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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-02-10
DOCTORS ON STRIKE

ADOCTOR on a strike is a new and
"A stunning phenomenon. And the med
ical men in the school inspection service
seem to be in deadly earnest. They receive
5000 a year. They want $1,000. and they
will strike, we are told. on the first Of
March, unless the increase is granted.
Now, doctors are human. They haven't
had pay increase since 1912. And since
1912 they have had to face high costs of
living and income taxes like the rest Of US.
It is presums BILE that their little thermom-
eters and their scalpels and all the other
dreadful appliances of the profession have
acquired wings of price. And there is the
high cost of fiivving, a nightly important
matter for a doctor who is always in a
hurry.
The Board of Education is hard-pressed
for money, but It appears it will have to
rustic around and find more money for
its medical men. The school service is
vitality important II visiting physician
did no more than send one child with a
CONTAGIOUS affiiction out OF a roomful of
tots once a year he would earn the $1,000
that he asks. And he would, in the end,
save the community more than the cost Of
his services for a twelvemonth. Doctors
are patient folk, and for that reason too
many people have a dim notion that they
ought to do all their work-as they now do
a great deal Of it-for nothing. AS a mat
ter Of fact they have to grind along under
exactly the same burdens that trouble most
Of their patients
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-02-10
WHAT NOT TO DO WITH RAILROADS

MR.. BRYAN, who has almost always
A'A suggested the wrong remedy for adj
mitted ills. is outdistanced in folly BY the
representative of the railroad brotherhoods
who has proposed a solution Of the rail.
road problem.
Mr.. Bryan told the Rivers and Harbors
Congress in Washington that the Federal
government should own the trunk lines.
because 1t would cost too much to buy the
feeding lines. lie said that this plan
would regulate rates by natural competi.
tion and benefit the whole country. II
would obviate the necessity of establish.
ing a railroad bureau in Washington and
would preserve the independent control
OF the States over the railroads wholly
within their borders. A practical railroad
man could puncture this plan so full Of
holes in five minutes that It would look
like sieve
But the railroad brotherhood plan, set
forth before the Senate Committee on In
terstate Commerce by Glenn E. Plumb, is
so wildly impractical and visionary that
it is astounding that man in full pos
session OF his senses should seriously sug.
gest it.
Mr. Plumb would have the government
buy the roads at the appraised value Of
their physical plant, regardless Of the
value OF their franchises or Of the amount
of money that has legitimatey been spent
upon them. Then he would have an
operating corporation organized whose
sole capital should consist OF operating
ability. This corporation would be man.
aged by a board OF directors, one.third
chosen by the railroad employees below the
grade of appointed officials. one-third by
the appointed officials and the final third
by the President of the United States.
One-half OF the profits Of operation would
go to the employees and the other half to
the government.
It will be seen al once that this is a
plan for joint ownership Of the railroads
by the employees and the government,
with control vested in the hands Of
the employees. But the employees are
spared the responsibilities Of ownership.
They are TO share in the profits, but
they are not to stand any Of the
losses. The losses would, Of course, be
met by tax on the people and the
control over wages would rest in the
hands Of the men who received them. A
more ope-sided plan was never before seri.
ously proposed to Congress. A more
ridiculously impractical one was never
devised by the Bolshevists.
What the outcome of the railroad situa-
ton will be we do not know, but we are
confident that there is enough common
sense in the American people to insure
that it will not involve any such unfair
and confscatory program as this. Better
have out and out ownership by the gov.
ernment and be done with it, tragic as
that would surely prove.
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DOCTOR CONwELL AND TEMPLE UNI.
F VERSITY

