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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-05-08

has been made that general increase
in the standard of pay in public Office
would attract better type of men, as
though reform could be brought about
through mercenary considerations.
II may be that in a democracy the
motive D>hind the French ar.stocracy
in its best state. expressed in the
phrase "noblesse oblige," hes no place.
Yet there was fine moral sense behind
the feeling that nobility placed upon
its possessors social and political OBJ
legation to the rest Of the community
Even though this is a democracy, tho
same kind of an obligation rests upon
all men of ability to give their services
to the general good.
Mr.. Winston felt that obligation and
lived up to it. Peace be to his ashes!
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-05-08
THE BRIDGE DELAY

TT is easy to imagine that investors
~ whose money developed the early
stage coach lines viewed with alarm
the advent of the steam locomotive and
lost no opportunity to tell the world
that the new contraption was unneces-
sary and unpromising.
y Fortunate people who own stock in
the Delaware river ferries may be ex-
':cused for their obvious llck of en-
thusiasm for the proposed Philadelphia
Camden bridge. Samuel Rea, president
of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company,
liz cool about the matter. II Is too much
10 expect that the chief Of corporation
that has an intense patcrnal interest in
1.-THE largest of the ferry companies would
feel otherwise.
iN Mr.. Reas letter TO the Philadelphia
,tReal Estate Board, carrying the assur.
ance that the Pennsy is making no effort
ito obstruct the bridge plans, will be
accepted literally by every one who has
any acquaintance with the writer or
with the current policies of his com.
many. The Pennsy itself is standing
Fialoof. Can as much be said for lesser
'.corporations with interests at stake or
for individuals who direct them?
sT Something is wrong somewhere, and
,,it appears to be in the Philadelphia City
Council, which sooner or later will have
Ito make explicit replies to questions
implied by Mr.. Ceilings, chairman Of
tbe New Jersey Bridge Commission.
!Somewhere on this side of the river
There are officials whose minds seem to
I;be running in a rut worn deep by the
: minds Of stockholders in an anti0uatcd
,.ferry system between two of the busiest
.:communitics in all the East The pub
;lic is aching to identify them, and they
will be identified,
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-05-08
The SaIUied Man

T SING the helpless salaried man (all
l. honor to his noble CLAM. When
others strike for higher pay, or union
shop or shorter day. the salaried guy
sticks at his post. OF course, he may
the system roast. But still he plugs
from nine to FIVE, his job is just to work
and strive. He pays his taxes with a
smile, with ne'er chance to make a
pile. He sees the other fellows gain,
who work with Drawn instead of brain
He sees them beat the Fl. G. L.. while
he is marking time" Oh, well, each
Friday night his thirty bones he takes
with never Crouch or groans. He's just
a helpless salaried man. (All honor to
his noble clan). Some day he'll come
into his own, the tide will turn, the
"others" moan. I hope he WILL, and
here is why Tween you and me. AM
THAT GUY! T. Fl. T.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-05-08
Answers to Yesterdays Quiz

TNho"CIo W 'CStS'bay SuIE
/. About 1900. 900 lives are estimate
10 have been lost by France dur
Ing the world war.
2, The Aral sea Is a brackish inland
sea of Russian central Asia,
northwest OF Turkestan. II Is 265
miles long by 145 miles wide, is
shallow and said TO be diminishing
in size.
3. An endemic disease is one regularly
found among a specified people or
In a specified country,
1, The Senate bill, as yet unpassed.
providing for the coinage of a
two-cent piece, stipulates that
medallion Of Theodore Roosevelt @ .le
with the dates of his birth and
death, and with an Inscription
with the words in God we trust
and upon the reverse shall he the
inscription &c Pluribus Unum'
and an inscription United States
OF America and a designation of
the value OF the coin"
5, Juarez should be pronounced ss
though 1t were spelled "War-ez'"
7, Alexander Dumas, the elder. was
the grandson OF a French genera
and a negress Of Santo Domingo
s, Columbia is the capital of South
Carolina.
0. Draconian severity Is especIaIIv
harsh, cruel, rigorous. Draco wa.
stern Athenian law glyer ,vbt
formulated the first written cod
for the Greek city about 62l B. q
10. The month OF August. Is namea
after Augustus Caesar the firs
N emperor Qf Rome.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-05-08
HOW DOES 1T -.
STRIKE YOU? .

