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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-02-02
GREY CLEARS THE WAY

NISCOUNT GREY'S clear intimation
that Great Britain will not object to
certain American reservations to the
peace treaty must be embarrassing to
President Wilson and his program of
ratification without reservations. Grey's
letter to the London Times politely but
significantly suggests that changing the
pact in some respects is not going to de-
stroy it. This is the contention of the
roservationists and leaves little ground
for further stubborn opposition to rati-
tication through compromise.
Viscount Grey intelligently sympa-
thizes with American traditions and
hopefully looks forward to their benefi-
cent influence when they are preserved in
the League of Nations.
Evidently, therefore, the sole barriers in
the way of treaty ratification are pettish-
ness and prejudice. The diplomatic paths
have been cleared. 1t is the imperative
duty of Democrats and Republicans to
take the open path to agreement.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-02-02
THE WORLDS FIFTH CITY

A LTHOUGII the census takers nave not
~ yet completed their task here, suffi-
cient returns are in to render it virtually
certain that this metropolis is now in the
two million class. There will be no
especial advertisement of this increase.
The basic conservatism which obtains
here is unfavorable to the professional
booster, Whether we should be proud
or ashamed of this fact may be debatable,
but the fact is undeuiable.
Philadelphians never stretch the CEN
sus figures. They tell remarkable story
of steady growth for more than two CEN
turies, tale perhaps of opportunities un-
realized in the days when New York
ousted us from first place and again when
Chicago slid into the second notch.
But the recent development has been
prodgious. Not only does it carry Us far
beyond the reach Of rivalry in St. Louis
but the world rating is now exceedingly
striking. 1t is likely that this city is now
the sixth greatest in the world, and per.
haps the fifth, since the present popula-
tion of Berlin is not definitely known, The
other metropolitan centers ahead of us
are New York, London. Paris and Chi
cago, with Toxic doubtful.
Appreciation of our imposing position
should be stimulating. The proper atti
tude would entail neither Dragging nol
the sIumberous indifference which char
acterized ps about century ago.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-02-02

lion dollars TO keep the men in the League
Island navy yard at work was cut from
the appropriation bill is of relatively less
significance, from the congressman's
point of view, than that the good word
he said for "Bill" Finley may have had
some influence in securing the mans
acquittal.
And anyway, the congressman insists
that his absence was not responsible for
its elimination from the appropriation
bill. Whether his explanation explains or
rot we do not pretend to know. But we
wish to commiserate with him because
of his enmeshment in concatenation of
fortutous circumstances which has made
an explanation seem necessary.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-02-02
THE SMALL WIND

To Philadelphia, in Recompcnse for Harsh
Words
THE full night echoes. and sudden gust
L Shouts tinly, bleats "April'' in my ears
He toys with passing skirts and chases dust
And, cruel varlet, shuts bright eyes with
tears.
With plausible romance the scrubby cheat
Lusts to boil bubbling blood in human
veins,
And through the town pipes up his wood
songs sweet
Borrowed of birds and washed by country
rains.
The ruddy juice to his tune foots dance
The street cars jangle and the cobbes ring
Horns yell and gagglc; uncouth men advance
Staring before them, looking for the spring
The sum of noise is quiet: rafting carts
Roll silently, outmatched by beating hearts
ALEC b. STEVENSON.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-02-02
Member of the Associated Press
WHAT ABOUT RoRINSoN7

