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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-04-10
WHO KNOWS?

VliE rairest things ever see
l. Are when ! shut NV ovos.
All lovely sights come then 10 mo
They'd I'LL you with surprise
] often wonder at those times
Indeed, II I am here,
And II I'm not In other CIimes
Where all those things appear
We know that thought can flcctI, Pm,
BY time and space ungOalcd; '"''
Why mayn't ! be truly there?
with what my eyes behold?
Else must II be I've other eyes
with vision keen to scan.
Whose power all distances defos
Disprovc II, IL YOU can.
And II there be strange things TO com,
Beyond the gates OF Death
Why may there not, as well, be somc
While yet we have our breathP
Man hath five senses had he more
I'm confident lie might
a myriad mysteries explore
That now are wrapped In night.
SAMUEL MINTURN PECK.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-04-10
oVERWORKED MAYORS

WHEN former Mayor smiths auto
w biography is printed. bound. d"di-
Gated and given to truN"ly waiting
world 1t is sure " ln"I,'d" som" moving
references to tn" tfn'- killers Wn"
stream endlcSsly IN ana 'nt OF III" nlS
apartment on the S"rDnd u""r at 'ltF
Hall
Every Mayor has the sam" story u"
toll OF bores and buffers M OF aX
grinders aud friends "I somebody $
friend who N"arn t" tc.I 'h"'r troubles
- the Mayor. Mr.. Moor" j. nor an
EXCEPTION.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-04-10
MOODS

SuDDENLf we have moods
SIin too for Mn,ch So so our qnsuspectng thoughts
HnP LOT iohg iaiIs through hidden dentbs
And strike at last the unseen pooI an5
stir Pool ana
Dark, troubled circles
And far slight echoes
Eitlle earthy pebbles dropping
into the unknown deep wells 6f etorni,v
-Macknight Black, in Contemporaryy ~
Verse. 'P'i 81 y
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-04-10
,WHERE THE BIG CONTEST IS

Wl1liEItE will be no contest in tho
Republican organization for the
ongressional nominations in the Sec
I md and Fourth districts, as both the
fare and anti Ware factions have in
orsed Representatives Edmonds and
.(uraham.
Y DR.. Arthur I. Eccgan has been
manned by the anti Ware people to con
Hest the nomination of William S. Ware
Ein the First district, In the Third dis 10
,sFict the Wares are supporting Harry G.
],ansley and the Mayor and his friends
'erc backing Charles Delauy.
a III the Fifth district the Wares have
ehosep Alfred M. Waldron. Their op-
}4nents have not indorscd him. but they
.aye not named any one to run against
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Answers to Yesterdays Quiz

]. Tho top stripe OF the American flag
Is red.
,. Tho name Napoleon of Finance"
was originally given to Julien
Ouvrard, a wealthy French con
tractor. His dates are 1772-1S47
J. An English earl's wife is a countess
4. Hiram Johnson ran for Vice Presi-
dent on the Progressive ticket with
Roosevelt. in 1912.
3. Tho SargassO sea. occupying the in.
terror of the great gyration of the
fuIt stream, lies In the Atlantic
ocean between latitudes 16 and SS
north and longtudes 80 and 81
west. II derives its name from
inc abundance of the Scaweed
"SargasSum baccifcrum."
G. "Clarissa Harlowc" and "pamoIa'
ar" celebrated novels by Samuel
Richardson. the English eighteenth
century writer.
= Liberty and union. now and forever
one ana inScparablc," was the con,
CluSiOn of WcbStcr'S famous rcpI,
I" ilnync, delivered In Congress
in 1880.
g. Tho Russians are called Nuscoyitc,
from MOSkOva. the Russian nam,
Of Moscow.
D. y musettc is II small French bag.
pipe.
10 Venezuela was the last of tho South
american republics to enter ths
League of Nations.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-04-10
What Do You KnO,U?
QUIZ

/. What President OF the United States
was inaugurated in April instead
Of March?
.. What was tho number of the Roman
Vestal Virgins?
2. Name six edible citrus fruits?
4. What is the largest city in Sicily?
.. Where and when was the first third
rail electric railway operated?
8. How many kings have ruled over the
modern kingdom of Belgium?
7. Who were they?
s. Who was Suctonius?
.. What is "a lapwing?
10. How many states formed the South.
ern Confederacy from 1861 tc
1866?
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-04-10

