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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-11-18

Philadelphia. Tuesday. November 10, 1919
JAKE COMES BACK

MO ONE who knows anything about
~ the codes that rule at the Genital
police station experienced even mid
surprise at the spectacle of Jake Gilman,
ward bully and underworld strong arm,
clustering all over the place, threatening
policemen, defying the law that he had
hagrantly violated and being bowed to
meanwhile by deferential magistrate.
Jake had been in the station many
times before his arrest the other evening
for a particularly offensive violation Of
the motor-trafiic laws. lie has been up
under the charges that usually are made
against lawlesS heelers and hangers out
in tenderloins. On this occasion he had
endangered the safety of many people at
q crowded crossing by deliberately lgnor-
ing the traffic rules made, we are to sup
pose, for lesser mortals. Jake first ran
down the policeman who attempted TO
arrest him and then cursed the traffic
man. Yet he was treated with unusual
respect by Magistrate 2ennock and
ushered out of the Central police court
like visiting dignitary.
1t is in this same police court that
friendless prisoners are herded like cat
tie and sentenced with caElous indiffer-
ence. 1t was Pennock who required days
to determine whether charges of subor-
nation of perjury against a practicing
attorney deserved consideration by the
grand jury. And it was Pennock who
sent man of means and breeding to
spend week at Moyamensing because
he happened to be u stranger in the coun-
try in momentary difficulties about
hotel bill.
Traffic Policeman Patton appears to
have been one man at the Central sta
.tion who was not awed by Gilman. The
court needs a general cleaning up. And
in the present instance every one who
has any respect for law or decent re-
gard for the safety of the people who
use the streets or a proper understand
ing of the work done by the traffic police
will hope that Director Wilson actually
meant what he said when he promised to
push the case against Gilman to finish.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-11-18
JOURNALISTS IN THE SENATE

THE acceptance by Carter Glass of the
appointment to succeed the late
. Senator Martin, of Virginia, increases
the number of journalists in the Senate.
. Senator Glass owns the Lynchburg
News. Hitchcock, of Nebraska, is the
publisher of the Omaha World Herald,
for which Bryan used TO write editorials.
Harding, of Ohio, owns the Marion Star.
La Toilette publishes a weekly named
after him.
Secretary Daniels, of the Navy Depart
ment, is journalist, who owns the Raj
eigh IN. c. Observer. When Carter
Glass left the House TO enter the cabinet
as secretary of the treasury he became
the second newspaperman among the
Presidents official advisers.
4 The men mentioned are actual news
paper editors and owners rather than
capitalists who. have invested in news
papers to advance their political ambi-
tions. Two of them, Hitchcock and
Harding, are talked of as possible candi-
dates for the presidency next year. The
activity of all of these men is such that
it is not easy for the lawyers in the SEN
ate to have everything their own way.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-11-18

leadership only after IL was actually
under way as the voluntary expression
of widespread resentment.
Will the unorganized public, bedevilcd
by trades unions on the one hand aud
profltcers on the other, be driven finally
to form new and novel union of its
own? Voluntary boycott brought the
Camden trolley company to its senses.
In instances it brought down food prices.
Now in New York the mention of milk
less days is likely to have a SOLDERING
effect on, the milk distributors, even
though the fight is being carried on with
out a moneyed organization or a charter
from the Federation of Labor
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-11-18