MANY citizens interested in the sue
NA cess OF the Moore administration
have been puzzled by the retention. with
out explanation, of James Robinson as
superintendent Of police. Their bewiider-
ment is not likely to be cleared away by
the noncOmmittal attitude of Mayor
Moore and Director Cortelyou when
questioned.
The memory of the people of this city
is not SO short-lived that they have for
gotten the disgraceful fact that Robinson
was forced out of office during the war by
pressure from Washington, which held
him accountable for vicious conditions
menacing the morals of soldiers and
sailors.
The evidence then acquired under the
direction of Secretary Daniels has never
been made generally public. but the mere
threat to do so by Colonel Hatch, of the
marine corps, in charge Of the military
guards, was enough to send Robinson off
on lenve of absence and install William
B. Mills as acting superintendent for the
duration Of the war. The result, accord
ing to Colonel Hatch, was the speedy
cleanup Of vice conditions.
Whether Robinson was made the scape-
goat for others, as some of his supporters
maintained. has not been satisfactorily
proved, and until this is done he must rest
under serious aspersion. If he was not
guilty, it is his duty to tell who was. Who
made him the scapegoat, or "puppet." as
Colonel Hatch termed him?
But aside from Robnson's own posi-
tion, there can be no doubt about the need
for more than noncommittal statements
from the Mayor and the director. They
talk straight out on other subjects. They
should do so on this if they would avoid
misunderstanding and stop unpleasant
gossip.
Mr.. Moore and Mr.. Cortelyou, what are
you going to do about Superintendent
Robinson
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-02-02
A VICTIM OF DUTY!

A MAN torn between TWO conflicting
n duties deserves the sympathy of all
tender-hearted persons when his loyalty
10 one gets him into trouble with the
other
SO instead of denouncing Congressman
"Bill" Ware for what happened in Wash
ineton because OF his visit to Philadelphia
10 say a good word for Bill" Finley, on
trial for alleged completely in the Fifth
ward rioting, every one should metaphor
cally press the congressman's hand and
remark: "Never mind; you couldn't be in
two places at the same time, and you
ame where you thought YOU were needed
most"
-, >e fact that during his absence from
-'pgton an item of more than a mil
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-02-02

Great Britain is grateful to America
for its help in France at a critical lime, and
the gratefulness is evidenced by tn presen
tation of its municipal flag to Winchester,
Va, by Winchester, England Great Britain
also has considerable Crouch against America
for that it has led the way in prohibition :;
and the crouch is evidenced - posters that
now are being displayed all over the tight
little island. The Briton's mixed feelings
may be summed up in paraphrase of an old
music hall song: 50 II is grateful, there you
are. But since Johnny Bull may lose his
little beer, wy e dunno Were e arc -
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-02-02
Answers to Saturdays Quiz

l. To heckle is to badger with questions
comments or gibes.
.. Witches thimbles are plants, including
harebells, sea -campions, fox gloves
and bachelors buttons.
8. Monrovia, the capital of the negro re-
public of Liberia, is named after
President James Monroe.
4. Argon is a gas, an inert constituent ol
the atmosphere.
5. Amortization is the clearing off or liqul'
dation of debt, usually by a sinking
fund.
6. Capers are bramble- like shrubs, natiye
to South Europe. They are also the
seed vessels of the nasturtium picked
chiefly for use in sauce.
Z. Samuel d. Gross was celebrates
American physician. His dates are
1905 1884.
S. A motorise is hole in a framewcrk
designed to receive the end of sons
ether part.
0. Morpheus was the classical god o.
dreams.
TO- Aristopbanes wrote comedies.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-02-02
DOCTOR sTEINMETz, who knows more

nOCTOR STEINMETZ, who knows more
~ about electricity practically than any one
else in the world, says that if all the electric
power in this world were concentrated into
one great sending station we could dispatch
radiogram to Mars. Such a message would
cost billion dollars. Conversely, the mes
sages We are getting from Mars-or is it
nus!--must be costing the inhabitants of
that planet billion dollars each. A people
who would spend billion dollars for a
message must have something highly worth
saying. Maybe the Martians or Venusians
want to add a word to the discussion of the
League of Nations A race that has billions
to spend agitating the ether through
80 900 900 miles of space must have solved
the problems of no more wars. 1t will be
interesting to know what they think of
Article Y.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-02-02
What Do You KnOw?


