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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-12-26
THAT 1926 ANNIVERSARY

GOVERNOR SPROUL is the latest
~ convert to the plan for a celebration
in this city of the 150th anniversary of
the adoption of the Declaration of Inde-
pendence. He believes something big
should be done to commemorate the
occasion.
! 1T takes years to prepare for an ade-
'quate celebration of such notable event.
It is not too early to begin the, discus
sion of plans and methods.
An international fair similar to the Cen
tennial Exposition has been suggested.
With the cooperation of the federal gov
eminent such fair could be made bril-
liantly successful, but it does not yet ap-
pear whether this would be the best way
to commemorate the anniversary of the
setting up of the first real democracy in
the Christian era. Some persons are
hoping that the celebration will take the
form, in part at least, of an exhibit of
what democracy has done for the world
in one hundred and fifty years. Kings are
no more what they once were; the people
are in the saddle in every considerable
nation, even in those nations where mon
archy is still retained as an ornament and
symbol.
But an adequate and suitable plan can
be agreed upon when the big men of the
country are persuaded by The big men of
this city that the thing should be done in
1926.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-12-26

Chaudes" and LA Princesse Maleine,"
initiative Of Mallarme, Villiers de rlsle
Adam, Verlaine and Baudelaire, sought
to suggest the wonder and mystery Of
life in terms which, while often lovely,
lent themselves easily to burlesque and
parody. Literary Europe laughed when
Mirbeau called their author the Belgian
Shakespeare"
The seasoned Maeterlinck, our present
guest, has surrendered none of his high
spiritual purpose, but he has spoken in
such varied voices as those heard in "The
Life of the Bee" "Monna Wanna "Wis-
dom and Destiny" "Pelleas and Mel
isande" and "The Blue Bird"
1t is primarily as the author of the last
named that he comes to our shores.
The typical Maeterlinckian philosophy
pervades it, the awe and admiration of
life, the unafraid inquiry of death.
1t is a stimulus to have Maeterlinck in
America. Faddists and apostles of freak
schools may profit by his example, which
means so much now, which would have
meant so little had he come here as a
younger man and uniformed.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-12-26
A HAPPY NEW YEAR?

nESPITE all that Mr.. Lodge, Mr..
= Hitchcock, Mr.. Borah, Mr.. Reed and
their associates could do, Christmas
seems to have been pretty happy the
country over. The people, as you might
say, took it into their own hands.
Congress has had time to cool Off
The Senate has one more chance. 1t
has it in its power to make the last part
of the conventional holiday wish some
thing more than phrase for the coun-
try and the world at large.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-12-26
Member of the Associated Press
MOTOR RESTRICTIONS

IF COUNCILS, the police department
and the engineers of the P. r. T. feel
that they have wholly solved the problem
of street traffic by sweeping restrictions
applied to motors and motor traffic and
the elimination of parking privileges on
busy streets, they are mistaken.
General traffic ought to move more
easily under the new rules. Simultane-
ously, however, the utility of automobiles
Is decreased. Any move that hinders or
discourages the use of motorcars in the
business section must be regarded as
step backward.
1t should be possible for traffic experts
TO devise better system than any yet
proposed to relieve street congestion.
that motorcars are a public convenience
ard general necessity in modern busi-
ness. To casual observers it will seem
that if vehicle traffic were better ordered
and systematized and kept in designated
currents, parking space for automobiles
might be made on many cross streets in
the central district close to the shops,
banks, business houses, Office buildings,
restaurants and hotels whose patrons will
now be put to a good deal of trouble and
Inconvenience.
The police in this instance are doing
their best under difficulties. But we
might as well admit that parking space
is public necessity. The authorities
ought not to be content until it is pro-
vided in one way or another
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-12-26
DELAWARE AVENUE
By MacKnluht Black

