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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-18

vention, as Hoover defines IL, took place
after we had entered the war with Ger
many. 1t involved tasks of charity, Of
organization and of reconstruction
silently performed in a dozen nations.
The responsibilities on this occasion fell
upon thousands of unnamed Americans
who drawn "from the common life" of
America, were able to help little democ-
racies that found themselves miserably
astray in the sudden light of freedom to
reorganize their railroads, to build their
shelters, to feed and clothe them and to
show them the new ways of life.
1t cannot be said of Hoover that he
isn't practical man, yet he believes that
all peoples desire peace and co-opera-
ton. And it is a little odd to find that
he bases his faith for the future in the
glow left at the heart of Europe" by the
services done in obscurity or on battle
fields by our people.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-18
Observations In Boston

THE average Hub-ite must be
l A mighty agile animilei
Witness this sign which greeted me
Above a Boston subway stile:
"Persons mast not run up and doton the
escalator or ride on the>moUfnG hdnd-rdiLs"
When we entrained at Forest Hills
witt. no desire to make a fuss,
To keep us in our proper place
This warning placard glared at US:
"Persons detected IN boarding or Ieavfn1 G
car ,ohIle IN motion, may be elected"
They care not how much paint they use,
Their signs with gorgeous words abound
Each time you move from place to place
You find something like this around:
HYhoever, tDithout right, shah loner upon
or remain upon the property Of the Boston
EIe,ated Rdtlt0dy Company, after befno re-
1,,estsd TO IedvG, or shan be guilty OF anu
,ntsdsyneanor or breach Of conduct therein
shall be prosecuted to the tIH eTtet Of the
lao.
wouldn't mo LoAFING" do Just as we'll?
SUB ROSA
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-18
Answers to Yesterdays Quiz


/. Roland Rohlfe established the new air.
plane altitude record at New York
last week, when he assembled to q
height of $4,000 feet.
2. This is-about 5000 feet higher than the
top of Mount Everett,
8. A homuncule is a little man, mannikin.
4. The word carnival is derived from 'car-
nvale," originally the italian name
for Shrove Tuesday. "Carnivale" is
derived from "carnem leyare," to
put away meat. Hence a carnival was
celebration before a period of cb-
stinence.
B. Admiral Won Tirpitz's first name IS
Alfred.
6. Two future Presidents were members Of
the convention which framed the fed
eral constitution in 1887. They were
George Washington and James Madi-
son.
Z. Shelley wrote the lode to Skylark."
8. Month and silver are two English
words for which there is said TO he no
perfect rhymes in the language.
o. Henry van Dyke was American minister
to the Netherlands during the war.
10. The Scotch form of the surname John
son Is Johnstone.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-18
What He Was THINKING About

WE HAD a curious experience yesterday.
w We were moseying along Walnut street
in the serene afternoon sunshine thinking
rather mournfully about the amount of toll
and labor that seems to infest this earthly
life, when we saw in front of us an indi
vidual whom we instantly recognized as that
interesting person, The Average Man.
But the fact that was most startling about
this person was that his head was trans
parent. He himself seemed happily unaware
of this unusual condition as he stood medi-
tating in front of n tailor's window. But
as we watched we wereN amazed to see thai
his forehead was as translucent as n sheet
of clear glass, and through it we could OBJ
serve all the workings and revolvings of
his mind. We felt that this was n good
deal of privilege, as we have always Won
dered what our friends are thinking about,
so we fingered, pretending to study the same
window. Fortunately, he was lost in
thought as the saying goes.
For some seconds his mind remained
kind of cloudy whirlpool of shifting ideas,
all mingled and knotted up together; then
it cleared rapidly and we saw succession
of thoughts fash up distinctly. This is
what they were:
Gotta buy a fall sait.
Wish hadn't eaten that shrimp salad for
lunch.
Price of coal.
PdttersonP
lfoorcP
Wonder 1cho'H strike ncrtY
Ought to buy pair of shoes. but got a
hole in one sock and can't remember iohich
ono it is. (We saw him wiggle his toes in
an attempt to ascertain which was the Of
Tending member.)
Wish hadn't had my pdcdtion.
Nice afternoon to be in the country.
Last instaIlnleht of the income tao tpiH be
due just before Christmas. Bad luck.
Moores
Patterson?
Wonder if the league Of nations means
perpetual pedcef
Wonder If Il means perpetual ,odri
Wonder tChdt the toorld's coming TOT
Too many problems notodddyS. give it
up.
Cost of iving.
Wish some one tOould nominate Hoover
as the nert President.
Wonder if Liberty Bond, piH ever get up
to parf
Wonder if the cooks going to stay'
Seems as if everybody thinks the toorld' 8
troubles can be solved By quitting cork.
PdtterSonf
MooreP
Wish / could buy the toite a nice fall hat
for a surprise.
Think III haze an oyster Stero for lunch
tomorrow.
Better get back to the office.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-18
THE GOWNSMAN
Work, Rest, Play

