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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-07-22
Mr.. LANSING TO DOCK
IN NEW YORK TONIGHT

Secretary Lansing in a radio dis
patch today to the State Department
said he would arrive in New York
toni eht from France and reach Wash
ington tomorrow to resume his duties
as Secretary of State.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-07-22
and titles over her overseas posses
sions.
League Does Not Govern ShAntnng.

~ IT
League Does Not Govern ShAntang.
IT shall not dwell upon the shame
full episode of shantung. pausing only
to say that it is not to the league OF
nations. but to Japan that Germany
her rights. title and privi-
leges under the provision of the
treaty.
Tho provisions for rendering Ger
many harmless in a military sense &C.
cupy many pages of the treaty. But
here again IL is a conference OF military
experts of the principal allied and asso-
ciated powers, and not the league OF
nations. which will fix the reductions to
be made in the number OF German ef-
fectives and will approve the location
and restrict the number of factories and
works wherein Germany will be per-
mitted to manufacture arms. munitions
and war materials The diminutioA of
German forces upon the sea is likewise
deemed by the treaty of too much i'm
portance to be turned over to the league
of nations.
The task of reparation will rest in
the hands of an interallied commission.
In this day Of open covenants. openly
arrived at. ii is interesting further to
note the absolute requirement in the
treaty that all proceedings Of this COM
mission shall be private, unless for spe-
cial reasons and on particular occasions
the commission shall decide otherwise.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-20
GENERAL WOODS SPEECH

THOSE who heretofore have been judg-
ing the views of Major General Wood
largely on the scant excerpts of his ad-
dresses which trckled out of the West
must have been pleasantly surprised by
the moderation and liberality of his views
on a wide range of subjects covered in
his address at the University of Penn
svlvania commencement exercises.
While it is true that the general did
not specifically discuss the most impor-
tant topic before Americans today-the
league of nations-there was not word
in his speech which convicted him of
either blind or partisan opposition to the
covenant, quite contrary to some OF the
ideas he was quoted as having expressed
in the corn belt.
The nearest approach to the subject
was the sentence in which he said that
he was opposed, to "anything that inter-
feres with our essential sovereignty or
with our traditional policy in relation to
international affairs" and certainly no
earnest and intelligent supporter of the
league-like Mr.. Taft, for example
would admit for an instant that it comes
within that category. Ill ldCI, 4hl. la L
and others have clearly dssipated such
fears.
The generals cordial acknowledgment
of the value of arbitration and the de-
ferring of war until its efficacy has been
tested. as we'll as his repetition of the
Rooseveltian formula of preparedness,
might have been uttered by any good
citizen, be he Republican or Democrat,
soldier or civilian. The logic is unassail-
able. Likewise his references to the re-
turning soldiers and the questions of
capital and labor, which latter if not any
more specific than President Wilson's
amiable but vague generalizations on this
theme to Congress, were as roundly and
emphatcally stated. Here was no fire
eating, saber-rattling militarist at all,
which is something well worth noting of
the utterances of man who has spent
the best years of his life as a profess
sional in the business of preparing for
war.
The change from those misleading
tricklings of his remarks out of the West
is welcome. Also significant. Either the
general was badly misrepresented or
else. like most wise men, he has been
| learning much on his recent travels
among the people around the country.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-20
Member of The Associated Press
FINISH THE JOB

TyHE State Senate has ratified the equal
: suffrage amendment to the federal
constitution by an almost unanimous
vote.
The House is planning to take similar
action next Tuesday.
That it will ratify the amendment is
expected. When it acts this great Re
publican state will take its place in the
front ranks of those keeping step with
the evident demands of the nation. We
shall be a few days behind Illinois and
New York, but che vital fact is that we
shall have acted as soon as convenient
after the amendment was submitted to
the Legislature.
This is not partisan question, but
from the beginning there have been more
Republicans in Congress and out of it
who have worked and voted to place the
women of the country on a political
equality with the men.
The job will be finished, and with the
hearty cooperation of the Republican
states.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-20
NO FACTORY SoVIETS

