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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-07-30
What DO You Kno,u?
QUIZ

I. What IL the native name for the
Italian city known to English
speaking people as Leghorn?
2. What Is beryl?
3. What Is a punka?
4. Name tho leading general on the
Mexican side in the Mexican War
of l646-4S.
5. When was New. England first set
tied by the English?
6. What American statesman was par
ticularly associated with the policy
of the open door" in China?
7. How many vessels were launched in
the worlds largest shipyard al
Hog Island in less than two years
8. To what part of the world are
graffes native?
0. What was the full name of Macau-
lay, the historian?
10. What Is sabotage?
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-07-30
BOMB IN CHURCH SERVICE
Woman Dies Of Fright Caused by
Explosion In Havana

Havana, July 3O.-Exposion of a
bomb placed in a window of ST. Filipc's
Catholi lie Church here last night while
a service was in progress resulted in the
death of one woman and slight injuries
to few other persons. The church
was strewn with hats, fans and other
articles dropped by the frightened con-
gregation.
The one victims death was due to
fright She collapsed in the street and
died shortly after being taken to an
emergency hospital.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-07-30
NEW CABINET IN AUSTRIA
Doctor Mayr Heads Recently Formed
Ministry

Washington, July 30.-(By A. P.)-
The personnel of the reorganized Aus
trian cabinet was reported to the State
Department today by the American
commissioner at Vienna. The members
of the new cabinet are Doctor Mayr,
chief of cabinet, without portfolio; DR..
Karl Renner, secretary of foreign af-
fairs; ferdinand Hanusch, social ad-
ministrator; DR.. julius Deutsch, min
lister of war; Eduard Heinl, minister of
commerce; Alois Haueis, minister of
agriculture; Walter Breisky, minister
of interior; Doctor Roller, minister Of
Justice; Doctor Reisch, minister Of
finance; DR.. Karl Pesta, railroads.
Two undersecretarics also are mem
bors of the cabinet, but have no vote,
the report said.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-07-30

His books are to be audited, and when
the report is made it will be known
whether this man, who was working
for $40 week last year and now lives
in a house for WHICH he paid $100, 900,
has discovered n way to reap rich
harvest out of the variations in the
value of money in different countries or
whether he is like many get rich quick
predecessors.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-07-30

this change will not increase the Office
payroll because the present inspectors
will be no longer needed.
Operating funds in the 1921 bud.
get probably will not exceed the 1920
appropriations unless labor and mate.
rial prices increase, but in this event
contract prices would also be higher for
1921. After all. the citizens are ready
to go the limit of expense if clean
streets can be obtained by municipal
work"
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-07-30
RESEARCH BUREAU URGES
CITY CLEAN OWN STREETS
Declares Obstacles Can Be Overcome and Failure Will Put
Responsibility Mayor

Mayor Moore's administration either
must prepare speedily to establish street
cleaning directly by the city or justify
to the public continuance of the con-
tract system, the Bureau Of Municipal
Research asserted today.
In a bulletin outlining the present
situation the bureau stated:
To furnish information for use in
determining the course to be adopted for
1871 commission of engineers was re-
Gently sent to fifteen of the larger
American cities to observe street clean.
ing conditions.
This tour was not taken in order
to compare contract and municipal
street cleaning for 1t was already
known that no large city except Phila
delphia employed contract forces to
clean the streets. and therefore only
municipal work could be observed. But
it was deemed advisable to find out
what difficulties are being encountered
in municipal work, and whether these
conditions would justify Philadelphia
in postponing the initiation of munici
pal street cleaning.
Agree on Street Cleaning
| In their report. which has already
been made public, all three of the engi :
necrs recommend that street cleaning
and garbage collection be performed
by municipal forces in 1921: two o,
them recommend that ash and rubbish
collection be done directly by the CITY
in l92l, while the third, in order to
reduce the work necessary to take MI
of these functions over at one time, rec
ommendS that contract ash and rub
bish collection be continued for one
year longer.
The divergence in these recommen
dations Is slight and relatively unim
portant' since street cleaning is the
matter OF major consideration.
THE engineers report sets forth ir
no uncertain terms the disadvantages Of
contracting for street cleaning on tn,
present basis, although after the char.
ter revision work any further demon
stration of this fact seems to be as nm
necessary as the piling up of argument.
that the world is round. In fact tn,
decision for municipal street cleaning
was virtually made when the charter
was adopted, and now the problem ha,
been resolved into Il determination n,
whether it is practicable to initiate mn
nicipal work in 1921 as is set forth If
the charter.
Certain definite things are essentia
to starting municipal street cleaning ir
1921: Plant and equipment, a labo,
organization, an administrative or di
recting bureau staff and adequate oper.
ating funds: Plant and equipment in
volve capital outlay which cannot b,
made available from popular loan al
the November election in time to be ot
use. but the amount necessary lies with
IN the remaining borrowing capacity OF
Council. ~
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-07-30

