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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-08-11

DEOPLE living in the neighborhood OF
the Cobbs Creek boulevard are doing
everything they know to fight plans OF
the Philadelphia Rapid Transit Co. to
lay a double line of tracks on that beau
titul thoroughfare.
The p. r T. Co. at present operates
cars on Spruce street to sixty hrst.
The plan. sanctioned by an ordinance
which Council has passed, but that the
Mayor has not signed. is to carry those
tracks to tho boulevard. otherwise
known as Sixty third street. and swing
north to Lancaster avenue.
There has been a strongly ORGANIZED
protest against the project: some timc
ago the Cobbs Creek Boulevard ifoiHe
Association called on Mayor Moore WIN
protests signed by GO residents OF the
section against the project. ,.,
Just a few nights ago two other - loca.
associations. the Siegel Home Low low,
| Improvement Association ana tne Honon o
| Sixtipth Street Business Men Asso
citation, met Jointly and resolved to get
| similar protests signed and preseh'
them to the Mayor. =,
Moyor Moore has indicated that ne
will be- "in no hurry" to sign the ordi O.,
nance giving the r. r. I. Co. the rIght ,
to Inv tracks on the boulevard. ne
members Of the Improvement assocla :
tions say they are going to conlinu.
their camraign of publicity and protes'
until the Mayor vetoeS the ordinance
Added Danger to Traffic
George r. Sciffprt. president OF th'
Cohbs Crock boulevard Home ASSoc'a
ton, pointed ont in an interview ,Nu, ,
| one Of the most wPighty reasons agains'
| letting the transit company lay tra'kS
on the boulevard was the added danger
thoeo tracks would offer for both motor
| ist and pedestrian.
Every motorist knows Marshal
road" said Mr.. Sciffert. 1T is a new
road lending to Lansdownp. II crosses
Cobbs creek opposite Pine street ant
swings in a long S-shaped double curve
to the boulevard at Spruce street. j
climbs grade at least 100 feet high
The road strikes the boulevard just op
posite the point where the double track
would turn into it.
Last Sunday some Of the member
of our association counted the automo
lilies which used M0rshall road at vari
Gus intervals during the day. AT " :3'
o'clock in tn" afternoon we countet
90 machines climbing the hill, 81
coming down, IA going south OF
the Parkway ut the intersection. 3
going north. all within space Of tcl
minutes. There was total of IL
machines in these ten minutes. whicl
would be at the rate of I2O machine
in an hour
owe took another test at 7 o'clocI
in the evening, when the traffic wa
even heavier. Then 46 cars climbed
and 3S descended the hill; 40 wen
south and 3S north on the Parkway
aud ) more came out Spruce street
That was total Of 16S in ten minutes
OF more than 1000 in an hour.
Nine Accidents Last Week
Last week there were nine accident
at the point where Marshall road meet
the boulevard, just opposite the poin
where the trolley line would swing in
If there are SO many mishaps when tn
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-08-11
CENSERS

A SWINGING censor in some age. old
n fame
Delights me with its wreaths Of tenu-
Gus gray;
The merest dream Of smoke, they float
away,
To lightly cloud the galaxied, rich pane,
Or chapeled candle. Soon Of them re.
main,
But sweet and subtle brcathings Of n
day
Long gone, whose sanity legcndry
can sway,
And with a visionary throng cntrain.
But not for long, since soon myself I
rouse
Those fragrant four walls hold me
but while.
And but a time those sumptuous
glooms withdrawn.
Straight up, beyond the roof Of any
house,
An incense rises; and, free mile on
mile,
To trace it at its source I would
be gone.
The censers of the earth--lo, how they
breathe
Their healing sweetness on the com =
mon air
What precious things they burn, who
is aware
Winds swing them. burt no vapors round
them wreathe,
High noon, or morn, or star set vault
| beneath;
'Tis where the cedars toss their
| scented hair
Or upland wastes their spicewood
treasures bare,
Or dclls azalean dewy blooms unsheathe,
Or tits all gardens that have ever
| been
OF Persia, with the lyric mated rose,
OF Como hover deep swooned in jessa
min
Or some small plot where thyme
and lavender
And dim rcscda lade each breath that
blows:
These least OF censers also minister
Edith NJ. Thomas, in the New York
l. Sun .-,-.--.. o. ---.-.I-,..L.a..
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-08-11

