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The Lexington progress. (Lexington, Tenn.) 1884-current, 1920-09-10

The duties Of Judge W. F. Apple
by as Secretary-Treasurer Of the
State Republican sommittee will ne
cessitate spending considerable Of his
time in Nashville-in fact, Judge APP
pleby will 60 to Nashville very soon
and remain there most Of the time un-
ill the Republican State campaign
machinery is put into smooth work
ing order. We failed to mention in our
notice Of the honor conferred on
Judge Appleby, the election Of Hon.
John ]. Gore to the Craftsmanship Of
the State committee.
Friends here have recently received
announcement Of the marriage Of DR..
]. Victor Under and Miss Halle Err
ma Mckinney, which occurred in Chi
cago, Sept. 2, 1920. DR.. and Mrs,
Under reside at 4003 Elston Avenue.
The bride formerly lived in Carroll
county and for a time resided and
taught in Lexington. She is young
woman of marked amiability of dis
position and mental superiority. She
win carry with her into the marriage
estate the good wishes Of all who
know her.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-08-14
A MODERN MARVEL

CENATOR PENROSE is said to be
~ gratified because the number of his
new automobile license tag is 10000
Other Pennsylvanians, familiar with
the fact that seven years ago there were
only about 100000 automobiles in
the whole country, will be impressed
by the marvellous and astounding in
crease in the use of motor vehicles.
What has happened is revealed by
the figures compiled by Automobile In =
dustries. figures which are too low
rather than too high. They show that
in 1913 there were only $4,000 cars in
Pennsylvania. The number rose to
20, 900 in 1914 and to 107 900 in 1915.
The next year they jumped to 150, 900,
an increase of nearly 80 per cent. In
1917, 230, 900 cars were owned in this
state. gain of more than so per cent.
In 1918 we had 325 900 and in 1910
$40, 900.
Already this year the number is
800, 900, as Senator Penrose's license
tag indicates. Henry Ford makes more
cars in a single year now than were
made by all the manufacturers in the
country in 1911.
There were more than 5000, 900 cars
in operation in the country last year.
The number this year is probably in
excess of 100000. AS only about
200, 900 cars were made in 1919, it is
evident that the cars made within re-
cent years are standing the wear and
are still in use. 1t is not necessary to
buy a new car every year in order to
get good service. And styles have been
so standardized that car two or three
years old does not look out of date, as
it used to do when new kind of body
was put on the market every year.
There has been no radical change in
body design for several years, and the
present style is so satisfactory that 1t Is
likely to prevail for long time.
Pennsylvania, with half million
cars, has not reached the limit of con-
sumption. In order to equal the record
of some of the rich western states we
shall have to own 1000, 900 cars. No
one need be surprised If we reach that
within five years. Then the
man whose tag bears figure one and
six Ciphers will swell with the same
kind of pride that is expanding Senator
Penrose's ample bosom today.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-08-14
CRAZE FOR PLEASURE
BARS BABIES IN HOME
E. j. CatteH Baes Recent Tendencies for LoEer Bthrate
but Sees Future Full of Promise

A RELAXING of moral standards, a
4 \ mad lust for pleasure and a loss OF
sense of personal responsibility are
among the reasons ascribed by r. j
Cattell, city statistician, for the great
decrease in the city birth rate and the
increase in the divorce rate.
In analyzing the situation, Mr.. Cat
tell pointed out at the same time a dis
tinctly encouraging sign that these con :
ditions are being overcome and that the
near future will see this country with a
higher moral standard than at any time
in its history.
THE craze for pleasure which has
swept through the populatioa of this
country during the last fifteen years,
and that has recently spread like q
prairie fire. has been a heavily con
tributing cause to both the decreasing
birth rate and the increasing divorce
rate.
The responsibility which marriage
thrusts upon young people doesn't seem
to have weighed very heavily with many
of them in recent years. Simple pleas
ures are always at hand for any one at
almost any time, but the desire has
grown more and more for smart pleas
ures. Children very often are a
hindrance to the enjoyment Of smart
pleasures.
80 it resolves itself often into a
question of parentage or those pleasures
and the pleasures are often chosen.
Pleasures Have Changed
'In former days parents took their
children to the parks, or to merry go
rounds or other simple forms of pleasure
which the children could enjoy as well
as their parents.
But cafes and cabarets and dancing
automobile trips and the like are not
to be fully enjoyed with children pres =
ent. And as the craze for these pleas =
ures. as we'll as the theatre and even
the movies, has gotten into the blood
Of many to the point that they have
almost become necessities, and children
to a large extent require time and at
tention, the answer in many cases is
obvious.
Side by side with this phase of the
situation runs the divorce evil. The
same conditions that affect children af :
feet home life and also affect domestic
felicity.
"Of course this craze for pleasure is
a heritage that has been handed down
through many generations. People in
poor circumstances have seen those
more fortunate enjoying life. while they
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-08-14
CUNNINGHAM MUST STICK

