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The Glenwood post., 1919-06-07

european, parClcularly european IDEAS.
The kick on tht "Y." Largely over
advertising Have you ever read a
book, seen q show, listened to plan
ist that had been praised to the skits
by all your friends. Generally You
were disappointed; though you would
not have been if you hadn It heard of it
before. For instance, man who had
been in the lines for two weeks and
hadn't gotten anything from or seen
"Y" in that time would be irritated
and write in scorn when all the maga-
zines he picked, showed "Y" man
leading the boys over the top or had
cuts of the "Y" men who distributed
hot chocolate as they went through a
machine gun nest.
Then again no organization-not even
one branch Of the army-was able to
operate smoothly and satisfactorily
with our enormous growth and in
movement warfare.
One of the great kicks was that about
one-third of the "Y" force was at
Paris. Personally 1 believe they made
a mistake in that. They viewed it as
an opportunity to keep the men from
temptation amid the dangers of Paris.
Perhaps they accomplished that pur-
pose-but it looked to me that if man
wanted wild time he would take IT
in spite Of all the "Y' movies, fights,
mostly . question of policy. But the
average soldier didn It expect saving''
from the "Y,' but smokes, chocolate,
books and papers. In view of the
many entertainments, good and bad, at
Paris, think the policy was ill ad-
vised; but that has argument both
ways.
Some real cause for kicking did arise
from the fact that often the "Y"
could not get good personnel. Some of
the workers. were merely sight
seers; others didn t know the prices of
things 50 that 'Y' prices varied
greatly and sometimes were, by honest
mistake, excessive. For instance, +
saw one "Y' man charge double
prices for cigarettes because he was
green and had applied the price Of two
cartons to the purchase Of one. But
this was far from being the rule. of
course with a large organization there
were numerous exceptions.
Also until about last July "Y'
prices were higher than Red Cross, K.
of c., Salvation Army, etc. Their hob
by was to make the canteen self-sus-
tanning. 1t was perfectly proper and
personally liked it, but it didn't ap-
peal to a man who hadn't been paid
in 3, 4, 5 or 6 months.
But we owe a large debt of graft
tude to all their organizations; all
deserve praise and gratitude. Person
ally l found the Red Cross the most
human and satisfactory Il didn~ see
much of the Salvation Army or K. of
Co.. The Red Cross-perhaps because
of its personne,-adapted itself better
to individual cases.
But when you remember that the
army often couldn t pay man for as
long as nine months; or that it couldn t
get food up to the line, you can't much
complain that an auxiliary organiza-
tion didn't bring up less essentia!
things.
But L have rambled too long. So
long, old man.
Ny best regards to you and your
wife. Write me and visit me in Dear
born.
The Glenwood post., 1919-06-07
MUNICIPAL ORCHESTRA PROGRAM

The Glenwood Municipal orchestra
will render the following program at
their concert, given from the balcony
of Hotel Glenwood Sunday evening,
beginning at O'Clock sharp:
and Blazes .......
Overture Sunshine and Showers.
. t1u1th
Popular Clarinet Narmalade".
ShieldS
Hungarian Rhapsody No. &c.. .Lisxt
Waltz-Zeona. ........... Holmes
Popular-ssnsation ....... Edwards
Dance Grotesque-Cossack Rsvsh..
.................. Tsehaks9
AarchDThe Baqnueters ...........
The Glenwood post., 1919-06-07

Instead of the regular services Sun
day morning the Baccalaureate sermon
will be held In the hgA seAosl an1l1-
efiaa at slsvsa s'slosk, 1sv. D1Nh
johnson Of ~ Dpissspal sAassA -
prsaeh The sssnsa.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-21

