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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-05-31
THE MISSING SEA CHAPTERS

TNHE admission by Berlin newspaper
that Germany lost 1913 submarines
during the war is one more of the numer-
Gus indices that the naval chapters of the
conflict have been both ncompletelv and
inaccurately disclosed.
Assertion has been made in high
Entente circles that the Hun U-boats
operating simultaneously in different
parts of the world seldom numbered
more than twenty-five or thirty. In this
case either few home voyages were made
by the various fleets of pirates leaving
Kiel or Heligoland or else the undersea
craft in commission at one time were
more numerous than has been said.
Certainly the total of German subma-
rine losses appears extremely large.
compared with the published acknowl-
edgment of successes by the Allied pow-
ers. 1t is, for instance, declared that no
proof exists Of the destruction of an
enemy U-boat on this side of the
Atlantic.
Obviously the truth must be a COM
posite product Perhaps the Germans
can tell US of some lucky shots and depth
bomb charges of the efficacy of which we
have been ignorant. The course of the
land operations is now pretty clearly un-
derstood. Light on the very remarkable
sea war is as yet but feeble flicker.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-05-31

YESTERDAYS celebration at Hog
Island was national event, but it
had added significance for Philade. .pha.
AS Josephus Daniels, secretary of the
navy, speaker of the day, pointed out,
the work already accomplished justified
the prophecy that the Delaware ship
yards would become the greatest in the
world. And Hog Island, because of its
youth and rapid growth, will remain one
of the wonders of the world.
When an indus trial wizard waved his
wand over a morass and turned it into
a workshop the world first marveled and
then criticized. Maybe it was ,nly an
imitation workshop and could not deliver
the product, some ventured.
Yesterday many thousands of bond
holders, term which successive Liberty
Loans turned into synonym for patri
.ots, visited that fairyland and were con-
vinced that at had the goods"
Hog Islands big demonstration gave
enthusiastic Endorsement to work be-
gun under the pressure Of war and
destined to revolutionize our trade meth
DDS in time of peace.
Five ships were launched and four
Of them were christened by Liberty Loan
workers-which was fitting, for previous
loans had made their construction pos
sible. Yesterdays launching brings Hog
Islands score to thirty-two ships. and the
number will be added to every week.
Americas merchant marine is already in
the making!
There was appropriateness in having
the celebration on Memorial Day. The
Spirits of the men who died for freedom
must rejoice to know that that freedom
has been won and kept and that wise
forethought is bent on providing it with
its running mate, prosperity.
Yesterdays event was a success. spir-
ftually, as in every other way.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-05-31
LADIES! WHO'S YOUR FRIEND?

TT WILL take cannier men than those
composing the Democratic National
Committee to fool the women. When Mrs.
Percy V. Pennypacker, of Texas, read the
statement of the committee just given
out in Chicago. in which an attempt is
made to prove that the Democratic party
is the only simon-pure friend of equal
suffrage. she remarked that the Demo-
cratic Congress blundered when it failed
to adopt the suffrage amendment, "and
the committee should admit it."
Equal suffrage is not partisan issue
in the ordinary meaning of the words,
but if the Democrats wish to make it
such the Republicans can face the stu
alton with complacency.
Three times since Mr.. Wilson has been
President the Democratic Congress has
defeated the suffrage amendment. In
March, 1914, the Senate voted on it with
30 affirmative and 80 negative votes.
Counting pairs % Republicans and 1S
Democrats favored suffrage, and 10 Re-
publicans and q Democrats opposed it.
In January, 1915, it came to a vote
in the House. when it was defeated with
-of hoothc NotcS W 80 IdfOTdDlS. Inc
Democrats supplied III of the votes
against it and the Republicans only 33.
1t was brought to a vote in the
House again last year and again de-
feated. with 172 Republicans voting for
it and 33 against, and 80 Democrats in
the affirmative and 1O3 in the negative.
The Republicans now control Congress.
They took up the amendment in the
House as soon as possible after they
assembled, and on May 81 they passed
it by the necessary thirds vote,
with POI Republicans and 101 Demo-
Gratis favoring it and 10 Republicans
| and 70 Democrats against it,
These figures talk much more loudly
than the statement given out by the
Democratic National Committee.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-05-31
WOMAN AND WORK

