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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-05
Karl Baedeker

MARKET STREET (NIarktstrasss,
Issuing from the majestic terminus of tbe
Camden ferries the traveller will behold tbo
long prospect of Market street. ending With
the imposing tower (54S feet) which was
until the recent rise in prices the highest
thing in Philadelphia. On the summit of tba
tower will be observed the colossal statue of
William Penn said to be of German extrac.
tion 644-171S). The Market street is m.
business center of Philadelphia A curions
phenomenon, exhibiting the perspicac;on
shrewdness of the native of this great c;tv
may be observed on any warm day ahon,
noon: the natives keep to the shady side Of
the street. AS the thoroughfare runs duo
east and west, brief astronomical caIcnIa
tion will show this to be the southern siJo
of the way. Between October and Anr;l
however, it is quite safe to walk at a ieis
urely pace on the sunny side. BY all means
observe the great number of places wbero
soft drinks may be obtained, chara acter;st;c
of the American sweet TOOTH but exnensivo
. (war tax, one cent per ten cents or fract;on
thereof. The dignitied building at the cor.
ner of Ninth street is the federal building
often carelessly spoken of as the postofice
An entertaining experiment, often tried bv
visitors, is that of mailing a letter here
(See note on Albert Sidney Burleson, else
where in this edition.) The visitor who
wishes to make thorough tour of Market
street may cover the ground between the
river Delaware, large sluggish stream. in.
ferior to the Rhine) and the City Hall In = n
hour. unless he takes the subway (AlIow
i1a hrs.} #
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-05
Henry James

THORNCLIFF was thinking, as he crossed
i the, to him, intoerably interviewer con-
fusion of Market street, that he had never
unless it was once in. dream which he
strangely associated in memory with an
overplus of antipasto - never consciously,
that is, threaded his way through so banning
a predcament of traffic, and 1t was not until
halted. somewhat summarily,. though yet
kindly, by a blue arm which he after some
scrutiny assessed as belonging to traffic
patrolman, that he bethought himself suff-
ciently to inquire, in manner little
breathless still, though understood at once
by the kindly envoy Of order as the natural
mood of one inextricably tangled in mind
and not yet wholly untangled in body, but
still intact when the propulsive energy of the
motortruck had been, by a rapid shift of
gears and actuating machinery, transformed
TO a rearward movement, where he might be
and how.
"This is Market street." said the officer.
Market street? All, thank YOU
Market street! Could it be, indeed? His
last conscious impression had been of some
shop-a milliner's, perhaps ?-on, probably,
Walnut street, where he had been gazing
with mild reproach at the price tickets upon
the hats displayed, or, II not displayed, a
term implying a rather crude concession to
commercialism at least exhibited, and con-
sidering whether or not it would be ad-
visable, on so hot day, or day that had
every promise of becoming hot unless those
purple clouds that hung over the ferries
should liquidate into something not unlike
thunder shower, to carry with him small
hat as an act of Precipitation and reconcile
ment with Mrs Thornclif. So this was
Market street. He gazed with friendly in
terest into the face of the policeman, gaze
m which there was not the slightest sign Of
any auimatng rebuke at the interruption in
| his meditation, meditation which, after all +,
| had been uuconscous rather than actively
cerebrated, and With some vague intention
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-05
IA TRAvEL-AT-HoME SUMMER

hM0NG the countless prophecies which
"A have gone awry since November II is
the forecast that the summer of 1919
would bring spectacular revival of
European tourist travel. At this moment
the horoscope specialists lack conviction
even in their references to 1920. World
reconstruction upon the most prodigious
scale is obviously necessary before the
overseas vacation rush can be restored.
On June l5, however, the State Depart
ments sensible ruling permitting wives
or nearest relatives Of soldiers in the ex-
psdltionarx force 70 80 abEoad will be
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-05
AWAY GOES ANOTHER DELUSIoN

