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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-03-10

nETROITS first step toward better
- government was made when the De
troit Citizens League and other nonparti.
fan elements undertook to- have the elec.
ton laws revised. This was in 1915 and
Detroit at that time knew the controlled
precinct" SO prevalent in other municipali.
ties. These civic interests were aroused
by the exposure Of a number of aldermen
OF the forty.two.man Council for their con
nection with graft, alleged TO have been
paid in railroad street.cosing deal.
An amendment was secured to the state
election law permitting volunteer organiza.
tions to place challengers In the booths.
Thereupon ensued a bitter struggle and
the volunteers had to keep their places in
the booths with the aid Of their fists. A
mass of evidence was offered TO the Council.
but this body took no action and the aid
Of the newspapers was secured for the pur.
pose Of forcing an issue on the matter.
Finally, after n bitter controversy char.
ter amendment was framed by committee
of citizens appointed by the Mayor. This
amendment created an election commits
sion. The Council fought this amendment
signed by 10 900 voters and the legislative
body was beaten. Thereupon the corrupt
board members, in the precincts were
weeded out.
One OF the last acts of the old boards
was to pad the registration rolls at the
general registration IN the fall OF 1916. 1t
was the intention Of the unscrupulous ones
10 mark ballots for the thousands of fraudu.
lent names. A citizen body began a house
toulouse canvass on the registration and
unearthed sufficient evidence TO arouse the
prosecutors office to action and the entire
registration was checked and the rolls veri.
fed.
This work insured honest elections, but
Detroit still had much work to do before
she had an efficiently organized govern.
mental system.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-03-10

tated for years TO take advantage of the
facilities with which nature has gener-
ously supplied us.
Some day We shall have a great union
railroad station, which will bring the
through trains into the heart of the city
and disclose to the traveller from the
West and the East something more than
passing glimpse of the outskirts Of the
town. In some of the western cities
great hotels are made part of the union
railroad station in order to make il more
convenient for the business man who
comes tO town. They are courting trade
and use all the arts that their ingenuity
can suggest.
And some day, too, our subway sys-
TEN, now woefully inadequate to accom-
modate the people who use it, will be
expandet and developed until all parts
of the city are linked with all other parts
by rapidly moving trains acting as shut
ties to weave the fabric of civic unity.
We could continue almost indefinitely
to enumerate the improvements which
the people are thinking Of but are slow
to force to completion. But it is unnec-
essary. There are plans enough Every
one agrees that they ought to be carried
out. And they will be if the men whose
minds are concentrated on the future
continue in the course in which they have
begun
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-03-10

News of the riot of Canadian soldiers
on Tuesday last at Rhyl, Wales, was sup.
pressed until Saturday. The asininity of
the censorship is here beautifully displayed
Suppression could serve no good purpose
As a matter of fact, If there had been no
suppression of the news of the grievances
that brought about the riot there would
have been no riot.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-03-10

