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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-03
UNITY OF SOUTHERN
CHINA ENDANGERED
cIashing Ambitions Of Two
Leading Generals complicate
Tangled Situation

Washington, July 3.-(By A. P.)-
Southern China, which heretofore has
presented united front in it's resistance
of the northern element now in control
at Pekin, is reported to be in danger
of disruption as the result of the clash =
ing ambitions of the two great southern
generals, General Mo, of Kwang- 81, and
General Hoo. of the adjacent province
Of Kwang Tung.
Meanwhile the northern elements at
Pekin, though disconnected by the fail
ure of the Shanghai conference to com
promise the factional fight which has
prevailed for the last two years. is pre-
serving an attitude of neutrality toward
the two southern generals and awaiting
an opportunity to renew the peace con
ference in Shanghai.
The financial conditions in China are
reported in latest official dispatches to
be very bad.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-03
P. S. DU POINT GIVES
BIG SUM TO SCHOOLS
Trust Fund for Delaware Will
Net $4,000, 1000 in Four
Years

Wilmington, Del. July 3.-Pierre S.
du Pont, who pilotcd the du Pont
Powder Company through the war
period. as its president. and who is now
chairman of its board of directors, to-
day set aside trust fund for the bene-
fit of the public school system of Della
ware, which will net 50 600 900 in the
next four years.
The purpose of the fund. he ex-
planned in letter to the State Board of
Education, is" to provide for modern
reconstruction of school buildings all
over the state. outside of Wilmington,
each district to bear at least half the
expense.
Mr.. du Pont is known as Delaware $
best educational benefactor, having al
ready given 81 800, 900 for the enlarge
ment of Delaware College and having
helped in other ways. The last Legis-
lature enacted a new school code for
the state. to follow which buildings
must be moderniZed.
Governor Townsend recently ap-
| pointed Mr.. du Pont to the State Board
! of Education under the code. Having
made a survey of educational facilities,
Mr.. du Pont has learned the needs
hence his muniticent gift.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-03
CALLS PLUNKETT PLAN DEAD
De Valera Declares Irish Demand
Cannot Be Sidetracked

Dublin. July 3.-(By a. PO-Arthur
Griffith. vice president of the Sim Fem
movement. announced last night he had
received the following telegram from
Edward dc Valera, who is in the United
States:
II am sure there is no danger that
the Irish people will start into trot
after the new Plunkctt carrot. The
dodge is, perhaps. unknown to the
American people, but will be explained
to them" ,.
Mr., Griffith said be had sent this
cable to dc Valera:
.'The latest attempt to sidetrack the
Irish national demand is dead In us
cradle.
A number OF prominent lrishmen
headed by Sir Horace Ilunkett lssueu
last week in the name OF the lrlsn
Dominion League manifesto containing
nronosals for settlement OF the lrlSI
question. 1t was proposed that lreianC
should be a dominion in the BRUSH
empire. but otherwise would have com
plcte freedom.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-03
ATTEMPT FAR EAST
RELIEF BY BARTER
American Steamer Kickapoo
Leaves France to Exchange
Supplies for Russian Wheat
TO FEED THE ARMENIANS

Paris, July 3. - The American
steamer Kickapoo. carrying 5000
worth of cloth. shoes and various
manufactured goods, left st. Nazaire
yesterday for Novorossysk, a non
Bolshevik port on the eastern coast of
the Black Sea. where it will trade its
cargo for Russian wheat, which will
be shipped across the Black Sea to
feed the starving Armenians.
This experiment in bartering which
is being conducted by the American re-
lief administration and financed by the
American committee for relief in the
Far East is being watched with great
interest by peace conference economists,
who believe that return to bartering
will be necessary in many parts of the
world because of the depreciation of
currency and the difficulties of ex-
change.
Novorossysk is the chief port for the
government of General Denekine. which
has it's headquarters at Ekaterinodar
The Denekinc government controls the
kuban wheat district. which has large
surpIus of grain and no place to mar
kct it because of the lack of railway
and steamship transportation. Money
in the Kubau district has deprecated
greatly and the merchants there ar'
without goods for sale.
Colonel c. B. Smith, who is directing
the Kickapoo experiment, purchased thu
goods on the steamer from the United
States army liquidation board and the
American Red Cross. The cargo IN :
cludes garden tools. needles, thread,
nails, blankets and an assortment of
cloth;nr. An effort will be to regulate
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-03
DEN|K|NE OCCUPIES
CITY OF TzAR|Tz|N
BoIshevik Papers Demand That
Petrograd Be Held Until
Last Moment
CAPITAL NEARLY ISOLATED

