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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-10-25


are capitalists or laborers.
1t is idle to deny the right of collective
bargaining to those who work with their
hands, but it is important that some
limits be set upon the operation of
principle that may be easily abused or
even made the cause of disaster.
Feudalsm in industry will have to go.
The trusts and the railroads and the
utilities have been regulated, butt no
trust, no railroad and no utility ever
held the potentialities for good or evil
that now lie with trades unionists and
with concentrated capital.
The rights of individuals are, after
all and in any event, of minor impor-
tance. Such stresses and strains as are
now contemplated in this country must
be measured not for their effect upon any
individual, but for their possible reac-
tions upon the whole life and spirit of
the nation.
IL ever l1PGt Was a IlCCN iva PNNNS
without victory it is now. The sott-coal
miners can never hope to win with their
outrageous claims But the nation may
properly ask itself whether rational set
Elements are not better than any sort
of defeat-whether any good could come
in the future from a conflict in which
millions of men were crushed in cause
which they believed fair and just.
What Congress will have to do is set
up a new code of morality applicable to
new conditions Of existence forced upon
the country by progressive industrialism.
That would not be an easy task for Con-
gress, which frankly loathes precedent
making. Politicians would have to ven
ture into unexplored fields which are by
no means inviting to cautious and politi-
cally minded men.
An interpreter able to talk in voice
of unmistakable authority is needed be-
tween the conflicting forces of industry
We shall have to have a means for
identifying outlaws and for Furnishing
those who, in one way or another,
threaten the peace of the country.
Capital squirmcd-but it accepted regu-
lation in the past. 1t will have to accept
a little more of it. Labor alone insists
upon its right to supreme authority. But
labor, in some of its highly organized
activities, will have to be regulated too.
1t is tragic fact Of history that all
great advances in human welfare and
every great reform in legislation have
come only after stress and agony, after
crises long drawn out, after pain that
reused the patient and tolerant mind of
the public to a mood for initiative and
action.
Mr.. Gompers has threatened war and
his opponents have answered his chal-
lenge.
1t remains to be seen now whether the
common-sense and the rational view that
the industrial conference could not attain
can be achieved only at the cost of wide
spread misery and bitterness and the
pain that is the best of all teachers.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-10-25
AN oLD-cLoTHES CLUB

yFHE only difference between the CITY
employees in Chicago and those here
is that those in the West who have to
wear old clothes have organized club.
An overcoat or suit costs SO much
nowadays that the man who appears in
new suit always has to explain where
ID got thgl money TO pay for Il. Thou
auas of IS. both in office end out. have
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-10-25
That Which Talks
ttTNHE brightest sunbeam rests

On the hills of Ballybnttin,
AS the light reclines on satin
Snug at a woman's breasts"
Twas n song put on the place
For one, in Ballyhnttin,
Who goes to town in satin
Trimmed with ferny lace.
And who has won her? Sure,
The man in Ballyhattin
Who talked about lace and satin.
Ny dreams and were poor.
FRANCIS CAItLlN.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-10-25

Railroad corporations may be able to
convince the Interstate Commerce Commits
sion that transportation rates ought to be
increased % per cent, but they can hardly
hope to convince shippers that they ought
to nav IT,
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-10-25

There is less than l per cent of alco-
holic content in the knowledge that the pro-
hibition enforcement bill may be slightly de-
layed by the Withholding of the President 8
signature,
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-10-25

There is talk of another peace offer from
| Russian Bolshevists to the Allies. But how
can the Allies make peace with the leaders
| of a school of thought that is assailing them
| in their own territories!
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-10-25
The Belgian

The Belgian Parliament has been dis
solved by a royal decree dated Los Angeles,
Calf, October II. Oh, well, the Belgians
have nothing on us in the matter of long
distance rule. We received one or two de-
crees from Paris that We're similarly potent.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-10-25

The King of the Bclgians bushed when
tribute was paid TO him in Harrisburg. And
it is a safe bet that he won everything in
sight with the royal flush.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-10-25

