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The evening leader., 1919-01-03

STEAM PRESSING MACHINE
Absolutely Sterilizes Your Garments
In our shop all garments are press
led on modern, up-to-date, Hoff- Man
Steam Pressing Machine. y
This machine is equipped with a
powerful vacuum attachment which
draws all dust and dirt out of your
clothing, leaving it fresh and clean;
then they are given liberal appliea-
tion of hot, dry steam, which raises
the nap of the cloth, removes unpleas-
ant body odors, and gives the garment
a most pleasing appearance of new
ness.
Through the use of the Hoffman
machine, it is possible to exert a pres
sure of one thousand pounds on gar
ments being pressed. This assures
sharp, lasting creases.
The evening leader., 1919-01-03
PAY THE BOYS EVERY TWO
WEEKS

Carrier boys will, in the future, COL
lect from subscribers every two weeks
instead of every week as in the past.
The price of the paper to each will be
II 1-2 cents week and collections
will be made as stated above.
The evening leader., 1919-01-03

If you want the best to eat go to
the American Cafeteria. They are
trying to please and they are succeed
ing.
The evening leader., 1919-01-03

Furnished house, Z rooms and bath.
for rent for the season. Good loca-
ton, near Spring bayou. Leader Real
Estate company. If.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-03-24
CENSORINC MOVIE CENSORS

IT WILL not do to suppose that the
states moving picture censors are
constitutionally wrong-minded because
they stumble occasionally and invite the
sort Of verbal mauling that Judge Rogers
and Judge Vessel have just given them
Tor interfering with film that wasn't
30 bad as it might have been.
Any sort of censorship has disadvan-
tages. There is always implied the right
Of q constituted authority TO decide what
the public may and may not think about.
Doctor Oberholtzer and his squad
have sometimes left themselves liable to
the charge of prudery which appears be
tween the lines of the courts impatient
interrogations in the most recent movie
hearing. But in a general way it must
be admitted they have imposed whole
some restraint on few of the moving
picture producers who still try deliber-
ately to give their pictures tinge of
prurience. While such methods prevail
they furnish a strong argument for the
supporters Of censorship.
In the film recently banned the censors
objected because Of the rather free treat
rnent of a theme that is as old as literu-
ture-that of an errant wife and third
person. Books that deal with this topic
and grand operas in which the familiar
human difficulty is set to gorgeous music
are not banned or censored They thrive
and multiply. This knowledge is a con-
slant irritation to these film producers.
1t is undeniable that the movies range
next to the public schools in the impor-
tance of their influence upon youthful
minds. And it is for this reason that
moving picture producers are under a
peculiar obligation to the public. There
is no reason why they should ever use
questionable action or disagreeable
theme because they have the advantage
Of virgin field and all the nobIer mo
tives Of accumulated literature for their
material.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-03-24
SUBSTITUTES FOR CHARITY

VERY properly the committee that has
set out to save the Society for Or
ganizing Charity has suggested that the
name of the institution be changed. The
present designation Is neither happy nor
rightly descriptive.
Charity is the least important work Of
the organization, unless it be admitted
that one does great charity who elm
mates the need of charity.
1T is common error to suppose that
money or material help can always re-
lieve the misfortunes which beset those
who need the help of organized agencies.
AS matter Of fact, the general problem
of relief in any city is complicated by
accidents Of i'll health, deficient educa-
ton, crime, family disagreements and
human frailty. In any center of popula-
ton there will always be a small per-
centage Of people who for one reason or
another are out of adjustment with the
general scheme.
The agencies operating through the
Society for Organizing Charity aim to
relieve the unfortunate; but they aim,
too, to eliminate the causes which make
normal social adjustments difficult or
impossible for many individuals and fam
lilies.
To improve housing, to prove the need
of living wages, to show the relation be-
tween poverty and illness and crime, to
keep society aware of its duties to all
its less fortunate members-these are
among the chief concerns of the modern
organized Charity"
The committee which is to seek $780,
900 fund for the Philadelphia organiza-
tion should be helped in every way. 1t
is unthinkable that the work of the So
ciety should be Threatened or hindered-
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-03-24
Philadelphia, Monday. March 2a, 1910
MAKE ROOM FOR THE BOYS

