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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-09
"PLAIN WORDS"

CPAWN from the foreign cellars, scum Of
~ the gutter slime, ..-....
Reptiles and beasts among humans, born Of
the filth and CRIME.
Cowards that murder in darkness, driven by
senseless hate
Soon we shall rise and crush you-give you
your well earned fate!
What do you know of Freedom, mouthing
the golden word?
Blasphemy this, from your muzzles-bit-S
terest mockery heard.
You who are ruled by red passion, whipped
by your own mad thought,
What can you know of our Freedom-the
precious ways it was bought2
Bullets and bombs and daggers-these are
your venomed fangs!
These you would strike at our great ones,
when night Ger your purpose hangs!
You in our inmost bosom long we have
warmed and nursed-
Now you have turned upon US, kissing your
song accursed! - 81
Back to your dens, you Red ones-fy ere
we use our might,
Burning with righteous anger, sweeping you
out of cur sight;
Making our dear land sweeter, cleaned Of
your hateful breath,
Turning your weapon against you-fear Of
the sudden death
Harry Varley, in the New York Times.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-09
TRANSPAcIFIC AVIATION

THE California movie producer who has
= put aside fund of fifty thousand dol
lars for fight to Australia has set
flying standard the attainment of which
is hardly likely to deplete his pocket
book this summer.
The attractive fashion in which Pacific
ocean maps are dotted with islands is
richer, as regards aviation, in artistic
than in practical appeal. The hop from
atoll to atoll seems alluring until it is
realized that leaping from San Francisco
to Hawaii involves far more vigorous
mastery of mileage than even the one to
which Hawker aspired.
From the Farallones, off the California
coast, to the nearest land in the Sand
wich group is considerable more than
two thousand miles. From Honolulu
southwest reefs and volcanic isles are
much more accommodating and there is
wide choice of routes. Perhaps the
most convenient would take in Tanning,
the Marquesas, Tahiti, the Tongas,
Samoa, Fiji and New Caledonia.
It is the first leg of the journey which
Is formidable, so emphatically so that it
is probable that the gulf from Newfound-
land to Ireland will be spanned before
the transpacific pioneer wings over Dia-
mond Head into Honolulu harbor.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-09
OPEN SEASON FOR NUTS"

THE squirrel in Pennsylvania has been
= allowed to live care-free life from
November 80 of one year until October
20 of the next. He could impudently
fiirt his tail at any Johnny with a gun,
for the game laws protected him. More
over, even in the open season, he had an
average chance for life, for game bags
were limited.
Now all this has been changed. The
Governor has signed Senate bill remov-
ing restrictions from squirrels.
Why, oh why, should squirrels be per-
mitted to run the chance of being exter-
minated with squirrel food SO plentiful?
When, in the history of the country, have
rnuts" been so numerous as they are to-
day7
Isn't there evidence that the Governor
has been hoodwinked in this matter?
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-09
THE CHAFFING DISH

Having since had little more time to think
the matter over, this is what we should have
said:
Our favorite smell: The soft heart Of a
loaf Of rye bread.
Favorite taste The first pipe after supper.
Favorite recreation: Sleep.
Favorite sound: The downward crash of
a rolltop desk at p. m.
Favorite novelist: Stevenson.
Favorite movie star: Dorothy Gish.
Favorite means of transportation Bed
room slippers.
Favorite poet John Milton.
Favorite ambition To learn to typewrite
without watching the keys.
Favorite spectacle: A glass of shandygaff.
Favorite amusement: Reading the Quiz.
Favorite food: Spaghetti with mushrooms.
Favorite play: "Charleys Aunt"
favorite work. Winding our watch at
bedtime.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-09

VAGRANT rumors in Washington indi-
~ cate that Senator Reed and Senator
Borah actually propose to start a new
party, with a view to defeating the
league of nations, if peace becomes an
issue in the 1920 campaign.
Mr.. Reed and Mr.. Borah build only in
words. Those who may be lured to their
band wagon will have a short ride. And
yet they are in way to a new record of
achievement.
For once Mr.. Reed and Mr.. Borah
seem determined to start something that
they can finish.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-09

Or did he, in judicial mood, consider
that since self-preservation is the first
law Of nature the members of the legis-
lative bodies had right to take drastic
action against natural enemy?
But whatever the reason, we feel that
a mistake has been made. Let the Gov
ernor harden his heart and take such
action as may be needed to nullify the
measure which too-willing pen Of his
has made law.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-09

