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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-04-18
A NEW KIND OF SALOON

i INLESS the people seeking to find a
substitute for the saloon make haste
the brewers may get there first.
The ice-cream saloon may take the
place of the saloon where beer is sold
In some parts of the country the brewers
have already turned from making beer
into making ice cream. What has hap
pened is described by James H. Collins
in the current number of the Saturday
Evening Post. Mr.. Collins tells of a
brewer in an eastern 'dry" city who had
made 5000 barrels of beer annually,
which he sold for about $4OO, 900. He
turned his brewery into an ice-crcam
factory and turned out 100000 gallons,
which he sold for $l,OOO,OOO.
1t has been the history of the progress
OF the dry" movement that when the
sale of alcoholic drinks ceased the sale
of ice cream and other sweets increased.
In the city in question the per capita
consumption of beer had been about
eight tenths of barrel a year With
prohibition the per capita consumption
of ice cream rose to thirty-two quarts a
year.
Now, when the brewers. with their
knowledge of chemical processes and
their training in absolute cleanliness,
begin to make ice cream and to provide
places in which it is sold under agree
able conditions, it is possible that the
practical and successful substitute for
the liquor saloon as social meeting
place may be discovered At any rate
the substitute will appear when the mer
who attempt to provide something that
the people really want succeed in find
fnv il
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-04-18

GOVERNOR EDGE, of New Jersey,
- has signed the minimum wage bill
for teachers, which provides that no
teacher within the state shall receive less
than seventy dollars month during the
period when he or she is employed. With
school year of nine months, this will
give a minimum of six hundred and
thirty dollars a year to every teacher
The rural schools will be the chief
benefcaries, for they will get better
paid teachers than in the past But ulti-
mately all the schools will benefit, for
when state has started in the direction
of fair amount of pay for a fair
amount of work it cannot stop or turn
back.
New Jersey acts, but Pennsylvania
seems to hesitate.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-04-18

Electricity and the League Of Nations
Ihe Philadelphia Electric Company is put
ting up new load dispatcher board. de-
vice for commanding and regulating in one
central nerve -plexus all electrical energy
circulated through the company's cables: On
this amazing diagrammed screen roaring
dynamos in distant power houses are repre-
sented by little clusters of lights and col
ored buttons, and their throbbing turbines
are subject to the supreme command of the
load dispatcher as he sits at his all seeing
desk. We are told that this new installation
at tenth and Chestnut will be the most re-
markable thing. of its kind in America, and
view OF it suggests the thought that the
junction of the league of nations will be
very similar. From outlying power stations
all through city and suburbs the Electric
Company's load dispatcher is informed by
telephone of any break down or of an
preaching storms that may cause trouble, so
that ne can take steps to reapportiOn the
lightninged forces at his command. In tbe
same way, in its headquarters in Geneva the
league tif properly planned) will be in in
slant communication with all governments ::
will be apprised of emergencies among it's
clients, and will have supreme authority to
transfer power from one point to another
according as the needs of public interest
require.
Like the load dispatcher's board, the
league of nations was bound to come into
effect because the idea is logical. scientific
and appeals to common sense. We only wish
there might be one or two expert electrical
engineers-like Mr.. Black, the Electric Com
pany's chief load -dispatcher-on the COM
mittee that is to draft the final international
covenant. Such men are accustomed to
dealing with terrible and deadly forces in
such way that they become the tame pets
of our kitchens and library tables. What we
need now are some league of nations engi-
neers who can control and distribute in
safely insulated channels the immeasurable
forces of national prides and passions,
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-04-18
'Tis ! Go Whisp'rino

