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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-06-15
EXCUSE II. PLEASE!

THERE are some emergencies, un-
i related to politics or the lost art of
stroct cleaning, in which the authorities
in New York can move with determine :
tion and celebrity. The telephone service
in Manhattan, for example, has been
sad. Even the telephone management
admitted that It was sad. Governor
Smith promptly ordered an investiga =
tion and he made every possible effort
to got light on tho trouble at it's source.
The results Of general survey are now
coming to light.
One Of tho most interesting reports
in n group submitted to the governor is
written by Miss Nellie Swartz, OF the
bureau Of women in industry OF the
State Industrial Commission. Miss
Swartz is convinced that inadequate
telephonc service in New York is due
to n high average Of inefficiency among
tho opprators. Relatively low wages
and n large and constant labor turnover
which makes efficient training difficult
or impossible are given as the tunda-
mental causes Of unanswered or delayed
calls. slow service and general confu-
sion on tne Wlr'S'
ANY one who makes frequent use of
the telephone in this city need not be
told that the general policy which gov
crns the operation of the service in New
York prevails also in Philadelphia.
Hero as well as in Manhattan the op-
Grating company has not been able to
compete with industries stimulated and
enriched by the war. Its technical
forces we're depleted by the demands Of
the military service and arc' not yet
fully reorganizcd. 1t happens that the
dominant corporation continues to in
sist OH 8 per cent dividends. but this
fact. painful as it may appear, has
little direct bearing on the general char
acter of the service rendered. Lower
dividends would not make higher wages
possible to all the operating force. And
in justice to the company it must be
said that its service at the worst is
better than anything of the sort known
anywhere in Europe in normal times.
1t is easy enough to condemn the
telephone corporation and to wonder
why it doesn't pay a wage that will
insure permanent and we'll trained
operating organization. 1t ought to do
these things, of course. But since it
had an extraordinarily fine record of
efficiency before the war. it is but fair
to remember that what is being said of
its work now might be said with equal
justice Of the railroads. the street car
lines and other utilities. The era of
high wages and thriving and increasing
business enterprises put fresh strains
on the telephone system. So. on the
whole. it appears that the wire COM
panCs. like other corporations, will
have to have time in which to recover
their normal stride. They arc all in
thC same b0at
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NEW CASUALTY LISTS

rhS REGULARLY as Lists Of dead
"A and injured once we're sent from tho
fighting fronts in Europe the casualties
registered in week end automobile
smashes appear nowadays in the news
papers on Mondays.
The average of motor accidents is in
creasing. II was supposed not long
ago that striCtcr licensing provisions for
beginners would reduce tho risks of
travel on crowded highways. But ex-
perience has shown that il is not the
green driver who gets killed or into
trouble. The tyros go carefully. The
old hands at the game, who. being
skilled, are ovPrconfident, are the ones
who figure in the police reports.
The desire to speed and to exhibit
skill is behind nine serious smashes out
OF every ten. Stricter enforcement of
speed and traffic rules, larger fines and
Jail sentences for hardened vioators
will make for general safety for those
who ride and those who walk.
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patience the publication Of the letter
or address in which the Senator ac-
cepts the nomination. IL Is confident
that he will make his own platform on
tho league question. for it cannot be-
lirve that he will be. 20 foolish as to
employ the tactics Of timidity which
brought disaster to the Republican
party in 1915,
II he socks precedent for political
courage he will find II in the famo -
Buffalo speech of Mckinley, delivered
tho day before he was shot. speech
which reminded the high tariff wing of
the Republican party that the time had
come for revision Of the tariff policy
of tho nation in such way as to per
nit the expansion of the foreign trade
of the United States and allow Ameri-
can manufacturers to send their goods
into the markets Of the world. Nc
KinIcy was not pussyfootcr in Buff
fnlo. and if Harding, who has many of
McKinlcy's admirable qualities, full
fills the expectations of the great ma
iority Of his party, he will not begin
the campaign by pussyfooting on
single prcSsing issue.
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PROGRESS HITS CAMDEN

