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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-02-03
CAN WE KEEP THE PLUM?

INRADE was diverted from its accus-
l. toned channels by the war and the
United States profited immensely by it.
Leaving out of account the export of
enormous quantities of war material to
Europe, which brought the total value of
exports to that part of the world from
Sl,486, 100000 in the fiscal year of 1914 to
34,000,000 for 1919, our exports to
North American countries increased in
the same period from $52S 100000 to
$1,29l 100000, to South America from
$124,000,000 to $400,900 900, to Asia
from $113,000,000 to $500, 100000. to
Oceania from SS3,500,000 to S20s,000000
and to Africa from S27,00O00O to $751;
100000.
The European nations were shut off
from trade with the rest of the world and
we sold goods where we had not been
able to sell them before. But goods
flowed in both directions. Our imports
from North American countries increased
from $427, 100000 in 1914 to S1,O52 ,000,-
900 in 1919. From South America the in
crease in the same period was from $222,-
$4,000 to S56S, 900 900, from Asia the in
crease was from s2S6,00O,OO0 to $780,
100000. from Oceania from $42O00,00 to
$190,00O,000 and from Africa from S19.-
100000 to SS1,000,000.
The imports from Europe, however, fell
off from the hitherto unprecedented sum
of $S95,000, 900 in 1914 to $372, 100000 for
the fiscal year ending on June 80, 1919.
Since the war has freed the oceans Euro
pean export trade is beginning to revive,
and it is estimated that the goods sent to
the United States for the calendar year
of 1919 will amount to $750000,000, or
nearly as much as in the record year Of
1914.
These figures, however, are misleading,
for values measured by dollars today do
not represent so much as they did in 1914.
Yet they are significant, for in a single
year, during which values have been vir-
tually stationary, they represent an in
crease in imports from Europe of more
than 100 per cent.
The fact that the imports are chiefly
luxuries, including embroderies, precious
stones and works of art, rather than
manufactured products to compete with
articles made here, does not lessen theil
Importance. Europe is selling what il
has for sale in the market where there is
money to pay for it. When her factories
| resume operation and produce surplus
| for sale abroad the imports are likely tc
be as varied as in the past and to enter
into competition with native products.
| The problem before the American bust
ness man and before Congress is how tt
! keep the trade with the rest of the worlt
which the war threw into our laps. W.
cannot keep it without making some
effort, as the nations which had that trade
in the past will seek it again in th'
future, and unless we are alert the Ole
World. impelled by dire necessity, will
outstrip us in the race for trade as it out
stripped us when we thought the hom
market was all that need concern us
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-02-03
Member of the Associated Press
TIME TO DO SOMETHING

WHEN a family was found dead from
w gas that had come into the house
from broken main in the street two or
three weeks ago the officials of the gas
company explained that until something
better than iron was found for gas pipes
they must be expected to break.
Yesterday morning in the same part of
the city the members Of another family
were found unconscious from gas that
had entered the house in the same way
and the mother could not be revived. The
husband and three children were Acci-
dentally found before they were too far
gone for medical aid.
The gas mains may be of iron and
heavy traffic may break them if they are
laid too near the surface, but unless there
are to be more accidents like that of
yesterday it will be necessary to do some
thing besides talk about the fragility of
cast iron
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-02-03
AMONG THE ALSO RUNNING

A DMIRERS of A. Mitchell Palmer be-
lieve that as candidate for the presi-
dental nomination he deserves an article
all to himself. Louis Sebold who is run
ming in the Sunday New York World
series of articles on presidential posi-
bilities, does not.
This week Mr.. Seibold groups in sim
gle article the candidates. of Bryan. I'm
derwood and Palmer, whereas he has de-
voted whole article to the consideration
of the qualifications of men whom he
thinks have a chance of getting the nomi-
nation
He seems TO think the nomination of
Palmer is about as likely as the nomina-
tion of Bryan or Underwood. This means
that he regards these three men as among
those who are also running.
In passing it may be remarked that he
Is in error when he says that Underwood
had the support of Tammany in 1912. AS
matter of fact Tammany supported
Judson Harmon, of Ohio, on the first nine
ballots. Then it swung the ninety votes
of New York to Champ Clark, for whom
Bryan had been voting. Bryan thereupon
announced that he would not stand for
any candidate backed by Tammany and
began to vote for Wilson. 1t is generally
admitted that this attack upon Clark by
Bryan prevented his nomination. al
though for twenty-nine successive ballots
he led and for eight ballots poIled more
than majority of the votes. If it had
not been for the two-thirds rule Clark
would have been nominated on the tenth
ballot when Tammany threw the New
York vCtc- to him
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-02-03

