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The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1919-07-11
FIRM HAND NEEDED TO STOP
CHAOS IN BORDER NATION
La Guardia Attacks Oiatoy Congress for Failing to
Bring Acute Condition to an End.

WASHINGTON, July ia strong
plea for the adoption Of firm policy
with regard to Mexico was voiced in
the house today by Representative La
Guardis, republican. OF New York
Urging favorable action on his reso-
luton calling on the state, war and
navy departments to scpd TO the house
all their correspondence dealing with
the Mexican situation since July |,
1915, Mr. La Guardia declared it is
time for the state department, TO
abandon its policy OF blow hot, blow
cool"
"Carranza should be told in plain
terms that he cannot be tolerated a
moment longer the New York rep.
reSenta,ive suggested.
Trouble Must End.
Without any intention of inter
venlng the United States should 20
into Mexico with beans III one hand
and, il necessary, hand grenades in
the other. aud put an end to the pres
ent situation. The United States
should assist Mexico to end the
famine and plague now existing
there"
Charging that the attitude OF the
state department toward Mexico has
been "onc series OF Inconsistencies,
Mr. La Guardia declared there is
sufficient reason TO cause alarm and
to compel the adoption OF a fixed. def
mite policy toward Mexico" lie con-
tnued.
Something 10 Wrong.
Everybody seems TO know that
something is wrong in Mexico-every-
body knows that United States armed
forces entered Mexican territory only
short time ago. Pershing's expedl-
,ion into Mexico has not ye, been for
gotten. Still there seems TO be no
exact knowing as to what il is all
about.
"We went after Villa, were chasing
Villa, but just as We were about 10 get
him, our troops were ordered away
We went to Tampico TO have the flag
sslu,ed. Before tn, flag was saluted
the fleet was ordered away. We en-
tered Mexico a short time ago and a
few hours later our troops returned
and the incident remained TO Ger.
tain extent unexplained"
Time TO Face Facts.
Nr. La Guardia referred to the re-
cen, speech Of Representative Gould
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1919-07-11
British Oppose Nationslired Industry.

LONDON, July 1.-Two hundred
and fifty members OF parliament have
signed proclamation opposing ma
tionallxaton OF industries, said the
parliamentary lobby correspondent OF
the Daily Express today, A new
drastic scheme OF ra,ioning i. SAID
10 he forthcoming soon.
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1919-07-11
Paris Walters Strike.

PARIS, July Ten thousand
waitefS wen, on strike here today Tor
an .isht-hour day and an increase
in wages
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1919-07-11

OF Mexico, Carrania and Villa in
cluded, should be summoned TO con
ference TO establish firm govern
meDt
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-27

TNHE spectacle Of Senator Ware aLten1nt-
ing to secure coal contract for Scnd-
tor T. Larry Eyre is almost as cdifynG
as the spectacle Of the late Senator Nc
Nichol going to Senator Ware for tinan-
cial assistance in his business.
Yet Senator Ware helped the late Scna-
tor McNichol when he needed money. and
Director of Supplies MacLaughin Is au-
thority for the charge-it is charge.
isn't it?-thet The local snti-Ponrosa
leader used his influence hcrc for thn
benefit Of the Penrosc lcador Of Chester
county.
When the leaders who rrc in "pposi-
tien in public are IN cahoo;3 behind tho
backs of the people it is not surprising
that the cynical regard political contests
as matter Of addition, division and
hilence.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-27
A TIMELY CELEBRATION

TNHE special celebration which is to sig
nalize the 132d anniversary of the
signing of the federal constitution on
September II is wisely planned. The
COMMITTEES in charge of the event. sched-
uled to take place at independence Hall,
hopes to increase regard for American
ism and all that it means in the mind Of
the average citizen.
1t will accomplish this in a particu-
larly timely way if it prompts him to re-
fresh his memory with facts concerning
the passage of the momentous instru-
,ment in the face of all the dire things
which were said at the time concerning
its character.
The names which the league of nations
has been called were mild in comparison
with those which some of the most emf
nent statesmen in the land hurled at the
constitution. Furthermore, that docu-
nient was not framed on rigidly applied
principles. Its basis was compromise.
Such history as is now available of
those secret sessions at Sixth and Chest
nut streets make fruitful and instructive
reading at the present hour.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-27