Attorneys Salus and Stevenson
came near having a fight in Magistrate
Carney's Office yesterday. They struck
several blows at each other and missed.
Then they wrestlcd, but nobody went
to the mat. This is very discouraging
and with so many excellent boxing
instructors in town, too.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-07-30

The hydrographical branch Office in
the Bourse has warned shipping that
there is n floating German mine some =
where off the Delaware or Virginia
coast. But, indeed. the world is full OF
them and nobody is free from their
menace.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-07-30

The cocknoy dialect has been spoken
of as "a disease in language" caused
by incorrect breathing. 1t is, unfor-
tunately. too late to quarantine, and
every vaudeville artistic" Tor. to avoid
the libel laws, let us say nine out
of ten of 'cm) who sings Daddy"
proves it.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-07-30
Campaign Cost Inquiry or TIL Fal

St. Louis, July 30.-Scnator Reed
yesterday announced the Senate sub
committee would not resume its investi-
CATION of campaign expenditures Of
presidential candidates until Septem-
ber, Senator Reed Is member OF the
subcommittee. -
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-07-30
Member of the Associated Press
A FouR.YEAR> PROGRAM FOR
PHILADELPHIA

Things a, which the people expect
the new administration to concen-
t<ste its attention;
The DefaUdre riper bridge.
A drvdock big enough TO accom- mo-
date the largest ships.
Development Of the rapid transit Sys-
tenn.
A convention hail
A building for the Free Library.
An Art Museum.
Enlargement Of the Wdfcr supply
Homes 10 accommodate The populd-
ton.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-07-30

The visit Of H. G.. Wells will. of
course, not cause so much of stir in
this country as that of Carpenter. but
we are wondering. in casual kind Of
way. if it will prompt the movie camera
man to any specinl stunt,
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-07-30

New York has a serious house
shorta ge, so it is building sixty eight
new theatres; the supposition presum-
ably being that if you provide the people
with sufficient amusement they won't
care II they never get home.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-07-30
Problems Can BE Solved

THE development of labor orgapi :
cation will present many difficulties il
is true, and while future conditions may
be uncertain, the city can much better
afford to take chance on adverse labor
conditions than can the individual con .
tractors who will charge the city for
the chance which they must take.
Reorganization of the street clean .
ing bureau is necessary to provide en- .
gineering personnel, supervisors and
foremen to handle the labor force but
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-07-30

A New York man has been com
mitted to a hospital for examination
because he kissed his wife too often
and she just couldn't stand it. The
complaint. we have been given to un :
dcrstand, is a rare one.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-07-30

Jack Johnson aforementioned" the
name of the "bird" that dictated his
plays to Shakespeare. 1t is a purely
mythical bird. of course, but it is pass
ing strange that Jack should forget what
he left this country to savc--his Bacon.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-07-30

The possibility of suffrage ratifica
ton brings home to us the fact that the
time has not vet arrived when the
woman who really tells her age can re
frain from making virtue Of II.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-07-30

Ludendorff offers to lead 100000
Germans against the Bolshevists-for
a consideration which Is rather a
shrewd way of annulling treaty require
ments.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-07-30

