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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-09

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hitherto been too heavy for the govern =
ment.
Where Wilson Really Punches
In n sense, too, it probably would
mean that the test of a corporation s
fitness to do nation wide business
would not be its structure and pur-
poses, but actual practices and their
consequences upon the public. This
part Of the Presidents plan is radical
BY means of it rather than anything
else the President escapes tho pitfall
of coming to Congress and saying moth
ing but words. The opinion of Wash
ington is unmistakablc. Mr.. Wilson
met the difficult issue suddenly pre-
scnted to him better than had been ex-
pected.
His address, it is believed, will quiet
publjc opinion, and, if Congress re-
sists him, or even is slow in giving
lin the power he asks, he will have
an excuse before the country. lie has
diverted public clamor from the White
House to the Capitol which is good
politics.
For the most part the address steored
a well chosen course of moderation be-
tween promising too much and asking
too drastic powers and saying nothing
but words and offering no concrete
remedies. On the threats of union
labor the President was wholesome
without committing himself to anything
Il hi ~, tr
prevent strikes. What that utmost will
be, the future alone will disclose. |,
may disappont some of the conserva =
tive Democrats, who were SO rapturous
when he announced his frmncss in tho
face of threats.
League Reference Poor Politics
Dragging the league of nations con
| troversy into the address was not 81
we'll considered. 1t irritated the Re
publicans, who may justly reply tina
his own failure to furnish Information
to the Senate foreign relations commit
tee, the failure Of his own secretar.
of state throw light in dark places, thu
absence of essential documents whicl
the White House withholds, is delay
ing the signing of the peace. More
over, the theory that delay over ratifi
cation of the treaty is forcing up tn
cost of living is too absurd to be ac
cepted by the country.
Viewed coldly by economists, tn
Presidents address proves that, as a
economist. the President is an excellen
psychologist. Wasn't it he who re
ferref to the last business crisis in thi
country as purely psychological" !
is to the psychological facts in hig
prices that the President solely direct
himself. The popular habit of refusn
to buy an article if its price goes abov
a certain limit has disappeared. There
fore, the proiiteers have become bold.
Applied Psychology
This is virtually all there is to tn
Presidents theory. Let us frighte
the profteers with a show Of pationa
authority. Let us get the people one
more into the habit of having a limi
beyond which they will not go in payin
for an article by informing them G
wholesale costs. Let us teach thel
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-09
FARMERS TO GO TO CAPITAL
VIII Lay Their Grain Problems Be-
fore President Wilson

Indianapolis, Ind, Aug. 0.--(By A.
P.)-Representatives of farmers
organizations in twenty four wheat and
corn growing states will attend con-
ference in Washington Monday to dis
cuss the high cost of living and lay
plans for united action in the high cost
of living investigation, according to
John G. Brown, president of the In
diana Federation Of Farmers Associa-
tions.
Mr.. Brown said that the farmers are
anxious to do their share in solving
the price problems now facing the
country, but that the farmers were
the first to feel the effect Of general
tie-up and that they expect to carry
their side of the question to the Presi-,
dent and stay in Washington until
some kind of solution has been
reached.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-09
Capitaljst's Dauohter Dies

New York, Aug. ?.-Word was re-
ceivcd in this city yesterday Of the
death of Miss Louise Amelia Andrcc
Clark, daughter of William Andrews
Clark. noted capitalist and formerly
United States senator from Montana
who died suddenly yesterday at Range
ley Lake, Me-, where she was SO
iourning with her mother and sister,
Miss Clark. who was eighteen years
old, was the first daughter of Mr.. CLARK
by his second marriage. Her sister
Miss Hugctte Clark, and her mother
were with her when she died.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-09
SHOOTING CHARGED TO BOY
Alleged Victim, Youth Of 1a Years, In
Easton Hospital

EastOn, Pa, Aug, D.-StanIey Ziev,
twelve years old, of this city, is in the
Easton Hospital with the bone of his
right arm shattered, the result of being
wounded by a % 2-calber rife bullet.
Henry Horn, also twelve, is in the
House OF Detention, charged with the
shooting.
Each boy has a different version
of the shooting Ziev says Horn shot
him because he refused to get him a
bottle of soda, while Horn says Ziey
WAS not wanted with the crowd of boys
and he chased him home. .&s
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-09
FIND MANS BODY IN POND
Boys Discover ouakertown Council
man, Missing Two Weeks