THERE is difference of opinion whether
woman who took mans job during
the war should give up the job. now
that the man is back home. But there
should be no difference of opinion as to
the continued activity of women who
became members of various war organi-
xations.
That, at least, is the view taken by
Mrs. Eva W. White, of the War Camp
Community Service of the Department
Of Labor, who addressed the Federation
Of Settlement Workers in the Curtis
Building yesterday. "Never let them get
back into their pigeonholes of inactivity"
she urged.
There is little likelihood of such a
thing happening. War is a great devel-
oper, and some of the women have grown
so much that the pigeonholes won't hold
them.
Just how big figure a woman is going
to cut in politics and just how danger
Gus factor she may prove in the indus
4 trial world it is yet too early to deter
mine; but that she will continue to
grow in power in all enterprises for
the betterment of the race may be taken
for granted. -
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-05-31

won the victory. Bands were the least
Of its claims to interest.
They were potent and cheering
stimulus yesterday. And the lively old
airs they played and the way they mixed
up "The Star Spangled Banner and
yankee Doodle" in march time and their
often casual and rather ragged forma-
tons and the blithe ffes and rafting
drums told not Of war, but Of peace.
Typically American were those scenes
and street concerts, characteristic of
the land prompt to be rigidly militarized
in a crisis that must be mastered and yet
of a nation untainted by militarism as a
gospel.
Perhaps the world strife has made us
think internationally" But it has not
essentially changed the national type
the type which asserted itself in yester-
days parades. There was a good deal
more of America than the mere title of
a patriotic air in the way the bands
played it, and as it never was performed
while the fate Of civilization was at
stake.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-05-31
QUEER FORTUNE OF WAR

COUNT ADAM TARNOWSKI Won
- TARNOW has reason to smile at the
fortunes of war
When Doctor Dumba, former Austrian
ambassador to the United States, had re-
ceived his walking papers from an out
ragged government whose hospitality he
had criminally abused, Count Won TaInow
was appointed to succeed him. He
arrived here, after some delay, caused
by the refusal of the British Government
to grant him safe-conduct, but was never
officially received in Washington.
Today Count Won Tarnow, former Aus
trian emissary, Pole by birth, is Polish
minister to Toxic.
The aforetime enemy has officially be-
come, an ally, without any recantation:
and all before peace has been signed.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-05-31

! because we elect to office men without
| the first qualifications for their duties.
Philadelphia, for example, is big
business corporation spending between
thirty and forty million dollars year
! raised largely in taxes paid by the own
ers of small houses. We do not ask
whether the candidates for mayor and
for councilmen have had experience in
managing a successful private business.
Indeed few of us ask anything about
their qualifications. We permit the po-
litical leaders to give the Offices to men
who have been successful in rounding up
the voters in the wards and will vote the
public money where the politicians say
it must go.
If the men with gnarled fingers and
the women with calloused hands who
stand in line before the window in the
tax receivers office paying out the
money they have boarded for their an
nual tax bill could be allowed to visit the
pubic offices in other parts of the City
Hall and see the iders to whom their
money is paid they might vote for gen.
eral house cleaning.
But they do not realize that they have
the power to keep the tax rate down by
putting in Office men who will get
dollars worth of work for every dollar
that is spent, any more than they realize
that the experiment in government di-
rection Of the railroads is costing them
a large sum every year and will continue
to lay burdens on them for years to
come.
We all have to pay the freight"
whether on the railroads or in the local
or ,.ationa government, and have only
ourselves to blame if the bills are too
high
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-05-31
WHAT THE BANDS SAID

COLEMNITY, reverence and the note
of exultation were significantly
blended in certain features of yesterdays
observances. The spiritual beauty of
Memorial Day is invulnerable. Seldom
has II been more deeply felt than in these
latest tributes paid by the city to patriot
lam and devotion TO an ideal.
And yet a touch almost of gsyety in
some of the proceedings could not be
ignored. The diminutive vsriegated
psrades popping up all over the town and
the profusion Of lusty bands impaired an
atmosphere wholly dissimilar to that
established BY the thrilling Journalism of
NJ impressive pageant Of the Twenty
ei1hfh Division recently.
HI fexeent suggests climax Of
Ear snd the ixPn resolution which
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-05-31
Answers to Yesterday's Quiz

