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The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1919-04-10

iEtTENANT BOYER toad us
Yesterday that We are ignorant
Of peace conference contruver.
sir-. Undoubtedly.
WHAT GETS ~ Is the cunientlon
Of Gus uncensofe eel ~seuaurrhlp that we
have all the farss before ~
WHAT. no. Gus old friend rtaisu-
~ T. back ON the Job in Muraucu.
sensbudy pase Doe Cock.
CONTRIBUTIONS continue 10 pour
In An observer calls attention to the
tact that az last the war correspond
enta are HlvinE ~ iuCpl color Reds
cap'uf~ blaek sea mort is cited
TOURIST GUIDES label Acomn -
Tn Ctty % the ski,s ,aminH anf
rew hotel me Acomn la pieh as lung
az rs 40 Ia the air
Hrr WHEN Guide book reading
tourists 500 that name ON q real hun-
cst-tp-arpdussa bell hops Gap will
they think % tho high-cuHt-of Twins
orr MUSICAL. editor that
f%ootnotes to music should he printed
with r. ahurhurn IL sounds fiat. hut
wall play % once for Luck.
WHAT uuerivd % uuefiiaus crit
81 during n recent Albuquerque muri.
cal uruEruW, U.s. tho luaa ~ IL few
overdue notes amonE friends
IT would uE interesting tn hear
tho comment " thr late eeuernl
sherman on the difficulties OF maxi
ina peace
WOULDN'T ir b. sreat 10 be able
90 order 90 tho gpnrru Washington
Just X e mnn nffinE his fingers FOR
a tnxlf
DfsTiNgUfsHED Fr~nch visltnr
told us Yesterday that the, r. dniivsr.
iug milN ~ AlruinnH ice FtanCe
which ia tuWn hirh'r thuu wen We
iotil CONSUMERS hud ever Dreamed
milk would ro.
CONSIDER th. oisr 81 John Arm
struur fhuluner ~ Merry Mills. Va.
John H iecaliy decd In View YORK.
state, YET h.s conducting t live amt
perfectly leEnl libel suii Hruiuat e
New York NEWSPAPER FOR asserting
that tho man from Merry Nils once
raised Merry Hector lmuuE tho uuEht
llrhfs uf tho rlfV where Dec isEully
checked cut the law YOU will note
is Supreme tf can utlr dead ONE
90 l live one and t I've unu umt
uf dead uD accomplish uuthlnH
- importance ln either operation.
~irr. u WINS Wor~c In n-minr.
Silver 'ltY and lts vicinity WIRE
visited nt Hu unusually heavy win
storm sunday Nsiuffs from nemiuE
are D Re the wind there attained tho
velocity of t hurricane silver Dlty
Independent
PASSING tho ,lIm. be- buck Is H
popular uastmn In those parts lust
nov Turumrarl. flr lnHfunrr. ludig
naniiy dfnicH b o. trains we're
stalled there hY SNOW thn stuliluE
having occurred. according tu rucum
rurI Hf uaihart. TuxnH
TOM MuRUlN SAYS Eiuratiun
pays box HItIIrrdz therefore bics Iu
with Fuur % dollar uuI tuN which
y suuud ulk. though ID humorous
THOSE WHO contend TINT tho
buying power uf dollar has been %
in half should frri uks cheap sports
Whom ~iruusIttuF l snN cent dollar .u
thr rHntrhuiIun rIIte.
The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1919-04-10

PASSING tho riim be- buck Is 1
popular nastimr In those parts just
Iurumrarl. fur Instance ludig
nuuilN dfnscH that o. trains we're
stalled there hY anuw fhn stullnE
occurred. accurdinr to rncum.
rurI Ht uaihart. Texas.
The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1919-04-10
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~arf. " Nn~ WIZ "a nefntftEs
silver tlfN ~ NH vicinity WIRE
visited nN ln unusually heavy wins
storm sunday tiruuffs from nemiuE
are hnf tho wind There attained tho
velocity % IL hurricane silver DltF
Independent
The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1919-04-10

TOM MuRulN SAYS Eiuratiun
hlE dividends therefore kick Iu
with your % dollar poll tnz which
j. sound tails. though not humorous
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-11
A GREATER CABINET?