Quahertown, Pa, Aug. 9.-William
and Franklin Rosenberger, two lads,
found the body of William Eckert, aged
sixty zone, the missing farmer Quaker
town borough councilman who has been
missing since July 20. The body was
discovered in a pond face downward,
several hundred feet south of Quaker
town race course.
Police Chief Rhoades and Coroner
Whl& 5dentified the body.
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Won't "'Bully" Public,
Labor Leaders Sdu
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brotherhood officials in Nebraska, Sen.
ator Hitchcock said
I'm my opinion Congress would nor
be justified in enacting such radical log
ISlatlon without a mandate from the
people. The railroad organizations haze
raised very large question--onp that
should not be passed upon by Congress
without becoming the issue in genera,
election. ! am opposed to the bill"
Glenn E. Plumb, continuing his tes
timony before the House interstate com =.
merce committee, declared that if tho
plan of the brotherhoods for control Of
the railroads were applied to the
Postoftice Department, that government
agency would be conducted with greater
efficiency.
Chicago, Aug. 9.-Whilc signs Of
improvement in the strike of federated
railroad shopmen were indicated by re :
ports from Central West points, others
showed that at some divisional points
the men were disinclined to heed the
advice of President Wilson and their
grand lodge officers to return to work,
pending wage settlement.
The reports from midwest points said
that upward of 10000 shopmen had
gone back in response to the warning
of the President that their wage
grievances would not be adjusted until
they returned to work, supplemented
by the urging OF the grand lodge
officials. 1t had previously been init
mated that only 10000 of the 500, ,OOC
went on strike.
!. West Is Obstinate
From East, South, Southwest an
far West came reports that the me,
had decided not TO return to work unit
their wage demands were met. Ad
vices from Atlanta, Ga, were to tn
effect that the sxecutive committee Q
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-09
"ONE-MAN TREATY" SCORED
Senator Spencer Says Pact Tends to
Create Oistrust

Shelbyville, ILL.,, Aug. 9.-By A.
PD-The peace treaty was denounced
as a lone man" document by United
States Senator Spencer, of Missouri.
in an address here yesterday.
''The President, confident alike Of
the sincerity and wisdom of his own
personal views, elected to negotiate the
treaty himself" continued the sena =
tor.
"a one man treaty tends to breed
distrust and suspicion in the minds of
those who are not in political or social
sympathy with the man who created it.
"Three of five United States com
missioners at the Peace Conference op-
posed the Shantung agreement, but
they signed it because President Will
son urged them to.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-09
GdbeU Is Held
Under $4,000 Bail