THIS is the time of year when the get
L rich quick madness ovcrwheIms con-
stables in the green hinterlands that
motor drivers fly to in their hours Of
freedom from the cities of their captivity.
The lust for fees, with it's accompaniment
of the speed trap, the Stop-watch and the
ambush, breaks out with clockIikc rCgu
larity among country cOppers. though
like measles, it never strikes twice in the
same place.
New Jersey used to be a paradise for
constabes with a weakness for fronzcd
finance, who managed to make that pleas
ant state an inferno for automobilIstS
before they were suppressed by the State
Highway Department, which found it nee
.essary to act decsively at last in order
to protect the interests Of the shore re-
sorts. Thousands of tourists were being
frightened away from New Jersey.
The arrest of an occasional automobile
driver is understandable. But when. sud
denly and without warning, autOmobilistS
trapped are arrested in shoals at a given
point and squeezed by a waiting squire
the thing looks suspicious. The automO-
bile clubs of this city deserve the graft
tude of all law-abiding motor owners for
their determined efforts to suppress the
latest outbreak Of the fning mania in the
Philadelphia suburbs. They are dealing
with a nuisance as great as the devil
maycare road hog, who still persists in
areas made impossible for other and
more careful drivers
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-21
ACTORS IN THE FEDERATION

"A BROADENING general definition Of
\ work is one Of the heartening signs
of the period we live in. Abroad all labor
leaders of every slant of mind have lost
the old belief that to do any work that
matters you have to labor with your
hands.
/ The most conspicuous advance recently
made by organized labor in England was
recorded when trades union leaders in
lvited doctors, artists. actors, writer's.
teachers, editors and all mind workers."
generally to membership in their organi-
cations. 1t is not surprising, therefore,
to find that the actors union of the
United States has been merged dcftIy
with the American Federation of Labor.
Players work, of course. To sing when
you don't want to; to appear deiriously
funny when you are in truth darkly sad;
to make an audience laugh when your
mind is tormented with thoughts of un-
paid bills or an alimony-hungry sheriff is
to toll indeed.
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nficently in battle and lost it when he
stood on his feet to address group of
returned soldiers. He is still trying to
explain why he belittled the part of
Britain's allies in the war and why he
omitted, apparently with deliberation,
any mention of Americas part in the
great struggle.
General Pershing has the virtue of reti-
cence. He may have developed that habit
of mind in his long contacts with the
Indians, who say little and ponder much.
Pershing behaved nicely when they fcted
him in London. He praised everybody
but himself and his own men. He left
mention of his own work to others. That
is precisely what good Indian would
have done.
Marshal Uaig might have profted by
participation in war with the Stocs
who were Pcrshngs friends and his enc
mics in his early days of soldering.
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CAR FARE ElXlNG

'hE aPpHcatlon by the Superior Court
OF the thlrd section of the sixteenth
artlcIe OF the state constitution to the
regulation OF street railway fares will set
lawyers to thinking about the local
transit situation
mat section provides that the exercise
OF the right of eminent domain shall
never hc abridged or so construed as to
prevent tn" General Assembly from
taking IN" property and franchises Of in
Corporated companies and suhjecting
them to IN" public use and that the eXcr-
clSc of tn" police power Of the state shall
never he abridged or so construed as to
permit corporations ITO conduct their
business IN Surh a manner as to infringe
thC general W'II-belng Of the state
me court mas decided under this sec
uoh mat the PuhIlc Service Commission
may raise street railway fares if condi-
tons warrant IN spite of the fact that
community mas granted to company the
right to use ITS streets on condition that
the fare snail not exceed fixed sum-
no Judges declare that where the in
tcrestS Of the public demand the contract
may be modified without any violation Of
the provisions Of the national constitution
with reterenc" to the impairment Of the
Obligations OF contracts.
The natural inference from this do
rlSIon Is that the Public Service Com
mission may consider the rates of fare in
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-21

strong men Of the city truly representing
its different interests, willing to devote
their time to its service for the general
good. We will not get such a Council,
but if the Chamber of Commerce and
men like Mr.. Fisler continue to insist
that the business of the city be ad-
ministered on a busness-like basis we
shall make some approach to it,
The Mayor also should be a man fitted
by training to manage the big business
interests Of the city. He may be a law
yer or business man. 1t does not mat
ter, so long as he is qualified for the post.
Some of the greatest business executives
in the country have come from lawyers
offices. They have told mere business
men how to manage their affairs and they
have rescued bankrupt corporations from
insolvency. They have applied brains to
business problems.
What the city needs now above all
things is the application of brains to the
business and political problems of mu-
nicipal government. They must be the
kind of brains that would succeed in the
presidency and board of directorate of a
great corporation, plus political instinct
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-21
AS THE PENDULUM SWINGS

