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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-25
AFTER THE PROFITEERS

GONE interesting facts have been dis
- closed by the visit of the represen-
tatives, of the Tenants Protective Asso-
ciation to Harrisburg.
One is that about 1900 vacant, houses
are held by spectators who refuse to
rent them. Another is that the great
majority of the houses rented for small
sums are leased from month to month:
and third is that there seems to be no
law under which a landlord can be pre-
vented from raising the rent.
The attorney general has recommended
that an attempt be made to shame the
profteers into an abandonment of their
practices by exposing them to public con-
demnation.
No plan has been suggested for reach
ing the new tenants who consent to nav
the increased rent for the houses out of
which the old tenants have moved, but if
no one were willing to pay the increased
rent the landlords would not find it profit
able to add So or $40 to the monthly
price for the use of their property.
1t is suggested also that longer leases
be made, SO that landlord cannot turn
a tenant out almost at will. This ar
rangement would afford some relief for
it would prevent landlord from increas-
ing the rent two or three times in p
year.
1t is proposed also that an investiga-
ton be made into the practices of certain
building and loan associations charged
with assisting the profteers in securing
possession of houses with the invest
ment of small amount of capital and
forcing the tenants to buy on threat of
an excessive increase in the rental ..
Building and loan associations were not
chartered for any such purpose. Their
primary object is to make it easy for a
person of small means to buy home and
pay for it in small installments. The
common and well-founded impression is
that they have been loyal to this object
IN the main. They have assisted tens
os thousands of families in this city to
buy houses and to make them immune to
the gougers. These families are their
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-25
EVENING PUBLIC LEDGER PHILADELPHIA,

buildings. This arrangement would be
expensive, but not so expensive as
moving back entire buildings.
1t is to avoid such costly expedients as
this and at the same time to meet the
requirements of traffic necessary to the
business life of the central sections that
the new Mayor ought to appoint COM
mittee of experts to survey the traffic
system and devise plans to be worked out
through the cooperation of the Depart
ments of Transit, Public Works and Pub
lie Safety. 1t is one of the greatest
problems the new administration must
face and solve.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-25
NoNDlREcTING DIRECTORS

THE determination of Colonel Pusey to
- sue the directors to recover the two
Observation-Disclosures deficit of the
North Penn Bank is based on the con-
tention that every officer and director of
the bank was grossly negligent.
No institution properly managed and
directed could have got into the cond-
ton of this bank. There is no DISPOSE
tion to charge the directors with crime,
but the facts indicate that they were
incompetent to have the care of large
funds. The actual criminals apparently
worked without much hindrance from the
mon whose duty it was to protect the
deposits.
Public sentiment is back of this move.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-25

own landlords and they are the backbone
of the building and loan associations.
They and the other members are not in
sympathy with any policy which permits
any association to be used to assist
spectators in reaping a profit from the
necessities of those who seek a home.
If any association has been so used the
scourge of publicity which the attorney
general suggests should be applied to the
profteers should also be applied to the
offending association.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-25
CAREERS

DILL SMITH was born in city slum;
~ A place of blasphemy, sin and rum.
Young William smythe first blinked at the
light
In suburb smugy neat and bright
William a prodigy was at school,:
Bill was reckoned first rate fool.
William, from Scholarships topmost perch,
Stepped to cure in city church.
Bill was expelled, as brainless and lax,
And started to haunt the racing tracks.
Years passed. and William still preached and
prayed,
But Bill, in horrible clothes arrayed,
Shouted the odds to the racecourse crowd.
In phrases crude and in trousers loud.
His days work over, with ASPECT glum.
Smythe walks to his rooms in Smiths old
slum;
While Smith quaffs drinks which bubble and
foam, "Ao
linen drives to his large suburban home.
smith owns the slum out of which he csm..
smythe hasn't shilling to his name.
Sydney Bulletin.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-25

The fact that the five opera singers, al
legged to have violated the contract labor law
in coming to this country, have been re-
leased on parole is indication that glimmer
of intelligence has visited the Bureau of I'm
migration and that there is possibility that
the spirit may eventually triumph over the
letter of the law
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-25
Stems have been taken 10 increo,o

Steps have been taken to increase the
pay of Baptist ministers. The action was
taken after it had "been officially brought
to the attention of the board of promotion
that ministers are not so easy to procure
as before the war" because their low ssIa-
ries have forced them into other occupa
tiCns. The good old law of supply and de-
mand gets in its iCks here as elsewhere.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-25
Answers to Yesterdays ouIz

answers TO Yesterdays oulz
1. One quarter of the. worlds shipping ton
mage is now under the American flag.
2. Cantaloupe should be pronounced as
though the last syllable were spelled
''loop."
3. Massachusetts, contains more towns of
$4,000 inhabitants or over than any
other state in the Union.
A. A monniker is a persons name, real or
assumed. The word originates in
English slang.
5. New England is sometimes characterized
as the "Pie Belt"
g. Henry George was the foremost Amer
ican exponent of the single tax.
Z. Commando; party called out for mill
tary service, body of troops. The
word is South African Dutch and be-
came current in the Boer War.
s. A canard means hoax or false report.
0. 1t is French for duck. The reference
to quacks and quaekery is obvious.
10. Emmy Destinn, the opera singer, is I
GEscho Slayak.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-25
Miners are S

