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as steadily and surely as he turns lux
uries into necessities.
IL is appreciation of this fact that
has caused many earnest men TO look
with apprehension on the ''oyerall
movement, but, we think, needlessly.
There is no more danger Of economic
disaster in this direction than of the
moral disaster feared by the Spring
field, Mass, clergyman who believes
that shabby clothes will eventually give
men shabby morals.
The urge" for overalls is something
less than movement, but something
more than fad. It is the more or less
humorous protest of the salaried man
against the cxtravagant prices brought
about by the reckless buying of those
who found themselves suddenly the pos
SCISSORS of high wages.
1t is useful in that it helps the man
of small salary to cconomizc and yet
save his face. 1t is no longer disgrace
to be poorly clad. 1t may be a badge of
honor. And when the overalls have
served their purpose the overall crew
will pass them up.
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JoHNSoN'S "SHoESTRlNG"

CENATOR JOHNSON'S boast that
~ he is running for the presidential
nomination "on a shocstring does NOT
mean what that phrase once meant 1t
must be interpreted in accordance with
the present high cost Of shoestrings.
The statement Of the expenses Of the
johnson primary canvass in New Jersey
shows that moro money was spent in his
behalf than for any other candidate.
The Jerseyites will, therefore. feel com
plimented at this tribute to their value.
No attempt has been made to win them
by kisses. Hard cash has been paid
over for necessary expenses
And in California. where the primary
election is to b" held in the first week
In May, the Senator has among his sup
porters nine miIlionairpS with whom he
once said he would have no commerce.
and six other men who are rated at
more than 100000 each by Brad.
streets reports.
But everything, shoestrings included,
Is expensive in California. ms eastern
tourists have discovered Just what
a Johnson political shoestring costs in
that state will be made known when n
statement of the amount put up by the
asnVfor's hackers is nuhliahcd.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-04-27
TODAY'S PRIMARIES

DRESlDENTIAL preference primaries
4 take place today in New Jersey,
Ohio and Massachusetts,.
In each of these states the Republi-
can contest is between Wood and some
one else. Governor Coolidge is a can
didate in Massachusetts. with Wood as
his principal competitor. Senator
Harding has the support of a large fol-
lowing in Ohio. where he has said that
he has no objection to allowing the
friends If Wood try to take the state
from him il they are able. In New
Jersey, without "favorite SON can
didate, the race is between Wood and
johnson.
Votes will be cast for Hoover in each
of these states. but the machine politi-
clans are not getting out their followers
to vote for the food administrator.
State conventions to elect delegates
are TO be held in Washington and Idaho.
and Woods friends will try to get the
delegates away from Poindexter and
Borah. the "favorite sons. Tomor
row the table of delegates elected will
have to be revised to bring it up to date.
As that table stands today there are
lis delegates instructed for Wood
eighty two for Lowden. fifty for John .
son, with 32l uninstructcd and ready to
vote for the winner. That is. of the 81
delegates already elected less than half
are Instructed for any one. During the
week 146 more delegates will be elected.
II Wood should get them all he would
still have to get about POO more before
he would have enough 70 nominate him.
1t is still auybOdy's convention.
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THE READING DECISION

