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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-03-15
THEPEACE OF THE World

CTRANGE in the ears of dying boys, who
~ thought
They died to make the world securely
Hers A a
The footsteps of whose nearing messen-
Are beautiful upon the mountains; naught
Could sound so strange and sad as this
wild tide
OF jealousy and selfishness and hate .
And envy-this parochial debate,
Held by old men, who dare condemn un- 4
The hope of the world, for which boys
went to death i
Gladly. By Heaven, and if it were in
truth h
Only an eager mystic dream Of youth 4
AS it is not-then we who still draw
breath Se
In this harsh world-these old men, and
YOU
Should be the more resolved to bring it true.
Alice Duer Miller in the New York
Times.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-03-15
LESSON OF SCHOOL GARDENS

TIME school gardens, which produced
$4,000 worth Of vegetables last year,
furnished such admirable lessons in
resourcefulness and economy that it is
good news that Superintendent CARRIER
proposes to extend the work this spring.
American wastefulness was severely
jolted during the war. How far the
needed spirit of reform extended was
admirably illustrated in this interesting
and profitable work which the children
did. There was good fun to be had in
the school plots, which could boast of
fertile soil and helpful instruction for
the juvenile farmers.
The food crisis is by no means past,
with the cessation of armed strife; but
even if the pressure were relieved the
little agricultural stations" would be
we'll worth retaining. Habitually we
think of farming as cultivating the land
on large scale. That attitude amuses
the Chinese, who can produce nourish-
ment for man on q bit of ground no
bigger than billiard table. Today, when
the ua)kld Il suffering from an era of un-
exAIz va destruction, the wisdom Of an
i
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-03-15
THE PAsSYUNK TROLLEYS

d ABROAD corporations accused OF
~ Determinations in the past were
the first to plead for a right to protect
invested capital, even at the cost of com
munLies on their rights of way. Thus
the Pennsylvania Railroad Company
argued with good deal of logic that
after it had organized elaborate terminal
systems with the money of stockholders
it felt morally bound to encourage busi-
ness in the terminal area and to protect
the industries which contributed to its
maintenance against unfair competition.
Some sound argument was offered for
freight differentials on the ground that
millions invested in business, in the rail-
roads and in the homes of workmen de-
pended on the stability insured to manu-
featuring communities by rates which
made it impossible for adventures in
industry TO organize destructive competl-
ton by establishing themselves nearer
to the center Of consumption 1t is in
tereSting now to observe that the Pass
yunk avenue business men are applying
the same moral principle in their efforts
to restrain the P. r. T. from eliminating
it's service on their street.
1t is fair inference that these men
invested their money in buildings and in
business organizations because they had
the tact assurance of the city and the
transit company that traffic facilities
would be maintained on Passyunk ave-
nue.. The P. R. r. is under moral
obligation to these business men, just as
any railway company is under moral
obligation to maintain the sort of
service that may be necessary to main
tain the values of property in suburban
communities built upon faith in the good
intentions of the corporation.
The blanket franchises of the p. K. T.
should not be utilized in any effort to
discriminate against any one section or
street. The existence of street fran
chise implies that service will be main
tained on the lines indicated. If the
P. R. T. were to exercise it's own free
will in such instances it could do in
finite damage to many suburban COM
munities by merely withdrawing the
service which property owners paid for
DN tnclT original investments.
The mutual obligations and relation
ships which exist between property
owners and traffic corporations have
never been clearly defined, though they
exist and constantly affect private and
corporation investments.
The Public Service Commission has
given the P. R. T. technical right to
do injury to property in one section of
Philadelphia. But no moral right exists
to Justify the transit company in this
case. Nearly every large company in
the transportation business runs some
of its lines at loss To eliminate a
line of cars on an important street mere
ly because it does not pay is to violate
the intent of the franchise agreements
under which the P. R. T. operates.
The business men in the affected dis
trict have acted properly in arranging
for an appeal to the Superior Court. 1t
is about time that some specific defni-
ton were given to the rights of property
lnder such circumstances, whether that
property is on a suburban railway line
or in the city proper.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-03-15

