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The Little River news., 1920-05-08

It begins to look like old Whisker- anza had about run it's race in Mexico. Question is who will be the goat?
The Little River news., 1920-05-08

We have heard no recent complaint on the grounds of a lack of moisture.
The Little River news., 1920-05-08

Hicks, May 4.-(SpeciaD-Rev. $. K. Burnett filled his appointment at this place Sunday. A large crowd attend
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-04-03
A ROWING PRINCE

TF THE Prince of Wales doesn't
i weaken he will, perhaps, come to
know his own dominions as well as
American Presidents do theirs. Geo
graphical information is a by product
of our presidential campaigns. Even
the defeated candidate, having swung
around the circle of the states, retires
q wiser if not better man.
But stumping for kingship is not
indispensable yet even in liberal Britt
ain. What is not an absolute necessity
may, however, be highly advantageous
to royalty, and it is certain that the
very extensive travels of young Edward
must prove a humanizing equipment
for his prospective role.
Just at present he is heading for
San Diego, having passed through the
Panama Canal while mercurial Culebra
was engaged in one of its tantrums.
1t is unfortunate that the notorious cut
misbehaved and had to be chastised by
blasting, but even this incident was not
without it's illuminative appeal.
The princes present itinerary in
c.,r,e n visit to Australia. He has
already seen Canada, a strip of the
United States and some British pos
sessions TO the east. Eventually he
NAV cover" all of the imperial do
main. 1t is interesting to wonder how
George the Third would have acted had
he been more of a royal rover.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-04-03
A DIPLOMATIC NOVELTY

THE charges Of ingratitude lodged by
i our former allies against the United
States because Of our rejection of the
peace treaty may soon have 10 be re-
yised.
The declaration of peace framed in
the foreign affairs committee Of the
House of Representatives expresses for
the pact of Versailles none of the con
tempt TO which the Senate gave such
fluent utteranCe. In fact, the resOlu
tion places emphatic reliance upon all
those clauses Of the treaty in which
tiermany makes submission TO the
United States.
II is true that in refusing to ratify
the treaty we declined to accept all
rights accruiug to us under that instru-
ment. But Germany signed up. Her
surrender Is on record, and by that
record the House resolution abides even
though our part Of the contract was re
pudiated.
The arrangement Is described in Ian
suage which admits Of no misinterpre
tation. Under penalty Of ban on COM
mercial intercourse, Germany is in
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-04-03
RESPONSIBILITY FOR DIRT

DOCTOR FURBUSH'S indignation
~ over the filth in the back alleys in
which Philadelphia sbounds reflects
both upon the police who have failed
to report deposits of trash and refuse,
and upon the contractors whose delin-
quency seems to be chronic. The in
'dictment for outrageously insanitary
conditions can also be lodged in part
against property owners and tenants
Injured to the local custom of regarding
alleys as dumps. In fact. the respon-
sibility is joint and relief can only
come from vigorous and intelligent CO.
operation.
The three city departments con-
cerned - Health. Public Works and
Public Safety-should unite on some
program in which their corrective re-
sources can be co -ordinated. The ed
ucation of the public is an ideal less
easy of attainment, but it should be
pursued ceaselessly and with as en-
phatic punitory agencies as are legal.
When the citizens themselves are fully
aroused accomplishment by the three
departments will be inevitable.
Corrupt government, unclean politics,
insolent and greedy contractors have
capitalized to the utmost some low
public standards OF sanitation. When
We begin to understand that dirty back
alleys are fully as dangerous to health
and progress as dirty main streets we
shall not be such easy victims.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-04-03
COMMON SENSE IN GEORGIA

THE eleventh hour withdrawal of
i -Mr. Wilson's name from the Geor-
gia presidential primary ballot is prob
ably to be ascribed less to mysterious
influences than to the pressure of com
mon sense. The White House is said
TO have accorded no recognition to
either the beginning or the finish of
this fantastic move.
As almost everything In politics can
be arg led from contradictory stand
points, the professional interpreters can
prove that the President is Indifferent
10 the entry of his name into the cam
paign or eager for it or opposed TO it.
But IL the public is momentarily capa-
BILE of nonpartisan thinking, it should
realize that Mr.. Wilson as a candidate
belongs to history, not to prophecy.
The practical result OF the clearing
situation is that the Palmer forces in
Georgia can now frankly go to the mat
against the battalions of Hoke Smith,
who has long been unsympathetic with
the Presidents policy on the league and
Nae treaty.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-04-03
EASTER