ers in the war was disproved by the evil
dence that his sons responded when they
were summoned and that his daughters
volunteered for service as nurses. And
the congressman's own record in tn"
House Of Representatives. proves that he
voted his convictions before we entered
the war and that after the declaration OF
war he voted for all bills intended to pro-
vide for eGuipping and maintaining the
army in the field. That he differed III
detail with others before tho declaration
Ct war is to his credit. for it proves that
he does his own thinking under his own
hat and takes orders from no one.
The personal and political record Of
the congressman is clean. Tho attempt
to beamirch it thus far has acted like
boomerang. and if it is kept up the boom
eIang is likely to nv back and hit the
oppCsition in its most vulnerable spot.
No one wants this to lie campaign Of
mudslinginG. SO W" say again If Judge
Patterson is wise he will call off mis-
friends who are stacking the congress-
man personally.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-27
CURE WORSE THAN DISEASE

HUDSON MAXIM is evidently not a
= candidate for the presidency. If he
were he wquld not be advocating the ad-
mission to che United States of / 100000
Chinese coolies to be hired as farm labor
ers at fifty cents day and two suits Of
clothes a year.
It is undoubtedly true. as he says. that
through the use of coolie labor Louisiana
could produce more sugar than is pro-
duced in the whole United States and
Cuba together. 1t is undoubtedly true
also that coolie labor on the roadbed Of
the railroads would reduce the cost of
maintenance by hundreds of millions.
And it is true that the coolies would be
better off here than in China.
But what politician dare face the storm
OF protest that would rise the moment he
proposed that the American workingman
be forced to compete right here at home
with cheap Asiatic labor especially in
these days when the workingman finds it
difficult to make both ends meet on the
present scale of wages?
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-27
THIS WAY 70 DISASTER

E1THER the majority in the Senate
- foreign relations committee is deter
mined to wreck the peace. the desire for
which moved US to eXpend our blood and
treasure so Drodigally year ago. or
else for the sake Of transient and spe-
cious show of power it is frantiCally
willing to descend even to the depths of
idiocy.
The adoption by a vote of seven to nine
of the blanket amendment whereby the
United States would be forced to with
draw from all the various international
commissions save that of reparation and
those to be appointed b. the league of
nations deliberately forecasts for this
country a role both contemplate and
utterly fatuous.
1t is inconceivable that the Senate,
even in its widest moods, will indorse
such disgusting stuff. which could de-
stroy the peace treaty, render the league
of nations farce and constitute a base
betrayal Of all the principles for which
we stood in the war for civilization. Not
since Japan some three centuries ago
sulkily decided to become hermit nation
has policy more cXtravagant and
lunatic tecn propounded.
BY its actions the Senate foreign rela
tions committee is blackening the good
name Of the Republican party and reck-
lcssly pointing the way to national and
international disaster. Porter J. Nc
Cumbcr. of North Dakota, has kept his
head. 1t looks as though his party asso-
ciates on the committee hid none to keep.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-27
BOOMERANG A DANGEROUS TOY

FUDGE PATTERSON, if he is wise will
y call OFT his friends who are making
personal attacks upon Congressman
Moore. The public was assured that this
VIZ to be a campaign without offensive
rsonalities, but no sooner was Con-
*ressman Moore selected as the candi-
date Of the Independents than Coroner
Knight made nasty attack upon his
pstriotism. And now Thomas Robins
follows the example of the coroner An
attempt also has been made to mislead
the public on the congressman's labor
record.
Mr. Moore's record as a friend Of labor
is clean; and everybody knows that it is.
Ne has not stood in front of the labor
forces as their bully to jam their de-
mnndE down the throat of capital, but
he has been the intelligent and consist
eat advocate OF every measure which
<,1f for the best interests of labor This
~e< n<dc apparent even by casual ex-
2n'nttion u his course in Congress.
ItS chsfEo.ihst his family were slack;
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-27
Answers to Yesterdays Quiz