ttTTNIIE melancholy days are come, the sad
L dest of the year." when vacations, be
they short or long, come to an end and
the favored few who enjoy them return to
the task of providing as much butter to
accompany our daily bread rs IL may be
possible to snatch in the struggle for exist
ence. Man has been described as working
animal he is likewise a creature who needs
a great deal of rest. 1t is somewhat hu
initiating to realize that we, the active
lords of creation, are under the physical
compulsion of spending at least q fourth
of our lives abed and that unless We are
coddlcd, warmed and fed, all our high en-
deavors must go for naught But not only
must We rest. we must play, every man,
woman and child of us, if we are to escape
the provcrbial dullness of Jack and main
tain that wholesome balance out of which
alone results, material or ideal, are to
come.
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Chasing Perfection

One of the reasons
Chasing Perfection we never reach Per-
fection. remarked Pro-
fessor Aristophancs McGoogle. is that we
arc always diverted into another path lead
ing to somewhere else having greater possi-
bilities. Consider the stage coach. If we
had stuck to stage coaches we would, by
this time, have achieved a super stage
coach, riding smoothly and drawn by horses
of a breed vastly superior in speed and en-
durance TO those of hundred years ago,
and oficered by drivers and guards who long
ago had settled the matter of adequate re-
muneration. But Stephenson comes along
with locomotive and queers the game,
and we proceed toward Perfection on par
allel steel rails. 1t is longer journey and
despite all progress we have just about
started. And we'll never get there! Never !!
Just when we are within measurable dis
tance we'll go off on some other track. 1t
may be the automobile; it may be the air
ship; it may be something else; but be
sure there will be something to divert us be-
fore We have fairly got down to trial of
the Plumb plan, the CumminJ plan, the
Warfeld plan, the Esch Pomerene plan or
some other plan. In one way it is discour
aging; in another it is altogether cheer
ing. What's the good of worrying when
Time has forever something new up his
sleeve?
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-18

Camden business men are shortly to
meet to explain the high cost of living. Old
Ultimate Consumer isn't worrying about
Why things are high. What he wants to
know Is how he may either climb up to
reach them or make them come down.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-18
Up i'm a Balloon,
Boys

Hydrogen in dirigible
Up in Balloon, balloons bursts into
Boys flame every once in a
while and lives are
lost. If balloons could be filled with helum
instead of, hydrogen disasters would be
fewer. There is only limited supply of
helium in the United States-though mil
lions of cubic feet of it are being wasted
daily through natural gas mains in the
Middle West. With the exception of one
plant working under the direction of the
Bureau of Mines. the supervision over the
production of helium is in the hands of the
Navy Department, while the army waits
with folded hands. Isn't there concealed
somewhere in these facts an argument for
the establishment Of an Aviation Department
that could devote all its energies toward the
development of all branches of aeronauticsP
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What Do You Kno,v?'
QUIZ