SHswSTe 10 festeTudyo duix
l. Senior Pessoa is president of Brazil.
9 Golf is said to have been first played in
Scotland, although the word itself has
been traced to the Dutch tongue.
3. Dill is an annual yellow howered herb,
used to give SAVIOR to cucumber pickles
4. A. p. Hill was one Of the most brilliant
generals Of the confederate army. He
was killed at Petersburg, Va, on
April 2, 1865.
5. '"rhe Nut Brown Maid is the heroins
of an old English fifteenth century
ballad of the same name. The author
ship is unknown.
6, Twenty six American states have woman
suffrage.
Z. Dew is atmospheric vapor condensed in
small drops on cool surfaces from eve x
ming to morning. 1t forms only on
Z still, cloudless nights, and is made by
the same process which causes glass
of lee water to sweat on a hot day.
s. The old English groat was silver coin
equal to four English pennies, or
eight cents. fsstftsA
o. A redingote is a woman's long, double
breasted outer coat, with skirts SONS :
times cut away in front, The. word Il
derived from a French mispronuncia =
tion and spelling Of riding cost.
i0. Feserfew j. an herb formerly usss Il
MQptr1nn> n t. .s|,.. {. n I. 4. I
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-05-31
HaiI!-And-Fme,ceu!

TNHEY died that we might live
i Hail!-And Farewell!
All honor give
To those who, nobly striving, nobly fell,
That We might live!
That we might live they died
Hail And Farewell
Their courage tried,
BY every mean device of treacherous hate,
Like kings they died.
Eternal honor give
Hail And Farewell
To those who died,
In that full splendor OF heroic pride,
That we might live
john Oxsuhsm, il "All's WeIl.,'
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-05-31

Women clerks en-
According to the ployed in the Penn
Point OF View sylvania Railroad Of
fees in Harrisburg
who have proved their efficiency will be al
lowed to retain their positions. Joyous news
for the ladies who advocate equal rights,
Sad news for the soldiers whose jobs they
took
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-05-31

The members OF the
Saddest WORDS Of late unlamented Hun
Tongue or Pen, etc. military command are
probably looking with
regretful envy toward the $40 900 mile gas
cloud now enshrouding the SUM With that
Kind Of cloud they might have scecm :
plished the ehds they desired.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-05-31
TRAVELS IN PHILADELPHIA
By Christopher Morley

GRANGE to the sun heavy air, the massive
stone door stands ajar. A great mass of
flowers, laid there by the English Speaking
Union, was heaped at the sill. More in
stinctively than in many a church, the passer
lifts his hat
Has any one supposed it lucky to be
born? ..- ..
l hasten to inform him or her it is just
as lucky to die, and know it.
l thought of what little girl who was
standing on the pavement of Mickle street
had said to me as we halted in front of the
Whitman house. MY father was sick, and
he died.
YESTERDAY - Memorial Day was a
= day of poignant thoughts. Walt wrote
once in Specimen Days.: -
Somehow I got thinking today of young
mems deaths-not at all sadly or senti-
mentally but gravely, realistically,
pcrhaps a little drtisHcaHy.
what curious note of apology there is
in the last admission! He who was so
rarely artistic! He who began his career
as writer of incredibly mawkish. short
stories and doggerels, and rigidly trained
himself to omit the "stock'' touches Let
us not try to speak of Walt, or of death. in
any artistic" vein. The topic was near to
ones heart yesterday, for we had just heard
of the passage Of a brilliant and gifted spirit,
dear to SO many Of u.s. ..
USTOP this day and night with me-
~ CWalt said) "and you shall possess the
origin of all poems. BY which he meant,
OF course. you shall possess your own soul.
You shall grasp with sureness and ecstasy
the only fact you can cling to in this battling
merry go round-the dignity and worth Of
your own life. In reading Whitman one
seems to burst through the crust of perver-
sity, artificial comple1ity and needless tim
idity that afiicts us ALL to meet strong
river of sanity and courage that sweeps away
the petty rubbish. Because it is so far from
the course of our meaningless gestures, we
know instinctively it is right and true
There is no heart so bruised, there is no
life so needlessly perplexed, but it will find
its message in this man. II have the best
of time and space he said. So have we all ,
for our little mement. Read his defiant
What place is besiesed. and vainly tried
to raiee the siege?
Lo, | send to that place a commander,
swift, brave, immortal,
And with him horse and foot and parks
OF artillery,
And artillerymen, the deadliest that ever
fired gun.
He sends you your own soul
n s WE rode back to Camden on the trolley
"A one of my companions spied the Wash
ington statue in front of the courthouse
(which / had been hoping he would miss)
He smiled at the general grotesquely kneeling
in stone. "Only giving one knee to his
Maker" was his droll comment
1t was so with Walt. He wanted to be
quite sure what he was kneeling to before he
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-05-31
What Do You Kno,u?
QUIZ