IN NOVEMBER, 1917, the proposal TO
4 revise tho charter was passed and
commission of nine nonpartisans set to
work to write the new instrument 1t was
completed and submitted to the people on
June 25, 1918. The newspapers were unani.
nous in it's support and the only opposi.
ton came from the members of the forty
twoman Council which its provisions would
reduce to nine men. elected at large. So
aroused had public sentiment become that
the aldermen did not dare oppose the pas
sage openly. The new code carried by
vote of nearly eight to one.
This charter provides for a nonpartisan
government of ten men. nine Councilmen
and the Mayor. Such a government was
elected on November ., 1918 No faction
or district obtained a preponderance of
representation. The members were fairly
divided between the east and west sides
of the city and the men elected are for the
most part business men. Five members
Of the old Council were elected, men who
represented the best OF the old body The
election plainly indicated that once the
electorate is aroused 10 the duty OF taking
advantage of its franchise, it's Judgment is
exceedingly discriminating
The council meets daily in committee of
| the whole and on Tuesday evening Its
members are expected 10 devote all the
| time necessary 10 their duties and receive
| $4,000 a year as salary. One member is a
steamboat man, one a real estate man, one
| a lumberman, one a manufacturer Of ginger
| ale, one a tax expert, one a lawyer and a
welfare director, one a labor man, one an
|
body for ten years and the ninth an ex-
street car employe, as well as business
| man in a real estate way, The large Jew.
ish and Polish populations are born ro,ro-
sented.
The voters picked these men from sixty
| odd candidates. My own campaign was
conducted without the use of campaign
cards or banners and the expenditure was
less than $4,000. I did use newspaper ad.
vertisements.
The charter adoption was assured by
good sensible advertising copy, appealing
to the pride of the electorate in good gov
ernment. The advertisements were paio
for by subscriptions Of representative cit
zens On election day the Detroit Citizens
League supplied tags reading: II Voted
| Am an American-Did You"
The Councilman who was elected as a
representative OF the laboring men was moi
approved by the so-called labor" class
He was not on the Slate" but won the
votes OF both union and non-union men
again showing the fine discrimination
which an aroused electorate may show
My own campaign was directed more tc
getting men TO vote and in attacks upor
the man who votes selfishly for the grind
ing OF his own AK than to arguing with
my opponents. In fact. ! did not enter
a single argument with my opponents
| fromoyrow Mayor co~ss.s ,e.lI cono'sd,
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-03-10

II Silas Wegg's taxidermist friend
chanced to be a member of the Town
Meeting party he would doubtless describe
conditions in Philadelphia as Politics,
Vare-ious."
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-03-10

nETROITs conscience was beginning to
~ awaken. Men who had never voted
before began to do so, whereupon there
arose a demand for a new city charter,
concise and simple, TO replace the old one
OF 800 odd pages grown contradictory be.
cause of its many and varied amendments
The state home rule act, however provided
for the election of charter commissioners
by wards. The wide.awake members of
the citizens organization saw the dangers
here and began 10 work upon an amend.
ment to be presented to the Legislature
substituting for the partisan wardelected
commission nonpartisan body of nine
members elected from the city at large.
This matter was passed by the state Legis-
lature. but the forty.two aldermen from the
twenty-one wards had yet to see the light
The citizens had to circulate initiative pc
titions to gain their point, and the ques-
ton was forced upon the ballot.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-03-10

There are some things the war has
not changed Handkerchiefs are smaller,
but noses remain the same size as for
merly.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-03-10

The coming generation will probably
see the extremes meet in the development
Of the fastest method Of transportation and
the slowest--the airship and the inland
waterway.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-03-10

Hearing on the Rorke bill in City
Hall today. 1t may be accepted as read
that the white light of truth will be turned
on the blue laws. Three cheers. etc.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-03-10

II will now be the dream OF inventors
70 build battleship that can sink the
Idaho without giving her a chance to use
her guns.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-03-10

One thing that makes Bolshevism i'm.
possible in this country is that bondhod.
ers are too common 70 be rallied against
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-03-10

One thing the war proved Wealth or
lack OF it had nothing 10 do with pa.
triotism. Rich and poor alike were for
the most part 100 per cent American.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-03-10
THE CHAFFING DISH

