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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-02-12
BALLOTS INSTEAD OF BAYoNETs

newspaper correspondents
~ concede that the first zone will be
won by the Danes" The temptation to
regard this Berlin dispatch as a mis-
print is difficult to resist. Has Europe
suddenly taken to American election
lingo? Impossible! Europe speaks in
bayonets, not ballots. Hasn't it fought
war after war for little Schleswig? The
cables must be crossed.
Such at least is the pessimist's possi-
BILE deduction. But he is wrong. The
wires are in excellent order and they are
humming with quite the most cheering
vindication of the peace treaty that has
been manifested for some time.
Here is Scheswig - one of Europe's
cockpits. Denmark had held it and lost
il. Mixed races in the district made it a
continual menace to peace. Prussia
grabbed the region in 1866. Denmark
protested, unavailingly, In the war she
took no sides-simply waited 70 see
whether justice would prevail.
And now Germans entitled to vote in
the peace treaty plebiscite have poured
into Schleswig, They have paraded and
cheered. If torchlight professions were
not out of date they probably would have
got up few. Anyhow they election
eered, peacefully legitimately. So dio
the Danes. They, too, those who fulfilled
the conditions, came home. There were
, Danish professions, there was Danish
campaigning There were orations
stump speeches-all the trimmings
Democrats and Republicans have not
been more enthusiastically excited-and
more orderly.
Why, it's all enough to make one lose
faith in the arbitrament of war Ii is
indeed. If much of this sort of thing
goes on, self-determination may take OF
sn explicit meaning.
The wtA Of course, had to be fought
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-02-12
EXPLODING A MYSTERY

DR. JOHN H. YOUNG, of Johns Hop
~ kins, gives a cheering account of the
Presidents physical condition. He also
states that Mr.. Wilson suffered from
cerebral thrombosis, which is technical
way of stating that he had clot on the
brain, incapacitating the left arm and
leg, but not at any time mentally. His
recovery is now happy certainty.
Most of this could have been told be-
fore. 1t would have .stifled many ru-
mors-some merely silly, some offensive.
The concern of the American people
with the health of their President is not
necessarily either impertinently inquisi-
tive or malignant. Progress of the
whole machinery of government is closely
dependent upon the condition of the
Chief Magistrate. The mystery about
Mr.. Wilson's illness was not good for the
nation
The physicians, who were so scrupu-
lous about professional etiquette, were
not treating an ordinary patient or a
private individual. Gossip throve on
this somewhat blind indifference to facts.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-02-12
END OF THE BAR SIGNS

A RT always did shun the gaudy saloon
= signs Such proclamations are now
not only tasteless, but ironical. H. M
Gaylord, the federal assistant prohibi-
tion commissioner insists that all these
mendacious bulletins be removed.
Opinions on the eighteenth amendment
have differed. But the glaring gliding
which announced spirituous beverages
had few esthetic defenders. Mitch of the
ugliness of American cities was at
tributable to saloons.
Now that they no longer function there
is not the slightest excuse for continuing
the Disagreement.
Philadelphia will be vastly improved
in appearance when the last mocking
liquor advertisement is scrapped.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-02-12

in order to prevent Germany from think
ing medievally. Fair play to Denmark
is certainly one tangible result. 1t is
optional with the people of Schleswig
whether they will cry "Hoch" to Herr
Ebert or "Skaal" to King Christian.
Somebody should have thought of the
plebiscite anti-strife cure little sooner.
1t is conceivable that it could have
solved many an international problem
big with the stuff of needless tragedy.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-02-12

Senators Knox and Borah denounce the
peace treaty's economic clauses as 'cruel''
and ''murderouss The treaty itself pro-
vides for modification when wise and neces-
sary. Present concern for cruel and wan.
ton assailant of civilization savors pretty
much of the slckly sentimentality that carries
flowers to criminals
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-02-12
Arms and the Men

The fact that the plan
Arms and the Men for universal military
training is apparently
dead is no indication that statesmen or the
people at large are opposed to preparedness,
II is simply an expressed opinion that no
measure can be wholly satisfactory until the
world has come to decision as to the neces
sity for preparedness and that there is no
present indication that the plan suggested
would meet the needs Of any even remotely
oaniectured contingency.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-02-12

Labor trouble is de-
Fate's Little Game laying the manufac
ture and delivery of
structural steel; which is delaying building
operations which is keeping up rents which
has its effect in divers other directions in
the matter of boosting prices which COM
pletes one of about 10000 vicious circles
which Fate is throwing at his cute little ring
hoard.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-02-12