TNHE Anti Saloon League lists seven
l. perfectly safe candidates for Presi-
dent.
All the leading candidates are in
cluded.
But is there an unsafe candidate for
President?
Neither party is going to have wet
or even damp plank in its PLATFORM.
Neither the vets nor the damps, the
3Ib per centers nor the 2.75 men are
going to control Congress.
Governor Edwards himself would have
his hands beautifully tied in office.
If the liberalizing of the Volstead act
comes it will come as prohibition came
slowly and by a process Of education.
The beer and wine men will have TO
elect a congressman here and con-
gressman there. .,,;u ~
They will have to work on this com
munity and on that. ,,
Unless the Supreme Court decides
that 3 so and 2.75, state laws are con
stitutional, the damps Will have one
great disadvantage compared TO the
The Anti Saloon League by winning
n state could get gain for prohioition
pegged. .o;, drr tsrr;-
A state won was certain dry 'erri-
tory. ..t;,.os oouId
Its senator's and representatives could
mostly be counted upon. ,
Also it is a question whether ousl-
nesa interest can keep working at
Cause @ 90 eyerlastingly as can fanaticism:
The business interest in this case Will
get tired. Ill.,. ou o,so
where. . Ill, d;o or
The loudest of the vets will die or
forget their appetites.
Unless a good many people become
as fanatical about their liberty to have
light alcoholic beverages as the bone
drvs were about stopping all drinking,
the chances for liberalizing the Vol
stead act will be slight.
The Job is a job for zealots.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-05-08
What Do You KnoW?


QUIZ
I. What is vellum?
. What was the name Of the steam
boat used by Robert Fulton on
his first trip from New York; to
Albany In 1907 In tho beginning
of steam navigation?
3. To what family of plants does
wormwood belong?
4. What Is the meaning OF the Latin
phrase, 'in re-?
s, How many geographical miles make
degree?
6. Where Ia Appomattox, where Lee
surrendered to Grant in 1865?
7. What Is the Vulgate?
8. What is Carranza's first name?
Q. Who was in command of the
British army whGh conquered
Palestine In the world war?
10. What position in the President q
cabinet Is held by William B..
Wilson?
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-05-08

If members of the British House
Of Commons were strict believers In
sex equality they might not have
cheered Lady Astor and boocd Bottom
lev. But most male believers in woman
suffrage are chivalrous enough to adopt
the rule announced by Robert G. In
gersoll. giving women all the rights of
men and one right more, the right to be
protected. That isn't equality, but it
Is good enough for most men and
women,
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-05-08

The Tanners Council Of the United
States. in convention at Atlantic City,
has approved n 81 ,O00,0 900 plan for the
establishment Of tanning school.
There arc one or two statesmen we are
anxious TO nominate as subjects.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-05-08
A Foua.YEAR PROGRAM FOR
PHILADELPHIA

Things on which the people expect
the new administration to concen-
trsts its attention:
The DetatDare river bridge.
A drydock Big enough 10 dccommo'
date the largest shtps.
g tenn.
A convention hall
A building for the Free Lordry.
An Art Museum.
EnIayoem ent Of the pdtor supply.
Homes to accom- modate the popuSd-
fion.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-05-08

The scales of justice seen on the
buttons worn by the women partiCipat.
ing in the thrift and profiteering cam
paign may be presumed to hold dollar
on one side and dollars worth of gro
cericS on the other.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-05-08

planes. There are grating country
constables who need policing, too. And
the highway officials and their motor
cycle men should keep them in mind.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-05-08

When Mr.. Hoover asks Mr.. John
son to speak plainly so that the people
will know where he stands, he gives
evidence of his political inexperience.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-05-08