Hiram johnson says his radicalsm
is that Of ROoscvclt-a square deal. 1t
may be that the gentleman at once fiat
tcrs and libcls himself. lie is not wholly
Rooseveltian; and those who called him
radical may simply have been con
fused in terms. Perhaps what they
meant to call him was bilious reac.
tiOnary.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-04-10

Mrs. Mary Roberts Rinchart in.
tends to go to Chicago as delegate at
large even if she has to rOut out the Man
in Lower Ten. She secs man in lower
tendencies. as it We're, without woman
to guide him Alright.
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A FouR-YEAR PROGRAM FOR
PHILADELPHIA

Things on which the people expect
the new administration to cOnceh-
trstc Its attention:
The DeidWdre riUcr bridge.
A drpdocb big enough to dccoWmo-
duto the largest ships,
Development Of the rapid transit svs.
TEN.
A convention hall
A building tor inc Free Ltbrdry.
An Art Museum.
enlargement Of the tCdter supply.
Homes to accommodate the populd-
tton.
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q q q

ONE hundred thousand Czccho. Slo.
" vaks are going home, each taking
with him $1,000 saved from his earn
ings in the United States.
At the present rate Of exchange, any
one going back from this country with
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-04-10

Striking dycrs reading the history
Of other industrial disputes viii note
that n frequent color scheme is: "I,Icd
whib, see rcd, feel blue -
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-04-10

And whatever the report Of thc
school survey may be-. il will be met with
the wall, "Whcrc is the money to come
frOm?'
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-04-10

Two bills are before the New York
Legislature designed to bar Socialists
from participating in politics in that
state. Another instance of confouuding
hystcra with patriOtism Such bills
not only make martyrs of blathcrskitcs
but they rob citizens OF their
sovereignty.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-04-10

Shipyard plants in Cadiz, Spain,
are closed on account Of strikes. In
the war between capital and labor,
Snain finds il impossible to be neutral.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-04-10

The opening of the big mail order
house on Roosevelt boulevard on All
gust | is calculated to make Mr.. Burle
son peevish.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-04-10

There is no sign in Europe or the
Far East of any disposition to turn
swords into plOwshares.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-04-10

THE Russian BoISh"vists know what
i 10 do with their poets.
4 regiment Of poets sounds funny.
Rut the poets. whom we think of as
n delicate and cffrminatc race, but who
are actually nowadays excellent bust
ness men, who by little 90 operation
have put poetry back on sound indus
trial basis and made it pay, havcVever
bcen fighters. from the old singer in the
Nibelnngcn Lied, who was the best
swordsman of them all down to DAN
nunzio, who has dcfcd tho whole allied
world at FiumC, or from SophoclcS,
who fought the Persian, down to Ru-
pcrt Brooke, who died at GalIipoli, aud
Joyce Kilmer, who gave up his life in
! France.
There was Byron, who sought, less
often sought than found. a soldiers
grave" in the battle for Greek freedom.
| TO any poet thus seeking, Trotzky is
obliging. lie gives him a berth in the
poets regiment.
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There is this much to be said for
II prisoner in the pen: lie is bothered
neither by housing nor transit problems
and the high cost of living has no
terror for him. NV
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-04-10

No backward spring has ever dis
mayed the dandelion.
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Which would You rather heft, a
fishing rod or carpet cleaner?
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-04-10

Nobody would complain II prices
dropped with the thermometer.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-04-10

The city lacks laboring and tccbni-
ca men for municipal improvements
what the country appears TO need is
federal labor reserve. 20
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-04-10

A CHICAGO newspaper asks its read e
"A crs not to buy it. but to borrow it,
because it cant get white paper enough
to supply copies to all who want it.
But il is as easy to borrow II wife
as newspaper.
Life is so standardized that the halt
hour or whatever it is that one has to
spend upon his newspaper in the morn
ing is exactly the same for every mem .
Der of tho same class of society.
You read your paper at breakfast in
the morning. and everybody you know
breakfasts at about the same time, also
reading his paper.
Or you read it ON the car or train
going to the ofiice, and so do all your
friends.
You can borrow yesterdays news =
paper or an empty flask, but today 5
newspaper atIhc hour when YOU want
it and every one else wants it is no
more loaned than is liquor.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-04-10

Evrry additional manifestation Of
unrest in Europe makes good cam
PaIsh argument for Herbert Hoover
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DUT MIR. White is right about pro
- hibition.