Drivers of street fushers are on strike.
Sympathi2ers will tell them that if they win
they're straight; il they lose they're four
fushers.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-10-25

Casey is donning his Santa Claus suit
preparatory TO visit to our soldier boys in
Siberia. And for once Santa will be appro-
priately appareled.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-10-25

Members of the Tenants Association
evidently do not believe that to the evictors
belong the spoils.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-10-25

II. G. of L. has been monkeying with
the slang dictionary, A jitney NOWADAYS hss
absolutely nothing 10 do with nickel.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-10-25
A DMIRAL BENSON. "

A DMIRAL BENSON, who won ntcrna
"A tioual distinction as the director general
of naval operations. has indicated his pur-
pose to attend the Charleston convention of
waterways men. The admiral took a lively
interest in Delaware river development when
he was at the head of the Philadelphia Navy
Yard and his appearance at Charleston will
be very acceptable TO the many Philadel-
phians who are going to talk up their city at
that place 1t is also worth mentioning that
Admiral Harry Il. Wilson, now commander
in chief of the United States Atlantic feet,
has been instrumental in making an assign
mcnt Of naval vessels for Charleston harbor
as an object lesson for those who study pre-
parcdness and commercial and naval develop
mcnt. Mayor Ellis and the Camden dele
CATION will take pride in knowing how their
city figures, through the admiral, in this
demonstration. Admiral Plunkett, who is in
charge of the destroyer fleet, is another active
naval man who will join in the waterways
procession. 1t is evident that the war has
not lessened the interest of the army and
navy in the Atlantic coastal scheme.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-10-25

Congress, unless it shirks a duty of
dominant Importance, will have to do
what the industrial conference might
have done had it rational will and the
ability to rise above selfish concerns.
The rights Of individuals who acquire
or seize extraordinary power in the eco
nomic system viii have to be defined.
The right to just rewards for indus
try, labor. talent dktiatiye viii have to
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-10-25
CONGRESS SHOULD NOW BEGIN
WHERE THE CONFERENCE QUIT
EpochaI Legislation Necessary to Reeu-
late Opposed Groups That Deem
Themselves Bigger Than
the Country

one clear gain remains to the public
from the dismal wreck of the indus
trial conference That is the knowledge
that epoChal legislation is Immediately
and imperatively necessary for the future
regulation of two powerful, irresponsible
and violent minorities that seem willing
to make the country desolate battle
ground.
With the news of the adjournment the
nation will realize with a shock that its
peace. its welfare and even its safety
rest, for the time being, not with the
President or with Congress or with any
elected representative Of its common pur-
pose. but with Mr. Gompers and Mr..
Morrison. of the federation; Mr.. Lee, of
the brotherhoods, and the miners lead
ers on the one hand and with Mr.. Gary
and his disciples on the other
Control of forces that deeply and init
mately affect the life Of the country is
whipped out of the peoples hands.
Affairs that are of the profoundest con-
sequence to the public at large are in the
hands of men whose aims and purposes
we do not even know. Each of the
groups that bolted in opposite directions
from the industrial conference has in
vited situation that may involve dis
tress and loss and Suffering for millions.
Yet each presumes to exist above the
government and to have rights superior
to common rights. Neither is in any
way directly answerable to public opin
ion.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-10-25
Bernard Baruch says
The Optimist

in one particular-it brought the great is
sues of capital and labor to the attention of
the American public as nothing else would
have done. But it is the fear of many that
the American public knows no more of the
merits of the controversy than it did at the
beginning.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-10-25

Members Of the Hartford mission, know
ing how prohibition works in Turkey, win
feel .qaite al home in q dry United States.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-10-25

Pierre Lenoir, French traitor, has been
sent TO meet the men he betrayed.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-10-25
Member of the Associated Press

