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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-29
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THERE'S the tender blue of volets and
lacy ferns urrolled
For it's spring along the Black Rock road,
And each zephyr tells the story of a wealth
of fairy gold
In the dandelion beds close by.
There's thrilling burst of music from the
hollow by the creek
Where a feathered poets telling all he
knows
That you'll find the perfect happiness that
mortals ever seek
In the spring along the Black Rock road
IT'S spring again in Hapertord-home, come
home!
Oh. you across the scven Scas-home, come
home!
From Egypt, Spain and MdndaIay,
HdWdii, Java, Far Cathdy-
IT'S spring again in Havertord-home, come
home!
THERE'S a swirl of rambler roses making
fragrant wayside bowers
For the summers dancing down Rose lane,
And the bees are drunk with nectar from
thousand honeyed flowers
That are blooming in the sun-lit fields.
There are poplars, tall and shadowless, and
silent in the heat,
Where the fanting daisies hang limp
: heads
And the butterflies are languid and the clover
scent is sweet
In the summer fields along Rose lane,
IT'S summertime in Hdverford--hoUe, come
homc!
COFT and intricate and lacy, like an antique
~ bridal veil
Falls the water DER the old dam breast,
And the falling leaves golden and they
make a shining trail
In the twilight by the Old GriSt Mill
For the feet of murdered red-coats from the
house beside the stream
For they say their spirits still roam
there -
And they walk amid the golden-rod like
phantoms from a dream
In the fall along the Mill Creek road,
IT'S cheStnut-tiue in Hdrortord-home, come
homo!
CWIFT around the Devils Elbow. with a
- merry laueh and shout.
When the road and trees and fields gleam
white,
Fly a happy group of coasters and the
jinglng sleighs out
Where the snow and ice are packed down
hard
And the icy trees are crystal bright beneath
the frosty skies
While like castanets the sheathed twigs
sound
In wild and elin music where the jeweled
snow dust flies
In cloud before the cold north wind
Tts tUtntor-tinle IN HaUcrtord--home, come
hone'
Oh you across the SeUon SoaS--home, come
home!
s The country roads arc calling you,
The roods aud fields are calling you,
The Seasons through they're calling you-
Home, come hOne!"
FLORENCE KERIGAN
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-29
JUOo-SLAVIA REACHES OUT

IN THEORY the alleged refusal Of the
= Jugo-Slays to consider the secre.
treaty of London as a basis Of compro-
mise with Italy is justidabc. Certainly
the matter of a diplomatic document
should be fully disclosed before any gov
ernmcnt should be asked to accept its
rulings.
On the other hand, the essential part
of the pact which concerns Jugo- -Slavia is
p subject Of public knowledge. The
treaty does not assign tiumc to Italy.
The Jugo-Slav statesmen arc fully aware
of this and their rejection of the latest
proposal therefore, inspires the deduc-
ton that additional new claims are being
advanced.
In fairness TO Italy it must be said
that she has a difficult opponent. If 4
suggested solution of the Adriatic prob.
lem. involving the surrender pending
eventual disposition Of fiume is dis
daincd, tho situation becomes more
clouGed than ever,
Participants in the Peace Conference
who later declared that every European
nation was, at ono time or another, ut
tcrly unreasonable were probably right.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-29
STIMULATING HOUSE BUILDING

T'HE Housing Associations plans for
= fitting Philadelphia to its population
are a combination of practical advice
and good wishes. The suggestion that
the city make a careful study Of the un-
developed areas with view to determin-
ing where extension of public services
will result in the erection of the greatest
number Of small houses" is sound and
practical. Available public utilities are
an unquestioned incentive to building.
The hope that 'private investors take
broad view Of the matter and do their
share in city building" is, however,
rather d sentiment than a solution.
Labor conditions have greatly retarded
the construction Of the small comfortable
homes Of which Philadelphia used to be
so proud. Moreover, with all the condi-
tions favorable only prodjgies Of enter
prise could have kept pace with the war
and after-war congestion here.
1t is evident, as Mr., Ihlder, of the
Housing Association, points out, that the
city could take an important primary
step with u comprehensive development
plan. After that the responsibility falls
on individual initiative.
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Answers to Yesterdays Quiz

