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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-20
NEXT TO NOTHING

When Miss McFlimsy once inveighed against
lack sartOrial
That minimized enjoyment of a feminine
display
She voiced the cry of Mother Eve who in q
grove arboreal
Put fig leaves on the fashion plate, to rule
there for day.
In silk or fig leaf petticoat
Upon hyperboie they dote =
And so | earnestly declare
That when they say they've naught TO wear
They mean just next to nothing!
Dear Eve and Flora Bless your hearts,
each of you is the prototype
OF grlies of today we see in ballroom,
beach or street.
In arms and necks and shoulder blades you II
very quickly note type
Of feminine complaint that's old as ii 10
sometimes sweet.
The girls of old were sometimes free
lndulging in hyperbole:
But modern yrlies, I declare.
Are right in saying that they wear
Well-really next to nothing!
GRIF ALEXANDER.
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strike served good purpose in the final

strike served a good purpose in the final
analysis.
Like the recent imperial gestures of
the railway brotherhoods, it helped to
wake the people up 1t permitted them
to get a good look at the powers that
threaten to make life intolerable for
them. Conscienceless labor leaders on
one hand and 'conscienceless corporation
men on the other were shown frantically
trying to outdo each other in a tusse
for loot.
The public, which suffered acutely, can
not but we wiser now and better able to
deal with the whole general problem of
utilities. If the militant capitalists and
militant labor leaders find themselves left
before long without the public sympathy
that is necessary to the survival of any
organization in this country they will
have such demonstrations as that re-
Gently made in New York to blame for
the disaster.
The general public is organized, too.
Its union representatives sit in the Legis
latures and in Congress. The vehicle Of
its purpose is the law of the land. Sooner
or later it will institute reprisals and in
sist upon justice, and its leaders will have
to do it's bidding. Then we shall see
something new in the way Of united ac-
tion
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-20

About twenty-five Republicans are
needed to make the necessary two-thirds
majority. Knox and Lodge and Brande-
gee and Borah may vote against the
treaty till the cows come home without
being able to defeat it, provided twenty
five of their Republican brethren disagree
with them. The irreconciables may be
expected to fight to the last ditch for
reservations, which, as the President
points out, would delay ratification adj
around and postpone the restoration Of
peace conditions, without which the or
derly processes of industry cannot be re-
sumed and without which it will be i'm
possible to restore American trade rela-
tions with Germany. But the irrecon-
Cilables cannot defeat it.
1t is morally certain that the foreign
relations committee will report the treaty
to the full Senate in the near future.
Then, after each senator has freed his
mind upon it, the final vote will be taken.
The discussion thus far has not been
without value. 1t has clarified the think
ing of the Senate and the longer it con-
tinued the clearer it became that the
Peace Conference performed a difficult
task with surprising wisdom. 1t is not
such treaty as Mr.. Wilson would have
written if left to himself, nor such as
would have been written by Senator
Lodge or Lloyd George or Clemenceau or
Orlando or any one else. They all admit
that it is made up of compromises and
concessions. There is sense enough in
the Senate to refrain from trying to re-
write the whole document as it would
have it without considering the wishes
of any other nation.
1t has already been ratified by Eng
land. When it is ratified by the United
States and France all its provisions will
go into effect. The ratification by the
United States will hasten the approval
by France. 1t is of so great Importance
that the United States be party to it
and be a member of the league of nations
that it is not at all likely that any power
will question the interpretations which
we put upon it. Rather, they will all say
that they understand it to mean just what
we say it means.
Thus out of all the babel and confu-
sion, the denunciation and recrimina-
ton, the bitterness and spleen which ac-
companied the formation and considera-
ton of this remarkable document at
last come order and nationality and calm
ness just as the average man thought it
would all along; and much of the credit
for this happy approaching consumma-
ton must be awarded to the reason, dis
cretion and sound Judgment of the great
est Republican statesman in or out of the
Senate-Mr. Taft.
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THE CHAFFING DISH