ELABORATELI organized hre de-
IL partments. as they exist in Amerl =
can cities Of the first class, represent
almost invariably. an evolution from
the old volunteer system and often re-
thin many of the characteristics OF an
amateur method.
In the oIdcn days when steam was q
novelty and before any one dreamed OF
electric signals, high pressure engines
and sixty mile motors, hrehGhter :
Job was easy and a fire was something
of a lark. Firemcn drew no pay Ihey
were volunteers who were always on
call at their homes. In many cities
until quite recently the paid fireman
was expected to keep volunteer S
hours. That is. he was always on call,
though he was on call at his station.
He lived in the frehouse. not at home
This arrangement was 50 unjust that
all men in the service fought 1t and
apitated for new system under which
they could spend some part ut least OF
the twenty four hours with their fam
flies. The reorganization Of the Phila
delphia department began about year
and half ago after long and bitter
complaint. The old order still prevails
In Camden. where the members of the
fire department have started an agita e
tion for two platoon system, such as
was instituted here.
The existing arrangement is inhu-
man and inefficient 1t is relatively in
expensive and that is why many munic-
ipal governments have preferred tn re-
tain it as long as they could. Camden
people who wish to give the men of the
FIRE service a square deal ought to get
behind the men in the present fight.
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PLAQUES

TT THE responsible and irresponsible
Il officers of government everywhere had
been less HISTORICALLY concerned about
plaques of political doctrine and better
able 10 recognize dangers that are ac-
tual and real, great many lives would
have been saved in Europe and in the
United States since the war ended and
we should not now have to read of re
current outbreaks at American ports OF
diseases that are peculiar to areas in
which all social mechanisms were
stopped or destroyed by fire and con =
fiict.
There has been endless talk Of ssni- :
tary cordons. buffer states, blockades
and bsrflers designed and maintained to
inne6s plitical Sdeas sst q sort. that
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Answers to Yesterdays Quiz

!. Lake Michigan has an area of
22,i5O square miles
= The first secretary OF the interior
was Thomas Ewing. Of Ohio in
lSi9, under President TayIor :"
j. CaXton put up his first printing
press in l47l.
4. Clement Marot Q497-l544 was
known as the Chaucer Of France
B. The first woman In America 10 re-
ceiye a medical diploma was Eliza =
beth Blackwell, an English woman
who died June l, 1910.
g. The Dog Days" was the name given
by ancient astronomers to the
twenty days before and the twentv
days after 'he rising of the dog
star Sirius, with the sun.
I, Paper Is chiefly made from spruce
hemlock and pine woods, rags
straw and old paper. Three fourths 3
Of the output is from wood puin
S. The Separatlsts. a sect which orau,
out of Puritanism and which
founded Plymouth Colony. MAJ"
wers frequently alluded 10 h.;
Governor william Bradford ~
pilgrims and strangers upon tbs
earth" and as Pilgrims thev he
came generally known.
9. Hydrogen gas Is most con,nonI,,
used In balloons.
10. The Scotch word "aibIIns'' means
poSaihlW SperhapaE
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What Do You Know?


/. Who wrote. AN Sorts and Condi-
tions Of Men? '"u'
. Who was the first secraary of agri-
culture? "e''
3. When was the first English Bible
printed?
T. What is the area OF the Pacific
ocean? N'''S
g. What are the DrinCinaI ,,,,,,or.,
products Of Alaska?
I. What Is the population Of Ches-
ter, Pa? ''
3. What is an argosy and where did
the word originate? '''
g. In what key Is Tschaikowskv's
Symphonic Pathetique' wrItten
10. What other equally weii-knoWn
symphony is written in the same
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over receipts of $4,316, 6,S00,S55 at The
end of this fiscal year?" Mr.. Good
asks. What business concern, finding
its expenses were exceeding it's reye.
nues would not attempt to find add.
tional source Of revenue or reduce ex.
peditures? The President would reverse
the experience of the business world"
Mr.. Good attacked the President for
his veto Of the budget bill, on the ground
that "the Presidents refusal to ap.
prove this act strongly indicates his
opposition to business program for
the government"
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Embarkation Post Displaced

Hoboken, n. j., June 15.-The army
post of embarkation here will 60 out Of
existence today, and in its stead
will function the headquarters Of the
army transportation service. under the
command of Colonel John ]. Bradley,
assistant chief Of transportation serv.
ice, it was announced.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-06-15

Calming down after n weeks OK
citement. Republicans get satisfaction
in the thought that they have a man
of presidential caibcr as their nominee
for Vice President. The next thing for
the county to do is to give the Vice
President something worth while to do.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-06-15

UndPrproduction. ex
Case Not Hopeless sstravagance, imitation
of currency and
ideas, and a loss of our bearings on the
sea of life are a few of the evils that
President Hibbcn, of Princeton. de-.
cIaros have befallen MS. And even at
that we may muddle through.
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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-06-15

