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powerful than commissioners them
selves.
1t would take Balzac to tell his
story.
q q q
TOMORROW all this mystery may
L end in murder. as happened when a
gambler and police lieutenant fell out.
Or it may end in the overthrow OF
the city government and the exposure
of men mighticr than the city govern
ment, whose agents grating police in =
spcctOrs are. as, it did when Doctor
Parkhurst assailcd the relations be
tween vice and the police more than
twenty years ago.
Or it may end in nothing.
The underworld threatens to come to
the surface. revealing its "Gyp the
Bloods" and Lefty Louics' aud the
strange language and strange morals OF
men who skulk somewhere in the me
tropolis and who rule it while people
go through the motions Of voting and
choosing administrations and police
commissioners.
A revolution in New York is change
in the masters of tho underworld and
of its well paid agents in politics aud
in the administration Of thc law
there are signs once, moro OF rcvO-
luton in New York. where the usua
decency Of respectable fools ia Office has
not recently been regarded by the rea
masters of the city.
The thing which has been going OF
there is too frank, too audacious to last
But that is romance. or the nearest
thing to romance that modern city lif'
affords.
q q q
UNIVERSAL military training i,
- beaten in the United States Senat,
as it was earlier in the House: bcatcr
now and finally because no people vii
consent to universal service in an arm,
unless it feels the need Of an army.
And no one can make this country
feel the need of nm army. separated a,
| it is by oceans from any country bi.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-04-13

come TO iual vote. and then the House
will have to agree to it.
But the Senate leaders are committed
to the budget theory. They will doubt
less do their best to hasten the matter,
for they know that in the present con
dition of the national finances 1t is
necessary to apply sound business prin
ciplcs to the appropriation bills in order
to adjust all expenditures to the possible
revenues.
IF, out of the talk. which seems to be
almost intcrminable, some workable
plan should be evolved the overburdened
taxpayers will be duly grateful.
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What DO You KnOW?
QUIZ

QUIZ
!. What are the Barbary states?
.. why are they so-called"
3. What is an eSCulent?
(. What is great circle sailing?
3. what does Thomas A, Edison con-
slider his greatest invention?
G. What part Of Mexico has just
seeded from the federal govern
-..ment"
:. How old Is John Burroughs the
famous American naturalist?
s. What IS the meaning of the Latin
phrase mil admirari"?
0. Wnat was the Log Cabin and Hard
cider Presidential Campaign?
10 In what battle did Thomas J.
jackson win his sobriquet "Stone-
WaU""
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MORE BUDGET TALK

. CoNGRESS will have to shift to high
~ gear If it expects to pass a budget
bin before adjournment.
The House devoted many months to
the subject and passed a bill. This has
been sent to the Senate. and now spe %
csal committee of that body has drafted
an entirely new bill, which has been
lunanimously reported.
There viii have to be- long debate on
Il In Its various stages before it can
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-04-13

Because Of scarcity Of labor,
Wellesley girls, in middies and blouses,
are making thirty cents an hour clean
ing up the campus with shovel and rake.
There is probably no truth in the rumor
that, because Of their familiarity with
switches, college girls are going to work
on the railroads.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-04-13

The State Bureau Of, Foods has ini
tiated state wide investigation of the
alleged general use Of -four blcachcd by
the nitrous acid and chlorine process.
This is kind of food adulteratiOn that
would never he possible if people had
not allowed their eyes to set standard
their stomaChS do not demand.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-04-13

From tn" middle of the wreck of
an automobile on Spring Garden street
bridge. aS illustrated in Yesterdays :
EVENING PUBLIC LEDGER. there arose
II telegraph pole bearing the sign. Car
Stop. The owner of the. car is missing,
but ar lcasr it may be said for him that
he obcyod orders. His car stopped.
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enough to cause us trouble if hostilcly
inclined.
The straits Of Dover, twenty four
miles wide, have always been water
enough to make England feel that she
did not need a big army.
How much more do whole Atlantic
and Pacific oceans make the United
States fqcl that it does not need to make
every male citizen n soldier?
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-04-13
A FouR.YEAR PROGRAM FOR
PHILADELPHIA

