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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-05-28

no one denies that living wage should
be paid to the teachers.
If the city is to confess that 1t Is
unable to do anything and that its
school board must sit with folded hands
while the Generalization continues, we
have fallen lower than most Of us are
willing to admit. ~
Unless we mistake the disposition OF
the determined citizens who are back
ing the meeting tonight, it is their pur-
pose to point out solution OF the
problem and to urge its adoption upon
the school board. Money is needed and
money must be found. And then 1t
must be apportioned among the teachers
in such a way as to do justice to all
now in the employ of the city and so as
to attract to the teaching staff larger
number of capable and trained men and
women
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-05-28
THE STRONGER CALL

40 WEST, young man, so the slo-
" gan ran,
While men arose to obey.
But the red mans wrath tried to block
their path.
Yet the tide advanced each day.
And there faunted tales of the golden
trails,
While the wonders grew and grew:
But listen, bo, who'd want to 60
If your girl wasn't going, too?
The lure of gold will never grow cold
1t calls as it called of yore,
While the tickle youth thinks it's sim
pie truth
As our fathers did before.
And he journeys west in the golden
quest
While old tales are told as new;
But listen, bo, who'd want to 20
If your girl wasn't going, too?
The West may call, but I'll never fall,
For ten to one it's taking,
And I'm sticking round on the same
old ground
That grim Atlantic's breaking.
Oh, the East for me, it will always be,
AS long as our hearts beat true;
For listen, bo, who'd want TO 20
If your, girl wasn't going, too2
ZDT.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-05-28
ANOTHER BUS DECISION

IF THE Publir Service Commission
i had intended to establish a blanket
rule by the decision which denied to
promoters in Scranton the right to
operate motor busscs in direct comnp-
tition with an established street car
system. Philadelphia would have been
left ready for a three -corncrcd uprOar
like that which recently involved the
people of Camden. the street car com
pany and the state utilities commission.
Applied broadly and without dis
elimination, the rule made in the Scran-
ton case would operate 10 eliminate
immediate hope of efficient motor
transit service in this city.
Clearly, however, the Public Service
Commission made its decision in ac-
eordanCe with familiar principle op-
posed to destructive competition, waste
effort and duplication. The conditions
in Scranton and in this city are not
alike. No sort of reasoning can twist
q rule applicable in one place so that it
will fit conditions in the other.
1t is necessary to recognize the jus
tice OF code which protects invest
ments by which public utilities are es-
tablished aud maintained. If a street
car system is to function properly in
any large community it must provide a
general service and endure losses be-
cause of long hauls in thinly populated
areas. 1t has n right TO the equaliziug
revenues obtainable through short hauls
In crowded areas. An effort of com
peting agencies to take the more profit
able business could properly be defined
as destructive competition, which in'the
end would break down an important
utility and be inimical to public in b.
terest.
Since public service commissions are
established primarily 10 insure the eff >
gent opsfation Of utilities it is natural
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-05-28
a FouR.YEAR PROGRAM FOR
PHILADELPHIA

Things on which the people expect
the new administration to cOncen-
trate Its attention!
The DeldUdre riper bridge.
a drydock big enough TO dccommo-
date The largest ships.
Develop pment Of the rapid transit SvS-
TEN.
A convention hall
A building for the Free Library.
An Art Museum.
Enlargement Of the tCdter supply.
Homes TO accommodate the populd-
ton.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-05-28

,"Cannonball' Baker, automobile
racer, who Is carrying n message from
New York to Chicago to General Wood
is breaking records and speed regula
tions and may. break his neck. The
message he carries must be very i'm
portant Does the unusual lather indi.
cate that it has anything to do with
soap?
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-05-28
S o S! S o S! S o S! CALLS
FOR ALL TO AID SCHOOLS
Citizens at Academy Mass. Meeting
Tonight Plan to Get Better Pay
for the Teachers or Know
the Reason Why