BOSTON, we are told, was laid out by
= COW. As the cow walked the road
wound; houses faced it; surveyors
clinched it on courthouse books, and the
city of culture and beans became a fact,
to the joy of the scholar and the puzzle
ment of the pedestrian.
Modern efficiency saw in crooked
Streets great waster Of time, and
throughout the country new towns were
laid out with pencil and ruler and Old
towns had their streets Strengthened by
l highway surgeons. 1t became possible in
Sver so many cities to travel from Here
10 There in the smallest possible time
1t was inevitable that sooner or later
human nature would revolt at the dctum
Of efficiency; inevitable that man who
races should occasionally wish to mean
der. He makes his living in straight
streets; he desires to go home to green
lanes that twist and turn and show unex-
pected vistas.
And so it has come to pass that on the
outskirts of many large cities some
quaint little "villages" have arisen. The
latest of these is at Merton, where a COM
munity of twenty families plans to get
away from the madding crowd and vet be
within easy walking distance of the
Overbrook and Merton stations.
p' 1t will be interesting to note Just what
effect these little homegrown towns are
going to have on the body polite even
tually; for that it will have some effect
# the idea grows, as it may, is beyond
ueradyenture
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Answers to Saturdays Quiz

/. Tien-tsin is treaty port of China
seventy miles southeast of Pekin and
has II population Of 100000,
y. The constitution of the United States
provides that the House of Repre-
spntatives shall have the sole power
of impeachment" and the Senate
shall have the sole power to try all
impcachments.
3. \ charivari is II medley of sounds
usually serenade of pans and trays,
ETC.. to an unpopular person.
:. A mestizo is Spanish or Portuguese
half caste. especially the child of
Spaniard and American Indian.
>. 1t is estimated that Chna's foreign
popuution is in the neighborhood OF
80 900
q, The Battle of Lookout Mountain, a part
of the battle Of Chattanooga, federal
victory won by Grant over the Con-
federates under Bragg, is often called
''the Battle Above the Clouds" be-
cause of the heavy mist on the noun
tain side.
I. Melton Mowbray is in Leicestershire,
England, and is noted for its Stilton
cheese and pork pies
s. John James Ingalls,, of Kansas, who
lost his seat in the United States
Senate in 1891, after serving eight
cen years, and died nine years later.
was author of that much quoted
phrase, The publication of politics is
an iridescent dream. :"
q Charles Lamb was the author of the
line, Presents, 1 often say, endear
absents,
10. President Wilson was born In stannton,
Va, December 2S, 1886
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-21
A Knockout Promised

ON THE RANCOKUS July l7h
Dear Jrieni Socrates:
/ was talking with my friend Hal vile back
and he says Your good guy but you have got
no sense Of humur'' so | said "Whatdayamean-
don't laugh every time your missus bawls you
out SO ne said you don't get me You want to
read some suttle stuff like Socrates pulls In H
Chaing Dish in the Eve. Ledger Well starts
buying the sheet regar but don't see nothing
SO funny in II only when talk about willard
and Pres. Wilson and some of the boys ! knows
Of Well I guess you aint never heard no reel
funny ones have: Blondy pulls one at the
store the other day | was going to write II out
and send II to you but Hal he said They don't
print them kind lie meant lot of wimmen
folks would have 1t,
Well MIR. Socrates you keep up your batting
average vile and IN send you a Knockout in
a day or ..
SING. HARDER
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-21
What DO You Kno,v?
QUIZ

I. What is the Federal Reserve act?
>. What is an acrOstic?
g Who was it said. "Acting is the NOV
ing picture of nature?
T. Who was first known AS the Almanack
Maker?
D. Who was Lewis Carroll?
G. When was the treaty of Brest Litovsk
signed?
. What singer of national reputation de-
clncd. on moral grounds, to sing
"Travata"?
s. When was South Dakota admitted to
the Union?
q. Who wrote THE Blue Bird?
10. Where and what is Great Abaco?
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-21
PERSHING IN LONDON

