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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-21
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MOORE AND HIS SUCCESSOR

THE most heartening thing about
l. Mayor Moore's tentative Endorsement
of Alfred Burk for congressman from the
Third district to succeed himself is not
so much this particular choice as the fact
that it indicates he means to fight against
permitting a political hack to hoist him
self into this responsible post.
Mr.. Burk is a representative of the
businessman" type, about which much
has been said. He would intelligently
understand the Importance of the big in
dustrial and commercial interests which
lie within the district, as we'll as the
problems Of the city generally. How ably
he could present and represent those in
terests in the difficult skirmishing ground
of the House of Representatives could
only be proved by the test of time and
experience, since he has never served in
such capacity before. Judging by his
record and success in business matters,
all the indications are in his favor.
But it is again demonstrative of the
new Mayors instinct for appealing to the
weight of public opinion that he should
set up a candidate whose attributes so
completely overshadow those of the
slated Organization choice. Decided
squarely on their respective merits, ex-
Sheriff Ransley ought to be smartly de-
feated at the election by a man like Burk.
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important influence on legislation in
states where they do not vote. They were
behind the child labor legislation here,
and the arguments they offered in sup
port of it were so cogent that they carried
their point, not against the opposition
but with the hearty cooperation of the
men, both in the Legislature and in the
executive mansion. To put it in another
way, the Legislature responded TO an un-
doubted popular demand.
And right here is the secret of the sue
cess of all reform legislation: Popular
support is the breath of life to the profess
sional politician. He can be forced to vote
for any measure when he is convinced
that the people want it. He will even pass
laws which will deprive him of much of
his power when the people insist on it,
for he would rather retain some power
than be driven from office into private
life.
Mrs. Warburton knows all this. She
is also familiar with the ways of the state
Republican machine. Yet with political
sense she is leading the Republican
women into closer relations with the
party organization, where they will have
just as much influence in reforming it as
it is in their power and disposition to
exercise. And under her leadership the
Republican women will use the Republic
can party as the instrument to serve their
ends so long as it remains efficient.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-21
Mr.. WINSTON AND CIVIL SERVICE

tI'HE proposed changes increasing the
L stringency of the civil service laws
evokes from Director Winston a COM
plant that the personal equation will be
thus disregarded. This of course is true
If personality be interpreted in the old
political sense.
The amendment now under considera-
tion compels the director of public works
to make certain appointments from the
two top men in various selected series
graded by competitive examination.
But do such lists not specify with in
cisive clarity the personal equation of the
contestants? Accepting the examination
method as a feasible one governing the
candidates for municipal service, surely
the rating is an index of equipment, per
sonal attributes and general fitness, or of
the absence of these assets.
Advocates of civil service reform are
certainly in the habit of believing that
such guide has practical value and is,
though not perfect, the most accurate
measure available. There is an impress
sion that such was Mr. Winston's opinion
before he took Office.
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SPEEDING THE FRANKFORT Il"

THE councllmanic attempt to crystallize
all the facts concerning the construc-
ton and financing of the Frankford ele-
waited is thoroughly commendable. The
advisability Of the line is no longer a mat
ter for dispute. A large part of the work
has been done. Its completion should
rank as one of the earliest tangible ac-
complishments of the Moore administra-
tion, and the sooner the public is in
formed of its obligations in the matter
the better for the community.
If a special loan is necessary it should
be passed. If other means of support
promise equally good results and fewer
burdens they should be adopted. What is
needful now is a definite program,
authoritatively worked out, which will
bring the Frankford elevated into exist
ence without unsavory politics and with
as little waste and as much expedition
as possible.
Mayor Moore is devoting himself to the
project with vigor. This is the proper
course. There will be time for he de-
velopment of all sorts of comprehensive
plans" on all sorts of subjects when this
specific municipal improvement is given
due place on the order of public busi-
ness.
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mand." His predecessor, Orlando, fired
the enthusiasm of his compatriots by de
manding" the town of Fiume. But de-
mands which are not granted eventually
cool off. Moreover, Italy as suppliant
cuts not nearly so spectacular figure as
Italy Illuminating orders.
And so Signor Nitti, according to the
latest dispatches. may demand" the
execution of the treaty of London. As
this document withholds Fiume from the
Roman Government there seems prob
ability that it will be granted. Italy will
then have the distinction of getting that
upon which she insists. But what pity
that demand" of this sort could not
have been issued at the outsetl
The lost interval would possibly have
been sufficient for deciding the fate of
Fiume after the original treaty obliga-
tions had been fulfilled. AS it is, much
valuable time has been lost and D'Annun-
zio has staged a melodrama, which
hardly accords with the newest "de-
mard."
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TROUBLE IN DREAML AND