were TWO Dl1ZZaTuS yesterday
Il one of snow and one of incometax re-
turns.
There are some things that not even
the patient chronicers of the Congressional
Record can endure. Looking over that
journal to see what thrills we could find
in the account of the recent filibuster, we
notice the following entry:
Mr.. SHERMAN addressed the Senate.
After having spoken for some time
Mr.. SMITH Of South Carolina. Mr.
President
And then little later:
Mr.. SHERMAN addressed the Senate.
After having spoken for some time
Mr.. REED. Mr.. President
And then. still later:
Mr.. SHERMAN resumed his speech
If the Congressional Record doesn't print
this famous oraton it will probably take
its place among the Ten Lost Diatribes.
Looking over a copy of Punch at Nifty
Bens smolle.shop on Tenth street. we found
the following wheeze:
So the Kaiser is growing beard. Prob
ably he didn't want to share the fate of
Wihelmshaven.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-03-15

Industrious and careful cultivator like
the Celestial" has new meaning.
The maintainance of the school gar
dens provides an attractive and health
full diversion. Its prime value, however,
lies in teaching young Americans not
to be agricultural spendthrifts.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-03-15

President wilson, is said to carry q
"conjure bag" containing good luck sym
bols. We don't know just what's in II.
but there's more likely to be a rabbits
foot than pussy-foot. ~. .
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-03-15

Secretary Daniels will sail for Europe
today. OF course he will speak Of the
right and the "left" OF the ship But
there will be a. great many naval officers
to pray, for the honor of the service, THAI
he will never talk of going down stairs"
to his cabin.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-03-15

We often wonder what the map-makers
are doing to keep alive in this period Of
f1ux while there are no frontiers in Europe.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-03-15

Today is Der Tag" in the Treasury De-
partment and every American who had Q
good year in 1918 has somehow feeling
that he Is at" .f 8s
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-03-15

The hat,check boys at the Quai d'Orsay
must be eager for the arrival of the Ger.
man ENJOYS next week. Sweet revenge!
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-03-15

Thinking some more about the above
matter, 1t occurs to us that the state of
mind Of a man who says he never intends
to buy car is not so dissimilar to that
of the Kaiser when he remarked some
time in October, II will never desert the
dear German people,"
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-03-15

We don't know just why the Kaiser
should think the climate on the Riviera
will agree with him any better than that
OF Amerongen. OF course, it will be less
of a. contrast
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-03-15

Trying to cast these musings into form
in which they may be of value to philoso-
pliers, we attempt the following strip-pc
ture of a mind in transition:
l. He decides not to buy a car.
2. He decides that he has decided not to
buy car.
8. He decides that some day he may de-
eide to change his mind.
4. He decides to test himself by saying to
his friends, very positively, that he
will never buy one.
5. He says it,
6. He says it again, to see whether they
believe it.
7. Horrifed by their skepticism he decides
to say nothing more about the matter.
8. He decides not to make any more deci-
sions, but to let matters take their own
course.
Q. They take it.
10. He buys it.
Rear Admiral Grayson has now crossed
the ocean at least three times and Mr..
Daniels is about to cross it, so If there ever
should. be another naval war We will be
magnficently prepared. The sea will be
almost as familiar as terra firma to quite
a number of our bureaucrats.
Pete Sepchenko tells us that he is going
to work on a farm in Ottsvie, Bucks
County, and among other manuscripts he
leaves the following with us:
When you was sixteen and I was eighteen
Our friendship was best that ever could
be-
Away in the fields and far out in green,
Chasing the butterfly up in the tree.
Picking the blossoms from apple in spring
And putting among the fair treads of
your hair,
q. spring,
And breathing the fresh and healthy
spring air 5.f ..
When you was sixteen and | was eighteen
In deep and dark woods where bobolink
sings, ~
Together we sat on the bank of the stream,
Tying the violets up on one string.
| Your cheeks Of pink rose and your eyes
of blue
Had smiled on me in the most pleasant
way; -...
| Those beautiful words that heard from
Turns my memory to you every day.
| PETE SEPCHENKO.
A dispatch from Paris says that Presi.
| dent Wilson wants the people of tho
United States to hold mass-meetings to
discuss the league of nations, Fine. Most
| of our orators seem to be inclined to drop
the first syllable from discuss.
The kind of rocks that the Dutch popu-
| lace throw at Wilhelm when he looks out
of Count Bentinck's grounds are not sham
rocks.
One of the saddest Of men nowadays
must be the proprietor of the leading hotel
on the Princes Islands.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-03-15
Two women ha,

