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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-22
STILL IN THE PRIMER CLASS

ME COMMEND to the attention of
W those interested in the relations be-
tween labor and capital a delightful
essay by Samuel McChord Crothers in
the Atlantic Monthly devoted to dis
cussion of the methods employed in the
Dame School of Experience.
Among other things, Doctor Crothers
has the Dame say:
When healthy young troglodyte was
hungry he snatched his food from somebody
who was weaker, This was very con-
!. venient for the snatcher. and the snatchee
didn't count. But the time came when the
snatcher came with a good healthy appe-
tfte and there was no one to snatch from.
After q while it dawned upon the bright
snatchers that, if they were to make their
business profitable, they must leave the
snatchee enough to keep him alive
This was the first lesson in political
economy.
A large part of the industrial unrest
today arises from the belief of the mod
ern snatchees that the modern snatchers
have not learned this lesson.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-22
TROPIC WRATH

PUT for the discovery in the quicksands
~ off Rebecca Shoals of large passen-
ger steamer said to be the Valbanera,
American tropic waters would PROFOUND
another Cyclops mystery. AS it is, the
loss of the 800 passengers and entire
crew of the foundered Spanish steamer
seems almost incredible Vessels above
q couple of thousand tons in size rarely
succumb to tempests nowadays.
The gulf and the Caribbean, however,
sustain the old and terrible traditions of
cyclonic fury. Stanch steamships ca
pable of weathering terrific blows in other
waters are still overwhelmed in West
India hurricanes. Three or four years
ago fruit steamer about the size of the
Valbanera vanished in the attempt to
cross the gulf in terrific storm.
1t is arguable that the Cyclops, huge as
she was, went down in gale. The Ger
mans are prodigal with their confessions
now, but the story of the great navy
collier has no share in them. In default
of any other explanation of the loss,
tropic wrath once more commands at
tention.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-22
GRADUATED COURTESY lNoPARIs

A T THIS rate, the Turks, when they
go to Paris to sign up, will luxuri-
ate in the Elysee Palace. Comforts for
the enemy delegates increase as their
orientalism grows more pronounced.
Quarters for the German commission
were cramped and stuffy. They were
offered nothing better than the antiquated
and second-rate Hotel des Reservoirs in
Versailles.
The Austrians, coming from farther
East, Jared better in the West. The cha
teau of st. Germain is prison-like, but
not without imposing historic associa-
tions. A great king was born there.
Other French monarchs have dwelt within
its walls.
But the Bulgarians draw a prize. The
Chateau de Madrid, where they are
housed, faces the velvety lawns of the
exquisite Bois de Boulogne. Before the
war the charming gabed structure was
a rendezvous of smart society. It's res
taurant was one of those considerate in
stitutions which refrained from wounding
its sensitive clientele by quoting prices
on the carte du jour-
AS the courtesy thermometer rises the
augury for suave times for the Turks
should cheer the most easterly of civiliza-
tion's former foes. 1t looks as if Lissauer,
with his "one hate and only one," had
given tip to France.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-22
STRESSING A LOSING ISSUE

THE average American has too much
= common sense to be led to- affiliate
himself with a political party which
makes its appeal to class interest. There
fore, the project of a committee of forty
eight to call a convention in st. Louis
for the purpose of organizing a new
party with the farm and labor organiza-
tons as its basis is not likely to prosper.
Men of all occupations and all classes
are in the Republican and Democratic
parties. They profess to seek the general
good rather than the good of group of
citizens or the prosperity of section of
the country. This is only another way
Of saying that they are based on the
American idea of democracy, at the bot
tom of which lies belief in equal rights
for all and special privileges for none.
Those who think that the old parties
have survived their usefulness will have
TO find broader issue than that of class
.onscioushess on which to found a new
party.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-22
WE'LL BE GLAD TO SEE THEM

