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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-11-13
LEAVES 100000 ESTATE
VIII Of r. M. c. Lippineott, Camden
Realty Man, 10 Probated

The will of Frederick NJ. G. Lippin-
colt, for many years a real estate and
insurance broker at Second and Market
streets, Camden, who died October 30,
at his home in Clementon, N. j., was
admitted to probate today. Most Of
the estate, valued at $500, 900, consist
ing mostly of bank and building and
loan stocks, is left in trust for his nieces
and nephews. On their death the in
come of the estate goes to their children
at maturity.
The West Jersey Homeopathic Hos
pital and the Home for Friendless Chill
dren, of Camden, are to receive $500
each by the terms Of the will. The
Burlington County Trust Co. is named
as executor. The executors are in
structed to take from the estate an
amount sufficient for the erection Of a
granite tombstone. The Eldress Gene
terry Association Is to receive 500 for
the care of the burial plot.
Personal effects are bequeathed to
relatives, including genalogical chart
of the Lippincott family, which goes to
nephew, Elmer f. Lippincott.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-11-13
SHIP BOARD men
/ TOOK GRATU|T|ES
Commissions" Paid Engineers
/ by Firms Selling Supplies
: for Vessels
NO FRAUD, SAYS WITNESS
BY the Associated Press

New York. Nov. 13.-Tcstimon con
cerning commissions" paid engineers
on shipping board vessels by firms sell i
ing supplies for the ships was given
today at continuation of the congress
sional investigation into. the boards
affairs.
Miss Lizzie Moorehouse, accountant
and treasurer of the Bird Archer Co.
manufacturers of chemicals, said such
presents were charged up by statesmen
as advertising. Her testimony was
corroborated by Albert X. Waycott,
employed Dy the company as sales
man IN 1918.
Refreshing her memory from an aft =
davit which she made in July, 1918, now
part OF the Walsh committee records.
she declared engineers were paid $40
on each twenty gallon keg sold and So
that these presents" amounted to
about IN IS or 20 per cent Of the firm s
advertising account.
Gifts of $4,000 Year
Asserting that the five and ten dollar
keg rates were standard" Waycott
declared It was regular custom to
make gifts to engineer officers and en- :
tertain them. These presents, he said,
amounted to about $4,000 a year. He
testified he had kept away from ship
ping board vessels after investigation
had been started.
Questioned, he said these gratuities
were not charged up to the shipping
board and the board received the goods
at wholesale prices. The gratuities
"came out of the firms profits" he
added.
He said that as result Of the boards
investigation o"ders were issued to buy
no more supplies from his company.
Says Board Wasn't Defrauded
p. Bowman Bird, president and gen
eral manager of the company, testified
his firm had sold supplies to shipping
board vessels IN 1918.
He said payment of gratuities was
not confined to, shipping board vessels
and that he had "trailed along" as was
the custom. He said he had not sold
any Of his products to the shipping
board since the investigation by the
Federal Trade Commission.
1--WE have not had the opportunity
to do So" he said.
He further testified that amounts paid
engineers came out Of the firms pocket
and the shipping board was not de
frauded out of "single cent"
The custom of paying gratuities was
in effect seventeen or eighteen years ago
he added. He also said he was in favor
Of legislation which would forbid it,,
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-11-13
See Pershing as
Secretary of War
Continued from PAGE One