l. The term gay Lothario" is derived
from the character of frisky liber-
tine in Rowe's old comedy, "The Fair
Penitent."
= Siesia is a large region of central
Europe, mainly in the upper basin of
the Oder.
3. A poncho is originally South
American cloak, an oblong piece of
cloth or blanket material with a slit
in the middle for the head,
A. An English ell equals forty five inches.
,. Intransigeant means uncompromisng in
politics.
q. Senator Fall is from New Mexico.
I. Jesus Renteria is said to have been the
chief OF the brigands who captured the
two American army ayiators.
s. MIR. Riekard is the acting national food
administrator in the absence in Eu-
rope Of Herbert G. Hoover.
0. A ''luau'' is native Hawaiian feast !.
in which, traditiopally, raw fish
should be one of the main dishes.
10. The tnllest trees in, The world are the
giant sequoias Of CALIFORNIA;
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-27
MUCH VIRTUE IN A "YET"

T'HE delegates at the conference OF GOV
ernors in Salt Lake City are talking
Of Governor Sprou for the presidency.
When asked about his ambitions tho
genial Delaware county statesman
smiled and remarked that h" lad lot
Of things TO do in Pennsylvania and thai
he hadn't been bitten By the presidential
bug yet.
There is as much virtue in "yct" as
in an "if." 1t leaves the door Of the
future wide open for the Governor to
come and go as he ploases. He evidently
studied the use Of the English language
to some purpose when nc was in Swarth-
more College.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-27

paralyze the country for an indefinite
period to enforce demands for impossi-
bic wage scales and limited national con-
troll Of mines. They actually made the
threat and the government, helpless, with
its back to the wall told them desper-
ately to go ahead. The unions perceived
clearly that they would be necessarily
involved in any disaster or hardship that
might become general in England and
they went back to work.
The railway brotherhoods demanded a
reduction in living costs rather than in
creased pay. They knew that strikes and
Interruptions in transportation or pro-
duction drive prices up and keep multi
tudes idle. Similarly the unionized
wage-Ca1ncrs at the Midvale Steel Works
made il plain IN n recent announcement
that they saw danger Of an economic
deadlock and an impossible dilemma for
the whole county in further insensate
agitation for wage increases which the
consuming public carnot meet. For in
the end it is the consuming public that
must pay. II it docs not or cannot pay
no industries can survive.
The issue raised by President Wilson,
therefore. is not confined within the rail-
road problem. The challenge from WASH
ington will strike farther and deeper.
IL is a demand for order issued in the
midst of disordcrly scrimmage. As a
pronouncement made with the authority
Of the President of the United States il
is sure to lave a profound effect on the
minds Of labor leaders everywhere. Such
an appeal from so high a source may
sober the country and even tho railway
shopmen A general strike. made in the
face of so fair and logicsl an argument
would be lost at the moment Of its decla-
ration.
What industrial America needs now
for the relief Of all the people. is free
dor1 from economic restraints. frcer pro-
duction and an iron heel on profiteers
who happen for space to have an upper
hand
Then the vocelcss public, which pays
all wages. would be able to find a rea-
sonable basis for the settlement of all
wage disputes. 1t is tired of being
clubbed.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-27
The Man That Blacks Ny Shoes

,NTID all the men that nave met
INl OF high or low degree
! never saw II mortal yet
As reticent as he.
| cannot keep the BARRIERS
From making me their friend,
But no such thought he harbors
Who grooms my other end:
Vain in the chair above him
Each condescending ruse;
He will not let me love him
The man who blacks my shoes.
7 GAZE down on his occiput--
My dome is nearly bare
And while he's busy with my foot
envy him his hair.
Did hair restorer's rubbing
Produce that midnight shock:
fear silent snubbing
All inquiry would mock.
'Tis not his to enighten
My brain with private news.
But just my feet to brighten
The man who blacks my shoes
90 THUS we meet and thus we part
~ And much against my will;
Indeed, it nearly breaks my heart
That we are strangers still.
Some men care not a boddle,
But would like to know
What's passing in his noddle-
I'd fain some kindness show.
He looks as II he Stunned rum,
Bad habits he eschcws,
But he is my conundrum-
The man who blacks my shoes
SAMUEL MINTURS PECK.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-27
The Goldhnch