,7NlS I 60 whsp ring, whisp' ring.
l. On bleak ways, bare and brown.
Across the wide and windy fields,
All through the dreary town;
Past pools where reedy sedges rock
l wander up and down.
60 SOFTLY do l whisper,
~ Where sweet wind shakes the grass,
The golden crocus answers,
The viOlets hear me pass;
At frelit cottage windows
/ call to lad and lass.
60 l go whispering, whispering,
- TO birds on wheeling wing,
And wake the wood anemone
Where shadows shift and cling
For / am Life and Gladness,
For am Love and Spring.
JEANNE OLDFIELD POTTER.
IL they really want the kaiser to get a
good stiff sentence, why not impanel a iury
composed of his daughters in law?
If they would only put up foot rails in the
second hand bookstores we could get as much
fun there as we ever had in groggeries
Our idea of real happiness is to pull down
the rolltop at six post mortem and set off
10 meet Xanthippe for a session at our
fayorite cafeteria and our fayorite movie
theatre SOCRATEHs
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-04-18
Strikes and rumors of strikes have mo

Strikes and rumors of strikes have more
significance today than ever before in the
history OF civilization. The one thing needed
on both sides of every controversy is level
headedness. Even as the dachshunds are
ready to snap at the legs of the sitters at
the peace table, so are'thc Bolsheviks ready
TO take advantage of every manifestation of
industrial unrest.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-04-18

World doctors. concluding that it is
impossible successfully to diagnose the case
Of Russia. as they have pothing to 20 on
but a comparatively few isolated symptoms
have decided to allow the disease to run its
course, feeling assured that the strong
physique of the patient will bring about
nunntmnl recovery.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-04-18
AN UNFRAMED PORTRAIT

LIS wife is as beautiful
IL AS blossoming star in blue sky,
Or thought out of Keats.
But she sits at home alone, of an evening,
Watching the romance of the city streets
Through curtained window.
While at a clubhouse
He bends over silent poker table,
And gazes rapturously at a womans angular
face,
Printed on a card.
Morris Abel Beer, in New York Evening
Sun.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-04-18

The report that big railroad and tim
bcr concession has been made by the Rus
sian BolsheviK Government to two men with
American capital behind them gives point to
the assertion of Lloyd George that, while the
Bolsheyik force is apparently growing Bol-
shevism itself is gradually waning-breaking
down before the relentless force of economic
fnnIs
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-04-18

Recent meetings of business men inter
ested in making Philadelphia safe for democ-
racy suggest the thought that the time is
now ripe for the establishment of get
something done club in every ward in the
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-04-18
Favorite Poems

Village Blacksmith
II Penseroso
Cotters Saturday Night
Thanatopsis
Ode to Tobacco
Recessional
Yankee Doodle
Love in the Valley
On 1st Looking Into Chapman's Homer
Address to the CncO Guid
Nothing to Wear
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-04-18

The Bolshevist idea of bringing about
heaven on earth is to make things today SO
much like hell that anything else following
will seem like heaven in comparison.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-04-18
A GREATER FLIGHT THAN
ACROSS THE OCEAN
An Old Tale Of Man Who Flew to
the Moon, and What He
Found There

TNHE fight across the ocean which the air
- men are now planning is not n marker
to that which old Bishop Goodwin, of Wales,
made the hero of fantastic tale take. The
bishops hero flew to the moon.
He tells Of the exploit in book published
in London in 1888. which he called ''The
Man in the Moon: or, Discourse n
Voyage Thither by Domingo Gonzales. - The
flight is used as the means by which the
hero is transported from the earth to the
heavenly body. where n perfect state of SO
ciety is supposed to exist. The bishop is
more interested in explaining his ideal state
than in the navigation of the air. His book
belongs in the class with Plato's Republic
and Sir Thomas More's Utopia" 1t was
published about 12O years after the Latin
version of "l'topia' was written and about
ninety years after its first translation into
English.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-04-18

There is encouragement for American
"wets" in the news that the New Zealand
soldier vote has defeated the dry in that
country. ,..#
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-04-18

Prince Lichnowsky's wise words would
fall on ears more willing If Germany's vic
tins were not facing desolation worse
than that of the nation responsible.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-04-18

Good citizens everywhere will join in the
wish that the armistice signed by New York
marine workers will result in a permanent
noaCp.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-04-18

When one aliZes that it is easier to
make trouble than to remove it one ceases
TO worry over the delay in formulating a
ucaCe treaty.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-04-18

