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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-04-17

Major General Gorgas will shortly
leave for the West African coast to
study tropical fevers. If the general
keeps on making sanitary one dirty
place after another he will soon be like
Alexander, signing for new worlds to
conuuer
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-04-17

The keeping of streets in better re-
pair is said to be responsible for the fall
ing off of damage suits against the city
Which suggests the thought that good
intentions never warded off a suit
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-04-17
Sunday Put Jazz Into the Wood
Campaign and Occasion SerUes as
Text for Sermon on Publicity

man, very angry, rushes in with small
package.
Opens it spluttering.
There is disclosed small steak
broiled. and five pieces of French fried
potatoes.
Restaurant keeper had tried to charge
angry man 81 20 for food contained in
package, but he, instead of eating it.,
brought 1t to the hired men of the attor-
ney general.
Publicity continues with wish that
more persons would make complaints.
, What is the big idea in the "hying
squadron?
To make out that complaints against
the high cost of living are absurd?
One day 1t is row about three prunes
for ten cents.
Another day it is a ridiculous man
who rushes out of restaurant, broiled
steak in his pocket, full of grief over
five pieces of cold French fried pota-
toes.
Is it to show the Importance of the
attorney general in fighting high prices!
q q g
WHAT was the big idea with propa
W ganda for teaching the housekeepers
of the land to buy cheap cuts of meats,
with all the fine official ladies of Wash
ington going to market to learn of Mr..
Pallmer-teaching your grandmother to
suck eggs?
Mr.. Palmer has had three fine ideas
for cutting the high cost of living Dem
ocratic sugar from Louisiana at the
special patriotic price of twenty cents
pound; II meat costs too much buy
cheaper meat, nobody else having been
able to discover any; and the sympa-
thetic consideration Of overpriced
prunes.
g.q q
CONSIDER Russia and the United
" States. Strikes break out in the
United States which not even the heads
of the labor unions can control.
Labor Is lawless and irresponsible.
We must have strong government
say some.
Where is there a strong government? /?
In Russia at the same moment
Trotzky makes a speech about the mo-
bilization of labor.
Workmen are organized and con-
trolled by the government on mill
tary basis.
Men are sent to do certain work as
they are sent in war to attack the
enemy.
There can be no strikes.
There can be no idleness, no sabotage
Russia has solved the labor problem.
1t had to destroy capital to do it.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-04-17

Here and there contentment shines
in a gloomy world. For instance. there
are 700 new home owners on EImwood
avenue whose housing problems are
over.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-04-17

We take it that the aim of a hun.
ger striker is to prove that his jailer ia
too tenderhearted to allow him to die.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-04-17

A bonus is simply safety pin sub
stitute for a suspender button--darned
useful at times, but simply a make.
shift after all.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-04-17

The request Of railroad men that
the labor board pledge itself to grant ali
their demands Is very much like insist
Ing on a verdict before a trial.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-04-17

1t is the view of Representative
Hoch that he can see through Post as
far as the next man.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-04-17

Labor leaders who believe in direct
action will be interested to learn that
the government is going to take it.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-04-17

With n strike of operators newly
inaugurated the only things in New
York not going up" are the elevators.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-04-17

Delany's hackers in taking up
Vare's charges very properly speak OF
it as taking the offensive,
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-04-17

1t is pleasing to householders 10
note that the navy isn't trimming its
sales.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-04-17

After al the only people whose
housing troubles are oyds are those who
occupy restricted lots III the cemetery.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-04-17

Delany's punch seems to be at least
II per cent ginger.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-04-17

Split p's--Pslmer and the prof
GERS afN
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-04-17

TyERYWHERE else government is
IL something that is pushed and pulled
about by capital and labor.
Germany is typical; through ex-
tremes 1t is the weakest government in
the world.
One moment capital pushes it out of
Office with revolution.
The next moment labor throws the
revolutionary establishment itself out
of power with general strike.
One moment capital, frightened by
Red excesses in the Ruhr valley, drives
the government into extreme measures
for their repression.
The next moment labor calls the gov
ernment off from attacks on the Ruhr
Reds by threats of a general strike.
Russia has destroyed labor in our
sense of the word and it has destroyed
capital in every sense of the word.
There being nothing else in Russia,
the government Is supreme and unchal-
lenged.
1t is strong.
But as the title of famous Russian
poem asks, "Who Can BE Happy and
Free in Russia?'
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-04-17