There is no immediate likelihood that
the genuineness or falsity of spiritism will
he decided by the trial of the case of Rim
VS.. Jim. The issue is not yet joined, the
parties being divided on questions of venue
and methods of procedure,
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-02-12

The Young Lady Next Door But One
says that perhaps the reason Uncle Sam
wasn't at the meeting of the League of Ma
tions was because he was at the meeting Of
the American League of Baseball.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-02-12

Street cleaning contractors give point to
the ancient story of the immigrant who ex.
pected to pick up golden dollars from the
thoroughfares of American cities.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-02-12

The German crown prince in Offering to
surrender to the Allies is now said to have
acted on the impulse of the moment. Per
haps if he were called he might hearken to
the voice of sober second thought
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-02-12

Fate displayed her well known irony in
permitting the League OF Nations TO meet
with Uncle Sam absent
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-02-12

TNHE enthusiasm of the presidential candi-
l. dates for the anti Red issue and the
unanimty with which they are saying This
government must and shall be preserved
show that they do not use weasel words
from choice, but from what they feel to be
necessity.
They are stout, outspoken fellows.
Give them a chance to say Two and two
are four and they shout, each louder than
the other, Two and two are four"
And such of them as, like General Wood,
have Pages in magazines sit down and
write enough words to fill their allotted
space 1.-TWO and two are four.
|. No one of them writes cautiously: 1.-TWO
and two in common experience are four, but
some Einstein may come along and prove
that they are only relatively four.
1T has long been known that mathemat-
cal principles have weight.
''And the effect of gravitation ON mathe-
matical principles has not been sufficiently
studied
But when it is demonstrated that only for
practical workaday affairs are two and two
four, pledge myself to be the first to recog-
nize it," Not one of them
q q
WET 1920 is supposed to be an unusually
l. good year for weasels
There is one Republican candidate who is
rQnning on the platform that he has more
l..
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-02-12

n NRlIER IN tne TnSllSn IteNie" say
when you think of large circulation an
inward monitor counsels stupidity.
The presidential candidates have their
minds set upon the largest circulation there
is, the suffrages of 100 900, 900 people, twice
as large a circulation this time as ever be-
fore, for there are the women. Does this
mean doubling the weases? And the result
isn't brilliancy.
Can any one remember a word that has
been said so far in this campaign, except
''Deport the Reds and '95 per cent of the
people are right?
But the large circulation the presidential
candidates get is not of the kind that shows
in the postofiice statements of the magazines
and newspapers
People would rather vote for "A presidential
candidate than read him!
Consider the magazines which have a pres
idential candidate always on their backs.
Mr. Bryan's pallid little Commoner, Mr.
La Folette's equally bloodless paper what
ever its name is, Henry Ford's gasolineless
Independent and the magazines with presi-
Dental candidates Pages! Weasels
T1HEY keep the candidates weasel away
l. from the candidates press agents, how
ever.
One of them writes quite personally
Now, - (name of newspaper correspond =
ent without Mr.. ! know l can trust you to
give a boost to this Lincoln like personality
the Lincoln like personality being Howard
Sutherland, of West Virginia.
g q q
A Nd another:
"A Up in Sunrise. Mimi, a quaint little
village of 200 souls, the folks are holding
daily political rallies Sometimes they
meet in the "city hall" a one-room
structure that tops a rise at the bend of
the Sunrise river; sometimes in Andrew
Lind's general store. And when the trail
permits, the Sunrise folks journey to North
Branch a sister town some ten miles dis
tant. and meet jointly with the enthusias-
tic there.
At the conclusion of each rally, State
| Representative Elias Nordgren or S. w
| Runyan, or Henry Voss, or Silas Boyce, or
some other booster, will leap to his feet
and shout:
"All right, boys three cheers for our
| next President, our native son, Frank o
| Lowden !"
The cheers are always lusty.
Yet it was of this pride of rural simplicitv
that Mr.. Boies Penrose remarked: Il never
knew feller to ride into the presidency in
| Pullman parlor carr
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-02-12

The Bibulous One declares that it is not
the prohibition commissioner but the s. p.
q. A. that should prosecute those who dis
play liquor signs.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-02-12

Since Lord AstOr took his seat in the
British House of Lords on Tuesday and Lady
Astor will rise from hers in the British
House of Commons to speak on the liquor
question, may the Astors be properly con
sidered as flowers Of speech?
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-02-12

