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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1919-07-09
]. p. Thomson

The body OF ]. P. Thompson for
merly a resident Of this community
was brought here Sunday last from
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-24
Little Happy Wayside Things

7 lFE is not made of great events
AThc splendid heights in a haze
Too far for happy nights and days
But they are still the sources whence,
Sweet streams come down to make the plain
Fertile and fresh and fair again.
life that too setlatcly cings
To little, happy wayside things
Must be renewed, from time to time,
With pulses from the larger rhyme
OF things supreme and out of reach
OF common thoughts and deeds and speech.
So, more and more as time goes by,
Teach thou thy winged self to fly,
That more and more the wealth it brings,
From broader vistas, gathered high,
May sweeten, light and glorify
The little. happy wayside things.
David Morrow, in the Boston Trans
cript.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-24
TIGER TRIUMPHANT

THE overturn of the French ministry
- did not come off according to schedule
Clemenceau was sustained by handsome
majority, but he knows that the fight
against him has only just begun.
The Chamber Of Deputies is excited over
the high cost of living and the members
are demanding that the government do
something to relieve the situation. The
government itself is doubtless excited
over the same thing, but it does not know
what to do. 1t is banking on the fact
that the opposition does not know either.
Until a man appears who has a program
which promises relief the opposition will
doubtless pursue policy of pin pricks
without the expectation that it will do
more than goad the ministry into des-
perate action of some kind.
Clemenceau is safe for the immediate
future and he will continue to do his best
to bring about the rehabilitation of in
dustry and the increased production of
foodstuffs in the hope that some relief
may come from employment for all work
ers and better wages based on the new
schedule of prices which imitation has
brought about.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-24
BOLSHEVIZED RAILROADS?

DISTRIBUTION of the property of
~ those who have among those who
have not is seldom advocated by respon-
sible business men. Yet we are now
treated to the novel experience of seeing
a group of such men recommend it to
Congress.
These men assembled in transporter
tion conference to consider what should
be done with the railroads. They have
been getting the views of railroad work.
ers and officials, shipping men and bank
ers for six months and now they pro-
pose to Congress that the railroads of
the country be merged into twenty or
thirty competing systems under the su-
pervision of a federal transportation
board with rule assuring net return
of per cent upon the investment.
Some roads will earn more than per
cent and others will earn less. 1t is pro-
posed that the roads earning more should
put one-half of the excess into a con-
tingent fund to be drawn upon for the
benefit of those roads that earned less
This plan has been informally sug-
gested several times during the last few
Lovett, president of the Union Pacific
system. to analyze it and to explain just
what it means. He says that, however
disguised by legal phraseoogy, the sub
stantial object sought is to take from
the stockholders of the prosperous roads
the net earnings of their property and
give it to the security holders of the
weaker roads. Those who would suffer,
of course, would be the stockholders of
the prosperous roads. These shareholl-
ers are largely persons who have in
vested their money in the hope of divi-
dendS. They are not speculative in
vestors, but men and women who need
the dividends for their support
Mr.. Lovett reminds US that the share
holders in the Improbable roads are
largely syndicates that have accumulated
the shares for speculation or have secured
them in some reorganization and are
holding them with the hope that some
thing will turn up that will let the specu-
lators out without loss or with a specu-
lative profit.
Now, if the profits Of the successful
roads are to be Diverted in part. to pay
dividends on the securities of the un-
profitable roads these spectators will
profit at the expense of legitimate in
vestors. Their securities, obtained at
low price because of little value, will be
raised to par with the securities of the
other roads and fortunes will be made by
men who will get something for nothing.
| If this is not kind of Boshevik com
munsm we do not know what it is.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-24
TRUTH FROM A STRANGE SOURCE