A bird arose from the witch grass shade
Like morning star on wings of night,
But golden star that will never fade
From eyes that welcome the morning light.
Like cleaning beacon he fits along,
Dipping and rising over the hay,
Filling the air with bursts Of song. b.
Where will you lead us, star'of day?
You twinkle gaiy from bush and tree
Like the spirit of hope through the passing
years.
You will hutter on, aud your light will be
Like her torch that flashes, then disnp-
pears
PHOEBE HOFFMAN.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-27
THE DRY World

TNlIE prohibitionists have won.
L With dryness of bone
The doom has come to Demon Rum
And he no more is known.
The league Of nations graudly plans
\ visionary scheme
To quchch the food of Demon Blood
With Woodrow's pretty dream.
And Labor has nifty plot.
For it is seeking now
That primal wet, old Demon Sweat,
70 dry upon the brow.
But still millennium is far,
Until the bye and bye,
Till disappears old Demon Tears
We won't be really dry.
Wilson. in New York Sun.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-27
THE CHAFFING DISH

that our beloved town is stad and prim.
we like to remind them that most of the
merry go rounds for crcuscs and amusc-
ment resorts are made in Germantown. All
over the country. at this moment, people
are whirlinG in tho vcrtiginous ecstasy OF
the carrousel. while the steam pipe organ
screams "I}rightcn Up the Corner Where
You Are" It's a great life ms long nS your
arteries hold out.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-27
CONGRESSMAN MOoRE'S
LETTER
Tom Oonaldson's Fondness for Dogs
John |. 5riehts Traffic Plan-Gos.
sip About John Kelley, Edward
J. Dooner and Others
TON DONALDSON. the Pennsylvania

TON DONALDSON. the Pennsylvania
state Insurance commissioner. is n sym
pathetic cuss. Everybody who knows Tom
knows that he Is humorous criss also. and
those who have had dealings with him ms
insurance commissioner know that he is Il
vigorous "uss. but they do not know about
Tom sympathetic side. It's case Of n
dog. Whether Tom began to like dogs when
hC was down in Washington helping his
distinguished father at the Smithsonian In
Stitution is not known. but Tom is certainly
more of friend of the dog than he is of the
dog tax. There's n quaint lttlc place outside
Of Radnor. known as tho Francisvale Home.
II Is n homo for dogs. and there Is a little
cemetery on the hillside of seven acre
tract where faithful dogs lie buried. Tom
has sought out that spot lie wants the
dog he loves to be laid away with marker
over his grave.
That dog has been as good friend to me
as some other people," is the way Tom puts
it, and won't stand for his being thrown
in the ash heap"
The dog home is out near Edward Chasr's
place back of Radnor and it is worth a visit ;
so is the cemetery The number of BUS
trrs. "BilliNs' and "Bonnies" that are
laid away in this little graveyard attest the
friendship Of the dog for the human animal
and Of reciprocal feeling Observe the cpl
taph on tho stone above tho bones Of 'Snookic
Mliddrndorf. aged fifteen years" Snookic
was the pet Of the children aud this is the
way they mrmorialized her.
Our daily pet
We will never forget
She was sweeter than all
The caudy she 'ct' (atpl
Tom save tbot's nnrnttv yood' noctrv
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-27
What Do You KnO,U?


J. What was originally the profession OF
Herbert c. Hoover?
>. What is the second largest city in Can
ada? -
g. What is the meaning of the word ap-
.pelate?
t. Where was the battle of Bunker Hill
fought?
). Who was Volta?
q. What is "lci':
I. What is Il brill?
s. What was the first name of the show
man Barnum?
o. Who was the third President of the
United States?
10. What is rCandemas? 81,
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-27

WE ARE collector of autographs, in
w mild and subtcrfugitivc way: but the
man whose signature we have most zeal for
amassng is Houston Il. Techec. And VI
you don't know who he is. then you don
sean your pay envelope with the afectionate
attention il deserves.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-27
A Modest Request