termined to protect the men who dis
graced their nationality.
simple and honorable way out of the
difficulty has been open to Germany since
the beginning. If the Germans have re-
formed they should be the first to hate
and punish the men who did more even
than the former kaiser to make Germany
an outlaw among civilized nations.
Efforts to protect these savages will
merely direct new suspicious at nation
that is being treated harshly for the SIM
pie reason that other nations fear to
trust it.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-02-03
PIONEERS
WHAT strength! what strife! what rude

WHAT strength what strife what rude
w unrest!
What shocks what half shaped armies met
mighty nation moving West,
With all its steely sinews set
Against the living forests. Hear
The shouts, the shots of pioneer,
The rended forests, rolling wheels,
As if some half checked army reels,
Recoils, redoubles, comes again,
Loud sounding like hurricane.
o bearded, stalwart, westmost men,
So tower like, so Gothic built,
A kingdom won without the guilt
OF human battle, that hath been
Your children's heritage.
Joaquin Miller.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-02-03
Answers to Yesterdays Quiz


/, In the celebrated presidential campaign
of 1910, in which the Wings elected
William Henry Harrison, their chief
slogan was Down with the admins
tration, which referred to the Jack
sonian Democracy asit had been rep
resented by Jackson himself and his
successor, Martin Van Buren.
2. Ausonius was Latin Christian poet
and man of letters, born in Bordeaux
about 80 A. d. He died in 394.
8, Petrograd is famous for its picture gal
cry called "The Hermitage"
4. Midinettes are Partisan working girls
who throng the streets at about noon
on their way to luncheon. Midi Is
French for noon.
3. Auguste Renoir was noted French
painter allied with the school OF
Monet, Manet and Sisley. He died
few weeks ago at the age of seventy
eight.
g. An epicedium is a funeral ode.
T. General Lew Wallace wrote ''Ben Hur
s. Doilies or doyleys get their name from
the Doyleys, firm of linen -drapers
in business in Upper Wellington
street, Strand, London, from the time
of Queen Anne until 1850.
o. Henry III, an cffeminate king of Francs
of the sixteenth century, was calleu
the MAN Milliner."
10. Esparto is kind of rush imported from
Spain for paper making.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-02-03
street could see her still staring down at
that little square of written paper.

A S WATCHED her man in passing
"A crowd called out 10 the swami, "EIey
there, Joe Williams. why don't you git back
on youh job, stead of maxim fool of youh
self in your Lizzie's ole wrapper?" There
upon the man of Benares turned round with
air of infinite scorn, and when the inter
locutor had passed well out of earshot,
screamed out in an Alabama cornfield accent,
Come back hear an say that again and I'll
bus youh face in ~
To this invitation there was no reply and
the swami cast his eyes up to heaven, and
reopened communication with the seventh
sphere.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-02-03

Producer and investor is the way Chair
man Mackey of the Workmen's Compcnsa-
ton Board refers to employe and employer.
His aim is, if possible, to do away with
class feeling He may succeed. Perhaps; per-
haps not. 1t all depends on how the ear is
attuned There will hardly be any difference
in the tones in which money talks.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-02-03
lNCoRRIGIBLE GERMANY

TT is difficult to find trace of sincerity
J. or logic in Germany's plaintive objec-
sion to the allied demand for army Off
GERS who amazed and enraged civilization
bv their wanton atrocity in France and
Relgium, II Is harder TO understand
What is in the mind of the German Gov
ernment, which speaks now OF the danger
pf "a popular uprising OF Germans de-
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-02-03