London. July 3.--Thc forces of Gen.
cral Dcnikinc. tho anti Bolshevik leader
in southern Russia, have occupied the
city of Tzaritzin. on the Nolga river.
south of Saratov. according to n Rus
sian wireless report today. The city
previously had bccn abandoned by the
Bolsheviki.
Occupation of Tzaritzin by the Dcni-
kline forces is a blow to the Bolshevik
position on the lower Nolga. Tzaritzin
is in bend of the river 300 miles north
west of its mouth at Astrakhan and if
there are any Bolshevik forces in that
region their communication with cen
tral Russia probably has been severed.
In reaching the Nolga General Dcni-
kline is the first of the anti Bolshcvik
leaders to bring his forces to the great
river which has been called the mother
of Russia" North Of Tzaritzin the
Kolchak forces early this year were
striking for the Nolga. but recently
have been driven back POO miles from
the stream.
Since June II this year. when Gen
cral Denikine defeated tho Bolsheviki
on the river Kuma in the northern
Caucasus. his forces had advanced
about 500 miles to the Nolga by way
of the River Don.
The recent defeat of the Kolchak
forces at Ufa and the reported capture
of Perm by the Bolshcvik widens the
distance between the fronts on which
Denikinc and Kolchak are operating.
Washington. July 3.-(By A, ~
Swedish press reports received today
BY the State Department said the
Bolsheviki were moblizing more ener-
getically than ever and that all able
to bear arms wcrc being called out
Officers are allowed to hold important
posts on condition that they agree that
their families shall bear all the conse
| qupnces of possible treason.
/ All civilian passenger traffic TO and
/ from petrograd has been prohibited,
according to the reports. Not even Of
! ticals are permitted to enter the city
without special permission Of the soviet
of defense. Bolshcviki papers demand
that petrograd be held until the last
moment.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-03
Mission on Polish Issues

1 anceial mission appointed by Presi-
s...f Wilson to proceed to Poland for
III .,srpose Of investigating the rela
/. !, :.,.s betwecn the Jewish and nom
< ! ( IAN poouiafious comprises Henry
n .<1r,at6a,1 foruxfly American aua
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-03
Fears Child viii Be Anarchist

Trenton. July 3.-Charging that her
husband is an anarchist and as such
has no respect for organized govern
ment. Mrs. Bernard Somer has OBJ
tained writ of habeas corpus directing
Somcr to produce their partly blind
daughter in the Court of Chancery in
Newark next Tuesday. If the girl
continues to live with her father, Mrs.
Somer declares, she will be brought up
in a school Of anarchy.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-03
MEXICO OPPOSES INVASION
VIII Seek Agreement to Prevent U.
s. Troops Crossing Border

Mexico City, July 3.-Ygnacio Bo-
nillas, Mexican ambassador to the Unit
ed States, upon his return to Washing
ton, will ask for an agreement from
the White House that no American
troops be sent across the border and
also that the United States institute
measures that will absolutely prevent
the smuggling of arms and ammunition
tc rebels in northern Mexico, it was
learned unofficially yesterday.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-03
HUNGARIAN REDS cRINeE
Soviet Marshal Informs Allies Troops
VIII Cult Czech Soil

Prague, July 3.-(By A. P.)-Field
Marshal Eduard Won Boehm Ermolli,
Hungarian commander in chief, has in
formed General NJ. c.. J. Pelle, for
merly Marshal Joffre's chief of staff and
now in supreme command Of the
Czecho slovak forces, that the troops Of
the Hungarian Soviet Government have
been ordered to evacuate Czecho- Slovak
territory.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-03

the resale of the goods through the
Denekine government in such way
as to prevent speculation and to assist
the forces which recently have been sue
cessful in repelling the Bolsheviki.
The Kickapoo also is carrying several
hundred tons of medical supplies from
the American Red Cross which will
be given away in the Kuban territory.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-11-24
DO YOU KNOW