MR.. CUNNINGHAM intimates that
A'4 he has not yet decided whether he
will accept the Craftsmanship of the sub.
committee on finance of the Republican
city committee. It contains seventeen
Ware supporters and six supporters of
the city administration. But the chair
man. backed by popular sentiment, can
dictate its policy if he chooses.
Unless we mistake his temper. Mr..
Cunningham will decide to accept the
craftsmanship, and from that vantage
ground will defend the city employees
against every effort 10 shake them down
for campaign contributions. That he
Is in hearty sympathy with the provi-
sions of the charter was indicated by
his remarks to a representative of this
newspaper yesterday.
The charter absolutely forbds the
policemen and fremen TO make my
campaign contributions, and by i'm
plication it forbids all other city en-
ployes to "Subscribc" 10 campaign
funds. The purpose Of previous laws
has been nulifed because the political
finance committee has found a. round
about way TO hold up the city employe.
Even though the Ware majority on
Mr.. Cunningham 5 committee should
vote to follow the old custom, Mr.. Cum
ningham as chairman can Illustrate the
whole plan by telling the men that they
need not contribute, and that if they
do they will suffer the penalty which
used TO be metcd out 10 those who
didn't.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-08-14
Answers to Yesterdays Quiz

/. The word e'er is contraction Of
ever. Ere means before in the
sense of time. Its use is nov
chiefly confined to poetry.
2 Tom Paine said, THE sublime and
the ridiculous are often so nearly
related that II Is difficult to ella az
them separately"
8. The peninsula of Lower California Z,
nearly surrounded by the Pacifc
ocean, the Gulf of California and
the Colorado river.
T. Goethe wrote The Sorrows r,
Werther,"
5. Pennsylvania was the. second state
TO raufy the constitution of the
United States.
6. The Louisiana territory was oo
quired by the United States from,
France In 1903 during the admin,
istration of Jefferson
7. Gustave Charpentier is a welI.knowr
contemporary French Composer
particularly noted as the author ~
both the libretto and the score ~
the opera Louise" ~
8. A margay is South American
tiger-cat
Q. Charlemagne lived during parts of
the eighth and ninth centuries A
p. He was born In 742 and died
In BIG.
10. George White 20 chairman OF the
Democratic national committee.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-08-14
SWEETNESS IN THE NEWS

!. .EARLE this week there was a sign
II in the window of local groderv
store announcing that customers could
have all the sugar they wished for
twenty cents a pound. Yesterday il
was announced that a retail grocer in
New York was offering sugar to his
customer for seventeen cents, with no
limit on the amount bought.
The slump in sugar prices which
every one has been expecting Is here.
Because there was shortage in the
world crop it was thought that there
was no limit to the price which could
be charged. But when the price reached
twenty seven cents, or even before, the
people began to curtail their coRsump.
tion of sugar and large stocks were left
In the hands of the dealers. 1t begins
70 look as il this curtailment had been
great enough to reduce the demand
below the supply.
When there are more sellers than
buyers the price comes down. Wien
there are more buyers than sellers the
price goes up. We seem TO have
reached t& point where the sellers are
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-08-14
WHAT III ALL MEANS