Continued from Page One
the opportunity and now shey will
have the permanent promotions. II
these appointments 60 through the
army will be essentially a Pershing-
made army. all of whose higher officers
in few years will be men who won
their rank in service under the COM
mander Of the American Expeditionary
Force.
II these appointments are approved, :,
the star of Major General Wood seems
to have set. The Pershing influence
will be supreme in the army. It will be
difficult for the new administration to
ignore Pershing and at the same time
difficult to fit Wood into the army in
q position of high authority. IF Persh-
ing Is to be commanding general at
general headquarters, Wood can hardly
be secretary of war or chief Of staff,
indeed chief of staff under the new law
Il hardly so important as it is under
the existing law.
In the opinion of most observers here
Wood lost when Pershing was sent to
France. And he has further declined
in influence with the Republicans
through his entry into the presidential
race. His contest against Harding in
Ohio left unpleasant memories, his
friends having made an unfortunate
personal campaign against the Ohio
senator. In New York the friends Of
Wood blamed Senator .Wadsworth for
failing to give Wood the New York
delegation at Chicago. They made h
fight upon Wadsworth when he came up
for senator in New York. This has hurt
Wood with the chairman of the senate
military affairs committee, and in In
diana Woods friends made a fight upon
Senator Watson to prevent his re- elec =
tion because of the part Watson, who
was instructed for Wood at Chicago,
played in causing Harding's nomina :
tion. This has not helped Wood politi-
cally.
Thus not only have conditions worked
against Wood in the army, but Wood Is
not the political figure he once was.
Washington does not expect tint he will
he secretary of war. or. because Of the
prominence Of Pershipg, that he will
hold high position in the army.
He has some support among the New
England senators, as has General
Clarence Edwards, who has grievance
because Pershing sent him home from
France, and who has been refused pro-
motion from brigadier to major gen.
eral. The New England senators wen,
to Secretary Baker in Edwards be-
half, but failed to receive his promo
ton. His friends will lead whatever
fight is made upon the promotion OF
the merit system major and brigadier
generals. Woods friends may partici-
pate in it, because Of the Pershing in
flsence in the selection of the list, but
it is difficult to see how the fight will
succeed.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-11-13
OLD ACADEMY FOYER WILL
BLAZE!ANEW THIS YEAR
Debuane of 1921 viii Dance Floor Made Historic by
Bellies of Bygone Days

Old Philadelphia, on its fine social
side, with it's assemblies, its midwinter
ball and the Benedicks' and other en-
tertainments peculiar to it's tradition,
will greet with delight the opening Of
the old foyer of the Academy of Music,
which will occur formally on Tuesday
with a musicale to be given for that
purpose.
The foyer. which was the scene Of
every impressive ball in the city, where
every frightened little debutante ap-
preached her first Assembly in nervous
delight, where the famous Calico ball
given in connection with the Kirmess
some thirty years ago took place; where
the First City Troop balls were held
and the Midwinter and the Benedicks
and all the large affairs which spread
beyond the confines of the home, that
foyer Is to open and to be once more
the center round which fashionable
Philadelphia will circle.
e. This has been made possible by an
entire renovation. The foyer has al
ways been architecturally one of the
most beautiful bathrooms in the city,
and now it has been made still more
beautiful. 1t is fashioned much after
the Marie Antoinette crystal room OF
the palace at Versailles. The upper
part, the dome and ceiling has not been
p changed. 1t has been washed and re-
painted In cream and gold and the
pillars which support the sides between
the doors which open into the audi
torium and between the high windows
on Broad street are of pale cream yel-
low, unornamented.
The wonderful crystal chandeliers
which have hung for years in the ball :
room, have all been taken apart,
washed and restrung and the crystals
now have amber -colored lights pecpine
through, giving a soft golden glow to
the room.
But the most beautiful touch of al
in this renovation of the old and grace
ful surroundings of aristocratic Phila
delphia is the mirrors of pure crysta
glass which cover the doors and win
dows and which are formed into semi
circles above both. The glass is superb
every bit of It having been specially
imported from Belgium for the room
II is the first glass that has been made
, there since the war, and 1t is ex'
quisitely clear,
\ Plan Many Entertainments
| The room has been made sound proof
windows and doors being covered witt
followed out wood, and the wood bein
in turn covered with heavy felt. Owe
the felt are hung the mirror% whicl
are formed of a succession of Colonial
like panes Joined together with rosette
of glass. The whole is framed in heav
bronze, the narrow plain frame o
which shows just about an inch aroun
the edge Of the glass. There are mir
rors at the two ends of the room an
mirrors along the sides. and in tn
dome and ceiling are several hundre
inverted lights which add greatly TO tn
( general beauty Of the room.
The managers Of the Midwinter an
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-11-13
HAPPILY Married

TO the Editor Of the Evening Public LEDGER:
Sir-I have been happily married one
year. am happy because have learned
patience, something did not have before.
safety First" should not be guided by
others. He lacks faith in himself. II we
did not live In a country where divorce Is
SO easy to obtain there would be more
happy men and women. Every secona OF
third man or woman one meets. II seems to
me, II of q marriageable age. has been
divorced or separated from his wife. !
consider matrimony as something holy ana
beautiful and q step every clean-thinkihs
ma" Oh "'AA' ' JANE T. PIERCE.
Philadelphia. Nov. 8. 1920.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-11-13
Indifferent Mothers