EXPERTS who have been clamoring for
IL a new member in the Presidents
cabinet with a portfolio labeled secre-
tary of aviation have merely indicated
the nature of our modern needs. OF
course there should be a secretary of
aviation. There will be one whenever the
army and the navy and the marine corps
reach an understanding among them
selves and decide which shall have prece-
dence in the new order. Even then the
cabinet will be incomplete and unable to
bring pccially trained and consecrated
minds to the duties of new age.
Ought we not, for example, to have
secretary of prohibition, since prohibi-
ton is a new thing which intimately
affects the whole country? There should
be a secretary Of mediation qualified to
keep peace between the President and
Congress. Some one has said that if
there is secretary of labor there ought
to be a secretary of capital That is a
debatable theory. But any one who is
watching the drift of affairs in Wash
ington will agree that we need a secre-
tary of orations with unlimited author
ity to conserve the peoples time, their
paper and their ink, and their general
self-respect by putting some sort of
curb on needless debates in and out of
Congress,
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-11
WISDOM IN BAD COMPANY

TT is needless to be dismayed at the
spirit pervading the foreign relations
committees report on the peace treaty
conveyed to the Senate today. Some of
the language employed is so utterly un-
reflective of the mental attitude of the
vast majority of Americans that by its
very recklessness it must be impoteht.
The gratuitous slur embraced in the
observation that the Peace Conference
in reconsiderng the German treaty as
it now is in dividing and sharing south
eastern Europe and Asia Minor" is
venomous nonsense at its widest. 1t is
Just as obvious that these portions of the
earth cannot be abandoned to chaos as it
is that the public wants the treaty rati-
fed, recoils from the thought of a gen
eral reopening of the subject and is i'm
patient at purely partisan delays.
There are good points in the report.
Some of the reservations are commend
able and the Senate's Endorsement of
them will protect the nation without en-
dangerng the whole world.
But these praiseworthy features are in
sorry company and their validity is Sc
rously shadowed by the broadside of ex-
travagant spite. Sensible Republicans
can be trusted to prevent their excellent
case from being compromised much
longer by sheer turbulence.
The treaty will, of course, go through
and such provisos as will be made will
be wise and constructive, not frantic and
farcical.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-11

had devoted his life to, them, and was
not to be diverted.
His career should hearten every boy
with ambition, however humble may be
his present surroundings. He began
working about the mines in Illinois when
he was ten years old. He had never at,
tended school with any regularity, but
he was not content with his lack Of
knowledge. He educated himself and
before he was twenty-one years old he
was the president of the school board in
the Illinois mining town where he lived
When he was thirty he was elected presi-
dent of the United Mine Workers Of
America and before that time he had
mastered the economic writings of
Bentham. Mill and Bagehot and was
familiar with Spencer, Ruskin and Car
lyle, books which any boy can get from
the public library in any considerable
town. His study Of the fundamental
principles Of economics qualified him to
serve his labor union nteligently and
saved him from the blunders made by
less wcll-cquippcd leaders.
He did not win fortune, for he set out
to serve his generation rather than to
get rich out Of IT, But he did win the
respect and confidence Of the whole ma
ton The example which he leaves to his
children and to the children of all other
men is Of greater value than any number
Of millions which he might have accumu-
LAT ad
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-11

IT WAS TO have been expected that the
federal investigation of the wreck Of
, the Pennsylvania Railroad excursion
train at Elwood, n. j., would soft-pedaI
the sui ject of the use of wooden coaches.
To be lf-condemnatory is difficult in
this faulty world, and hence it is that
members of the train crew and not the
government arrangement is blamed.
But whether the case against these
subordinates be valid or not, the public
has no inclination for the "security" of
wooden coaches. Far too many of them
from jerkwater and one-horsc railroads
throughout the country have appeared in
this section since the federal control be-
gan. Most of the rolling stock in this
region was excellent and modern. Steel
cars were the rule on the principal lines,
not the exception.
The ominous and unwarranted change
is not good for the publics nerves. And
it is not good for the case for government
ownership.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-11
Answers to Yesterdays Quiz