Continued From Page One
ney, John Lamou. while Mr.. Cortelyou
telephoned to James Gay Gordon, Jr. ,
who has charge of the prosecutions un-
der Joseph II. Taulane, assistant dis
trict attorney. Arrangements were made
for a speedy hearing in City Hall.
Shortly before 1890, Gabell, chat =
ting and laughing with the detectives
and newspapermen, left the office and
proceeded to the Office of Magistrate
Evan T. Pennock in City Hall. The
prisoner notified the newspapermen that
he had come to the city voluntarily.
He was first taken into the magis
trate's private Office. His attitude was
far different from the other men ar
rested in the case. He was apparently
happy and did not seem concerned in
the least. After short conversation
this prisoner and detectives entered the
courtroom which was we'll filled. Here
the regular criminal hearings were held
up for less than five minutes while the
prisoner was placed in the dock and
the speedy hearing concluded
Shields Face With Hat
Gabell, as he stood in the dock
shielded his light face with n straw
hat as photographers got to work.
He is man of about forty five years
of age, heavy set, wearing a small
mustache.
His hair and mustache are light
He wore a loose fitting palm beach
suit, green tie and expensive scarf
pin.
Charles Runner. the clerk, called his
name. Then Mr.. Gordon arose anC
told the magistrate that the prisoner
was accused on the same charge as
Michel and asked that bail be fixed fol
$4,000 and a further hearing scheduled
for August %. Magistrate Pennoci
nodded his head. Then the prisoner
lawyer nodded his head. Gabel gave
his name and address to the clerk in d
clear voice.
"IIavc you bail?" asked the mags
trate
Yes" said Gabell. at will be here
in few minutes
IAN right" said the judge.
The hearing over, the man was taken
u
rival of his bondsman.
FELTON, Goes His Bail
William c. FELTON,. 1853 West Ven
ango street, a former chief of the Blu
reau of Street Cleaning and persona
| friend of Gabell, soon put in his ap
pcarance and offered to enter bail TO
the prisoner.
He produced deeds to several prop
critics near his home valued at $4,000
and unincumbered. This was accepted
the necessary papers signed and tn
prisoner released. He left the magis
trate's Office with his lawyer and waIke
down the northeast stairway to tn
street. This was at II 10.
Numerous newspaper photographer
surrounded Gabell and asked permis
sion to snap him. Gabells cheerful
ness had departed by this time and hi
face had assumed an expression of fa
tiguc The lawyer walked aside an
Gabell posed for the photographers.
Now" he said, ''are you n
through?'
"Mr. Gabell, have you any state
mcnt to make?"
"No, except that l hope you trea
me as well as i have treated you"
Shortly after Gabell left City Ha
Assistant District Attorney Taulane an
Mr.. Cortelyou emerged from their of
fee. The attorney was asked whetht
he would name the two former stat
officials who are to be arrested In til
case, names promised to be given yes
terday.
II haven't any statement to make q
this time" said Mr.. Taulane.
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"will there be any developments later
in the day."
Maybe" was the reply.
Action against two "former state Of
ficials" is still undecided, the chief point
to be agreed on being the question Of
venue. The authorities are debating
whether to have warrants for the for
mer state officials issue fiom this coun-
ty or from Dauphin county.
Harrisburg, in Dauphin county, was
the official headquarters of the two ex-
officials figuring in the sensational bank
failure. 1t is understood that state and
county officials virtually have agreed
that all prosecutions arisinss from the
bank failure can be tried in Philadel-
phia.
There was persistent rumor in
City Hall this afternoon that Mr..
Rotan and B. J. Myers, deputy at
torney general, would leave the city
tonight and proceed to a point in New
York state to meet Attorney General
| William I. Schaffer to discuss the
case of. the politicians. 1t is under
stood that the attorney general is
touring the state in his automobile
and that he is in the vicinity of Lake
George.
"Invitations' have been extended to
two other men, Elwood II. Strang, the
"high flying" bank teller, and James
J. Boland, head Of the insurance com
panies whose affairs were interlinked
with the wrecked bank.
Boland's Lawyer Coming
Colonel Fred Taylor Pusey, head
state prober, said this afternoon that he
had received word from Boland's at
torney that he would be in the city on
Monday. Harry Houck, city solicitor
| of Scranton, and vice president of the
defunct New York National Insurance
Company, he said also may call at his
/ office.
Two Boland expert accountants have
been in the-city for twenty four hours.
| One of these men told Colonel Pusey
that he understood the New York au
thoritics were considering issuing a war
rant for Meyer in connection with the
alleged insurance fraud.
The arrest of Michel, the bank prcsi
dent. was the second made since the
institution at Twenty ninth and Dau
phin street closed its doors July IS by
order of State Banking Commissioner
Fisher. Meyer surrendered July % in
the district attorneys Office.
Michel is nervous wreck today al
his home, Thirty first and Diamond
streets.
He sat in the back room of his bak
cry used as an ice cream parlor in his
shirt sleeves and without a collar. His
face was pale and his mouth twitcheC
nervously when he spoke.
"No," he said, 81 have nothing tc
say. wont make any statement
Until the hearing. Everything will come
out at that time
Michel held a letter in his hand
He began reading and the paper shool
to such an extent that he stopped.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-09
EDUCATIONAL
Both Sexes
Model Schools

In connection with tho Tea chers' Col-
lege Temple University has a carefully
graded Model School. where the chill
dren without undue pressure ca, cover
the work of the grades in one year less
than in the public schools.
The number admitted TO a class Ii
limited, making It possible for each
child to be treated as separate indi.
carefully considered. The Model Schools
cover the grades from the kindergarten
to the High School
Special teachers are provided for
hand work Of all kinds, music, drawing
and the languages. The physical con-
dition of the child is carefully super
vised by the Department Of Physical
Education.
Write, call or phone today for Cata-
log F-l3.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-09
cIves Money to Aid Bank Victim

