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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-23
WHY'S AND WISDOM

OBJECTION has been raised by Prof.
~ Edward P. Cheyney, of the University
of Pennsylvania, to the complexities in
volved in taking works on socialism out
of the Free Library. One young woman
student was significantly asked why her
taste ran in this direction. Her identity,
already recorded at the Library, was
made the subject of another specific
entry.
The whole procedure suggests new and
enlightened pathways through the field
of statistics and cross statistics. The
libraries have long told us what books
were most in demand, but they have been
unable to explain accurately various
waves of popularity.
In the future it may be interesting to
learn that "Alice in Wonderland" is
being. deeply studied by delivers into
fan dream phenomenal; that "The
Horsemen of the apocalypse is
.gerly sought by jockeys, or that cts
Never Too Late to Mend" is passionately
desired by citizens aroused by the condi-
tion of the South street bridge.
Frank Stockton once wrote about a
chap who had weakness for borrowing
Darmstock's "Logarithms of the Diapa-
son." Investigation into his penchant
produced a charming little love story.
Who knows what depths of tenderness
may be concealed in process which to
the uninitiated seems like a mere i'm
pertinent inqusiton?
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-23
Must Public Schools Beg?

WHAT is to be said of society that leaves
w its public schools to continue and sur
viye by the accidents of charity?
Because school teachers in Pittsburgh (as
clsewhere) are poorly paid and threaten to
strike, the Board of Education there may
initiate drive for a great fund to provide
them with adequate salaries until the next
Legislature can take action. AS such action
cannot we'll be taken inside of two years, the
amount to be raised will need to be in the
neighborhood of 50 900 900.
Even though the public has had its fill of
drives, there is strong probability that such
a campaign would be n success. 1t is gen.
orally conceded that the work the teachers
do is necessary to the well being of the re-
public. 1t is acknowledged that their salaries
are pitifully small. And the generously in
cined may argue that they may just as well
contribute their money directly through
contributions as indirectly through taxes.
Unquestionably such drive, if successful,
would have powerful effect on legislators.
There would be no hesitation about making
an adequate appropriation if the public had
so strikingly registered its approval.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-23
STRAWS IN THE CURRENT
Doctor Mars-Labor and the Political
Quieksand-A Woman, a Cat, a
Politician and a Moral-Must
Schools BEG?
War Methods in Peace

LIE WAS a discerning philosopher who
IL once wondered loudly at the success with
which the devil utiizes the beautiful and
charming things of life in his business. In
the same mood one might wonder why, if
medical science can be mobilized as a highly
efficient agency of disease prevention in war,
it cannot be similarly organized for the ben
eft of society in times of peace.
Doctor Furbush believes apparently that
it can. The new director of health knows
of the miracles that preventive medicine and
sanitary codes have performed under the
exacting administration of military organ
izations. In naming an emergency commit
tee of able physicians, "zoning" the city and
locating strategic points for the establish
ment of epidemic hospitals in possible crisis
he has made a highly intelligent approach
to long neglected task. The record of in
fantile paralysis, and the even more terrible
record of the influenza scourge, show how
necessary such precautionary methods are
aud always have been.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-23
A State Labor PARTY?

TT is not surprising that the proposal for
l. an independent labor party in Pennsyl-
vania, now being voted upon by all trades
unionists in the state, is causing what Rich
ard V. Farley, himself trades unionist, calls
"a wide divergence of labor opinion
If labor men ever insist on organizing
their own party and naming their own
candidates for the Legislature they will au-
tomatcally invite the organized opposition
of all other political organizations. Labor
will be wise if it continues to remain an in
dependent force and a balance of power.
Those who would have the American trades
unions follow the example of the British
Labor party forget that the British are deal
ing with set of conditions vastly different
from those existing here; that their organi-
cations are far more inclusive than the
American unions; that they are supported
by a considerable element of outside opinion
and that their leaders are far more expert
enced in conservative politics than the rank
and file of labor leaders in the United States.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-23
THE UNHAPPlEsT CANDIDATE

