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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1920-07-15

The great war is over, but the little
ones keep right on making noise IN
hopes that some one will hear them.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1920-07-15

Have you noticed the number of ex.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-03-03
MOTORS AND TRoLLEYS

CoONER or later there will have to be
~ a new definition of the rights of motor
vehicles as common carriers. A company
which planned to operate an automobile
service between this city and the Della
ware Water Gap faces the possibility of
an injunction sought by an upstate troll
lev company, which argues with justice
that II would suffer in the proposed COM
petition.
The plan to operate bus lines on Broad
street and the scheme for the immediate
establishment of a motor line between
City Hall and the navy yard might be
opposed on similar grounds. The trolley
companies facing competition from
motor lines insist that they are required
10 maintain a general service and that
under the terms of their franchises they
must operate over routes that are ac-
ITALY maintained at loss.
The yeam railways were hurt by the
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-03-03
NEW BATTLESHIP PLANS

THOSE good people who insist that
- America should have no hand in the
affairs of Europe may perceive iri the
navy's plans for 44,000-ton battleships
some of the first new fruits Of the policy
of isolation which they deem best for the
country.
These enormously efficient and ex-
pensive fighting machines are to the new
era Of military development what the
first shy blossoms are to an approaching
spring. They are heralds and har-
bingers-nothing more. What will fol-
low after them if the various nations find
it still impossible to reach agreements
that will make the limitation of arma-
ments possible and safe will be far more
amazing than the recent announcement
from Washington.
The Navy Department in this instance
is only performing an appointed task,
which must be attended to if the service
is not to be charged in some future day
with criminal unpreparedness.
England already has superdread-
nought of $4,000 tons. That vessel is ap-
proximately 10000 tons heavier than the
largest fighting ship in the United States
navy. Japan is building a number of
vessels after the new British pattern.
What the constructors in these two coun-
tries are planning in the background can
not be told. It is not their habit to ad-
vertise their plans in advance of execu-
ton. The British built their new super
dreadnought during the years Of the war
and the public knew nothing of it until
the ship was launched and almost ready
for action.
To assume that the British and the
Japanese are wantonly starting out in
new competitions of armament would be
unjust. The renewal of naval expansion
abroad is a direct consequence of the dis
ordered and disorganized opinion of the
world. 1t is course of action natural to
peoples who cannot tell what new
dangers they may have to face within a
year or two. What we are witnessing is
actually a revival of mlitarism and the
beginning of new naval rivalries. The
nations now are like men who, walking
in the dark among perils, stiffen in
stinctively to be ready for expected on
slaughts.
If there is to be new military expan-
sion at sea there will be new military
expansion on land. If new contests in
military systems are instituted now peo-
pie who are accustomed to view the
effort for international peace as dream
will live to revise their opinions under
unprecedented burdens of worry and
taxation.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-03-03
MORE CUFF FROM GAFFNEY

IN HIS eagerness to serve the Wares,
Councilman Gaffney is taking the
surest course to blast the reputation he
made as chairman of the finance COM
mittee in the old Councils as believer
In fair play and complete candor.
His explosion at yesterdays session
of Council certainly will not add to that
reputation. He complains because so few
bills have been passed by the new body
and seeks to create the impression that
failure to act is somehow reprehensibIe
and discreditable to the Moore admins
tration.
The Mayors reply today is very much
to the point and disposes of Gaffney's
bombast effectively.
But there is one more point to be made.
.The new Council should not be appraised
BY the large number of ordinances it is
able to pass, but by the fewness of its
sections. The wsest legislative bodies are
those that enact the fewestIa and
deliberate without undue haste.
And, by the way, Gaffney's new role
Of reformer hardly becomes the ex-chair-
man of the finance committee, which
present revelations show Systematically
failed to appropriate adequate sums to
run the city government this year and
left the difficult work Of meeting def
eiencies to the Moore administration.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-03-03