rTHE report in Paris that Premier
Clemenceau and Marshal Foch are
likely to vikit America in December is
credible.
It would not be surprising if not only
they, but thousands of other Frenchmen,
should be curious enough about America
to make US a visit. Americans have
been going to Europe in great numbers
Tor years to see what the Old World is
IKE. We have shown Europe what we
can do in the way of waging war, and
have awakened in the Old World an in
terest in Us which can be satisfied only
By personal visit.
We have commercial structures to
show them which are as remarkable in
their way as the finest architectural
nonuments on the Continent, and the res
ideaces of our captains of industry com
1a< fasosabIy witk the palaces Of the
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-22
AZ to Puns

uEYWOOD BROUN, gentleman of in
IL sight and shrewd observation, has taken
up the cudgels in behalf of the pun. Not
to like puns,' he says, 'is an acquired
taste" Particularly. he is genial toward
bad puns. We agree with him that a really
outrageous and atrocious pun often affords
a kind of ecstasy. We regard ourself as
somewhat Of an authority on this matter.
The greatest collection of puns ever struck
off at one time by the mind and purpose of
man was undoubtedly Tom Hoods ballad,
"Faithless Nelly Gray" and its companion
piece, ''Faithless Sally Brown" After
these one has to turn to the works of f. c.
Burnand, the famous editor of Punch, for
second best. The pun has never f1ourished
as bravely on American soil as it does in
England, we fancy. Mark Twain was not
a punster. Byron spoke of some one
Matching pun" This was wisely said.
Most puns do not come spinning to the sur
face, but are carefully and painfully incu-
bated. AS for the word, we have no idea
what it comes from. 1t seems to be of long
history, for John Dennis used it over two
hundred years ago. Oliver Wendell Holmes
said, People that Smake puns are like
wanton boys that put coppers on the railroad
tracks" This is so mild a condemnation
(for the coppers don't hurt the train and
, the result amuses the boys) that we suspect
the doctor didn't feel very strongly about it.
In fact, he committed very lukewarm pun
himself in his poem, 'The Height of the
Ridiculous:
These to the printer" exclaimed,
And, in my humorous way,
I added Gas trifiing jesD
"There'n be the devil to pay"
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-22

old nobility of France and England. A
large proportion of the great art works
of the world has been assembled here in
public museums and private galleries.
Our natural scenery is equal to any in
the world
But the Frenchmen who come here will
come primarily to see what the nation
is like which can send 100000 soldiers
across 5000 miles of ocean and keep them
supplied with food and munitions. We
shall be glad to see both Foch and Glenn
enceau and all the lesser men and women
who may see fit to visit us.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-22

THE annual convention of the National
Association of Purchasing Agents,
which will be in session. here today, to-.
morrow and Wednesday, will receive a
hea-ty welcome from every one with
anything to sell.
But three days is not long enough for
the purchasing agents, even if they do
nothing but inspect our factories and
warehouses. The goal toward which the
live Philadelphians are heading is a per-
manent informal convention of pur-
chasing agents in session 800 days of the
year, the delegates to which shall be so
busy purchasing that they will have no
time for any other business.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-22
The Market

IGHTs-and mingled odors, and long
IL rows
OF high piled counters redolent of food
Jumbled green and orange, apples red,
And purple giant turnips tipped with white;
People jammed in wavering serpent lines,
White and yellow and black, and shades be-
tween
Half the city is here tonight, buying,
Saturday night, stocking up for Sunday.
NAT baggy wives with velvet hats
L Black and bedrggle- feathered, thick in
dust,
Resting wicker baskets on their paunches,
WaddlinF two by two, and gossiping;
Little grandmothers, Russia born, and bent,
Their white wisped hair caught tight by a
tawny shawl,
Their swarthy cheeks hollow and toothless,
lined; =.
Shiny black mammies, yellow girls
All dolled up in lavender and spats.
Old Uncle Charlie, paralytic, crippled,
With his big eyed pickaninnies on his arm.
MISS PRISCILLA, prim and quite old
Al fashioned,
Trips consciously along, not unashamed
To think that poverty should bring her here,
To chatter with the market bargainers,
And jostle shoulders with the common mob !;
UoU are young, you two walking to-
gether,
And married, not more than year or SO
at most;
Your eye is trihe too bright, my boy
and your face
Too pale aud thin and hard-the glamour
is past
And bills must be paid-every penny counts.
AND you, gray aged lovers, tottering,
"A You have brayed together many storm,
and still
You ding to each others arm, and quaver-
ingly
shrink as the crowd haunts by, unhesdins
you.
T,HAr little man, dark aud swatha
I moppet,
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-22