The German Government is expending
large sums of money in equipping great man
ufacturing plants on the Rhine. the economic
edict being that dyeing must be made easy
if living is TO be possible.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-02-03

News comes from Mahanoy City that
the men of Gilberton borough are so busy
mining coal that the women have been called
upon to clean the streets. If the news from
Gilberton were not sober sooth it would sug-
gest Gilberton- Sullivan.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-02-03

1t was generally understood yesterday that
if the grounding saw his shadow we would
have six more weeks of winter and that if
he didn't see his shadow winter would last
another forty two days.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-02-03

John d. Rockefeller's pastor SAYS depor-
tatiop will not cure bolshevism. True; and
vet odder things have happened, Gasoline,
for instance, has been found to be great
aid to philanthropy.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-02-03

Seaplanes armed with bombs may soon
no on the trail of schools of porpoises which
are playing havoc with the sardne fisheries
off the coast of Brittany, Ash canning the
norpoises as it were.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-02-03

Navy yard employees who have listened tc
Congressman Ware are of the opinion that
explanations are poor substitute for bread
and butter.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-02-03
What Do You KnoW?
QUIZ

QUIZ
/. Who gave the order to sink the interned
German feet at Scapa Flow?
o Who was Ixion?
g. From what city in Palestine does gauze
takes its name?
4. What constellation contains the stars
Castor and Pollux?
5. What was the Hanseatic League?
6. Name an architect who became a cele-
brated povelist?>
7. When does spring begin this year?
8. What were the seven wonders Of the
ancient world?
0. What fish is said to live from 100 to
$50 years?
10. When were the Virgin Islands added to
the domain of the United States?
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-02-03
MADE-To-oRDER CAPITALS
Psychological Aspects of Such Cities
Are Not to BE Ignored, Either In
Washington or Canberra
THE propriety of naming national capi

THE propriety of naming a national capi
tai Laughing Jackass" has been ques
toned by the thoughtless. lrreverence,
however. is sometimes another term for
truth. Cervantes, Moliere and Mark Twain
attest this and the last was seldom more
convincingy veracious than in his observa
tlops on and his relations with our own
federal town. His acute realization of Wash
lngtonian oddities which he set forth in
The Gildcd Age and "Fhe American
Claimant and flattered with his celebrated
all white suit, would perhaps have moved
him TO admiration concerning Canberra.
1t is this word which has been given to
the nat city which the commonwealth of
Australia is formally erecting as the scat
OF its government Offices and national lcgisla
lures. 1t is this word also which an expert
in antipodean native dialects translates as
Laughing Jackass."
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-02-03

Back page pictures of philadelphia a
work show that City Statistician Cattell'
figures describe live ones.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-02-03
Biographical

Secretary of Agrcu-
Biographical turc Edwin L. Mere
dith owes his start in
life to "a runt pig which his father gave him
and which he turned into a fine porkcr.
Later he turned to journalism, for the sec
ond time demonstrating that the pen is
mightier than the sword.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-02-03

The Senate made no
Better Than mistake in passing the
Deportation Americanization bill of
Senator Kenyon, of
Iowa. Money expended to teach aliens Eng
lish will be we'll spent.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-02-03

Pity the poor weatherman lie Is denied
belief in the grounding simply because the
critter is unscientifc.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-02-03

What troubles the country most is the
| Rorah from within.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-02-03

is what the Senate committee would have
us do. The senators are afraid to face
the truth. While some of them are ready
to jeer at the suggestion of League of
Nations, they are without the courage to
suggest the alternative that may be nee
essary.
1t is an appalling alternative.
1t is militarism. And we should have
to be efficient militarists if the need arose.
We couldn't be amateurs and dabblers
unless we were ready to invite disaster.
We will be without active enemies on
this continent unless we wish to make
them. Europe is utterly sick of war and
the war makers. The old nations cannot
take up the old game. Russia is the only
country that boasts now of its fighting
strength and Russia is on an emotional
jag. The awakening, the headache and
all the rest of it may come at any minute.
So the army training bill ought to be
pigeonholed and taken up again for ra-
tional consideration when the world
finally settles down and reveals its plans.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-02-03