Maybe if an incinerating plant were es j.
tablished in South Philadelphia the garba ..
could be disposed of. And the smell wouldn' =
be any worse than it is today.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-09

The plight of the charter revision com.
mittee suggests the famous bull, ''The muddy
pool of politics is the rock on which tbsy
split"
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-09

The highwaywomen who held up a man
at the points of their hatpins and robbed him
of $500 believe that woman should get the
same pay as man when she does the same
work.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-09

Apropos of the City Clubs plan, IL NAV
be said that, though it doesn't always han.
pen, straw votes may show how the political
wind blows.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-09

Cupid's' arrow found mark in Ser.
geant Alvin g. York where German bullets
failed.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-09
Answers to Saturdays ouIz

NUo"CTo W odtoiooy SuiL
1. Illinois is the third most populous state
in the Union.
Q. Mount Helicon was the seat of the Muses.
and regarded by the Greeks as the
source Of poetic inspiration.
3. The great island of Madagascar belongs
to France.
4, A kickshaw is fancy dish in cookery.
The word also describes toy or trife.
S. William ]. Flynn is chief of the bureau
of investigation of the Department Of
Justice.
g. The oldest courthouse in the United
States is in New Castle, Del.
7. The Smithsonian Institution was estab-
lished in 1876 under the terms Of the
will Of James Smithson, who bequeath-
ed his fortune in 1926 to the United
states to found an institution for ths
increase and diffusion of knowledge
among men,"
q. Elise Rachel was a celebrated French
I, tragedienne. Her dates are 1890
1858. She was of Swiss birth.
o. Cuzco was the capital of the Inca EN-
pire in Peru.
10. Coaming is the vertical boundary Of
ships hatch or skylight.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-09

We shall judge the worth of the new
anti-red squad by the strength of their con
victions.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-09
Cupid In Khaki

Cupid In Khaki
Jim dreamed of Maud while DER the ses
. many, and many a night;
And here at home Maud's revery
or him was pure and bright;
Ay, both were true as they could be
In spite of time and distance
Aided, perhaps, some may, agree,
By fortunate assistance.
For 1t befell that Eulalie
Was quite like Maud in France,
While here at home a man met she
Who had Jim's very glance:
SO khaki clad came Jim with glee
To wed Maud orange buddy
Because each had--how luckily
An unknown understudy.
SAMUEL MINTURN PECK.
We hope, for the sake of the league a,
nations covenant, that it's not going to be a
hot summer in Washington.
Will Vineland, N. j., change It's nams
after the First? And how about the neigh :
boring hamlet of Malaga?
Mr.. Taft appeals for more number -
sockss--News Item
Lives OF great men all remind us 3D.. .-.
We can't be as great ourselves,
Or, departing, leave behind us
Footprints of our number twelyes.
SOCRATES.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-09
According to del
Gas on
Trouble. Waters

According to delegates
Gas ON to the convention of
Trouble. Waters the State Association
OF the Overseers of the
Poor in Atlantic City, New Jersey is being
overwhelmed with wave of prosperity, and
unless something is done for the former
Door" it is liable to go to their heads.
The Garden State ought to be good field for
the automobile salesman. The price Of gaso
line may subdue the wave.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-09

The British have apparently forgotten
the German cries during the war of s.Gott
strafe England!' The point of view Of the
English today seems to be. GIVE the blightes
q show"
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-09

Winnipeg is about ready to move IN to
the Seattle class.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-09