scale can be equally effective. In this
connection, moreover, It Is worth
pointing out that assistance need not
necessarily ,be contingent upon monop-
oily of governmental administration.
The state university plan has worked
we'll elsewhere and has distinct merits.
There Is little reason for fearing that
the standing of the University would be
impaired by such an arrangement. 1t
is lack Of funds alone which is or can
be the most formidable menace.
A string. however, is not indispen-
sable to the aid the Legislature or
Council can afford the University. The
city has toycd with this idea, and on the
whole not very creditably. Promises of
the Blockley site have proved ephemeral.
Back of the archaeological museum there
is a plot Of ground formerly granted to
the University and afterward with e.
drawn. This kind of maneuvering be-
trays a wocful lack Of understanding
of major asset of the city. 1t is
penurious and narrow visioned.
1t matters not If city aided uni
versity. not merely, as in New York,
an expanded high school, but seasoned
and authoritative group of colleges de-
voted to learning in its broadcst as
poets, is a novelty. So much, in fact,
the better.
No more constructive act could char
acterize the present administration than
liberal financial support of the Univer-
sity. The city and state, the public,
alumni and others will utterly miscon-
ceive the significance and worth of the
great university If they disregard or
daily Intellectually with its present diff =
cultieS.
The entire community is honored by
it's attainmcnts and owes to it the full
est loyal. active and material aid.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-08-11
AN ATOM OF PREVENTION

ECENT serious fires in this city
IN make the people willing to listen to
Fire Marshal Elliott's plea for larger
appropriation for his department. He
is getting $50 600 a year. He wishes
5000 900. With the larger sum he could
employ a force sufficient to make thor
ough inspection of all buildings and to
see TO it that they are made safe.
At present he has a force of only
sixty, Of which forty-ftvo are detailed
from the engine houses. The fire mar
shal in New York has force of 210
employed directly under him and 800
additional detailed from the regular fire
fighting force.
When one considers that sixty men
are doing the work in Philadelphia
which it takes 1910 men to do in New
York, it is surprising that we do not
have greater number of serious fires In
buildings whose owners neglect proper
precautions.
Yet New York. with its large force,
does not escape disastrous fires. This
city has had nothing 30 bad as the
Triangle Shirt Waist Company's fire
few years ago, which resulted in the
loss Of great many lives. The girls
could not get out of the building be
cause the doors to the stairways were
locked in violation of the law. But it
was discovered at n recent fire here in
which several lives were lost that the
windows of the building were covered
with an iron grating on the outside
which made it impossible for the firemen
| +o cot in that WBy or the amnlOyeS IN
| get out.
Mr.. Elliott'S plan for enlarging his
department and making it a separate
! bureau Of fire prevention deserves the
serious consideration of tho Mayor and
Council, but whether his whole plan is
adopted or not he certainly should have
an appropriation big enough to enable
| hin, tn COVER tha citx with hia unan
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-08-11

way of reaching both north and south
sections of West Philadelphia, but it is
also the most accessible highway to
many suburban points.
1--WE feel also that the matter of real
estate values ought to enter into con.
sideration somewhat. Heavy expendi.
lures have been made developing this
section because every one felt that the
boulevard would be maintained free from
danger, noise and confusion incident to
the operation of trolley cars"
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-08-11

While waiting for reports from
checkers up of vchicular passenger
traffic at the Federal street terminal
and ferries of the Pennsylvania Railroad
at Camden, with n view to relieving the
congestion, officials of the railroad AMI
members of the Chambers of Commerce
of Camden and Philadelphia might find
significance as we'll as relaxation in
putting i'll their time with a game Of
bridge.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-08-11

France. ravaged and plundered, is
working and saving, says VI. Casenave,
and will pay her debts Here We have
excellent reason why Germany. ravager
and plunderer, herself unscathcd
should be forced to pay her debts.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-08-11

The story tho Inland Waterways
Association will tell at it's convention
in Atlantic City in October is designed
to prove to tho world that the fish
hawk can carry more freight than the
rail bird.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-08-11

II might be the part of policy to
let the p. r. T. underlying companies
prove. that they are not operating pub
lie utility concerns and then demand OF
them what excuse they have for cx
igting
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-08-11

lifeguards at Atlantic City are
still showing fricndliress toward Phil
ndClrhia' census returns. They saved
eleven philadelph'Sus from drowning
on Monday.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-08-11

Stewards in convention in this city
say that restaurant patrons are going
to pay higher prices for smaller por-
tions. The answer to that is that more
people are going to eat at home.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-08-11
What Do You Knou?
QUIZ

QUIZ
/. What is the familiar name for Il
monkey?
.. What Is an everglade?
3. Who was Xerxes and how should his
name be pronounced?
1. What Is a horOlogist;
5. What is n lGmprey?
6. How do fuchsias get their name?
7. To what countries are these flowers
native?
S. How many symphonies did Bee
thoVen write?
.. Who wrote the novel Quentin Dur
ward?
10. What king Of modern Italy was as.
sassinated?
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-08-11