A MOTHER minister is trying to do
"A in New York what Doctor Park :
hurst did nearly a generation ago.
In response to the Rev. DR.. Straton's 4
charges the police have made raid or
two and closed place or two.
To do what Psrkhurst did requires an
extraordinary combination of character
and circumstances.
You must be minister against whom
will not lie the charge of sensation alism
Your charges must have an element of
surprise shaking the city out of its self :
complacency.
And you must have extraordinary sue :
cess In proving them on large scale.
Parkhurst had all this.
And with II he overthrew the govern :
ment Of New York city, changed the
heads OF the police force.
And when II was all done Il las
doubtful II much had been accomplished
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-04-17
HOW DOES 1T
STRIKE YOU? .

THE story goes that George Sunday,
L son of Billy Sunday. walked into the
Wood headquarters in Chicago a short
time ago, saw Colonel William Cooper
Proctor. who has quit soap making
temporarily for the more exciting trade
Of President making, and said: II take
it your game is to put General Wood
over in the Republican convention?'
Yes" said the President maker.
Then you're not going at it right, y
said young Sunday.
"Why?" asked the President maker.
''There isn't enough jazz in your
publicity" replied Sunday. who was
hired on the spot, he being the man
VIII, puts the jazz in Billy Sundays
publicity.
This was before Michigan hit the
cinder path for Johnson instead OF
Wood.
This doesn't make case.
johnson put better jazz into his pub :
licity in Michigan than did Wood aided
by the con of the genius who developed
the act of putting jazz into bringing
sinners to repentance.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-04-17

THE press has turned the world up
l. side down.
Originally newspapers existed to re-
cord the doings Of the world.
Now the world exists to fill the col =
umns of the newspapers.
Governments think in terms of first
pages.
The first consideration OF the great Is
how they will look in print.
The first consideration of the near
great Is how they can get into print
The way. to the first page Is becoming
costly.
The ex- editor Of n daily newspaper
who lost a couple of millions trying to
make his journal go is now busy making
couple of millions In his city as a
"consulting engineer In publicity"
He will conduct you TO the front
pages by the cold process Of science.
He deals in cause and effect.
For those who want miracles, believe
in ouija boards or medicine men there
are the George Sundays, who will take
two and two and little jazz and make
1t million.
Ii General Wood wins, the day OF
publicity will be past and the day of
publicity with jazz in it will be here.
q q q
IITHO conducts the publicity for At.
w torney General Palmer's flying
squadron" against profteers?
Here Is one days story Wronged
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-04-17


CONSIDER publicity.
~ The world owes half of its daily
entertainment to it.
Take the first page Of an important
morning newspaper.
THE French occupy four German
cities"
The French march in.
A few days later they will march out
again.
They will send a bill to Germany for
the expenses of the operation.
Germany will enter the bill upon the
list of her debts to France, totaling
many billions, which she can never pay,
a debt which itself was fixed where it
is largely for publicity.
The whole thing would not be worth
doing IL it were not for first pages.
As publicity it makes the French feel
that they are getting something for their
money and serves notice on the allies
that they must support the treaty.
British embassy dropping paper
bombs" pure publicity with lots OF
jazz in it.
The bombs don't hit anything and
are not meant to hit anything but the
front page.
q 9 q
A MOTHER item, johnson carrie.
"A Michigan primaries by 10000
publicity with lots Of jazz.
The Michigan delegates will be really
for Wood or Iowdcn. After vote or
two most Of them will quit johnson for
some vehicle with jazz band in II sup
posed to contain the winner.
Direct primaries were supposed tc
make the people rule.
They don't.
They create jobs for George Sun
days.
They have, say the dispatches, grea,
"moral effect"
They get on the front pages.
They provide the candidates opportu
nifty to make an effective noise.
II the newspaper did not print word
about them, all the candidates would
do as Mr.. Hoover is doing and Mr.. Nc
Adoo and Mr. Bryan,
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-04-17
Member of the Associated Press