Just to prove that Philadelphia
isn't in a class by herself, Pittsburgh
comes to the front with batch Of
nhantom voters.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-05-08

Horatio Bottomley has granted
Lady Astor sex equality by unmerci- .
fully attacking her In the British House
Of Commons.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-05-08

The general opinion continues to
he that man must admit himself po-
litically dead before permitting himself
Ia be buried in the vice presidency.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-05-08

WHY don't we have a business man
w for President?
We often ask the question.
We'll. then, look at Hoover.
ua ia n business man; great and
able business man
candidate for the presidency that is
offered. ,a
~ his work the country is proud.
III ia moreover, typical American
former's boy; worked his way through
college and all that.
And vet who would say that Hoover
hoa more than an outside chance Of
ho;,r nominated. less chance now than
he h9d two months ago, although mean
nb;le no one has come up who by his
Snid on the prize excludes such candi-
dates as Hoover.
WIZ does the lamb, when he goes
;,to Wall street, get shorn!
Wbv doesn't Mr.. Morgan, when he
ANTS n partner, reach down and pick
one out Of Congress-!
The business man does not know now
m play the game,
Politics is trade, just llhe any other'
You learn 1t by going in at the bot
'',ni 0f our recent Presidents, one was
l. turn sheriff, mayor of Buffalo, gov
in or of New York before reaching the
chief magistracy. ,
The next was Congressman fol
,oars and years and governor of Ohio.
The next started as an assemblymar
!, New York, ran for mayor of New
York " city, was civil service commits
sionar. police commissioner, assistant
sacretary Of the navy.
seb n,be next was federal judge, gov
o.nar general of the Philippines, secre
tarEh rrhe prescnt President was the onl,
wbo wasn't public officeholder al
Iis life. and he was governor OF New
1srsey before being elected to the offc'
he now has. :, l.. -,
Rut as food administrator he Shove,
.ha noliticians that he was a busines
Ian .n not a politician. He did not pla;
the game according to the rules.
| N III III
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-05-08

A GREAT merchant announces a cut
"A of 20 per cent In everything in his
store. He sees a little further than
most merchants, and probably he sees
that the Jaw give me somethin that
amt cheap" mood is passing.
There are signs everywhere that the
market for silk shirts Is glutted.
The gentleman who would be satisfied
with nothing less than three pairs of
$40 shoes is probably getting scarcer.
Prices must come tumbling down
with saner buying-and saner selling.
But one great merchants effort ito
find at what prices the consuming pub
| lie can absorb the great volume of pro-
duction" will be worth hundred bur-
lesques of economy In the shape of over
alls movements.
The retailers of the country are just
! now at the mercy of the retailer who
rediscovers the virtues OF the old motto
Of the trade, Quick turnovers at small
profits"
The chain store is opening the way
for co operative trading.
The whole mechanism for CO opera
tive shops is being created.
All that is needed is a CO. operatively
owned "Piggly Wiggly," and the prof
iteering corner grocer may regret the
boom year of 1920.
THE French Government, like the
l. English, trying to bar the importa- =
tion from America of everything eI-
ceDt necessities. 80 that the adverse rate
of exchange will operate as little as
possible against the purchase Of Ameri-
can food, has prohibited the taking OF
American films 30 France.
The French call this restriction
upon laughter"
A pretty serious one, too, for Charlie
Chaplin and Douglas Fairbanks have
no more decided followers in this coun
try than in France.
| Charlie Chaplin has name of his
Town in France. Chariot"
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-05-08

The number of phantom voters
found in this city suggests that this
might be good field for psychical re-
ss2gcha
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-05-08

The suffrage bark is still keeping
its nose to the wind in Dover straits.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-05-08

"A 1Iss FANNIE HURST, magazine
M writer, with a husband who tele-
,bones for an appointment with her,
Riust like any other of my friends"
.scretly married for five years, yet see
ing him only couple o. times week,
is living out bit OF fetion.
Z. Marriage, 10 her imagination. .s a
thing where one grows nat -hiuded"
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-05-08