/. DR.. Stephan Friedrich is the present
head of the Hungarian Government.
.. "In hoe signo vinces" means by this
sign shalt thou conquer"
3. Pandanus is another name for the
screw pine, a tropical plant.
4. Sir Humphrey Gilbert founded the first
English colony in America in New
foundland in 1888.
5. The current slang expression Lets
go' is said to have been derived from
the French "Allons," which means
the same thing,
6. John Paul Jones was a native of Scot
land.
7. Sir Walter Raleigh introduced the po-
tato into Munster, Ireland, in 1884.
g. A nylghau is a short horned Indian an
telope.
o. The printing Of the tides is the sccelera-
ticn of them, taking place from neap
to spring tides.
10. The national political conventions are
usually held from i've to six months
before the presidential elections.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-11
WHY WE WELCOME MERCER

WE ARE welcoming Cardinal Mercier
W as one of the heroes of the war. But
the emotion we feel when we look upon
him is different from that which stirs us
at sight of General Pershing.
Pershing was backed by millions Of
men armed with guns, men whom we
could see with our eyes and the force of
whose weapons we could appreciate. He
was the symbol of physical might.
Mercier, however, unarmed with any
material weapon, held his place and
defied the whole power of Germany We
sometimes think of him as a lone man
fighting his battle against fearful odds.
But the cardinal was not a lone man.
Back of him was arrayed the moral force
of Christendom, and he knew it. He
stood for the rights of the Christian
Church and for the right of a shepherd
to look after his flock. He knew that an
attack upon him was an attack upon
Christianity itself, and he dared the Ger
mans TO hazard such perilous undertake
ing. His faith in the power that he rep
resented was justified by the event.
g And so we are welcoming him as a
valiant representative of the faith of
Christendom who had confidence enough
in that which he believed to stand up like
man and fight for it against what were
apparently fearful odds, but what in
reality was the weakest force which
could be arrayed against a righteous
cause. We forget the divisions among
Christians when we see him and regard
him as a priest. in the great Church uni
versal in which Protestant and Catholic
altka haliave
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-11
UNJUSTIFIABLE MEDDLING

,COVERNOR SPROUTS quick protest
against the new regulations of the
federal railroad administration concern
ing the shipment of stone ought to be
followed by a radical change in those
regulations.
The railroad administration has Or
dered that no stone be shipped over the
Baltimore and Ohio road without a per
NIT. Application for the permit must
show the amount of stone required daily
by any contractor or by the state the
place from which the stone is to be
shipped and its destination. Then the
permit will be granted if the official in
charge thinks fit.
This interference with the freedom of
transportation is not justified by any
emergency. 1t places the building
program of the state at the mercy of an
official in Washington, who can tie up
every contractor and throw $4,000 men
out of work.
A similar order was issued during the
war. This order held up road building in
the vicinity of muniton plants, and unless
it had been rescinded the plants could
have neither received material for
making munitions nor could they have
delivered any munitions they might have
made.
If business of all kinds is to be con-
Quoted efficiently the railroads must be
left free to carry all kinds of freight in
response to the demands of the shippers
and must not be subjected to arbitrary
regulations as to quantity and destina-
tion made without any regard to the
necessities of the case.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-11
What Do You KnotU?
QUIZ

l. In what state has the Non Partisan
League been most active??
. What is Shrcye Tuesday?
8. In what state has the first police strike
in the United States been called?
L. What is the difference between q pre-
sentiment and presentiment?
). How many ships were In Columbus's
feet when he discovered the New World
in 1892?
6. What is pomacc?
Z. Who wrote "Peregrine Pickle?
s. What is the coinage system of Switzer-
land?
8. What two nations refused TO sign the
Austrian peace treaty?
10. What is the "Brabanconne"?
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-11
"a SERVANT OF THE PEOPLE

( oY THE death of John Mitchell the
~ country has lost one of its best citi-
zens and the labor organizations have
lost one of their wisest counselors.
MitchelPs sense of justice and his in
herent honesty made him respected by
friend and foe alike. He was a coal
miner who disclosed such abilities that
fhe mine owners themselves attempted
time after time to detach him from the
labor organizations and induce him to
.kerve them. But he refused. He was
+ fs--..s up among the workers and he
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-11
Literary Notes

