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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-04-14
RELIEF FOR TEACHERS

THE proved inability Of the Board Of
l. Educs ton to mako further increases
in the salaries of school teachers at
least simplihos a problem and suggcsts
the only practical meaps # relief.
The board is evidently handicapped,
precisely as its employees are, by short
age of funds The obvious remedy lies
in appeal 10 the Legislature ncvt year.
Doctor Fincgan is said to have evolved
a plan embodying a request for a greatly
increased appropriation and Il general
revision of the salary system
AS the scheme will affect not only n
group of wage carnors but also tho
quality Of education in thl, state. it be
comes Il major matter Of public interest.
Under present conditions the outlook
for maintaining suitable standards nr
instruction, especially in the higl,
schools. is described as doubtful Ample
funds for supporting cducaton in II
manner worthy Of great state should
be a prime concern Of the Pcuusl Nauia
Legislature when it meets next wintor.
The recent equalization If nav for
men and women has been n unrtfnI rp
form, but further constructive mra,urr.
are considerably ovcrduo
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-04-14

season there would bc slump in the
price Of wooleus because of tho falling
off in the demand, and next winter IL
might be possible to get suit of clothes
at reasonable price.
But il cotton suits should be in gen
cral demand the price of cotton cloths
would go up while wooden cloths came
down, aud they might meet somewhere
half way between the prcscut prices,
Vet this contingency is not likely to
trouble the men of Birmingham. They
arc meeting the problem Of the high
cost Of clothes by deciding to buy
cheaper garments, as the economists
have been advising all of Us TO buy
cheaper cuts Of meat. to raise our own
vegetables aud to pass by those things
which We would like to have but cannot
afford. They are using the only argu i
mcnt which proiitccrs can understand.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-04-14
THE RIGHT TO "HOLLER"


MI hS' lMo'hN H. oAhLbi seeil'"
A'A to object to the 'hollering oil poEs
in the streets. She has discovered one
boy, the son OF weil-to-do parents VINO
insists on selling newspapers because
1t gives him an opportunity TO make as
much noise as he feels ike making
The campaign against needless noises
will have TO be carried on long time
before proper consideration can De given
to the noises of active youth. we were
going to say the shouting OF boys'
but girls also Ike to make noise
There IS on record the report OF inc
case OF one girl whose mother protested
against her Yelling in the house. But
! have to yell mother the girl pro
tested. Ihen go out TO the stable to
do it, was the reply. And the neigh :
bors would hear the girl exercising hci
lungs two or three times every day anc
smile indulgently Mt the eXuberance OF
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-04-14
SUN TIME IN JERSEY

OFFICIAL cocrcive operation is
" tho life Of daylight saving. There.
fore the New Jersey Legislature is wise
in it's refusal TO order an advancement
of the Summer clock.
Save by II federal enactment. tinker
ing with eastern standard time is i'm =
possible in Pennsylvania Philadel
phians crossing the ferry are naturally
loath 10 be compelled to struggle with
tho complexities of n Camden hour. II
is preferable to be backward than hope =
lessly confused.
In view Of the affection OF her neigh
bors for sun time, New York daylight
saving is revealed as freakish and rather
futile. The ocean liners have refused
to h" governed by the artificial clock
Railroads have been similarly disre
spectful
1t was Congress which messed up Il
benctiCcmt and sensible law, and M
state is so sovereign" that it alone
can fully repair that bunder even il
regulating its own affairs.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-04-14
Answers to Yesterdays Quiz

l. The Barbary states are the coun-
tries of Morocco. Algeria, Tunls
Barca and Tripoli In northern
Africa.
They are so-called from the race OF
Berbers who inhAbit these regions
3. An esculent Is a thing fit for food
4. Great Circle Sailing" Is adopted by
naVigators to eConomize distances
As the distance around the world
is greatest at tho equator. ships
take northerly and southerly routes
in crossing the oceans wherever
possible. The arcs thus described
are part of the great circle,
5. Thomas A. Edison recently declared
that he considered the ipcandescen,
electric light his gredtest tinvon,
tion.
G. Tho state of Sonora In the north
has just seeded from the republic
of Mexico
7. John Burroughs, the celebrated
American naturalist, is eighty
three.
8. The Latin phrase mil admlrari'
means nothing to be admired" II
Is used TO describe an attitude Oi
stold Indifference,
.. The presidential contest of 1870, in
which william Henry Harrison
defeated Henry Clay and Winfield
Scott, was known as tho Log
Cabin and Hard Cider campaign
10. Thomas j. jackson won his sobri.
quet of "Stonewalp' for his obsti
nate stand at the battle OF BuIl
Kun, 10 1861. *
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-04-14
What Do You Kno,U?
QUIZ