Two women have
The World Moves! been sentenced in
one of the upstate
courts for burglary. The bodest motor
thief recently arrested in this city was a
girl. The time has come, surely, for the
anti.suffragists to warn the males of the
species that women will yet crowd them
out OF some Of their favorite professions.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-03-15

For England, home and beauty" used TO
be the old motto OF the British fighting
man. But some OF the Tompnies in the
trenches may have wanted to paraphras9
Il as "For England. home and cootie.~
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-03-15

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS is crolu-
siUelU entitled TO the use for repu biicdtior
Of all neps dispatches credited TO n or not
othertUise credited IN this paper. Grd diso
the local netcs published therein.
, All rights Of republication Of special dis.
patches herein are also reserved.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-03-15

he want car for, or now, when he is
stating that the kind of vehicle he has
chosen responds to the faintest pressure of
his intellect?
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-03-15

Enrico Caruso would probably confess
that his most taxing troll" was the one
OF $4,000 which he handed the income
tax collector
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-03-15

Every American who has opposed pre-
paredness is applying the Korean philos-
ophy to this country.
Every American who insisted that the
European war did not affect US was try
ing to make a hermit nation of the
United States.
Every American who is opposed to
our participation in a world union to
insure peace on the ground that what
happens across the seas is no concern of
ours, is blood brother to the silly states
men who sit about Seoul in their foolish
costumes, twiddling their thumbs while
a live people hold the reins of power.
Forty-three centuries of independent
life, forsooth! 1t is forty-three centuries
of living death, the like of which no
real American would wish to see imposed
upon his native land
There may come a time when the mere
statement that a nation rests its case
upon the principles of justice will find
it's protests needed. The theologians say
that in the far-of millennium foretold by
the prophets such conditions will pre-
vail. But there never will come a time
when nation can cut itself off from the
rest of the world and become hermit
without meeting the fate that has over
taken unfortunate Korea. 1t will rot
and stink to high heaven.
Striving is the law Of life. AS Colonel
Roosevelt once said, it is only by
strenuous effort, grim resolution and
desperate courage that we rise to better
things. Every man and every city and
| every nation which fails to strive upward
| is left behind to take the dust of those
who are moving onward with their eyes
on the future.
There are fortunately few Koreans
among us. But the Reeds and the
Borahs and the Poindexters, in their long
Asiatic nightshirts, cloth slippers ano
inverted top hts tied on with ribbon
! are Masking - much noise repeating
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-03-15
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George .Creel's
Talk OF Something angry arralgnment
Pleasant of his critics causes
one to wonder what
sort of noise he would make if he hap.
pened to be President.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-03-15
What Do You Kno,u?
QUIZ

1. What two American brothers played .
conspicuously important part In the
development of the airplane? .
2. What is the meaning of the word feralr
3. Who is the present poet laureate OF
England? tsy
A. Who was AIRY Scheffer?
8. What is the Italian name for Venice?
6. In what year did the German Crown
Prince undertake his disastrous siege
of Verdun?N .. .
Z. What is the apse of a cathedral? Z
8. What is schnapps?
O. Who said "The wit of a family is usually
best received among strangers? ty
10. In what century did st. Patrick liver
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-03-15