A LII sorts of mad things are happening
"A in Russia.
"We shall keep our armies intact as
working units" said NJ Zorien, the Boil
shevist assigned to meet Emma Goldman
and her friends. "These armies, with
drawn from the front, will cultivate the
land and bring in food"
This was in the land of the new free
dom. The German kaiser never was so
blandly brutal as the spokesman for
soviets who talked of workers perma-
nently organized in vast masses under
military rule. Lenine apparently has been
studying the bees, which do that sort of
thing in social system that is the most
exclusive and tyrannical in nature.
"We shall find work for them" said
this same M. Zorien, with a glance at
Miss Goldman and the other deportees. It
was moment later that the anarchist
leaders expressed their love for America.
Some of them had lived here for many
years without doing any work.
For them NJ. Zorien must have had all
the effects of an alarm clock in the land
of their dreams.
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THE CHAFF7NG DISH

tnssths. 7 already have the title--Petticoot
Papers. I shall head chapter Who's Who
Among the Women Haters, and Why"
She adds that she has bought a set of
Harold Bell Wright bound in watermelon
pink velum to match her boudoir hangings,
and always carries a copy of The Bookman
on the street, 'as the pretty blue of the cover
brings out charmingly the color of my eyes"
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-21

MY Long. Distance Girl
T SEE you nearly every day
In the railway car,
And like the humble publican,
! worship from afar.
YOUR sparkling eyes of deepest blue
l. Are full of mystery;
My heart within me seems to leap
Whene'er you smile at me.
VOUR hair glittering mass of gold,
Reflects the suns bright beams;
see your charming, sunlit face
In all my sweetest dreams.
TNIIE poets say that distance lends
l. Enchantment to the view:
Perhaps that is the reason why
fell so hard for you.
HAROLD WIEGAND,
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-21

Mayor Moore walked
Precept and Example into his Office at 0
a. m. and was greeted
by the caretaker. When Mayor Moore hence
forth walks into his Office he will be greeted
by his private secretary, his chief clerk and
the entire Office force. Mayor Moore by
force of example has worked a reformation.
An ounce of example is worth a pound of
nrecept
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-21

The fact that Edward !. Edwards was
inaugurated governor of New Jersey in the
omen air is proof that, whatever his views
on the liquor question may be, he does not
believe that prohibition and pneumonia are
necessarily partners.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-21

King Ludwig of Ba-
Another Mad King varia is said to have
of Bavaria characterized the al
lied demand for the
ex kaiser as "impertnent and impudent. I"
The Allies will therefore consider themselves
officially slapped on the wrist.
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Our Private Sex War

Cliyinia Gilhooloy writes US in some
yiyacity Of mood that she has been reading
McFee on Women. She says she is going to
write book (which will shed clear light
or how these writer's take advantage Of their
gentle readers by airing their personal griev-
sncss under the guise Of spealdng great
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-21

The fact that Liberty Bonds to th
amount of $6S,000 were deposited at Eli
Island as bail for fifty alleged radicals cause
one to wonder if some of the prisoners are 9:
Red as they are painted.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-21

The one point on which there appears u
be no difference Of opinion Is that the Sim
charges must be investigated.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-21

1t grieves us TO learn of the destruction
by fire of carload of sugar, but If the news
can only be kept from the corner groceryman
it need make no appreciable inroads on the
weekly pay envelope.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-21