Every dog has his day. In Schleswg
the dachshund has been succeeded by the
great Dane.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-02-12

If New York cant dig herself out in
any other way, perhaps she might be able to
borrow Philadelphias Boy Scouts.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-02-12

There is CHASTITY significance in the fact
that an undertaken is among the men charged
with selling the wood alcohol which caused
scores of deaths in New England cities.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-02-12
Biz Knocks Biz

Snow Is costing New
Biz Knocks Biz York So, ,000, 900 day
according to an esti-
mate made by the Merchants Association of
that city. 1t is possible, judging from ex
neriences in other cities, that ineficiency is
responsible for part of the bill,
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-02-12

We rather suspect that street cleaning
contractors are opposed to efficiency experts,
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-02-12
What Do You Kno,U?
QUIZ

SSIZ
/. What territory of the United States IL
putting forth statehood claims, backed
by its governor?
?. Name two comedies by William Wy
cherry, the noted dramatist OF the
British restoration period.
3. What age did Abraham Lincoln attain
4, Name three wars of the United States
which began in the month OF April
.. What color is made by mixing red ana
black?
q. Where is the largest bell in the world'
I. Who designed the famous steamer the
Great Eastern?
8, What library in the world contains the
most volumes?
8. What is a kickshaw?
10. What is thole?
Answers to Yesterdays Quiz
1, Norway has recently adopted prohi,,
bition policy restricting the sale oil
alcoholic drinks to very light wines
and official beer of minimum spirituous
content.
2 The law was passed by a referendu"
in which women and men voted
3. Hiram Johnson was the vice presidential
candidate on the ticket with RooseVe"
in the presidential campaign of 19lZ'
4. Alice Meynell is a contemporary ENG
lish poet and essayist,
D. Rusinia is an autonomous state OF tn'
Uhro Rusin people in the new repuplc
of Czecho Slovakia.
g. The word 'ghoul' should be pronounced
as though it were spelled ''gool'
I, II is necessary for thirty six states ~
ratify the suffrage amendment ID oru''
to make it operative.
s. Mississippi and South Carolina are lw'
= states which rejected the amendment,
o. The musical term 'bouche fermes
describes vocal humming Literary
the French phrase means 'mou"'
closed
10. Hugh Capet founded the line OF rr's.p
kings from whom the Bourbons 90 e'
scended. He reigned from 9s1 to vyo
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-02-12

The Golden Dustman has nothing on the
contractor in city where street sweepings
mean fat pickings.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-02-12
FROM DAY TO DAY

weascls than any of his
rivals and uses them
more constantly.
He carries the anti
Red appeal so far that
he says: "Therc has
been too much red blood
in the presidency ever
since 1896. Give the
weasels a chance. y
q G q
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-02-12

mother thing that helps Herbert Hoover
is Senator Borahs enmitys A.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-02-12

The liquor question is no longer,
,.what'll you haveT'
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-02-12

"THE great proper
L tion of this Red
group are unnaturalized
aliens, who. should be
promptly examined and,
when the evidence JUS
titles it, deported."
NEED of a more rigid
and thorough inspection
of the quality Of our
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-02-12

A ND now the sun is out once more and
"A the white world smiles. Every bough
will lose its feathery spray and every tree
will shed its wintry blossoms, and the pure
gift of the skies will be trodden in the
footways and ground in the streets, carted,
dumped and polluted; smoke will sully even
the whiteness of the roofs We are strange
creatures, we of the cities, living forever in
the CRIME Wherefore let us speed the going
of the snow.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-02-12
Platitudinous Platforms
Perfunctory Patriotism
Pop Goes the ~ easel Wordi
Proud, Outspoken FelIoUs
Prove TiUo and TlUo Are FOm
Peas IN a Pod Are They.

"Publc Indifference in these vitality i'm
portant matters is one of the great sources
of danger within our household. -
1--WE are proud of the fact that America
has been a refuge for the oppressed of all
nations"
This government is going to continue to
be established"
'When the immigrant comes to our shores
he should promptly be brought under the
strongest Americanizing influences"
And finally Il believe that 95 per cent
of all classes of people want to do the right
thing - Platform of all the presidential
candidates.
TNHE words are General Woods. He hap
l. pens to be the last to say them, on
General Woods Page
But the thoughts are the thoughts of
Mitchell Palmer, Miles Poindexter Warren
Harding, Frank Lowden, Governor Cool
idge, Nicholas Murray Butler, Senator Suth-
erland and hundred others.
1t is the great issue of 1920 and it is no
issue.
Everybody is for it.
For every Red left here now that Palmer
is through, there is a presidential candidate
who believes that ''95 per cent of the people
want to do right that America is the refuge
of the oppressed; that the immigrant should
be Americanized and that the bad immigrant
who does get in should be sent home"
Right from the shoulder!
No weasel word in the whole profession of
faith
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-02-12