THE explanation of the recent bond
1 transactions of the Sinking Fund
Commission with syndicate of
bankers headed by Drexel & Co., is so
infantie and inconsistent that it is
astonishing that it could have been
signed by the Mayor, the Controller and
Mr.. Stotesbury.
IL the first place, it sets forth that
the city treasury needed money and that
there was a large sum in the sinking
fund. An opinion was obtained from
the City Solicitor that it would be legal
for the sinking fund to make q tenn
porary loan to the City Treasurer in
anticipation of the payment of taxes.
So, the City Treasurer was allowed to
borrow. S3,250,000 from the sinking
fund.
Here is 4 transaction entered into on
the assurance of the City Solicitor that
It was legal.
Then the city offered $4,000, 900 in
bonds for sale. The Mayor, the Con-
troller and Mr.. Stotesbury intimate
over their own signatures that they
were not sure of the legality Of the
bonds until the lawyers of private
bankers, one of them Mr.. Stotesbury's
own bank, had passed upon the ques
ton. They would not pass upon it un :
!, less they were going to make bid. So
the bonds were sold to the banking
syndicate in order that the city might
be assured of their validity and then
part of them were bought back from
the bankers. one of whom is a mem
Der of the Sinking Fund Commission,
and a brokers' commission was paid
on the transaction.
This show of confidence in the legal
wisdom of the City Solicitor in one
transaction and the doubt of it in an
other, both set forth in the same letter,
leaves the gentlemen offering the ex-
planation in most unenviable position.
The disclosures have justified the de-
mand that there be more publicity about
the transactions of the Sinking Fund
Commission. If the transaction in ques-
tion is not peculiar juggling, then some
new word must be invented to describe it.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-08-14

round out the day in bitter toll, with
little recreation, and have envied them.
when conditions came about that
enabled them to have little more money
than was required for the bare neces :
sites, the first things that they spent
their money for were these same pleas =
ures.
"The country prior to the war was
almost too prosperous and people got SC
that they forgot how to live simply.
The war came along and while II
struck a deeper note in the breasts OF
the people. II also reused their emo
tions to higher pitch than ever before
and the consequence has been a reaction
that has not been wholesome.
Indications from various parts OF
the country show that there is a ten :
dency for things to get back toward
normal. The era of high living seems
about to decline.
People, of course, through the
newspapers. periodicals and books, have
had their ideas of pleasure and n bet
ter standard of living fostered and this
standard will never drop to former
levels.
Future Is Promising
but there Is a saner attitude on the
part of every one apparent. more of A
return to a feeling of personal respon :
sibility on the part Of every one. and
can see higher plane of morality for
the nation in the near future than at
any time in its history.
Another factor in the decrease Of
the birthrate has been the sudden cut
ting of of the foreign population. Re
fore the war this population numbered
20 per cent OF the city's people.
There has been yearly increase in
the population here of about 80, 900.
Half of this could be accounted for in
the average increase of births over
deaths, which has added about 10. 900
yearly to the population. The other
half represented the immigration, the
city. '"'
With the advent of the war, most
OF this latter number was wiped out,
Many in this country went to the other
side to fight, and many on the other side
didn't come over.
Then, too, there is a greater increase
IN the foreign birth rate than any other.
consequently, with the present condi.
lions. the birth rate couldn't help de-
crease. Wv
The high cost of living, too, may
nave. played its part, but I think the
condition has been more a psychological
one and that a return to earth and n
recovered sense of our obligations m
Others will rectify this problem in the
near future" '"e
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-08-14
HARDING'S CONSCIENCE

CENATOR HARDING shines bril-
~ liantly by contrast with Governor
Beckett in his attitude on the duty Of
legislators in handling the equal suf-
frage question.
Governor Bickett's special message
to the Legislature of North Carolina
urges the ratification Of the amendment.
He says in effect that the amendment
will be ratified anyway within six
months and that the North Carolina
Democrats cannot prevent it. So he
urges them to ignore their objections
and accept the amendment as the part
"of wisdom and grace.
This doctrine that you must support
thing to which you are opposed be-
cause you cannot make your opposition
effective will not appeal to any one
with high ideals. 1t is the doctrine OF
shifty expediency.
Senator Harding, on the other hand,
Tennessee Legislature. says he would
like to see the amendment ratified and
that it would be fortunate for the Re-
publicans ito play their full part in
bringing about ratification" but he does
not want any legislator to vote con-
trary to his conscientious convictions.
II the Republicans think they have no
right to vote on the amendment because
of the prohibition in their state consti-
tuition against action by a Legislature
elected when the amendment was not
an issue, then they must obey their con-
sciences.
The most ardent equal suffragists
must admire the senator for this high
standard Of loyalty to conscience which
he holds up to view. If men will be-
tray their consciences for one thing they
will for another. 1t will be much better
that equal suffrage be delayed six
months than that it be secured now
through the surrender of their belief by
men who are either opposed to it or
opposed to the method by which it is
sought to get it.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-08-14
WORKERS TO STAY HERE
Shipping Board Employees Remain
Until April I, 1921, at Least