no national Interstate Commerce Com
mission and no state public utility COM
missions. These commissions, imperfect
as they are, safeguard the rights of the
corporations, while they prevent the ex-
ploitation Of the public.
For example, the modern and enlight-
ened attitude of the corporations toward
public regulation is disclosed in the ad-
vertisements of the United Gas Improve
ment Company, printed in this news
paper, in which attention was called to
the policy of public utility commissions
which prevents ruinous competition in
fields already we'll served by the existing
corporations. This policy lays upon the
existing corporations the duty of ex-
panding to meet the demands upon them,
9nd 1t insures to them reasonable hope
that dividends can be earned on all new
capital needed to keep pace with the
growth of the different communities.
In quarter of a century we have
completed the circle and the corporations
and the people meet today at the point
where they parted about a generation
ago, but with new appreciation of the
rights and the obligations of each.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-03-03
LONELINESS

n LONELINESS Oh, what are thou?
~ Canst thou hope to exist
Before the charm of heavens brow
Of warm blue amethyst,
Or near the gurgling, mirror brooks
That sing sweet lulabics
To stones snug rharbored in their hooks
Frightened by sun kissed skies?
o Loneliness! How vain for thee
To dwell by songbird dale,
That echoes all its melody
Ger sea and mount and vale,
Or side the soothing, flute toned breeze
That constant plays that all
The leaves, a-nesting pom the trees,
Dance to its madrigal!
o Loneliness Thou'rt but word,
Illusive and unreal.
Before the thund'ri bolts that grid
The chant of Jove's appeal,
Or by the frothy, work mad wave
That smites each rock fast dune,
To mold its crag- bound, rough hewn cave
Beneath sun -sprinkled moon.
JOSEPH CARLTON PODOLYN.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-03-03
AN ARCHITECTS "INHERITANcE"

DEFINITION of the official standing of
Philip H. Johnson has been less clear
than the fact this city architect" who
was brother-in-law of the late Israel
Durham, has been the traditional recip-
lent of 8 per cent commissions.
Mr.. Moore questions whether the mu-
nicipality is obligated to make such pay
ments under contracts entered into under
previous administration. He questions
whether "city architect" is a recog-
nized permanent post in the municipal
machinery. Expert legal opinion is ex-
pected eventually to clear up a situation
now decidedly obscure.
In the meantime the Mayor has with
held his signature from four contracts
for extensions to the Philadelphia Hos
pital for Contagious Diseases. The speci-
fications are by Mr.. Johnson, whose te-
nacity as a commission claimer in con-
nection with plans for public works has
lasted through a series of administra-
tions.
While it is to be regretted that neces-
sary improvements are temporarily held
up, explanation of Mr.. Johnson's status
Is thoroughly in order. The Mayor is
said to have remarked that steps to elu-
cidate the authority Of the Johnson con-
tracts must be taken some time. The
present opportunity is thus grasped as a
means of determining just what is the
nature of Mr.. Johnson's curious "inheri-
tance." The public as we'll as Mr. Moore
win appreciate information on this sub
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-03-03
HOW nDEC TT
1AOyF wv Anyhou, Ameri
STRIKE Y(u/T Women May Haze Fooled Him

sex relations amusing is that we are a youth
full people.
Age looking at youth, especially youth
making love, is always amused.
q g q
THERE are two reasons why the sex rela
u tions in this country are 80 different from
those in Europe.
One is that America is so young.
The other is that the excess of women over
men that exists in Europe does not prevail
here.
Mr.. Keynes in his brilliant book on the
Peace Conference makes an epigram about
NJ. Clemenceau: His Illusion was France,
and his disillusion, mankind
Nj. Clemenceau's countrymen have another
disillusion, and that is womankind.
The Americans went to Paris-that is, to
the Paris Peace CONFERENCE.-THE the illu-
sion of mankind.
They may have lost it there.
A great many things happened to them
there.
But they kept the illusion of womankind.
That is what Senor Ibanez means when
he says that what this country needs is a
second emancipator."
TWO things will serve as the second
emancipator: Time, which Is the In =
fallible cure of youth, in races as we'll as in
dividuals, and an excess of women over men
in this country.
In frontier town where there are about
half as many women as men the worship Of
women is carried to an absurd length.
In Paris, where, as one woman said after
this war is over there will be about seven Of
us women for every man." woman worship
is thing that even American women tell
Senor Ibanez they feel ashamed of.
Supply and demand influence the sex re =
lations as everything else.
The value of woman in mans eyes rises
and falls according as she is scarce or in
excess.
And illusions, morals and every related
thing is in the same balance.
RUT give the cave man rest.
- He had hundred illusions where we
| have one.
He had thousand superstitions about
woman.
Scores of taboos regarding her filled him
| with fears.
The second emancipator is the one who
will break down the last Of these taboos,
some OF which persist In strangely changed
| forms down to these days.
And he or she will also be the emanclpator
| of woman.
The cave man will get us nowhere.
He was stupid fellow, duller to live with
than the II. b. NJ.
| The rough husband of n rough mate. be
was more afraid of her as one possessed NJ
a devil that might, if it would, bring upon
him many strange ills, than is the American n
T. b. NJ. of his wife today.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-03-03