Chief Webster. Of the Bureau of
Surveys, has outraged precedent by sug-
costing a cheaper way Of building the
University parkway. Why, that man
acts as though it were his own money
that was TO be spent
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-08-11
AN OLD ACTORS LOST ART

Ty,HE passing of James O'Neili thins
u the ranks of exponents of an obsolete
art. The "palmy days" have been cen.
.,,rea for bombast lin spite of the no
blest honors to Shakespeare y 4; their
srsnatic xshicles hare been LOrn- 10
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-08-11

Somebody paid Ponzi's profits paid
them in sweat and blood. The old say
ing. You cant get something for
nothing" still stands despite those
who occasionally dodge their debts.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-08-11

The campaign against the rat is
extending all over the country-which
is honor and glory for our own Director
Furbush, who started the present cru
gade
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-08-11

1t is now the task of the fire mar
shall to persuade Council that even
more valuable than fire department
is fire prevention department.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-08-11

So far as public information is con
cerned, ever so many factors in the
sinking fund muddle have been sunk
without trace.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-08-11
Answers to Yesterdays Quiz

Answers to Yesterdays Quiz
!. The College de France, which exists
mainly for the encouragement or
research work and t. attract to its
lectures persons other than regular
university students, holds no ex-
aminations and gives no diplomas
Instruction is gratuitous. AS at
tendance may be begun and ended
at any time, the college may be
said to have no regular body Of
students. The institution, located
in Paris, was founded by Francis
| in the sixteenth century.
.. Madeira Is the Portuguese word for
wood and the Madeira islands,
which belong to Portugal, received
their name from their growth of
trees
3. The battle of Waterloo, the great
English military victory in the
Napoleonic wars, occurred in 1915.
ten years after the English naval
triumph off Trafalgar.
4. Horatio Seymour was Grants Demo-
cratic opponent in his first presI-
dental campaign.
9. Joel Chandler Harris wrote the
Uncle Renus" stories,
6. The most famous painting by Leo
nardo da Vinci is the Mona Lisa"
or "GioConda," now in the Louvre
museum in Paris.
7. The royal palm Is the highest OF the
palm trees. 1t is native to the
tropics.
S. Rome fought three wars with
Carthage. In the last one, in the
second century p c., the African
city was totally destroyed.
Q, The normal value of a German mark
is about twenty.four cents. II IL
now deprecated to about twenty
fifth of its original value,
10. The Countess of Dufferin was a
Canadian yacht which competed
for the Americas Cup thirty-nine
AM. KeaIh ago.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-08-11
UP IN
NJ ARY'S
ATTIC
Bathing Beauties in Person

Philadelphia newspaper critics acclaim Il
a rrdly onjovdbk entertdirnent
Actually goes Mack Sennett one better
'Mary's Attic will prohR bly, enjoy an unlim-
tied prosperity."-The Press.
Carries It's humor with laudable dignity"
Evening Bulletin.
"A striking. dashng show, The Record
Packed houses with standing room only.
greeted the opening performance is GER
tain to 0ppral"--NOrth American.
a bright and summcry entcralumelt OF
merit, - Evening Public Ledger.
"Eyokes loud laughter on many occas.
HonH."- Public Ledger.
~ one is seeking an evenings diversion.
'MaTys, Attic, win natisfY-Inquirsr,
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-08-11

"While the lamp holds out to burn
the viest sinner may return"--but not
to public office.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-08-11

Wonder what scarecrow thinks
about! asks Briggs. Question disre-
spcctfully submitted to the attorney
general.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-08-11

A round of pleasure-Rotarians at
the shore.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-08-11
A FoUR.YEAR PROGRAM FOR
PHILADELPHIA

Things on which the people expect
the new administration TO concen-
trate Its attention:
The Deldtodre river bridge,
n drudock big enough TO dccomro-
date the largest ships.
Development Of the rapid transit Svs-
tenn.
A convention hail
A building for the Free Library.
an Art Museum.
Enlargement Of the wdter supply.
Homes to accommodate the populd-
ffou
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-08-11

The biggest arguments for the Del
aware bridge are made Saturdays ani
Sundays at the ferries.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-08-11

Recent happenings seem to show
that n wolf found its way into the
Lambs Club.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-08-11

The thermometer has nothing on
the politician in the matter Of response
to outside influences.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-08-11

There are 173, oil slackers in the
United States il the draft board records
are correct. Let US hope they are not
correct.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-08-11

A blockade on the Soviet Govern
ment will help the peasants in the
civil war that is coming in Russia.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-08-11
GOING Up!
Six Hundred Miles a Minute Is
the Speed at Which We Are
Travelling Toward the
Star Vega