QUIZ
1. To what nation did Napoleon surrender
himself?
2. What commerce raider made the richest
hauls for Germany during the war?
3. Who wrote the comedy, "London As-.
surance"?
4>What notorious French politician has
just been released from prison because
of i'll health?
5. Who was Sir Edward Burne Jones?
6. What is the largest river on the Ameri-
can continent flowing into the Pacific
ocean?
7. What Is another name for the constella-
ton of the Dipper?
s. What is faience, and how does It get
its name?
8. What is meant by Stygian darkness?
10. What is Herbert G. Hoover's native
state?
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-18

Chancellor Day, OF Syracuse. chsrac-
terizes President Wilson's opinions as
modified boshevism' and "unthinking
blind egomania of socialism," The chan
cellor would have lacked nothing OF force
IL his language had been modified.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-18
THE CHAFFING DISH

Chester Chamber of Literary Commerce
please confirm or deny?
Cab D'Annunzio, the wcll-known poet,
is getting his stuff over big these days.
A. Edward Newton, the Caliph of Dayes-
ford, is buying up Carlisle street. 1t is
alleged that he will found a Bohemia with
really sound plumbing.
Jim Beck, a former resident of the head
lines, harangued vast throng in Inde-
pendence Square. James is said to have
forgotten to utter the phrase ''the birth
place of liberty and is inconsolable.
Willard Wattles contributed a poem to
our paper last week, and writes to us in
considerable anguish that there was a mis-
print in it when it appeared. He wrote
"Grandmothcrs shawled and gray; it was
printed "Grandmothers shawled and gay"
Willard insists that we apologize to the
people of Philadelphia for this. We do so,
and the troubled populace that has been
worrying about it can now get the matter
off its mind.
Ed Mumford, the genial wag, tells a story
of an American sergeant at Monte Carlo.
1t seems that that town is worried because
its reputation is damaged by stories of sui
cides committed there by people who have
been cleaned out at the green tables. SO
the town council provided a roll of bank
notes to be put in the pockets of any corpse
so that it could not be- said he had done
himself in because be was broke. These
bills were to stay in the corpses jeans until
the coroner had made his inquest, and then
be returned to the police department An
A. T.. F. sergeant. hearing this, hastened
out one dark night and lay down on a grass
plot. He waited until a cop came along
and filled his pocket with the roll of bills.
Then, while the policeman ran for help, the
sergeant made off.
Henri Fare, the we'll known French por-
trait painter, dropped in at a. Camac street
club yesterday. The talk turned upon por-
traits of eminent men, and NJ Farre asked
if any one had painted the new Mayor. 1t
was gathered that NJ. Fare had not quite
understood the political news, and he was
asked which one he meant. "Oh the hand
some one" said he. Many present insisted
that this was premature.
Our friend Wright Kramer, of the
'"Toby's Bow" company, has been reading
book called "In the Sweet Dry and Dry"
and after a good deal of morbid questioning
on our part asserted that he had got
laugh out of it. He went so far as to say
that there was stuff in it which might even
form the basis of a Winter Garden skit.
Enormously gratified, we offered to buy his
lunch, but he FASTENED off, panic stricken,
to attend a 1 o'clock rehearsal.
"You give me a pane!' cried the motor
man in Camden, as he seized the shipworker
who had broken the trolley window with a
brick.
"When is a woman most reHective?"
| asked Dove Dulcet.
when she surveys herself in the SHIN
mer of a Chestnut street show window, I"
| cried Ann Dante.
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When Uncll

When Uncle Sam opens up his little
general store in this city next week there's
no doubt in the world that he will do a big
business. Look at the way the newspapers
have advertised it,
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-18

The Texas tornado demonstrates that
Nature, cruel as she sometimes is, lacks
the cold brutality of war. The casualties,
large though they are, would have been but
a trihing detail in the war just past.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-18

Conshohocken will have a welcome
home celebration on Saturday. As the town
furnished more men for the war in proper
tion to population than any other city in
the country, it Is entitled to the blowout.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-18

The mayor of Newark, n. j., plans to
have the city act as middleman for Uncle
Sam, wholesale grocer. Plans have not yet
been completed, but Newark's enterprise in
the matter of fighting II. c. of L. justifies
the belief that its executive will soon get
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-18