THE one memorable collection of sea stories
i in this city of bookstores and printing
houses is published every day along the
docks of Delaware avenue. 1t is bound in
noise and CRIME and the scream of tug
boat's whistle And whosoever walks that
way may read unless the printed words of
hooks have made him blind to the pageless
truth of the brilliant brawling world OF
ships
Here are the color and background OF
all sea-stores, the sights and sounds and
smells of sea-going ships and men, And.
perhaps, should any one ask for more, here
he may And, fieeting and memorable. the
very Mfe-breath of the sea.
TIME plots of the stories are hidden beneath
i planking and seagear, and only here and
there does the shred of tale fly free in
the racy air OF Delaware avenue. But plots
are landsmen's inventions at best, and any
writer OF the sea whose knowledge OF the
desp is compassed by sunburn and shuf1e-
board can weave q story about ship and
her crew. But his will be painted ship
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-12-26
FROM THE COUNTRY
r TELL you it is gay

r TELL you it is gay
l. Down here. You ought to see the
hunters moon,
These silver nights, prinking in our lagoon
You ought to see our sunsets, CLASSY red,
Shading to pink and violet overhead.
You ought to see our mornings, still and
clear.
White silence, far as you can look and hear
You ought to see our leaves--the oaks and
ashes,
Crimson and yellow, with those gorgeous
splashes,
Purple and orange, against the blush green
OF the pine woods, and scattered in between
The scarlet of the naples, and the blaze
of blackberry vines, along the dusty ways
And on the old stone walls: the air just
balm ~
And the crows cawing through the perfect
calm
OF afternoons all gold and turquoise.
w. D. Howells.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-12-26
HONORS OF THE DAY

0NE fact consistently overlooked by
- suffragists and all advocates of wom-
ans rights who might have made most
excellent use of it in the hard years of
battle and defeat was revealed yesterday
as it has been revealed every December
for 10! these many years.
"A look behind the scenes of Christmas,
where the worrying and the work are
done, and the experience of all the ex-
pectant world that waited at the bottom
of the chimneys to be gloriously re-
warded for its faith, made it pretty ap-
parent that Santa Claus is a lady.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-12-26
MAEIERLINcK AMONG us

WHILE it cannot be- said that the
W message" of Maurice Maeterlinck
has undergone any marked change since
he published his first volume of poems
in 1889, his freedom from tyrannies of
form has been frequently exemplified.
Artistic cults, compounded mainly of
youth, would do well to observe this fex-
ihility. Free verse, "imagist" writing,
may, for instance, be legitimately a
iiAans bat hardly the end ofsexpression.
The BIaeterlinck who penned "Serres
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-12-26

Sims, madam? You
Daniels IS Hamlet say it is? / know
not Sims
Save that his presence is as 'twere a cloak
To hide some names that make the column
black
Or so he says; and will not deny
The boards first list had caused in me some
grief "a
As does this Sims =
For that they did not name in brave arrav
The captains Fate had rasped upon the
raw
Oh, my prophetic soul, my brother in Jaw
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-12-26
appointment Unnecessary; He Smokes
Dromedarles Now


Dear SoorateS--Just because the furnace
went out as started TO go to bed tonight you
are getting this communication from me. After
l had revivlfied the partially eXtinguished
igneous mass by singing on it some sections
of the orange crate the red-headed pedlar
left last summer, and had distributed with
meticuous care about the blazing spinters
a few black diamonds, it suddenly occurred
to me that would like to be sort of spe-
cial contributor to the Chatting Dish.
Now I've gone through college, and don't
make as much money as our iceman, but
7 know where cockroaches go to in the
winter--to my fathers warehouse. And, be-
sides sometimes crunch a bite or two in
WIS Tunnel Restaurant or T's quick lunch
near the Ritz when I'm not wolfing luscious
cream crullers round Ninth and Chestnut.
I'm sure that if you'd appoint me special
contrib | might find out whether Guy
Wheeler still smokes P--s. as he used
TO when he wrote Portuguese grammar,
and whether Doc Rosenbach has bought any
more garages for his folios Might I add
that I'm not much at answering the Quiz
editor because of my meager education, but
I've got copy of Mr.. Newton's Amenities"
Awaiting the appointment, Yours,
d. l. AIRY
Our friend H. T. Bell is first to reach our
most Christmas roll of honor. He tells us
that he sent the following letter to all his
friends
In order to relieve in tohat measure ]
can the great burden hroWn upon our
faithful postmen, / shall not send out any
Christmas cards this year.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-12-26
The SUBWAY. TOO!