THE only interest which the general
l. public has in the Supreme Court de =
cison dissolving the Reading trust
depends on the effect of that decision on
| the price of coal.
II it brings about a reduction they
will be delighted. II it is followed by
the addition of 81 ton to the pricc
they will wonder why the Supreme
Court ovCrruled the decision of the
court below. The technical legal rca
sons advanced will not interest them. for
they have supposed that the anti trust
laws were passed to prevent combina
tons TO increase prices. An enforce
ment of those laws followed sby higher
prices will sccm to them futile.
The decision dissolvcs the Reading
Company, holding corporation formed
in 1SOG, after the Philadelphia and
Reading Railroad Company was sold
under foreclosure proceedings 1t was
organized to unite the railroad company
the Philadelphia and Reading Coal and
Iron Company and the Reading Iron
Company under common control and di =
rection. \ mortgage of S10O. 900 900
secured by the property OF the three
companies was issued by the Reading
Company and the bonds were sold,
This mortgage still runs.
The Reading Company cannot be dis.
solved without the settlement of the
mortgage. The bonds were selling for
." on Saturday. II they are retired
they must he retired at par. This
would mean that 500 900 900 would
have to be raised to settle a debt which
on Saturday amounted to $40, ,OOO. 900.
But it is not at all likely that ANYTHING
of this kind will happen.
What is more likely is that new
mortgages will be made on the prop
crty of the companies held by the Read .
ing Company and that new bonds will
be exchanged for the mortgage bonds OF
the Reading Company. And the share
holders in the Reading Company will
doubtless receive shares in the underly
ing companies in exchange for the
shares of the holding company. In
brief. the decision merely dissolvcs the
Reading Company and orders that its
assets be divided and its obligations be
distributed among the underlying com
panics.
Its first effect has been to bull the
securities of the holding company on
the stock exchanges. There is no reason
to believe that its secondary effect will
be to reduce the price of coal. 1t is
more likely to increase the price. We
know what happened when the STANDARD
Oil trust was dissolved. The shares OF
the underlying companies increased in
value, and the price of petroleum and its
derivatives, instead of coming down,
went up and has been going up ever
since. But the antitrust law was en- =
forced, and the demagogues who had
been denouncing the Standard Oil Com
pany had to look for a new subject.
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WHO OWNS THE RAILROADS?

HNEN years ago there were &c, 900
L shareholders in the Pennsylvania
Railroad Company. Today there are
121 900. The number OF shareholders
in the Philadelphia and Reading has
doubled in the same period. The hold
ers of Baltimore and Ohio shares have
increased from 10000 to 81 900, and Of
the New York Central from 10000 to
10000.
The significance OF these figures will
not be lost upon persons interested in
following the growth and distribution of
wealth. Nor should it be lost upon
those lawmakers who have been in the
habit of regarding railroads as the
legitimate prey when taxes arc to be in
creased
The railroads seem TO belong 10 the
people, in the sense that a rapidly in
creasing number of people have invested
their savings in them.
When this fact dawns upon the con
sciousucSs Of the lawmakers they may
adjust their thinking 10 tho new condi-
tons.
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HIGH COST OF CHORUSES

A DISPATCH from New York says
"A that tights that, formerly cost so
now rost $71 and that silk tights cost
as high as $500 pair.
This puts an entirely new complex
ion on barelegged choruscs in recent
girlesque shows. We may. if we feel
sufficiently charitable, conclude that the
legs were bare simply because the poor
theatrical managers could not afford to
Clothe them.
We may also conclude, knowing the
innate modesty of the gentlemen, that
they will do all in their power to pro
vide the proper covering for the shapely
members; and we may see in the recent
announcement that the best seats at
some Of the shows in New York next
winter will be $5 an earnest effort on
their part to remedy the matter forth =
with. With tights at $3.50 a leg, seats
naturally come high.
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THE OVERALL MOVEMENT

TT EVERY man in the country dc g.
Il cided that he needed silk pajamas at
bedtimeN and champagne at dinner he
would get silk paiamas and champagne.
II he decided that he could get along
with u cotton nightgowp aud black
bread, a cotton nightgown and black
bread would be all he would get. This
declaration made by labor leader
about twenty years ago states an in =
controyertible truth - within limita-
lions. Somebody viii make the things
q man desires II be works for the money
with which 70 pay for them. And the
sssld's stalasFd ef Living grows higher
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The Modern Club is planning meat
less meals containing the necessary
caloriPs for the sustenance of the human
body Lloyd George tells American
correspondents, concerning the condi.
tions in Germany. that Though 5000
food calories are necessary to maintain
n person in health. the population only
received about 1900 calories in the of.
fetal rations.'' And all this close on
recent avowed disclosures that calories
don't amount to hill Of beans, the
real food values being not calories but
vItamines.
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Answers to Yesterdays Quiz