0NE of the most persistent delusions
~ in the assorted group that misleads
the near, or incomplete, scientists will
vanish with the report of Burdette J.
Lewis, one of the commissioners in
charge of New Jersey prisons.
Mr.. Lewis has been matching statistics
gathered in the penitentiares with those
prepared in the army with view to esti-
mating the mental capacities of average
men. He finds that the practical intelli-
gence of prisoners confined in jails and
penitentiaries is not lower than that of
the everyday citizen who Obeys the law
NRnd shoulders a gun to sustain it when
The necessity arises.
1t used to be urged in behalf of crimi-
mails that they were not always of sound
mind, that some inherent weakness of
intellect rather than a wish to be wicked
served almost invariably to get them
into trouble. The army psychological
tests were exhaustive and elaborate and
thus it was possible for Unconditional
scientific men to find the standard of in
telligence which might be called normal.
Prisoners in the Jersey penitentiary re-
veal this normal average.
Environment certainly has an effect
\ upon human character. All crimes are
not the result of evil inclination. But it
will be difficult from now on to believe
that hardened criminals deserve pity and
sympathy and sanitarium treatment
rather than punishment.
Psychologists originated this theory.
Other psychologists have just exploded It,
Has any one ever applied psychology
cal test to the psychologists
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-05
Edgar Allan Poe

DURING the whole of dull and oppres-
- sive afternoon when the very buildings
that lOOmed about me seemed to lean forward
threateningly as if to crush me with their
stony mass. | had been travelling in htful
jerks in Market street trolley; and at
length found myself, as the sullen shade of
evening drew on. within view of the melan-
choly tower of the City Hall. l know not
how it was-but, with the first glimpse OF
the building a sense of insufterable gloom
pervaded my spirit | say insutferabe, for
the feeling was unrelieved by any of that
half -pleasurable sentiment with which the
mind usually receives even the sternest
images of the desolate or terrible L looked
upon the simple visages of the policemen on
guard in the courtyard-upon the throng or
suburban humanity pressing In mourn1ul
agitation toward their solemn hour OF trial
upon a deserted litter of planks left by the
needless hand of the subway contractor
and an icy anguish seized upon my spirit
What was it paused to think-what was
it that so unnerved me in the contemplation
of the City Hall? Was it the knowledge that
any one of these bluecoats could, with
mere motion of his hand, consign me to some
terrible dungeon within those iron walls-or
the thought that in this vast and pitiless pile
sat men who held the destiny of my fellow
citizens in their hands--Or the knowledge
that time was flying and was in imminent
peril of missing my train? 1t was mystery
all insouble and unused in shadowy fancy,
caught in Il web of CHASTITY surmise.
At last | raised my head, breaking away
from these unanalyzed forebodings. gazed
upward where the last fire of the setting sun
tinged the summit with a gruesome glow-o
horror more than mortal 20 fearful sight
that drove the blood in torrents on my heart
God shield and guard me from the arch
fend. ! shreked-had William Penn gone
Bolshevist? For they had painted the base
of his statue-a glaring, bloodhke red!
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-05

The British first lord
Our Dead in France of the admiralty has
given it as his opinion
that the removal of the British dead from
France is an impossibility. SO far as Ameri-
can dead are concerned. we are not willing
to concede the impossiblity, but purely sen
timental reasons should prompt the decision
to let our boys lie where they fell-in the
land they helped TO save.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-05
Walt Whitman

J. Walt Whitman
SEE the long defle of Market street,
And the, young libertad offering to shine
my shoes
'Q do not have my shoes shined, for am not
as worthy without them shined? I nut
it to you, Camerado.)
And l see the maidens and young men flock
ing into the movies
And l promulge this doctrine that the gov
ernment might have imposed twice as
hea'! Il TAX on amusements and still
young men and maidens would tbrone
to the movies,
20 endless timidity of statesmen
And l wonder whether l. too, will 60 in and
give the eidolons the once over.
But putting my hand in my pocket see that
l have only thirteen cents
And it will cost me three cents to get hack
to Camden.
In window ] see white coated savap
cooking griddle cakes,
And i think to myself, am no better than
he Is, -.
And he is no better than am,
And no one is any better than any one else
90 the dignity of labor,
Particularly the labor that is done by otber
people;
Let other people do the work, is NV mani.
festo,
Leave me to muse about it)
Work is wonderful thing, and a stcadv ioh
is 4 wonderful thing,
And the pay envelope is wonderful inst;.
tuition,
And ! love to mediate on all the work that
there is to be done
And how other people are doing it.
Reader, whether in Kanada or Kon.ho-
hocken,
l strike up for you.
This is my song for you, and a good song
III say so.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-05

