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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-12-17
TWO MEN DROWNED

Newark, n. j., Dec. 1.-Two men
were drowned and another seriously
injured here to-day when a motor
delivery truck owned by New York
rug concern skidded on the icy pave
ment and plunged through n wooden
railing into Morris Canal.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-12-17
PAYS QUARTERLY DIVIDEND

= Dy .ISSOtIuTtu ITtNN
Newark, \. j., Dec. 1.-THE Public
Service Corporation of New Jersey
ha spassed the regular quarterly divi-
dend of l Il per cent. on common
stock. The regular quarterly per
cent. dividend on preferred stock was
declared payable December 81 on
stock of record December 90.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-12-17
MAKE POISON, NOT BOOZE

EastOn, Pa. Dec. 17.-Mrs. Betty
White and Robert Labar who drank
what they thought was whisky dur
ing a party at Mrs. Whites home,
died. The authorities say they were
poisoned by homemade drinks.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-12-17
COMMISSION MEET AS A WHOLE

Harrisburg The State Constitutional Conrnis-
sion met for the frs ttime to-day committee of the
whole The preamble and declaration of rights of the
Constitution as stands were adopted without much dis
oussion George Wharton Pepper went on record as OBJ
icctng to any change in the jury system Of the State
saying that the luminous verdict in civil cases had been
found highly satisfactory. No effort wa smade to make
change.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-12-17
Amateur Astronomer
Said to Have Started
Rumor, Denies Charge

Ann Arbor. Mich, Dec. 17.-Pro-
fessor Albert Porta, who is general
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-12-17

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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-10

open session he delivers the document
and sets forth the reasons which led him
as the primary agent of the government
in negotiating treaties to agree to the
conditions laid down.
Secrecy has been abandoned. The ma
tion knows what the treaty contains and
it will know the reasons which lead to the
action of the Senate when it finally votes.
The discussions in Paris may have been
behind closed doors, but the discussions
in Washington will be in the hearing of
all the world. They began weeks ago
and they are likely to continue for weeks
to come.
This is we'll. The whole nation should
know what reasons the senators may ad-
vance for their support or opposition to
the treaty. The debate will not be con-
fined to Washington, for wherever
serious-minded men come together the
validity of the arguments Of the senators
will be examined. In the end it will be
the nation acting through the Senate
which will ratify.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-10
As to the Urchin

We have received an inquiry as to the
present felicity and ambitions of the Urchin.
In reply to same would state that the Urchin,
having had an extremely small bathing suit
abbreviated to meet the requirements of his
limbs, is engaged in remodeling the Jersey
sand beaches with the customary implements
of shovel and miniature tin pail. His
treasure trove during one afternoons beach
ing recently consisted of a dead dragonfy,
three crabs, two shrimps, several large shells
and two very small hoptoads. We built a
large sand mountain for him and pierced it
with a cunningly artifced tunnel. The
Urchin was inconsolable because he could
not take the tunnel home with him.
He is still convinced (after several visits
to the Zoo) that he is a llama, and his
favorite game is to contest the honors of
llamaship with any one who will pretend to
be tiger. We do not like TO think of the
sad disillusion when he realizes that he is
not a llama at all, but only human being.
We are not worrying about the kaiser's
punishment. Vrouw Bentinck undoubtedly
has the matter in hand. SOCRATES.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-10

