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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-09-10
SOMETHING NEW IN BASEBALL

TT SHOULD not be difficult for the big
league authorities to find the precise origin
OF the false report of an accident to Babe
Ruth and other headiners sent over tn.
inancial wires yesterday 70 shift betting
trends on New York Cleveland game at the
instant when heavy money was being placed
Resourcefu gamblers might have sheared a
multitude Of lambs IL the routine service of
the news associations hadn't been too Quick
for them.
This incident, coming in the wax. Of
rumors Of med games, cannot be disre-
garded by men who wish to insure the con.
tinuins prestige Of professional baseball.
That game has survived and il has been
popular and prosperous because II has been
kept clean. II II doesn't remain clean or II.
by one method or another. it becomes a
vehicle useful to gambling syndicates, it
will sooner or later go over the toboggan
on which no one ever was able to turn back
Any one foolish enough to risk money in
competition with highly organized gambling
pools should have the grace to keep silent
when he Is plucked. The team owners
themselves have higher stakes in the game
n they know anything about the art of
self defense, they will find a way to assure
the public that baseball is not in a way to
eLter the class with fixed sports.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-09-10
SCHOOL HEALTH FIRST

THHE sudden realization by the Board OF
L Education that it is able to finance ade.
nuate medical inspection Of public school
children sheds a significant light on nexcus-
ably dilatory methods.
Some weeks ago Doctor Furbush an
nounced that the law requiring the annual
medical e1amins tion Of school children was
being violated and recommended the prompt
appointment Of three supervising inspectors,
fourteen assistants and seventeen nurses.
The board made its familiar plea Of virtual
Insolvency.
This week Colonel Edward Martin the
state health commissioner. took up the case,
seconded Doctor Furbush's efforts and init
mated that IL the laxity continued the state
Inspectors would be forced to take up the
work.
An appropriation Of s35 900 is now slated
for passage by the board next week, and ar.
rsngements will be made for-annual inspec-
tion OF every school child. OF late only 81
per cent OF this necessary health work has
been performed in Philadelphia.
This is a regrettable evasion Of sanitary
regulation Of paramount Importance to the
public welfare.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-09-10
BEAUTY, AND THE QUAKE

THE earthquake shaken district between
L the Apennines and the Mediterranean
coast is one Of the loveliest in all Italy.
Messna, fated some years ago to experience
one Of the most fatal dislocations Of the
earth's crust In modern annals, was set In a
scene Of exquisite beauty. st. Pierre. trag-
ically smitten by a quake and n fire noun
tain, was justly proud Of natural surround
ings. unsurpassed in picturesque contour
throughout the West Indies.
II Is n sinister fact that regions on which
nature seems most to have lavished her
wealth of physical artistry are the most
frequent victims of her deadly whims. The
obvious and correct explanation Is that the
beautifying Is the result Of previous up
heavals ip a volcanic land.
Far in the remote past prodgious ele-
mental forces unquestionably agitated the
greater part Of Italy and shook her into
loveliness. In California, IL the truth be
admitted, similar operation took place.
sympathy for sufferers from the ungovern-
able powers which have displayed their
might in Italy for centuries Is accompanied
by the entirely human recognition that there
are compensations for scenic taJleness.
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Answers to Yesterdays Quiz

!. According to recent researches the word
Dixie liz a corruption OF the Frcnch
dix" ten, Before the Civil War ths
Citizens Bank OF Louisiana issued sIO
bills which were engraved with tbe
word dix" on their backs. IouIsIn na
came to be known AZ the Land OF ths
Dixies," and the term was later broad
ened To apply To all OF the southland
2. Arpeggio IL, an Italian word sIynIrvIno,
in harp style" The word deacrIha %
chord In which the notes are sir,IcL
successfully, not sounded together
3. 1t should be pronounced as though !,
were spelled ar pedg eco" viii tbo
accent on the second syllable Wv
4. or Ludwig Holberg, the celebrated and
prolific Scandinavian poet noveii"t
historian and playwright. It has been
said that he found Denmark ,vitbou
books and he wrote a library Tor har"
'Rasmus Montanus" Is among the has.,
Of his comedies. His dates are 1sss
1884. He was born In Bergen, Norwsr
s. Abraham Lincoln was assassInatnd a.
Ford,s Theatre, Washington, on Aprii
-, 1865. " "pfh
6. CaTaway seeds are so called fro,, ~
ancient province OF Carla Asia Mibnie ie
whence they were first Imported '''
7. The Johnstown flood occurred n, NJ, q,
1883. The loss OF life was 2235 90
8. George Washington married Mar,h.
Custis in"l759. '''f'ha
g. william ). Bryan ran three times for the
10. The story Of Joseph and his coa, N, man,
G. eG3lors ~ to be found N the book Of
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-09-10
LAMBERToN KNOWS HOW