DUT Mr.. White is right about pro-
ID hibiton.
The dream of librraIzcd NOlstcad
act has quickly faded,
There is as much likelihood of de-
porting Governor Edwards and Gov
crnor Smith as th"r" is Of an carly re-
turn to light wines and beers.
The Democratic hope Of carrying the
election by being wet in New York,
New Jersey, Connecticut. MnSSachu-
sctts Ohio and Wisconsin and dry
elsewhere was mere grNSping at straws,
Even the most optimistic Democrats
have stopped talking about the great
revolt against prohibition.
Booze carries straw votes, but not
elections.
Men cast their newspaper ballots for
Edwards to show what real sports they
are: how they must and shall have
their liquor.
The parties don't take them seriously,
They take Mr.. Whites threat of de
porting the vets much more seriously.
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nELL. 5000 WALNUT KLYsro>r. MAIN 5000

~. Address an communications To Er"nn0
Pablo Lcdgcr, irdcpcndrncc Square
< pJifodolphid
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DESIDES having acted as chancellor
IL nNr..I...r, ITni i,-nr.iI, e L.

ID of the Western University Of Penn
sylvania and director of the Allegheny
Observatory, Doctor Brashpar was a
member of very many scientific societies
both in this country and the recipient
of high honors~ from all parts of tho
world
And always he was the same quiet,
unnss,lming Uncle John, over ready TO
give a kindly word and helping hand.
And now he lies by the side Of the
wife he loved and who loved him. and
over them the epitaph he himself Sc.
lectCd:
"IVc have loved the stars too iondI,,
10 bc fearful Of the night.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-04-10

In other states, where there is often
greater variety of nominating pcti-
tous, the task Of estimating public
opinion may be- complex. In Pcnnsyl-
vana tho drift of popular sentiment is
apt to b" much more compact. To OK
pl"rc tho rcuSonS which have induced
il is To open rich iivld rf SpcculatiOn
1t is. for instance. easy to cite Mr..
pcnroSc nS the conventional choice of
PENNSYLVANIA for ono Of the two Sona-
torial seats lie has been regularly
returned and his tenure of office seems
to be dependent exclusively upon the
extent 0f his days and Of his ambition
Not until analysis g"cS deeper docs
the least ohSrurity in the situation ap-
pear. Then the dominance of Mr..
pcnroSo may be- Nuuauty rontrastcd
with all the hard things that are said
"f him. and fascinating problem in
Pennsylvania psychology at once pro
scnts itself
For Boir> rcnro>c j.. in Il manner Of
sp"ukinG. II political hogjr man 1t has
been held that Il" bla"k"us th" name Of
Pennsylvania,
lie has been called u chronic rcac.
tionary. less intent upon the welfare Of
the pcopl" than upon the selfish and
rlnCal service to tyrann0uS financial
aud industrial influences in this state.
Muck rak"rS hav" bitterly rcminisrcd
the notorious incident Of tho ArChboId
Standard oil certificates and Mr.. PEN
roses alleged strong affiliations with tie
rum interests
Critics Of tn" quality Of his states
manship. apart from the putativc cor
rupti"mnrl aspects. have ais" aboundrd
When the measure of his abilities and
the character Of his activities in Con
gr">S huv" been questioned his defend
crs have pointed {" his experience and
his unswcrving loyalty to the popular
Pennsylvania prinripI" "f protcrtion
But this answer has not satisfied tho
irQUi>torS. Some men gain expert
onr". Some have experience thrust upon
them. Mr.. Pcnr">r could hardly fail
'o b" we'll acquainted by this time with
senatorial manners and prurcdurr. The
electorate Of Pennsylvania has made
possible this acquisition Of kn"wIcdgc.
~ for protection. ~Iru~"r~hp "f n high
tariff policy can scarcely hr avoided by
any Pennsylvania Republican in office.
whatever his mental ralibcr.
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Attorney General May Deport the
Vets H the Middle West
Elects the Next President

lionairc in the coin of his own newly
liberated land.
The rate of exchange will do ms much
to stop immigration 70 this country as
any restrictive statute that may get
through Congress.
To buy steamship ticket in tho dc
prcciated currency of almost any Euro
pcan country which took part in the
war one has TO be millionaire.
Wand If an immigrant has been in this
country long enough to accumulate Il
little money, he may turn it into an
untold amount of the money of his own
land.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-04-10

editorial BOARD!
CNRus IT, Il. CuRTts, Chairman
DAVID u. SNtIHEY Y..,............ . Edit
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HOW DOES 1T q.
ST RIKE YOU?s
AN ATTORNEY GENERNL WHO