THERE is no disagreement about the
l. emergency with which the public
schools are confronted.
The inadeQuaCy of the salaries paid
is forcing teachers into other occupa-
tions and it is preventing young men
and young women from entering the
profession.
Last year 100000 teachers left the
profession in the whole country.
In this city, where we used to have
1000 students in the training school,
there are now only 400. There are
scores of classes without teachers. The
children are sent home or they are
turned over to teachers who already
have as many pupils in their charge as
they can properly direct.
The public system Of education will
break down in this city unless some
thing Is done TO attract teachers and
to retain in the schools those already
there
The Board of Public Education knows
this. The teachers themselves are
aware of it. And now the citizens seem
to have walked up to the situation.
They have called n mass meeting in
the Academy of Music tonight. at which
there is to be a general discussion of the
situation and a consideration of posi-
Bile remedies.
The call is Save Our Schools" \
real S IS!
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-05-28
Ru KELLAMY.

How much was spent in any, one
state?
He did not know.
He didn't need to know.
There were still blank checks in his
book.
And there were still check books to
be had at his bank.
When he left the witness stand in
Washington the whole audience turned
and watched him as he made his way
alone down the center aisle and out of
the hearing room.
1t could not keep its eyes off him.
Everybody was saying, "If only I
colld get up against something like
that"
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-05-28

With so many candidates willing
to have Hoover on the ticket for Vice
President, he may develop as the natu-
raj compromise candidate.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-05-28

A headline refers to the alleged
Bergdoll buried gold as a new Kidd
treasure. kid" is right, but why the
second I'd" in ity
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-05-28
What Do You Knotv?
QUIZ

QUIZ
/. What President was the first to
leave the United states during his
term of office?
2. Who was known as the American
Cato?
3. What are antoryms?
4. What Is an epic?
5. Where does the word magic"
come from?
6. What percentage of the population
Of the United States lives In
rented houses7
7. What country in the world has the
lowest death rate?
8. What and where are the two
greatest railroad stations in the
country?
0. What American railroad station has
greater train service than either
10. What is the difference between
courage and bravery?
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-05-28

Haverford College professor SAYS
clothes are cheaper in Berlin than in
Philadelphia. No place so forsaken but
that il has its compensations.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-05-28

Next years naval budget has been
fixed at S43G, 600, ,OOO--a large part of
it the amount we pay for our failure
to sign the covenant.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-05-28

Woods light appears to have been
locally eclipsed by West Virginia's
favorite son.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-05-28

We gather with surprise from ac-
counts Of the Devon Horse Show that
It is not the horscman who porsistently
loses who gathers "uncountablc blues. -
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-05-28

The Bergdoll bungle is of the class
of incidents that would be funny IL they
we're not so darned serious.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-05-28

Statesman at the Devon Horse
Show belied its name by jumping the
fence instead Of sitting on it.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-05-28
Answers to Yesterdays Quiz

l. There Is nothing in the Constitution
that forbids the President to leave
the United States.
z. a hidden Is a dunghill or refuse
heap.
3. Max Adeler was the pseudonym Of
Charles II. Clark. American
humorous author He was born
1910.
.. Ar eclogue Is a poem of rural life
b. Synonyms are words of similar
meaning.
.. steelyard is a kind of balance
with short arm 10 take the thing
weighed and long graduated arm
along which a weight Is moved.
I. helicopter is type of alrplane
that rises vertically.
8. In "A Cure for the Heartache," by
Thomas Morton (l764-1S3S), the
line occurs Appreciation from Sir
Hubert Stanley is praise indeed. "
The phrase is commonly condensed
to Praise from Sir Hubert"
3. Florence Nightingale is known as
the Lady OF the Lamp.
TO- "MesopotamIa" means. lteraIIy
between the rivers"
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-05-28

One hopeful thing about the Hoover
boom is that it acquires strength as the
race continues.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-05-28
Member of the Associated Press