FTHE news from City Hall suggests that
= guard ought to be stationed to pro-
tect the clock until the old Council de-
parts safely into history.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-12-26
The Postman

TIME postman is a magic man,
i You never know what he may bring ::
It may be riches from Japan
Or almost any wished for thing.
TT MAY be diamonds bright and new,
L Perhaps a piece of happiness,
Or possibly some sorrow, too,
For all your hopes you cannot guess
JUST what he carries in his pack.
J I think we're really rather glad.
Often we would send him back
If he told us what he had.
BEATRICE WASHBURN.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-12-26

After his visit of state yesterday, the
most expensive bird in the world will now
proceed to disguise himself for return visits.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-12-26
Answers to Wednesdays Quiz

Answers to Wednesdays Quiz
1. Asquith was Lloyd Georges Immediate
predecessor as premier of Great
Britain.
2. Hannibal lived in the latter part of the
third and the early part Of the second
century, B. q.
3. The Nine Worthless were heroes of ro
nance and chivalry whose story is
told in the Arthurian legends. They
were Joshua, David, Judas Macca-
baeus, Hector, Alexander the Great,
julius Caesar, Arthur, Charlemagne
and Godfrey Of Bouillon.
4. Three of the most noted of contemporary
French composers are Gustave Char
pentier, Camille Saint -Saens and
Vincent D'Indy.
8, Divagate means to stray or digress,
from the Latin 'vagari," to wander.
6. The mango fruit grows on an evergreen
tree of the order Of Anacardiaceae, a
native of India and the Malay pc
ninsula. The tree attains a height
Of about forty feet, but the undivided
trunk is rarely more than ten feet
long. The foliage is very dense.
7. Charles,s vain is the constellation Of
the Great Bear or "Ursa Major" with
its seven bright stars. The vain or
wagon (plow) of Arcturus, a neigh
boring constellation, became the
vain of Arthur. in medieval lore,
and became confused with the other
hero Charlemagne or Charles the
Great.
s. Victor Berger comes from Milwaukee.
: o. The corncob is characteristically
American pipe. PCS
10 Dewey won the battlg Of MapiIs Bay
op May /, 1893.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-12-26

The really happy guy WAS he who found
a lump of coal in his stocking.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-12-26

There are ever SO many small children
in town who know that Santa Claus is Just
as successful in getting down stove pipe
as down a chimney.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-12-26

Philadelphia crowds did their Christmas
shopping early and late.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-12-26

Christmas mail is still extricating itself
out of the hurly burleson.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-12-26

Wonder If General Pershing got any
thing op Christmas he liked W well as Aunt
gusau's fried dried apple pie
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-12-26

I HEAR you. you mere parents. pooh pooh
4 ing all this. "Think of a parents joys,
his duties and responsibilities ~ you say.
with that impcrtnently important air which
seems inscnarable from the condition of
fntherhood and motherhood. As If refined
and objective participation in the ancestry
of child. delicate race amenity, so to
speak, were not in itself n thing superior to
dignity and ancientry to any mere nesting
and brooding. Grandparents have com
monty forgotten more about children, their
nature and upbringing than parents are
likely to acquire in a lifetime. Whatever
wisdom among parents their own folly has
not dissipated they had of these same par
ents of parents, whose growth in wisdom
and knowledge verify wakes with their years,
precisely as the folly of mere parents
increases with the number of the weaklings
on which they exercise their folly and
indulgence.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-12-26
THE GOWNSMAN
erandfathers and erandsons

LAVE you never little grandson of your
IL own? Never a chick or child? Do you
know no little elfsh face, peering into yours
with the wisdom of the ages, frightened by
n smile reminiscent of things better than
those of this earth a little face the sight
of which makes warm the cookies of the
heart to beat to tune of youth and glad
nessg DO you know no little hand the
little finger of which is more precious to you
than bushe of rubies, which can lead your
listlcss old footsteps to whatsoever folly of
a baby's play it will? If you do not, may
time correct your deficiency and bring you
speedy amendment
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-12-26

lsIl .ap0ardI Nent atop Nsw Ysar,s paz.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-12-26
ouatrain, ln the rennysonlan Manner