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS is erciu-
ssUely entitled to the use for Tcpubhcdtton
of all netrs dispatches created 10 1t or not
0ther1risc credited in this paper and also
The local nclrS publiShed therein.
All rights Of repubHcntiOR of special dis
patches hrreiil are also rcScrrcd.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-10-25

nN MY desk, this long, long tohiie,
" In a heap eight inches high,
Lie the letters to Which I'U
Hare some day, to make reply.
Ere on holiday fy
Casting off the daily letters,
| glance through them qCiM a Sigh
Ho,D / hate to anStcer letters!
1t greves us to see, in exploring through
our rolltop, how many nice things we meant
to dish up for our generous minded clients
and have failed to achieve. We will men
tion few of them, just to show how braye
were our Intentions:
An Essay on the Past, Present and Fu-
ture of George Creel
A ballad discussing the we'll known truth
that mans pipe never tastes so bonny as
when he is washing the supper dishes.
little sermon, of a rather cheerful sort,
on Interruptions, pointing out that every
time man really gets interested in what he
is doing, something interrupts him; carry
ing the argument down to the last and Final
Interruption of all, with an appropriate in
lection of pathos at the end.
We intended to pull some funny crack
about there being a new subway in Madrid
and hitch this up with the old saw about
castles in Spain; we had really corking
on the subject; but we have forgotten just
what we were going to say.
1t seems, on examining an old sheet of
notes, that we were all set to write a reall--
savage and cruel poem about something the
first two lines are written down, thus:
fool a dumb, blind Sodden fool,
I tcalked amid the flames of life
But the rest is missing and we can't recall
what it was all about.
We find very cryptic note written in
pencil on the cuff of shirt that we thought
we had sent to the laundry, but which we
find in the bottom drawer of our desk, q
relic of the time when our family was at
the seashore and we were doing our own
housekeeping. This note says, What acouM
a summer resort be 1oithout LOVERS Leap?
This seems to need a little polishing per-
haps some one can build it up into q genuine
jape.
We find several memoranda about girls
on Chestnut street, and it is hard to resist
the conviction that we intended some sort of
poem on the subject. Probably we had in
mind the surging river of comely damsels
that presses merrily westward on that thor
oughfare about noon on Saturday, between
Sixth and Ninth streets. On the whole, we
have come TO Jne conclusion unaC THIS assign
ment had better be referred to some beche-
lor, and we nominate our admirable con-
| tributor, Richard Desmond, to tackle the
lob. We know of no one who writes of the
| fair Sc, with more zest than he.
| Here is another memorandum, which
seems to contain the germ of an idea which
we thought highly of and planned to spring
| on the world by way of the Chatting Dish.
This memorandum, which we find written on
| the back of telegram sent us by man
Offering us a barrel of clans if we would
write Travel in Philadelphia about his
restaurant, says:
Life is comparatively simple for the man
4oho is complete optimist or a complete
oynic. II is very trying for the creature
seho Is mixture OF both.
Unfortunately, we don't like CLANS
SOCRATES.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-10-25
Surprising
Themselves

result of prohibition. Alcohol addcts may
become candy addicts, they say, and the
death rate, as consequence may be just as
high Perhaps it is the shock that will kill
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-10-25

A LTHOUGH reformer, Theodore Roose.
~ yct was also an cminently practical
politician. An instance in which the late
John Stephens Durham figured will suffice.
Durham was a colorcd lawyer and editor
who had formerly been minister to Haiti.
His desire to become a member of the Span
'ish Treaty Claims Commission after the
Spanish American war was taken up at
the White House by Mr.. Moore. who was
then president of the National Republican
League. 1t was argued that Mr.. Durham
was highly creditabe representative of
the colored race: that he had mastered the
Spanish language, was a good lawyer and
had done effective literary work President
Roosevelt listened and took the matter under
consideration. Subsequently, he came to
the Union League for a great reception. The
line extended almost beyond the League
doors. When Mr.. Moore came along, the
President singled him out, held up the
crowd and then exclaimed so every one
around about could hear II appointed your
man Durham!'
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-10-25

The relations of landlord and tenant
continue y be tribe strained
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-10-25