1t was the consensus of opinion Of
those interested yesterday that we have a
darned good constitution, and that there are
times when we need it.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-18

The Bell Telephone Company is de.
termined to prove the falsity Of the old
time declaration that talk is cheap.
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WORK, rest, play; PHILOSOPHERS have been

WORK, rest, play; PHILOSOPHERS have been
w founded on these three necessities of
our existence. Carlyle is never tired Of
insisting on the demand the beauty, the
nobility of toll, and the poets sing "Work
apace, apnce, apacc, honest labor bears n
lovely face" The whole Brahmincal sys-
TEN ends in the supreme Nirvana, absolute
quicsccnce and absorption into the ALL
when the oscillations Of this stormy life.
which toss us about and all but raze US
from the foundations Of things, shall cease
and each soul remain to all time ''likc
Saturn, quiet MS stone Even more
sought after and followed arc the philoso-
phics of play which from the days of Omar
khayyam, or the Psalmist for that matter,
have bid us eat, drink and be merry and
heed not the morrow. Work, rest. play
II we could only get the proportions of these
states cquitably adjusted for each man and
for the whole of mankind our problems
would be simple enough. For there would
be none of the soddcn dullness, the stupefy-
ing blight that is upon him who is only
laboring man, be his labor with the horny
hand of toll or with the jadcd brain, and
there would be none Of the Stiffness and
inanity of those who, having no work to
do, resort to mere play. hard play, trivial
play, too often dangerous and dirty play.
AS to rest, which of us knows that his
course in this world will warrant him less
uncertainty in this particular in the next
world than is his in this?
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-18

The Public Service Railway Company
doesn't appear to be exactly the right name
for 1t.
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What the final figures appeared to be
suffering from was chronic ipdecision.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-18

Well, two punches of prophets Gone in
each faction) got "in wrong" 1t wasn't
any landslide.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-18

Governor sproul was luckier in Phila-
delphia than in Chester.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-18

The election was a moving picture, with
the hnal returns providing the necessary
eIosn-up
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-18

When Cardinal Mercier srriyeg wen
make his welcome unanimous,
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-18
eoeIai Chat

We hear rumors that Sinclair Lewis has
LEFT west Chester already. VIII the West
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-18

Chester's whisky ring'' evidently
hasn't lost all of its kick.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-18
Splendid News

The rumor persists that waistlines this
season will be nipped in bit. To achieve
the maximum Of youthful slenderness
with the minimum Of nip is The mission of
the Godet flare.
-Ad In New York paper.
We say, hurrah for the Godet flare,
whatever it is, and we're going to have one
for lunch tomorrow. SOCRATES.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-18
Member of the Associated Press

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Is Crclu-
8iveIy entitled to the use for republication
Of all ncrcs dispatches created TO IL or not
othertctSe credited in this paper, ana also
the local ncicS published therein.
An rights Of republication Of special dis
patches herein arc also rCSCrTCd
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-18
WORK, wi

WORK, whatever it's kind, involves ac-
w tivity; rest is the negation of activity
and comes like the cool sweetness of night
after torrid and garish day A vacation
is period relieved of the accustomed activi-
ties of routine, moment in which the
brakes are off and we run free of that grind
in the engine iInpellcd alone by the pleasing
declivity of the road. The sluggard, who
finds his only respite from the stress of
labor in the inertia of rest is like a motor
ist who, possessed of the highest powers of
terrestrial loComOtion. lies supine in the
shade and lets his power rust in him un-
used For a true vacation must have in
it ever the quality of freedom and freedom
in the healthily constituted man involves
activity. 1t may be physical or mental, it
may involve the hardest kind of work 1t
is sufficient that its kind be not that which
has come to mark the hum and drum of
his daily life. For true vacation is a
time for the suppression of all that per-
tains to your vocation in favor of the de-
lights of hobby or avocation. Truly
wretched are the people who take their
troubles and problems of business or their
professions away with them, like Horace's
black specter of care, seated on the crupper
of the saddle or, to bring old Horace up
to date, hidden in the hood of your limou-
sine
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-18