Calcutta dispatch
SackCIOth and Ashes tells of overprO
duction Of burlap.
Defeated candidates are now anxiously
awaiting word from the ashman,
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Jusserand is go
Otherwise, the Goat Ing to lose his job
az ambassador be O..
cause the United States did not indorse
the Peace Treaty. He /. the vicarious
sacrifice
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Germany is now making belated
and unwilling payment of her material
debt to France and Belgium, but it will
take more than coal and cattle t. even
the score.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-06-15

Won't Mr.. Harding be surprised
when the committee goes TO Marion,
O.. to tell him that he has been nsmi =
mated for the presidency.
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The owner Of truckload of whisky
confiscated last week by local federal
agents is named Dryer. Fate seems de-
tcrmincd to make him so.
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As the campaign progresses orators
and publCists may remove the objection
made to the G, o. p. platform that
while it is all right as far as II goes it
doesn't get anywhere.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-06-15

One gratifying feature of the re-
suit at Chicago is the reasonable al.
surance everybody feels that Editor
Harding will provide clean copy.
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Mrs. Harding says her husband is
a wonderful man. And there is always
an off chance that the woman who
proudly makes this boast is right.
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sir Thomas Upton is optimist
enough TO think of the America s cup as
the cup that cheers. And he isn't talk
ing shop ut that.
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SHORT CUTS

Bergdoll is at least getting a run
for his money.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-06-15

The Impecunious One says he looks
with envy on the man whose income tax
justifies payment in quarterly install
mcnts.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-06-15

Providence probably selected the
vice presidential nominee. The dele
gates didn't give a darn
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-06-15

At least President Wilson gathered
from the platform that the Republi-
cans don't like him.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-06-15

without doubt Will Hays is quite
willing to pat himself on the back.
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If the strike of longshoremcn Is
doing anything it is proving the neces-
sity of an industrial court.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-06-15

Well. there was nothing about the
nominations to keep Senator Penrose
sick
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Perhaps the Presidents idea in
pnrdoning the Tageblatt bunch was TO
corral the johnson vote.
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We may now expect brisk market
in Harding anecdotes.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-06-15

Senator Harding will now proceed
to write the platform on which he will
win or lose.
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Treasury Estimate Cited

Referring to the Presidents state =
mcnt that Congress had failed to revise
the. tax laws; Mr.. Good cites recent
estimate of the secretary of the troos-
ury showing that there would be n def =
cit Of $4,316, 500, $50 at the end of the
present fiscal year.
''ls this Congress to be condemned
because it refused to reduce taxes when
the secretary of the treasury estimated
there may be an excess of expenditures
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-06-15

Common sense may now be expect.
cd to take the spark out of sparkler.
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Again Sir Thomas pins the Rose
of Hone on drab world.
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ANSWERS WILSON'S
SLAM AT CONGRESS
Nearly $4,000, 900, 900 Cut Oh
Appropriations, Committee
Chairman Says

Washington. June Is. President
Wilson's letter to the railroad brother
hoods that Congress had taken no
important action relative to the
high cost Of living and the revision
OF the tax laws was answered by Rep
rcsentatve James W. Good. of Iowa,
chairman Of the House appropriations
committee, in a statement yesterday.
After saying the last two sessions
OF the present Congress saved So, =
40. 200. .495. so by a reduction in ap-
preparations to executive departments,
Mr.. Good said the Department of Jus
tice had been given all it asked for the
prosecution of criminals, including vio-
lators of the Lever act.
''The committee on appropriations Of
the House representatives 10 which
these requests had been referred" Mr..
Good says, held extensive hearings.
That committee gave the Department
Of Justice the 81 ZOO. 900 1t requested
and came to the conclusion that much
OF the other money il appropriated
would be wasted in the employment OF
useless officers and clerks: that much
OF 1t was to carry on duplication of
work in these various departments. and
that the appropriations. if made in
full. would be largely il not entirely
wasted.
Prices Steadily Rising
Mr.. Good referred to a statement of
Victor Murdock. chairman of the Fed
cral Trade Commission. to show that
body had asked for an appropriation
far in excess of what it actually re.
Nuired in its work. 1t asked for $500 =
000 according to Mr.. Good, but was
able to do it's work with the $50. 900
appropriated.
Congress was impressed with the
fact that every violator of law, whether
he be a protiteer or hoardcr, who was
unlawful lily increasing the cost of the
necessaries, of life should be sent to
prison. and it appropriated every dol O..
lar asked by the de partment for this
purpose" Mr.. Good said. "And what
has been the result? Since that appro .
priation was made the prices of com
modities, according to government re =
ports, have steadily increased. We
have witnessed the price of sugar rise
from ten cents per pound when tho
appropriation was granted, to more
than thirty cents per pound in GER
tain localities, and to an average price
Of twenty five cents per pound. Certain
ly Congress is not responsible for this
increase. Would it not be profitable
for the President to examine his own
action regarding sugar to ascertain
who is responsible for the increase in
price,"
Treasury Estimate Cited
Referring to the Presidents state =
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PUSSYFOOTING ALWAYS
LEADS TO DISASTER
Senator Harding Expected to Avoid
the Blunders of the Past and
stand Four.square on Posi-.
tive Declarations