BECAUSE Congress Adjourned in Il
= mood of spite and refused TO act OF
pending appropriation bills, almost ali Of
the Offices of the Federal Employment
Service i'll this territory are now being
closed.
The employment service organized
under the auspices of the state for the
benefit Of returning soldiers has yet to
prove its efficiency.
In a general way, therefore, the siCua
ton involves a new obligation for bust
ness men with jobs to make or TO offer.
It Is the duty of every man to interest
himself personally in any soldier who
happens to apply to him for a job. II
he himself hasn't a place to offer he
should do his utmost and use his orgaui-
zation, if necessary, to learn whether
there isn't job waiting around the cor
ner or in one of the establishments of his
friends.
A great many men in this city have
formed this habit already and have
therefore manifested consistent pa
triotism and sense of duty.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-03-24
CO.EDS AT PENN

COMEWHERE within the editorial staff
~ of the Daily Pennsylvania, organ of
the University's undergraduates, there
nestles potential humorist of limitless
promise. It is impossible to imagine a
cleverer imitation of the doddering
standpattism that characterizes van
ishing school of American journalism
than the somber reflections inspired on
the Pennsylvanians editorial page by
the growth of the CO educational idea at
Penn.
There are thousand girl students at
the University. TO the Pennsylvania
this knowledge is "a staggering blow
The editor does not dare to interpret
these recent changes" He does every
thing but view with alarm All the
ivied phrases that less humorous editors
have brought down with them from the
high and far-otf, times to impede prog
ress are Haunted to make co-eds seem
somehow awful.
The Pennsylvanian signs heavily, ac!
cepts the coed as an unwelcome dispen-
sation and appears to wipe its hoary
beard with palsied hand. This is in a
time when general education is admit
tedly necessary to the safety of the
world and when, even III China, they are
ready to acknowledge that women are
people.
1t may be predicted that the next great
: merican humorist is training on the
Pennsylvania. But he is bit too sub
tie for college journalism.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-03-24
LINKING UP THE AMERICAS

IF MR.. HURLEY'S forecast of the
establishment of an American line Of
large passenger and freight steamships
between this country and the Latin re
publics is correct, it is a significant index
that American commerce is at last
taking logical and long-neglected
course
Considering our assumption of polit-
ical interests in the whole Western,
Hemisphere, our trade relations have
been pitifully inadequate. Passenger
travel has often been diverted into the
most roundabout routes, many voyagers
having found it more expeditions TO
reach Buenos Aires or Rio by way Of
some French or English port than by
direct steamship from New York. Two
ocean crossings for what should be in
sense merely coasting trip consti-
tute, Of course, an absurdity.
On the Pacific side conditions are AL
most equally bad. The west coast pas
senger trade is controlled by Peruvian.
a Chilean and British company. Since
the United States and Brazil line went
out Of existence no regular American
passenger service has been maintained
& IN either the south Atlantic or south
Pacific.
During the war. however, the freight
service grew prodigieusly. Mr. Hurley's
plan includes the dispatch of passenger
ships. They should greatly stimulate
both tourist travel and trade, and on the
western side should make obvious GER
tain advantages of The Panama Canal,
}therto without practical realization.
There has long been an uncomfortable
'asr in proclaiming the Monroe
81 with regard TO countries with
u actual trade intercourpe was
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-03-24
Answers to Saturdays Quiz