A MAN is not only known by his work
"A but a man is his work
A mans work is his embodied spirit.
Flesh and blood will pass, but the spirit
lives forever.
We are such stuff as dreams are made
off, said the Bard in pessimlstic mood.
But therein lies our immortality. Our
dreams are ponderable when our physical
selves have ceased even 70 be a memory.
They are alive and active in the world
when the brains that gave them birth are
stilleds forever
The life work Of every man is to ma
terialize the spirit within him. His sue
cess in life must be gauged by the beauty
of the soul thus made visible.
Sometimes the man as we know him and
his work as we see II seem wholly dis
similar. OF Oliver Goldsmith for instance,
it was said he wrote like an angel and
talked like poor Poll. We have known in
our own history men of the highest in
tegrity as statesmen who were decidedly
on color in their social relations. But
ordinarily the man and his work are Of
one personality and OF the same moral
quality.
4 Frequently the man and his work are so
thoroughly knit together that it is quite
Impossible to think OF one without the
other. Edison and Ford mean electricity
and fiivvers.
In the same way, Dr. Russell II. Conwell
means Temple University.
And when we say Temple University we
do not mean the handsome building that
bears the name That is merely part of
The trappings that deck great idea.
Temple University is the concrete ex,
PRECISION OF the thought that all human
beings can be improved by education; that
~ should be given an opportunity to get
shat education. and that steps should be
taken to make them desire that education
The towering OF that thought has made
'>loquent clergymen out Of coal beavers
sk>siness heads out of drudges; great
>cutiyes out Of apathetic laborers; think
+ 1 men out OF automatic machines
xompls University has done these
1or4, Is doing them. and in the doing OF
~ makes visible the soul Of Doctor
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-02-10

Conwel the man who. above all other
men, made Temple University possible
Doctor Conwell's story Of Temple Uni.
versity begins in the EVENING PUBLIC
LEDGER today. 1t is a story told by
past master in the use Of words. who de-
liberately refrains from making his nara.
tive anything but plain matter-of-fact
chronicle OF events. But its very simplicity
engages the interest and holds the atten-
ton.
OF himself he says very little. He is not
thinking Of anything but Temple Univer-
sity. And simply because of that fact hts
story has all the fascination OF autobi-
ography. For the story Of Temple Univer.
sity is the life history OF Dr. Russell H.
Conwell
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-02-10
NOT STJNC YET

AuITE emphatically Governor Sproul
W has informed the boomers that lie
isn't entertaining any presidential bee in
his bonnet.
Wise man.
One of the saddest of American instl-
tutions is the Perpetual Candidate. The
p. C. loses interest in an office almost as
soon as he acquires IT, His job becomes
for him merely step upward to another
Naturally. there is good deal of faulty
administration in consequence.
Nowadays the people have an increasing
respect for the man who does his work
That is why the really great Offices are
reserved for those who do not make job
hunting an occupation.
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THE CHAFFYNG DISH

gotten who it was-will return them. we
will return Page Allinson's demijohn,
which he brought to us, full of cider, the
night the armistice was signed. We are
holding Pages demijohn in pledge until
the other fellow returns those books.
Mrs. Ann Dante says she has invented
husband.proof ice box.
Herbert Johnson wants to make a second
correction in our articles on cartoonists.
He says that we have conveyed the i'm
preston that he was intimate with Clare
Briggs when they were boys together out
in old 'Braska. Intimate, that is, in the
sense that Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer
were intimate He pointed out to us, from
under his umbrella the other morning,
while the drip ran down our neck that he
was fourteen when Briggs was seventeen,
and that while boys of those ages are often
friendly, they are rarely intimate. Too
much awe resides in the heart of the
fourteen-year -old.
Having made this matter quite plain by
now, We trust we state that the discussion
Of just how well Herbie knew Clare in
those old days is now completely, definitely
and finally closed.
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In Memoriam Lady Eglantine