THE Gownsman knows not why but to
l. him a graveyard has always seemed "a
something pre- eminently weird and signifi-
cant in the time of a fall of snow Every
tomb and obelisk has received its bit or its
mass of added whiteness, lodging in strange
places, distorting monuments of pride into
shapes odd and bizarre, festooning the trees
and draping the shrubbery as with a new
and impressive mourning and spreading a
nall of purity, as with the equal hand oI
grace and benediction on the graves OF
saints and sinners alike.
New-York tribune., 1920-03-07
BROOKLYN ADVERTISEMENT
BROOKLYN ADVERTISEMENT

Every Station on the East and
West Side SatbaOay Lines Is an, En-
trance to A. &; S. v5th its direct
entrance from Hoyt Street Subway
Station for a SC. fare.
New-York tribune., 1920-03-07
Studio Club Reception

The Studio Club of New York, COM
posed of girls studying music, art,
dancing, different forms of literary
work and dramatic art, will give re-
ceGtion on Tuesday at it's clubhouse, 35
East Sixty-second Street.
The guests of honor will include
Daniel Chester French, Herbert D.
Adams, Paul Dougherty, Augustus
Thomas, Francis Rogers, Thomas Fo-
garty, Mrs. May Wilson Preston, Miss
Ethel Barrymore, John Drew, Miss
Lydia Field Emmet, Frank McGlynn.
F. Luis Mora, Nine Sembrich, Nine.
Homer, Rubin Goldmark and Walter
Damrosch
Sascha Jacobson, violinist, will play.
The club, besides affording home for
about seventy young students, is a CEN
ter for hundreds of girls who come to
New York to study. The Alumne As
sociation, formed in 1914, has mem
bers all over the world. series of
informal entertainments and weekly
receptions afford opportunities to meet
distinguished musicians and other ar
lists and professional persons.
The club is branch of the YOUNG
Women's Christian Association. Mrs.
Whitelaw Reid, founder of the Ameri
can Girls Club in Paris, recently be-
came honorary chairman of the com
mlttee of management. Mrs. Stephen
Baker is chairman OF this committees
which includes Mrs. Daniel B. Baker
Miss Eleanor Bovee, Miss Lorania
Cross; s;-Mrs. Charles Kynett Carpenter
Mrs. Dlkran B. Donchlan, Mrs. B. w.
Freeman, Mrs. Francis L. V. Hoppin.
Mrs: George King, Miss Maud A. LIE,
lana, MISS Helen Loomis, Mrs. Edward
Morris, Mrs. John R. Macarthur, Mrs.
Charles w. Ogden, Mrs. Ordway Part
ridge, Mrs. William F. Payson. Mrs
John E. Rousmaniere, Mrs. Theodora
Flske Savage, Mrs. Edward Sparrow
and Mrs. R. H. Wilder.
Mills College Day at the National
California Club will be held Tuesday.
March 16, at the Waldorf Astoria and
the Mills College Alumn@, of which
MISS Katherine Scudder is president,
will furnish the program.
\, me M omcers OF the organization are
mrs. Thomas J. Vivian, president; Mrs.
Henry L. Harrison, Mrs. Milton v
Snyder, Mrs. G. Upton Hallett. vice
presidents; Mrs. George E. Gordon.
recording secretary; Mrs. Louis w
hutler, corresponding secretary; Miss
margaret r: McCann, treasurer, and
Mrs. Bert Munday, recorder. The d.
rrectors are Mrs. Angler B. Hobbs.
Mrs. George w. Severn, Mrs. Russell
Bassett, Mrs. Louis c. Smithgall. Mrs,
Wolsey w. Collins, Mrs. ]. T. Odell
and Mrs. William T. Martin.
The New York branch of the Asso-
citation of Collegiate Alumna, the
Woman's University Club and the. In
stitute of International Education. will
give dinner Monday, March Is. at
the Hotel Commodore. The guests of
honor will be Professor Caroline /
+. Sturgeon, DR.. Ira Smedly MacLean
and Professor Winifred C. Cullis. rem I
resenting the British Federation Of /
University Women. Mrs. Marvin Ros-
es0erry, es ecs',; Prssids2n af the Association
New-York tribune., 1920-03-07
Princess Talks of Russia