courage and energy. Mr. King has prom
ised to turn out the present commission,
body and boots, If he is elected He will
not even investigate it. But the most
significant thing of all is the refusal of
the people to believe that there is any
justice in zone fares or in the commits
sion's decisions. Yet it is plain that the
Public Service Corporation operates
many of its lines, particularly in the long
reaches through sparsely populated re-
gions, against difficulties that are un-
known to corporations like the P. R. T.,
which do business in busy and densely
populated areas. '
If the question were analyzed to the
bottom it probably would be shown that
the angry flare of opinion against the
service corporation had a deeper origin
than zone fares. Energy for the grand
outburst was stored up in the old days
when naive fnanciers supposed that they
could set up Independent empires of their
own under the shadow of state and mu-
nicipal governments. Thomas L. Ray
mond, of Newark, a Republican candi-
date, wants elective commissions New
ton A. K. Bugbee merely promises an
investigation and appraisal of public
service property. Mr.. King would ap-
point a commission pledged to restore
fve-cent fares provided for in old con-
tracts with the municipalities. The Pub
lice Service Corporation is without
champion!
The primaries were expected to be
spectacular test of general prohibition
sentiment. James H. Nugent, of New
ark-Bg Jim-as the dominant Demo-
cratic candidate seemed in way to seri-
ously upset all Republican calculations.
He was the frank and able advocate Of
rum and the good old days. Mr.. Nugent's
campaign addresses had lot of force.
He was frankly against"all things new
including woman suffrage.
But New Jersey has temporarily for
gotten even its hotels and their interests.
The zone-fare decision sent Big Jim
zooming to the far background.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-22
What Do You Know?
QUIZ

1. What is meant by "sending a man to
Coventry?
2. What is counter tenor in music?
E3. Into how many zones is the earth
ts divided?
4. What are their names?
5. Who has been the head Of the United
States investigating commission in
Poland?
6. Does ice expand or contract on being
heated?
7. What book is accounted the MASTER
piece of all biographies?
8. What are persiennes?
+; 0. What Is a retrousse nose?
10. What is the largest city in Kansasf
te&KW
Answers TO Saturdays oulz
/. Canon law is a code of rules agreed to
by church and in opposition to ira
n ditional rules, serving as the absolute
rule of faith. and life. The word
canon" is Greek for "rule.''
2. French is the language of Haiti.
8. The British empire, acting for all its
colonies and dependencies, has one
vote in the council of the league of
A. Giovanni da verrazzano was an Ital-
ian navigator who explored the coast
of North America from North Caro-
lima to Newfoundland in 1924. He
discovered New York bay.
8. Daniel Webster represented Massachu-
sets in the United States Senate.
8. Formulation is a mathematical terra
+ describing variation of the order of
}i set of things lineally arranged or any
one such arrangement.
z. Gumbo soup is table speciality charac-
teristic of New Orleans.
s. The Bulgarian indemnity has been nxed
at $450,0G0, 900.
8. The Dead sea is salt lake in Palestine,
sixteen miles southeast OF Jerusalem,
II Is forty six piies long.
40. The hommins bird i the smallest y
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-22

When a Washington
The General Escaped girl tried to kiss Cen
eral Pershing and got
a stranglehold on him she might have made
good If members of his staff hadn't butted
in. The general remained unkissed and the
girl lost hundred dollars She had wagered
that amount. 1t was a silly stunt. Salts
faction in the thought that she lost the
money is tempered by the knowledge that
some other simpleton won it,
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-22

Attorney General Palmers suggestion
of six months industrial armistice is
packed too tightly with common sense to
meet with general commendation. The in
dusrrial world has its mouth set for didoes
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-22
Modern