Philadelphia. Saturday. May 9. 1920
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-05-08

THE Philadelphia SeameL'S Church
i Institute, once it opens its doors,
will simultaneously ring the death -knell
Of scores of low class sailors boarding
houses which in every port are the bane
of a seaman's life.
The Philadelphia building, in addition
TO the features enumerated above, will
contain an auditorium and chapel,
billiard and game rooms, officers
lounge. library, hospital, school Of
navigation, laundry, shower baths and
dormitories and rooms to accommodate
more than 200 men.
1t will cost approximately $500, 900.
II will be like voice in the night
calling sailors to warmth and welcome
and home.
"The Crows Nest" magazine Is de =
signed to be an invitation to every mer =
chant mariner into whose hands it may
fall to make his abode in the Seamen' e
Church Institute.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-05-08
When Light Wine and Beer Adco-
Gates Become ZeaIofs They
May Accomplish Their
Desire, Not Before
.By KELLAMY'

in n damp celT overgrown with the
fungi of familiarity and contempt
So she invents a way Of having a
husband and not having one, and after
five years she is bursting with the
knowledge of this great social expert
ment.
She must tell the world. They still
love each other.
The dew is on the rose.
Instead or having grown fat minded,
she has written twice as much as she
used to write before her blissful union
with Mr.. Daniclson.
And then, the splendid confidence
they show in each other.
Neither ever asks, the other to ac-
count for the time when the telephone
fails to bring them together.
There is another kind Of confidence,
Of course; the confidence that you can
spend all your time together without
boring each other or without one of the
partners crushing the personality of the
other.
1t is a great act Of faith of which
Miss Hurst was incapable. knowing life
so thoroughly as a writer of magazine
fiction must know il.
Sometimes it is justified.
Mrs. Browning went on writing
poetry after her marriage to Robert
Browning, and Robert Browning long
afterward was able to write:
20 lyric love, half angel AMI half bird,
And all wonder and wild desire.
g g q
TT is long jump from this couple
l. who are only tentatively married to
Walter Andrew Watson, the California
Bluebeard, who was usually married tC
three women at time and murdered
at least five of his wives.
But Watson had an individuality
too, and he wants the world to know al
about it.
lie was, he says. tender hearted ant
easily moved to tears at the sight Of
sadness OF distress, and ever ready tt
help relieve such condition.
Moved to tears by the suferings q
an insect, he kills a wife whenever j
suits his purpose to get rid of one.
And now that he is caught he con
fesses every few minutes and ride
about the desert in an ambulance t.
exhume wives and prove the perfec
truth of his confessions.
He is anxious, above all things, t.
have the public see the "logic of hi
position"
We have to revise our ideas of
Bluebeard.
The killer OF wives is not a .roug
brute. but a whimpering sentimental
ist, full Of self pity, highly regardfu
Of public opinion, proper marriag
ceremony preceding each murder an
great concern to tell the public all a
the end.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-05-08

The man successful In business or in
the professions too often says that he
cannot afford to give his time to govern.
ment. The money rewards of his own
affairs are so great that the salaries Of
nublic Office hold out no attraction. But
these men would be the first to say that
the man who needs the salary is the last
man who ought to be nominated for
responsible office. In theory they be-
lieye that patriotism should be the i'm.
nelIing motive, but in practice they are
more interested in dollars than in pa
triotism.
Consequently our political affairs are
generally in charge of men who are
after the dollars. first. The suggestion
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-04-16
DOWN TO FIVE EDUCATORS.
Governor in Conference Today ON Il
L. Chancellor Appointment.

