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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-03-29
THE HOUSING PROBLEM

TT IS about time that some authorita-
tive body presented tbs other side of
the housing question. We have been
hearing the views Of the builders and the
landlords for some months.
The landlords are raising rents and
are in some cases attempting to force
the tenants to buy.
The builders are saying that there is a
shortage of houses and that at least
10000 new buildings must be put up to
meet the actual needs of the city at the
present time. They are saying also that
the increased cost of building material
and labor will increase the cost of the
houses to such an extent that at least
so per cent higher rent than is now paid
must be assured before any builders will
undertake new operations.
The homeseeker would like to know
what the actual facts are. He finds it
difficult to secure the kind of house to
his taste in the part of the city with
which he is acquainted. But he would
like to know whether there are vacant
houses in other parts of the city. A
rent could easily be taken in twenty-four
hours if the officers were ordered to re-
port all on their beats. One cannot walk
the streets east of the Schuylkill with
out seeing rental signs on many houses.
The man who has lived in West Phila-
delphia or Germantown or Oak Lane may
not like to live downtown. 1t is his re-
luctance that is partly responsible for
the high rentals in the distinctively resi-
Dental districts. But if the families with
no small children should begin to seek
houses in the older districts, those houses
would be put in livable condition and the
pressure on the other sections would be
relieved and the excuse of the landlords
for raising rents on houses built five or
ten years ago would disappear.
What the people are objectng to most
strenuously is this attempt of the land
lords to charge rental on an unearned in
crement in the value of their prop
erty largely in excess of the actual in
crement due to the growth of the city.
The tenants call it profiteering, and their
resentment is natural At best the con-
ditions are unsatisfactory. Nothing,
however, would do so much to clarity the
situation as a census of vacant houses.
for this would show just how much and
how little truth there is in the present
assertion of men interested in higher
rentals that there are not houses enough
for the population now here.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-03-29
HOMELESS WILHELM

ISN'T it fair to suppose that w. Hohen-
zollern was suffering a temporary
alteration when, in order to dodge as
sassins, he proposed going to Switzer-
land and forgot the horrid fact that in
Switzerland every cheese is inevitably
filled with holes?
/, BY what route could the former
Kaiser get to Switzerland? A world of
enemies bars his way on land. An air
plane might transport him. Or can it be
that one of the German near-admirals
has mapped out trip in a submarine?
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-03-29

DOES 1T MEAN LOCAL OPTION?
GOVERNOR SPROUL is said to favor

:
~ the passage of law creating a pro-
hibition commissioner for this state, to
be assisted by eight deputies. The COM
missioner would be entrusted with the
duty of enforcing the prohibitory laws
of Congress passed in accordance with
the authority vested in it by the new
constitutional amendment.
The state authorities are not usually
called upon to enforce federal statutes.
We have federal marshals and federal
courts charged with that duty.
The enforcement of prohibition will in
volve the exercise of the police power 1t
is well known that this power is ex-
ercised in the states and in their sub
divisions, subject to the tolerations of
popular sentiment. In some communities
in this state there is a more rigid en-
forcement of the Sunday laws, for ex-
ample, than in others. In Maine, with its
prohibition laws, saloons are run openly
in Bangor, but popular sentiment in
smaller cities will not tolerate such a
brazen disregard of the law
Now if the states are to be allowed to
enforce the national prohibition laws
there will inevitably be a great difference
among them in the severity with which
venders of liquors and beer are treated.
and we shall have some degree of local
option.
Is this what the Governor is looking
toward in his reported Endorsement of
the plan to create state prohibition
commissioner?
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-03-29
Answers to Yesterdays Quiz

/. George Washington was chairman of the
convention which drafted the United
States constitution.
2. Ducinea was the idealized and idolxed
mistress of Don Quixote In Cervantess
story.
3. The Banat is a region in south Hungary.
4. Derring-do means desperate courage.
3. George Bancroft was r. celebrated Amer
lean historian His dates are 1SO0-1ssI.
6. A majuscule is a large capital letter.
Z. The word tonsorial comes from the Latin
"tonsorius," shearer barber.
s. Illinois is the third largest state in popu-
lation.
Q. Count Won Bernstorff lately wrote an
obituary notice OF Colonel House under
the belief that the American statesman
was dead.
10. Bessarabia IL region lying east and
northeast of Rumanfe. ~ tvi' #
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-03-29
4 BABY'S DRESS
TT Is made of finest linen