out in the placid dales of West Chester
and rarely exhibits himself to his humble
admirers along Chestnut street
Mr.. Galsworthy, by the way, has crisp
word to say to those who bubber about
the wars supposed capitalization" of the
men who did the fighting. Editors, jour
nalists. old gentlemen and women will be
brutalized in larger numbers than our SOL
dlers," he says. The work OF rehabilitating
those whose bodies were manned in the
war is urgent and magnificent, but how
about the stay y.at-homes whose minds were
crippled? Is there no surgery that can
cure them?
Mrs. Breshkovskaya, grandmother of the
Russian Revolution, is here tonight to tell
the Contemporary Club what Lenine and
Trotzky have done to her grandchild. We
trust the Contemporary will not decide to
do anything drastic.
The Chatting Dish today Travelled to q
well-known island in the Hudson River
to act as orderly and batman for Philip
Gibbs, who comes to town tonight. Read
the Dish, always first with the news that
really matters.-(Advt)
If they really want to punish the Kaiser
why not send him few income tax blanks
to fill out? Or perhaps that was what he
was doing when he was reported to be
writing against time, hour after hour and
day after day.
We learned many things of interest from
Mr.. Galsworthy, but land we speak in all
humility he learned one thing from us,
Happening to say that certain statesman
had got the goat OF a certain treaty.
ratifying assembly. he was greatly inter-
ested. "Got their goat?' he queried.
what do you mean?" We explained that
when so conducts himself toward as
TO cause p to lose his equanimity, is said
to forfeit his goat. Mr.. Galsworthy was
delighted with this figure of speech, and
we look forward confidently to seeing it in
his next book of literary essays.
Wharton Stork complains that we have
mlsquoted him in regard to his magazine
Contemporary Verse. What we should
have said was that Wharton is getting SO
| much good poetry submitted for his maya
| zine that he is continually exacerbated by
! having to return great deal that he hasn't
| room for. These were not Wharton's exact
words, so again we lay ourselves open to
| a mild blond rebuke. We wrote Wharton's
utterance down carefully on paper, but in
the No Mans Land of our rolltop that
| paper has disappeared.
Mrs Galsworthy said, without any
! prompting on our part, that she had seen
"some quite nice little things" in Contem.
| porary Verse.
| Some day we hope TO persuade Wharton
| that the real way to encourage poets Is to
| be cruel to them. And as an evidence of
| our sincerity in this matter we shall shortly
send him copy Of our new book of verses.
|
Senator Lodge is cooling off already.
| He now says that all he wanted was TO
have the league OF nations project care
fully considered" Mr. Lodge. being a lit
erary man, must have recalled certain
statement TO the effect. Heat not a fur.
mace for your foe SO hot that Il do sings
] yourself" socRATE
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-03-10
REFORM IN DETROIT
The Election LatUs Had to Be Re-
Uised Before IL Vas Possible to
Get the Right Kind of a
Charter
BY JAMES COUZENS
Mayor OF Detroit

Mayor Cousons. Of Detroit. erplnius today
for the benefit Of fhe Erening Public Ledger
readers hoC the city secured ncg charter
Uhich made u possible 70 get rid OF the
abuses Dhich had grot1n up under the old
fashioned partisan political system.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-03-10

The governments Of the world after
squapdering their dollars will by and by
get down 10 counting their pennies again.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-03-10

Even with increased rates water will
remain the cheapest and best beverage.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-03-10

A meeting of Ham" Lewis and Piez
ought to provide food for thought.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-03-10

IL we really need the $4,000 volunteer
police now being commissioned ours is in.
deed a parlous state.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-03-10

Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Idaho
may now point with pride" TO the new
battleship.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-03-10

Food prices and taxes are alike suffer
ing from bad attacks of the Jumps"
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-03-10

May we not say how delightful it is to
find that there is at least one other fellow
who doesn't answer letters any moro
promptly than we do? Doctor Krusen,
step out and receive this respectful cita.
ton.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-03-10

If a small Council is a good idea, why
not a small Congress?
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-03-10

Much of the reconstruction and read.
justment necessary these days is in the
mind.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-03-10

, We know now why Mr.. Wilson was 30
eager to seek the seclusion that a cabin
grants. He wanted to be left alone with
that income tax blank for a while. The
complexities of the league covenant are
child's play by comparison
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-03-10
Poems on Ticker Tape

Life d o e sn't
give a chap q
chance to re-
lax: If It isn't
the flu it's the
income tax. If
1t isn't the tax
it's willful men
who are trying
to crab the L.
of N, or may
be the rent or
the doc to
pay! But cheer
up, h e a r ties,
for some fine
d y we'll be
over the bills
and far away.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-03-10