cal preferment advantages have helped to
keep them, with the exception of the i'm
possible Reed, of Missouri, solidly in line
with the presidential policy. Doubtless
honest convictions operated also, but
purely selfish instincts are never negli-
gible. Response to them is neither pecu-
liarly Democratic nor peculiarly Republi-
can. 1t Is politically true.
The net result of the various interlock-
ing circumstances will almost certainly
be good, for the treaty seems destined
for ratification. But what Republicans
who for years have had faith in the gen.
eral policies of their spokesmen would be
glad to know is that their party has not
been seriously damaged in the conflict.
There are more reasonable hopes than
superficially appear. Analysis of the
senatorial situation will reveal that noisy
upstarts like the wild men. fumbIing
dialecticians like Mr.. Knox and a hate
blinded, if otherwise able, statesman like
Mr.. Lodge, have been monopolizing the
attention of intelligent patriotic Repub-
licans.
What most of the senators of the ma
jority party think about the revised cove.
nant has not been expressed. The "round
robin is obsolete. Mr.. Penrose, past
master of expediency, has been silent
since he perpetrated his star error during
the week of the Knox TRADES. McCum-
ber, of North Dakota, has been explicitly
for the league.
Various appraisements of the Wash
ington situation agree that thinking Re-
publican senators have begun to be in
f1uential. The Borah melodrama is ap-
parently heading for the cheap circuit.
Meanwhile the Taft troupes are augment
ing in popularity and power.
1t is unfair sweepingly to ascribe
league Endorsement to Democracy and
league denunciation to Republicanism
Out of the familiar welter of politics,
which should alarm only those who be-
lieve America failure, comes the mighty
pressure Of public opinion which gives
to the congressional strategy game it's
true proportions.
1t is fascinating fray, replete with
secondary intentions" and hidden obli-
cations.
There is an excellent chance that the
way in which it has been played will per-
manently impair neither the vitality of
the Republican party nor turn awry the
great destiny of the American people.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-10
THE LOAN AND THE CHARTER

TT WAS some one hunting for a mares
Anest who put forth the proposition that
the provisions of the new charter govern
the acts of City Councils before the char
ter itself goes into effect.
The power of Councils to make loans
for work which the new charter says
must be paid for out of current revenues
is therefore disputed.
The suggestion is ridiculous. Councils
act under the present charter in all re-
spects until July 25, when some Of the
provisions of the new law go into effect.
Until that date Councils may act as
though there had been no change in the
law. When it authorizes loan that loan
runs against the debt-incurring power of
the city, regardless of when the money
is actually borrowed. There have been
numerous court decisions on this point.
j This is aside from the wisdom of bor-
rowing money to pay FOR repairs to the
streets or to public buildings. Common
Council, in indorsing the loan for repairs,
has shown bad judgment, but it has not
exceeded its power. Fortunately, after
the end of this month it will not have the
power to indulge in such unsound finan-
cial methods.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-10
WILSON THE coNcILIAToR
The President Should Seek to Persuade,
Not Coerce, His Opponents

Mr.. Wilson can hardly fail to be aware
of the marked loss which has come to his
former prestige. This is both personal and
political. The high repute in which his
authority was held at the signing of the
armistice last November has been grevously
diminished. 1t may not be wholly his fault.
But the fact is undeniable. No one who
makes it his study to ascertain what men
and women are thinking and saying can be
in doubt that n sort of anti-Wilson in
fuenza has been ravaging the country. The
story is that in the days of the intense un-
popularity in England of Lloyd George, the
customary greeting in clubs and on the links
was: Good morning. Damn Lloyd
George" A similar conventional dislike
and depreciation of Mr.. Wilson has spread
from group to group of Americans. About
whatever else they may differ, they could
agree that the President had been making
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-10
SEA NAVIGATloN'S LAST LAUREL

WHEN the R34 completes her return
" trip the distinction of being the me-
dium for transatlantic speed passage will
have departed from the sea. Until that
eastward voyage is successfully made by
the giant blimp, however, one record of
the many of which the old ocean is proud
will stand. 1t is distinctly in line with
the most gallant seafaring traditions that
this achievement was registered on the
very day when the dirigible which Major
Scott commanded landed at Mineola.
On that same eventful Sunday the
American transport Great Northern
ended the record round-trip Atlantic voy-
age. Neither in the air nor in the water
has her feat of consuming but twelve
days, eight hours and thirty-fve minutes
from America to Europe and back been
equaled.
Considering that as long ago as 1909
the Mauretania made the run from
Queenstown to New York in little under
four days and ten hours, the Great
Northen's performance may seem to
lack sensation. But the shuttle ferry was
not in operation in antebellum days and
1t was usually at least fortnight before
any vessel completed an Excursion trip"
1t is interesting to recall that the
Great Northern is Philadelphia prod
uct, launched on the Delaware in 1914.
She has been the greyhound of the trans
port service and is now likely to go down
in history as the last ocean-plying vessel
whose fleetness has not been revealed as
snail-like compared with the prodigous
hustling in the vault above.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-10

