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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-07-09
TAKE Mr.. MITTEN'S RULE

E,OR sheer effrontery, the request Of
- the Rapid Transit Company that i,
be allowed t6 charge the proposed in :
crease in fares for year has seldom
been equaled
The company finds itself in financial
straits. It's representatives insist that
il cannot meet its fixed charges and pay
its dividends without the increased fare.
But it does not deny that the traction
system is overcapitalized. and it does
not deny that it is paying d.N lends on
money that was invested in horses and
cars and rails long since worn out,
money that ought to have been written
\ from the books years ago. But in
order to keep on paying these dividends
q seeks permission to burden the car
riders with extra fare.
The company does not propose any
way by which the extra money collected
from the car riders shall be refunded
TO them IL the Public Service Commits
sion should find after investigation that
conditions do not justify the increase
1t simply asks to be permitted to collect
50 900 900 from the people who have
to use the cars.
The Public Service Commission will
consider the request when it meets in
Harrisburg next week. What its de =
cision will be no one can foretell. But
II 1t is guided by the principles which
Mr.. Mitten says guide him. it will give
hrst thought to the rights Il the public,
second thought to the employees of the
company and consider the investors in
traction stock last.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-07-09
THE CITY HAS A CONSCIENCE

IF The city were disposed to pr0fiteer
the taxable value of the real estate
would be increased much more than the
500, ZOO, 900 that has been added to il
this year.
1t would only follow the example OF
the landlords who have turned their
tenants out of houses that used. to be
worth $4,000 and have sold the houses
for $4,000 if it should double the as
sessed valuation of real estate. This
course would raise the taxable value of
he city from 81 800 600, 900 to So, 600,
600 900. which. with 81 tax rate,
would yield S72 900. This would
provide money enough to increase the
salaries Of the police and firemen, to
give living wage to the school teach :
ers, to make all the necessary repairs
to the streets and provide a street
cleaning plant, with something left over
for unexpected expenses.
In view Of the depreciation in the
purchasing power of the dollar, IL is
possible to make plausible argument in
defense of fiat increase in the assess
ment of all real estate. in order that the
income of the city might be big enough
to cover the same ground that it covered
before all values were inflated. IL it
were believed that the present scale OF
prices were to be permanent refusal
to raise the assessments could not be
defended. But every one hopes that
present conditions are temporary and
that in the near future a dollar will buy
much more than can be obtained for it
now. 1t is this hope which has very
properly prevented the real estate as
SCISSORS from doubling the assessments
and thus forcing the proiteers to sur
render some of their loot for the benefit
of the rest of us. But If this belief
should be unfounded and the present
scale of prices should continue, it will
be necessary to increase the taxable
value of real estate If the city govern
ment is to be saved from bankruptcy.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-07-09
THE MOTHER INSTINCT

MO NORMAL woman will be sur.
~ prised when she learns that the
baby left on n doorstep in Camden
about a month ago has been claimed
by his mother.
There was note attached to the
child's clothes announcing that the
father and mother were unable to care
for him at present, but would claim
him in three years when they were
better of. The child was put in a
hospital and arrangements had been
made for its adoption. The mother
and father. however. had been visiting
II frequently, and when the mother
learned Of the plans for the adoption
her courage failed her and she disclosed
her identity and took the little boy
home.
The mother instinct is one Of the
most wonderful things in nature, as
well as one of the most sacred. 1t will
hold a family together in spite Of all
the efforts of institution managers to
take possession of the children Of the
poor. In this case IL has triumphcd
over poverty and disease to the glory
of womanhood.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-07-09
CHESS CHAMPIONSHIP

WHILE public interest in the ancient
w game of chess may be said to be
somewhat subordinate to that main
tanned in the exploits of Babe Ruth and
his associates and opponents, at least
mild sensation has been evoked by the
surrender Of world championship
without a test of mental agility. Doc.
: sor Lasker's resignation of the premier
chess title to Jose X. Capnblanca, the
Cuban prodigy, is from several aspects
disappointing. The conditions OF the
proposed match were unsatisfactory to
chess enthusiasts.
Realizing this but with little effort
10 compromise, Emmanuel Lasker ap.
parently prefers theoretical defeat to
the chance involved in an actual en- =
counter, Years ago the Englishman
Staunton succeeded by a variety of in
genious excuses in avoiding a proof of
his skill against the wonder woi king
Morpby. and chess players have never
ceased lamenting the lost occasion.
Walter Fs4n Shipley, Of this city,
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PERHAPS

