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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-03-06
RAPS PROF|TEERS
IN NOON sermon
Rev. n. J. ogIe Attacks Those
Making Life a Burden" in
Lenten Address
PERSONALITY SHOWS TRUTH

Those who have wasted their lives
are the ones who arc always asking /:
"Ts life worth livingY' said the Rev.
Harry J. Ogle, of Christ Church. who
delivered the Jentcn address at st.
stephens today.
"Life is a struggle, battle" the
minister said. 'There was never time
when vigilance wasn't needed. There
is no leave of absence, no retreating
in this battle. You simply must fight.
The victory must be won, not by one
religious sect. nor by, Republicans or
Democrats, but by all Of us united
The Rev. Ogle scored the pro6teers
who are making life sucn a burden"
and the politicians who wranglc over
party questions instead Of looking to-
ward the good of the nation as q
whole
''The Christian life is the only life
worth living" he said
"Truth through Personality was
discussed by the Rev. p. G.. NJ. Austin,
Of Kensington. at the Christ Church
lenten services today.
Truth is often found in books plays
pictures and other forms of expression. :"
he said. "If mans personality tells
he is true apostle of Christ" "
MY country, right or wrong is
heathenish principle, according TO the
Rev. Bernard Iddngs Bell. president
of ST. Stephens College, Annandalc
New York.
"It's impossible for the church TO
rule the state or for the state to rulc
the church, said Doctor Bell, "but
it's the work of the church 10 assarl
conditions and find out wherein the
state fails.
Life doesn't consist of material
possessions. and America will perish
unless she gives up her desire for them
and turns to ideals.
"Another thing that America must
keep in mind is that no man has the
right to call himself master. That is
the chief trouble with industry today
workers get enough money for their
labor but are treated as servants.
"And the third principle for America
to follow in Curbing the present unrest
is that those people who pride them
selves on centuries of aristocratic an
cestry are no greater in the sight OF
God than the immigrant who comes to
America without being able TO speak
our language. Americans are the
chosen people but they are chosen tC
help others.
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MAYOR TO SEE DE VALERA
Protests Fail to Force Moore to
Abandon Original Plan

Notwithstanding several protests,
Mayor Moore will receive Eumon de
Valera, "prcsidcnt of the Irish Re
public" il MIR. De Valera pays a call
at the Mayors office Monday.
The Mayor explained he would re-
ceiye Mr.. De Valera as he would re-
ceiye any Other traveller who came to
the city and visited his Office. Mr.. De
Valera will speak Monday night at the
Academy of Music upon the subject of
Irish freedom.
"If | yielded 10 every protest or pc
tition that comes to me, said the
Mayor, II would not be tit to hold this
office, nor could any other living human
being. The man or woman who files a
protest or submits petition is within
his or her rights, but lacks the view
poipt of the administrative officer of Il
great city of 1000, 900, made up of men
and women in all walks of life"
Mr.. DE Valera is scheduled to make
three addresses in Philadelphia tomor-
row night in the Metropolitan Opera
Uousc, the Forrest Theatre and in the
south Broad Street Theatre. In the
afternoon he will speak in Chester.
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AGAINST CREDIT ON FLOUR
House Committee Unwilling to Ex.
tend Il to Central Europe

Washington, March 6.-(By "A. P.)
Holding that the United States Grain
Corporation, has sufficient authority to
extend relief to central European ma =
tions. the House rules committee today
decided against giving legislative pref
crcncc to the $50, 900 credit extern
sion bill.
Chairman Campbell told the commit
tee that necessity for Legislative action
had been removed by the decision of
the graip corporation, announced to
the committee yesterday by Julius ii.
Barnes. president, to ship to Europe
and sell on credit 5000. 900 barrels of
soft wheat -four should Congress not
act to permit sales for cash. Mr..
Barnes told the committee that the
corporation had found it Smpossible
to sell the soft wheat -four in the
United States.
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BLIZZARD CHECKS FLOODS
Suburb Of Baltimore Partly Under
Water-DweIIers Alarmed