Governor Allen is today in confer
ence with members of the state board
of administration and members of the
faculty and alumni committees of
Kansas university relative to the selec-
ton. of a successor to Chancellor
Frank Strong, resigned. Two candi-
dates strongly considered for the po-
sition have declin : and it is proba bic
a definite decisio, as to new uni
versity head will not be reached in the
present conference.
Z Dean Lotus d. Soffman. newly
elected chancellor of Minnesota uni
Versity, and Prof Frederick NJ. Da-
venport of Hamilton college, New
York. were strongly considered for the
appointment. Both have declined
Selection has now narrowed from some
thirty possible successors to five avail
able men for the office. They include:
Donald J. Cowling, president Carleton
college, Mortified, Mimi: DIR. Leon
C. Marshall, University of Chicago
Dean John Erskfne. University OF
Columbia; Edward E. Slossom. edi-
tor of New York Independent; and DR.
Henry ]. Waters. former president OF
the State Agricultural college.
Meetings todayNar being held in the
silprernc court hanber.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-04-16

employees on their floor had reached
their, offices. The service was made
quate, however, and many workers re-
fused to wait their turn and walked
away.
Like Trick Awaiting.
The reporter rode up with a volun-
teer operator. 1t was a dizzy expert
ence: trick aviator could learn few
stunts from that young man.
At the seventeenth floor a parade
was passing along upward. The ma
jority of the climbers were girls. All
were as tired as tho they had walked
seventeen miles rather than seventeen
floors. 1t was learned later that
few hardy ones went to the thirty
third or thirty-fourth floors.
The few elevators running would
take no passengers downward. When
the reporter started he was out of
training. When he collapsed on the
ground floor. he was out of breath.
Similar conditions existed in the
Equitable building, at the Metropoh-
tan Life. the Flat Iron, Trinity and
L. S. Realty buildings.
WooIworth Not Affected.
The longest vertical railway in the
world, in the Woolworth building
fifty-eight stories or 729 feet high
was not affected by the strike.
Today's walkout apparently demon
strated that men are better strikers
than women. as in every building
where women elevator operators were
employed they stuck to their posts
There was no interruption of service
in the Singer building, forty-eight
stories high, where twenty-five girls
are employed, in the Telephone and
Telegraph building, where there are
twenty girl elevator chauffeurs or in
the Hudson Terminal building, where
there are forty elevators, run by men.
1t was reported that several employees,
including girls in the Equitable Life
building, walked as high as the
fortieth floor. The reporter was too
tired to confirm this.
Special officers paraded the cor
ridors of all the big office buildings.
But there was no violence reported.
The operators didn't have the heart
to mess things up any worse than they
did by Just doing nothing.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-04-16
ELISHA SCOTT TO ARKANSAS.
Topeka Negro Attorney 10 Defend
HilI-Hugh Fisher Won't Go.

Elisha Scott. prominent negro at
torney, has announced that he Will
brave the Arkansas race prejudice and
go to Arkansas to defend Robert Hill.
negro, charged with impersonating a
government officer. Hugh Fisher,
county attorney, who assisted in de-
Tending Hill when the state of Arkan-
sas attempted to extradite him on a
charge of murder and night riding, has
refused to go to Arkansas in his be
half.
Elisha Scott can be a martyr if he
wants to- but I don't care to-" said
Fisher. Zone white lawyer who was
concerned in Hills affairs was thrown
into Jail for thirty days. Somebody
down there would take sshot at me.
and there would be plenty of witnesses
10 swear they saw me reach for my
hip pocket firstA l told Governor Allen
at the extradition hearing L thought
too much of the future of my wife and
family to go down there, and I meant
it
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-04-16
TWO MORE HoLD-UPs HERE.
Negro Team Obtain 500 From Two
Men Thursday Night.

The two, negro hold-up men con-
tinued to ply their trade in Topeka
Thursday night.
When Peter Sa1v9son, 1918 Western
avenue, was just two doors from his
home at 1880 O'Clock last night, two
negroes jumped from parking he
told the police. While one of them
held revolver on him the other went
thru his pockets and took $40 from
him. Salvason told the. police that the
two men ran east on Thirteenth street
after relieving him of the money.
At il o'clock William Bradshaw. a
negro, told police. officers he was held
up and robbed of $26 by two negroes
at Seventh and Tyler streets. Brad
shaw lives at 1547 Quincy street. The