TT PERHAPS was purest principle
that prompted action rough
Had Louisiana. hearing Cox, for suf :
frage dOffpd its coat.
when Wilson urges Tennessee to sat
isfy the suff
He perhaps is thinking only OF n
woman's right to vote.
Pcrhars! P'r'aps not
A politician gives the best he's got.
Perhaps they do.
Perhaps they don't.
Perhaps they will
And perhaps they won't.
Perhaps! P'raps not.
Perhaps Vermont is deeply stirred by
tales of women's wrongs.
Perhaps November doesn't count 4,
what II hopes to do
Perhaps little malice lies in Soma
newspaper songs
When, p'r'aps, little truth Green's
in. We'd think so-wouldn't I
Perhaps P'r'aps not,
Still, politics knows buncombe ouite !.
lot io''e
Perhaps we do.
Perhaps we don't,
Perhaps we will
And perhaps We won't.
Perhaps! P'r'aps not! \
G. A.
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JOHNSON HAS COME AROUND

SENAIOR JOHNSON, who went
~ home to California after the Chi
cago convention and by the exercise of
almost superhuman self. control main
tanned silence, has at last announced
his intentions
He will support the Republican
tcket-that is, if Harding agrees with
him on the League of Nations.
In the preconventiOn campaign he
had said that one bolt was enough for
him and that he was engaged in a
family dispute within the party But
it took him three weeks to get his
breath after the Chicago convention
had refused to nominate him.
Now we shall see whether he will
work any harder for the election of
Harding than he worked for the cleo
tion Of Hughes if Harding's position
does not please him
But what will Hearst do. who has
been hoping to make Hiram the candi-
date Of a third party? Will he pick
La Toilette or will he be forced to be =
come the candidate himself?
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Answers to YESTERDAYS ouIx

!. Honolulu Is situated on the island of
oahu In the Hawaiian group In the
Pacific ocean 80 ''''
dict.
3. Levi p. Morton was Vice President
of the United States under Benja-
min Harrison.
I. Earwigs are harmless beetlelike in
sects' once popularity supposed TO
creep INTO the human ear.
B. Vasco Da Cana was a celebrated
portuguese navigator who discoy-
cred the sea route to india by way
OF the Cape OF Good Hope in l49S.
6. A loggla Is an open sided gallery or
7. Timothy Titcomb was the pen name
OF j. @. Holland. an American au-
thor and journalist He died in
8. The age Of Pericles, during which
Armenian culture and arms were al
their height, roughly corresponds
with the life OF the Celebrated
Athenian statesman and orator, He
was born about 496 b. C. He died
In 429
0. Tho first director general of railroads
during the period of government
control was William @, McA doc,
The second and last was Walker
10, The father of william Shakespeare
was a wool stapier.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-07-09
CHILE CENSORSHIP ENDED
Cable and Telegraph Companies Per.
ritted to Dispatch All MESSAGES

Santiago, Chile, July 9.-The min
lister of the interior has sent the fol
lowing circular to the telegraph and
cable companies:
The reason for the order enjoining
strict compliance with the laws regard
ing the transmission of false and alarm
ing messages by telegraph no longer
prevailing, you now are permitted gen
orally to dispatch all kilograms except
those of a subyersive character or liable
adversely to affect public order. Private
telegrams in code will BE- visesd' ed,
sorship for the announced purpose Of
preventing the circulation Of false re.
ports in connection with the recent elec-
tion. The censorship applied to foreign
as well as to interior press dispatches.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-07-09
AN UNPALATABLE DOSE