I. John Tyler tenth President of the United
States, was married twice and had
fourteen children.
2. 1.-THE ship had pratique" means that II
was granted clean bill of health and
could enter port. Pratique Is the IL
sense to hold intercourse with a port
granted after the ship has passed
quarantine.
g. Dolomite Is a kind of rock composed OF
double carbonate of lime and mag
nesa and often fantasticaIly shaped.
as In the Tyrolean mountain region,
known as the Dolomites.
4. Reynard is the personal name for fo1.
8. Sac Paolo is the second largest city In
Brazil.
6. A proa is kind OF boat used by the
Malays in the East Indies
Z. Spain was a republic from 1873 to 1876.
8. Sixteen drains make an ounce In avoir-
dupois weight.
8. Mexico, in Spanish should be pronounced
as though spelled "May-hee-co," with
the accent or the first syllable. Tho
usual modern spelling of the word i'm
Spanish IL Mejico. but the value OF
the 'j'' and the "x' Is the same.
10. Admiral Niblack was ia command of the
United States fleet III ths Bfediter-
raneRn during ths war s. (,
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-03-24
A WORLD SAFE FOR WALKERS? ?

WITH the suggestion for public land
W ing fields in League Island Park and
the rapidly maturing plans Of great
airplane manufacturer to demonstrate
near Philadelphia the practcability Of
air transport Of passengers and freight,
the day of winged traffic is brought
nearer, with a fine assortment Of hopes
and worries and concerns for everybody.
When children fly new vehicle will
have to be found for Santa Claus.
Doubtless he will use the subways in
future legends. Doors will be built in
roofs. Milk will be delivered as easily
as nickel into a slot by an awaiting
milkman.
Nowadays, when q motor maniac
makes a mistake he himself is usually
the greatest sufferer. But the ground
lings of the days to come will have u
new cause for nervousness in the knowl~
edge that four thousand pounds of wood
and metal may come Topping down out
Of the air at any moment.
When statesmen and lawmakers cease
to worry about the leag Of nations,
they will have to devote long periods Of
mental strain to the work of formulat-
ing air laws and regulations to control a
device that is filled with possibilities of
good and evil. "Travel in the air" the
aviation enthusiasts say, will be safer
before long than travel afoot." When
you sit down and try TO visualize the
possible consequences of popular avia-
tlon 1t sometimes appears that that
statement may be true in more ways
than one
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-03-24

so slight. Exceptional opportunities for
strengthening Pan American solidarity
are at hand today. Vessels Of the Latin
American merchant marine should be
seen in our northern ports. Brazil sends
us her Lloyd Brazileiro ships today, but
Peru, and Chile are laggards In ex"
change the Stars and Stripes would cease
to be rarity in Rio, "B. A. and
"Vslr :"
Geographical neighbors can best work
out their destiny if they maintain also
strong commercial ties.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-03-24

/. How often is the number OF Congre ssmen
to which each state Ia entitled in the
House of Representatives subject to
revision7
2. What is the origin of the word "ouija?"
8. Where is the Isle Of Man?
4. What is meant by deal table?
s. What is chervil?
G. What is hexameter verse?
Z. Why is a nightingale sometimes called
Philomel?
s. Who was Malibran2
9. What Roman god is COMMUNICATED In
the name OF the present month?
10. Which Is the Bear State?
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-03-24
Ma OH tile Job

UDA." said little Willie. whats an echo?"
/ "An echo, my son. answered pa.
casting mean side glance at little Willie's
ma, "is the only thing OH earth that can
cheat woman out of the last word"
Another definition of an echo, Willie" OBJ
served ma, 'is a man who goes to old
patent medicine almanacs for his alleged
wit"
And then nobody said any more words but
Willie whose infant mind was naturally con-
fused by all this persifage.-Cleveland Plain
Dealer
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-03-24
4 QUEER WORLD

Y1NlS funny world we live in
Il If we will but stop and think
How that everything is mixed up,
And so much is on the "bliik."
Humanity is bubbling DER
With too much of selfishness,
And most everybedy's trying
Just to do somebody else"
The Survival of the flttest"
Seems to be the law Of life,
The intensity of struggle
Marks the conflict and the strife.
There's far too little charity
And too much of savagery,
While on the most important issues
Men are failing to agree.
It's 2 seething, boiling caldroI
with the fires Of human greed,
Just red hot" with competitions
That on fiercest passions feed.
The masses only know and caro-
For individual gain.
And eXemplify the spirit
OF an "Abel's brother Cain"
Though the struggle may be silent
Yet it's marked with rancor. hate,
The race foi riches grows in speed
At a most alarming rate;
But after all is said and done
And the story has been t1ld,
We do not think it's any worse
Than the good old days Of Old"
Augustus Treadwell, in the Brookly
Times.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-03-24

