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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-26
Answers 10 Yesterday,s Quiz

l. Ukrania was proclaimed "free and In.
dependent" by its Central Rada
(ParliamenU November 20, 1917.
.. Samuel Sullivan Cox 1S24- S0) Ameri-
can politician and editor, was nick
named Sunset Cox" after rhetori-
cal description in Congress of sunset.
3. A bark or barque is three -masted
vessel with fore and main masts
square rugged and mizzen fore and aft
rigged. r.
A. The Tamesi, sometimes called Tampico,
is Il river in the state of Tamaulpas,
Mexico, which falls into the Gulf Of
Mexico at the town of TampicO.
3. The novel "Trilby" was written by Du
Maurier, an artist identified with Lon
don Punch. .r.
6. The modern meaning of "syndicalism"
is direct action rather than 'po-
itical action" in the relation of labor
to capital. ''Syndicalism' and
sabotage are French importatons.
A sabot is a wooden shoe. Sabotage
means throwing a wooden shoe
equivalent to the American monkey
wrench) into the machinery"
7. The approximate area of Paraguay
proper is estimated at 6J 900 square
miles. An area comprising upward
of 100000 square miles of territory
lying between the rivers Paraguay
and Pilcomayo, known as the Chaco,
is claimed by Paraguay, whose rights.
however, are disputed by Bolivia.
s. James Hogg (1770-1S35), Scottish poet.
was known as The Ettrick Shepherd
because of his occupation and BIRTH
place.
o. The forest area of tile German empira
was estimated before the war at "a
560, 800 acres.
10. Alexander Pope was the author of tbs
line, AN honest man is the noblest
work of God.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-26
NEW VOTES

ONE new element that is certain to ap-'
~ pear before long in Pennsylvania
politics is the woman vote. Elsewhere in
the country, even in the states where
equal suffrage will be delayed until the
formal ratification of the Anthony
amendment, the political leaders are en-
deavoring to organize feminine senti
ment, to educate the prospective voters
and line them up as reserves for the bat
ties of the future.
There are budding organizations of
Republican women" and Democratic
women" and there appears to be a gen
eral assumption that the newly enfran-
chised citizens will promptly line up
under party banners and become subject
to conventional party prejudices and
alterations. In this state the politicians
. are content to wait. They do not appear
to take the woman vote seriously. They
seem to feel that it can be easily man
aged.
On the other hand, certain observers
are positive that women voters will be
great and Independent force for en-
ightenment and decency in politics.
1t will be interesting to see who is
right.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-26
HARD-BOILED BURLESON

MIR. BURLESON, blithe spirit, cannot
A'A even keep peace in the air Those
who know most about the internal affairs
of the PostOffice Department would have
been amazed if the aviation division had
gone on much longer without strikes, ul-
timatums and wavings of the mailed fist.
Philadelphia. which has just been as
sternly disciplined by the postmaster gen
eral as if it were on his payroll, may now
look with new interest at the threatened
paralysis of the service which was with
drawn from this city chiefly because we
couldn't be bullied by Mr.. Burleson and
his assistant Mr. Praeger.
If the Postoffice Department wanted an
air mail service in Philadelphia it should
have gone about the business logically,
leased a site for landing station and
equipped it.
The Fairmount Park Commission was
justified in its refusal to permit the use
of Belmont plateau for this purpose. At
landing station there must be shops and
mechanics, speeding motortrucks and the
sort of equipment that would have dis
figured the most beautiful lawns in the
Park. BustletOn was too far off. Mr..
Burleson, after an interval of experiment,
didn't try for another field. He cut this
city off his air route. That was just
before his fiers struck.
Almost everybody in the postal service,
| it seems, must strike sooner or later. The
walkout of the aviators will not seriously
affect communication in the United
States. 1t serves merely to reveal again
the oddities Of the Burleson ego.
There have been crashes and forced
| landings in the service. When airmen
| talk of danger there must be danger. 1t
doesn't require knowledge of the tech
nicalities of flying to understand that a
man who is forced to fly in fog, close to
! the ground in machine that cannot do
less than a hundred miles an hour, is
j. being subjected to unnecessary risks. The
air mail planes are not equipped with
stabiliZers, yet they must fly in all winds
and all weather.
ely" .ays Mr. Burleson, "or quit"
This order was issued through Otto
| Praeger, second assistant to Mr.. Burle-
son, who has figured as sort of Crown
| Prince in the squalid records of executive
! oppression in the postal service. The
fiiers quit and added another chapter to
| the story of Burlesonism. They had to
risk their lives unnecessarily or quarrel
with an administration that breaches
amity and fair-dealing among all men.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-26
NO HUMAN JUNK HEAP NOW