TT is made of finest linen M
l. Sheer as wasp-wings;
1t is made with G, flowing panel
Down the front,
All overrun with fagot-stitched bow-knots
Holding hours and hours
OF fairy-whte forget-me-nots.
And it is finished.
Tonight crisp with new pressing
1t lies stiffiy in it's pasteboard box,
Smothered in folds of tissue.paper ..-
Which envelop It like a shroud-
In its coffin-shaped pasteboard box.
Tomorrow a baby will wear it at a chris
tening;
Tomorrow the dead.white Of it's linen
Will glow with the tint of baby skin;
And out Of its filmy mystery
There will reach
Baby Hands.
But tonight the lamplight plays over 1t
and finds it cold o. -..sr
Like the fower-husk of a little soul,
Which, new.lived, has fiuttered to it's des-
tiny, ., Dr..
1t lies in its coffinshaped pasteboard boz.
Tomorrow will make it what hands can
Limp and warm with babyness, ~
A hallowed thing.
The Touchstone.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-03-29
HUMAN MIND
IN SAD PLIGHT, N
SAYS HIGHBROW
Adams Raps Annoying Predica.
ment in Which Intellect
Finds Itself
GOOD BREEDING TO
FEIGN PLEAS
But Actual Satisfaction Would
Prove Complete
Idlocy

Every fabulist has told how the human
mind has always struggled like a fright
ened bird to escape the chaos which Gagged
it, how-appearing suddenly and inexplica-
bly, out OF some unknown and unima gina
BILE void; passing half its known life in the
mental chaos Of sleep; victim even when
awake, to its own ill-adjustment, to dis
ease, to age, to external suggestion, to
natures compulsion; doubling its sensa.
tions, and, in the last resort, trusting only
to instruments and averages--after sixty or
seventy years OF growing astonishment,
the mind wakes to fnd itself looking
blankly into the void of death. That II
should profess itself pleased by this per.
formance was all that the highest rules
OF good breeding could ask; but that Il
should actually be satisfied would prove
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-03-29
What Do You Knotv?
QUIZ

l. In what way did the United States
acquire California?
9. Who was the architect OF the Eiffel
Tower?
3. What color Ia named after flea?
4. What is the meaning of the word
auctorlal? ..... ,
6. What percentage OF the ships now under
the American flag are owned by the
governmnt?
6. Who is known by the Sim Fen as the
President of Ireland?
7. Who, was director of military operations
for the British general staff from 1916
to the spring OF 1918?
8. Who wrote the music of the opera "Wil-
liam Tell?
0. What series of victories does the Paris
Arc de Triomphe" celebrate?
10. Who was the first American President
TO fail for reelection? s
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-03-29
The Hooverizing Habit

The wheatless. meatless days are DER; a.
On substitutes we feed no more,
We've sugar in our tea;
But when an extra lump take
Or cut juicy piece of steak,
Misgivings trouble me.
As on piece of all-wheat bread
The golden butter thick ! spread
$50 strong are habits ties),
Ere can take bite or two
They seem to bore my soul right through
II. Hoover's piercing eyes.
Will ever come that happy day
When conservations ghost lay?
VIII life e'er seem the same?
Though we no longer Hooverize,
When shall doughnuts eat, and pies,
without a blush of shame?
v MAUD FRAZER JACKSON.
correspondent speaks of the Lenine
and Trotzky regime in Russia as a merci.
less yoke.
At any rate it doesn't seem like prao-
tical yoke. SOCRATES.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-03-29

It's case of scrapping the scrappers
when those once doughty fighters of the
Spanish War, the Indiana, Massachusetts,
and Iowa. are honorably dismantleI.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-03-29

II Is interesting to recall that even
after the United States constitution was in
force Rhode Island was still Offering amend
ments. ... g
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-03-29

Though ratification may mean stulti.
fication for some OF the round-roblners of
the Senate, 1t begins to look as though they
will submit to the process.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-03-29