l. Joseph Caillaux was French
minister of finance in 1899 and
premier in 1911.
.. The name should be pronounced as
though it were spelled "Ki-yo."
3. Arlstophanes \of Byzantium Is
accredited with having invented
punctuation about 200 B. C.
4. Botany Bay Is an inlet on the
eastern coast of New South Wales,
Australia. about FIVE miles south
of Sydney. 1t acquired dark fame
as the name of an English penal
colony established on its shores
in 1877.
8. A sesquicentennial is a 15oth ami
Versary.
6. Michigan. New York, Ohio and
Kansas are the states producing
the most salt.
:. Matthew is the middle name of
j. NJ. Barrie.
s. Adrianople is a city in the former
territory of European Turkey, 1877
miles northwest of Constantinople.
8. II is named after the Roman
emperor, Hadrian, who founded IL
about 1875 A. d.
10, The Vice President is entitled to a
vote in the Senate in the case of
a tie.
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What Do You KnOtU?
QUIZ

!. What Is the difference between a
mangrove and mango?
2. What English king had the shortest
reign?
3. What American President had the
briefest tenure of office?
4. What are the two pronunclations
OF the word accessory and what
differences in meaning do they in
dicate?
3. Who said Vanity of vanities-
all Is vanity?
6. What part of an animal is the
mandible?
I, What is gobang?
s. In what part of the Near East is the
important city of Smyrna?
Q. What state does Senator Ashurst
represent?
10. Who wrote the waltz "The Beauti-
full Blue Danube?
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A .FouR.YEAR PROGRAM FOR
E PHILADELPHIA

Things on which the people expect
the new administration to cOncen-
trste Its attention;
Ths DeIdDare river bridge.
A drudock bio enough TO dccompo-
date the largest ships.
Development Of the rapid transit sys-
ten.
A convention hall.
A building for the Free Library.
An Art Museum.
Enlargement Of the Tdter supply.
HomeS 10 accom- moddte the populd-
ron.
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Vice Presidents Diagnosis of Coun-
try's Aiiment and Cure Ind0rsed
by Another Hum0rist
Tn THIS democracy of ours we have

y IHlS democracy OF ours we have
an easy way with our too great.
We make him President.
While he is President he may be
autocratic as Julius Caesar.
After he is President. after n short
four or eight years, he is done for.
CaillauX. deprived of his political
rights, is not more denuded political
figure than an American cx-President.
q q q
THE relations between England and
l. Ireland are the relations between a
rather stupid. dignified schoolmastcr
and lot of mischievous schoolboys
bent on making his life uncomfortable.
revolution in Ireland is half
dcviltry.
Ii consists mostly of climbing up in
the Protestant colleges and flying
Sim Fein flag from the roof.
Now and then some killing has to be
done to keep up the realism.
Part of the fun consists in exposing
the English humbug of high moral pre-
tensions.
England is going to free the subject
peoples.
Hurrah
Let us take her at her word.
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4 hundred and twenty FIVE French
have been swappcd for 5000
Russian soldiers in recent exchange
of solders-which any feminist will tell
you is fair gauge Of the respective
value of the sexes.
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And when one after another of the
candidates has clinchcd his nomination
in successive primaries. a shadowing
equine may take the bit in his teeth and
win the race.
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Member of the Associated Press

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS IS
Exclusively entitled 10 nc use for
republication Of all ncrs dispatches
credited 10 il or not OthCrwiSc credited
in his paper. and also the local nctcs
Published therein.
An rights Of republication Of special
dispatches herein are also reserved.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-04-27