HCONERNOR SPROUTS approval of
~ the Lanius bill will be shared by most
thinking citizens.
The bill provides for the special train
ing of handicapped children Clinics will
determine what children are tubercular
and need open-air treatment. InCor-
rigible children, children of weak intel
lect and those who have defects Of sight
or hearing will receive the scientific
treatment needed.
This simply means taking inferior ma
terial and turning it into something
useful. Looking at the matter from
a purely business point of view the plan
is distinctly worth while.
Every healthy child is an asset to the
state. Every unfit child is liability. To
turn liability into an asset is a good
business proposition.
That the state is finding it out is evil
denced not only in the care of the chill
dren but in the founding of the State
Bureau of Rehabilitation, born of expert
ence in the administration of the work
mems CON- mpensation law.
The new bureau will provide special
education to fit persons recovered from
injury for occupations they will be quail
ifieu to fill. The state may also provide
them with artificial limbs or such appli-
ances as will enable them to make a
living.
Every workman is an asset to the state,
Every idler is a liability. To turn a liza
bility into an asset is worth while.
The rule never fails to work out
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-26
EIUDE ON An OLD THEME

Lydia, die, per omnis Horace.
Book ! Ode s
7 1D1A. I conjure you by all the gods
IL above,
Tell me why you care to try to ruin
Sybnris
Why have you cnraptured him and cap
tured him with love?
Why have you inspired him and tired
him with a kiss?
Tell me why he sits and sulks, and hates the
sunny field?
He was not one to shun the sun, Injured
to dusty plains
Why does he never ride beside his troop
with spear and shield
Nor urge his stced of Gallo breed with
barbcd and bittcd reins? 1902.
Oh! why do martial exercises fail to bring
him joy?
And tell me why he langushes in
anguish as they say
Achilles did when he was hid before the
fall of Troy:
When he appeared disguised and weird as
though he feared the fray.
Louis Tntcrmeyer in the New York Eve
ming Post
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-26
BACK TO SHIPS

MANY are the bright promises of the
A'A war that must remain, for time at
least, unfulfilled. There was to have been
peace and understanding and good will
the world over. We shall have to wait
while longer for all that sort of thing.
And there were to have been vast, fast
airships moving on breakfast-in- New
York-dinner-in-Lon schedule, with
luncheon, and perhaps jazz, in the clouds.
Hopes based upon that enticing prospect
snust be set aside for the present.
The overseas flights in planes and
dir.gibles have been interesting, but in
eonclusivek Transocean aviation Is still
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-26
treaty was submitted to Parliament be-
fore its ratification was regarded as COM
plete

lore ltS fatlncaUOn was regarded as cOIn-
plete.
We democratized our foreign relations
in America from the beginning. The
men who framed the constitution knew
the havoc that had been wrought in the
world by secret treaties and by alliances
made without the knowledge of the people
who would have to fight the wars. They
directed that the President, by and with
the advice and consent of the Senate,
should make treaties and they provided
that Congress should declare war. The
Senate, in debating the peace treaty, is
fulfilling its constitutional functions. 1t
would be false to its duty if it neglected
to examine the document in detail and
to consider all its implications.
The complications which have arisen
are not due to any usurpation Of power
by the Senate, for the power Of the
Senate is equal to that of the President
The complications have arisen because of
the tactlessness of the President in his
dealings with the coordinate branch of
the treaty making body.
Our foreign relations have been con-
Quoted democratically in the past. We
set the example which Great Britain has
just followed and which France embodied
in part in it's latest constitution. And
the Senate is merely insisting that the
democratization shall continue. This is
true, aside from the duty of the Senate
to recognize that the treaty as drafted
is the result of many compromises. is
not a perfect instrument, and must be
accepted, if possible, without making
changes in it which would compel re-
assembling of the Peace Conference.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-26
What Do You Know?
QUIZ