We have been trying to clean up our desk
bit before going on holiday next week, and
it occurs to us that if We were to die sud
denly we would leave about 200 letters un-
answered. And perhaps that would be the
best way to solve the problem.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-10-25
The fictionist is handi =
Fact and Fiction

The tictionist is handi
Fact and Fiction capped in the telling
of story where the
reporter of fact has easy sailing. The fc-
zionist has to be plausible, while Fact cheer
fully deals in "impossibiities. The tug
that overturned itself in the Delaware river
by pulling at hawser that had fouled its
keel is a case in point.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-10-25
THE CHAFFING DISH

McGill, with her customary wit, lamented:
on East is East aud West is West, and
neDer the T,cain shall meet.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-10-25

The commission on unrest that young
Mr.. Rockefeller suggested in moment
Of desperation can tell US nothing that
we do not know. Labor and capital ac-
tually seem braced for a finish fight.
Yet neither side can be crushed without
disaster Of one sort or another to the
country. The industrial conference
proved actually worse than useless.
Both sides met with inherited fear and
distrust that they could not shake off.
They were more bitter enemies when
they fell apart than when they met.
The manner in which the smash oc-
Cured will make ropaganda for the
anarchists of trades unionism. 1t will
harden the dislikes and the suspicious
already existing on the side of capital.
1t will revive old hatreds and open old
sores.
The country is face to face with con-
dition that was inevitable. 1t has to deal
with the consequences of unregulated
power grown wild and arrogant, intoler.
able and dangerous.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-10-25

Insurance men in con-
vention in New York
see no reduction in
rates for soaks as a
AloaL,l ,ll;,,.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-10-25

DEVEREND c. H. e. TURNER, rector
1S of Saint Peters Church. Lcwes. Della
ware, received from an elderly lady many
years ago one of those quaint bits of pen
manship characteristic of our forefathers
ndited by John Porter, of Wilmington
Delaware. concerning 'Ihr meeting of the
Chesapeake and Delaware Bays when the
construction work on the canal had reached
a point where the last separating barrier
Of earth could be removed. The faded old
paper declares that the waters met on July
4, 1920. The event was celebrated by an
outpouSing of people and apparently by an
outpouring of rain, since A. Dexter. in
giving his views to the writer of the article.
expressed the sentiment. THE mingling of
the waters in which the Heavens seemed
enviously to participate Jacob Caulk.
ESQUIRE, was quoted as saying, by way of
n toast, "rrhe state of Delaware ever CRATE
full for the honor conferred by her sister
states" And there were other sentiments
of this kind, all hopeful and optimistic. but
the fact that it rained when the waters
of the two bays mingled would not down.
Said Isaac Clement MAY the roof of the
grand bridge over the Summit level never
again screen from the inclemency of the
weather, men who design to encourage the
honest exertions of our worthy citizens I"
Anthony Groves, Jr., of the Ericsson Line.
has a Photographic copy of the tablet
nressed into the wall of the Summit bridge
He carried it with him on the recent ex
| pedition to Delaware City, when the taking
| over of the old canal by the government was
| celebrated. But the news to James Nc
| Nally, Eugene w. Fry. Captain Al Brown
| Louis Burk, James Waddington and other
| users of the canal, is in the beated renort
that it rained when the waters mingled.
| Julv 1929.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-10-25

The avowed intention of the miners
leaders to tie up the country by stopping
the output of soft coal is lawless. 1t is
almost an act of war. 1t is a return to
the blockade and to the harsh theory of
attrition. and it is meant to infict the
heaviest punishment on noncombatants.
There may be some ground for the as
sertion of labor that it is fighting an in
dustrial feudalism in the last ditch. But
what does it hope to win? Feudal pow
ers of it's own? The right TO dictate to
a free country? The elimination of all
private industry and all private initiative
by cumulative and impossible demands
pressed and enforced under the privilege
of collective bargaining? These seem to
be the desires of a majority of labor
leaders if the terms demanded by the
coal miners and the pronouncements Of
Mr.. Foster mean anything.
The employers group would have had
to bolt in self-defense if labor had not
bolted first. The adjournment of the
conference has opened the way to a
struggle in which the whole country may
be drawn wretchedly along in disgrace
full confusion.
So the responsibilities of the occasion
are now shifted to Congress and the
pracidapt II is tho duty of Cnp1rase 70
| formulate and establish an industrial
code, to define the related rights of labor
and capital in industry, to fix limits be-
yond which unbalanced trades uniOnists
on the one hand and backward minded
employers on the other may not go in
| pursuit of their own selfish aims.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-10-25
nEORGE W. COLES, the genernlissin,o az