HI uAoHiOtidH Lazy Byzantine
We have received the following commu
nication:
Dear Socrates: Fame, alas! is fleeing.
Only short time ago my mother, Lady
Byzantine, was entertained at the Bellevue
Stratford and justly accorded the honor of
being the most famous hen in the world.
Now see by the papers dixie Hennessy)
that another fowl, calling herself Lady
Victory. Is sojourning at the Poultry Show
on the Parkway, and is receiving tribute
as the worlds greatest egg-layer.
My mother, Socrates, was of the old
fashioned kind publicity was always dis
tasteful to her; in spite of her achieve.
ments she was no egotist; she would mod
estly shrink from any such public contro-
versy over matters that are, in the last
analysis, wholly domestic. Until her tragic
death from over-p production, she quietly
went about her duties as a professional
ancestor. Ny father Whose name 1 have
unfortunately forgotten was Nestor
among fowls. II he knew of the present
attempt upon the part of Lady Victory and
her consort, General Pershing, to wrest
my sainted mothers well-laid honors frJm
her, he would be the first to protest. Gal
liant gentleman that he was (rny mother
has Ditch told me that ne was the original
forefather Of the omelet mentioned by the
poet Cray he would vindicate the family
honor with bss& and spur.
Unhappily I do not feel physically able
to undertake the task of honor required
by the situation. that of challenging Lady
Victory to personal satisfaction on the
field of duel. am crestfallen over this,
which is due to the fact that owing TO an
unfortunate error at the Bellevue -Stratford
(when my mother was staying there year
ago) was very nearly hard.boiled in in
fancy. L was rescued from the saucepan
just in time. but the experience has left
me much Of an invalid. But ask IL there
is not some champion in this great city
who will take up the cudgels in behalf OF
my mothers reputation?
HENRIETTA EGLANTINE,
Daughter of Lady Byzantine. the worlds
most famous hen.
It is some consolation to the decanter-
| bury pilgrims that the longest days OF the
year lie between now and the First of July.
! SOCRATES.
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Fresh Air and tatesmanship

fresn Air ana Statesmanshlp
THE best cure for Bolshevism is fresh
l. air.
We don't know just what Bolshevisn is,
nor does anybody else; but that doesn't
matter The best cure for anything is
fresh air.
We are not going TO discuss this very
exhaustively, for we are in hurry to get
out for lunch; but, as Senator Sherman
says when he has some particularly nox-
ious fumes to emit, we submit" our con-
siderations.
vTIIE Peace Conference did well to ap-
L point the Princes Islands, deliciously
swimming in the blue water Of the Sea of
Marmora, for the meeting with the Rus
sian Soviets. There will be all the heaven
ly colors and fragrances Of Asiatic spring.
The hearts of Lenine's emissaries long
pent among whiskers and steaming samo-
vars and the crowded il.ventiated salons
Of radicalism, will be marvelously uplifted
by sunshine and mild blue air. Before
the session gets down to business it is to
be hoped there will be picnic or two;
some serf bathing, perhaps; William Allen
White, genial and friendly emissary, &C.
customed to the broad airy plains Of Kan
sas, will puff in and out his ample lungs;
Professor Heron, our other mandatory,
fresh descended from the snowy spires Of
the Swiss, will bat out few fungoes for
wheeling Reds in the vacant lots behind
Prinkipo; and when they all sit down to
the table together, the dreadful vapors of
Bolsheyism will have vanished like a bad
dream.
WE HAVE frequently said that il
w only corncob pipes had been intro.
duced to Russia years ago, We should never
have had the Bolshevik troubles. STEPPED
In the gentle narcosis of cob. no man
can rave too wildly over mortal perplexi.
toes, II Bill White takes a few Kansas
corncobs along with him, all will be hap
pity settled.
TIME reason for almost all human ills is
l. lack Of proper ventilation. Editors,
when they write peevish articles, do SO
because most editorial offices are III pro-
tded with windows. They sit all day long
in an incessant whirlpool OF strong tobacco.
They are needless of the sweet spring
rains. the cleansing gusts Of strong air
that scour only a few feet away. Give
them a day on the Boardwalk at Atlantic
CITY, or a month by the blue waters of
prinkipo, and all will come right. When
eve- -nu come across any really construc-
tiyo b.: of thinking be sure that 1t was
born either in the open air or not far from
a window. Do we have to mention the
Sermon on the Mount to drive our point
| home?
TF WE had been sens to Paris to write
i articles about the Peace Conference, the
first thing we would have done would not
have been 70 lie in wait for the statesmen
| in the hope of getting something "exclus-
| iye.d We would have gone to see the jani-
tor at the Quai d'Orsay to find out what
arrangements had been made for ventilat
| ing the sessions and to count the number
| OF windows in the conference chamber
| Give statesmen plenty OF fresh air and
| everything will solve itself in time.
| We often wonder whether few electric
fans wouldn't solve the troubles of the
| Senate?
Social Notes
II the man TO whom we lent two vol
| umex of Tom Daiy's poems--we have for
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-02-10
NOW Is THE TIME to- BE
A BULL IN THE MARKET
Governor Sproul Realizes 1t When He De.
msnds the Expenditure of $80,00o,000
for State improvements