I. What ra' calls itself Romany?
=. When and how was the District Of
Columbia formed?
3. What dramatist and poet was known
as the Dutch Shakespeare?
/. What american preacher said, "a re-
publican government in hundred
points is weaker than an autocratic
government?
). Who was John Carver?
6. How is the president of France elected7
Z. What is determinism?
s. On what date did Germany declare war
on Russia?
9. What are tympani?
10. What is haggis?
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-26
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ENERGY MISPLACED

GLOUCESTER and Westville, N. j.,
~ are suffering from the depredatons
of "bad boys"
In Gloucester bread and milk are taken
from the doorsteps of houses. Bread and
cake are taken from the boxes in front
of grocery stores. Maybe the boys are
hungry boys rather than bad boys.
Westville has lost books and pencils
from its schoolhouse and five boys have
been arrested, Maybe they are mischiev-
Gus boys rather than bad boys.
What Gloucester and Westvile prob
ably need is Boy Scout campaign. There
Is juvenile energy on tap in both places
that might be worth while if properly
directed.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-26
BUILD THEM HERE!

TT is to be hoped that when the ship
ping board awards the contract for the
two 1000-foot ocean liners it contemplates
building the job will come to this city.
There are several plants here big
enough to handle the job and competent
authority has it that there is plenty
water at high tide for the launching of
them.
But, of course, the work won't come
here unless some one hustles for it.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-26

ShOrn of diplomatic phrase, Japan s
answer to the suggestion that she pledge
herself to return Shantung Is, Nothing
doing :"
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-26

With one side declaring that there will
be no pussy footing and the other avowing
that gumshoe candidates are not wanted,
there is chance for the man with the hob
nailed boots to win the mayprlllty.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-26

BuStlcton has lost its hustle. Air mail
service has been discontinued
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-26

If the new National Guard can only b
skeletonized the Federal Government will
provide the bones,
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-26

The proposed aerial police force fol
Philadelphia anticipates the time when air.
plane bandits will be Us numerous as auto
bandits today. !
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-26

Street car service throughout the coun
try appears to be off its trolley.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-26

France is now getting ready to reduce
its army. This is whole lot better than
letting Germany do it.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-26
IRA VELS IN PHUADELPH PHIA
BY Christopher Morley


,,',a, " .," anu sunn up l"p.u.s un,i ,f =,
n hIvn 'nIie is u priet lull-ior apout nun % an
Durino this tir,a noarta ono ~, .ho;n ,,,a,, 70
work. tlSe trollcrs ond suburban eIectric
trains are using n hnpn ommInt of ..iuice,;
and factories ore hoginning to cor for no,var
After = o'clock the Hne s,gs oortlv until
about TO- when if oGain tokes an inward
turn. At noon thcre is an abrunt dron-
almost a pcrpendicular drop, while the ritv
takes its luncheon loyof Instantly all thot
enormous ouantity of mower mnst he throt-
tied down. And Mt o'cIock tho limo Icons
upward again to the level Mt which If fell
away an hour before. From o'clock unt;l
the load increases SLOWLY. At4 oclock II
begins to shoot upward stceply. as thp winter
dusk comes on and several million pcople arc
turning on their lights. About : 20 comes
the big pcak of the day: NIL the CITY is
streaming homcward and every unit of lower
is rxerting its fullest OUTPUT. After that
aoout I: :"o' When theatres, MOVIES and other
amusementS cause another small upward
movement. But most OF the industrial con-
Suncrs nave shut Oft by this time, and not
even night OF the most rousing gaiety keeps
lhe current consumption rising for long. BY
CLOCK the line Is falling, and says away
''"' pis IhiouSh thc ionS houiS VI tHc ulSHl
until the upward turn comes once more at
Il. III.
FTf1E full story of the way in which the
i city's electrical needs are watched Mt
Headquarters would take book 70 foil
During the critical days of the war, when
Hog Island and munition factories were run
ming at forced pressure, the men who we're
kceping the current supplied got worry Uttle
sleep. Curiously enough. it was not nntil
Just after the armistice that any scrious
breakdown occurred. A $4,000 ki,owatt
generator down at the Schuylkirl station
burnt ont. Major AlcLaren, of the army
went to the load dispatcher's office, and
under his supervision, as the load got up to
after section of the Governments enter
lrlSeS-ilog lsland' MldVale' etc.-was cut
OIL temporarily so as ID keep the telephones.
street cars electric trains ana other urgent
reeds OF daily lie gong
A MOTHER interesting branch of the work
"A is that of the Trouble Supervisor. Mr.
Post. who holds this position. told NE that
during the recent dcbanch of st. Swithjn he
and his forty '.trouble men" worked eiphtern
and nineteen hours n day for thirteen doys
rha Trorble Disnotcher's function is to toke
ooro of hrookdowns As soon as opv com
A.. IL,
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-26