The mascot of the Idaho will, of course
be Dolly Daydreams.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-03-10

We sometimes wonder how many Presi-
dents Of the United States were able to
sing the star spangled Banner" and hit
both the high and low notes without a
vocal blowout According TO one biog-
rapher. Thomas w. Wilson can do it ad:
mlrably, and his associates on the Univer-
sity Of Virginia Glee Club still remember
"the thrilling effect with which he usually
achieved the high note near the end OF the
Star Spangled Banner
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-03-10

Philadelphia has for years been in the
state of the old man proud of his past
There are encouraging symptoms now
manifest that it is renewing its youth.
The leayen of a wholesome discomfort is
at work. We are beginning to perceive
things that must be done and we are
beginning 10 believe that they can be
done.
It has taken twenty years or more TO
bring Fairmount Park by way of the
Parkway into the heart of the city, and
because Of the delay the cost has been
more than doubled. But within the last
two or three years the enterprise has
been pushed, until the roadway is nearly
| completed 1t is still to be adorned with
dignifed public buildings. Plans have
been drawn for a splendid art museum
to contain large collections and for a
smaller museum TO house the johnson
paintings. The free public library build
ing will soon be under way. A conven-
ton hall must be erected. These struc-
lures will set the pattern for others that
|
of the finest boulevards in the world.
This thing was conceived and executed
here and shows what We can do when we
set about it.
But it is only the beginning of greater
things. Artists and architects are
dreaming of a boulevard along the banks
of the Schuylkill River which shall bring
the delightful river driveway in the park
down into the city as far as League
Island, connecting the League Island
Park with the greater pleasure ground.
This dream will some day become a
reality and the bridges and driveways Of
the Schuylkill will become in time as
famous as those of the Seine in Paris.
The opportunity for beAutihcation is here,
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-03-10
What Do You KnOw?
QUIZ

UClL
/. What was the republic of New Granadas
.. In what war was the battle of Lundy's
Lane?
3. When did Ivan the Terrible live and
who was he?
4. In what play by Shakespeare does the
character OF Ariel occur?
s. What country was called Lusitania in
Roman times?
6. How many square rods make an acre?
Z. What is a zemstvo?
8. Why succeeds to the presidency IL both
the President and the Vice President
die during the same administration?
Q. What self-governing colonies compose
the Union of South Africay
10. "on les aura" was a French slogan, cur
rent during the war. What does II
mean?
Answers TO Saturdays Quiz
1. Thomas Collier Platt, long a Republican
Senator. from New York, was known
as me Too"
.. Irving L. Lenroot is Senator from Wis
consin.
3. "charivari" means medley of sounds, hub
bub.
T. The chimera OF Greek mythology was a
monster with lions head, a goats
body and a serpent's tail
5. Queen Victoria died in 1901.
6. The Yukon Is the longest river on the
Pacific side Of the American conti-
nent
7. "Hotspur" was Sir Henry Percy, a lead
er in the rebellion against King Henry
Nv Of England. He was killed in the
battle OF Shrewsbury in 1903.
q. Louis Napoleon was Emperor of France
for about nineteen years. from 1859
TO 1870.
.. csbotage is coasting trade.
10. A "mAsss' N billiards 10 = stroks un.l~
With the cue hsld DespendieulaN
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-03-10

Mrs. Breshkovskaya, grandmother of the
Russian Revolution, is here tonight to tell
the Contemporary Club what Lenine and
Trotzky have done to her grandchild. We
trust the Contemporary will not decide to
do anything drastic.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-03-10

