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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-05-15

THE park commission has acted in a
: manly way in definitely and without
equivocation authorizing the playing Of
games in the parks on Sunday.
Golf has long been played in Cobbs
Creek Park and baseball has been played
at Fairmount. 1t was suggested that
the park guards be directed to permit all
orderly games on Sunday without any
formal action by the commission. This
could have been done. and we could have
hypocriticaly pretended that we were not
consenting to Sunday sports for the
people
The commission has been too honest
and self-respecting to take any such
cowardly course. Its action will com
mend itself to the judgment Of all those
who believe in providing all possible
ways for the orderly relaxation of the
people on Sunday.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-05-15
THE GUARD IN THE BEST HANDS

] PENNSYLVANIA has long been proud
of William G. Price, but there is a new
thrill in its admiration and affection as
it regards this gallant officer and fine
souled leader in his new role of comman-
der-in-chief Of its reorganized National
Guard
Governor Sproul, who announced the
appointment at the city's dinner to Gen
eral Muir last night, fervently hailed
Brigader General Price as his boyhood
friend. To this charm cf old association
the citizenry of this state fondly yield.
Not alone for his admirable services in
his artillery command in the Twenty
eighth Division during the war is war
!. .ranty for General Prices new honor to
be found
For many years he has been a brilliant
and conspicuous figure, first as colonel
of the old Pennsylvania Third Regiment
later as commander of the First Brigade.
and his sound administrative abilities
have undoubtedly played potent part
in the achievements of our state troops.
The link between their superb accom-
plishments in France and their able
training at home in the National Guard
days can be clearly traced
If Brigadier General Price is as pleased
over his deserved laurels as Pennsylva-
mans are, he is happy man today.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-05-15

knows that the Senate has rejected many
treaties which the President has nego-
tiated.
The power of the Senate and the power
of the President are clear and definite.
The Senate may rcwrite the peace treaty
from beginning to end, but it would only
have its trouble for its pains, for it is not
likely that the President would submit
such rewritten treaty to Germany.
The question at issue is not one of the
powers Of the Senate, but one of eXpe-
diency. Is it prudent for one branch of
the treaty-making power, through pride
of opinion, to delay or possibly to prevent
the making of peace between this coun-
try and Germany?
The Senate, whatever it may do, can
not prevent France and England from
making peace.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-05-15

The President succeeded on this occa-
sion because he acted without sense and
without constraiut in a panorama that was
soften IN more for the benefit of his party
Than for the glory of the nation and the
honor of the dead. We pass over the
silly remarks of the President; for the
credit of the nation we are willing that
tbe veil of oblivion shall be dropped over
them and that they shall no more be re-
peated or thought of.
This is not an extract from an editorial in
the New York Sun or the New York Tribune.
Nor were the sentiments quoted above taken
from any of the public utterances of Senator
Poindexter or Senator Sherman or Senator
Mccormick. They are from an editorial that
was printed in the Harrisburg Patriot and
Union on November "a, 1868, and have nc
reference to Woodrow Wilson,
The President in question was Abraham
Lincoln. The "silly remarks were tn,
Cettysburg speech.-New York World.
One interesting fact which the World fail.
70 mention is that the Harrisburg Patriot
and Union was Democratic anti war orgaI
of the most virulent type.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-05-15
HARMONY WITH A CAPITAL P

TNHE agreement of the Republican sena
torial caucus on Cummins, of Iowa,
favored by the progressives, as president
pro tempore foreshadows a harmonious
organization of the Senate next Monday.
1t is intimated that the progressive
minority has secured the promise of fair
treatment in the apportionment Of COM
mittee chairmanships and in return has
agreed to support the general program.
Whether the progressives will vote for
Penrose as chairman of the finance COM
mittee and Warren as chairman of the
committee on appropriations does not yet
appear, but it is not likely that they will
vote against them. Between what they
regard as two evils, they seem to prefer
to accept Penrose and Warren to permit
ting the Democrats to organize the Sen
ate by continuing the fight within their
own party.
AS they hold the whiphand, and will
continue to hold it so long as the Repub
licans control the Senate by narrow
margin of two votes, there is likely to be
harmony with capital P, standing for
progressive legislation. All forward
looking Republicans hope so at any rate.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-05-15
SENATE CAN TEAR 1T TO PIECES