TSHOSE extreme radicals and parlor
Socialists who hold that an employer
has no rights which an employe is bound
to respect and insist that, after all, the
employe owns the business, will be
shocked and grieved by the strange mani
festation of sanity in the convention of
the American Federation of Labor
That convention has defeated resolu-
tion demanding that the workmen in
each factory be allowed to select their
own foreman. In the course of the de-
bate one of the delegates said that if the
resolution were passed the federation
would next be asked to demand that the
workingmen be represented on the board
of directors Of the employing corpora
tions.
This is what lot Of amiable social
reformers have been asking for. They
are not quite so logical as their intel
iectual kin among the Russian Bolsheviki
who have been seeking to destroy all in
dustry for the reason that without in
dustry there can be no proletariat."
What with the air full of the maddest
theories it is indeed gratifying that the
federation has thus far been able to keep
lis head
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-20

Gentlemen, the cosmosl
Let others toast whatever they've a mind
Their lady, or their Airedale, or their Pipe.
Their own pet hobby, which the world is
blind to,
Or Art, or Freedom, or dish Of tripe
NY mistress in her years is not too truthful,
Yet young Of heart; and Of such great re-
nown,
Confess she tops all others, if you're truth
So, gentlemen, the Cosmos! Drink her
down!
The Cosmos is (slow music here) - my
mother!
She is the largest dad I'vs ever had;
do not think care to find another:
She loves me, good, or neutral, or plain
I doubt if could get along without her
Or you yourself,-or Smith. or Jones, or
Brown.
Myself I'm often lyrical about her;
So gentlemen, the Cosmos Drink rer
down!
She'll drink you down, some day when it'll
please her,
To that omnivorous Lethean nav
Where nebua and neolith and Caesar
And Sacred Geese have gone; where Ber-
pard Shaw,
II. Wilson, sun and meteor and planet,
One day shall rest, beside this silenced
So, while she leaves us breath enough to
Come, gentlemen. the Cosmos! Drink her
down.
CLEMENT WOOD.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-20
THE LOTTERY OF DEATH

DIRECToR KRUSEN, with sense of
- responsibility for the protection Of
the helpless, has urged that the use of
fireworks be prohibited this Fourth of
July, but the Mayor has shifted the re-
sponsibility to the police department and
dealers are laying in a stock of fire
crackers and such like things, apparently
on the theory that the people ought to be
allowed to celebrate.
I But people can celebrate without en-
dangering life. Patriotism can be ex-
pressed in other ways than by burning
gunpowder. 1t is not too late yet to
arrange for a safe and sane Fourth, and
thus prevent the drawing of the dread
lottery on that day, the prize tickets of
which will go to the parents of the chill
dren who are almost surely to be killed
before nightfall.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-20
SHAPING HIM ON THE WRIST

pIGAMY seems to be treated as a
- trivial offense. A man convicted of
marrying two women while he had wife
still living has just been sentenced to i'm
prisonment for two years and six months.
The women whom he married illegally
will suffer a more grievous penalty than
ne. 1t is difficult to estimate the suffer-
ing of sensitive woman who has been
deceived by man into contracting an
Illegal marriage with him.
If the man had used brute force, he
might have been sentenced to imprison-
ment for fifteen years. But when he is
guilty merely of fraud, he seems to get
of with a slap on the wrist.
When we have women lawmakers they
may insist on more adequate punishment
for all crimes against them
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-20
Principles for crltIclzins the Peace
Treaty and the League Of Nations

