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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-11-28

Church parish house, Twenty -seccnd
aud Chestnut streets, on "old Souls ID
New Bodies"
In his lecture last night Mr.. Hogers
said the soldiers who died on the battle-
fields Of Europe are not dead, but
absent. They are making persistent eff
forts, he said, TO get messages to their
friends.
Cemeteries, he said, are merely places
of accentuated grief. lie advised his
hearers to keep away from such spots.
lie insisted that IL was possible for
the living to communicate with the So
called dead.
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with II. Bart McHugh. special agent
Of the joint councilmanic committee, he
will make tour of clubs Sunday to
discuss various phases Of the situation
The cost of equipment this year is
worrying some of the clubs, and a mum
bcr of special entertainments are be
ing planned to help defray the unusual
expenses to which many organizations
will he placed in their efforts to win the
prizes. However, all club members are
optimistic and predict that their asso
citation will make unusual showings.
One of the new clubs. the Liberty
New Year Association, will have six
hundred members and ten floats. nc
cordiug to an announcement by its cap
tain, Joseph Marinucci. Its head o.
quarters is at 1903 South Twelfth
street.
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MANY AMERICANS
IN ALLIED ARMIES
Miss Lydia S. M. Robinson, Of
PaoiI, Writing History Of
Their Services
is FOR THE NAVY LEAGUE

Record Of the services of Americans
who volunteered in the navics ami the
armies of the Allies will he preserved
in volume which is being prepared
for the. Navy League by Miss Lydia
S. NJ. Robinson, daughter of Mrs Mon
cure Robinson. of Airdric, Paoli Pa.
This includes the Americans who
volunteered in the French Foreign
Legion and AMBULANCE field service and
medical service and in the French or
British aviation corps before the United
States entered the war, as well as in
the British army.
Miss Robinson says she was greatly
surprised TO come upon thirteen Amer
leans serving in the Guards. and sixty
scvrn who enlisted as carly as 1914.
while the number of Americans who
fought at Gallipoli is truly amazing.
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One of the last men to lave the peninsula
was n man from Devon, Pa. In one
family of Californians the father and
four sons enlisted in the Canadian army
before the United States became bel
ligcrent. Only one lived to return home.
In ago tho Americans in this record
vary from one boy of fifteen, who first
drove an ambulance, and who when the
United States entered the war, being
still under age for our army went into
the COldStrcam Guards, to a man of
sixty one. who. after the sinking of the
Lusitania, entered the British navy and
fought the Germans from a decoy vessel
"oftcu with gratifying results until
his health was entirely shattered.
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RICH MEN TO AID
/. DELINQUENT BOYS
Barracks Will Be Provided to In
crease Capacity Of Munich
pal Court Farm
HELPS UNFORTUNATE LADS

With funds subscribed by number
or leading Philadelphians, an army
barracks from one of the abandoned
military training camps will be pur
chased and erected on the Frazer Boy
Farm, at Frazer. Pa. to house de-
iinquent boys sents there by the Ju-
venile Court.
The movement has been fostered by
President Judge Brown. Of the Munici
pal Court The present capacity of the
farm. which was started .as Juvenile
Court experiment. for the real reforma =
tion of delinqucnts, is thirty. and
Is totally inadequate. An effort is now
being made by the judges of the Jul
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-11-28
.MUMMERS PLAN
GREATEST PARADE
Special Meetings Give Reports
Promising Pageant Surpass-
ing All Previous Ones
COSTUMES TO COME HIGH

After lapse of two years. Philadel-
phia's mummcrs will brave the cold on
New Years Day in numbers greater
and costumes more gorgeous than ever
before.
This is assured by reports at special
meetings last night by number OF New
Year associations, at which plans for
the 1920 parade were discussed and
plans made to raise extra money to
meet the cost of fancy costumes, which
has risen in common with every other
thing.
One of the factors which assures the
greatest mummcrs' parade in the city's
history Is the fact that more money for
prizes will be available than in any
previous pageant. Councilman John
NJ. Bailey announced yesterday that
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THEoSoPHIST IN LECTURE
L. w. Rogers Says Slain Soldiers
Live In Astral Reqlons