IT is a mistake to suppose that dachs
hund isn't willing to bite simply because it
has its tail between its legs.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-04-18
THE ELECTRIC CHAIR

among the armies: "I'he British fight the
Germans because they hate them; the French
because they fear them and the Americans
because they want to collect souvenirs
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-04-18
Unheard OF, Perhaps, but Certainly Not

Unheard OF, Perhaps, but Certainly Not
Unseen
Virginia Lee, of the chorus at the
Casino. and Babe Marowe, of the
Tumble In" girls at the Sewyn, will sail
shortly for England to fill an eighteen
months contract at an unheard-of figure
for chorus girl.-New York Evening
Sun
q The Mexican girl who scrubs the marble
steps of the Mexican consulate at 1892 Pine
street every morning is a loyal Carranzista,
we hazard CThat sentence is lacking in
concnnity. but let it stand,) For we were
passing by there yesterday morning Just after
breakfast. when we saw messenger boy
bring a telegram to the consulate. 'Hullo,
we said to ourself. something's happening
in Mexico" So we fingered about the pave
ment for few minutes to see what was to
be seen. The girl got up from her kneeling
lob on the steps and took the boy inside. In
a minute so they reappeared The boy had
the grinning visage of one who has been
timed for bringing good news And Chiquita
herself was smiling gently as she resumed
her task.
We prowled on down to the Office, and the
first thing we learned there was that General
Rlanouet had been killed the afternoon be-
fore leading an anti Carranza insurrection
near Vera Cruz.
Among substitutes for the saloon, try
reading the Congressional Record standing
up. with one foot on the nearest rail The
knockout is not quite rapid as that in
duced by whisky. nor is it so agreeable in
its primary stage; but the ultimate prostra-
ton is 100 per cent perfect.
In the beautiful Office of the Philadelphia
Electric Company at Tenth and Chestnut
a place so cunningly planned and so full of
marvels that it is an honor to the human
intelligence we overheard James Spillan.
an employe of the company, talking about
some of his experiences in France. Mr.
| Spillan, who has only recently returned from
| overseas, was attached TO trench mortar
battery In the Argonne fighting his platoon,
| numbering twenty eight men, was taking
| shelter in a large shell crater, when Ger
| man shell burst right in the middle of the
| group. Twelve men were killed outright,
| thirteen were wounded Only himself and two
Others escaped unhurt except for the shock.
Mr.. Spillan spoke with some humor Of the
| ysnks' passion for collecting boche souvenirs,
l and mentioned a saying which WAS current
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-04-18

Hclgoland is to undergo a slight rear
rangcment of SyIlahlcS
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-04-18

The proper reading appears to be Fiuss
and Fmmc.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-04-18

nOMINGO GONZALES, the hero, is a
~ Spanish dwarf. who has been abandoned
by ship captain upon the "blesscd Isle of
st. Hellons. the only Paradise on earth
The captain was so good as to leave him a
negro servant but Gonzales does not regard
the servant as Il pleasant companion, for he
compels him to live one side of the
island while he lives on the other. He says
the story is told in the first person--that he
remained on the island "A whole year, sol
acing myself for want of human society
with birds and brute beasts He used his
time to such good advantage that before the
end of the year he had several white geese
well trained that they would carry his
meals from the hut of the negro to his own
hut. BY yokng several of them together
and attaching them to a car or engine.
as he lis it. he found that they were strong
enough TO carry him through the air. for he
was not heavy. A Spanish ship. stopping at
tho island at the end of the year, took him
on board with his negro and his geese; but
when the vessel was within ten leagues of
the island of Tenerhfe. in the Canares. it
wrecked by an English feet Domingo
saved himself by using his geese and was
carried to the peak of Il snow capped noun
tain in Teneriffe.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-04-18

Put a service chevron on your pocketbook
next week.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-04-18

The Philadelphia convention of the Ameri-
can Press Humorsts is only two months
awav, and no one in this town seems to
have realized the seriousness of the situa-
ton.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-04-18

John Rarleycorn will soon be wearing his
red chevrOn.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-04-18