The American Criterion Society, Mrs.
Leonard L. Hill, president, held it's
fifth luncheon Friday at the Hotel
Plaza, with $50 members and guests
present. The Princess Cantacuzene-
Speransky spoke on present conditions
in Russia.
The Woman's Press Club, Mrs. Haryot
Holt Dey, president, held it's thirty
first annual breakfast on February Is
at the Waldorf-Astoria. Six hundred
were present. "The Newspaper Pic
ture' Section" was discussed by William
Johnston, of THE World"
The annual luncheon of the New
YORK CITY Colony of the National So
c.ety of New England Women will be
gwen at the Hotel Astor on Thursday
at o'clock. Preceding the luncheon will
be reception in honor of Mrs. C. E.
hewitt, president of the State FEEDER
alton of Clubs; Mrs. Harry Lilly. pres
ident of the City Federation of Clubs.
and Miss Helen V. Boswell president
OF the Forum. The speakers will be
Annis S. Prall, president of the Board
OF Education; the Rev Duncan Hodge.
chaplain of the 305th Infantry. and
Frederick Boyd Stephenson, editor of
"Th. Brooklyn Eagle"
The Southland Club, NJ. Simon
Baruch, president, held its monthly
meeting March. at the Waldorf. AZ,
toria. Mrs. G. T. Winternitz was chair.
man of the day
Ihee sixth a9pual celebration of the
the AthAn6 Club. Mrs
New-York tribune., 1920-03-07
At the Women's Clubs
@tolony Club Will Hear Discussion of ssChanging
England by A. F. Whyte; Busy Week
Ahead for State Societies

The Colony Club got the "rmpres-
sions of Critic" last Tuesday from
Heywood Broun, dramatic and literary
critic of~The Tribune. This afternoon
at 3 o'clock A. f. Whyte, editor of
"rhe New Europe" will talk on "Chang-
ing England" The coming Tuesday the
c,El will listen to recitations from
their own works by Witter Bynner and
khalil Gibran.
The Women's City Club will discuss
and act upon the minimum wage and
cight-hour bills at Tuesday evenings
meeting. Annual nominations will be
announced The subject of the Thurs
day afternoon discussion will be "The
Vital Need for Maternity Protection"
The program Saturday was on "Mod-
ern Greece" Mrs Kenneth Brown
.Demetra vaka}, author of "Haren-
lik' and 'In the Heart of the Bal
kans,' will make the address.
"a Play on Broadway" will be dis
cussed at the Pen and Brush Club
Thursday afternoon by Martha Stanley
and Adelaide Matthews, authors Of
"Nightie Night
A lecture on ".The Place of Debussy
in Modern Music" with piano illustra-
tions, wnl be given by Miss Katherine
Ruth Heyman at the Women's Univer-
slty Club Tuesday evening. Miss Laura
Williams will sing.
Miss Marie Antoinette Czaplicka was
the guest of honor at reception last
Friday, Miss Czaplicka, graduate of
the University of Warsaw and some
time holder of the Mary Ewart Scholar
ship in Somerville College, Oxford, is
the author of Aboriginal Serbia" and
"My Serbian Year" Mrs Edgerton
Parsons presided at the reception.
Mrs. Douglas Robinson, sister Of the
late Theodore Roosevelt, will discuss
The Americanization of Great
American" at meeting of Brooklyn
club women at the Hotel St. George
next Friday. Mrs. George D. Hewitt,
of Carthage, president of the State
Federation of Women's Clubs, will pre-
side at the afternoon session. Among
the other state officers who will at
Bage, Of New York, Mrs. Walter Comfy,
of Port Chester, and Mrs. John Francis
Yawger.
The HARLEM Philharmonic Society,
Mrs. E. Victor Twiss, president, will
hold business meeting tomorrow
morning at II o'clock at the Waldorf
Astoria
The Daughters of Pennsylvania in
New York will meet at the Waldorf
Astoria Tuesday afternoon. Discussion
OF current events will be led by Mrs.
Edward L. Heydecker, and there will
be an address by Mrs. Arthur E.
Bestor, president Of the Chautauqua
Institute.
National Society, Patriotic Women
Of America, was entertained Wednes-
cay by Mrs. Julian Heath, 327 West
10lst Street, assisted by Mrs. William
+. Stewart, president Of the organiza-
ton,