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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-05-02
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~ o,s ~, o..7 -, o,t of Comden is n
INV Wv, ..s .L;a,o ,,rohably be
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cause II Is accustomed 10 lahe peop'o VI
10 'ne shore lor o't VI sr,n. IUiu'.. .o;, Cow
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nu"oou' ~npe way, oc."h ,,, N's. ;''.t
harDor ana sea isir Clt' you van !uss
e'e tne io'oiho'Nc prlch up ITO $40
tremnIe win eager expectancy. IT nn.'
n'gh -spirl!"u 'raln' ana j, iucNs .".,'s .,s
the track IS so straignt an inc way uciosa . W.
Jersey tao'eianu' ~ 'nT'I ".'' an' ~ u
the engine "ouid De hhc,S ~ run VII 'n'
rails III sheer iigh' hearleuhess'
We uoh p'a,iie "n' ns'"o loI ,',npe .,"s
New Jersey, Ptolemy. or whoever it was
that first got the hunch that the earth was
sphere, would certainly have been ostracizcd
by the Alpine Club Of Egg Harbor if he had
tried to pull any such doctrine in Atlantic
county. Whoever laid out the blue prints of
this planet intended New Jersey as kind
of writing desk. All that is needed is big
sheet of plate glass laid over the state ana
few desk notices slipped under it.
rr IS groom and smiling land on n lucid
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sprIns iio, ,;.'ns n,ns' .. .ns .,a;,od
ucm al Wv '..t. ;r. ,o'.rt &c .h;s tai;.u " ,',
fe'io" stetn 't,S, rSu;'', VI .'n ''a
pass mus" ,:t go a,aL -
ous'ihs cap s'an',ns ou nei niLt a.Jn. at; ~
Ma''h ln' ua.n ~ w. .I,o nf. iaan "n &c
IKE port h'ne rn,ous" ~" T,thho,t o % tho .ot
'opper pi,.n ." p..;.ts h;s Ill tano o,d o,oso
rrun ,n,.o throuah tho s,noIor
rroppeu Mi'Ie naai aI o,a nJ fooIs i;ho od
'e ii;u .,';a n,,;n. A. wost por,; -
Ia.n I i'lI' is r,ou.;,o IN q foIJ hv
the track. He turns to wave Il greeting to
seems to be popular: it has friends all down
| the line.
V V V
| NV 1y,xcrou 11rNrvr1oI tho .ra;n
| q "i>"'o" '' ''"'''
"A bears away toward the south ana passes
through wide stretches OF scruppy WOODS
with occasional pine trees standing up
There is delicate purple simmer over the
fields and leahess thlckets. ihere are whlte
patches OF eyerlastings ana the turf by sta l.
tion platforms is buttoned down tight with
yellow dandelons. In neat orchards the
fruit trees all have whitewashed boles and
tender clouds OF PINK riossoms hoat In the
gentle air. You pass Nttle station with inc
endearng name or Dorothy' ana wonder iol
A. Tnckahoa tho SIGN "Belpian Hares fo,
Sale catches your eye. Then you come tC
Sea Isle Junction and leaning your heat
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-05-02

The Oregon Supreme Court has decided
that the state laws calling for a referendum
on acts of the legislature do not apply to
the ratification of an amendment OF the ma
tional constitution. Thus the Oregon ap-
proyal Of the prohibition amendment seems
to BE- sustained, in spite OF the attempt TO
defeat itby tcchpicalityA<
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-05-02
While we 8

While we are praisng
Heroes Every Day the heroes who are
coming h ONE r o IN
France let us not forget the brave mon in
the fire department who risk their lives every
day in protecting the lives and property Of
thr rest Of us
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-05-02

The Hog Island workers have already
exceeded their Victory Loan quota by nearly
half million dollars, and seem to be keep
ing up their wartime record for putting
things over.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-05-02

Those German peace commissioners
whose train was stoned on the way to Paris
now know how the captured Allied soldiers
felt when they were welcomed in Germany
In the same way.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-05-02

Notwithstanding the abundance OF
lemons in the local markets, it does not look
as if any one would be able TO hand one to
the charter revisers on the citizens com
mittep
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-05-02

Before submitting the
How TO Tame Them peace treaty to the
German delegates why
not take them over northern France and let
them see some of the destruction they are
asked to make good?
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-05-02

Now they say Lenine and Trotsky arr
hunting for place to hide when Russia gets
tired of them. Why not try Amerongen?
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-05-02