Paradise Lost, signed by John Milton. Here
was a Hamlet given by Shakespeare to
Bacon with the inscription Dear Frank,
don't you wish you could have written some
thing like this?'' Here was the unpublished
manuscript of a story by Robert Louis Ste
venson. Here was a note written by Doc
tor johnson to the landlord of the Cheshire
Cheese, refusing to pay bill and accusing
the tavern keeper of profiteering. Here
were volumes autographed by Goldsmith,
Keats. Shelley. Poe Byron, DeFoe. Swift.
Dickens. Thackeray and all the other great
figures of modern literature.
Foor Georges agitation became painful.
His head buzzed as he surveyed the faded
signatures of all these men who had become
the living figures of his day dreams. His
eye rolled .ldly in its orbit. Just then
Mr.. Girth was called out of the room, and
lctt George alone among the treasures.
Just at what instant the mania seized
him we shall never know. There were =
pen and an inkpot on the table, and the
frenzied lover of books dipped the quill deep
in the dark blue fluid. He ran eagerly to
the shelves. The first volume he saw was
copy of Lorna Doone.' In it he wrote
"Affcctonatcly yours. Il. ID. Blackmore.
Then came Longfellow's poems. He scrawled
with deep esteem, Henry W. 1ongfellow"
on the fyleaf. Then three volumes of Ma
caulay's History of England" In the first
he jotted II have always wanted you to
have these admirable books, T. B. NJ" In
'"The Mill on the Floss he wrote This
comes to you still warm from the press,
George Eliot" The next book happened to
be copy of Edgar Guests poems. In this
he inscribed 'Iou are the host | love the
best This is my boast. Yours. Edgar Guest. +"
In copy of Browning's Poems he wrote
'"ro my dear aud only wife, Elizabeth, from
her devoted Robert" In a pamphlet reprint
of the Gettysburg Speech he penned This is
straight stuff A. Lincoln" But perhaps
his most triumphant exploit was signing a
copy of the Rubaiyat thus: This book is
given to the Anti Saloon League of Naisha
|. pur by that thorn in their side, o. Khay-
yam
BY the time the ambulance reached Mr.
Girth's home George was completely beyond
control. He was taken away screaming be-
cause he had not had u chance to autograph
Il copy of The Songs of Solomon.
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DIVIDENDS FROM GOOD NATURE?

SINCE August, 1918, $3,000,000 has
~ been added voluntarily to the wages of
the P R. T. employees. There have been
no strikes and rumors of an agitation for
eight-cent fares proved to be unfounded.
A letter from Mr.. Mitten to the working
force of the lines explains these happy
circumstances. 1t is an odd sort of let
ter to read in the light of what is going
on in New York and New Jersey street.
car lines.
I'VE want more rides at five cents, not
less rides at a higher fare" writes the
P. R. T'S president. Trolley crews are
asked to be amiable with patrons. A
ride on a street car is to be made "a
pleasant experience" That will be diff
cult in the rush hours, but perhaps it can
be managed. The motorman will keep
his eye alert for passengers on sparse
corners. He is asked to pass none of
them, but to "catch" all short-distance
riders and "pick up all the nickels." !"
Smiling pleasantly he will watt each con-
tented citizen to his destination without
delay and slip another nickel into the
company treasury instead of letting it lie
in the pocket of an angry walker.
Here is bright new policy Of sales
manship. There are car rides for sale
under theory of big business and small
profits. Everybody is to be made happy
if the thing can be done. The sleety-
minded old buccaneers who used to run
street railways twenty years ago would
have called all this visionary-and that
is why they are extinct. The newer doc
trine is bringing in the money, keeping
fares down and wages up.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-20
THE DEMOCRATIC NOMINATION