Baltimore, March 6.-(By a. PD-
An unusually heavy rainfall yesterday
turned into a terrific northeast blizzard
early this morning. In the western part
of the state the wind blew fifty miles
an hour. The snow is drifting and
blocking travel.
The Potomac river is over its banks
above Hagerstown and the Antictam is
flooding the lowlands. The increasing
cold today is expected to check the floods
and the thaw of the last few days.
Portions of Mount Washington, Il
suburb, are under water and the biz
zard following the floods is causing
alarm and discomfort to the maroonCd
residents.
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civil proceedings five years ago. He
believed Bergdoll was normal
A copy of the letter sent by Bcrgdoll
to the PUBLIC LEDGER was read, in
which he burgained to give himself up
If the draft authorities would not prose
cute him and would allow him to enter
the aviation service as an instructor.
The letter was sent when Bergdoll
read in the paper that his mother had
been arrested on n charge OF aiding him
TO escape the draft.
His mother received a similar letter
from Bergdoll at the same time. Gov.
ernment agents intercepted her mail
and telegram and read them before she
did.
A letter was then read from Charles
Braun, an older brother Of Grover, who
had instituted the lunacy proceedings
against him in the civil court. He was
guardian for Bergdoll and tried to show
that Bergdoll was mentally incapable of
administering his $500 900 estate.
Brauns letter was dated February
"A, in answer to one from Colonel
Cresson.
lie said he had had his name changed
because he believed Grover was insane
and bound to bring i'll repute upon the
Bergdoll name.
II have not had dealings with Grover
or my mother for several years he
wrote, "but both have my greatest
sympathy"
In dismissing the writ Of habeas cor
pus yesterday Judge Hand described
Bergdoll as IA morbid coward" and
asserted that the petition upon
which the change of jurisdiction
was asked was "entirely desti-
tute Of merit" He characterized
as "too frivolous for considera-
ton" the statement in the petit
tion that the order inducting Bergdoll
into the service of his country had been
signed with a rubber stamp instead Of
pen and ink as set forth in the sclective
service regulations. That point was
only one of n number of technicalities
embodied in the petition.
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JAIL FOR WHISKY SELLERS
Three Who Dispensed Wood Alcohol
Product Get Long Sentences

Hartford, Conn, March 6.-NNthNn
Salzberg was given prison sentence
today Of eight to twelve years; ; Frank
Rose, three to five years; Saul Joseph,
three to five years, and Jacob BrOncr
wine. one to three years.
The four were charged with the sale
of wood alcohol whisky, which resulted
IN thirteen deaths here at Christmas
tiinn
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DELAY Cornerstone Laying

The cornerstone laying of the new
Bethany Temple Sunday school, at Fiji
ty fourth and Spruce streets, which was
Noon nostnoncd until next Saturday at
no same hour. 1t was planned that
John Wanamaker. who donated the
pIot of ground on which the church and
SUNDAY school stand, would lay the
stone, Mr.. Wanamaker> viii oficiate
next week.
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RELIGIOUS NOTICES
Baptist
THF TEMPLE,
1921 ARCH ST.

THE TEMPLE
Broad and Berks SITS 1ooo NJ. 5000 seats
RUSSELL II. CONwELD, Pastor.
William Dyre McCurdy Associate Pastor
DR.. J. Marvin Hanna Musical Director.
Frederick u. Starke. Organist.
Russell II, Conwell breaches Sunday, 1890
y. M and 1880 y. m.
Temple chorus sings at both services.
23O p. m.-Brgadier General w. @.
Price. Jr. addresses Bible School,
2:30 r. m.--The Bible Union. u Fellow
ship class for men and women.
SI5 p. m.--iIear Acres Of Diamonds
Monday, March 8. For reservations phone
Diamond gg7
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LINER CEDRIC DISABLED

The Wh;ton'k ;o'k; March G.-(By A. PD-
was disnhIo dini.G Star Line steamship Cedric
todayv v'SaPied "ipmd near the Statue of Ljbcrtv
LIyeyromNih mhile starting for Halifax anS
steerIpp" stIpoo, n and returned to her pier The The
,steamsS gear got out of order ana the
avoid eoIl,.w was stopped just In time to
'0''is'on with a car float, =
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FREEZE. STOPS FLOOD

Though cellars on the Main Line
were flooded yesterday afternoon,
men We're called yesterday to save $12,-
900 worth of plants In the cellar Of
Colonel John Gribbel, Wyncote, which
were threatened by water.
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ARCH ST. CHURCH. 18th and Arch.
is tho world growing better? Some think
II is and others think that y Is growing
worse. Both read the, same Bible and
pray to tho same God. pr. Mccartney
at IG:45 o. clock At 8 o'clock he will
preach the sixth sermon in the series from
life the subject being "In Sorrow, His
Mother" an excerpt from letter full
Of heartache. II will suggest the subject
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ROBBERY at Home
OF Mrs. Vim. PLatt
'oN'Imcd from Page Ono