MIR. PALMER, as self-appointed can
Az didate for the presidency, is in in
ereasing difficulties. The tides of common
thought in the United States have been
moving swiftly away from him. He is
grounded and alone and he looms more
conspicuously each day as our most
lamentable advocate of a transplanted
Prussianism.
Comes Hoover and comes Hi johnson
and come almost all other candidates in
succession to reject the tyrannical doc
trine that the attorney general has been
trying to force on the country through
gag rule masked as sedition bills. in a
few months hysteria like the attorney
generals will be as questionable as the
hustle or beaver high hats for gentle
men. He already is beginning to realize
his plight by backing down a little in his
demands for dire punishments-from
death to mere Jail sentences.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-23
Lieut's Morale Is CrumbIino

Really, girls, this business of playing the
heavy in the show is getting to be something
of strain. Especially as, like Marjorine, 1
love fried potatoes and my skates are sharp
ened, too Cor was that threatD and at home
they are really fond of me. But, ah me, l
suppose Ethel Barrymore is dying to play a
soubrette singing naughty songs, and Don
aid Brian probably would give his shining
right orb to be able to strut about as Ham
Leland 1, perforce, shall continue to wage
war on women AS father used to say, This
hurts me more than 1t does you" Mais-c'est
la guerre-en avance
l hasten to welcome Miss La Guerre into
the arena. Mark you, Socrates, not only
will they have our souls and politics, but in
the end they will cry, Move On" And a
blooming fine world it will be for them with
out us LIEUT..
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-23
Worth of the Schools

EVERYWHERE in the United States the
IL schools and colleges are impoverished.
Teachers are being forced to seek new call
ings. Yet the schools teach more than book
knowledge. They are the foundation of So
cety. They train citizens. They even
shoulder duties that parents neglect =
Thus Doctor CARRIER, superintendent of
schools in this city. presents statistics to
prove that the schools pay more attention
to the mentally deficient than to normal
children The answer appears to be that the
mentally deficient need more attention. 1t
is the case of the ninety and nine and the
one lost sheep over again.
Doctor CARRIER points out that while
%. 900 normal school children are attend
ing only half day sessions, the 1000 children
who are backward and mentally deficient are
attending full time. Again the answer ap-
pears to be that the backward ones need it.
Our first duty" a school board member
is quoted as saying, lis to the normal child.
He will be the citizen of the next generation.
He will, indeed. And so also will the
mentally deficient child. We've got to live
with them both when they grow up.
We need not worry because 1000 unfor
tunate children are receiving needed in
struction. The cause for worry seems to be
in an entirely different direction.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-23
AND ARCHITECT EXPERIENCE

At A dinner in this city this week,
"A Julius Mastbaum started fund of
100000, designed to help deserving
young men to start into business, and
ST. 900 was received forthwith.
More than likely every one of the sub
stantial business men who generously
contributed to the fund had in mind some
incident in his own career when money
received at critical time seemed to mean
all the difference between success and
failure.
We venture the suggestion that the
thought that prompted this benefaction
was kindly hope rather than powerful
conviction. Hard knocks are still the best
foundation builder for the temple of sue
cess.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-23
OVERRIDING FAIR PLAY

!. "A DMITTING that the New York As
sembly violated a fundamental prin-
'ciple of government in the United States
when it sought to exclude five regularly
elected Socialist members, it is still neces-
sas% to ask whether these same men
deserve all the exaggerated personal
Sympathy that is being showered upon
them by newspapers and public men de-
voted TO the rules of fair play.
There are Socialists and Socialists.
efger's friends have tried insistently to
axe him the symbol of martyred
MY Yet Berger long ago was violent.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-23
The Cat in Politics