Doctors may keep old folks in bed when
they are sick, but when it comes 10 youngsters
like Dave Lane, why, it simply can't be done.
He was at his Office yesterday, and his doc
tors didn't know it.
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ITALY'S LATEST DEMAND"

TT PREMIER NITTI of Italy is cor
= rectly reported, he is a. shrewd psy-
cholegist well aware IL he glamour
Hhieh at first farrouY7 word "de-
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-21

After the wickedness of certain poles
men has been looked into 1t may be thst
magistrate or two may be investigated.
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Need for Safe
Transportation

L h e f a C that the
Need for Safe Chamber of Commerce
Transportation has found it necessary
to declare that two of
the fcrryboats plying between Philadelphia
and Kaighns Point. Camden, are unsafe, is
strong argument for the speedy completion of
the big bridge, but furnishes no reason why
passengers should not be safely transported
on good boats until the bridge is completed.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-21

With her cargo confscated 1t was sen-
orally admitted that the freighter Yarmou'A
| would be dry as bloater.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-21

Presumably the early worm will turn up
on time now that the Mayor is playing the
early bird.
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Growth of the Book Business

Growth of the Book Business
We learn from the esteemed New York
Evening Post that when the household goods
of the late Frank W. Woolworth were cata-
logued for auction, "a dozen books were
found in Mr.. Woolworth's vault"
A man has taken the trouble to write to US
all the way from Chicago-though, come to
think of it, it's no more trouble to write
from Chicago than from -danayunk-to tell
US that we are false alarm.
Very likely, very likely-and yet we are
secretly pleased to have alarmed that eff
cient town.
The man we like is the one who can 70 to
see Charley Chaplin in the movies and enioy
his comedy stuff without afterward insist
ing that Charley is also "a great artist"
We feel that we, too, are something of an
artist in cur way, but nothing would grieye
us SO much as to be told so.
We often wonder how Nicholas MURRAY
Butler finds time to be president of Columbia
University.
Also. we ponder, what does Henry van
Dyke do on the evenings when there is no
dinner in honor Of "Americanisnl"?
Charley Chaplin we have often heard. il
eager to play Hamlet. Our own suggestion
is that the role of Petruchio would be better
How now, do our noble clients not recall Act
Nv, scene 3, where Petruchio calls Kath-
arines new bonnet
oustprd coffin, a bauble, siIken ME.
Our idea Of right merry cheer would N,
Charley Chaplin as Petruchio and Doroth,
Gish a. katharine. SOCRATES.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-21
Always Room at the Top

G. W. D., an ever present help in time of
trouble and the shadow of great rock in
weary land, tells US that on Chestnut street
near Twentieth he saw the following sign:
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-21

The Young Lady Next Door But Un'
says that she'd just love to run nice htus
motortruck farm.
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You Are Now immortal

rOC, old top 1 don't know why,
> But ambitions seized me by the tie
The call of the Dish has found my ear
I can't resist, though I go in rear.
I'VE supped from the Dish night after night,
l. And usually appeased my appetite,
But swore that I'd never have aught to do
with concoctions brewed therein by you.
nut Soc, old top don't know why
ID Ambitions seized me by the tie;
Caesar for ambition was Grabbed
And no doubt, like him. these linesll be
stabbed AL o. ISHUS.
I am glad to leave America. but love
the American people.-Miss Emma Gold
man.
Had we never loved sac kindly,
Had we never loved sac blindly,
Never met, or never parted,
We had ne'er been broken hearted"
II was all very we'll for Miss Goldman to
dissemble her love, but we can imagine her
s;rg;ng as she crossed ''the frozen river
Systerbak'
] love it.
From that bad land turn my face
love it.
Americans are bourgeois, base,
III sink them all without a trace;
To Helsingfors with the whole race
love it
The Sims Daniels controversy did not pass
through the customary four stages of bitter
ness which console the lives of headline writ
ars These four stages are O) The Rap, (2)
The Tilt, (8) The Probe, az The Row.
The Sims business was Row from the
first. o.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-21