Things on which the people expect
the new administration to conecn-
trate Its attentions:
The Deiupure riuer bridge.
A drydoCk big enough TO dccomnio-
ddfe the largest ships.
Development Of the rGpid transit svs'
tenn.
A contention hall
A building Tor me Free Library.
An Art Museum.
Enlarocment Of the udtcr supply.
Homes to accommodate the popuId-
fion.
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Though it is charitable to suppose
that the majority Of the strikers don t
know it, the issue in the OUTLAW
strike is between Americanism and
bolShrvism.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-04-13

What protitccrs and strikers an
parentIy fail TO realize is that when the
vicious spiral Of hi-h prices gets suffi
GENTLY high it will toppIc over.
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to depend on friendly contracts mutual
ly agreed upon between men who man
age industry and those who work in in
dustries. A victory by attrition, such as
Mr.. Grunau proposes, would be ca e
lamity for the country and the unions
themselves. The insurgents have drifted
into position that makes defeat for
them necessary and imperative.
| It the unions win by terrorism they
will be forever in conflict with an an
tagonistic public. Have they forgotten
| that they are a minority? IL the strikers
overawc the railway managers and the
country there will be no reason in the
future why n trades union or an en-
ployer might enter into a contract or
put any faith in contracts.
The machinery for railway labor ad e
! justment recently set up at Washington
! is not perfect. but it represents a sin
ccrc effort to give all railway men OPP
! portunitics as fair as those available to
tho rest of the working population
which means the rest of the country.
If the insurgents can win under
Grunau's $ leadership. that machinery
will have to be scrappcd and in the fu
turc the benefits of industry will go to
the strongest and the most ruthless We
shall be back at the beginning and the
adjustments necessary in these treachcr-
Gus times will have to- be made as they
were made when men believed they had
to fight for simple Justice.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-04-13

Railroad men, waiting for rondi,
tions to get better" are like men who
Quir working in IA garden until the
weeds disappear.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-04-13

Political Dope Is no IIumpty
Dumpty. Getting up again after being
upset is his ncatest little trick.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-04-13
A UNION WAR ON
LABOR UNIONlSM
Can the lnsurgent Railmen Wreck
the Constructive Work Of
Two Generations7

TSHN GRUNAt. the latest man to
- believe that he is bigger than the
country and that his own troubles are
heavier than the troubles that bear upon
the rest of us. is n gloomy individual
about fifty years old. He was a foreman
in one of the Chicago railway yards and
functioncd casually as conductor Of a
local train.
Traffic grew heavier. The road man
agemcnt had to add two additional
coaches to the local. When that change
was made it was necessary for the man
agomcnt to suppant Mr.. Grunau with
a road" conductor listed by the train
mems brotherhood.
Contracts long in existence between
the mon and the road made this neCcs-
sary.
Back to the yards went Grunau. com
planning. He was chairman Of the
Switchmcn's union. a relatively new or
ganaatiou He told his men that they
were being 'donc' by the big brother
hoods. He tramped into the manager :
office after an interval and demanded
to bc rcinstatcd as tho casual conductor
Of his casual local. Otherwise, said he.
the switchmcn would strike.
I'VE cant break contracts. said the
management. Give us until 3 80 to
take your case before the trainmen $
committee.
II was then . in the morning. At
IL :2S GrunHu returned and said he
wanted to be rcinstated at once. "Ill
give you until - 80, two minutes, to
make up your mind" he said. gloomily.
At T. 80 the switchmcn walked out.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-04-13

Great Britain seems to insist that
France take diplomatic sauerkraut
with her military Frankforter.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-04-13

The railroad strike will bring home
to PhiladeIphians The value of inland
waterways.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-04-13

It must seem to any one who looks
below the surface that the strikers
themselves will realize all this and that
their demonstration will subside as
quickly as it began and that their pa
tiencc and their good sense will be re.
asserted.
Wage and working conditions will be
rcadjustcd nationally in the end and not
by violence. Meanwhile rantng denun
citation is idle. The Chicago switchmen
struck after Grunau told them that
their representatives at Washington
failed to bring home the bacon" No
one has right to call the railway men
traitors unless he himself has no bacon
sccrCtCd where he would hate, or even
fear, TO lot the country see it,
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-04-13
Travels in Philadelphia
A Sunday In Memorial Hall