A y 1NSISTENT voice in mems hearts
"A whispers of victory in the hours of
defeat. In darkness it sings miracu-
lously of the light. In humiliation it
cries again the promise of triumph, and
in storm it tells of assured tranquility.
1t Is the voice of faith and Of imagina :
ton. 1t is older than the world. 1t
has guided and led and driven the race
upward out of utter darkness, and be-
cause Of it all written history is a
record of humanity's conflict with its
own imperfections.
Easter is the symbol Of its purpose.
Easter commentaries the greatest ad-
venture Of the human spirit, great
promises fulfilled, immortal hope JUS
titled. In this part of the world it
comes dramatically in the season of
miracles when life is stirring and re-
surgent under all the black wastes Of
winter and when everywhere there are
signs to prove that cold and terror and
destroying winds are not an end but a
beginning.
This surely is the winter Of the
world. But no one with faith or i'm
agination will believe that 1t can last.
There is new life beneath the waste and
the accumulations of the dark years.
New men are coming. Their minds
emit the light we need. And they can
not rest, they cannot be still. The i'm
mortal voice of command and prophecy
is within them and it will give them no
peace until they find the goal for which
they, like all those who have gone be-
fore them, must struggle through all
pain, at all costs.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-04-03
Answers to Yesterdays Quiz

i. Monterey is a. city in California,
ninety-four miles south by east
Of San Francisco. 1t was for a
time the capital of California
was a Mexican province. Monter-
rey Is an important city in North
ern Mexico In the state Of Nuevo
Leon.
2. The word leeward should be pro-
nounced as though it were spelled
3. Alabaster Is the name of several
varieties of carbonate or sulphate
OF lime. tits also a massive fine
grained sulphate of lime, as dis
tinct from the carbonates and was
particularly used by the ancients
for receptacles for unguents
4. Thomas Jefferson's election was
decided by the House Of Represen-
gress In 1924.
s. President Wilson signed the dec
laration Of war with Germany on
April 6. 1917.
6. The colors of the flag Of Brazil are
yellow and green.
7. The "Sans-Culottes" literally "the
breechless," were the Republicans
of the lower Partisan classes in
the French Revolution.
s. Thomas Hughes wrote tom
Browns School Days" He died
In 1896.
8. The stool of repentance" was
originally a low stand placed In
front Of the pulpit In Scotland on
which persons who had incurred
ecclesiastical censure were placed
during divine service.
10. Georgia was founded by James
Oglethorpe In 1898 as q refuge for
debtors.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-04-03

ment Of school administration in Yale
University.
Doctor Spaulding declares that the
minimum definite comprehensive OBJ
jects which should be sought in public
education are essential elementary
knowledge, training and discipline,
occupationaI efficiency and civic re-
sponsibility. A program necessary to
achieve these objects involves a mini
mum school year of thirty-six weeks,
adequate laws compelling regular at
tendance throughout the school year Of
all children between the ages of seven
and sixteen, effective public control of
elementary private tchools to insure
proper standards Of instruction and
regularity of attendance, and a prop
erly trained teaching force every mem
Der of which has an education equiva-
lent to a four year high school course
and professional training equivalent to
a year normal school course.
This program cannot be carried out
unless the people are willing to spend
more money for the support Of the
schools. Doctor Spaulding says that
1t costs $3.50, 100000 a year to main
tain the public schools, and that at
least $4,000, ,000,0 900 should be spent.
The average salaryIo of teachers is $500
a year. 1t ought to $500. Until the
salary is raised it is absolutely i'm
possible to secure properly equipped
teachers in sufficient numbers to sup
ply the schools, and until the rich com
munities tax themselves to provide
money for maintaining schools in the
poor communities the whole country
must suffer.
The members of the committee which
is to direct the survey of the local
schools would doubtless find their un-
derstanding Of the problem before them
broadened if they should read Doctor
Spaulding's article, some extracts from
which are reprinted in another column
on this page today.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-04-03
SUFFRAGE HOPE STRAWS

TNHE depressing outlook in Delaware
l. is u severe test of suffrage opti-
mism. Crumbs of comfort are now dis
cernible in Louisiana. They are not of
alluringly nutritious possibilities, but
yet not wholly negligible.
John NJ. Parker, who has called the
Legislature of his state to meet in
May to consider the nineteenth amend
ment, is not a typical southern gov
ernor. His election last November
marked the defeat of a notorious ring
which had throttled the state for years.
In 1916 Mr.. Parker was nominated for
Vice President on the Progressive
ticket.
There is faint chance that the forces
of liberalism with which he has been
associated may exert in Louisiana a
welcome influence on behalf of suf
frage. In any event, it is slightly safer
to entertain hopes of Louisiana than
it was Of Miss; bpi, where promise of
relief was so swiftly extinguished this
week
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formed that It must within forty -five
days declare that it has ceased to be at
war with the United States and that it
valves and renounces on behalf of
itself and its nationals any right or
benefit against the United States or its
nationals that it or they would not have
the right to assert had the United States
ratified the treaty of Versailles"
Who said the treaty was dead? The
respect here paid to that document is
unique. Indeed, in the history of diplo-
macy there is no parallel to a situation
in which one principal which has turned
down contract fatty insists IL be
scrupulously carried out by the other
party.
Unselfsh admiration of the pact can
not be carried beyond that point, for
have we not already surrendered those
very rights which we are planning to
summon Germany to yield?
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-04-03
THE TAMPER