,"'P" declared the man had been act
" wL wSLuSplclouSly about the place.
had = "'n arrested, kiefrcr is said to have
in. suitcase in his possession contain.
nrSnont S So,nr OF the stolen articles. All the
roco"anRS rTa.R taken from the Platt home was
a rcyoIrpn row prisoner the police say, carried
II IIt'Glycr - M and two daggcrs.
boam, Is said that until recently ho had
'nkhis city. VI 'un'os sciool
siIn I%mcr Er had seen service on the other
wovnd,ng ov "dHr,ng the war and was gasscd and
Nort%" NrT"TT; y; DR.. G. J. Watson, 561I
6ad "vnrd dnird street, who, II was said.
ISJ h%"r''Ged hS"m me- the young man after he
pressed IL discharged from service. ex I.
auccd men,o ,"o opinion that he was unbaI.
@pcricnccSy " 'e"u't OF MS war
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BETHANY TEMPLE

Rev. a. J. FERRY. ID. D. Pastor, ,.,
tho Lords Supper.
T:i5 D. m.---Sermon by the Pastor, "I
Saturday, March O. 3 p. M. laying OF tho
cornerstone of the new Sunday School by
Mr. John Wanamaker
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.ECOSD PREsBYTERIAN CHURCH

2l8t and Walnut sts.
Rev. ALEXANDER MaccoLL. u. D..
Minister.
pr, MacColl will preach at II o'clock.
Mile. Julia Merle D'AubiEne Will speak at
the o'clock service on Heroes and
Musical service at 7:4O D m. by the
chorus choir. under the direction OF ~.
Lindsay Norden and assisted by violin
and harp. The music will include: In
strumental trios, Allegro Maestoso.' -
Hoberg; Song Without Words" Elgar
Fantasy" Matys. Bass solo, Like as
the Hart" Allitsen. Anthems. 20 Come
and Let Us Worshlp' chakowsky: "It
Arc " the OST OMSTcrcifuiI.7"i iH'e'0"' Hiies '''''''
Sunday School and Adult Bible Glasses at
~ o'clock.
Visitors always welcome
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SUNDAY AT CENTRAL mAnen ,s.a :.

Zoo y M psoP.IN BIBLE cTiss.
I,obby Topic, "The Cost OF Lcy-
atty" MIR. Geo. n. Strenker.
leader.
A.oo n, m. SERVICE MEETING.
Auditorium by request. speaker. Rev.
Carl Morgan Block, rector
Of All saints Episcopal
church, Norristown, former
Episcopal chaplain Camp
nix. Topic. "Ingratitude.
Music: Violin, cello ana
piano. Soloist, A. y.
O'Daniei, bass. Everybody
welcome.
$500 y. m. O'CLOCK DISCUS
Auditorium SION GROUP.
Topic, "Our Attitude Toward
Mexico and MexicO's
Needs"
1913 y. NJ. EVENING SONG sERy-
ICE. Sing your fsyorite
hymn with us. George w.
Schroeder, leader.
$500 n. m. FORUM FOR MEN AND
Auditorium WOMEN. Topic, Extra
Legal Rights and Duties
Men Possessed Under the
Law of Social Justice
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Friends
Unitarian
uNIrAKIAN CHURCH or GERMANrnwN

Chelten ave. and Greene st.
Rev. ROGER S. FORBES. Minister.
IL a. m;-''Who Thanked the Good Sa-
maritan?
Glasses fer children conducted by trained
teachers every Sunday morning at II
o'clock
All are invited
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-03-06
731 DEATHS IN WEEK
Influenza Responsible for Sc and
Pneumonia "a