to those Of France at Kuang- Chan Wan
and those of Britain at Wei-Hai-Wei. 1t
is impossible for her logically to object
to the exercise Of French and British au-
thority in those regions unless she admits
that her hold upon the Shantung port is
unwarranted.
While it cannot, of course, be proved
that three wrongs, ethical If not practical,
make a right, it may be demonstrated
that they are concomitants of peace.
Neither Britain nor France has in her
holdings oppressed the Chinese. AS a
matter of fact, the native population, not
large in either instance, has been ap-
preciably benefited. There is small rea-
son to believe that the method Of Japan
will be dissimilar. She is enrolled in the
western league Their ways are likely
to be her ways.
What is most significant is that the
three nations now occupy precisely the
same roles with respect to China. In her
new character, it is more essential than
ever that japan preserve the friendship
Of England and the United States. "She
must cooperate" insists Mr.. Gilbert,
with the ruling powers" To profit by
her opportunities there she must 60 to
them for capital.
These opportunities, it may be added,
arc by no means necessarily of nefarious
implication. All the western nations
with which Japan has aligned herself
have the right to be interested in Chinese
development, to find markets there and to
foster productivity. Colonization tangles
are in no way involved. Japan cannot
build up a great Japanese empire in
China. A different one is already in ex-
istence. Populous China will be Chinese.
1t has every potentiality for becoming
as splendid nation in the western sense
as it has been in the Oriental.
Strict justice may frown at the three
countries which possess three of the
many admirable ports of this republic of
incalculable riches, including the Shan-Si
coal fields, second Pennsylvania, ex-
empt from all foreign control. But the
spirit of peace can hardly fail to take a
certain satisfaction in the outcome which
insures its health. 1t would have been a
sickening tragedy for the world had
Japan ever become the militant leader of
the East against the West. She took a
momentous cooperative step when she
discharged her first shot against the Ger
man forts at Tsing-Tao. She marches
with the civilization of the day, what
ever its shortcomings and deficiencies,
when her new obligations in the East
take on a western hue.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-09
Ersatz Republic

It may be that the
Ersatz Republic reason the French
look with favor on the
establishment of a Rhenish republic is that
future safety means more to them than pres
ent reparation. And by favoring it they may
miss the thing they seek.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-09

The United States
What's Borah Senate m ay ratify,
Fussing About? amend or e e C a
peace treaty. But q
peace treaty il not peace treaty until 1t Is
fully agreed upon by the trainers. There
fore there is at present no peace treaty.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-09
BaIlade of Yesteryear

MY THOUGHTS turn backward, and
Starts when think of days gone by,
OF springtimes when we wandered near
Arcadian meadows-Youth and L
Or dreamed beneath a champagne sky,
Whose jeweed goblet, crystal clear,
Dripped golden moonlight from OIL high
Where are the drinks of yesteryear?
l don't pretend to be a seer,
do not dare to prophesy,
But with ban on wine and beer,
On cordials, cocktails, Scotch and rye,
1t seems to me we men shall die
Debarred from all we hold most dear.
Ghost of my youth, to thee / cry,
Where are the drinks of yesteryear?
Some see, today, with vision clear,
Star Specials speeding through the sky.
They think already we are near
Such great discoveries, Wen soon ply
'Twixt Earth and Mars, and that is why
Our future flows wine-red with cheer.
May they be right! Our worlds so dry!
Where are the drinks of yesteryear?
L'EnvoI
Spiyits of Grape, of Corn, of Rye,
Where are you now? What Is your
sphere?
I'm going-soon's learn to fly
Where are the drinks of yesteryear?
A. REBECCA BAKER.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-09

The peace terms are not nearly SO hard
as the terms the Germans apply to them.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-09

The other day we were called upon to
write in one of those old fashioned family
albums wherein, you are supposed to set
down your favorite sensations, emotions, lit /.
erature and SO on. OF course, having to act
on the spur Of the moment, we blimped badly.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-09
The Vicar of Washington

When lovely Lodge stoops to grafton
And finds that diplomats betray,
What charm can soothe his indignation
Or tell who gave the text away?
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-09
THE kind Of versifying that the free-verse
= poets are best at is controversifying.

DERHAPS some day the city will solve the
L problem of keeping the slum children cool
during hot weather. There may be huge
electric fans, with wings twenty feet long,
driven by enormous Liberty motors to Gre
ate q breeze over the sitting alleys OF sum
mer. There will be vast playground down
in the river meadows Of the Neck, with
municipal buses to take the children down
there and bring them home again. There
will be swimming pools in every large city
square, with water enough for all. Some
of the money once spent on booze might well
60 to these ends. -.. s
TN THE meantime, until we have few
L Abraham Lincolns running our cities,
there are few things we can do. Have you
a dollar resting on its laurels? Send 1t to
the Child Federation, Witherspoon Building.
One dollar in the hands of the Child Fed
Grafton will keep one child cool and healthy,
with expert medical advice, during the hot
waves of this summer. Seems queer, doesn
it. how much one dollar will do? Last year
the Child Federation cared for 1857 babies
at a cost of $1050.
Tell you what we'll do. We hate writing
poems like the very deuce, but we will write
a special poem for every client of the Dish
that sends US a dollar for the Child Fedora
ton. All you have to do is send us dollar
and stamped addressed envelope. Well
pass the bill on to the federation and incor-
porste your name in a poem. All we can
guarantee about the poem is that 1t won't be
free verse. All that we can guarantee about
your dollar is that it may help to save some
child's life in the next hot wave.
Having signed frequent entreaties. perhaps
Brockdorff will soon do the requisite with
the real document.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-09