IN accepting the pay increase program
outlined by the Civil Service Commission
for his employees, Sheriff Lamberton sets an
excellent example to his fellow department
heads.
The Grifenhagen report is scientifically
compiled and its recognition OF facts may
be assumed to be without political bias.
That Sheriff LambertoD. a county official.
receives it in the spirit in which 1t was pre-.
pared is evidenced in the increase in ap-
preparation which. 1t is said, he will de-
mand for his department.
~Of the $4,000 additional, $4,000 will
be devoted to the payroll and $1,000 for
automobile maintenance. Wasteful super.
Huities are thus reduced to zero.
BY similar methods can salary increases
be made in other city bureaus. notably in
that Of water, concerning which the Civil
Service commission has also made important
wage recommendations.
The city can afford to pay its employees
salaries consonant with current economic
conditions. 1t Is the multiplication OF use.
less Offices and fancy experiments which is
subversiye Of ordinary Justice.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-09-10
DRIVEN FROM HOME

THE case of Sir wilfrid Powell, former
i British consul in this city, who recently
moved from England to Italy to escape the
high cost Of living, will draw attention to a
new class of involuntary eIpatriates that
tends to grow rapidly larger.
Sir Wilfrid Is British by birth, training
and symputhies. But ne cannot afford to
live on British soil In Italy the value of
bis pounds il automatically doubled because
Of the present low value of Italian money in
International exchange. An American.
trying similar experiment, would be even
better of. His dollar in Italy would almost
Invariably have purchasing power three
times greater thnn 1t would have had before
the war. Tourists know all about the pc
ruliar advantages-to them--of existing ex-
change rates.
But what Of the French and italian peo-
pie whose money has so declined In pur-
chasing power?
They, Of course, are the sufferers. They
are paying for the war In ways that Ameri.
cans do not understand. And yet there are
people who believe that new and aggressive
groups Of imperialists on the continent
actually speak in the interest Of the people
when they babble Of new conflicts
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-09-10
ALL IS QUIET HERE

TN NEW YORK plans for housing relief
under the auspices of the state government
are advancing rapidly. Bills. 5ntended to
provide state aid and encouragement for the
builders of homes, have just been introduced
In the New Jersey Assembly. All is quiet
at City Hall ard in Harrisburg, though
every one knows that the house shortage is a
common afliction in all industrial centers
and that it 10 as acute here as It Is In the
larger cities Of New York and New Jersey.
Under the relief plan that Is likely to
receive most support in the Legislatures at
Albany and Trenton, new dwelling houses
built for sale or rent would be declared ex-
empt from taxes for a period Of FIVE years.
simultaneously, state fund would be Gre
ated and from this an owner OF land might
borrow for building purposes and pay nom
inal interest rate. The state would OF
course. be protected by full mortgage.
Such schemes could help vastly to en-
courage building by individuals and oper-
ators. What the different communities would
lose by the elimination of new taxes would
be inconsderable in view Of the advantages
of n building revival.
The Pennsylvania Legislature will meet iu
January. 1t should give immediate consid-
GRAFTON to the plans now being formulated In
other states for housing relief.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-09-10
NOW MY IDEA is THIS!
Daily Talks With Thinking Phiadephians on Subjects They
KnOtU Best