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS is
eeciusircly entitled 10 the use for
capitalization Of oil nc,rs dispatches
credited to IL or not othCr,rise credited
fn this paper, and also the local neps
published therein.
An rights Of republication Of special
dispatches herein are also r6SCrrCd.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-05-28

The problem AT bottom is one Of bust.
ness administration. II the men on the
school board were confronted bv such
a situation in their private affairs they
would meet it and find a way out that
would save their business from dcmoral-
izatipn.
We cannot believe that they have not
the ability and the power to find way
out for the schools.
The preservation Of the quality Of
the product Of the schools is of greater
importance 10 the city as a whole than
the preservation of the quality Of the
product Of any factory here. 1t il n
plaujude thar the children Of the present
are the commercial and professional
leaders of the future. If we permit
these children to be poorly trained or
force many Of them to go without any
training we are committing a crime
against the future We are breaking
down our ability to hold our own com.
merCialIy with the rest of the world
and we are undermining the founda
tions of democracy which rest on an
educated citizenry.
While the city may neglect the edu
cation of the children, the education of
the street goes on without intermis-
sion. The street is the school of vice
and crime. It's graduates fill the prisons
and the charity hospitals and the aims
houses. They are those who are used
to corrupt the ballot on election day
and TO engage in the kind Of thuggery
that disgraced the Fifth ward not so
very long ago.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-05-28

In the matter of the local transit
,rohlrm too little stress has been placed
On the age old dictum that the way to
cot a thing done is to do it,
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-05-28

The one needed and necessary fac.
tor in the transit problem is a start.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-05-28

A showdown" on the soldiers
bonus is the last thing the politicians
desire. What they want is "slow-
down" "
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-05-28

Perhaps Colonel Proctor thought he
was advertising soft soap.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-05-28
WILLIAM COOP

TOIONED William SOoi hAS
" PROCTER looks like Henry Ford !;
somewhat bigger, but the same hatchet
face, the same eye fixed on something
fur off, something away above the mere
millions each has succeeded in accumu-
lating.
When you get covered with dirt per-
suadng one of Mr.. Eord's automobiles
to go or pick up the dust of other auto
mobiles while riding in one of Mr.. Ford s
cars. you take n cake of Colonel froc-
ter's soap and remove the CRIME.
And when you are clean from Colonel
Procters soap you are ready 10 rue
once more in Henry Ford's car.
A perfect combination.
But Mr.. Ford's mind is far away
And Colonel Procter's mind is far
His soap has been 00.4i per cent
pure so long that he no longer has to
think about it.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-05-28

McAdoo has no chest, Doctor Jcn
kins told the probers. How did he ex :
peCt to raise the wind?
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-05-28

Dan Hanna seems to be following
in his fathers footsteps.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-05-28

Perhaps Colonel Proctor felt as.
sured he had soap enough to come clean
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-05-28

The Wood boom is in splinters.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-05-28

But why point the moral that has
been worn threadbare by constant ex.
,hibition2 Every one 1ows 1t. And
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-05-28
PRoCTER describes him