Modern women are
Page cocoon women and
Flora McFlimsey! wear too many clothes,
declared woman spe-
cialist in gymnastics addressing the inter
national conference of women physicians in
New York Let her bide wee an dinna
weary. Reports from Paris indicate that in
the near future lovely woman will be
wearing next to nothing
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-22

The president Of the
Never Strike for French Metal Work
Greater Production ers has vision. And
he has courage. He
told the labor federation convention in
Lyons that what organized labor needed was
to get to work. Happily the world eventu-
ally gives ear to John the Baptist crying
in the wilderness.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-22
Sweet Sixteen

A sixteen year -sold
Sweet Sixteen New York girl has
confessed to having
committed fifty burglaries during the last
three months She netted $4,000 in cash and
jewelry and is now out on S25O0 bail. She
says she worked on an eight hour "A day
schedule and strictly observed the Sabbath.
Verify the way of the transgressor is
pathway of roses with a cell at the end.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-22

.H A delegation of Stony
Bid for Stony Stare Indians presented a
wonderful headdress to
the Prince of Wales and made him "a chief
Of their tribe. At the present price of
feather bonnets the hat may be a useful
thing to pawn if the new chief ever goes
Stony broke
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-22
THE lCHAFFING DISH

Who peers through lenses thick and broadly
curved, - ...
Is the great Arabic scholar, Professor Flu
ellen, fs.
Who carries, forsooth, his leeks in leather
suitcase,
Disdaining basket.
A PPLEs, oranges, sweets sticky and
@A nut faxed;
Cabbages, onions, and the wine checked
beet;
Great loins of ruddy beef and clove-rich
Silver bellied trout and the blue scaled
1t might be old London now, with its mar
row ways
And open shops-I can almost think hear
The vendors crying their immemorial calls:
What do ye lack, my masters? What do
We lack?'
old MOTHER MULDooN is ladling
~ hominy,
White and stringy, from a tub, with a
half-pint measure
That overhows, dripping down in a pan.
She's jolly gay body-but tonight
Her mobile lips twitch and quiver quickly
Her only daughter died three days ago.
THAT little country girl, Ethel johnson,
l. Behind the mound of eggs long strictly
fresh, ,.-. -..,
Smiles with wonderful radiance, for Jack,
The butter boy, has whispered loving words,
And she can scarcely keep her eyes away
from him.
CORPORAL JIM - that ancient faced
" young man N.
Wrapping up bread-always sits on a chair
Back of the counter-the better halves of
his legs
Are buried somewhere back in the Argonne
Forest;
And there he left his youthful joyousness.
MOTHER MULDooN and Ethel and
V'1 Corporal Jim
And a score or two more-Schwitzer, the
hot dog man, ",
Whose son has studied symphonies In Berlin !;
Great-bearded Isaac, guarding living fowls,
Dreams of Zion while he folds his dollars,
And plans fiat in the new won city of God.
And Tony, vending peanuts piping hot
Is heart and soul in olived Italy t a
It's whole world, this market place to-
night. -. ~
JIM. BEATTY.
We are eagerly awaiting the most delicious
odor that ever glads the nostrils of man
the scent Of roasting chestnuts. In the mean
while, we solace ourself by strolling through
Washington Square to enjoy the fragrance
of burning leaves. When they are not burn
ing leaves out in the square we have to fall
back on the fume of burning leaves in our
pipe.
Which reminds us of something we have
long meant to mention. Our objection to a
curved stem pipe is that when it gets
clogged and we puff and blow in an endeavor
to clean out the stem we usually watt a
|. fragment of nicotine soaked tobacco into our
left eye and endure ten minutes of blood
shot agony, Now this may be due to the
fact that our fayorite pipe has a very pc
culiar shape. 1t was originally curve
stem implement, but one day the stem fell
into kettle of boiling water and straight
ened out. The result Is that the curve of
| the pipe, smoked at the end of straight
| stern, points the bowl directly at our eve.
| Anyway, we thought we would just mention
| it as an evidence that life is full of per-
| plexity.
| SOCRATES.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-22