"RUT the chief cause of their good gov
- ernment is an excellent disposition in
the nature of the people. so that all, both old
and young, hate all manner of vice. and live
in such love. peace and amity as it seems to
be another Paradise though it is true. like
wise, that some are of II better disposition
than others, which they discern immediately
after their birth. And. because it is an
involable law among them that none shall
be put to death, therefore, perceiving by
their stature or some other signs who are
like to be of wicked and debauched humor.
they send them, know not by what means,
into the earth and change them for other
children, before they have either opportunity
or ability to do amss among them =
Their ordinary vent for them is a certain
high hill in the north of America whose
people | am apt to believe are wholly de-
scended from them. both in regards of their
color and their continual use Of tobacco
which Lunars or Moon Men smoke exceed
ingly. Sometimes, though but sell
dom. they mistake their aim, and fall upon
Europe. Asia or Africa.
IF YOU inquire how justice is executed
alas what need is there of exemplary nm
ishment where no ofenses are committed ?
Neither need they any lawyers for there is
no contention the seeds whereof when thew
begin to sprout, are by the wisdom of the
next superior pucked up by the roots. And
as little want is there of physicians: they
never surfeit themselves the air is always
pure and temperate. neither is there apy
cause of sickness. ! could never learn of
any that were dstempered But the time
assigned them by nature being spent, they
die without the least pain, or rather cease
to live as candle does to give light when
what nourishes it is consumed
THOSE who @ have read Conan Doyle's tale
L of the monsters which an airman found
between Ave and six miles above the earth
yyiIl be interested TO note that Bisbop Cod
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-04-18

Mr WAS now t.. the season that these birds
take their flight away. as our cuckoos
and sparrOws do in Spain toward autumn
continues Gonzales in relating how he got
to the moOn 'and. as ! afterward found
being mindful Of their usual voyage just
when | began to settle myself TO take them
in. they with one consent up, and
having no Otltpr higher place to make toward
to my unspeakable fear and amazement
struck both upright, and never left towering
upward still higher and higher for the space.
as ! guessed. of an hour. after which
thought they labored less than before. till
at length tah. wonderful y they remained
immovabe as il they had sat upon so many
perches. The lines Stacked; neither | nor
the engine moved at all, but continued still
as having no manner of weight" In ponder
ing upon the reason for this strange cir
cumstance he concluded that the earth was
magnet aud that he was now outside of
its circle Of influence After resting short
time his birds renewed their upward fight
but they moved with such startling swift
ness that the voyager says of this part of
his journey: II must ingenuOusly confess
my horror and amazcment in this place was
such that had | not been armed with true
Spanish resolution ! should certainly have
died for fear
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-04-18

FrER fight of eleven days the geese
4 alighted upon the moon. The traveller
was soon surrounded by a crowd of the in :
habitantS. who were of all sizes and shapes,
from giants towering thirty five feet into the
air to dwarfS not more than a yard tall. He
gives a fanciful description of these people
Some of the tallest, he says. lived to be a
thousand years old. The attraction of gravi-
tation was so slight that they travelled by
jumping into the air and propeIling them
selves from place to place with large fans
After telling how he was entertained by
the 'l.unars. he passes 20 n discussion Of
their social and political condition.
There had been no thief in the moon for
a thousand years when Gonzales visited the
planet, for there was no want of anything
necessary for the use of man. food of all
sorts growing everywhere without labor
AS for clothes. houses or whatever else n
man may be supposed to want the tale con >
tinues. lit is provided by their superors.
though not without some labor. but yet so
easy as if they did it for pleasure: again.
their females are all absolute beauties. and
by a secret disposition of nature man
there having once known woman never de :
sires any other. Murder was never heard of
among them. neither is it hardly possible to
be committed, for there can be no wound
made but what is durable: yea they as
sured me, and for my part I believe it, that
though a mans head be cut off yet if within
three moons it be joined to the carcass again
and the juice of certain herb there grow
ing applied, it will be so consolidated as the
wounded party shall be perfectly cured
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-04-18

Virginia Lee. of the chorus at the
Casino, and Babe Marlowe, one of the
Tumble In" girls at the Selwyn, will sail
shortly for England to fill an eighteen
months contract at an unheard-of figure
for chorus gir-New York Evening
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-04-18