Francis Newton Thorpe, one of
the commission on constitutional re-
vision, is connected with one of the
Pittsburgh colleges and is an author
of works on history.
Victor c. Mather, prominent
Philadelphian, is active in the for
nation of a remount association to
keep up with needs for the horse in
war.
General Frank K. Mccoy has
been visiting his old home in the
Juniata valley
Councilman A. c. Kelley, of
Philadelphia, is head of the con-
fectfoners of that city.
The Rev. Dr. M. l.. McPhail, of
Pittsburgh, has accepted call to
Auburn.
Judge j. j. Burlington, of the
United States courts. occupied the
pulpit of one of the Pittsburgh
churches yesterday.
p. l.. Craig, of New Castle.
president of the State Sunday School
Association, has been taking an ac-
tive part in the discussions against
Sunday games in western counties.
Col. j. Y. Brinton, prominent
Philadelphian, who was on the Ar
menian mission, has returned home.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-11-24
"GOinq South"

Group upon group do the soft birds
cluster
over the fields where the seeds
drop down,
Then. in a hurry of sudden furry,
Sweep away in a flare of brown.
Silently slip through the leaves fast
thinning
Never a chirp of the CHEEKY spring
When mates are wooing and gently
cooling,
Making nest where they brood
and sing.
Irregular lines of the wild duck
flying.
Seek a harbor in southern streams,
All through the night the gray
geese hying,
'Honk" and "honk" till the dull
dawn CLEANS.
Ger ruddy hollows a blue jay
Talks to his friends of new
freehold.
Where shining live oak and gray
moss clinging.
Breathe of a summer that ne'er
grows old.
Would might follow the dear birds
along,
Down where the clear green rivers
run,
Where fishes leap under jasmine
blowing,
And winters cold is forever done.
Il. c. Wood in the Philadelphia
Ledger.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-11-24
New Industrial Conference
[From the Public Ledgerl

[From the Public Ledger
No one can doubt the individual
professional or business ability of
the men who have just been ap-
pointed by the President as mem
bers of the new industrial confer
ence which he has called for De-
cember l. Their personal qualifica-
tions as men of affairs and as think
ers and publicists will also not be
questioned by any one. But. despite
all the qualifications of the new con-
ferees as able men and as sound
Americans. it would seem as if the
coming conference were doomed to
more Immediate failure than the
first one. If the President in his
new selections has tried to avoid the
difficulties and the differences grow
Ing out of the makeup of the first
conference as an irreconcilable
group conference" composed of
organized labor and capital and
representatives of the public" he
has apparently fallen into a much
greater error of thinking that sup
posedly dispassionate groupless con-
ference will get anywhere.
1t is true that each individual
composing the coming conference is
probably in a position, as are hun
cans prominent in finance, in busi-
ness and in public and educational
life, to utter sage counsel that il
might profit the country to follow
on any issue. But this is hardly the
occasion for this kind of soothing
individual or collective wisdom. For
the first conference, it will be re-
membered, was criticised not be-
cause it was a group conference, but
because those who were supposed to
represent each of the three groups
were viewed as not altogether typi-
cal of their groups, and, also, be-
cause large groups of people, such
as the farmers and the small busi-
ness man, and the unorganized
worker generally were eitker not
represented at all or were repre-
sented so indirectly as to arouse
their criticism and suspicion.
In other words, the first confer
ence was considered too little repre-
sentative, though it was composed OF
many practical men, to solve really
the broader, national issues, even il
1T had been able to secure some com
mon labor action from the industrial
groups. But the new conferees are
even more unrepresentative of the
actual industrial groups which dc
exist in the country and whose diff
ferences are to be adjusted. And il
is difficult to see how these conferees
are to reconcile these great groups
and Low they are to say anythins
more to the country than has been
said by all sorts of publicists ever
since the question of better under
standing between labor, organized
and unorganized, and capital carne
up for discussion. No one will desire
to see the conference come tc
naught; but when what the country
wants is an immediate practical So
luton of condition, not a theory
1t hardly will view the new con-
ferees' considered collectively, with
any degree of enthusiasm.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-11-24
PROPER MOVE