TTUMOR is an appreciation of values that
L l. you possess, but which is frequently
lacking in the other fellow.
The Engishman says an AK is needed to
get O bit of fun into the head of a Scotch
man: and the American declares that under
no circumstances can an Englishman see
Joke; and--but, perhaps, we have pursued
our studies far enough in this direction.
There is one belief in which the men of
all clmes are a unit: They just know that
woman is destitute of humor. Oh, abso-
lutely
And so it comes somewhat in the nature
of a shock to learn Of what a woman pro-
fessor of political economy at Vassar did to
Senator James w. Wadsworth, Jr, of New
York. She wrote him asking him his views
concerning the League of Nations and got
no reply. Again she wrote him, with the
same result. Then, suddenly realizing that
he was opposed to woman suffrage, she wrote
him again, but this time signed the name of
her tomcat. And when she got a reply,
which she did, promptly, she let the fact be
known.
The lady has sense of humor which the
gentleman undoubtedly lacks. The fact is
not surprising She has it because without
it a professor of the dismal science would
die He lacks it because otherwise he would
not be a senator, for statesmen, of all per
sons, must take themselves seriously
But isn't it delightful, once in while, to
take a pot shot at Jove?
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-23
About Ex-Presidents

NNHE election to the French Senate of
i Raymond Poincare suggests a marked
disparity between the politics of Paris and
of Washington There is nothing to bar an
American ex President from running for the
Senate and yet not one of our chief magis-
trates has ever availed himself of the oppor-
tunity
The effect of such a course, however,
might easily be wholesome. No matter which
party is in Office, the national legislative
bodies have scant consideration for the exec
utive. Their attitude is chronically bellig-
erent, and often this animosity is grounded
in ignorance of the prodigious difficulties of
the presidential office. A senator who was
once a President might be of admirable sery
ice to the nation.
That NJ. Poincare' was under no conyen-
tional obligation TO turn down the senator >
ship is a fact which speaks well for the
fexibiIity Of French political opinion.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-23
Answers to Yesterday,s Quiz


1, A citizen becomes eligible for the Unlle"
States Senate at the age OF thirty
Q The Caucasus is lofty range OF moun.
tains forming one of the boundarles
between Europe and Asia. 1t stretcnes
in a northwesterly and southeastern
direction between the Black and Oas'
plan seas.
8. James Madison was the fourth PreSi'
dent of the United States.
4. Samuel Warren wrote the novel Zen
Thousand a Year"
5. Sir Isaac Newton lived during parts o'
the seventeenth and' eighteenth ecu
turtles. His dates are 1642- 2-lI2'
8. The word congeries should be pro,
nounced as though it were spe"e"
icon -je ri en-" with the accent ."
the second syllable.
7. An 'editio princeps" is the first prin'''
edition of a book.
s. Michaelmas Day is September ~.
0. The parents Of the MUSES. ID ciassiu Snns
mythology were Jupiter, or Aeus'
r and Einemosyne.
10. Carson City is the capital o. rs's"A'
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-23
What Do You Kno,U?
QUIZ

/. What is an archimandrite?
Q. 1t is said that Premier Nitti of Italy
will insist on the execution OF the
pact of London. Does Italy gain or
lose Fiume by this pact?
8. What does weather flag divided into
equal sections of blue and white IN
dcate?
4. How many feet make rod?
5. What is the highest mountain IN tns
Caucasus?
6. Who was the father of Alexander the
Great?
T. In what year did the battle of AntleIam
occur?
8. How should the name Don Quixote bs
pronounced in Spanish
o. What was the real name of Bill Nye'
10. How many states had to ratily tue
constitution of the United States oe'
fore it could become operative:
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-23
RESURRECTION

COME faster, death; and unimpriscn me
~ From the spirit starving thing I call my
body;
And if my tremulous souls light wake
again,
Give it an airier, vaster habitation
Than that gross battle-ground of lusts and
fears.
Katharine lyman, in the London Nation.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-23
THE COCKS CLEAR VOICE