Plans for extensive
The Great improvements in Bos-
American Omission ton harbor will cause
thoughtful men to
wonder once more why it is that, though
limitless energy is expended in improvements
everywhere in America each year, no one
ever underwrites plan for the improvement
Of political ethics.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-05

A British dirigible,
What the Wild the argast in the
Waves Are Saying world, is to attempt
flight across the At
lantic this month, landing in Atlantic City.
This, of course, will not discourage travel to
the shore resort
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-05

COME of the endearing traits of Gummere,
~ to one who is proud to have been of the
number of his friends, seem to have been
these: He was always of an open mind,
ready to receive new Impressions if need be,
to revise the old. Stanch in the essentials
which go to make a man sure of himself,
he was always liberal and courteous to the
opinions of others. 1t was lesson to see
him listening patiently and in the kindliest
spirit to the maundcrings of those unac
quanted with a subject which Gummere had
at his finger ends. Never was there a twtch
to betray superiority or to dsquiet COM
paisant ignorance. Standing by his guns in
the many results which came out of his
abundant scholarship, he fell into no
acrimonious controversies nor knew any of
those unhappy personal Quarrels which so
often embitter men of books with each other.
There was no condescenson in him and his
hand was ever outstretched to those who
needed it. His word was always kindly; if
it could not be such his was the Quaker
silence.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-05
TRAVELS IN PHILADELPHIA
As They You'd Be Reported by Some Eminent Travellers

of inquiring ultimately whether it were safe,
now and here, to cross the highway or
whether it would be better to wait until the
semaphore (Which, as he had just noticed,
was turned to STOP) gave him undoubted
privilege to pass unhndered. remarked again.
but without malicious motive. which indeed
would have been foreign to his mood and
purpose: Market street? How interesting,
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-05

A dispatch from Atlantic City tells Of
sixteen year old ayiatrix who looped the loop
the other day. One is divided between won
DER at the girls skill and nerve and admira
ton Of the publicity agents versatility.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-05

1t looks as though woman, lovely
woman, is destined to give states rights its
final bih
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-05
Reciprocal

President Wilson re-
Reciprocal ceived naval airmen
in Paris on Wednes-
day and extended congratulations for things
done and things attempted. They .might
easily have returned the compliment on the
same basis.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-05

The virtue of the Hostein is set forth
in black and white.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-05
Bruin Trouble

W q ItdUlnS m
Bruin Trouble were injured on Tues
day by a big black
bear which had escaped from menagerie
and resented interference with its right to
life. liberty and the pursuit of happiness
Bruin evidently wished to display its sum
mpr furS
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-05

But it is mistake for any one to as
sumo, because of the difference of opin-
ion about the amount the Germans can
pay, that Germany is going to be let off
easily. Unfortunately for them, every
estimate the Germans may make as to
their ability to make reparation will be
received with suspicion. They have for
feited the confidence of the world Moth
ing would please them better than to be
able to put something over on the Peace
Conference and then go home and boast
about it. They will not be permitted to
dictate the peace terms. This is certain.
Germany will pay, and she will pay to the
utmost of her ability
If she is reduced to the rank of third
or fourth class power she has only her
self to blame. She set out to become the
greatest world power of this or any other
time. She violated her pledged word.
She turned sacred treaties into scraps of
paper under the pretense of military
necessity. She violated all the laws of
war on sea and land. She hazarded all
that she had on single throw and she
lost
She Will reap what she has sown. Her
loss of territory is small in comparison to
the amount of territory which she
planned to seize from the other powers if
she had been victorious. The financial
burden to be placed upon her is insig-
ni6cant in comparison with that which
she announced she would place upon her
| defeated enemies. They were to be COM
PEELED to pay the whole cost of the war
and to pay large indemnities in addition,
and to give to German trade concessions
which would have made the German mer-
chant master Of the woald's commerce.
She is going to get Pf with o much
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-05