advent of the trolleys. The automobile
interfered seriously with the business of
horse breeding. Electric lights at first
looked dangerous to those who were in
terested in gas plants. Past experience
proves, however, that the growing needs
Of civilization leave room for every new
invention and that the newer utilities
help rather than hinder the prosperity
of older ones.
No one can deny the fitness of motors
for passenger service IN the streets. One
Of these days the street railway compa-
nies will begin to develop auxiliary
motor lines, and it is altogether probable
that they will better their service and in
crease their dividends thereby.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-03-03
WHY NOT PALMER's RECORD

A MONG yesterdays astonishing head
4 lines was one written to inform the
world that Attorney General Palmer will
run for the presidency ION Wilson's rec
ord" 1t is needless to ask why Mr.. Pal
mer isn't willing to run on his own rec
ord, which happens to be the important
thing now.
II the fashion spreads through the
world of politics Mr.. Bryan may yet run
as an advocate of armed imperialism,
Mr.. Burleson may be a candidate
pledged to increase wages in the postal
service and General Wood may be the
standard-bearer for the country's pac-
fists
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-03-03
A FouR.YEAR PROGRAM FOR
PHILADELPHIA

j Things on which the people expect the
new administration to concentrate its st-
tentioni
TIE Deldtodre riUer bridge.
drydock big enough TO dccomn oddte the
largest ships
Development Of the rapid transit system.
"A contention hall
4 building for the Free Library.
An Art Museum.
Enlargement Of the Ddter supply.
A Homes 70 orco,r n, odrte the noptiidttor.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-03-03

Pennsylvania Railroad officials and rep
resentatives of the road shop crafts met yes
terday to plan joint board of employers and
employees to decide wage controversies. 1t is
confidently expected that this will mean
sending Trouble to the scrap heap and that
the Era of Good Will will henceforth run on
schedule.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-03-03
What Do You Kno,u?

/. Who was the king of Greece who was
dethroned during the war?
2. What southwestern state has not yet
voted on the equal suffrage amend
ment?
3. Who was Adna II. Chaffce?
4. What is the correct pronunciation Of
the word paresis?
5. Name three evergreen trees?
g. What are the five principal Romance
languages?
z. OF what Australian state is Brisbane the
capital?
8. What was the full name Of Ovid, the
Roman poet?
0. Who was Mile. Mars?
10. In what year did fire losses in the United
States break all records and why?
Answers to Yesterdays Quiz
1. The moons mean distance from the earth
is 23s,S62 miles.
2. A confer is II cone bearing plant
3. Lengthening the pendulum of a clock
makes it go slower.
4. Peanut is another name for the monkey
nut
8. The color Van Dyck brown is named
after Anthony Van Dyck, the famous
Flemish painter. Mauve is named for
Anton Mauve, n Dutch landscape
painter, born 1888, died 1888.
@. A tourniquet is an instrument for stop
ping the flow of blood through an
artery by compression, effected with
a screw.
7. The word citrate should be pronounced
with the accent on the first syllable
and the 81" short as in "bit."
8. The Mekong is a great river Of south,
eastern Asia. 1t rises in Thibet ana
flows through Yunnan (Chinal'
Burma, Siam, Cambodia and French
Cochin China, emptying into tho
China Sea.
0. Schubert wrote the Unfinished SYM
phony."
10. The first architect Of the White Houss
vas james Hoban, OF Dublin.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-03-03