Philsdeiphis, Saturday. April II. 1920
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-04-17

The socialistic governments have
been wastrels, squandering funds in
multifarious machinery formerly left to
private enterprise. Bankruptcy has
been intensified by staggering taxation
necessary to maintain the ever expand
ing army of officials. Competition has
been stifed with paternalism, and the
laws and mass of regulations designed
to protect the individual have become
agents of inequity and tyranny.
According to Mr.. Kospoth, profiteer-
ing is more fiagrantly anG insolently
practiced in Socialist ruled Berlin than
In any city on the globe, unless II be
Socialist ruled Vienna. For the aims
of the reconsTuctionists in the Austrian
capital he hse genuine praise--"w we'll
meaning and sympathetic Socialists, y
The Washington herald., 1920-10-18
Sermons Heard Here Yesterdau
Spirit Of Christ Makes Men
Dependable, Says the
Rev. Percy F. Hall at
The Epiphany

Thou Art Peter" was the text
of a sermon delivered by the Rev.
Percy Foster Hall yesterday morn
ing at the Protestant Episcopal
Church of the Epiphany, 1917 G.
street northwest.
christianity" said Or. Hall,
makes men and women who can
always be depended upon. All of
US, low and righ. rich and poor,
would like to live among such peo-
pie. Everyone aspires to be that
kind of a person, dependable A
star player On an athletic team is
of absolutely no use unless he can
be depended upon at all times.
IF you want to organize a third
party you must have two things:
First, a vital issue; second, a body
of men who are dependable because
they believe with absolute. whole
hearted conviction, that their cause
Is just and worthy. A body who
are disgruntled or self-seeking, no
matter how able. cannot be relied
upon for such a great task.
You cannot build a church on
well-meaning people," DIR.
Hall concluded. You must have
men and women with the faith and
the conviction that Peter had; who
know, who are not mere echoes"
The Washington herald., 1920-10-18
Oh, MyStars!
HOROSCOPE,
Oct. =. 1870.

Copyright, 1890, by the Mcclure Newspaper
Syndicate)
Jupiter rules strongly for good
today. according to astrology. We
nus changes from benefic aspect to
evil sway.
This should be a planetary gov
ernment most favorable 10 business
enterprises. since it stimulates initi-
ative and gives men resourceful-
ness.
There is a promising sign for
education and for educators of
every rank. Colleges will be espe-
cially prosperous during the COM
ing year. which will bring special
benefits to women students.
Venus is in a place read as pres
aging uncertainty wherever new
voters have influence or power. The
rule is supposed to make women
changeable, suspicious, and not cas-
lily managed where group action is
desirable.
While the conhguration seems to
forecast many benefits for the
mothers and daughters of families,
there is likely to be an unusual
tendency toward domestic dissen-
sions.
prophesy for them great success in
big business. which will arouse the
antagonism of men. They should
be exceedingly wise in avoiding un-
necessary provOcation in methods
of competition.
Money continues TO come much
into the consciousness of those whS
foretell events, and it is prophesed
that there may be almost a panic
in Wall Street, owing to an un-
foreseen crisis.
Many unusual fashions will be in
troduced. If the stars are correctly
interpreted, and there will be a
strong reaction toward modesty in
dress.
Surprises in political matters ara
foreshadowed. Women will be sub
ject to apathetic influences until
the week before the election, when
sensational occurrences may be ex-
pected.
children born on this day have
lucky stars to guide them. and will
reach early success.
The Washington herald., 1920-10-18
THE ECONOMY SHOP.
By DOROTHY DIX.