Pathological and il they had not pursued
the course Of constantly raising up straw
men TO be demolished by defining the
obvious and indisputable powers of Con-
gress. But political attitudes bad TO be
struck. Both sides have made their
frantic gestures.
The public, as usual, has been rather
tolerant and, again running true to form,
it has been mystified by the congress
sionaf tempests. But adjournment is now
visible through the fog. The time for
action is brief, For either faction to
burke the treaty now would be infamous.
If the Democrats and their allies
among the mild" Republicans feel that
they cannot accept the thirteen reserva-
tions they have insuficiently examined
them. If the Republicans are deluded
into regarding them as more potent than
they really are, the belief may be par
tisan infatuaton, but it is not intrin-
sically harmful.
There is only one way for the Senate
to liqudate its heavy responsibilities to
the American people. 1t must adopt the
treaty, and if compromise on points upon
which partlSans have been touchy is nee
essary, then compromise it must be. The
alternative is chaos and disgrace.
The necessity for securing a two-thirds
vote on the treaty complicates the situa-
tion and lodges power in the hands Of
comparatively small group which is
under obligation to make an adjustment.
If precedents clog progress, it is impera-
tive to shclve them.
1t might shock Mr.. Lodge to have 10
call OIL Mr.. McCumber to effect settle
ment, but his emotion would be mild COM
pared to that aroused by the obloquy
which would be his portion if the true
patriotism of the nation should brand
him as a treaty wrecker.
The President is similarly placed. He
has often enough withstood storm Of
criticism. His moral courage should be
sufficiently trained to offset the wincing
that might accompany a concession or
two.
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Autographs. And if the passerby should see
lighted window in the hotel glimmerihg at
two in the morning, he will probably aver
that there are some of those light hearted
show people" carousing over fagon OF
Virginia Dare. Little does he suspect that
long after the tranquil thespians have gone
to their well-earned hay, the miserable
authors Of the trying out piece may be vigil
ing together, trying to dope out new scene
for the third act. The saying is not new, but
it comes frequently to the lips of the one
night stander-1t's great life ii you don't
weaken. SOCRATES
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ANTI-SEDlTiON LAWS

IF, AS Attorney General Palmer has
= said, the present laws are not broad
enough to reach the anarchists and Bol-
shevlsts, they certainly should be
amended and teeth should be put in them
strong enough and sharp enough to hurt
But the amendments or the new law
should be drawn i'll such way that they
will not do more harm than good.
The bill which Attorney General Pal
mer has submitted for the consideration
of the Senate is not the kind of a meas
ure which would have been prepared at
time when men could look at the subject
calmly. 1t is much too sweeping in its
language because it would convert
whole series of acts now comparatively
i. inotfensive into the grave crime of sedi-
tion.
Seditlon, according to the dictionary,
consists in the excitement of discomfort
against the government or of incitement
OF resistance to lawful authority. 1t is
conduct which approaches treason, but
which falls short of it for want of All
overt act. And treason, as every one
knows, is actual or attempted betrayal
Va N e5ONNLiiiHCllO w lbO CilGlllGS.
Mr.. Palmer's draft of bill makes
such sweeping definition of sedition az
TO include within it any attempt to
change the laws of the country aud anv
resistance to all officer Of the law. For
example, it would bring within its penal
ties the people who are attacking the
wartime prohibition act, and man who
resisted arrest by Il United States mar
shal to the extent of assaulting the Off
Ger would render himself liable to i'm
prisonment for twenty years or TO fine
of $4,000.
1t might be argued that no Judge
would enforce the law upon citizens urg
ing the repeal of offensive statutes or
upon any man who, without attempt to
overthrow the government, resisted the
authority Of one of its officers. But there
have been judges who have enforced the
letter of the law regardless of the spirit
and intent, and have even wrested it from
the evident meaning of the legislators.
1t is not safe TO make any act of Con-
gress so comprehensive as to cover
offenses not properly punished by the
penalties provided. Lawyers have not
forgotten their astonishment when the
courts applied the Sherman antitrust
act TO railroads. 1t was intended by the
Congress which passed it to prevent COM
binations of manufacturers in restraint
of trade. Its terms were made general,
but every one was thinking of manu-
facturers like oil refiners and steel
makers. That its prohibitions should not
apply to transportation lines was admit
ted by the government as soon as it took
over the railroads about two years ago,
for the government at once began to do
those things which it had been forbid
ding the private managers of the roads
to do under the prohibitions of the anti
trust law.
The purpose of an anti-sedition law at
this time is TO reach the anarchists, the
Bolshevists and the !. w. w. leaders who
have been plotting TO overturn the gov
ernment, That is where it should stop,
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-11-18
Answers to Yesterdays our