We think it is extremely ill-judged of
Signor Caruso to let it be so widely known
that he is delighted to pay his $16oO00
income tax. Darn it all, if Carter Glass
gets the idea that the public enjoys this
sort Of thing, think what We'll be up
against next year. Let Mr.. Caruso pursue
the noisy tenor of his way and leave us to
return to plain living, high thinking and
low taxing.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-03-15

New York is all worked up over
spite fence" that was built around the
shimmering ankles of some courtroom
dame. We wish we had known how to
build a spite fence around our poor little
defenceless income.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-03-15
Answers TO Yesterdays Quiz

Answers to Yesterdays Quiz
j. The loss, without, trace. of the United
States naval collier Cyolops is the
greatest mystery Of the war
9. John Jay was the first Chief Justice OF
the United States.
8. A glbbon is kind of long armed ape.
4. The Victory Loan campaign will start on
April Fl.
S. Philadelphia was officially founded in
1881. although an English settlement
under Captain William Markham, dep
uty for William Penn, had been stsrt-
p. ed the previous year.
6. A sennet is signal call on trumpet.
Z. New Zealand is the other British colony
besides Canada that is officially termed
a Dominion.
g. The United States has coaling stations
at Guantanamo and Bahia Honda.
Cuba, for which an annual rental a.
$4,000 Ia paid A
.. Rossini wrote the music Of The BarAoe
OF Seville" ss .f
40. The majority or Panama hats afs mae
In Ecuador and not on the 1sthm'i
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-03-15
FUTILITARIANISM
WILL NOT TRIUMPH
Our Korean. Minded Statesmen, Seeking 10
Make America a Hermit Nation, Arc
Engaged in a Bootless Task

TNHERE are Americans who if properly
clad would be going about wearing
A nightshirt outside of their trousers,
with pointed cloth slippers on their feet'
their hands concealed in the long sleeves
oc their shirt, and their head covered
by a tall hat with the brim at the top
instead of at the bottom; the whole head
covering held on by ribbon running
over the top and tied under the chin.
This is the costume of a Korean states
man.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-03-15

We are mailing a duplicate of our in
come-tax work sheet" to the postmaster
al Sarajevo Bosnia, asking him to post it
on his bulletin board. The next time any
one in Sarajevo wants to start a world
war we trust he will take a look at that
pathetic document and stay his hand.
We suggest that you alIcdo' the same.
, If Revenue Commissioner Roper is
smoker, he will, doubtles syrnpathize with
our repressed desire to Include among the
deductions" the amount we spent last year
for Swedish matches that failed to ignite.
The good old Ridgway Library has been
opened again. Well" well! If we are ever
a fugitive from justice and kard-pressed by
the police we shall cpeed thither and min
gle among the solitude. No one would
ever think of looking there.
The Red Queen made a very sage remark
to Alice when that young lady was visit
ing behind the looking glass. We often
think Of il in connect!on with the rapid
demobilizaton of money that continues
every day 1T takes all the running you
can do TO keep in the same place"
Some day, no doubt some deep thinker
will arise to tell us that Through the
Looking.glass' is very subtle alegory
about Bolshevism. In which the jabber-
wock is undoubtedly Germany and Lenine
and Trotsky are Tweedledum and Twee.
dledee
Studying the curious psychological tran
sitions of friend who is about to buy a
car. we are wondering when his candor
was at It's lowest cbb: six months ago.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-03-15

In the meantime certain Koreans have
discovered that Japan is the real ruler
of their country and they have adopted
a declaration of independence, as finely
worded as the earlier expressions of
confidence in the righteousness of their
case when Japan was sending troops
over their railroads. They have declared
that they are 'no mean people" and that
they have "forty-three centuries Of con-
tinuous history as a distinct self-govern-
ing naton,' and that it is their Solemn
duty to secure the right of free and
perpetual development Of their own ma
tional character"
As a matter of fact. their present
subject state is the result Of the de-
velopment of their national character.
Their civilization has remained station
ary for the forty-three centuries of their
national life. They are stagnant, stepped
in ignorance, fooled by fine phrases, and
as innocent and as helpless as babes
in a world of blood and iron.
It is doubtful if the progressive
peoples ought to allow such nation
to cumber the face of the earth. 1t can
be admitted that the Koreans are less
dangerous than the Germans without
weakening this doubt.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-03-15