Another form, and one quite fairly com
mon, will cause the patient to show peculiar
twitchings or cOnvulsive movements. There
are still others IN which the symptoms Of
various other diseases are simulated, such
as the well-known shaking palsy Some
times, when 1t affects the more or less
psychic parts Of the brain, the disease may
cause peculiar Authorizations.
From my own observations, 1 would say
that this disease, which we loosely call
sleeping Sickness is fatal In from per
cent to 20 per cent of the cases, whereas the
African sleeping sickness is nearly always
fatal. In this country, the cases may be
very slight, or they may be Of the very
slow, lingering nature.
No Cause for Alarm
''The connection between sleeping sick =
ness and influenza IL almost certain, al
though there is probably no positive proof. It
may be that the influenza poison 20 reduces
the resistance of the individual that the
encephal can get to work.
''At any rate, there has been 70 over.
whelming increase of late, but people have
just begun to notice the disease which has
caused its recent publicity. There is. by the
way, kindred disease called mona, which
has lethargic symptoms very similar TO this.
The disease which we know in this city Is
pretty well scattered over the earth's sur
face, and, let me say right here. 1t has
shown no alarming increase.
ut can be treated. the main theory being
to keep the patient mentally and physically
quiet and to use drugs to reduce the inham :
nation. The public shoulG be told about
the disease, but there Is not the slightest
reason In the world for becoming unduly
alarmed over it,
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A DESERVING cAMPAIGNER
N ENTOMOLOGIST backed hv an az

EN1OMoLCSlSI backed by an ade-
"A quate appropriation and competent
STAFF beats the most improved 'swatter" all
hollow as mosquito eIterminator. Phila-
delphians especially those resident in south
ern and southwestern sections. have more
than an academic interest. therefore, in the
Civil Service Commissions recommendation
Of Increased pay for Herman Hornig, direc-
tor of the prolonged campaign against one Of
the meanest and most insanitary Of winged
pests.
Excellent work has been accomplished, but
II liz a trihe compared 10 what ia necessary
to rid Philadelphia of mosquitoes. The
task Is not insuperable. Havana and Rio
have long since set the example. Mos
quitoes. such as the damp September
days have been favoring, are relics of un-
hygienic barbarism.
Doctor Hornig the city's entomologist. is
not a theorist but a practical public servant
whose scope has been limited by a variety
of causes. The generous co operation of
other municipal departments is and should
Nbe Forthcoming until the futile "swatter" Is
relegated to deserved obscurity.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-09-10
What Do You Kno,o?


]. What two states OF the United States
have 'panhandles"?
2. Who was the most conspicuous and gifted
early advocate Of the policy OF protec-
tion In the United States?
g. What was the first name OF Huxley the
great English biologist and phlloso-
pher?
1. In what terrible flood OF modern times
were million people drowned?
s. How does tweed get Its name?
6. What is a wade mecum"?
7. What were Werewoves In medieval
mythology?
s. Who was Palestrina?
9. What Is the welkn?
10. When did Hiram johnson run for the
vice presidency?
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DR.. CHARLES X. MILLS
On "SleepIno Sickness"

- .,.,,
I'HE so-CALLED sleeping sickness
- disease which has been prominently in
Al. ,''-,S 49, 49,. ..'- r,a,th. has
tne news curing the- isst lew nhon'"' ~
some connection with spanish innuenza anu
grip, and can generally be found to follow
closely after epidemics Of the latter, ac-
cording to DR.. Charles X. Mills, prominent
h;i.5e,nbia nenroio0ist who has himself
handled a number of cases Of the strange
disease.
nocLor Wills t; emphas.u '"S .s,spu;ns p' S;ct
.,eeis ~ yaasa oOho,;t;s1 Uh nc Il Il
sf,s, mes =, or sn;snt,Sc ,uorid One ;s the fact
tSst thn "a d;sse dh ss ia NOT nv anv means a new
thtt the a!sease 10 ~; " a; ~ nnt 20 h.
one; ana tne setonu ~ ..ain.n;,n sjcLress !"
cIhlusea WIN .ne rIa' 49,
"nieh "nieh IL copnho' oI;is !" ,; ...,oo,;,o
one u ."e a. ah.n.d - Sooio rad Doctnr
sn'on t,,n nete te.t anu hinh has tor one of its
hns' 10 Inn mn ,nanif.stations n ietborpy
nr sopnoI.nce although according to its
'a,,rty, II nus In.;s. s"as far ~. th.so
'eIy .,,, "a tbon on5 has aeon
cases cVe.s ho" nv a., t;mo ha,a
mem ,or !eaie yer. sin.. tha ;narerya oni.
seen lhe ,tSse roeo ga Ison Rv The way With
ueln,e o. 'ooS ou a Diseases and the newness n
regaru u NC" u'se I'll. ~ a.,
TINS G'seast. Tue ,' pn.h;n, nau, un5o,
pioyeu' theLe s;nr,oss cornaa -
the sun, anu s'es shn .i.,oanth oon
e
'uty; .:Son. ons IN the 15OOs smoke about II
ho;no not rew disease-'morbus non
.,r,ss, o,d n 10 NOT unlikely that Il oc.
nm,soa .anr In the twelfth DYNASTY of Eyypt.
'',h'u '"@A - ia. o,,. a,.o..,u o.,
see,n1 ;a,,an,a or grin endemic bnt
low. eserS SntasS rSnu th.t II occasionally occurs
,;.ts .u.h 90 attsck
"iShout su'" u"
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-09-10
A FOUR-YEAR PROGRAM FOR
pHII,ADEIpHIA