There is something grotesque in the pro-
posaI Of the Prussian Diet to compensate
former Emperor William for the loss of his
throne at a time when the German Govern
ment is pledged to place German war crimi-
nails on trial.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-03-03

Senate leaders are planning to put the
peace treaty up to the voters. Greatest case
of passing the buck in history.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-03-03
Times Change

Uncle Sam may charge
Times Change an Atlantic City fish
"rman $500 for three
brant and three cock robins which he cooked
in a potpie on Christmas Day. Another in
stance Of the increasing cost of living. In
Mother Goose's time four and twenty black
birds baked in a pie were disposed of for a
song of sixpence.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-03-03

Doubtless the Lamberton- Roper poct
has more significance III the Twenty second
ward than the other peace treaty.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-03-03

1t may be that there will be enou,b
money saved on county jobs to pay policemen
good salaries.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-03-03
The fact that Ge

The fact that Germany is to try her own
war criminals suggests new reading of an
old wheeze:
The Allies had a German lamb
And put it on the shelf;
And every time it wsgged it's tail
1t spanked its little self.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-03-03

The wise politician realizes that lttIe
hatchet may be all right for a cherry treo
but when it comes to plum tree you've rot
to use an AK.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-03-03
Pays TO BE
Neighborly

Edwards that proposal be submitted to the
people to issue S2s 200, 900 worth of bonds
for New Jerseys share of the cost of bridge
over the Delaware and tunnel under the
Hudson. Increased business will eventually
pay for both undertakings and the initial
cost will be distributed among benefit sharing
gapera tiouS
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-03-03

The number of times the forces of Gen.
eral Denikin are annihilated suggests some-
what too efficient Bolshevist press agent
bureau.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-03-03

Well, anyhow, his detectives did tboi,
best to make Bergdoll mad.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-03-03

When the last snow piles have been re-
moved from the streets of Philadelphia 1t
will be time enough to think of signs Of
spring.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-03-03
Well, What?

Hungary, is a bit too blithe and self assured
in suggesting that we follow his habit of
pressing old suits and wearing them sternly
until prices fall What OF the multitudes
who have done little else for several years
and who may argue Justly that it Is a condi-
ton and not a theory that now confronts
them?
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-03-03

The pea of the mother
A Parable Rewritten of twenty three chill
dren saved one of them
from being sent to the reformatory yesterday
for the theft of woolens from n freight car.
He is not bad at heart" she said. OF
course not. The one black sheep may yet
prove "all wool and yard wide"
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-03-03

Mayor Moore has as much faith in per-
petual city architects as in perpetual motion.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-03-03

Auto bandits got 100000 in January
and February by their operations in this city
This ought to make an ill-paid policeman
mad enough to arrest 'em.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-03-03

To the housewife the market shows Inn
proyement when prices drop.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-03-03

There's one thing certain: Uncle Sam
stcrekeeper, Is no profteer. '
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-03-03

A glance at the di-
The Grass Widows VOrCe lists suggests
Might? that the financial bur-
dens left from the war
period might be considerably lightened by a
humping war-taX on alimOny.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-03-03

There is sound busi-
ness and financial
aorse sense in the sug-
CostiOn of Governor
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-03-03

Philadelphia. "Wednesday. March >, 1920
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-03-03

Neither the railroads nor the other
public utility corporation would will
inVly 20 back TO the time when there was
New-York tribune., 1920-02-29

Left
An intimate picture of Mrs. Vincent Astor wash.
ing dishes at the dedication Of the new Victory
army and Navy Clubhouse at 8 State Street
Inc popular society matron presented the new
Y. M. C. A. va 0eAa'1 '. "a s'~
New-York tribune., 1920-02-29

Left
African women aren't the
only ones reputed to be
"brainless head workers."
In Boston recently when a
coal barge reached her pier
many resorted to almost
any means to get the black
diamonds to their homes.
And this woman just walked
away with nearly a hum
dred pounds in q sack atop
'iel Hedu. UmdtrtU00d
New-York tribune., 1920-02-29