TN NAMING a candidate for Mayor the
Democratic city committee preserves a
harmless tradition. Harry D. WeScott,
son Of former Attorney General Wescott,
of New Jersey, its choice this year, is re-
garded as able and he is we'll liked in the
community. So far as politics goes, how
ever, it is evident that sentiment is one
of his chief attributes.
For sentiment alone must be the mo-
tive of any one accepting a Democratic
nomination for municipal Office here un-
, less, as has sometimes happened in the
past, political bartering has been the
motive. The city is Republican and will
remain so.
This year, more than ever, is the prac-
tical futility of writing a Democratic
ticket evident. An anti-machine candi-
date who is also Republican is the type
that appeals most to the best ranks of
the Philadelphia electorate. Such a
nominee for Mayor is in prospect in ].
Hampton Moore.
A quaint parody of the really signif-
cant campaign here is provided in the
fact that the Democratic primaries are
to have their little battle. Mr.. Wescotts
rival supported by the "Bonniwell Demo
Gratis" is former Congressman Michael
Donohoe.
The outcome, SO far as the future gov
ernment of Philadelphia is concerned. is
of no consequence. The most that the
little group of willful local Democrats
can hope for is that their party will not
be used here for base trading schemes.
Under the old Ryan-Donnelly domination
its extinction was morally preferable to
its existence.
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Answers to Yesterdays Quiz

l. Hamburg is the largest city in. Germany
after Berlin.
>. A begun is a Hindu queen OR lady OF
high rank.
8. Chaucer is called the father of Eng
ish poetry.
4. FL Dorado is Spanish and means the
gilded.
). Alaska was acquired by the United
States from Russia in 1857.
@. Letters of marque are licenses to fit out
armed vessels and employ them in the
capture of the ,enemy's merchant
shipping.
z. Edgar Allan Poe was born in Boston.
s. The st. Mihel offensive began on
September 12, 1918.
o. velasquez is regarded as the greatest Of
Spanish painters.
"a She jackstaff Of > >tia i the negpols
= n bow,
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-20
What Do You Kno,U?
QUIZ

/. What army is replacing the American
troops which are cvacuatng the Rhine
area!
=. Who wrote that in England it was
necessary to execute an admiral now
and then ito encourage the others?
3. Who was called the Napoleon of
Mexico? -
4. What is said to be the origin of the
word jingo? -
g. Which is the deepest of the Great Lakes?
g. Who succeeded Lord Tennyson as poet
laureate of England?
Z. Who was the ruler of France 100 years
ago?
s. How many standard times are used in
the United States?
8. Who wrote the music of the grand opera
The Huguenots"? 81
10. How many Presidents Of the United
States died natural death in Office,
and who were they?
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-20

Everybody knows the little pay checks that
YOU get in the lunchroOms, the kind that
say at the bottom. please Pay Highest
Amount Punched to the Cashier" We
thought it was a very sinister omen when
we saw the other day that a lunchroom we
frequent had laid in a new stock of these
checks The Highest Amount printed "u
the old checks was seventy cents, but the
new kind run up to a dollar.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-20
Brinq Them Alonq

Dear Socrates: When my father died he
bequeathed me steady income of three ideas
year The course of my business does
not compel me to use these up very rapidly,
and it has occurred to me that some of the
surplus might be useful to you. | have been
boarding them. | wonder what they would
be worth to you: GODFREY.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-20
News item in 201e

Washington, Aug. 20-Thc American pu
nltve expedition into Mexico. to rhastise
the insolcnt bandits who recently dropped
mothballS on the Secretary of War from an
airplane, crossed the border this morning
The War Department has addressed to the
Mexican Government one of the most strin-
gent notes ever compiled.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-20

Every one must wish that the $500 saved
by Captain Matlack when he rescued Lieu
tenant Davis could be divided between them.
But the voucher for that money will prob
ably be passed round the Offices of the War
Department for fifty years and O.K'd and
referred and filed a thousand times.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-20

One of the fellows who ought to be com
mitted for contempt of courtship is the chap
who married eight women and says he con -
Quoted all his wooing in a $40 sack suit.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-20

We hope that when the Kaiser really does
leave Amerongcn Mrs. Brntinck will be able
to get nice long vacation. Fall house
cleaning will be coming along soon, the
winter curtains will have to be put up. and
it would be such relief to know whether
the spare room will have to be done over.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-20