I. Carter Glass takes the place OF tue "'
Senator Martin. of Virginia.
2. The United States has recogn'@'u '''
republic of Armenia. - is
s. Virtue, liberty and independenTt of
the motto of the common"'a''"
Pennsylvania, .or
4. In order to ascertain the engine PV"etf
required to supersede the worn W
horses, James Watt employed a suopS
horse to wind up weights, ana l,uDr or
that 22, 900 pounds could be raisea R
foot per minute. For fear OF sNirns
%Inderyalue he allowed overweight 10"
ms heavy again, which made noF''
power 80, 900 pounds per minute
/ A morganatic marriage is one pet"ee"
man of exalted rank and woman =.
lower rank who retains Der i'tHtc ~
station, the issue having no ciaim
succeed to the title or possesSloD'
the father. H., The
6. The word is said to be derived LII IoIusive
Italian "fata morgana, 9TH. tbs
mirage said to be produced pS
C,adstone was called "The Grand o'o
Man" II man,
8. The ouotation, MAN, prouu
dressed in little brief authority h;sb
nIavs such fantastic tricks before " re- l.
heaven as make the angels Weep
from Shakespeare comedy
ure for Measure" 49,. India,
o. Thackeray was born IN Caicu''''
iA 1911. ,oa italian
10. Antonio Canoys was eeleora,eu ,e ,sS9.
sculptor. His dates are III
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THE CHAFFING DISH

adOred as a son his mother, should be pro
tected against the floods of anarchistic aliens,
the influx of criminal hordes from Europe.
His home life was beautiful. His wife was
a noble woman and good cook He was the
friend of the poor and humble. He was
faithful party man. He held that the gov
ernment of the United States was the wisest
and best form of polity ever devised by the
genius of man. He frequently asserted on
the hustings that private virtue is the hand
maid of public morality, or vice versa 1--WE
cant remember which it doesn't matter).
He wore the white liver of blameess flower,
and the white flower of a blameless liver,
both at once. He never referred to Death
but as the Grim Reaper. He had the soul
OF an eagle, the heart of lion, the tender
ness of woman, the mind of child. His
favorite ejaculation, in moments of eeva
tion~ was when l am passed from among
you, pillow me on the bosom of my native
Alabama" He had the courage of his con
vlctions, was foeman worthy of any man S
steel, sprung from the ranks of the great
common people, and insisted that no finer
people live in the world than those of the
seventh congressional district of Alabama.
And yet the great common people, who do
once in n while show surprising common
sense, did not elect him TO Congress.
1t seems to us, incidentally, that it is but
IA shabby culogium to say of a man that he
had the courage of his convictions. I'm
happily, almost everybody has. The man we
like to meet is the one who has little
cowardicc about his convictions and is will
ing to admit that they may be wrong
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-29
HOME RULE FOR THIS CITY

A TTORNEY GENERAL SCHAF-
"A FER'S opposition to a city home-rule
provision in the constitution is incompre-
hensible in view of his evaporation
over the demands on his time and on the
time of the Legislature made by the con-
sideration of the revised Philadelphia
charter last winter.
Mr. Schaffer objected to the home-rule
suggestions before the constitutional re-
vision commission and his views were
sustained by a vote of eleven to two. The
two votes were cast by Judge James Gay
Gordon and Vance Mccormick, Demo-
Gratis, who seemed TO believe that Phila-
delphia should be allowed to decide on
the details of its local government for
itself.
Hampton CarSon's assertion that home
rule for cities was secession and meant
the dismemberment of the state is hyper
boe. 1t has not worked that way in the
states where it has been tried. Detroit
drafted for itself a new charter a little
more than year ago, acting under the
grant of power in the state constitution,
and no one has yet heard the faintest
whisperings of desire to secede from
the state of Michigan.
Continual legislative meddling with
the affairs of a city forbidden to make
changes in its charter on its own inita-
tive is responsible for all the talk there
has ever been anywhere about secession.
In New York there has been frequent
! discussion of a plan to separate the city
| entirely from the state and to set up the
city as an independent commonwealth in
order that it might be freed from inter-
ference at Albany. New York does not
enjoy home rule for tlrt- reason that the
Republicans, who usually control the
Legislature, desire to control the Demo-
cratic city of New York. New York can
not change an appointive Office into an
elective office nor an elective office into
an appointive office without the consent
of Legislature controlled by the party
which is in the minority in the city.
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HOSTING A DANGER SIGNAL

