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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-12-27
THE TREATY ScAPECoATS

EVIEWING his dark and disturbing
A"impressions of his recent trip through
Europe, William Potter deplores the fact
that the peace treaty was ever made a
political issue. In that opinion huge
majority of Americans concur. The dis
agreement starts with the futile process
of fixing the blame.
There are hindsight experts who de-
nounce the President for having urged
the election of a Democratic Congress,
for having gone to Europe at all, for
having appointed on his commission no
other Republican save the experienced
but not influential Henry White.
From another standpoint the round
robin against the league was the pri-
mary offense. 1t swayed partisan Re-
publicanism toward a policy wholly at
variance with the best party traditions
and was plainly marked with bad temper
as well as haste.
There are times, however, when cul-
prit-hunting is among the most sterile of
enterprises. The logical order of acts
which make for progress has been re-
versed in the present crisis. The ma
tlOn is unuer Ine crucial necessity OF rat
flying the treaty. A moratorium on
fault-fnding should be the first step.
With it, acceptance, of the pact will be-
come comparatively easy.
Later on the scapegoats may be sorted
out and there will be plenty of political
arguments for all hands. 1t is notice
able that even in Germany reconstruc-
tion comes first. Disputes about punish
ing the guilty have not been permitted
to embarrass the concerted plans for
revival.
In our own country those politicians
who wish to make the treaty a campaign
issue will have their most effective am
muniton after the document has been
made operative. The question of who
blocked it most may then legitimately
be raised
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-12-27
POSTAL EFFICIENCY

IAN UNPRECEDENTED burden was
a put upon the postal organization in
this city in the week preceding Christ
mas. The volume of mail and parcel
post matter was stupendous. There was
time ON Wednesday when it seemed
that the delivery system would be hope
lessly 'congested. Yesterday, however,
the postoffice officials were able to an
nounce that every letter and package
mailed up to midnight on Christmas Eve
was delivered before the force quit for
their own holiday.
The tradition of efficiency is very old
In the postoffice organization. Six years
of bad management, tyrannical authority
and poor pay have not sufficed wholly to
destroy it. 1t will survive until a sue
cessor to Burleson arrives to provide a
fairer administration. But the credit be-
longs to the Woodworking civil service
personnel and not to the political ap-
pointees.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-12-27
THE WILD EAST

PANDITRY of the sort that was sup
- posed to have passed forever with
the stage coach is having an astonishing
revival along the line of the Lincoln
Highway between this city and New
York. Motortruck crews are required
to go heavily armed. One driver was
shot dead not long ago by thieves, who
got off with his machine and a consign-
ment of cloth valued at $4,000.
Outlaws have been quicker than the
police to perceive the possibilities of
motor vehicles. The automobile is their
chief dependence and the belief expressed
by the authorities at Passaic, N. j., that
ali extensive organization of thugs ex-
lists, with first-aid stations, hiding places
and equipment at various places along
the route between Philadelphia and Jer-
sey City, seems we'll founded.
Over year ago traces of an elaborate
organization of motor bandits were un-
covered in this city. 1t was found then
that trucks with valuable loads often
were trailed in fast passenger cars bv
thieves who sought opportunities to
steal the machines, even if an attack on
the driver were necessary. The fre-
quency of hold-up stories in the news
shows how abiectly the police in this
city and elsewhere have failed to meet
the new tactics of resourceful criminals.
N New Jersey as well as in Philadel-
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-12-27
SUBBING FOR THE SALOON

WITH confidence that seems born of
w inspiration, Ernest L. Tustin, the
new director of public welfare, enters
the long list of jealous people who be-
leve that they have found or can find
a substitute for the saloon Mr.. Tustin
has not made his plans public. He APP
pears to be thinking of a light-hearted
combination of dance hall and movie
show supervised by prophets of right
eousness from the municipal welfare
department.
The scheme is interesting. Mr.. Tustin
should be helped and encouraged. We
wish him luck. But the average hard
drinking barleycorner went to saloons to
be deluded. He could believe that he was
an unbeatable strong man, Caruso,
prophet, the wisest Politician of all,
poet, prizetighter. He could have one
delusion at a time or a whole flock of
them simultaneously. Saloon substitutes
will not meet all his requirements. They
will not give him headaches, either.
That's why Mr.. Tustin's task is not easy.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-12-27
HIGH SEAS AND HIGH BALLS

