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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-15
.JES' TIRED

AM sick of the sight of newspaper page
Where the pictures are weird and un
pleasant;
Where the jokes are at least Of Methuselah>
age
Apd the news is fat, stale and acescent.
All she world is as fiat
AS scullery hat
And its folks don't know how to behave.
1t may go to the divvle
I'm tired of its drivel
And I'll go and hang out in cave!
Oh, give me a spot where Dane Nature writes
books
And where proofreader Time doesn't stint
her;
Where the only newspapers are read in the
brooks
And the sun is his own color printer
Where guy may be glad
AT the times he has had
Since no galley may call him a slave.
SO I'll sing hosanna
With dear Glorianna
And HE me right off to cave!
And when get there am bound to admit
l may growl at my rustic position.
The beauties of nature won't please me a bit
And I'll sigh for the latest edition.
] will long for the noise
OF the Office; the joys
OF the hard hitting world that crave!
] will stick up for Nature
The swate little crature -
And then, while I'm sticking, l II cave!
D. McGINNIS.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-15
Our Fortune Is Made


ME HAVE thought of Lew method of
w making our fortune.
Every now and then, when the course Of
events has given us opportunity to do
some ktcheneering (and we would like to
state that we are rather proud of our cook
ing; we don't know any one who opens
condensed milk can as neatly as we do). we
have attempted to make soup. Now we have
always noticed that in making soup our chief
trouble has been to get it thick enough. The
general outline of procedure is very simple.
We take whatever happens to be lingering in
the icebox, the mutton bone or the stewed
spinach or some turnps and onions and
beets, or the chine of a hen, or those little
Sardine sandwiches that were carefully pre-
pared for Aunt Emma the night she was
coming and didn't-we take these, as we
say, lower them tenderly into a large pot, fill
it with water and boil Justify.
BY and bye fine hot broth is apparent
very savory indeed and we toss in a large
amount of salt and pepper, ever and anon
passing our face through the ascending steam
to determine how the calories are faring.
The problem now is how to thicken the
liquid, for we like a soup to have a certain
body and substance This task we have
never successfully achieved. We have n
vague idea that either flour or cornstarch
Will do the trick but we generally find that
they coagulate into tough Jumps or else the
whole mass suddenly turns into paste and
has to be carried shamefuy down to the
corner of the alley and left there wrapped
up in the Sunday paper.
This is where our new idea of making our
fortune comes in.
There is something queer that goes on in
our lnkwell. We don't know just what it is.
some chemical stunt that is beyond our grasp.
put IN our desk a well of perfectly clean
nuld INK turns overnight into a kind of thick
chowder About once a week we implore
ihylis to take it out and give it a good
washing, and she does SO she fills it for us
and we start off gayly. But in one evening
the INK has turned again into that yiscd and
curious sort OF gelatinc, which comes out in
lovely clinginS gobs hanging on the end OF
the pen Our ink takes on, almost as soon
as it gets in our inkwcll, exactly the thick
ness aud consistency that We love in n SOM
NOW you begin to see what we are driy
ing at.
The reason for our ink acting that Wav
we do not know. The lady who has cbarge
OF the conduits whence We draw our writing
iluid says she thinks it is the tobacco dust
in our desk. One of our colleagues a man
with a severely realistic mind. insists that
the henroaches lay their eggs in our inkwelI
at night. But whatever il is, we are boviny
our inkwell analyzed, and we shall then MT
the sediment on the market in the form of ,
powder, which you will see advertised every
where as Socrates Soup Thickener and
then (as we say our fortune will be only a
matter of adding six ciphers at the business
end Of our bank account.
SoCRATps
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-15
POLICE MOTORS NEEDED

THIEVES have been quicker than the
= police to understand the possibilities
of the automobile. That simple fact ex-
plains the ease with which raids such as
that at Sixtieth and Master streets are
carried out.
To deal with the newest of complica-
tions the police have only the method
and system of twenty years ago The
audacity of the yeggmen in recent in
stances suggests that the business of
touch-and-go robbery is not casual, but
highly organized. What the police need
is means to meet the modern thief on
even terms Somebody will have to find
a way to apply motors more extensively
to the uses of the department. Mean
while, better Workmanship in the serv-
ice, the enforcement of motor regulations
devised to make the identification of
automobiles easy and the merciless treat
ment of the first bandit caught will tend
to keep motor thieves in check
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-15
NEW NEED FOR UPLlFT