with Apologies to Rudyard Kiplinr,
boaster; one who adds son,a-
thing new to an old thing.-DIct.
A FOOL there was and I heard him
n swear.
Even as you and I,
That things as they are. are very unfair
That where they are round they ought to
I knew he'd vacuum under his hair
Raising his hue and cry.
oh! The cares he sped and the snares
he spread,
And all for the people who did not know
And he could not see that they never
would know,
They being honest men.
A fool there was and his breath he
spent,
Even as you and I;
Turmoil and strife and discomfort
He scattered with venom wherever he
went,
For a fool is naturally twisted and bent
Raising his hue and cry.
Obi The time he lost and the slime he
tossed.
And the ideal things he planned;
And all for the people who didn't know
why
He was raising his imbecile hue and cry,
And could not understand.
The fool was tripped In his foolish pride,
Even as you and /
When the people carelessly threw him
aside
For with things as they are We are
satisfied.
And the boaster's vaporings scorn and
deride
Even his hue and cry.
Now 1t isn't a shame. for We cannot
blame
The sting of the peoples brand.
IT'S coming to know that the things that
are,
Than the fools vain jangle are better
far
For these we can understand.
r-Wiliiam J. EldridsA
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-04-03
What DO You KnotU?
QUIZ

QUIZ
l. How did hokey-pokey gets It's
name?
2. Who is the highest commander of
the American troops now on the
Rhine?
3. Name two former chieftains of
Tammany Hall.
4. One southern state Is to consider
the equal suffrage amendment In
May and another in July. Which
are these states?
s. Who said "Is civilization a failure
or is the Caucasian played OUT?
G. What is a pantechnicon?
z. Who mortgages a property. q mort
gagor or a mortgage?
s. What is a mammee?
Q. What is the predominant religion
of Persia?
10. What is the particular day devoted
to ultra.radical manifestations in
Europe?
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-04-03
Member of the Associated Press
A FouR-YEAR PROGRAM FOR
PHILADELPHIA

Things on which the people expect
the new administration TO concen-
trate Its attention:
The DeldDdrc river bridge.
Il dr'UdOC6 Big enough to 1ccomnio-
date the lurDest ships,
Development Of the rapid transit sys.
tenn.
A convention huLL
A building Jor the Froe Library.
An Art Museum.
Enlargement Of the tcdtsr supply.
Homes to accommodate the populo-
ton.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-04-03

The one effective argument against
advocates of direct action" is that
thew have legal means of getting what
they desire when their views are sus-
tanned by the majority of the people:
To take a leaf out of their Book of
Violence by ejecting them from a legis-
lative assembly is to help to justify
their contention that direct action
is nncnSsnrN.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-04-03

Maryland's course in seeking an
Injunction to restrain the secretary of
state from proclaiming the federal
suffrage amendment until its validity is
passed upon by the Supreme Court. In
case it is ratified by thirty six states,
looks like spite, but may be wisdom.
If the Supreme Courts action is favor
able it will at least reduce the danger,
il any exists, Of the presidential cleo
tion being thrown into the courts.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-04-03

Extremists in most of the towns IN
the Ruhr district are forcing workers to
quit their jobs and join the Red army.
species of radical intoxication to which
the Allies may yet be called upon TO
apply truly Rhural test.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-04-03

Another intellectual treat featured
for April 1S-the U. of p. sophomore
freshman pants fight. Already great
excitement is being manifested as to
which party will display the greater
number of highbrOws.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-04-03

The depressing fact Is that the man
grown lazy and careless does not often
recover until Fate kicks him severely
and there Is possibility that the same
holds true of civilization.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-04-03

1t was not merely coincidence that
the New York Assembly Ousted the
Socialists on All-Fools' Day. Fate
was taking u hand.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-04-03

The fireman who saved bottle Of
whisky from a local fire had an up-to-
date appreciation of what is meant by
"valuables." "
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-04-03

In order to see the evils of an excess
nrofit tax one has only TO consider what
would happen if the same rule applied
IN n savings account.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-04-03
PUBLIC EDUCATION
A NATIONAL PROBLEM
Tho Local School Survey VIII Be
Good as Far as II Goes, but IL
Cannot Compass the Whole
Issue Of llliteracy