Germany's willingness to pay $50, ,000,-
600 900 is an earnest of her ability to pay
more. f5
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THE GERMAN PEACE TREATY
WILL HAVE TEETH IN 1T
Teuton Delegates Are Using Allied Dis.
agreements as a File to Blunt
Their Sharpness

Their Sharpness
OF ONE thing we may rest assured and
" that is that the peace treaty will have
teeth in it.
The German delegates are just now
doing their best to file off as much of the
teeth as possible and thus to blunt them.
These delegates are not inexperienced
in the arts of diplomacy. Nor are they
amateur politicians They are taking
advantage of whatever disagreement
among the Allied delegates they can
learn.
1t has long been known that the finan-
cial experts of the different delegations
submitted widely differing estimates of
the ability of Germany to make financial
reparation. Some of them put the
amount which Germany could pay as low
as twenty-five billion dollars and others
put it as high as fifty billions. A COM
promise was made by demanding the pay
ment of twenty-five billions in the near
future and such other sums toward the
complete PREPARATION for damages as in
vestigation should show that Germany
could pay.
The German delegates are protesting
against being asked to agree to pay an
indefinite sum in the future. They argue
that it is unfair to ask their country to
submit itself to the mercy of a commits
sion representing her enemies and they
whine about the reduction of their once
proud nation to the rank of a second or
third rate power.
There is every evidence of disposi-
tion in England to relax the rigors of the
original draft of the treaty. Certain edi-
tors, labor leaders and liberal politicians
are saying that the treaty is too drastic.
Lloyd George, who is fighting for his
political life, has been influenced by this
campaign, conducted largely by his politi-
cal enemies, and he is reported as favor
ing notifications in the interest of Ger
many.
France, on the other hand, which has
suffered most and has the most to fear
from Germany, does not think the terms
ARE rigorous enough.
Where Mr.. Wilson stands is not def
nitely known. Dispatches from Paris
within a few days have told us that he
and Lloyd George were willing to make
concessions, but that France was object
ing. But yesterday Clinton w. Gilbert,
the usually well-infomed correspondent
of this newspaper in Paris, cabled that
Mr.. Wilson stands alone among the
Americans in objecting to concessions
which liberal opinion in France and Eng
land is willing to make. He announces,
however, that it is certain that the eco
nomic questions dealt with in the treaty
will be subjected to further consideration
and that the whole financial question will
be reopened
If the German delegates choose to send
word to Berlin that they have won a vic
tory in thus bringing about a recon-
sideration of the amounts the Germans
must pay they will have some justifca-
ton. They have been boasting that they
would not sign the treaty in its present
form. Any modification will give them
an opportunity to sign it and save their
faces, and to go back home with what
ever political advantages that will accrue
to men who have done what they could
for the country which they represent.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-05

The dray horse is now sporting its sum :
mer straw.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-05

CTMMERE was one of several favored
~ American scholars on whom that re-
markable teacher, Child. of Harvard. left
his mark. Child's enthusiasm for old Eng
ish his thorough scholarship in it, his
pCrtinacious pursuit of the subject OF
baladry, which he raised from the con- jec-
lures of the antiquarians into the field of
scientific inquiry. produced tremendous
effect on young men like Gummere and Kit
rcdgc. and through them and their like has
scholars. In Gummere's youth the inces-
SAINT German claim of superiority in edu-
cation. as in everything else, over all other
nations had reached the climax of its sue
cess. 1t was the thing to go to Germany
to study even our own English literature,
and thither Gummcrc went, serving his
scmPstcrs at Freiburg and doing as the Ger
mans did so far as the sturdy Quaker soul
within him permitted of these foreign ways
Gummerc was learned in the German ways
Of learning, quite the authority on Germanic
origins, on the beginnings of poetry in the
folk and in the lore of balladry, but he
never became, as did so many of us, Ger
manizcd. He imbibed with greater avidity
those traditions which link us to the scholar
ship of the British Isles and he remained
with all his splendid linguistic attainments,
his thoroughness of method, his touch with
the Old World and its ways, essentially an
American scholar.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-05
Answers to Yesterdays Quiz