A MERlCANS are justly proud of Wash
1 lngton. its majestic streets. its stately
buildings, its impressive position in history :;
but they are not uniformly respectful to the
variegated rumors, sidelights, "insidc% tales
which have poured forth from the capital
ever since its formal debut in the year 1900
IT is admitted that Washington has its own
distinctive way of viewing any subject; that
opinion there is colored by conditions with
out parallel in our other cities
Can town created by command and arti
hcially maintained think according to
processes current in communities of spop
taneous growth? We are quite used to our
negative verdict on this point and are, on
the whole not too greatly disturbed when
Washington acts strangely. 1t has had a
strange life. 1t is strange place.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-02-03

TNHE psychology of Canberra is bound also
l. to be typical. 1t is curious indeed to
trace the simarticss in Australian and
American political development. The self
governing British colonies under the Southern
Cross have INDUCED in rivalrics much akin
TO those which excited our young states in
Washington's $ day. The capital problem has.
of course. been thorny. 1t has been forciby
emphasized in Sydney that lodgmcnt of the
federal offices aud assemblies in Melbourne
was only temporary, Melbourne has longed
to make it's priority permanent The ques-
ton was settled in 1910, when the unbuilt
city of the Laughing Jackass '-Cauberra-
was formally selected as the home of the
commonwealth s legislatures.
The Canbcrrans will be a queer set No
matter what their original incluatiohs. they
will be clan apart. They will have gran
deur and. almost certainly. commercial so-
lation They will be fiat citizens, curious
and interesting tribe. for Canberra is with :
out industrial importance, and is neither on
the coast nor an important river. 1t will be
the triumph of the artificial in other words,
a gorgeous freak.
Monumental construction has been going
OF in this aloof corner of New South Wales
for seven years. This section is now federal
territory. its organization closely resembling
that of the District of Columbia
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-02-03
Suppose pseudo scien
tific conjecture is right
and a Martian is try
Lesson i'm
Perseverance

Earth Doesn't it make one ashamed of
oneself when one fuses with Central when
''the line is busy?
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-02-03

THERE is temperamcntal consanguinity
l. in made cities the world over Down
in Argentina, La Plata stands-a cavcrnous
monument of legislative command. When
Buenos Aires became the capital of the re
public new seat for the state capital was
sought The congressman chose site thirty
one miles down the River Plata. On the
open plain streets were laid out so wide
that they even dwarf those of Washington,
Paris and Salt Lake City. Vast structures
for scientific institutions were built, impos-
ing quarters for the state Offices and a huge
railway station.
1t is difficult to find a more depressing city
than La Plata, Completely overshadowed by
bustling Buenos Aires, it is a specimen of
dismal pretense. Conversation in its deserted
streets has almost the cerie effect of tones in
a whispering gallery The Platanos are as
suredly exceptional folk.
So, in some degree, are the Madrieuos,
for Madrid has more of the nature of a fat
town than any capital in Europe 1t was
a struggling village when Phillip II moved
the court there in 1861. The surrounding
region is arid The climate is abominable-
cold and pneumonia breeding in winter.
scorching in summer. No city in the king
dom is so untypical of Spain as is Madrid
But it is nearly in the geographical center
of the country, and the rage for centraliza
| ton. still rampant in our time, was not tC
| be denied,
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-02-03

pUT for conventional sloth in Congress,
- Germantown might have been the subject
OF our amused and lenient perceptions. In
the carly days of the republic bill once
passed both the House and Senate locating the
capital in the Philadelphia suburb Recon
sderation followed the long delay. and by
that time the agency of compromise which
has governed so many crises in our annals
was operative.
Alexander Hamilton entertained the en-
gaging idea that the South would abandon
its opposition to his plan providing for the
assumption Of the Revolutionary War debts
of the several states by the national govern
ment if the federal capital were placed below
the Mason and Dixon line.
President Washington was eager for the
selection of the site which nov bears his
name. He envisaged brilliant commercial
development, fostered by the navigablc Po-
tomac and the execution of canal projects
Had he lived but n few years after 1799
he would have beheld the demonstration of
the truth that a city deliberately built to
contain governmental machinery stands a
slim likelihood of becoming a center Of trade
and industry. The official functions take
overwhelming pre- cminence over everything
else.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-02-03