An anonymous giver, whose heart was
touched by the story in the EVENING
PrRIlC LEDGER concerning Mrs. Fred
cricka Augustc Cramcr, eighty years
old. who lost all in the North Penn
Bank disaster. sent $5 to the EVENING
PrBrIc LEDGER. for the relief of the
unfortunate old woman. Mrs. Cramcr
lives at 3015 Colona street. She had
S14OO on deposit in the bank.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-09
Wilson on Tour
to Attack Fl. &. L.
Continued From PaEe One

OnIHucU IFOn EHke one
ratification of the peace treaty and the
cost of living.
The references in the address to the
attitude of labor leaders and the ex :
pressed belief that these leaders would
yield soon to second sober thought, we're
approved generally by members of both
parties.
Beyond extension of the powers of
the food control act. regulation of the
storage of foodstuffs and early ratifica :
tion of tho peace treaty. so as to allow
the law Of supply and demand to oper
ate. the President urged legislation for
the control of security issues and ad
ditional appropriations for government
agencies to supply the public with in =
formation as to prices paid by retailers
for goods.
The food control act. he told Con :
gress, should be extended to peace times,
with its application covering clothing
fuel and other necessities of life, as well
as food, and penalty for boarding in =
serted.
To Force Food on Market
New steps by the executive depart
mcnts of the government to reduce the
cost of living were expected today to
be started at once along lines laid down
! by the President, who promised immcdi =
ate steps to limit and control wheat
| shipments and credits, so as to facili
tate the purchase of wheat, with view
| to lowering the price Of -four. to sell
! surplus government stocks of food and
! clothing and to force withdrawal oi
| foodstuffs from storage.
Attorney General Palmer's instruc
| tions issued today were that the spe
cial agents of the Department of Jus
tice should drop everything but the most
pressing cases now pending and devote
their entire attention to assisting in the
campaign to reduce the cost of living
The result will be to put hundreds Of
trained Investigators in the search fol
men who have inflated prices exorbi
tantly.
While il was not SO stated, tho i'm
preston was gained that nothing bu
the investigation of radical propagaud
which resulted in recent bomb outrage,
would be allowed to Interfere with tn,
! Department of Justice efforts to punisl
profiteering.
Numerous reports received at the dc.
: partment from district attorneys indi
: Gated that much evidence agains
protiteers was being accumulated. Pros
ecutions are expected to result soon il
n number of districts.
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1t will not take many years of such
an experiment in the face of stern eco
nomic penalties to show that it is not
even in the interest of the very unions
which propose to put it through.
The railroad brotherhoods have al %
ways had the reputation of being most
conservatively managed. They have not
until recently affiliated with the Amer
ican Federation. But they have been
changed by a consciousness of power.
In asking for the passage of the
Adamson law, they threatened that un
less their demands for higher pay were
Immediately granted they would starvt
the country into submission by stop,
ping every railway wheel. 1t was il
the midst of presidential election
They refused arbitration. The Presi
dent and Congress yielded. ...
We are now TO pay the penalty fo
that surrender in having 10 deal with /
iproposal that never would have beeI
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Licensing Plan
Target in Congress

Continued From Page Ono
hitherto been too heavy for the govern
ment.
New-York tribune., 1919-08-04
Race Riots

10 the Editor of The Tribune
Sir: The splendid explanation of "raco
riots" in the article in today's paper, "Thc
Chicago Negro by Mr.. ". ~ Huggins. is
just what many of your readers. like myself
nave been wishing for, aud | want to thank
YOU as well as the author OF it.
have been told that negroes do not
object to segregation. All they ASK Is what
every human being should have a decent
sanitary home, with room to breathe and
to be treated BY employers and others accord
ing to the Golden Rule
ardentiy hope IT VIII not be long before
we shall hear of men and women who have
money and kind hearts taking up the housing
problem and removing one of the chief causes
OF race riots. ONE OF YOUR READERS
Brooklyn, July 81, 1919.
New-York tribune., 1919-08-04
The Idealist