ENOR reasons growing out of the wart
L that serious attention is being given
to the problems of education by the
general public which used to be con-
fined to professional educators.
The war disclosed two disconcerting
facts. One was that hundreds of thou
sands of American youth of the draft
age were virtually illiterate. They
came from all parts of the country and
from the cities as well as from the
rural districts. The other fact was that
hundreds Of thousands of citizens of
foreign birth or parentage had no
proper understanding of American
ideals or theories of government.
Thoughtful persons were disturbed
as they considered the dangers that lay
in this mass of ignorance and in this
large group of unassimilated foreigners.
Revolutionary agitators were at work
among the unlettered and the alien.
They were sowing the seeds Of discon-
tent in the hope that they could reap
a harvest of.violence which would en-
able them to set up institutions here
which had been conceived in the tyran-
nies of the Old World. Instead of let
ting matters drift, a concerted move
ment has begun to direct the processes
of education in such a way as to re-
move illiteracy and to Americanize the
foreigner.
This movement is making progress.
Right here in Philadelphia we see evil
dence of it in the agreement of a group
of private citizens to provide the money
to pay for a school survey.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-04-03

Overs who threaten to strike should
remember that strike times are blue
times and that only times Of adequate
reduction wear rosy hue.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-04-03

We pay more for food and clothes
for our children than formerly: why
hesitate about paying more for the ed
ucation of our children!
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-04-03

As a candidate Hoover lacks the ART
of concealing his opinions, but this
may prove 70 be An asset.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-04-03

Some of the Blue Hens chickens
were counted before they were hatChed
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-04-03

Today is merely a stepping stone
between a damp Friday and sun
shiny Sunday.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-04-03

The President is discovering that
righteousness without authority is
great provoker of the short answer.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-04-03

The Public Service Commission has
no terrors for the Shanks' Mare Transit
Company.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-04-03
A TToRNEY GENERAL PALMER

A TTORNEY GENERAL PALMER
n is sending out "fying squadron"
against the profiteeers.
The war upon the profiteers is one in
which all the victories are with the
profiteers and all the honors are with
the government.
Mr.. Attorney General Palmer fixes
the top price of sugar at fourteen cents.
1t is a magnificent service to the
nation.
Sugar at once goes to twenty cents.
Palmer gets the glory, the sugar
makers take the profits and the public
pays the bills, feeling a deep sense OF
gratitude to the vigilant attorney.
After this telling blow to the sugar
profiteers, Palmer goes after the other
profiteers with q flying squadron.
1t is good for q first page story IN
the newspapers.
Nothing ever happens from Palmer 8
efforts except still higher prices.
Yet the public is pleased. :,
II likes to see its officials stirring IN
its interests, though it knows they ~hl
do nothing. g q, ,oys
II likes to feel that it is not power :
less before the extortioners, for It can
ALWAYS send Palmer and VAS hylng
squadron or his :. fair price prlsaae
after them.
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DARTLY because of the short schoo

DARTLY because of the short school
l. year, partly because only partial ad-
vantage is taken even of this short year,
the amount of schooling that we Amer
leans are getting is startlingly little.
As nation, we are barely sixth
graders!
According to the well considered es-
innate of Doctor Evenden in his recent
study of teachers salaries and salary
schedules, About 1000, 900 children
are taught by teachers less than TWEEN
ty-one years of age, with little or no
high school training, with no profess
sional preparation for their work and
who are, in a great majority of cases,
products of the same schools in which
they teach
The education Of country school
teachers generally is several years less
than that of city teachers; even so, al
lowing for one or two, possible excep-
tions, it is extremely doubtful whether
the average education of the whole
group of elementary teachers in any of
our large cities exceeds that of four
year high school course, including in
the average all professional education
as equivalent, year for year, to high
school education.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-04-03

But we shall fail in our duty IL we
confine our thinking to the educational
problem of Philadelphia. AS our pop
ulation is recruited from the rural dis
tricts, we are vitally interested in the
kind of schools which those districts
maintain. We may give to all our
children all the education of which they
are capable, but so long as uneducated
Young people come here from the COun-
try we shall have the problem of H..
literacy TO struggle with.
Education is national issue, and
the opinion is spreading that we must
cease to regard it az purely local
question. Those rural districts where
good schools are most needed are least
able to provide them. Yet under our
present system the citizens in those
districts run their own schools, keeping
them open fifteen or twenty weeks in
charge of i'll paid and poorly equipped
teachers.
A plan for improving conditions is
set forth in the Atlantic Monthly for
April by Or. Frank e. Spaulding, one
of the best equipped educational ex-
merits in the country. Doctor Spauld-
ing was called 10 the superintendency
Of schools in Cleveland after a school
survey had disclosed the defects Of the
local system, and he set about putting
into effect the recommendations Of thc
committee which made the survey. lie
ia about to take charge OF the depart
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-04-03

Delaware simply postponed the
inevitable. .-.