A CTTON of the Harrisburg Ro-
~ tary Club, in pledging not only
its moral support, but in offer
dng the services of it's members in
any way the authorities may need
In the campaign now being waged
TO free the country from dangerous
radicals, should inspire other or
ganizations to similar action.
Mere passing of resolutions is not
always helpful, but where they ex-
press forcefully the rising tide of
public opinion and especially where
they are accompanied by promises
of material assistance, they are we'll
worthy of more than passing atten-
tion.
The Rotarians express the belief
that at least 95 per cent. of the peo-
pie of the country are opposed to
radicalism in any form, and in this
they display the faith that all good
Americans have in American citizen
ship-a faith that has never been
put to shame and never will be,
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-11-24
NEWS FROM RUSSIA

VrYE SUSPECT that the cores
| wv pondent who sent out the
dispatches from Ohio follow
ing the recent elections has trans
ferred his base of operations to Mos
COW. Instead of telling us one day
that the 'wets' had carried the
State and on the next that the
'drys" had won a big victory. he is
now cabling his papers back home
| that the Bolsheviki are sweeping
everything before them and again
that the anti -Bolshevik forces have
won a great victory" Just as we
| imagine he used to do in Columbus,
getting his news one morning from
the Brewers Association and the
| next from the Anti-Saloon League,
he is now spending one day with
| General Lenine and the next with
| the armies opposing him, and he
appears to be very impartial in his
| judgments. The news from Russia
may mean anything or nothing, the
way it is coming out just now.
Truth to tell, we should take it
all with more than the proverbial
grain of salt. We might throw in
whole bag of salt and still have
balance against the facts.
Both sides-or all sides--in Russia
are prone to the drawing of the long
bow when they get possession of the
cables and some times we suspect
that not a little OF the news" that
does leak out may be tinctured with
the feelings and sentiments of some,
of our recent-we almost said late
allies in Europe. 1t is impossible
not to believe that somewhere Rus
sia is beginning to feel the effects of
European diplomatic tinkering. All
the great powers have their eyes on
Russa's depleted markets and not
few merchants would be able to
silence their conscientious scruples
if the way were opened for trade
with the Bolshevik or any other
Russian faction that could guaran-
tee payment in gold or marketable
securities.
We must not fear too much or
hope too much of Russia. This
much only we know-that Boil
shevism has failed there as an or
derly governing force, that blood
shed is an everyday occurrence.
that the people are worse off than
when the Car ruled them and that
years will be required to re-establish
the nation on a decent, law-abiding
basis. Past that all is darkness, and
not even the League of Nations if
it becomes a fact, will be able to
stop the fighting there. The dark
est Russia" of the old days was mild
twilight as compared to the Russia
of to-day.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-11-24
Reading an American City

LWilliamsport Gazette and Bulletin. I
Evidently there is q considerable
portion of the population of Read
ing, Pa, which is determined to
counteract the impression held in
some quarters that the Berks county
capital is not a strictly American
city.
AS might be expected, the Ameri-
can Legion is at the forefront of the
movement to remove whatever taint
of un-Americanism may have ad-
hered to the municipality through
rampant radicalism in the past. At
least the Legion is opposed to having
it go forth that Reading is in SYM
pathy with the movement to create
sympathy in favor of the release of
Eugene V. Debs, conscientious OBJ
jectors and others held for obstruc-
ton of the enforcement of the selec-
tive draft law during the war, and
at the solicitation of the Legion
aires the proprietors of the thea
ters have agreed to refuse the use
of their places for un-Am erican
meetings and the mayor has can
celled a request for a permit to hold
DebS sympathy meeting.
But that is not all. The executive
committee of the Patriotic Order
Sons of America, which has 10000
members in Reading, has petitioned
President Wilson to invite James II
Maurer, one of the most radical oi
radicals, to "get out of America and
betake himself to Russia"
The P. Q. S. of A. indictment
against Maurer is not stated in the
dispatch telling of this action, but il
may have been based on the charges
made in the National Labor Journal
official organ of the Central Labor
Union of Pittsburgh, which has made
the following accusation:
"In 1917, during Americas parti-
cipation in the World War, Maurer
was a member of the executive com
mittee of the Peoples Council OF
Democracy and Peace. This was d
radical organization opposed tC
Americas participation in the w
and opposed to military service. MaU-
rer made speeches for this Red Or
ganization. He was to have been
one of the speakers at the convention
scheduled in Minneapolis, which the
Government prohibited"
There is more of the same kind in
the Labor Journals editorial, which
asserts that Maurer twas particular
ly enraged over editorials protesting
against the activities of schemine
radicals to capture the labor move.
ment," but the passages quoted give
an idea of the charges.
The sympathizers with the draft
dodgers and conscientious objectors
evidently will get cold comfort in
Reading or any other place where
! Americanism is dominant.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-11-24