THE chairman of the Friends Cen
= eral Conference, in session at Cape
May, said in his opening address that
1--WE Friends must use our influence
in an effort to bring about harmony in
the industrial relations. The need is
for justice. honesty and brotherhood
The Spirit of Christ must be brought
to industry"
This remedy is an old one and its
efficacy is universally admitted 1t has
been prescribed time after time. The
dose, however, is unpalatable to selfish
men. whether they be employers or
employees.
Yet it has been taken in a few in
stances and it has worked a cure. In
deed, it would cure the international
ills and do away with war if it were
only used
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-07-09

a New York court has ruled that
the Public Service Commission has no
nower to permit the Brooklyn Rapid
Transit Company and other trolley com
panies to raise the fare above five cents.
which was the condition on which their
franchises were granted One can con !.
ceive the possibility. considering the
high cost of labor and materials, of
injustice. being done the operating com :
panies; but the decision Is at least in =
teresting in view of what is happening
in this city.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-07-09
What DO You Kno,v?


/. How many secretaries NJ stato h,,.
served under President Wilson, ana
who are they? "'N
z. what West Indian island Ia divided
into two republics?
did she live? "'e'
4. Did the constitution. as decIarsS In
erect IN 1888. permit the Imposition
OF such a federal income tax as
the one now in force?
D. how many eggs in a season does a
common househy lay?
s. What are the two highest maintain,
on the American continent?
l. When was the Atlantic first cable
treaty?
.. What IL geodesy?
10. What Is a preside?
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who has been in communication with
Doctor Lasker, still entertains hope
that the latter's decision will be re-
versed. According to all principles Of
sportsmanship il should be. A possible
defeat of the reluctant expert would
not serve him in the popular estimation
half so badly as forfeiture Of long
unshadowed leadership without a
atru ogla
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-07-09
A FoUR.yEAR PROGRAM FOR
h PHILADELPHIA

rhirVs on which the people expect
the new administration - concen-
srate Its attention.
The Deldtcure river bridge.
A drydock Big enough to occommo'
date the largest ships.
Development OF the ropid transit Sys.
tenn,
A convention huH.
building for the Free Library.
An Art Museum.
Enlargement Of the Udter supply.
Homes to accommodate the populd-
I. tton.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-07-09

There is likelihood that the crime
wave which has swept the country has
reached its crest and will now recede
to normal. Individually the aftermath
of war, with its accompanying ex-
travagance and attendant disinclination
for labor, has been responsible. Equally
inevitable was it that a police force
adequate for ordinary times should find
itself wholly unable to cope with ex-
traordinary conditions. But the vigil
ance following the murder of young
Dalton at Sharon Hill and the arming
Of twenty-five service men to serve as
deputies show that public sentiment has
at last been aroused and there is every
reason to believe that it will continue
to manifest itself until the present epi
dcmic of criminal violence has been
stamped out.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-07-09
coor,o GRAY NJ WiIm;

George Gray, Of Wilmington, Del. ,
denounces the calling of a special ses
sion of the Tennessee Legislature TO
ratify suffrage as "the most defiant at
tack on the principle of local self gov
crnment embodied in our dual system
that has yet been launched" And as a
good Democrat it must irk the former
federal judge to realize that this action
of Democratic governor was prompted
by a Democratic President. ''State
rights" have little show in latter day
Democracy. ~.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-07-09

1t is inconceivable that the Re-
publican party will justify Hiram
Johnson's hopes and declare against
the League of Nations while Elihu
Root. one of its foremost members and
the writer of the most significant plank
in its platform. is, by his presence on
the international commission. helping
the league to function. Let Senator
Harding speak.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-07-09

Mr.. Bryan knocked the clements
that made Cox the nominee. pause
here while the heart that is buried
comes to life again. Mr.. Bryan will
probably take off his coat for the can
didate
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-07-09
chlcaqo Seeks Austrian Cooks

Vienna, July 9.-The Vienna news
papers are printing advertisements for
5O6O Austrian women cooks to go to
Chicago. 1t Is explained in the ad-
vertisements that Washington will au-
thorize their admission.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-07-09

A boy fell from tree into bass
horn while Philadelphia band was
giving a concert in Wilmington on
Wednesday. He perhaps wanted to
find out where the notes came from.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-07-09