Miners are seeking a GO per cent wage
increase and five day week. The opti-
mists among them hope they may get it. The
economists among them know that this is
not the way to bring down prices. The agi-
tators among them care neither for the
stated objects nor for threatened economic
disaster, for their goal is revolution.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-25
Tho State Agricultural Danar+n.r. ;

The State Agricultural Department Is
receiving complaints about crickets. The
cheerful insect is not only making more noise
than usual, but he is said to be injuring
woolen clothing. The department suggests
poison. But why not ship them to the open
hearth department of the various idle steel
mills?
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-25
Because sevC

Because several large corporations have
placed orders for German steel, apparently
thinking it the best, the American Institute
of Mining and Metallurgical Engineerr, in
convention in Chicago, has declared unani-
mously that better steel is made In the
United States than in Germany. Americans
will be glad to have confirmed the opinion
they have ALWAYS held.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-25

A mob took control of Drumright,
Okla, in connection with a strike Of tele-
phone operators, disarmed the chief of po-
lice and imprisoned three girl operators who
refused to strike. The town is not living
up to its name. What it appears to be
heating is the devils tattoo,
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-25

Experts who forecast that the expected
return visit of the influenza would be less
severe than formerly and that cases would
be less numerous than last year may have
to revise their prophesies now that Judge
Dickinson has ruled that saloonkeepers may
sell whisky for medicinal purposes.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-25
A direct line of steamship. ho.u-

A direct line of steamships between
Philadelphia and Belfast and Dublin is a
promise OF the near future. Immigrants
from the distressful country will therefore
be able to come to the land of promise
without setting foot on the soil of the hated
Sassenach Ochone, tbs the grand news
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-25

Landlords and tenants got together in
New York for conferences Arguments
grew so forcible that a riot call was sent in
The police are willing arbitrators, but their
decisions seldom 'stay put"
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-25

The Italian Government has decided
that the starving out of the Fiume belliger-
ents shall be unaccompanied BY the pangs Of
hunger.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-25

Debs. addressing the world from tn.
Atlanta federal prison, sees in the present
laoor struggle the danger of revolution. II
may De that the wish is father to the
thought. " INC
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-25
What DO You Know?
QUIZ

QUIZ
1. What is sprag?
Z. Who is premier of Canada?
TO- VINO was the hrst presidential nominee
of the Republican party?
A. When did he run for the Office?
D. How does the English daisy differ from
the common American variety?
q. When Gid the Titanic 20 down?
Z. Who was the "Citizen King" of France?
8. Name two distinguished Czecho -Sloyak
musical composers.
o. What is the meaning Of swastika?
10. What Is a haggard? ~
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-25
Secretary Daniels has heen elscted

Secretary Daniels has been elected
member of local post of the American
Legion. IL the reader feels inclined to
iubilate over the circumstance, he NAV note
the fact that Philadelphia got ahead of the
gentleman's home town in extending the in :
vitation.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-25

With 112 vessels in port and ninety one
of them flying the American flag, both Phil
adelphia and the country at large have cause
for congratulation.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-25

Responsibility for the world war 4. now
placed on Count Leopold Won BercbtoId
Austro- Hungarian foreign minister in Jnlv
1914. The world has little interest now in
VINO may have struck the match IL know.
who famed the flames. AN'"'
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-25

SNEND your son to college to educate him
~ for his leisure. The longest business day
comes to an end. There is still a weekly
day of rest, however we abuse it, and there
comes an evening to most busy lives when
the traffic of every day measurably abates
and there is some time which we can call our
own. 1t is for these precious parts of life
that college education particularly pre-
pares man: a factory or machine shop
will do as we'll for the work a day hours.
And here we reach the real line of contrast
between the education of the man and the
education of the mechanic, training in ideas
and training in manual dexterity. All labor
is honorable and the hand is as honorable
as the head. But labor for wage, however
necessary and respectable, is not Of the
quality or the dsinterestedness Of labor for
love Of the work, for the glow Of muscles
honestly tired, the satisfaction Of ideals
approximately realized. The technical school
and the college are two things, and confusion
between them is the cause of most of our
educational ills. The technical school
teaches how to do something; its proper and
commendable end is training in vocation,
training in some process which will bring
income and livelihood. The college teaches
much that is inconvertible into material
assets, and that part of its teaching is the
most precious, for its raises the whole man
to higher level and makes wholesome and
sweet those moments when art, literature.
music and religion can exercise their benign
influences, unharrowed by cries OF barter
and untroubled by the avaricious spirit of
gain. Nobody has ever excelled Lowell's
definition of a college as a place where
nothing useful is taught. To the law school
send your son for law, to the business col
lege" (strange contradiction in words) for
the practicalities of business, to college for
the training of the man. And go to college
first because a lawyer, a doctor, a good
trader is best made out of a man. College
is the school common to humanity not par
ticular to any trade.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-25