CENATOR PENROSE posing as a re-
~ former is an entertaining spectacle.
The pamphlet on municipal Reform in
Philadelphia" with an introduction writ.
ten by him, that is being circulated among
his colleagues in Congress will be read
by them with mingled emotions. Those
who have known him for years will be
astonshed at his versatility. No man
who had devoted his life to purifying
politics could have written more beauti-
fully than this leader, who has been more
interested in securing results than in the
methods employed.
Yet what the senator says is true. We
have a charter under which the old
abuses can be removed with ease if the
people desire it. The question which has
not yet been answered is whether the peo-
pie care enough about the removal of the
abuses to take the trouble to qualify for
voting and then to vote.
The senator reminds US that there are
416,000 names of voters on the assessors
lists, but that last spring only 241 900 of
them registered. More than $4,000 citi-
zens had so little interest in the govern
ment of the city that they did not qualify
to vote-that is, four out of every ten
men neglected their public duty.
These are the men who decline to take
any interest in politics because they think
1t is useless. But they hold the balance
of power between the forces of good gov
ernment and the forces of corruption. If
one-half of them should register this
;o 60 L. l+,,
election and should vote for better things
the right kind of a Mayor and Council
would be elected by so overwhelming a
majority that we should all wonder why
the thing had not happened before
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-24
What Do You Kno1U?
QUIZ

I. What does "hypothecate'' mean?
q What is ,the unit of Austrian money?
8. Who was Joanna Baillie?
4. What Pole established fund for
American musicians?
j. When was peace signed between Ru-
mania and the central powers?
6. What is the difference between refract-
ing and rejecting telescopes?
I. Who was the father of Mahomet?
s. Who was Harry Grngo?
0. Who was it said. "A man who has an
cestors is like a representative of the
past?
10. Who discovered Newfoundland?
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-24

columns for a congressional investiga-
tion of the whole price question is still
valid. The necessity for some such sur
vey as an impartial committee might
make will become increasingly apparent
with the approach of cold weather 1t
is imperative that a check Of some sort
be put upon the activities of large-scale
gamblers, who, in time of general unrest
and discomfort, are still Juggling with the
means Of existence. Otherwise, when
winter and a coal shortage and prohibi-
tive prices on food and clothing arrive
simultaneously we may experience in this
country something of the sort Of unrest
that now is creating anxiety and suffer
ing over large part of Europe.
In many respects Americans are for
tunate. They have a wide margin in
which to practice everyday economies and
defeat the petty profiteers, who certainly
will continue to make existence a trial,
during the period in which the world is
finding a new balance. Twenty-ccnt pie
isn't a necessary of life nor is ten-cent
coffee. Any man with a fair memory
knows that he gives away in tips nova
days half as much as he spent for food
few years ago. 1t is seldom that the
profteers in America get a grip on the
essentials Of life. When they do they
proceed with one frightened eye on Con-
grcss and nervous finger on the public
pulse. 1t is highly probable that a COM
mission sitting in Washington and pre-
pared for ruthless probe into the whole
involved question of foreign exports
could bring many prices tumbling down
ward within week without calling
single witness.
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Philadelphia, Thursday. July "a, 1910
WHY BE THE GOAT?