To Oar Trustv and Well Beloved Friend
", Who Sent Us a Fldgon Of
Rye for Christmas
My corkscrew opes the cask of N,
My goblets cheerly clink,
My strength is as the strength OF ten
Because I've had drink.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-12-26

THE study table has of late been invaded
l. by certain beasts, strange and outlandish
as any that have ever strayed out of Noah's
ark. donkey and an ostrich are travers-
ing plane of white paper a lion is hiding
with rhinoceros in a pile of pamphlets
and an cgregious elephant is sulking behind
the dictionary Even more intimate pre-
cincts have suffered from this geological
invasion: very undomesticated COW was
mixed up the other morning with the shaw
ing brush; and foxes wander among the
bottles of the bathroom. And our little
sovereign is the source of all these vagaries.
1t is delightful rule in which the imagina
tion is kept agilely guessing what can pos
sibly happen next. But what care we if
our sovereign is imperious and uncertain?
His rule is indisputable and of divine right,
in token whereof his head is perennially
crowned with gold better than that either
of crown or aureole.
TNHE race is old and weary, and our hope
l. is in the young. 1t is the old who
faltered over this war. who hesitated, some
of VS., to carry our burden the rest of our
short way. 1t was those who were running
free and 1.-THE in the footsteps of youth
who, grasping the load, swung it on to broad
and willing shoulders and are still carrying
it joyfuly to the goal. When the shadow
goes before we can tread on ii as it shortens
in the brightness of MONDAY; when our
shadow follows, it lengthens and deepens
behind us as we move onward toward the
night There is an old mythologic story of
how it was that the experimental gods,
who were in the dawn at the beginning,
first created a world in which all things
should be young together and, growing in
strength and beauty. should in time har-
moniously decline to be re created anew in the
following age. The morning of that first
age was miraculOusly joyous, inconsequent
careless and heartless its noon was like a
rainless, cloudless period in the dog days;
its night an arctic misery. And the expert
mental gods, who we're not cruel. revised
their play, weaving anew the fabric of the
world. And into the new tissue they wovc
inextricably AT we'll the vivid colors of
youth as the somber shades of age and dis
cretion, perfecting the whole by shooting 1t
through and through with the sunbeams or
childhood.
rTNHE child IS the golden inheritor of the
i accumulated wealth of the ages, tn only
prince in the world whose title is unchal-
ienqed. whose throne is not tottering, whose
right is veritably divine. And shall we use
| his sweet flesh and mounting blood to stem
| the onrush of savagery as we have used
| his fathers before him, tossing him into
nothinKness as the price of the folly and
| the stupidity of a world grown hOary in
| sin? 1t must not be- For our new
| Alexander there must be conquests other
| than the Asias, major and minor, other ways
in which to display the heroism always
potentially within him. ways far other than
| In the brute glut of war. As we go out
| iD+o the dark when the last lurid cloud nj
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-12-26
What Do You Kno,u?
QUIZ

.... -,. QUIZ
l, For what Christmas was "a Christmas
Carol' written by Charles Dickens.
2. What is the salary of the Vice President
of the United States?
B. Where is Unalaska?
a. Who wrote "The Physiology of Taste?
D. Which European nation possessed New
p Orleans for the longest period?
u. Name the Presidents elected by the
Republican party.
z. In the reign of what emperor did tho
great fire of Rome occur?
8. In what town did General Pershins
spend his boyhood?
8. Why. are the northern regions of the
earth called Arctic?
10. What novelty of address did King
George employ in reading his speech
to the Houses of Parliament recently?
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-12-26

STURDY little Alexander the Great was
~ at first shut within the narrow Mace.
donia Of the nursery. Since marching
infantry has been added to his forces. he
has invaded other territory and established
now domains. The climates ruled by hot
and moist, whence chiefly comes the prov
ender. have long since yielded to his rule
and now support him with Ethiopian fer
vor and devotion; and his irrevocably, too,
are the contiguous provinces of pantry,
closets and Railways. Less visited realms, in
which foreign potentates are received in
formal state have suffered from intermittent
raids and not without some devastation.
Even the capital city, protected by forbid
ding cohorts of ancient volumes. dull and
dusty in service, suffers from continual
foray, and letters are tumbling to their fall.
Books have been numbered and found want
ing-in pictures pencils have been tried
and left--wanting in points. No ink has
as vet been spilled; but we know not what
n day will bring forth.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-12-26