1t was the intention to sign the
Turkish peace treaty on Thursday at
Sevres, four miles northeast of Yer.
sailles, but the Turkish delegates we're
delayed on the journey from COnstan.
tinople, and the ceremony had to he
postponed. They found themselves un
able to proceed to- to Paris IRIS by way Of the
sea. because of railway and shipning
strike on Rumanian lines. They re-
turned to Constantinople on board n
French cruiser and were Obliged to
choose a different route for the trim TO
Paris.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-07-30

A. Mitchell Palmer is probably
doing his daily stunt as government
official Just as strenuously as he did
before the convention, but for some
strange, uncxplanable reason we don I
hear so much about it.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-07-30

:. Surprise is expressed by the local
police that two drunks arrested by them
had a lot Of money in their pockets.
But it costs lot of money to get It.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-07-30

Competent authority declares that
the worlds wheat crop this year will
exceed the worlds requirements: so we
haven't thing to worry about but dis
tribution.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-07-30
TURK ENJOYS IN PARIS
MosIem Delegates to Sign Peac.
Treaty Reach French CapItaI

Paris, July 3O.-(By A. PD-Thp
Turkish delegation which is to sign the
peace treaty arrived in Paris this llorn >
ing.
The signing of the treaty probably
will not take place until next week,
The delegation, meanwhile. is stopping
at the Hotel des Reservoirs. in Yer
sailles, which was the headquarters of
the German delegation that signed the
Treaty of Versailles last year.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-07-30

The suspicion arises that Il Is small
luck Baker will get by rapping Wood.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-07-30

If Mr.. Schmidt returned to town it
may be that some who knew him we'll
would not feel called upon to organize
themselves into reception committee
to give him the glad hand.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-07-30

Oh, well. we always suspected that
Senator. Harding wasn't tied to that
porch.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-07-30

Efforts being made to reform the
cockney dialect will, of course. not
reach as far as the stage-worse luck
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-07-30

Talk Of an alliance with Russian
Reds Is manifest attempt of the ma
tionalist congress of Angora to get the
goat of the Greeks.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-07-30

London school teachers have started
a campaign to eradicate the cockney
dialect. Ho, well, they've on'y their
selves to blfme!
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-07-30

Charles Ponzi, who became a mil
llonaire IN six months, probably never
heard that the key to success is Work
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-07-30

Here and there and now and then
one hears of labor leader whose belief
appears to be that to labor is to prey.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-07-30

The reason the Interchurch Move
ment has an industrial end is doubtless
because to labor is to pray.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-07-30

That Buffalo horse to which has
been left $4,000 will now begin to feel
his oats.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-07-30

Mr. Schmidt is still Of the opinion
that. having said a mouthfuf, wisdom
demands silence henceforth.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-07-30
SHORT CUTS

For most of us distance lends no
enchantment to Russia.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-07-30

Perhaps Villa decided that to sur.
render. was the only way left him to
figure In the news.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-07-30
MODERN aviation is safety first

