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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-11-29

Astor proved q brilliant and earnest
campaigner. She will be the first wo-
man to enter Parliament. That fact
alone makes history and is an index of
the remarkable political changes of the
day.
Her recent endeavors have commanded
the worlds attention. There is chance
that the Commons, notwithstanding the
dislocation of precedent, may be COM
PEELED to heed her.
Woman suffrage has virtually won its
case. "Stateswomanship" is on trial
now. As represented by Lady Astor
it has the best wishes Of all persons
capable of remembering that the globe
spins on.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-11-29

The Bureau of Municipal Research saws
that Mayor Smith in passing the buck in
the preparing of the 1920 budget missed an
opportunity to rehabilitate his administra
tion in the public eye. But perhaps the
Mayor realized that rehabilitation is a
bigger Job than the bureau imagined.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-11-29
TINSEL

T USED to think the world to be
A tinsel ball Of revelry.
A place of joy and happiness
Where one might laugh with careessness.
A world that flung its night away
And only tolerated day.
Within whose arms the harshest voice
Was soft and sweet as though by choice.
i quite forgot tinsel ball
is crushed as if 'twere not at all!
oliver jenkins, in the Boston Transcript.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-11-29

in the anthracite crisis Of 1902. It hung
back and left the President to take the
risks and face the music. Mr.. Wilson
can expect to find this same spiritual
aloofness in the House and Senate. He
can force the coal crisis to the attention
of Congress, however, and he can COM
pei a showdown at least.
The present situation justifies such
action. Normally the government has
no moral or legal right to interfere in
formally with the operation of pri-
vately conducted industries. That is not
what the government is for. The sort
of control which Mr.. Garfield proposes,
therefore, should be scientific, construc-
tive and inspired by sense Of justice
and regard solely for national well
fare if it is to be justified at all, even
in crisis like the one which now con-
fronts the country. Temporary or Incl
dental meddling will do more harm than
good.
The public pays and it is paying high.
1t is tired Of controversies and tired
of talk.
1t wants to know what is the matter
with the coal business and it wants JUS
tice done to the miners. 1t has no de-
sire to despoil investors Of any legiti-
mate right, nor does it grudge them
fair return on their money.
Every conventional method has failed
to prevent upheavals and interruptions
in the mining industry. The time has
come when surface remedies seem worth
less We ought to get to the root of the
trouble and examine it.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-11-29

A more or less careful
Scant Praise at That analysis of legislative
bodies here and abroad
tempts us to the conjecture that Lady Astor
will considerably more than meet the intel
lectua average of the members of the British
House of Commons.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-11-29

low form Of profteering" is how ths
internal revenue department describes the
work of ticket spectators at the football
game. Which goes to show that there are
some federal agents with a pretty gift for
felicitous characterization.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-11-29
Moonlight

WooHil3t
TIME moon was slender sickle on the first
Il afternoon that ! came,
When it grew to a lovers half f-shilling you
Ventured my Christian name.
AS the full moon bound the st. Lawrence
with deep broad girdle of gold,
On an evening quiet as folded wings guessed
your new secret untold.
The quarter was just at its turning when
you stole caress like breeze
That rustled shy kisses as gently it slipped on
its round through the trees.
AS the second quarter was waning our time
became treasure to spend,
And we firted, still clinging to freedom, both
knowing how matters must end.
So did the old moon, for it left us. As il
rises to watch in the dawn,
It chuckles and tells the stars over love-
tales of the days that are gone.
PHOEBE HOFFMAN.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-11-29
FraternaI Hymns Of Hate
The Quizeditor is man we detest:
He wears white margins on his vest.