An eleven year old
Amend to Make girl riSked her life in
Self Read Race burning building to
save her six year old
sister. And once again that hoary old lie
that self preservation is the first law of ma
ture got its bumps.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-26

Hope has no real weight in bank
balance.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-26

An army officer now
May He Win plans to fly from New
in a Walk York to Seattle with
only one stop on the
way. With two such long legs aviation ought
to make great strides
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-26

Old King Coal is a willy old soul.
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1t isn't fly time for striking aviators.
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GOVERNOR SPROUTS approval of
~ the Lanius bill will be shared by most
thinking citizens.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1919-02-17

minimum of justice. In country as
rich as ours, there are very few
cases in which it is possible to prove
that the worker would be getting
more than that to which he has a
right If he were paid something in
excess of this ethical minimum. Why
then, should we assume that this is
the normal share Of almost the
whole laboring population? Since
our industrial resources and instru-
mentalities are sufficient to provide
more than a living wage for very
large proportion of the workers, why
should we acquiesce in theory
which denies them this measure of
the comforts Of life? Such policy
is not only of very questionable
morality, but is unsound eocnomi.
cally.
"The only persons who would ben
eft considerably through a general
reduction of wages are the less eff
cient among the capitalists, and the
more comfortable sections of the
consumers. The wage-earners would
lose more in remuneration than they
would gain from whatever fall in
prices occurred as direct result Of
fall in wages.
ION grounds both Of justice and
sound economics, we should give our
hearty support to all legitimate eff
forts made by labor to resist general
wage reductions"
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1919-02-17
CATHOLICS ISSUE
RADICAL PLAN OF
RECONSTRUCTION

extended to soldiers by the govern
ment
Approve policies of war labor
board, emphasize right of laborers
to organize, recognize justice of col
lective bargaining principle, and ask
that the war labor boards activities
be continued in peace time.
Indorse movement of labor to OBJ
tain voice in management of indus
tries, commonly called industrial
democracy
Approve vocational training; but
not any system of education that
would tend to deprive children Of
workingmen of their opportunities
for purely cultural training.
Deplore child labor, and approve
plan to tax it out of existence.
The foregoing are the chief fea-
lures of that portion of the program
which its trainers believe Immediate
ly practical. The pronouncement
also discusses reforms that should
be accomplished as a part of a pro-
gram projected farther into the fu-
ture. 1t says:
The full possibilities of in
creased production will not be real.
lied so long as the majority of the
workers remain mere wage-earners.
The majority must somehow become
owners, or at least in part of the
instruments of production. Thev
can be enabled to reach this stage
gradually through cooperative pro
ductive societies and co-partnership
arrangements. In the former. the
workers own and manage the indus
tries themselves; in the latter thew
own a substantial part of the cor
porate stock and exercise a reason.
able share in the management. How
ever slow the attainment of these
ends, they Will have to be reached
before we can have a thoroughly eff
ficient system of production, or an
industrial and social order that will
be seure from the danger of revolu-
ton. 1t is to be noted that this
particular modification of the exist
ing order though far-reaching and
involving to great extent the aboli-
ton of the wage system, would not
mean the abolition of private owner
ship"
Big business is handed this bit of
food for thougt:
For excessive gains by small
minority of privileged capitalists,
the main remedies are prevention
of monopolistic control of commodi-
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1919-02-17