l. Does the Esch-Cummins railroad
law forbid strikes?
2. Who Is the first Polish minister to
the United States?
3. Who said "Winter lingering chills
the lap of May?
4. BY what treaty was Canada acquir-
ed by Great BritainP
5. Who Is tho commander directly In
charge of the American forces on
tho Rhine?
6. How far Is Versailles from Paris?
Z. What is the meaning OF the French
phrase "laissez faire"?
9. How should It be pronounced2
Q. What winter did Washington and
tho Continental army pass at
Valley Forge?
10 What il the capital of Guatemala,
where a new revolution has broken
out?
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-04-14
oVERALLING PRoFITEERS

THE 5000 members Of tho Rrmius
l. ham Overall club have the right
iden, They have pledged themselves to
begin wearing ovcralS next Fridny and
10 continue 10 wear them instead Of
garments made Of wool until prices
come down.
Before the suwmor j. over lIl" ncu
Of this southern city are likely to hc
wearing whole suits made Of overall
material, But the venture is not 81
startling as it seems to us in tho North.
The southerners have worn cotton suits
ia the summer for years. The price has
ranged from 81 up, according to the
material and the amount of care spent
in the making. Cotton is the only wear
IN a hot climate.
: II itg use should bcconc general
anisauul tt cpautry in thG psrm
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-04-14
A FoUR.YEAR PROGRAM FOR
PHILADELPHIA

Things on which the people eaps"
the new administration to 'on'e"
trate Its attentions
The Deldpdre rtver bridge.
A drydock big enough to dccoW'o'
date the largest ships.
Development Of the rapid transit SyS'
tcnl.
A convention hall ,
A buildir1 FOR me Free Library.
An Art Museum.
Homes to accommodate the poputd-
ton.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-04-14

from the whole episode Is that Admiral
Sims started controversy over the
share of glory Mr.. Daniels had got out
of the war.
Secretary Daniels had got mighty
little glory out of the war.
And Admiral Sims ought to have seen
it., been content and not dimmed his
own glory by causing his brother off :
GERS to testify that Sims was vain and
that he was unfair In his charges about
the physical condition of the fighting
ships.
Daniels had the actual sailor men
like Mayo. Winslow and Rodmap, on
his side, which was a piece Of luck.
q q q
TT THE United States had entered the
war with the navy perfectly pre-
pared to fight at once.
That is Admiral Sims's "if.'
But every great war is full of ''if."
! If it had not been for the mistakes
of Jellicoe the German navy would have
been destroyed at Jutland, say some.
IT it had not been for the blunders
OF the civil authorities, writes Luden
dorf in his vain and fatuous apologize.
IT Mcclellan had been able to make
up his own mind, said men of our own
Civil War.
The two most dignified figures of the
great war are Joffre and Hindenburg
neither of whom has an "if'' to present
to the world.
Sims would have been more impres
sive If he had said less about Daniels's
weaknesses after the fact or more about
them when it might have done some
good.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-04-14

congressional committee investi.
eating the activities of the United States
Shipping Board, Emergency Fleet Cor
poratiOn. made n survey of Hog Island
Yesterday. This is as it should be.
Every investigating committee should
have at least general knowledge of the
geography of the subject being investi-
gated This may enable it later to
asSimilatC facts.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-04-14

Commuters arc delayed as crews
0uit Jobs" Of course. That the pres
cut trouble Is serious is merely Incl q.
dental. Let the body polite be afflicted
with the most trifing i'll, the commuter
is the first TO feel il.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-04-14

The railroad strikers having proved
their ability to make things uncomfort- =
able for everybody, including them
selves, are now due for the sober second
thought that will send them back to
nr-.rL
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-04-14