Commission which will respect the spirit
Of the laws and refuse to permit itself to
be used for rewarding political workers.
And we want also to reduce the num-
Der of elective officers, to shorten the bal
lot and concentrate responsibility in the
hands of men who can be easily reached
when they betray their trust.
These are some of the detectives which
we hope TO gain in the drive that will
begin tomorrow. We shall ultimately
reach them, for the men behind the
movement will not despair. Neither will
they look back nor turn back one step.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-03-24
Sentiment and sigma

Sentiment and Signs
Methought I'd write a song of charm,
Some simple, heartfelt rhyme,
OF my old home down ON the farm,
Where passed lifes glad springtime.
With pads and pencils well supplied
motored forth one morn
And sought again the countryside
And house where was born.
The dear old lane! At sight of it
I'd many kind of thrills
But there I read, "TO Keep You Fit
Use Quackham's Liver Pills.
To weep for joy did I commence
At old, familiar scenes
But there OH our old orchard fence
A sign read, BOwser's Beans.
The woodland path! All, there it lies!
Where first in trembling hope
read my fate in Dora's eyes:-
What's this? Use Skinner's Soap.
I'll give it up! How can words flow
In sentimental vein
In sight CT this: Eat OIe0,
Try Stiffneck's Oil for Pain?
MAUD FRAZER JACKSON.
Well, now that Doctor Lowell came
through the ordeal successfully, does any
one else want to try a one-night stand
with Senator Lodge-what we might call
a Lodging for the Night?
Once upon time we read q jape that
amused us greatly. We don't recall where
it came from, hut it goes like this:
HE belongs tc very old family, doesn't
he?
Yes. fine old Bible family Some Of
the sea-"
When a certain very young gentleman
reaches Cambridge. Mass. today we hope
he will have sufficient loyalty to the city
Of his birth t. register as Woodrow vii.
son Sayre Of Philadelphia"
DIR. Philip Hawk, of the Jefferson Medi-
cal College. says that eating pie for break
fast is a perfectly safe and sane thing to
do.
Which deprives the practice of half its
pleasure. Most of the fun we got from
eating pie and sinkers for breakfast lay
in the feeling that we were a proud rebel
an iconoclast, magniflcently contradcting
natural law in the edible world.
On our way to the office we frequently
peer in at the windows of big power
house where some huge dynamos are purr-
ing away. Our electrical friends may be
interested In Henry Adams's admirable de-
scrlption of the dynamo as q spiritual SYM
Dol. He says lin the Education of Henry
Adams):
ITO Adams the dynamo became n sym
boil of infinity. AS he grew accustomed to
the great gallery of machines, he began to
feel the forty-foot dynamos as a moral
force much as the early Christians felt the
Cross. The planet itself seemed less i'm
pressive, In its old-fashioned, deliberate,
annual or daily revolution. than this huge
wheel revolving within arms length at
some vertiginous speed and barely mur-
muring-scarcely humming an audible
warning to stand a hair's-breadth further
for respect OF power-while 1t would not
wake the baby lying close against its frame
Before the end. one began to pray to II;
inherited instinct taught the natural ex-
preston of man before silent and infinite
force"
Old traditions are being blasted every
day. Some one let loose a white rat or
some kind Of d speedy rodent at the Gar
rick Theatre during Saturday matinee. and
not one lady screamed or climbed seat
SOCRATES,
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-03-24
THE ELECTRIC CHAIR

HORACE HOOK writes that spring has
l. been neglected in our department. On
the contrary, Horace, we've been celebrat-
ing it all winter long
Horace sends us the following, tho best
spring poem we've seen this year:
1919 Springpome
Spring pussy-willow- footed in,
Crept slyly into winters yard.
And dropped crocus with =. grin
Upon his lawn marked Spring, Her
Card"
HORACE HOOK.
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Member Of the Associated PreOs