TN IT'S current appeal to the business in
\ terests of the state the PHILADELPHIA
Chamber of Commerce deplores the fact
that many aliens in American industry
have no time to learn the English
language. There is wisdom in the sug-
gestion that employers do all that is pos
sible to aid their foreign-born workers
toward a better understanding of our
aims and our government.
The appeal is timely. In the steel in
dustry the majority of workers are for
eign-born. Many of them work twelve
hours day. Naturally they continue as
strangers in a strange land, since they
have neither the time nor the inclination
to attend night schools. Americanization
thus is pretty difficult business.
Yet Americanzation is necessary.
And while we are about it, and in the
light of recent experience, it may be
proper to ask whether it isn't needed at
the top occasionally, as well as at the
bottom.
Who, for example, will volunteer to
Americanize men like Mr. Burleson, Mr..
Palmer and the majority in the New
York Assembly?
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-15
WP ECRIMlNAT1ON, photographs of
~ dirty streets and other exposures"

WR ECRIMlNATION, photographs of
~ dirty streets and other exposures"
said Freeland Kendrick, in discussing his
effort to establish harmony between the
administration and the Wares, "do no.
body any good"
Mr. Hendricks approach, in this in
stance, was manly. 1t had the rare quail
ity of complete frankness. 1t is hard to
criticize a man who sticks to his friends
through thick and thin. But exposure
of wrong is the first step toward right.
The streets. are being cleaned. The
health of the community is of greater
Importance than the fortunes or misfor-
tunes of political faction.
Mr., Moore, therefore, was justified in
refusing a truce if truce meant COM
promise.
A man who insists on being loyal to his
poaitical friends does no mean thing.
But a man who insists on being loyal
to the community that he represents does
something that is at once more difficult
and more admirable.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-15

United States has been rejected by the
government.
This remuneration is high-minded and
thoroughly commendable act. 1t is an
index of what our best sentiments would
have been if the fleet had remained in
tact. But an assumption of such an at
titude under those conditions might have
been difficult and open to misconstruction.
Today we are enabled to put our prin-
ciples i'll force without offending our
former partners in the war, and they
themselves are unable to augment their
naval strength by rake-of from Scapa
Flow.
1t is seldom that dealism can be so
concretely practiced without provoking
the imputation of hypocrisy. Americans
who remember the lofty reasons alleged
for our entry into the war have occasion
in this instance to be proud of the con-
sistency of their nation.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-15
BARTERERS IN THE TEMPLE?

pROPAGANDA and the mysterious
= thing known as pressure" organized
by paid lobbies at Washington often as
sumo disagreeable and even odous FORMS
But no news from congressional commit
tee rooms could be SO certain to inspire
general disgust and loathing for the
whole scheme of subterranean intrigue at
Washington as the report that cliques
representing undertakers are furtively
agitating for the wholesale transfer of
the bodies of American soldiers from
France to the United States.
Is it conceivable that there are in
America business men so hard up or so
driven by a lust for easy money that they
are willing to exploit the grief of parents
who contributed so heavily to the cause of
patriotism, and actually traffic in the
bodies of young men whose very memory
is sacred thing?
Senator Thomas, of Colorado, has in
timated broadly that such men exist and,
according to the dispatches, evidence in
dicating an organized propaganda in
their behalf will be laid before an in
vestigating committee within few days.
Such evidence, if convincing, would touch
national consciousness in sensitive
place, and all that would be needed to
pillory such base protiteers would be the
publication of their names.
The War Department has encouraged
the transfer of soldiers bodies only in
exceptional instances. Remains disin-
TERED in French war cemeteries cannot
always be certainly -identitied-a fact
which unscrupulous agitators have ig-
nored or hidden in the course of their
campaign. The government has held that
it is more seemly to leave these men of
ours in the land for which they died,
where their graves will be honored and
tended by grateful people for all time.
1t has been suggested, too that all the
bodies of the American dead be brought
to this country and inferred in national
cemetery. If they are left in France they
will be assembled in ground set apart
under the joint care of the French and
American governments.
Whatever is done should be done honor
ably and cleanly. The final decisions
should be inspired solely by honor for
these soldiers and by pride and gratitude.
To goad parents in a search for lost sons
who cannot be identified and to involve
the general question in a get-rich- quick
scheme is to affront the nation and debase
and bemean the sentiment of patriotism
as it has never before been debased and
bemeaned in the United States.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-15
OUT OF THE ScAPA FLOW SNARL