With the superb Twenty-eighth Divi.
sion booked to land here, it is becoming
joyously evident that Philadelphia cannot
escape her fete. ,..-. -
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-03-29

Dear Boy" writes William Hohenzol.
lern to Frederic William Expensive"
might be the way the German people would
nut ii.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-03-29

Metaphorical medleys go the pictur-
esque limit when an Iron Division is com
posed OF doughbOys.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-03-29

The announcement of the installment
payment scheme for the Victory notes re-
veals the excellent intentions Of the govern
ment 10 put them on good terms with the
public.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-03-29

March weather seems to have caught
the revolution epidemic.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-03-29

Smothers as well as mothers will greet
the Twenty eighth when the day of days
rolls around.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-03-29

Mr.. Hurey's idea is to provide per-
manent setting for the Gem Of the Ocean" "
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-03-29

Clearly it is up to the big Four" to
show some big fortitude" in graphing
with the Bolshevist pest
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-03-29

See what a rent the envious profiteer
made!" cried the suffering Philadelphia
tenant
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-03-29
The Spring Poet

The Spring Poet
Sure, l tried my hand at painting, and I
found it rather hard;
Then I took up ancient fossils, when I
found couldn't sing;
And the fossils they annoyed me, so I
thought I'd be bard,
And, like every poet does at times, I
wrote lay of spring.
First l spoke of Mother Nature, with her
overaowing horn;
And the robins in the tree tops, sure I
wrote about their play;
How the wind was gently nurturing the
growing sprigs of corn,
While the bullfrogs in the marshes tuned
up for their nightly lay.
Not forgetting Old Soils comfort, I then
dipped my pen in ink
And splashed off a dozen verses 'on his
warming, golden light.
Then the love-bird caught my int'rest, and
l sat me down to think
OF a couplet that would tell of spooning
couples in the night.
Faith, the work was done in no time, and I
had a wond'rous rhyme;
Sure, it filled score of pages, tied in
string Of baby-blue;
And I felt so very happy DER my efforts
lat the time
That at first l thought that mayhap
had caught spring fever, too!
So sent it to a paper, and my heart, it
beat with glee
When thought of folks perusing all the
children of my brain.
But the editor thought differently; he sent
1t back to me
With the comment that he'd shoot me If
] ever wrote again.
ROBERT L. BELLEM
Two insurance men came in to see us
the other morning. One of them said
something that chimed rather gingerly in
our ears. "Yes," quoth he, "our company
has enjoyed a wonderful mortality during
the last few years"
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-03-29

Then there's Don Marquis, who also is
very unjust to sleep. "If you go 20 sleep
while you are loafing," says Don, "how are
you going to know you are loafng?
We hope we are not unconstitutional in
this respect, but we have given so much
careful thought to the matter of sleep that
we know perfectly WELL while asleep, that
we are asleep, and that we are enjoying it.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-03-29

We wanted to writ ca poem about Hog
Island today, but we shall have to wait
until we recover from the cold we caught
down there. During that cheerful little
downpour on Thursday we were Chamber
ing round the hulls of half-built ships, with
the result that today our soul is waiting
itself away on gusts Of auinine and cam
phor. We only wonder whether our genial
conductor, John Fitzgerald Of the Hog
Island News, is sneezing as hard as we are?
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-03-29
that it existed only in idiocy.'-"The Edu-
cation of Henry Adams"

The only thing we have against the
above very admirable passage is that it
seems an unwarranted criticism of sleep,
which is the most delightful experience we
know and quite compensates for what we
have to endure in the way of mental skip
stops during the day.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-03-29
THE CHAFFZNG DISH
The Sound That Makes Strong
Men Turn Pale