There are not wanting observers
of European affairs who believe that
there is venom in the gums of the
dachshund even though the teeth have
been extracted.
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menian population, and they are not re-
movable by experiments in map making,
however soothing TO the eye.
Financial assistance will be required
Opinions on the extent Of this differ
widely. Experts on the subject agree
in the view that the natural energy of
the Armenians, the progress which they
have already revealed under the most
pititul circumstances, their tractability.
their patriotism, which is apparently
inextinguishable, are assets which
promise substantial returns within a
relatively short period.
Lord Bryce, than whom few states
men are better informed on this theme.
contends, in recent letter to II. Full
ton Cutting, that -four or FIVE million
dollars a year might suffice y
until the country can, after few years,
begin to pay its way"
There is no denying that American
interest in tho redemption of Armenia
is wholly disntcrcsted. That in itself
is a fact which would cfface any i'm
perialistiC stigma on our acceptance Of
HlduudlC, pur intervention would
safeguard a Christian onsis on which
many an epic struggle of the faith has
been fought. The picture of America
standing sentinel there is inspiring.
But altruistic sentiments alone will
not exclusively govern us in making
the decision: nor is it right that they
should. Regardless even Of our partici-
patton in the League of Nations, the
whole question of American interference
in affairs without the western hemi-
sphere will be determined by our final
attitude on the Armenian mandate.
The pride which right thinking Amer.
leans must take in an act of unselfish
service based on morally unimpcachabe
motives, such as have by no means been
governing the more sorely TEMPTED
European powers. have necessarily to
be measured with strictly national
rights and duties. The new stability in
prospect for the Near East should
materially aid US in thinking clearly.
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Even if Hi johnson goes to the
White House. the people need not de-
spair. Mrs. Hi will he thcrc, too.
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A man suffering from love sickness
and malnutrition was treated SUCCESS
fully in a local hospital with a thick
beefsteak. There are those who would
cultivate the disease for the sake of the
rnmndV
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-04-27

Perhaps it is Because of the high
cost of clothes that the Wood and
Johnson bsr'ls are being exhibited in
New Jersey.
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And one of the best ways to cele.
bratc cleanup week is to provide a
home shortage for the mosquitoes.
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Solely in the interest of economy,
the small boy will soon be willing to 20
barefoot
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-04-27

The utilization of Filbert gets at
the meat Of the transportation nut.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-04-27

New Jersey today is studying the
Hi cost,Of living and tapping Wood.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-04-27

III we can't brag We won't
march, said the Ware white wings.
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Travels in Philadelphia
The Passyunk Avenue Bridge

THE Island road trolley cars skirt
4 that little. known region of West
Philadelphia that lies along the lower
banks of the Schuylkill on the road to
Essington and Hog Island. In these
days, before the leaves are all out on the
trees, one may see over across the river
that great bristling industrial town built
up about the oil and gas works Of Point
Breeze. It is the Pittsburgh Of Phila-
delphia, a booming smoky city, below
whose tall stacks crceps down the long
curve of dark oil stained water.
AT Sixtieth street and Elmwood ave-
nue. / stepped off the car, and draping
my ovcrcoat across my arm started out
to find way to the river. II looked
easy enough at first. but / was tempted
by many paths. There was a pleasant
semisuburbau air about the little
neighborhood along the avenue that
tempted me TO linger--a sense of ample
space to grow up in. and when turned
down toward the river by an unpaved
street found ahead of me barrage of
tall trees ana on either side paths
rather than pavements.
A T THE foot of the slope, beyond the
"A trees, lay retired valley dotted
WIN 'Ht HllStcHlnE green ledNcS VI
skunk cabbage along the bed of a rill.
Two boys were making some sort Of
robbers nest up in the tapglcd branches
of an apple tree. Two kites rode high
above me against the clouds and q clump
of small girls down by the stream bed
were talking Of lunches of violets.
l came out on to a road that swept
back toward the city. Before me lay
the slender chimneys and looming
gasomcters of the Point, and below
them the far. slow creep of motors
up the long causeway that leads to the
rolling. graceful scrolls of the bascule
bridge.
Two of the kite hiers were pulling in
their strings as I came up to them and
the kite came down almost at my feet.
1t was a huge thing, made of newspa
pers with long tail Of blue calico.
They pointed out the way for me and
fingered while to gossip of wireless
telegraphy, of audions and the calls of
Arlington and Fire Island with all that
creepy mechanical wisdom which has
taken the place of forest lore in the
minds of the keen youth of today. But
wise as they were in all these recondite
matters, they were not above enjoying
the sport of flying kites. and favored the
old "thrce sticker," with its five yards
of tail. in preference to your modern
scientific contraptions of two sticks and
no trailing calico. So | could not de-
spair of them.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-04-27
HOW DOES 1T ,
STRIKE YOU? {
VICE PRESIDENT MARSHAL