a mess of it. A slight reaction in his favor
has doubtless been caused by the excesses Of
abuse INDUCED in by the Republicans in the
Senate, but it remains true that Mr.. Wilson
has to face the fact that he has lost much of
his personal hold upon his fellow citizens.
His first enGeavor should be to strive to re-
gain it.
The adverse sentiment which has had such
wide expression may be largely unreasonable.
But it is explicable. People have felt that
the President was too headstrong, too In
tolerant, too oracular. They have thought
him secretive, aloof, out of touch with the
trend of popular feeling and of congress
sional temper, and all this at time when a
policy of good understandings and Of con-
ciliation was obvious wisdom. We do not
say that these complaints are altogether we'll
founded. But they have been made--made
repeatedly. And the undeniable element of
truth in them should now suggest to Mr..
Wilson the ready means of winning his way
back into the full esteem and confidence of
his countrymen. He is master of speech.
Let him now show himself a master of per-
suasion.
That Mr.. Wilson possesses the mental re-
sources to meet and conquer his novel and
difficult situation, there is no reason to
doubt. 1t is not a question of ability so
much as of manner. No one can be more
gracious than the President when he chooses
no one franker or more adroit in suggesting
ways out of deadlocks. Acerbity of utter
ance should have no place The stress should
be given not to authority but to appeal.
And anything like party color should be
avoided like the plague. There is embittere6
Republican opposition to the treaty, but the
great mass of Republicans are ready to be
persuaded to it's support That is mainly
the Presidents task. We hope to see him
essay it with gravity, as becomes the high
matter, yet with open hand and heart, ready
to confess disappointments, to admit i'm
perfections while insisting upon the funda
mentals in the great labor of securing a just
and lasting peace for the whole world,-New
York Evening Post.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-10
A City Notebook

1t would be hard to find more lovely spot
in the flush of a summer sunset than Wister
Woods. Old residents of the neighborhood
say that the trees are not what they were
fifteen and twenty years ago the chestnuts
have died off even some of the tall tuhp-
poplars are little bald at the top, and one
was recently felled by gale. But still that
quiet plateau stands in serene hush, flooded
with rich orange glow on a warm evening.
The hollyhocks in the back gardens OF Rubi-
cam street are scarlet and cheese colored and
black; and looking across the railroad ravine
one sees crypts and aisles of green as though
in the heart of some cathedral of the great
woods
Belfield avenue, which bends through
the valley in curve of warm thick yellow
dust, will some day be bouevarded into
spick and span highway for motors. But
now it lies little traficked and one might
prefer to have it so, for in the stiffness of the
evening the birds are eloquent The thrushes
of Wister Woods, which have been immor-
talized in perhaps the lovelest poem ever
written in Philadelphia, flute and whistle
their tantalizing note, while the song sparrow
echoes them with his confident challenging
call. Down behind the dusty sumac shrub
berry lies the little blue green cottage said to
have been used by Benjamin West as a
studio. In a meadow beside the road two
cows were grazing in the blue shadow Of
overhanging woodland.
Over the road leans a fat outcrop of stone,
known locally as THE Buns Rock" An
antique philosopher of those parts assured the
wayfarer that it is named for romantic
vagabond who perished there by the explosion
of a can of Bohemian goulash which he was
heating over a small fire of sticks; but one
doubts the tale. Our own conjecture is that
it is named for Jacob Boehm, the oldtime
brewer of Germantown, who predicted in
his chronicles that the world would come to
an end in July, 1910. From his point of
view he was not so far wrong.
Above Boehm's Rock, in a grassy level
among the trees, merry little circle Of young
ladies was sitting round a picnic supper.
The twilight grew darker and fireiies began
to twinkle. In the steep curve of the Cinder
and Blcodshot (between Fishers and Wister
stations) cheerful train rumbled, with its
engine running backward just like country
local. Its bright shaft Of light wsvered
among the tall tree trunks. One would not
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-10
OPEN THE CAN

