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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-07-23
UNBEllEF> AND THE LAW

A NDREW.J. VOLSTEAD, of Gran
"A ite Falls. has been called variety
of names by certain classes in the ma =
ton, but 1t appears, in Minnesota at
least. that there is at least ono ascrip-
tion with which he cannot be weighted
down.
His political rival. a minister. has
been found guilty under the corrupt
practices act of his native state of false
statements injurious to Mr.. Volstead's 5
candidacy for denomination for Con
Gress. The Rev. o. J. kvalc. 1t seems,
called his opponent an atheist.
That this charge was regarded by the
court as improperly condemnatory is
highly typical of n traditional trend of
public opinion. Robert G. Ingcrsoll,
it is said, used to point to set Of Vol
taire as the cause of his failure to at
tain certain political. Office for which
he had sought
The interesting feature Of the Vol
stead case is, however, the assessment
Of positive injury resulting from false
accusation Of unbclief. Quite apart
from it's ethical status, wherein personal
predictions are involved, atheist"
legally viewed is still word that
StinpS
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-07-23
A BUMPER HOME CROP

A NOTE of cheer at a time when
a hcartpning realities glcam with the
fitful flicker of "a good deed in a
naughty world" is sounded by Doctor
Rasmussen. the state secretary of agri
culture. who forecasts that the field
crops of Pennsylvania this summer will
be mpressively bounteous. Estimates
based on reports up to July ! suggest
that the yield of corn and wheat will
decidedly exceed the averages main
tanned for the last five years. Four
hundred million dollars is the value al
ready fixed on the total of crops of all
kinds.
The reaction from lcaner times and
seasons marked by freakish and de-
Structive weather is observable abroad
as we'll as at home. The French har- =
vest this year will be, 1t is said, reas-
suriugly rich. So also with the Cana :
dian harvest. 1t is possible that the
political and economic structure OF
Russia may be stabilized by new food
production.
1t seems as though nature were re-
gaining her equilibrium while man still
founders with the aftermath of the war
shock
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-07-23
PLIGHT OF THE TEACHERS

FRUSTRATED hopes are sometimes
= more painful than the bittcrest
realities. The failure of the Board OF
Education to float a loan enabling it
TO increase the pay Of school teachers
at this time is not merely a financial
disappointment. The psychological ef-
feet is particularly unfortunate. since
the underpaid educators of this city
have for months been encouraged to
believe that provision would be made
for increased salaries.
Not many weeks ago Simon Grntz
significantly ntimatcd that the teachers
would be pleased with the forecast
action of the board Naturally now
they are even more disturbed than they
would have been had the agitation for
relief not been colorcd with a deiusive
optimism.
as the case now stands. 1t is unlikely
that the wage scale can be bettcred
without action by tho state Legislature.
II is this body on which responsibility
for injustice to one of the very worthicst
classes vi public servants primarily
rests. II the board is. as it seems to
be, actually incapable of raising the
teachers pay, Harrisburg will have to
make a fitting appropriation. Vigorous
campaigning and concerted public pres
sure on behalf of this belatcd reform is
imperative.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-07-23
The Time Is Out of Joint
A Nautical finale

rI'fiE boy stood on the burning deck.
The feat was not sublime.
because ne knew that he'd pull through
by IN" corrected time.
Ana JoriS' as he paced the road from
Ghcnt direct to AK,
heined IN TO do square roots a few and
hgurc out mistakes.
Ana fani Revere had ne'er a fear that
hed arrive too late,
For ned hunch that Concord bunch
=, would give bridge rebate,
As sheridan was p unging on with Win
chester in sight,
lie stopped, pulled out his watch and
then observed with some delight
ihat ne could"pausc biz because il
really wasn't late; 80.
No rebel trap such handicap could alter
or Illustrate
60 DUST your musty aIscbros-
~ Wentworth or Webster Wells
Unearth that plane geometry for which
no rapture Swclls
Con NewcOmb's logarithmir Lists mr.
Napier perhaps: "
Come Ouiia lass, Pythagoras reveal IN
make our maps,
heouiid pons aSInorum, Call Euclid
to the floor;
Haul into line the grim cosine to take
the stage once more.
Come parallelepiped, come cone.
is0sceles. ''A''
Come calculus and Leibnitz-and ouick
about 1t, please S"
Come Horner, Archimrdcs come Fisbor
and come Schwatt:
Come on the run Flammarion anJ tim.
the winning yacht!
Ii. IT n
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-07-23
GUERRILLA POLITICS