CASHIER MOVER, Of the North Penn
~ Bank, says I'm the goat in this
affair"
But why be the goat? The blame for
what has happened cannot be unloaded
wholly on bin unless he is willing to
shoulder it.
He is threatening to tell what he knows
unless some one speaks pretty soon. This
Is sort of demand that unless some one
comes forward to protect him he will tell
what he knows. 1t is not the kind of talk
that those interested in the disclosure Of
the whole truth like to hear.
Meyer is likely to get more protection
from the courts if he assists in the eX
posure of the men behind him than if he
looks to them for protection.
He needn't be the goat unless he wants
to be.
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itor from out of town." he said. That's n
fine head of hair. If it were cut in the right
way, with a nice trim at the back, it'd look
all right. 1t amt everybody that has it grow
Iikc that
He ran his hand affectionately through the
property in question, and we began to Won
der whether we had ever really appreciated
our blessings. But in way we felt that it
wasn't quite nice to be told these things by
one who was not our regular barber at all,
whom we had visited just by chance.
Yes, SIR he said, ''it looks healthy.
| guess you don't ever have any trouble with
it. That's what | call hair"
We felt that something was expected of
u.s. so we mumbled desperately We'll say
So We knew that if this went on much
longer we would let him cut it, which had
not been our intention at all. and which
would be a kind of disoyalty to the man who
usually Oficiatcs.
"Whatll you have on your hair?' he
asked presently.
"A dry brush," we said. He seemed sur
prised.
'Oh, WE'LL" he said "Its good hair.
at that
We were in a state of inward tumult.
This was the first time we had ever been
subjected to fattery of this sort. Was it
sincere. we wondered? Was it possible that
we had been richly endowed by nature and
that only the insensblity of our daily asso-
ciatos to true beauty had prevented this
from being commented on before? If this
genial soul really reverenced a fine crop, who
were We to deprive him of the qualification
of moving it three or four times a year?
But what would our regular barber say?
Moreover, our regular barber works by a
window on Chestnut street where he can see
lis going by. and when we haven't viSited b;n,
for some time he looks out at us. very re-
proachfuly; whereas the new fatterer does
his choppng in basement where he will
never see us again unless we hunt him out.
Been meaning to get it cut for some
time we said, but been too busy. Be in
soon and see you again.
SO now new problem is added to our
existence. Shall we brazen past those
grieved eyes on Chestnut street or shall We
forego that delicious fattery down in the
basement of Blacks Hotel?
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ton of about ten thousand feet over the
flying field at Sheepshead Bay.
Milly will have trailing clouds for her
wedding veil Nine bands trumpetng
Mendelssohn will try to make themselves
heard above the storming motors of
twenty one planes that will form the
wedding procession. The parson Will
read the service through a radio teIe-
phone from another air machine timed at
sixty an hour. Let us hope that his voice
may not tremble
All that we will need after this is di-
vorce by wireless. Then life will be com
plcte
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MARRIAGE A LA GASOLINE

OUNCE the first tremulous days in Eden
~ there have been marriages in ships, in
storms at sea, in speeding motorcars, on
galloping horses and on seven dollars
week. The love-struck of all ages have
stopped at nothing in the desire to
dramatiZe the triumph of the Great Wish.
The airplane wedding had to come.
And there is no lady in the land who, in
her secret heart, will not envy Miss Milly
X. schaefer, of Seagate (which is in a
place eylled New Jersey. because she is
70 be married on Saturday atyan eleya-
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Answers to Yesterdays Quiz

/. Under the British Parliament act of
1911, public bills if passed by the
House of Commons at three successive
sessions and rejected each time by the
House of Lords may become law, after
certain formalities have been complied
with, without the consent of the upper
house.
.. To "dine with Duke Humphrey is to
90 without dinner-an alusion to those
who walked during dinner time in Duke
Humphreys walk, st. Pauls, Lon
don. ..r
8. BENJAMIN Disraei, Lord Beaconsfeld,
said Amusement to an observing
mind is study"
4. The earth's circumference is 24,00O
miles.
5. To gerrymander is to manipulate un-
fairly the boundaries of political dis
trict so as to secure disproportionate
influence at an election for some party
or class and the name is also applied
to the district so manipulated. Shortly
after Governor Elbridge Gerry, of Mas
sachusetts, had signed new redistrict-
ing act the artist Stuart seeing map
of the Essex district in newspaper Of
fee. remarked that it looked like a
saamander. Better say gerry
mander,' said the editor, and the
name stuck.
q "Bacchanalian songs" were those sung
in worship of Bacchus, hence all drink
ing songs.
7. John Loudon Macadam, Scotch engineer,
inventor of the system of macadamiz-
ing roads, was known as the King of
Roads.
s. Croesus (525 b. c., the last king of
Lydia, was proverbial for his riches.
0. Mississippi ratified the federal prohibi-
tion amendment January 8, 1918.
10. A British Parliament under Henry vi,
1426, was known as ths Parliament Of
Bats. Orders were sent the members
that they should not wear swords.
They therefore presented themselves
with long stsyes, bats or bludgeons. 8
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-24
THE CHAFFZNG DISH