1yHE English-that is, the English of
= the North sea, of Ypres, of the Marne
and the mulitudes whose sturdy and pa
tient souls stood through all stress i'm
movable in the way of Germany-have
one great misfortune of a sort that is
not Unfamiliar in America. They have
apokesmen who in too many instances
misrepresent them.
Hawker was ole of these. He was
serene in fight for his life amid the
rIcuds. He was badly ratified when he
to make an after-dinner speech and
things which the rest of England
4 he didn't mean
sld Mar<hal Haig kept his head mag
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-21
We Are Chahed

TN THAIIA'S name, good Socrates. ~
| What is this thing you call II "wheeze
l. You seem to clap the name upon
SO many different kinds or fun
Whether you re fitting at a Teuton'
Press. aEenting for Eddie Newton,
Keeping the Senate up to scratch,
Animadverting on match
or when with naughty Elee you hasten
To fetch a crack at Cary Grayson-
Mounting Olympus at a leap
Then turning Chavender or cheap;
Wisdom, wHEgcry-what you please.
What is this thing you call wheeze!
N EPIGRAM a raillery,
~ 4 qup to catch the gallery.
n wit, humOr, banter repartee,
Rude jape, raper jeu d'esp'1t.
Rare Attic wit or modern SAVIOR,
An impudent Socratic flavor
in short there's nothing that wont do
(See Roget, section eight four.twol,
In earth or heaven, or seven seas,
For the material Of wheeze
II It may only lure II laugh,
or point pungent paraR aph.
Why-evcn stately lines like these
IL pom DEROSO.
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THE ELECTRIC CHAIR

sands for the vulturcs that wheel on
high:
Others. tcnaciouslv gripping life. escape for
the nonrc--but 10
The desert calls them and brings them
back. to writhr on the waste and die :.
Clear from the hroiling. Snccring sun that
mounts on brnHon sky:
Clear from the white bcarhcd bones of
men who gamblcd with Fatp-and lost
Clear from the vulturcS that profit most.
emitting their raurouS cry
The desert calls to the desert bred, aud
the desert bred pay the cost
Travel far to the mountain top; sail on the
seven seas;
The desert calling will bring you back. no
mnttrr how far You roam;
If YOU re desert damned. then you cant re
Sist--not even ON bcnded knees
soon or late. you'll die meath desert sky.
and you II pass to your desert home.
ROBERT LESLIE BELLEM.
ten years ago in the Desert of Gob; this may
But one thing is rer,in: there T is chaTm Ti about
deSrrttraveling which is unequaled 10y any other
S@h to rstnrn to , " at my very rft oPpSr
cmoush to Ea Services ' OF two % such
sterling guides as |, had the last trip As near
Mere G%ar Fu and Yen Chat and better @ %sow
men tor white for that matterl have never met
some day shall write poem in CommemOratiOn
Of their services in some pretty tight corners all
d, Iqt Ut to return to the roen: It was written in
h% Gss' Of the dTI I prnG sos4 n %% hon %
the wood that all the nails fen out. so, that most
sands, where they may be to this day, for few
men psnetrS!e & as fTr @ as Id The heat vas 50
all; were forced to seek what shelter we could
rca il2eS thdt the nights (Obi. in inverse ratio
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-21
Desert Fever

NLEAR from the fetid breath of death that
" blows DER the shifting sand,
Clear from the burning. blazing sun that
scorches with FURNISHED eye;
Clear from the ifeless, trackless waste, by
breath of the devil famed
Its voice is calling the desert damned to
come to its heart and die.
Trap Of the mind Il not the soul its victims
can never go; la
Same .eave their bones on the shifting
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Peace
NTHAT is this Peace
w Tint statesmen Sipu2


MTHAT is this Peace
w That statesmen sign?
How hav" sought
To make it mine.
Where groaning cities
Clang and glow
| hunted. hunted,
Peace to know.
And still saw
Where passed by
Discarded hearts.
Heard children cry.
Rv widowed waters
Rrimmcd with rain
thought to capture
Peace again.
sat me down
My Peace to hoard.
But Beauty pricked me
With sword.
For in tn" stiffness
Something stirred,
And | was crippled
For word.
There is no peace
A man can find:
The anguish sits
His heart behind.
The eyes he loves.
The perfect breast,
Too exquisite
To give him rest,
This is his curse
Since brain began,
His penalty
For being man,
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-21
The Motner-Tonuue