!. What American political party once
won great presidential victory with
platform which was, in substance,
''Down with the administration
.. Who was Ausonius?
8. What European city contains the ia
nous picture gallery called 'lhe
Hermitage?
4. What are ''midinettes"?
.. Who was Auguste Renoir?
g. What is an epicedium?
Z. Who wrote ben Hur"?
s. Why are doiles so called?
g. What king of France was called the
MAN Milliner"?
10 What is esparto?
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-02-02

There is no logical
NAV JoyousIy Fool Us reason why a fair
price comm S i o
should be successful. since no man may say
with certainty what should be considered a
fair price but everybody wishes the COM
mission success, for the evils it seeks to cor
rect are very real. Because a man may reach
n perfectly logical conclusion, and a woman.
without any difficulty at all, can prove him
utterly wrong. it is perhaps we'll that 50 per
cent of the membership of the commission
are to be women
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-02-02

Uncle Sam has done a generous and
kindly thing in permitting service men who
have allowed their war insurance to lapse to
make renewal. 1t is just, also, for man
who has risked his all should be given the
privilege of second thought.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-02-02

A dispatch from London states that
economic conditions have contributed to the
discontent Of the working classes in India.
We shall next hear from Touchstone's friends
that it is the property Of water TO wet and of
fire TO burn.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-02-02

Bergdoll is apparently proceeding on the
assumption that a man must have all his
wits about him il he hopes to convince any.
body that he has lost them.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-02-02

The grounding paraphrases the old
song to read, Tomorrow the sun will be
shining if it only stays cloudy today"
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-02-02

Punxsutawney is today the Mecca Of
all meteorological sharps.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-02-02

A LOT of the poor are graduating into the
L 4 moderately well off classes. The silk
shirt is only the first crude sign of a newly
arrived. parvenu. middle classer. For
every one member of the middle class that
is going down two new members are coming
up out Of the lower class, glittering with
strange raiment, and having nails extremely
conscious of a recent first contact with the
manicure. At this rate, the middle class
is taking care of itself. Why worry about
who belongs TO it, so long as we are dead
sure we don't?
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-02-02

Hoover is in favor of giving soviet Rus
sia enough rope to hang itself. Nobody OBJ
jects to raising the blockade on rope
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-02-02

Lodge has apparently joined the ranks
Of the irreconcilables.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-02-02
And Perhaps
the Shoe Pinches

The objections being
And Perhaps made by russian man :
the Shoe Pinches ufacturers and mer-
chants to tho rcsump
ton of world trade with Russia through its
co operative societies are perhaps merely
unwitting Endorsements, since the wisdom Of
trade resumption will not be disproved by
any failure on the part of the cO-ops. The
lifting of the blockade is neither wholly bust
ness nor wholly philanthropy. 1t is shrewd
nolicy: for il robs the BoIshevists of all their
alibis. With world markets open. they must
either make good or admit themselves de
caivars
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-02-02
FROM DAY TO DAY

Kinley and his wife
a fine little touch of
sentiment, "a little
old fashioned He
has his roots in the
past and his eyes on
the future. But is
there any future for
1.-TWO heads are bet
ter than one"? Ask
the Hoover boomers.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-02-02

It is right and proper that members of
the fair sex should constitute majority Of
tho members Of a commits designed to bring
nbont far priros. ~
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-02-02

Success consists In knowing YOU are all
right and making the other fellow believe it,
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-02-02
Gratitude and
Patriotism

A Pittsburgh man has
Gratitude and returned 81 so witness
Patriotism fees to the United
States attorney, cx-
plaining that he came from Russia, where
he had no rights, and anything he could do
for the United States was pleasure and
he desired no pay. 1t is pleasing to realize
that bolshevism is not the only thing ex-
norted from Russia.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-02-02
MIR. HARDING would lead us back t