THERE are always compensations. We
L may have to do without the Kaisers trial,
but we've all enjoyed Henry Ford's. And
as far as the newspaper paragrapher is con-
cerned, even Wilhem's could hardly have
been more fruitful than Henry's.
Mr. Stevenson, in cross examining Henry.
has kept carefully away from questioning
him about any of the matters in which Henry
is really accomplished. We have been told
by those who have called on Mr.. Ford that
his chief subject of pride is that he can kick
higher than most men many years his junior.
Our private conviction is that dear, simple
minded Henry will get his revenge after the
trial is over He will call Mr.. Stevenson
aside and ask him if he can swing his foot
up to the nearest chandelier. Mr.. Stevenson
will fiivvcr, of course. and Henry will go of
on the annual Edison Burroughs camping
trip with the feeling that he has more than
squared the account.
The New York Sun reports Henry as
having said, II am not a fast reader, and l
have hay fever" The New York Times re-
ports it as Il have the hay fever We
would lay a comely wager that the Times has
it right
would like to put Mr.. Stevenson on the grill
for a moment. In questioning Mr.. Ford he
let loose the following:
You and Mr.. Burroughs and this DR.
Won Tilling were in conversation, visiting,
suppose about something?
!n Mr.. Stevenson had no right to suppose any
such thing. He makes the common error of
using visiting to mean talking This
is quaintness of infelcity that always
achieves our goat. To visit means to go to
see 1t doesn't mean to talk or to converse,
and it never will We would let almost any
one else get by with this, but not the Steven
son bird. who has been so keen to hold up
unsophisticated Henry to scorn.
DlsloyaIty
II. 3. b. very rightly objects to the fol-
lowing headlines in a local sheet
Officer Who We'd Phila. Girl
Decorated for Vaior
The headliner in a certain New York
vaudeville house just now is lady who calls
herself 'Rcsista" She deties any one in
the audience to lift her from the floor.
We think the lady is wasting her talents.
She ought to be in the Senate.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-24
TEN-CENT FARES AND REVENUE

THE street railway system of Boston
carried 9278l2 passengers at eight
cents on Monday, July :. Then its fare
was raised to ten cents. On Monday,
July 21, it carried 10000 passengers.
Its revenue at eight cents was S74 ,225.
Its revenue at ten cents was S7l, 500.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-24

No fault can be found
A Runaway Match with the couple who
plan to be married in
an airpane by a clergyman in another. the
ceremony being performed by radio telephony.
They have Il right to make the most i1npor-
tant event of their lives as impressive as
possible. But if the bridegroom happens to
drop the ring
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-24

At lantic City may
Some Dry Facts have to advance its
tax rate 20 per cent
in consequence Of prohibition, which reduces
its revenues $50, 900, and an advance in
wages for policemen and fremen totalng
SGG,O0O. Altogether, it is a proposition to
be faced with courage. And it never has
been denied that the city has lots of sand.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-24

The act approved by Governor Sproul
requiring that records must be kept of ali
cars stored or repaired in every garage in
the state will be welcomed by automobile
owners. Thieves will be chary of going ON
record; for with such record available to
the police, capture should be easy.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-24

OF course, it may be that the scarcity
of fresh milk in New York is due to the in
creased demand for buttermilk as a beer
substitute.
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Alfred Jingle Has the Floor