AN ATTORNEY GENERAL who
n will dcport Governor Edwards. of
New Jersey: Governor Smith Of New
York. and Mr.. William Barnes, Of Al
bauy, Mr.. William Allen White tells
us to expect if the Middle West elects
tho next President.
Aud of course the Middle West VIII
elect the next President.
1t does everything for Us.
1t makes our laws for us.
II amends our constitution for US.
1t furnishes our political reyolts
for. us.
1t starts our new political parties
for us. .
II gave us Wilson, prohibition, SUI
fragc, the Progressive party.
The rest Of the country merely sur
renders TO middle western insistcnce
and energy. ,...
1t supplies the standard of political
thought.
When the Middle West is progressive,
, the whole country is progressive.
When the Middle West becomes hard :
boiled. the whole country is hard boiled.
And the Middle West is now become
hard boiled in spite of Mr.. William
Allen White. who. being true Jour
nalst, is so interested IN new things
that not even Lcninc scarcs him.
q d q
DUT the Middle West does not 60
ID along with Mr.. White. ..
1t does not sec the joke in the de-
nortation of Emma Goldman aud Alex
andcr Bcrkman. and can't see that there
is just nS good reason fer shipping
& abroad wet as n Red.
Where Mr.. White. being like the
AthcnauS in the Bible. is forever curl
ous about novelties. the Middle West
has lost its curiosity.
1t has settled down,
1t has found II good enough faith,
II will go on for generation be-
Iinying what the men believed who
started the Progressive movement, even
when that movement has turned junkcr
The Middle West is our greatest con
scrvativc force.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-04-10

The public, which has to choose be-
tween Mr.. Pcnrose and Mr.. Palmer and
Judge Bonniwell, cannot be described
as either excited or indignant. The sole
Republican nominee will BE- re- elected
and the chorus Of lsments over Penn
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-04-10

TT WAS in that year, loo. ON MS
L seventy fifth birthday, that leading
citizens of Pittsburgh, in recognition of
his valuable services to the city and to
the scientific void, organized a Won
derfu demonstration, love feast, in
which Uncle John was described as "thc
scientist having the most friends in the
world" 4 fund of $50, 900 was raised,
providing for the continuance after his
death Of the teachings. along scientific
lines then conducted by him gratui-
tously at the University of Pittsburgh,
work which was very near to his
heart. The interest on this fund was
enjoyed by Doctor Brashcar as an
annuity.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-04-10

DpuT it is not money alone that will
- take the Poles, Lithuanans, Czechs,
Serbans and other peoples home.
1t is the cagerncss TO live in their
bwn lands now that they are free.
Joseph Conrad. a Pole by birth. but
an EngliShman for three or four dec
AIDES, writing English better than al
most any other Englishman, Is stirred
as paSsionatcly by the sense Of the new
Poland as if he had spent all his days
in his native land.
lie writes Of his old country: Il
confess to some little qualification at the
thought that the unbrokcn Polish front
keeps bOlShcvism of, aud that the ap-
parcntly reborn state has one heart and
one soul. one indomitablc will. from the
poorest peasant to the highest mHgnutc.
The magic SENSE of indcpcud-
Cncc is the cause of that union without
reserves and regrets, which enables the
three times devastated country 10 put
forth its physical strength, and on the
very morrow Of rising from, its grave
takes on its old historical part Of de r.
fender of civilization.
The magic sense Of independence
StirS every son OF II liberated nation in
this country.
The United States may bid for the
peoples Of the defeated countries. but
not for those of the newly freed na
tiOnS.
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Mr. Pcnru~r.~ foc~. who seem 10 be
80 numerous between elections. have
not only emphasized these conditions.
but they hav" p"rtincutly asked for some
illustration Of brilliant legislative
achievement originated by tho senior
senator When no special instances
have been forthcoming, Pennsylvania
has been significantly contrastcd with
other state, whose work in Congress
hu> had cou>truotv" value.
"rouro>r i bad inhupnc" in our
politics, Thousands Of Prnnsylva- .
mans will echo this phrase readily and
also wrarIy His motives arc con e
,tontly under suspicion, Such pressure
ay he recently brought to bear against
II gang machine formerly powerful in
Mi, state and city was actually re-
gurIcd by some persons as detrimental
ro the cUu>" Of better government.
IIo /, denounced u, machine poll
rriau aud is disbolicycd as rrformpr.
And yet hr, and he alone. is tho Re
publican nominee for II PENNSYLVANIA
seat in the United States Senate!
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-04-10