Soldiers who fell in the great war
are not dead, but are still "vividly
alive in astral regions" was the assur-
unce Of l.. w. Rogers, national lecturer
of the Institute of Thcosophy, in an ad-
G. A. II was the beginning of n
series of lectures on immortality.
Mr.. Rogers chose as his subject "Thc
Present Life of Our Soldier Dead &"
lie will speak tonight in the Unitarian
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"GOBS" OFF TO CALIFORNIA
More Than Twenty Navy Recruit'
Go on Special

More than score of newly enlisted
"gobs" left this morning aboard the
"Gobs California Limited" for the
Golden Gate, to spend the winter in
California. They were the men who en-
listed in the navy since last Friday at
the local recruiting station. 1915 Arch
street
Each Friday the "Gobs' special"
leaves for California, carrying new re
cruits to the training station at San
Francisco. Last week fifteen men were
sent from Philadelphia.
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Suits Reduced.
20.75-3 $500

These suits of silvertone, velour and oxfor
were fine values before they were reduced
now they are truly exceptional Rppl
belted, sports and tailleur modes.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-07-27

after the interview his secretary,
a keen Socialist newspaper man,
who had listened to everything the
President Of the German republic
was saying to me, held brief con-
versation with Ebert and then, as
| was leaving, asked me if I would
not eliminate q reference to Alsace-
Lorraine made by Ebert in my ca
BILE Of the interview, as this refer
ence might lead to misunderstand-
ing. Ebert had spoken feelingly of
Alsace-Lorraine. He complained
that the French were not treating
the Germans there fairly, and he
made definite allegations.
''You understand" the secretary,
Herr Rauscher, explained in ask
ing me not to cable this part Of
the interview, that We are through
with Alsace-Lorraine. Schluss
We are giving it to France What
President Ebert said was merely an
expression of his feelings with re-
gard to the treat of the Ger
mans there by the French and not
a question of governmental policy.
However, in order not to breed any
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-07-27
4 Population Unstrung

The population has become un-
strung and unsettled by the hard
ships Of the war and the blockade.
Work, regular employment and ade-
quate living will bring their nerves
around TO normal again Then, after
production has once more been es-
tablished and is running safely and
proitably, the question of socializa-
ton will be timely With our
factories devoid Of raw material and
our workers idle, the question of the
socialization of industry is academic
and out of place"
The one thing that strikes one
about Ebert as he speaks is his utter
lack Of pose, either natural or ac-
CURED While many other German
leaders were soliloquizing and using
such threat words as "Bolshevism, .
suicide Of Germany" in feigned or
genuine anger against the Allies,
Ebert was singularly lacking in
"pathetic gestures He faced things
calmly, In a matter Of fact way.
When I asked him how much
weight there was in the assertion
that Germany would go Bolshevisc,
ne said:
eve hear talk of Bolshevism In
Berlin, but we hear no talk Of Boil
shevism in Dresden. Why? Because
in Saxony the textile industries are
able to give employment to the popu-
lation. The lesson is obvious-work
regular employment is the greatest
antidote to Bolshevism. AS soon as
we can get our factories in Berlin
started the menace Of Bolshevism
will pass
There have been repeated asser-
lions that the revolution had not
made much change in the German
government, that the government Of
Ebert was no better, no more demo
cratic than the government Of the
Hohenzollerns. When | entered the
Rcichskansler, the sanctum sancto-
rum Of former German imperialism,
y.Qcrc the walls, furnishings and
r|xturcs still seemed 10 cxudc memo
ries Of Bismarck, Won Bulow, Beth
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-07-27

possible misunderstanding Of his at
titude, we will appreciate your
omitting all reference to Alsace-
Lorraine. 1t is not essential to
your interview anyway"
ertvFritz Ebert, as he was
famlliarly known in the Socialist
and labor movement of Germany
prior to his becoming President and
drawing the wrath of the indie
pendents upon his heads a genu-
inc child of the people. He was
born in Heidelberg, the classic city
Of Germany, world famous for its
university, on February 4, 1871.
But though the university was
next door, so to speak, to the Ebert
home. Fritz Ebert never had a col
lege education. The caste system
which prevailed in German educa-
ton made this impossible. Ebert s
father was tailor. and young Fritz
vas one of six children. The home
was narrow indeed, for his father
made his workshop in it. The chill
dren, and especially Friedrich,
thereupon made the entire city Of
Heidelberg their home. He was one
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-07-27
hnder the Hammer