To the Editor Of the Evening Public Ledger:
sir-Every day. II seems to me. parents
are becoming more indifferent as TO tne
welfare Of their daughters and are showing
less anxiety as to their conduct and deport-
ment. Mothers OF the present day seem 10
be too lazy TO bother al to whether thelr
daughters have the right kind OF compan-
Ions or as to where they spend their time
when away from home. Just as long as
they do not annoy the mother she 10 saus
fed but as to their future she u "iiiins 70
let them take their chances.
The general result 10 that sooner or M !Ma.er
the Indifferent mother begins to hear ht.'o
tales about her daughter. as to where sne
had been seen and the auestionaoie cori
pany with which she Is associatins' MMoro M
and more the daughter absents herself from
home and her disrespect for her parents
IA growing constantly. Finally the inevi-
table crash comes. Generally the dausn.
ter's life Is r-Iined. The family Is orousnt
TO shame. Reparation 10 Impossible ~ 10
too late. The lazy. Indifferent no.heI
learns, to her remorse. that she mas oeen
respons,bie In a great measure for ner
daughters downfall. Surely II is no. 'no
fault Of the father. who 10 compeiieo 10 oo
away at business most Of the time.
II only more mothers were to reaiize 'he
great responsibility that rests upon tnen
thew would surely be more alert ana less
Inclined TO allow the chidren-especiaily tne
daughters- to- work out their own oeS''-
MES. ,.,o
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-11-13
STAGE Stars Visit Walton Roof

In the Pierrot Room on the Walton
roof Joseph K Gorham's revue is hold
ing forth. This is the fourth week for
this elaborate entertainment, which has
changed it's repertoire many times.
In every city there Is some place
where celebrities of the theatre are wont
to gather after their performance in the
evening and IN Philadelphia It Is the
Walton roof. 1t is not unusual for some
of the stars to offer iInpromptu songs
or bits of acting while visiting friends
at the tables A view of the city may be
had from the windows.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-11-13
Judges for "Way Down EastD

-. A committee consisting of Rowe
Stewart, president Of the Associated
Advertising Clubs of the World; Earl
Rloomingdale, president of the Poor
Richard Club, and Vincent B. Brecht.
Northeast High School. and a prominent
member of the Drama League. has been
appointed to pass upon manuscripts
submitted in an advertising contest by
patrons of Way Down East" at the
Chestnut. Prizes of $4,000, $4,000 and
$4,000. respectively. will be awarded TO
the persons who have submitted the
three best suggestions" for advertising
of this film
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-11-13

Letters to the Editor should be as
avoiding anything that would open a
denominational or sectarian discus
sion.
No attention will be paid to anony-
nous letters. Names and addresses
must be signed as an evidence OF good
printed II request Is made that they
be omitted.
The publication Of a letter Ia not
to be taken as an Endorsement OF Its
views by this paper.
Communications will not be re-
turned unless accompanied by post
age, nor will manuscript be saved.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-11-13
Defends Women

TO the Editor Of tho Evening Pnono Leopo'.
sir--I noticed n letter In your paper from
Edward M. Shaw, In which he states tha'
men should not doff their hats to women IN
elevators or even in speaking ana at DUEL
nes, 10 address the women by their first
names.
I think that Mr. SHAW is one OF those
grouches who are peeved because the women
have shown themselves equal TO men wheh
Il comes to brains. Women are not men
equal physically. but that Is not their tault
Because the women have the brains ana
nerve to fight for their rights I think that
they should be given the utmost respect ana
not the respect OF the Mr.. Shaws.
HAPPY TO BE WOMEN 8 CHAMPION.
Philadelphia, October 20, 1920.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-11-13
LIKE MULBERRY SELLERS
Claimant to Millions oraees MItxrs'
Cast

Miss Billie Wedgwood, a Newport
debutante who has been In the public.
eye as a claimant In the famous
Wedgwood pottery Inheritance which
involves millions of dollars. Is In the
octet of Lady Billy" Mitzi's new
musical play at the Garrick.
THE heirs Of Josiah Wedgwood who
founded the pottery. have died out and
the claim to the vast estate In England
goes to the heirs of his brother" said
Miss Wedgwood.
Certainly / should love to be an
heiress." replied Miss Wedgwood, who
did not say that money would make no
difference In her life.
For a time the wealth would divert
my mind from my musical career. but
am hoping that would sicken OF idls-
| ness as the lad Of too much JAM" she
added
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-11-13
NIxoN's ANNIVERSARY