Judge Patterson's five reasons for not
quitting the bench are discounted by the
one reason that such quittancc would be
right and proper.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-20

The farmers knocked the daylight out of
majority rule when the House passed the
bill repeating daylight saving.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-20

All too soon there will be nothing left
of Uncle Sans entry into the grocery buSi
ness but bPggarly array of empty cans.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-20

Another man we have it in for is the one
who sews the buttons on Palm Beach suits.
1t seems to us that week is such brief
career for trOuser button.
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LAMLEssNEss DE LUXE

( r IKE everything else that appears on
~ the surface to be wholly bad and
without reason the New York street-car
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-20

The purchase of a home by the cx kaiser
is expressive of doubt that the Allies will
proyide him with one.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-20

Wonder if the senators thought they
were going to have another Henry Ford on
,Lo ytun6S
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-20

Having won his strike, the wise New
York street car man will follow his own
advice and mind his step.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-20

He is wise witness who reads "A pre- -
pared statement before submitting to cross
examination.
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Lost and Found

LOST: The good old days. Liberal re
ward for return of same and no embarrassing
questions asked. Everybody, Everywhere.
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North Penn Bank busters must be grateful
to their fellow plunderers-the Mexican ban
dits-for relieving them of some of the un-
enviablc space on the front page.
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Echoes

Those who are still
Echoes banking on Kolchak
might feel bit more
comfortable If the latest military dictator
in Russia were not talking in n vein strongly
suggestive of General Ludcndorff outgiv-
ings in the days when his army was re
tiring "triumphantly to defeat and chaos
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-20
CONGRESSMAN MooRE'S
LETTER
Shipping Board Keeps Cuban Sugar
Out Of the Market-lnterest OF
Physicians in the May.
orally Fight

TNHB high cost of living is the big thing
i now. Many remedies are suggested. but
there are some who hold that nothing short
OF financial catastrophe of some sort or
other will bring prices down. Information
alism is suggested by others, levcling, as
it were, of economic conditions very much
as President Wilson proposed in one of his
earlier messages. Attorney General Palmer
is talking fight, but up to date little has
been done in the way of prosecutions. Why!
For one thing. it is difficult to throw a stone
at protitcers without hitting somebody who
is close to court. While in Philadelphia the
other day, Mr.. Palmer talked about the
price Of sugar. He thought the sugar condi-
tions outrageous, and yet we arc told here that
certain operators have volunteered to bring
sugar from Cuba to relieve the situation
but are held down by the shipping board.
The shipping board has been under suspi-
cion for some time because of its intcrna
tional relationships. It is clear as a whistle
that foodstufs are going to waste in Florida
and on islands like Porto Rico because trans
portatiOn cannot be had. Congress has ap-
pointed live investigating committee. with
Joseph Walsh, of Massachusetts. at the head.
and we will know more about ships and
shipping conditions when it gets under full
swing. The committee is starting its work
in California and Washington, but it will
come East in due course. The cost of con
struction and waste which enter into the
cost of living ultimately are among the
things TO be investigated.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-20

Judge Patterson has decided to remain
on the bench, Then how can he expect Ia
make hit or run?
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-20

The Presidents refusal to confer with
them adds a drop of bitterness to the Cali
fornia wine growers cup.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-20

The judge evidently believes in having
an anchor to windward. even II II does seem
to show a belief that his opponent will be
elected.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-20

When the cider is hard it is soft for
the topper.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-20

Archduke Joseph of Hungary is a die
tator who readily submits to dictation.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-20

A sinner is more endurabe than a saint
with grievance.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-20