AN AWFUL picture of ship with an
"A unspliced main-brace accompanies
the announcement that the shipping
board is considering disposing of all its
vessels to private American ownership.
The utter hupelessness of competing with
foreign passenger steamers on which
alcoholic refreshment is legally sane
toned is ominously forecast.
But what is woefIl horoscope on
land is not necessarily applicable to the
sea. Epicures both in food and drinks
have been known to fast persistently on
shipboard. And some of the most indig-
nant words ever voiced have been flung
at more than one immune and self-con-
stituted Samaritan who called champagne
a cure for seasickness.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-12-27
AN OBJECT LESSON IN FRANCE

THE oversubscription of the new
l. French loan on the first day that it
was offered is more than an index of
patriotism and an optimistic view of the
future. 1t is testimony also of the sound
financial habits prevalent in the leading
European countries.
The small investor, composing the pre-
ponderatingly large portion of the pub
lie, is thoroughly accustomed to bond
buying. Stock swndlers and easy
money artists are generally less trium-
phant abroad than here at home, not so
much because Europe is virtuous or its
public averse to gain as because respect
for security is firmly implanted in the
popular mind.
1t is America which is emphatically
the happy hunting ground of the get
rich-quick concern. Proof of this fact
could be supplied by the postoffice to
any skeptic.
The Liberty Loans, however, We're a
wholesome financial as well as a patri-
otic stimulus. 1t will be we'll to remem-
Der that merit should the government
see fit to float any additional general
issues. Such bonds do not merely help
to pay the debts of the United States.
They furnish an armor against Eighty
finance, which France in particular has
long successfully worn.
The victory of the new loan proves
that, despite the alleged "orgy of extrava-
gance" in Paris, good many stockings
over there are not silk but wool
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-12-27
Answers to Yesterdays Quiz

1. Dickens's "a Christmas Carol" was
written for the Christmas of 1S43.
Q. The salary of the Vice President is
$4,000 year.
g. Unaaska is one of the largest of the
Aleutian islands, which extend in a
chain from the southwest extremity of
Alaska Its seaport is also called
Unalaska.
4. 1.-THE Physiology of Taste" ola Ply
siologie du Gout') was written by
Brillat Savarin, noted French epi-
cure and gastronomist, who was also
a writer on other subjects and jurist
of some repute. His dates are 1853
1926.
g. New Orleans was under French do
minion for forty eight years and under
Spanish for thirty seven.
g. The Republican Presidents were Abra-
ham Lincoln, Andrew johnson, Ulysses
S. Grant, Rutherford B. Hayes, James
A. Garfield, Chester A. Arthur,
Benjamin Harrison, William Me-
IIinley, Theodore Roosevelt and Will
liam Fl. Taft.
Z. The great fire of Rome occurred in the
reign of the Emperor Nero.
g. General Pershing spent his boyhood in
the town of Lacede, Mo.
o. The word arctic is derived from the
Greek "arktikos," bear, in allusion to
"Ursa Major the Great Bear, the
brightest constellation of the northern
heavens
10. Because Lady Astor holds seat in
Parliament, King George broke prec-
edent in opening his speech to that
body. The old form Of address was my
lords and gentlemen of the House of
Commons" The new revised version
was MY lords and members of the
House of Commons"
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-12-27
Member of the Associated Press
ACTION, GENTLEMEN!

MONTHS ago the organization of the
A'A joint Delaware River Bridge Com
mission was completed.
The commission held a meeting yes
terday.
"We may discuss the engineering
staff" said Governor Sproul.
The world knows the leisurely ways
of commissions. If the gentlemen con-
cerned officially with the Camden bridge
project are not yet certain of what they
will discuss at their acknowledgement
sessions, how often will they have to
meet before they can agree on questions
of design and terminals?
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-12-27
on the eve of another presidential cleo

on the eve of another presidential cleo
tion.
There is grave danger that Congress
will forget that the public is more vitality
interested than the railroad employees
in the wage question and in the protec-
ton of the capital invested in the rail
roads. Word came out of Washington
yesterday afternoon that the plans in
the Cummins bill to protect the public
against strikes were not to be adopted
in the bill finally passed, and that no
adequate plan had been devised for the
settlement of disputes about wages and
hours of work
Unless moral pressure is brought to
bear upon the congressman the event
will doubtless justify this forecast.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-12-27
What Do You KnotU?
QUIZ

l. When is it proposed to return the rail
roads to the government?
.. What is the feche of church?
8. What is the origin of the word chore?
4. Why was the Bridge of Signs so called
and where is it?
3. What is the literal meaning of the word
''nee" attached to the name of a
married woman, as Mrs. Mary Smith,
nee Jones'?
6. Where are the Canary islands?
Z. Who is the premier of Japan?
s. What is the mean heat of the human
body?
g. What was the battle of Bennington and
what state celebrates its anniversary
as a legal holiday?
10. What President of the United States
was the longest lived?
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-12-27

phia politics has rendered police depart
ments more or less futile.
Authorities of the various states will
have to learn speedily how to deal with
the new type of highwayman if motor
traffic is to be made safe on important
roadWaYs.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-12-27
THE WELL
WITH osiers straight and long
w We stir the Mator