THE next twenty years in this country
= belong to the optimists, to the men who
are bulls on America and have confidence
in the recuperative powers Of this IRE.
pressible people.
Much peaceful business has been at
standstiil for nearly four years, and more
Of II has been stagnant for two years. The
energies Of the nation were concentrated
on winning the war and we surprised our
selves and the rest of the world by the
things which we did. There has been a
revelation Of the resources OF America
which has astounded the experts who
thought they knew all about them
The problem OF switching the war ener.
gies back into peaceful channels is not
beyond us. even though some pessimists
are wearing Grape and telling us that it
can't be done without great loss and suf-
fering
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-02-10

II is rather reininis-
Poor Dears! cent of familiar
feminine habit, isn't IT,
to observe that Miss Alice Paul and her
militant suffragists who expended limitless
time and energy in efforts to get abroad to
heckle the President, should land in France
with their banners and their speech-burning
apparatus Just as Mr.. Wilson is packing to
depart for home?
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-02-10

Ladies and gentlemen y said Chancellor
Ebert in addressing the first German As
sembly. One can admit the ladies while de-
manding clamorousiy to know who the for
eisn visitors are upon the other side Of the
house.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-02-10
The Root
Of Evil

The Socialists at
The Root Berne, who claim to
Of Evil have the secret of
peace and happiness
in their philosophy are quarreling and quib-
bling more passionately than the old-fash-
ioned diplomatsts at Paris. 1t is with human
nature that the faults OF civilization lie and
It isn't any easier now than It ever was
TO make an ideal world by political schemes
alone.
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I'VE are through with
Always Doubtful the old order" cried
Chancellor Ebert to
the new German Assembly. Now. II he had
made that promise about the old disorder.
the world could look to the people beyond
the Rhine with little more sympathy.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-02-10
Answers to Saturdays Quiz

Answers to Saturdays Quiz
/. Edward II, son of Edward OF England,
was the first Prince Of Wales He was
born in 1884
o Elihu Root was the head of the American
mission which visited Russia shortly
after the overthrow of the Gear in
1917.
3. Flaccid means hanging loose or wrinkled.
4. The Carpet Baggers were northern
political adventures who sought q
career in the southern states after the
Civil War
5. The new Federal tax bnl is expected To
yield more than six billion dollars.
g. "Vae victisw means Woe to the
vanquished!' -
Z. A buibul is an eastern song thrush.
nightingale.
g. "Gratin." usually used In English In the
phrase, 'au gratin." means way Of
cooking by bread-crumbins and cook
ing between two nres to produce 3
light crust.
o. Tie real name of Nicolai Lenins is vlall-
mir Utulyanoff.
10 Gaetano Donisstti wrote the music Of ths
opera Lucia"
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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-02-10
THE RISING TOTAL
OF LEGAL HOLIDAYS
Pennsylvania ,WiH Have Eleven
Yearly Should the Celcbrd-
tion OF RooseUelts Birth
day Be authorized

RESPoNSIvE to Americas affectionate
admiration OF Theodore Roosevelt
strikingly manifested In the heartfelt trib-
utes paid to his memory throughout the
nation yesterday, is the proposal to add
his birthday to the list OF holidays. Repre-.
sentative Edmonds has brought up the
subject in Congress. His bill is as prece.
dent'shaking as the great American whom
it honors. for IL Roosevelt Day is estab.
lished by Federal law. october 27 will be.
come the first Of national holidays.
1t is the popular misconception that the
Fourth Of July falls into this class. Its
official observance wherever the American
flag flies is. however, not the result Of all
inclusive Washington legislation. Congress
has prescribed the celebration for the terri
tories, insular possessions and the District
Of Columbia. Elsewhere the authority
comes from the States. Naturally, all Of
them have ordered the festival. They are
unanimous. too in giving the official sane
ton to Christmas and to Thanksgiving
Day.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-02-10