AT ABOUT s 80 o'clock at night,
"A every night for the next week or
more, every man, woman and child in
Philadelphia will be travelling almost
directly upward at the dizzy rate OF
900 miles a minute.
Any one who goes out on the street
in the early evenings just now has but
to look overhead, slightly to the north,
to see a brilliant, blush white star, un-
mistakable because, in the lights of a
city's streets, it seems to be alone in its
part of the sky. Those with keen eye
sight will see two fainter stars near it
forming a triangle with it, so It is a
particularly easy object to identify.
And it is toward this star, Vega, that
we are all. travelling at such an unbe-
lievable rate.
TT OUGHT to be soothing to the man
L who is worrying over the high cost OF
living and the Polish debaclc and the
sluggish stock market and such petty
human ILL to step into the observatory
Of an astronomer at this time of year
and see how utterly insignificant are all
these things compared to the vastness
Of the great universe as revealed in
contemplation of this blush white
speck from which the spcctroscopcs OF
the world are learning such startling
lessons.
From the early days when II first be-
came certain that all the stars in the
sky are in motion through space and
that our own sun is but star, scientists
have set themselves the problem of as
certaining the direction in which the
sun, carrying the earth and the other
planets with it, was hurtling through
infinity. This line of fight they call
''thc suns way" and the spot toward
which it Is directed they call "thc apex
of the suns way. This spot is now
universally believed to be very near to
Vega.
NATURALLY. the question comes up
~ Are We going to collide with Vega
and will that be the much advertised
END Of the world? But the astronomer
allays these fears with the facts tha' he
has gathered.
1t will, in the first place. take the
earth 560,000 years TO reach the spot
where Vega Is now. But Vega. too,
is in motion and by the time we reach
her present position she will have gone
moro than 200 million million miles
away from it and will therefore be even
further from us than she is now.
To us. It seems that Vega is merely
tiny point of light. Ict it is probably
at least a hundred times as big as our
sun and our sun is 330. 900 times as big
as this earth which We seem to think so
important. And Vega shines with fifty
times as much light as the sun gives
out and is tremendously hotter. So it
is n good thing that she will not be
there when the earth arrives.
With such titanic facts as these in
mind. it is n tremendously impressive
thing to gaze up at this twinkling blue
spcck in tho silence of the night and lot
the imagination have free rein. What
will things be like when this globe
reaches that light overhead? What
were they like when it was at the anal
ogous point in the opposite direction?
Where did we come from? And where
are we going? And what docs it all
mean?
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-08-11

The Democratic choice for a po-
litical chariot seems divided between @
dayton and baby carriage.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-08-11

Breaking the Solid South is as fas
cinating an amusement as finding the
fountain of youth.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-08-11

Add heroes-Dr. George d. Heist,
killed by the meningitis germ he had
fought for years.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-08-11

Franklin d. Roosevelt says Cox
is an engineer statesman; and Frank
lin himself is the little toot- toot.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-08-11

Not much kick in a Philadelphia
Mint julep at $3.50 day.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-08-11

By the dualms it Is subject to, one
might imagine the Chicago wheat pit is
a stomach.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-08-11

Dog days and the campaign
against rats ought to make them Cat
days.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-08-11

Wonder II the Lambs Club would
be willing to make honorary members
Of the White House sheep?
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-08-11

The camp ground at Mt. Gretnf
has n fine bunch Of game birds and no
q grouse among them.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-08-11

Tennessee suffragists are seeking
the rat in ratification.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-08-11
SHORT CUTS
Draw onel Erwin is getting his.

The Daily Dali intrigues attention.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-08-11
Member of the Associated Press

PhH.d.iphia. Wednesday. August II. 1870
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-08-11
THIS COMMUNITY is OUR
UNIVERSITIES DEBTOR
Payment Should Be Made In Gen.
erous Organized Aid TO Secure
the Financial Stability Of
PennsyIvsnia

THE University of Pennsylvania is
L insolvcnt. This community pri-
marily is it's debtor. Nothing will be
gained" as a contemporary statesman
once remarked in different crisis. 'by
leaving this essential thing unsaid."
The 1910 financial report of the chief
institution of higher learning in Phila-
delphia. and one Of the foremost in
America. revealed deficit Of S416,O00,
the largest in the history Of the Cniver-
sity. The half million mark is now
said to be passed. This means. more
over, that the expenditures exceed the
sum total of income derived from all
sources. from tuition fees. bequests and
donations.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-08-11
Ghr Gbenlna Dullrtm

IAN unusual picture. Nothing like
| II has ever been shown i'm n Phla-
delphia playhouse once seen, will
be remembered when the fiCtions
OF other films are only hazy mem
| cries"