ties, adequate government regulation
of such public service monopolies
as will remain under private opera
ton, and heavy taxation of incomes,
excess profits and inheritances.
The precise methods by which genu-
inc competition may be restored and
maintained among business that are
naturally competitive, cannot be dis
cussed here; but the principle is
clear that human beings cannot be
trusted with the immense opportuni-
ties for oppression and extortion
that go with the possession of mon
opoly power"
And again:
"Our immense war debt consti-
tutes particular reason why in
comes and excess profits should
continue to be heavily taxed. In
this way two important ends will
be obtained; the poor will be re-
lieved of injurious tax burdens, and
the small class of specially priVil
eyed capitalists will be compelled to
return a part of their unearned
gains to society"
By way of final advice to the
capitalist, the pronouncement says
of him:
above and before all, he must
cultivate and strengthen within his
mind the truth which many of his
class have begun to grasp for the
first time during the present war;
namely, that the laborer is a human
being not merely an instrument of
production; and that the laborer's
right to a decent livelihood is the
first moral charge upon industry.
The employer has a right to get q
reasonable living out of his busi-
ness, but he has no right to interest
on his investment until his en-
ployees have obtained at least liv-
ing wages. This is the human and
Christian in contrast to the purely
commercial and pagan, ethics of
industry"
The principle of equal pay to wom-
en- for equal work is sutained by the
bishops. But they advise that wom-
en- be eliminated from all employ.
ments dangerous to their health and
morals. Street car conducting and
locomotive cleaning are specifically
mentioned as occupations unfit for
women.
A living wage is not necessarily
the limit of the laborers just de-
mands, according to the Catholic
program, which says
Even if 'the great majority of
workers were now in receipt of
more than living wages, there are
no good reasons why rates of pay
should be lowered. After all, living
wage is not necessarily the full
measure of justice All the Catho-
lie authorities on the subject ex-
plicitly declare that this is only the
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1919-02-17
DAILY HEALTH TALKS
a Single Remedy Often Cures
Many Diseases
BY VALENTINE MOTT, N. D.

It is almost impossible to give list OF
the endless diseases that follow Indigestion.
Perhaps a whole column in this newspaper
would be required to print them all. You
eat to keep alive-tO supply blood and flesh
and bone and muscle and brain. 1t is easy
70 see that if your food is not digested and
ken up by the delicate organs and dis
iiibuted where it is needed, a disease of
some sort is sure to come. Dyspepsia is a
0mmon symptom, and so are liver COM
ilaint, loss Of flesh, nervousness, bad
memory, dizziness, sleeplessness, no appe-
tite. Many times, when neglected, indi-
Cestioa results in coughs, throat diseases,
catarrh, bronchitis and even more danger
Gus things. And all these disorders arise
because the food is not properly digested
IN The stomach. It is plain even to a child
that relief and cure are to be had only by
setting up a healthy condition in the stom-
1eh. DR.. Pierce, OF Buffalo, n. Y, many
years ago combined q number of vegetable
growths into a temperance remedy for in.
digestion, and called it Golden Medical
Discovery. It IS probably the most ef-
ilsaclous discovery ever made in medicine.
for the list Of people all over the world who
have had their countless ills overcome bv
DR.. Pieree's Golden Medical Discovery
makes an amazing total Of thousands.
] know Of no advice better than this.
5eCin a home treatment today with this
rood vegetable medicine. 1t will show
YOU better than can telly you what it will do.
When taking Golden Medical Discovery
you can rest assured Of one very important
thing-it contains neither alcohol nOs
opiatec There is nothing in it but
standard roots and herbs that posses
curative properties Of high order. 4
safe medicine is the only kind you cap
( cord 10 take.