Theatregoers have heard of the might
before Christmas when all through tho
house not a creature was stirring, etc"
While II Is SIX weeks until the yuletide
celebration yet the Nixon Is to have two
Christmases, one being the regular COM
memoration and the other the occasion
of the Nixon's anniversary, which next
week marks the tenth milestone in its
career. Upon this occasion Fred O..
Nixon-Nirdlinger, who was responsible
for the building of the big West Phila-
delphia playhouse and who takes es-
pecial pride in Its conduct as II was
named for his father, will provide es-
pecially elaborate bills for both halves
of the week.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-11-13
Author Of Quotation

TO tho Editor Of the Epcnino Public Ledger:
Slr-Can you tell me. please. who is tn
author OF the following lines7 I have then
on a Christmas card:
"I pray the prayer the Arabs do,
May the peace of Allah abide with you.
Wherever you stay. wherever you go,
May the beautiful palms Of Allah grow.
Through days of labor and nights Of rest.
The love OF good Allah mako you btest:
30 touch my heart as the Arabs do;
May the peace OF Allah abide with YOU"
CAROLINE d. VANCE.
PHILADELPHIA November 3, 1920,
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-11-13
COLD BOOSTS COAL DEMAND
Eastern States, Lacking Supplies,
CIamor for Anthracite

Pottsville, Pa, Nov. 13.-Freezing
weather which spread over the East to-
day has caused an .insistent demand for
anthracite in New England and New
Jersey, where the supply Of hard coal is
very short. New York and Washington
also are without normal supply, but
operators stated today the output il
again becoming very large, as many
miners, attracted by the rise in wages,
are returning to this region and desert
ing other occupations.
Many cancellations or orders are COM
ing in daily for steam sizes of coal,
due to the closing down of factories,
but the effect of this has not yet been
felt in the coal trade and probably will
not be this winter.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-11-13
Referred to Readers

To tho Editor Of tho Evening Public Ledger:
sir-who was the man distinguished as a
statesman, soldier and publicist who about
twenty years ago in New York city gave ut
terance to the following words and where
can they be found: 'If our boasted civiliza-
tion and Christianity mean anything. they
should mean this: No war Is justifable un-
less the cause or object stand in Just pro-
portion TO it's cost In blood, In destruction.
in human misery. In political corruption. In
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-11-13

Poems and Songs Desired
Two Selections REQUESTED

To the Editor Of the ENeriyD Public LEDGER:
Sir-Will you please print IN the Forum
the author Of the following lines and the
whole poem:
Let but little hut be mine.
Where at the hearthstone may hear
The cricket sing and have the shine
or ono glad woman's eyes to make
For my poor sake,
Our simple home a place divine" etc.
Also a poem which contains these lines:
Among New Hampshire's snowy hills
Across the Georgia plains.'
The latter was in McGuffey's old Fourth
Reader. Can any one tell me where I car
secure a copy of this reader?
CHARLES T. DAVIS.
Philadelphia, Nov 8, 1920.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-11-13
Praise From Mrs. Thomson

70 the Editor Of the Eventng PIbho, tsaoRc
Sir--Personaiiy. and on behalf OF tne ~
publican women's committee OF Philaooip.~
old manner in which you have championed
this committee during our campaign four
services have been invaluable, ana i oo
not know what we could have done wNnou'
your cooperation. o~,
CMrs Walter 8. Thomson)
Chairman, Philadelphia County Hepuphean
women's Committee.
Philadelphia. November 8. 1920.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-11-13
p'Arcy Jaxone's Poem

TO the Editor OF the Evonino Public Ledger,
sr-Will you please publish for me in
Dpur Peoples Forum the words OF that
old song "Laddie." the first line OF which
is 'Laddie was somebody's darling"7
II. II. WAGNER.
Philadelphia. October II. 1920.
"LADDIE"
Words by II. L. Darcy Jaxone
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-11-13
Several Supposes

To the Editor Of the Evening Public Ledger:
Sir-I have read Happily Married. on
divorce. and II may bo permitted here am
a few pointers to be considered:
Suppose that o selfish and domineering
husband assures an unhappy wifo that the
only way she can get anything out OF him
Is to live with him,
Suppose he says that under circum
stances will he ever pay alimony.
Suppose he declares he wall give up his
position and hobo in order to evado the
law and suppose as we'll that the wife
should dread becoming a burden on 'home
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-11-13
Chester. Pa. NNember 10. 1920.
Praises Coal Cartoons