Dear Socrates
Profound indignaton-at news from Atlantic
City-epdemc of pink patelas-urge YOU use
your moral influence as father of family, Hour
of need--all stand together!
American silver quarters-lndsCreet DISPLAY
slayishly copied, from French art models Half
dollars great Observation-Disclosures eagle in
pants-prnciple is right-bird's legs deCentiy
covered.
Woman on quarter-frst appea red without
in other words-wore very low neck. Changed
and much improved-neck, etc. covered by fish
scales-piscatory peek-a- -boo-great victory for
higher morality-now modest as bosom of drum
fish.
But aIas--lower right limb still juts-from
fods OF silver camisole. Immensely Indignant
at continuance of this metallic mmodesty De-
mand removal OF Director of Mint.
Appeal to you-arouse sentiment. Let stamp
ing die be changed. Scratch slight abra sions
across. undraped tibia Of woman on quarter
Also form clubs--both men and women--ot
approved character-scrat Isle thread on dis
dren over sixteen years form cubs-ma ss-meet- l.
ings on Broad and Chestnut and Independence
SQUARE. National movement-crade of liberty
Committees TO scratch in. vaults OF all national
banks. Let motto be:
Let no mans growing daughter
See bare knees on sour quarter"
Yours for the unblushinG change purse
e. PURIBCS UNUM
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-24

We think of the lady of Niger who went
for a ride on tiger: With the deputies'
snide having no place to hide, there's a smile
on the face of the Tiger.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-24

The fact that Bolshevik delegation has
arrived at kishlncf with flag of truce might
indicate that the Reds have been bled white.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-24

We don't make quite as much fuss over
returning troops as we did, but We are just
as appreciative.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-24

When Burlington sets out to welcome her
soldier boys it takes more than st. Swithin
to dampen enthusiasm.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-24

II must be pretty nearly as easy to buy
a gun in Washington as to buy booze sub
stitute.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-24

BY the numbers involved. one would
think they We're multiplication instead of
division registrars.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-24

We sometimes wonder, not at all passion
atey or Indignantly, but in mild and luke
warm way, why it is that when so much
stress is laid upon proper respect to the
colors, hauling it down at sunset and so on,
the flag on Independence Hall IS allowed to
remain at top staff all night?
The Power of Flattery
No man, however firmly balanced his in
tellect, is immune to fattery from barber
Yesterday we happened to drop in at an
unfamiliar scraping parlor for a shave.
Lvipg back in the sweet languor of being
lathered, devoting our considerations and
scrutinies to the thought that there are few
woes that cannot be softened by hot towel,
we heard the operator say: go
''You have fine head of hair.
We felt considerably pleased by this.
do you live in the city?' he went on.
''Oh, yes, we said, ~. y,
~ was afraid maybe you were Just q yis-
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-24

The North Penn Bank is paying dolor
for dollar,
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-24

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ie crc7u-
sireIy entitled t" the use for rcpuMratjom
of all ncrcS DISPATCHES credited 10 il or not
otherwise credited in titiS paper, and also
the local recs pubIiSbp' therein.
All rights Of republication Of special dis
patches herein Gre also rcScrrcd.
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We Know What
That Is

great many people
we kn0w What want to know what
ihat Is the. directors of the
North Penn Bank were
doing while m" wrockPrs Of the institution
were working overtime behind the scenes.
One might venture to suggest that in this in
terval the directors of the North Penn Bank
were doing Just what the average Philade-
phia voter does on election day
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-24

Austrian money is shrinking, reports
say Keeping pace with Austrian pride,
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-24
Schooner on bar with


Schooner on bar with
Deceptive cargo Of nuts
This is not a pre-
dispatch concerning a Porto Rico boat
laden with "ocoanuts, and the bar was a
sandbar off Far Rorkaway.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-24

1T appears that Governor Lowden, of Iii
nois, is the son of blacksmith and all the
other early season presidential candidates
are overhauling their family records for evi-
dences of calous- -palmed ancestry. The best
presidential panks are still those hewn from
the parental log cabin.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-24

1t was unlucky for the kaiser that he had
no Mr.. Delavigne. A hired man of that sort
could nave turned to the available works
of reference and told him i'm five minutes
what happens TO those whoseet out to con
querv the world. isOCkATES.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-24

The New York Sun reports Henry as
having said, II am not fast reader, and l
have hay fever The New York Times re-
ports it as Il have the hay fever We
would lay comely wager that the Times has
it right.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-04-13

MRS. Fl. L. BUSKEY's TAXI LINE
Two new enclosed cars; lady driv-
ers. Phone 606 or 1879.