Slowly but surely the fact will pens
trate into the brains of police officials thai
politics has lost its pull.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-21

Police thugs, both surprised and aston
ished, are slowly being made to realize that
the administration is in earnest.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-21

Wilhelm Hohenzollern finds himself in
a trap-a kind of Holland gin.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-21
Answers to Yes.erday's Quiz

RnoWere TO rcetoToeJ
1. The SUMS apparent yearly pain aiH'''
the stars is called the ecliptic' go.
2. Turgid speech is pompous, innateo' '''
bastic. ..,., Al
France. l.. in
4. Two cities of Turkestan sfid 70 ~ =
Russian Bolshevist control arc D'AN'''
and Tashkent. ,, ar,
5. Wattes are wicker hurdles. Iney sss
also the heshy appendagee uns't AM,
throats of cocks, turkeys ano '''''
other birds. ,. al sss
6. Mark Twain wrote '"rhe Prince anu ~
Pauper." a., -, Natal,
7. spion Kop is a high mountain o. W. 49,
South Africa, on the IuseiA '
west of Colenso. ..,. hs.
8, 1t was the scene OF bloody ps..s ns. a
tween the British ane the D'''' "
1900. 49,. Amsr,
o. The Lusitania was travelling from rolne.SssS nS
lea TO Europe when she was torpsSl pels
of the coast Of Ireland In May, - 4
10 otiose means functicnless, sMsins "a I.
practical purpose, lazy, Al !elsu,S, ..';,sd.
occupied. futile. sterile, nO' sssSI
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-21
THE QUALITY
BEAUTY PARLORS


Next Sunday, we are reminded by our good
friend John McMaster, of Tulip street. is
Robbie Burns's birthday. For the first time
in history many brave Scotsmen will be at a
loss to know how to celebrate it.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-21

Alice Through the Looking Glass.
Synthetic Poems
r CAN always keep
l. My temper
When I'm alone
It's only other folks
That rile me. -
DOVE DULCET.
THE worst moment
L In my life
Is when I am cleaning up the cellar
And find my magenta tie,
Three frayed soft collars
And the old brown pair of trousers
In the trash box
Where my wife put them.
DUNRAvEN BLEAK.
MANY a man
INl Started life on shoestring
And ended by wearing rubber heels
When the bank examiner
Made his rounds.
CALVERT CRAvAT.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-21
obvIousIy a Case for Eres Verse

~"S 'V' 'Foo
ROSALIND-But are you SO much in love
as your rhymes speak?
ORLANDO - Neither rhyme nor reason
can express how much.
--"As You Like It."
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-21
What Do You Kno,0H


1. What was Simmes's Hole?
.. What are hackles?
3. Name a state which refused to ratlfy tn'
prohibition amendment. ~.
4. At what age does citizen become eng. a
BILE for the House of Representative
5. What is pestle?
6. What is the correct pronunciation OF tn'
word? a..
7. How many signers were there TO th'
Declaration of Independence :.
8. OF what state is Jackson the capital'
8. Who wrote East Lynne? :,
10. What republic of Europe has an army Of
700, 900 men in the field against 'a'
Russian Bolshevists?
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-21
Presented With
Apologies

name is p. D. O. Pedestrian, H. II. II. His
initials stand for the gait he has to travel /:
the letters tackled on TO his :ame are
prayer: Heaven Help Him! Wonder if the
time will come when traffic regulations, de-
signed to prevent congestion and collisions,
will also take cognizance of the fact that he
is crossing the street when the stop" signs
are about to be switched?
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-21
Keats on Sir oliver

BE still the unimaginable Lodge
For solitary thinkings such as dodge
Conception to the very bourne of heaven,
Then leave the naked brain"
-"Endymion, I, 293
The Society for the Denomination of The
Pun can turn its attention away from us for
a while and put that genial veteran, James
Huneker, on the griddle. This is how MIR.
Huneker reports recital by Nine. Olive
Fremstad, in the New York World:
On the stage, In addition to the grand
piano, there were cedar and pine trees, an
Olive came later, and at the end the palms
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-21
LOVE SONGS