WITH the worst and most dishonorabIe
W of intentions, the Germans sunk a
prickly international problem when they
scuttled their fleet at Scapa Flow. Al
though heartily contemptuous of the
Teutonic treachery, there were unuues-
tionably many Americans who hailed the
disappearance of the warshps with
relief.
The parceling out of the vessels among
the allied nations would almost certainly
have occasioned jealousies and would
have spurred interest in increased naval
armaments. It is an open secret that
this government favored the sinking of
The ships by order of the supreme coun-
ell Had the fleet continued in existence,
however, the chances of a ruling to that
effect would have been slim.
Our late allies have demanded compen-
sation for the destruction in the form of
100000 tons of German floating docks,
cranes and other material. The . per
cent share Of the spoils proffered to the
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-15
WEScoTT'S APPOINTMENT

TN APPOINTING Harry D. Wescott to
fill vacancy on the Beard of Regis
tration Commissioners, Governor Sproul
recognizes the very much minority party
In this city.
Mr.. Wescott is an able young man and
should occupy his not exceedingly ardu-
Gus new post with credit. Fortunately,
his political affiliations have not person
ally entengled him with that wing of al
legged Democrats here who regularly
played the game of the Republican
organization.
To identify M. Wescott further, it may
be recalled that he enjoyed the honor of
running against j. Hampton Moore for
Mayor, conducting his campaign with
clean, manly methods, both on the stump
and off
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-15

but no better case than can be made for
the Gordon plan.
The question cannot be argued in
vacuo, however. The state is confronted
by existing conditions. They must be
considered and some way must be found
to end the scandals that biennially accom-
pany the passage of the charity appro-
priation bill without destroying the
efficiency of the work of caring for the
sick and INDECENT wherever they may be.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-15
THE CHAFFLNG DISH

piled immensites glowing with light and the
dark river bearing on her bosom the necklace
of diamonds which adumbrates Brooklyn
bridge, and the ruby and emerald of a pass
ing steamer.
Yes, Brooklyn is beautiful But, as l said,
the artists have not yet found it out.
| really must go to bed. We sail tomor
row-that is today, it is IL :45-at 3 p. m.
WILLIAM McFEE.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-15
Yes, We Always Leave Our Pipe in There

Dear Socrates Did you ever tiptoe into the
Urchin's room, after he was asleep? You
know one always forgets something. And
did you trip over everything in the room,
trying to be quiet? And did your heart
tighten up and you stopped breathing, as
you wondered whether not he had heard
it? And just as you thought everything was
all right, and you started to sneak out did
he sit up and cry? Or didn't he? Mine
generally does. MAC.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-15
Watch His Dust!

Congressman Ware is
Watch His Dust. as busy as street
cleaner. No sooner
does he get through agitating for pneumatic
mail tubes than he takes up the matter of
surplus material at Hog Island which he
thinks ought TO be removed to the navy
yard. And he is very likely quite right
nhout II
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-15

The fact that former Republican gov
crnor of New York will appear before a
Republican committee to plead for five So
cialists against the action Of Republican
majority in the New York Assembly is an
other proof that common sense is more i'm
portant than party politics.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-15

a Boston woman who
MasticatOry Exercise has been investigating
Congress alleges that
congressman chew gum. At the risk of ap-
pearing low. not to say vulgar, we venture
the opinion that they are then less harmful
than when they chew the rag.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-15

The promptness with which response is
made whenever there is call for fresh
blood for TRANSMISSION is proof that Courage
and Kindness are neither dead nor dying.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-15