nossesses his mind like the similar hun
gsr which possesses Henry Ford's mind,
and which leads him into running
magazine and saving the world from
terrible conspiracy which shall not be
described here.
II is a pathetic thing about great
riches that it wants to be something else
than great riches.
II wants to save the world from an
enemy like Henry Ford, or make 1t
learned like Andrew Carnegie, or reform
its taxation like Joseph Fels, or make
il radical like the cocoa millionaircs OF
England, or provide 1t with perfect
ruler like Colonel Proctor.
Most of US dream some time or other
Of what we would do II We only had the
money.
Colonel Proctor has the money.
Uo is indulging his fancy for bpnefi-
cence in financing a candidate TO the
aytcnt of half million dollars. and
Colonel Proctor has only just begun.
He homes for chance to make his
half a million n million.
q q q
THE opinion was expressed in this
l. column some weeks ago that Colo
mel Proctor was perfect political
"angel.
II is hereby taken back
The word ''angel' in quotation
marks has questionable antecodents.
II was first applied to certain Con
rsds in quest OF their youth" certain
rich old fellows who, having worked too
hard in piling up their fortunes, seek
to he young again in backing the enter
nrises of some darling of the footlights.
The purposes of an angel" are en-
tirely altruistiC.
There is nothing cgoistic about the
designs of Colonel William Cooper
lie is a Conrad in quest of his
youth" of dreams.
He wants to be a President maker,
not for the sake Of power as Mark
! Hanna was a President maker, but to
do something for his country.
His giving of half a million he de-
scribes az an obligation.
And he means it, too.
lie is old enough and rich enough to
| indulge in a romance, and his romance
il giving these United States the per-
feet government that it ought to have
government by General Wood.
q q q
TIE is a perfect "ongel" in one re-
II spect.
He gave and gave and gave, and
asked no questions.
lie wrote checks as often as need be,
and never needed to know where the
money went.
Two thirds of the money went for
publicity.
He would make a President by the
same means he made n soap, the only
means he knew.
SIT fioats?" asked a senator.
"It floats" replied the colonel, smil e
ing.
How much did newspaper advertising
cost?
He did not know.
How much did the host of press
agents cost? s,.,.
4 He did not know
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-05-28

Ware words butter no Moore
parmips- .-.------..-
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-05-28

THERE was nothing tainted about
L that wealth.
They were not self seeking dollars.
The soap would still be soap when it
was all done, and not more than 80. A
per cent pure.
They were guileless dollars.
They were childlike dollars, the kind
OF dollars you spend when young and
say, " II were only rich I'd buy every
body in this town a blue and green
parrot and make them perfectly
happy"
The half million was only ian ad-
vance"
Did he expect to get it back?
We'll, expect is a strong word
Later he got closer to his real state
of mind about the prospects Of the re-
turn of the money. He had IAN ex-
pectation. at least faint expectation.
not real expectation, that Colonel
Woods friends would pay some of it
backT'
What friends?
Why, no particular friends. just the
generals many friends throughout this
broad land!
IL all campaign friends were like
that. why should the Senate trouble to
inquire into them?
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-05-28

There seems to be no possibility Of
immediate relief save through loan.
Members of the schoo! board have ar
gued against this plan and have said
that IL it were adopted it would ham
per the board in other directions. They
seem to be giving more attention to
obstacles in the way of relief than to
finding means for removing all OBJ
staCleS.
But we cannot believe that the school
board is unwilling to increase the pay
Of the teachers. 1t must know that the
cost of living has increased to such an
extent that a salary which could be-
made to stretch over years expenses
in 1914 will not go much more than
half az far in 1920. 1t must know that
carpenters, whose period Of training is
not so long as that of teacher. are
getting $40 and $l2 a day and painters
are getting 81 and 81 % an hour. while
high school graduates are asked to teach
in the schools at lower pay than is now
demanded by domestic servants
The effect of this condition is seen
in tho refusal of capable Young men and
young women to become teachers. and
in the necessity Of arcenting teachers
who four or five years ngo would have
found it impossible 70 get employment
in the schools because of their inca
paCity. And the children Of the CITY
in large numbers are getting such
training as these teachers are able to
give them.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-05-28

uOW are the like of Colonel Proctor
l. to be found?
Alas. there is no rule.
The Senate pressed to learn, but did
not discover.
Wanting n Colonel Proctor. you may
go through life and never find one.
Most men do.
You had not been in politics."
blandly asked Senator Reed.
No, he had not /; and he had not been
particular friend of General Woods.
Propinquity, which explains most
things, did not explain this.
Marriages are made in heaven
Angels are made in heaven; not the
kind who wear quotation marks.
We take the quotation marks of
Colonel William Cooper Proctor.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-05-28