While exuting over the presence OF
woodrow's grandson in this city, let's not
forget that Mr.. Wilson's grandfather was
a citizen of this town for some years
James Wilson, who thought so well Of the
printing business that he brought up all
his seven sons as printers came over from
the north of Ireland in 1907 and got a Job
on a well-known Philadelphia paper Of that
time, The Aurora. He lived for several
months at 45 Gaskill street, and in 1908
married and moved to Tenth and Spruce
either the northeast or northwest corner,
we don't know which. Perhaps some one
can enlighten US on this point.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-03-10

fromoyrow Mayor Copxsns soslI conclsds
MS exposition Of hoo Detroit did w.l
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-03-10

The Chatting Dish today travelled to q
well-known island in the Hudson River
to act as orderly and batman for Philip
Gibbs, who comes to town tonight. Read
the Dish, always first with the news that
really matters.-tAdvt)
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-03-10

and we all know it, but we have hesi-
tated for years to take advantage Of the
facilities with which nature has gener-
ously supplied US.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-03-10

1t Is always curious to hnd out Just what
aspect of Philadelphia has made an i'm
preston on those who have never visited
here. We were privileged to give Mr.. and
Mrs. John Galsworthy first glimpse of
the city the other day. and we found that
the thing that had been lurking in Mr..
Galsworthy's mind was that Joe Herge.
sheimer lives near here "One of your best
novelsts." said Mr.. Galsworthy, speaking
OF Hersesheimer. We aassnt with zeal
One sf our regrets Is that Jss lives far
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-03-10

Still brooding over the Wilson clan, we
are informed that when Woodrow first
went 10 Bryn Mawr College as a professor
lin 's5, he was adorned with flowing
mustache. Are there any OF his former
pupils who recall the aspect and architec-
ture OF that whisker? We would like to
know more about 1t,
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-03-10

If they really want to punish the Kaiser,
why not send him few income tax blanks
to fill out? Or perhaps that was what he
was doing when he was reported to be
writing against time, hour after hour and
day after day.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-03-10

Mrs. Galsworthy said, without any
prompting on our part, that she had seen
"some quite nice little things" in Contem.
porary Verse.
The sun., 1919-02-01
The I'm m u tn BILE Law.

In connection with the wide difference
between wheat prices in foreign coun-
tries and the price fixed by the United
States Government. coupled with the big
surplus of wheat now on hand in this
country, the grain expert of one Stock
Exchange house said yesterday: with
the country at large clamoring for lower
food costs few facts which are worthy
OF attention should be borne In mind II
we are to meet foreign competition.
Argentine wheat sells for $3.50 to s1.35
a bushel. surplus 177,000,000 bushels :;
Australian wheat sells for S1.15 to Sl20
bushel. surplus 1a0,000,000 bushels !;
United States wheat sells for S2,26
bushel, surplus 236 900, 900 bushels Does
it seem logical to keep wheat prices In
the United States at S2.26 bushel
with war over? Let the law OF supply
and demand prevail and help restore an
equilibrium with lower food costs. Other
commodity prices which are out of line
should be brought to conformity with
world prices, helping the manufacturer
TO restore wages of labor to basis
whereby he can compete with the world,
az wages cannot come down until food
costs are lower. Sentiment must be
eliminated from now on and economic
laws prevail"
The sun., 1919-02-01
Not So had as Painted,

The copper situation is not quite as
deplorabie "a has nccn represented. =
saws Walkers weekly copper letter
For example. it was reported generally
for two or three weeks that only 1000
tons of copper were exported in NoVem-
Der and 1000 tons in December. It
turns out that November exports ex-
ceeded and December exports approx
mated 10000 tons or 10000 tons for the
two months combined. Exports for the
year now appear to have aggregated
$4,000 tons. against 4S7,442 tons in
1917, which broke all records, and 327,-
$40 tons in 1916. It Is TO he expected
that the export movement will begin TO
show considerable increase I'm volume
by March or April, as Europe is nearly
ready to get down To business again.
The state Of business all over the world
Is such that neither a big nor a normal
demand for copper ia possible Copper
Is metal OF construction and Industrial
expansion. and there is practically no
building for the future in connection
with any line of enterprise"