THERE are people in this world who deny
l. acquiescence in absolute government. who
declare that, since the overthrow of the
Romanofs and the Hohenzollerns' self
administered dose of Holland btters, there
is no absolutism left in the world. But
little do they know. AS an honest grand
father, do you mind getting down on the
foor-stif as you are-to play blocks? Do
you resent the roguish little hands which
teor away your newspaper from your grasp
when you are reading the Presidents speech?
Are you grumpy when--handk dkerchief ne
cessities intervening-you break off in the
middle Of that fine point about the Czecho-
Slovaks which you were making to Jones?
Have you the sanctity of your own study?
Are you romp- proof? You never allowed
John. his father, to do all these indescribable
things that, in your dotage, you allow Johns
son to do. And, indeed, as all government,
in the last analysis. inheres in the consent
of the governed, you deserve, my dear old
fellow. exactly what you are so delightfully."-
getting
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Come Again, II. s.

We are greatly pleased to know who wrote
i.Street Closed 1t was II. =. Macauley,
Of es42 0gontz avenue. SOCRATES
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-12-26

Oh, my prophetic soul, my brother in law
Bisbee daily review., 1919-06-11
Crime WGUe H Wdrren Looked
 For? Want Cop

Sone one must be plotting crimes in Warren.
 At least, some one must have a "hunch' that crimes may be com mitted in that quiet residence sec tion of the district. And, having the "hunch" that some one is pre- pairing.
 Yesterday petitions begging, praying, and asking of the board of supervisors of Cochise county that they appoint a deputy sheriff for the Warren residential section, were in circulation on the streets of Warren and in the business houses of that little city.
 According to residents of War ren the necessity for a deputy has existed in that part of the district for the past two or three years. Its distance from the nearest dep- uty's office, and the fact that oc- casionally there are times when an officer is seriously needed, are offered as reasons. It is on these grounds that the petitions are be- ing circulated.
 Many residents of the city signed the petitions yesterday, ac- cording to those who have been circulating them. They will be presented to the board at their next regular meeting.
Bisbee daily review., 1919-06-11
WILLARD D-DEMPSEY
 BOUT PUT ENTIRELY
 IN HANDS OF ARMY

TOLEDO, June 1O.-Tex Rickard, promoter of the heavyweight cham pionship contest between Jess Willard and Jack Dempsey here July 4 tonight requested Maj. Anthony J. Drexel, president of the army, navy and civil ian board of boxing control, to select the referee for the contest. Rickard said Willard and Dempsey had agreed to accept the selection of the board.
 Rickard in his letter to Major Bid dle, suggested the board name all of the officials to be connected with the contest, which includes the referee and two judges. if the board so de- cides; to appoint the official timekeep- CT and to alter any conditions of the match, which the board believes will be helpful to the glove sport
 Richards startling announcement came as distant surprise to the score or more candidates who have sought to be appointed referee.
 Major Riddle, a millionaire sports man of Philadelphia, always has been supporter of boxing and won some amateur glove championships himself.
 It was said tonight the board would respond favorably to Promoter Rick ards appeal.
 Willard covered four miles on the road this morning and boxed seven rounds this afternoon. The cut over Dempsey's eye did not permit the chal- lenger to do any glove work
 Richards letter to Major Riddle fol- lows:
 "I am writing to you in your ca pacity as president of the Army, Navy and Civilian Board of Boxing. For many years have been convinced that boxing in this country is handi- capped because of the absence of a proper organization to look after it's interests.
 Boxing was in an even worse con dition in England when Lord Lons- dale had the moral courage to come forward and establish the National Sporting club of boxing control. "All honor to you, for having done the same thing in accepting the presi- dency of the Army, Navy and Civilian Board of Boxing Control, which un- derstand, Colonel Roosevelt would have done, had he lived.
 "I feel that in being responsible