TINE Senate is under no compulsion of
= law. precedent or custom to accept
the peace treaty in the form in which it is
submitted to it.
No attempt to create the impression
that the treaty must be accepted or
rejected can succeed, for the reason that
knowledge of the processes of treaty
making is too general.
The constitution provides that the
President "shall have power, by and with
the advice and consent of the Senate, to
make treaties, provided two-thirds of the
senators concur" The initiative lies
with the President. Advice is the func-
ton Of the Senate and consent depends
Oh whether it wishes to insist that its
ivice be accepted. There can be no
treaty unless the minds of the Senate
and Of the President come together.
This is elementary and fundamental.
Treaties have frequently been amended
nv the Senate. The President has asked
fhe nation interested to accept the
smendments, and when they have been
1iceepted the treaties have become valid.
But the President is as free to reject
'an,cadments made by the Senate as the
Senate IS to make amendments.
President IN, in l848, sent to the SEN
~ NJ 90 apn treaty with Prussia,
n ~ - Apf which he explained
.-aS ~ '1 E. The Senate ratified
{. ~ s3he President refused
y. II a x ,e,s1onal lertions ana declined
s1 3nN s.lsss. himself. Everybody
. - q
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-05-15
Keystone Dialogue

WE
How were you ever so clever in doing it?
How did you hurtle them through the
Argonne?
How did you rush and SO crush EN- that
rucing it
Is what the Heinies II never be done?
How did you thrive in that hive of artillery
Popping from ''stellungs' from Rheims
to Sedan?
How did you run ev'ry Hun to his pillory
Squarely according to Justices plan?
How did you fling ev'ry ring of pomposity,
Bafhed and crestfallen back toward the
Rhine?
How was your trick grmly slick with
jocosty?
How were you ever so wondrously fine?
THEY
Seeing we'll take it and stake it's believing
Why have you mulled over books of cam
paign?
Even the best are all dressed with deceiving,
Ponderous answers to what is so plain
Why did you jog in bog of obscurity?
Why did you fiddle with figures and maps:
Why should lingering finger give surety,
Tracing the sweep to the Meuse of us
chaps?
If you would know why our "go" had
vivacity
Danish all bombast's inadequate aid.
Find in the starch of our march the
veracity.
Taste of the truth in the way we parade
II n q
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-05-15
What Do You Kno,v?


/. Who is chancellor of Germany?
2. Name two American Presidents who
virtually named their successors?
8. How many farthings make a penny?
4. What are the colors of the flag of Por-
tugal?
5. What is the origin of the line "Wine
maketh glad the heart of man.?
6, What is rance?
Z. Who was the Roman goddess Of fruits?
S. In what novel of Dickens does the pom
pous character of Uncle Pumblechook
occur?
0. When did hostilities between the Entente
and Turkey terminate?
10. What is the meaning of malice pre-
pense"?
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-05-15
THE GOWNSM4N
The QUESTIONABLE

A QUESTIONABLE is Il piece Of other
a wise harmless paper on which some idiot
mas caused TO be printed, or otherwise mani
FOLDED, u list of idle questions. iugcniously
concoctcd TO consume time and to answer
what nobody cares a rap about aud what no
body can possibly be the wiser for knowing
we shall not call the QUESTIONABLE n scrap
ot paper it is too unmportant for that. al
though vexatious enough to bcgct. oven in n
habhually temperate man. the cxaspcraton
out OF which wars are made The color Of
the paper on which the qucstionnaire is
printed is uncsscntial: it is the color of the
questions that tell, or rather that make the
victim tell For the thing begins with the
inslnuating t1attery that there is really some
body who actually cares what opinions you
may hold about something or other. 1t pro
cccds with the seductive assumption that.
holding opinions, You courtcously desire to
share them with that eager and apprcciativc
body. the rest Of mankind and that your
intensely becoming modcsty has alone pre-
vented you from tho illumination of tho
world, until thus cross examined into rcvcla
tiou.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-05-15

The Peerless belicd its name and did
not bring its load of troops home in time
to be welcomed today. But there will be
welcome enough left over to warm the hearts
of the boys when they land tomorrow.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-05-15

The Dutch Government denies that it
has decided to give up the former kaiser.
No one has asked for him yet, it says. But
II Count Bentinck should be consuAed he
would certainly say that his guest is out
staying his welcome.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-05-15

One Of the curious phenomena to be OBJ
served this morning was the number of
people who entered restaurants along the line
of march about S 80 O'Clock and ordered
breakfast. luncheon and dinner TO be served
by the window. all three meals TO be deliv
cred consecutively "And see here. George
] want my eggs boiled ninety minutes, and
don't be in too much of hurry about it,
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-05-15
Special Feature Tomorrow

A notable dispatch from Lieutenant Will
liam McFee, our special correspondent
abroad. Order your Dish early.
SOCRATES.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-05-15

And the wounded men who reviewed
the parade now know how General Perish =
ing feels when the men march before him.
And every American soldier carries gen
cral,s stars in his knapsacK.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-05-15

The prospect of cheaper wheat, which
means cheaper bread. is dangled before our
eyes. Hope it is not like carrot tied to
a stick before donkey's nose IN order to
keep him going.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-05-15
General Demure!