THE cocks clear voice into the clearer air
l. Where westward far I roam,
Mounts with thrill of hope,
Falls with a sigh of home.
A rural sentry, he from farm and field,
The coming morn describes,
And, mankind's bugler, wakes
The camp of enterprise.
He sings the morn upon the westward hills
Strange and remote and wild;
He sings it in the land
Where once I was child.
Fife, fife, into the golden air, o bird,
And sing the morning in;
For the old days are past
And new days begin.
From New Poems, by R. l.. Stevenson.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-23

a woman arrested for
Spirit Quailed at Test shoplifting in New
York pleaded that she
was SOCIAL worker and had wished to go to
prison in order to study the treatment given
to women prisoners. The court, however,
allowed her to change her mind and released
her on suspended sentence. No one will
complain of the courts leniency. For her
foolshness she is already sufficiently pun
iSbpd,
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-23
THE CHAFFING DISH

special correspondents in Missouri, Mr.. Purd
B. Wright, librarian of the Kansas City
Public Library. We shall print it in a
future Dish.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-23

it would be found in the attitude of the
politicians themselves, who have not
shown any serious inclination to pick
man on hoseback as the candidate for
either marty,
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-23
Mr., Gibbs is Eniumatle

Dear Socrates: In reply to Arthur Crabb,
George Gibbs presents his compliment, and
reminds him of the immortal reply of Calico
to the Council of Ten.
GEORGE GIBBS,
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-23

The New York health commissioner will
urge the establishment Of stations where
whisky may be procured by physicians Life
saving stations, as it were.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-23

The country's best
In the Name Of wishes will! attend the
the Profit, Figg efforts of Assistant
Attorney General Figg
to bring down the cost of clothing and shoes
and the country's skepticism will temper
hone,
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-23

The suffrage amendment has been re-
iected by the lower house of the Mississippi
Legislature. If it had been ratified it would
have been a news item.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-23

The Rev. Robert Norwood, of Over
brook, herewith receives our respectful felici-
tations. We, too, think the Gump family is
all right
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-23

Horace Greeley oblgingly furnishes 8
motto for Thrift Week: Abstinence il
favorable to the head and the pocket" HI
says.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-23
A dispatch from New
The Abused Sex

4 dlspHtch from New
The Abused Sex York says that stray
tomcat got into the
poultry show at Madison Square Garden ate
a hundred dollars worth of carrier pigeons
and escaped Some feminist wrote that story.
What reason is there for believing that it
was not a tabbycat?
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-23

Pedestrians discovered yesterday that
Jack Frost is dentist who puts teeth in the
wind.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-23
GEORGE GIBBS.
Social Chat

Our friend William Raymond, having
happily escaped from one of the worst plays
in dramatic history-we ought to know, for
we had hand in it's playing here with
John Drew. Congratulations, william, and
we are hoping that this tangefoot of toll will
give us chance to get round.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-23

And it may be that people will decide
that they prefer Hoover to the "od-lne
politicians"
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-23

The opposition of Senators Gronna and
Hoke Smith is about as fine an Endorsement
as Hoover could wish.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-23
Late in the Field

The supervising pro-
Late in the Field hibition agent for the
New York district has
issued a warning against buying whisky from
bootleggers His admonitory advice is largely
supererogation. The real notice of danger
was issued by the newspapers when they
chroncled the deaths caused by wood alcohol.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-23

Society women in
March OF Progress Paris have discarded
pet dogs in favor of
dolls. Excellent! First thing we know
babies will become fashionable and France
will be saved.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-23

The opinion persists that Mitch e
Palmer would be better fielder il he didn't (
keep his eye on the grand stand.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-23

We went to see our gentle client Lolita
Westman play Pollyanna, and this horny
bosom received nothing but pleasurabe sen
sations. 1t was amusing to find our young
friend in Booth old dressing room, and we
admired the two huge antique gided mirrors
that have been there, we suppose, since the
Walnut was built in 1908. Some one prop
erly versed in the old theatres history could
write good poem dealing with the strangely
varied figures that have been reflected by
those mirrors.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-23

When one of your friends, inviting you to
his home, speaks of it as his illegal resi-
denee, our advice is to take your latchkey
with you and cancel all engagements for the
following morning. SOCRATES,
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-23