Studying the curious psychological tran,
sitions of friend who is about to buy a
car. we are wondering when his candor
was at It's lowest cbb: six months ago,
when he was asking bitterly what WOULD
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-03-15
ELBOW ROOM

THERE We're two blizzards yesterday:
- one Of snow and one of incometaX re-
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-03-15

Korea is a hermit nation, long lndif-
ferent to- what has been going on IN the
rest of the world.
Certain Americans, if they had their
way, would make a hermit nation oil
the United States, for they are preach-
ing the Korean philosophy.
Let us look a moment at that doctrine.
1t found expression at the time of the
Russo-Japancse War, when Japan sent
her armies through Korea to attack the
Russians. The Koreans protested
against the invasion. They asserted that
they were an Independent nation and had
done nothing to interfere with the rest
of the world. They said that it was
not right for Japan to disregard their
wishes. They rested their case upon
the principles of right and justice and
expressed their confidence in the recogn-
ton of those principles by every one.
1t was a beautifully worded document.
No pacifst or anti-preparedness advocate
could have produced better one.
The Koreans sat on their launches and
waited for things to happen. And they
happened.
Under the urge of military necessity
the Japanese sent their troops through
Korea, and when the time was ripe they
annexed the peninsula.
Before that climax. however, they
made treaty with the hermit kingdom
which is one of the finest examples of
bamboozling on record. 1t recognized
the independence" of the country in its
first sections and pledged Japan to re-
spect all its rights. In the succeeding
sections all control over the military and
foreign affairs were transferred to the
Japanese. And the Koreans professed
to be satisfied with it. Some of them
protested that it had been secured under
duress, but the majority who gave any
thought to it at all in the spare time
left after propitiating the demons, which
their religion teaches them beset them
on every hand, felt assured that right
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-03-15

Rear Admiral Grayson has now crossed
the ocean at least three times, and Mr.
Daniels is about to cross it, so IL there ever
should. be another naval war We will be
magnificently prepared. The sea will be
almost as familiar as terra firma to quite
a number of our bureaucrats
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-01-02
W. W. MALLORY SUCCEEDS
T. n. TUTWllER IN BANK

But one change WAS made in the o'fi.
ciai fa-nuy ~ The DauE Ut CNomnetea
and Crust run,pahg a, the aOnlal cleo
tlon heli Wednesday, To rin ire va
caucy caused hy Tbs lastgn, l,h OF A.
H. TutWiiay. director. y Wilson MAJ
lory was chosen, Tic ue.BaI dividend OF
! yer cent ) month was ordered uail
and the surplus was Increases b, a
goodly amount l.. : Gwyp, who has
had The title OF cashier, vii ia the TIA
tarc also be treasurer, that position
having been created
Following is the list Of Officers aud
directors chosen; r, q. Ninton. prcSi-
dent; Il Brinkley Snowden. vice pres
ideut, T. L. Rice, vtce president, l.. s.
Cwyu. cashier treasurer. Lev price. l..
A. Thornton and \ {, RUrvhett, assist T.
ant cashiers: i, \, faote. auditor; 5.
I. Sheoherd, trust osric.i; jataes II.
Fisher. secretary; J. Il Pipe, assistant
secretary. Directors, q H. ?. ptNer.
W, r. Maiiory, L. L~oNeustein. Il
Rrinkley S%now6en, John T. Fargason.
Il, A. speed. W & Thomas. ". W
Mallory, r. q NtUtau, IS. v Beecher,
u l.. Rice, J. A. Evans, Cleland K
smith. ]. u. Goadb9r. ". Morris, Fre,t
Il. Jones, Julian {. Wilson. Mckay Van
Vleet, A L. Parker and +, G. Barton,
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-01-02

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