AneWerS 10 Yesterdays Quiz
]. The scientists who have Just been
awarded the Nobel prizes for physics and
chemistry are all Germans.
2. 1neluctable is that which cannot be es-
capped.
.. The Council of Nicaea, the first general
council of the church, established the
Nlcene creed and condemned the heresy
of Arius in 325 A. D. Nicaea or Nice,
was town in Asia Minor.
d. The three chief gods of Egypt were Isis,
Osiris and Horus.
B. The battle of Buena Vista occurred in
the Mexican war and resulted in victory
by the Americans under Zachary TAYLOR
over the Mexicans under Santa Ana.
@. A socle is plain, low rectangular block,
serving as support for pedestal, vase,
statue, etc.
z. Christian Samuel Friedrich Hahnemann
was the founder of homeopathy. He
was born in Saxony in 1865 and died In
Paris in 1S43.
s. In accordance with the expressed desire
of Charles III, William Penn named his
possessions in North America Pennsyl-
vania in honor Of his father, Admiral
Sir William Penn. The name originally
selected was simply Sylvania.
8. The Turanian race embraces peoples OF
Ural-Altaic stock and in vague sense
the nomadic people who preceded the
Aryans in Europe and Asia. Some
ethnologists. however, employ the word
Turanian to describe all peoples not
white or black or mixed.
10. Thomas Jefferson ordered that mis- tomb
stone should record that be was the
author Of the Declaration of Independ-
ence, of the statutes of Virginia for 70
ligious liberty and founder of the ,Uni-.,
yersity OF Virginia. His wish WAS
executed.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-11-18
THE WORM TURNS

EINO THE average New Yorker, educated
by experience and the crusading
press, the milk trust is the most odious
of all combines. 1t is to make war upon
this Organization that about half of Man
haitian is preparing TO dispense with its
last sipple. There is to be boycott of
milk, in which more than million people
probably will join for three days each
week, The movement, too, is voluntary.
VI Is unlike other strikes in that it found
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-11-18
What Do You Know?
QUIZ

QUIZ
L. TO what position has the governor Of
Virginia appointed Carter IL. Glass,
secretary of the treasury?
=. What are the two great rivers Of Meso.
potafaia?
3. WHO is the shah of Persia?
4. What states have ratified the woman
suffrage amendment?
.. Who is John DrinkwatcrA
6. What is ontolosy?
z. What is philter?
s. Who was Thor?
0. Which is the largest planet!
10. What is horologer?
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-11-18

The election of five members to the Isle
of Mans representative assembly draws at
tention to the fact that that body is known "a
the House of Keys; not at nll the kind of
body in which you would expect TO find
deadlock.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-11-18
AN AUTUMN MORNING

'ALM and deep peace on this high void,
~ And on these dews that drench the furze
And all the silvery gossamers
That twinkle into green and gold:
Calm and still light on yon great plain
That sweeps with all its autumn bowers.
And crowded farms and iessening towers,
To minsle with the bounding main.
-TennyOon.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-11-18

The fact that the Prince of Wales played
golf with Il professional at White Sulphur
Springs may be worth a paragraph, but if
be had beaten him it would have been worth
a first page display.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-11-18

The Reed reservation says in effect,
"We will make an agreement with Won on
the strict understanding that nothing con-
tanned in said agreement must be construed
as committing US to compliance with said
agreement"
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-11-18

New York "wets' looked all day yester
day for the lifting of the ban on booze.
Nothing but death can cure John Barley.
corns optimism.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-11-18

Perhaps the reception committee put on
the fog especially for the Prince of Wales
yesterday. 1t was awf'ly like dear Of Lun-
non, y'know, old top.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-11-18

If President Wilson were a well man he
would doubtless like 10 handle Senator
Reed without reservations.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-11-18

The lean coal bin doesn't care whether
1t IS called u strike or simply delayed re-.
sumption.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-11-18