livery man at the Chamber Of Com
~ merce luncheon yesterday afternoon
who listened to the protest of Nicholas
Murray Butler against the meddling of
government with business doubtless in
dorsed his views.
Doctor Buffers conception of the proper
duties of the Federal Trade Commission
commends itself to the intelligence of the
average man. That commission. however,
instead of devoting itself to assisting busi-
ness to expand in accordance with the
provisions of law, has persistently re-
fused to give helpful advice and has con-
fined its activities to attacks upon reputa-
BILE business enterprises whose managers
have done their best to keep within the
permissions of the statute while they
developed their trade. The commission
has apparently assumed that business
men are criminals.
1t is about time that protest was lodged
against this policy. And it is time also
that protest was lodged against the
growth of the bureaucratic spirit in Wash
ington. the effect Of which is seen in the
denial to citizens of the right to talk in
public about those things in which they
are interested if those things do not hap
pen to commend themselves to the bu-
roaucrats.
Doctor Buffers warning against the
dangers of autocracy acting under the
forms of democracy does not come a mo-
ment too soon.
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An impossible Story

r. Jefferson Shambe was born poor boy
the eldest son of a widowed mother, in the
pure air of the Alabama highlands His
youth was one of exemplary hardship and
privation. Surrounded by the yeomen of
those mountain Businesses, he learned to hate
tyranny and to detest despotsm He studied
at night and was exceedingly popular He
was able and earnest, and showed tremen
dous energy Often he would discard his own
garments and undertake the painful rcspon ?
sibility of breaking in new ones, in order
that his little brothers and sisters might be
clad. lie entered tho law school of the uni
versity aud had a brilliant career.
lie was 100 per cent American. He be /.
leycd that his beloved country, which he
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-29
EVENING PUBLIC LEDGER -PHILADELPHIA,

always men of great character, who
couldn't have survived in the esteem of
the people without unusual qualities of
some sort to lift them out of the political
mob
Harding, Wood, Coolidge, McAdoo
Hoover, Hitchcock, Borah, Hi johnson
and Sproul are representative, in their
various ways, of all that is best in the
American character. No one in his senses
would question the honor of any of these
men, though it is possible to quarrel vio-
lently with some of them because of their
views and their methods. Each is hit
from some quarter whenever he lifts his
head above the skyline.
McAdoo was subtly attacked as an
agent of Wall street seeking the White
House as a borer from within. Coolidge
is being advertised by his enemies as a
narrow and penurious man without real
ability or inspiration. Wood we are
told, is the agent of munitions makers.
Hoover, because he seem ed more danger
Gus than any of the others to the routine
political jobbers, got harsher treatment.
He has been called a foreigner and made
to appear somehow subtl; treacherous.
This, too, is at the very beginning of
the campaign. The guns arc only warm
ing up.
The crowd that leaped to the attack on
Hoover is the crowd that fought Roose-
welt. They will fight any man who in
sists upon believing that change is but
another term for the progress that is nee
cssary to healthy national life.
A political party that does not improve
its mind cannot survive always by any
method. The improvement in both par
ties will have to be made from the bot
tom up. 1t can begin with sense Of
practical patriotism expressed in honest
criticism by the people themselves. If
the bosses will not change their minds
their minds will have to be changed for
thopo
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-29

THE negligence of strcct-cleaning con
tractors is pertncntly disclosed in D-
rector Winstons review Of conditions in
West Philadelphia. In this neighbor-
hoo1 the conventional excuses do not
apply. The district is not congested as
downtown is. There is no foreign quar-
ter" to blame. If the streets are dirty
and the slush is not speedily cleared
away it is because the cleaners are not
on the job.
Mr.. Hepburn and Director Winston
are to be congratulated for their prompt
personal inspection OF West Philadelphia
and for their vigorous pressure on the
contractors. After the neglect of sec
tion which should be easy to keep clean
the old fiction Of the difficulty of the
task woefully lacks conviction.
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THE TOMB