Germany, says Henry
L. S. Senate, Morgenthau, has been
Please Note hardened by war while
her enemies are weak
ened. The apathy and foolshness of her
aforetime adversaries may encourage her TO
strike again. In the meantime she hustles
while she waits.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-22

Only 40 per cent of the food ordered BY
Philadelphians from Uncle Sam, retail
grocer, has been delivered. Somebody ought
to investigate the grocery clerk, BurIeson.
He needs, among other things, an acceler-
ator.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-22

Paulsboro boasts a hem that. so far
this month has laid thirteen double yolk
and four triple yolk eggs. A conscientious
chicken this At the present price of eggs
she wants to give plenty for the money.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-22

Camden citizens will probably find the
boycott of street cars more eficacious than
rioting, with the added advantage that the
law will not interfere
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-22

When D'Annunzio calms down 1t may
be possible to determine the difference be-
tween the divine af1atus and brainstorm.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-22

When Foch and Clemenceau come to
this country every three cheers will include
tiger.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-22

The United Tenants Protective Asso-
citation has demonstrated that ''shoe-
string is the most expensive commodity on
the market. --.. -
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-22

When the President quotes Lodge in
defense Of the league Of nations be Is steal,
ing the genaleman's blackjack to soak him
on tie bean.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-22

President Wilson has sent President
Csrranza his cordial fluctuations on the
anniversary Of hitxict's independence. And
the jnfefTentiopists to man CALCULATE,
tAin' that heiuya note I"
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-22
THE DEAD MARCH IN FALL

THE corn is brown, the last late rose
L Has dropped its velvet leaves,
The caterpillar for itself ,.
A shroud Of satin weaves. -
The blood of dying summer stains
The ivy on the wall,
And in the early morn we miss
The robins merry call.
-
The cricket scrapes his violin
Beside the garden gate,
The katydid her graphophone
Keeps going long and late,
The melancholy fall bug pipes
From branches turning sere; -
Thus plays the sylvan orchestra
The dead march Of the year.
Nina Irving, in the New York Sun.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-22

The French Chamber of Deputies has
expressed appreciation of the resolution
passed by the United States House of Rep
resentatives in recognition of July IA.
Hands across the sea with the right grip.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-22
HISTORY REPEATS ITSELF
Enterprise OF Thomas z. Mltten Had
Its Counterpart In Old Trolley
Line Company In This city
By GEORGE Nox MCCAIN
IF THE gentlemen who are responsible 70

IF THE gentlemen who are responsible for
L that Ride With Us" sign on the trolley
cars are hattering themselves that they are
pulling off d new stunt they are mistaken.
IL isn't new.
The same thing was thought out and
worked out thirty years ago. The late John
Lowber Welsh, at the suggestion of Ian Jay
McGarvey. then n fertile Drained young
newspaper reporter, used the scheme as an
inducement to get people to ride on the old
Fourth and Eighth streets line.
Mr.. Welsh not only placarded his cars,
and the line Of route but he utilized the
newspapers to induce walkers to ride. The
terminals of the line were at Chestnut Hill
on the north and Snyder avenue on the south.
The fare was ten cents.
That fare brought endless protests. Dele
cations waited upon Mr.. Welsh from Ger
mantown and Nicetown They impressed
him with the idea that low fares meant more
riders, He frankly told them the argu
ment was a good one
McGarvey expressed his views, after the
delegation had left. to the effect that
woman with a market basket would spend
five cents to ride oftener than If the fare
were ten.
week later John Lowber Welsh an
nounced reduction of fare to five cents.
Placards and sign announced the change.
The result in increased income justified his
judgment.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-22
4 Disgruntled
Sorority

natural planes by economic power. But
they doubt it. They give credence to the
cry from Chicago that army food is stored
away by those who hope to do some gouging
later. And they declare that rising prices
are not planes but dirigibles inflated by
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-22

sartor Resartus7 Not yet. The strike
is still on. ..-.,
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-22

Happily most trades unionists arS,
Americsns hrst.