1. What post has Thomas Nelson Page?
2. What is the standard railroad gauge
3. When was the Great Balloon Hoax's
played?
4. What is an Ottoman ''irade"?
5. How big is the English billion?
8. Where was Woodrow Wilson born?
T. Describe the tabled unicorn.
8. What does the ''land of Goshen, mean,
o. What kind of weapon is a skene?
TO- What metal is called vermilion?,
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-05-31

II success comes to the new movement in
Mexico the wondering world will see Villa
progress by easy stages from bandit to pa
triot.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-05-31

The Official British attitude toward the
American ayiators who successfully crossed
the Atlantic has done much to remove the
bad taste Hawker left in our mouths by the
bad taste he displayed
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-05-31
Good Bait
for Gudge0ns

There might be serious
GOOD BAIT import in the assev-
for Gudge0ns Grafton of Rrockdorf.
Rantzau and others of
his kind that the Germans were deceived into
surrender by Wilson's fourteen points if it
were not for the fact that the Germans were
licked out OF their boots and with them it
was either surrender or humiliation.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-05-31

If first and second class cities had home
rule Pennsylvania state problems would be
much simplifed.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-05-31

The memory Of the thousands of Ameri-
can boys buried in France crowned Memorial
Day with a new and glorious halo.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-05-31
Major General Joseph
F. Kuhn admits that
We Say So!

Major General Joseph
We Say So! +. Kuhn admits that
the Seventy ninth Di-
vision is the finest ever organized. Similar
admissions concerning other divisions have
been made by Major General Muir. of the
Twenty eighth, and other commanders. And,
like the words of proud fathers, 1t must be
conceded that what is said is nothing but
the truth.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-05-31

Participants in New London, Conn,
race riots seem convinced that the only way
to get rid of bad blood is to spill it.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-05-31
Years of the Modern

WEARS of the modern !. Years of the un-
performed. .....
Your horizon rises, ! see it parting away for
more august dramas.
| see not America only, not only Liberty's
nation, but other nations preparing. '
/ see tremendous entrances and exits, new
combinations. the solidarity of races.
! see that force advancing with Irresistible
power on the worlds stage,
(Have the old forces, the old wars, played
their parts? Are the acts suitable to
them closed?)
l see Freedom, completely armed and vic
torious and very naughty, with Law
on one side and Peace on the other.
A stupendous Trio all issuing forth against
the idea of caste; ',,t
What historic denouements IRE these We 10
rapidly approach?
l see men marching and counter marching
by swift millions. -" tNH
I see the frontiers and boundaries 1of the old
aristocracies broken,
l see the landmarks of European kings re-
moved, .. a. 90 So.
see this day the People beginning their land
marks (al others give way);
Never were such sharp questions asked as
this day
What whispers are these. o lands, running
ahead of you passing under the seas?
Are all nations cOmmuning? Is there going
to be but one heart to the globe?
Walt Whitman.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-05-31
Toledo street cars are
Get the Hook!

Toledo street cars are
Get the Hook! at standstill be-
cause the car com
pany refuses to allow the operators to wear
union buttons. Their plaintive cry appears
to be, Button, button, who lacks button p,
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-05-31

'.T ere's Billy
Gotham Has Penn - cried return
Nothing On Us ing soldiers, ioyously,
as they sailed up the
Delaware. And they were just as glad to
see him as ever a crowd was to see the
Statue of Liberty in New York harborz
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-05-31

The point we wish to impress on the
rsader is that the average citizen makes
:. mistake when he damns the corpora
tions or damns the government when
taxes and prices go up. He would better
damn himself for nsglecting his duty an
citizen. Public money is squandered
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1919-10-14
Martins Ferry Briefs.