administration to concentrate its attention;
The DetutGdre river bidOe.
a drydock bio enough TO accommodate ths
largest ships,
Dsvciopmc crt Of the rupid transit system.
y convention hall
IA budding for the Free Library.
An Art Museum.
EnIarDemsnt Of the Udter supply.
Homes TO dccorly oddts the population
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-09-10
A WORD ABOUT PICTURES

TN A time when every new achievement
4 In the movies or in millinery, in clothes
or In eoiffures. Is heralded as q triumph OF
art. Il seems almost necessary TO find another
desigpatiolfor the work In water color and
,uintebuko sintisx that will 70 into regular
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-09-10

Russian peasants, by ignoring boil.
sheyism, are keeping it alive; but, by and
by, they will kill it. II Italy catches the
strate the futility Of bolshevism before the
Russian peasentry gets round to II; for
Italy cannot live without the products Of,
the outside world. and the first involuntary
move OF the scourse is to paralyze CON.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-09-10

A charity guest at one Of New York's
municipal lodging houses has just died. leav-
ing an estate Of 900. Here was evil
IDENTIFY man who did not let his right hand
know what his left hand slowed away.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-09-10

1T pays to wait for the right man,
says u Baltimore spinster of seventy who
has just married. 'Tis course, at least,
characterized by more patience than
progeny.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-09-10

The Bureau Of Foreign and Domestic
Commerce in Washington has on display
Austrian paper suits retailing at fifteen cents
a suit, American money. A shave and 4
suit OF that kind would make u man feel
like thirty cents.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-09-10

When Mr.. Blair. testifying before the
Senate campaign fund investigating com
mittee, defined bull as expanded truth"
he might have added that as such II was
only convincing to contracted intelligences
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-09-10

Young men In the Chicago stockyards
according to reports given out at a current
wage hearing. wear silk shirts that SOM.
times set each owner back not less than
SlS. In Washington the beauty parlors
once patronized exclusively by women now
give up half of their space and attention to
men. The dreadful consequences Of the war
anem endless.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-09-10

Banking comm issions for floating rail
road bonds have risen from half of, l per
cent TO 3h per cent. Beer, 1t will be re.
membered, Travelled exactly the same road.
but in the opposite direction.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-09-10

One Of the most wholesome things that
can happen to man is for him to discover
when he returns from his vacation hat no
body knew he had been away.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-09-10

That Italy should be the victim Of
earthquakes and bOlshevism seems to clinch
the old time assertion that misfortunes
never come singly.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-09-10

The United States special livestock CON
missioner to Argentina Is h commercial dlp
lOmat with powers that may eventually real
the American dinner table.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-09-10

The effort Of the telephone COMPANY tn
readjust its rates satisfactorily canses one
to wonder why the corporation has never
sought to get rich quickly by revising the
rules that govern party lines and charging
the stop for nothing takers by the hour
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-09-10

Judging by the number Of investigating
committees in existence, the sovereign citi =
zen considers himsel, monarch Of all he
surveys. >
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-09-10