| was interviewing Ebert in the
German chancellery (Reichskanzler)
II W-lheimstrasse. The Independent
Socialists and their press had for
weeks been insisting that Ebert and
Ms party, the Majority Socialists,
mad sold out" % the bourgeoisie !;
has they had become a middle class
party (bdrgerlich), democratic, but
no longer Socialist. The rock upon
which the Majority Socialists had
'oundered, according 70 the radical
critics Of the government, was the
Question Of the socialization Of in
d1ssry. I therefore asked Ebert
aoout these charges by the radicals.
Did ne intend his government 70 be
a Socialist government? Did he
mean 10 socialize the industries Of
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-07-27

Germany in accordance with the
dictates of theoretic socialism?
He gave me a look full of weari-
ness as we'll as of patience, look
that was a plea for reasonableness
toward himself and his government.
And then he said:
"Our immediate problem in Ger
many is not the Specialization Of in
dustry, but its restoration. We have
a few industries that have reached
the size Of monopoly, mines and
the like, and these we shall nation
alize. But in the main the problem
is not how to socialize the factories,
but how to get them going once
more; how to obtain the raw mate
riaIs necessary to start the indus
tries up. The next problem is to set
the men to work once more in these
factories.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-07-27

coded portions the empire together with products
of these sectionsk bread potatoes potash
third effort comprises made by Pres-
dent Wilson various times during contrasting
with the the Fault
points efdetennaon the reduction
dom Of trade the colonies
Thus the broadsde concludes, "he ing closes,
to hand English and
whatever daily each and every
German workman with his hands.
Not OO have been brought into our
by while they
already reclaimed amount
helfes This they working their reparaon
and despite this claim that advantage
kind is looked for by them
than these payments a reparaon?
That the people it's rights We
demand Justice"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-07-27
Cirilia1, Clothes

Only one of the attendants in the
waiting room of the chancellery was
in livery - the livery of the old
regime. The rest all wore civilian
clothes. The people who thronged
the waiting room to see Ebert or
any one else of his four associates
on governmental business were men
Of the middle class. Many of them
were of the labor union variety.
Only one among fifty or more in
dividuals was distinctly of the Ger
man upper class. Though this man
still wore his monocle and gave evi-
dence of thorough familiarity with
the place, he was distinctly not at
home among this new class of
visitors to the highest government
Office in the land He was nervous
and fidgety.
The difference became even more
apparent once one was inside Of
one If the government Offices. The
personnel here, the clerks, secre-
:aries, assistants, without exception,
looked as if they had recently come
from Socialist newspaper offices or
from the headquarters of labor
union. There was no trace of the
we'll known German offcialism about
them.
While I was waiting to be taken
into his private Office saw Ebert
go from one to the other of the
Offices. He walked like a brisk,
hustling executive, and he was
dressed like one He wore a blue
serge suit and the trousers were not
too freshly creased. AS we talked
he leaned back in the chair, negligee
like, much the same as if he would
do in the Office of his newspaper
Once or twice during the interview
the President of the German republic
grew even a bit chatty about Amer
lea. 1t seemed not a feigned interest
either, but a genuine healthy curl
osty in things across the other side
of the water by son Of the German
people, who might himself readily
have been an immigrant in America
had fortune shuff1ed his cards slight
ly different.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-07-27
Posters Sh01U Germany
Is Still UnrepenteTat