(Gathered from the Lucubrations OF
Ne,p Republicans, Neto York Ndttontsts,
PdrIor. Bedroom and Bath Botsherists;
The Reed -Borahs. and all tcho are dgl"
the gouernment.)
First. The treaty must give full self
determination to all Poles, Czecho -Slovaks.
Jugo -S1avs, Danes, grave and frugal Tran
sylvanians, Margarines, Let's and Hin
ORANGES.
Second The ancient boundaries of Poland
aud Bohemia, including its seacoast, must
be integrally restored.
Third. This must be done without taking
an inch of territory from the German en-
pire.
Fourth. France must have the coal OF
which she has been deprived by the de-
struction of her mines.
Fifth. But it is robbery, inidelity to the
Fourteen Points, just as bad as Prussia,
etc., etc, etc., to take this coal from Ger
many.
Sixth. Reparation must be made for all
material damage committed in France and
Belgium
Seventh. But it is outrageous, undemo-
cratic, inhumane and all the rest cf it, to
do it with German money.
Eighth We have to insure to the new
and victim nations the peaceful enjoyment
of their liberty.
Ninth. The first ster toward this must
be for the Allies to disarm themselves COM
pletely.
Tenth. The league of nations is (a) a
tyranny of the black and yellow races over
the white; (b) world power trust of the
''Big Four" (all white) (c) surrender
of American sovereignty; (d) useless be-
cause powerless; (e) the most potent In
strument of tyranny ever devised; (f) in
sincere, because it doesn't involve immedi-
ate disarmament; (g) insane, because 1t may
involve ultimate disarmament.
Eleventh. Any mandate under the league
offered to Great Britain will be land grab
bing and camou6aged annexation on
Britain's part.
Twelfth. Any mandate under the league
offered to the United States will be an in :
tolerable expense and responsibility that we
cannot think Of accepting Pontifex,
In Il, l.. It's column, Chicago Tribuns.
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THE SHORT BALLOT

frHE superstition that all public officers
= should be elected dies hard, but it is
dying.
= 1t has just been decided here that
as good city solicitor can be appointed
by the Mayor as can be elected by the
voters, and that hereafter he is to be
Appointed. A lot of foolish arguments
were offered against making the receiver
of taxes an appointive officer and he will
still be elected, not because of the argu-
ments. but because of political compro-
nise.
Indiana has been in the habit of elect
ing its state statistician, its geologist,
ia superintendent of public instruction
eEd ita Supreme Court clerk. The Legis-
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-20
History Encores Itself

Senator Lodge edited ''The Education Of
Henry Adams" for which he has the graft
tude of every intelligent citizen. Does h,
ever look back on what his friend said in
that book? For instance:
Even Adams admitted that senator's passed
belief The comic side Of their egotism
partly disguised Its extravaganza. but faction
had gone so far under Andrew johnson that
at times the whole Senate seemed to catch
mysteries OF nervous buckng, without ap-
parent reason. Great leaders like Sumner
and Conkling. could not be burlesqued: they
were more grotesque than ridicule could make
them; but their egotism and fseticusness
were no laughins gs mattel, sItsI:, They. did perma-
"a treaty of peace, % in any normal tSats
with unsnlmity In twsnty-four hours Ths
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-20
CONQUEST

TYP, FOR the march has beguni
- Forward and onward the press!
Swift move the hurrying ranks,
Emerald file after file,
Grasses and reeds of the marsh,
Grasses of meadow and hill,
Clover and buttercup blooms
Led by the dominant wind.
Many voiced the acclaim
From myriad, murmuring leaves
Of poplar and maple astir.
Loud is the drum of the bee;
Strong is the music and sweet
Pouring from jubilant throats
OF sparrow and glad bob -olink.
Bright are the pennons that wave
Far in the radiant air,
Gold of the brave feur delis
Set in long banners of green.
On to the conquest we move,
An irresistible host,
Thrilled by single desire
The kingdom of beauty is won!
Margaret Sherwood, in Scribner's Mag
azine.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-20

lature has recently made the statistician
and the geologist appointive, as their
Offices are created by statute, and it has
passed constitutional amendment pro-
viding that the constitutional Offices Of
Supreme Court clerk and superintendent
of public instruction shall also he filed by
appointment.
Thus does the theory Of the short bal
lot, containing the names of few men
on whom responsibility is concentrated,
make headway.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-20
THE ELECTRIC CHAIR

tths Senate) wasted six weeks IN wrangl'nS
over this one. and ratified It with one vote
TO spare. We have five six matter now
demanding settlement. l can settle them
all, honorably and advantageousy to our own
side. and l am assured by leading men in the
Senate that not of these treaties, II
negotiated, will pass the Senate. 1 should
have majority In every case. but NAL
content third would certainly dish every one
OF them. To such monstrous shape has the
original mistake of the constitution grown
IN the evolution Of our politics.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-20
Tactical