The BARRIERS strike and the tailors'
strike afford convenient alibi to the mar
VINO is Jes' nachally too careless to shave
and keep his trousers creased.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-25
The AooumuIatIna Birth Rate

The Italian Line steamship Caserta sailed
today for Naples, carrying 1900 Italians back
to Italy. In the crowd were workmen who
have spent years in this country and ac-
cumulated substantial savings and members
of their families. item.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-25

To a Delinquent Correspondent
A letter from you'll
Ican scarcely believe It.
Is the worlds end due?
A letter from you
It's too good to be true
was glad to receive It..
A letter from you
can scarcely believe it. ~
BESSIE GRAHAM'S FRIEND.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-25
THE CHAFFING DISH

very first entry in this treasured little relic
Doctor Johnson told me in going to
liam from Ashbourne, 2g September, '1777,
that the way the plan Of his Dictionary
came to be addressed to Lord Chesterfield
was this: He had neglected to write it
by the time appointed. Dodsley suggested
desire to have 1t addressed to Lord G.
Mr.. ]. laid hold of this as an excuse for
delay, that 1t might be better done perhaps,
and let Dodsley have his desire. Mr..
Johnson said to his friend, Doctor Bath
urst: Now if any good comes Of my ad-
dressing to Lord Chesterfield it will be
ascribed to deep policy and address, when,
in fact, 1t was only a casual excuse for
laziness
Thus we see that it was sheer laziness
that led to the greatest triumph Of Doctor
Johnson's life, the noble and memorable
letter to Chesterfield in 1775.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-25
A Wary Bird

W. Y. Foster will be
Wary Bird called upon by the
Senate probe commit
tee TO explain just how a syndicalist can
consistently lead trades union movement.
The answer is, of course, that the strike is
simply a means to an end, the end being
revolution. But he won't make that answer
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-25

MIND your business is a good counsel;
A'A but mind your idleness also. It's
tragic thing to make business OF your
mind. Save your mind to amuse yourself
with.
The lazy man does not stand in the way of
progress. When he sees progress roaring
down upon him be steps nimby out of the
way. One of the depressing things about
the Senate is that it isn't lazy enough. The
lazy man doesn't lin the vulgar phrase)
pass the buck. He let's the buck pass him.
We have always secretly envied our lazy
friends. Now we are going to join them.
We have burned our boats or our bridges
or whatever it is that one burns on the eve
Of a momentous decision.
Writing on this congenial topic has reused
us up to quite pitch Of enthusiasm and
energy.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-25

1t seems to us right and proper that the
head of the Mormons should approve the
league Of nations, since he has been SO sue
cessful with league of wives.
SOCRATES.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-25
Acid Ejaculation

Acid Ejaculation
Breaking in new idea
Is like breaking in new pipe:
! Uncomfo: table work.
I like the old familiar thoughts,
No bite or parch.
DOVE DULCET.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-25

The general meaninglessness of popular
applause, either for or against the league of
nations (or anything else), was shown by
an event in Salt Lake City. The audience
Justify acclaimed a paragraph in President
Wilson's speech which seemed to them very
vigorous. Then they found that it was the
text of a proposed reservation to the treaty
which he had read to them, intending to
horrify them.
wait minute" said the President.
THAT cuts the heart out of the treaty.
You don't want to applaud that, do you"
And they all roared, ''No! MOI"
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-25
Desk Notices

Desk Notices
7 rarely enjoy myself; but how I do enjoy
other people BARON BREVITY.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-25

CEND your son to college, then, to make
~ man of him. Give him this best Of
opportunities of measuring himself against
his fellows and equals in years and advan-
tages, whether it be in the natural cndow-
ments of his brain or in the toughness of
his muscles. Let him find in this struggle
Of fitness, elevated by ideals and removed
measurably from the sorddness Of the
actual struggle for life, the schooling which
will fit him to take up that later and un-
avodabe struggle, sustained by knowledge,
ideas and by that training in how to go at a
thing and worry it to completion. which
ought TO be one of the things which belong
to the college trained man. 1t is a good
thing for a man to proceed to his degree,
not for the sheepskin or the letters but for
the value of thing undertaken and com
pleted. A degree is like the word "ster-
ling stamped on silver. 1t does not make
the thing silver. 1t only tells you by the
sanction of custom that the article is silver,
a good thing, often, to know in the cur
rency of life.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-25
o to Be Taciturn!