Now that the football season comes to an
end, college professors will have to work
harder than ever to try to keep their classes
amused.
Jovial Jim Bennett, who is very busy these
days experimenting the translation of Car
dinal Mercier's memoirs, confides to us that
the telegraph operators think he has gone
into the sub appareling business. For, says
Jim, the monks in England who are doing
the translating of the Cardinals book keep
on cabling him portions of the text, in
which Baron Won der Goltz and Baron Won
der Lancken are frequently mentioned. And
the monks, quite innocently, abbreviate these
Huns as b. V. d, Goltz and B. v. d.
Lancken.
There is so mucn talk about releasing
Gene Debs from quod that headline the
other day led us to believe it had been done.
It went thus:
DEBS TO DANCE WITH PRINCE
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-11-29

1T is time to call spade a spade"
declared Harrington to Garfield. But the
public is anxious that it be called a coal
shovel and be put to work.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-11-29

MAYoR-ELEcT MooRE'S
LETTER
Presidential Politics Seen In MeAdoo's
Attempt to Blanket Palmer by
Talking About Coal Prices
While Palmer Is Strus-
Cling With Food
Prices

THE smartest man in Wilson's cabinet was
Il McAdoo. OF southern origin Oike the
Prcsidcnt) he studied law and engineering,
dashed into New York with a great scheme
for tunneling the river and made go Of it.
Forging ahead in the metropolis in finance
and politics, he finally landed in the presi-
dents cabinet ns secretary of the treasury.
Then he married the Presidents daughter.
When the European war broke out McAdoo
was easily the premier of the administration.
The big things were referred to him and his
power increased. Before congressional COM
mittees he was the administrations ablest
spokesman, always amiable, always forward
looking and never lacking originality.
Whether the transaction involved 500, ,000,
600 or SIS, 1000 900 900, it made no differ
cnce, the thing had to be done and the money
would be forthcoming He was always con-
tdcnt, always bouyant, always ready with
an answers Sometimes somebody would sug
gest TO the versatile secretary that he was
riding for the presidency or for fall, but
that did not worry the secretary. To be
candidate for President under existing
conditions would be unthinkable, he you'd
say. Then came rumors that the White
House was n little envious of the son in
law, or that the financial responsibilities haG
piled SO high as to make a continuance in
Office unbearablc. The White House rumors
were denied and so were the others, but
eventually the secretary resigned and the
big job was put on the shoulders of Carter
Glass, of. Virginia, who has since been
promised relief to become United States
senator.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-11-29

Peace based upon Garfeld's fourteen
points apparently has no attraction for the
miners.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-11-29
Answers to Yesterdays ouIz

N'S"S'S w 'SesS'Aay y AoiA
1. The Monroe Doctrine received its name
from statements in President Monroe,s
annual message to Congress in De-
cember, 1928, at the period of a sus-
pected concert of the powers in the
Holy Alliance to interfere in Spanish
America.
2. Khartum Is city in Nubia Egyptian
Sudan, situated at the junction of
the White Nile and the Blue Nile.
8. The naval battle of Jutland was fought
between the English and German fleets
ON May 81, 1916.
A. Bayard Taylor wrote ''Tbe Story Of
Kennett."
8. The feminine Of the word executor Is
executrix.
6. Rattan: Kinds of East Indian climbing
palm, with long, thin, many jointAd
pliable stems. Pieces of the rattan
stems are used in cane seats.
z. Napoleon blamed his failure to win the
battle of Waterloo partly on the slow
ness Of Marshal Grouchy, who failed
to come up with his troops in time.
s. "Sordamente," a term used in music,
means in muffled manner.
0. In the coinage of Italy 100 centesimi
make lira. The par value Of a Ira
is about nineteen American cents.
10. Justices of the United States Supreme
Court are appoined for life.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-11-29

The Young Lady Next Door But One
surmises that Content Examinations are
designed to separate the optimists from the
pessimists.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-11-29

As an instance of unnecessary labor, Mr..
Gutenberg cites the case of City Controller
Walton, alleged to be framing a picture of
Philadelphia broke with SIT 7,OOO, 900 cash in
ha nix
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-11-29

Defeat having opened her eyes, Bull
garia had no difficulty in finding the dotted
line.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-11-29

If Aedes Atropalpus were opening new
shoe shining parlor he couldn't complain of
the free advertising he is getting.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-11-29

If the aerial fox hunters can't get a
fox they might compromise on a flying
squirrel.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-11-29

Passing the buck seems to be the favor
ite indoor sport of city officials.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-11-29
THE CHAFFZNG DISH