have exploded few bombs. They
have well laid plans by which they
expect to stampede the people or to
gain the upper hand over the people,
but Americans are not terrorized
nor are they fooled by the doctrines
that have ruined Russia. Wher-
ever the reds have been put to the
test they have failed. Everywhere
the people have turned them down
and turned them down hard. II
they do not desist in their activities
in the United States, they may find
themselves subject to treatment be-
side which the American Legion's
vengeance at Centralia would be
mild indeed. The American people
are long-suffering and patient, but
they are hard hating, ard-hitting
lot when aroused.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-11-24


1t ought not to be necessary to
warn businessmen against the wiles
of this type, but recent occurrences
in Harrisburg would indicate that
while such women continue TO be
very efficient as collectors they are
by no means reliable when it comes
to turning over the cash. They are
not in business for sweet charity's s
sake, but for their own. and their
victims go down in their note book
as "easy marks"
The Chamber of Commerce should
be consulted every time a collector
for charity solicits subscription
If he or she has not received the
endorsement of that organization it
would be well to postpone contribut-
ing at least until card is presented
guaranteeing that the money will not
go for the payment of expensive
dresses. hotel bills. garage hire and
the like
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-11-24
Other Peoples Money

GGirard in Public LedgerI
Operators offer miners $1.50 a
day increase in wages" says a
newspaper headline.
"Ha, ha," laughs the naughty
miner from his auto, mo such
chicken feed for me. / want SO or
nothing"
OF course, the three dollars he de-
mands is yours. because you know
very well it will not be the oper-
ators, but the public, who must foot
the bill for every rise in coal at the
mines.
An engineer who wore a colonels
eagle upon his shoulder in France
said to me one day this week.
"a years absence from the United
States will convince any returning
American that our chief national
fault is that we are willing to let
things slide"
Being eXtravagant with other
folks money would not be so fash
ionable if the folks resented it more
vigorously.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-11-24

cter-building efforts and is on the
basis of thoroughly tested experience
and clearly defined principles.
Perhaps the st rongest tradition of
the Y. Nj. c. A. is to render the larg-
est possible service in the character
formation of men and boys. This
idea is in line with that tradition.
Does it not involve the dangers
of women mixing in" on the man
agement of the "Y"? If the wrong
women are employed, or If volunteer
women are selected locally and put
to work unframed, Yes" Frankly,
here is a danger, but it can easily be
avoided if the right women are Sc
lected with care, duly qualified
thoroughly trained, preferably en-
ployed from without the community,
not related by ties of kinship to any
secretary of the staff. Such women
have proven their ability to do this
work. There are many of them re-
turned from overseas, ready to un-
dertake this work if the brotherhood
be prophetic enough in it's vision OF
its own largest usefulness to engage
them before they are scattered into
other forms of service.
What is necessary to incorporate
the Home Room in any Association
Very little! Procure the furniture
and decorations. Vote the small
sum necessary for incidental ex-
penses. Get trained woman secre-
tary with overseas experience from
the Women's Division of the War
Personnel Board, War Work Coun-
Gil. In a limited number of Asso-
citation Buildings her salary will be
paid by the War Work Council as
part of their demobilization work,
so long as that work cont tinues.
In connection with this whole
matter, it will be interesting to look
over the letters from the secretaries
in charge of the associations in the
camps. They are from William F.
Hirsch, Guy V. Aldrich j. =. Suth-
erland of the League Island Navy
Yard, Philadelphia, Thomas r. Jor-
dan of Camp Lee, o. c. Post of the
Casino Hut Newport News Glen T.
Folsom of Camp Stuart, Va, Olaf
Gates of Camp Dix, w. II. Cox OF
the Naval Training Station, Charles
w. Gulick of Camp Mills and Her
mon Eldredge of Camp Upton.
To these are added the letters re-
garding the work of Miss Watts (ot
Earrisburg) and Miss Laurie Col
Bellefonte) of the 57th Street
Branch, by Walter Dyack, William
Kingsley and Graham Wilson.