and had been spanked and sent TO
bed in the dark without his supper
to consider his faults and TO apollo
glze. When the apology was forth
coming and sufficient assurances Of
good behavior in the future had
been given, the younpster would be-
reinstated in the family circle.
said
My German friends" SAD Mr..
Page, refused to accept the ap-
plication Of the parable. II the
first place, they had never been st
fault and SO had nothing for when
to apologize. The stern parent who
administered the punishment, ac-
cording to their view, had done so
upon the lying evidence Of others.
The British newspapers, they said,
were the authors Of these lies. SO,
although they had been spanked,
they were not sorry and felt that
the punishment was unmexited
This, I think I am safe in saying,
is the attitude Of every German,
high and low.
Il was in Heidelberg, riding with
two German acquaintances the af-
ternoon the treaty was signed" said
Mr.. Page. promptly as the hour
came around my two companions
drew their watches from their oock-
cts. 'Es ist die uhr' Ut IS the hour.
they said IN hushed voices, and
added, ia, ia, ia, ja,' II descending
tones as if viewing the corpse Of
beloved relative. To them il was
the end, the final curtain, the knen
Of doom. We are HELPLESS they
said. This unjust peace has been
forced upon US. Future history will
record this as the most dastardly
crime in the worlds history. Future
posterity viii point a finger of
shame at England, France and
America. -
The Germans with whom Mr..
Page came into contact showed
no resentment against hin person
ally, but rather treated him as one
VINO was laboring under a delusion.
While in Germany he made 10 ef-
fort to disguise his nationality
and spoke English the entire tine.
The hatred Of England. he said,
was shown by the Transformation
Of the Englisher Hof, the lead
ing hotel in Frankfort, to the
Hessisher Hof. Germany, he said,
has a general down-at-t he-heels ap-
pearance. One IS struck by the alb
sence Of brass fixtures everywhere.
Bicycle tires are fitted with steel
rims and spiral springs to take up
shock The telephone in the hotel
bedroom has not yet returned from
war duty. Pull straps in the rail
way carriages are made of woven
paper and the seats are upholstered
with the same material. The cars are
dirty and the windows unwashed
Weeds grow in the famous gardens
of Frankfort and the streets show
the lack of care. From Cologne t.
the Swiss border Mr.. Page counted
less than four grazing cows and no,
more than fifty sheep.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-07-27

Running President Wilson's promises and performances
parallel columns pane confined American radical
publications. The poster shown above, brought
dnktort-o1Mden where oil German
Oos practically proclamotos, appeals pro-
and the like by everybody general every
subject The
President Wilson "feU
teen points, such those relating self determination
rcde colonies amneratons and ndennites
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-07-27

ing to the Germans, was
and still is, the aggrieved
and not the aggressor. The Ger
man populace feels that it waged
war of self-defence against odds
and now is burdened with an un-
just peace Most of all, they feel
that they were duped by President
Wilson and his fourteen points,
which, they say, played no part in
the final peace negotiations.
This is the information brought
out of Germany within the last
month by F. G Page, British COM
mercial man, who believes he is the
first Allied civilian to enter Ger
many on a business project since
the war. He went into Germany
late in June from the British
bridgehead at Cologne upon per
nit furnished by Premier Erzber-
ger after he had convinced the
German staff commander in Co.
logne that his primary mission was
to make arrangements to supply
food if the German merchants
could buy it. For years before the
war he had spent much of his time
in Germany, and was we'll known
to hundreds Of German merchants
and business men.
In Frankfort-on-Main, just be-
fore the peace treaty was signed.
Mr.. Page discussed the political sit
uation with leading bankers and
merchants. None of them was
willing to admit that Germany had
been in the wrong They insisted
that the war had been brought
about by the commercial jealousy
Of France and England, the latter
especially, toward Germany's grow
ing trade. They refused to admit
that organized atrocities were conf
mitted by the Germany military.
On the contrary. they talked of the
brutal treatment accorded German
soldiers by the British and the
French, and further, insisted that
the French were the first to bonn
bard n open town from the air.
They seemed to take delight, -
said Mr.. Page, gin the fact that
England had suffered from a short
age of food and from the Zeppelin
raids. The extent of the damage
done by the German raiders and
the strict food regulations enforced
in England were unknown to the
Germans with whom I conversed.
told them what had happened ir
England during the war, as mean:
of drawing out from them state
ments of what had happened ir
Germany and what the German
viewpoint was. They were par
ticularly interested in the feeling
Of the Allied nations az a whole
toward the Germans. I illustrated
this by a smile or parable, in which
I likened the German nation to ,
naughty boy who had pulled GU
the cats tail, gouged out her eye
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-07-27