Nobody wants the street car COM
pany to operate at a loss, but every
body wants to know just where it's
present revenues are going. and why.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-07-09

A picture postcard mailed at Wild
wood, N. j., twelve years ago has just
been received in Philadelphia. Well, in
all fairness we can't blame it all on
Burleson.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-07-09

Why not have congressional in
quiry into the whyness of the congress
sional junket to the Orient?
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-07-09
SHORT CUTS

The vets love Cox for the enemies
he has made.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-07-09

There is growing belief that the
presidential election will be won or lost
not in November, but on the day Sena-
tor Harding formally accepts the nomi-
nation,
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-07-09

The open air market at Sixty
second and Market streets will perhaps
furnish lesson on how to do without
the middleman-part of the time.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-07-09

Sharon, Pa, has an effective way
OF dealing with the motorist who neg
lects to cut out the cut out. 1t cuts
out slice of his wad.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-07-09

1t is small wonder that our own
Gilbert and another papers Sullivan
saw comic opera In the San Francisco
convention.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-07-09

McAdoo men are still undecided as
to whether Burleson was boodoo or
a sighted mascot.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-07-09

There is still possibility that the
country will have more Third Par
ties than 1t can shake big stick at.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-07-09

When the shouting of the captains
dies and we sit down TO our little his
tory books we are willing TO admit that
only good Americans get into the White
House. ,3
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-07-09

The Democrat keynote turned out
to be the opening bar Of Hail, hail,
the gangs all here"
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-07-09

The Liberty Bell untouched win
continue to ring In the hearts Of Amcri.
cans.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-07-09

At least Mr.. Bryan realizes that
he hasn't hurt his Chautauaua dates.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-07-09

If Washington had to cross the
Delaware today he would join the bridge
boosters.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-07-09

The s11 ,000, 900 net of the 2. b. i,
includes the poor fish who have to hang
on to straps.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-07-09

Phiisdeiphis, Friday, July .. 1870
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MiXtmet
Department

resurrection. You can't keep a good
heart down. even though the head be
highty
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-07-09

NENLlN DOROTHY GISH In
Remodeling Her Husband
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-07-09

DJTNJ 724 MARKET STREET
NAl OG OLIVE THOMAS In .
"Footlights 4 Shadow
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-07-09

VICTORIA MARKET ST. A. q %
TOM MIX in Desert Love"
Next week-'THE SEA WOLF"
| Added-Harold Lloyd in High and Dizzy
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-07-09

CROSS KEYS sG,S stsS, 4 ~ MARSfT ! : F. I 4
KLEIN BROTHERS; OTHERS
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-07-09

~ NDE MARKET STREET
| bLODE AT JUNIPER
II A. NJ TO II p, II
CONTINUOUS VAUDEVILLE
CELESTIAL TRIO; OTHERS
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-07-09

EORMER Judge Sulzberger, now in
L his seventy seventh year, after a
long and honorable service in the courts
of Philadelphia county, also survives.
Now and then on fine days he is seen
strollng down Chestnut street in
abounding health despite his age and in
the serene contentment of the closing
years Of a we'll spent life.
He enjoys the rare distinction of
having received the degree of LII. d.
from Jefferson Medical College.
Judge Sulzberger is one of the leading
authorities on Hebraic literature in this
country.
1t is not generally known also that
at one period in his career he adopted
literature as his profession. In 1865 80
he was editor of the Occident, a maya :
zine for the dissemination of Jewish
knowledge.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-07-09

ppNADWAY Rroad & Snyder Az W
bNOADW al 2.3O, 846 4 P.
MOLLY AND HER PALS
"MICKEY" with MABEL NORMAND
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1920-07-23
Gone Lower.