Eight thousand American troops arc
soon to return from Siberia. Perhaps some
of them will be able to enlighten the country
as to why they were sent there.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-15
Having = Bad Spell

They are alleging in
Having :! Bad Spell Kansas that the Ps-
tablishment of an in
dustrial court will spell disaster. These po-
litical economists have not successfully
cOnned their letters. They have forgotten
the cold spell they had during the coal strike.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-15

Germany for some time to come will have
to choose diplomats with ability to speak
softly.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-15

As yet no injunction has been sought to
restrain the birds from singing on Sunday
in Fairmount Park
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-15

Desk Motto for Labor Leaders - The
country that is worth fighting for is worth
working for.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-15

Truth insisteth on details and whose
shall cross her with hasty words repentetl
early
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-15

Whatever may be said of automobile
headlights, the police are seeing to it that
local red lights are being dimmed,
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-15

The Demon Rum will pull in his horns
tomorrow night
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-15

The Ratification course appears TO be.
popular in all the colleges.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-15
CrypGical

Old Uncle Washing
Cryptical ton Adams explains it
thusly: They's some
as thinks they's candidates what isn't and
some what isn't is.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-15
Sugar!

The steamship Alfalfa
Sugar. has just sai led for
France with 224 900
bags of refined sugar. What a nice profit
retailers would have made if they had been
allowed to sell it here
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-15

There is something very alluring about
the subject Of sugar u is SO refined!
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-15
What Do You KnOtU?
QUIZ

l. What are the three largest states of
Germany?
=. Into how many articles is the league of
nations covenant divided?
a. What nations were allied against Turkey
in the first Balkan War of 1928?
A. What is the meaning of the diplomatic
phrase ''fait accompli'?
D. How should it be pronounced?
6. In the reign of what king of France did
Cardinal Richelieu live?
Z. What statesman in American history
was known as "Old Public Function
ary"?
s. How many lines should sonnet con
tain?
8. Who ran against Abraham Lincoln in
his second campaign for the prcs-
dency?
10. What is the loftiest active volcano Ill
the world?
Answers to Yesterdays Quiz
1. Louis Napoleon was the only president
of the second French republic, when
was established in 1S4S.
2. Sir William Blackstone, author OF the
famous commentaries on English law
lived in the eighteenth century.
8, The three fates were Atropos, CIotho
and Lachesis.
A. The red flag under the Roman empire
signited war.
g. Easter Sunday falls on April 4.
g. Ilyssop is a small bushy aromatic nero
formerly used incidentally. Its twss
were used in Jewish rites.
T. james G. Blaine was secretary OF sta'e
for most, of the administration OF
Benjamin Harrison. ,,
8. The word "quattrocento" is used TO ae,
scribe the fifteenth century as periou
in Italian art.
o. The ex- Emperor Karl of Austria hun
gary is now living in Switzerland
10. The word kctehup Is a corruption OF tne
Japanese word "kitjap," condimen'
somewhat resembling soy sauce.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-15
Only Eleven
More to Go

states will give women the suffrage. Fate's
rafting of the dice is all in women's favor
nowadays.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-15

Article Ten is stiil Article Tx.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-15

Now that Oregon has
stepped into line, rat
iication of the amend
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-15
Member of the Associated Press
NO TRUCE

Philadelphia, Thursday, January Is, 1920
The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1920-06-04
$1,000 WHISKEY
ROBBERY FOILED
Policeman Finds Liquor Moved to
Door of Store and Arrests
~ Truck Driver.
PITTSBURGH. June 4.

fatroiman Nathan whitman Of the
pgfth street station, walking his beat
sarly this morning. noticed the paddock
eh the front door Of Morris cohen's
wholesale LIQUOR store at No. ia First
street. whitman decided that It was
rot the same lock that he usually saw
81 that door. So, he watched and
ptosently saw a truck which belonged 70
q paper concern.
whitman was sure the truck had no
legitimate business In that neighbour
hood and he arrested the driver. Harry
z. Mahon. and telephoned for Cohen,
uho found that burglars had been In his
store and had moved $1,000 worth OF
whiskey to the door. ready to be carried
dpay.
THE police declare MAhon admits hhv-
ing been hired by three men 10 carry
the whisltey away He was taken to
ne Essex Market Court for Arraign-
uent on a charge Of burglary
The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1920-06-04
new JUNE MARRIAGE RECORD
Number Of Licenses Issued 80 Far
This FavOrite bridal Month
Bigger Than Ever.