DHILADELPHIA medical mcu are taking
lively interest in the mayOraty cam
paign. Some of them do not like the way
the coroner's Office has been conducted, but
most of them are anxious to have the city
cleaned up. Doctor Anders who was a lead
er in the movement for clean streets, attrib
uted the 'fu'' very largely to the germ
laden thoroughfares. 1t is a curious thing,
but the opinion holds in the medical profes
sion that the healthier people are the better
it is for the doctors, and looking at it from
the practical apart from the humanitarian
viewpoint. it is reasonable to presume that
the people are more cheerful payers when
they are happy and prosperous. They are
not so well able to pay when the town is
ovcrrun by an epidemic. But as to the
mayoralty campaign. listen to DR.. l.. Web
ster Fox. who has been summering in Col
orado: "Whcrover | go | hear constantly
quoted against us that horrible slogan cor
rupt and contented.' This blot on the cs
cutchccn Of Philadelphia must be wiped out.
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The Public
Is Patient

Who will lead u public demonstration
against managers. authors and actors alike
TO insist let us say, upon one good play,
one good song and one new joke year?
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-20
Notes in Indepe ndence Square

The Chatting Dish, always first with the
news that really matters, paid call on
Fred Eckersburg and George Bloom, the
friendly engineer and carpenter who reside
in the basement of Independence Hall. They
informed us that searchlghts are about to
be erected on the roof of the Hall, to light
up the tower at night, When this news gets
into the papers, as it will shortly, you are
privileged to remark that you read it first
in the Dish
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-20

Wasn't it simply awful of that United
States officer iu Mexico to bunco a bandit?
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-20

UpOB" McWADE is out in Idaho. He is
- ''concilating'' for the Department of
Labor. Robert says the political power of
organized labor is growing immensely and
that many of the labor leaders look to the
passing away of the two great political par
ties. He says the universally exorbitant
prices demanded by unprincpled and avari-
cious profteers for food of all kinds are
the chief cause of labor unrest. He looks
for the creation of new political parties, and
gives Senator Miles Poindpxtcr bigger send
off than any other man in the Northwest.
He says Poindexter is stronger than "prctty
Bill Borah
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-20

II begins to look as if
tho stage strike will be
settled amicably. Will
nlldinnrps nunr Stril, O 2
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Fred and George are always hospitabe
and urge the wayfarer to tarry while
Fred can always dig up something interesting
from his remarkable collection of relies
With mystic air he produced a dangerous
looking flask. cased in wicker. Our heart
reared up, and for a moment We thought that
here, in the very palladium and bullseye Of
the American constitution, we were to have
a chance to thwart the eighteenth amend
ment. We shook the 6agon, expecting to
hear swash and swirling of good cheer.
Empty. We looked inquiringly at Fred, and
he explained that it was the flask in which
water from the Washington Spring at Valley
Forge was brought TO Independence Hall
on the Fourth Of July few years ago, for
Presdenr Wilson to drink.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-20

1t looks as though George Washington,
who is now lying under canvas on the west
side of Independence Hall, is going to keep
his lowly and inglOriOus posture for some
time. For we observe that a neat little
wooden crAts kAs bsss built rvund him.
SOCRATES
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-20
CONGRESSMAN WARES announcement

CONGRESSMAN NARE'S announcement
~ that he does not want state honOrs, but
prefers to remain in Washington until he
can become chairman of the all important
committee on appropriations, is topic of
interest in Washington. Mr.. Ware was put
on the appropriation committee shoBtly after
his arrival in Congress upon the relinqush-
ment of that honor by w. w. GrieSt, of
Lancaster, who had prior claim to it, but
who was satisfied to remain on the
committee on postofices and postroads, Mr..
Ware went on at the foot of the list like
all other new members with n reasonable
possibility of reaching the craftsmanship at
a remote period, but swift changes in mem
bers ranking above him occurred. Several
were defeated the head man, Mr.. Gilett,
was elected speaker; another prior member,
Mr. Mondell, of Wyoming, was elected lead
pr. until finally the list stood Good, of Iowa,
first Davis. of Minnesota, second, and Ware.
of Pennsylvania. third. That left Uncle Joe
Cannon, who came back to Congress after
Ware was put on the committee behind the
latter. Today. therefore Mr.. Ware stands
very close to being chairman.