FROM The Los tngeics Daay Tso,esj
Among other philanthropc ideas Henry
FORD was about to have the Bible rewritten
INTO what be calls plain understandable
English But people would be justiGablv
suspicious of a Ford edition of the Script
ures. They would be afraid of reading of
the lsraelites crossing the Red Sea in a
flock of tin runabouts made in Detroit. It
would be better if Henry contented himself
by following the example Of the Gideon
ties. Let him make little wall pocket in
each OF his cars and slip in regular Bible
Every now and then man who drives a
Ford feels the need OF one. The Detroit
manufacturer may have had benevolent
plans, but the longer he remained on the
witness stand the greater was the wonder
how he even found courage to vote for
himself for Senator.
New-York tribune., 1919-08-04
Stamp II Out

In an article in Golfers which tells Of
some of the victories won in the war on
disease, Mark Sullivan refers to the fact
revealed by the physical examinations
conducted by the draft boards that New
York showed smaller percentage of
men infected with venereal disease than
any other city in the country-only half
as much as was disclosed in ST. Louis, for
example. In comment Mr.. Sullivan re-
marks: "Thc reason is that New York
for several years, during the Mitchell ad-
ministration, had made as efficient an
under conditions then existing to get rid
of the source of this sort of infection.
immortality was perhaps as rife in one
city as in the other, but different meth
DDS had been employed to combat it's eff
fects.''
The Tribune mentions this statement
for two reasons. First, because of
the answer it gives as to whether it pays
for such a courageous group of nlu-
nicipal administrators as Mayor Mitchell
headed to fight to benefit a not always
appreciative public which would be let
alone in bad ways. 1t pays, and richly
pays. 1t was possible to deny Mayor
Mitchell a reelection, but his is the glory
of having contributed to saving the lives
of thousands and of lessening the dis
tillation of poison that corrupts the
innocent Of the future. The work was
discouraging-even some women fought
it as discrimination against their sex
but it was stubbornly carried on.
The other deduction worth making is
the vindication that has come to the
frank and scientific method of treating a
problem too much sentimentally consid-
cred and hypocritically screened. A great
pest which annually slaughters more
than fell in any year OF the war can be
stamped out 1t can be made as dead as
smallpox Or yellow fever. The problem
of prostitution may not be solved there
eliminated. All that is necessary is to un-
bride science-for those who rate them
selves as good to cease from interference.
Congress has appropriated $4,000,OO0
to carry on the work. 1t is planned
to have clinic in every city of eight
thousand inhabitants. 1t will be the most
profitable expenditure this country ever
made. "+ro state it quite simply" says
Mr.. Sullivan, 'this is the most useful
thing now being done in the world"-a
statement that scarcely exaggerates.
New-York tribune., 1919-08-04
Sheep Souls

Long before the war German intel
lectuals often discussed the general an
tipathy shown to individual Germans
travelling OF residing abroad. The ex-
planation most frequently offered was
that this dislike was a curse contingent
upon greatness; that it's roots were the
envy and fear generated by stupen-
dous rise. This theory, naturally, reached
the climax during the war, when propa-
gandists pointed to the universal hatred
of things German as the strongest proof
Of German superiority.
Not even the catastrophe of last No
vember could Danish this delusion alto
gether. The theory is still held, ial-
though mainly in retrospective sense,
as an explanation of the world alliance
against the Fatherland. But once in 4
while there rises a critic with sufficient
courage to discern and avow the moral
weakness which, as an inevitable defect
Of the quality of German power, con-
tributed SO much to it's debacle.
Thus, in a pamphlet recently issued
presses the conviction that the principal
reason for Germans being generally dis
liked is not their greatness but their
lack of greatness, their "ego-less sheep
soul" This "sheep soul" is responsible
for the fact, he says. that "in Germany
all individuality is being fattened out
by the steam roller Of regulation and
mediocrity. 1t (the sheep soul) tends
to uniformize our thought and feeling to
the extent that, while we are industrious
and proficient in money making and in
our special callings, in general matters
Of intellect and will we are far behind
the stage in which we were left by Bis
marck The real enemies of the Father
land are those who preach order for
orders sake, work for works sake, and
the state as a purpose in itself"
RECOMMENDATION makes q regiment, but
not men, and in the end the regiment
slrinks with the shrinking Of it's units.
Here is the Nemesis that pursues colec-
tiyism and over coordination and subordi-
nation.