OF LATE years the holiday total in
" Pennsylvania has been rising. The in
clusion Of Roosevelt Day would bring the
number up to eleven. Columbus Day and
Lincoln's Birthday are comparative new.
comers. Labor Day belongs to the latter
part of the last century. Previous to its
authorization q somewhat conservative at
titude on holidays prevailed Washington
was the only national figure honored. Trib-
ute was paid to the Civil War heroes on
Memorial Day and to independence on
THE Fourth" Christmas. New Years.
Thanksgiving, Good Friday and Election
Day completed the list.
The present penchant for honoring great
figures in American history with holidays
is capable, Of course, Of wide extension
and calls for the application of no little
taste and discretion. Franklins turn may
come, and then Pennsylvanians may begin
to wonder why the founder Of their State
is omitted. and Robert Morris. General
Meade Thaddeus Stevens, Bayard Taylor,
Robert Fulton for he wass born in this
Commonwealth Muhlenbtrg. Matthias
Baldwin, Stephen Decatur (who is buried
in PHILADELPHIA and James Buchanan, our
one President.
The list could be prolonged. Estimates
of their various achievements naturally
differ. Holiday qualifications have not yet
been accurately tabulated. Much that is
haphazard and emotional enters into the
choice of redletter days, when personalities
are under consideration. England evades
| the quandary without a single tribute Of
| the sort to one OF her heroes. Neither
| Victoria's nor the Kings birthdays are
! holidays established by law. This conserva-
| tism is transcribed by Newfoundland with
a total OF but four NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
| New Years, Good Friday and Empire Day.
TINE procedure seems trife niggard.
l. The policy of remembering the births
of patriots, genuses and noble characters
in the drama of civilization Is susceptible
of inspiring development. The difficulty
| of discrimination is the drawback. A
composite holiday might prove the solu'
ton. A day in memory of illustrious Penn
sylvanians might be made an inspiring
occasion.
over the portals Of the Paris Pantheon
CLEANS the golden inscription, ITO the
Great Men of the Fatherland." Only a
very few OF them--Hugo, Sadi-Carnot and
some others-are buried in the crypt. But
the blanket" tribute stands. 1t Is COM
prehensive, dignined and suggestive Of q
method applicable to the holiday ques
ton"
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Social Notes

II the man TO whom we lent two vol.
umes Of Tom Days poems--we have for
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-02-10

Pennsylvania fortunately has an optimist
i'll the Governors chair in Harrisburg. Mr..
Sproul is not worrying about the future,
but is making plans for public improve
ments which will go long way toward
providing work for the idle while prl-
vate industry is readjusting itself to
absorb the men discharged from the army.
But the relation OF his road program TO
unemployment is only incidental 1t will
give work to unskilled labor, it is true.
Tenders OF stone crushers, men TO shovel
the crushed stone into freight cars and
then to cart it to the roads and spread it
on the ground concrete mixers and cement
makers and the rest will be employed by
the thousands when work on the roads
begins. Civil engineers to survey the roads
and fix the grades and drivers of road
rollers and other skilled labor will also be
required The Governor has proposed that
the Delaware River bridge be included in
the road program and suggests that the
State set apart s4,500,000 as its share of
the cost. This bridge will provide work
for skilled bridge builders and for the
workers in the steel mills of the State
But the Governor has put himself and
his influence behind this great plan for
spending ssoOOo,00o on the highways in
the next four years because he is a bull on
Pennsylvania. He has confidence in the
future Of this great industrial and agri-
cultural Commonwealth. He is persuaded
that money spent on roads will be profit.
ably invested because it will facilitate
communication between buyer and seller
Just as the steam railroads and the electric
telegraph and the telephone have done It
will develop community Of interest among
the different sections Of the State, because
It will bring those sections into closer
touch with one another. We have the
credit and we can raise the money which
the voters have said should be spent. The
State is 10 be congratulated on the fact
that II has Governor with the nerve to
demand that it be spent at once in accord.
ance with a policy of enlightened COM
mercial craftsmanship.