Three hundred employees of the
Philadelphia Hospital for Contagious
Diseases arc threatening to strike be
cause the city is month behind with
their pay Here we have a real griov-
auco that ought to be righted forthwith.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-04-14

Among the outlaw strikers there
are ever so many good Americans who
feel they have grievance. Meanwhile
oyerv rcvolutionist in the country is
gloating over the fool way these good
Americans are seeking to right their
wrongs.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-04-14
HOW DOES 1T
STRIK f. YOU? {

A c,1,r,r,,IIIII,\-,U .t.iI.. ,torts mn
A SWlTtlMEN ; strike starts up
"A and spreads rapidly over the
country.
1t gets out Of the control Of leaders,
who call for an anti-strike law of new
sort to punish men who won't obey the
heads of their organizations.
It starts over a trihe.
But the men don't listen to reason.
They don't listen to authority.
They are in strange and dangerous
mood.
Senator johnson goes into Michigan.
making a radical appeal talking to dis
content if you will.
No one took him seriously.
He sweeps the state.
In the prosperous clty oil Detrol''
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-04-14

Delaware sloops and schooners will
vie with Baltimore trucks In feeding
philadelphia. The railroad strike NAV
vet show us how to save money on
~ snort tatiOn.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-04-14

Now that motors are travelling the
length of state with food from the
farms the term truck farmer" takes
on new significance.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-04-14
THE GOWNSMAN
On the Erlnaes Of Winter

TADED with cities and wcaricd with
- tho monotonous discords u bodies
polite aud other, your Gowusman emu
lated the birds last week aud took n
flight northward into the open where
men are few aud prospects wide. where
spring has as yet seut only premoni-
tions of her coming in n flush among
the birchcs, yellow glow in the thickets
of willow, au indefnablc expectancy in
the air and in the color of the sky.
What matters il that winter still trails
his royal erminc over the hills aud
keeps the ponds locked tight in bonds
Of crystal? Who cares if the snGvv lies
as yet deep in the woods and il northern
exposures present the aspect of Lap
land? Spring is at hand. about to work
the ever new and old time miracle
the resuscitatiou Sf dead world. the
coming of new hope. the continuance
into fultillmcnt of n long promise,
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-04-14

The switchman's wife will have
something to say to her lesser half
when she secs the price of food so up
still higher.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-04-14

The state Senate having defeated
the daylight saving bill, New Jersey
will let Father Time gang his ain gait.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-04-14

Whether he knows II or not, the
motto OF the "outlaw" switchman Is,
"Well, III be switched ~
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-04-14

Old II. C. of L., viewing the rail
road strike, sees an Immediate increase
10 his stature,
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-04-14

IT may be that the railroad men are
Just laying off TO take in the opening
games.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-04-14

When II. c. of l.. gets his pitching
arm in good shape there won't be much
,;fe in going 20 the ho,ns plate,
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-04-14


l. advantage to Mr.. Daniels.
Nothing that Admiral Sims could
say, do or prove could hurt the sec
retary.
The utmost Admiral Sims could show
was that the navy had succeeded in
spite of its secretary, which Is what
everybody was convinced OF before Ad.
miral Sims began.
But a good deal that Admiral Sims
could do, say or prove could hurt Ad-
miral Sims.
And he has hurt himself, which Is a
pity, for he Is fine and capable officer.
He has made an attack upon the ad-
ministration of the navy which could
serve no useful purpose.
1t does no good now to say that Il
the navy had been reader in 1917 the
war would have been shorter.
1t does no good TO say that II the
navy had been reader there would not
have been the precarious moments when
1t looked as IL the German submarine
campaign would win.
The answer Is that the war is over
and won.
A post mortem on It is Of no mora
use than post mortem on n hand of
auction bridge.
The impression the public will gather
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-04-14

Mrs. Mixing says we shall know
that spring is really here when there
Is enough gas to burn the breakfast
cake -t .. 2
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-04-14

DADICALISM and conservatism
N want line up in this country and
a chance to vote against each other.
suit the mood of the people.
This desire may lead to tho forma-
ton Of third party, for it is unlikely
that the Republican party, controlled
by the conservative East and the agra
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-04-14
yTHE twenty aero LOT Is now mn od