TyHERE is garden that | know
l. Where your white tomb is set
On which the falling petals flow
From roses of regret;
And you are dead, my love, although
My lips may kiss yours yet.
There is garden where is kept
A holy shrine for me,
Where softly incensed flowers arc swept =
By winds of memory;
And there my soul has often wcpt ,
Darkly and quietly.
How rich the beauty of the hours
That life cannot recall
How fresh and sweet are those old flowers,
Although their petals fall,
Ger the soft tomb that still cmbOwers
Love white and virginia..
! kiss your lips and play my part;
And you are satisfied
Let be. the thronging memories start
Of one who was my bride,
White -veiled within my secret heart,
OF one who loved =. and died
Sydney Bulletin.
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Intimate GEimpses Of Great Men

Little do those Who see the Quizeditor
wearing his white vest margins and but
tressed among his encyclopedias and works
of reference, imagine that in social circles
he is esteemed, not 10 say adored for his
realistic imitation of barking seal.
We alluded yesterday to NJ. Maeterlinck's
undelivered message, and apparently i'm
pinged upon the whrlwind of psychic bazoo
that is ravaging many unnhabited mental
tracts. An ecstatic female voice has Just
been trlling TO us over the phone to ask if
we knew where Maeterinck is now We
said we didn't, but we had no doubt, con
sidering his past career, that he is still eat
ing three meals q day.
The Voice seemed a little shocked by this
and then said that. like ourself, she had been
getting spirit messages from Maeterlinck
that she was seriously misunderstood and
that they had been such consolation she
would. like to get in touch with the source.
We stated that wea too, are often mis-
understood that we are really demure and
powerful thinker, alas often lightly dismissed
by our clients as mere wag; that like Sir
Oliver, we have hankering to burst through
the veil that separates us from the pubic's
pocketbook
The Voice seemed more and more dis
tressed, and asked, after some hesitation.
whether we were really sympathetic. She
then added that it was very dark where she
was and she needed more light Perbaps
this is code or password among the gossa
mer spappers, for we felt that something
cryptic was needed in the way of reply. We
said, as thrillingy as We could through our
formaldehyded telephone mouthpiece feel.
ing bit like Doctor Jekyll and Mr.. Formal
dehyde as we did so), "Sistcr. darkness per-
adventure leads to dawn
This cheered her up greatly and she began
straightway TO prattlc about some things
that had been in the Dish. She expressed
an opinion that all the poetry was written by
the same person. We denied it. Then she
said that she had not liked the little poem
yesterday by Bessie Graham's Friend with
its last line suggesting that homes should be
constructed with servants built in. That's 3
bad" she said, ''you know, that's anarcb. !.
ISM At this point, we fear, we began TO
laugh.
We tell all this simply TO inform our clients
whittier the Oliver Lodge line of stuff leads
intellccts that are only equipped for very
| light housekeeping When minds take their
meals out, they must be careful what res :
taurants they patronize. sogRATEs,
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-29
What DO You Kno,o?



/. Who is surgeon general of the United
States?
.. What is the meaning Of the word rccu'
SAINT?
3. Who was "The Great COmmoner
4. What is the latest total ot states tnas
have ratified the suffrage amendment
5.sWho said "Flout 'em and scout EN- anu
scout 'em and tiout EN-; Thought
free?
g. What President of the United states
was under lifelong miSapprenen'
sion concerning his birthplace?
Z. Where is iberia?
s. What famous charge evoked the re,
mark. Its magnificent, but 1t is nO'
war;?
9. When was the Magma Charta granted O'
King John?
10. OF what country is the ostrich nau's'
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-29
Art and the Bridge

Tho state art commits
Art and the Bridge sion is interesting it
self in the appearance
of the proposed Delaware river bridge and
thereby iustifying its creation. The commits
sion reminds the Governor that the bridge
will extend beyond the jurisdiction of the
art jury of this city. If the two bodies in
trusted with the prevention of artistic mon
Strositcs can agree on design the now
bridge ought to be thing of beauty AS well
as a JOY to the Jersey commuters.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-29

Doctor IIyslops suggestion for the cs
tablishment of laboratory where experts
may find out whether ghosts walk or not Is
of 10 interest to those who are already con
WINGED that the ghost does not walk often
enough nor with satisfactory stride.
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PRACTICAL GENEROSITY