Miss Westman told us story that seems
particularly interesting now that John Drink
waters play, abraham Lincoln has
aroused much discussion. Her grandfather,
George Wren, once a newspaper man in
Brooklyn was manager of one of the other
theatres in Washington when Lincoln was
shot at Ford's The night of the tragedy Mr..
Wren had gone round to Ford's, during the
performance, to see about borrowing some
scenery. Passing through the house, he met
Wilkes Booth, whom he knew well (they hadf
roomed together at one time and Wren was
only too familiar with Booths habit of
jamaica ginger sprees). standing outside the
Presidents box. He seemed agtated and
was concealing something behind his back
They had little talk, and Wren thought
Booths manner odd, but did not suspect any
thing amss. He then went back to his own
theatre. Later in the evening when the news
came that Lincoln had been shot, Wren
knew at once that Booth must have done it,
and made an announcement to that effect
from the stage of his own theatre.
One wonders what the secret service men
were doing that evening.
Charley Unruh, the Western Union sage.
has got out his little spools OIL red, green
and black silk and is busy fixing up a new
fishing rod. This looks to us like sign of
an early spring.
A. Edward Newton and #. A. DAILY ad-
dressed a class in literature at Haverford
College yesterday morning. About the same
time it was discovered that one of the stu
dents rooms had been robbed This looks
very bad, is our candid comment.
A illegal residence, we observe after a
telephone conversation with a distinguished
client who shall be nameless, is now a place
where one may do illegal things.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-23

A legal residence" we observe after a
telephone conversation with distinguished
client who shall be nameless, is now place
where one may do illegal things.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-23
Member OF the Associated Press
WARE MEN AFLOAT

Philadelphia, Friday, January IS, 1921
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-30
BESSEMER TEAM DOWNS TUSCALOOSA, 40 TO 0

Bessemer football team defeated Tuscaloosa High on the Rolling Mill field Friday afternoon. 40 to O. The Tuscaloosa boys were outclassed entirely. In the first two minr.ss of play the Tigers made a touchdown and another followed almost immediately
 Tuscaloosa was unable to stop the Tigers giant fullback salters. who broke through the line at will. ripping off 15 and 2O-yard gains. Twice he went through center for S5 yards.
 Upchurch, Tuscaloosa's star, made several gains several times through the line and around end.
 Bessemer@ played consistent ball throughout, Rush and Oddo playing ex- ceptionally well. both making several runs of 25 and 90-yard gains.
 The Tuscaloosa bunch played well, but the terrible line plunges and end runs of the Tigers soon began to tell. The last two quarters were played almost entirely by scrubs, Coach Harris saving his first string men for next Fridays game with Albertville, Although the game was one-sided. it afforded great excitement for the large crowd present.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-30
Tigers Lead Crin1sons In
 Battles Won
By CHARLIE UNDERWOOD

The football game here to- day between the Sewanee Ti- gers and the Thin Red Line of Alabama will be the seven teenth contest between these ancient rivals, according to available records.
 In the sixteen games already played, the Tigers have been returned the vic tor ten, times, while Alabama has four Sewanee scalps at her belt. Two games resulted in deadlocks.
 In the matter of points scored, Sewanee is far ahead of her rival, hay. ing annexed 279 points to Alabama's 142. The largest score made by a Sewanee team against Alabama is 54 to in 1907; while Alabama's greatest effort against the Tiger was in 1919 when she rolled up 40 points to O.
 SEWANEE SHUT OUT ONCE
 In only one game of the sixteen played has Sewanee failed to score, but in five contests Alabama has had to be content with goose eggs. The first game in 1893 resulted in score of go to in Sewanee's favor; and the last game in 1919 ended with Alabama hold ing the big end of a 40 to 0 score.
 Back in 1893 the Tigers played Ala bama two games, winning both The next year Alabama won her first game from a Sewanee football team. No gam, was played the following year. but ir