Journeyman harness
maker, entered the
labor movement Of
Germany, the motto of the move
ment was the will of the people
shall De the highest law. I was IN
agreement with this motto then,
ard I held fast to it all my life"
In these words Friedrich Ebert
laid down his creed soon after he
accepted the Provisional Presidency
Of Germany. Friend and foe alike
agree to this Characterization of
Ebert The middle and a part at
least Of the upper classes of Ger
many see in Ebert a democrat, and
mildly approve Of him. The indie
pendent Socialists, and many even
Of his own party, the Majority
Socialists, see in Ebert a democrat
but not Social Democrat and
hence disapprove or disavow him.
The declaration is typical not only
Of Ebert's political mentality, but
Of his makeup in general. He is a
middle-of -the-road man in thought,
action and speech. Unlike almost
any other statesman in Europe,
Ebert scrupulously avoids catch
words and pointed phrasing. In a
period Of slogan-making his speeches
are singularly devoid Of slogans.
While himself an editor for many
yeas, ne does not think in newspa
per headlines. He speaks clearly
and TO the point, but does not at
tempt 70 coin epigrams. In a TWEEN
T. minutes conversation which l
had With him ne hardly used an
adjec-ive-nothing but verbs and
nouns.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-07-27
Into the Harness

into the Harness
In 1885, when he was fourteen
years old and the time came for
him to choose an occupation, Ebert
chose to be apprenticed to har-
ness maker. Sentiment was back
Of his choice. All through his child
hood Ebert had longed to ride
horse-a real horse, not the make
believe broomstick horse he was
riding in play. He never could for
give his father for sitting in one
place, working with a needle and
filing up the room with the odor
of sponge and cloth he was ironing.
instead of walking in the field be-
hind pillow and a horse So he
chose harness making as the occu-
patton bound to bring him in touch
with horses
Fritz Ebert liked his job. Never
theless he was glad when his four
years apprenticeship ended and he
could start in his "wanderjahre.
He started his wandering by going
TO Mannheim in 1899, and here,
full-fedged worker, he ran full tilt
into the nightmare which was then
hanging over the heads Of Ger
many's radical workmen - Bis
marck's anti-Socialist laws.
Ebert began to study these laws
and their operations. This brought
him in contact with the leaders Of
Socialism, and soon he was a dis
ciple of the Socialist philosophy.
His ready nature craved activ-
ity and enterprise He began by
assuming important posts in the la
Dor movement. He soon was leader
Of the saddlery workers union in
Mannheim, but outgrew this job.
Moreover, the anti-Socialist laws
made it necessary for him to move
about. A rolling stone, he still
gathered the moss Of learning, and
especially the Socialist theories Of
his day. He had the friendship
Of Wilhelm Pfannkuch and other
Socialist lights IN Germany, and was
soon working his way up among the
national leaders Of the movement.
In 1894, finding his interests
widened, he gave up his work at
the bench and took a Job, paying
twenty-five marks a week, with the
Bremen Biirgcrzeitung." That was
the beginning of his career as a
journalist, leader and parliamentary
spokesman OF the Socialist move
ment.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-07-27

f<T~ YOU help annihilate empire? Do you
death? 30 you to be honor
IL" less-slaves till the end Of tine?"
Such are three of the questions asked people
Of Frankfort violent species
the Germans before signing peace which served
its end we'll by throwing the population
map published
above off walls in Frankfort by traveller
who arrived recently in New home at
rate, the German propaganda is still the job
The logical this erid rhetoric is NEVER which
is printed just after the parties unite
concludes the appeal Down with the peace
lence is signed by the Association Enghen
ment"
pictorial illustration of these views is given in a map
entitled The Dsmenberment of Germany showing
Of five and half millions of population the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-07-27

mann-Hollweg and the late Count
Hertling, l looked for evidence
which would tend to affirm or deny
the above statement.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-07-27
No Diplomatic Tricks

It was plain at frst hand that
Ebert had not yet learned all the
tricks Of political stiffness and
mummery Of the diplomat. This
vas made even more plain when