TIE CONGRESS accepts the President
A suggestion ard authorizes loan of
xi5o, GOO. 600 for food relief in Poland,
Armenia aud AustNia it will have
stimu atlng practical as well as humane
prcecdeut for lis action.
MI. Hoover recently explained the
aeeas Of Egxope in detail 10 the ways
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-29
DERHAPS. after all. we have lust as good

DEltllAPS, after all, VIC have just as good
a spirit world as we deserve-if we can
imagine no better. For we get just as much
out of our ghosts as we ourselves put into
them. and no more. Still the GOwnsmau wishes
that we might construct better ghosts. Is
there not something to be said for the notion
Of Swedenborg, that the supernatural inter
pcuetrates in this physical world so that as
We walk the streets we know not which of
those who pass US may be men, which angels?
1t is difficult, perhaps, to associate the an
gcIic with some of the faces and costumes
which we meet day by day but is there NOT
after all, a ghost anmating each one of us,
and had we but the Roeptgcn rays of a spir
itua understanding might We not perceive
much to which we are now blind:
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Amt II the Truth?

the world looked
brighter. Dsquieting rumorS of military al
liauces between Austria SIovakia and Czecho-
Jugmout" ceased to be credible: damnabIy
diffusiyc dispatches of Bolsheyist victories
prcsaging imminent invasion of Butte, Mont.
became drastically restricted cacophouous
cacklc of labor unrest everywhere hurrying
the world into chaos became hushed. God
in his heaven; allS right with the world.
1t may even be that the peace treaty will
presently hc signed With or without
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-29

A ND on this basis all our literature and
art is founded. for literature and art are
nothing but our life, our thoughts, even our
superstitions, seen in glass. sometimes in
distinctly, sometimes unhappily much dis
torted but dependent always on the image
which is only reflected by chance and in part
How dolcful and even ridiculous are some of
the ghosts of old pictures, especially the
Gothic ghosts of the old novels of much ado
about nothing at all, Pickering, gibberng,
impossible creations of Il stucco art And
what noble and dignifed company are the
spirits, the apparitions of Shakespeare, for
example. that of Hamlet" which was acted
by its great Greater, heading the august
procession. Here at least is a spirit however
"cxtravagant and errng," who brings his
dignity. his kingship. his courtesy. his com
passion back with him from the world be-
yond.
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Mr.. Smiths LsborIous Job

An Office for the Congressional Record
is located in Statuary Hall, House wing,
where Mr. w a, Smith Is in constant at
tendance to receive aubscriptions.--Con
Ercssiona Record
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-29

Article y of the peace treaty seems to
be the unknown quantity which puzzles
young mathematicians as well as full grown
senators.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-29

1t must be admitted that Sir Oliver
Lodges proof of spirits is not sufficiently
strong TO interest the internal revenue.
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Nov this is precisely the thing, in this
" matter of ghosts, about which your
Gownsman complains Our ghosts of ''sci-
Cntihc' observation. precisely like those of
the old charatans. are SO nugatory, so in
effective so disillusioning. They squeak and
gibbcr where we expect the orotund utterancc
of the oracle of Delphi. They come back from
their flights in circumambicnt rose and ether
to stutter tryialites and butcher grammar.
They turn from the contemplation of the
Supernal throne begirt with flaming Scraphim
to chatter about the ailments of Aunt Jcmi.
NAH. In that stupendous conception of the
after life of punishment for our sins in this.
Dante's 'Inferno," its tortures by fire and
ice, its eternal wanderings in space and uu-
ending pain, there is no conception so terri
bic, SO cruel as this of our modern spiritists.
Tho ghosts which return to US have, to a
man, been bereft of their wits Whether i'm
peral Caesar, turned to worse than clay.
subtle minded Noltairc or imaginative and
rebel Shelley, they all talk like poor Poll.
When unhappy Charles Dickens returned to
this earth to finish novel we found that the
ucNt world had denuded him of all his genius.
The dull level of human mediocrity seems n
high land to the Slough of Despond into
which we are mentally to fall in this awful
future life
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-29

Frost and Thaw are poor teammates,
but they put up a fine brand of trouble be-
tween them.
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The belief of the multitude that prices
should be lower is stronger than ability to
bring it about.