MIR. HARDING would lead us back to
1Vl "the good old times" He makes it a
virtue to be a ''little old fashioned" to
take counsel TO surrender personal views to
the better Judgment of the two heads-to
he n bimetalist like Mckinley; yet, in
RESPONSE to party opinion, as Mr.. Harding
saws. support the gold standard-which
made the sharp tongued Thomas b. Reed
refer to Mr. Harding hero as mot silver
bug nor a gold bug, but straddle bug
Let us put it boldly: A straddle bug for
President or a superman This does a
little violence TO Mr.. Hardings thought
Rut so obnoxious has the superman become,
some think. that we might turn with salts
faction TO the straddlc bug, a gentle beast
| with a capacity for being on both sides of
| everything; one might have calm under the
straddle bug.
! ALWAYS if there weren't any Thomas
| n Brackett Reeds Forget Thomas Bracket
| Reed. and the tongue that kept him out of
| the White House. In these days would it
! have kept him out of the White House, or
got him there? Would the one head that
| was better than two or the two heads that
were better than one Of 1896 have succeeded
in these days? Mr. Harding pins his faith
on the Mckinley type of President He
comes from McKinley's state. He has the
only face in Washington that might 60 on
a postage stamp, lie rents for his cam
paign headquarters the old rooms in the
Ebbitt House occupied by Congressman Me
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-02-02
A Nd listen to this:

A Nd listen to this:
Whenever sale of land takes place in
France. Il certain tax is levied on the pro-
ceeds for the benefit of the state. In 1918
this tax for all the land transfers in France
reached 1SS.000.000 francs In 1919 the
tax attained tho unprecedented figure of
J40000,O00 francs or three times as great.
In poor France three times Us many peas
ants are able to buy land now as before the
war and Il vast number of them have paid
of their mortgages In Europe the wealth
of the farmer is so proverbial that the new
rich are called ''rutabagas' after the home
ly beet they raise.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-02-02

DUT do we really believe that two heads
- are better than one? Or only that in
the ordinary affairs of the world two ordi-
nary heads are better than one ordinary
head but that in the extraordinary affairs
one extraordinary head is better than Il
whole Senate full of ordinary heads and is
entitled to refer to the ordinary heads. in
words which Mr.. Harding says the late
President Mckinley would never have used.
as "the pygmy minded Senate? Do we
believe in any of the old saws, except with
reservations? Recent reservations made by
the people to the ''two heads are better
than one" theory are Grover Cleveland
Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, all
of whom belong generally to what Mr..
Harding in his Niles, Ohio, speech, called
the "superman" type of President, to whom
he prefers party government. Do we really
believe in the good old times? 'All times
when old are good" said Byron contemptu
ously in his ''hot youth when George the
Third was king
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-02-02
Hoorer and Harding Heads
Are Two Better Than One?
Supermen or Party Men
Which Best Serves U.s.?
Prophets and Profteers
Messages From Mars

The Ohio senator probably believes IN the
middle classes another old fashioned
institution Everybody processes great faith
in the middle classes, as in the two heads
that are better than one, and everybody
thinks the middle classes are the other fel-
low Many tears are shed over the middle
classes nowadays. The H. c.. l.. is devour-
ing them. They are being butchered to make
a profiteer's holiday. Meanwhile we read
such items as that laborers are buying SIG
silk shirts. that most of the woodworking
factories in the country. have been turned
over to producing boxes for a certain music
machine on which the patents have expired,
in order to supply the craving of the new,
rich, silk shirted toiler for melody in his
home.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-02-02
CHIEF HEPBURN'S FIND
Street Cleaning Department Discovers
Ordinance Requiring Bureau Of
Markets to Do Its own
Street Cleaning
BY GEORGE NOX MCCAIN