GO LONG as thinkers and near
~ thinkers who like to call themselves
advanced or liberal or progressive con
tinue to scatter their fire and aim for
the most part at one another, politics
in the United States will properly be a
business for conservatives.
, Mr., Bryan, ii he had accepted the
ProhibitionistS' nomination for the
presidency, would have driftcd a little
nearer to oblivion. The Farmer Labor
party and tho Single Takers have can
didates in the field who will bo lost
from sight and hearing in the clamor
Of the national campaign.
Does this mean that tho average voter
is hard boiled? Let us see.
Suppose the bankers or the LAWYERS
or the doctors Of the country got to-
gether and nominated a presidential
candidate and whooped for him because
he had only one idea and n concern for
only one class. There would be dori
sive references to tho new reactionaries
in oil the newspapers. Farmers, Single
Takers and the more restless labor
unions are about the only ones who
can do that sort Of thing and still call
themselves liberal minded
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-07-23
A NEW PEACE?

WARSAW. eagerly telling the world
w that the morale of the Russian
armies il poor. proves again that old
habits Of thought die hardest iu central
Europe. The day has passed when the
test of a country was the morale Of it's
armies. The morale Of statesmen is
what concerns the civilized world now.
The Russians may be- clumsy fighters,
But they have managed to defeat on
posing armies led by some of the ablcst
generals in Europe. Peace. not war,
Is what the Old World needs, and war
should not be continued merely because
one crowd believes that it can defeat
another.
The nature of the settlements finally
made between Poland and Russia will
deeply affect the whole life of the Con
tinent. Poland should be the natural
friend and interpreter of Russia. The
Poles are in a different role because OF
appalling blundsrs of judgment in some
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-07-23

IF CONGRESS- were in session the
Wilson issue would be easier to keep
alive.
The country would have the daily
spectacle of Wilson's relations with
Congress.
1t would have the daily reminder of
Wilson's obstinacy on the treaty.
If Cox tries to forget the treaty as
an issue the President might remind
him of it by calling the Senate into
session and rcsubmitting the treaty.
That would be fine way of forcing
the treaty to the front as an issue and
probably of assuring Governor Cox's
defeat.
At one time it was expected that the
President would rcsubmit the treaty
this summer.
Cox docs not believe in the league as
winning issue.
The Republican leaders believe that
the public is turning every day more
strongly against the unamcndcd treaty
than ever.
On the one side is Mr.. Wilson, who
wants to keep the league issue alive for
one reason: and the Republicans, who
want to keep it alive for the opposite
reason.
And on the other is Governor Cox,
who wants to bring up other issues.
1t all depends on whether Mr.. Cox is
big enough, has vision enough to enlist
public attention in other issues.
1t takes imagination and daring TO
make issues.
MIR. Cox is nothing but local poll
tician.
Can he catch the eye of the whole
country?
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-07-23
MORE ABOUT TRoLLEYS
DOL1TICS and high finance make {

DOBITlCS and high finance make q
= dangerous combination.
When a politician becomes n financier
you have the sort Of deals that put the
streets of Philadelphia under the con :
troll of men who have grown rich by
taxing the public through the medium
OF trolley franchises for the privilege
Of riding in street cars.
When a fnancicr becomes n politician
you usually find him earnestly at work
to make such fantastic and unjust ar
rangemcntS permanent.
The city is about to start legal war
to compel underlying companies whose
only assets are franchises to accept
lower rentals from the p. Il. T. for
the use of the public streets. Unless
that fight is successful higher trolley
fares will be almost inevitable.
The fight against the city will be
made in the interest of politicians who
dabble in finance and financiers who
dnbble in politics.
Good government in municipalities.
In the states and in the nation will
never be possible until these two groups
arc separated and compelled to work
independently for their various ends.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-07-23