SENATOR HARDING probably
~ knows as much about the political
history Of the United States for the last
twenty five years as any other man.
Consequently he Is aware of the causes
which brought success to some presi-
Dental candidates and failure to others.
Without any doubt before he writes
his lcttcr of acceptance he will give
some serious thought TO the causes of
Republican, disaster in recent years. He
attended the convention of ~ and
nominated Elr. Taft. He knows what
tho Influences were which controlled
that convention and he has not forgot
ten that great majority of the Re
publican voters resented the dominance
of those influences. lie delivered the
keynote" speech in the convention of
1916 which nominated Judge Hughes.
He has not forgotten that the nomi-
nation was received with general salts
faction BY the Republicans of all shades
of belief as soon as it was made. lhe
party was once moro reunited and
every one looked for its return to
power.
But as the campaign progressed con-
fidencc wancd. Judge Hughes was not
making the aggressive campaign ex-
pcctcd of him. President Wilson was
running for recollection on the platform
that he had kept US out of war. Yet
the President and every one in his CON
fidenco knew that he could not keep us
out of war much longer. lie and they
were praying that nothing might happen
to invalidate his peaceful boast until
after the election.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-06-15

Address all Communications 10 Er"ntn1
Public Ledger, Independence Square,
Philadelphia.
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Bersdolls love of the limelight day
yet proYa-his. Nn5aing. "a q -
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Philadelphis, Tuesday, June Is. 1920
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THE wiscnheimers, with anticipatory
l. wisdom, carried their lunch with
them-the women particularly. They
ate between cheers.
Male slaves carted cold and sweaty
bottles of pop" and near beer" to
them from the damp bars below.
The floor in the vicinity of the seats
Of such as these was marked at ad-
iournment in a manner suggestive Of
"the morning after" in days gone by.
Empty bottles, pie crust, egg shells,
bits of bread, slivers of fat meat, with
shoe box containers and oiled paper
wrappings, left one to wonder where
they found place for their feet.
Through it all ran the ripping tide
Of American joviality and genuine good
nature. 1t was jubilant and paramount.
Gathered from every compass point of
the nation every fellow there was as
good as every other fellow.
The real sufferer was the man, maid
or matron who stood upon the pseudo
dignity which everywhere is the false
note in American life.
Yet all were sufferers. A distinguished
editor remarked To me as he dabbed q
flushed and sweaty face with soggy
handkerchief: J.,
I'VE are making history today, but
1t is in the slow misery of intolerable
I&naat ~ lt t.tl 49, s.at atl
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Continuous VaudeNIs
ia NJ TO IL
"nI TEnDNI" CABARET De LUXE
oil' lEbDl AND OTHERS
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Health Officers Notice.

ColfaX, La, Oct. 2, 1920.
To Country Butcher Wagons operating
within the Town Limits of. the
Town of Colfax, Louisiana:
AS Chairman of the City Board
of Health will say that your IL
cense as granted by the town,
can and will be operative only when
you comply with the rules and regula-
tons of the. State Board of Health, all
of which you can obtain by calling at
my office. But in advance, and for
your information, will say that the law
does not permit of the open peddling
of fresh meats from house to house on
the streets, but the law does permit
of your soliciting your orders in town,
and the delivery of the same, provided
each order is wrapped separately so no
meats can be exposed to dust or dirt
while making delivery. Any failure
on your part to comply with the above
will force me to have your license and
permit cancelled by the City Authori-
ties. [o9-t4] ]. L. WOoDALL.
Chairman of the City Board of Health.