II is interesting to 500 what 0DpOr-
tunitics arc provided in the Democratic
primary ballot. A. Mitchell Palmer
has practirod law, has been congress
man and favored appontec Of Presi-
dent Wilson. The amplitude Of Mr..
Palmcr'S aspirations are revealed by the
fact that he Is simultaneously an as
pirnnt for the Senate and tho Presi
drury. Meanwhile he is attorney gen
cral Of the United States, in which Office
his ,rmcrity has been evidenced in his
oppo,ition 10 certain elementary Amer
lean principles Of freedom and some
0uuint notions on tho economic and
social aspects Of the high cost Of living.
Judge BonnwclI has consistently
supported the former manufacturers
and dispensers Of the contents Of thc
ruu which formerly Chccrcd, and under
the most melancholy circumstances
His defeat as n candidate for the gov.
crnorship Of PENNSYLVANIA in 1913 wa,
the most decisive in the history Of thu
state.
Not all Of the Democratic minorit,
is aTrrtionatc toward the BOnniwcl
methods nor convinced Of their sin,
ccriiy. Tho former Democratic ma
tional chairman, Vance Mccormick
indeed betrayed sOmc heat the othcI
day when he accused the Judge o
"wrccking our party /,
manipulate it in the interest Of th,
pcnrOsc machine.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-04-10

TIME Metropolitan Opera Co. is sin
l. guarly fortunate in having two, such
dramatic actors as Mr.. Didur and Mr'
Mardones among its basscs. The stage
lost great tragedian when Mr.. DlIur
became singer. Both he and Mr;
Mardones have the most rare quality OF
being able to act consistently par'H
highly diverse in character.
No one who witnessed the remark
able comedy of Mr.. Didur as the Sheriff
in "Gianni Schicchi' last season would
believe it possible that the same man
could do with such strength and hdcllt%
10 character the tragic part OF ArCnl
baldo in "L'AmOre del Ire Re. Mr.
Mardones this year gave us on Two
successive operate evenings display
of character almost as diverse. lliS
Don Basilio in 1.-The Barber of Scvill"
was a perfect riot of comedy, both vocal
and hstrionic, and the following week
he portrayed with equal skill the benign
character of the Abbott in LA Fora
del Dcstino.'
The Metropolitan is fortunate IN
nearly all its male singers, but IN no
department more than in its two lead
ing basscs. With the exactitudr Of in
terpretatiOn which is insisted upon
nowadays, IL is no longer sufficient Tor
an opera singer to depend upon voice
alone to carry him through. Men Ike
Didur and Mardones are making ycrf
difficult the job OF the basscs Of the next
operate generation.
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YAsI1NgToN BUREAU.
NJ E. ,'or. PENNSYLVANIA Ave and lilh, St
NEwSfoRK UurENU. ........ The sun Building
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JOHN & MARTIN. General Business Mgr,
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fpblishe1 daily at PuBLIu LEpGEn Buildln
Independence square. rhiladelphih, a.,
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TN 1915 when Governor BrumbaugI
l. was asked by the officials Of tn,
Panama Pacific Exposition to furnisI
the namn of the states most eminrn
citizen. he named DIR. John BraShcar
1t is said that it was Charles VI
Schwab who made the nomination, a.
it were. declaring positively that tn,
state had no equal to Uncle John.
Two Philadclphians, John Wana
maker and tine Rev. DIR. Russell II. Con
we'll. were named by Governor Brun
buugh as second and third choice,