Philadelphia, Friday, May "a. 1920
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-06-10
ANovel Way Of Preserving Meat Has
Been Invented by Dr.. Sangioranni

Hang in the open air. taking them
indoors and covering them whenever
there is any moisture in the air and
hanging them out again every clear
day until they are perfectly dry and
give out sound like Jumps of wood
when slammed upon a table.
When certain that the meat is per-
fectly dry scrape OR cut the layer of
gum from the surface, leaving no
trace of it. The object of this coat
ing has been to keep all germs from
the meat and at the same time to
permit the evaporation of all mois-
ture contained in it. If the process
has been carried out with care the
meat will not putrefy; it will retain
all it's qualities, every cell and fiber
being perfect. When wanted for
use, all that is necessary is to i'm
merse it in water for several hours,
depending on the size of the pieces.
DR.. Sangiovanni prepares from this
dried meat a powder which can be
eaten raw or mixed with milk, -four,
wine, water or any other food. The
through a small mill and sifted sew
an impalpable pink powder, all the
fibers and connective tissue being
removed. 1t ~ therefore, perfect
extract of ma containing every nu-
tritive particle without the addition
of any foreign substance.
And he recommends it's use in the
form of biscuits made by mixing
equal parts of powdered beef and
wheat -four with eggs, sugar, butter
and milk in quantities at the judg-
ment of the baker
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-06-10
Lack of Sugar Is No Excuse
For Failure to Can Early

water seal and water bath are both
popular with those who want a can
ner which costs less money.
If jars are needed, a supply should
be laid in early. The tops of both
the old and new jars should be gone
over carefully and all the rough
edges smoothed down with a knife.
There is no danger then that, they
will cut the rubber. This is some
way before the season opens.
Test Rubbers Carefully
One of the make of rubbers which
is to be used should be tested. A
good rubber-one that will stand up
under the heat which long cooking in
the can entails-must possess elias
ITCHY enough to allow its being fold
ed and pinched without breaking, say
canning specialists of the United
States department of agriculture. An
other test is it's ability to hold thir-
teen pounds weight without break
ing when this weight is suspended
by hook from the rubber ring.
Whatever type of apparatus is
used for processing or stertlizing, a
number of utensils are needed for
properly handling the product. These
include five or six good porcelain
sauce pans or those of some other
material that is acid proof, with COW
ers for use in handling and blanch-
ing acid fruits, two tablespoons, one
set of measuring spoons, one wire
basket or several yards of cheescloth
for use in blanching, six wiping
cloths, two hand towels, one duplex
fork for lifting hot jars. and several
sharp pairing knives. Look over your
supply and see if you have them in
stock
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-06-10
Waste No TimeSpraying
Paris Green on Insects

Do not waste your time spraying
paris green on insects that sucllt the
juices from plants and foliage, such
as lice, green, black and white aphis
or fly, mea11y bug, red spider and
scale, by thrusting their proboscis
into the leaf or stem, for they are
not affected by stomach poisons.
they must be destroyed by contact
insecticides. Those in powder form
kill by closing the breathing pores
in the insects skin, or in fluid form
from being absorbed through these
pores, the American Forestry Maya
zine points out. The best contact In
sectides in powder form are helle-
lore, slug shot and tobacco dust.
The best in fluid form are aphine,
black leaf 40, fish (whale) oil soap.
nicotine tobacco eXtract), kerosene.
miscible oil and lemon oil.
Insects that eat plants, foliage,
vegetables, fruits, flowers, etc,
whether bugs, beetles, worms. cater
pillars or slugs, are more quickly
and effectually destroyed with a pois-
onous stomachic insecticide such as
E rsenate of lead, paris green or helle-
bore. These, if applied according to
directions, are so diluted as to be
harmless to vegetation and to animal
life. Less poisonous stomachic and
contact insecticides are kerosene
en- N sion sling shot of