lective bargaining for farmers, fair pay
for railroad workers and the high cost
OF living. In connection with the pres
ent high costs he wisely urged deHation
OF the currency In order that the dollar
might regain it's old purchasing power.
The speech as n whole exhibited the
senator as student of public questions
with definite views on many issues
about which the people arc thinking.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-07-23

property passed became active support
ers OF Palmer's candidacy for the Dem
ocratic nomination to the presidency.
g g g
COME say that Palmer let enough
~ Republican interests in on the dis
position of alien property so that no one
will investigate it.
Palmer as alien property custodian
has important Republican friends. it is
said, but the Republicans have the
power to keep the Wilson administra-
ton in the public mind by investigating
Palmer.
1t is reported that they mean to do it
SO many millions are involved in the
disposal of German property in the
United States that it Is only necessary
to investigate to arouse suspicion.
whether justified or not. and Palmer is
so generally disliked that he is easy
game for Republican investigating
committee.
Politically it is probably not worth
while to get Palmer.
But the advantage of investigating
him lies in keeping public attention
ocuscd upon the Wilson administration.
g q g
GOVERNOR COX is not going to
~, ~ find it easy to get away from Mr..
Wilson.
The only way he can do il is b,
making himself bulk so large in the
popular Imagination that the people
will forget Wilson. Palmer, the league
and all the rest of it.
lie has made himself, master of the
Democratic party.
ne must also make the country think
OF Cox instead of Wilson.
do it. o'''
Cox sees that he must do it.
Inc question is whether he can.
whether the stimulus of his big oppor. =.
tunity viii lift this local politician IN
TO the point where he can possess the
imagination of the whole country.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-07-23

Of the allied councils. Only a true and
lasting peace between the two peoples
now In a costly and dangerous war will
eliminate the possibility Of intrigues
between unregcncrate elements In
Russia and Germany.
If the Allies, In their present work
Of mediation. can bring about such a
peace they may thereby atone for some
Of the appalling mistakes Of the last
year
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-07-23
"A FoUR-YEAR PROGRAM FOR
PHILADELPHIA

Things on which the people expect
the new administration to concen-
trnte its attention;
The DelGDdre river bridge.
A drydock big enough TO dccoptmo-
date the largest ships.
Development Of the rapid transit Sys-
tenn.
A convention hdll.
building for the Free Library.
An Art Museum.
Enlargement OF the tooter supply
Homes to accommodate the popuLd-
ton.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-07-23

II the foolish ballot thing seeks to
deprive woman of her inaliensble right
10 keep her age to herself the ballot
iaws VIII have to be changed. and that =
ull 'nere IL 10 1t; The fact that the
age requirement is merely an aid to
identification cuts no figure at ali with
the new voters '
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-07-23
HOW DOES 1T
STRIKE YOU?
By KELLAMY'

THE Republicans are going to devote
- all their energies to keeping Will
sonism before the country as the issue.
Governor Cox and his board of po-
litical strategy will expend all their
political ingenuity in getting away from
the Wilson issue and moving the mind
of the voters to other questions, in spite
of the fact that his own platform ties
him to the Wilson administration and
in spite of the danger of offending the
President and his followers.
The real issue in the minds of the
voters today is the unpopularity of the
President and the desire of the voters
for a change.
BY naming Cox the Democrats got
partly away from the Wilson issue.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-07-23

Pullman fares and
Round and Round ra way passenger
rates will probably
bc boosted high with the consent of the
Interstate Commerce Commission to
provide the 5000, ,0OO, 900 necessary for
the new railway wage scales, Gasoline
prices have taken unto themselves
wings. One might suppose that we will
soon become by force Of circumstances
stay .nt home people if it we're not so
terribly difficult to find and keep a
home
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-07-23

One thing the San Francisco con :
vcntion proved: The building OF a biz
convention hall is worth while in :
vestment for any big city. And that is
a lesson that should be learned here in
Philadelphia.
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q 9 g