VICE PRESIDENT MARSHALL
says What the country needs is a
good five cent cigar"
That is precisely what the country
needs.
If it had a good five cent cigar its
nerves would be in better state.
There would be less public discomfort.
The radicals would cease from
troubling.
The Reds would give up advocating
revolution.
There would not be any chance Of
Tom Wa.son's being President
The johnson vote in the primaries
would be much smaller.
We should be in a more normal state
of mind.
We shouldn't be so jumpy interna-
tionally or politically.
A good tive-cent cigar would mean
O return TO peace and plenty. AS Kip
ling said:
"A woman is only a woman:
But a good five cent cigar is smoke. y
The trouble is that the good five cent
cigar has gone the way of two for a
quarter collars, nickel Shines
twanty five cent baircuts and "Plym-
outh Rock Pants for So.
THEI are as extinct as the Marshall
l. kind of statesmen.
There was a time when man who
could say What this country needs IS
n good five cent cigar would have made
a leading candidate for President.
Mr.. Marshall is of the old sort. the
..pIvmouth Rock Pants for So sort OF
statesman.
Ireland. the cartoonist of the Colum
hus (Ol DiSpatCh, once said of the
br;jl;ant Ding" Cartoonist of the Dcs
Woines Register: Ding and I belong
to tho red flannel underwear school OF
cartoonists.
Mr. Marshall belongs to the red
flannel underwear school of statesmen.
He has a joke and homeIy story for
e'ST! %TM' Iorn 0ot owoy from aII thst--ss
far away as from the good FIVE cent
cigar.
If Mr.. Wilson had had Lincoln's
rund of humOr and his homespun aucc-
dotcs. his League of Nations would have
been a vital thing. he himself would
not have broken under the strain and
tbe nerves of the nation would be in
hotter shane today.
good laugh would do more to drive
away the profitcers than all Mr.. Wilson
and Mr.. Pa lmcr have done.
,,. ,ronId NOR Iot siIly neonle. suddenly
made rich by the war. shoot the cost of
living to the sky by their vain extrava-
gspcc.
Our statesmen now can only scold and
preach.
They cannot laugh.
As nation. We have not laughed
in eight long years, or perhaps it is
twelve.
Mr.. Marshall can laugh.
Only nature had her laugh at him.
She made him too short and too thin
for greatness.
He is good five cent cigar that looks
like a chCroot.
q G q
M CAllLAIN has been found guilty
lNl. Of traficking with the enemy.
He won't be shot,
He won't be banished.
He will serve one month in jail in
addition to the time he has been there
awaiting trial.
And what is important. he will lose
his civil rights.
The result makes you think that NJ
Caillaux's worst Offense was becoming
too great and dangerous politically.
O G a
WHEN tn" war came the French
w radicals had developed two strong
i IL
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uy Address al communications 10 Evening
Public Ledger. Independence square
Philadelphia.
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THE road owe

THE road over to the bridge took me
L down into hollow beside a junk
yard full of broken cogs. twisted wheels
and shattered couplings-a boneyard of
deceased mechanism. from the like of
which some day. perhaps. our civilizn-
tion will be painfully reconstructed by
the patient savantS of $4,000 a. ID.
They will perhaps call us tho Cog and
Wheel Men of the Delaware and exhibit
one broken china wash pitcher, un
earthcd from n buried ash dump. as the
masterpiece of our ceramic art. There
are some wonderful middcns under the
foundation of our rows of new houses.
From this melancholy spot | went
along a made path between two pools
where spring birds were singing in the
bushes and few daring boys were
padding around in the cold water. and
reached at last the cmbankment of the
Hog Island Railroad, up which | clam
bcred. cursing the needless burden of my
coat. From this little rise there spreads
out q unique view of the lower river.
To the north the dome of st. Francis
de Sales. the white stones of Woodlands
and tho frcshening trees of Bartram' =
Gardens: to the south the distant bridge
at PcnroSc Ferry, the high steel frames
OF the Gloucester shipyards. the pale
sun -bathcd skyscraper of the Girard
Point elevator like a daring outpost of
new great city, and to the west, over
low red oil tanks and blue pools and
green willows. the faint silhouette Of the
bristling cranes Of Hog lsland-a regi-
ment of gigantic soldiers standing with
shOuldcred Ruskets.