Miss Mary Mcmahon. well known
local music teacher. is spending the day
at Pittsburgh.
Rev. David Jones leaves for his home
In Texas to-day. after ten days visit
with local friends.
Mr.; and Mrs. J. w.. Pyle. OF Pearl
guests Of rrirnds at Lore city.
chief, OF Police Ed. Hyland and viii
Faust left yesterday in the latter's car
for trip through the Shenandoah Vail
TIL" regular meeting Of the local lodge
Of knights of fyth!as Will be held this
evening.
The members Of tho degree Tam Of
III" NiiiEh Club Of this city. held a
meeting for rehearsal in their rooms
Mrs. Fred Marquarit has recovered
after her recent illness uf the dph-
liberia
Miss II"l"n Chew is spending a few
day visiting with friends At Pittsburgh,
. MIR. and Mrs. Paul V. Carpenter leave
to-day for their home at Jacksonville.
Fla. after 4 visit with local relatives.
Mss AnC" James has returned to
N"Unrst"Wu after L few days spent here
aitend'nr rhr funeral If her aunt. Mrs.
Charles James.
rrr. aud Mrs. Charles p Wingcrd are
s@"nh.i.E few days At PITTSBURGH and
EidSrv.ew Park. and will return home
-" latter uart nf ~" week
Mr.. and Mrs Trr.l Davis are receive
inn thr generalization Of their friends
over thu ARRIVAL 80 a fine new baby
girl At their h"ne sunday evening.
Daniel .IHrN"s o. Zane street left yes.
tcrlay for q t.w days visit with friends
al G0uIES:nwa.
Eyron T. h.r- has accc ID position
at D"iru'' N,.N. ard has gone there to
assume rs new duties.
James Fro,rlIu. candidate for Justice
Of the pcarr. sp"nt yesterday campaign
ing AZ GridE reT'.
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1919-10-14

BUY WAR SAVINGS STAAPS.-
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1919-10-14

the week end holiday here as Euest at
the Caldwell home on Central avenue.
Mr. Zail Kemp formerly manager OF
the Blaine store; ha sreceiyed his . dis,
saturday in town His home L. In kirk
+ Miss nellie sammons Of East 3sth
street. is spending the week with friends
''' Mrs. W. wv o. Wiley Of smithneld street.
on Saturday accompanied her cousin.
Mrs. William McWilliams. to the latters
home in Woodsfield. Mrs. McWiltams
had Just left the Bellaire hospital where
she underwent an operation about two
Mr.. George Amber Of Lincoln avenue
| has purchased the residence OF ThonaA
! Wright on the same street. MT. Wright
! contcmplates locating in the Akron dis
triCt.
Little Miss Ada Jones, daughter OF
. Mayor and Mrs. w. T. Jones, - surfer
ing from an attack Of diphtherta
; 4 committee Of three from the y: f. =;
! inquire into the teachers training course
, offered by the Christian Bible school OF
| this placc. Mr.. william Myers, one OF
their number, will become member OF
Mr. and MIS-. Austin Taylor Of Canton
and Mrs. Gertrude Markle. Of Cleveland.
, have returned to tehir homes after visit
! ing Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Bieswenger OF
! North Lincoln avenue, LOT several DAYS.
| Lon Cook, william Brooks. Milton
AuIt and two sons. Russell and Luther.
| rrturned Yesterday from n thre day au-'
! tomobile trip to Cumberland, Nd. The
men stopped at various points to gather
nuts.
the Presbyterian church will meet to-
! morrow afternoon in the annex OF the.
church. .-.
Mossrs. Thomas and Harry Leasure.
| OF West 45th street, left yesterday for
Denver Colo. whero they expect to
spend the winter.
Mrs. irwin Whitehair and baby have
returned to their home at Stewartsvil'e
after spending the end Of the week here
| with relatives.
Miss Grace Beatty spent the end Of
! tho week with relatives near Bridge
Mcssrs. William Hartsook and ROBBERY
Summons spent Sunday with F. L Filby,
who moved recently to Glovers Gap. w.
! Va
Mr.. william Renrie has purchased the
two family house Of George q. Foreman
on Central avenue. Mr.. Foreman is
building a new home on Lincoln avenue.