May II is technically Mothers Day,
but the mothers know that the other 1854 days
in the year are theirs also.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-05-02

The Italians are talking about compro
missing. This is the first step toward Paris
and the resumption of negotiations for peace.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-05-02

Governor Sproul does not intend to be
any ones goat.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-05-02

conversation. why is it that mans hair
first turns gray just by his cars?
Because hazarded we, it is there that he
suffers most.
WV
Absence
"Homc," she said; Tn going home to-
morrow"
I knew to her that dear word meant no
more
Than journey WEAKNESS at journeys end
The opening and closing of a door.
7, who am far from home, am not too far for
visions
That rise in this strange room and shine
and pass,
Clear as the elm tree traced across the moon,
Vivid as tulips burning in the grass.
Wistful with white candles bcckoning down
the hallway,
Beneath familiar stars the old house
The trees stretch forth their soft, impatient
hands
Above the wide spread welcome of the
gates.
Long before too can say Tomorrow
l shall be home a thousand times and
My heart shall cross the hills in ways of
And laugh and cry and open wide the
door!
WINIFRED WDLLES.
v v
Elaborate Electrical Joke
Another friend of ours, who is an cleo
trician by trade and always speaks of cleo
tricty as Juice" was quite annoyed when
we called it the juice that lays the golden
eggs. We should have been more scientific
and said the juice that lays the golden ergs.
V V V
The Swiss are going to build a league of
nations palace in Geneva and what will the
poor, dear old Vriedenspalast at The Hague
be used for? We suggest that it be used ms
a morgue for all the unanswered letters in
the world Or as a convention hall for the
next meeting of the International Press
Humorists.
To Socrates
Who ate lunch at Wiener's, 80 p. m. .,
April 25.
Socrates was a wise old guy,
Who'd never let trick slip by
Nor hesitate to take chance,
Honi soft qui maj pensc.
| Yet there you sat and watched me read
Poor man, you must be shy indeed.
| Still, perhaps it's more au fait
| That we communicate this way.
| 1t would have been such heaps of fun
While slipping coffee and eating bun,
| 10 chat with you about some pome--
| o Socrates, there's no one home!
| UNKNOWN DAMSEL.
v v v
At any rate, there's one easy way of know =
| ing whether you are prominent" or not.
| Have you little bomb in your home?
V v V
All the cooks and walters in Paris were
on strike yesterday, and some of the em
nent peace ENJOYS probably spoke of them
selves as emptpotentiaries.
v V V
One of the German peace delegates al
Versailles says he hopes the peace will give
satisfaction to all.
He seems to have forgotten that German,
had her satisfaction in 1914. It's our turr
now.
V V V
Prof. Scott Nearing laments that tn,
combined ages of the Allied and associat,
peace commissioners amounts TO 1882 years
and that such hoary outfit can never con-
The Gernan ENJOYS only total up to fiy
or six hundred years, but we'll bet that the.
: feel older shun 1852. SOCRATES.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-05-02

Straw Hat Day is upon us, but stray
hat weather seems to lag behind.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-05-02
NAME TRADITIONS IN
OUR NAVY AND OTHERS
How Maintaining the Succession In
Estate" Dreadnouohts Affects Some
Veteran BattleshIps at League
Island

MOT the first Tennessee in the navy was
~ baptismally invested with that name
this week and not the last Indiana, Massa
chusetts and Iowa surrendered their tnics
almost simultaneously. In other ~oras'
American warship nomenclature has some
thing of the nature of an endless chhlh'
While the states, endure and so long as
navies are needed government vessels com
memorating these commonwcalths VIII ploW
the seas. The system is somewhat con
fusiug, for tho landsman will doubtless often
fail to dfferentiate between the old and new
Tennessee or the first, second or thlrd
Indiana.
On the other hand, there is certain
imaginative appeal in this principle OF sue
ccssion. Vitality in the name itself Is pre-
served even though great fighting ships even
tually go to the scrap heap
1t is in that direction that the historic
Indiana, Massachusetts and Iowa, veterans
of the Spanish War, are now headed 10
League island, where they are now statloneu'
has come the order that they surrender
names they so gallantly assisted to make
glorious. Hereafter they will be desig-
mated, respectively, as Coast Battleships
No. !, No. . and No T."
More formidable fighters will carry on the
succession, and bids will soon be opened
for the wonderful dreadnoughts entitled to
bear these state names Presumably thcy
will surpass in strength the newest 1rn-
nessee, now the most powerful battlcShlp
in the world. which was launched at the
Brooklyn Navy Yard on Wednesday.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-05-02