'''' h"'h'N h'iN ivt ~ h'N "' O'u
L patched quilt of gray and white. for
the grass has taken on no tingc of green
as yet in these northern ATTITUDES and
considerable banks of snow fill the hol-
lows and fringe around the outcropping
boudors, in places driftcd clear over
the stone walls. The bueberry patch.
always open to the sun, has somewhat
less snow. Its half grown pines look
pale and stopm worn, but its birches
with their ivory like yellow white stems
nrC colorful at the tips and buckle
berry bushes are abush with reddening
twigs which looked almost purple the
other day when wet with rain. That
the willows should put out their fuzzy
''pussies' whatever the kccnness of
the wind, one may understand; forNmeu
wear furs to keep out the cold. But
that delicate little plants--which the
Gownsman cannot be constrained into
calling by hard botanical names
should poke their dainty shoots out of
all but frozen ground. secure in the
promise of the spring. this should move
us. men Of little faith, to a trust in
the bcncfiCcucc of time. We did not
| find any arbutus, for the drifts are still
feet deep in the taller woods, but we
know that underneath the snow the
flower Of spring is quickeniug, meas
ured by the trickle, drop by drop, Of
its melting coverlid.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-04-14
Member of the Associated Press

THE ASSOCIiTEp PRHS" IS
erciusirclv Cuiiticd /" nc "H' icI
republication Of on uc"S d'SPn',,.h,'J
credited % il or not oihcrw'sr ','d'tc"
IN This paper. and also the iocdt "c'oS
published therein. .,
An rights Of republicdt'o" o. Spec'd'
dispatches herein arc also resertcd'
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-04-14
Present Mood of the Country Seems
to Demand a Line-Up Bet,Ceen
Conservatives and Radicals

rian West, or the Democratic party.
with most of it's votes in the reactionary
South, will put up candidates to satisfy
the spirit of Michigan and Wisconsin
or the angry mood of the striking
switchmen.
Mr.. Gompers may not have his way
in holding the labor voters to the plan
of choosing what is. from their point of
view, the less of two evils, by casting
their votes against labor's enemies.
Recent primaries were full of sur
prises wherever a real issue presented
itself.
The national campaign may turn out
equally full of surprises.
! Every four years the nation finds out
/ what it is really thinking: 1912 was a
revelation of the deep division in the
Republican party; 1916 was revela-
tion to the East of the Vests intense
pacifsm.
The country has had one OF the most
tremendous experiences in its history
since 1915.
1t is only natural that this experience
has exercised profound influence upon
the national thinking. What will be
the revelation of 1920?
q q q
THE naval investigation invited by
l. Admiral Sims is revealing what
everybody knew.
Secretary Daniels is small bore
politician and poor executive.
The country knew this before Ad-
miral Sims began exposing him.
It knew 1t when Mr.. Daniels was
appointed to Office.
1t knew it better after he had been
in Office little while.
1t knew it when the war broke out.
The war did not cause the country
to revise its estimate Of Mr.. Daniels.
1t did not add a cubit to the secre =
tary's stature, any more than it did to
Mr.. Bakers.
Victory did not make either of them
a great man.
The verdict Of the country is that
Mr.. Daniels "got away with It,"
He had a good navy.
He had good luck.
But with the war won, when the
country talks (as it often does) of the
weakness Of Mr.. Wilson's cabinet, il
always points to Mr.. Daniels and Mr..
Baker as shining examples of the kind
Of men who ought not to be cabinet
officers just exactly as it used to before
the war began.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-04-14
WIE HAVE had three days, each,
w after the dependable variability of

WTE HAVE had three days, each,
w after the dependable variability Of
April, quite different in its kind. The
morning on which we arrived they had
come down the mountain on sledges. By
noon the snow had softcned and with
it the surface mud Of the roads where
the sun shone across; but as the frost
is not yet out of the ground the going
while soft. was not delaying Every
where was the trickle Of water. sEow
dissolving into drops. glittering with the
| light OF motion. Streams ran beside
the road and gurglcd as they ran even
beneath drifts quite firm to the foot
there was the subterranean murmur OF
hurryinS water Roofs looked wet from
the dripping patches of snow still cling
ing near the caves ard chimncys ant
the trampled ground of the barnyart
stood in glmmcring pools. Spring was
laughing in the hills and the air blew
soft from the mountains.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-04-14