A great deal may be said on almost any
subject, remarked one of our clients over
the phone.n2
And, unfortunately, it always is.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-25

TODAY we rather intended to write an
u essay on Laziness, but were too indolent
to do so.
The sort of thing we had in mind to write
would have been exceedingly persuasive.
We intended to exert the influence of the
Dish, whatever that may be, in favor Of a
greater appreciation Of Incidence as a be-
nign factor in human affairs.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-25

A WELL KNOWN professor used TO say
"A that he would like to have the power
TO send some Of his students home or about
some serious business. For college is
place in which there are many electives
besides those on the curriculum. Compare
lively few youths go wrong in college who
have not already turned to the left before
they entered. The idle inevitably seek the
idle in college as in the world, and the
vicious the vicious. But the major current
flows on steadily. honestly, seriously, in the
main, despite a good deal Of adorable boy
ishness, and the average American boy
profits much in the average American col
lege. in his study, in his play, in his nsso
Citations; for a college worthy the name
regulates successfully that precious period
of growth by means of which the hobble de-
hoy schoolboy develops into the semblance
and more than the sembance Of an actual
man.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-25

noCToR JOHNSON, who vas one of the
~ worlds great philosophers, was lazy.
Only yesterday our friend the Caliph showed
us an extraordinarily interesting thing. 1t
was little leather bound notebook in which
Boswell jotted down memoranda OF his talks
with the old doctor. These notes he after
ward worked up into the immortal Biogra-
ply. And 10 snd behold, what was the
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-25
THE COWNSMl4N
Shall / Send MY Son to colIege7

TNHE answer to the query of this title
L obviously depends upon one or more of
three things-upon the college (for there are
colleges and "colleges'D upon the boy Cthere
are sons who might as well be sent to Bally-
brack), and upon father and the notions
conforming the college and its functions
which he has contrived TO get into his head.
Let us take father first. What do you
expect a college TO do for your boy, in
crease his immediate wage earning capac-
ityy This is unlikely, considering the boil
shevikian code which is hard upon us.
whereby labor is to be paid for inversely as
to its skill and brains are become q drug
in the market. Make him q gentleman, in
crease his respectability? If he has not
inherited this from you college will little
help him. Aid him in life by the acquisition
of new associates and the opening of social
opportunities? Yes, il you want him to be
a sycophant. Train him vocationally? The
real vocational training school is the world,
not the cloister. Then why send a boy to
college? Let echo, for the moment, answer,
why?
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-25

A y EXCELLENT woman is reported to
"A have said some years ago that she would
as soon send her son to hell as TO Yale. This
delverance was a great advertisement for
the venerable university at New Haven and
it may be inferred was referable more TO
the attraction of the labials in both words
than to any actual acquaintance on the part
of that excellent woman either with Yale or
with its hot competitor in the schooling of
mankind of the neither world But one
suspects that the unhtness in this case was
less in the college than in the boy. The
son of such n mother could only be safe
safe for protracted infancy. by being
wrapped in cotton batting and kept in
glass case. 1t would be cruel TO send TO
college one so prone TO the infantile paralysis
Of petty sin. Such a boy would cheat at
marbles and perhaps tell fbs, TO say nothing
of the horrors of chewing gum. Let US
hope that he was kept in the nursery.
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1919-03-30

Sues Face Changed In A Minute.
needed was the right start. Sues
taught us her games and now she's
playing some of ours too. The next
time new little girl comes to this
school, we'll know how to begin"
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1919-03-30
1n aHoIIoW Tree

disdained, the earth-worms wriggling
on his hook. and after fruitless hour
Tom decided to push on to the island
and there look for bee tree" a
harvest of wild honey being even more
welcome at home than a fine string
OF fish. So on he forced his canoe,
here padding easily in open water un-
der giant moss-draped expresses, there
toiling along a tortuous trail through
reeds and water plants full of the drift
of fallen branches or among the crowd
ing trunks Of both standing and fallen
trees.
1t was about mid-a afternoon when he
saw dry land ahead and forced his way
to a landing. Shouldering his rod and
gun, Tom picked his way through gall
berry brush up the islands slope until
he entered open pine woods dotted
here and there with clumps Of pal
mettoes and thickets of scrub-oak.
Hoping to find bee tree among the
tall pines, he walked forward, his eyes
mostly turned upward until he sud
denly heard bullet whistle past him
following the crack of rife:
Hating in amazement Tom saw not
more than three hundred yards away
two Indians who were naked to the
waist except for paint and a feathery