GEORGE W. COLES, the generaHssimo of
VI the Town Meeting party. is the author
of new style of handshake which is getting
the better of the boys around the mayoralty
campaign headquarters. 1t doesn't make
much difference whether he uses the right
hands or the left the shake is so individual.
istic as to be worthy Of imitation. some
of these observing politicians who have come
to admire the reform champions gestures as
they previously enjoyed, his eloQuence, have
ways: first, that George W. has been oh.
serving the gestures that give point to the
eloouence of the senior senator from penn :
sylyania, and second, that the habit has been
acquired due to the fact that Mr.. Coles is
the treasurer of the United Republican Cam
paign committee.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1919-09-18
KEPT SHOES AS ORNAMENTS
American Footsear Considered by un-
fortunate Serbian Woman a. Afto-
esther Too Beautiful 70 Wear.

Anything that will keep the feet
from the ground is considered shoe
In Serbia.
In the remote rural districts Of the
country 1t is said that many OF the
people live and die without owning
pair Of shoes. In the bitterest weather
they travel through mud and snow
without adequate foot covering. They
consider themselves fortunate II they
can secure old gunny sacks or heavy
cloth, which they tie about their feet
with twne in winter.
The first American-made shoes that
were distributed by the American Red
Cross created tremendous stir
among the people Of the distant VII
lages. One old woman who had never
owned a pair before took the shoes
that had been given to her to her home
and put them on a shelf above the fire
place. She was a> pleased as q child
to own them. hut nothing could induce
her TO wear them. She said that she
intended to save them for fetes, or
perhaps for her burial. They were
much too beautiful to be worn" she
said.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1919-09-18
Gems Romantic History.

Truly romantic is the story Of the
Braganza diamond. a stone Of 1,66O
carats, and "as large as goose's egg,
which. for more than q century, mas
been the proudest possession OF the
Portuguese crown. This amazing stone,
which Mr.. Streeter, the great author
ity on gems. has valued at f58,OOO,OOO,
was picked up by three Brazilian out
laws in the half-dried bed Of the
Abaite river. in the province OF Minas
Geraes.
The outlaws took the stone to the
nearest village priest, who obtained
access for them to the governor. into
whose possession 1t was given. The
diamond. the largest and finest hither-
to found, was dispatched to Lisbon,
with the result that the three outlaws
received the royal pardon and rich
reward. while the padre to whose
friendly offices they owed their good
fortune was given high preferment N
the church.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1919-09-18
Flower Gardens Of Holland.

1t was only after the fall OF Con-
stantinople In 1453 that Holland be-
came such a gay land Of flowers as 1t
now IL. Many Dutchmen went to the
East during the years Of the great
crusades. and those Of them who loved
beautiful things brought seeds with
them. When these were planted In
the rich soil Of Holland such wondrous
flowers appeared as had never before
been seen In that country The people
became wildly enthusiastic over the
new colors and scents and foliage
brought to them from the East. and
In Holland there sprang up = great
love for gardening.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1919-09-18
Orchid Hard to Secure.

Nearly all the orchids found In
Burma can be grown with little care
and attention in private gardens.
There is one exception. a sweet-smell-
ing species called tain by the Eur
mese. and which Ia usually brought to
market In Christmas week in Rangoon.
II only seems to flower in the most
malarious and least frequented locali-
ties. and at time Of the year which Is
the tigers mating season, and when
they are most dangerous to human be-
ings. 1t is in great demand by Bur-
mpse and sells for its weight In silver.