WITH osiers straight and long
w We stir the water
That slips away
SO quietly:
Let us play
' That we are fisherfolk
And this the Well of Song
Beneath the Scarlet Hazels,
In its shadowed deeps
Fintan the Salmon sleeps
Like bright -plumed bird;
He will wake, he will rise
At whispered word,
And we may snare him
Tangled in a net
Cunningly staked and set
And have the world for prize,
Or better, cease to care
For any kingdom there,
Both grown so wise.
Ella Young, in the Nation.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-12-27

The fair price board
As to Fair Prices may get what it aims
for-fair prices but
fair prices are not necessarily low prices.
The best that can be hoped for in the cir
cumstances is that Mr.. McClain. with the
aid of the newspapers, may be able to drive
the heartless profteer out of business.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-12-27

All the mathemati-
just Little ChOre cally inclined political
economist has to do
nowadays is to square the vicious circle in
which Wage and Cost of Product are play
ing Ring Around Rosy.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-12-27

The Home Defense Guard has been mus
tered out. The training they received will
always be an asset TO the men and the serv-
ice they gave will be remembered by all
citizens
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-12-27

The holiday spirit everywhere noticeable
gives direct refutation to the assumption of
the friends of John Barleycorn that siccity
makes q sick city.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-12-27

Bandits in Chicago invaded frA store,
forced clerks and customers to lie on the
floor and escaped in an automobile with loot
to the value of S25 900. Sounds like chap
ter of Phladelphia's current history doesn't
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-12-27

Wonder if Admiral Sims ever wonders
if the time is not near when it may no longer
be said that no President has ever come from
4 I.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-12-27

The man who has both patriotism and
money has good opportunity to show his
colors by presenting a standard to the local
most Of the American Leginn.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-12-27

Steps being taken to prevent holdups
n financial institutions seem to show a lack
# desire for "a bank where the wild time
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-12-27

Stanch in our admiration for General
Pershing, we concedc that fried dried apple
pie has too much dignity for slapstick
comedy
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-12-27
MAYOR ELECT MooRE'S
LETTER
Upstate Politicians Have Yet to
Learn That Philadelphia Admin,
istratlon VIII Not Reeog-
nIze Factions
POLITICIANS are watching with curious

DOLlTlClANS are watching with curious
interest the checkerboard as the game
may be played hereafter from Harrisburg
aud Philadelphia. The Governor has his car
TO the ground and travels over the state
frequently, coming in close touch with public
sentiment. He knows the political game
fairly well. The Philadelphia situation,
however, docs not seem yet to be thoroughly
understood by the people up state. Candi-
dates for high places looking to Philadelphia
for favor and support do not seem to have
fully realized the change that has taken place
in the Quaker City. There is an inclination
to go to old leaders or to yield to their rec
concentrations with regard TO appointments
on the rather dubious ground that the
dominance" of factions has not vet been
clearly determined In view of frequent
statements by the Mayor elect of PhilaIcl-
phia that factions will not be tolerated or
recognized, the doubt of some of the state
caders is somewhat mystifyng, but it is
believed in due course those who have been
accustomed to ''go along methods will
come to a full realization of the truth that
''the old order changeth," and that it has
actually changed for all practical purposes.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-12-27

The Profteer is the Other Fellow and
his residence is Elsewhere. And where the
Elsewhere would it be?
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-12-27

Here's where Chef Time makes hash out
of the Christmas dinner.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-12-27

We all feel better for the designations
of prosperous Christmas.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-12-27

The real sweetness Of sugar is with the
seller rather than with the buyer.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-12-27

Today's menu: Turkeybone soup.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-12-27

n b. CARTER, secretary of the National
~ Association of Hosiery and Underwear
Manufacturers. asks for a large hall suit
able for the sixteenth annual convention
and exhibition of that body. The associa-
tion has used the First Regiment Armory
and the hall of the Commercial Museum.
but is cIamoring for more ROOM The meet
1ngs of the national association bring many
buyers to the city and they arc undoubtedly
OF great commercial value, all of which goes
to show that Philadelphia should have
big new hal-not too big. but big enough
to meet such emergencies as that described
by Mr.. Carter.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-12-27

Looking over our modest reasons for
thankfulness and preparing our spirit for
the bracing discipline of New Year resou-
tions, we are very pleased not to be the
owner of a railroad that has been two years
under government control.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-12-27