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS is crclu-
sttely entitled to the use for rcpu 6hcution
Of oil netcS dispatches credited to It or not
othertcise credited IN this paper, and also
the local netCs published therein.
All rights Of rcpu bHcdtion Of special dis.
pdtchcS herein are also reSerred
Philadelphia, Monday, March %, 1910
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-03-24

AT the risk of scuttling New York's
most cherished and venerable ''witticism."
Doctor Krusen maintains that sleeping
sickness e nonexistent In this city,
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-03-24
A LIVELY FAITH Is THE
VERY STUFF OF VICTORY
The Advocates of Charter Revision at the
Harrisburs Hearing Are Going to the
Capital With Confidence

WHEN Marshal Foch was asked the
w other day how he succeeded in turn
ing the German offensive into defensive
and then into defeat the distinguished
soldier said that victories are won by
science, but also by faith. when one
has faith he continued, zone does not
retire" Il have but one merit" he went
on. "that OF never despairing."
General Gouraud's message to the
Fourth French Army on the eve Of the
second battle Of the Marne was inspired
by the same idea. He wrote: Nobody
will lock back. Nobody will turn back
one step!" There is here the determina-
ton to win, backed by faith in ultimate
victory.
If these utterances had been directed
to the hearts and minds Of the men who
are planning to 90 to Harrisburg tomor-
row to urge the necessity Of charter re
vision for this city upon the General
Assembly they could not have been bet
ter phrased
The charter will be revised, and it will
be revised in the right way. Whatever
may be the prospects now, there are men
behind the plan who have the one merit
of never despairing. They will not admit
their defeat. They may meet setbacks,
but they will persist in the course on
which they have set out until they have
reached the goal.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-03-24

Governor Sproul will indeed win the
thanks OF grateful public" II he beats
down the coal prices
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-03-24
A New Teddy?

turned from France. made his debut in
politics with speech which New York
observers say was exactly like the
speeches his father used to make at the
outset OF his career. The New York Re
publicans are lucky if they have found
L. NOW r L
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-03-24
Who Cares?

Some Of those states.
Who Cares? men who will have
to eat their words
before the next session of Congress ends
will surely suffer grievously from indiges.
tion later.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-03-24

Some people are born sober; some
achieve sobriety; the rest have sobriety
thrust upon them.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-03-24

poor lii pies lie out here an get all chilled.
Boy, dem pies'll get dat influenza IL you
don't make has"
1t is doubtful whether the JugoSlav
fully understood this admonition. but he
grabbed the trays and hastened them on
their way.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-03-24

The pedestrian lettering thoughtfully
toward his rolltop desk finds n bakers
truck backed up against the stage en-
trance Of a Chestnut street automat and
three or four energetic hirelings passing
in trays of fragrant oyster pies beef pies,
cinnamon buns, chocolate eclairs and all
the attractive pasties that make their way
to the little nickel-slotted glass windows.
A colored humorist pulls them out from
the racks in the truck with a long. shining,
hooked rod; another seizes the tray as 1t
emergss and passes 1t to busy Jugo.
Siav standing in the doorway; he in turn
forwards the tray to a hustling charwoman
in a blue apron, who passes it inward
toward the ultimate consumer. The humor-
list and his assistant were passing them
out too fast for the JugoSlav and couple
of trays Of steaming beef pies had got
sidetracked and were lying in the cold air
Grab up dem beef pies. boI" cried the
artist with tbs long rod; don't let dem
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-03-24
From the London Times:
Business Opportunities

From the London Times:
Business Opportunities
BELGIAN BATTLEFIELDS. - SALE,
immediate possession; all in excellent
repair.
How bitter that must sound to a retired
woodcutter at Amerongen
But the surest sign Of spring that we
know is when the medicine-man banjo
shows begin again on South street, and the
barker stands at the front door eXpounding
the virtue Of bladderwort pills.
The following piteous outburst is pla-
carded outside q saloon:
Do not ask what WE are going TO do after
July first,
BUT what in the name Of God and your
Loss Of Liberty
Are YOU going to do?