only naval success the Germans
had was in undersea warfare, it was natural
that they should want their dreadeverythings
at Scapa to become submarines also.
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Envoy

WHERE are the SHOWS of yesteryear?
w Dead things only the dead revere.
Yet out of death life climbs its way
They are the sap of life today.
CLEMENT WOOD.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-25

"But where are your bloodstains?" sait
Davy Jones and Captain Kidd, on examinin,
the German scuttleships.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-25

At the luncheon given the Press Humorist
by the Kiwanis Club, Ken Beaton (known I,
the big world/as X. G. b. said that the on,
thing he never can get away from is potat,
salad. We think it only right to inform
with him, that he ate every bit of it.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-25

The American Press Humorists are to pre-
side at the launching of ship at Hog Island
on Saturday. Some how we would not like
to be the master of that vessel.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-25

One of the persistent illusions of the man
who spends his week ends at the shore is
that his rolltop desk is wave about to break
on him, and that the unanswered letters
foaming about him are the perilous undertow.
SOCRATES.