MODERN aviation is safety first
1Nl compared with mountain climbing.
In the last half century more than
o4O deaths Of mountain climbers and
guides have occurred in the Swiss Alps
alone.
Thrilling and bizarre tales of noun
tain climbing are inscparably associ-
ated with this diversion or sport as
vou may choose 10 cal, it. They are
not all Of tho Hair Breadth Harry"
class.
Some years ago Horace y. Seaver
a graduate Of n noted eastern univer-
sity and student of botany and geol-
ogy, furnished on" " the most unusual
incidents in tho history of mountain
eering in this country.
1t was on very ordinary mountain
at that; Mount Wilson. in California,
a peak Of minimum height and mini
mum danger, as mountains go. It's as
cent is a mere pleasure excursion to
Californiana,
Seavcr started up the mountain
astride burro As the trail began
to narrow and wind its tortuous way
about the wall Of the mountain, he saw
beneath him gaping canyons like pits
Of death
That strange phenomenon that fire.
quently lays hold Of those who stand
on dizzy heights impeUing them to fling
themselves into spacer seized upon him.
When he reached the pleasant pla-
teau near the summit, with its chatter
ing tourists and excursion groups, he
was in a state Of almost complete col
lapse. He remained there for two days
endeavoring to muster up enough cour
age to attempt the descent. Then he
gave it up.
4 messenger was dispatched to DR..
Charles Lockwood, of Pasadena. He
| asCPndNd the mountain with a Red Cross
outfit packed on IA burro and two stout
helpers,
At his own request, Seavcr was placed
under the influence Of ether, strapped
to a stretCher, and then with the two
huskies grasping the handles, the un =
conscious man was carried down the
trail to point where the physician
| decided 1t would be safe for him to be
restored to consciousness.
Even then man walked on each side
Of him for the remainder.of the descent.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-07-30
SEEING AMERICA FIRST
A PhlladelphIa.Named Mountain
In the Canadian Rockies; Great
est Tourist Season Ever.
BY GEORGE NOX Mccain

wonder how many Philadelphians
know that such a mountain is In exist
ence? Very few. How many Phila
delphians ever assembled It? None so
far as known.
Mount Biddle. as IL is officially des
ignated and as 1t appears on the topo
graphical maps of the Royal Geographi
cal Society Of England. is gigantic
peak. or rather n peak with two pin =
naclcs approximateing 1900 feet high,
in comparatively unknown region OF
western Canada rarely visited excepting
! by exploring enthusiasts or big game
I hunters.
1t was discovered by Samuel r. S.
Allen, an enthusiastic traveller and an
+. X. G.. s., about twenty two years
ago.
In his official report of his discovery
to the English Geographical Society,
Mr.. Allen says:
1T is gigantic peak which bids
fair to occupy prominent place as
regards altitude among the other
mountains of the region. I estimate 1t
to be about II 700 feet, and I have
called il Mount Biddle, after Mr.. A. J.
Drexel Biddle. Of Philadelphia, an ex-
tensive and enthusiastic traveller
T HIVE mentioned the above fact TO
l. demonstrate that there Is a great
deal more in the slogan, "See America
First" than appears at the go off.
For years, particularly since the out
break of the world war in 1914. news
paper advertising columns. dead walls.
freight car signs and western railroad
literature have bazoned the legend over
the length and breadth of the country.
The long sustained effort is bearing
beautiful and profitable fruit
a personal friend who visited San
Francisco via the Grand Canyon, and
returned by the Canadian route. brings
the information that every tourist hotel
is packed from entrance door to the
caves with enthusiastic sightseers. It Is
impossible to secure accommodations Of
any kind except by tclegraphcd reser-
vations days ahead. Even then the
duration Of the stay must be specified
The same is true regarding railway
travelling. In these favored sections
Pullman reservations must be made in
advance; often a week before.
The reason is not that American
tourists are saving money by spending
il at home. 1t costs as much to "SpC
America First as it does to "Sce Eu-
rope Again" There are two reasons
to keep Americans on this side the big
water.
me pnNS'chl ourIier Is tne ullnCuI3
in securing passports. and the crowded
steamships due to the. great rush OF
business men going abroad to mend
their commercial fences.
The psychological reason is that the
DattlSh"ld' ana war ruins OF me OLD
"enon+ az" too ftI,. iu. e"t,r ,h ttlsS
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-07-30

The immeasurable good that can come
of such an invasion is one Of the
most stabilizing of thoughts in an age
of much confused thinking, of shallow
pessimism and equally fallacious roseate
views.
The torn and bleeding earth is call e
ing today for the help Of the America
of Abraham Lincoln" said Lloyd
George. The appeal may we'll inspire
examination of our own worthiness. 1t
is not enough to accept the tribute OF
an awakened England as an inter.
pretation of American character. Lin =
coin was part of us. We are, however,
often not part Of him. Fortunately
those parts sf contact that exist are
The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1920-06-11