DLAY is the vital element of childhood,
work the business of manhood. and rest
the necessity of cd age. But into each of
the other two periods some of the ruling
elements of the others must enter. When
we denude ourselves of that gift of the gods
to infancy, the love of play, what is it that
we gain? Only some other kind of play,
often of n very different and inferior kind ::
games with greed in them, intrigue with
the measuring of wits, the vanities of pa
rade and the parade of vanity. Play,
indeed is almost as varied in its nature
and varieties as is work itself and he was
wise man who, in our activities, found
everything next to nothing in the ycsults
In this lies the superiority of play over
any kind of work. To finish a task with
nothing to show for it but the thing done
is no better than the labor of the OK. Pass
ing the milestone is nothing; to pass it
ahead of somebody else, with a speed hith-
erto unequaled, in style admirable or
unusual-these are the things. And it is
the element of play-the sporting instinct
that makes the hardest labor palatable the
element of competition. the matching of
wits, the development of skill. Men who
have amassed large fortunes are not often
misers. Thrift has entered into the building
of their enormous edifices of finance, but it
is not thrift which alone has made their
fortunes and often they have played even
more for the sake of the game than for the
stakes.
GOULD we but balance, let it be repeated.
~ our labor, our recreation and our rest.
how much could be adjusted once and for
all: no breaking down from overwork, no
nervous prostration from the excesses of
leisure. no vegetable inertia from addiction
to the understmulants of rest. The labor
ing man would no more clamor for a FIVE
hour day at ten-h wages. the profteer
would no more underweight us, short
measure us and keep us in the cold storage
Of his extortions. Workers would get a
chance to make acquaintance with the smiles
of Lady Pastime, and the players-even in
New fokr-wou'd resume work. But we
are dreaming o fthe millennium.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-18

Chester Chamber of Literary Commerce
please confirm or deny?
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-18

Cab D'Annunzio, the well known poet
is getting his stuff over big these days.
Norwich bulletin., 1919-08-04

New York. Aug 3-Cincinnati oust- ed from New York from thef.National League leadership last Friday and by winning the series twoslgames to one hadx a lead Of one and one half games over it's rival today. In the Ameri- cam League Chicago faitered, losing four games out sof seven, but retained it's lead. The, St. Louis Browns adF yanced to engage in a close four cor nered fight for second place with the Cleveland Detroit and New York teams The Indians had second place to- tllmeselves after todays victory
 Esftorts to Strengthen their forces were made last week by three leading national. teams and the New York Americans. The Giants acquired from the Boston Nationals Pitcher Arthur Nehf. who held Pittsburgh to two hits Friday and was the only pitcher to de- feat Cincinnati in ten games last week. Cincinnati obtained from the Roch- who has been batting we'll. Chicago bolstered up both defense and offense by getting InfieIder Herzog from the Boston Nationals. The New r ork Tan kees.. however. have been una ble7 to use Pitcher Carl Mays, obtained from the Boston Americans. Mays was indef- nitely suspended by President John son for his refusal to pay a fine levied by his former club before his trans ferral.
 In the National League. before meet ing New York Cincinnati took three straight games from Pitts butgh, one the completion of a skin ming contest begun July and order ed finished after protest by New Y ork. Boston was a victim in four games out of five being shut out twice on Thursday by Fisher and Luque
 New York won single contests. from Boston and Brooklyn and took three games out of five from Pittsburgh
 Chioago with Alexander pitching, shut out St. Louis. Two game with Brooklyn were divided but two extra inning contest Saturday went to the Philadelphia club, which advanced them from last to sixth position. ae
 In the American League .Chicago's S pitchers were batted hard early in the week but became more effective later.
 Three of Cleveland,s four defeats were by one run margins.
 Detroit shared four games -1 with Boston but lost to New York today in the deciding game of the series. The Tigers lost a twelve inning contest to Boston Thursday. :