THE government has large quantities
= of food bought for the armies which
it will not need. 1t is charged that by
agreement with the Gamers it refraned
from selling $1O0,OOOOOO worth of canned
vegetables $50 as not to disturb the mar
ket.p
This is serious charge. If it were
made against private citizens it would be
followed by their appearance in court as
defendants in a suit brought by the gov
ernment accusing them with a conspiracy
in restraint of trade.
If government agents have been con-
niving to protect the market for the
benefit of the Gamers the country wants
to know it.
The lid cannot be pried off the can toe
quickly. The people want to know what
is inside.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-10
The Lawyers Invocation to Spring

Blackstone writes asking us to reprint
'the famous poem representing a lawyers
thoughts on spring" Presumably he has in
mind the. following, which was written by
Henry Howard Brownell (1S20-72):
Whereas certain bouehs and sprays
Now divers birds are heard to spring.
And sundry flowers their heads upraise,
Hail to the coming Of spring!
The songs Of those said birds
The memory of our youthful hours.
AS green those said sprays and boughs.
As fresh and sweet those said flowers.
The birds atoresaid-happy pairs
Love mid the aforesaid boughs enshrines
In freehold nests; themselves. their heirs,
Administrators. and assigns.
o busiest term Of Cupid's court
Where tender plaintiffs actions bring
Season OF frolic and OF sport.
Hail, as aforesaid. coming Spring!
HENRY HOWARD BROWNELL.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-10
THE JERSEY PENDULUM

IF HALF of the rumors that float across
the Delaware are to be accepted as
truth, the unexpected is happening in
New Jersey politics and Jim Nugent, of
I Newark, is gaining strength as the
Democratic candidate for the governor
ship on platform opposed to prohibi-
tion, woman suffrage and every other
principle of what we have come to regard
as advanced legislation.
Mr.. Nugent appears to be supported
not only by the same Democrats who, a
few years ago, were the vociferous propa-
gsndists of sweetness and light and the
political idealism of an exalted leader.
The Republicans, too, seem to be tenn
rorarily fascinated by the plain-spoken
boss from Newark. They are drifting to-
ward him in secret, if reports are to be
believed They find some sort of mystic
appeal in that side Of Mr.. Nugent's ma
ture which abhors the thoughts of woman
suffrage, dry years and meticulous cleo
ton methods. Mr.. Nugent's opponents
are alarmed and they are saying so
frankly.
New Jersey is worth watching.
Prophets and seers in politics have pre-
dicted reactions from our present en-
thusiasm for uplift by force. The con-
dition in Jersey suggests that that state
may serve as sort of national political
barometer for the time at least. And we
Gave to thank Mr.. Nugent's Democrats
for stunning exhibition of the celerity
with which a political faction can change
its mind and its convictions when offices
are at stake.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-10
THIS is A FAMILY AFFAIR

GOVERNOR SPROUL is not resident
~ of Philadelphia and, however much
he may be interested in the coming
mayoralty election, he has announced
that he does not intend to interfere in
any way whatsoever in the selection Of
candidate. He is canny in this respect.
1t is not the business of the Governor
20 interfere in local fights. Once he be-
gan he would have his hands so full that
he would have no time left for the real
business of his Office Moreover, he
would accumulate large and varied as
sortment of political enemies.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-10
Answers to Yesterdays Quiz

1. The present seat of Admiral Kolchak's
government is Omsk, Siberia.
?. The difference in time between New
York and London is five hours.
8. Joseph Grimaldi was & celebrated clown
of Italian descent. His dates are
1779-1S37. Charles Dickens wrote his
life.
4. In political parlance a henchman is q
supporter of a leader.
5. Korea was formerly called the Hermit
Nation" 30 -
9. "The philosophy of one century Is the
common sense of the next" is by
Henry Ward Beecher in "Life
Thoughts"
7. There are ninety six United States sen.
ators..
s. Gorgio is the gypsy word for non
gypsy.
0. Mozart was native Of the city of Sails
burg, Austria.
10. Recitative in opera is musical declamsr
tion as distinguished from arias, duets.
trios, etc., and concerted numbers.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-10
THE CHAFFlNG DISH