~ GoNe Lower.
Several lof our Hooster school build
fngs are named after noted Knferf-
cans 6fn generation or more ago. Re-
Gently TAT community meeting ut
one ejt these buildings the speaker
spoke, Of the, spirit Of the man. whose
name, the building bore, towering
'over/ the school. The children seemed
much impressed then but It took the
NEXT day 10 show bow deeply. some
had been, moved. J, -. 1871 -
The principal sent two, youngsters
to the basement to see to}the furnace
IN the absence of the jsnitor.. They
!; came rushing up FEW minutes later
saying that they had heard ter
+ fib(e 1ofse" down There. The prin'
ttpipal laughed at them but anothea
bboy arose IN their; defense. Il bet 4
, know what 1t Isl" he*said., II bet IT.
that mans spirit around, here agxin
Only this time INSTEAD of being =,
the root ITS down lin the cellar.
dtaDap01fs News.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1920-07-23
MONSTER P,xE a PIRATE"
taxulIsh > Villagers ',sasted on Fish
(which tsad Dssn Cutting Anolsrs' ;:
- r. ,.EAsSs !fur Years. +

~ pirate WIS caught and kllled/Ie
Gently in the little old English Village
Of Beeston st. s.awrence, Ncrfclkshare,
and his remJhs were cut Hh and
shared Between the old. age pensioners,
who voted him very tasty, an exchange
reports. The good people OF Beeston
st. Lawrence are, not caunibahs, and
TOR the benefit Of those not acquainted
With the legendary lore Of that part
Of Eaglana it must be explained that
this Pirate wasja monster pike which
tefrorlzed the waters OF the lake IA
Beestone for upward vt thirty years. !.
The pike, which hard the reputation
OF being the NEST :Rrtful 'fsh In the
world, learned the nsne OF 1.-THE 'pirate"
because Of his predatory raids on'hsh-
,eEmen's lines wherever they hooked
anything. Anglers came. from miles
around to try'and catch 1.-THE 'freebooterl
/. hut the fish was too 'esever fer thu
most expert ptscator. ..' I
According 10 storiest told over'mu's'
o. ale at the village fim the ~pirat h'
was hooked onfy pnee. and In: asvicion'
rage he broke the line and escaped
Yet the horror Of catching him goes t.
q young exsoldier who had been PAX
efshing only four times In HIS fife.
The might OF the capture they hell
|:a' guessing contest Ia the village q
TO the actnal weight of the 'pirate,
the prize being the fish ttseaf. 81
weighed s6 pounds II ounce. rneasure,
five feet and had "a .gfrth' efttwo feet
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1920-07-23
Eoqlishman on Papai Throne.

Pope Adrian ~ was by birth an
Englishman, and the only one Of that
nation who ever occupied the papa)
chair. He was a native Of Langley.
near st. Adams, in Hertfordshfre. He
was born before A. D.. LOO, his real
name being Nicholas Breakspear-
He was said to have left England as a
tbeggar, and to have become a serv'
ant or lay brother in a monastery near
Avignon, in France. Here he studied
with such diligence that he was elect
ed abbot in 1857. He was made car
dinal bishop Of Alba in 1146, and went
to Denmark and Norway. Upon his
return to Rome Nicholas was unani-
monsly chosen pope against his own
incliaation, in November, 1854, hold
ing 6hat post until his death at An.
agni. September I, 1850. y
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1920-07-23
GRAND ARMY VETERAN ;..:.
81. A. .J.zBOoTH PASSES AWAY

The death Of A. j., Booth took
place at his residence, / los. Mdssis-
sippi ave. yesterday afternoon + at
Is 80. p. IN. : Mr. Booth was a veter-
an Of the Grand Army Of the Repub-
lie and had reached the age or rs
years. - .:.. = H.
The funeral services will be held
at the Methodist church, Sunday aft
ernoon at 2,o'clock, Rev: Blaine Lam
bert officiating, M. E.. Ibertson, fu-
neral director, being in charge II
: Mr.. Booth is survived by his wife
Ellen Booth, one son" H. o. Booth
of Rock Island, ILL.,, and two BROTH
ers, r. H., Booth of Boston, Mass,
and: David e: Booth of 1907 Irvine
avenue, Bemidji., Mr." Booth has liv-
ed in Bemidji about a. year, coming
here from north of Blackjack, where
he lived for over twenty years, being
one of the pioneers of that locality.