II is difficult to avoid
Coal and Peaches comparing the alarm
list outgivings of the
coal dealers with the customary annual re-
port that the frost has killed the Delaware
peach crop. OF course. it is prudent to ,lay
in winters supply of coal in the summer,
but it is not necessary to create the i'm
preston that the mining industry is sure to
break down next winter.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-05-02

TT is significant that the old Oregon, also
Mt Lcagu" Island. is to undergo no pa
thctic second christening, signaling her DC
crcpitude. As n matter of fact, she IS
triie more antiquatcd than the Iowa, once
Bob Evans's pride, but even the othcia
zeal in passing on the state names to new
comers is halted in this instance. Though
placed out of commission, the Oregon VIII
still be the Oregon Short MS the public
memory is, it remains undimmed concerning
the dramatic cruise of Captain Clark's
sturdy battleship between tho carly part ot
March and the beginning of June 1898.
When she left Puget Sound it was evil
dent that war with Spain was near. Long
before she reached her destination the con-
Rict broke out, and the Oregon raced-t
thirteen knots an hour can be allied racing
down the long Pacific coast of The continent.
through the Straits of Magellan, up past
Argentina and Brazil and steamed into Key
West in ample time to bc made useful FOR
the great naval victory Of July. in which
Ccrvera s fleet was destroyed,
Had the Panama Canal existed in those
days there would have been very little
pressure on her engines. But South
America had to be all but circumnavigated'
by the Oregon. The feat and her prowcss
in the Santiago battle have richly entitled
the veteran vessel to keep her name as long
as she floats.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-05-02

A SIMILAR privilege was accorded the old
"A Kearsarge, which in the days OF her
youth So decsvcy defeated the Alabama,
| wilicst of all rniders--nOt even excepting the
Emden-toward the close Of the Civil War.
The original Kearsarge vas eventually
wrecked at sea. Not until after she had
vanished in her ocean grave did naval
| newcomer succeed to her honorable name.
The keel of the present Kcarsarge which
| now ranks as a pre- dreadnought, was laid
| down in 1896.
That vessel is conspicuous as the only
battlcship III the American navy which is not
named after a state. Perhaps when Deweys
| Olympia. which proved exceedingly useful
to Admiral Nblack in the Mediterranean
during the great war. has ended her days,
superb new Olympia may violate tradition
and at the same time glorify the fleet.
As it is now, the name ruling is strikingy
rigid. No other navy in the world is sys-
tematic n christener as is our own. 1t is
debatable whether or not this rigidty is
entirely a good thing. True, VIC achieve
some variety in baptzing torpedoboats and
destrOyers after our sea heroes, but in pic
turesqueness of warship nomenclature there
| is no question that Britain is highly
successful. There is an unmstakable salty
flavor about Warspite. Inhexible and Tn
| daunted as naval names. Occasionally, this
pcnchant for adjcctivos bcgets amusing
oddity. Tho lnconstan, one of the British
light cruisers, is certainly strangely named.
Another ship is with piQuant politencss
dubbed the Attentive.
The classical names contribute their quota
of color to King Georges navy. Somehow
they seem "shippy." McIpomene and Mino
taur have IA ringing nautical sound. We
have used mythology ourselves with our
naval collicrs. The mysteriously ill ia ted
CyclOps was an instance
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-05-02

'ON THE whole, it may be noted that per
" souaites play a much larger part in
the war ship names of the foreign nations
than in our own naval lists. England has
honored Lord Nelson and Collingwood and
France Jean Bart. Admirable Aube and
/ petit Thouars. the latter the founder of
her Polynesian island empire But the hap
hazard system which prevails in France, as
in Britain, has resulted in some remarkable
departures from the traditional Gallo sense
of the fitness of things. That the mild and
philosophizing Ernest Renan provides a name
for an armored cruiser is n fact that hardly
seems in accordance with the propricties, and
it is equally queer TO have battleship
| named after an "Encyclopedst, as is the
Dderot.
Italy has done the right and inevitable
thing with her superdreadnough Cristoforo
| Colombo. but an instance of mixed motiva =
ton was surely iustanced in the Dante
| Alighieri, which great name suggests moth =
ing whatever in sea lore.
Nearly all the German and Austrian naval
names had a pompous imperial quality. The
Almanach de Gotha is really wretched in
spiration for ship nomenclature. What
marine achievements could, for example, be
expected of the Eraherzog Max, which was
once Austria's, or of the Friedrich deI
Crosse, now ANONYMOUSLY anchored in
Scapa Flow.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-05-02
Don't let any dealer
Watch The Tax