TO the Editor Of the Evening Public Ledger:
sir--Folks are generally moro ready TO
growi at a newspaper than they are 10
praise.
II II is not outside the scope OF the open
Forum, permit me to compliment tho EVEN
mo PuBLIc LEDGER, especially your car
toonisa or all the cartoons have ever
siorv to syt.si A. M. LONG.
Philadelphia, November 0. 1o2o.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-11-13
Language Spoken In Jamaica

To the Editor Of the Evening Public Ledger:
Sir-What language Ia used generally IN
the island Of Jamaican c. L. JAMES.
Philadelphia. November 4. 1920.
English 10 the common language or the
island and business men Of Jamaica are re-
auesting that this fact be made public as
tho general idea in the United states seems
spoken.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-11-13
THE PEOPLES FORUM

social Generalization. and even then IL Is
justinable only when every expedient OF
statesmanship to avert It has been thorough
iy exhausted"
SAMUEL c. THOMAS.
Philadelphia. November 4. 1920.
We havo not been able TO find the quota.
tion In any books devoted TO quotations OF
In any published address. II only printed
IN the newspapers Of the period. It would De
very difficult to locate.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-11-13
"The Lost ChIer

To the Editor OF Public Ledger:
Slr-There Is poem have been trying
to find. and turn to you for help. II Is
entitled The Lost Chief and refers to
Abraham Lincoln. 1t contains these lines:
He filled the nations eye and heart,
An honored. loved. familiar name.
So much q brother that his fame.
Seemed OF our lives q common part"
C. c. GEORGE.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-11-13
Roosevelt and NenezueIa

To the Editor Of the Evening Public Ledger:
Sir-A friend OF mine affirmed In an ar
Bument that had Roosevelt been President or
the United States In 1914 there would nave
been no war. He would have compelled tho
kaiser to back down by his threats Of Amer
lean Intervention. To prove his statement
he said: Look how Roosevelt made the Ger
man emperor back down in the Venezuela
sffair." Please give a few facts regarding
this Incident.
SAMUEL T. GoRHAM.
Philadelphia, November 4, 1920.
As an answer to this question we VIII
quote from THE Life and Letters of John
Hay:
"A German feet threatened to seize Vene-
zuelan territory in 1902 to force a payment
Of debts. President Roosevelt told the Ger
man amba assador that II the kaiser refused
To arbitrate. an American feet would be sent
to Venezuelan waters in ten days. There
was no answer to this. A week later Mr..
Roosevelt warned the Berlin envoy. Dr. Hol-
leben. that the United States squadron would
sail day earlier II the kaiser would not
yield. Emperor william agreed to arbitrate.
President Roosevelt did not shirk the test OF
the Monroe doctrine"
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-11-13

Ralph w. Edams.-The Every Evening Of
wilmington, is an Independent Democratic
paper. ..
y. Uhde desires a poem entitled 'Tll
be There on New Years Day" Can a reader
supply t7 The writer Is Of the Impression
that Gus williams used to recite this poem
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-11-13

felix's" and is not exactly fitted to batt
with the world OF business
What thenP AN UNHAPPY WIFE.
Philadelphia, Pa. November i. 1920.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-11-13

Allen l.. welch The ingredient you men
ton as being placed in certain medicine
Ia known only TO the firm who manufactures
the medicine, and we cannot give 1t TO
VI
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-11-13
SAMUEL T. GORHAM.
Legend Of Popular Poem

To the Editor Of the Evening Public Ledger:
Sir-Has tho story Of "Curfew Shall Not
Ring Tonight" any definite local setting. or is
II Just n legend?
Mrs. I. o. TENNIS.
Philadelphia. November 4. 1920.
The legend. which was the foundation for
the poem, Is associated with old Chcrtsey
Abbey In Surrey. England. II was originally
told by Albert Smith in a short story in his
''Pictures Of Life." published In 1S41. Aft
erward 1t was turned into a melodrama by
the same author under the title blanche
Heriot. or the Chertsey Curfew." 1912. The
theme was borrowed by Rose Hartwch Thorp
for her poem "Curfew Shall Not Ring To-
night She changed the name Of the heroine
to Bessie and the time to Cromwells day.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-11-13
Believes Harding Was Right

Philadelphia, Nov. 8. 1920.