Yesterdays fog caused maay accidents.
What meteorological accident caused yester-
days fogi
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-11-18

ment as senator from Virginia, but has been
told by members of the Senate that there
is no particular need for him TO take the
oath as senator for week or more" What
members: And were they predicting victory
or conceding defeat in the matter of certain
not altogether unimportant measures now
engrossing the attention of that more or less
august body?
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-11-18

In his Poems of Patriotism
DAnnnnzio never gets stuck for rhyme.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-11-18

A LII that Is changed now. You enter
"A marble vestibule and are whisked up an
elevator by lyeried operator to the Office
of the district union. 1t is in the same Office
building as some of the biggest mining cor
porations in the country. The miners preSi-
dent is a gentleman in appearance, manner
and speech He is n representative citizen.
Moreover, he is u city official. His callers,
mine delegates and union officials, have the
appearance Of rural business or professional
men. They talk business in quiet tones.
There is no boisterous mannerism, no rough
pleasantrics. It's all business.
1t is wonderful change-one that can
be appreciated only by those who can bridge
the gap of thirty-fvc years and compare
conditions among the miners then and now.
Labor has digniied itself in the iuterven-
ing years.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-11-18

OUNCE the memorable morning in Indian
~ apolis when President John L. Lewis
uttered the words 1--WE are Americans we
cannot fight our government" the public is
acquiring new impression of the man.
John Mitchell was as ruthlessly criticized
and denounced in the years of his presidency
of the mine workers as Lewis is today.
Lewis is as brainy as John Mitchell. /
believe he has as much self -poise. but he
comes into the limelight at q particularly
inauspicious time. President Hayes, who
should have managed affairs autecedent to
this strike, is incapacitatcd, and Lewis, who
is only acting president, was thrust forward
to assume his duties.
Lewis fought the radicals, the men who
were disposed TO fight the government. The
weight of his influence was against them
and the strike was called off
But just the same, John L. Lewis is a.
hard fighter. He will drive hard bargain.
As statistician for the United Mine Workers
he has all the facts Of every previous con-
troversy, knowledge of the field, the condi-
tions in each state, and is even acquainted
with the character and reputation of men
and operators i'll every mining district. And
he will use this information in the fight he
is waglng at Washington.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-11-18

THE Pennsylvania Railroad Is losing one
- of its most popular and able officials by
the resignation of George Stuart Patterson.
He is one OF the ablest railroad ATTORNEYS
in the country. 1t is significant that Mr..
Patterson is not only leaving the Pennsylva-
MIA Railroad, but he is also entering COM
mercial life.
1t is an established fact that in the rail
road business man can go just so far and
no further. The late John B. Thayep, when
vice president of the Pennsylvania, stated in
my hearing that he knew Of no business in
which advancement was so slow and merit
so tardily recognized as railroading. Mr.,
Thayer himself began as clerk, grew dis.
gusted ut the slowuess of promotion, re-
signed and years afterward was called back
to high place in the same organization, 1t
was an indication that his superiors did NOT
recognize his abilities in the first place.
In the case of Mr.. Patterson he has held
high official position for years. Fortunately.
his abilities were recognized by his super
iors, and he resigns from office with we'll
earned laurels.
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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-11-18
THE CHAFFINC DISH

to the hero, "IViH you unlock tho door?'
finds herself facing an open doorway and
has to invent a line TO get herself off the
stage.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-11-18

Secretary Glass, of the
Treasury Department,
has accented onno;ut
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-12-13
Community. Tree 1n Lakeside Night
 of December 23

The Lakeside School Improve ment association at meeting yes terday afternoon decided to hold the community Christmas tree the evening of December 23, beginning at z o'clock. It will be the first community Christmas tree celebra- tion in the city. The tree will be erected on the playground of the Lakeside Methodist church, Eff teenth and Laurel.
 Mrs. K. R. Norton was named as chairman of the committee which will have the celebration in charge. All of the mothers in the Lakeside school district, the Lake side school teachers and others will assist in perfecting plans for the celebration.
 Special lighting will be arrang- ed thru courtesy of the Pine Bluff company.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-12-13
Labor Conference
 to Convene Today