April
SHEILA, Sheila, Sheila! Sure tits I
~ that's calling,
Calling down the evening winds from the
hills of France,
Asking are the April ewes still at dusk's blue
falling
Filled with silver shadows in a moonlt
dance?
Do the little crickets still bravely make their
singing
Thousand little happy voices blended In a
note,
Softly, keenly, down the meadows their stout
hearts outfinging
Joy of living anthemed through a single
throat?
Drifts the honeysuckle still sweetly from the
hollow
AS when wars were stories and your lips
clung to mine?
Thinking even long ago of bitter days to
follow,
Bravest little soldier, brave eyes all a-shine
Lest they should forget me tell the April
singers,
Tell it to the river fields and the river foam
So that they shall welcome me, and while
April fingers
l shall come to Shcila love, glad to be at
home.
ALEC B. STEVENSON,
Clermont- Ferrand, France, March, 1919.
The average man doesn't like to hear him
self referred to SO often as a CONSUMER"
Every time he hears that word he begins to
feel uneasy in the region of the right hand
trouser pocket.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-11-29
Member of the Associated Press

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Is crclu-
sively entitled to the use tor republication
OF all ne1cS dispatches credited to 1t or not
otherwise credited IN this paper, and also
che local HetcS published therein.
AH rights Of repH bicdtion Of special dis.
patches herein are also TeserUed,
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-11-29
conaratuIatlonsI

Our client Ann Dante came In to see us
on Thanksgiving Day, and we asked her, in
our genial fashion, what she had to be
thankful for.
Ann spoke up briskly and replied that her
chief reason for gratitude is that her recently
acquired husband Is not regular feller,"
Give wire" nor ''real guy"
Our idea Of theFeally indolent man is the
one who waits by the revolving door until
some one else comes along to start II going.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-11-29
To a Burlesque Soubrette

To Burlesque Soubrette
TTPSTAGE the great high -shafted beefy
~ choir
Squawked in 2000 watts of orange glare
You came, and impudent and deuce may
Danced where the gutter famed with foot
light fire.
Flung from the roof, spots red and yellow
burned
And followed you. The blatant brassy
clang
OF instruments drowned cut the words you
sang,
But goldenly you capered, twirled and turned.
Boyish and slender, child limbed, quick and
proud,
sprite of irresistible disdain,
Fair as a jonquil in an April rain,
You seemed too sweet an imp for that dull
crowd.
And them behind the scenes, heard you say,
80 Ga,od, sure caught some cold yeSter-
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-11-29
It Has Happened to us Also


Dear Socrates-When we were in London
we told our landlady of our cousins who live
in Ohio.
SIS that how you say it, now?" she ex-
claimed. "The last gentleman I knew who
came from there called it Iowa"
CECILIA.
Cecilia, who seems to be a young lady OF
lively wits, adds remark for RolIo's benefit
She says the real advantage of the side door
car is that while you cannot get out without
paying your own csrfare, you can often es-
cape without paying the other fellows.
We are rather sorry Lady Astor won her
seat in Parliament. We had been watching
the lady's line of chatter, and had Just about
determined~to invite her to become q con-
tributor to the Chatting Dish.
We have Travelled between PHILADELPHIA
and New York as often as most people, and
we have hardly ever done so without won4
dering why it is that the express trains that
are said to be .'For Manhattan Transfer and
New York only" always stop at Trenton,
Princeton Junction and Newark.
SOCRATES
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-11-29
What Do You Knotu?

QUIZ
i. In what part of Mexico is Puebla, where
Consular Agent jenkins was i'm
prisoned?
2. Who was the first American woman to
become a concert violinist?
8. Who is "Pussyfoot" Johnson?
4. Bulgaria signed the treaty Of peace with
the Allies at Neuilly. Where is this
town?
5. Who coined the word "Chinafcation''
and what does it mean?
6. What is feldspar?
z. Who was the American commander at
the battle of Bunker Hill?
8. What non Christian religion forbids the
use of alcoholic liquors?
8. Who was the Greek god of the sea?
10. What was the War of Jenkins's Ear?
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-11-29