The orator doscrlbod senator Joi.a-
son az the man first brought forth for
presidential honor BY California. after
10 years OF statehood and left no on
iroversy IN recent political history I'M
touched az he sketched the senators
"california would say 70 such men
that THIS progressive world has been
moving right ulOut." Ne afid. That
the coufse OF empire has steadily rnr.
sued It's westward NuN3 that tho hand
and brain of Hieu have not only span
ned rivers nnd icveiicd hills, but they
have now iuAped nthwhrt the ether.
aud ned hikhva,a through thu very
heavens themsciyes anti Gle east and
vest are one .
ny every slgn Of the zodiac this
should Dc q republican year The.
disgust Tor tne party In power ~ uni.
Ncrsnl hut Notwithstanding uil this.
there has ncyff been ~ time in the
history Of the republican pH.tt When "a
failure 10 name the right ga HGidata
would 80 surely spell party defeat.
This proposition may De laid down
with automatic certainty. the NoVem-
her oleeiion Will not DE won BY the
platform OF either political party. The
personality OF The candldate-aud not
the party hfiliauun-ls going 90 elect
ne next president Of ths Inited
States
The man who win enter thc white
house on the fourth OF March. 1921.
VIII be that republican OF that demo
crnt In whom tho aYeEaEs American
voter places the most faith.
'frhese voters have learned Within
the past few years that the most pow
eriul ruler ~ the world ~ he presl-
dent Of the United States
Iotr Years Of Oppression.
They are smnrting under q sense
OF personal oppression. No man can
make them believe they are not the
victims OF the prouiecrs. rhfy believe
that the remedy Tor their econumtc
wrongs VIII be found when there be-
again 10 the white house % man Of
vital force and broad human sympu-
thtts AMI they are Erimly determined
thut never again with their consent
ahal there be elevated to thai ALL
powerful place any Imam who has not
convinced them by his record that he
~ Ia touch with the needs OF tho aver
age
"a yellow dog " impossible and IA
dark horse cannot win n you ex-
pect their vote. 10 not ofer 10 Them n
cold. capable. nerveless. unsympa-
thetir business administration.
no you van another fuur years
OF economic chaos DO o want nn-
other o Year, OF the Wilson fumily
IN thr white house, n YOU insist that
The fathcf ~ The dynasty shall abdi-
cate do you want the people then CO.
take 40 the crow princo9
III YOU no not. wnv then RambrC
with chhucc2 Why not admit TO your-
sclNes-whut eNery man Of political
vision knows-thnt there Is one rec
publican who can ~sWecplthc country.
whose ~nominniuu wiz carry with Il
the absolute certainty Of his cloctionT
california makcs no pretcnsinn
The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1920-06-11
SPROUL

selection OF an eastern candidate
Tor. the presidency has become % mat
tef of hnnertsnce, Msiyos j. Hampton
s3Dors. or i'hiiadetphln told Tho rcpuh-
.lican uaNonal vunNfaflon tuuay Ia
nominating WiNiAm 20 sprpul, aovcf-
nor ct ponusyitlnlaAF
The great empire silia now has a.
democratic governor, Mufor hnore
said $50 has New jpr4rN, ohio,
Maryland, pnd Wet Virginia. The
situation b. emhafrhsFinE Co national
r~upuhicArism. pcunaylNaniu nov is
In realty y republican ousis SUR
rounded by normally republican states
in a desert Of demesrntic executives.
And this on The eastern front where
republication hitherto has been re-
garded as imprqEnahic
we cannot afford "a further weak
en- this republican stronghold. Tue
selection 81 an eastern cundidnte.
therefore hegpmes q matter of Inn
p%ortauce.
Mayof Moore said governor sproul
was known as the father Of good
roads, lie told Of the many laws
that had been simplincd since the
GoVernor entered Office andtrcfcrred
to The governor ~ n "modern Mckln-
icy whose election 20 Tie pgcsidenCy
would asfurr the country Of ban early
and sumo rcsumptiou OF nurnui bus
mess.