General Muir says the parade is to be con
Quoted on strictly military lines and ladies
must not try to kiss the soldiers as they
go by.
But surely the privilege of being bussed is
one of the most cherished of strictly military
privileges.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-05-15

In the midst of wonders it is difficult
TO assess values. An effective way TO an.
preciate the marvelousness of the trans.
atlantic hop is TO remember how impos
sble such thing seemed when Walter
Wellman came.to grief less than ten years
a6.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-05-15

In a way it is too bad that Germany
loses all her aircraft. A little see plain"
couipment would be decidedly beneficial in
her present Quandary.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-05-15

Now the Democratic senators will quote
holy writ and say TO the Republican major
;,y Woe unto you, for ye pay tithe of
mini and auise and Cummins, and neglect
10 6ght for our pleasure,
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-05-15

The Huns seemed to have misunderstood
our way of making peace just as completely
rs they did our method of waging war.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-05-15

When it comes to decorations for a
narade Philadelphia does not have to take
a hack seat for anybody. Her artists and
architects have done themselves proud,
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-05-15

No one was ashamed of the tears that
came unbidden to his eyes as he watched the
soldiers march by.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-05-15

The Grand Army veterans have not for
gotten how the boys in line feel today. They
have been there themselves.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-05-15
The WhirIIgig of Time

Nothing is so ironcal as the calendar
Forty eight years ago today the Germans in
Philadelphia were celebrating the triumphant
founding of the German empire by huge
parade. In the Public Ledger Almanac for
1872 we find the following item in the Phil
adelpha Chronology for 1871:
May 15-German peace celebration pro-
cession nine miles long, and included repre-
sentatives of various trades and occupations
in line. Numerous buildings were hand
somely decorated with flags
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-05-15

No matter what the calendar says, the
niversity of Pennsylvania teaching staff
p ioices that the next fall means rise.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-05-15

Welcome home. Iron DIVISION
This would be great day for Penn
sylvania if people everywhere in the
stands. big and little, high and humble,
could share in the next few years even
little of the spirit that swept you along
at the Marne. at Fismes and in the
Argonne.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-05-15

The University has round the money
roodod to increase the pay of its professors,
but the Board of Education gives up the
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-05-15

Just. for one day nobody really cared about
what's happening at Versailles, or whether
the seaplanes hoped off from Trepassey, or
how badly Brockdorff feels about the treaty.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-05-15
Desk Notices

Nothing so needs reforming as other peo >
ple's habits.--MARK TWAIN.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-05-15

Independence Hall, all dolled up for the
welcome, looked as gay as sixteen near
old
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-05-15

The trouble with many Of the presiden
tial balloons sent up into the air is that they
are not dirigble.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-05-15

The keystone Division hcu up the arch
of the Allied offensive.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-05-15

Happy We're those who had forethought
enough TO provide themselves with home
made periscope.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-05-15

Tn EUROPE the Qucsionnairc is part of
mans daily life: his BIRTH his christening,
education. marriage. death and burial arc
subject to it, and his income. as ours. too.
ot late. suffers QUESTIONABLE only short in
its thoroughness of that of tho Spanish Iu-
Quistion itself. Women in Europe fccl no
afront upon inquiry into their age: they are
Injured TO it from youth. And what can it
matter. my dear. if you really don't look it
SO truthful in this respect have French and
English women become that il is said that
few fail to remember their actual birthdays
by moro than a slip of ten years or so. al
though longevity in the sex is limited abso
lutcly TO the age of forty.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-05-15
TTNHERE were no skip stops in Philadel
L phia' S welcome to the Iron Division.

Early this morning the weather man 5
morale was said to be crumbling under the
strain We hope for his own sake that he
will be able TO hold out. The city is in
desperate mood and will not allow its holi-
day to be trihcd with.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-05-15

Philadelphia capitulated gladly TO its army
of occupation.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-05-15

Most of what they call grand stands are
really grand sits. The greatest grand stand
of all is the pavement.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-05-15

Chestnut street, arrayed in summer
dresses. properly lived up to its wartime title
as our own Chemin dcs Danes.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-05-15

Even William Penn on the City Hall is
said to have turned his head when he heard
them coming up Broad street behind him.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-05-15
WHAT DO THE SOLDIERS THINK
REVIEWING THE GRAND STANDS?
The Iron Division Fought in an Endless
War That Requires More Than
Cheering at Home