THERE are other ways of keeping at :
l. tention rivetcd on the Wilson ad :
ministration than by merely beating the
tom toms on the treaty.
There are two immensely unpopular
features of the Wilson administration :
the Department of Justice with Mr..
Mitchell Palmer at it's head and the
Postoffice Department with Mr.. Burle
son at its head.
The Democratic platform loads Gov.
crnOr Cox with responsibility for both
Palmer and Burleson.
1t points with especial pride to
Palmer.
1t is going to be hard for Cox to mako
an appeal to progressive voters without
disavowing Palmer, the most reaction
airy attorney general the country ever
had.
Palmer's name is anathcma to all
liberals.
Cox knows it well enough.
lie has not only the league to carry
which he believes will cost him votes
but also Palmer.
IT Is hard to get away from the league
and Palmer.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-07-23

Here and there there may be iso
lated Americans foolish enough to be :
licve that we arc not intimately con :
cerned in what is happening in Poland
and assurcdly there is imminent posi- L.
bility of their being rudcly enlightened.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-07-23

The New York Sun speaks of the
covenant in the League of Nations as
an empty jest. Another eminent satirist
once spoke of solemn treaty as a
scrap of paper. The world has long
agc, passed its verdict on the charac-
terization.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-07-23

The motorboat owners idea of q
blissful week end continues to be to ex =
tract JOY from grease. as he tinkers with
his engine from sunup to sundown,
Sunday, and then clean up In time to
take his train back to the city.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-07-23

Wet jubilation over the defeat
of a. j. Volstcad. author of the pro-
hibition enforcement act. appears to
nav" been premature. The court has
disqualified his opponent, and he goes
on the Republican ticket in Minnesota
as the duly nominated candidate.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-07-23

There isn't much room for jubila
ton in the fact that while we led the
world in shipbuilding l.. 1910 we have
now slumpcd to second place. And not
even the winning of yacht race on a
time allowance can console US.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-07-23

The evident lack of burning inter-
est in the third party is heartening and
comforting evidence that the average
American is safely and sanely going
about his business.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-07-23

In order to combat the high cost of
living, women in Paris are using paint
instead of stockings. How about
congressional committee to investigate
and make report?
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-07-23

The more we think of 1t the more
confirmed is our belief that the big
celebration Mt Hog Island was a joyous
jamboree over the death Of darned
good old scout.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-07-23

Vice President Marshall wants it
understood that his is a pretty good Job
as It stands and that any change made
in its duties would very likely be for
the worse. And there is an off chance
he Is right.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-07-23

Scnor Alvarado. Mexico's financial
minister, knows what ails his country,
and also knows what to prescribe. The
one thing remaining is for the country
to take its medicine.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-07-23

With one race won by a fluke and
another by time allowance, good
deal OF the snap has been taken out of
the yacht races.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-07-23

Since we know we've got to pay
that $500. 200, 900, perhaps it would be
well for the Interstate Commerce Com
mission to let us know the worst at
once.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-07-23

So far az we can see, the only way
Senator Harding can save his lawn Is
to follow the example of the California
woman who has had one made out of
green concrete.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-07-23
Answers to YESTERDAYS oui,

NnsWers 10 Yesterdays Quiz
l. The fuli name Of Volstead. after
whom the prohibition enforcement
act Is named. is Andrew ]. Vol
stead. He comes from Granite
2. Railroad construction in America
may be said to have begun in tho
decade 1830-l840. S'''
3. The present owner of the yo,,. -,
Milos Is the French Government
The famous statue is one .n1 IN
treasures of the Louvre Mus.un1
in Paris S'u'''
1. william 4. Tilden, of Philade,pb,a
IT, the holder of the worlds cham.
pionship title for tennis
8. Elias Howe invented the sewing ma l.
chine. '''"
6. "Fitz." In such names as Fitziam.s
and Fitzpatrick. is old Norman
French for "hls." son. Hence. Fit.
James means literally, tho son of
T., a trngle is curtain rod a sun.
porting rod for canopy or bed
g. The musical term allegro" means
lively, gay,
Q. An American citizen must be thirty
years of age before he can he
elected United States senator
10 Five Presidents of the United Statos
were elected from New York state
. -. -. They were Martin Van Buren, Mil
iard FILLMORE, Chester a. Arthur
: Grover Cleveland and Theodore
Roosevelt.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-07-23