THE Park trolleys are earning their
- keep these Sunday afternoons. The
trees and dried grasses that slide by
their windows are still harsh and cold,
but the air is warm and the people all
out in bloom the ladies and little girls
indeed quite in the full flower of spring
SO that every glance along the trolley
seats rewards the eye with brave patches
of color. in a prophetic disarray Of
spring. summer and fall Rowers--hcre
and there, even bunch Of alluring
grapes that bangles against spray
Of cherry blossoms. as two dainty heads
collide in the swaying Of the car.
What barren spot the early spring
| would be without the Kaleidoscope Of
women $ hats. Nature is much too slow
to satisfy us on these grateful after
moons that arc still living under the
threat of casual back wash of winter
storm. There is no dramatic contrast
of the sort the heart Graves out there
in the passing woods. The old weather
beaten oak limbs still cling fatuously
to their last summer leaves. The ash
gray beech trees. hardly yet blackened
with the spear heads of their buds. still
stretch out their pale dropping limbs in
meek vegetable despair. As yet there
is little hint save the vaguest glimmer-
ings in the reddening bloom on the
cherry bark. and the faint show Of green
mist on the willows. or of scarlet on the
maple tops. that new world isj at
hand. But under the car roof. where the
blossoms bob up and down among the
spruce gray fclts and the brown derbies,
spring sings an emphatic song.
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Snors's secession will doubtless
cause Carranza some slecpless nights.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-04-13

II there is ever to be fixed industrial
peace in the United States ii will have
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-04-13
THE crowd on board. when came to

FINfiE crowd on board, when | came to
i look down at them. was the pcren-
nial Sunday skimming Of the gayer out
door folk of the city. Spring -smitten
couples were evident in sufficient mum
bcrS. and also crowds Of young men not
yet out of the horse play teens. and
hence taking n huge delight in handy
ing bright observations in very large
voices. TO the obvious annoyance Of
the spring smitten pairs and to the
pleasant horror Of those groups Of
abashcd young ladies for whose ears
the bright remarks were brought out
of their camphor.
Mothers of thriving families were also
out in a reassuring abundance. and it is
in no spirit of disrcspect to the poetry
of family life that record the fact
that the light new garb of spring on
tho unhanncled shoulders of little John
and Jessie kept mothers handkerchief
out in continual pale pendulum swing
from nose to chubby nose. Fathers were
also present in considerable force. each
with that proud but constrained and
he"torcd air so common TO the public
brow Of male parents of young Ameri-
cans. and each hopclCssly lingering the
crushed cigars in his top pocket with
ono hand while he strove vainly with
the other 10 keep his Bobhie's inquisi-
tive digits of the flowers on the pretty
lady'S hat
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-04-13

TT WAS n wclCOm" relief from tho be.
l. wildCrod crowd in the art gallery to
descend the stairs of the entrance hall
into the childrPn'S museum in tho base.
ment. Crowds were there, too. bur
eager and enthusiastic crowds nor
afraid to make something Of noise over
their delight. Long lines Of young ones
were moving hungrily along the line of
little peep shows, and staring in, often
on tip toe, at the models of pomppiiau
houses. No Easter egg show scene had
ever such attentive spectators. In thp
center of the room inside great glass
case is spread out model Of the old
Centennial. with little people ON lis
streets. with forests Of Noah's ark trne.
and with an cntiCinG miniature railroad
This. too, had its dcvotccs.
One little COdger at my elbow was
highly worked up about 1t all, aud had
his nose pressed 10 the glass, as close
as possibe' to the model Of Memorial
Hall
"Do you 'Sposo," said he. at last
III could open that little door and
look in. I'd see little suits of armor in
side aud little pictures aud all, lust like
the big place has? And down In tho
basement here his manner became
most tcnsc-''and down in the basement
Of it another little model of the building
all just like this. and littler one yet in .
side Of that. and" / did NOT like IN
dash any such brilliant imaginings. 50
supposed he would find it just that wav
"Gee!' breathed the boy, IL wish i
owned this place.
As ! passed around the big case by
the silver model of Independence Hail
and the cork model of Windsor Castle, |
vouId still see him standing there with
his blue eyes lost in dreams.
ROY HELTON.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-04-13