WE ARE both silver sea trout
w And have risen to delicate hies o.
streams
And got away.
The young ferns balance on the wet earth
Like green smoke above a coal.
Let us watch the sun throw gold plates
Down to us through lake water
Where none fish.
II
The night is so full of movement
That the stars seem like corn being threshsd
Against blue barn.
The wind is black river
And just for moment
The moon a small green fish
Swimming in your hair.
Edward Powys Mathers, In the Let's
Review.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-21

sroore's idea Is 10 beck Burk and q
urke Beck.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-21

The are betraying littie ar no
istarest( imaries 10 be held. May l6<1
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-21

There is a man in this
town who has lost his
rights in the maze of
fra nic repIilatiops HE
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-21
Desk M ottoes

Even joke should have some meaning.
Alice Through the Looking Glass.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-06-01

patronesses, Miss sayward. Miss shee-
der and Mips Moore, chaperoning. The
annual luncheon OF the alumni OF Miss
Saywsrd's school will be given Mt the
school tomorrow and In the evening the
graduates will hold their class day ex-
ercises.
:. Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Glmbel, 1900
Of their daughter. Mrs. Edwin Dannen-
psum, of Melrose. at dinner-dance Of
150 covers, last evening, at the Phil
mont Country Club.
DR.. and Mrs. Clarence Lincoln, of st.
pavids, have as their guest, Miss Flora
Mrs. Ida Roedelheim, of tho st. James
Hotei, announces the engagement Of her
aaughter. Miss Claire Roedelheim. TO
burgh.. The marriage will take place
some time during the autumn.
Mrs. Van Burt Heller, Of 6417 Lime
KIN pike. announces the marriage Of
her daughter. Miss F. Dorothy wolcott.
70 Mr.. Robert p. LAWN, of Cleveland,
this afternoon at o'clock.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry M. Nathanson
ana FAMILY, who spent their winter at
tne hitz.Carlton, are now at Elberon,
mer.
Mrs Anne E. Fridenbers. of Atlantic
Glty. is spending some time at the Hotel
Mrs. John Dotterer, of WAYNE. will
entertain her bridge club today. The
members Will be Mrs. William Campbell
Mrs John Mather. Mrs. Charles Mather
Mrs. Frank Muller. Mrs. j. w. Gross
and and Mrs Mrs Thopas May Peirce. Jr. Mr.:
ana MIS-. Dotterer entertained Mr.. ahd
weekend
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wOOLMAN-ESLER

An attractive wedding will take place
at Calvary Methodist Episcopal Church,
Forty-eighth and Baltimore avenue, at
o'clock this evening when Miss Laura
Caroline Esler, daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. Edward r. Esler, Of ll21 South
Forty -eightn street, will become the
bride of Mr.. Clarence Sellers Woolman,
son of Mr.. and Mrs. Samuel woolman.
of Riverton, N. j. The bride will be
given in marriage by her father. The
ceremony will be performed by the
Rev. Mr. Bronson, assisted by the Rev.
Mr.. Helms. Miss Helen Stuart Esler
the brides sister, will.be maid Of honor
and the bridesmaids will be Miss Sarah
Valentine Fox and Miss Jean Chichester
Fox. OF Torresdale: Mrs. Norman Lee
Jameson, Mrs. Edward Foulke Carson,
Mrs. Thomas Pinder, of this city. and
Mrs. Samuel Pardee Day. OF Washing
ton. Miss Margaret Lewis will be flower
girl The bridegroom will have Mr.
Walter Keen Woolman as his best man
and his ushers will be Mr.. Kerro Knox,
Mr.. Francis Churchill Rogers, Mr..
Alexander Swain. Mr.. Howard Rogers,
Mr. william Hunter and Mr. Lewis
Henry Esler. a reception will follow at
the home of the brides parents Upon
their return from a wedding trip Mr.
and Mrs. Woolman will live at 1920 East
Forty ninth street. Chicago, Ill.