Washington, Dee. 12.-Labor's reconstruction conference, called by the executive council of the American Federation of Labor to consider the fundamental princi- pies affecting American workers, will be convened here tomorrow with probably few farmer repre- sentatives in attendance. although more than a score of farmer or ganizations were invited to send delegates.
 Federation of Labor officials to- night said assurances had been re- ceived from only one farmers as sociation that delegates would be present at the opening session, but that others might be represented, as under the invitation it was un- necessary that advance informa- tion of acceptance of the invita- tions be furnished.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-12-13
Burks is Master
 Workman of Lodge

Calvin H. Burks was elected master workman, and o. G. Keeler and Harvey Hogg reelected re- cofder and treasurer, respectively, or Fine Bluff lodge No. 36, A. Q. U. w., at the annual election last night. This will be the fourteenth consecutive year MT. Keeler has NeeI1lc1ently served as recorder, and MT; Hogg's fifth consecutive term.
 Other officers were elected as 11ollows: Claude H. Monk, past mas. , .er workman; Mrs. w. F. Hurley, .ofeman; Mrs. o. G. Keeler, over seer; Newton l.. Futile, guide
 inner warden, David F. Taylor outer warden, Ben H. Scull.
 U; G. Keeler was recommended to the grand lodge for re-appoint- nehC as flnancier. A large class of 4h new members were initiated into .He order at the meeting last night and, a large number of ap- ship. Aoi inei''oer- ;s me : membership campaign that ;s ;s r pelng conducted by the lodge progressing nicely, according to local officers. General and Iars; BITS M. K. Surridge of Little +S +iocA are in the city assisting in th t,,e membership campaign. More enrn1,eS n o9 new members have been dmrolled d,,r;ed on the local lodges record s the past three weeks.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-12-13
Sowing Wild Oats Not Needed, Hooker
 Tells Boys at "

Boys, this is lie, and if any man or boy tells you any such thing (that it is necessary to SOW wild oats in order to reach the full growth of manhood), or pre- scribes a living for you contrary to Gods 10 commandments, you have the nerve to call him a liar," Attorney T. M. Hooker told a big crowd of boys at the week. ly Y. M. c. A. bean supper last night. Speaking from the 37th psalm, MT. Hooker said the Bible was given as light to guide him and if men would but use this Light not so many would drop in- to pitfalls.
 "You don't have to SOW wild oats to become a man," he declar- ed. God didn't make laws, bet ter known as the 10 command ments, that you would have to violate them in order to be a man. Doesn't common sense tell you this? Trust in God, do what's right, and He will take care of you."
 All the boys stood as token of a plege with MT. Hooker to refrain from drinking, gambling and smok- ing. and of accept the Bible as their guide.
 The supper was served by the Ladies auxiliary to the Y. M. c. A., the menu consisting of beans. cocoa, rolls and cake.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-12-13
Negro Has Coat
 Highwayman Stole

When Henry Hicks, negro, is arraigned in municipal court this morning on a charge of holding up and robbing Roy Hicks of $17.5o and an overcoat on Sunday night November 30, he will be called up
 on to explain the presence in his trunk of the overcoat which the highwayman took from Hicks The overcoat was found last night by Deputy Constable J. w. Elliott working under search warrant
 Hicks was arrested several days ago by City Detective c. c. Lynn
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-12-13
3 Men, Two Women
 Held in Shooting

Little Rock, Dec. 12.-Gill Hog gard of Stuttgart, Nose Corbin, a taxi driver; a third man named Ballew, and two women-Virgie O'Neal and Marie Neimeyer-are held by the police in connection with the wounding of two white men and two negroes early this morning. The affray took place at
 the restaurant of a negro woman, near the Confederate boulevard, who says an effort was made to rob her place. Ballew was shot when he went to aid the woman, he says. Excepting the white women, all members of the party were drunk, according to the police.