HAMILTON, however, was no prey to
IL illusion. He had n bargain to drive
and Thomas Jefferson 10 persuade. The lat
ter task seems to have been comparatively
easy Jefferson consented to the debt as
sumption proposal, provided a southern
capital were established Agreement was
made in the leisurely eighteenth century
style over glass of wine.
Charles L'Enfant' S magnificent metropoli-
tan dreams were soon set on paper. 1t has
been said that 'he would not plan for thir-
teen states and three millions of people. but
for n republic of fifty states and for five
hundred millions not for single century
but for thousand years" Architecture and
engineering were his concern, not psychology.
1t is the inevitable singularity of the latter
which today particularly identifies Washing
ton even more than its material splendors.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-02-03

DOLIVIA chrlstened her capital Sucre,
d after her first president, and subse-
quently moved her Legislature to the more
convenient location, La Paz. The capitoline
honors are still, however officially Sucre S ,
hnt that is about all. High up in Andean
Bogota the legislative and executive officers
assume to rule Colombia. Meanwhile the
coastal League, along the steaming Carib-
hean. threatens secession. Bogota, with its
noet statesmen, the most isolated of all
bureaucrats, is temperamentally and actu =
ally very far away.
1t is best to be charitable with artifcially
developed captoline compatriots. Their in :
Auepces and environment are not normal.
whether in the District of Columbia or In
The pasture Of Laughing Jackass."
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-02-03

AS ONE comes off the bridge he passes
n into a region of dwelling houses dotted
here and there with the bulk windows of old %
fashioned penny candy stores, where one may
still purchase licorice straps adorned with
rows of pink sugar collar buttons, or tops
with the kind of pegs that always fall out at
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1920-07-01
WHlTWELL DEFEATS
SOUTH PlTTSBURG


Whitwell was jubilant Saturday
night over the defeat administered by
her ball team to the crack South
Pittsburg team, previously unde-
feated this season. Hutchinson was
in the box for Whitwell, with Wamp-
Ter receiving. S. Haskew and G.
Smith was battery for South Pitts
burg, and not Whitwell man reach
ed third base until the 7th inning
the score being 2 to 0 in the visitors
favor In It'll S. Smith singled and
reached second on a mix.up, the ball
going to center field and Smith to
third. THIS put the spectators in a
frensy and Whltwell team on edge
for victory, scoring six runs in that
inning. Joe Kelly played fine
game at short and batted heavily for
Whitwell.
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1920-07-01

Specialize tie Mevs.
Well, we are having some rain,
hut nevertheless the farmers are
nearly thru blowing and they are
nov gathering in their hay.
J. B. Jones looked sad Sunday.
David Rogers is hanging his hat
on Mr.. Crabtree's goathorn.
Robt Pilgrim was all smiles Sun
day. Iguess he saw his girl.
Miss Josie Sheriff. was all smiles
Sunday.
Miss Callie Dobbins, of Richard
City, is visiting her grandparents
this week.
Miss Mamie Pitman visited her
sister, Mrs. Charlie Pitman, of JAS
per, Saturday night and Sunday.
Wonder what has become of
Houston Wells. haven't seen him
since the Last time.
Allie Rogers visited Ollie Pilgrim
Saturday.
Mrs. A. A. Rogers and daughter,
Mrs w. R. Jones, visited Mrs. H.
H. MIDter Sunday.
Mr.. aud Mrs. John Turner visited
homefolks Sunday.
Frank Hinch says he never aims
to 60 to the lock and dam any more.
Wish the News and it's readers
success and hope to see lots of news
in the paper. Old Maid.