The belief that the
Tactical failure Of the Germans
to sign the treaty will
mean a resumption of the war is based on
misconception. There is no more fight in
Germany. But she may perceive the tactical
advantage of a position in which she is
forced to terms which she may later wish to
repudiate.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-20

Three hundred thousand gallons Of
whisky will be tied up in st. Louis July 1
in a presidential I-may not.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-20
An American
Too Great a
Sacrifice

An American commits
Too Great sion in Albania has dis
Sacrifice covered that there is no
demand there for
woman suffrage. An Albanian woman may
secure the right to vote and smoke and own
property simply by swearing never to
marry. To win these rights, however, it
would seem she has to sacrifice the greatest
~ woman's rights-the right to change her
mind.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-20

1t is regrettable that ever 80 many
otherwise good citizens get the notion into
their heads that Uncle Sam isn't big enough
to enforce the laws he makes.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-20

Since the Germans object to a peace
of righteousness they may be given piece
of-what they gave Belgium.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-20

Congressman have decided that there is
no longer any greater need, now that the
war is over, to save daylight than there il
to save wheat.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-20
They Should Have Said "Ah"

The German lady secretaries are said to
have put out their tongues at the crowd as
they left Versailles Perhaps it was only
because they thought they saw Doctor Gray
son in the gathering.
And speaking of the unruly member, why
is it that one hears a good deal about the
mother tongue but next to nothing about the
father tongue?
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-20

Sooner or later the United States Sen
ate may move to amend the old song to read,
''Who Killed Round Robin!'
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-20
1t Won't Stop
the Game

Il don't get this ma
1t Won't Stop tions league" said the
the Game Senator 1T doesn't
give Washington any
more of a show than she has in the Amer
lean League. Just for that they are not
going to play in our park if can help it :"
So he proceeded to gum up the admission
tickets.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-20

Better the end with terror than terror
without end" declared a Berlin merchant
who favored the signing of the treaty.
Rather a neatly turned phrase for q Hun,
don't you think9 And 50 true
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-20

general staff, without munitions and big
guns, without an army capable of more
than police duty, will, if she repudiates
the treaty or hedges, forfeit the last
slender thread of respect which has re-
strained civilization from writing a more
drastic peace. When that thin fiber is
cut the victory of the Allies and America
will be defined in such a way that trick
cry, propaganda and Hun buster will
mock its own lying words.
Americans, despite their hopes for a
world structure of peace and the estab-
lishment of reciprocal civilized relations
between the nations, are in no mood to
tolerate violation of the principles for
which they poured forth blood and
treasure.
If Germany is recalcitrant she is pre-
cisely of the moral complexion that she
was while this nation was driving her
hack in the Argonne forest.
If the march beyond the Rhine is begun
next week it will not mean resumption
of the war; merely its continuance.
Our determination that it should end
wight was rapturously encouraged by the
,armistce, and we have SO accustomed
ourselves to that emotion that some of
us have not always paused to define the
indestructibility of our resolution. That
will be apparent if Germany believes that
she can embarrass civilization by tenn
porarly postponing the inevitable.
The prophets who insisted that the CON
flct could not end until the summer of
1919 We're cannier than they realized. 1t
must end then, either with German sigma
lures on Monday or else with German
humiliation as deep as the lance of justice
can drive it,
The Allies do not choose this latter
method They have outlined a vastly
easier path for the foe to follow. 1t is
his own fate and not now the fate of
civilization which hangs upon his deci-
sion.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-20
Hannlet's
Successor

Young Dane is a jolly dog is the opinion of
the United States army officers who in
structed him in the mysteries of draw poker
on the transport America. Prince Aage will
stay in this country several months-long
enough, we hope, to prove that there is no
truth in the assertion that the ''times are
out Of Joint"
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-20
What Do You Kno,u?'
QUIZ