We are beginning to get agitated over the
question of what we shall give ourself for
Christmas present. When we were young
we were carefully taught that whenever we
found anything we particularly wanted for
ourself we should give it to some one else.
This low spirited doctrine has spoiled many
Christmas seasons for us. This year we are
not going to allow it to interfere with our
happiness, and we have decided to go ahead
with our private ambition, which is to frame
and hang over our rolltop Bill Sykes's origi-
nal cartoon of Walt Whitman which he gave
us last spring
Another Christmas present we are going
to give ourself Is the re-reading of the
Jungle Books, which we esteem as not very
far from being the greatest thing of their
kind In the English language.
We are sorry to have to report that in
spite of all our agitation against the white
margins that tailors sometimes put inside
vests, the Quizeditor is wearing one. That
puts him in the same class as Blasco Ibanez
and George Creel, we fancy. We also have
a suspicion that James M. Beck wears one.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-11-29

WHAT is 1t all aboutp Governor Sproul
w is already on the hustings doing double
time as a speechmaker and he gets better
as he goes along. Some people suspect the
Governor has something in his mind.
although the Governor states frankly that
he considers it a duty not only to get in
touch with the people, but to keep posted
as to their needs. But Lieutenant Goyernor
Beideman and Auditor General SNYDER
there's the rub! For high grade oratory
they are In constant demand, and generally
amenabe to persuasion. They say nothing
for themselves. but some people say that if
Governor Spronl should be looking for some
higher station-the trimming of ATTORNEY
General Palmer as a presidential candidate
for instance--they would be wiling-that ia
Beidleman or Snyder would be willipq--to
take the Governors place. 1t is curious how
these notions get about, but they do Obtain
foothold. J. HAMPTON MOORE.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-11-29

And then, behind the scenes, heard you say,
80 Ga,od, 7 sure caught some cold yeSter-
dGyg'
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-11-29

Congress is likely to be shy of the
question. 1t didn't help Mr.. Roosevelt
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1919-08-13
WAR RISK BUREAU TO
ENLIST VOLUNTEERS
Sqsnncbes Campaign to INDUCE Ser
vice Men to Continue Govern
ment Insurance

Washington, C.-Officials of
the War Risk Insurance Bureau
are enlisting the service of 100000
volunteer workers for a campaign
to induce the four and a half mil
lion men who served the country in
the world war to continue their
government insurance.
A recent investigation disclosed
the somewhat stratling fact that 70
per cent of the holders of govern
ment insurance had allowed their
policies to lapse. If this situation
is not corrected, il means that one
of the great objects of the war-risk
insurance has failed.
Couceivers of the war-risk insur-
ance scheme had in mind, first, the
insurance of the lives of soldiers,
sailors and marines during the war;
and, second, the creation of a vast
new permanent insurance plan that
would have a beneficial and far
reaching effect on the economic life
Of the nation.
The four and a half million men
who were in their country's service
took out war-risk insurance amount
ing TO more than forty billions OF
dollars. With the cessation Of hos
cities plans were made for the con-
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1919-08-13
M IL 10 N S
SUFFER FROM
ACID STOMACH
THE GREATEST REMEDY ON
EARTH
ACID IRON MINERAL

Millions of people suffer year af-
ter year from ailments affecting
practically every part of the body,
never dreaming that their ill health
can be traced directly to acid-stom-
ach. Here is the reason: poor di-
gestion means poor nourishment of
the different organs and tissues of
the body. The blood is improver-
ished becomes weak, thin, sluggish.
Ailments of many kinds spring
from such conditions. Biliousness,
rheumatism, lumbago, sciatica,
general weakness, loss of power
and energy, headache, insomnia,
nervousness, mental depression ev-
en- more serious ailments such as
catarrh and cancer of the stomach,
intestinal ulcers, cirrhosn of the
liver, heart trouble all of these can
often be traced directly to acid
stomach.
Keep a sharp lookout for the
| first symptom of acid-stomach indi-
gestion, heartburn, belching, food
repeating, that awful painful bloat
after eating, and sour gassy stom-
ach. ACID IRON MINERAL, the
wonderful modern remedy for acid
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err dreamed that anything could
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way. Try ACID IRON MINERAL
and you, too, will be just as, en-
thusiastic in it's praise. Make your
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lno blues or melancholy, no more o.
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you have .acid-stomach So get
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! MINERAL. Also call for a. 7. NJ,
| Pills and take one every night UNI
til stomach. kidneys and liver arc
relieved.
Manufactured by the ,Ferrodine
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} ginia. r. j. Cassidy. Manager fol-
the State of Kentucky and the
State of Indiana. 32-St
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1919-08-13