Albert Mordell writes from Atlantic City
I'D House from Boardwalk facing Steel
Pier, hot and cold water, private baths'-
that controversy still RACES over his recent
book. The title of the work eau never be
mentioned by us in this family department.
but Albert insists that the volume was en-
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-11
The Average Man

THE Average Mana darned good scout
L Bumped off at last by some disease,
Ascended heavens stair in doubt
And fell most humbly on his knees.
His soul indeed had much to vex it:
He feared some angel would cry Exit"
UCOOD Cod" he cried Gin fact the
" phrase
Jumped out. for he was somewhat nervous)
Il guess each soul before you prays
Better than our desert You'll serve u.s.
My life since when ! first began
Was simply that of the Average Man.
UCREAT God, hardly ever worked t"
~ Up to the full of my endurance:
l lost my temper, often shirked-
But always kept up my insurance.
I'm only one of numerous clan,
That poor old simpletOn, Average Man.
UNTY LORD, wonder if you've guessed
4VA The most of us are up against it?
We like to see our kids we'll dressed
Life's hard. the way that they've ex-
pensed it.
It's terrible, you have to pay So
It's tough on the Average Man-1ll say so.
Sc A Nd most of us have had no time
n For golf or books or contemplation,
But still we must compete, and climb
Against the chap with education.
OF course guess it's part of your plan
To put the screws on the Average Man.
ttT LOVED my kids, loved my wife
U wish I'd told her so more often)
I led fairly decent life;
7 pray You, Lord, Your vengeance soften: a:
| beg Your pardon as best | can
For; being just an Average Man.
THE Lord looked down in thoughtful wise
l. Upon the soul who so b"sought:
my friend, do not apologize,
For I was thinking that ! ought
To apologize to you-how odd
For being only an Average God. ~
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-11
Lobster-Cheap?

It's queer world.
LObster-Cheap? said the crab eating
raccoon at the Zoo
during the fireworks display last night;
queer world Here am ! with more bars
than | need, while the rest of the country
has not one before which to rest a raised
foot. And while the United States Senate
is calling for more light on the peace treaty,
the Knights Templars are flooding the sky
with more light than crab eating raccoon
Graves. And where am | going to get crabs
enough to CRAFTY my appetite with old
II. c. of l.. ready to take all the joy out Of
life? I have only one hope: Senator Ware
has said something about n cheap lobster
Where does he get that stuff? That's what
] want to know, 1t may serve as a substi-
tutc for crab,
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-11

When the Presidents industrial con
grcss gets through with its other problems
it may solve the differences between union
organization on the one hand and partner
ship and co operative industry" on the
other,
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-11

The Sultan of Turkey is trying to sell
the golden throne of Persia captured by
the Turks 400 years ago. AS the day of
dime museums is past. his chance of sale
is slim. But he might try the want ad de-
partment.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-11

We hastcn to the
Kindly and Sensible front with bouquets
for Mayor Smith and
the members of the Board of Education.
School children are TO be given a holiday
tomorrow and they will be provided with
favored places from which to view the parade
given in honor of General Pershing.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-11

The action of the committee of seventy
in offering rewards for the conviction of
persons found guilty of fraudulent practice
at the polls is plum discouraging to a re-
peater.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-11