Mr.. Spillan spoke with some humor Of the
yanks' passion for collecting boche souvenirs,
and mentioned saying which WAS current
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-04-18

If they would only put up foot rails in the
second hand bookstores we could get as much
fun there as we ever had in groggeries.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-04-18

If they really want the kaiser to get a
good stiff sentence, why not impanel jury
composed of his daughters in law?
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-04-18

- Address uN communications to Ercrin0 Public
Ledger, Independence Square, Philadelphia.
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1919-05-01
Allies Owe Britain 1872 Million.

LONDON.-The total amount due
Great Britain from the allies for loans
made during the war was 1872 million
dollars on March 81. The British do
minions owe the mother country 8Si
millions on the same account.
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1919-05-01
EASTERN AVENUE
PAVING TALKED
Paving Company RepreSen-
tative Explains $2,95 Bid.

The paving OF Eastern avenue Tor
a distance OF three blocks contiguous
10 the stat, fair grounds is being
feld up on account OF delinquent
taxes on property abu,,ing on that
street, II was stated this morning at a
special meeting OF the city commls-
SionerS Discussion Of the proposed
paving was referred from the meet
ing Tuesday when the commissioner
turned down what they termed to be
an excessive bid from the Western
Paving company The paving com.
pany--,hc lone bidder--plsced a price
Of sos per square yard, which !,
about 80 cents in excess OF the ay-
erage price.
An official OF the paving company
informed the commissioners that on
account OF delinquent taxes the com
pany had mich difficulty in the sale
of IFS having bonds and only sue.
ceeded Al a con derable discount
The balancing OF this discount DEF
icii. was responsible Tor the appar.
emily excessive charge. The paving
company said no reduction OF the
S29S quotation would be made ard
gave the commissioners to under
stand they could either take i or
leave IL.
Officials of the fair association
said the pavement was imperative
and urged the commissioners to make
every concession possible. The mat
ter will come up for further discus
sion this afternoon.
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1919-05-01
MASONIC LODGES
CONSOLIDATED
Grand Officers Of Oklahoma
Elected This Afternoon,

-Four, lodges were consolidated yes.
terdsy In the second session OF the
Grand lodge OF the A. +. and A. NJ
lvsnhoe No. 5D was consolidated
with Jappa No. 262 at Shattuck and
laureal No. 100 with Duiton No. ~
st Verden. One lodge charter was
surrendered and one arrested. Three
lodges we're set TO work under the
dispcnsation act and SIX were con-
s,ituted under the charter. There
are now 4J8 working lodges in the
state OF Oklahoma. officials state.
Henry S, Johnson. grand lecturer
gave an address at the meeting.
w. NJ. Anderson, grand SECRETARY,
reported the order in Oklahoma TO be
in ilourishing condition The pres
en,' membership, he said is 1890 be-
ing 'an increase { J,DS over the
membership Of the previous year
The grand representatives OF the
siJter grand jurisdiction were re-
ccived and given the honors Of Ma
sonry. A service flag bearing $500
stars was presented a, the meeting.
Among the distinguished visitors
10 the Grand lodge are John H.
Cowles, secretary general Of the
Scottish rite Masons and Joseph d.
Mailoek, grand senior deacon OF the
Alabama lodge.
Grand lodge officers are to be
elected this afternoon
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1919-05-01
Auto House
Soon to Begin
Long Journey
Local Man Proves Saying
That II Is Cheaper 10
Njyo Than Pay Rent,

II there arc any persons IN Okla
homa City who hafbQr the opinion
J At II IS cheaper to move than pay
rent" the house on wheels" Just
completed by Harmon J Plat OF
West 1hlrly-flrSt stree, should prove
especially interesting.
Thlj house" complete from win
dow screen, 10 shower bath. IS To-
Gated on Ford ton truck. and has
beer IN the course Of construction for
several months. 1t is light. airy, con-
taln' table, bed, gasoline stove. cup
boards. CHAIRS. and carries is own