TNHROUGH the darkness comes rustic,
l. soft secret stir. You lie in absolute
stiffness, hoping that it will pass safely.
Again there comes a soft movement a
sound Of a breath uneasily expelled. You
fear the worst, but still lie quiet, uttering
fervent prayers.
A gentle tentative chirping, a clucking,
a gasp. You know that the crisis is at
hand and you must rise and meet it like
a man.
A whimper.
A wall.
A roar.
That is how a three.months -old baby
starts to cry. Ask the man who owns one.
Sam Daniels sends us the following with
the assurance that ut is one of his own
composures." Perhaps Sam Is related to
Josephus.
yankee Cobs''
Out on the icy deck
There stood mothers boy,
To guard the ship from wreck
And to submarines annoy.
To guard the flag of many wars
This sailor boy, was there,
And cen mid oceans giant roars
He spent the night in prayer.
The morning fair did come at last,
And such a morn It was,
The sun shone bright on every mast
AS after storms it does.
But peace was not to last aboard,
For out the deep blue sea
There peered forth one of kultur's horde
To sink the ship with glee.
But on that ship stood Yankee Boys"
With none on earth their match,
And all let forth a joyful noise
With thoughts of their good CATCH
The guners who were at their post,
Let loose with all they had,
Which gave the sub an awful dose,
For not one shot went bad.
SAM DANIELS.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-03-29

TF SENATOR PATTON's schoolship bill
i goes through at Harrisburg there will
be little difficulty in obtaining federal gov
ernment cooperation. Philadelphia had a
schoolship of which 1t was proud, but the
state. failed TO make an appropriation dur
ing Governor Tener's term and the ship
was lost to the city and state, notwith-
standing that Boston and New York re-
tained their ships. The old Nautical School.
ship Board, which at one time or another
included Charles Lawrence, Richard G.
Oellers. formerly City Treasurer; Richard
williams, George A. Cotton and several
other well-known Philadelphians, went out
Of business with the ship. But throughout
the recent war graduates of the Philadel-
pha schoolship were constantly coming to
public notice. 1t is the feeling In Wash
ington that the scholarships should be en-
couraged where The states are willing to
cooperate. What Senator Patton has done
will doubtless meet the approval of men
like President Holton OF the Maritime Ex.
change; Secretary Sproule. of the Commits
sioners of Navigation, and President Ber-
nard, of the steam navigation men, ali Of
whom have been pleading for facilities 10
train young men for service at sea.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-03-29

TT IS easily within the recollection Of up
town politicians when David II. Schuy
ler of the Thirty-second Ward, was the
president of the AntiCobden Club over in
the Nineteenth Ward. But David has been
very successful in business and, feeling
young as ever, fits through Washington
occasionally on his way to and from Flor
ida, for David has reputation as fisher
man. Politics is no longer so attractive
to him as it was. but he does not hesi-
tate to speak kindly Of 'the Ware boys"
The Schuylers and the Armstrong; and
the Ashbrdges-they were pretty active
uptown quarter of a century ago.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-10-15

Matched simultaneously against the
peoples of Europe and against the best
interests OF America Newspaper cor.
respondents could draw the picture of
another Hotel Crillon--of center from
which relief commissions, in the DAYS of
apparent dissolution after the armistice
set forth to Germany, to Austria to
C2echo SlOvakia, to Poland, to the Bal
kans, to Armenia, carrying with them
the immediate boon of food and the
promise of Americas aid for the fu.
turc, In those days, when revolution
racked half the continent, when rail.
roads had collapsed normal intercourse
had disappeared and the countries were
apparently sinking back into the isola.
ton of apparent savagery. there was
spun from the Hotel Crillon a web of
communication which We're the nerve.
strings Of civilization. Europe was
falling apart, but the American couriers
went everywhere. We We're then Zen
tangled" beyond Mr. KnOX's or Mr.
Frelinghuysen'S most nervous imagin.
ings; but it was not the entanglement
they have been depicting for the horror
of America. 1t is because the heart of
the American people has always been
firm for that kind of ENHANCEMENT that
the light of reason is definitely asserting
itself-even in Washington.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-10-15
@ The Editorial Page of The Daily Ardmor reite q
A PREDICAMENT AND A PREDICTION