When many a woman dies and
goes up before the Judgment bar,
she is going to be condemned be-
cause she has sinned the sin Of the
Attic and in the particular hell to
which she is assigned she will be
tormented by the imps Of the things
that she has selfshly and senseless-
ly boarded.
She will be stamped upon, and
walked upon, and kicked about by
the shoes that she has let moulder
and rot while the feet of her neigh
bors were bare upon the ground.
She is going to be smothered un-
der the mattresses that she let de-
cay while the old women turned
their weary old bodies at night on
hard beds.
She is going to be pinched by the
bed springs that she let rust out
while her laundress had nothing but
a hard board to lie upon.
She is going to go naked and
shivering in the bitter cold while
the stacks of warm dresses and
overcoats. and cloaks that she let
so to decay grin at her and mock
her with their warmth.
In her ears she will hear cease
without a rag to cover them while
trunks full OF the little clothes of
her own children. slowly fall into
dust before her eyes.
She will be haunted by the visit
full faces of little children who
reach out eager hands for the toys
that only the rats played with in
her garret.
And after aeons of years of this
torture perhaps the woman who
has sinned the Sin of the Attic will
have expiated her crime, and get
another chance at life. Perhaps it
was a woman who sinned the Sin
of the Attic in some previous in
rarnation who devised the scheme
tFat she calls the enonomy shop,
which is a sort Of double -barreled
philanthropy that hits both the at
tic and the high cost of living.
That I do not know, but l do
know that the economy shop is one
OF the cleverest, most practical and
efficient ways of solving a number
Of problems that has ever been de-
vised.
The woman with the economy
shop idea lives in a little West
ern town of about 10000 inhabit-
ants. She is rich and socially i'm
portant, and possessed of great ex-
ecutive ability, and she put her big
scheme into operation by taking a
small storehouse and inviting a
certain number of girls to come and
be clerks for her, and asking all
Of her friends to send into the
storehouse anything that they had
that they didn't want, from a white
elephant to a peck of potatoes.
Nothing Is too big or too little
to find a place in the economy store.
II would take. with equal graft
tude. grand piano or a single CUP
and saucer. 1t has proved a boon
to house wives who. for the first
time In years, have been able to
clean their attics, because before
they did not know what to do with
the junk that had accumulated.
Their consciences would not allow
them to throw good furniture into
the hrer nor cast wearable garments
into the garbage can. and yet they
knew personally no one to whom
they could give these things
Now they send them to the Econ
omy Shop. where they are sold for
mere pittance and where they
meet long-felt want. because they
90 to that middle class Of people.
The Washington herald., 1920-10-18
Dorothy Dix's Excellent Aduice
Copyright 1870. Wheeler Syndicate, Inc i

the small salaried people, who arc
oelng ground to powder between the
pronteers above them and below
them
These people. the genteel Door,
would starve and freeze rather than
take charity, but they can suppIv
their needs at the Economy Shop
and save their money and their
pride.
At the Economy Shop one NAV
BUY odd dishes for ten cents a piece.
hat for 81 that with a little FUR
oishtng is as good as il was when II
cost s25 or $50; every kind Of a
dress, from a bungalow apron to an
imported ball dress, at prices that
are a fraction OF what was orig
inally paid for them; three new
novels for 81, magazines for five
cents apiece, and shoes that per-
maps need little cobbling to make
them as good as new for twenty
nVe cents to dollar. and so on.
And there's every conceivable
thing in the shop, from quilt pieces
up and down. for it is a clearing
house for domestic undesirables ON
one hand. as it is a source of supplv
for the millions of things that other
people need and want on the other
hand. Moreover, 1t has fostered a
beautiful spirit in those who give.
It has made the woman who has
much realize her sisterhood with
the woman who has little, and SO
the women who give do not lust
dump down their things in the store
any old way.
They have got so that they take
the trouble to freshen up a dress by
putting on new collars and cuffs.
or cleaning or pressing it, and max
ing 1t look better, because they
realize how much more value It
will have in the eyes of the woman
who buys 1t.
The Economy Shop has been a
particular blessing to poor mothers
with many children because it has
furnished them at the least posi-
Bile cost with quantities of ready
made clothes for their young ones,
and with shoes Of a quality that
they could never hope to buy in
an open shop.
All Of the women connected with
the Economy Shop give their serv-
ices, and is so successful financially
that for the past two years it has
cleared more than a thousand dol
lars a month. This money is divided
between three different charities
which it virtually supports, thus re-
lieving the people of the town from
any further calls upon their charity.
The Economy Shop is a great idea
Try it in your own community.
The Washington herald., 1920-10-18
The Marriage Mill = e.: *:'s ';;':$