NEXT morning the mood was changed.
~ 1t had grown cold in the night.
turning the heavy April showers Of the
morning to a hurry -burly of feathery
snow, catching to everything, clinging
covering, Conrcalng. Pine trees seem
designeA to catch and retain snow
flakes. which in their myriads soon
transform the somber tasseled branches
into nlumes of heavy whiteness. With
dull gray sky above and black rccesses
between. these feathered sprays spring
ing out Of ground Of white look like
a landscape done in chalk on a black
board. All nice gradations of shade
are gone. all color suppressed; but
grace of form made up for all. The
| other of our days was clear, cold and
sparkling. Every mountain stood out
| sharp and hard against the sky, the
hardwood forests showing streaked yell
lowish gray on the snow which filled
them. the pastures cleaning white, the
shoulders shading dark where the
spruces. pines and hemlocks grow.
Above a certain line there was gleam
! like that of steel evidently there the
rain had frozen on twig and branch and
sheathed all in glittering armor. The
roads had hardened and the pools were
row SO many empty little cavities, each
bridgcd with brittle white ice. The
frozen grass, all stiff with snow, crack
! led beneath our footsteps and the drifts
| in which we sank but yesterday knee
| high had hardened with frosty crust
which speedcd the rapid walker how
ever they betrayed the heavy footsteps
of the tardy.
NOR is our landscape without life
IN which the tell tale snow interest
| W. haua rohhtto in
these mountains; ours Is the nobler
snowshoe hare which inhablts from this
point to the Pole. His is a prodigious
bound. measured in the snow. We had
the han to see one fine large fellow as
his coat was changing from its winter
white little too early for the season
and he "froze'' quite near, harmonizing
with his surroundings except for his
large bead like black eye. OF foxes
we are not so certain but we imagine
that we distinguished the tracks Of al
least one. it was on our way to the sar
house that we saw all this; for the sar
is running in the naples. and careful
husbandmen arc hanging out the buckets
on each little spout from which comes
drop by drop the liquid sweetness which
is the blood of those noble trees. W.
found the saphouse aglow with mighty
wood fire. the children stoking. skim.
ming the huge pans of boiling liquor anC
skylarking in the swirling smoke anC
steam, their elders experimenting will
the busy idleness that marks n Congenia
occupation. Outside the sap was drip
ping from two score of buckets and I
Sled stood ready to convey the sugar M
the hill in a barrel when properly dis
titled. As we left out came momentar,
burst Of sun. admonishing us to be 70
good cheer. and a jay noisily greeted
us in the woodways, The promise o
spring is certain, for a song sparrow
told US so this morning in notes 81
liouid and so true that he would be
churl who would not believe him.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-04-14
BELL. 5000 WALNUT kfrsroNt. MAIN 1000

~ Address all communications to Erentmg
Public Ledger, Independence SP"''' .
Philadelphia.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-04-14

The personnel Of the court named
yesterday by the President seems TO in
Apf fairness Mr. Baker, Mr. Elliot
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1920-05-27
Home Gardens

1t is not too late to start home garden, says
Supervisor Rice. If you have vacant lot put
it under cultivation.
The country is threatened with serious
food shortage. If an early frost should ruin the
corn crop, suffering for lack of food will follow.
The winning of the war did not remove the men,
ace of decreasing crops.
This year the farmer has been handicapped
by lack of labor in putting out large acreage.
Delayed corn planting means late corn crop,
and if an early frost nips the immature corn its
yield will be greatly reduced.
Play safe. Plant all vacant lots with vege-
tables for canning and storage purposes If
bumper crops are harvested, which few experts
believe will be the case, you need not worry if
foodstuffs are cheap, for your products will be
cheaper still.
If there is crop failure, you will have the
SNUG satisfaction of knowing that you took time
by the forelock and prepared for the evil day.
The of in the pantry and cellar, the
vegetables stored in baskets and boxes will as
you and your family that you need not
worry about high prices.
The time to act is now.