Enormous hay and fodder crops
have been raised in the West. With
adequate transportation facilities. old
High Cost of Living would soon get his
dcathblow.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-07-23

1t having been authoritativcly de-
cidcds that the dry rot was not in the
ladder, the next thing will be to find
out just where it was.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-07-23

"Why," said tn c
How, % Clever Clever chauffeur, ."is Gov.
April day?" And the
man who was working the gasoline
pump answered without a trenor and
ayerrcd that Governor Cox is like an
April day because you never ~can tell
from one minute 10 another whether
he will be wet or dry. st-
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-07-23

Summer, cables q
In Far Country sentimental CORE
spondent, has come
to Esthonia :" And the well. known
Esthonians are probably astounded~ to
find that summer did not arrive carry
ing a sword.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-07-23

Grover Bcrgdoll chasers should not
despair. Erwin HAS given promise. to
the lines beginning, "While the lamp
holds out to burn.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-07-23
q q q

A ND Palmer is something more than
"A rcactionary.
The Kenyon committee of tho Sen.
ate. investigating campaign funds
barely touched the Palmer campniVn
before it raised scandal-thc relation
of Palmcr's campaigns manager. Carlin
10 persons who might be prosecuted nv
the attorney general for attempts to
defraud the government.
1t was the worst revelation of the
whole investigation.
Palmer never has been investigated.
lie is tempting field.
Palmer administered many millions
OF dollars worth Of German property
In this country.
Many Of those into whose hands that
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-07-23

Those who know exactly how II
happened will now proceed TO strain
their throat halyards.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-07-23

The fact that Governor Sproul has
refrained. from adding to the number of
municipal judges pleases everybody but
the politicians.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-07-23

The Park trolleys evidently don I
share Mr.. Mitten's passionate fondncss
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-07-23

And there isn't an bottom to the
darned cup, anyhow.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-07-23
What Do You .Kno,v?
QUIZ

QUiZ
l. For how many years was Eugene
empress of the French?
2. What is cobalt?
8. Where is Mandalay?
T. "hh' are the two main divisions of
the human brain?
o. How high is the rock of Gibraltar?
b. Name great republic which dis.
pehses with vice president?
l. what Is the pronunciation OF the
word sough, and what does il
o. Wnat deteat necessitated the evac-
uatlon Of Philadelphia by the Con.
tinenal army IN the America n
Revolution and the retirement of
the troops under Washington to
Forge? 'aheS
D. Who was Gabrielle Rejane?
10. What Is the capital of the man, 70
public Of Czecho- -Sloyakia?
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-07-23
SHORTCUT

Wonder. how Erwin likes army life
as far as he's got?
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-07-23

Organized labor IL
Plum FOOlishness said to be seeking
to embarrass Gov :
ernor Coolidge by putting the striking
policemen at the head of the Labor Da y
parade which ne will be asked to re-
view. We cannot believe that the Bos =.
ton labor unionists will do anything so
foolish. Those who conceived the idea
have no proper comprehension of the
governors caliber, Governor Coolidge
may be confidently expected to do CT =
actly the right thing.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-07-23

Wei. this Is nice cup of tea y
remarked Sir Thomas.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-07-23
Member of the Associated Press

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS is
ercInsircly entitled TO he use for
republication Of all nctcs dispatches
credited 10 il or not othernisc credited
IN his paper. and also The local neps
pabiishcd therein.
All rights Of republication Of special
dispatches herein arc also reserved.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-07-23
Doesn't it seem
1t Does

Doesn't it seem,
II Does after all, that a city
like Phi a delphia
ought to be able to provide itself with
adequate street t'car facilities even il
there were no Mitten Plan and no
Stotesbury Plan? '