the war-risk insurance scheme, en-
acted by the war Congress with the
advice and approval of President
Wilson, is regarded as splendid
economic achievement and, at the
same time, means Of substantially
showing the governments gratitude
for patriotic services rendered by
the four and a half million men
who offered their all to their cOun-
try in it's hour of need.
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1919-08-13
State of Ohio. Ci;y of Toledo.
ANF

state of Ohio. Ciy of Toledo.
Lucas County. So.
Frank j. Cheney makes oath that he
Is senior partner Of tine firm Of F. ].
Cheney & Co, doing business in the City
of Toledo, County and State aforesaid,
and that SAID firm viii pay the sum of
ONE HUN DRIED DOLLARS Tor each
and every case of Catarrh that cannot be
cured by the use Of HALLS CATARRH
MEDICINE. FRANK j. CHENEY.
Sworn to before ne and subscribed in
my presence, this 9Th day of December.
A. ID. 1856. A. w. GLEASON.
(SeaD Notary Public.
Halls Catarrh Medicine Is taken in
ternally and acts through the Blood on
the Mucous Surfaces of the System. Send
for testimonials, free.
Il. ]. CHENEY & CO. Toledo. o.
Sold by all druggists, 75c.
Halls Family Pills for constipation.
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1919-08-13
vice rendered the country in il

vice rendered the country in its
hour of peril. Insurance claims
growing out of the war approximate
$90O,0OO,00O. OF this, approx
mately one-fourth has been contri-
buted by the men themselves in the
form of premiums. The remainder
is the governments liability, its in
Nestment to permanently insure the
lives of these men, most of whom
have now returned to their peace
time vOcations, as a lasting reward
for services rendered. 1t is up to
the men themselves to make the
most of this opportunity.
Never before, and doubtless new
er again, could insurance be bought
at such low rates. Government Of
fcials are anxious that those en-
titled to this insurance be given ev-
cry opportunity to understand just
what it means to them, and for this
reason an educational campaign is
intended to reach every person who
has held a government policy, and
particularly those who are behind
IN their premiums, thus indicating
they may intend to allow them to
lapse. =
Soldiers, sailors, marines and ar
my and navy nurses only are en-
titled to this insurance. If one is
in arrears, he or she has nine
months in which to pay up and con-
tinua the policy. But it should be
remembered that although there
are nine months in which the trans
fer Of the policy to the new form
may be made, the protection does
not exist during that interim. Pro-
lection ceases on the last day of the
month for which the premium is
due, and is not effective again un'
IN arrears are paid and the policy
again placed in force.
Campaign of Education
A personal letter Is now being
sent out from the War Risl, Blu
raau to every policy-holdor who Z.
'n arrears, urging him to pay u'
Dr.. premiums and continue tho I'm
AMo. through tbe Rec
.. ..a B.. 81. g. A., Che knights
.. ..rr.. ..-. v W. C.. A. and Olhe
The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1919-04-10
ADVICE NOT QUITE ORTHODOX
pered by Natural Aversion Felt BY
All Fair-Fiphting Men.

The task of ministering to spir-
itual needs of our men on the other
side is not easy, and those who I'M
dertake it must be especially well
equipped mentally. Most of them ap-
parently are, and much praise has
been accorded them by their unusual
congregations. Many orthodox
Christians would hold up their
hands in horror upon the scriptural
Celebrations presented by these chap
lains, and this can be appreciated
from perusal of the following ex-
cerpt Of a marine chaplain's sermon,
delivered during halt in the march
to the front trenches, the Wall
Street Journal remarks.
"Boys," he said, II know the
Bible says if your enemy smites you
on one cheek turn unto him the
other, but it doesn't say that if he is
about to try to stick bayonet into
you you should turn your back on
him. 1t also says love your enemies.
l agree. I have seen many dead
Huns and, believe me, men, there is
nothing easier to do than to love
dead Hun. But never forget to
pray. It eases the mind and gives
you confidence. But between pray
ers, fight like h-p