Left
An impressive photograph of the
funeral of Admiral Robert E. Peary.
whose body was laid to rest in Airing
ton with full military honors last Mon
day. The casket is draped with the
Stars and Stripes, which he raised at
the North Pole. ,n,e,no,;ou,,
New-York tribune., 1920-02-29

Clearing nine barrels in a
row on skates was one of
the sensational stunts ne
gotiated by Earl Palmer
during the recent carnival
of winter sports up at the
Lake Placid Club in the
Adirondacks. Where a
stubbed toe means disas-
ter. Lerick
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1920-05-26
Many Brooms by Parcel Post.

We noticed a number of brooms
standing in the DEBORAH postoffice
last week sent here by parcel post,
and it seems that the country here
ahouts have been flooded with them,
as the Waverly Iowa Independent
tells this week that all the rural
carriers Monday morning were load
ed down with brooms. Some enter
rrising manufacturer at Lomax, Ill.
got hold Of the names of the the
farmers and mailfd ,each one
broom. A letter accompanied each
broom telling what it would cost and
ste ting that the recipient was to
keep the broom and send the money
or return the broom. 1t would prob.
ably be interesting to know who gets
beat at the game, the buyer or the
manufacturer.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1920-05-26
LUTHER SHUT OUT HAMugNE.
In a Well Played Game Friday Luth-
err Scored a Shut-out.

Luther was victorious again last
Friday when they defeated Hamline
University on the college grounds, 4
to O.. Luther's first score was made
in the second inning when A. sor-
lein made a two base hit, got to
third on a passed ball and scored
On L. Sorlein's fly. The next score
was made in the fourth inning. A.
Sorlein made a three base hit and
brought in a score on Orwall's sing
lie. In the fifth inning o. Sorlein
made a successful burt, which brot
him to first, Lawston made bunt
TO pitcher which brought Sorlein to
second. He got to third on a passed
hall and brought in the third score
when Hartwick made wild throw
to first. The last score was made in
the sixth when l.. Sorlein got walk,
made second on Bottolfson's sacrifice
hit, and came home whe Rorwall
Eut nice hit to right field. The
game was we'll played. Although A.
Sorlein was not taxing his pitching
sbility very greatly. Hamline seemed
unable to make any good hits. How
ever, even without making any
scores, the Hamline team proved
themselves to be good players and
showed fine craftsmanship through
out the game. The score by innings:
12 3 6 s 9
Iamline 0 0 90 o 0 0 o 90
Luther 0 0 0 O.!
Earned runs: Luther l.. Two base
hits A. Sorlein1. Three base hits, A.
sorlein l, Sacrifice hits. Hartwick,
l.. Sorlein, Bottolfson, Peterson.
Stolen bases, Lawston, Hartwick
First on balls, off Hoist 2. Struck
out by Sorlein 16, by Hoist ). Left
on bases, Hamline 4, Luther z. Hit
by pitcher, by Hoist 1. Umpire o.
Boy
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1920-05-26
Paving Trouble at Postyille.

1t seems that a number of places
hereabouts that intended to pave
this year are. having lots of trouble
getting the work started, as con-
tractors want to get out of it, after
signing up to do the work. Down at
lseI leQl sEBs pIBI5H aql 9U!Alsod
Friday Mayor Meier received a COM
from the Waterloo Com
pany having the contract for Post
villes paving and sewer construct
ion, asking either for an extension Of
time or release from their contract,
giving as a reason their inability to
get the material to do the work
with. Saturday a. m. the City Council
and Commercial Club held a Joint
meeting, at which it was decided to
take no backward step in the desire
to have the paving completed this
year and communication was sent
the Dearborn Construction Co. re-
ferring them to their contract made
with the city, and for the faithful
Performance Of which they had pre-
yiously put up good and sufficient
bond. The preliminary work on paw
ing was to have started on the
identical day that Mayor Meier re-
ceived the communication. To date
"wednesday no further word has
Leen received from the paving COM
rany.