Deaths throughout the city from all
causes this week totalcd T3l, according
to the record issued today by the divi-
sion of vital statistics of the bureau of
health.
This represents decrease of 244 over
the deaths of last week. The report
also shows that deaths due to intu
cuza, pneumonia and other diseases of
the respiratory organs are falling of.
influenza caused fifty six deaths, pneu
monia eighty four and broncho- -pneu-
monia eighty seven. New cases of in
huenza reported this week totaled
eighty seven, n decrease of 2OS, while
there were 2l0 new cases of pneumonia,
or IA decrease of 1871 cases,
The deaths due to different causes
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1918 y. M.
$500 n. M,
Auditorium
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Continued from Page One
men, "and Wen blow your head off. y
The man who made this threat then
stuffed a gag in the watchman's mouth.
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."Shy Since BOyhOOd'
The reading of Romig's testimony was
resumed. He said there certainly was
something "llighty" about Grover, and
that he had been "shy" ever since boy
hood.
He also told of an accident which
had happened to Mrs. Bergdoll which,
he believed, had exercised pre- natal in
fuencc over the Stacker.
Bergdoll's temperament, the test-
mony stated, was natural Inheritance
from his grandfather and father.
"And some angles of Mrs. Berg
dolls mind are certainly reflected in
her son." Romig's testimony said. "Shc
is fiighty and temperamental just AS
he is.
Before reading the testimony of DR..
Francis y. Dercum, given in 1918.
when Charles questioned his brother s
sanity, Colonel Cresson turned to Major
Baker, who was still in the witness
chair and asked:
"Do you know Doctor Dercum?"
"Yes." Major Baker replied.
"He is the same Doctor Dercum who
is physician to the Presidcnt?" Colonel
CressOn asked.
yes" was the answer, "he is a
neurologist." "
"By ncurologist you mean doctor
who treats mental discascs?" asked
Colonel Crcsson.
II do not" came the answer with
much emphasis. 81 mean a doctor who
treats nervous Diseases"
Colonel Cresson then proceeded to
read Doctor Dercum's testimony. The
Philadelphia neurologist was quoted as
saying ''an examination of Grover
Bergdoll shows not single stigma
present in his viscera" and that he was
"a boy of ordinary, everyday health
and normal beyond doubt. {"
Evidence also was read from DIR.
Max +. Bedrock, who testified at the
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1920-08-12
CHAPTER II
Purple TraeerY.


In the darkness of the months and
years that followed, Con Lexington
did not suffer consciously from the
horrors of his environment. He be-
came much like it, and through the
accommodating films Of sordid experience
he saw but vaguely that there was
more in life than this. Whenever
anything beautiful forced its way to-
ward him he could not imagine that
it might be for himself. Yet the true
heritage IN his blood was not lost
Merely his decent, poetic young self
woven and crossed with filth.
He companiOned with the scum of
cities, after running away from Do
wagiac, also took few music lessons
Of Max MarkOv, young Russian spirit
in Chicago. He spent much of his
time at a club of questionables, yet
managed to make a firm friend of
Premenez, a Spaniard in French dfpIO-
matte circles, princely person of ir-
reproachable standing. Con never
realized what an indigestibIe layer
cake he was making out of life. The
nearest he ever came to Strengthening
himself out was during occurrences of
a longing to know more, to see deeper
into the complexities about him. He
forgot his father and mother, even for
got the dirty woman whose marks were
still upon his habits, but this longing
would come frequently, outof the wells
of his spirit. perhaps to be instantly
polluted, denied. smiled down. Con
did not believe that real life was for
such as himself. Both to the under
world and to the upper realms of So
ciety, he felt somehow an outsider.
There was at last a series of events
that quickened his longing to a degree
that would not be put aside. The
pressure of these strange events form
ed his life, once for all. The better
story begins here, the final travelling
ont of the ugly weave In his DAYS.
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ing OF the wall was within jumping
distance from this. as he had noted in
daylight He sprang, clutched. and
his wrists burned against the bricks.
Drawing himself up. he dropped down
on the other side. and was in the
street
It depressed him for a moment to
think OF the bitter misery he had dealt
Chez Ming. This was not his idea OF
something noble But he had wanted
the small leather sack, still warm with
Chinese heat
Hatiess. out of breath. ne brushed
tbs gravel from his knees, and looked
both ways. The suburb was quiet,
and this the continuance of a city
street that became a road beyond the
town. A blush arc-light at the corner
showed no one. Con turned to the
left and walked rapidly. AS he neared
the next arc-lamp, a large black motor
car crawled out of the shadows, and
drew In at the curb on his side of
the road. The door opened-no light
in the car. Lexington stepped into it
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1920-08-12