Desulte the II. c. OF l.. and the hous-
ing situation the June batch Of brides
and grooms has thus far exceeded IN
number any previous record for several
eensons back. Tuesday was the banner
day OF the week at the City Clerks Of
fiee on Sthe second floor Of the Mu-
nilpal Building. On that day there APP
peared 27s couples who obtained H.
oenses and helped TO sustain the con-
tention that two can live cheaper than
one.
THE banner day in June last year
was the 6th. with $50 licenses issued.
The next best day last year was May
q on which 256 licenses were issued.
Last Tuesday Deputy City Clerk
Michael j. Cruise married ~ couples.
Last Saturday. when 205 licenses were
Issued, SO couples were married in two
hours from 10 O'Clock until noon.
The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1920-06-04

lea nj the Hath session. which opened In
Asbury Park yesterday In the Grand
Avenue Reformed Church.
The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1920-06-04
100000 GALLONS
OF WHISKEY LOST
ON FORGED ORDERS

I-hat Quantity Withdrawn in Pitts.
burg District Alone on
Bogus Permits.
- PITTSBURGH. June Z.
n FORE than 100000 gallons Of
slVl whisNey have been with
drawn from bonded ware
houses In the Pittsburgh district
since Jan. ls last with bogus and
Forged permits, according to an
announcement made here to-day
b. w. II. Hindman, Federal Pro-
hlbition agent for Pennsylvania
Mr.. Hindman stated that cases
under suspicion run into the thou
sands and that he was conducting
D thorough investigation. Many
OF the forged permits were printed
outside the Governments Offices
while others were signed In blank
and sent out unnumbered. he said.
The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1920-06-04

Collegiate Reformed Church OF Manhat-
tan, was elected President Of the General
Synod Of the Reformed Church In Amer
The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1920-06-04

Dr. y. '. Burreil Honored.
The Rev. DR.. David j. Burrell pastor
for the last thirty years Of the Marble
New-York tribune., 1920-09-19

The 5-ton INDIANA TRUCK owned
by the Cunard Motor Trucking COM
pany of New York as it appeared De-
fore the accident on July 8th'
SveÌŒt = World. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1911-1939, 1920-07-02

skeho pomnlku, kteryz sveho
casu Geskymi vojaky byl str
zen O do Ohre vhozen. DIE ne
listG ucinil pry legio-
mar, jenz Heiserovu rec Wy
slechl, trestni oznameni pro u
razku ceske narOdnosti.
SveÌŒt = World. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1911-1939, 1920-07-02
VYBUCH v POL. KASAR-
MACH.

Dublin, l. cervence. - Po-
licejni kasarna ma King ulici
byla znicena vybuchem dnes
casne rano. Dva hotely a media
leke divadlo pohyblivymi o.
brazky byly poskozeny. Vojaci
patrolovali ulice V obrnenych
karach.
SveÌŒt = World. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1911-1939, 1920-07-02

strace v Zatci. Pri turnerske
slavnosti doslo V Zatci k vel
kym projevdm, jez vyvrcholi-
ly V jadrne vsenemecke Teci
namestska starosty Heisera.
Tento promluvil k nemecke-
mu lidu podstavce josefov-
SveÌŒt = World. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1911-1939, 1920-07-02
ADMINISTRATOR
UPOZORNENf
"SVETA".

Zacatkem mssice cervna
jsme rozeslali ucty ma doplat
ne a predplatne ma dennik
"Svst". Jedna tretina ct. od-
beratelI zaslala nalezite OBJ
nosy, dive tretiny vsak ne
rhali Icty nepovsimnuty.
Ponevadz postovni zakon
narizuje, ze nesmi byti caso-
pis ma duh zasilan, budem
nuceni vsem, kteri spadaji
pod toto postovni narizeni a
kteri ucet do Is. CERVEN-
CE nevyrovnaji, "Svet" "a
staviti.
V 1cte
ADMIN. "SVETA".