Shipping board employees now work
ing in the division Of construction and
repairs in this city will not be sent
back to Washington before April l.
1921. The announcement was made by
the United States shipping board in
Washington.
When the operations of the shipping
board were at their height in August,
1918. the construction and repairs di.
vision was transferred from Washing
ton to Philadelphia, carrying with it
between 100 and $50 employees. These
were scheduled to return to Washing
ton in September, under plans for co
ordinating all of the work of the divi-
sion under one Office and having the
permanent headquarters here. 1t was
made known yesterday, however, that
a great mass OF work remained to be
done here, aud 1t was accordingly con
cluded not to make the change until
next April.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-08-14
WHERE THE TROUBLE LIES

WHY will a contractor take job
w which he knows cannot be done
without violating the city ordinances?
This question is suggested by the
complaint of Chief Dunlap, of the
Bureau of Highways, because con-
tractors are depressing the sidewalks
in order to permit access to basement
garages in private residences and be-
cause they are extending porches be-
yond the building line.
The man who wishes his porch er :
larged may or may not know the re-
strictions placed by ordinance upon
such work, but the contractor is sup
posed to know.
Btt does not part of the response
bility rest on the public officials who
grant permits for repairs to buildings
and for relaying the sidewalks? 1t
seems as II the remedy for the evil of
which Mr.. Dunlap complains lies in
the City Hall.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-08-14

company in hi, which actually prom
ised to extinguish the entire national
debt Of Great Britain!
There are, it may be noted, no racial
divisions in the empire of financial
quackery. Inseparable from it's con =
stitution Is the primary principle that
nspirants for high speed gains sha be
paid with the funds delivered by pre-
vious customers.
This was the method by which Will
liam p. Miller, otherwise known as
''520 Per Cent Miller" worked. The
latest comers were inevitably ruined
There were no, funds. Miller, who
served term in Sing Cling, now mod
estly conducts a grocery store in Long
Island village.
Stripped Of confusing and inconse-
quential details, pyramiding seems also
to have been the Ponzi program. With
assets said to amount to about 81, ,000,-
900 and liabilities of $7,O00,000, no
other outcome save collapse was pos
sible.
Thousands Of credulous investors in
his fimsy scheme are perhaps ruined. .
The majority are said to be in mod.
crate circumstances, including numbers
of the promoters compatriots. Their
plight Is sufficiently piteous without
further moralizing.
1t is the next Ponzi which excites
less tender interest.
Will he play the same old threadbare
game in the same old threadbare way?
Is there indeed no limit to the public
appetite for financial myths?
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-08-14
EXPERTS CONDEMN
SUBMARINE CHASER
Eagle rs Too Unseaworthy to
Justify Putting Her in Com.
mission Again
MAY SCRAP WHOLE FLEET