m0nger at the corner of Sixth and Chest
nut, says he expects to sell lot of copies of
Ben Frankln's magazine today. Keep it
up, Dave, is our ejaculation.
Those of our clients who are Robert Louis
Stevenson fans will be interested in letter
we have had from Mrs. Josephine Balfour
Tindolph, of Olean, n. Y. Mrs. Tindolphs
father was DIR. Lewis Balfour, first cousin
of X. l.. s.. one of the numerous band of
cousins to whom r. l.. S. was so attached
and with whom he played in the famous gar
den at Colinton Immortality described in "A
Childs Garden of Verses" The particular
interest to us lies in the fact that Doctor
BafOur came to Pennsylvania as a young
man and settled in Eldred, Mexican county,
where he died in December, 1894, the same
month and the same year that his cousin
r. l.. S. died in Samoa. Mrs. Tindolph
writes
My father was a grandson of the Rev
Lewis Balfour, of Colinton. and he came
to the U. $. A. after finishing the study of
medicine at Edinburgh University. He To-
Gated at Eldred at the time of the oil BOOM
He was married there and my brother and
were born there. After fathers death
mother came to Olean (only fourteen
miles away and we have been here ever
since. In 1885 mother, father and my
three-year -old brother went back to Scot
land for a visit, consequently mother met
all the relatives and spent two weeks with
r. l.. S. 1t was not my good fortune to
be in existence at that time, so l missed
the trip
Mr.. James +. Tower. the managing editor
of the Delineator dropped in to see us, and
told us of the unfortunate sailor who made a
brave dash to catch the . p. m. train out Of
Broad Street yesterday afternoon. The
platform was crowded with people who had
just got off the noon express from New
York. The sailor had to run in the greasy.
slippery path between the rails He dashed
gamely after the departing train, while
hundreds of people halted on the platform
to watch him. 1t looked as though he would
make it, when he slipped and fell in a pool
Of oil, striking his head heavily against the
rail. Undaunted, he picked himself up and
started again. By this time he was outside
the big train shed. but the express gathered
speed and left him behind. Mr.. Tower said
it was one of the pluckiest exhibitions he
had ever seen. Our only regret is that so
gallant a tar should have been so anxious
to get away from Philadelphia.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-11

One deed Recorder Hazlett declines to
record. He denies that he carried dustrag
and broom into Senator Vare's Broad street
house. 1t lis not denied, however, that the
house needed both.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-11
THE COWNSMAN
The Professor as a Type

IN THE pleasant column known with a
far rcsounding echo as The Rambler, +"
the Boston Monitor recently pictured,
according to long accepted rule, that anom-
aIous creature of the imagination, the pro-
fcssor. IF tho Gownsman does not msin~
terprct The Ramblcr's' professor is a
timorOus impractical little man. busy over
trifes, making during the happy absence
of classes in vacationD heroic efforts to put
his notes in order" For them he has bought
himself "a fair leather case but 'his
scattered thoughts. or rather the thoughts
of Others which he has scattered he has
''iotted down on paper of every conceivable
size, color and shape" unaware. we may
suppose, of the existence of library cards.
He has made "a discovery marketable at
ten dollars, (which will not equal the hon
orarium of the secretary who shall transcribe
it, He is eager to read "a salient passage
or two of ''the discovery to anybody who
will listen and only timid suitability in
tho presence Of real men. such as n bond
salesman and IAN armorcr" (polite archaism
for imminent maker) prevents him from
becoming an intolcrablc bore. To the credit
of 'Thc Rambler" be it said that the
professor becomes, in the end, the mouth
piece of a bit of wholesome doctrine In
idcaity; but that is not the theme today.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-11

Aviation is a lusty
Aviation Department youth who has done
Needed eXccllently well under
the guidance of his
godmothers, the army and navy, but for
Secretaries Baker and Daniels to imagine
that he should always be in leading strings
is to lose sight Of the fact that the kid is
growing up.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-11

The crowd has simple desires which it
reveals in the few songs which it really
cherishes. 1t loves strength and courage
and fidelity and faith. 1t loves love. 1t
is passionately devoted to the soil of its
origin and in late and lonely days its
mind turns to "the place where l was
born" The crowd. loves the movies be
cause the movies are yet in the state of
artistic innocence that permits a dra-
matte treatment of the major virtues. In
the movies the crowd can be sure of see
ing the villain brought to book in accord
ance with rules which it has always ap-
proved. 1t goes to the modern theatres
in some doubt. When the movies cease
to be imaginative and romantic and be-
come metaphysical they will be undone.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-11
When is Twin Not a Twin2

The President brought his report on
the league of nations to the twin cities of
st. Louis and Minneapolis today.-New
York World.
Proceeding thence we dare say, to the
twin cities of st. Paul and Kansas City.
SOCRATES
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-11

The trouble with some campaigners is
that they fail to differentiate between ginger
and bitter aloes.