uoW poorly words emotions do express
l. The greatest poet does not skill possess
To sweet reality of dreams impart:
His faircst thought stays hidden in his heart.
Like those of Babel. often do we stand
Each poor lonely soul in alien land:
Striving in vain our dearest ones to tell
The thoughts divine that deep within us
dwell;
The tender sympathy anothPr's heart
Holds for our grief. we only see in part:
In his distress we reach to him our hand
but all we feel he cannot understand.
How deaf How mute. All surely heaven
above
Will ope' our ears to hear our lips to speak
thee. Love,
All. surely then we'll walk no more alone,
Where soul to soul wen know as we are
known
There dawus at times IA word on you, on me-
When for the moment some true heart we see /;
Our mothers voice and our belOved's eyes,
The Alpha of the language of the skies
MAUD FRAZER JACKSON
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-21

1t looks as If tens of thousands of per-
sons who never heard of the Shantung pen
insula were in a fair way to discover where
IL is
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-21

Good morning. Has your automobile beer
stolen: no? Well, give 'rm time. Civ,
EN- time
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-21

We remember that when VIC were small
boy we used to watch admriHgly man who
always held his pipe with his forefinger
crooked over the stem. the bowl resting on
his second finger aud the mOuthpicre sup
ported by his thumb. We thought there was
something particularly alluring about a pipe
held that way and resolved to initiate the
gesture as soon as we were old cn0ugn.
We were reminded of this riding on
Market street trolley the other evening. A
cOmely damUsel sat down just in front of us,
and as soon as seated, her well groomed hand
with nails neatly trimmed to IA point, flew
up to her hair round her ear, 1t was per-
fectly composed, but she smoothed it down
with curious patting, huttering gesture,
something like the finger flicker of an expert
pianist. Just across the aisle sat small
girl, who was watching the young lady with
secret intensity. Evidently she de men
tai note of that pattering movement, for in
a moment her own hand rose to her tightly
snooded braids and initiated The gesture. 1t
Il quite irresistible, for shortly fterward we
were initiating i Vurseif SOCfATES.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-21

Niblick Julep is authority for the
statement that the bottom has dropped oct
Of the Nineteenth Hole
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-21

Field Marshal Halg gazes regretfuly at
maxim he uuluckiy forgot for a moment :
The man who doesn't talk doesn't have 70
explain" -
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John MiddIcmun has taken to himself the
degree of H. e. Of l..
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The daylight ->aviug law repeal has been
arrested for reckless riding
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-21

HTTllERE'S a lack of newspaper stories
l. about the disastrous effects of prohi-
bition ON steady drinkrrs." remarked an in
trigont bar attendant Mt one of the leading
clubs.
'Thc coming Of prohibition caused every
lrink"r high or low who had the price. 70
lay in n stock of his favorite beverage. Most
of them. | presume. could buy only case
or So. Prohibition has c"mrc. also the
spcakra~y. tn" bootlcggcr and various other
channels for obtaining drinks on the quiet.
We're not likely to hear Inu"h about de-
prvation yet awhile. But it'll come later
"Th" evil day for the steady drinkcr will
be when his little privat" stock is exhausted
and h" cannot renew it when most of the
b0otl"ggrrs are juggcd and the law gets
working smoothly.
"Thcn III" full force Of prohibition will
b" felt h tn" men who dread it most.
They're the elderly fellows. who have been
steady drinkers nearly all their lives Their
trouble will be due in about three MONTHS
TNTIE Mayoralty Of Philadelphia is regarded
as "A graveyard of political ambitions.
. Perhaps rightly 50. Possibly the dignity
Of the position is compensation enough. Most
men of modest aspiration would so regard it.
1t is p""uliar fact that in fifty years
no Mayor of Philadelphia with one ex-
rrpton. has ever attained to higher honors.
Edwin :. Stuart became Governor of Penn
syIvana.
All tn" other occupants Of the office,
from Mayor Fox, who's" term ended in
ISL to Mayor Smith whose term Will ex-
pire at the close Of the present year, have
passed out of tn" white light into the
Shadowy retreat of uudiSturbed privacy.
Mayors StOklry and King quietly accepted
the decree of fate. William B Smith. the
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DlSTURBERS OF TRAFFIC

Philadelphia. Monday. Jul, q, 1910