RI Us IN imagination reverse the
familiar order and suppose for a
moment that the folk at home were
reviewed by the men of the Iron Divi-
sion. Would there be applause and flag
waving in the stands as we went by?
What have IRE been doing in a vast
adventure that included the Marnc and
the Argonnc forest and the collapse of
Germany as more or less hccting incl
dents? How should we appear in the
eyes of mon who, dozen times day,
had to be great or die"
The Iron Division and the other divi-
slons that fought beside it didn't go
abroad merely to crush Germany. They
fought to continue life, liberty and the
pursuit Of happiness, for justice and
right and to insure, above all things,
rcasonablcncss and deccncy in all human
relationships.
That sort of war Is endless. TO assume
that it was won finally in Franco is to
cherish a delusion. The ultimate dec-
sion will be made where all great vic
tories arc won--in the minds of men.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-05-15

But parade of the Philadelphians VIII
have changed their minds about German
since 1871 would now make procession a
least ninety miles long.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-05-15

What's New York going to do about the
Bronx after July :? That borough's only
claim to fame gone, vanished, evaporated
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-05-15

Tomorrow morning will be rich harves
for the shoe shining contingent
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-05-15

number of our clients have called us up
to ask whether The Chatting Dish has made
any preparations to give first aid to Dish
contributors who swoon in the crowds today.
If any of our patrons are overcome in this
manner we can give them few unanswered
letters to fan themselves with. That is the
best we can do
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-05-15

Compensation is swift and sweet. Only
last week we were laying down our iron
men for the Victory Loan. And here they
are marching back again as large as life.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-05-15

tul kings, the wealth OF empires, the
shrewdness of men trained IN the arts
of befuddlement have been mobilized
against them. And yet they have never
been conquered.
They never can be conquered because
theirs is cause greater than kings.
greater than dynastics, greater than
empires. greater than money and greater
than life. 1t is the desire for the triumph
of justice and reason in the affairs of
humanity. 1t is universal.
Every tyrant has opposed it. And
where are the tyrants now?
Men do not always define their pur-
poses even to themselves. And Ameri-
can soldiers fought instinctively for an
idea. And if, through superficial view
of the war, we at home do not realize
that idea, the war in which the Iron Divi-
sion won glory will be lost so far as we
are concerned.
If there is one duty that America owes
the returned soldiers il is to think clearly,
bravcly, without hysteria about the times
that are past and the times that are
coming. Leftover plattudes and the
alterations willed on us by high-saaried
hatemakers will not do.
Base old men who called themselves
scholars, narrow groups hudded in sod
den compaCency without consciousness
of the common life that moves the world,
have been the sources of what we have
been calling culture. We have apcd their
gestures seduously enough. But the war
and the experiences of the Iron Division
and its like have provided clear sugges-
tions of a truer culture in America.
To be as handed as our soldiers
were, as proudly aloof from a thought of
loot. to recognize the validity of no rule
of life that is cruel or unjust to others is
to approximate an intellectual ideal
worthicr than anything yet commonly
taught in schools.
1t is not because we arc wiser, but
because we are stronger and more free,
that America may lead and serve the
world. And we cannot be propagandists
of liberty and justice among others if we
are illiberal and un Just, sordid and selfish
in our relations with one another.
Welcome home. Iron Division.
This would be a great day for Penn
s 'lvania if people everywhere in the
stands, big and little, high and humble,
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-05-15

After reading the terms of the peace
treaty the chief occupation of German states
men seems to be, in the immortal words of
'Alice in Wonderland ~ "reelng and writh-
ing and fainting in coils
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-05-15

TNllE Gownsman has often wondered what
l. kind of q man is the rOncoctcr of d uucS-
tiounarc. llC must be alike very busy and
a very idle person Busy in the affairs of
everybody. one wonders if he can have any
affairs. of hi, own. Idle. or he would never
have the time. mans traffic with man
usually goes. to think out such ingenious and
trivial questions or to attach such importance
to trifcs which nobody else would think of
picking up of of the footwayS of daily life
Sometimes the qucstionary is a school
broker. Now a school broker is the go
between. coupling would be teacher with
his employer. and a Questonnare is part of
everything and comes always. like Hamct's
father. in u questionable shape. is he Cor
shcl a strict dsciplnarian?' rs he (or
shcl II Mcthodist?' Does he Tor shc)
drink or use tobacco to excess:' These are
actual questions of actual QucStionuaires.
And how is the honest man TO answer them?
How is an unObscrvant Gownsman to know
whether he Tor shcl really is a Methodist. OK
ccpt by means of theological investigation
from which his nature Shrinks? How is he
to know whether he tor she) drinks to OK
cess? What is excess? And. nowadays,
drinking what? Besides. who is the Gowns
man that he shall pass on the sweetness of
apy woman's voice? Another query. asks
solcmply. "IIave you seen him Cor herr
teach?' The GownSman would respectfully
suggest that Have you seen him cat?'
might be q pprtinent question as to teacher
about to be taken into a frugal boarding
school and that a better question than rs
she good dscipInarian:" might be, Have
you seen her spank