VTtHSC III IHN DTICe OF
what he sells you by telling you that it is
due to the luxury tax. He must make Il
separate item of the tax in your bill and
compute it only on the part of the price in
excess of the untaxed maximum. That is, a
six dollar hat is taxed on only one dollar of
the price, and that at the rate Of 10 per
cent.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-05-02

TT MAY be objected, of course, that Ten
/ nessee and Arkansas are hardly nautical
names. but considered as conforming to the
scheme whereby it is probable that all the
sovereign components of the Union will be
bonored in the federal navy, there is war
ranty in the policy. TO the sentimentalist,
the only painful feature is the fact that
splendid ships that have seen their best
DAYS must surrender names to which thgy
have added luster to spick and span new,
cop,ers. which have not yet made history
II would have seemed especially cold blooded
10 have numbered the Oregon. She is Indeed
fully deserving Of retaining her original name
Nth her unextinguishsble laurels.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-05-02

why Is It, cried a friend OF ours who was
much harassed by surplus Of unnecessary
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-05-02
PRUNES AND PRLSMS

conversation. why is it that mans hair
first turns gray just by his cars?
Because, hazarded we, it is there that he
suffers most
New-York tribune., 1919-10-08

certificates valued at $S5,ooo, Russian
rubles to the amount of SIS, 900. $15,o
in Liberty bonds. $4,000 in Russian
bonds and q quantity of valuable
jewelry. This property is claimed BY
he church
Strzelecki obtained letters Of admin
stration on the statement that his
brother left no will, although it is al
leged the administrator knew there was
will. The Rev. Andrew L. Grygue, as.
sistant pastor of the chu -ch, said he
nad assisted him in locating the will.
1t developed during the hearing YES
ferday that Monsignor Mooney. y. g..
and Monsignor Lavelle, rector Of St.
Pattrick's Cathedral, sent for Strzelecki
md questioned him about the claim Of
he church. He maintained his right to
the property, saying much Of the prop
erty was tis own, having been tntrusted
TO his brother for safe keeping. STREE
ecki also contended that he was en-
titled to receive the property as his
BROTHERS only heir in this country.
Pending decision the surrogate said
ne would require Straelecki to Ale =
oond for 100000 for the faithful per-
formance Of his duties as administra-
tor.
New-York tribune., 1919-10-08
Printing Trade Heads
VIII Fight Pressmen
VIII WHhdrn,o Union Label
FROM Offices That Employ
Members Of "Outlam'' Locals
Nesc I ork Tribune
VA. .htr ~ton Burcon


WASHINGTON, Oct. Tn state
ment issued tonight the board o,
governors of the international Allied
Printing Trades Association declared
It's purpose of entering the New York
printing trades controversy to deter
mine "whether some American trade
union principles shall be maintained
or radical Bolshevik policy shall
prevail. The governors also decided
to withdraw the allied printing tr. les
label from any shop which fails 4 a,
fuses to employ members of the in'er-
national unions.
1t is believed that withdrawal of the
,aoe Will exert strong influence in
bringing about defeat of the secession
ist pressmen in New York. The state
ment followed meeting Of the board
OF governors here
i.he board of governors adopted n
ruArg in which it condemned the
leadership" of pressmen's Union &,
and Franklin Press Feeders Union 23
which are responsible for the chaos
now existing in the printing business
IN New York City, and expressed The
nope that the press room workers viii
rcatflllate with the international print
ing pressmen's union.
fuL approval is given the attitude
taken by the Printers League of Amer
lSca' lca' closed shop branch Of tha united
lypothetae of America and the Peri
oalcal Publishers Association in thei
New-York tribune., 1919-10-08
Book and Job Compositors
Form Their Own Organi-
zatiOn and Refuse to End
''Vacation'' as Ordered
Ri g 6 Can't Control Them
Marsden G. Scott, President
of1nternational, Expected
to Arrive Here To-day