While there II no wild scramble to
adopt the baby bond, there is no reason to
suppose that the little protege Of the schools
will be homeless.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-09-10

La Toilette has lost Wisconsin. Full
congratulations for the state are withheld
until Wisconsin has lost La Toilette.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-09-10

Perhaps the candidates are holding
their very best arguments until the last
minute.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-09-10

There are as many thrills In the present
presidential campaign as In q game Of
checkers.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-09-10

1t would appear that the sanetity Of
public utility contract depends entirely on
whose OK Is gored.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-09-10

There is nothing quite so chilling /,
self respecting intelligence as the heat of ,
political campaign. ..'. ,...,,
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-09-10

Tombstone literature is the work Of
pessmists who believe that all the good
men are dead. tG
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-09-10

when is IA woman dd2" asks the
BOARD of Education. The answer ia eosv
woman Is never old until she loses inter
est in the movies.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-09-10

The only failure which any political
party Is ever eager TO acknowledge Is the
failure to collect funds.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-09-10

The uncertainty about running the
Gloucester ferry somehow sgsgests the days
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-09-10
The League of Women ~

The League of Women 1voters has
recommended to the county commissioners
that better places than cigar stores and
barber shops be used as voting places. Why
not substitute millinery stores and Ice
cream parlorsf--a frivolous suggestion. by
the way, which in no way ignores the evils
the ladies wish to correct.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-09-10

Brooklyn street car men say they are
striking for the right TO arbitrate guaranr
teed them by the company In August. 1919,
Competent legal authority now declares that
this right was nulliied by supersedps
contract entered into IN December. 1919
The possibility that strike which has
already caused loss of life and damage ~
property is wholly due to Il misunderstand., !,
ing Is another excellent reason for the esq
tablishment Of an industrial court-which
this paper persistently advocated long De
fore the idea met with general favor.
There has been some question how
women voters shall give occupational de-
scription of themselves when they are en-"
gagged in no gninful work aud cannot be
correctly classed as housekeepers. This last
inhibition applies particularly to the
wealthy woman who employs "A housekeepee
to manage her servants. 1t Is true that she
might use the abbreviation gent" alfred
to the names OF some male voters; sinccT
gent. might well stand for geDtlewOmaIp
as well as gentleman; but there are dpo'
matte objections Of a social nature 10 the
use OF the word In this connection--the same.
objections. though somewhat modified, thai
make lady" undesirable on assessment and
registration lists. We, therefore, Suggest
''IIOme keeper" as a term that might meet
tie need Of the hour. Home keeper Is
term that might ftly be applied 10 noa
women. and II Is one which MI ~oNcs
should be- proud to have applied to then.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-09-10

Come to think Of it, the greatest pessimist
in the world Is the e'cynical Optimist.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-09-10

Insurance underwriters report that II
900 900 people are hurt id accidents in this
country each year, while 105. 900 are killed.
Speed has its uses. But 1t costs pretty
haa vily
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-09-10
IF U. G. !. LEASE IS VOlDABLE,
WHY NOT THOSE OF p. R.T.?
Present Attitude Of the Gas Company
10 an EnIishtenino Commentary on
the "sacredness" Of Traction

THE request of the United Gas Improve
ment Co. for a modification Of it's con.
tract with the city on the ground that it has
become burdchsome indicates that the man
ayers of that company have different
theory as to the sacredness Of contracts from
that held by the managers Of the underlying
companies leased to the Philadelphia Rapid
Transit.
When there has been talk OF modifying the
leases OF the underlying companies with the
p. II. T.. the bankers group" the share
holders In other corporations, and the officers
of the underlying companies have with one
voice insisted on the sscredness Of contracts.
At a recent public hearing. a representative
Of those companies said on the witness stand
that II the p. II. 7. were foolish enough to
make the contracts that~was it's own look
QUIT must live up to them; a contract is a
contract: It is a kind Of sacrilegc to violate
1t. And yet, within few weeks Of such
assertion, we have the J.. G. /. asking the
city to relieve it Of some Of the burdens Of
its contract.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-09-10

The earthquakes zone is grimly classi.
TABLE as the intemperate.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-09-10
SHORT CUTS

Phaiaoh's daughter has nothing on New
Hampshire.