Up to that moment the preliminariCS
, to the present strike on the railways
had been orderly and according to prCC
Cdrnt. What follows appears to have
actually dazcd Mr.. Grunau himself. The
rumpuS that he started was beyond his
control within fcw hours. What
caused railroad mon in all parts of the
rOuntry to quit in scattered masses
without co.ordiuutcd plan. without
even formulating the usual demands. at
the news from Chicago: They are aver
age citizens no more disposed than any
one else. as rule, to defy the implica
tiOnS of federal law or the rules of
their unions.
Their strike is chaotic. 1t is badly
managed or not managed at all. Clearly
the ground was not prepared for it in
advance. IT j. like fist waved wildly
in the face - society. Already it has
involved violence and sabotage. Sabo-
tagc-thc destruction of property or
the deliberate confusion of operating
systems in iudustry--is merely an cIab-
oratC process for making n bad thing
worse and disputed questions harder to
settle.
These methods ar" not and never have
been common among American railway
men. I'm n.ishtcucd trades unioniSm re-
fa~t> them instinctivcly. They get you
uow her" but into trouble.
Public opinion has been on tho side
"f the unions in every recent hearing at
Washington and il was 10 the unions
That grea, many people looked for help
out " the economic tanglos of tho hour
Are the organized labor men willing 10
sacrifice all they hav" gained in public
confidence: DO they want to make the
gloomy Mr.. Gruuau dictator OF all rail
unions and establish his disdain for con
tracts as working principle: Or have
they suddenly come to III" belief that
they can boss tn" country aud starvc
md terrifv II intn smhmisNinnr
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-04-13

The strike - an OUiburSt OF sup
pressed feeling The incredible Mr.
Palmer with his empty and misleading
promises every business man who is
intent on getting 100 per cent profits /;
every detcstablc profitccr who is deter
mined TO wiring the last possible cent Of
extOrtiOn out Of these difficult days {;
every piffing politician in Washington
lullcd into complaCency by his own ora
tory, and every lazy minded citizen in
and out of official life who is convinced
that life in this country will somehow
adjust itself without help or sincere
guidance of these helped in laying
the machinery that flew into violent ac-
ton at the first touch Of the gloomy Mr.
Grunau's ) clumsy hand.
The pressure that greed and stupid
opportunism have put upon all wage
earncrs is almost intOlorablc To be
promised relief, yet to see the cost of
necessities rising steadily about twice as
fast as your wages, to see day ap-
proaching when shoes and shelter may
he matters of doubt, is to be ready ma
tcriaI in the hands Of blind agitators.
Those railroad managers who. at the
instant when the government turned
back their lines to them announced that
they would show labor where it got
off, " haven't helped the situation. The
| Esch Cummins law, intended to pre- q.
vent strikes until after efforts of ar
bitration have failed, provides that it
shall be the duty of the railway manage
ment" to organize boards of preliminary
arbitration. Even if the President =
railway labor board had been organized
it would now be pOwerless, since il il
| to be a final court Of appeal and no cases
have been prepared Or formulated for
! its consideration.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-04-13

Those and other picturesque assump-
tions are popular now. For ourselves
we see nothing Of truth or reason
in any Of them. Certainly there are signs
Of desperately radical leadership here
and there among the Insurgents. But the
strike as a whole appears more like a
fare Of wild aud dangerous temper than
an organized movement against the
peace Of the country. 1t spread with the
Suddeuness Of hystcria. II is already be-
ginning to subsidc in the place where it
began. and that is new proof that sup
pressed emotion had a good deal to do
with it.
Railway mon in America are not fond
Of idlcucss and payless days. They do
not succumb easily to the mob impulse
and it isn't like them to want to visit
starvation on other people. Only those
who do not want to be fair will refuse
to admit even now that the men who
struck have very real grievances and
cause to feel bitterness and resentment
They may deserve dCnunCiation. But de-
nunciatiou doesn't explain them.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-04-13
Member Of the Associated Press