imagine that it was less than six miles to
the City Hall.
We were sitting on Sixth street, having
our shoes shined by an italian youngster.
Three small boys went by. talking eagerly.
One of them said, "Aw, don't you know that
Belgium did more fighting than any of 'em,
and lost more soders?'
The Italian lad looked up from Furnishing
our buskins and cried angrly: did you
hear them kids? They don't know any more
about the war than a chicken
We were about to ask him for his idea on
the subject, but at that moment along came
our friend Wilbur Thomas to remark that he
was going to send us list of precepts on the
bringing up of Urchins, list which was
handed down to him in his stern New Eng
land youth
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-10

Every now and then We hear some sugges :
tions for reforming the calendar. Our own
idea would be to name the months after our
favorite foods, according to their seasonable
ness. For instance, January would be
christened Hotdog. February would be
Wheatcake. and so on. The Socratean CAL
endar would run thus:
Hotdog Uanuaryl
Whcatcake february
Cornpope (March,
Grapefruit (ApriD
Rhubarb May
Strawberry (June)
Shrimp July)
Shandygaff august
Greencorn (September)
Punkn October
Oyster (Novemberl
Mincepie CDecemberl
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-10
THE SPOTLIGHT is TURNED ON

,EITHEN President Mckinley submitted
~ to the Senate the treaty of peace with
pain twenty years ago he sent it to the
apitol by messenger and the Senate
<eceiyed II behind closed doors and de-
'bated il in secret.
4 df'resident Wilson today goes to the
- ffol in person, carrying with him the
n Of peace with Germany. and in
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-10
He Dearly Loves a Fiuht

Frank ii. Simonds, author of the His
tory of the World War" on his return re-
Gently from Paris and the Peace Conference
told this story about his six year -olG son.
His nurse produced a book to read aloud to
the small boy. Before she opened it, he In :
quired:
''Is there any fighting in itF'
"No, dear" replied the nurse
isn't there even a disagreement" Young
Simonds asked in tones of disappointment,
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-10
What Do You KnotU?'
QUIZ

I. How many boroughs compose Greater
New York and what are their names?
2. How many Vice Presidents of the United
States became President?
8. What is a deodar?
4. Who was the original "Old Probs'?
S. Who was called the Lord of Irony!
6. What is the native name for the island
of Formosa?
Z. What is the plural of the word incubus?
8. Who was Goya?
, 8. What is an integer?
10. What animal is sometimes called
cygnet3
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-10
TESTS OF HEROISM

"EVERYBODY in England" said Lord
- Weir to the home folks when he
landed at London a day or two ago after
a long visit in the United States. must
work, and work damned hardw
1t is plain that many members of the
nobility in Europe are at an intellectual
and spiritual crisis. One might even
venture so far as to presume that his
lordship has achieved a Job.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-10

Easy to Answer

The British Govern
Easy 10 answer ment recently sold If
teen million yards of
balloon cloth to a private firm, and the In
quiring One is puzzled TO know what will he
manufactured from it. That's easy for n
Cockney--'air mattresses.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-10

When We were a commuter we used tC
think that it would be touch of realism tc
give instructions in our will to have the
coffin lined with green plush.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-10

Canned goods are going up, according to
advices from Chicago. If they go too high
the public will can 'em.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-10

The declaration of the crown prince that
the Allies will get only his dead body is not
a threat but promise.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-10

Rumors of Burleson's resignation NAV
he labeled mot yet but soon.''
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-10

Villa bands are still playing ragtime on
the border.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-10
They Don't Play In the Morning

The story is that in the days Of the in
tense unpopularity in England of Lloyd
George. the customary greeting in clubs
and on the links was Good morning.
Damn Lloyd George New York Evening
Post.
This. however, did not prevent Lloyd
George from becoming prime minister. For
the people who win elections don't usually
get out to the links until late in the after
noon, if at all.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-10
"Ersatz" has SO long been the slogan

the Germans that one ceases to wonder that
substitutes for the ex-keiser have become a
drug ON the Market