AnsWers TO Yesterdays quiz
/. A. Mitchell Palmer is attorney general ,
of the United States.
.. Bedrich Smetana, one of the most gifted
of modern musicians and composer OF
the opera ''The Bartered Bride" was
Czecho- Slovak.
3. The army airplane trip across the con
tinent is scheduled to take thirty two
hours.
4. John Milton wrote Samson Agonistes."
3. bulace is wild plum tree.
q. The Bundesrat in the former German
empire was the federal council of the
empire, consisting Of fifty eight mem
bers from twenty six states.
Z. Morane is sandy deposit carried down by
glacier.
8. Perry is drink made from Juice Of
fermented pears
o. Maecenas was Roman patron of arts
and letters under Augustus. He died
in 8 d, G.
10. Philadelphia, New York, Is a village Ia
Jefferson county eighteen miles rortb-
east Of Watcrtown
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-05
What Do You Kno1U?
QUIZ

/ Who is the present prince of Wales?
Q Where should the accent fall in the word
inhospitable?
g. Who was the first husband of the EN- :
press Josephine?
4. On what river is Vienna located?
3. What is the feminine form of the words
executor?
6. What is the brightest star in the north !
ern heavens?
T. Why is a bear called Bruin?
s. Who wrote "The Bible in Spain?
0. What continent extends the farthest
south? ~
10. Who was the commander of the Ameri- ~
can transatlantic seaplane feet? t
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-05
THE COWNSMAN

LNRANCIS B. GUNINIERE, for more than
i thirty years professor of English lit
crature at Haverford College. is gone from
among us. His was an untimely death at
sixty four, in the midst of his activities,
for he had been teaching on the afternoon
of the very day on which followed his death
and his productivity as a scholar was
not yet passed. Doctor Gummere's many
friends had hoped for him many more
years of that fine influence for good
which he radiated so efficiently and unaf-
fectcdly For in Gummere we have lost a
foremost scholar, teacher who beguiled his
students into the love of learning, man
ever gentle, kindly and beloved.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-05
Cause for
Thankfulness

drowning in the Manayunk canal. But it
causes no surprise. Courage and self sac
rifice are the commonest things in the world.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-05
The fight against day-
Quite True

cruelest thing you can ask Of some men i
that they change their minds. ~
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-05

TNHE late Professor Gummere was repre-
l. sentative of the very best type of Ameri-
can scholarship and heir to the best oppor
tunities that his own country and foreign
training could afford His was the ines
tmabc advantage to be born literally and
reared in college. so that from infancy he
brcathed the air of culture. refinement and
aspiration after the ideals of learning.
Gummere was thoroughbred in education.
His grandfather was a notable schoolmaster.
his father, president of Haverford and
mathematician of note. Books and learning
were as familiar to young Gummere as toys
and rattles to the many and it was no small
matter to him. as to all who have been so
fortunate. that Haverford was little. close
community where education was n personal
matter, not a system. where there was still
leisure and none was forced On such
foundations are we'll built the superstruc
lures of scholarship. But Gummere soon
sought wider fields. and at Harvard, which
had become a university by this time, he
found the deeper scholarship of men like
Francis James Child and Charles Eliot Nor
ton. only to seek further afeld in Germany
and England for what these various sys-
tens of education might give him.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-05
Long distance
Wireless

1000 miles away. Surprising as this is, it
is discounted by the declarations of Marcon
and Tesla that they have had messages from
Mars.