Philadelphia. Tuesday. April 10. 1920
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~ Address all comma muHicutious TO Erentn0
Pnbhc Ledger, Independence Squire
\ Ph,fadciphid.
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powerful than commissioners them
selves.
1t would take Balzac to tell his
story.
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A i LENGTH ! decided that the Park
"A trolley company had earned its fare
SO far as was concerned. so I stepped
of and made my way up the winding
paths to Memorial Hall. A great com
pany of people was streaming up the
entrance way between the bronze horses
and the green box plants--so many. in
decd. as to keep the old watciman. with
his little laundering machine. tcnsely
busy all the time.
The crowd was spread out vaguely
under the tall dome inside. Small boys
were grouped over at the far wall around
a glittcrng suit Of medieval armor. A
few ladies and quiet gentlemen were
studying the sculptures on the great
plaster pulpit. but the full tide Of Wis
itors set in through the door of the pic =
turo gallery. | threw myself into this
current and was carried briskly along
1t was evident at once that a number OF
the gaHcrS wcr" of Italian blood. brought
here. perhaps, by n natural pride in thu
works oi their old nations art. Among
others | recognized two walters and
one barber. who were by no means the
least interested observers of the long
line of Madonnas and saints that glow
ed out Of those fine gilt frames.
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EDITORIAL BOARD:
CYRUS ". X. CURTIS, Chairman ,,-
DAVID w.. SMILEY. Y................E .Edltor
Evening capital and Maryland gazette., 1920-12-21

Ey'iin dun soi up wild his SICK wiF.s
mite arter mite when her Chile W.
born. an des All thought shez gWlne
Ter die vet another how ole Mar
ser. hissen cum down an keerea ar
him an his chillens tle time tley lssi
de snlallp and SO on one agter
the Other el&ting incidents 81 h
care and devotion II ainosi every 81.
dlvidaal IN the crowd AM Wannd III
Vnll an earnest Warning 10 thtm ua,
g, issen Ter dan toNn down lAn
chieken-thlel. Ton Shorts. 81 Wu@n
ffitsa ter sociate even vii - Nj q
trash
For iias had seemed as t3
Epari4lnS appeal would urn iaea
irom their purpose Gut lie .4lla
picture 81 sorty acres aud 4 mule Va,
so much far tie chi.alshs tiyi.
eTowd Ia the entl and W'lsn aael
shor silence Ike seraienias MS sr
slieapis hly saia
! rrehoa IL Ole Mars aim sWiil h
cum lsek here no no An stl r
EN- gNhfer run ,rua is mon *
well r,n erway TOO they All IL tl7,
moved on. leaving Uncle Ephraut
alone each Of The f,tgitiNes proviaasg
himself with 4 mule II advance III
case Of any delay on lie part q
narse Abe Litsum Aud W ;ll,y
left. soae cf the yoans,r women sa
ing uilll Them. leaving old Tom F.l.ll
rialH josh old Dick and unclr & hs
ard lie only men on the place
Loohins hack on This even whIEn
vas The real ending of tile old l4te
and tile beginning ~ HeN er.
after many YEAR aaSc RsN ,ii. tl
w.ih MafaFc iudgmsilt IN oal,
,9usiiad that he Rraii ma % ka
SLAVES remained faithful - l,ns fIs
/ .hov did so. and re,na.ne! true 10
their trusts so many Neare. wish na
po@ts over thesn 10 compel oiedi
eness when the shole onnt+y and ;hs
Wolael and ctliilren af their masiars
Ncre practically n their mercy II a
! aany paris Of tne South. spcaks yal
un.es for The natural aocility of HE
race and the ties II affection
bound master ana lave In the me-
herless cases throughout the eeHlsis,
similar @ our oWn q OAK liill. wfleFe
all the mon of The family had
10 tie Mar and als@re the laNe II
Ibrutaiiy aeias.1. coald have rtsih
taken charge and given over the un
tr> 10 rapine aud murder and ntl
rdgcs ye, more horrible, ! have yot
Ito hear he {; said 70 their helf
of single instance III nc shole
/ icourse. or The war. where tney prose
reorcani 10 their trast
II IN the end, Icing warmly tth8,
Cd, they Wen; off ~ ours did. th,f
Edid 70 quietly and N the night II i
ashamed AID e.l without enirag
or crime. for the small theft o ~
occasional mule. sack Of core at
Evening capital and Maryland gazette., 1920-12-21
d HELNREN

This is The season when children are
subject to croaR. Calds and coughs.
Rena q Marchand, 36 Lawrence. ST..
saIon. Mass. writes: Il used Foley's
Honey and Tar with good results,
lad s sery bad cole and it gave me re-
lief at once, 20 recommend it TO
every child that goes 10 school This
standard. low priced medicine loosens
and clears nncns and phiegm, checks
strangsisg coughing. makes easy
'breathing. s0Qshes and heals raw, in
fsasned membranes. and stops tickling
IN throat Adv