More than 5000 compositors. men,
bers of Typoera nhical Union No. g.
Big 6"-who are taking vacations"
as the result Of the lockout of press
men, assembled in Webster Hall. 119
East Eleventh Street, yesterday, and
declared openly they would not return
to work, despite the order of their
union, until their demands and the
demands Of the insurgent pressmen's,
press FEEDERS and paper handlers
unions are granted.
they went step further, and
formed a separate organizat ton, with
its own staff of officers, to handle their
light. The formation of this union
within unio is new step in
the history of the American labor
movement, speakers at the meeting
pointed out. They we're careful to ex-
PLAIN, however, that the new organi-
cation Will not take q hostile position
toward big g." This was shown by
the repeated cheering of the name Of
The names of the officers Of the new
organization were withheld.
1t was stated at the meeting that the
total number of compositors out is
now 400. This constitutes more than
three fourths of the entire member
Ship of big 6" employed in book and
JOB printing plants. The total number
OF plants affected by the walkout of
composltors, it was stated, is 1870. The
names OF 39 plants whore compostors
Jul, ~, yesterday were given out.
me following resolution, setting
forth the determination of the men not
to return to work until their demands
FOR 44-hour week and a Sl4 increa Sc
are granted. was adopted.
Resolved, That the book and lob
printers, in mass meeting assem-
pied, hereby declare it to be their
INCEPTION to remain on vacation un-
III the employing printers grant their
Just demands for 2-hOur week for
day workers and 40 hour week for
night workers, with q S14 increase in
present wages for ALL
The resolution placing the COM
positors squarely behind the locked
out pressmen follows:
RESOLVED, That the book and lob
printers, IN mass meeting assem-
bled, declare that they will remain
on vacation until such time as the
employing printers rectfy the cha
otto labor conditions in their press
"Hd SldH" INC JUST demands
or Pressmen's Union No, 81.
franklin Union No. %, Paper
Handlers and Sheet Straighteners'
Union No. 1, Job Press Feeders
Union No. l.. and Fly Boys and
Girls Union No. 81
Men Their Own Masters
At the Office of big g." in the
World Building, it was Stated. follow
,ng the meeting, that the ofcers Of
the organization are face to face with
situation wherein they must recor.
n'ze the right of the men to be their
e ewn masters. and that while the Of
iiclals are doing their duty in request
ing the men to return to work until
new agreement is arrived at between
Big s and the Printers League, the
ofl1clals we're in no position to take
any punitive action against members
refusing to do so.
Judge Hoffman, counsel for Press
mems Union No. 81, one of the
New-York tribune., 1919-10-08
Becker Answers Hylan's
Attack on Rent Unions

Alderman Abraham Becker. Socialist
and president of the Tenants League
OF the East Side, in letter to Mayor
Hylan yesterday took issue with the
Mayor on the latters statements re.
earolhg the strikes of tenants against
excessive rents. Mr.. Becker in his lot.
ter said:
"Communication between YOU and MIR
Nathan Hirsh, of your committee on
rent proIteerlng, referring to the ex-
lstence OF tenants unions, were made
PUBIC q few days ago, and have since
received considerable notice and com
ment. The attitude expressed in these
communications has been followed by
the Municipal Court judges with re-
markable eagerness and vim.
I assume that you mad in mind,
among other organizations, the organ
lzaton OF which | happen to be presi-
cent, the Tenants League of the East
Side. 'N LOO
Misstatements Charged
aside from the vituneration +bo+
one is accustomed to expect in anv If
your manlfestos relating to labor or
progress there are several glaring mis-
statements of fact which ! must take
the opportunity of correcting.
You refer to bands of men and
women mulcting the tenants. will YOU
kindly state who comprise these bands
of men and women. 1nd also name those
tenants VINO have been mulcted?
You further state that we are
fomentlng o-called rent strikes and
advlslng people to destroy nropertv..
The fact is that we are not conductinc
rent strikes, but rather strikes against
excessive rents. So far as advising
people to destroy property is con.
ccerned, let me nequivocally state that
IL Is an absolute falsehood. If YOU. as
Mayor of the City of New York. are
aware OF any persons advising destruc-
tlon OF property, it is your duty specifi-
ca'ly TO name these people and have
them brought to justice.
Accuses Mayor of "BuIldozing'
THE working people of the CITY do
not intend to be bulldozed and brow
beaten by you in the manner in which
you are intimidsting civil service en-
ployes.
Your attempt to stfle the spirit Of
unionlsm among ctv employees may BE-
partly and temporarily successful. So
iar as the rest of the working people
OF New York are concerned it will be
an absolute failure.
"Ihe animosity you thus far have
shown toward the tenants has merely
had the effect of cementing their solid.
ity and increasing their determination" ."