yours and the other is mine. Shall
1 tell you what they are and what
the third is-the one that neither
you nor thank God-have had to
meet?'
Alison made a little murmur of
assent.
Mine" said Kate Gibson slowly,
is the trivial molehill which nearly
grew into a mountain-the husband
who takes you for granted; the man
who looks upon you as so irrevoc-
ably his that he forgets to tell you
that you are pretty or that your
gown is becoming or that the din
ner has been well planned; the man
who forgets birthdays and senti-
mental anniversaries"
She paused a moment, her gaze
upon the fire.
Sooner or later another man will
come who does not forget"
Alison looked up curiously.
You mean"
Another man, my child, with the
charm of a styr and the tongue of
the serpent"
She spread out her hands with a
quick dismissing gesture.
But 1t is over now. Why discuss
1t? But once 1 faced the same
problem, the same crisis that you
are now facing. To stay and play
the game, or"
Or WHAT" questioned Alison.
There is no alternative, Alison. IL
you are a real woman. You can't
play fast and loose with convention
You either go through the marriage
mill or you are smashed on the
wheel"
Now, let's take your case"
The Washington herald., 1920-10-18
The Head Nurse
SduS:
How Are Your TEETH

ho" arc tour IcttbE
Folks who have been accustomed
to referring to some OF the back
country districts" of Tennessee as
typical of all that is backwards
should revise any such opinion in
the light of a recent news item from
that part Of the country. For a
medical society in one Of those
backward" districts recently in
augurated a travelling dental serv-
ice for the benefit of people who
have not yet come to realize the i'm
portance of good teeth in maintain
ing health.
All of which carries a very i'm
portant lesson, especially to those
OF us who live in the more highly
developed communities. With good
dentists in every city and town OF
any considerable size there is no ex-
cusc for neglecting the teeth. Much
OF the suffering and i'll health, for
that matter, that occur in later life
could readily have been prevented
If the adult had been taught as a
child the necessity of mouth hv-
giene, and had been taken to the
dentist for an examination at reEu-
lar periods of six months or once
4 year.
1t has not been so many wears
since practically no one went to the
dentist until forced to by a tooth
ache. Today, Il is estimated that
more than ten per cent OF the peopls
apply to their dentists for prevents-
tive work. More and more people
arc realizing that ii is economical
from a dollars and cents standpoint
quite as much as from a health
standpoint to visit the dentist at
least every six months for inSpec-
lon, even II there is no actual
dental work to be done.
The Washington herald., 1920-10-18
vTvIsECTIoN.

The marriage mill?" echoed
Alison in response to Kate Glib
sons quiet remark as she gazed
remlniscently into the fire, How
curious! That is just what I have
called 1t whenever l. stopped to
think about how perplexing mar
riase is"
A little ripping laugh from Mrs
Gibson was her answer.
Dear child, do you think you arc
original? Do you think you are the
first woman to fnd the marriage
problem without an answer
Alison looked slightly taken
aback.
Not exactly" she replied truth
fully. but surely my problem is a
little bit different from-from yours,
for instance"
The older woman drew chair
to the fire, and sank into it. with
her head tilted back against the
cushioned wing of it and the fire.
light playing on the long sweep of
her throat and glinting in the rip
Piles of her hair, Alison suddenly
realized that Kate Gibson was a
pretty woman. Somehow she had
never thought of it before. To her,
and to most of the residents of
Maplewood, Mrs. Gibson represent
ed something OF a bodily spirit-a
laughing. tolerant soul, generous
and kindly, and infinitely wise.
Alison spoke impulsively.
How pretty you are. Kate"
Mrs. Gibson started, and warm
flush swept upward from her throat.
She laughed with a trace of en-
barrassment.
Quit your kidding. Alison" she
said. ITS been so long since 1 re-
ceived a compliment that I'm blush
ing like a schoolgirl"
Doesn't George ever tell you how
good looking you are?'
Naturally not-George happens
ito be my husband" responded the
older woman dryIy. There is one
of your little marriage problems
little Alison. They come in many
packages. Some are gay and pretty
and the world never guesses what
is beneath the bright exterior. Some
are soiled and worn and sordid for
all eyes to see. Some are problems
of the soul and others are of the
body. But there are three which
are hardest of all to solve. One is