The nation wide wire strike got its wires
crossed.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-09
What Do You Kno,u?
QUIZ

I. What great coal region in Asia has been
described as Second Pennsylyania"f
Q. Who is s.. ]. Konenkamp?
8. What is the meaning of the word vivip.
arous?
4. How did Elizabeth of Austria come 10
her death?
5. What is the Cordilleran system Of
mountains?
6. Who wrote "Gil Bias? E
VI. How many major drives did the Ger
mans launch against the Entente arr
/, mics last spring and summer?
>s. Who is John Morley?
8. What is a vinculum?
no. What was the prevalent language In
Palestine at the time of Christ?
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-09

Having signed frequent entreaties. perhaps
Brockdorff will soon do the requisite with
the real document.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-09

AS Mr.. Gilbert points out, failure to
yield to Japan in the Shantung affair
would possibly have converted her into a
nation altogether alien in purposes to
her former associates in the world war.
An outsider as regards responsibilities.
it would have been natural for her to
regard herself and China as countries
apart from the now dominant civiliza-
ton, as nations which would some day
feel constrained to defend the Orient in
its most distinctive Oriental aspects.
But under the new arrangement Japan
is partner. The obligations which she
assumes at Kiao- Chau are precisely akin
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-09

We hope. for the sake of the league Of
nations covenant that it's not going to be a
hot summer in Washington.
Evening journal., 1919-06-28
CONTINENTAL DROPS
OUT OF DEL MAR
Gen.. Chemical Team Also
May Throw Up Sponge
Next Week
MICDLETOWN AND
HARLAN WANT in

The Continental baseball team OF
Newark today dropped out Of the Del
Mar League, leaving Wil-Del without
its scheduled game. General Chemical
also sent word TO the league that IL
might have to drop out of the league
on Monday. Wet grounds prevented
the playing of the Elkton-Chemical
game at Claymont today. The only
Del-Mar League game to be played to-
day, therefore, will be that between p.
r. r. and New Castle, at Seventeenth
and Spruce.
Inability to pay players the salaries
due caused the collapse Of the CONT
mental team. Financial difficulties are
also confronting the Chemical team'
and unless the club can find some
means today TO weather the financial
storm they will have to quit before
July 4.
The MiddIetown baseball club has
filed formal application for member
ship in the Del-Mar League, agreeing
10 play on a $3.50 basis ans is anxious
to get going in the new organization
on next Saturday, July 3. Harlan
Layers-Out also want in the league.
The league will meet in the Evening
journal office on Monday night to
formally accept the MiddletOwn appli-
cation and to consider the Harlan offer
Evening journal., 1919-06-28
CRAVATH KEEPS TO
TOP IN NATIONALS
SO Far Ahead That Trailers
See Only Dust He
Leaves
OLSON is THE
LEADING SCORER
NAIIONAL LEAGUE rEArunEs.