- DATlFICATlON of the treaty of peace with
IN Germany by the three great powers of
England, Italy and France, done in the order
named, makes the treaty binding under pro-
vision of its own terms that when three of the
great powers had accepted it with Germany
the pact would be in operation. That means,
of course that the League of Nations, until the
other day merely a proposal. now is a thing
definitely created. After some further simple
matters of international red tape have been
attended to, the league will be in full operation.
The United States of America does not be-
long to the League of Nations, not having
ratified the treaty of which the league Gov
enant is a component and necessary part. Up
to this date the United States of America has
elected-Or rather it has been elected through
a very small ma ority of senators-to hold
aloof from the rest of the civilized world to
stand afar off and preach unto itself in the
wheezy whine of the oldtime holier-than-thou
evangelist doctrine which it imagines to be
Americanism; to say to the rest of the world
that in order to be and remain 100 per cent
American the American nation must have no
political commerce or connection with any
other naton-and this notwithstanding the
fact that every one of the Little Americans
who holds such views is avid for commercial
relations with every other nation.
SO it has come about that the League of
Nations is created and the United States of
America is not Of it. But let us not worry over
this. 1t is not hope deferred of the nature
that maketh the heart sick; it is merely 4
puerile postponement that disgusts humane
and unsellish and enlightened citizens While
the present writer sets forth no claim to pro-
phecy, here is prediction:
The American senate will ratify the treaty
of peace with Germany, including Of course
the covenant Of the League of Nations, with-
out amendment or destructive reservation, be
fore the ioy-bells Of the first anniversary of the
great armistice ring from the steeples peace
ON earth and goodwill to men,
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-10-15
STICK TO YOUR DREAMS
Chichester News,CapitaD

Some savant of another day advised
Youth to stick TO its dreams ana
the voice has lived through the years
The advice was never more appropn'
ate than right now.
The dreams Of youth become the
ideals of the older years and as such
rescue us from the diSilusions Of
everyday living. \ superficial sur
vey of American life at this time is
anything but reassuring. There are
those who are wont to complain that
we are going to the dogs aud every
now and then some antiquated croak-
er is heard to whine for the good
old days
But we are not going to the dogs,
neither would the good old dayA
suffice US. They were restricted, mar
row in their highways and depressing
in their comprehension.
The days that are here are magni-
ficent if we can live religiousiy our
ideals and if our youth can stick to
their dreams. Nothing can prevent the
ultimate triumph of right if We cling
steadfastly to them,
For centuries the world prayed for
peace. We are ON the verge Of get
ting it, For centuries the laborer
the peasant if you please toiled patti
emily on, dreaming the while Of a day
when he would be recognized in the
councils of men and when his voice
would bear power The day has al".V-
ed For years minister's and church
men were prayerful for the time
when liquor and shame would be under
the ban of the law. They have lived
to see the fun accomplishment Of their
ambitions.
The dreams of our youth are becom
ing realities The deals that we Ia 70
set high above the prosaic RESPONSE
! bilities of the nonce are crystalizing
The youth of today is dreaming 9th
er dreams. We don't know what they
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-10-15

average Price of Proprietaries Increased
Only II Per Cent" That, beloved is the cap
tion Of an article in little monthly publication
called standard Remedies" received in this
sanctum Of public service. "Proprietaries, re-
duced to English, means patent medicines.
Many of the proprietaries are doped with alco-
hol in disguise, to deceive the user who mag
ines himself teetotaler and to give the booze
fighter who recognizes the "eXhilaration" run
for his money Other proprietaries are doped
with other drugs which produce a stimulative
effect, causing the consumer to imagine that
the medicine docs him good" Virtually all
of the proprietaries are health-hnderers; many
of them are positively destructive to health :;
some Of them are of such poisonous ingredients
that the men who manufacture them are, NOR
ally, worse than the average brand of mur-
derer. Some day this country is going to put
the kibosh on patent medicines as it has put
the kibosh on booze. Let the day come soon!
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-10-15

"The strongest pro-league newspaper of the
state is what Harow's Weekly, which reads
all the newspapers Of Oklahoma every day,
calls The Ardmorete The quotation is from
an article by COL c. w. B. Hinds who does
politics for Harlow's and does it (politics, you
know being singular thing) ably and impair
TALLY. This newspaper has received other bou-
quets along with some brickbats, but that is
Just about the most fragrant posy we have
had handed to us. We desire to thank HarloW's
Weekly for the very high compliment implied
in that simple statement by Colonel Kinds