TNHERE ia much complaining up in the
l. vicinity of Park avenue and Olney ave-
nuc, Forty second ward. concerning street
improvements. Milk wagons stuck in the
mud when trying to reach new houses are
said to be a feature not altogether pleasing
to those who purchased property in this
vicinity. G. B. Fenstermacher and num-
ber of other property owners in the vicinity,
having brought this matter to the atten-
tion of the authorities, hope something may
be done. A milk wagon stuck in the mud
on n frosty morning is not very helpful in
the matter of baby culture, and the Forty
second wardcrs will probably find some
redress before long
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-12-27

NowN in Washington they have organized
~ War Department Co operative Stores
Association to beat the high cost of living.
These workers in the War Department have
devised system by which they can dispense
to their members at wholesale prices food,
clothing and other necessaries of life. The
association has the Endorsement of men like
julius Kahn, chairman of the military
affairs committee; P. G. Harris. the
adiutant general; General March, chief of
staff. and Quartermaster General Rogers
There are % 600 employees in the War De-
nartmont and the members of the assoca-
ton think that by drawing this large army
together they can make a big dent in living
costs. The plan is something like that of
the celebrated Rochdae system. which for a
long time has had foothold in England,
J. HAMPTON MOORE.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-12-27
TIME Northern Liberties Welfare Workers

TIME Northern Liberties Welfare Workers
- Association is agitatng for playground
in the vicinity Of Fifth street and Farmount
avenue. The Rev. Edwin S. Lane, of the
social service commission of the diocese of
Pennsylvania, is pressing this matter, along
with other active citizens, including Clinton
Rogers Woodruff, chairman of the commits
sion. On the committee surveying the sit
uation is Mr.. Carter, of the Beth Eden
Community House. and Miss Rosenbaum,
of the Northern Liberties Playground.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-12-27

THE state Highway Department has way
L of filling up odd automobile numbers by
assigning them to persons more or less
prominent in public affairs 1t may be a
good thing in more ways than one, since it
is easy to detect car No % or car No. 1O1
II the driver happens to be cutting up any
didos, which, of course. he ought not to do
with the car of any public official Perhaps
Commissioner Lewis S. Sadler and his
motor vehicle force intended by this method
TO pay compliment and to set an example.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-12-27

Doves theory is an interesting one, and if
Dove weren't so tedious we would have liked
to discuss it with him more at length. We
did remark, however, that books that are
published by the author himself rarely have
successful sale and are usually panned by
the critics
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-12-27

THARLES ]. WEBB, The big wool factor,
- is as we'll known in Wyoming as he is in
Philadelphia. and in Australia as he is in
Wyoming. We do not always appreciate
the extent to which the big Philadelphia
business man is appreciated elsewhere Con p
gressman Frank W. Mondel, the leader of
the House of Representatives, recently stated
that the names of Webb, Grundy and Cum
mings were almost household words in his
home state. The Grundy referred to is
Joseph r. Grundy, of Bristol, who buys a
great deal of wool in Wyoming and the
Cummings is Colonel ]. Howell Cummings.
of the Stetson Co. whose hats, or rather
sombreros. are quite familiar to the western
people.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-12-27

thinks the page proofs will be along about
the year 1000.
Dove also maintains that once the volume
is ready for publication, the publisher will
back it to the limit with big advertising
appropriation.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-12-27

Dove Dulcet, who is a simple minded
thinker, has confded to us that he believes
the Deity to be kind of publisher who has
issued the universe in the form of galley
proofs We are now in the stage of cor
recting the misprints, Dove AYERS; and he
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-12-27

THE president of the Pennsylvania
i Lumbermen's Association this year is
Harry J. Myers. of Bethlehem Harry
dabbles little in politics and generally keeps
posted as to what is going on in the state,
and he never let's go the business side of it
and hence is abe to talk politics without
'osirinG to secure Office. Mr.. Myers is one
of the active spirits in the direction of Naz-
areth Hall Military Academy at Nazareth.
apd he also figures in the big Lincoln Day
celebrations at Bethlehem.
LNORREST II. RIORDAN chairman of the
L publicity committee of the South Sixtieth
Street Improvement Association, has let it
be known that that association is in favor
of the incoming administration and expects
to co -operate with it. The association.
which is headed by H. G. Heebner, presi-
dent, represents big part of the Forty
sixth ward. CLAIMING for it's boundary lines
the east side of Fifty eighth street. west to
Cobbs Greek, north side Cedar aventfe and
south to Baltimore avenue Tt is said that
the members of the association are 80 per
cent owners of prOperty-a very good show
ing
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-12-27

But as director general of the Urchin' s
clock work train we assert that the success
full conduct of such a system makes the
trousers very baggy