On account Of the marriage of my servant
] wish for immediate employment healthy,
religious, lusty Young Girl, which is already
accustomed to heavy hodsework, good cook
and willing to get up early in the morning
Frau Nussbaum, Halberstadt, Friedrich
strasse A.
ADV in Frankfurt Germany news,
J paPss' SOCRATES
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-27

Moro than a thou
\ Scrap Of Paper sand bricklayprs went
out on strike yPster
day. They were getting 81 for an eight
hour day and they demand SO. 1t is their
privilege. But-- 1t is said the brick
layers are violating an agreement made
with their employers in striking at this
time andethat employers have made con.
tracts on the basis Of the agreement made.
No labor union can afford to consider an
agreement scrap of paper. The penalty
for that kind of thing is still fresh in the
public mind.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-27

"A committee ap
Not \ews--Just pointed at recent
Dream meeting of Seventh
ward hOuseholders
has completed the purchase Of Green Lane +
next season crop of potatoes. The potatoes
will be retailed at cost, Seventh warders
being given the preference
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-27

There was u furry OF
The Storm Brewing snow in Hornel, y.
Y. yesterday. but
just wait until the first Tuesday in No
vember, when the voter goes to the polls
holding in his hand
A weapon that comes down as still
As snowfakcs upon the sod
But executes Il freeman's will,
As lightning does the will Of God
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-27

Speaking of daylight saving. there seems
to be much said on both sides. Isaiah oHrrS
a safe $3.50 on tho subject, saying with his
customary gloom (V,20l "Woe unto them
that put darkness for light and light for
darkness.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-27

Uncle Sam is planning to open a cut
price food store here, but it is dollars to
doughnuts that few people outside Of its
neighborhood will care enough about saving
money to take the trouble to patronize it.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-27

The brirklayerS want SO day. So
do the carpenters, and the drug clerks, and
the cabinetmakers. and tho printers and all
the rest of the workers. But will they get
it? That is the serious question.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-27
Social Chat

Sinclair Lewis. the we'll known writer
with red hair. is staying in West Chester
looking for a house, so Joe lIcrgcshcmcr
informs us. 1t woud he terrible if West
Chester should become a literary colony.
God forbid, we circulate.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-27

We invited Somerset Vaughan. the spar
king cync from Great Britain, t" come over
from New York and be Dished. As soon as
he heard this, Mr.. Muugham left for China.
Mr. Maugham says that if China will stand
still long enough for him to got a good look
at her he will write play about her. Our
guess is that she will.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-27

Chain stores are to
Our Government in be established by the
Chains government in four
teen cities for the
sale of household commodities included in
the surplus stock of the War Department.
and there is possibility that the department
will buy as we'll as sell. and thus remain in
definitely in tho retail business. If the
plan brings down tho price Of necessities
and swats the prOhtocr without unduly
hurting the corner grocprymar it may be-
elaborated. We may yet have Federal
Reserve groceries and bakeries and laundries
as well as Federal Reserve banks.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-27
Ecstatic Tribute
Houston b..

Houston b..
The Cherokee.
Is the man whose name ne'cr pals on me-
] love to study his autograph.
Which never fails to make me laugh.
And il you don't know where it's wrote.
Just carefully study n dollar note.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-27

Hudson Maxim, inventor Of guns. says
the way to shoot up the high cost of living
Is to import a million coolies and put them
to work. As We have enough problems on
our hands without importing them. we ven Z.
turc the opinion that Maxims shot is wide
Of the mark. II would be easier 10 get
them than to get rid of them.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-27

A IDITOR GENERAL SNYDER Of
"A Pennsylvania is one of the rafting good
story tellcrs Of the state. He makes hit
in Washington every time he trcspasses across
tho border. Here IS the latest from tho
Pennsylvania statesman: Some fc1crs
went down to the Bellevue Stratford. had
good time and charged it up to me. In due
course the Bellevue wrote mo letter run
ming something like this: we would feel
much better il this bill was paid.
80 would L. wrote the witty auditor
general in reply
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-27

When crops are be
The New Mother having there's wis
Goose dom in saving surplus
food. for the winter
is nearing From season to season is stor-
age house wisdom; beyond it is plain prof
itpeTing