Old Gavy Crayath continues to reign
as the sensation OF the National
Leage. Cravath Is so far ahead OF
his field with a batting average of
.4OS that all his sluggbng trailers can
see Is Gavy's dust; Cravath hit the
most doubles and also leads in home
runs with s.
Ivy Olson is the leading run scorer
with 36 tallies. Ivy also banged out
The most base hits, -, while Carson
BiSDee Of the Pirates stole the most
bases, tS; Babe Adams, with a mar
Velous comeback, is topping the hurl-
ers. The Pirate star won 8 games and
lost Tor a percentage OF 800. Babe
played no favorites as he trimmed
every club once, taking the Phillles
twice. He lost games to Boston and
Brooklyn.
Tom Griffith OF the Robins is the
fourth National Lacquer 10 pole nve
hits in a game Hy Myers, Zack Wheat
and Benny Kauff being others. rom
massacred Jess Barnes OF the Giants
on June "a, for three singles. double
and homer with the bases damned
in fve batting trips It was Grlnilhs
second big batting day" during his
seven major years. the FIRST time Tom
rammed George Tyler for hits In
five tries on September 2i. 1916.
Zack Wheat quit TO Jim VAUGHN on
June %, after hitting safely in seven
games, got i3 hits in p tries for .isi
The Robins are the first major
team TO hit the old apple 800 times
safely. Uncle Robins lads reach the
nfih century IN the last game Of
Tuesdays double bill off Jess Barnes
Hod Eller scored ten slrikeouts
when Hod blanked the Cubs on June
2i.
Billy Southworth quit on June %
to Oscar TurrO after a batting streak
lasting eight straight games, inI
which the Pirate slugger banged out
70 hts in % tries for a percentage
OF .536; Billy, two days before, busted
a run scoring streak OF runs in six
straight games, the Braves haltlng
him. The same club stopped Carson
Blgbee the previous day after Blgbee
had tailed runs In games.
Max Flack quit TO Al Mamaux af-
ter scoring 40 runs i'm games and
hitting i6 safe ones in 30 tries for
800 IN games in a row.
Larry Doyle and Casey Stengel are
In tie for hitting the most triples
Each hammered out seven three-bag-
gers
Gavy Cravath was stopped by
Art Neff after a hitting streak OF s
games in a row that yielded Cravath
10 hits in 30 tries for a mark OF .3i3.
Irish Meusel had scored runs In
G straight games when the Braves
halled him ON June %
Evening journal., 1919-06-28
Dempsey Just Boy, Marbles
Poet Cooke Af'er Sizing Him Up
BY EDMUND VANCE COOKE.


There four Of them ,...,,. .o.., v..,o,d.
One her barefoot brother;
And big boy JacEwa the
clubhouse training and Dempsey seemed to me to De s %
nothing but 9oy .,n don't care S S.r he d9s s "s s
He has that little dnden boy
speech as the same boy prayer m b children are
usually easy copy are you get started - ~.
have o lecp moving the hands to he
accommodating hen flash to any
There's something in the way he the
hits quick sudden decisive only in boxing he keeps boring H. IN '
Dempsey E''"S - '''''
Tho bit
Al And d"S Iitt iitle " bit t' short in his speech
Does that mean thing
M5cn he !nt f hops top shy IN the n 6 hsf reachq
Yes Jack Dempsey is just boy
Aspiring to Powerful and Com
plain words believe desire make Mr. Willard
He IS Keats challenging the supremacy Of shaRespere.
He He modern o. Henry throwing w @ down the @ gauntlet @ to ] asso Ihay
He IS Ajax defyins Joye and bis Ightnnss
He He is is the DeneT % IN the % Ghurei % of P6ysion Worsbip
whisper maybe
Yes remember something myself
crying the extras before daylight next morning
they caed him. leading known
% % II Tbe % bo wen @ success ] % b fnoEn@ % y % @ % S @ n e 80 T % @
Wen the Foe person happened to meet
away do down in MsssPP 5 and they fell out % about son something ETH think was
Rather they Mississippi
5 e3 @ 5 II % SP24 P ns actor S @ % aE % @ joint S% person @ Rt of t
Naturally people iuquing is Dempsey
For is wonderful
To an ancient feeble gent;
surprise
If If you you open your your eyes
Copyright 1919 A.
Evening journal., 1919-06-28
LIFE Is SUCH in TOLEDO
BY RAZZ BERRY.

Al press time the referee fight was in
the forty-second round. It looked like
II would go the limit-meaning the last
day or two before the fight.
Toledo says a native son must ref
cree. Toledo likes itself.
s A gentleman seen in the lobby OF the
Secor Hotel was mistakenSfor an Eng
Dish earl, but turned out TO be a mem
Der Of the National Boxing Commission.
Tex Rickard is trying 10 get a mill
lion dollars out OF the fight. Every
other person we meet here seems to
have the same idea
seyenty-flve thousand nght fans.
newspaper men, light-nngered gents.
lead pipe artists and plain nuts will be
looking Tor place to sleep the night
pefore the Tight. Tex Rickard has al
ready provided a resting place which
either Willard and Dempsey can flop on
the next afternoon.
II either Willard or Dempsey is still
asleep after the referee has stulteref
ten the crowd will then start fghtins
itself for the privilege OF getting ou
OF the arena before dark.
As one bug says, there will be NOR
lighting in the ten-dollar seat sectlol
Than there will be in the ring.