COMETHING new is started every fifteen
~ minutes in Director Winston's Depart
ment Of Public Works.
City contractors are becoming painfully
aware of this fact
Chief Hepburn, of the department of street
cleaning, has just dug up an old ordinance
that is of very pertinent interest to the hun
drcds of small retail merchants, hucksters
and itinerant vendors who hold forth along
the curb line and in the markets of South
Philadelphia.
Likewise. it affects every other municipal
market, public mart or curb market in the
city.
The discovery is certain to raise nice
point between the Bureau of Markets and
the garbage and street cleaning contractors.
Principally it is bound to result in the re-
moval of lot of cyesorcs and the elimina-
tion of sources of contagion, and result in
system of municipal house cleaning that will
purify the ozone and sweeten the atmosphere
in Il number of neglected localities.
1t isn't case of passing the buck. Ii
is movement toward the better protection
of public health and one in which Director
Furbush will doubtless rejoice.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-02-02
A TALK TO MARS MIGHT BE
A DISTURBING EXPERIENCE
steinmetz and Lodge Should Pause and
Wonder Whether We Are Ready
to Hear What Other Worlds
Think of us

WHO will lead the wise men OF this
w generation and teach them wisdom?
Doctor Steinmctz spoke with terrible
nonchalance when he suggested that a
means of communication with Mars
might be established with billion dol
lars. Marconi is fumbling about in inter-
planetary space to start conversations
with Venus. An even more difficult task
engages Sir Oliver Lodge, who has been
trying desperately for years to rend the
veil that hangs between us and that West
where soldiers of all lands found peace
after the matchlcss torment of modern
battleficlds.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-02-02

Doctor steinmetz, after he got MS DIE
Evening star., 1920-02-24
Foreign Born Alarmed,
Fly Flags of Truce, Hide
and Pour Out Their Wine

CHICAGO. February 24.-The Liquor
rebellion" in Iron county. in the up
per Michigan peninsula, today appar-
emily had subSided.
The foreign-born element, compos-
tion reported snsubordinafe to the en-
forcement OF the eighteenth constltu-
tional amen dime ent. today was reported
greatly excited over reports regarding
the possible use of troops and armed
force. and in a number of instances
white flags. made from pillow slips,
and housetops. Much homemade wine
and other liquors was reported to have
been hauled to caves in the hills on
sledS pulled by men, women and chill
dren. or secreted in mine shafts. tun-
nels and underbrush. Quantities of it
Martin S. McDonough. states attor-
rey for Iron county, who assumed re-
sponsibility for the disa rmjng of Mai.
Dalrymple's assistant Leo J. Grove
and small party of state constables
and taking from them the wine they
said, to submit peaceably to any fed
eral arrests. 1t was the action of Nc
Donough. assisted by five county and
Iron River City peace officers. which
led to the reports of the rebellion"
McDonough protested against the
charges of Maj. Dalrymple. and sent
the following message to Attorney
General A. Mitchell Palmer, Gov. AL
bert A. Sleeper Of Michigan and State
Attorney General A. ]. Groesbeck:
'Maliciously false stories. published
in the metropolitan newspapers al
leging conditions of rebellion against
the constituted authorities in this
county call for investigation"
Evening star., 1920-02-24
FRANKLIN MURPHY DIES
At PALM BEACH, FLA.
Ex-Governor of New Jersey Long
Active in Politics, Succumbs
at Age of Seventy-Four

NEWARK, n. j.. February "a
Franklin Murphy. former Governor Of
New Jersey, is dead at Palm Beach.
Fla. according to a telegram received
here today by his son. Franklin Muir
ply. jr. Former Gov. Murphy left
here for the south a month ago in an
effort to regain his health. He was
seventy-four years old.
Mr.. Murphy entered politics in 1883.
when he was elected a member of the
Newark city council.
Mr. Murphy was United States COM
missioner to the Paris exposition in
1900 and also served two years ~
president general of the National So
ciety, Sons Of the American Revolu-
tion. President Mckinley once Of
fered him the post of ambassador to
Russia, but he declined the honor. He
was a member of the republican ma
tional committee from 1900 until he
resigned in January, 1918, serving
as a member of the executive commit
tee for the first eight years he held
that Office. He was governor from
1902 to 1905. and in the republican
national convention in 1908 he re-
ceived a votes for the nomination for
Vice President. :