The Eagle %. the Ford built subma.
marine chaser that toppled over in the
delaware river June II with the loss
OF nine lives. will probably be scrapped.
according to naval officials. she Is not
suhciently useful or seaworthy to war.
rant the expenditure Of the 100000
estimated as necessary to place her
again in seagoing condition.
A board of naval constructors has
gone over the vessel at the navy yard
and inspected her; and while their re.
port, which is forwarded to Washing
Ton. has not been made public. II Is said
they will recommend the disposal Of the
vessel as unfit for further use.
=, The Eagle 25 Is one of sixty ships Of
the same type that were built. P1aus
were at first made to construct several
hundred Of the ships. but just as the
huge plant on the Great Lakes got fairly
under way the arnistice put a stop to
building activities. o..
During the war 1t was said that the
boats would be produced at the rate Of
one day in the great specially con-
structed plant at Detroit, and they were
calculated to overwhelm enemy subma'
rines by sheer force of numbers. Their
The vessels were severely criticized
BY marine architects when they first sp-
peared and several pronounced them un-
seaworthy. 1t Is said that minor ae'
cidents previous to the capsizing Of ths
20 gave good reason for the belief that
the vessels were dangerous.
Ohcials have defended them on uo
ground that they were war measure
and, as such, were not half as bad Is
some of the other makeshifts thst were
utilized in the crisis. 1t Is said that
the Navy Department recognized sew.
eral faulty features In the design Of
the Eagle boats. but as 1t was at :
time when minutes counted vitality ana
the enemy submarine activities TeN
making critical inroads on Allied ship
ping, the loss Of time entailed in chang.
ing the design Of the vessels wa
counted too heavy a cost and produe-
tion was allowed to proceed.
Since the accident to the Twenty 'hve,
it is understood that the Navy De
the stability OF the little ships sno
suitable measures have been taken 70
correct the faults of the Eagles ma
are still in commission, insuring theH
stability under any stress OF emergehey.
Several of the Eagle boats nav
crossed the Atlantic without mishap saa
are now cruising In northern EuroPessSS
waters. The recommendation TO Juns
the Eagle 25 rather than reht her INV
send her to sea again may be tA.
as an adverse decision on the parl %
naval engineers and constructors as,
the utility of the Ford type oil poo" s,
and 1t may be only a question ol .'ni
before the three score sister shlpsd
the % will either be junked OF a''
posed Of, /. IN.
The board of inquiry called by ,Ss
secretary of the navy to investigate 70.
cApsizing of the % has completed ~
work, but the findings have not p gto 10
made public. They are forwatdisa orwiea,on
the Navy Department at Washins.TpT,
and will be published by the sec,e'a sea
after they have been reviewed anu -
proved.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-08-14
Wills Probated Today

The will of Ralph Hirsch, of Phila-
delphia, who died recently in Atlantic
City, was. probated today. The will
disposes OF an estate valued at $3O. 900.
Chester avenue, disposing of an estate
Of $4,000, was admitted to probate. In.
ventories' Of the following personal es.
tates were filed: Edward j. Ca 4hiin.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-08-14

Ships pass in and out of the mort
of Philadelphia faster than in any other
port on the Atlantic coast. Sell. gratu.
lation is tempered. however. by the
knowledge that they don't turn
around" nearly so fast as they do in
European norts. We're doing fine
but we can do better.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-08-14
A FouR-YEAR PROGRAM FOR
PHILADELPHIA.

Things on which the people expect
the new administration to concen-
trate Its attention:
The Delduare rIuer bridge.
A drydock big enough 10 dccommo-
date the largest ships.
Development Of the rapid transit Sys-
TEN.
A contention hall
A building for the Free Library.
An Art Museum.
Enlargement Of the pdter supply.
Homes to accommodate the popuid-
ton
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-08-14
What Do You Kno,u?
QUIZ

1. Where Is the Bug river?
2. Who is the present chief Justice Of
the United States?
3. What Is the meaning of the girls
name Esmeralda?
4. Who was Dagon?
8. How many beattudes are there?
6. why are they so called?
7. Who said Man is but reed tbo
weakest in nature, but he ia a
thinking reed?
8. What was the family name of tbo
Duke OF Wellington? WV
Q. What animal has a head like a
camel, wool like a sheep and legs
like deer?
10. What Is a bourbon in music?
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-08-14

Not the least Of the odd cnst c.ssnt
brought about by science Is the p,p nvmp
necessity for a municipal boat 70 ops,s, p.s
out the bilges of oil burning sbip
Under existing conditions, when On I
pumps out the water accumulateo ars
voyage the oil II contains becomes spd
menace by floating on the riye,
seeping into the cracks In the p'e''' 4
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-08-14

Without In any way discusslns N.
merits of the plea of the owners ., III ~
vste shipyards that the incresSe yg.hsd
of navy shipyard workers VIII .snssi
the very life Of the American r,1d h.du ous
marine" 1t may be casually poin.eu,, ,,srs
that the worlds shipping Is nov ~
than 5000, 600 tons greater tnsn arsr,
before the war; while land transp0'
,tiop Is suffering everywhere
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-08-14

Erwin Bergdoll says he would
rather crack rock at Fort Leavenworth
for couple of years than be chased all
over the country. The conviction that
Uncle Sam has a long arm may also
eventually strike Grover.