MARTIN VAN buren, was the
.1V1 first machine made politician in
the presidency. and he was more than
that when put to the test; he was the
first of the presidents to have been
born under the American flag, rather
than under the British, and he and
Roosevelt are the only presidents not
wholly descended from inhabitants Of
the United Kingdom.
Sprung from Dutch families on both
sides, Van Buren, married into a Dutch
family, and was able TO speak the
language Of his ancestors. He was
born and he died in a little Rip Van
Wrinkle village on the east bank Of
the Hudson, where his father was a
farmer and incidentally a tavern keep
er. Leaving school and entering a law
office in his native town at fourteen,
after the manner Of most American
leaders from Jackson TO Lincoln, he
picked up as he went along such ed
ucatiOn as he gained Yet not one
of our many lawyer presidents has
won a higher rank in his profession.
While only a boy so small that he
had to stand on a bench to address
the jury. he scored his first success at
the bar. At forty, he retired from
practice with money enough for man
with a Dutch thrift, which was mis-
taken for stinginess by the less pru-
dent AnglO-Americans who knew him.
Equally precOciOus in politics. Van
Buren, was chosen a delegate to a
political convention before he was of
age; was appointed a county Surro-
gate at twenty-five; elected TO the
state senate at thirty; appointed at
tOrney general of the state at thirty
two and at thirty-eight he was select
ed a senator of the United States.
Already he was at the head of the
to run the Democratic machine In
New York and to dominate the nation
al councils of that party.
Playing the game of politics only
as a New Yorker can and as all New
Workers in public life do, Van Buren,
was the first to make his way into
the White House in gumshOeS. Per
hapS his caution as a politician has
lost him the credit due him for his
craftsmanship. which he displayed in
more than one grave emergency. A
popular story reflected the general
impression of his artful lodging
Once while he was a passenger on a
Hudson river boat an anti-Van
Buren, man said to a Van Buren, man !:
I'll bet you the price of the pas
sage that you can't go to him now
and get a straight answer to the
simplest question that you can ask
The challenged man, confidently
taking the bet, went up TO his favor
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ANDREW, you have found
another beginning"
CTO BE CONTINUED.)
QUEER .JUMBLING OF RACES
priately Designated as the 'Moun-
tain of Languages"

With various anti-bOlshevist govern
ments seeking resting place and cap
ital at one end of the range and fabu-
lOus oil boards of Baku at the other,
inspiring cOvetous imperialistic inter-
est, the long line of mountains which
separates Europe from Asia gives
promise of once more attaining the
headline position it so often has held
throughout the ages. Made up Of 100
miles of majestic peaks. in three
ridges, THE Caucasus stretches from
northwest to southeast like a petrif1ed
wave, whose northeastern face mounts
to the snow crest, but whose south
western front. facing toward Turkey,
seems dashed into countless precipices
by the titanic forces of nature, says a
bulletin from the National Geographic
society.
The Caucasus is the most interest
ing rabbit warren of humanity on the
globe For uncounted ages various
peoples sifted through the selected val
legs, leaving a fraction of their num-
Der in some remote spot, so that at
one time FL Azizi said that there were
300 tribes and dialects in the region,
$50 miles long and 100 miles broad,
which he called the Mountain of Lam
guageS."
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eraI surplus among the state treasur-
les also was disturbing. The govern
ment, the banks and the people gen
orally had all merrily Joined In SOW
ing the wind, whose harvest was the
whirlwind of 1887.
The nation had been indulging in
the first of its big western booms. The
river steamboat aided to open up new
regions, where mushroom states. in
ambitious emulation of New York and
its Erie canal, ran wild in appropria-
tons for the building of canals. Van
Buren, was the first president-elec TO
ride in q train even part of the way
to Washington, and the expansion Of
the steam railway system was begin
King to infiame the national imagi-
nation.
When the day of reckoning and re-
morse came; when bread riots broke
out; when laborers stood in line near
New York to get jobs at a wage Of
81 a month and board; when banks
suspended payments in coin, and when
business houses were tumbling into
bankruptcy, the bankers and business
men, who had always been violently
anti-Democratic, turned upon Van
Buren, and pointed their accusing fin
gers at the White House. The fore
most man Of business in conservative
New England, Abbott Lawrence, did
not hesitate to hint to a public meet
ing in Boston, the incendiary sugges-
ton that the time might come for
forcible resistance to the government,
when the crew, as he said, would have
to mutiny and seize the ship OF state.
Van Buren, faced the gale without
bending. He rose above political
maneuvering.
The president did call congress In
extra session, but only to recommend
the adoption Of the sub-treasUry sys-
TEN. The banks having failed, he pro-
posed that Uncle Sam. like a timId old
woman, should lock up his money In
the bureau drawer. And the economic
folly Of the sub-treasury was persisted
In until the establishment OF the fed
eral reserve system.
It was squaIly weather all around,
with the costly Seminole war dragging
its slow course through the malariaI
everglades Of Florida; with embarrass-
Ing revolutions on both sides Of US,
in the TevOlted Mexican province e
Texas and in Ontario.
The defeats of the Democratic tick
eft in the of years plainly fOreshado~
ed the ill-starred presidents own de-
feat in his candidacy for reelection
In 1870. No prophet was needed to
write the refrain of the popular cam
paign song Of the Wings:
Van! Want
Is a used up man.
Nevertheless Van Buren, remained In
active politics 10 years. For still an
other 10 years he lived on In retire
ment at Underwood. his country estate
In his native village. where he died
IN the midst Of the Civil war.
Copyright. 1920. By James Morgan,