QUIZ
n. How many senator's voted against the
declaration of state of war with Ger
many in 1917?
2. Name two common vegetables unknown
in the United States at the time of the
American revolution?
8. What is a dossier?
4. What is the meaning of the Latin phrase
''nolens volens"?
5. On what river is Antwerp locatedf
@. What is a succedaneum7
Z. Who was La,Perouse?
S. What was Shays's rebellion and when
did 1t occur?
40. What is the third largest country in
South American
10. What position did Charles e. Hughes
resign to become the Republican can
didate for President in 1915?
Answers TO Yesterdays Quiz
1. The Turks acquired Constantinople ia
1853.
2. The literal meaning of ineffable is un-
utterable or inexpressible.
8. Joseph Korzeniowski is the real name of
Joseph Conrad, the novelist
4. John Townsend Trowbridge wrote the
humorous poem, darius Green and
His Flying Machine"
8. Schleswig- Holstein lies between the
southern boundary of Denmark and the
northern boundary of Prussia.
Z. The battle of Molino del Rey occurred In
the Mexican War. 1t was won by the
Americans under Worth on September
8, 1S47. The name means Kings Mill.
S. Asphalt Is q mixture of bitumen, pitch
and sand
o. A caret is mark. like an inverted ~"
placed below line to indicate place
of omission.
10. An assegai is slender spear OF hard
wood formerly used BY South African
tribes,
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-20

The Salus bill appears to have h.en lost
In transit.
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HARRISBURG THE NEW
A Three Story Red Brick Country
Town Thirty Years Ago Now the
City Beautiful of Penn
sylvania I,
BY GEORGE NOX MCCAIN
ITO A BIENNIAL visitor. often for month

ITO A BIENNIAL visitor, often for months
at n time during period cover
ing a third of'a century, the changes that
have been wrought in Harrisburg within the
last two decades are striking and beautiful.
II is transformation rather than change.
My recollection Of the city dates from the
Fourth of July. 1873, when AS n lad made
an excursion trip between midpights to and
from the state capital The name lonlned
large in my boyish fancy. My memory re-
calls it now as three story red brick
country town. The only really nice homes
we're along the waterfront: and some OF
them we're nothing to be proud Of even in
the architecture or cleanliness Of their
facades.
The sidewalks were Of brick worn into
unsghtly holes in frequent places. The
Susquehanna river side was a precipitous
and claycy bank. with a fringe of driftwood
along the edge Of the placid water that was
in turn decorated with an occasional bow
knot of tin cans and other rubbish.
The main roughfare-Market street.
on that unforgettable Fourth of July was
deserted except for few groups of young
fellows and girls, the latter dressed in white,
carrying baskets containing materials for n
picnic. The busy square was a market place,
empty and deserted.
The courthouse, with it's colonial sug-
gestiOn, was the most imposing building in
the town next to the squat brown structure
on the hill With Karnak like columns known
as the Capitol.
Some kindly soul informed me that the
only amusement was a picnic ION the
island" ] was rowed over in a skif, stayed
an hour or two watching some girls and
young fellows dancing, returned to the town
and spent the remainder Of that disconsolate
and Disappointing day around the PenDsyl-
vania station down in the hollow waiting for
train home.
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Soul Values

Though little he possess, call him not poor
Though by the sweat Of brow his bread
he earn
Whom love awaits within his humble door,
Whose children shout with joy at his re-
turn:
But poor he is though gold and fame be won,
Who little, trusting hand from his doth
miss;
And she offfungry heart at set of sun
Who knows no rapture of baby's kiss.
All, pity them whom death doth sore bereave,
Whose fortune fails, or friends, or health
have lost;
But them who ne'er for others losses grieve,
And can forget old friends, them pity most
To lose the heart to love, yes, that is loss,
loss with which none other can COM
pare.
Who loves, who prays, finds glory in cross !;
Pray for the souls that feel no need OF
pray'r! 4
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MAUD FRAZER JACKSON.

The Bureau Of Bombustibles has issued
warning that there may be more explosives
coming through the mails. If this Is hoax,
it seems a cruel way of making Mr.. Burleson
hustle.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-20

the National Institute of Homeopathy, and
recommended sun bathing of the nude body.
Rut where is a poor man to go to get it?